Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode nineteen of The Bobby Cast
Speaker 1: and with Preston from Low Cash. Which is weird that
Speaker 1: you're by yourself And this was kind of an issue
Speaker 1: for me too, was like, we don't have two microphones,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to get you guys in, and I
Speaker 1: was like, gonna have too. We can't afford two microphones yet.
Speaker 1: So I was like, well do we wait? Who knows
Speaker 1: when we get on the microphone? Really, I don't know
Speaker 1: when they'll pay for another microphone or I'll get precedent.
Speaker 1: Because Chris and Preston, I actually talked to you, simike.
Speaker 1: We talked every week at least, and so I was like, well,
Speaker 1: let's ask Preston and then if it's not cool, we'll
Speaker 1: just wait six months and they buy us in the microphone.
Speaker 1: And so it's weird for me that you're here by
Speaker 1: yourself in a professional setting. Is that weird for you
Speaker 1: to be by myself? You know, Chris and I never
Speaker 1: do interviews without each other, but just because we're kind
Speaker 1: of a unified voice, and uh, that's just how it's
Speaker 1: always been since day one. And um, you know, I
Speaker 1: called Chris and I told him the situation and he
Speaker 1: was like, dude, you know, um let's do this' it's
Speaker 1: it's awesome. I mean you have been such a life
Speaker 1: changer for us and on and off the air, you know,
Speaker 1: with your words of encouragement off the air, with what
Speaker 1: you've done with us on radio, and uh, and we
Speaker 1: just knew that this was one of those situations where
Speaker 1: if we were gonna make an exception, this is the
Speaker 1: exception right now. Because mikee I talked about it too,
Speaker 1: was like, I want to get a mom but we
Speaker 1: don't have a microphone. So, uh, Chris, I know you're
Speaker 1: listening right now. I miss you, buddy. I'll see in
Speaker 1: the studio, in the big studio soon. That's right. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we got lots to talk about. First of all,
Speaker 1: I got a little turned on a minute ago, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a little personal story. I drove
Speaker 1: up and it was like half an hour before so
Speaker 1: the start. I Preston was sitting out in front of
Speaker 1: the house. I get excited on people are early, and
Speaker 1: I was like I shouldn't. I was kind of feeling
Speaker 1: a little bit. I pulled up aside him and I
Speaker 1: was like, what I do to go? Just chilling? Wait,
Speaker 1: and I was like, dang, I love earlier people. So
Speaker 1: hopped in the shower after the workout and uh, it's
Speaker 1: good to go. Um you got yeah, so much talking
Speaker 1: about but you have on these shoes right now. Yes,
Speaker 1: these are gray Nikes and there's I'm a shoe guy.
Speaker 1: I so I noticed the immediately. They're they're great nikes.
Speaker 1: They're high tops. There's low cash on the back of them,
Speaker 1: and I said, they knew or do you just keep
Speaker 1: up with them? Very okay? So yesterday we went to
Speaker 1: do a fundraiser for Adam with Adam Jones of the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles. So we went to Baltimore. We did this
Speaker 1: tailgate party that he does the book, like before the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens football game. And uh so we get out there,
Speaker 1: we're having fun and we're raising money for the Boys
Speaker 1: and Girls Club in that area and Adam walks on
Speaker 1: stage with these two boxes of air Jordan's and we're like,
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to give him away or something.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, here comes a cool giveaway
Speaker 1: and he grabs the microphone. He says, around here we
Speaker 1: do gifts and I was like, well, that's awesome. We're
Speaker 1: gonna gift these you get nobody. And I was like,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna give these away, you know, And then
Speaker 1: he goes Presty and Chris, I secretly got your shoe
Speaker 1: sizes and I want to give you each a pair
Speaker 1: of Air Jordan's and that are low cash, limited edition.
Speaker 1: And so he gave this toal us yesterday. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: And I just posted a picture of him today and
Speaker 1: he had actually taken a picture in Camden Yards with
Speaker 1: the shoes before he gave them to us, so we
Speaker 1: would have that picture. See, I didn't even know you
Speaker 1: were such a sport. I'm a die hard sports fan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I did a national sports show for years on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, so like that's my passion music and
Speaker 1: sports and so until recently. And I'm a die hard
Speaker 1: Cubs fan. Yeah I am too, Like my whole life.
Speaker 1: I was trying to get you to go to game
Speaker 1: it was and we'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1: But he's the press is a terrible influence, by the way,
Speaker 1: because I go to Game four and I'm there and
Speaker 1: Lindsey and I go up and we're we're at the
Speaker 1: game and process like we're coming up for Game five.
Speaker 1: He said, if you want to ride home, we'll take you.
Speaker 1: I said I can't because one, if they lose, I
Speaker 1: could not take watching Cleveland celebrate on that field regular
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it for my psyche. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: So I caught wind that they weren't going to allow
Speaker 1: them to celebrate. I don't know if this is true
Speaker 1: or not, but they were going to get us out
Speaker 1: of there early and get us back, like off the premises,
Speaker 1: just in case they won. But we were on a
Speaker 1: role we were winning that. Yeah, listen, I don't know
Speaker 1: if regally could have handled. I couldn't have handled the celebration,
Speaker 1: and I think people would have been so I think
Speaker 1: that's what it was about. It wasn't anything towards Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I think it was more towards I think they just
Speaker 1: didn't want to rub it in anyone's faces. But the
Speaker 1: thing is too, it would have been a disservice to
Speaker 1: Cleveland for them not to be able to celebrate wherever
Speaker 1: they won, and they probably would have allowed them, like
Speaker 1: a semi celebration or something. If I'm Cleveland, I'm but
Speaker 1: I'm dog Piline. I don't care where it is anywhere
Speaker 1: it's been since the forties. I'm dogs, but I personally
Speaker 1: could not take a Cup's loss. And as much as
Speaker 1: I appreciate, and I was like, present, I appreciate it
Speaker 1: so much, but we just lost seven to two, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't. I can't. I was feeling
Speaker 1: for you because you're at that game, and I'm going, oh,
Speaker 1: it's crushing me. That three run homer was just I
Speaker 1: was just like, oh, no, we'll see okay. So game one,
Speaker 1: we lose. Game two and they sing and sing and
Speaker 1: so we sing the national anthem. We're watching the game
Speaker 1: and they tie it up. They win that game, so
Speaker 1: it's one to one. So Chris and I are kind
Speaker 1: of like, hey, we're kind of joking around. We're like,
Speaker 1: maybe we were good luck tonight, you know, so whatever,
Speaker 1: we come home. Then they lose three and four, and
Speaker 1: I literally texted Chris. I was like, Chris, the Cubs
Speaker 1: need us, We've got to go. He's like, press, and
Speaker 1: I gotta be home with my family. I need to
Speaker 1: do this. It's like, Chris, bring the family, Let's go
Speaker 1: to Chicago. We need to be there. Were there rabbits
Speaker 1: foot and so he was like I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: and so we went and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: we win. You did. So Hendricks won game two and
Speaker 1: you were there for that, but then you saw Lester
Speaker 1: win Game five. So I'll do this because I knew
Speaker 1: you guys were singing game to the national anthem in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's weird. I know their cup bands.
Speaker 1: How do they get invited to sing in Cleveland? Well,
Speaker 1: MLB actually invited us, and so MLB handles all of
Speaker 1: the anthems during UH, during the series and probably the
Speaker 1: playoffs two. But they called us assets if we were
Speaker 1: saying we said yes and UH. And I played it
Speaker 1: very neutral that day because out of respect for yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna walk out there wearing cups stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and so you know, in my heart, I might have
Speaker 1: had some cupies on these on but so here's a
Speaker 1: little bit of them during the national anthem World Series
Speaker 1: game too sick and you see by Thenswerdly, I gotta
Speaker 1: wonder when you're singing this. It's the World Series and
Speaker 1: you're probably singing it a hundred times and every time.
Speaker 1: And I talked about this a lot of artists because
Speaker 1: everybody sings the ant it's that it's an honor to
Speaker 1: sing it, but there's no win because if you do
Speaker 1: it perfectly, like goes on next minute, nobody cares. You know,
Speaker 1: it's over. Nice job. If you do it in a
Speaker 1: bad way, the world is over and they're waiting for
Speaker 1: you to mess up. Some people out there, uh, in
Speaker 1: the basement of their mom's house on the computer, just waiting,
Speaker 1: you know. But for Chris and I, it was such
Speaker 1: an honor. I mean, there's so much stuff going on
Speaker 1: with the national anthem right now, with the flag, with
Speaker 1: the election, with it just in our country period. So
Speaker 1: Chris and I were like, this is our opportunity to
Speaker 1: walk out on the field, take our hats off, put
Speaker 1: our hands on our hearts, and sing this song, look
Speaker 1: directly at that flag, and sing it for our country,
Speaker 1: sing it for everybody who's ever died for our country,
Speaker 1: sing it for the USA. And it was like the
Speaker 1: most proudest moment of my life. And we just walked
Speaker 1: out and in the middle of all this stuff that's
Speaker 1: going on in the news and just singing it. You know,
Speaker 1: it felt clean. It just felt that way to me too.
Speaker 1: And well, I got a text message from my mom
Speaker 1: right before we walked out, you know, to keep you underground.
Speaker 1: You're inside the stadium and there's a lot of like energy,
Speaker 1: you know, the players are walking by and stuff. And
Speaker 1: so I get this text message from my mom about
Speaker 1: Timmins before we walk out, and she said, I know,
Speaker 1: you guys are probably excited and maybe a little nervous.
Speaker 1: She's like, but I'm gonna be standing in front of
Speaker 1: my TV with my hand on my heart and just
Speaker 1: walk out there and sing it so I can sing along.
Speaker 1: Make me proud. And I was like, that's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: we already sing it traditional, but that was just a
Speaker 1: real clear reminder that, you know, we were just gonna
Speaker 1: walk out there and just hand on our hearts and
Speaker 1: uh uh. There's a lot of lyrics. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of words in that song that you can easily mess
Speaker 1: up the gleamings and the streamings and you know, all
Speaker 1: those things and misplace them. But I just knew that
Speaker 1: if we kind of had tunnel vision and just looked
Speaker 1: at that flag and just remembered why we were all there,
Speaker 1: that we would get through it. And it was a
Speaker 1: big stage, a lot of a lot of viewers, but yeah, viewer,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, a lot of viewers game too. You go
Speaker 1: the Cubs when you sing the national anthem, listen, that's
Speaker 1: a nice night. I gotta lie. It was amazing, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. Um. We were walking out of the tunnel
Speaker 1: and they were like, all right, in uh sixty seconds,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be singing. So they bring you out right
Speaker 1: behind home plate. You come out the gate and uh,
Speaker 1: I got this uh guitar tuner and that's where I
Speaker 1: get the key for the song. So I'll show you
Speaker 1: what this. This is my life right before we sing
Speaker 1: the national anthem every time, so I'm uh kind of
Speaker 1: keeping the key because we sing it acapella, so oh,
Speaker 1: I think my volumes down, So I do this over
Speaker 1: and over. I'm like mmmm, and I'm like okay, and
Speaker 1: then I started an octave under that, so I'm like
Speaker 1: trying to keep that key in my ear. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like and they're like sixty seconds. So I popped
Speaker 1: my ear and we're ready to go. I've got the key.
Speaker 1: I'm humming it. You know. I'm like, nobody at this
Speaker 1: key going out of my head. I've got it in
Speaker 1: my head. And we walk out and somebody walks up
Speaker 1: and gets in right in front of us. He says hey,
Speaker 1: and and his mouth is moving, but I can't hear him.
Speaker 1: We got my ears popped in, so I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to take my ears out because I've
Speaker 1: got the key pop my ear out. And they're like,
Speaker 1: Hank Karon wants to meet you guys. Karen wants to
Speaker 1: meet this right now. I can't believe this is so cool,
Speaker 1: and so I let the key go obviously because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome to meet Hank Karen. So we meet
Speaker 1: Hank Karen and Big Poppy from Boston is with him.
Speaker 1: We take a picture together and they're like, you're twenty
Speaker 1: seconds from going on and I'm like, okay, I'm like
Speaker 1: trying to hurry, and I'm like, here we go again.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to put my ear back in and uh.
Speaker 1: And then they had us walk out, so it all
Speaker 1: worked out. But looking back on it, I think the
Speaker 1: Hank Karon thing kind of took the edge off a
Speaker 1: little bit and made us forget how nervous we were
Speaker 1: and just let us walk out there and do it
Speaker 1: for those aren't sports fans. Tak Care at home run
Speaker 1: later before a Babe Hank Barry that order. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: before our day. But we know, if you're a sports fan,
Speaker 1: you know Hammer and Hank, and I mean and I
Speaker 1: didn't think we would ever get a chance to meet
Speaker 1: somebody like Hank Karen. But then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he's right there like one of the most one of
Speaker 1: the coolest moments in sports history that we did not
Speaker 1: get to see what we've seen on the internet or
Speaker 1: TV hunter times. And when he hits the home run
Speaker 1: that breaks the record and the guy runs out of
Speaker 1: the crowd and circles the basis with amazing and gives
Speaker 1: and nobody goes to attack the guy. It was a
Speaker 1: friendly her time. Then in imagine if someone broke a
Speaker 1: record now and then circling the basis and someone comes
Speaker 1: running from the snipers taking down people watching. But if
Speaker 1: you if you don't know sports, look for Hank Aaron's
Speaker 1: home run when he breaks the record, and you'll see
Speaker 1: a guy start running the basis with him so excited. Okay,
Speaker 1: so World Series, we got you something. We're at the
Speaker 1: World Series and we were They don't sell World Series
Speaker 1: memorabilia at the World Series. You have to get online
Speaker 1: to buy it and stuff. But down in our dressing room.
Speaker 1: They had a few extra little things that were kind
Speaker 1: of cool. So we got you something you don't to meet.
Speaker 1: Let me finish this right about the world. We can,
Speaker 1: we can, we can wrap this part of it with this.
Speaker 1: But so pressing I find out that we're both die
Speaker 1: hard Cubs fans, and and here's the thing about Cubs fans,
Speaker 1: we don't care if band wagoners come on because we
Speaker 1: only care about our hearts. Like I hope the whole
Speaker 1: world a Cubs fan because I know what I've been
Speaker 1: through my whole life, so more than Merrier and the
Speaker 1: people you see gripping about bandwagoners, they're not real Cubs
Speaker 1: fans because we just know what we've been through and
Speaker 1: we're happy for our own heart to people. We don't
Speaker 1: care if anybody else enjoyed back. It's just from when
Speaker 1: Lee Smith from For me, my hero was Mark Grace
Speaker 1: growing up, and so I wrote in my book even
Speaker 1: about him, and he sent a copy back. I'm just
Speaker 1: a huge sports the Cubs nerd. And you know, I
Speaker 1: like the whole eighty nine National Legue East team that
Speaker 1: won the East, Like you know, I idolized Grace and
Speaker 1: Sandburg and Dunston. It doesn't matter which third base when
Speaker 1: you go, if it's Vance Law or Matt Holiday or
Speaker 1: any of those guys. Dawson, even I remember pal merrow
Speaker 1: out in the outfield, even the backup scrubs like Doug
Speaker 1: Descenzo or Jerom Walton, DWIGHTE. Smith, like all those guys,
Speaker 1: Dude Maddox when when he won eighteen, when he won sixteen,
Speaker 1: it was insane for back then people to know. Joe
Speaker 1: joh we're nerded a big time right now. But Joe
Speaker 1: Girardi was Damon barry Hill's backup with the Cubs. The
Speaker 1: catchers like Girardi, it was the backup catcher for the
Speaker 1: Cubs with Damon Barry Hill was the catcher anyway. Huge
Speaker 1: Cup fans, all right, So I don't know Preston was either.
Speaker 1: And one thing a Cup fan knows when they're around
Speaker 1: another real life Cup fan. And so we're talking and
Speaker 1: I couldn't go to five, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I would love to go to seven. And
Speaker 1: he's like we're going to seven, and like like I'm
Speaker 1: happy for him in my heart, but I'm like he's like,
Speaker 1: just come with us, and I can't. I literally couldn't
Speaker 1: because I was doing the c m A Red carpet
Speaker 1: and I was doing it on television and I couldn't
Speaker 1: back out, and it was killing me too. I wish
Speaker 1: you would never offered it because it was killing me,
Speaker 1: like all night. But here's where I got. I didn't
Speaker 1: get in trouble, but here's what got me right. So
Speaker 1: the c m A Right carpet I did. I couldn't
Speaker 1: go to the game, but I was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: staying for the c m AS, straight home to watch it.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's the fiftieth anniversary. I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's the hundred. I don't care if every
Speaker 1: legend that's dead comes back to life and they have
Speaker 1: them all. I'm watching the cover anniversary of a second
Speaker 1: But my girlfriend played at c m AS and so
Speaker 1: it was I know it was. I still chose the
Speaker 1: TV and home. She was cool about it in her heart,
Speaker 1: and she's a keeper. Then that's perfect. Do you think
Speaker 1: she's cool about really? I think she has too. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing about women. Now, know I don't have
Speaker 1: much because you're Mary, and I don't know because she
Speaker 1: seems like a good one, but they always tended to
Speaker 1: they keep score. Man, you know what I think, Well,
Speaker 1: I know, I know her, and I know she's sweet
Speaker 1: in the heart, you know, and so I think you're good.
Speaker 1: You're good. I think I'm good. Girl would be keeping score,
Speaker 1: but I think you're good. I've just known her for years.
Speaker 1: That's how i got met her two months ago, because
Speaker 1: she's the Instagram model that I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting a d M A right, you know, yeah, it's real,
Speaker 1: and she knows your love for the Cubs is real
Speaker 1: and she does get she knows much freaking tickets to
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Speaker 1: It's still there, but kind of it's not the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some people just never leave. They're just there forever. Eventually
Speaker 1: it will go away. Yeah, sadly. Yeah, like my town. Wait,
Speaker 1: I want about this present where at the present time.
Speaker 1: I've tried to give this to him five times. This
Speaker 1: is I'm so excited to get. I'm so uncomfortable getting
Speaker 1: complimens and gifts. I'm just telling you that I do too.
Speaker 1: I hate getting gifts from people. But okay, here we go. Alright,
Speaker 1: give us that they give us these um these World
Speaker 1: series bags. So you're getting one of these bags, these
Speaker 1: World serious world and this isn't a huge deal, but
Speaker 1: it is something from the World series. So we got
Speaker 1: you an official because they have the balls back there
Speaker 1: that they were taken out, and we got you one
Speaker 1: of the official World series balls. That's cool. I appreciate them.
Speaker 1: They're and they're very protected. They keep them in on
Speaker 1: the it's super tight too. Yeah, and it says it
Speaker 1: opened it up. That's pretty cool. I don't want to
Speaker 1: open it up. I can read it through it. I don't. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's in gold righting. I'm also I don't know, hopening up,
Speaker 1: screw it, open it out now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is true or not. So this is what I
Speaker 1: want to talk about. Is there a hundred and eight
Speaker 1: stitches in a baseball? If that's true, that's weird. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to count them. I heard there's a hundred
Speaker 1: and eight stitches in a baseball. You have Google, Google
Speaker 1: out of there. It's a really cool world they have.
Speaker 1: I don't know this they have. It's all gold. Everything
Speaker 1: on the ball was gold. I appreciate that kept so
Speaker 1: I don't get going, thank you very much. But these
Speaker 1: little bags are awesome. Can I tell you what the
Speaker 1: worst is because I actually like this gift. It's like
Speaker 1: a little jim bag. This is why I don't I
Speaker 1: gifts because a lot of times I'll just talk honestly.
Speaker 1: I'm a single guy and I can buy myself whatever
Speaker 1: I want. I worked hard. I have a pretty good life,
Speaker 1: except for the whole never having a girlfriend or a
Speaker 1: relationship or any family for a long time. You know,
Speaker 1: I can buy. I buy all the crap on one
Speaker 1: so people get me stuff. I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, So I don't like to get gifts.
Speaker 1: It's tough because I have everything that I like one
Speaker 1: and I have all the fake like faces for when
Speaker 1: I get again. Don't even do that, well, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't do well either. But I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. So great, that's really cool. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thanks man. I we just wanted you to have something
Speaker 1: that from the from game two, you know, And they
Speaker 1: had this box of official game balls, and they still
Speaker 1: wanted we took them. They had them all sitting there
Speaker 1: and I posted a picture and I was just being funny,
Speaker 1: but we posted a picture on Instagram that said it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of balls to sing the national anthem
Speaker 1: at the World Series game. We laughed and I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe we should take a couple of these for ourselves,
Speaker 1: you know. And no one was really counting, and so
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, let's do this. And they gave
Speaker 1: us the bags anyway, so then uh we cleared it.
Speaker 1: At the end. We're like, okay, we're not very good takers.
Speaker 1: So we were like, um, in our bags, we have, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have these World Series balls and MLB was like
Speaker 1: totally fine, totally fine, cool. Yeah, they were nice. Let's
Speaker 1: uh there, I heard that the other day, so that
Speaker 1: makes it even more perfect. That's crazy, Okay, So let's play.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some music and some live and what
Speaker 1: I can do is we like to start now and
Speaker 1: kind of work our way all the way back around.
Speaker 1: So let's start with the song right here. This is
Speaker 1: the last song, and I just went number one for
Speaker 1: you guys, wait to get if you're ready with the
Speaker 1: little yeah. As I know, somebody your first ever number
Speaker 1: one never gets tired of hearing that I got it?
Speaker 1: Like have you you haven't had a number one party yet,
Speaker 1: like your official nothing? Nothing? I mean, we have like
Speaker 1: little individual parties every day when we see each other.
Speaker 1: We're like after being because listen, I know artists who
Speaker 1: come to town and they're that point one percent to
Speaker 1: get lucky immediately and it's like you got right place,
Speaker 1: right time, everything boom you have a number one. Then
Speaker 1: I know artists like you, guys that have been grinding
Speaker 1: it out for a long time. When you have finally
Speaker 1: hit a number one, I mean, do you still have
Speaker 1: a twelve oh one? And look and make sure it's official?
Speaker 1: Do you wake up? Do you got to know? The
Speaker 1: race was with Billy Currington, and what a great song
Speaker 1: he had. I mean, I'm a big fan of that song,
Speaker 1: and it was already number one though it was. And
Speaker 1: then so we're neck and neck, and we're so neck
Speaker 1: and neck that we're losing by a lot going into
Speaker 1: the final hours. And as the final hours wrap up,
Speaker 1: we're so close that they called us and said, we
Speaker 1: can't tell you tonight. We're gonna have to reconcile all
Speaker 1: the spins. It's like the recount, dude, it was like
Speaker 1: a total election recount. And I was like, and you know,
Speaker 1: for low cash, we never get the good into the stick,
Speaker 1: like it just never does. Your last song was number
Speaker 1: two of all things, right, and we're and you're sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking maybe it's meant to be a number two
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, but you're trying to keep
Speaker 1: your energy right and you're trying to think, no, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get this. We're gonna get this. And the entire
Speaker 1: industry rally behind us that night. I mean, other ladies.
Speaker 1: I wondered if you knew that, because I knew that
Speaker 1: other labels were calling Radio stay and this is how
Speaker 1: weird this is. You don't let me say this because
Speaker 1: I don't want you to say thing. It's gonna put
Speaker 1: anything weird, So let me say. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: what what I heard happened. So there was first At
Speaker 1: first there were three songs that they were trying to
Speaker 1: that we're going for number one that week ended up
Speaker 1: being a two horse race and Billy Currington it Don't
Speaker 1: Hurt Like It used to, which by the way, is
Speaker 1: a fantastic song and was number one already, And so
Speaker 1: here it goes. It's going down to the last hour
Speaker 1: and they're pushing for a second week, and everybody didn't
Speaker 1: know that we're gonna push for a second week. It
Speaker 1: was kind of a last thing. And you know, I
Speaker 1: if you follow protocol, you don't do that usually. Now
Speaker 1: I'm a guy that says you shouldn't follow a protocol,
Speaker 1: like you should just go balls out and everybody should
Speaker 1: just fight for number one every week. That's not how
Speaker 1: this format works. And I think that's a crappy part
Speaker 1: of this. That's why they don't say anything. Let me
Speaker 1: just handle this controversial subject um. I think it's a
Speaker 1: crap I think pop radio has the right idea. If
Speaker 1: there's a song that's good enough to be number one,
Speaker 1: for seven weeks. It should be freaking number one for
Speaker 1: seven weeks. Country radio at times is a piece of
Speaker 1: crap because all they do is go, we'll make a deal.
Speaker 1: You're number one here, We're gonna let you have number
Speaker 1: one here. And that's stupid. It's really stupid, and it's
Speaker 1: really a bad part of our format. That and of
Speaker 1: the best format, by the way, because the people are
Speaker 1: the best, but that's a really bad part of it.
Speaker 1: So that being said, belly carctone Sudden is going for
Speaker 1: a second week and number one, and I'm like, huh,
Speaker 1: like I'm and I'm pulling for you guys hard. And
Speaker 1: so then I started to get text and calls going, hey,
Speaker 1: there are other labels, other record labels. They have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with low cash, no investment in low cash.
Speaker 1: And they're calling radio stations going you got to spend
Speaker 1: lo you gotta play this song. And I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this before, Like this is the cover.
Speaker 1: This is like the Cups coming back from three one
Speaker 1: a second series in a row and winning the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So I called I called my boss and said, where
Speaker 1: is this low cash song? Because I hear and he
Speaker 1: is not acknowledging anything. He's like, listen, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's happening right now. I don't know if he did
Speaker 1: or didn't. But he's like, I don't know what's happening
Speaker 1: right now, as he said, but there's no answer. He said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who the number one
Speaker 1: song is. No one did because I wanted to go
Speaker 1: on and tweet, and you know what, I texted you too,
Speaker 1: and I texted you so vaguely and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: you demand because I knew at that I just knew
Speaker 1: it was at number one at that point, and he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: He responded, Hey, thanks, And I didn't want to even
Speaker 1: say congrats in the number one in case more song track.
Speaker 1: We were so nervous, man. So you finally hear it
Speaker 1: the where do you hear that? Your number? So we
Speaker 1: were in Baltimore, Chris's hometown when we're pushing for number
Speaker 1: one that night, and somebody walked out on stage and said,
Speaker 1: low Cash just hit number one, and I was like,
Speaker 1: did we were one? We weren't. We had just finished.
Speaker 1: We got off stage, and I think Little Big Talent
Speaker 1: was getting ready to go on stage and the radio
Speaker 1: personality walks on stage and says, low Cash just hit
Speaker 1: number one, but what they did, I mean, we did
Speaker 1: hit number one, but it would flip flop back and forth.
Speaker 1: So the news they got was accurate. It was not
Speaker 1: written in five minutes. Yeah, it was gonna keep flipping
Speaker 1: and flopping all night long. And so and you gotta
Speaker 1: go by West Coast time, so it's gonna go till
Speaker 1: because they had the last day midnight, midnight? Is it
Speaker 1: until three o'clock? Yes, Eastern, And so we're like, ah,
Speaker 1: so we're in Baltimore. We're sort of starting to hug,
Speaker 1: but we're not sure yet and we don't want to
Speaker 1: jinx it. So we talked to the record label that
Speaker 1: night and they said, we can't give you any kind
Speaker 1: of confirmation. We're gonna have to wait till in the
Speaker 1: morning because they reconcile these spins, and each label has
Speaker 1: a chance, has like two hours to reconcile fine lost spins,
Speaker 1: miss spins kind of thing, lost votes kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And so I finally just went to sleep, and I
Speaker 1: had my wife and my kid with me, and Chris
Speaker 1: had his wife and his two kids with him, and uh,
Speaker 1: we're staying it like a holiday in or whatever. We're
Speaker 1: just waiting and about nine o'clock in the morning, we
Speaker 1: get a phone call and the label is like, can
Speaker 1: we get on three way? Real serious voice, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh boy, here we go. We got number two,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh And so I get Chris on
Speaker 1: the phone and Gators are Gator Michael's is ahead of
Speaker 1: our radio team, and he says, he says, guys, after
Speaker 1: the reconciliation came in, you got number one. And I
Speaker 1: mean I just lost it. Man. I was with my
Speaker 1: wife and my kid and my daughter's ten months old,
Speaker 1: and like, that's the first real hug I think I
Speaker 1: ever like felt her give me and she just knew,
Speaker 1: you know, it was awesome. Okay, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Let's go back a step and let's go over to
Speaker 1: I Love This Life because this song hit two. And
Speaker 1: the weird thing about this, man, it was such a
Speaker 1: long process because and I don't want to go through
Speaker 1: the whole where you're like, oh, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, You're welcome, okay. And I didn't even do it.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you guys. I didn't even do
Speaker 1: it because I was like pressent there my boys. I
Speaker 1: did it because of such a positive song. It was
Speaker 1: insane what you did, it was incredible. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I played the song, then everybody got this is the key.
Speaker 1: I get too much credit for breaking artists and songs
Speaker 1: because all I do is go, hey, everybody, look at this.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. I don't make them number one.
Speaker 1: I just take them and go, hey, everybody, please pay
Speaker 1: attention to something that I think is good. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't write the song, all things songs, and I
Speaker 1: don't do anything. I just say everybody, please pay attention.
Speaker 1: But your voice is so big, and your voice is
Speaker 1: so and when I say big, I mean it reaches
Speaker 1: so many people. And and that's what you know. Chris
Speaker 1: and I have just been out there grinding, like you said,
Speaker 1: just you know, like we felt like we never had
Speaker 1: a fair shot at radio. We just felt like we
Speaker 1: never did and and that's what kept us going. We
Speaker 1: could wake up in the morning and say, hey, we
Speaker 1: haven't had a fair shot. If we get a fair
Speaker 1: shot at radio and it doesn't work, we can walk
Speaker 1: away and say we gave it our best and we
Speaker 1: had our best shot, but we just never did. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden one morning and laying in
Speaker 1: the bus and I'm a lead and it's like I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe seven o'clock, eight o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: and Chris runs on the bus, throws open the curtain
Speaker 1: to my bond, shakes me and says, pe you gotta
Speaker 1: wake up. And I seriously thought something really bad at happened.
Speaker 1: I thought somebody got hurt. I didn't know, you know,
Speaker 1: you wake up scared to death, set up, hit my
Speaker 1: head on the bunk ahead of me. You know, I'm like, boom,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's going on? He goes, I think
Speaker 1: Bobby Bone is just played I Love this Life. It was,
Speaker 1: and like you said, it was just honestly like one
Speaker 1: of those things we had never talked before, and here
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, in all of America, I
Speaker 1: Love this Life is on the air, and it was
Speaker 1: just like that moment. It was like VH one. Behind
Speaker 1: the music, it was like boom, it just changed for me.
Speaker 1: I heard it and I was like, man, this is
Speaker 1: such a positive song. And then it's also gotta be good,
Speaker 1: like there are two levels to it, like got I
Speaker 1: don't have to like the message. The message has to resonate.
Speaker 1: It is. There are songs that I'm just like, man,
Speaker 1: that's it's kind of a gross message, but growth messages
Speaker 1: are part of life. And does this, you know, does
Speaker 1: it resonate? And then is there a good song? I
Speaker 1: was like, this is a good song and nobody's playing
Speaker 1: it and it's a positive song. So I throw in
Speaker 1: the dance party and then I kept playing it and
Speaker 1: then just other people it just opened eyes. Like I
Speaker 1: didn't do anything, I mean open the world's eyes. And
Speaker 1: then you guys are on a small label. It's not
Speaker 1: like you guys have a million dollar budget to go
Speaker 1: out and promote all this everywhere. And I've never seen
Speaker 1: a tiny little team scramble like they did that morning.
Speaker 1: Phones were ringing everybody, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they were like, I think Bobby wants you to call
Speaker 1: into the show. And we were like, because then had
Speaker 1: climbed so much on the on the iTunes, that's we're
Speaker 1: trying not to like sound too crazy, like we're like screaming,
Speaker 1: and then we're like, okay, we gotta play it cool man.
Speaker 1: We're about to be on Bobby Bones show. We're like
Speaker 1: trying to get together hear you say that now, because
Speaker 1: they buddies. It's so weird to even think that in
Speaker 1: your head. We were in a gust of Georgia. I
Speaker 1: know right where the bus was parked. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: And so we're sitting there on my phone on speaker phone,
Speaker 1: and you're like, guys, do you live on Bobby Bones Show?
Speaker 1: So don't cuss, don't say anything crazy, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: the morning you have to say that, because in the morning,
Speaker 1: most artist it's not time to wake up yet. And
Speaker 1: in that moment, we just want to yell all kinds
Speaker 1: of words. We're just going crazy, like this is wild.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that, and so um, and
Speaker 1: the phone call was over, and I'm like Chris and
Speaker 1: I are looking at like did we talk? I don't
Speaker 1: know if we did. We just talk on the air.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we did. Did we And did
Speaker 1: we say the right things? I don't even know. We're
Speaker 1: like hugging and high fiving. And that was just the
Speaker 1: beginning My only point of that whole call too, because
Speaker 1: I remember going, hey see if we can get those
Speaker 1: guys on the phone, like find their number. At the point,
Speaker 1: this guy the only time we had ever spoken. You
Speaker 1: may not remember this because I have a story about
Speaker 1: when we first met to But the only time we've
Speaker 1: ever spoken is when I first moved to Nashville. We
Speaker 1: did Oklahoma City Relief and you called into the show
Speaker 1: when you guys were toil LoCash Cowboys and you were like,
Speaker 1: hey were doing did the guitar? And I was like,
Speaker 1: who the crap is? Honestly, like, who the crap is?
Speaker 1: LoCash Cowboys? And who's gonna been on this guitar? But they,
Speaker 1: you know, thank you for sending the guitar. That's so
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, get them on the phone because
Speaker 1: I want to see, like how they feel about this song,
Speaker 1: like like what did they write it? I don't think
Speaker 1: about it and then wouldn't do anything they write it?
Speaker 1: What's the message? It's climbing up the charts right now?
Speaker 1: Do they know this? Like do they know that people
Speaker 1: now like this song? It was just happening so fast,
Speaker 1: it was so cool. And then we watched it and
Speaker 1: then I remember you guys. Someone called goes Hey low
Speaker 1: Cash was gonna sing about you on a CMT commercial
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know what this means.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden on CMT, it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: low Cash, you got a new song called I Love
Speaker 1: This Life, and it's like, you know, and I love
Speaker 1: the Bobby Bone Show. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, what
Speaker 1: was happening right now? And we still hadn't met. And
Speaker 1: to be honestly, I don't even know what you look
Speaker 1: like at this time, at this point in my life,
Speaker 1: I had no I was just like, it's a great song,
Speaker 1: it's a great message. That's what I'm here for. Keep
Speaker 1: playing it didn't know what you look like. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I can't get too invested, especially earlier. I can't, And
Speaker 1: so I didn't even look. I didn't look you guys up.
Speaker 1: So I'm walking. I don't know if I told you this,
Speaker 1: but I'm walking. Maybe it was CRST at the Omni
Speaker 1: Hotel and this guy comes up to me and he's
Speaker 1: a little bit emotional, and I'm like, somebody's gonna stab
Speaker 1: me or give me a big old hugs. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna be, but something, and Nada was
Speaker 1: with me. We were going in and he goes, dude,
Speaker 1: I just want to thank you. And I'm like, I wonder,
Speaker 1: like what what charity. I mean, really, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. I'm like, yeah, my words probably weren't coming
Speaker 1: out right because I'm emotional. And that's when I was
Speaker 1: the first time we had met and you were like,
Speaker 1: I'm pressed it from low cash and I was like, oh, dude, congratulations.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really great to see and you were liked,
Speaker 1: and it was just a really cool moment. I'm pulling
Speaker 1: this bag, My bag falls over, it hits like somebody.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a total train wreck. But I have
Speaker 1: to get the bobby and thank him. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: no matter what, I got to catch him for he
Speaker 1: gets on the escalators. We're about to walk on the escalator.
Speaker 1: When he goes up, it's over. He's gonna be busy
Speaker 1: and I'll never catch him, and then I'll really look
Speaker 1: like a stock or flying up. That's got who's running
Speaker 1: up the opposite side of the escalator. That was a
Speaker 1: really cool for me because it was so freaking organic.
Speaker 1: I'm glad because once again I walked away like did
Speaker 1: I just freak I don't know, because I just wanted
Speaker 1: to say things like I happened to. There was nothing
Speaker 1: planned about it. I just happened to walk in. You
Speaker 1: were right there. I didn't know who you were. And
Speaker 1: then I was like and I walked up and I
Speaker 1: was like that was really cool, Like that was really cool.
Speaker 1: And that was one of those moments where I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is why I do this. And sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: want to interrupt somebody, and that's how I was feeling.
Speaker 1: I was like, he's on his way towards something, a
Speaker 1: meeting in the show or something, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: if I should, you know, should even run up and interrupt,
Speaker 1: but I was like I have to because this is
Speaker 1: the guy that that turned America onto us on the air.
Speaker 1: And I was like, no matter what this comes off, like,
Speaker 1: no matter if my bag falls over and I'm a
Speaker 1: train wreck, I gotta go over there and say thank you.
Speaker 1: And that was, you know I. So let's go to
Speaker 1: this song. So it it hits a number two before
Speaker 1: this song? What was your highest charting song? Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we had we were on a record label called Strout
Speaker 1: of various years ago, like oh, eight oh nine, two
Speaker 1: thousand ten right in there, and we had a song
Speaker 1: called keep in Mind that got to number thirty two,
Speaker 1: I think, and the record label that's it. That's the song.
Speaker 1: What song, so keep in mind and the one that
Speaker 1: I love the song. So this song OFFENSI story. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to play it while you were telling it.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Steele and Shane Miner wrote that song. Jeffrey Steele
Speaker 1: was and still is a huge like mentor big brother
Speaker 1: everything to us, and he believed when nobody did it
Speaker 1: way back in oh eight, you know, and Uh took
Speaker 1: us to his studio and we started writing songs together,
Speaker 1: and he just kept telling us, through all the highs
Speaker 1: and the lows, you gotta keep writing songs no matter what.
Speaker 1: Just keep writing throughout all the good, throughout all the bad,
Speaker 1: and and your and your little diamonds will be at
Speaker 1: the end of that. You know, you'll have this little
Speaker 1: pile of songs. Some of them will suck, you know,
Speaker 1: like a lot of them will suck, but there'll be
Speaker 1: this little handful of songs that will be special and
Speaker 1: real and they'll be the ones. And so, Uh one
Speaker 1: day we were at his studio and we overheard him
Speaker 1: say that Rascal Flats might be recording and keep in mind,
Speaker 1: and we just looked at him and we said, nobody's
Speaker 1: ever given us a song like this or giving us
Speaker 1: a shot to record it, and we feel like we
Speaker 1: could record this, will you give it to us? And
Speaker 1: he kept it and took it off hold from all
Speaker 1: the other artists and let us record it. And I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the number one for anybody, a multi week number
Speaker 1: one for anybody, but for low cash. Uh, and this
Speaker 1: little label we were on, it was a shot. It
Speaker 1: was it was a chance, and it got us to
Speaker 1: thirty two, and um, it could have went a lot higher,
Speaker 1: but the record label closed at thirty two. And while
Speaker 1: we had a bullet and we're going up the charts,
Speaker 1: the record label shut down for other budgeting reasons and
Speaker 1: we got left hanging right there at thirty two. So
Speaker 1: thirty two was your highest to that point ever And
Speaker 1: so once I love this life hit stop twenty Is
Speaker 1: that a celebration? Oh my gosh, everything was a celebration
Speaker 1: like forty was. And I'll tell you what when I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what was a real celebration for us. We
Speaker 1: were going down the highway and uh and Gator Michael's
Speaker 1: was driving the car and he looked back and he says, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: your song just went to thirty one. For me, that
Speaker 1: was that moment, that was that threshold, and it was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a new world. It's a new shot at thirty
Speaker 1: and then and then twenty, and like you said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a celebration that every tier. You're like, okay, the
Speaker 1: new goal is you know, ninet, and then fifteen and
Speaker 1: then ten and all bets are off at ten. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's like Nascar. All these cars are just
Speaker 1: zooming as fast as they can. They've all made pit
Speaker 1: stops and and and when I say cars, I mean songs.
Speaker 1: But here we here you are on the top ten
Speaker 1: and you're up there with people like Luke Bryan and
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesny and it is legit, it's real, and everybody's
Speaker 1: gunning for that number one slot and you don't know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. You're just like praying. So whenever it
Speaker 1: doesn't hit number one and it's a two, is there
Speaker 1: a disappointment there? Um? I think there was a disappointment
Speaker 1: and die happy. Man just didn't die quick enough. You
Speaker 1: got The timing was awful. The Song of the Year
Speaker 1: was out at the same time, and we were number
Speaker 1: one on Monday, and then he moved in it on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and never left for like weeks, and we stayed
Speaker 1: at number two the entire time, which is a huge
Speaker 1: success for us to just remain right there with him,
Speaker 1: but we couldn't overtake him. It was a powerful song.
Speaker 1: It was a song or the year. And so at
Speaker 1: the Cmas, which we didn't watch because we're watching the game,
Speaker 1: it was one. But here's the thing, and this is
Speaker 1: you're funny you talked about two. I was doing the
Speaker 1: story about Olympians when they win medals, and so I'm
Speaker 1: only the psychology of sports as well. The gold medal
Speaker 1: people are always happy or they're not, you know whatever
Speaker 1: for me. For me, I don't like to win. I
Speaker 1: just hate losing. So I'm I'm a nut case anyway.
Speaker 1: But what they found was the gold medal winners were happy,
Speaker 1: the silver medal people were very unhappy, and the bronze
Speaker 1: medal people were super happy. And now here's why the
Speaker 1: gold medal people won. The silver medal people felt like
Speaker 1: I was so close to winning that I should have
Speaker 1: won if I would have just worked harder, So they
Speaker 1: didn't have that in their heart of like what I did.
Speaker 1: And the bronze was like man, I'm happy to be here,
Speaker 1: like I wasn't gonna pitch first, and so just being
Speaker 1: on the stand as an honor, and they found that
Speaker 1: it was gold, bronze, silver in that order in happiness.
Speaker 1: I mean that in our world, that's kind of like
Speaker 1: top five too and one. Yeah, like I can see
Speaker 1: how somebody would achieve a top five and say we
Speaker 1: did it top five when we roll out, but for us,
Speaker 1: we got so close. I mean it was right there.
Speaker 1: And but you know what, I Love his Life feels
Speaker 1: like a number one song. To me. It's the most
Speaker 1: powerful song in our set every night to this day
Speaker 1: when we go out and we sing, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the last song of the show every night. There's no
Speaker 1: other place for I Love this Life to sit because
Speaker 1: it's the one that you know, that introduced us to
Speaker 1: America as well as it's still has this thing that
Speaker 1: changes people's day. Like it's just a smile. So that's
Speaker 1: how I just said, like it makes you smile, hands
Speaker 1: go up, smiles come over the faces, and uh, and
Speaker 1: we leave the stage feeling like we've you know, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of gave him a really positive message. Who'd you
Speaker 1: write that song with? Chris Danny Myrick was there, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We were trying to write an
Speaker 1: anthem for Garth. We heard he was cutting. We're like,
Speaker 1: let's write an anthem for Garth. What would Garth say?
Speaker 1: And we're like he'd get out there with a fist
Speaker 1: and and be like, I love this life, you know.
Speaker 1: And so we started. We made a laundry list of
Speaker 1: all the things we loved, and we're like, let's keep
Speaker 1: this simple, let's just not even think about this. What
Speaker 1: are the things we love? And we just made a
Speaker 1: list and then we sort of formulated and it in
Speaker 1: versus and named it I love this life. And we're like,
Speaker 1: when you finished, okay. So I know a lot of
Speaker 1: artists were writing for Garth at the time when he
Speaker 1: was It was like he was taking emails like you
Speaker 1: just take the song and you get to him, and
Speaker 1: they would listen to everything. So did you what are
Speaker 1: you disappointed that Garth didn't? Yeah? First, I was like, dang,
Speaker 1: I thought maybe we had something there, And and we
Speaker 1: were already doing it live and Chris and I take
Speaker 1: songs onto the stage and just sing them just to
Speaker 1: see what the reaction is like. And uh, we were
Speaker 1: watching every night and the crowds were like, already going crazy.
Speaker 1: I've never ever heard it on the radio, and their
Speaker 1: hands are up, they're feeling good. And our tour manager
Speaker 1: was like, I'm telling you guys, there's something special about
Speaker 1: this song. And I kind of blow it off and
Speaker 1: go to the bus. So I was kind of disappointed
Speaker 1: when I heard that Garth, you know, um didn't cut it,
Speaker 1: and I don't even know if he really heard it,
Speaker 1: who knows, but another artist supposedly had it on hold,
Speaker 1: and it was on a stronghold, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: as songwriters, we were all banking on that to be
Speaker 1: good for us. We're all like, that could be good
Speaker 1: for us. We all get a paycheck. And so when
Speaker 1: we got our record, we didn't have a record deal,
Speaker 1: and so when we got a record deal, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the record levels is we want to make
Speaker 1: I Love This Life the single, and we were like,
Speaker 1: Chris kind of looks at me, He's like, maybe you
Speaker 1: should take it off hold, And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be for another artist, it's probably bad form,
Speaker 1: but maybe with a shot for us as the songwriters,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take it off hold from artists A to
Speaker 1: give it to artist B. That's probably not cold. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're taking it off, hold for yourself when you
Speaker 1: wrote it, because you have a new project that's a
Speaker 1: little more excut. That's a little different because now it's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we sort of have the trump card
Speaker 1: on a on a song that we write, and so
Speaker 1: when we you know, we had to call Jansen and
Speaker 1: we had to call Danny and say, guys, I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep the song for ourselves, which a bit
Speaker 1: for them is gonna be disappointing. Yeah, you never know,
Speaker 1: they want a big artist to have it because listen,
Speaker 1: just playing here, it's gonna be me for a second,
Speaker 1: like I want little cash cutting a song a big
Speaker 1: artist can cut at the time, you know, would you Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've been there. I mean it's like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: what do we do? But you know, man, Jansen is
Speaker 1: one of our brothers. He's like, he's our best friend
Speaker 1: in music. And uh, those guys after after we talked
Speaker 1: it out, everybody understood we just wanted a shot, and
Speaker 1: so we all kind of rolled with it. And I
Speaker 1: think everyone send it up big prayers and cross some
Speaker 1: fingers and toes and uh. Now you look back on
Speaker 1: it and you're like, wow, what a great decision we
Speaker 1: all made. That's awesome, dude, dude, and here you are
Speaker 1: praying the guards. You know, wise man once said some
Speaker 1: of God's great it's gifts, and guards said that. Alright.
Speaker 1: So I love this life goes the number two. It
Speaker 1: puts you by the way. I'll say this now with
Speaker 1: I love this life and I know somebody, you guys
Speaker 1: are now real players in the game. With one song,
Speaker 1: you're not a real player. You're okay, cool the head
Speaker 1: of song. With two songs in a row, you automatically
Speaker 1: get that third. Everybody gives you the benefit of the
Speaker 1: down the third song. Just don't make the third song
Speaker 1: suck yet, you know. I mean, that's the goal. But
Speaker 1: the first make the first song amazing. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: the plan is on. The second song is okay, cool,
Speaker 1: we have a little ans, let's follow it up. The
Speaker 1: third one is we're going to get the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. Just don't song. Do you feel that? I
Speaker 1: feel that, and it's like, just don't mess this up.
Speaker 1: This is the moment, and you know, everybody, I feel
Speaker 1: like we have a really um solid album. We're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of feedback on different songs. People are like,
Speaker 1: I think this should be your third song, about playing
Speaker 1: a different song I shouldn't have played. Hey, I don't
Speaker 1: even care what you play because I'm all about I
Speaker 1: love it that you went deep into the album and
Speaker 1: found a cut that is important to us. That song
Speaker 1: is so important to us, and who knows you may
Speaker 1: have willed it into being a single eventually. Who knows
Speaker 1: the one that I played before we played the next single?
Speaker 1: I heard this song, Oh I no, no. Before I
Speaker 1: heard it, I just looking at the tracks and I
Speaker 1: was like, God Loves Me More. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what this is, but I have to hear the song
Speaker 1: because I don't know. My mind as a creative goes, okay,
Speaker 1: how would I make this a song? And what's with
Speaker 1: the angle? What's the angle of God Loves Me More?
Speaker 1: Because it sounds like the most arrogant song I've ever
Speaker 1: heard of my It sounds like a terrible song and
Speaker 1: its yes, And so I go and I listened to
Speaker 1: the song right, And so it's called God Loves Me
Speaker 1: More because he gave me angel And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: got it. Now I'm gonna tell you this. And I
Speaker 1: haven't said this on the air, and I won't say
Speaker 1: it on the air because it'll put our bait in.
Speaker 1: We were placed, but I took this song and I
Speaker 1: and the head of my heart Country, the biggest company,
Speaker 1: in the biggest format is the guy that was the
Speaker 1: guy who moved me to Nashville, like is my number
Speaker 1: one like friend confidante, he punched me in the face,
Speaker 1: he congratulates me. Um, And I sent him this song.
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, this this song of the year,
Speaker 1: Like if it's ever, if it's ever a single, it's
Speaker 1: this this song of the year potential. I mean, it
Speaker 1: feels like I remember sitting in the back of the
Speaker 1: bus with Matt Alderman, Uh, Phil Barton, Phil Eric Passley
Speaker 1: and I wrote when I Grow Up, the number one
Speaker 1: kids song together. He's awesome and uh and so is Phil, Matt,
Speaker 1: Chris and me and we're sending back to the bus
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget Matt Alderman had the idea and
Speaker 1: he goes guys because this idea, and he's just he's
Speaker 1: a big old country boy, you know. He's holding his
Speaker 1: guitar and he says it's called God loves me more
Speaker 1: than you. And I was like, just like you. I
Speaker 1: was like just stunned. And then he even said this,
Speaker 1: and so before I said yes or no, and I
Speaker 1: just said okay, sing sing how this should go? And
Speaker 1: he kind of had this twist that God loves me
Speaker 1: more than you because he gave me an angel hold
Speaker 1: onto and that's all he kind of had. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh boy, this is this could be amazing.
Speaker 1: And so then we just backed up and said, it's
Speaker 1: a redneck love song. It's a country boy who has
Speaker 1: no other way to say it, but just like this,
Speaker 1: and so we just started. You know, I drank too much,
Speaker 1: you know, I fined, I cuss that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And it worked and I played it on the air
Speaker 1: and it went like number forty one. Yes, I was
Speaker 1: calling everybody's like new single, guys, let's go. I felt
Speaker 1: bad that I played it because I didn't know what
Speaker 1: the new single was. And I was just like, guys,
Speaker 1: I heard this low cash song and you have you
Speaker 1: have to just hear it. It's just that good. And
Speaker 1: I played it and I talked to I guess he
Speaker 1: owned your label. Uh. He was like hey, and I
Speaker 1: was walking out of the the stupid c M. As
Speaker 1: I was walking out of the um the interviews of
Speaker 1: that day and he was like, hey, God loves me
Speaker 1: more went up like five thoent when you pay they do.
Speaker 1: It's a good song. I didn't write it, I didn't
Speaker 1: sing it. I did nothing except go, hey, everybody check
Speaker 1: this out. It already exists. I mean, I love the
Speaker 1: song so much. It could be the single right now,
Speaker 1: and I'd be fine with that. But the single right
Speaker 1: now is ring on Every Finger, which I have to
Speaker 1: admit never heard it. Like, as I'm about to play,
Speaker 1: I've never heard it. You've never heard it, never heard
Speaker 1: the first time. I've never heard one note from this song.
Speaker 1: Because here we go. Now this isn't gonna account because
Speaker 1: it's not the right environment. I have my environment to
Speaker 1: hear that's not the right environment. But I've never So
Speaker 1: here's a little something about ring on Everything, or a
Speaker 1: little backstory. Um Thomas Rhett wrote it with Josh Ker
Speaker 1: and Jesse Frasier his team, and they write great songs.
Speaker 1: And we got pitched this song after he had cut
Speaker 1: his album, so I don't think he had it done
Speaker 1: in time for his album. We heard it and we
Speaker 1: were like, this is amazing. So the guy that beats
Speaker 1: you at number one right with die Happy Man we
Speaker 1: just talked about it, has now given you a song
Speaker 1: that's gonna be ay this whole World's dad wrote I
Speaker 1: know somebody, that's right. Rhet wrote I have somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're all excited, going, is this gonna be a
Speaker 1: true store? I mean this is crazy, you know, dude.
Speaker 1: This is like a freaking lifetime original CMT combination. All
Speaker 1: here we go ring. This is the hook Mike, So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get the full effect, which doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: This is our ring on every finger. This is the
Speaker 1: new Locust single thing my last name just seeing in
Speaker 1: the world. Oh that's a cool I like that. That
Speaker 1: just just melodically speaking. Yeah, because I need to hear
Speaker 1: the all song and it's got the Thomas Hrett energy
Speaker 1: for sure. I can hear the Thomas in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, it's okay. That's the new single. Don't
Speaker 1: a lot about it. I'm not gonna talk a lot
Speaker 1: about it. So that's the new single. I'm sure what
Speaker 1: we're talking about that a lot in the future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's go back. So I want to go back
Speaker 1: to whenever people that have been around town a long
Speaker 1: time talking about you guys, and I'm talking about long timers.
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, no, President, you just do. He's
Speaker 1: to teach dance classes. And I'm like he did. I
Speaker 1: didn't know this. I'm like, president us yeah. And then
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, we go. He teaching like it
Speaker 1: did dancing with the Wild Horse really yep. So when
Speaker 1: I first moved to town, I heard that everybody would
Speaker 1: hang out with the Wild Horse, and so I was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about Nashville. So I went down
Speaker 1: the Second Avenue, went to the Wild Horse, walked in
Speaker 1: and it's kind of buzzing. You know, this is two
Speaker 1: thousand two. I'm in there and the buzzes, you know, rocking.
Speaker 1: There's people dancing, there's lights. It's a big, big nightclub.
Speaker 1: And I'll look over in the DJ hanging out, you know,
Speaker 1: having fun. He's got some girls in the DJ booth.
Speaker 1: He's having fun. Hands up, Chris. So I walk over right.
Speaker 1: So I walk over to the DJ booth and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it looks like you got a cool job. That's how
Speaker 1: you met him, And that's where we met. And he
Speaker 1: goes he goes, yeah, what are you doing in town?
Speaker 1: He's like, you seem like a new guy around here.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, man, I just moved here. I don't
Speaker 1: even have a job. And he's like, well, first things first,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need a job. And I was like really,
Speaker 1: because I saved a little bit money and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna Songwright every day, so focused on Songwright. And he goes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need a job, dude. It takes longer than
Speaker 1: you know, than what you think. And so I was
Speaker 1: like okay. So he says, why don't you work here?
Speaker 1: He says, you have any dancing like background, you could
Speaker 1: teach line dancing here. It's a fun job, pays well.
Speaker 1: Dancing background. Yeah. So so Chris and I both have
Speaker 1: dancing background. So, um, like viacom and like v H
Speaker 1: one and MTV would fly us to New York City
Speaker 1: and have us do like hip hop clinics and all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Where did you learn to dance? Because
Speaker 1: it sounds like you've been trained to dance, but I
Speaker 1: never had to dance lesson in my life. But um,
Speaker 1: dancing just one of things down right, I mean, throw
Speaker 1: some cardboard down with the boom box man, we're good
Speaker 1: to go, So no dance lessons, but you were really
Speaker 1: that good that you would go dance. And Chris was
Speaker 1: the same way, coming from Baltimore. He had breakdancing, and
Speaker 1: so the two of us hit it off. We're like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we both like can dance and freestyle
Speaker 1: and have fun, and and we come from the same background.
Speaker 1: We listened to the same music growing up, and so
Speaker 1: we started working together. And they had two microphones, and
Speaker 1: so I would DJ and he would walk out and
Speaker 1: and like being m C and welcome everybody to the
Speaker 1: Wild Horse. There'll be like three thousand people in there,
Speaker 1: and be like hey everybody, and I'll be playing background
Speaker 1: music on this and then on this machine called the
Speaker 1: Instant Replay. So I'm like dropping like Magnum p I
Speaker 1: music or whatever, like thank Chris is out there talking
Speaker 1: and it's the show. Two man show. And then the
Speaker 1: next break, I would go out with the mike and
Speaker 1: Chris would be the DJ, and he would put on,
Speaker 1: you know, like the music to Three's Company, and I'd
Speaker 1: go walking out and we had this little thing going.
Speaker 1: And then one day we got bored and we're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, there's two mics. Well, let's just press
Speaker 1: play on the instant replay and then we'll just walk
Speaker 1: out together and we'll just start you know, hosting together.
Speaker 1: So we walked out together, and the jokes got funnier
Speaker 1: and the timing got better, and we started picking on
Speaker 1: people in the crowd, and then one of us would
Speaker 1: save the person the other one was picking on. You know,
Speaker 1: we kind of had this little team thing going and
Speaker 1: it was a lot like almost like a rat pack
Speaker 1: kind of comedy. It was just fun and Costello, right,
Speaker 1: it was like the Smothers brothers. So we go out
Speaker 1: and just have a good time, and then we would
Speaker 1: teach a line dance lesson at the end of the night,
Speaker 1: and people learn a line dance lesson, and we would
Speaker 1: make the line dances because we came from like hip
Speaker 1: hop breakdancing, we would make the line dances a little
Speaker 1: extra cool, so you weren't doing the old you know,
Speaker 1: the old school thing. Just give it a fresh edge.
Speaker 1: And so it worked, and the numbers started growing and
Speaker 1: the wild Horse was just exploding. And then we made
Speaker 1: eight by tens with like two of a picture of us. Oh,
Speaker 1: just a sign, like a picture of just like like
Speaker 1: a head shop two guys on it, the guys from
Speaker 1: the Wild Horse. So we gave the merchandise store the
Speaker 1: pictures what was the name on the bottom of the
Speaker 1: christ and pressing. I mean that's all we had. We know,
Speaker 1: nothing else, like you couldn't come up. But then right,
Speaker 1: the boys anything and so well. And then at one
Speaker 1: point we're like, we should call ourselves nash Vegas. And
Speaker 1: because at the time that was like the term around here,
Speaker 1: they were like, no, that's kind of dumb, and so
Speaker 1: we didn't do it. So we just wanted Christen Press
Speaker 1: and we gave the merchandise store this eight by ten
Speaker 1: and uh they sold out or like, well, that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool, and so we ordered more pictures. And then
Speaker 1: we were like, I wonder if like we were already
Speaker 1: starting a song write with people in town, because we
Speaker 1: knew we wanted to be a duo, but you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta learn. And so we were writing
Speaker 1: with people and stuff, and we wrote the song and
Speaker 1: called an Unordinary Day. Nobody's probably ever heard it. And
Speaker 1: so we take this song, we write this song, and
Speaker 1: we record it, we demo it like over on Demo Hill,
Speaker 1: you know, so we demo the song and we burn
Speaker 1: CDs on our MacBook, on our laptop in the DJ
Speaker 1: booth and we're selling them. We make up a line
Speaker 1: dance to it, and we're like, dude, I think we
Speaker 1: can sell these for like four up your own line
Speaker 1: dance to see that's what I'm talking about. That's how
Speaker 1: you do it. We made up our own dance to
Speaker 1: our own song. Unting of Nashville. You created your own
Speaker 1: to The line was out the door for these CDs.
Speaker 1: I couldn't burn them fast enough. I was like pop
Speaker 1: a CD in and then just to be like, in
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, your CD has done. It's like a microwave.
Speaker 1: And they were hot in my hand while I'm like
Speaker 1: writing on it. We didn't have a picture on them.
Speaker 1: I would just write christ and Preston on ordinary day
Speaker 1: and hand it to him for five bucks. And and
Speaker 1: it was happening so fast. I was taking the money
Speaker 1: and throwing it in a drawer. I wouldn't even look.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the night I would open
Speaker 1: up the drawer. Room was just full of five dollar bills.
Speaker 1: I mean just full. And that stuff adds up quick
Speaker 1: when you're living on I can tell you when I
Speaker 1: weighed tables. Does one dollar build that up quick? I
Speaker 1: mean we needed that, you know. And then some nights
Speaker 1: I would work alone or Chris would work alone. We
Speaker 1: called you a bit. Do we selling the CDs and night? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: like three packs from Walgreens, you know, like we're selling packs.
Speaker 1: That's how we just yeah, and so we so we're
Speaker 1: selling pictures, were selling CDs and then dream Works calls
Speaker 1: and says we want to sign you guys, and so
Speaker 1: we go to dream Work. Did you have a name
Speaker 1: at this point, Christen prisses. So we go to DreamWorks
Speaker 1: and we sit down with them and James Stroud was
Speaker 1: the head of the label, and we were so nervous.
Speaker 1: The night before we learned nine songs to be ready
Speaker 1: to audition because we didn't know what to expect. We
Speaker 1: didn't have a demo other than this one song. So
Speaker 1: we go to DreamWorks and we walk into the office
Speaker 1: and uh, and the general manager of the whole label says,
Speaker 1: you know what, I've seen enough. I was at the
Speaker 1: Wild Horse the other night. I saw it. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to sign you guys, and I was like, well, what
Speaker 1: can we sing for you? But we worked up some songs.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of what happens in every room ever, right,
Speaker 1: And so I said, um, it was a guy named
Speaker 1: Wayne Helper. I said, can we sing a song for you?
Speaker 1: Because we worked a song up and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: proud of this and we're ready for this moment. We
Speaker 1: set up all night and he says, no, I don't
Speaker 1: need you to sing a song. I've seen enough and
Speaker 1: we'll take this in and we'll we'll, you know, find
Speaker 1: some songs for you guys, and will make this happen.
Speaker 1: I said, Wayne, Uh, we would like to sing for you.
Speaker 1: And so he's like, and he looks at our manager
Speaker 1: at the time. He says, I would highly advise they
Speaker 1: don't sing right now because they could mess this up actually,
Speaker 1: And so she was like, I say, let him, saying
Speaker 1: they they're determined they want to sing. So we're saying
Speaker 1: like five songs and he listened to all of them
Speaker 1: and he still gave us a record deal and it
Speaker 1: was awesome and uh, but then Steven Spielberg sold uh
Speaker 1: DreamWorks before we could ever get in the studio. So, okay,
Speaker 1: did you come up with the name then? Though, no,
Speaker 1: it was just a little bit after that deal. We
Speaker 1: lost our deal with DreamWorks, and uh, it was like
Speaker 1: Tracy Lawrence, Shelley, Tennyson, Emerson Drive. All of us got
Speaker 1: cut the same day, and we're like, Okay, that's all right,
Speaker 1: We'll just go get another record deal. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: go do this again. But it wasn't that easy the
Speaker 1: second time around, and we were knocking on doors and
Speaker 1: we were begging, working hard and doing showcases and all that,
Speaker 1: and it just wasn't working. So that's when we realized
Speaker 1: we needed to pack our bags, pack up the cheap
Speaker 1: Cherokee and put the U haul on the back and
Speaker 1: just go to shows and and and learn earn, yeah,
Speaker 1: how to how to be a duo. So you go,
Speaker 1: you go play? Are you Christen? I'm so enamored when
Speaker 1: with them in the name? Who came up with the
Speaker 1: name and when it came out? Okay, So back in
Speaker 1: the day in Cocomo, Indiana where I'm from, it was
Speaker 1: me and my high school buddies we had this thing
Speaker 1: called Low Cash Money Boys, and um, we call ourselves
Speaker 1: l c MB, Low Cash Money Boys, and you had
Speaker 1: to be like initiated. You had to get a nickname,
Speaker 1: and it was like a little fraternity high school fraternity,
Speaker 1: and we low Cash was kind of a figure of speech,
Speaker 1: if you could, because none of us had very much money.
Speaker 1: So if something really cool would happen, we'd be like
Speaker 1: that was so low cash, high five and be like
Speaker 1: that's awesome. And so that's how low Cash kind of
Speaker 1: came to be. So while we're out in my jeep
Speaker 1: Cherokee with the U haul, I tell Chris, I said, man,
Speaker 1: you know up in Cookemo, I want you to meet
Speaker 1: my buddies when we when we play Cookemo. He says okay.
Speaker 1: So he meets everybody and he says, um, uh, these
Speaker 1: guys are pretty cool. This is pretty cool little crew
Speaker 1: of dudes. And I said, yeah, you should be in
Speaker 1: the low cash family with us. We'll give you a
Speaker 1: nickname everything. So we give him a nickname and everything.
Speaker 1: Chris says, he gives the you know, the light bulb.
Speaker 1: He's like, we should be the country boys of Low Cash.
Speaker 1: And I was like, because the meaning is just never
Speaker 1: forgetting where you're from. It's not about being poor. It's
Speaker 1: about cool stuff happening for next to nothing, best things
Speaker 1: in life for free kind of attitude. So Chris says,
Speaker 1: we should be the country boys low cash, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I love that. So then we were like,
Speaker 1: let's be a little cash cowboys. And we came back
Speaker 1: to Nashville and we told our management. We're like, we
Speaker 1: got a name, weren't called ourselves low cash Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: they're like that will never work, and we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well then that's it. We're going with low cash cowboys.
Speaker 1: If you say it will never work, at least it's polarizing,
Speaker 1: it's making you feel something right now, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with it. And so we did. So you're low
Speaker 1: cash Cowboys and you don't have a deal at this point. No, okay,
Speaker 1: So when did the next deal? And what was the
Speaker 1: first song that you guys tried to hit with? Here
Speaker 1: Come Summer was the very first song that ever came
Speaker 1: out two thousand and ten and uh, and it raced
Speaker 1: up to like forty this is it and a lot
Speaker 1: of and a big fidd up the cooler and become
Speaker 1: the girls and giving meet and get her jump up
Speaker 1: in my g drive. After the lay day after every
Speaker 1: loving day after day, here comes. So you put this
Speaker 1: out word at the end the fall in the one
Speaker 1: in ten weeks and you felt how about that. We
Speaker 1: were we were so excited. I mean, getting the forty
Speaker 1: one in ten weeks is unheard of these days. And
Speaker 1: we were like, this is unless you're a superstar artist.
Speaker 1: And we were like, this is it. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Here comes Summer's going up the charts. And uh, the
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, the record label decided to put
Speaker 1: out another act. They started feeling, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is going so well, we'll put it on another
Speaker 1: act and a lot of the focus for you messed
Speaker 1: everything up. Who was the other act? It was a
Speaker 1: knack called Houston County. So they never did anything. I
Speaker 1: love those guys. They were from Houston County, Alabama. They're
Speaker 1: now a little big town. They changed their name to Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when did it go from? And why did you
Speaker 1: drop cowboy? Because when I heard of look ash Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I thought a real cowboys. Yeah, and you guys aren't
Speaker 1: really you're not You're not cowboys? No, So when did
Speaker 1: they go from we need to pull the cowboys off
Speaker 1: our name? You know, we were we had just gotten
Speaker 1: a new record deal with Revival Records. The guy you
Speaker 1: met and we knew, I love this life was gonna
Speaker 1: be the single. We and um, we just did a
Speaker 1: photo shoot and we're feeling good about like everything is
Speaker 1: new energy, knew everything. And so I was sitting in
Speaker 1: the front lounge of the bus and I was doodling,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit of a graffiti artist, and
Speaker 1: so I was just kind of messing on a napkin
Speaker 1: with a sharpie, messing around. And I always liked the
Speaker 1: zz top logo and Chris like that too, so like
Speaker 1: the on top of each other, the letters, like they
Speaker 1: just really cool rock and roll looking stuff. And I
Speaker 1: looked at Van Halen, I looked at Montley Crue, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at all these other stuff that had a
Speaker 1: lot of energy and was really slick and smooth and fun,
Speaker 1: and I was like that, man, it's easy top things
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And so I sort of started working on
Speaker 1: a new logo and I just had done low Cash.
Speaker 1: I didn't even put cowboys on there yet. And Chris
Speaker 1: wakes up, walks up to the front lounge. He goes,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. I said, yeah, I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of working up that new logo like we talked about,
Speaker 1: and he was like, dude, I love it, just like that.
Speaker 1: Don't even put cowboys on there, and I was like really,
Speaker 1: and so we were kind of like like a logo
Speaker 1: for a ball cap or something, We're like, we'll just
Speaker 1: leave it at this. So we turned it in and
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh my gosh, you changed your name or
Speaker 1: like not really, I mean not really kind of. I
Speaker 1: don't know did we because we just turned into new logo.
Speaker 1: I know, like, is this is this you want like
Speaker 1: we did and if you don't, we didn't. That's how
Speaker 1: it was. And they were like, we love it, We're
Speaker 1: just gonna go with this. It's just low Cash and
Speaker 1: we're like okay, and so we went with low Ash
Speaker 1: and everything just sort of lined up. I mean, everything
Speaker 1: just worked. How long you're Crispin together from the day
Speaker 1: you met him at the wild Horse two thousand two,
Speaker 1: Holy crap, I met him in two thousand two, so
Speaker 1: and I know, weeks after I moved to town I
Speaker 1: was twelve. I know that there were times in your
Speaker 1: career where as a band, you guys thought, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna able to do this anymore. I mean
Speaker 1: they're hides and lows over that period of time thousand
Speaker 1: and eleven to that was the year it comes right
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eleven. That's when what happened January, Um,
Speaker 1: keep in minds going up the chart. I don't even
Speaker 1: know where we were in January, but we were made
Speaker 1: making a really strong mood keep in mind, And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden in January, Chris stadd passed away suddenly,
Speaker 1: I mean suddenly, no uh, no signs of it happening,
Speaker 1: and it just happened, and it devastated Chris, devastated both
Speaker 1: of us. That devastated our whole team, our whole camp.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember going to the funeral in Baltimore
Speaker 1: and our record label showed up, and I mean it
Speaker 1: just really hit us hard because you know, um, Jack
Speaker 1: was Chris's dad, and he was Chris's you know, best friend,
Speaker 1: biggest fan, and he was like a dad to me too,
Speaker 1: you know. So all of a sudden, we're singing this
Speaker 1: song keep in mind, it's kind of the charts, and
Speaker 1: we lose Jack. And then two weeks later, literally almost
Speaker 1: to the day, Uh, Chris's aunt, who's a big supporter,
Speaker 1: a big fan of ours, sweetest woman in the world,
Speaker 1: passes away suddenly and we're like, whoa, whoa, what's happening?
Speaker 1: You know? And then a few weeks after that, the
Speaker 1: record label shuts down and we lose keep in Mind
Speaker 1: at thirty two on the charts, and we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: a song is not even nearly equal to a life.
Speaker 1: But it's all of a sudden, it's just lost. Hit
Speaker 1: after hit, his coming and it's Chris's dad, then his aunt,
Speaker 1: then a song, and we're and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the label shuts down and we're stuck. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you if you think it's hard to get a record deal,
Speaker 1: try to get out of a record deal that is
Speaker 1: that's twice as hard. And so we're sitting here going, okay,
Speaker 1: we're stuck on a label. We lost our song two
Speaker 1: very close to loved Ones, and then our fiddle player
Speaker 1: gets sick and we just continue to do shows. We're
Speaker 1: trying to stay positive. And our fiddle player gets sick
Speaker 1: and he dies. He passes away, and he'd been with
Speaker 1: us years and so now the hits are just they're
Speaker 1: starting to pile up on us, and it just seems
Speaker 1: like I remember feeling like it was as dark as
Speaker 1: it could get, Like this is it like we've we've
Speaker 1: hit the wall. I mean, our wheels are spinning. We're
Speaker 1: just sinking in this one spot and we can't get out,
Speaker 1: like we're just gonna have to throw the talent we're
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what's on our mind, but nobody's
Speaker 1: saying it. Chris and I are looking at each other
Speaker 1: like what are we gonna do? And I guess around. Well,
Speaker 1: in the fall of that year, we get a phone
Speaker 1: call and it's Keith Urban and he's guys, the song
Speaker 1: he wrote called You're Gonna Fly. I'm gonna make it
Speaker 1: my next single, and uh, that changed our lives. I
Speaker 1: mean even the song what the song is about? Dude? Again,
Speaker 1: there's not a day I don't think about it as
Speaker 1: I and it's awesome. Keith Urban picks a song and goes, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys, but again, what the freaking song? The message? Everything?
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like it blows my mind to
Speaker 1: this day when I think about it, and and how
Speaker 1: Keith Urban. I remember being at the Wild Horse and
Speaker 1: being the DJ and playing songs like you know I
Speaker 1: Love someone like You and all these huge hits, and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, what is how do you even get
Speaker 1: a Keith Urvan cut? Like how does that even happen?
Speaker 1: Like will it ever happen. I doubt it, Like, but
Speaker 1: I'm here to try, you know, and but You're like
Speaker 1: it seems so out of reach and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, in that moment, that's when it happens. And
Speaker 1: I have to pinch myself to this day, I mean,
Speaker 1: he saved us, he got us back on track. So
Speaker 1: how does he hear your song? Though? You know? It's
Speaker 1: still a bit of a mystery. Um. We well, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. We wrote You're Gonna Fly with Jaren Johnston
Speaker 1: from From and it's the only song we've ever written together.
Speaker 1: And to this day, Karen, we need to write more songs. Um,
Speaker 1: but we write this song, we turned it in and
Speaker 1: we get a phone call from Sony a TV. We're
Speaker 1: all signed to Sony eight TV as songwriters, and um,
Speaker 1: they said, but we love this song and turn in
Speaker 1: called You're Gonna Fly and we think it's going to
Speaker 1: be a single for someone. We're like, somebody's gonna record
Speaker 1: our song. They're like, yeah, Jimmy Wayne and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he just had that song. Uh do
Speaker 1: you believe me? Now? Just went number one and Jimmy
Speaker 1: was awesome, and we're like, this is great, We're all
Speaker 1: high five. We gotta Jimmy Wayne Cut coming. He's gonna
Speaker 1: maybe making a single, and I'm not just supposed to
Speaker 1: talk about all this, but it's years past now, so
Speaker 1: I don't care. So we get this phone call one
Speaker 1: night and it's the president, the head guy of sony
Speaker 1: A TV Publishing, Troy Tomlinson, says, I need to see
Speaker 1: you in my office tonight, and I'm like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: in trouble. We did something wrong, and because you're supposed
Speaker 1: to write so many songs as a quota, and I'm like, Chris,
Speaker 1: if you've been turning songs in and he's like, um,
Speaker 1: only as song as you probably turned in. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I haven't turned the many in. I've been kind of
Speaker 1: stacking him up for us. We're we're gonna turn mom.
Speaker 1: It was like, okay, we're in trouble, like we haven't
Speaker 1: turned enough songs. That's why he wants to meet with us.
Speaker 1: So we're of like freaking out. I said, Chris, let
Speaker 1: me do all the talk. And we walk in here.
Speaker 1: So we sit down with him and he says, guys,
Speaker 1: do you know why you're here? And I was like,
Speaker 1: before you say anything, Troy, we have a bunch of
Speaker 1: songs written and a promise we're going to turn him
Speaker 1: in and he's like, that's not why, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just joking, Troy. I was just joking. Has nothing.
Speaker 1: Why do you want to talk to about? You know?
Speaker 1: And he says, he says, what I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about is something very rare. And it's funny
Speaker 1: that you brought this up earlier in the show about
Speaker 1: do you take a song from you know, artists A
Speaker 1: and give it to artisp and so he says, never
Speaker 1: do we normally do this, but we have a unique situation.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Wayne has your song on hold and he's possibly
Speaker 1: gonna make it a single. But we just got a
Speaker 1: phone call tonight from a very high level artist that
Speaker 1: they really want this song. It wasn't you didn't know,
Speaker 1: and they're like, they're willing to record it immediately to
Speaker 1: prove to you that they loved this song and they
Speaker 1: want it now. And as Sony a TV, we're making
Speaker 1: the decision for you. We're going to take it from
Speaker 1: artists and give it to artists b And I was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, my breath kind of got taken because I
Speaker 1: was like, this has gotta be somebody really big, because
Speaker 1: I'm over here partying about Jimmy Wayne, you know, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, and he says, who do you think it
Speaker 1: could be? And Chris and I remember it got real quiet,
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, Alan Jackson, maybe, I mean
Speaker 1: maybe Tim McGraw. I mean, I'm running these downs like
Speaker 1: no way, no way. And I actually said outlies that
Speaker 1: Chris or me, one of us said Keith Urban or like, no,
Speaker 1: Keith writes all of his own hits. And when he
Speaker 1: said it's Keith Urban, I'll never forget, just like looking
Speaker 1: at him confused, like are you serious? And man, it
Speaker 1: was Keith Irban. Nowth cuts it, but it takes a while, dude,
Speaker 1: it took He he likes the song two thousand nine,
Speaker 1: he says. So Troy says, if you want him to
Speaker 1: go in the studio right now, he will, he'll record
Speaker 1: it right now. But he's not going to the studio
Speaker 1: for a while, so it's up to you. We could
Speaker 1: just put it on hold and leave it on hold
Speaker 1: until he's ready. We're like, yeah, let's just leave it
Speaker 1: on hold and let's just see what happens. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just trust him. He says, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: April of two thousand nine ish right in there. So
Speaker 1: two thousand ten rolls around, still hasn't cut it. Two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven rolls around it still hasn't really cut it,
Speaker 1: and we're going, what's happening, And then the flood hits.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to go in the studio. Sony calls and
Speaker 1: says he's going to the studio to record your song.
Speaker 1: We're like, awesome, and they were like, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: on one of three days. He's recording his whole album
Speaker 1: in three days. So the first day he starts recording it,
Speaker 1: starts raining, and we're like nothing. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you're supposed to get a phone call and
Speaker 1: they're like nothing, he didn't record it, and we're like okay, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow. So the next day it's raining harder still
Speaker 1: and literally raining outside in Nashville, harder and harder, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't cut it, and they're like, okay, he's gonna
Speaker 1: cut it on day three. But now the storm is
Speaker 1: getting out of control in Nashville. And what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about was the flood, the hit and the flood hits
Speaker 1: so hard that night. They canceled the third day and
Speaker 1: I was like, that's it, guys, we lost it. That
Speaker 1: we're never gonna get the song cut because he's going
Speaker 1: to hear another song that's gonna be better, and who
Speaker 1: knows how long it's gonna take before he goes back
Speaker 1: in again. And I just don't think we're gonna get
Speaker 1: it now. And it just seemed like the luck of
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, you know. It was just like
Speaker 1: the hits just kept on coming that year, you know,
Speaker 1: and Uh, all of a sudden, out of the blue,
Speaker 1: I got a phone call one day and we're like,
Speaker 1: he just cut it where I was just like I
Speaker 1: was driving, where where did he cut it? And in
Speaker 1: the studio real he just want to didn't even tell anybody.
Speaker 1: So I went in and cut the song. Was it
Speaker 1: the first thing o from the record? It was supposed
Speaker 1: to be, and so he was like, it's gonna be right.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the first single, and we're like,
Speaker 1: we got the first single, and then they took it
Speaker 1: away and they went with put you in a song,
Speaker 1: and um, we didn't even know if we were going
Speaker 1: to get a single. And then the second single came
Speaker 1: out and it was without You, awesome song, and they're like, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe you have the third single. And then the third
Speaker 1: single comes out and it's long Hot Summer, and I'm like, guys,
Speaker 1: I don't think we got it. But Keith kept reassuring
Speaker 1: everybody through emails. He would send these emails and he
Speaker 1: would say, guys, it's going to be a single, It's
Speaker 1: going to be a single. He he was the steadfast
Speaker 1: guy in all of it. And sure enough we got
Speaker 1: the fourth single, and man in I mean what it
Speaker 1: was like Game seven rain delay, here we go. You know,
Speaker 1: big things happen. It just takes a while. But you guys,
Speaker 1: I know right. It was so nerve racking, but we
Speaker 1: got it. And then four months after that we got
Speaker 1: Truck Yeah, which with him you guys wrote with Chris Janson. Janson, dude,
Speaker 1: the whole world is just like jackson at all. I
Speaker 1: saw you guys on stage on the Instagram and it
Speaker 1: was YouTube and christ I guess you guy just played
Speaker 1: together somewhere. Yeah, we were doing shows in Jacksonville at
Speaker 1: the same time, but different parts of town. And he
Speaker 1: texted and he goes, are you guys over at Mavericks.
Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, are you over at the fair? And
Speaker 1: he was like yeah, and so he said, you guys
Speaker 1: should come over here, and so we literally grabbed a
Speaker 1: car and drove over to the fair and jumped on
Speaker 1: stage with him and sang with him a couple of songs.
Speaker 1: So what songs have you guys written together with with Jansen?
Speaker 1: He wrote truck Yeah, truck, Yeah, we had UM, we
Speaker 1: had I Love his Life, UM about sixty more. Nobody's
Speaker 1: ever heard what songs? Songs? We heard that a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff. Chris and I have a song called UM
Speaker 1: back in the day on Parmelis record, the old record.
Speaker 1: It's it's uh not the new one. UM. And then
Speaker 1: we have a Joe Nickels song that he just cut
Speaker 1: really called I'd Sing About You and it's to me.
Speaker 1: It's a smash. I hope Joe's listening makes it a single,
Speaker 1: but if he doesn't, we will if you'll take it
Speaker 1: back and do it again. If he doesn't make this single,
Speaker 1: that's what passed. Passley was in here, and you know
Speaker 1: Passley the song writer all these hits first, and his
Speaker 1: whole thing was he got three and he never had
Speaker 1: any and they got three in one year. Was like
Speaker 1: and then he got that Triple Play Award and he
Speaker 1: was like, I had nothing forever, and then it was
Speaker 1: like boom, boom boom. And so for him, he wrote
Speaker 1: Friday Night and Lady Annebell and picked it up. They
Speaker 1: kept saying we're gonna put it as a single. They
Speaker 1: never did. He said, can I have it back? Got
Speaker 1: his own song back number one? Boom. So that's right,
Speaker 1: that's cool. So what of all the songs you guys
Speaker 1: have written, what's the most lucrative one for you guys
Speaker 1: so far? I would say probably I Love This Life, yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's the one that changed um. That's the one
Speaker 1: that changed our show guarantee as well, pouring money everything
Speaker 1: changed merchandise. Uh, life did. Like I said, whenever I
Speaker 1: look at you and I say it changed our life,
Speaker 1: changed our life in every respect, you're able to say,
Speaker 1: that's a good T shirt too, I Love this Life, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it really is that. I mean you have
Speaker 1: to think about that stuff too. That's a good teach.
Speaker 1: And I look at this store called Life is Good
Speaker 1: and they sell all this product and I'm like, maybe
Speaker 1: we should have I Love this Life t shirts in
Speaker 1: life is good or something you know or something. I
Speaker 1: mean this, the opportunities are endless. Congratulations, man, Thanks dude,
Speaker 1: and tell Chris one day with another microphone. We're both
Speaker 1: going to get in here, Chris, I hope you know.
Speaker 1: It's just the the story of and it's on a
Speaker 1: on a much bigger level. But I was talking about
Speaker 1: Maren Moore is who I've become close with um and
Speaker 1: just it's one of those that I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: it's so good and she was talking and I forgot
Speaker 1: I did this. But I had her on the air
Speaker 1: plane before you can even buy her songs, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a weird thing to do because you come
Speaker 1: on the air to sell your songs. But I was like,
Speaker 1: you have to just come play, and she had reminded
Speaker 1: me of it. She was like, hey, you were having
Speaker 1: me up before you can even buy my music. But
Speaker 1: so I'm such a big Marion Morris fan and I
Speaker 1: didn't know her that well at first. I don't let
Speaker 1: the relationships really culminate personally because I just don't want
Speaker 1: to be invested in a personal level. I'd like to
Speaker 1: just present and say, hey, here's here's the thing. So
Speaker 1: with Mary, she got up once you wanted to see amazing.
Speaker 1: And I watched the speech back and she said, one
Speaker 1: year ago, I was watching this at a bar across
Speaker 1: the street, and tonight I'm up here on stage winning
Speaker 1: this award. You gotta be freaking kidding me. So, but
Speaker 1: you can, because this is what I'm gonna say. Marin
Speaker 1: is a microcosm of low Cash, because it's the look
Speaker 1: where you are. You just had a number one. Before that,
Speaker 1: you had a number two. You're now you're out. You
Speaker 1: guys are real now it's it's hard to be real.
Speaker 1: And you started and you went from teaching line dancing
Speaker 1: through struggles, ups, downs, ups, downs, and here you are today,
Speaker 1: hwelve thirteen eight. I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: do math. Why don't you guys meet oh to fourteen
Speaker 1: years later? So and like Mike here, who's producing the show,
Speaker 1: my class over a hundred pounds, because that's amazing the
Speaker 1: same thing with men like you, just take a step,
Speaker 1: you take another step, like low Cash, take another step,
Speaker 1: keep taking steps. When you can't take any more steps,
Speaker 1: take another freaking step. Yeah, and there's always tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: phone could ring and change everything. I lived it. I
Speaker 1: was in my bunk when Chris shook me and said, dude, baby,
Speaker 1: Blone's just played our song. And I mean those kinds
Speaker 1: of moments I'm telling you did. I mean, it's it's real.
Speaker 1: The day that they sat me down and I had
Speaker 1: built my own company with in Austin, and I did
Speaker 1: it with my own paycheck, and I was broke, like
Speaker 1: we all are in any creative business. You're broke until
Speaker 1: you're not, basically, and so broke. It's taken invest in
Speaker 1: all my own money into building this thing and instead
Speaker 1: started to have a pretty successful run. And it was
Speaker 1: doing no music. We don't playing any music. It was
Speaker 1: a weird thing. And so we were just an all
Speaker 1: talk show for five hours. And I've been talking to Row,
Speaker 1: the guy who runs out of country. It was like, man,
Speaker 1: I really want to do country, but there's no national.
Speaker 1: There's nothing national about the format. There never was. I
Speaker 1: was the first guy who coming to do a national
Speaker 1: and he was like, man, I think this could work.
Speaker 1: He was the first one to tell me like what
Speaker 1: you want to do can work. And so I remember
Speaker 1: that was a year before they flew me to Nashville
Speaker 1: tricked me. They were like, hey, you're coming in to
Speaker 1: meet these guys because you're taught for each picking up
Speaker 1: and they set me down and go, we want you
Speaker 1: to move to Nashville and run the whole format. And
Speaker 1: I remember that moment at that moment where I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's like you're serious, Like this has
Speaker 1: never happened before. You're way different people. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a struggle because you're way different than anybody that's ever
Speaker 1: done this, and people are gonna hate you for a
Speaker 1: long time. And you're also pretty polarizing, so you obviously
Speaker 1: know people are gonna not you. But they said this
Speaker 1: to me. You obviously know people are never ever always
Speaker 1: gonna be on you, but that you're the guy to
Speaker 1: take and take the format in the direction that the
Speaker 1: people are already in, just the radio is not in.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I may I remember the moment.
Speaker 1: I remember exactly what I was setting. I remember the
Speaker 1: whole every person sitting around me. There were three of them,
Speaker 1: John and kiss at them, Rod Phillips, Clay Honeycut who
Speaker 1: used to be the head of the thing of the format,
Speaker 1: and it was just like that. I had no idea
Speaker 1: that day that moment was about to come and boom,
Speaker 1: there was that moment and it freezes in your mind.
Speaker 1: You remember all the details moment. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to have for breakfast this morning, but vividly I can
Speaker 1: tell you four years ago when they said this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so dude, this has been one of the and we
Speaker 1: do these a lot, Mike. Have I ever told anyone
Speaker 1: this is like one of the best ones you've ever done. No,
Speaker 1: never think it has been one of the best ones
Speaker 1: like I've this has been. I mean that you thanks
Speaker 1: for pulling up all this music. Oh dude, we got
Speaker 1: like that means we wrote this about Chris Stay that's
Speaker 1: my grass from the We're at the Grand ol Oufry
Speaker 1: and uh for the very first time, and we made
Speaker 1: our debut and we walked off stage. We lost his
Speaker 1: dad in January, and it was May. It was Mother's
Speaker 1: Day weekend and our moms were there and they gave
Speaker 1: our mom's roses and stuff. It was real special. And
Speaker 1: we walked off stage and we were taking a picture
Speaker 1: with the Gatlin brothers and and it's like surreal, way
Speaker 1: here we are at the Opery and Chris isn't in
Speaker 1: the picture, and I said, wait, we can't take this
Speaker 1: picture without Chris. I've got to go out. I know
Speaker 1: it's Larry Gatlin. I've got to go find Chris. So
Speaker 1: I look over and I see Chris in the shadows
Speaker 1: and I walked over to him and I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? And he kind of had tears in
Speaker 1: his eyes and he said, man, tonight was perfect, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't perfect perfect because my dad's not here. And
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I just looked at him and I said,
Speaker 1: your dad is Your dude's got the best seat in
Speaker 1: the house tonight. He's right there looking down over the opery.
Speaker 1: He saw everything, and we just kind of looked at
Speaker 1: each other and we're like, maybe this is so we
Speaker 1: wrote it and who knows, maybe it'll come back someday.
Speaker 1: That crazy like like three times you I'm emotional during
Speaker 1: this thing. I don't even have emotions and emotional dude,
Speaker 1: Chase a little love. This is a jam. I like
Speaker 1: when people said their own song from the jam everything
Speaker 1: This is a Jamn. I love this song. It was
Speaker 1: such a fun video too. We had our cars and
Speaker 1: it was a black you know, we got Kendra Wilkinson
Speaker 1: and Girls next Door to be in our video. Wow
Speaker 1: was she uh Kendrew before Hank and Kendra liked with Hank. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he's awesome. And he wasn't there, but he called
Speaker 1: and like speaking from he's like, all right, boys, now,
Speaker 1: don't put your hands on the girl now. He was
Speaker 1: a really cool dude, are yeah, dude, we're ready for you.
Speaker 1: This is incredible ready for I pressed him from low
Speaker 1: Cash new song ring on everything my last name. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you really think about the song, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I don't know yet. Yeah, you get just to
Speaker 1: show the world show shot. Thanks for hanging dude, Thank
Speaker 1: you appreciate that. What's the great night? What do you
Speaker 1: guys have going on this week? Anything? Well, we just
Speaker 1: got home from Baltimore from that thing, so we have
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow and then we leave tomorrow midnight for Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Columbus and since which, by the way, and we won't
Speaker 1: go into the story here because I think it's maybe
Speaker 1: the long how long we havet Mike? Okay, Um, you
Speaker 1: did propose you post your wife on the operas? They didn't? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the circle right there and uh and I don't
Speaker 1: know how I got the words right, but I kind
Speaker 1: of thought up in my mind. I said, Okay, how
Speaker 1: am I gonna do this? What am I gonna say?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a microphone in one hand and I
Speaker 1: have a ring in the other. It's like in my pocket.
Speaker 1: I don't have the box. I just have the ring
Speaker 1: in my pocket. And I'm like, what am I gonna say?
Speaker 1: And I thought of this thing, like you know, like um,
Speaker 1: I brought her out. She stepped into the circle and
Speaker 1: and I told Chris, I said, I might or might
Speaker 1: not do it here. I'm not sure. And so he
Speaker 1: stepped where people are there? Yeah, it was. It was real.
Speaker 1: And I always forget how many people are there until
Speaker 1: they kind of flip the lights on and off and
Speaker 1: then you see like ten million people. And I and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous. I never
Speaker 1: get nervous, and I'm nervous because I'm about to do
Speaker 1: something I've never done in my life. And I hit
Speaker 1: my knee and I just said, you know, standing in
Speaker 1: the most coveted circle in country music, I want to
Speaker 1: give you the most coveted circle. And I thought I
Speaker 1: would mix all those words up and get them wrong,
Speaker 1: but they came out right. For yourself, the circle that's awesome, dude,
Speaker 1: and that I was nervous man, and now you gotta
Speaker 1: a little kid. Thanks every time I see that things
Speaker 1: going like your weed. Yeah, And we just put an
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