1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: My dog in my hands right now, that's either me 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: or him. He has out of control with his chewing, 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: and he's getting bigger and his jaws are getting stronger, 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: and so I used to be cute, now hurts. And 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: so now we have resorted to putting pennies pennies in 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: a water bottle, and every time you choose, we just 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: I just slam right. He hates it. We're working on 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: it because anytime I'm like a pop him, like on 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: the butt or the nose, He's like, all right, I 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: see that, Let's do some more. He's a bulldog. He's 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: stubborn as crap. So we're trying new things. But I'm 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: holding it right now because I don't wanted to chew 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: the wires under the table um. But we're here but 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: to talk with Brett Young. We just did the interview 15 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: he just left, and I'm gonna tell you we talked 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: about his height in this. I just forget and I 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: know Brett a little bit. Um. We you know, have 18 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: done some show stuff together, radio show performance stuff. We 19 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: had idled together. Um, but you just forget how big 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: the dude is. Still you stand in beside him. He's 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: a monster, big guy. He's um, and we walked out 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: and talked a little bit downstairs, which is always UM. 23 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: You know, one of the good parts about it too, 24 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: because you just spend an hour talking with each other 25 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear that. UM, so I enjoy. I say. 26 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: There are a couple of music podcasts that we do 27 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: I think you should check out too that aren't even interviews, 28 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: Like there are some good interviews you can see if 29 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: you if you're here, you probably subscribe. And um, if 30 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: you write a comment to like, you're right, I don't 31 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: even know, you know if you do that. I normally don't. 32 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: If it's a podcast that I really love. I listen 33 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: to a couple of them and they're like, hey, would 34 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: you mind rating us? And I'm writing a nice note 35 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: I'll do it just for them. So if we're one 36 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: of those podcasts that you love to do, please do 37 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,559 Speaker 1: that be great. Um. But there's a couple of music 38 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: ones where we talk about songs that you didn't even 39 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: know what that's what they meant. And that's a good one. 40 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what the official title that is Famous 41 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: Songs with Misunderstood Meetings a good one, so much so 42 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: that stations have reached out to us to play that 43 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: played on the weekend. I enjoyed that one. I like 44 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: those music ones and always you know, if you're tweeting 45 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: me or posting an insta gram under the picture, UM, 46 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: let me know what you like because we'll do more 47 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: of that. So we just appreciate you listening to this. 48 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: Brett Young, check out the Ingrid Andrews one. Really, that's 49 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: a really good one. She's just cool. Check Um Thomas right, 50 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: obviously it's a recent one. And the other, the other 51 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: good music one is the famous songs that piked at 52 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: number two. Ah yeah, And I think we're about to 53 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: do one, which is bands that have had more than 54 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: one lead singer, like the women's bands. Where did they 55 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: win well or everybody hated him? Yeah, that's that would 56 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: be a good one. That So that's coming up. If 57 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: you don't mind, tag us on Instagram, put it puts 58 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: on your story and tag me. I love that. I'll 59 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: try to share some of them and then follow the 60 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: Bobby cast on Instagram. Few. We're asking a lot of you, 61 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: I know, but you know, I like you. If you 62 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: like me, do that. Uh. I'm about to head over 63 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: to Amy's my co host and take us on her 64 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: birthday presents. So it's kind of the only night that 65 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: I'm able to do that. Someone head over there and 66 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: do that. But you can check out Amies podcast called 67 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: four Things with Amy Brown. You can check out the 68 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: Velvet's Edge podcast if you're into that, the female trendy 69 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: hell fashion lifestyle stuff called Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson. Obviously, 70 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: U we have Get Real with Caroline Hobby over here 71 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: on the network. We have The Store Losers with lunch 72 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: Box Eddie and producer Ray, and we've got some more 73 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: coming on that. The Networks is probably gonna go by 74 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: two or three podcasts, including one that we're gonna go 75 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: on my d here. Yeah, finally finally saying message like 76 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: you gotta get in this, dude, gotta get in this 77 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: and you'll be good at it. So okay, Well that 78 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: being said, enjoy our talk here with Brett Young. Um. Yeah, 79 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: I liked it. And you'll hear if he was on 80 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: time or not. That's always a fun thing for me. 81 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: I always like, let's just see who shows up on time. 82 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: I'm a big time freak. Okay, thank you guys, and 83 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: here is Brett Young. All right, welcome to episode with 84 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: Brett Young, very punctual. I was extremely impressed. I parked 85 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: one minute early. Oh did you you set out front 86 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: of the house. Well, I actually pulled up twenty thirty 87 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: five minutes early. We should just come in, we're ready, 88 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: but but I was hungry, and I've noticed that there's 89 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: a nice little Mexican restaurant next door. How did you 90 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: go over? Stuff? Stuff? Pepper? Is that? Yeah? I don't 91 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: l L No, it's l something anyways, Yeah, I went 92 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: and I was like, guys, I got twenty minutes. You 93 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: need to hook me up. You ate at four thirty 94 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: first fal today? Did any breakfast? Do you breakfast? Um? 95 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,239 Speaker 1: I eat breakfast food. They rarely eat it in the morning. 96 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: I mentioned how punctual you are recently on this because 97 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: people will come over to the house and we do this. 98 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: We've had a couple and without mentioning names, and I 99 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: feel we're so far removed from it. We had one 100 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: person that was almost a half hour late, and I 101 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: don't do well with lateness anyway. So it was a 102 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: bit of me trying to rebound and be professional and 103 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: the podcast ended up going great. Another one they showed 104 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: up drunk and Mike d saw them and they like 105 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: couldn't park their cars like dot dot and they came 106 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: in in And you can't tell in the podcast because 107 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: we went back and listen to it to make sure 108 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: you can't tell. You can't write. Well, that's great. I 109 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: guess that's I mean, and I and then I love 110 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: the person and I know the person, and I was like, boy, 111 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: I gotta put the rails up on this one. That's 112 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: a professional right there, at something. Yeah, that's something maybe 113 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: at both at at drinking and then being able to 114 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: maintain composure while drunk. But it's always it's always good 115 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: stories because people just come over to the house and 116 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: sometimes we hang out before sometimes you know, like you 117 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: and I were just talking, you know, beforehand. But yeah, 118 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: they showed up drunk and late, but you were here. 119 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: You nailed it, I promise, like I scheduled it. And 120 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: then I even I even like pulled in and I 121 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: was like, you got two minutes, go ahead, and like 122 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: take the time to back in, walk walk up on time. 123 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: I walked. I think I've knocked on the door at 124 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: five or actually I didn't knock on the door. You 125 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: guys were right on time. You opened it. As I 126 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: walked up watching it. We got cameras at my house 127 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: has so many cameras, didn't it crazy? You know, I 128 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: was watching the news this this dude who broke out 129 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: of jail. Did you see it a couple of days ago? 130 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: I got alert, right, So we got the alerts on 131 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: our phone, and I think he had murdered someone a 132 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: prison guard were like a t dot but it was 133 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: like a government employee right outside of the prison. It 134 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: was just uside of Memphis. So he's running around somewhere 135 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: and they ended up finding him because somebody's home security camera, 136 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: like the ring doorbell camera saw him walking across and 137 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: they called the cops because of the neighbor's ring doorbell. 138 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: That's literally how they got him, right, Mike, Yeah, there 139 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: was a screenshot of it. So as I'm so glad 140 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: I have ring at home. Is everybody's looking and have 141 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: cameras like on every door here, But yeah, we saw 142 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: you and we gets pulling up. You didn't see if 143 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: there are um invisible agents out there? Have you seen 144 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: speaking of that have rifles in the trees? No? But 145 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: you know I had a con wants on the show 146 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: and he was like he's talking Mike, were you with 147 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: me what I had an? I think he was talking 148 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: about how he has people like people in trees and 149 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: in the woods around his house with guns camouflaged. Okay, well, 150 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: he's also like, isn't he the one that's like you 151 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: think music probably made him befortune, but he's like involved 152 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: in diamonds and stuff, right, Probably. I think he's like. 153 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: I think he's like, he'll never even touch his actual 154 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: money with music. Money like music money doesn't he isn't 155 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: even meaningful to him. I think that's a con I 156 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: think problem. We looked it up. That sounds about right. 157 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: It's like Jay Leno, we're talking about him. He doesn't 158 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: he never spent his Tonight show money. Yeah, he just 159 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: spent his stand up money making millions doing stand up. 160 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: So we just kept saving his Tonight show. Leno could 161 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: liquidate his car collection and live off of it for 162 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: the rest of his life. He's gonna be all right, 163 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: how you been good? Oh man? You look dark and 164 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: tan or red or something. Um we just did um 165 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: we we my poor wife. I mean any anybody that 166 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: marries or or dates somebody that does what we do. Um, 167 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: you have to like kind of pick and choose in 168 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: time when you can do things and uh, and so 169 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: we we we really wanted to do a baby moon. 170 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know what that was, the last kind of 171 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: hurrah before the baby is born. And we had to 172 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: plan that around a trip. It was only like a 173 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: couple of days. So we got like a couple of 174 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: days and then that was in July. We went to 175 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: uh this montage property uh in Palmetal Bluffs, which is 176 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: like just outside of Savannah, kind of between Charleston and Savannah. Beautiful, 177 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: but we only got like two days. And so I said, baby, 178 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: your your your birthdays coming up in another month and 179 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: we'll be on the West coast, and you've been wanting 180 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: to go to this property in Santa Barbara. So let's 181 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: make that the extension of the baby moon and your birthday. 182 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: So even though we've had to cram it in, I've 183 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: gotten to beat like out by the pool a couple 184 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: of times on you know, we've had to do them 185 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: all midweek days because we're on the road in the 186 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: on the weekends. But um, it's the first year in 187 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: like five since I've been in Nashville and in this 188 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 1: kind of lifestyle that I've actually been like, whoa, I'm 189 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: laying by a pool in the summertime. Are you a bully? 190 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I'd rather be at the ocean. Are you 191 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: a beach guy? Yeah? I grew up five minutes from 192 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach, so, um, my parents we didn't even do 193 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: boys and Girls club. They've dropped me off of the 194 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: beach at eight o'clock in the morning, go to work. 195 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: My mom would get off at three and come pick 196 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: me back up. I'd either sir, or lay on the 197 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: beach or you know, throw the football or whatever. I'd 198 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: just be at the beach all day. So you were 199 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: in surfing culture. Yeah, it was so bad at it though, 200 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: really it's good of an athlete as you ended up being. Yeah, 201 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: I think I don't know, Like sometimes as an adult, 202 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: I wonder if I should go back and see again, 203 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: because I was growing so rapidly while I was surfing. 204 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: And you know, the culture where I grew up was 205 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 1: you don't longboard your short board what that means. But 206 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: I'll be honest, the big longboard like they right in 207 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: Hawaii where they like they walked to the nose and 208 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: they walked back, or the tiny little pointed short board, 209 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: the belly board. They're very different. Like the short board 210 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: is like they do all the acrobats surfing boards. They're 211 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: both surf boards. You're talking about the one you boogieboard, 212 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 1: that's what you're talking No, boogie boards weren't allowed where 213 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: I came from. That was like out of our ocean. 214 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 1: Yeah alright, but again that wasn't me. There were a 215 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: lot of great surfers. I played baseball, basketball, football, football. 216 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: I also surfed. Um, so I was outgrowing these short boards. 217 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: It's very specific to your height, like they need to 218 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: be able to carry your weight, and like, so I 219 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: was growing so much. I would go from like this 220 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: board is a little too big to like four months later, 221 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: it's so too small for me that it's kind of 222 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: sinking underneath me when I stand up. I just got 223 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: kind of frustrated with it. And none of my friends 224 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: wrote a big longboard that just kind of floats you 225 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 1: no matter what you do, and you just cruise. You 226 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: don't do tricks or anything. And so anyways, long story short, 227 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, I play three sports that I'm really good at, 228 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: and uh, i'd like laying on the beach or body 229 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: surfing without any sort of instrument or board, and uh, 230 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: I just stopped surfing when body surfing just no, yeah, 231 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: you just paddle into the way. Have you seen those 232 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: guys you like paddle in and then you just kind 233 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: of I never knew that was really a thing. Yeah, 234 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: it's actually maybe you just surf like a I guess 235 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: a boogie board. Everything is a boogie board in my head. 236 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: Everything is a boogie board. That's like, that's a T shirt. 237 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: Everything is a boogie board in my head. How tall 238 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: are you? Six six? Really? Yeah? You know what's so funny? 239 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: I bet you The people that work with me are 240 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: so tired of this. But people always comment they walk 241 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: into meet and greet and I don't know for whatever reason. 242 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: I guess a picture is a picture, so you just 243 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: don't notice it. But my meet and greets at every 244 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: show consist of people going, WHOA, you're way taller than 245 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: I thought. And so I started saying I had nothing 246 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 1: to do with it because I didn't, And uh, it's 247 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: it's just funny that, like I guess, I guess, people 248 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 1: assume that you must not be I don't know what 249 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: I mean tall. I'm TALLI ish I'm over six ft tall, 250 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: would be about six to six through, like really tall, 251 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: but then you're just abnormal and you're not just tall, 252 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: you're also just like a big, strong guy. And so 253 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: I think because your body is proportionate to six six 254 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: that you look pretty normal size and pictures. That's a 255 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: good thing. Yeah, and it's I don't even have long 256 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: legs either. I have badly. Yeah, me and Manute, we 257 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: don't have anything in common. Um, your parents big folks bang. 258 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: My dad's six to my mom's five, So six six 259 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Um, But I 260 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: kind of blame it on the guy was a glutton. 261 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: I was kind of like a chunky kid. I kind 262 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: of and and because I had a healthy appetite before 263 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: I grew up, probably ate like all the pizza and 264 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: all the steak and all the things. I mean, the 265 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: hormones are hormones. We we do have way more hormone. 266 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: We have way more hormones in our food than we 267 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: used to back in the day. And I think I 268 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: was a guy that like, if I could fit it 269 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: in my mouth while I was still chewing, I was 270 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: shoving it. But I was used to make a joke 271 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: with girls. I'd be like, you know, I like you 272 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: so much, You like being at a pizza party and 273 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: not wanting to walk away from the pizza because you 274 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: want to make sure you get full. Like I like 275 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: you so much. You made me want to stand by 276 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: the pizza. That was like a joke. I would have 277 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: a girl in high school and like it never worked, 278 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: by the way, but that was true. I was the 279 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: fat kid that, like at a pizza party, would stand 280 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: by the pizza until I was full, in fear that 281 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: it would run out. When did you start to become 282 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: I don't know, athletic shaped, Yes, the shape was. The 283 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: athletic ability was there before the shape came or the 284 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: high I got cut from eighth grade basketball and I 285 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: played city my sophomore year two years later. So you 286 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: developed that much in two years. Yeah, I think I 287 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: think this is a guess. It's close. It might not 288 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: be perfect. I think I was five nine or five 289 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: ten in eighth grade but slow and overweight. Um, And 290 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: I think I started freshman year six one, six two 291 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: because I was six three sophomore year playing varsity. So yeah, 292 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: I've sprouted and it wasn't even it was like awkward 293 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: thinned out those two years. But it made me quicker 294 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: because I wasn't carrying the weight right, So I was 295 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: because we do a lot of our research here, a 296 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: lot of heavy research, and we found all of your 297 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: old stuff that you scrub from the internet. Oh no, 298 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. We can't find any of it. It's there. 299 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: We found a YouTube, Michael, do we find just a 300 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: YouTube a live version, but otherwise they've taken your entire 301 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: early discography off. Um, there's just a YouTube of fly 302 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: because in two thousand seven you put out an EP. 303 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,839 Speaker 1: There's a YouTube of fly. Oh you didn't know it 304 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 1: was still up. It's that's very old song. I recorded 305 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: it on my flip cam. Did you really have we 306 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: known each other that we have two thousands, but you're 307 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: two thousand seven self title dps completely off the internet. 308 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: Why is it? Think? No? I know, I think it's 309 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: pretty normal for like, you know, I put out seven 310 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: projects before I got my record deal. I was doing 311 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: this for almost eleven years before I got my deal, 312 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: and I think it's pretty normal now. At the time, 313 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: I was like, why the same like you're asking. I 314 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: think it's pretty normal for them to want to control 315 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: the branding when they, you know, make an investment like 316 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: they do whenever they signed an artist, and um no, 317 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm proud of all of it. I think 318 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: my songwriting was a lot weaker back then, but that's normal. 319 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: That was I mean, that was two thousand and four, 320 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Yeah, it's crazy. Huh. Oh my gosh. 321 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: When when I say it out loud, it's like I 322 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: can't even believe that was happening. Then, well, what's kind 323 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: of your story I'm getting here. So you're a California kid. 324 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: Did you do the California just do all the shows 325 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: in California and then finally decide I've just kind of 326 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: exhausted this, I need to go. What was that for you? No, 327 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: that's exactly it. Um. I I hit this weird um 328 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: kind of ceiling where I was the only one of 329 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: my friends that was making a living playing music. The 330 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: problem was I was playing other people's songs and there 331 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: were four hour cover gigs where I had to wear 332 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: like a suit and tie to play this nice hotel lobby. 333 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: And you at the beginning of it, you're like, you 334 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: look around at your buddies and you're like, yeah, they're 335 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: jealous because I'm making money playing music. And then you go, 336 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: nothing about this is fulfilling anymore. Nobody's really listening. And 337 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: even when they do care, it's because they liked that 338 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: song that you didn't write and have nothing to do with, 339 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: you know. And Uh I was I was playing Montage 340 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills every Wednesday night four hours eight and at night, 341 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: and uh, I had to had to wear like dress clothes, 342 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: you know. And Uh, this guy came through. Uh he's 343 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: become one of my best friends. He was the best 344 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: man at my wedding. He comes through and he's from Atlanta, 345 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: but he's he's staying in the hotel and he hears 346 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: it and he's just sold a company and he just 347 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: turns around. He kind of goes, I have friends in Nashville. 348 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: Why is this not connecting? Why like, why are you 349 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: still here? Basically? And I just went, you know what, 350 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. I might be done with this. I've 351 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: I've been doing this in l A for ten years. 352 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: I've never had a meeting. I've I've watched Jimmy Ivan, 353 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: who's living in the hotel at the time, walk back 354 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: and forth in front of me multiple times every Wednesday 355 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: night and never even stop and listen. So I don't know. 356 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: Good question. I said, I think, I think I need 357 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: to either change something or maybe it's money. Maybe I 358 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: need to go make up studio record, like a real record. 359 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: And he goes, well, I just sold a company. I 360 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: know some people in Nashville. Why don't we Let's get 361 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: you out to Nashville. Let's get you out. I was 362 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: bar attending on my off nights. I was gigging about 363 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: four nights a week, bartending the other three. He goes, 364 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: let's get you out from behind the bar. Let's take 365 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: those other three days a week for you to start 366 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: writing songs more aggressively. And uh. Within a year he 367 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: had me moved out to Nashville. And um, I got 368 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: to Nashville and I got intimidated, like I think everybody does. 369 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: I went, everybody here's incredible. What am I gonna do here? 370 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: Even the people that haven't made it are incredible? Incredible? 371 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: Walk down Broadway. It's not like one guy per bar. 372 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: It's every bar has three floors. All of them have 373 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: a stage, and every guy on every stage deserves to 374 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: be on the radio, like who am I? And so 375 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: I literally got here thinking I was coming here to 376 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: make it. Once I got here, I went, nope, I 377 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: want the writing side of this. I want to write 378 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: for people. So I actually signed with song Pluggers to 379 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: have my songs pitched to other people. I gave up 380 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: on artistry within a couple of months of being here. 381 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: I'd rather be the songwriter because this is intimidating. And then, uh, 382 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: you know you pitched. You pitched to the labels and 383 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: you you know who's cutting which artists needs songs, and 384 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: they kept going, this is a good song, but who's 385 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: the demos singer? And I ended up wanting to get 386 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: cuts on other artists and ended up having walking into 387 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: these rooms with my acoustic guitar by myself to play 388 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: for all these record execs that I want to know 389 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: who the demo singer was. So that's how it came 390 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: about for you. As you were writing songs singing the demos, 391 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: and so many people were attracted to that sound. They 392 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: were like, Hey, we'd like to see who this guy is, 393 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: which was which was the opposite of why that was 394 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: why it didn't work in l A. You don't sound 395 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: like anybody else. We don't know where to put you here. 396 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: Then I get to Nashville and everybody's like you don't 397 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: sound like anybody else. This is fantastic. I mean, it's 398 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: just such a funny dichotomy because it's like I could 399 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: have literally just stayed in l A forever and been 400 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: told you, we can't, we don't know what box to 401 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: fit you in, whereas in Nashville it was wow, this 402 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: will this will stand out? How long from when you 403 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: moved to town until when when you started to get 404 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: considered as as an artist? Like when you're talking about 405 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: these meetings, I had my first meeting, I had my 406 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: first um who's singing the demo? Bring him in to 407 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: sing for us? Meeting at about ten months of living 408 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: in town, and my record deal within fourteen months of 409 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: you move into town. Boy, that all moves pretty quick, 410 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: that huh? If you and again when you it's always 411 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: funny like looking back, that feels like a really long 412 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: time ago, but that happened really fast. I mean I 413 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: didn't even find those song pluggers for five or six months, 414 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: and then four months with them and I'm having meetings 415 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,719 Speaker 1: and then you know, six more months or five more 416 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: months or whatever it was. I've met with Jimmy Harnan 417 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: six times, and now there's a deal offered but I'm 418 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: I had my deal with Jimmy before, like Scott was 419 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: out of town or Shadow was literally out of town, 420 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: and went, Jimmy, you're wearing me out about this kid. 421 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: I'm not back. But if you're that sure, I trust you, 422 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: go ahead. So I'm actually didn't meet Scott until after 423 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy offered me the deal. That's how quick it moved 424 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: when it happened. Was there a song that you ended 425 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: up cutting for yourself? It was one of those songs 426 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: you were pitching the people are like, Okay, what's this about? 427 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 1: Like what what was one of those? Yeah? So I 428 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: think there were. Actually I had three songs from the 429 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: first record already before I got my deal, But the 430 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: one that that if you asked Jimmy Harnon that got 431 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: me signed, uh ended up being my third number one record. Um, 432 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: it's a song called like I Loved You that I 433 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 1: wrote with uh girlfriend of mine of town, Jesse Lee, 434 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: and we wrote that. It was one of the first 435 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: writes those song pluggers got me on to like try 436 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: to be a songwriter, and uh, it wasn't. It wasn't 437 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: the easiest write on the planet. It was you know, 438 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: we heard and I had never met, and so you 439 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: do a lot of you know how this goes like, 440 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: you do a lot of feeling each other out before 441 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: you actually get to work. And it ended up. You know, 442 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: most writes are three four hours and this one was 443 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: like a six and a half hour day. But I 444 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: went in and with my investor that I had before 445 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: I saw my deal, and we went in and did 446 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: an EP of this song that we also was one 447 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: of the ones we had to pull down. Like you said, 448 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: all the old stuff's gone, because when I played an 449 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: acoustic for Jimmy Harden, he still claims that's the song 450 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: when he went, I can make a record on this kid. 451 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: So you you recorded this song as a demo hoping 452 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: that someone else will here it, don't pick it up 453 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: after you cut it on your AP, but then you're 454 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: kind of re pitching it. Yeah, the EP was just 455 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: a means of I mean, nowadays with like downloads and 456 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: streams and stuff, it was just another income stream. While 457 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: we were trying to figure it out. We knew that 458 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: if any song that ever got picked up by another 459 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: artist to get cut, we would pull down. We I mean, 460 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: I didn't have enough social media following to like it. 461 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: Wasn't going to like make a mark on the industry. 462 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: We could pull it down and everybody would forget about it. 463 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: Um so yeah, I mean we were. We were still 464 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: recording songs because why not have at the time, if 465 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 1: you have an investor who's you know, risking money on you, 466 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: you should have every I was college touring like crazy. 467 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: I would I would fly out just me and my 468 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: guitar or at the smallest cheapest car I could get 469 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: and like Fargo and then play seven colleges in eight 470 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: days and end up in North Carolina and then fly 471 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: myself home. You would just drive the entire track. I 472 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 1: would pick up one car and like I really I 473 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: do remember the uh the Fargo trip that ended in 474 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: North Carolina where I played seven shows in eight days, 475 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: and I just you know, that's the cheapest way to 476 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 1: do it. A cheap flight to Fargo, the tiniest car, 477 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: and I'm again we just said I'm six six. It 478 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 1: was like a Ford focus but like I don't fit 479 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: in that, you know, that's that's that's lower back and 480 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: hit pain every day. But I was I was so 481 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: concerned with I've always been this way to like if 482 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: anybody's like taking a chance on me. I want to 483 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: make sure that I'm respecting what they're investing, and so, um, 484 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,679 Speaker 1: you know that was part of making these EPs. At 485 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: the time, Like I said, we had already tried to 486 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: transfer over to the songwriting side of things. But if 487 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 1: you have a song that you think we'll sell or stream, 488 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: might as well have an income stream there. We called 489 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: it turning on all the faucets, right and hopefully you 490 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: get some water from somewhere. Yeah, that's it. I I 491 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: have other um friends that had people when when they 492 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: were broke, invest in them and go, hey, let me 493 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: help you out here. Let's get starready. Are you still 494 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: is that guess still part of the Brett Young enterprise? Yeah? 495 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: I mean don't know if if you heard what just 496 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: happened with my clothing company. But um, when I signed 497 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: my record deal, I also signed a publishing deal with 498 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: Big Machine. And part of what you have to do is, um, 499 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: when you go from owning your publishing to going into 500 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: a copub deal, Um, you can't. You can't keep the 501 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: same publishing name. So I had like whatever it was, 502 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: Brett Young Publishing or whatever, Um, you need to come 503 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: up with a new name to go into a joint 504 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: venture for publishing, and so I came up with this name, 505 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: Caliville Um from California to Nashville. Yeah, that's it, and 506 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: and that's all it was. But then I kept seeing 507 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: it on contracts as we were doing stuff, and I 508 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: was like, that's just a really cool thing. And I 509 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: had this buddy that was you know, I had a 510 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: company where he was making hats and t shirts and sweatshirts, 511 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, you want to just throw 512 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: this on some hats. See what happens. We started putting 513 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: it on hats and before we could put it on 514 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: sale there we're getting stolen off people's heads in bars 515 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: in Nashville. Well, just a couple of weeks ago we 516 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: announced that, like we're we just got bought out by Coals. 517 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: So we're starting on October like there the exclusive retailer 518 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: for Caliville in the country. And uh, you know my 519 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: investor that, like I said, he became best man at 520 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: my wedding. Like he we've since him and I are 521 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: whole on his initial investment. Is that right? Yeah? Praise God? Um, 522 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: you know, and he was. He he was so gracious 523 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: about how long it took because it took a minute. Um, 524 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: but yeah, he's my business partner on Caliville. So um, 525 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: he's somebody that, like I said, went from somebody that 526 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: just kind of believed in it and wanted to help 527 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: to being you know, one of my best friends and 528 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: the best man in my wedding and so um yeah, well, 529 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: I mean we'll be we'll be tied together in business 530 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: and in friendship for a really long time. How's that 531 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: going by? By the wedding and you're about to have 532 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: a baby? Huh, it's so close? When is that? Yeah? Right, 533 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: like it's in the next couple of weeks. No, no, no, 534 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: don't rush me, Bobby, go ahead. We're we're middle of October. 535 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: So I got about two months. And how do you 536 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: feeling about that? Man? I'm so excited? Are you ready though? 537 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 1: Or are you you're anxious? What's the one? Have you 538 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: got one feeling? You know? I am? I'm ready and excited. Um. 539 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: I guess like if if there was a because I'm 540 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: not I'm not nervous, but if if I'm being honest, 541 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: the one concern that pops into my head every once 542 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: in a while is just that like both me and 543 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: my wife had the best example set by both of 544 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: our sets of parents. Just we neither of us would 545 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,959 Speaker 1: have changed anything about our upbringing or our parents. And 546 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: that's a blessing. Not everybody can say that, and we 547 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: both know that, and so the bar is set very 548 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: high for us in both of our heads. And so, um, 549 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: this is a This is a strange industry to raise 550 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: a child in, and I know people are successful in 551 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: it on a regular basis. A lot of my friends 552 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: are doing an amazing job raising children and bringing them 553 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: on the road, and um, I just want them to 554 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: I want to make sure I do everything I can 555 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: to make sure that they have an experience like I did, 556 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: even though our lifestyle is so different than mine was 557 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: growing up. So, oh yeah, baby, it's about just complete. 558 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: You should see how pink my house is. And it's 559 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: a girl. It is a little girl. Have you have 560 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: you announced the name yet? No, we don't know yet. 561 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 1: Have you had a limited down of you? Yeah, we're 562 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: really close. I think we're down to three. And where 563 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: did you get these names? You don't have to reveal 564 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: that it's a combination of like it's one of Calieville, 565 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: one of the names of the Can you imagine? Yeah, 566 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: can you imagine we did be like, was it was 567 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: I first? Or was the brand first? Um? No, it's 568 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: a collection of um, working off of like family names 569 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: that have been around for a little while. UM, but 570 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: also just um like something fresh and different that we 571 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: don't think it's out there yet. UM. But I think 572 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: in all honesty, I think it's three. It might be too. 573 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: We might have we might have checked another one off 574 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: the other day. UM, but I don't know that, like 575 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: anything's off the table. And I think we're to the 576 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: place now where we're so close that we want to 577 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: look at her first. You know, she might not get 578 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: her name until we see her. At this point. It's 579 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: a little calisi. We'll only get the name once you 580 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: put eyes on her. I wonder run through some of 581 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: your songs sleep without You, There you go. You have 582 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 1: five number ones in a row, but this the first one. 583 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: This is the first one justin Ebach and Kelly Archer 584 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: on this home. So this is what's an expectation for 585 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: you With the first single they're going on, we're gonna 586 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: put this song out? Is it number one or bust? 587 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: For me? It was I would have never said that 588 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: out loud. I think I always like knock on Wood 589 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: or you know, with stuff like that. It's like I 590 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: joke with people all the time. It's like, if you 591 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,360 Speaker 1: put something out there that's almost the same as like 592 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: leaving l a X. You've just arrived in Los Angeles 593 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: on a Friday at like four thirty pm and you 594 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: pull out of L a X and you go, oh, 595 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: there's no traffic. You've just asked for traffic, Like pretty much, 596 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: you've just doomed yourself to traffic. Um. And so I 597 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: kind of feel the same way about stuff like that. 598 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, it's really moving up the charts. I'll 599 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: be like, knock on Wood, don't say that just you know. Um. 600 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,679 Speaker 1: But but yeah, I think at my age and and 601 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 1: with the fact that I wasn't really pursuing the artist 602 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: career anymore, I thought, you know, if if this is 603 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: something's going to happen, um, let's let's start it off 604 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: with the bank so that I can, you know, really 605 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: wrap my head around where this thing is going. And 606 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: it and it did. And it was a song that 607 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 1: I had written about my parents relationship. UM, so it 608 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: was personal to me. So it lit a fire in 609 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: me when this song started having success. Um, that enabled 610 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: me to not just get excited again about being an artist, 611 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: but like get passionate about it. Did you take the 612 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: song and play for your parents before you put it out? 613 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: Like kay, I wrote this for you guys, know you 614 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: know what's so funny? For whatever reason, I wanted to 615 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: keep the story behind it, kind of because if it 616 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: didn't do well, I didn't want anybody to feel like, hey, 617 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: the song about you like tanked you know. Um so 618 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: they probably the first time they heard that this was 619 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: about And I don't know if you've heard me tell 620 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: the story, but literally was this one night my dad's 621 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: a pastor, and uh, there was this one night in 622 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: high school. Um, I walked in at curfew, which was 623 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: like for me, it was midnight on game days, so 624 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: like probably if it was probably a Friday night basketball game. 625 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm sure it was because my mom was away for 626 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: a women's retreat for the weekend, but my dad went 627 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: to bed. Like growing up, I walk in at my curfew, 628 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: probably a little early. Like you said, I'm punctual, and 629 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,479 Speaker 1: my dad's sitting in his bathrobe and the reclinent are 630 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: watching Sports Center. Well, if you know Sports Center, you 631 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: know that program runs for an hour and then starts over, Well, 632 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: if my dad goes to bed at like he's been 633 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: watching that episode over and over since nine. So I 634 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: walk in and I'm like, Dad, what are you doing up? 635 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: And he goes, it's just weird. You know, after at 636 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: the time x amount of years, probably at the time 637 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: married for twenty years. After twenty years of being married 638 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: to your mom, is still hard to sleep in our 639 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: bed when she's not here. And that that that memory 640 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: never left me. So when we started the title sleep 641 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: Without You didn't come from that, but once we had 642 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: that title brought me back to that. So I was 643 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: inspired by that moment that I remember from being eighteen 644 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: years old and a senior in high school. So yeah, 645 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: it turned into it turned into this thing that was, uh, 646 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: you know, kind of the song that kicked things off. 647 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: What a good story, and I like that I hadn't 648 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: heard that before. Really, Yeah, I mean I think they didn't. 649 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: I don't think my dad knew that that resonated the 650 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: way that it did. And again I was eighteen then 651 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: and I wrote this song at thirty one, So I 652 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: mean it was years and years later where that popped up. 653 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: That was obviously something that stuck with me. All right, 654 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: here's the next one in case you didn't know, Case 655 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: you didn't know, baby, is this the one that's thing 656 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: allowed us to you and shows back? Yeah, because if 657 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: I were on the show, I'll be saying this one 658 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: allowed us back to you. It is, Yeah, it is, 659 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: it is. It's top three. Um, before Mercy, it was 660 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: definitely the loudest, and we have this kind of interesting 661 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: cultic thing happening with the post chorus on here tonight 662 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: right now. Um, they don't sing it, they kind of 663 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 1: scream it, so it gets pretty loud. But um, I 664 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: think this is the one that makes people feel the most. Um. 665 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: This is when the flashlights or lighters come out. This 666 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: is when like I noticed, like, I'll look in a guy, 667 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: I'll grab a girl to slow dance, and I'll be like, 668 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: the only reason he's even at my show right now 669 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: was for this moment to slow dance. He bought her 670 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: this ticket to dance with her like he might be 671 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: proposing tonight he might not, but like he he knew 672 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: he was black picking this moment. Um. I think it 673 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: is the the most intimate, tender moment of the set 674 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: every night. Where do you put this song on the 675 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: set list right in the middle. Oh yeah, you're not 676 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: going anywhere, You're You're at least wait until the middle, 677 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: like I love do. We talked about that a little bit. 678 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: Let's play this again, so you go, it's just you 679 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: just who you write this song? Yeah, just me and 680 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: Jesse Lee. Yeah, made a little kid, Little cash. Yeah, 681 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: that was a good That was a good one on 682 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: the writer publish. Yeah. And when I hear uh, he's 683 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: just a co ride or a single, I'm like, oh boy, 684 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: he did all right on that one. Yeah. That was 685 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: that was That was and and and and I think 686 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: her second number one. She had just had Peter Pan 687 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: with Kelsey Ballerini right before that. Um yeah, we like 688 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: I'm I'm always the passionate one in the room. When 689 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: something comes up that I have feelings about, I get 690 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: real fired up. And this whole idea of like somebody 691 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: being able to break up with you and then still 692 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: want to be your friends came up in conversation. And 693 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: again it was the first time we met man she 694 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: got pissed like Jesse was fired up, and I went, 695 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: I actually don't think I've ever seen somebody more passionate 696 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: in the writer's room than me. So that is definitely 697 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: the song we have to write. And we were already 698 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: four hours in think when we were going to call 699 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: it a day, and it fell out in like an 700 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: hour and a half. So were you working on a 701 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: song already and this is an idea that hit you pivoted? Yeah, 702 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: we were working on like fifteen that weren't working out 703 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: at that point. Right. Um, it went from like get 704 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: to know you to try to write a song to 705 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: back to just get to know you some more. And 706 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: it came out in conversation. But when I saw her 707 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: get fired up, I was like, let's tap into that. 708 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: Whatever that is. Let's and it's I mean it is. 709 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: It's an angry song and that's what they get to 710 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: know you parted. You're kind of milking You're kind of 711 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: milking it to see when does the milk actually come out? 712 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: Where do we connect? Yeah, like that's that, that's the moment. 713 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: That's cool, Mercy, Let's do this one. That was another 714 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: two way right, Yeah, you and Sean McConnell. Well he 715 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: is good. Huh. Like if you've never gone to a 716 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: Sean McConnell show, um, you're missing out. He is good. 717 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 1: And and writing and performing like just just I'm a 718 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: fan of that guy. Incredible. UM, just me and Sean. 719 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: And at the time, he was writing for Warner and 720 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: I went over there and they had forgotten to hold 721 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: a room for us. So I show up and they're like, well, 722 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: we got the rooftop and you know, they got that 723 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: open air rooftop over at Warner and it was mid 724 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: supper and it was so hot and there's wasps flying 725 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: around because all their furniture out there is wood, and 726 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, and I'm already a big fan of him 727 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: in his artistry and um. At the time, the label 728 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: was asking for tempo because we were ready to close 729 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: the record. They just wanted more up tempo and I 730 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: told you on that it was basically like, I don't 731 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: really care about that. And that was the first time 732 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: we met, too, and it was it was I get 733 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: to know you, and it wasn't even a concept. I 734 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: just said the word mercy and he goes, I'd love 735 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: to chase that down and he just started playing do 736 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: you do you play on keys? Or do you are 737 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,360 Speaker 1: you playing with the guitar? And you just him and 738 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: an acoustic I had put my down at that point 739 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,760 Speaker 1: because we were just talking and he just started strumming 740 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: through this chord progression and he started Sean's so good 741 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: at everything, but he like leans on these melodies, and 742 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: he started kind of humming along to that, and we 743 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: just started plugging words into it. I mean, it was 744 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 1: like most of what he was doing initially instinctively ended 745 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: up being the music and melody behind mercy. You know, 746 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: that's an interesting thing too, that people may not know 747 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 1: what the songwriting like. I have some friends that are 748 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: they will build a melody and then plug words, and 749 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,360 Speaker 1: some people that will go with lyrics and kind of 750 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 1: string them together and build a melody afterward. Um. Like 751 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: I've been able to spend some time when it called 752 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 1: Galley and and and she'll build She'll bout a melody, 753 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: She'll here's the music, and just be like why would U? 754 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: Then you just I've never been around someone who is 755 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: so good at that. And you mentioned that, are you 756 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: a melody guy where you make a melody over music 757 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: and then insert of words later or wire you going 758 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 1: to go out these are my words? I'm I'm a 759 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 1: words guy. Um. The story and the lyric is paramount 760 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: to me, um, which is why I pick my co 761 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: writers to compliment that in me, I pick music and 762 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: melody people, right, Um, it's right. If you look at 763 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,879 Speaker 1: track listing on both records, you're gonna see John Knight 764 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,479 Speaker 1: all over the place because melodically like, what he does 765 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: is not only fantastic, but it's it's what I it. 766 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: It follows all the things that I would do or 767 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: wish I would do, or it sounds like the music 768 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: I would listen to as a music fan. I mean, 769 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: he just I've taken on two albums combined, I've taken 770 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: four outside songs, and he's been a writer around all 771 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: four of them. Um. And then I mean he has 772 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: He's a writer on seven of the twelve songs on 773 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: my new record. Um. So, if I can find somebody 774 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: and John's also a great lyricist, but I gravitate towards 775 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: his melodic inclinations and so it's all words for me. 776 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 1: If I can find somebody with a great melody and 777 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: somebody that they pair well with music, let me what 778 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: do they call it in l A top lining, Give 779 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: me the track and let me write words to it. Um, 780 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: that's where I think, that's where I'm the best. But 781 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: but in this town that everybody has different skill sets, 782 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: and and sometimes you gotta pivot and kind of figure 783 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,720 Speaker 1: out where you where you fit in and and and 784 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: I think I'm I think I'm pretty good at reading 785 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: the room and where I'm actually gonna have strengths and weaknesses. 786 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: But in a perfect world, if I got a meloy 787 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: guy and a music guy and you just let me 788 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,240 Speaker 1: kind of stick to the lyric, That's when I'm the happiest. 789 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: Let's do one more here tonight. We can just say 790 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 1: what's your what song you close? They used to be 791 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: here tonight? We just because we've been playing a lot 792 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,719 Speaker 1: more headlining shows lately. Um, we moved here tonight to 793 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,439 Speaker 1: the end of the regulation and then we walk off stage, 794 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: and then we come back and encore UM, and we 795 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: encore with Mercy and Ticket to l A the title track. UM. 796 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: Only because the way that we uh, the way that 797 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: we finish here tonight is kind of like a it's 798 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 1: kind of an unresolved, like kind of trash candy on 799 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 1: the drums type thing, whereas Ticket to l A. When 800 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: we finished, we've like we've reintro the outro, so like 801 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: we I finished the song and then the band rips 802 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,880 Speaker 1: back into the intro while I walk off, so it's 803 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: kind of a little more dramatic exit. Um. But yeah, 804 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 1: up until about two weeks ago, we were finishing with 805 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: here Tonight, um and and for the first two years 806 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: we were finishing with Sleep Without You with an extra 807 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: outro for me to walk off too. So I think 808 00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: I mean, for us, it changes. You know. One of 809 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 1: the best feelings is having multiple singles now because you 810 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,439 Speaker 1: build your show around your singles. You know, you don't 811 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,800 Speaker 1: want anybody to go anywhere, so you kind of spread 812 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 1: them out. Um. And we finally got to a place 813 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: where we were like, we can put Sleep Without You 814 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,959 Speaker 1: earlier in the set finally, which is gonna be pretty 815 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: cool too, to be able to put some more heat 816 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: up and all through the set. It feels great. People 817 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,839 Speaker 1: are just waiting for the big hit, like you got 818 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of big hits, so we got you. Yeah, 819 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: it's it's that that's that is a I remember being 820 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,839 Speaker 1: jealous of everybody I opened for at the beginning of like, 821 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: you know, the first year or two, I'd be like, man, 822 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 1: I recognize every song you play in your set. That 823 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: must feel great, you know, to not have to fill 824 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: half of it with covers, just so people know what 825 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,799 Speaker 1: you're singing. And we're to a place now where I 826 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: mean we could if we have a half hour set. 827 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,400 Speaker 1: We just you know, we just did c M A 828 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: fest recently. Six songs, well, I have six singles. It 829 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: was the best feeling on the planet. I played all 830 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: radio singles for thirty minutes. It was incredible feeling. And 831 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: uh and yeah, when you have an hour fifteen hour 832 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: and a half, you have to kind of strategically spread 833 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: them out. But it's been cool. We I mean, we 834 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: start with catch my current radio single, dark Stage. We start, 835 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 1: we just rip into the first single and it's like 836 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: we used to have to kind of wait to tease 837 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,319 Speaker 1: those in. Now it's like, no, let's go for it, 838 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: you know. And it's I think for everybody, make them wait, 839 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 1: but make don't make them wait at the beginning, and 840 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: don't make them wait. Don't don't make them like left 841 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: wanting at the end, at least not too much. And 842 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 1: uh and yeah, so it's been great. I hired a 843 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,759 Speaker 1: really close friend of mine who's my music director now, 844 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,879 Speaker 1: who's really conscious of not only spreading the singles out, 845 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 1: but also like that you know the way the energy 846 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,839 Speaker 1: moves in the set and key changes and things that 847 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,440 Speaker 1: I don't think about it at all because so you 848 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: let your music doctor build a step for you. Yeah. Absolutely, 849 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: I mean I mean I have veto power, but he 850 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: I mean he knows me so well and for so 851 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,799 Speaker 1: many years veto powered. I don't never have to pull it. 852 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,480 Speaker 1: I'll just be like, hey, is there anyway this is 853 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,839 Speaker 1: all perfect? But it's seventeen songs. Could like, could you 854 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,000 Speaker 1: flip these two and still make it work? And sometimes 855 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: you can't. Sometimes you can't, but it's always like a 856 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: collaborative conversation, which I really appreciate. Let's play a little 857 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,880 Speaker 1: bit of catch. This is the single right now, cat 858 00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: game the same I was watching because we had the 859 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: same PR team and I was watching, Um, you want 860 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: a Christie your time? I mean Christie but both ye 861 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 1: so Christie me too. Christie had on hers I think 862 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:17,240 Speaker 1: you had like blown your voice and I she posted 863 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 1: it and I was like, oh man, I've been there, 864 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 1: Like that's that's that most helpless feeling and she was like, yeah, 865 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: he's bombed, Like yeah, it's it's It's a bumming thing 866 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: when what you're paid to do and what everybody couldn't 867 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,600 Speaker 1: you can't do it? It was I was broken hearted. 868 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:34,239 Speaker 1: We were um out with Kelsey Ballerini and it was 869 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,360 Speaker 1: the second till last weekend, and I had an amazing 870 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,440 Speaker 1: sound check and then after sound check, I went and 871 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,239 Speaker 1: worked out and like my normal daily routine and uh, 872 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: I even sat down an hour before the show with 873 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,200 Speaker 1: my music director, who I was just talking about to 874 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,239 Speaker 1: like run through We had an idea for a um 875 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: A cover medley of a bunch of songs that we 876 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 1: were running through, which we're doing in the show. Now, 877 00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,880 Speaker 1: Voice felt great. Now we're like forty minutes from showtime. 878 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,360 Speaker 1: Voice was feeling great, had a good workout, had a 879 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,120 Speaker 1: great day. I went and showered up, got chained, and 880 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: I sat down in the front lounge of my bus. 881 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: And now we're like maybe twenty minutes from the show 882 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,879 Speaker 1: and my wife walks out of the back and asked 883 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: me a question. I went to answer it and it 884 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: was like this like gravelly um scratchy voice that because 885 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 1: you were just talking and it was yeah, it wasn't. 886 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,319 Speaker 1: It wasn't that I have to clear my throat thing. 887 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,920 Speaker 1: It was the weird I've never felt. It has to 888 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: be allergies. Still, I thought I was so sick. I 889 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 1: was like, what happened? Did I blow out a vocal cord? 890 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,160 Speaker 1: Like this is I've never and I was like, you 891 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,279 Speaker 1: know what, I've been through this before. I grabbed out 892 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 1: my little like uh my inhaler like the steam and 893 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 1: haler thing like, let me just hit this real quick, 894 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,880 Speaker 1: It's gonna be all right. Did the normal like lemon, 895 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,880 Speaker 1: honey whiskey, took a quick shot before I went out, 896 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,359 Speaker 1: and like I'm gonna be all right. And I went 897 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,600 Speaker 1: out to sing and we opened with catch and I 898 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 1: literally couldn't you know what's bad when you can't reach 899 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,320 Speaker 1: the key of the verse. I wasn't even in the 900 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,239 Speaker 1: chorus yet, and I had to stop the music and 901 00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,840 Speaker 1: apologize everybody and be like, guys, this happened in this 902 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,440 Speaker 1: transpired in twenty minutes. I have no idea but it 903 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,920 Speaker 1: and it didn't come back for three days, but it 904 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: came all the way back and it's never happened since. 905 00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 1: So that night were you it was you were playing second? Right? 906 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 1: So did Kelsey come on early? Did she play actually? 907 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 1: Put they pushed her set up earlier? Yeah, and she 908 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: rocked it and I The first thing I did was 909 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 1: go to my booking agency and go, guys, um, I 910 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,759 Speaker 1: know that I know. If I know financially we're going 911 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,839 Speaker 1: to take the hit here, that's fine. I don't care 912 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,560 Speaker 1: about that. UM. We need to find out which fans 913 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:39,680 Speaker 1: are like, you know, raising a stink about this and 914 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,040 Speaker 1: let them know straight up their ticket will be honored, 915 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,360 Speaker 1: and we need to put together some sort of show 916 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,799 Speaker 1: or free show or whatever it is um back in 917 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,400 Speaker 1: that city. And uh. And so I think we've got 918 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:51,840 Speaker 1: a couple of days held for that. I mean, it 919 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,200 Speaker 1: was just it was just months ago. So that's pretty reason. 920 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 1: It just popped in my head think about because I 921 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: was watching that Answer story and I was like, oh man, 922 00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: I've been that where you don't know what's coming and 923 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 1: it hits you and you have nothing you can do. 924 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,319 Speaker 1: I was literally like fighting back tears when I got 925 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,319 Speaker 1: back on my bus, because you don't never like, I've 926 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 1: never once taken for granted or it's never been lost 927 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: on me that people spend their money and and and 928 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 1: you know, build their whole weekend around these shows, and 929 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,800 Speaker 1: it's important to them, and it's it's it's never lost 930 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 1: on me and that's the only time I've ever had 931 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 1: I've never had to cancel the show. Is that but 932 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,880 Speaker 1: alone walk off in the middle of a song in 933 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,399 Speaker 1: an arena and um, and it just breaks my heart. 934 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: Like it will be made up. I hope everybody that 935 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,040 Speaker 1: was there is listening right now. We're gonna make that up. 936 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,359 Speaker 1: But it sucked. I'm gonna read this, tell me if 937 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 1: this is true or not. UM. When you pitch for 938 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,479 Speaker 1: Calvary Chapel Highs baseball team your senior year, you had 939 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,880 Speaker 1: uh point nine O, E, R, A and D strikeouts 940 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: point nine one and a hundred and thirty three strikeouts 941 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,879 Speaker 1: For those that don't know, that's less than one run 942 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,680 Speaker 1: of game. Basically, when you went up there were some 943 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,440 Speaker 1: game do you give gave up? No runs like that? 944 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,120 Speaker 1: Not even one earned run a game. How many endings 945 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: you're throwing in high school? A game seven? I was 946 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,680 Speaker 1: so I was fifteen and oh that year geez, we 947 00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,480 Speaker 1: only played twenty nine games and I was fifteen, So 948 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: they were strategically trying to play shoot in as many 949 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,279 Speaker 1: games as possible. I was starting in the playoffs. I 950 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,239 Speaker 1: started both games every week, but I just we we 951 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,719 Speaker 1: would beat teams, so bad that I would only pitch 952 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,399 Speaker 1: five innings and you can pitch ten a week, even 953 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,719 Speaker 1: though you only play seven in high school baseball. So 954 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,120 Speaker 1: I'd pitched ten and then we'd pull me. I'm sorry, 955 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:33,840 Speaker 1: I pitched five and then we pulled me. Or I 956 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:39,920 Speaker 1: pitched five and mercy rule mercy. That's it. That's actually 957 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,600 Speaker 1: about So are you left handed? Right handed? Right handed? Wow? 958 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 1: You were that dominant as a right handed pick I 959 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,080 Speaker 1: was throwing low nineties and I was my height and 960 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,799 Speaker 1: weight as a senior in high school. Um, yeah, I 961 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,319 Speaker 1: mean I think I think the stat is that it 962 00:44:54,440 --> 00:45:03,879 Speaker 1: was a hundred and thirty three strikeouts and one walks, which, yeah, 963 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:08,120 Speaker 1: it was like just under eight. Good god, it was 964 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 1: like one point seven strikeouts an inning or one point 965 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,719 Speaker 1: six strikeouts an inning. That's that's an insane ratio. We were, 966 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,359 Speaker 1: but I mean, like to be fair, Um, we were. 967 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,799 Speaker 1: We were like ridiculously dominant. We were twenty eight and 968 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,799 Speaker 1: one that year, small private school with a D fifty 969 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,840 Speaker 1: kids I'm sorry, six hundred kids, hundred fifty per grade. Um, 970 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:33,640 Speaker 1: but we were seventeenth in the United States, and six 971 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,560 Speaker 1: guys went on to play Division one baseball in Southern California. 972 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,640 Speaker 1: They well, in California, they break up state playoffs into 973 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 1: what they call c IF because the state is so 974 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,200 Speaker 1: big they have to break it up. So in southern 975 00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,239 Speaker 1: sections c IF UM we won UM. Over the course 976 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,920 Speaker 1: of five games, we outscored our opponents fifty one and 977 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: the one run was unearned. Our left fielder dropped a 978 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,120 Speaker 1: fly ball. We didn't give up an earned run in 979 00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,680 Speaker 1: c IF that did you guys win the state championship, 980 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,680 Speaker 1: So it doesn't They don't do that in basketball in California. 981 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,880 Speaker 1: If you win c i F, you go on to state. 982 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,080 Speaker 1: But in base now, so we won c i F, 983 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 1: but there isn't a graduation to state unless unless you're 984 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,160 Speaker 1: in Division one, and we were like in Division five, 985 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,680 Speaker 1: Double A because it's a small school, so there's no 986 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,359 Speaker 1: We went as far as you can go at that. 987 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 1: We won the final game twelve to nothing. So you 988 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 1: go to play ball at All Miss and how are 989 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,839 Speaker 1: you feeling going into a freshman year? Excited? I mean, um, 990 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,719 Speaker 1: I got a great scholarship. It's in my opinions, I 991 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,320 Speaker 1: still think it's the best baseball conference in college baseball. UM. 992 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,560 Speaker 1: And uh, you know, by the time we got to 993 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,960 Speaker 1: conference play. I was our Saturday starter, which is the 994 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,880 Speaker 1: number two starter as a freshman, which is fantastic. Um, 995 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:54,160 Speaker 1: but I had I had a little shoulder trouble. Um. 996 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,640 Speaker 1: I won my first two starts. I beat actually my 997 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,880 Speaker 1: first conference start with Vandy. I beat Vandy UM in Oxford. 998 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:02,520 Speaker 1: And then the next week we went to Kentucky and 999 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,360 Speaker 1: I beat Kentucky. So I'm two and owen conference starting 1000 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: on Saturdays as a freshman, which is you know, felt 1001 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,640 Speaker 1: pretty good because we were having a pretty average year. 1002 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,719 Speaker 1: You know, the win in Kentucky, I was the only 1003 00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,600 Speaker 1: one that got to win our Friday night guy understand 1004 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: that I both lost, Yeah and uh, and so I'm 1005 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,480 Speaker 1: feeling pretty good. And then the third week, we had 1006 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,640 Speaker 1: l s U at our place and I got knocked 1007 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,279 Speaker 1: around a little bit. It wasn't that bad, but I 1008 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,040 Speaker 1: think I ended up losing eight to six. Um. And 1009 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,839 Speaker 1: then the following week I was at Mississippi State. If 1010 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,640 Speaker 1: anybody's ever seen a baseball game there, they're like grilling 1011 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,120 Speaker 1: out in the outfield. Yeah, they let him park like 1012 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 1: like when Ebagos in the freaking outfield. It's the craziest 1013 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,319 Speaker 1: cowbell for baseball games, are they? I don't know if 1014 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:42,920 Speaker 1: they're doing it in this Yeah they do in the 1015 00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,439 Speaker 1: stadium too, Yes, boy, they do have football games. Yeah, 1016 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: oh yeah, there and there. It's remarkable because so I'm 1017 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,000 Speaker 1: the Saturday starter. I got knocked out in the first inning, 1018 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,400 Speaker 1: like I didn't if I remember right, it went. I 1019 00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,680 Speaker 1: walked the first hitter, the next guy, I hit the 1020 00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:02,640 Speaker 1: next guy by the pitch, so it's first and second. 1021 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,040 Speaker 1: The next guy gets a base hit, one run scores, 1022 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,279 Speaker 1: and it's first and third, and I walked the next 1023 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,319 Speaker 1: guy to load them. So I've only given up one run, 1024 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:10,960 Speaker 1: but I have no outs in the bases loaded, and 1025 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,560 Speaker 1: they pulled me. And that also all those on runs 1026 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,080 Speaker 1: of yours too, by the way, they're on the basis, Yeah, 1027 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,000 Speaker 1: and all of them scored. They ended up getting six 1028 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,719 Speaker 1: in the first inning. I was charged for four. Ye 1029 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,920 Speaker 1: so um. When I was warming up for that game, 1030 00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,040 Speaker 1: I was getting heckled like crazy. Mrs Mississippi State fans are. 1031 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,319 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a big right. And the bullpen they're 1032 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,200 Speaker 1: like out there grilling and they're like throwing hot dogs 1033 00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,480 Speaker 1: at me and stuff like they're they're pretty they're pretty ruthless. 1034 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,359 Speaker 1: But and then Sunday the next day because I didn't 1035 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,480 Speaker 1: throw very many pitches, they put me out, like, got 1036 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,839 Speaker 1: me loose in the bullpen. We were losing again on Sunday, 1037 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,960 Speaker 1: and they all love me now because they like I 1038 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,440 Speaker 1: gave up all those runs. So I go out there 1039 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:48,799 Speaker 1: to warm up. They don't know that I'm going, They 1040 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 1: just see me walk out there. And I went from 1041 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,279 Speaker 1: the day before they're throwing hot dogs at me to 1042 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,279 Speaker 1: this day they've got like freshly barbecued ribs that they're 1043 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,920 Speaker 1: handing me to eat. It was the most interesting experience. 1044 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,839 Speaker 1: But um so I won my first two conference starts, 1045 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,960 Speaker 1: and then I lost the next two, and I I 1046 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,480 Speaker 1: got two relief appearances for in the next two months, 1047 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,680 Speaker 1: I barely pitched again. It was like they gave up 1048 00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,440 Speaker 1: on me. Was it like the team or where was 1049 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,040 Speaker 1: your shoulder bothering you? My shoulder was bothering me, and 1050 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,120 Speaker 1: I was disagreeing with my pitching coach, a lock. I 1051 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,880 Speaker 1: think my shoulder was bothering me because he's you know, 1052 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,680 Speaker 1: I've pitched the same way for years and years and years, 1053 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,839 Speaker 1: and he was trying to change mechanics and it was uncomfortable. 1054 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,719 Speaker 1: And this is not a blame game. Um, I just 1055 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,880 Speaker 1: think that the combination of everything that was going on 1056 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,560 Speaker 1: was a bad combo. And uh, you know, I bounced 1057 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,920 Speaker 1: after that year. I just missed California anyway, as aout 1058 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,239 Speaker 1: eighteen years old. I grew up at the beach now 1059 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,239 Speaker 1: in Oxford, Mississippi. And it's the It's the one thing. 1060 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,520 Speaker 1: And if you if you follow what I do now, 1061 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,520 Speaker 1: you see how much I talk about Oxford and how 1062 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,800 Speaker 1: much I talk about All Miss. It's my one regret. 1063 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,360 Speaker 1: I went to five schools counting Ole Miss. It's the 1064 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,160 Speaker 1: one place I wish I would have stayed. I don't. 1065 00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,520 Speaker 1: I think regret is like a worthless emotion. I don't 1066 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,840 Speaker 1: like it. Um. I think if you made a decision 1067 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,839 Speaker 1: own it, you're supposed to be where you are now. Um, 1068 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,919 Speaker 1: I wish I would have stayed and finished it Ole Miss. Yeah, 1069 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,360 Speaker 1: I had no idea. So I knew you played ball. 1070 00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,600 Speaker 1: I had no idea that you were that freaking dominant 1071 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,880 Speaker 1: as a high school player. I mean, that's super elite 1072 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,200 Speaker 1: level stuff there. Yeah it was. I mean the Twins 1073 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,319 Speaker 1: and the Devil Rays called my senior year. Um, it's 1074 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,080 Speaker 1: called like a they call it a pre draft selection. Basically, 1075 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,520 Speaker 1: there they have this window before the draft where they're 1076 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,360 Speaker 1: able to call and and get a feel for you 1077 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,200 Speaker 1: know that the questions are like, hey, if we took 1078 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,640 Speaker 1: you in the sixth round for X amount of money, 1079 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,359 Speaker 1: would because they knew I was already signed the letter 1080 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,399 Speaker 1: of intent to illness, so they know what they're negotiating against. Yeah, 1081 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,680 Speaker 1: and you know, it just didn't feel I'm throwing low nineties. 1082 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,799 Speaker 1: I'm fifteen and no point nine one r a hundred 1083 00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,320 Speaker 1: let Orange County and everything that you're in. Orange County 1084 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: had like Modern Day and Survey and all these huge teams, 1085 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,719 Speaker 1: and I'm going, no, you're low balling me. Because I 1086 00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,240 Speaker 1: went to a small private school, it doesn't make sense 1087 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,719 Speaker 1: to take the money. So I did what I thought 1088 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,319 Speaker 1: was the respectful thing. I told them both not to 1089 00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,560 Speaker 1: waste to pick and they didn't, so I didn't get drafted. Um. 1090 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,600 Speaker 1: And the word definitely gets around when you say that 1091 00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,640 Speaker 1: to a couple of people, like don't don't waste your money, 1092 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,480 Speaker 1: don't used to pick um and you know, hindsight, But 1093 00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,400 Speaker 1: like I said, I don't regret that. I think that 1094 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,799 Speaker 1: was the right decision. The one thing I do kind 1095 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,720 Speaker 1: of regret is that if I wanted to play baseball 1096 00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:11,200 Speaker 1: for a couple of years. I should have probably stated 1097 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,919 Speaker 1: at all, miss, do you ever throw the ball? Now? Yeah? 1098 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,359 Speaker 1: I got after the elbow surgery, Um, I got pretty healthy. 1099 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:19,839 Speaker 1: I was playing in a men's league in Orange County. 1100 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,279 Speaker 1: I was living in l A and driving down every 1101 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,319 Speaker 1: Saturday to pitch. Were you a ringer in the men's league? Yeah? 1102 00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,600 Speaker 1: I was. I was running it back up even though 1103 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,279 Speaker 1: I wasn't working out my arm or like playing long 1104 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,120 Speaker 1: coss or throwing during the week. I was running it 1105 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,880 Speaker 1: up to like hi eighties, low nineties, which in a 1106 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,640 Speaker 1: men's league is a lot. And the last, the last 1107 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,120 Speaker 1: game I threw, and my elbow was pretty sore. After this, 1108 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,840 Speaker 1: I end up throwing a like a nine inning complete 1109 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,239 Speaker 1: game shot out in a men's league. But when you 1110 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,239 Speaker 1: don't work out and you're not like in that kind 1111 00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:49,240 Speaker 1: of shape, my arm was like hanging off my side 1112 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,200 Speaker 1: for like a week. But but yeah, I mean it 1113 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: was I had just learned a slider before I hurt myself. 1114 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,360 Speaker 1: It wasn't a pitch I used to have, and it 1115 00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,480 Speaker 1: just became this dominant, untouchable pitch, and so it was 1116 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,480 Speaker 1: fun to to bring that back to the men's league, 1117 00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,960 Speaker 1: at least for a minute. There's a story out about 1118 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,080 Speaker 1: the songwriter named Steve Ronson. Don't know if you saw this. 1119 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,839 Speaker 1: He's taking Lady Gaga out of court over Shallow and 1120 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,799 Speaker 1: this is a three note progression that he says. It's 1121 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,719 Speaker 1: only three notes that he says that she took from him. Okay, 1122 00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:17,239 Speaker 1: so I want to play these for you. Your thoughts 1123 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,959 Speaker 1: on this. So Ronson has accused Gaga of stealing again 1124 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,520 Speaker 1: a three note progression from his song almost for the 1125 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,920 Speaker 1: song Shallow. Now, they're gonna sound similar. But my question 1126 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,120 Speaker 1: is going to be to you after you hear that 1127 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,040 Speaker 1: here it is three notes enough to sue over this 1128 00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,520 Speaker 1: vocal melody, music music melody, Right, Okay, I'm gonna play 1129 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,480 Speaker 1: on for they are going to sound similar, and and 1130 00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:49,120 Speaker 1: my care we go play me almost from Steve Ronson, 1131 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:59,719 Speaker 1: play me Shallow. I think we'll agree that that they do. 1132 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,680 Speaker 1: So he's over. H'm fully, yes, that's it. We're gonna 1133 00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,920 Speaker 1: agree that they do sound the same. But it's the 1134 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,520 Speaker 1: only three notes. You didn't. She didn't invent that progression. 1135 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,279 Speaker 1: That was my point too. If it were seven, can 1136 00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,239 Speaker 1: we even prove she's ever heard that song. I've never 1137 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,280 Speaker 1: heard that song. No one has only like six thousand 1138 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:25,160 Speaker 1: lessons until her played again. Mike, this is okay, and 1139 00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:30,239 Speaker 1: here's Lady Gaga again. What do you think about this 1140 00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:39,160 Speaker 1: dude's suing for three notes? Well, I don't like I 1141 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:44,560 Speaker 1: don't like lawsuits anyways. Um, even if you have grounds, um, 1142 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,360 Speaker 1: but don't we have a rule that says is it 1143 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,839 Speaker 1: seven notes? Seven is the understood rule. So you're gonna 1144 00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,680 Speaker 1: you're gonna cut that more than in a half and 1145 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,120 Speaker 1: go after it with a song that, um, you know, 1146 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,880 Speaker 1: just hey, if you're gonna go reuse your melody that 1147 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:03,799 Speaker 1: you can prove you own and a song that people 1148 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:07,160 Speaker 1: want to listen to, Like, like, that's the dumbest thing. 1149 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,920 Speaker 1: I just don't like it. I don't like And this 1150 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,480 Speaker 1: is like gonna go back to like kind of my upbringing, 1151 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,680 Speaker 1: my religious beliefs. But like, I don't like the lawsuit 1152 00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:19,319 Speaker 1: thing at all. Like just just if if you come 1153 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,959 Speaker 1: into a riff with somebody like that that's in your life, 1154 00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,640 Speaker 1: cut them out of your life, but like to take 1155 00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,920 Speaker 1: it to court to blow somebody's life up over it. 1156 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:28,879 Speaker 1: I don't like that. I just don't like it. It's not. 1157 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,880 Speaker 1: It's not. I don't think that's part of our creative calling. 1158 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,600 Speaker 1: Now they don't know each other, all right, Okay, so 1159 00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying, what if, uh, some new artists puts a 1160 00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,359 Speaker 1: song out and there's eleven notes and it sounds like 1161 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,000 Speaker 1: freaking in case you didn't know, and it's like I 1162 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,840 Speaker 1: just spought me a boat boy. I'm going fishing, babe. 1163 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:54,000 Speaker 1: But you're gonna see him, right, you know what? There 1164 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,680 Speaker 1: I think there's a So to answer your question, yeah, 1165 00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,200 Speaker 1: there is a limit, and I think there is a thing. Um, 1166 00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,680 Speaker 1: but I still don't lawsuit. Um who was it? Recently? 1167 00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:07,920 Speaker 1: Was it Jake that just gave songwriting credit Jack and Diane? 1168 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,960 Speaker 1: So to who? Because because uh, not to John Mellencamp 1169 00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,200 Speaker 1: because he was in on it initially and immediately, Yeah, 1170 00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,279 Speaker 1: he had to give someone else. I think so he 1171 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,560 Speaker 1: didn't know. But I think that's what we should do. 1172 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:25,160 Speaker 1: If if you accidentally step on something, you should go wow, 1173 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,560 Speaker 1: I totally didn't mean to, but would you take x percent? 1174 00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,319 Speaker 1: And that is happening with some artists. That's how like 1175 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,240 Speaker 1: why the lawsuit? Hey you kind of grabbed this. Now 1176 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,600 Speaker 1: if he did that and she was like not sorry, 1177 00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,680 Speaker 1: won't give you five percent? Well, then she can go 1178 00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,080 Speaker 1: to court. But I think like there's there's some sort 1179 00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:45,759 Speaker 1: of mediation. I think where you can split up the 1180 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,239 Speaker 1: songwriting or the publishing or however it has to look 1181 00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,799 Speaker 1: to make it way easier than a lawsuit. I just 1182 00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:52,880 Speaker 1: don't like that. I'm not sure if he approached her 1183 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,719 Speaker 1: to go, hey, give me nine percent or seven percent, 1184 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,560 Speaker 1: So I'm not sure. All I know is that it 1185 00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,480 Speaker 1: has gone to court. And I wondered your thoughts on 1186 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,160 Speaker 1: three knows. I don't think that's enough, and I don't 1187 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,560 Speaker 1: and that's this like very like I would naturally go 1188 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,319 Speaker 1: to that escalating progression anyways, if those were the chords, 1189 00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,399 Speaker 1: she followed the chords in this song. So no, that's 1190 00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,800 Speaker 1: literally like what if what if my songwriting buddy played 1191 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,719 Speaker 1: those three on the piano and I heard it, I went, 1192 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,160 Speaker 1: that's dope, let's write to that. Would I be stealing 1193 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,040 Speaker 1: from Mark Ronson? I would say no, because it's only 1194 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,879 Speaker 1: three notes. It's like chord progressions. There's only so many 1195 00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:32,000 Speaker 1: chord progressions. There's no new ones. That's it. And so 1196 00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,279 Speaker 1: you're going to and now I'll equate this in my mind, 1197 00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,319 Speaker 1: I write Jokes until Jokes is a comedian. Sometimes I 1198 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,160 Speaker 1: have like minded thoughts as people because we have like 1199 00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,680 Speaker 1: minds and we're seeing the same things. Same thing with music, 1200 00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:46,560 Speaker 1: You're not only are the songs some of the ideas similar, 1201 00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,600 Speaker 1: but again, there are only so many ways to to 1202 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,640 Speaker 1: to play a song. So my question would be, um, 1203 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,239 Speaker 1: and there's no way to know this, but to him, 1204 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,799 Speaker 1: do you actually think she heard your song and stole it? 1205 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,239 Speaker 1: Are you just looking for a pay day? What are 1206 00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:04,880 Speaker 1: you doing? And that? I don't know, Mike, Let's get 1207 00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,640 Speaker 1: him on, say we get this guy. Let me ask 1208 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,839 Speaker 1: you this. What is making clean country music mean? Man? 1209 00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:13,719 Speaker 1: That's kind of been something that I've tried to keep 1210 00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:18,760 Speaker 1: a part of my brand from the very beginning. I think, Um, 1211 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,520 Speaker 1: I've always I've you probably heard me say this. Um. 1212 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,320 Speaker 1: If there's a thirty five year old mom with a 1213 00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,600 Speaker 1: twelve year old daughter and they're both fans of my music, 1214 00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,040 Speaker 1: I don't want anything to occur in on my record, 1215 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,880 Speaker 1: in my songs or at my live show that makes 1216 00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:37,160 Speaker 1: that mom uncomfortable bringing her daughter out for a mother 1217 00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,800 Speaker 1: daughter and I at a Brett Young concert. I don't 1218 00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:41,880 Speaker 1: think that there's anything that we need to say that 1219 00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:46,160 Speaker 1: requires any sort of PG thirteen plus rating to get 1220 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,880 Speaker 1: our point across. And and and if we need that, 1221 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,080 Speaker 1: maybe we should become better songwriters. And again that's not 1222 00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,720 Speaker 1: a knock on songwriters that say the stuff that that's 1223 00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,760 Speaker 1: their brand. They're they're chasing down a different brand, and 1224 00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,240 Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. Um I've just always want to 1225 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,200 Speaker 1: keep mine accessible to everybody. And I don't see really 1226 00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,720 Speaker 1: see the need to offend or make people uncomfortable in 1227 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,520 Speaker 1: order to go have fun and listen to the country music. 1228 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,000 Speaker 1: Is butt hole a bad word? Is it a bad word? No? 1229 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,800 Speaker 1: It does? Like should I say that on stage? Probably not? 1230 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,200 Speaker 1: And there's no way you can make this sound good 1231 00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,720 Speaker 1: in the song. A lot of your songs were written 1232 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,120 Speaker 1: about your girlfriend now wife. Um So, she was on 1233 00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,960 Speaker 1: the Get Real podcast with Caroline Hobby and this is 1234 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,680 Speaker 1: her talking or if you heard this clip, she talks 1235 00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,520 Speaker 1: about how you and her broke up and you'd been 1236 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,560 Speaker 1: dated six years already, and now I would like to 1237 00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:36,680 Speaker 1: play this and get your response to your wife talking 1238 00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,440 Speaker 1: about this. Go ahead. He actually messaged me on Facebook 1239 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,200 Speaker 1: and said, hey, you know, I know your roommate is Alexa, 1240 00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,520 Speaker 1: and he's like I'd love to get together. And I'm like, 1241 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:46,560 Speaker 1: so I went back to my roommate and I'm like, Okay, 1242 00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:48,360 Speaker 1: tell me about this guy. I know you've mentioned him. 1243 00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,400 Speaker 1: And that was before he was right young. He was 1244 00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,040 Speaker 1: just doing probably like little work demos. Oh yeah, it was. 1245 00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,040 Speaker 1: It was like my Space, like playing my Space music. Face. Yeah. 1246 00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,720 Speaker 1: So apparently so you you guys break up and then 1247 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:03,560 Speaker 1: she has to hear you on the radio, she says, 1248 00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,800 Speaker 1: and then you get how do you get back together? 1249 00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,800 Speaker 1: So yeah, we were so that that clip, by the way, 1250 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:14,440 Speaker 1: was how we met. Initially, Um I saw her in 1251 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,840 Speaker 1: pictures with a girl I knew from Newport Beach. They 1252 00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,959 Speaker 1: were like college roommates, and I happened to be living 1253 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,240 Speaker 1: in Arizona at the time. So I saw this girl 1254 00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,000 Speaker 1: that I knew, and I think she's right. It might 1255 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,520 Speaker 1: have even been my space. Um I saw and I 1256 00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,280 Speaker 1: was like, WHOA, who is this? Who is her roommate? 1257 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,280 Speaker 1: And I I was like the O G sliding into 1258 00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,800 Speaker 1: her d M S. That's how we met. But yeah, 1259 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,960 Speaker 1: we were together for six years and and the sixth 1260 00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,640 Speaker 1: year of that was the first year I lived in Nashville. 1261 00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,240 Speaker 1: And then it just was like the distance, and the 1262 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,320 Speaker 1: whole thing kind of got in the way. Um, So 1263 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,400 Speaker 1: we were apart for two years and and and we 1264 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,280 Speaker 1: were both dating other people and we were not in 1265 00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:53,760 Speaker 1: contact at all, and my relationship went south and it 1266 00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:58,040 Speaker 1: felt like the same way me and Taylor like went south. 1267 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,040 Speaker 1: And I had this like kind of a bout of 1268 01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,960 Speaker 1: like insecurity or self realization where I was like, am 1269 01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,080 Speaker 1: I doing this? Because this is blowing up the same 1270 01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,680 Speaker 1: way me and Taylor blew up? Am I the problem? 1271 01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:11,800 Speaker 1: And so I reached out to Taylor, not to reconnect 1272 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,920 Speaker 1: that way, just to be like, hey, do you have 1273 01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:17,400 Speaker 1: a second, because I need to like get introspective here 1274 01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,840 Speaker 1: and look at myself and figure out if I'm gonna 1275 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,880 Speaker 1: forever like sabotage all my relationships. I need to know 1276 01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:27,640 Speaker 1: if it's me. And that conversation that should have been 1277 01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,960 Speaker 1: a quick like yeah, Brett, you're terrible or or no, 1278 01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:32,880 Speaker 1: bread it's not you at all turned into like two 1279 01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,200 Speaker 1: hours on the phone, and it turned into I miss you, 1280 01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:37,760 Speaker 1: and I like it feels like I talked to you 1281 01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,880 Speaker 1: yesterday and it's been two years, and it you know, 1282 01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:44,520 Speaker 1: it was it was slow because um, out of respect, 1283 01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:47,120 Speaker 1: I had just broken up with somebody and she was 1284 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,400 Speaker 1: in a relationship, and so we didn't go into like this. 1285 01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,480 Speaker 1: We didn't like start this immediate relationship. Um, we had 1286 01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,520 Speaker 1: some stuff to figure out. But it was this strange 1287 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,480 Speaker 1: thing of we haven't spoken in two years and hearing 1288 01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:01,200 Speaker 1: your voice like feels like home. And how when you 1289 01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:05,200 Speaker 1: launched onto the scene. How how confusing was having the 1290 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,680 Speaker 1: same name as another Brett in country music that's around 1291 01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:09,960 Speaker 1: the same age, that's both good looking, both tall guys, 1292 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,960 Speaker 1: both both vocalists. Like, how confusing was that for you? 1293 01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:15,800 Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't. I don't think that's that confusing. 1294 01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,120 Speaker 1: Brett's not that rare of his name, is it? I mean, 1295 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:23,000 Speaker 1: how many? But how many are there that there's You 1296 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,000 Speaker 1: guys are very similar in if you're looking from ten 1297 01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,720 Speaker 1: thousand feet up, good looking guys, great singers. Oh yeah, 1298 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,680 Speaker 1: we have a lot of similarities. Yeah do you ever 1299 01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,440 Speaker 1: did you ever get called Brett Eldridge accidentally all the time? 1300 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,120 Speaker 1: All the time? I got? I actually got So you'll 1301 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:42,400 Speaker 1: enjoy this. The very first c m A Awards that 1302 01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,720 Speaker 1: I went to, I went to the after party it 1303 01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,840 Speaker 1: winners and losers, and I'm I don't have a single 1304 01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:52,520 Speaker 1: out yet I've just signed my deal and Brett Eldridge 1305 01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,760 Speaker 1: and Chris Young are standing there talking to each other, 1306 01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:56,440 Speaker 1: and I just think I'm hilarious, and I walk up 1307 01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,320 Speaker 1: to and I'm like, dudes, I'm Brett, so good to 1308 01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,120 Speaker 1: meet you. I had this idea we should all go 1309 01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:05,200 Speaker 1: on tour together and call it to Brett Young Tour. Like, 1310 01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,280 Speaker 1: to me, I'm Brett Young, you're Brett Elder, You're Chris Young, 1311 01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:09,040 Speaker 1: the bret to this sounds like a really funny joke. 1312 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,720 Speaker 1: They both looked straight through me like I was, and 1313 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,280 Speaker 1: I'm buddies with both of them now. I mean this 1314 01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,240 Speaker 1: is five years ago, but um, I got a lot 1315 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,680 Speaker 1: of Brett Eldridge tags on social media, and I also 1316 01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,680 Speaker 1: got a lot of private messages about people going, what 1317 01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,920 Speaker 1: was it like growing up with your brother Chris? I mean, 1318 01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:27,760 Speaker 1: me and Chris laugh about that all the time too, 1319 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,200 Speaker 1: because we're like, you just assumed and went straight to 1320 01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,640 Speaker 1: the like not are you brothers straight to the what 1321 01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,200 Speaker 1: was it like growing up together? And you guys that's 1322 01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:37,160 Speaker 1: a pretty common name too Young. Yeah, I mean it's yeah, 1323 01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:41,920 Speaker 1: but no, I think, um again, it's flattering even though 1324 01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:43,800 Speaker 1: people are just making a mistake. It's flattering to be 1325 01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:45,440 Speaker 1: confused with either of them, because they're two of my 1326 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,600 Speaker 1: favorite voices in our in our genre. Alright, instead of 1327 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,800 Speaker 1: a last mill, you offered a last song to listen 1328 01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:55,240 Speaker 1: to before it's all over. You get one song? What's 1329 01:02:55,280 --> 01:03:04,640 Speaker 1: your song? Man? That's a tough question, you know what. 1330 01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,440 Speaker 1: I sang this at my cousin's grandma's funeral, and I 1331 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,360 Speaker 1: was so close to her, um growing up. It was 1332 01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:14,040 Speaker 1: almost like another Grandma for me. Um. But if you 1333 01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,400 Speaker 1: got have you ever seen the movie they did on 1334 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:20,240 Speaker 1: Mercy me Um, it's called I can only imagine, Yeah, 1335 01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:23,040 Speaker 1: I can only imagine. I think that's one more time 1336 01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,040 Speaker 1: you're saying that at the wedding, yeah or no at 1337 01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,320 Speaker 1: her yeah? And and and uh that's so. I think 1338 01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,280 Speaker 1: that's the only time I've ever been so choked up 1339 01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,920 Speaker 1: that I was hard to get through. My eyes were 1340 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:38,040 Speaker 1: seeing when your face. Well, I bet that was tough 1341 01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:43,160 Speaker 1: to sing out a funeral, sitting next to her. Get 1342 01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,840 Speaker 1: to sing at a funeral, Yeah, but it was for family. 1343 01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,080 Speaker 1: I mean it was an that's tough. I mean fifteen 1344 01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:49,840 Speaker 1: people there, and I wasn't I'm obviously not going to 1345 01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:51,600 Speaker 1: say no to the family, all your friends hit you 1346 01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:53,960 Speaker 1: up to sing at weddings. Yeah, like, hey, I'm getting married, 1347 01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm doing this becau when you come sing Yeah yeah. 1348 01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:59,120 Speaker 1: In case you didn't know, it was kind of put 1349 01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,640 Speaker 1: that on. I played a little bit. Uh, but I 1350 01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,720 Speaker 1: love that. Like, what's cooler than having a song that 1351 01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,000 Speaker 1: people want to attach to the biggest, most important, special 1352 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,120 Speaker 1: day of their life. I mean, obviously we're busy. We 1353 01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,280 Speaker 1: I can't just go play everybody. I don't want to 1354 01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:18,000 Speaker 1: turn into a wedding singer. But but yeah, I think 1355 01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:21,560 Speaker 1: that's what I mean. That song every single summer has 1356 01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:25,240 Speaker 1: spiked again because its wedding season and people are people 1357 01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,920 Speaker 1: are using it again. So um yeah, we get that 1358 01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,600 Speaker 1: request a lot, and I've done it a handful of 1359 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:32,360 Speaker 1: times when I've been able to. But um, more than anything, 1360 01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,720 Speaker 1: it's just flattering that it's that song speaks to people 1361 01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:37,640 Speaker 1: so much that it's a part of their wedding day. 1362 01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:42,040 Speaker 1: Have you made any sink money yet commercials take a song? 1363 01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:45,880 Speaker 1: You know? That's a good question. I don't. I think 1364 01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:47,760 Speaker 1: that We've had a handful of offers for it that 1365 01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,120 Speaker 1: have been like pretty small, and we're kind of precious 1366 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,160 Speaker 1: about that. Song, So I don't. I don't think we've 1367 01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,840 Speaker 1: gone there quite yet. What's the most expensive thing you've 1368 01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:58,680 Speaker 1: ever held in your hands? You didn't say valuable, So 1369 01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:03,320 Speaker 1: you're talking about money? Yeah, expensive in your in your mind? 1370 01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,920 Speaker 1: What's the most expensive thing you're gonna wrap upon a 1371 01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,760 Speaker 1: few of these questions here? That's actually pretty hard. Um. 1372 01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:14,400 Speaker 1: I held a hundred and sixty thousand dollar watch one time. 1373 01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:20,680 Speaker 1: It was my buddy owned it. You have a friend 1374 01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:24,200 Speaker 1: that owns a hundred Yeah. It was like it was 1375 01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,520 Speaker 1: already an expensive wash and then it was custom done 1376 01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:30,040 Speaker 1: in the whole face was covered in diamonds. I'm beautiful. 1377 01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:32,560 Speaker 1: I would never feel comfortable walking around wearing it because 1378 01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,400 Speaker 1: I'd be looking over my shoulder the whole time. But 1379 01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:38,960 Speaker 1: I held it. What is your favorite quote? If you 1380 01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:41,800 Speaker 1: want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. It's 1381 01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,840 Speaker 1: a good one. If your life is a movie, at 1382 01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:52,800 Speaker 1: what point will the audience gasp most loudly? Ah, you 1383 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,640 Speaker 1: would have been baseball when I hurt myself up until 1384 01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,080 Speaker 1: life changed so much five years ago. I think when 1385 01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:01,600 Speaker 1: Taylor came back into my life, that's why I like, 1386 01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,680 Speaker 1: oh gasp, yeah, back like Jim and Pan Finally, I 1387 01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:10,760 Speaker 1: didn't see that happening. Your ideal sleeping conditions cold. Yeah, 1388 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,080 Speaker 1: me too. I hate to be hot. I'll sleep. How 1389 01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:19,320 Speaker 1: is she? How's our sleeping? She's luckily, she's always cold 1390 01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:23,920 Speaker 1: any other situation, but in bed she wants to be 1391 01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,479 Speaker 1: cold in bed at night. So it's like we fight 1392 01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,280 Speaker 1: over the A C. During the day in the house, 1393 01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:30,960 Speaker 1: but then the second we get in bed, we both 1394 01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:34,040 Speaker 1: wanted cold. So it's good. Sleeping is good. Listen, I'm 1395 01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,160 Speaker 1: glad you came Bay. We've done an hour. We've done 1396 01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,160 Speaker 1: an hour felt like ten minutes. It felt like five minutes. 1397 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,040 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Do you remember I think one 1398 01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,680 Speaker 1: of the first times I think we had met, maybe briefly, 1399 01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:47,840 Speaker 1: but I was doing a show in Boston. Yeah. I 1400 01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:51,280 Speaker 1: came in saying let's get it on. That's right. Yeah. 1401 01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:54,440 Speaker 1: I was what was the name of that venue with 1402 01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:56,560 Speaker 1: the Wilber the Wilber Hip, and I was staying at 1403 01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,240 Speaker 1: the w right next door. Yeah, I was on radio tour. 1404 01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:02,440 Speaker 1: You and Jimmy came over and I was like, dude, 1405 01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,600 Speaker 1: come out, and you came out and crushed it. That 1406 01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:07,560 Speaker 1: was fun. I was doing half comedy, half music, and yeah, 1407 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:09,160 Speaker 1: you came and annihilated it, and you were so much 1408 01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:10,560 Speaker 1: taller and to move my mic up and I was like, 1409 01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,560 Speaker 1: that's awesome, but I hate him, but it's awesome. That 1410 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:15,640 Speaker 1: was so fun, man, Yeah, it was. That was so 1411 01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:17,560 Speaker 1: early in my radio tour that not only Jimmy Hardin 1412 01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,560 Speaker 1: but also Matthew Hargis were both out with me. Like 1413 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,200 Speaker 1: they didn't send regionals. They came strang home for radio 1414 01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:25,760 Speaker 1: tour and we Yeah, that was a blast, man. That 1415 01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:27,880 Speaker 1: was That was That was probably five years ago. It's 1416 01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:30,360 Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, it's a while. We'll look at you. 1417 01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,760 Speaker 1: You got five number ones in a row, got you 1418 01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,280 Speaker 1: six on the way, got a baby coming, You're still tall? 1419 01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,240 Speaker 1: What else do you need? I hope I'm not shrinking yet. 1420 01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:43,040 Speaker 1: Holy yeah, unless I'm glad you came by. Man. I 1421 01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,120 Speaker 1: was looking forward to this. Always a pleasure. And your 1422 01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:47,400 Speaker 1: what is your Instagram? You don't have bright, bright young 1423 01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,040 Speaker 1: straight music. That's what I thought. I know it was 1424 01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,520 Speaker 1: something other than just Brett. There's a guy named Randall 1425 01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,800 Speaker 1: Young in California that has Brett Young on Instagram. You 1426 01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,240 Speaker 1: tried to buy it, Yeah, I tried. It doesn't respond. 1427 01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:01,120 Speaker 1: I've tried to buy Bobby Bones too, can't get it. 1428 01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,880 Speaker 1: It does mean use it just occasionally like we have it. 1429 01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,800 Speaker 1: Why does Randall Young have Brett Young? He has the 1430 01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,919 Speaker 1: website to Brett Young dot com. I have bretton music 1431 01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:12,040 Speaker 1: dot he has the website and the instagram. Randall Young, 1432 01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:16,160 Speaker 1: whoever you are, you're from my hometown. You don't use 1433 01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:17,600 Speaker 1: it and your name is not Brett. What are you 1434 01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,920 Speaker 1: doing and you've offered him cash for We've gone through 1435 01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,200 Speaker 1: go Daddy to try to reach out to him and 1436 01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:25,760 Speaker 1: we get no response. What has he used it for? 1437 01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,559 Speaker 1: It doesn't it's not even live. He's just squatting. If 1438 01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:30,960 Speaker 1: you go look right now, there's multiple Brett Youngs, but 1439 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:35,920 Speaker 1: the one that has the straight up it's not a thing. 1440 01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,920 Speaker 1: Looking right now, I know, Well there we go. It's nothing. Huh. 1441 01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:42,400 Speaker 1: If I can get this for you, you'll sing at 1442 01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:45,000 Speaker 1: my wedding. Okay, I'm not even I don't even have 1443 01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:46,639 Speaker 1: a girlfriend, so we're a long. I was gonna say, 1444 01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,439 Speaker 1: do I need to match make for you first? Or 1445 01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:53,200 Speaker 1: you don't have anybody? I'm a lost cause I was too, 1446 01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:55,280 Speaker 1: But look at me now, yeah, like you're tall though, 1447 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,439 Speaker 1: you know I'm a lost cause. Okay, when I get 1448 01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:00,639 Speaker 1: Brett Young dot com for you. That is a deal 1449 01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:02,679 Speaker 1: we have. You will sing at my wedding. You gotta 1450 01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:05,240 Speaker 1: get me the website and the Instagram. That's all. I'm 1451 01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:06,760 Speaker 1: not getting out one of them. So it's a easy 1452 01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,080 Speaker 1: deal to make. All right, there we go, Episode one, 1453 01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:16,160 Speaker 1: Brett Young. Thanks. Okay, Um, Brett left. We were doing 1454 01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:19,960 Speaker 1: a fact check on things from the podcast. So this 1455 01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,240 Speaker 1: is not part of Brett being here. This is me 1456 01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,200 Speaker 1: coming up after I walked right out the door. All right, 1457 01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:25,680 Speaker 1: Mike dear, what's the fact check? So the thing was 1458 01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,599 Speaker 1: about a con Okay, he actually does own a diamond 1459 01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,760 Speaker 1: mine in South Africa and a lighting company and he 1460 01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,439 Speaker 1: has like a net worth of eighty million. Wow, So 1461 01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,200 Speaker 1: Brett was right the an I had no idea about that. 1462 01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,479 Speaker 1: He had that, like right when he was getting into music, 1463 01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,200 Speaker 1: he bought a diamond mine. I do like the fact 1464 01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,080 Speaker 1: that we were doing a fact check segment into the 1465 01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:47,200 Speaker 1: podcast as well. Yeah, um, okay, anything else likes fact check. 1466 01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,720 Speaker 1: The other thing he mentioned Jake Owen, like paying a 1467 01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,160 Speaker 1: songwriter and that I was Jack. I found nothing on that, okay, 1468 01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,760 Speaker 1: So I don't think maybe he had somebody different in mind, 1469 01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,559 Speaker 1: or you know, something we don't know. It could be 1470 01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,120 Speaker 1: both okay, or we could just I'll be wrong sometimes 1471 01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,800 Speaker 1: when you're just talking with with no you know, we 1472 01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,160 Speaker 1: weren't prepped on that. He ignored me. We're just talking. 1473 01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:08,519 Speaker 1: That's a good thing about the podcast, but also, um, 1474 01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:10,120 Speaker 1: I'm wrong a lot of times because of that too. 1475 01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,840 Speaker 1: So okay, so we have nothing on that anything else. 1476 01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:14,880 Speaker 1: That was it? All right? Thank you everybody.