Speaker 1: What to do.
Speaker 2: You're off in God's Country.
Speaker 3: We read and Dan is Boy also.
Speaker 4: Known as the Brother or something where we take a
Speaker 4: weekly drive to the intersection of country music and the
Speaker 4: great outdoors, two things that go together, like Dan and
Speaker 4: candy crush or.
Speaker 3: A Chevy C ten and a two lane road in
Speaker 3: the country.
Speaker 2: I must talk on that Dandy Crush brought to you
Speaker 2: by a meat Eater.
Speaker 3: In I Heart Podcast, we had Chase Rice on good mustache. Dude, Dude,
Speaker 3: God's got the best mustache.
Speaker 2: Smelling like an artist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he smell good.
Speaker 4: He got a new record out Outdoorsman. He goes all
Speaker 4: over the country chasing big bull and big white tails.
Speaker 3: The song on the record about ducks about Arkansas on Christmas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. Y'all go check out his
Speaker 4: new record. He was fun to have on the couch.
Speaker 4: Hope y'all enjoyed this episode. Days for hanging out in
Speaker 4: God's Country. We're back music row been a minute, We've
Speaker 4: got a We've got an elk chasing, big deer, killing,
Speaker 4: duck hunting, mustaching.
Speaker 2: NASCAR tire changing, which I didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, before you said the NASCAR thing,
Speaker 1: I thought you were about to be interviewing Riley Vainy. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that dude's jacked.
Speaker 4: We got we got mister Chase Rice on the on
Speaker 4: the God's Country Couch this morning.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in, Thanks for thanks for hanging out
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 1: You smell good. I just showered same first time in
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 2: I didn't shower this morning.
Speaker 3: Showered last night, though I had to do this morning.
Speaker 4: I did spray along a shower in the morning, not
Speaker 4: every not every morning, man, I have to every every morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're an artist, though you have to, and you
Speaker 1: heard about it. You have to be a Something happened
Speaker 1: as I'm getting older where I'm like, if it's hot
Speaker 1: outside or muggy, I'm like, I'm not going out there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Oh, I shower every day. I go outside, Dude, I
Speaker 4: come in and and my clothes that I have on
Speaker 4: that I just went outside going to the dirty clothes bar,
Speaker 4: and I take a shower. I do shower every day.
Speaker 1: The thing is if I'm out there doing it, like
Speaker 1: you're talking about elk hunting and duck hunting, Like, if
Speaker 1: I'm doing that and living in that world. I'm fine,
Speaker 1: Like once I'm in it, Like I'm going horseback riding
Speaker 1: back country in Montana next week, which I'm pretty fired
Speaker 1: off about. But like when I'm out there, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna need to like go in the.
Speaker 3: Creek and some friends to go and co ride.
Speaker 1: I got invited by my buddy.
Speaker 2: Can an invite? Invite?
Speaker 3: Can you double invite?
Speaker 1: I think he'd be pissed. We'd all three be on
Speaker 1: one horse.
Speaker 3: I'm into that, a big old horse that was good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the big one, the walker cloud.
Speaker 1: I'd be one pissed off cloudsdale back. I'm good. But
Speaker 1: here if I'm like clean, I get from my truck
Speaker 1: into here, and I like, I need a shower in here.
Speaker 3: It's a great intro into a segment that we call.
Speaker 2: What Man, Just tell us what it is? What's you
Speaker 2: mad at?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: You ain't lost? Kids, might be your boss man on
Speaker 2: your neighburs cave, Just sweat man?
Speaker 3: What's mad at? Dude? I'm mad at the heat, bro.
Speaker 1: It's just two.
Speaker 3: Dang hot outside in Tennessee. Man, I am mad at dude.
Speaker 1: I'm so mad at the heat that I talked with
Speaker 1: Ivy about this a lot because she has an airstream too.
Speaker 1: I bought an airstream so I could live out west
Speaker 1: in the summer. I hate the heat that much that
Speaker 1: I go to Montana, Oregon with some shows out there
Speaker 1: in like two weeks and I just cruise around out there.
Speaker 1: So what what like?
Speaker 3: Now, what's the temperature in Montana?
Speaker 1: Oh, probably sixties, maybe fifties night. I mean it's probably
Speaker 1: a little warmer now. Last time I was there, it
Speaker 1: was doing in the daytime it's seventies, maybe hits eighty.
Speaker 1: But it's dry.
Speaker 3: Every time we go out there, we end up saying, like,
Speaker 3: what are we doing?
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 4: Every time we go out there, I'll come back and yeah,
Speaker 4: I like leave a piece of myself in Montana.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: It's it's the greatest place I've been in the States.
Speaker 1: Well, probably Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, b Yeah, that's place
Speaker 1: to live. Yeah, and we're here and I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Same music, dude, Nashville.
Speaker 2: It is suture music.
Speaker 1: This place is special. But I mean I was driving
Speaker 1: in and down to Mumbery in looking at tin roof
Speaker 1: and then like looking at the left side where the
Speaker 1: all the buildings are like, that's I'm allowed to say
Speaker 1: smoked weed. Yeah, yeah, sure, smoked reefer. I did the
Speaker 1: pot the pots. First time I ever did that was
Speaker 1: in that parking lot when it was gravel.
Speaker 2: You remember that, you make the big rock. Everybody would
Speaker 2: drive their trucks up.
Speaker 1: There's a motor home down there that lived there for them.
Speaker 1: It was like my ire stream, my icestream is still
Speaker 1: in Montana right now. Like that's how much I love
Speaker 1: it out there. But anyway, Nashville has changed so much.
Speaker 1: I don't but I don't remember hating the heat like
Speaker 1: this when I was a kid. Maybe no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, just becoming a panting.
Speaker 3: And I remember being hot, but I don't remember like
Speaker 3: getting out of the truck and being like.
Speaker 1: Oh god, I hate my life.
Speaker 3: This is so hot, Like everything's done, everything's done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, on top of the heat, on top of the heat.
Speaker 4: There ain't been no rain in like six years.
Speaker 1: Like mad at the heat, bro I had. That's a
Speaker 1: good place to be though, when you're like, I'm so
Speaker 1: mad at the heat that I'm gonna go live somewhere
Speaker 1: else for a little while.
Speaker 2: If you're the if you're only mad at like is
Speaker 2: that the only thing you're med at.
Speaker 3: But I mean I'm mad at manything.
Speaker 1: I can go on.
Speaker 3: But it's your turn. What are you mad at?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Well you I was gonna I was gonna go the
Speaker 4: heat because my other one was kind of petty.
Speaker 3: Okay, but bro.
Speaker 4: Dan plays Candy Crush all the time. Now he's obsessed
Speaker 4: with this game. And we were at the lake. Bro
Speaker 4: I'm throwing him under the bus. We were at the
Speaker 4: lake and he played it all week long on family vacate.
Speaker 3: First off, it's a thousand degrees all right, could.
Speaker 1: You go on a boat in the water.
Speaker 2: Well, he was playing it on the boat.
Speaker 1: Dude, don't say you were sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm screaming. Sorry, sorry, there was one level I was
Speaker 3: trying to give.
Speaker 4: Look, this is why I don't I'm mad at phone.
Speaker 4: I'm mad at games on phones.
Speaker 3: We flew my wife and I took a vacation and
Speaker 3: there was no internet on the flight, and it was
Speaker 3: a long flight. She had she was like here, freaking
Speaker 3: quit talking this, and so she handed me her She's
Speaker 3: like a kid like she pa playing it, playing this man,
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. And then she took
Speaker 3: her phone back and I was like, I couldn't download
Speaker 3: it right, So second hit ground, I'm like, download the thing.
Speaker 4: Well the game is really you went on vacation on Cabo.
Speaker 4: You downloaded and played it all in Cabo. Yes, that's
Speaker 4: exactly what happened. Guarantee that you was dude.
Speaker 2: This morning. We were sitting there waiting, we were waiting on.
Speaker 4: You to get here, and I was like, hey, I
Speaker 4: was like, he was playing a little Diddy and I
Speaker 4: was like, what song is that?
Speaker 2: It's like Bessic Park.
Speaker 1: It is wrong.
Speaker 2: We were all wrong. He was playing home alone.
Speaker 1: He said, he's at home alone.
Speaker 2: He's like, what is it from?
Speaker 4: He's like, I was like a movie and he's like
Speaker 4: he was like this. He was like I came and
Speaker 4: I was like, what movie? He was, How's I playing?
Speaker 1: Goes, I'm gonna get dizzy bouncing my head back and
Speaker 1: forth between you two.
Speaker 4: Sorryes, No, that's uh Star Wars right, We're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: but no it is.
Speaker 1: I just bought a Jurassic Park T shirt at a
Speaker 1: thrift store and somewhere in Wisconsin. Yeah, it was sick.
Speaker 1: You still have that square body I do, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna need to look at what I grove here today. Okay,
Speaker 1: I made a mistake. I got drunk at Bear Jackson.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: It's nice. What is it? Well, Austin Neal, he's my agent.
Speaker 1: He's also been one of my friends forever. We went
Speaker 1: to Barrett Jackson and it's like, where do you go
Speaker 1: to that?
Speaker 3: Where's that that?
Speaker 1: The one we went to was in Arizona other day,
Speaker 1: but we went to Bart Jackson.
Speaker 2: Bart Jackson is the big car.
Speaker 1: But my dad all used to watch it on TV.
Speaker 1: So we watched the Barret Jackson every day. It was
Speaker 1: Jackson and Andy Griffith Yau.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because we used to watch it all the
Speaker 3: time too.
Speaker 2: But no, it's on.
Speaker 4: It's on the car channel, whatever the car channel is,
Speaker 4: it's on. I was in a co ride the other
Speaker 4: day and they had it on the TV. I above
Speaker 4: wouldn't be worth I'm not a big fan of co
Speaker 4: writes that have a TV on, saying.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, So if you're listening, don't turn a TV
Speaker 4: on while we're trying to co write Bart Jackson.
Speaker 1: We see this truck. It's a Chevy C thirty but
Speaker 1: it has some new bunch of new stuff going on.
Speaker 1: So I start reading all the stuff about it. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: this thing just looks sick, like, man, okay, I might
Speaker 1: I might do like forty or fifty on something. And
Speaker 1: it just gets if it's the right feeling. Plus my
Speaker 1: dad used to watch it my first Barrett Jackson, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'd make him proud, buy a cart Jackson. And uh
Speaker 1: and the next day you're like, I might do seventy five,
Speaker 1: might do seventy five. The next day you're like, I
Speaker 1: might do two fifty. So it's still I might buy
Speaker 1: something for a million. It's crazy that that's exaggerating, but
Speaker 1: for a lot of people wouldn't be for me, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's crazy how your mind shifts in two days
Speaker 1: at that thing you're just watching. They got it. They
Speaker 1: got to know that too. Oh they're they're not dumb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And but this thing rolls, rolls on the block and
Speaker 1: and I just panicked in tequila. And so how.
Speaker 3: Do you bet at a Barrett jack Like, I mean,
Speaker 3: not bet, but how do you bid?
Speaker 1: So you just like you have your number, it's you're
Speaker 1: wearing it like a little lanyard. And uh, they're going
Speaker 1: we were on stage because we wanted to see it
Speaker 1: up close again and we just wanted to be in
Speaker 1: the heat of it, and a lot of the other
Speaker 1: guy was like in row six over here, and I'm
Speaker 1: just looking and like stop please, Like, yeah, it's getting
Speaker 1: close to where my limit was, and which was already
Speaker 1: way past what my original limit was and.
Speaker 2: Alcohol limit.
Speaker 1: Made my other limit way out courage. But we're on
Speaker 1: the stage and they're like going back and forth and
Speaker 1: my buddy looks at me. He's like, you're gonna get destructed.
Speaker 1: And it's the most nervous I think I've ever been
Speaker 1: in my life. And finally I get it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, Yeah, what did I just do? I'm like
Speaker 1: thinking about what I'm gonna tell business management the next day.
Speaker 1: We're on this thing. We're trying to save money, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: And then I just did that.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah sometimes sometimes, but yes, I do have the
Speaker 4: square bot. Sometimes you just gotta do stuff and ask
Speaker 4: for forgiveness later.
Speaker 2: Man's part of life.
Speaker 1: What's my money? Absolutely get over?
Speaker 2: Is that? Is that how those things go? Download?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Did they Is it like it's a three day thing?
Speaker 2: Like is it like a weekend?
Speaker 1: Thing. That was three days, maybe four, but it's three
Speaker 1: or four days.
Speaker 2: So do they wait and put like the ones at
Speaker 2: the end?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were, And that was Saturday night, two hours
Speaker 1: after the Prime cars went like I don't know what
Speaker 1: the most expensive one for a few million at least
Speaker 1: and uh for vehicle. We got lucky that it was
Speaker 1: a couple hours after that because the guy runs up
Speaker 1: to me, I'm like, man, I had two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty grand in that truck. You just got a deal.
Speaker 1: It's everyday driver. It's the only truck that when I'm
Speaker 1: driving down my driveway, which is gravel, I'm like going
Speaker 1: like two miles, No rocks are popping off. It's tough
Speaker 1: to drive. It's the only car that I've ever had
Speaker 1: that I'm like very careful.
Speaker 3: With one of the the hood.
Speaker 1: It's got a big Dermax diesel they dropped in. It's
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen chassis GMC chassis, but they dropped a seventy
Speaker 1: two C thirty on top of it with a new
Speaker 1: Dermax diesel and it's got six hundred.
Speaker 3: Miles on so dude, it I mean, it's got ac
Speaker 3: brought like good breaks and the whole time I.
Speaker 1: Wasn't hot today coming in. It's like that, so my
Speaker 1: kop because the AC goes out every every summer. Last
Speaker 1: time I saw you in that truck, your AC, it's
Speaker 1: every summer it goes out. I'm like, guys, fix this thing.
Speaker 4: Where when we pulled up and we were eating like Panda.
Speaker 3: Awesome and then you hopped out, I was like freaking Chase.
Speaker 4: I yeah, it was like Panda, like like an ice
Speaker 4: cream shop or something.
Speaker 3: Right there in Franklin, Like, yeah, as you're headed out
Speaker 3: to your Panda.
Speaker 4: So gass when when we like when Jordan's like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm just gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm not really hungry. You just figured dinner.
Speaker 4: Out for yourself. Peytonville, Bro, I'll go to Panda that
Speaker 4: that one. No, I just go over the one in
Speaker 4: spring Hill. I'll smash three entree two sides too low Maine,
Speaker 4: I get too low made to I go hard on Panda,
Speaker 4: too Low Maine. Two honey chicken and uh and uh
Speaker 4: the honey wannut shrimp, orange orange two orange chicken, honey
Speaker 4: wannuts shrimp. And then if I'm feeling myself, I'll do
Speaker 4: a cheese ragrand the crab cheese.
Speaker 2: Rag.
Speaker 1: Dude, I don't know what that is, but the orange
Speaker 1: chicken is fire a fire.
Speaker 3: That was a little dumpling looking yet real star buys.
Speaker 2: So was your dad a like your upbringing? Was your
Speaker 2: dad like a car guy?
Speaker 1: Was he? Really? He raced Rolex or now it's called
Speaker 1: the Rolics twenty four hour now, but it was just
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour Daytona back then. He raced it
Speaker 1: and I think sixty eight, sixty nine or sixty nine,
Speaker 1: seventy or maybe seventy one, so somewhere on that's all.
Speaker 1: And he won his class, which was the lower class,
Speaker 1: but he won that, and he always wanted we were
Speaker 1: just talking about this Daytona. He always wanted a Daytona
Speaker 1: because of that. I remember, like vacation eighth grade. That
Speaker 1: was back when you could buy him, like sure in
Speaker 1: the shops. He had a Daytona and I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: That was my first realization of what a rollers Daytona was.
Speaker 1: Explains me, Man, I just always wanted one of these
Speaker 1: ever since we wanted Daytona and out sponsored by Rolex,
Speaker 1: and Paul Newman had one. He helped Paul Newman work
Speaker 1: on his cars and start yeah, I got pictures of
Speaker 1: my dad and Paul Newman Davis. Well, but does he
Speaker 1: have the watch? He sure he does, that's all he wore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can see it in the picture.
Speaker 1: I'll pull it up in a minute. But that's and
Speaker 1: then my manager knew that story, so he ended up
Speaker 1: buying me this, which we were talking about a minute ago.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, But yeah, he was he raced super sharp.
Speaker 3: So did you actually race or were you just.
Speaker 1: Kind of like in the thing in Nascar? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I was a pit crew guy, gotcha. So I was
Speaker 1: the guys they brought a They started bringing in some
Speaker 1: ex football, college athletes, whatever sport it was to the
Speaker 1: pit cruise a couple of years.
Speaker 3: For me, well you won't say it, but that's what
Speaker 3: they were trying to athletes.
Speaker 1: Fast pissed off. Yeah, And so the Hendrick Motorsports brought
Speaker 1: in like nine or eleven guys, I can't remember what
Speaker 1: it was to be the first guys to see if
Speaker 1: we could do a whole pit team, just a training program.
Speaker 1: So we did that. Within like six months, two of
Speaker 1: our guys were up on the Cup teams, like Jeff
Speaker 1: and then Junior I think.
Speaker 4: Cup team, Dude, I don't know nothing. I've watched one
Speaker 4: race in my life. Cup is like the big series.
Speaker 1: That's that's Jeff the press. So we got up pretty fast.
Speaker 1: I never actually ended up going over the wall for
Speaker 1: Jimmy or Jeff or Mark Martin or Junior. Being the
Speaker 1: guy on race day, I was jump. Then we got
Speaker 1: a nationwide truck all that I was doing that, and
Speaker 1: then I ended up leaving to go do Survivor right
Speaker 1: around that time where I was becoming the guy to
Speaker 1: and I wasn't committed to it, like I I was miserable,
Speaker 1: to be honest. We were making seventeen grand a year
Speaker 1: living in an hotel and I was writing songs all
Speaker 1: the time in the hotel, and my roommate hated me.
Speaker 1: He ended up being Dale Junior's jackman forever. We're good now.
Speaker 1: He played football in Nebraska. He hated me because I
Speaker 1: would just go home and write songs every day in
Speaker 1: the hotel and He's like, shut put the guitar and uh.
Speaker 1: But that was when I was like, I have the
Speaker 1: sickest job in the world. My dad raced he would
Speaker 1: kill me if I ever gave this job up, because
Speaker 1: it was I was gonna go end up on one
Speaker 1: of the Cup teams, and I had Survivor pop up.
Speaker 1: Was like, it's a good opportunity to make a little money,
Speaker 1: maybe a million bucks, and then maybe come back and
Speaker 1: like move to Nashville. That's actually exactly what happened.
Speaker 3: Ye had your dad passed before you did Survivor?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did right before that. I did Survivoring ten.
Speaker 1: He died like two years before that. So I was
Speaker 1: miserable life.
Speaker 3: Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: I just lost football. I just lost my dad. I
Speaker 1: was writing songs trying to like it was weird because
Speaker 1: I didn't party in college. I was like the guy
Speaker 1: that was like Fellowship of Christian Athletes live, had my
Speaker 1: life together. He died, lost everything, and then it was
Speaker 1: like moved here and I partied. Yeah I partied.
Speaker 3: I remember you've been that guy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was getting after it. Now. It's like
Speaker 1: it's weird because passing tender if I was talking about earlier.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like a conscious decision to stop going out
Speaker 1: so much. It just friends changed. We started golfing more,
Speaker 1: and it was like I remember here about guys like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go golf today and I'm like, no golf,
Speaker 1: Let's go downtown on rooftop bars. And now I'm the
Speaker 1: the other guy.
Speaker 3: Same, which is awesome. I love i'm the other guy too,
Speaker 3: for sure. I enjoy being the other guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We never.
Speaker 3: We never went mega hard honestly as far as in
Speaker 3: the in the drinking lane, but we Yeah, I'd rather.
Speaker 3: I'd rather you can't get up early if you're drunking
Speaker 3: out before. No great segue into you actually say that
Speaker 3: on your on the tune uh the hunt on Christmas Arkansas, Arkansas, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I listened to that this morning. I was like, this
Speaker 3: guy has duck hunted in Arkansas.
Speaker 2: You can tell I was saying about that too.
Speaker 4: I've never heard like an ode to duck hunting like that,
Speaker 4: Like I like, there there might be songs out there,
Speaker 4: but like a song to the duck state, you know,
Speaker 4: like I never, I never, I've never heard of songs,
Speaker 4: and I've never experienced it until this past year. And
Speaker 4: and like I've been duck hunting a little bit here
Speaker 4: and there, but like, dude, I ain't been Arkansas duck
Speaker 4: hunt until this year. And it is a it deserves
Speaker 4: its own duck hunting song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it is? It is that good?
Speaker 1: Well it's funny because like I didn't actually duck hunt
Speaker 1: growing up. I was el deer dove stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Turkey's you come of when you were little?
Speaker 1: Uh well no, that didn't start probably till I was thirty.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so eight years ago. Deer was my main
Speaker 1: deal in deer in Turkey. But then I got Jack,
Speaker 1: my black lab, and I was like, I know, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to dive head first into duck hunting unless
Speaker 1: to get a dog. I'd rather work the dog than
Speaker 1: kill ducks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that'll get you there. That'll make you like
Speaker 4: I've got a chocolate lab and he don't duck hunt.
Speaker 4: He'd be a hell of a duck dog. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: he's a hell of a frisbee dog. Now, well, yeah,
Speaker 4: you just gotta yeah go. But I can see how
Speaker 4: if if you're like, man, I want to go duck hunting,
Speaker 4: the way to dive in is to get a dog
Speaker 4: and train in a duck hunt, and then just to
Speaker 4: want to watch the dog.
Speaker 1: Work, you won't be out there. That got me more
Speaker 1: into it, like calling and stuff. You don't want me
Speaker 1: to call shooting? I get we're working the Dogs is
Speaker 1: where it's at for me. But that all start with
Speaker 1: a song on my last record called Oklahoma. I never
Speaker 1: write it, wanted to write a hunting song. I just
Speaker 1: think unless you do it right, they're cheesy.
Speaker 3: Agreed, Yeah, I agree, I very much agree. But now
Speaker 3: even if you do it right, sometimes you're still.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma started because of a duck hunting trip. I literally
Speaker 1: couldn't leave. Like Cody Cannon from Whiskey Meyer showed up,
Speaker 1: Dan Henderson the Fighter showed up, and I was like,
Speaker 1: going to see a girl in Texas. She was getting
Speaker 1: a little wishy washy on me on for New Year's
Speaker 1: like three years ago. I was like, all right, well
Speaker 1: she don't want to hang out with me, I'll just
Speaker 1: hang out with the coolest guys ever and keep killing ducks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I wrote Oklahoma. And then we just kept
Speaker 1: hunting Arkansas all that stuff. So it's like JD is
Speaker 1: actually the guy that owns a place I go in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: It's called Falco, and he's the guy talking in the intro.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Arkansas. Yeah, I couldn't tell.
Speaker 3: I was like, it doesn't sound like you, but it
Speaker 3: was a good I could tell.
Speaker 1: It was a good JD and he lives in Arkansas,
Speaker 1: but he works in Oklahoma during duck season. And that's
Speaker 1: how that all happened. It's like, I'm not overthinking it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's like we wrote as song called Arkansas, let's put
Speaker 1: it on the record.
Speaker 3: And a song called Tennessee. You're just naming states.
Speaker 1: Tennessee, Carolina, can Oklahoma. I have a song called Virginia
Speaker 1: that I'll probably never put out.
Speaker 2: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 1: Every every album is gonna have a state song day. Eventually,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be able to sell out places in all
Speaker 1: those states.
Speaker 3: I remember, next time your album Socer comes around, I'll
Speaker 3: just look at the states you've mentioned and like, all right.
Speaker 4: Mississippi got this idea chucky home.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed the uh and we're bouncing around here. I
Speaker 3: think this is this is mega loose. So if there's
Speaker 3: something you want to stick to, let me know. Otherwise
Speaker 3: we're just gonna keep doing this.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I enjoyed.
Speaker 3: How to explain this, I hadn't really thought it out yet,
Speaker 3: but kind of the organicness of the record it was
Speaker 3: it was very like acoustic driven and uh even vocal
Speaker 3: driven uh, and I thought, I feel like that's kind
Speaker 3: of a change for you, like to to really lock into.
Speaker 3: It was almost like an Appalachic kind of feel at times.
Speaker 3: There was some bluegrass mixed in things, kind of influences.
Speaker 3: There was fiddle on stuff, and I mean this time
Speaker 3: where you just like, man, I'm gonna do what I
Speaker 3: want to do.
Speaker 1: We did that on the last one. That was the
Speaker 1: start of it was like dipping her toes and not
Speaker 1: really dipping her toes, like we kind of dove in
Speaker 1: head first with Oscar. Speaking of writing and stuff, like
Speaker 1: when we used to try to write, Yeah, like you
Speaker 1: knew I always wanted to write real stuff. I was
Speaker 1: just so locked into the poppy or you couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. Well you you couldn't. I did it,
Speaker 1: but I never put the stuff out.
Speaker 4: You made so much money off Florid, off cruise, why
Speaker 4: would you ever try to do anything?
Speaker 1: That cruise sucked me into that world, which is fine.
Speaker 1: Like I look at my twenty eight year old Steff,
Speaker 1: I'm like, why wouldn't Yeah, of course I didn't know
Speaker 1: what I was doing. But now it's like this one.
Speaker 1: We wrote all the songs, no tracks, Everything was on guitar,
Speaker 1: and then I played a bunch of stuff for I
Speaker 1: worked for or worked with Joyce for a couple of songs.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to do the full record, and we
Speaker 1: had a cool conversation about it. Was just really honest,
Speaker 1: It's like, cool, Well, I want one person to do
Speaker 1: an album. I've never had that. And we'd already talked
Speaker 1: with Oscar. So Oscar was sitting in my living room.
Speaker 1: We never met before. He's a killer dude. He's un
Speaker 1: the label and he says, where do you want to
Speaker 1: do this thing? And I was like, man, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to do a Nasville studio. I don't like
Speaker 1: the vibe. I want to do something different. And he
Speaker 1: just spun around his chair and looked up in my
Speaker 1: living room. He's like, what's wrong with this? And that's
Speaker 1: when I knew, like he gets exactly what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do. Cool, and so we started it. Well. We
Speaker 1: realized on the last record was everything was too big,
Speaker 1: and then most of the songs would be like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take it back to a guitar and the band
Speaker 1: follow that acoustic guitar, and that's how we kind of
Speaker 1: figured out our formula for that one. Next, this last
Speaker 1: next record we did at Oscar Studio at his house.
Speaker 1: It's still a house vibes, So it was cool, same thing.
Speaker 1: We already knew it, like I'm gonna play this in guitar,
Speaker 1: you guys just start playing on and see what happens.
Speaker 3: Beautiful.
Speaker 1: So that's how sounds and that's how they were written,
Speaker 1: So why would we not keep it?
Speaker 3: That for sure?
Speaker 4: I love what like like watching artists who are in
Speaker 4: tune with what they're doing. And you can tell it
Speaker 4: by watching the progression of records, like you talk about
Speaker 4: it in your bio when like at twenty two, you
Speaker 4: you think you're you're trying to do this because that's
Speaker 4: the stage of life you're in when you're twenty five
Speaker 4: the next record, but now you're what thirty eight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean thirty yeah, we're.
Speaker 1: All thirty man, We're all thirty in here. Man.
Speaker 4: Man, you can you you can tell, like, and that's
Speaker 4: that's the cool thing about it, is like you can
Speaker 4: you can see the maturity through all of that, and
Speaker 4: and and and when you talk about like becoming the
Speaker 4: man you are now that your dad always wanted you
Speaker 4: to be, you.
Speaker 2: Can hear that?
Speaker 4: And dude, and my my favorite song off the thing
Speaker 4: is You eighty five. And I listened to it last Dude,
Speaker 4: that's a great song, man, And that's that's a real
Speaker 4: song for for dudes who who have that that relationship
Speaker 4: with their dad like that, who who their dad's their
Speaker 4: best friend and and and I'm the same way man,
Speaker 4: like I We were at my parents' house the other
Speaker 4: day and she my mom had this like old TV
Speaker 4: sitting on a stand with the VCR under it, and
Speaker 4: she was playing old tapes and we were I was
Speaker 4: looking at my dad when he was thirty five thirty six,
Speaker 4: which I'm thirty six now and and me and my
Speaker 4: little sister jumping off the dock the lake, and and
Speaker 4: I was like, dang, dude, I'm him now, like like
Speaker 4: that's I'm I'm I'm a spitting image of him. I'm
Speaker 4: cut from the same cloth, man. And And to hear
Speaker 4: that come out in You in eighty five was it
Speaker 4: was a pretty cool moment to listen to and and
Speaker 4: to hear that, And it's very well written in a
Speaker 4: great picture of what what you're feeling in that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was Laurie's idea Laurie like we'd never written
Speaker 1: together before. We end up writing for so all four
Speaker 1: of them are on the record, You and eighty five.
Speaker 1: It was the first song we wrote that second day.
Speaker 1: She's like, I had this idea like what would it
Speaker 1: look like if you were with him back then or
Speaker 1: he was with you now? So he wrote it didn't
Speaker 1: really affect me that much. I was like, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: really cool. Definitely cutting that. And then I got in
Speaker 1: the studio and I tried to sing the vocal and
Speaker 1: I fell apart. Yeah, I just fell apart completely. And
Speaker 1: because I was thinking of it as a sad way sure,
Speaker 1: because I never got to have a beer with my dad,
Speaker 1: I never got to hang out with him as a
Speaker 1: man and man. And then Oscar came in and like,
Speaker 1: that's how close him and I are, Like he understands
Speaker 1: my life, he doesn't just understand me as a singer.
Speaker 1: And he came in and was like, dude, it's a
Speaker 1: celebration song, Like what would that look like if you
Speaker 1: were sitting there with your pops back then or now?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, and you got to have that drink together.
Speaker 1: And it's not even about a drink, it's about just
Speaker 1: a man and man conversation, and so that changed my
Speaker 1: whole mindset on the song. It's actually changed my whole
Speaker 1: mindset on my life my dad, Like I don't think
Speaker 1: about it like it's sad anymore. I think about it
Speaker 1: like I got twenty two years with him. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm at the point now where we're getting to the
Speaker 1: age where sucks to say, but dads are gonna die. Oh,
Speaker 1: parents are going to die. And I'd be there now anyway,
Speaker 1: like it would happen at some point. It just happened
Speaker 1: to me when I was younger. But now I have
Speaker 1: a whole new perspective on what my relationship was with them,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot because of that song.
Speaker 4: Wow, it feels like a life changing urn when you
Speaker 4: can look at it as like like man, I lost
Speaker 4: my dad, instead instead of looking at it like that,
Speaker 4: you're like, man, I got twenty two I got a
Speaker 4: bunch of time with my dad I did, and great
Speaker 4: memories that are gonna last a lifetime, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that feels like a very like a maturation process
Speaker 4: into that feeling.
Speaker 1: For sure, And that song was a big part of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's cool.
Speaker 2: Isn't that cool? Songs Canna do that.
Speaker 3: Go Down saying got me dude, it's a great one.
Speaker 3: I love that one man. When it that was the
Speaker 3: first song that played, and I was like.
Speaker 1: Well, that's funny. You said you listened eighty five last.
Speaker 1: That's the last song on the album. Go Down and
Speaker 1: Sing is the first time album. It's the first one.
Speaker 3: Listen man, it's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I saw that title, I was like, damn Lake Pentagrass.
Speaker 1: We were in willmentto North Carolina, di to write and
Speaker 1: retreat and that was I'll never do on there again
Speaker 1: because I know so many people and I love Jimmy
Speaker 1: so much. There's a bar like it was a hard
Speaker 1: writing retreat, but we got haul River and Go Down
Speaker 1: singing out of it, and we shut down. Jimmy shut
Speaker 1: down the pirates side of Neptunes, which is a local restaurant.
Speaker 1: The other side of it there's a pirate bar and
Speaker 1: he shut it down. The lighting, mood, the mood, lighting
Speaker 1: was awesome in there. We had a videographer and a
Speaker 1: photographer in there, and we wrote the thing in like
Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes. We had the idea already and I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, that is perfect. And then while we
Speaker 1: were in we were I don't think we're recording it
Speaker 1: on that session. And then that week during the in
Speaker 1: the studio, I had bad Davy bid Colebeer pulled from radio,
Speaker 1: which to me was like, this is the only one
Speaker 1: that's going to be able to play radio. You can't
Speaker 1: if this dies at forty seven, which it did, You're
Speaker 1: not getting anything else. I got nothing for you. Talking
Speaker 1: to the label, they we didn't get any votes for
Speaker 1: anything on Cmas maybe, which isn't really shocking, but it's
Speaker 1: like bench sheet maybe. I don't know, but didn't get
Speaker 1: anything there. I mean, then they didn't approve the budget
Speaker 1: for the album. I think later that week they ended
Speaker 1: up approving it. But it's like, is that where you
Speaker 1: were for an album that I'm already in the studio recording, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hear you guys tell me no, I'll
Speaker 1: pay for it. Yeah, you guys want another song off
Speaker 1: this last last record. And I'm not bashing the label.
Speaker 1: This is just a disagreement we had, and disagreement we had,
Speaker 1: and our breakup was awesome. Like I saw Lob in
Speaker 1: Australia and it's like, what's up, buddy. Yeah, So the
Speaker 1: relationship with the label was great, with the exception of
Speaker 1: that one week was just everything hit the fan and
Speaker 1: I looked at Oscar I was like, we're just going
Speaker 1: I was singing, Yeah, we have to sign a couple
Speaker 1: sheets of paper, and finally, uh, it says sign it.
Speaker 1: Signed a couple more, a couple of sheets of paper.
Speaker 1: Finally thought I'd won Sony Broken Bow. Turns out I'd
Speaker 1: sign a couple more and tell them I was done
Speaker 1: Sony Broken Bow and I'm not bashing something so easy.
Speaker 1: Signed one sheet of paper for each deal to get
Speaker 1: out of them, and I'm free. Now. Well, let's and
Speaker 1: I never felt locked up at Broken Bowl or Sony.
Speaker 1: I was doing what I wanted to all be clear
Speaker 1: about that, and they were letting me. I just don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm a label artists, Yeah, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, let's be honest, the landscape of what
Speaker 3: a label is has changed so much. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: changed so much in two years. But if you look
Speaker 3: in ten years, which we were, we've all kind of
Speaker 3: been here for that long, you know, longer than that,
Speaker 3: But it's.
Speaker 2: Changed as much as them buildings going up on.
Speaker 3: It is a different deal man, and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I always think about it if I'm the label, like
Speaker 3: and Jordan's part of the label too, so I had
Speaker 3: to be careful. But it's like, you know, man, it's
Speaker 3: like what I mean, I get where they're coming from
Speaker 3: as far as like wanting to win and wanting to
Speaker 3: make the most in the world.
Speaker 1: I don't fit what Broma needs, what you need, So
Speaker 1: why are we doing this? And we got out of
Speaker 1: the deal, which changed my whole mindset on this album
Speaker 1: that's coming out. Go Down Singing was just going to
Speaker 1: be a song. It wasn't even gonna be a song
Speaker 1: on the deluxe version. I hate cowboys, which is what
Speaker 1: this whole thing was gonna be. What was God, would
Speaker 1: you say it was called Go Down Singing?
Speaker 3: No, you said, you say cowboys?
Speaker 1: I hate cowboys, and I was go to Hell. That's
Speaker 1: the name of the last record.
Speaker 2: So this is going to be a deluxe for that.
Speaker 1: It was going to be a deluxe interesting and then
Speaker 1: when we added Go Down Singing. I looked at Oscar
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, I'm done. I'm getting out of
Speaker 1: this deal. I've decided that right now, let's make a
Speaker 1: whole new album, so we ended up booking more days.
Speaker 1: We recorded Go Down Singing, the last song of the
Speaker 1: first group of songs. I think we did seven songs
Speaker 1: that day or that two days. And that's when I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, let's do a whole other album. And
Speaker 1: this is all with the freedom of not having a
Speaker 1: label to tell you what to do. Let's do a
Speaker 1: whole other album, Go Down Singings. Let's call it Go
Speaker 1: Down Singing because that's now the whole mindset that I've got.
Speaker 1: And then let's do a speaking of songwriters, like they
Speaker 1: don't get credit that unless you're on radio, they're not
Speaker 1: getting money. And then let's do the I Hate Cowboys
Speaker 1: record and the Go Down Singing record all together, because
Speaker 1: they're very similar, and let's do them all acoustic. That'll
Speaker 1: be the third record, and let's feature the songwriters. So
Speaker 1: that we just did that the last three days, and
Speaker 1: that's what it's gonna be. I Hate Cowboys is out,
Speaker 1: Go Down Singings out two separate albums. Then we're gonna
Speaker 1: mass them together, all acoustic, featuring the songwriters, and then
Speaker 1: I'm done with this phase of what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Permanently I do that.
Speaker 1: I might disapprove. Bro We'll come out there.
Speaker 3: We will come out there due this book us a
Speaker 3: week during out season.
Speaker 1: Well, we wrote a lot of the I Hate Cowboys
Speaker 1: record in Montana. We're gonna write a lot of the
Speaker 1: next album in Colorado, which I haven't. I'm playing Red
Speaker 1: Rocks August thirty first, the first of the fifth. I'm
Speaker 1: standing out there and doing a writing retreat. And like
Speaker 1: I said, the way I'm writing songs now. The thing
Speaker 1: about it is a lot of credit to these songwriters
Speaker 1: are on these albums, especially moving forward, because they're not
Speaker 1: writing it with the mindset of we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: radio hit with men. I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have anymore. Yes, if I do, that's cool, Sure love it.
Speaker 1: But I'm not chasing it. If it happens, it happens.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at these writers in the rooms and
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, you know what this is. We're just
Speaker 1: I do I want songwriters to write with me because
Speaker 1: they know they're going to be on a great album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not be and we're gonna write great songs. Not because
Speaker 1: it's we're chasing the radio.
Speaker 3: Well thanks for doing that. I mean just because honestly speaking,
Speaker 3: four songwriters. I hope and wish more songs, more artists
Speaker 3: do that. And I don't mean to sound like a
Speaker 3: like a like I'm trying to grab just catch a
Speaker 3: couple of crumbs from the table of chase rise up there.
Speaker 3: But like, as a writer, you know, we need y'all
Speaker 3: as much as y'all need us. And you're a real
Speaker 3: life songwriter, so it's not a it's not like you're
Speaker 3: just this one guy that cuts outside songs. I'm saying,
Speaker 3: we need each other, you know, and and uh, I
Speaker 3: appreciate you, uh taking taking up the fight for us
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough battle because, like you said, you
Speaker 1: guys want hits, but if you're writing with me, that's
Speaker 1: probably not the first that's not the first thing that's
Speaker 1: gonna be on anybody's mind. It's gonna be let's write
Speaker 1: a great song. And that's why I love writing with
Speaker 1: the guys and girls that I wrote with on the
Speaker 1: last record. It's just like, man, we didn't talk about radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wanted to write a song.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's going away a little bit, you
Speaker 3: know what, I mean to see where it is in
Speaker 3: five years to see what.
Speaker 1: I think, it's just shifting into something else. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, so many
Speaker 1: people have access to great music. They just want great music.
Speaker 3: Right, So what do you feel like is the answer
Speaker 3: to I said, we took me and Ree talking about
Speaker 3: this a pretty good bit, Like we've been lucky enough
Speaker 3: to kind of be on the other side of it,
Speaker 3: you know, have relationship with certain artists and be able
Speaker 3: to write songs with those artists. What do you think
Speaker 3: the answer? And this is a mega heavy loaded question
Speaker 3: for like dudes like we were now that show up
Speaker 3: to town with a pocket full of songs and try
Speaker 3: to get a deal. Is it possible?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: I don't I honestly don't know if it's possible to
Speaker 3: come and do that because Rent so dang huh, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know what an answer is, but I
Speaker 1: know what I would do, and I would I would
Speaker 1: do exactly what I'm doing right now. I wouldn't chase radio.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't chase a label deal.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't chase a label deal. They're gonna come to
Speaker 1: you if it's good enough, and then you're gonna have
Speaker 1: the power to say yes or no. I would I
Speaker 1: would write the greatest, best songs that I can possibly write,
Speaker 1: create my own thing. Like when I started fgl Sam Haun,
Speaker 1: I heard him on the way in Morgan Wallen. I
Speaker 1: heard one of his songs and a came brown song
Speaker 1: all the way.
Speaker 3: So the radio works.
Speaker 1: That's all I got in that truck.
Speaker 2: But ac ac But.
Speaker 1: I could have seen myself ten years ago be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a cool song. I want to write one
Speaker 1: like that so I can maybe be on the radio.
Speaker 1: All I thought today was like when I heard Sam,
Speaker 1: I was like, there was a time where I was
Speaker 1: trying to do what Sam was doing, but I was
Speaker 1: stealing from myself, like and from him. It's like, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing what I was doing. I wasn't creating
Speaker 1: anything for myself, so it screwed me. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: just a cheaper version of some other artist. And you drop.
Speaker 1: And I would tell every artist to just come to
Speaker 1: town right the best songs. You can stop trying to
Speaker 1: chase radio, because if you don't chase radio and you
Speaker 1: write a great song, it still can play on the radio,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be on the radio, and people
Speaker 1: be like, oh I know that guy because I love
Speaker 1: his albums and I love his music, and he created
Speaker 1: something that I can believe in him and not just
Speaker 1: a one radio song. Like I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people know me as the guy that saying eyes on
Speaker 1: You Drinking Beer Ride, which was a crazy cover that
Speaker 1: I did, and that's wild to me. Like, but you're
Speaker 1: seeing it are opening shows. It's weird. Our opening shows
Speaker 1: with Dirks. People want to hear those because they don't
Speaker 1: know the other stuff. They're there for Dirks something most people, right,
Speaker 1: and our headlining shows are completely different. Wow, Like they
Speaker 1: sing along with the ready st role, but they want
Speaker 1: to hear Fireside when I play him go Down singing,
Speaker 1: which they didn't even know because I just put it
Speaker 1: out that week and file their IDAHO a few weeks back.
Speaker 1: They didn't know it, but they shut up. Oh I
Speaker 1: believe this dude. Yeah, and they want to hear the
Speaker 1: new stuff. I think.
Speaker 3: God, it's kind of feel good to know that you've
Speaker 3: come full circle to a place where you can just
Speaker 3: be honest and that the fans want to hear.
Speaker 2: It, dude.
Speaker 4: And being able to play and go play Red Rocks
Speaker 4: and play those songs.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that made that moment.
Speaker 1: Even no offense.
Speaker 3: That's different than ready said role, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: that's a different feeling out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bro Red have you have you ever played Red.
Speaker 1: Rocks with Dirk's in fourteen? Dude?
Speaker 4: That place is spiritual, man, And and to go be
Speaker 4: able to do what you want to do there and
Speaker 4: sing the songs you like, your truth in that arena
Speaker 4: oh yeah, which is not arena, but it's arena setting,
Speaker 4: like in that environment. Man, that's gonna be a crazy
Speaker 4: moment for you.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be way different than the last time. Because
Speaker 1: last time I saw a video and I'm like, my
Speaker 1: old tour manager showed me a video of us in
Speaker 1: fourteen and I'm like up in the crowd.
Speaker 2: Doing all the whole thing up on the rocks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, trying to get him fired up. This one's
Speaker 1: gonna be very different.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, man.
Speaker 1: I saw Ryan Bangham at Red Rocks. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a show from there, and I just played it that
Speaker 1: one time and I wanted to see a show because
Speaker 1: it's Red Rocks. I saw Bangam at Red Rocks a
Speaker 1: couple you know, months whatever ago, and it was so
Speaker 1: awesome and he I think he played like twelve songs
Speaker 1: in an hour and a half, like he jams a while.
Speaker 1: He's got a little jam band in him. And it
Speaker 1: was just awesome and it made me want a jam more.
Speaker 1: We have Oklahoma where we played for like eight minutes. Yeah, fireside,
Speaker 1: we started jamming. It's just we want have fun up there.
Speaker 4: Very musical place, Like you want to hear music playing,
Speaker 4: You want to hear guitars, you want to hear Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The thing I remember is going in is we were
Speaker 3: literally going to that that one lane or two lane road,
Speaker 3: but it's just a road that goes all the way
Speaker 3: back to with traffic. Dude, there's like mule Deer popping
Speaker 3: up around. I mean, you're you're you're looking at this
Speaker 3: at the Amphitheater and then you're looking at mule Deer
Speaker 3: to your ride. I'm like, kind of nice out of here.
Speaker 1: That's sick out there. So we're gonna do that show
Speaker 1: and then staying right for four days.
Speaker 3: Nice, that'll be sweet.
Speaker 1: What is uh?
Speaker 3: Let's let's switch gears?
Speaker 1: What about uh? To talk to?
Speaker 3: Just about Elkhinton. I feel like I've watched you kind
Speaker 3: of come into that and it and it take over
Speaker 3: your your your soul, little boy.
Speaker 1: Last year I did forty four days, so I started
Speaker 1: Elkhinton was playing kids. There ain't no way you have
Speaker 1: no wife, no kids walking into my house. You'll know
Speaker 1: I don't have a wife. But for it was perfect
Speaker 1: for me because first year I didn't see an elk,
Speaker 1: didn't hear one. Second year I saw one, third year
Speaker 1: got close to one. Fourth year killed one, and so
Speaker 1: like made me it. I was fully a nice progression, yep.
Speaker 1: And then I killed one for five years in a row.
Speaker 1: Other three years I did good. Two years I got lucky.
Speaker 1: And then last year I'm like, I'm good at this now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: forty four days. I got three tags Colorado, Oregon and Montana.
Speaker 2: The West will make you eat them words. I'm good
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 1: Colorado we got couldn't get a shot, and that was
Speaker 1: just a nobody's fault.
Speaker 3: You hunt all these all bokay.
Speaker 1: And then Montana I did everything right, like four and
Speaker 1: a half hours, got in there in got about a
Speaker 1: thirty yard shot on this bull read back, smoked it
Speaker 1: like middle high lungs because I want to stay away
Speaker 1: from the shoulder because I couldn't get a range on
Speaker 1: and put my fifty on his belly and just sent
Speaker 1: it and it hit like it hit a target. And
Speaker 1: I was using these new expandables that Cam Haynes got
Speaker 1: me on and I just looked at it. I was like,
Speaker 1: that was weird, but he should be dead. Like I've
Speaker 1: never seen my ear not disappear through a bull. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh we tracked it and never found it. So
Speaker 1: I had the worst year elk hunt ever last year
Speaker 1: as far as results, but I had the most fun
Speaker 1: I've ever had. And I didn't kill a bull, but
Speaker 1: I learned a lot.
Speaker 3: So going back, got the forty four days in the
Speaker 3: mountains man and.
Speaker 1: All the other ones were like six days, and I killed.
Speaker 1: I knew the year was coming. You always having your
Speaker 1: mind when you're on a roll, when's it gonna come
Speaker 1: and go? Well? For me?
Speaker 4: Last time I spent forty four days away from home hunting.
Speaker 4: I got broken up, sign I got thank god, I
Speaker 4: got yeah, thank god.
Speaker 1: I had the time of my life. Oh dude, it
Speaker 1: was awesome.
Speaker 2: We've never done it. We've never done it with our bow.
Speaker 2: We've been out there.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's like bucket list for me is to
Speaker 4: to go hike the mountains with my you know, with
Speaker 4: my Matthews in my back and go try to world
Speaker 4: and just like like we've been. We went to the
Speaker 4: Titans a couple of years ago, a few years ago
Speaker 4: in September.
Speaker 3: That's his wife. Do you know that I did not
Speaker 3: okay there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, thank god I got broken away.
Speaker 2: We didn't go to the Let me to her, but
Speaker 2: we were.
Speaker 4: We were hiking the Titans in the middle of the rut, dude,
Speaker 4: and I ain't ever.
Speaker 1: You weren't hunting, your hiking.
Speaker 2: I was just hiking.
Speaker 1: Incredible, dude.
Speaker 4: The only thing I wanted to be doing. I mean,
Speaker 4: we were hiking and the only thing I wanted to
Speaker 4: be doing. Like, I couldn't. I told her we were
Speaker 4: on this hike out of the mountains and we had
Speaker 4: four different groups of bulls just hammering around us. And
Speaker 4: I was like, dude, And in that moment, I mean
Speaker 4: I was, I was on cloud nine right then. I
Speaker 4: was like, but I can't imagine having a pack on
Speaker 4: my back and my bow in my hand and and
Speaker 4: and trying to figure out which one.
Speaker 2: To go after like that. That will be unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you just got to listen over It's
Speaker 1: funny because you'd be like in the middle of four
Speaker 1: different groups of different herds of elk, and you're just
Speaker 1: like you could probably get within twenty yards of all
Speaker 1: of them because you don't have a bow. If you
Speaker 1: have a bow changes the game.
Speaker 2: Like you had any grizzly encounters in mon time?
Speaker 1: Uh? No know how had? They had some big brown
Speaker 1: bear encounters in Alaska fishing, but that was that got
Speaker 1: pretty normal. Like there was we ended up seeing like
Speaker 1: ten over a couple of days of fishing backcountry, and uh,
Speaker 1: the scariest one there was we were walking out.
Speaker 3: Wait, tell me about where you went. I'm super curious
Speaker 3: because we're I'm kind of dipping my toes in the
Speaker 3: Alaskan Fishing Center and.
Speaker 1: King Salmon, Alaska. And they took us out on a boat,
Speaker 1: dropped in some pond and then we fished the river.
Speaker 4: There's always there's a there's a town called King Salmon, Alaska. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, red red Dog bar or red something bar. We
Speaker 1: went to that play. It was like everything you dream
Speaker 1: of in Alaska. But speaking of brown bears, we'd gotten
Speaker 1: used to them because they were around. First one we saw.
Speaker 1: We're in the river and it comes up within twenty
Speaker 1: yards of us. Me and John are just looking at
Speaker 1: each other like what is going on? And she's like
Speaker 1: the guys just like hey bear, hey bear, and he
Speaker 1: mosied on.
Speaker 3: And that's when that's a.
Speaker 1: Streaky at first. But we were walking out of the
Speaker 1: second day and uh, two cubs and a mama were
Speaker 1: walking a couple hundred yards away in the same direction.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're doing. But you're going in
Speaker 1: and out of tundras, so you're covered and stuff, and
Speaker 1: you come out and it's wide open, covered and stuff
Speaker 1: come out. It's wide open. So we and we lost
Speaker 1: the bears. We didn't know where they were. That's not
Speaker 1: a good feeling. And then twenty yards behind us, we
Speaker 1: turned around and one of the cubs pokes out, and
Speaker 1: that's when you start freaking out. You're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: do not let this cup because between the mom was
Speaker 1: right behind them. And then the cubs stopped. The other
Speaker 1: cup popped out, and we know she was behind him
Speaker 1: some where. We never saw her, but we got the
Speaker 1: hell out of there fast. Yeah, you're not running from
Speaker 1: a bear though we were. No.
Speaker 4: Heck no, that that thing about run downhill from a bear, Like,
Speaker 4: what do you do?
Speaker 2: Like like I've always heard run down here. I've always
Speaker 2: heard just be as try to be as big.
Speaker 1: As the bear. Like I don't have no guns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't know if what you had no guns?
Speaker 1: No guns? She had bear spray.
Speaker 4: We were in Montana on this, uh this section of
Speaker 4: and it had elk. There's a herd on it in
Speaker 4: public land and uh we we went up and we
Speaker 4: knew there were bears in the area and there had
Speaker 4: been a bear siding there a few weeks before, but
Speaker 4: they opened back up and it was really only one
Speaker 4: of the only public tracks that had everybody knew that
Speaker 4: had a hurt on there. So me, Dan and my
Speaker 4: brother in law went up and uh, we're seeing like
Speaker 4: just like picked clean skeleton, like like piles of like this.
Speaker 3: Just why they were in there, they were elk getting
Speaker 3: shot in there.
Speaker 1: With the past.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they say, they say, bears out there will
Speaker 4: go to gunshots now because they're so used to them,
Speaker 4: and they'll they'll know that there's gonna be a gutpile there.
Speaker 4: So anyway, we're we're hunting and we're watching this hurd
Speaker 4: of elk on the other side of public on private
Speaker 4: just work this mountain, uh and and kind of funneling down.
Speaker 4: There's like a cliff that that we're like, all right, well,
Speaker 4: we're kind of pinching them into they're gonna jump this
Speaker 4: public fence where you get a shot. Right here, snowing
Speaker 4: pretty hard. Dan's kind of behind us a few hundred
Speaker 4: yards maybe a couple hundred yards, just kind of lasting
Speaker 4: and me and my brother in law are walking up
Speaker 4: and I'm walking kind of paying attention, kind of not
Speaker 4: just watching these elk and I end up running into
Speaker 4: like he's in front of me, and I run into
Speaker 4: the back of him, and I was like.
Speaker 2: Bro, what are you doing.
Speaker 4: He goes grab my gun, get my pistol, Get my pistol,
Speaker 4: and he's got us two seventy but he's like, get
Speaker 4: my pistol. So I reached his package because I was like,
Speaker 4: what's going on? And I look around him and I
Speaker 4: see like it's like somebody put a basketball, like a
Speaker 4: like a men's size basketball into the snow and then
Speaker 4: just put bare claws on the top of it. And
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, is that what I
Speaker 4: think it?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 3: That a bear track?
Speaker 2: He was like, that's absolutely a grizzly track.
Speaker 4: So as we were stalking these elk, there was a
Speaker 4: grizzly in front of us. We were doing the same thing,
Speaker 4: and about one hundred yards in front of us is
Speaker 4: this group of of of trees and forest in front
Speaker 4: of us, which is the only way to get down.
Speaker 4: We've never seen one in the wild, but bro we
Speaker 4: Charlie's Angel down that slope to the It was me.
Speaker 2: Like and we were pissed off at each other.
Speaker 1: We need to go this one, need to go this way.
Speaker 1: That's what we knew.
Speaker 2: We knew there was a grizzly in the area.
Speaker 4: Man. And and on that track of land, like on
Speaker 4: that little that little section, there's been like like I
Speaker 4: mean attacks.
Speaker 2: Like like bad news stuff happened there.
Speaker 1: And then brown bears and Alaska are used to people.
Speaker 1: Grizzlies in Montana or wherever you're at. They don't like
Speaker 1: one people.
Speaker 4: And I feel like I have this feeling that I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go down by a grizzly or it's a rattlesnake.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I just I feel like that's how I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go. I mean, that's a tough way to go.
Speaker 4: But no, I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 4: know how any of those.
Speaker 3: That's what I never thee most about after seeing that,
Speaker 3: things like normally the three of us are hunting together,
Speaker 3: it's like you and your brother. It's like you'd be like, man,
Speaker 3: I think we just need to kind of skirt left
Speaker 3: in order to get back to the truck. Let's take
Speaker 3: this trail. And you'd be like, all right, man. Even
Speaker 3: if you disagreed, you'd be like all right, man, you know,
Speaker 3: or if he disagreed. But with this, it was like
Speaker 3: every question that came up was like, you know, life
Speaker 3: or death, and he'd be like, we got to go left,
Speaker 3: go the truck here, But no, dude, if we go left,
Speaker 3: we're going right by where that I mean.
Speaker 1: It was just like everything was we're run.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was just this height sense of y. You gotta
Speaker 1: be aware because they can pop out of an where
Speaker 1: they're gonna hit you quick.
Speaker 4: You killed a big deer in Illinois that had a
Speaker 4: not only a big, big rack, but he had another
Speaker 4: set of big something.
Speaker 2: They named him that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll see you guys a video of why they
Speaker 1: named him that. He went right in front of trail
Speaker 1: cam and just stopped and they're just dangling there.
Speaker 2: I've seen that before.
Speaker 1: I think I put it up or you've seen that
Speaker 1: on trail cams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like like weirdly big.
Speaker 1: Weirdly big. So then into Big Balls and I was
Speaker 1: hunting Robert stand because we did an acoustic show for him,
Speaker 1: so he let me hunt.
Speaker 2: His spots Illinois.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I killed a big buck the year before,
Speaker 1: within like twenty minutes of the hunt, and uh, the
Speaker 1: biggest deer I'd ever killed. And then this one. There
Speaker 1: were some good deer around, didn't get any shots. And
Speaker 1: then Big Balls and there was another giant like ten
Speaker 1: I think it was giant. Why looks like a Texas deer.
Speaker 1: They start coming up a few hundred yards and left.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's when your heart stops, just like, here
Speaker 1: we go. They got in.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're a bow guy, dude, I love it's just more.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah it is fair too. But they come in
Speaker 1: and the ten point it comes right in, right at dark,
Speaker 1: right in front of him, Like, oh shit, okay, here
Speaker 1: we go. My heart's pounding on my chest. I'm about
Speaker 1: to draw back and I might keep looking left because
Speaker 1: I knew the Big Balls was with him, and I
Speaker 1: mean this year as he was, I knew he was.
Speaker 1: I knew he was from two hundred yards away. They
Speaker 1: were walking in and I knew it was him, tell
Speaker 1: right away. It's just so thick and uh like, I
Speaker 1: think the other deer probably would have scored better. I
Speaker 1: think Big Balls is only one sixty three. But all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm about to draw back and I
Speaker 1: see big Balls pop out like ship Heart's pumping that
Speaker 1: five last five minutes and maybe be able to shoot him,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't decide. Finally drew back. I couldn't see
Speaker 1: through pins at all, so I lost, didn't didn't kill
Speaker 1: either one. Just too dark, Yeah, I was fIF too dark,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't going to take that shot on those deer.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was at forty yards, which is a long shot,
Speaker 1: much less than the dark Arkright.
Speaker 4: That's that that time period in the afternoon when you
Speaker 4: can see outside your pins when you draw and you
Speaker 4: can't see your pans.
Speaker 2: It's so frustrating because you just have to sit there
Speaker 2: and watch.
Speaker 1: And I had to get you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you ain't gonna you know.
Speaker 1: So the next week I go back and everything was different.
Speaker 1: They were running hard and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: know where I see the dough pop up. I just
Speaker 1: kind of looking around and big balls came from the
Speaker 1: same area and he's probably thirty thirty five, and uh
Speaker 1: this is it was afternoon hunt, probably about I don't know,
Speaker 1: four or five o'clock.
Speaker 3: I had some time.
Speaker 1: I had plenty of time, and uh we looked for
Speaker 1: him in the dark, so what it was close to dark,
Speaker 1: but it was I had a lot of light. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh he comes out and I just it was
Speaker 1: just that instinctual thing where it's just like, give him
Speaker 1: one noise and he stops and looks right at me,
Speaker 1: and I just poked him, and you could I heard
Speaker 1: to hit him. Thought it was a good shot. But
Speaker 1: then I after as soon as I do it, I'm like,
Speaker 1: was he forty or thirty? I don't know, was it high,
Speaker 1: was it low? I have no idea. He ended up
Speaker 1: dying within and met it probably, I mean I stroked him.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the coolest films ever because
Speaker 1: you usually walk up to it and you're like, oh man,
Speaker 1: he maybe wasn't as big as I thought. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: uh I started freaking out. Yeah, Oh my god, he's huge,
Speaker 1: and he was wide, he.
Speaker 3: Had thick that's the that's the Midwest days, Midwest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was awesome. Fast forward seven more days,
Speaker 1: I'm in Chicago. Robert's like, man, you still got one
Speaker 1: more tag for shotgun for slug would you want to
Speaker 1: come back up? And I'm like, it's a night in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to have some fun. Probably not
Speaker 1: going to kill anything. I've already killed a giant, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. Show up, have his shotgun and I
Speaker 1: see a dough come in within twenty minutes of me
Speaker 1: in this stand and uh, she's moving fast. I'm like,
Speaker 1: get ready something, something's gotta be on her tail. And uh,
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, this giant I think he was a
Speaker 1: nine because Big Balls was a nine. This one was
Speaker 1: a nine. But he's giant and wide, walks out. I
Speaker 1: don't question it, and I just blast him, smoke him. Uh,
Speaker 1: find a ton of blood. Ended up going further than
Speaker 1: I thought, but double lung them and just blasted him.
Speaker 1: First year I've ever killed, I think with a shotgun.
Speaker 1: That was weird. But in seven days I killed two
Speaker 1: one sixty year I think he was like right at
Speaker 1: one sixty one. Or something.
Speaker 2: I still they're growing big, They're growing big up there.
Speaker 1: Crazy a deer year last year. Yeah, I had a
Speaker 1: bad LK, but I had a blast. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'll take a couple one one sixties in the same year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I won't go back.
Speaker 3: That'd be just fine with me.
Speaker 1: Keep sending me trail campis he's got some giants down
Speaker 1: there right now.
Speaker 3: That's awesome? Is that close to Chicago?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? It was a couple hours,
Speaker 1: I think got you.
Speaker 3: So you just left after the show, didn't even stand on.
Speaker 1: The bus, slept on the bus, and woke up and
Speaker 1: killed a deer within twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Life of an artist I got.
Speaker 1: And I only had that morning, Like I had to
Speaker 1: play show that night. So oh you hunted one morning
Speaker 1: one morning for that second deer, that big balls I
Speaker 1: had to work for, which was cool. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Uh So what uh man? What's next? I know you
Speaker 4: said you're you're gonna do the the I Hate Cowboys
Speaker 4: and the going Down singing record. What's in the doing
Speaker 4: the acoustic thing with the songwriters? What's what's what's Chase Rice?
Speaker 4: Where's where's his passions lie? Within the next five years.
Speaker 4: What do you what do you see yourself? What do
Speaker 4: you see yourself doing?
Speaker 1: It's a weird thing for me because something weird is
Speaker 1: going on with my whole career, which is I'm not
Speaker 1: having any mainstream success at all, really not. But then
Speaker 1: we're showing up the shows. We're shelling more tickets than
Speaker 1: we've ever sold. We're Merch's skyrocket, which is the biggest
Speaker 1: number of all because that means people are buying into you,
Speaker 1: not just a song. So I'm just gonna keep doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: A great place to be, dude.
Speaker 4: It's fun because go play shows, Go play the songs
Speaker 4: you want to play, you know, go play the venues
Speaker 4: you want to play, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're turning into this artist. That's that I think
Speaker 1: people just want to see. They want to buy into them,
Speaker 1: believe in, which I don't think I had before, and
Speaker 1: I don't think I earned it before. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to put out this acoustic, this go down singing record,
Speaker 1: it's out. I'm going to put out the Fireside Sessions,
Speaker 1: which is the acoustic stuff featuring the songwriters, and I
Speaker 1: think we're going to try to put out at least
Speaker 1: half a record beginning of next year. Just keep putting
Speaker 1: out the same not the same music, but just the
Speaker 1: mind space that the headspace that I'm in. Keep writing
Speaker 1: as many songs as possible, don't overthink it. If we
Speaker 1: write six songs, let's put them all out unless want
Speaker 1: of them is trash. But I'm not doing that anymore.
Speaker 1: It's like, I think it, wrote like fourteen songs for
Speaker 1: this next album, and we cut eleven of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the songs are pretty good. So we're just gonna
Speaker 1: keep writing a bunch of songs and keep putting them
Speaker 1: out and hope something sticks. I just I don't know
Speaker 1: the formula anymore. I don't think anybody does.
Speaker 3: Nobody does.
Speaker 1: If one of them blows up on TikTok, cool, let's
Speaker 1: take it. If one of them goes to the radio, cool,
Speaker 1: let's take it. But I think overall the music is good.
Speaker 1: People want to come here, they want to hear these albums,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to keep doing.
Speaker 2: Well do congrats on everything.
Speaker 4: It feels like just sitting here talking to you and
Speaker 4: we've known each other for a little bit, it feels
Speaker 4: like I've never I've never hung out with you in
Speaker 4: this with this much like freedom that you're talking with
Speaker 4: and like a good headspace, you know, and this good
Speaker 4: of a headspace. It feels like you're doing great and
Speaker 4: the songs are reflecting that.
Speaker 1: And I remember like writing with you, maybe 'reett years ago,
Speaker 1: and it was just like, I think I just heard
Speaker 1: a song before the right It's like, man, let's write
Speaker 1: something like this. I thought hadn't even crossed my mind
Speaker 1: in nice three years, and now it's like, I got
Speaker 1: this idea, let's just write it. What happened And we
Speaker 1: wrote a song for the next album, first song off it.
Speaker 1: It's called Uh Cowboy Goodbye. Oscar had the idea. I
Speaker 1: started picking on the guitar and drop d and we
Speaker 1: wrote that song. And it's gonna be the first off
Speaker 1: the next record already, and it's gonna be featuring George
Speaker 1: straight right.
Speaker 4: I want it to George does speakstence man speaking into existence.
Speaker 1: George, let's go. I want George. I'm in the wrong key,
Speaker 1: don't go ingered on it.
Speaker 3: Sure that was important, you can't say that. I can't
Speaker 3: even remember the damn words dude singing.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was important, that thing you had to say.
Speaker 2: But it's that part of the show for the worm
Speaker 2: that got it. You don't have to cut that out
Speaker 2: co it's on social media, so you don't have to
Speaker 2: catch it.
Speaker 3: It's time for the one.
Speaker 4: That yeah chasing. We do this thing called the one
Speaker 4: that got away. It could be a deer in your.
Speaker 2: Case, it could be a girl.
Speaker 4: Usually everybody, everybody that we talked to his marrias were like,
Speaker 4: it could be a girl, but don't say a girl.
Speaker 2: You could be a girl. Get the one out there.
Speaker 2: Could be a fish, could be a duck or a dog.
Speaker 4: Whatever you think of a song that that you didn't
Speaker 4: get cut It should have been a single, should be
Speaker 4: all of those.
Speaker 2: What's the one that got away for you?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like every girl I ever loved
Speaker 1: has gotten away. It was gonna I'm not going there.
Speaker 3: They all did?
Speaker 1: They all did? I mean that Elk last year in Montana,
Speaker 1: that's the one would have been the I mean I
Speaker 1: smoked him right in the middle, and everybody I talked
Speaker 1: to us like you had to hit him the shoulders,
Speaker 1: no way or really I'm like, I was this far
Speaker 1: away from the shoulder.
Speaker 3: How much penetration was on the area? Did you get
Speaker 3: there about that much?
Speaker 1: It should have been one long. Yeah, they go a
Speaker 1: long way on one long right. He may died, he
Speaker 1: may live. I never found him, but that would be
Speaker 1: the elk that got away. The buck that got away
Speaker 1: was a giant eight point on my farm here in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Saw him on cameras forever, saw him once in person,
Speaker 1: absolutely huge, probably one forty five inch.
Speaker 3: Eight giant, which is a big eight point.
Speaker 1: And then I got him. I was in a redneck
Speaker 1: blind over this one food plot I got and it
Speaker 1: was dark, didn't even have an air knocked like an idiot,
Speaker 1: like just knocked the arrow. As soon as you get
Speaker 1: in and you're in a comfortable, big ass redneck I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna open the window just to see if, like
Speaker 1: they have shades on them, which I took those down since,
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna open see if anything's out there.
Speaker 1: Just getting light enough. And I look and there's a
Speaker 1: back half of a deer. I'm like, shit, look even
Speaker 1: further and Tim twelve yards away from me, staring right
Speaker 1: at me. Oh no, it goes. I knocked the arrow.
Speaker 1: He walks away, looks at me, walks back, but he's
Speaker 1: staring at me. I can't draw back Finally, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I gotta do something. He end up saying screw it
Speaker 1: when his head's on the other side of this tree
Speaker 1: and he's eating all around this corn that we mowed down,
Speaker 1: which is legal.
Speaker 3: He said, mowed down. I was like, yeah, okay, it up.
Speaker 1: We got a good little plane. We do and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I draw back. He's on the other
Speaker 1: side of the tree, and all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 1: as soon as I draw back, he likes skirts off.
Speaker 1: I end up sending one like an idiot, like, don't
Speaker 1: take the shot. He's literally not running away, but he's
Speaker 1: I was panicking, yeah, and I sent one. As soon
Speaker 1: as it hit got towards him, it hit something and
Speaker 1: went down on the rocks. Luckily, I guess whatever hits
Speaker 1: the rocks, I have a knock on the arrow, so
Speaker 1: I go find the arrow. Nothing's on it, I knew,
Speaker 1: and I go stand where he was and there was
Speaker 1: a huge branch between me and the blind I was in.
Speaker 1: I think I just hit that and it skirted off,
Speaker 1: sent it down because it should have hit his body,
Speaker 1: but I would have never found that deer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably best, probably, but.
Speaker 1: I never hit him, and I've never seen him since, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to hit him, and that's the one deer
Speaker 1: that got.
Speaker 4: And the funny how like a guy shot up a
Speaker 4: gear in Kansas last year and then and then I've got,
Speaker 4: you know, really big gear hanging up on my wall.
Speaker 4: But like you think about the ones that, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: that you didn't find, or you think about the ones
Speaker 4: that you couldn't get a shot at way more than
Speaker 4: you think about the ones there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, while I was fishing that fishing trip
Speaker 1: in Alaska, we were talking about, uh, if you get
Speaker 1: on the get a thirty inch rainbow, you get on
Speaker 1: the picture on the wall, and uh, hooked into one thought,
Speaker 1: I hit bottom, takes off jumps. I'm like, holy hell,
Speaker 1: yeah it was close to the thirty inch rainbow. Who knows,
Speaker 1: But get him down to the reel. I'm hanging on.
Speaker 1: I look at her. I'm like, I'll hang on all day,
Speaker 1: Like I can do this all day. As soon as
Speaker 1: I say that, I just hit a tooth or something
Speaker 1: completely cut the line and I just throw my rod
Speaker 1: and reel. I'm just sitting there pouting sounds like. And
Speaker 1: on that ride home, I was just like, you know what,
Speaker 1: started writing this like poem or prayer. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I call it, but it said, thank you God
Speaker 1: for the fish today, even more for the ones that
Speaker 1: got away, so that you ask why, I thank the
Speaker 1: Lord because bent hooks and broke lines bring us back
Speaker 1: for more. It's the same concept with hunting too, But
Speaker 1: I got a cool little prayer.
Speaker 3: Out of it. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Uh, favorite tune? This is greatest slash. Favorite song to
Speaker 4: you country song?
Speaker 2: What do you think it would be?
Speaker 1: We were just we were talking about don't close your eyes,
Speaker 1: that's up there, but let's go see what you got.
Speaker 1: The dance for me has always been looking.
Speaker 3: Man, you're gonna have to tell me. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: We don't even know it.
Speaker 1: Oh it was I'm good, I am.
Speaker 3: Shot and is that right?
Speaker 1: I'm glad?
Speaker 3: And the weed in the weed that a better left
Speaker 3: to Chinese. A good MISSI pain, but la ahead to.
Speaker 1: The man. I don't know how y'all sing at nine
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 3: Whatever, great, Well, I'm a bad singer.
Speaker 2: Anybody said a garsel? Have we had a garsel?
Speaker 1: I don't think so that's crazy for me.
Speaker 2: The dances iconic like high school.
Speaker 1: Girl, old friend, I remember dancing like some mountain when
Speaker 1: I was going away for college. I was like, this is.
Speaker 4: It for us, dude, Our lives are better left a chance.
Speaker 4: I could have could have missed the pain, but I
Speaker 4: had to miss the dance. I mean, I mean that
Speaker 4: song writing right there, man.
Speaker 1: The greatest country songs of all time.
Speaker 2: I'm with that.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Great way to wrap it up.
Speaker 2: Chase, appreciate you, Chris, I thought you everything.
Speaker 4: Hey, y'all check out the new album Going Down Singing
Speaker 4: fancy great song. I'm yeah, y'all go check it out.
Speaker 4: Check them out of Red Rocks. Where else you're playing
Speaker 4: this year? You got some more shows coming up?
Speaker 1: Oh god, we're everywhere. We've been with Dirks all year.
Speaker 1: We're kind of chilling in the fall because I want
Speaker 1: to hunting season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Red Rocks.
Speaker 3: So it's funny we're chilling the fall too, so maybe
Speaker 3: we should uh reenact a little hunting country back in
Speaker 3: the day stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we write.
Speaker 2: Songs with thanks. Hanging out guys. We'll check out next time.