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Speaker 3: He had he not passed away, I think he would
Speaker 3: have been Alan Jackson, George Strait big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with that as well, because what was he like?
Speaker 1: How old was he forty thirties? Was he thirty early? Thanks? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was early thirties. He just road hot. You know
Speaker 1: his road hard? Yeah? Is that what it was? Really? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Drank himself that lord, yeah, that Lord Morgan allegedly Orry Morgan.
Speaker 1: What that's what I mean? Are you saying she killed him?
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Speaker 1: on God's Country. Thanks for having me, thanks for coming,
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming all the way to Nashville just for
Speaker 1: this podcast. And they turned around and going and thanks.
Speaker 1: He has nothing else to do this week. Whether you
Speaker 1: know it or not, you actually helped me. Not really
Speaker 1: just helped, but you actually come out of the closet gotten.
Speaker 1: You actually got me my first postion deal because you
Speaker 1: cut a song of me and Randy Montana's called Rebel Kids.
Speaker 1: And that's what started, did you correct? I absolutely forgot
Speaker 1: a great song. I forgot about that great song you're cutting.
Speaker 1: That song started my major publishing deal and I've been
Speaker 1: there for eleven years.
Speaker 3: Man, somebody recently, I forget who it was. A friend
Speaker 3: of mine sent me, you know, hey, you can send
Speaker 3: the song from iTunes or whatever on text. They just
Speaker 3: sent it to me like a two three days ago.
Speaker 3: It was great song. Wow, And I forget who it was,
Speaker 3: but it was a great song.
Speaker 1: You when you cut that, you know how you know
Speaker 1: how Nashville works? That was that your first? Was that
Speaker 1: your first second? First? It was my second cut in Nashville,
Speaker 1: my first major label, major record. Randy's great. Randy's one
Speaker 1: of the best fuddies. Yeah, we love Randy. He's awesome.
Speaker 1: I love him. Yeah, great human love his dad, Billy's great,
Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We probably write once every two months, just kind of
Speaker 1: he lives out there kind of close to me, and
Speaker 1: we just pop over there in the barn and and
Speaker 1: and we had been writing that day. And uh then
Speaker 1: when when I heard you were going to cut that song,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, that's going to change
Speaker 1: my life. And it did. It really set me on
Speaker 1: the path to to have it.
Speaker 3: I wish it would have been a single same, So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but that.
Speaker 1: Was pretty much great song. That's pretty much our childhood.
Speaker 1: I mean all those Daddy drove a bibcab ma'ma poor skilling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: yep yeah poor at the cast iron Skilling shared the
Speaker 1: same part as co Yeah. Yeah, ude, dude, dude, let's
Speaker 1: do it. I'll sing it. I remember me and my
Speaker 1: brother poor busting through a screen door. I can't remember
Speaker 1: the words clearly, but I try. What's the has the start?
Speaker 1: This is a did we never start with the.
Speaker 4: Song drove a bobcat Mama, Poor Coffee had the cast
Speaker 4: iron skillet to share the same line as I am
Speaker 4: a co Wow, what's next? I remember me and my
Speaker 4: brother he busting out the screen door like a couple
Speaker 4: of wild Indian sansity for horses, as fast as as
Speaker 4: we could go.
Speaker 6: Yep, I ain't a shame, and I was raised. Couldn't
Speaker 6: watch the dirt dust smile off my face.
Speaker 1: I still got the scars from growing up.
Speaker 2: There ain't a barefoot summer gone bad. I ever changed
Speaker 2: a Baptist song ball way, God bless the rebel kids bad.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, say we changed my life for that? Hey,
Speaker 1: let's play that song that justin cut tom Mie. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding, man, I'll set you a few. But you
Speaker 1: write song that is a great song, you know, the
Speaker 1: think about the great song. Honestly, there's so many great
Speaker 1: lines in that song. Well, we were so young, we
Speaker 1: didn't even know what we were doing. And Randy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Randy, when we were writing it, it was just
Speaker 1: kind of like, I remember he had the title rebel Kids,
Speaker 1: and you weren't you. You hadn't been in town long
Speaker 1: enough to know to know to chase anything, to to
Speaker 1: like try to do what hell, how old are you?
Speaker 1: Forty one? Okay, I'm forty one, right, I was, And
Speaker 1: that was probably twelve years ago, so wow. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we uh, he was like, I got this idea called
Speaker 1: rebel Kids. It's about to this guy and this girl
Speaker 1: sneak out and you know, the rebellious. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I feel that I said. But when you said that title,
Speaker 1: it reminds me exactly of how me and my brother
Speaker 1: came out like busting through the screen door to or
Speaker 1: ten speeds and then you know, shooting coke cans. And
Speaker 1: I mean we literally did that all the time. That's
Speaker 1: all we did and and and that's that's what it
Speaker 1: taught me. In the cool water Creek with a ten
Speaker 1: pump plic gun literally Indian Creek. Yeah, I mean Harden's
Speaker 1: Creek where we would go. Anyway, My point is is
Speaker 1: like it showed me that if you as a songwriter,
Speaker 1: if you just write what you know, there's a better
Speaker 1: chance of it connecting yep than chasing something.
Speaker 3: I learned that with small Town, USA. Really because so
Speaker 3: my first single was back that Thing, uh, which was
Speaker 3: I blame on uh Randy Houser, Yeah for it.
Speaker 1: Not being a hit. Why why do you blamed Randy
Speaker 1: because he wrote it? I love that. So that's a
Speaker 1: saying song of gun too. Yeah, that joke.
Speaker 3: The whole crew is man, one of my great friends
Speaker 3: in this business.
Speaker 1: But when so at the time.
Speaker 3: When I uh signed my record deal, if you had
Speaker 3: like two singles that missed.
Speaker 1: You're out, like you're gone. Really you know you got
Speaker 1: too sh remember that? Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: And so, like I said, I'm your age and so.
Speaker 1: So your first one missed and first one it went
Speaker 1: to like thirty eight. I remember the I remember hearing
Speaker 1: the song. It wasn't like it just completely missed. It
Speaker 1: just didn't It was it was pretty pretty big man, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll let you say it's like an honest man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the label wanted to put out small Town USA,
Speaker 3: and I thought, I don't know, man, Like I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's going to connect with Like
Speaker 3: you said, I don't know if that's going to connect
Speaker 3: with people.
Speaker 1: Sure because that's twenty ten ish, I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: when twelve is eight earlier? Okay, yeah, and and so.
Speaker 3: Maybe even O seven I don't remember. Sometime back in there,
Speaker 3: and I learned with that song if you could connect
Speaker 3: with uh, if it's if it's true to you and
Speaker 3: it's honest to you, it connects with people.
Speaker 1: It's pretty honest your point. Yeah, I remember hearing that
Speaker 1: because that was kind of like that was kind of
Speaker 1: the first time I think i'd heard you're you as
Speaker 1: an artist, you know, kind of like your your vocal
Speaker 1: and your thing and that that and a son and
Speaker 1: on and on a boat array. I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: who's doing that? I think that perked everybody up, like
Speaker 1: because there ain't nobody on the radio that doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, live, I'm kind of pissy at myself that I
Speaker 3: did that because I have to do that everything I'm like,
Speaker 3: why did I do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, that was a great song. I
Speaker 1: think it set you apart too as a as a
Speaker 1: real life country singer, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: had been a minute since we had an old, good
Speaker 1: Southern singer that could get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, at the time, it was still somewhat
Speaker 3: traditional country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then through the middle part of my career,
Speaker 3: you know, then it turned into like the FGL world, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the bro country.
Speaker 1: And I didn't name it that, but other people did,
Speaker 1: kind of the kind of where the genre went.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we just kind of kept doing traditional country,
Speaker 3: and thankfully country radio stuck with us, and yeah, we
Speaker 3: just kind of kept rolling.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I'm certainly thankful. Oh. I
Speaker 1: think it's because you stayed true. And I think your
Speaker 1: fans they won't that they want you to, they do,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you would if I think if
Speaker 1: you had turned, but you're data turn. Sorry. You're also
Speaker 1: the kind of artist though that can like, I mean,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite tunes you've done, and we're all
Speaker 1: ready we're nine minutes into this thing, talking deep into
Speaker 1: the music. This never happens. We had hardy on like
Speaker 1: one of the first episodes and talked. It was an
Speaker 1: hour and forty seven minutes, and they and we were like,
Speaker 1: how we got done there? How did that go? They
Speaker 1: were like, oh, that was great. You just talked about
Speaker 1: music for seven minutes. You're talking about hunting for an
Speaker 1: hour ride forty minutes. But but I think one thing
Speaker 1: that that I, I mean, my favorite song you've ever done?
Speaker 1: I think is is besides besides revs somebody else will,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's I've got an R. I got an
Speaker 1: R and B, like just a total different, totally sound
Speaker 1: for for us. We were like, I kind of tend
Speaker 1: to go that R and B route and melodically wise,
Speaker 1: and and you know, my I had him as an
Speaker 1: older brother and my oldest sister. Her favorite was Brian
Speaker 1: McKnight and Black Street and Genuine and those things. And
Speaker 1: then and then I was getting, you know, taking the
Speaker 1: school by him and it was.
Speaker 2: Best dude all day long, jump Bone.
Speaker 1: So like somebody else Wheel the final.
Speaker 3: I got slapped by my ex girlfriend by uh dancing
Speaker 3: with a girl at a dance to pony.
Speaker 1: Ex girlfriend slashy. Yeah, I didn't marry dog. I've been
Speaker 1: slapped by a girl. Before and you would think like,
Speaker 1: oh again, slap by a girl, doesn't she clubbed me
Speaker 1: and almost knocked me out in the garage, And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was tough, wouldn't somebody I forget?
Speaker 3: I think that was maybe our like third album, fourth album,
Speaker 3: something like that, and it was totally different for us, Jack,
Speaker 3: we had never done anything like that. So that's that's
Speaker 3: uh funny to hear you say that's your.
Speaker 1: Favorite song, and but I think it was. It was
Speaker 1: like your country, your your vocal, country vocal on it,
Speaker 1: the timber of your voice on something on top of that,
Speaker 1: man like that was. I think it opened the doors
Speaker 1: for for other people to write songs like that and
Speaker 1: be able to do that type of thing. It was
Speaker 1: definitely r and b ish. Yeah, like you said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Adam Hambury. I'm a huge Adam hay fan.
Speaker 1: He's from missip He's a missive kidds.
Speaker 3: So funny story about Adam. So he was playing he's
Speaker 3: from Arkansas, where I'm from.
Speaker 1: It's right, he's from Arkansas, moved to Corinth. That's what
Speaker 1: you're thinking up in Corinth. Yeah, Yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: high school Arkansas. Yeah, and so yeah, he's a big
Speaker 1: Arkansas basketball fan. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'm watching Good Morning Arkansas. This was golly, this
Speaker 3: had to be twenty eleven, twelve something like that, it was,
Speaker 3: and I see him on there and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: this this should be good because normally, you know, normally
Speaker 3: on those local shows.
Speaker 1: It's not good. Yeah, it's not good ever, man, I
Speaker 1: hate to be that way, but it's not.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, damn, this guy's pretty good. And I
Speaker 3: come back and I go, he's real good.
Speaker 1: Like, wow, he's stupid.
Speaker 3: So I texted Stover, yeah who we both know, my producer,
Speaker 3: and I go check this guy out because I think
Speaker 3: he's really really good. Uh, maybe I'm crazy, and he goes,
Speaker 3: he's amazing.
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I thought so too. Okay, good So anyway, Uh.
Speaker 3: I had his uh one of his first cuts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a song that I did with Miranda Lambert
Speaker 3: called Old Habits Yeah, and then somebody else will Yeah
Speaker 3: He's a Killer was another one.
Speaker 1: That was his second number one. He had a number
Speaker 1: one before, not to with Danny shap Yeah, Danny shav
Speaker 1: that was yeah. So he's that guy too. He's got
Speaker 1: that R and B bone him for sure, no doubt.
Speaker 1: He's smooth oh yeah. And he's a great singer. He
Speaker 1: great writer, a singer, he's just a musician. You see
Speaker 1: what you think about this song where I wrote it
Speaker 1: on the way into day. We wrote it on the
Speaker 1: way and if you want to cut it, put both
Speaker 1: of us, I'm gonna do with justin more style. H
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they keep that going on there there? What
Speaker 1: you're mad at? Just tell us what it is? What
Speaker 1: you're mad? A?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: You're in and lost kids? My bee bass, ma'am can't
Speaker 1: hear with your neighbors cat. Just tell us what you mad?
Speaker 1: You like that I do. I don't think it's a hit.
Speaker 1: Did you hear his voice code? I like the melody. Uh,
Speaker 1: you can change some things. Yeah, you can ride a
Speaker 1: second con. That's the maybe we should get with Montana. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one we don't need. I don't need. What are
Speaker 1: you mad at?
Speaker 3: Dan?
Speaker 1: You're mad? My three year old dropped a nerf gun
Speaker 1: on my toe and I think he broke my toe.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, dude, you just break your tonguey, So now
Speaker 1: I got your pinky bro toe and the thing is
Speaker 1: for a month. The nerf gun up and it's not
Speaker 1: even that heavy. It's not a heavy gun. It's just
Speaker 1: the exact like, oh, the drop you can yet, I've
Speaker 1: done it with Champago, get it. It just popped. And
Speaker 1: I was like, God, what the I didn't say nothing?
Speaker 1: What the what? What? That's what you gotta say? What
Speaker 1: they did say nothing? I just but I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, did your hand and do like this town.
Speaker 3: This is probably monotonous and boring, but I hate when
Speaker 3: people drive slow in the left lane.
Speaker 1: God just going in that same thing I did my Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably boring, but mine mine. I just drove from uh,
Speaker 1: my wife and I we have a place in Florida.
Speaker 1: Uh we just went to the beach.
Speaker 3: And we drove from our place in Arkansas to the beach,
Speaker 3: and it was constant.
Speaker 1: I'm like, get the f over, please, please go go
Speaker 1: over there. Yeah, that's what it's made for. Blanker own
Speaker 1: or don't don't even care, get over, Yeah, get out
Speaker 1: of your dude. Yeah, excoot. You should obviously see I'm
Speaker 1: on you. Yeah. And then when they get like with
Speaker 1: another car, that's they're going the same they're both doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sixty five and seventy five stairs. I'm glad this morning
Speaker 1: because I fixed my running boards that Dan broke didn't
Speaker 1: didn't break it. Let me explain, because literally broke them,
Speaker 1: because I'm the automatically the amp research. So you broke them. Yes,
Speaker 1: I literally broke the teeth off of gears. Stop saying
Speaker 1: literally so much. Literally broke them. So I go to drop,
Speaker 1: I go to get in the truck to back up
Speaker 1: to put the boat in, and when I open the door,
Speaker 1: it goes, no, No, that's a lot, that's a lie.
Speaker 1: It's a lie. I was like, it's a lie. Don't don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not and you get away with that one. When
Speaker 1: he opened the door, he goes and just stopped right here.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to go all the way down. It didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't start popp until you stepped on it. So
Speaker 1: I was in the boat, getting you gonna talk all
Speaker 1: day or you're gonna let somebode else talk. I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna let you get away with the lie today.
Speaker 1: And he stepped on it and went I was. I
Speaker 1: was one hundred yards away, and I heard bop and
Speaker 1: I looked out. I kind of gave the old one too.
Speaker 1: I looked up and then and goes, it wasn't down
Speaker 1: all the way it is now, And I was like
Speaker 1: and then and then he closed the door and starting it's.
Speaker 2: Down all the way down already in the truck, and
Speaker 2: he's going to help it, help it from the.
Speaker 1: Boat in the lake. And I'm like, he's help it, Oh,
Speaker 1: you mean reach out the window and go all the
Speaker 1: way and pull your stupid cheap running board up. Man,
Speaker 1: she lived them things up on the internet. They ain't cheap.
Speaker 1: I didn't buy them, but they ain't cheap. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the intar story. So anyway, I got her there
Speaker 1: and fixed them. I fixed them. I just I went
Speaker 1: mechanic on them and fixed them. And now they're working
Speaker 1: because you broke them and they're fixed. Now. About hunting
Speaker 1: for a little bit. I'd heard it do that happing before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about something important. Yeah, I know, Joe, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna start. I know, I know. Dan just
Speaker 1: went straight into music, which we don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about at all. If you had one afternoon or one morning,
Speaker 1: just a little four hour period to be hunting or
Speaker 1: fishing something, where would you be white tail? Okay? Where
Speaker 1: and when?
Speaker 3: Probably at home Arkansas because I know the area the best.
Speaker 3: But I look, Arkansas is world famous for duck hunting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I live iron and a half from Stuttgart, which.
Speaker 1: Is more central. Are you like close to a little
Speaker 1: rock in there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like south a little rock about fifty miles.
Speaker 3: But I love whitetail for some reason. I've hunted elk
Speaker 3: and and mules and above. For some reason, I just
Speaker 3: love white tail hunting. I don't know why, I just do.
Speaker 3: So that would be my pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I always say mine too, Mine, mine's
Speaker 1: white tail. Mine's white tail hunting. Probably now in Kansas,
Speaker 1: I mean in the midwest, Kansas and Iowa. Pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: I was great. Yeah, it's amazing. But uh but yeah,
Speaker 1: so do you have did you did you grow up hunting? What? Like?
Speaker 1: What was your first introduction into the outdoors.
Speaker 3: My grandfather was a big hunter, my dad's dad, and
Speaker 3: he was my hero, Like he was.
Speaker 1: The guy, the dude. Yeah for me.
Speaker 3: He passed away unfortunately I don't know, fifteen twenty years ago,
Speaker 3: but he was my hero still is even though he's gone.
Speaker 3: But he's the one that took me hunting and taught
Speaker 3: me how. And and then my other grandfather, my mom's dad,
Speaker 3: taught me about fishing. So I got hunting from one
Speaker 3: and fishing from the other. And but I mean, I
Speaker 3: love both, but I love to hunt.
Speaker 1: What time of the year is your favorite? Telling me
Speaker 1: to home, Yeah, Arkansas is kind of a sleeper white
Speaker 1: tail statement. I don't want there's a lot. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of big ones. I've heard some bigger deer
Speaker 1: on the road on the river. Yeah, I mean, now
Speaker 1: if you delta, like.
Speaker 3: To the Delta, yeah, that area, it's there's big deer and.
Speaker 1: That's that's where that's running all the way up and
Speaker 1: down the river. Though I'm in.
Speaker 3: A pretty good lease back home as well, where there's
Speaker 3: pretty big deer, but we manage them like you can't shoot.
Speaker 3: But this type of deer, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like it's so that makes a difference obviously, but uh
Speaker 3: but yeah, the Delta is where you know where they
Speaker 3: soybeans and rice and all.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so they're studs. The duck bug everybody you not.
Speaker 3: Really, which is weird, man, because it's a huge thing
Speaker 3: in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I mean, yeah, just like talking to
Speaker 1: you from that, like just knowing you now, you don't
Speaker 1: seem like a duck guy. Like guys have a thing
Speaker 1: like I mean, I'll go, but I suck at calling
Speaker 1: and given.
Speaker 3: Here's my thing. I don't like to eat duck. I
Speaker 3: don't think it tastes.
Speaker 1: Good, not even like duck poppers, not really just more creamy.
Speaker 1: So I'd rather go kill something I'd rather eat, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. For sure, I'm with that. This
Speaker 1: is my best tip. That's all I can do. That's
Speaker 1: way better than me. Give them. You gotta give them
Speaker 1: the clouds too loud, too loud.
Speaker 3: Now I'll go and hang out and like like normally,
Speaker 3: like when I go, it's with guys that are you know,
Speaker 3: uh ballers or whatever, and uh, that's what we do.
Speaker 3: They're pouring drinks in the blind and I'm like, whatever hard,
Speaker 3: what are those ice teeth?
Speaker 1: Like one of the tea twisted teas? Oh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what we We crushed those, and but uh, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what we do. We're we're like a one time a year,
Speaker 1: go for a few days, kill a bunch of ducks.
Speaker 1: Just see it and then shoot a bunch. Yeah, shoot
Speaker 1: a bunch. It's gotta be after deer. I ain't trying
Speaker 1: to break ice. I ain't trying to set up there
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning out there. Yeah, screw that two hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with that. I like to go sit in my
Speaker 1: red neck blind.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I got my heater, Not that I even need it,
Speaker 3: because red neck blind they're pretty warm.
Speaker 1: Are you sponsored by them or something?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I wish I was. I could use a sponsorship, sponsorship,
Speaker 1: but no, I'd rather go sit in that and chill. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's the a loneeness of deer honting that
Speaker 1: that really draws me into it. Honestly, is the conversation
Speaker 1: and the lack of talking. That's the thing about duck
Speaker 1: hunters is they can't they the camaraderie of a blind
Speaker 1: is what draws them to the blind. They can't sit
Speaker 1: like I got like John Pickle, love him to death.
Speaker 1: He listens to his podcast and he will agree with
Speaker 1: me that he cannot sit in a deer stand by himself.
Speaker 1: I love sitting, I will say, though. So.
Speaker 3: My two youngest daughters both killed their first dear this year.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: Sitting with me. That's that's the coolest thing of all time.
Speaker 3: One of them is ten and one's thirteen.
Speaker 1: How many kids you got you got? We have four?
Speaker 3: We have three daughters fifteen thirteen, ten our boys seven
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 1: So the two middle girls are the two younger girls
Speaker 1: both killed their first deer, and I cried literally. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got.
Speaker 3: A video I can show you guys of us tracking
Speaker 3: their deer. Wow, And I mean it was the coolest
Speaker 3: thing of all time.
Speaker 1: So set it up. How'd you take them? When'd you
Speaker 1: take them? Where? What were the deer? Did they show
Speaker 1: interest before it? Were you like, hey, we're going today
Speaker 1: and you're going with me? No? Both of them are
Speaker 1: like way in.
Speaker 3: My oldest daughter she scoped herself a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Take out of them and she's out right now understandable.
Speaker 3: One wants to, but he's seven, Yeah, so he can't. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a little too young. But uh, I tell you what.
Speaker 3: My ten year old is the one that gets obsessed
Speaker 3: and she is a dead eye, Like she shoots better
Speaker 3: than me.
Speaker 1: What you got to shooting?
Speaker 3: She shot a two twenty three perfect, And then my
Speaker 3: older daughter, thirteen year old, shot a two seventy.
Speaker 1: You haven't suppressed, are you like that one's suppressed? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But uh she waited for it to go from one
Speaker 3: hundred yards to about two hundred yards and she shot
Speaker 3: it right in the backbone.
Speaker 1: But the other one, just the other one shot.
Speaker 3: My ten year old shot a deer that was probably
Speaker 3: the size of that guitar bag over there.
Speaker 1: I literally picked it up and just threw it in
Speaker 1: the back of Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was awesome, lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like you're hunting now is more
Speaker 1: geared too, because we have this conversation all the time,
Speaker 1: like we both have young kids and they're coming up.
Speaker 1: And we saw it with my dad too, Like my
Speaker 1: dad was super. I mean he's he's the biggest and
Speaker 1: talk about a whitetail guy. I mean he literally will
Speaker 1: will pass up an elk hunt to because he's like
Speaker 1: I can't miss a rut in Tennessee, like I ain't
Speaker 1: going out hunt. But uh, we saw the switch in
Speaker 1: him to where like it was hardcore with him, hardcore
Speaker 1: hardcore he was he was, he was getting after it.
Speaker 1: We saw the switch turn to us and then it
Speaker 1: was all about us hunting and and he got more
Speaker 1: and we saw it like he he had more. He
Speaker 1: enjoyed that more I think than than going out there
Speaker 1: by himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you, I told you guys, I cried
Speaker 3: when my daughter killed the steer, and yeah, I remember
Speaker 3: my grandfather, you know who I talked about teaching me
Speaker 3: how to hunt, and I saw him make the switch.
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't even need to take a gun
Speaker 3: now because you're doing it. Yeah. And I did the
Speaker 3: same thing this year. It was so much more. I've
Speaker 3: killed so many big deer as you guys have, I'm sure,
Speaker 3: and I enjoy every experience, and I've killed a lot
Speaker 3: of elk and different things. And but to have the
Speaker 3: opportunity to see the joy on my ten year old
Speaker 3: daughter's face, yes, that's it, you know.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait for that. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's so awesome, dude, It's so cool. It seems like
Speaker 1: you're hunting just kind of kicks into a new gear,
Speaker 1: you know, and it means something totally different to you
Speaker 1: than you know. And we got a few years. I mean,
Speaker 1: my oldest is six almost, so I got some time.
Speaker 3: And to me, the moments inside the deer stand or
Speaker 3: what makes it, you know, so like I'm handing her
Speaker 3: a blanket and she's watching her iPad or you know.
Speaker 1: Whatever, seeing the first deer come across.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it like this particular deer. For my ten year old.
Speaker 3: She slaps me like this with the back of her hand.
Speaker 1: She goes, Dad, there's a deer. I go, all right,
Speaker 1: I go, you own it? Are you on it? All right?
Speaker 3: Squeeze, don't jerk, squeeze the trigger. Bam, just hammered it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's super cool.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: And then my thirteen year old, like I said, it
Speaker 3: came out at like one hundred yards. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: shoot it, shoot it. It walks to like one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty yards. It walks to like one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty yards.
Speaker 1: I go, it's about to go over that fence out there,
Speaker 1: two hundred yards and she squeeze it.
Speaker 3: Squeeze, she squeezes and it hammers it hit it in
Speaker 3: the backbone, broke his backbone. But but yeah, put them down,
Speaker 3: hammered it.
Speaker 1: I've heard I've heard guys that like take their kids.
Speaker 1: They'll say, like, you know, it's hard to get time
Speaker 1: with them at home because especially when they're growing up,
Speaker 1: they getting into their teens, they want to do their
Speaker 1: own specially with.
Speaker 3: The iPads, iPhones and all that, and they talk about it.
Speaker 1: They're like, you talk about quality time. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what you're saying is getting getting them out into the
Speaker 1: woods and in a deer blind where you're sitting there
Speaker 1: for hours on end, just you and them. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't wait to do it. Some of
Speaker 1: the best, you know, some of the best time I
Speaker 1: get with my kids. Yeah, it's awesome, you know.
Speaker 3: And that looking back for me, so, you know, a
Speaker 3: ride of passage for guys who hunt is when you
Speaker 3: can sit by yourself, without your dad or without your
Speaker 3: papa or whatever. For me, I always sat with my grandpa,
Speaker 3: even when I was like eighteen nineteen years old. I
Speaker 3: sat with my grandpa because I just love spending that
Speaker 3: time with it.
Speaker 1: And so you for recognizing that that young you know,
Speaker 1: uh m yeah. And so.
Speaker 3: You know, I hope my kids will, you know, feel
Speaker 3: the same way.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they will, but I hope. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. J Just cook it up. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: uh right, can't beat it, can't beat it, can't gravy
Speaker 1: and biscuit, a little little rollet paded out and tender
Speaker 1: eyes it go dad.
Speaker 3: Italian and dress them yeah oh yeah, and then bread
Speaker 3: it and fry.
Speaker 1: Yep. You we're going elk hunting this year for like
Speaker 1: the where are you going the for real first time?
Speaker 1: New Mexico.
Speaker 3: Okay, you've never been to New Mexico. I've been to
Speaker 3: Colorado and Montana.
Speaker 1: It's the one thing in our hunting kind of like
Speaker 1: careers that we haven't done is go out there and
Speaker 1: chase them.
Speaker 3: They're so huge, Like, I mean, I know you know that,
Speaker 3: but when you actually see them, you're like, holy cow,
Speaker 3: like they're huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We ran up on one in Montana when we
Speaker 1: were Miliere hunting and I literally thought somebody's horses had
Speaker 1: gotten out because it was the first one I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: You're just not then you even see them standing next
Speaker 1: to horses and they're they're big. They're huge. Yeah, they're big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're enormous. Tell us a little bit about your Colorado
Speaker 1: hunt last year, or just tell us about your best
Speaker 1: your elk story, best elk story you got my best one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the best one Colorado. I killed. It was a
Speaker 1: decent elk. It wasn't great.
Speaker 3: Last year, but my favorite hunt was I hunted in Browning, Montana,
Speaker 3: which is the northernmost part of Montana.
Speaker 1: Western guess eastern uh the Glacier National Park.
Speaker 3: I think it's called the most beautiful place I've ever
Speaker 3: seen in my life. And uh, we were on we
Speaker 3: would ride in on horseback at like three am, which
Speaker 3: was it was like cowboys and Indian, yeah kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: And so we were riding around and we're glass and
Speaker 3: off of.
Speaker 1: Ridges and all this stuff.
Speaker 3: And literally the last day, I think we had hunted
Speaker 3: five six days and I finally got a pretty nice
Speaker 3: six by six and then showed up at the show.
Speaker 3: We were opening for Miranda Lambert at the time. Showed
Speaker 3: up at the show with blood like all over me.
Speaker 1: Come on, it was pretty cool. Yeah, do you get
Speaker 1: to do a lot of hunting when you're on the road,
Speaker 1: like when you when it a little and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: when it when it works out, you know, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: excited about it, just because I've never We don't know
Speaker 1: anything about it, honestly. It's it's just something that unless
Speaker 1: you're you know, get the opportunities to go do there's
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't have any of that over here,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, anything even comparable.
Speaker 3: It's they're kind of like white Tail really really, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: Like Mule deer stupid. My tail are pretty smart. De
Speaker 1: mule deer a curious like they'll just they'll come check
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 3: Like the first mule deer I killed, I shot completely whiffed, missed,
Speaker 3: and he just stood there and looked back at me
Speaker 3: like this, and I shot him.
Speaker 1: That Tennessee and Arkansas white tails headed to the next
Speaker 1: county happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly a little. But I think elker somewhere
Speaker 3: in between.
Speaker 1: How was it?
Speaker 3: How was the eating great? I've got a freezer full
Speaker 3: of elk as we speak. That's delicious, man, So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great. You see any any wolves in Colorado? No,
Speaker 3: I don't think we saw any wolves, but I will
Speaker 3: say I did say on top of a horse, glass
Speaker 3: and a ridge, like I'm literally like a mile away,
Speaker 3: I saw a grizzly And so.
Speaker 1: I know you're going to say.
Speaker 3: That I'm glass and and the the guide with me goes,
Speaker 3: we gotta go. I go, why, he goes, that's a grizzly.
Speaker 3: I go, like, like that spec like way down there.
Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, it's probably a mile away. We we
Speaker 3: gotta go. I go, he's like that spec but a
Speaker 3: mile away he goes, Yeah, he can make up that
Speaker 3: ground in no time.
Speaker 1: Wow, which is I was stunned by. Yeah. But curveball question,
Speaker 1: would you rather be killed by a silverback gorilla or
Speaker 1: a grizzly bear? Whatever's quick as uh? I would think it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, another another curveball question. If a
Speaker 1: silverback gorilla and a grizzly fought, who would win? I
Speaker 1: would think a grizzly. I'm going grizzly to a lot
Speaker 1: of Yeah, A lot of guys say silver backs. I
Speaker 1: just feel like with the claws, it's just kind of
Speaker 1: instant and they're quick.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I just told you they can make up a mile
Speaker 1: and right, So if that had been a gorilla down there,
Speaker 1: you gotta be like, all right, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: silver backs are me. I don't know how fast they
Speaker 1: are distance runners? Silver Backs am me. No. I asked
Speaker 1: you about the wolves because a big thing right now
Speaker 1: is a hot topic in Colorado is the reintroduction of
Speaker 1: wolves and kind of how I don't know when they
Speaker 1: reintroduced them, but it's like they did their year end
Speaker 1: review and a lot of the you're talking about, like wolf, wolf,
Speaker 1: Wolf's wolf. Yeah, reintroducing them to the wild out there,
Speaker 1: a lot of the a lot of the cattle farmers around.
Speaker 1: Oh man, what's what's the what's the what's the town?
Speaker 1: What's the town? We almost went elk counting. It starts
Speaker 1: with the sea anyway, Kremlin, Yeah, Krimlin, something like that.
Speaker 1: There's a farmer there that has seen almost like a
Speaker 1: twelve percent drop in calf and and like calf production
Speaker 1: one either to killing or two either to the stress
Speaker 1: of his herd now because the wolves are coming in
Speaker 1: and that. I mean, he's like he's gone to the
Speaker 1: government for the local officials and everything. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get them. He's like he's trying to get them out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out wolves out there. I
Speaker 1: really don't. I mean, I understand why people want them around.
Speaker 1: And it's not that I don't want them around, but
Speaker 1: they got to be managed someone. And I feel like
Speaker 1: this topic is way smarter than me because we live
Speaker 1: here and we're not really in it as much. But
Speaker 1: I mean I get where they're coming from. I mean,
Speaker 1: them jokers are they're paying they're paying people. The Colorado CWF,
Speaker 1: I think is what it's called our Pampit people. Forty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year to be range riders. And it's
Speaker 1: where you can literally just hop on a horse and
Speaker 1: ride around herds in farms out there to keep to
Speaker 1: keep the wall, to keep the wolves away. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you to kill them. I like, well, why do they
Speaker 1: reintroduce them with no just to keep them away, just
Speaker 1: to to to get them to run out. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a tough tough subject. All right, dude, Let's talk about, uh,
Speaker 1: your coaching career. Where where where do you see it ending?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna you're gonna be You're gonna be in
Speaker 1: in one day on the sidelines.
Speaker 3: I hope we don't follow that far that they need
Speaker 3: to hire me. Uh but no, man, I I grew
Speaker 3: up I played baseball and basketball. Uh we didn't have
Speaker 3: football because our school was so small, our town was
Speaker 3: so small, we didn't have enough people.
Speaker 1: And so uh but I love the game.
Speaker 3: I love I love sports, and I think sports teach
Speaker 3: you a great lessons how to succeed, how to fail,
Speaker 3: had a lead, had to be lead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I'm.
Speaker 3: Thrilled that my kids are have, you know, developed the
Speaker 3: same passion for it that I have, and they are
Speaker 3: okay with me. Coaching them. And so yeah, I've coached
Speaker 3: all my daughters in softball and basketball, and then now
Speaker 3: I coach my my son in baseball and football and
Speaker 3: h this year basketball.
Speaker 1: That's all. It seems like one of those things that
Speaker 1: once you start coaching, your kids are gonna be like, well,
Speaker 1: you coached her, so you got to coach and then
Speaker 1: there's no way. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: So my youngest daughter, who's ten, she's like, Dad, you
Speaker 3: coached Ella, you coach Ken can come on and yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Man, it's awesome. And the other thing for me is.
Speaker 3: I love having the opportunity to, at least I think
Speaker 3: or I'm trying to be a positive adult role model
Speaker 3: impacts in our uh community for sure, you know.
Speaker 1: And so do you live in the town you grew
Speaker 1: up here?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, that's cool. Three people three hundred. Wow, that's also. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's where I coach. That's sick. So have you
Speaker 1: had any like I remember I was in high school.
Speaker 1: I umpired some games and I had to throw dan
Speaker 1: through a deacon through a deacon our church out. It
Speaker 1: was like my best friend's dad, but he totally deserved it, totally.
Speaker 3: I'm a bit of appeal if you will with with
Speaker 3: ump Okay, so.
Speaker 1: Tell me you you gotta have you got to have
Speaker 1: a good parent story tucked in there over the past. Yeah,
Speaker 1: throw somebody under the bus here.
Speaker 3: I don't know, ten years ago or something. I'm coaching
Speaker 3: my oldest daughter, who's now fifteen.
Speaker 1: Set up the scenario so we can see who's whose
Speaker 1: side we're on this. If we're on the side of
Speaker 1: your side, Oh, we're on my side. Well, I'm on
Speaker 1: Justin's side. I haven't made up my mind. Well you
Speaker 1: couldn't record so because if you are, I still got
Speaker 1: a song as going to the radio.
Speaker 3: I'm on just I'm coaching third base and our girl
Speaker 3: slides in. I don't remember if it was my daughter
Speaker 3: was yeah, but uh, she slides in.
Speaker 1: She was safe.
Speaker 3: They called her out. It was a female umpire and
Speaker 3: I go, you miss that one, you miss that one comment.
Speaker 3: And then she gets from a coach, so she says,
Speaker 3: I forget what she said.
Speaker 1: I got back a little bit.
Speaker 3: I said, look, I've forgotten more about this game than
Speaker 3: you'll ever learn.
Speaker 1: Justin quick bringing the bringing the skipper. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say, from a jad's standpoint, it seems a little quick, but.
Speaker 3: It was it was pretty obvious call heat of the moment. Man,
Speaker 3: So I got, I go, you cost me a run.
Speaker 3: So we're still going cost me a run.
Speaker 1: So she she's chill. And so.
Speaker 3: The next play we're totally out, like I don't remember
Speaker 3: the play, but like we're we're definitely out, like I
Speaker 3: throw the first and obviously out. Yeah, and she called, uh,
Speaker 3: the girl say, and I go, thank you for the
Speaker 3: makeup call.
Speaker 1: She goes, I don't do makeup calls.
Speaker 3: I go, well, you may not do makeup calls, but
Speaker 3: every other umpire does, and thank you for the makeup call.
Speaker 3: She should have tossed me to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I wish he'd been like, I don't do makeup either.
Speaker 1: Meet me in the parking lot. He'll whip you out.
Speaker 1: Country singer, Like, do you have parents, like? Like, do
Speaker 1: they treat you like Justin Moore? The country singer? They
Speaker 1: treat you like Justin Moore? I grew up in the town.
Speaker 1: They treat me like anybody else. Yeah, no doubt, No doubt, dude.
Speaker 1: I we're from a small town too. It's it's not
Speaker 1: three hundred, but I used to be mad at it,
Speaker 1: like I used to like, I'm never moving back to
Speaker 1: my hometown and I'm not going to. But I was
Speaker 1: just having this conversation with Casey Beller yesterday. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I think of love Casey. Dude. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: our national dad. He is the greatest, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest human beings ever met. Totally. Yes, And it's like
Speaker 1: my manager.
Speaker 3: He's here and he said this about other songwriters, and
Speaker 3: I think the same thing about Casey, Like I know
Speaker 3: all the same words.
Speaker 1: As Casey, Yeah, but I can't put them together. Like
Speaker 1: he's an artist for sure. I mean he's ridiculous. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Next he says, such a good dude. We were we
Speaker 1: were literally had yesterday off and nanny was gone, so
Speaker 1: we just kept the kids. And well I was laying
Speaker 1: lounging in a pool and he drove up. We live.
Speaker 1: I lived for three minutes from him. Wait, wait, lounging
Speaker 1: in what pool? And look my little water slide? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a kiddie pool. Not yeah, it ain't. It ain't a
Speaker 1: thirty six foot eleven dollars from dollar generally, you know
Speaker 1: those things are expensive. It's actual water slide. Oh I
Speaker 1: thought you met the pool. The no I was lounging
Speaker 1: in the in the water slide, the water slide pool.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I told Bucks we were talking about it,
Speaker 1: and and uh, he actually started writing a song on
Speaker 1: me while while we were talking about it. But I
Speaker 1: was like, man, I I was mad at my hometown
Speaker 1: for a long time, but now I think about it.
Speaker 1: But he he he asked, He actually asked what I
Speaker 1: was doing tomorrow. If I was working tomorrow, I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're podcast with just More. He's like, dude, I love Justin.
Speaker 1: He was like, he's and he said this and and
Speaker 1: and this is this is actually what got us on
Speaker 1: that topic, he said. He said, Justin's a guy that
Speaker 1: gets it and he's got it for a long time.
Speaker 1: And he was like, he's like he lives in his hometown.
Speaker 1: And that's where we started talking about that, and and man,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know, man I, you know, you
Speaker 1: can get caught up in the You move to town
Speaker 1: with this like this, this hunger and this thirst for
Speaker 1: what Nashville holds and what you can get out of
Speaker 1: it and what it's going to bring you and working
Speaker 1: in it and succeeding in it, and then man, you
Speaker 1: just kind of you do that, and you see behind
Speaker 1: the curtain and you live here for a minute and
Speaker 1: you kind of get a taste of it, and you
Speaker 1: really don't know what you had when when you were
Speaker 1: living in a small town, when life was slow, when
Speaker 1: you knew everybody, when everybody treated you the same, when
Speaker 1: you could, you know, leave your doors unlocked and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Man, And its just like now having kids.
Speaker 1: I kind of wish I kind of wish they could
Speaker 1: grow up feeling that, and they do a little bit.
Speaker 1: Where we're at. We're not in town. We're forty minutes
Speaker 1: south and you know, Thomas Station area, but they ain't
Speaker 1: got it like town of three hundred. Well, I tell
Speaker 1: you this.
Speaker 3: So for me personally, I moved to town when I
Speaker 3: was eighteen and I wanted to be George straight.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be bigger than anybody, sell more tickets
Speaker 3: than anybody. Then I got married, had kids, and my
Speaker 3: priorities changed I supposed to, And so God is number
Speaker 3: one for me. Number two is my family. And it's
Speaker 3: more important to me to be a good parent and
Speaker 3: a good husband than it is to be George the
Speaker 3: George trade. And so I thought for me personally, that
Speaker 3: would happen back home.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of great friends here in Nashville,
Speaker 3: and Nashville is really good to me, but it just
Speaker 3: wasn't home, you know, it just never felt like home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so you know, we moved back home and you.
Speaker 1: Made that decision. When was that because I don't even
Speaker 1: know if a lot of people know that, Like what
Speaker 1: year was that? Yeah, yeah, ten, eleven, twelve, something like that.
Speaker 1: Did you know you always wanted to do that? I did.
Speaker 1: I never bought a house here. I couldn't make myself do.
Speaker 3: It, and so we always rented. And we had my
Speaker 3: oldest daughter again, who's fifteen, and at the time she
Speaker 3: was I don't know, eight ten months old, and we
Speaker 3: moved back, so you can do the math. I don't know,
Speaker 3: fourteen thirteen, whatever it was. And it's been great for us, Like,
Speaker 3: for example, like my oldest daughter's second grade teacher was
Speaker 3: my second grade teacher. That's so cool, man, you know,
Speaker 3: And that's so good. That's just one example of many.
Speaker 1: I live.
Speaker 3: Again on on the property I grew up on. I
Speaker 3: can I can hit a pitching wedge to my parents
Speaker 3: house where I grew up over a pond. Nice you know,
Speaker 3: in a cow pasture, a pretty long pitching wedge yards.
Speaker 1: Out there. If I blade it, you hit it grow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it probably.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, guys, it's probably cost me
Speaker 3: some things.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has, I mean awards and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: It's cost me awards.
Speaker 1: Why would it cost you? And why would you no offense?
Speaker 1: But why would you care about awards?
Speaker 3: I don't you don't obviously, I don't even go to
Speaker 3: awards shows anymore.
Speaker 1: Not for you, man, you do get it. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so the book and it's obvious. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no dellusion that it's cost me things in my career.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that. So obviously the
Speaker 1: the pros for your family are nuts. But if we
Speaker 1: just take family completely out of it, what do you
Speaker 1: think career wise that it's actually cost you? Because you're
Speaker 1: still awards tickets? Probably probably tours. You think not living
Speaker 1: in Nashville's cost you tours? Really? Yeah? Wow? But I
Speaker 1: don't give a ship.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, man, To be honest with you, don't turkey
Speaker 3: gobble that one. Here's the thing. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you can cuss on you can we put Turkey gobble over.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to tell on that one because
Speaker 1: that was that's conviction, man, And I like to here.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing I want kids twenty years from now
Speaker 3: to goo. Dad was here, he was here. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: made us the priority. So yeah, how much are you
Speaker 3: playing there? How many shows you play here?
Speaker 7: We play about seventy five eighty Jesus you might still,
Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's going dude, But I remember playing
Speaker 7: to eighty, so eighty is yeah, like I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, So I mean that's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's well over every weekend. I mean you're how are
Speaker 1: you doing during the week stuff or everyone? No, No,
Speaker 1: it's usually weekend.
Speaker 3: I mean like Friday Saturday or Thursday Friday Saturday. And
Speaker 3: we take a lot of time. We've been off a
Speaker 3: lot this year. For example, I don't know that we've
Speaker 3: played more than ten fifteen shows this year so far.
Speaker 3: But I mean we're about to get really busy in
Speaker 3: the summer.
Speaker 1: Do you does your family ever get to travel? You
Speaker 1: take them on the road with you? My kids do.
Speaker 3: My wife does not care anything about coming out unless
Speaker 3: it's like Chicago or Manhattan, or she's like, where are
Speaker 3: you going? Nah'mah Detroit, but the kids want to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you ever see did you ever see it
Speaker 1: playing out like this? Like did you ever did you
Speaker 1: see it when you moved to town or before you
Speaker 1: moved to town, when like when you were when you
Speaker 1: made the decision, Hey, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: do music, try to do music for a living. Did
Speaker 1: you see it getting to a point where you've got
Speaker 1: thirteen number ones, selling out you know, shows and being
Speaker 1: able to travel and that have been for twenty years,
Speaker 1: absolutely having some of the biggest songs in this decade
Speaker 1: of country music.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know that I saw that happening
Speaker 3: as far as you know, the the amount of success
Speaker 3: we've had. But for some reason, man, like I'll always
Speaker 3: thought I would I would do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. But it's crazy how many people
Speaker 1: answer with that, and they always say, I don't know why,
Speaker 1: And don't think I'm a bad person. That's not I
Speaker 1: think faith is what it is.
Speaker 3: But if you if you told me, I would have
Speaker 3: twenty plus top ten records and we've been doing this
Speaker 3: for now going on two decades.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would have thought that. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: that's a critic career to be proud of. Man, you've
Speaker 1: you've you've been, you stood your ground, and you've if
Speaker 1: you've been who you are the entire time. And even
Speaker 1: not knowing you personally, I knew that, and I think
Speaker 1: your fans know that, and I think this town knows that.
Speaker 1: And Uh, props to you man for stand trut yourself.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you say your family will benefit I mean
Speaker 1: from that, but yeah, I mean that time with your
Speaker 1: kids and and and seeing and then being able to
Speaker 1: coach there that that means way more than any accolade
Speaker 1: this town could ever or any plaque you can hang
Speaker 1: on the wall. Mayeah, I think that's your awards. I
Speaker 1: think your awards are your kids and seeing you know,
Speaker 1: grow up and be successful and be good humans. You know. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Uh, you just toasted your annual golf
Speaker 1: Classic raised more than four hundred and seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for Saint Jude. That's a that's that's awesome man,
Speaker 1: good on you for doing that. Yeah, it's Uh, it's.
Speaker 3: Been a really cool experience for myself and my wife
Speaker 3: to be able to Uh, I guess spearhead.
Speaker 1: That yeah, if you will.
Speaker 3: For I think this our fifth year and we're at
Speaker 3: like five million, four million raised.
Speaker 1: Something like that, and that's all.
Speaker 3: I'm really proud to be a part of country music
Speaker 3: for a lot of different reasons, but uh, the fact
Speaker 3: that we do so much, which is a community for
Speaker 3: Saint Jude, to me, is is something I'm I'm very
Speaker 3: proud of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, man, that's great. What's your You got
Speaker 1: a handicap? You like to play?
Speaker 3: I do right now. I'm probably over twenty. The best
Speaker 3: I was was about ten, but that was that was
Speaker 3: a few kids ago.
Speaker 1: You get to get a lot of four days when
Speaker 1: I got to play a lot more. But all right,
Speaker 1: we came up with a game and I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about it. It's called justin Moore just enough or just
Speaker 1: a less? Okay, So what you gotta do is say
Speaker 1: more enough or less. So let's just do what do
Speaker 1: you mean enough? Like it's enough? Okay? Is it more
Speaker 1: or less? Or more enough? Let's just do more or less? No,
Speaker 1: it's it's more just enough. It was it was just
Speaker 1: and more or justin less.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna throw a subject out. You said we need more
Speaker 1: of this, that's enough any justin more of this or
Speaker 1: justin justin Justin Moore of this? You say your own
Speaker 1: name a lot, there is just enough of this, or
Speaker 1: justin less of this. The last one doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 1: So here's my subjects. Recently I've seen I've seen a
Speaker 1: video of Ernest with his shirt off, and we love Ernest.
Speaker 1: He's been on the show, He's awesome. I've also seen
Speaker 1: he's a singer here.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know if you meant like like the movie.
Speaker 1: No, that's what I was. Sorry. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you Ernest states Christmas, go watch Ernest since Christmas? All right,
Speaker 1: So because that was huge when we were kids. Camp Yeah,
Speaker 1: turtle bites wo the not I remember. So shirts off
Speaker 1: in country music is the subject I've seen Ernest with
Speaker 1: his shirt off recently, which is you know, props too,
Speaker 1: I'm a bigger guy myself. You got Warren Ziders coming
Speaker 1: out all all the and slicked up hot boys Warren Zyders,
Speaker 1: and you got Gavin Adcock. So when it comes to
Speaker 1: shirts off in country music performing, do we need Justin
Speaker 1: Moore of that? Is it just enough of that or
Speaker 1: justin less of that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Justin lest he gets it? Okay, so you got a
Speaker 1: game least? Okay? All right?
Speaker 3: I saw uh so, Uh, Gavin and Warren we're both
Speaker 3: on my team on the softball game.
Speaker 1: Celebrity. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Here, Warren looks like he works out. Gavin looks like
Speaker 3: you don't like he drinks beer and so I told
Speaker 3: Connor Smith. I don't know if you guys haven't had
Speaker 3: him on it, but a great guy. I go, Man,
Speaker 3: Hardy is way faster than I thought he was. He goes, heart,
Speaker 3: he's not here. I go, that's Tody right there. He goes, No,
Speaker 3: that's Gavin.
Speaker 1: I go, no kidding, alright, definitely live in Arkansas, bro,
Speaker 1: He goes, Dude, that might be the funniest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever had. That's amazing. That's good, that's amazing. Do they
Speaker 1: not look alike? Yeah? Yeah, I can see it. Goates
Speaker 1: and built here. Yeah yeah, I don't know. Sure sure,
Speaker 1: especially if he had glasses. I like you and more
Speaker 1: now even all right, second, these are yours you want
Speaker 1: to take over? Here, I've got the list. Let's just
Speaker 1: go down. Okay. Conspiracy theories justin Moore, Is there just
Speaker 1: justin enough of them? Are justin less? Your ten hat guy,
Speaker 1: what's nine eleven in jobs? Inside job? I'd say just enough.
Speaker 1: Teeters on the fence talk oh less? Okay? Uh Donald
Speaker 1: Trump media ruts, I'm here for I forgot one. Uh
Speaker 1: kill my president. Cold plunging, oh gosh, uh last, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with that. You know I've been warned plunging lately
Speaker 1: where I just get out there, took a hot shower.
Speaker 1: It's been done. Wonders for me. Stop that's done. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying. Toy story movies, Oh more. I love toy
Speaker 1: same dude, probably my favorite, uh yeah, sequel of serious album.
Speaker 1: I'm the same way. It's so good.
Speaker 3: I cried during the same the one where the the
Speaker 3: kid went to college college.
Speaker 1: I cried. And he's playing with the he's playing with yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gives his toys to cowboy and he grabs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna take you. That's I got chilling with some
Speaker 1: arm on my tattooed arms right now. Really great riding.
Speaker 1: What about pineapple and pizza, No at all? Pineapple human
Speaker 1: there the same age? Uh, he know, he's way cooler
Speaker 1: than you are. Maybe Richard but college college football playoffs,
Speaker 1: we kind of got more of them. But do we
Speaker 1: need more than we already got? Like more teams more?
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of a that's kind of a
Speaker 1: load of quick because I mean they just added I
Speaker 1: mean last year was the first twelve team, right, twelve,
Speaker 1: I could see going to like sixteen. Okay, I'm with that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm with that. I like a good college football
Speaker 1: game on the weekend. Man, I'll take as many as
Speaker 1: I can get, especially since the SEC is back. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh is that all of them? Yeah? Oh yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1: That's a love. Thanks for playing along. You won that.
Speaker 1: Sponsored about to get a pair of covies for that? There,
Speaker 1: show it to Hey, how did the softball and going?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I hit like crap?
Speaker 3: So I get onto my girls for rolling their hands
Speaker 3: over ground and I square through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah not palm up, palm down.
Speaker 3: I always tell, and I did it every time I
Speaker 3: went over three.
Speaker 1: Oh Jay Moore, come on, just dinkers. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't strike party struck so Hardy Yeah Hardy was
Speaker 1: wasn't even there. Man, he was a speedster. I saw
Speaker 1: he wrote. I swear to God like I really go
Speaker 1: damn hearty's fast. Now, I will say this. Dan doesn't
Speaker 1: look like he's fast. He's got tiny legs, big torso.
Speaker 1: But guy's sneaky fast. I'm fast, sneaky fast. I'm slow. Really,
Speaker 1: people think I'm fast, your leadoff hitters knowing fast quick,
Speaker 1: Yeah like yeah, like that sideways. Give me a little quick, man,
Speaker 1: But I'm not. That's pretty quick. That's pretty quick. But
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I mean, that's the quickest. That's the quickest.
Speaker 1: Guess I would thought he wasn't gonna do it, as
Speaker 1: missed it because I wasn't even looking far quickest. Guess
Speaker 1: we've had some doubt by far. Totally still got it, dude,
Speaker 1: we still got I like you so much. Man, all right,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's do h We've been here, you've only
Speaker 1: got we've only got fifteen minutes, we've been here in
Speaker 1: an hour. Let's do a gravorite song. Yes, you won't play,
Speaker 1: you want play, We're gonna do the uh whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. Man, if you want to do another one,
Speaker 1: do it all. Where there's a cloud on rain, there's
Speaker 1: some of my eighes.
Speaker 3: Don't mean there's pain on the flattery yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm bowling over you, Christy shoe.
Speaker 5: It by same little ber cold. It only pains that
Speaker 5: you lost the whole. Yeah, and on me, I'm bold
Speaker 5: over you.
Speaker 1: You heard I'm drinking more than that sh fabby on Actor.
Speaker 1: Someone told job sticking letter up. Why they making those
Speaker 1: stories of nine gold over you shoes? The vocal killer
Speaker 1: man you sing your oh thank you man? Were you
Speaker 1: were your was your granddad or your parents? Like, did
Speaker 1: y'all listen to classic country growing up?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And and my dad was a big time influence.
Speaker 3: And as far as that goes, and back then, you know,
Speaker 3: you could call into a radio station and go, hey,
Speaker 3: can you play that new.
Speaker 1: Clint Black song? And they would play it. Now you
Speaker 1: can't do that, but so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, growing up, I mean, I don't know, there were
Speaker 3: four or five stations locally and and all, but maybe
Speaker 3: one of them was a country station, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: and the other may be like a classic rock station
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh So I've called one song, I've recalled and
Speaker 1: requested one song in my life as before. It was
Speaker 1: country Grammar by Nelly back in middle school, oh man,
Speaker 1: when I was in hot when we were in high school.
Speaker 1: How old are you? Thirty? Seven before when we were
Speaker 1: in high school. That was in middle school. Jam oh,
Speaker 1: no doubt all those Saint lunatics and I'm throwing down
Speaker 1: down baby. But the edited version Rainbow Street Cocoa pas nine,
Speaker 1: light it up and take above past it again something, No,
Speaker 1: that's not the words. Hey, dude, uh, we're spall. You
Speaker 1: know we're we're like kind of a big deal around here.
Speaker 1: So we get a clearly, we get to give boots
Speaker 1: to our guests, bron and I know that's the only
Speaker 1: reason you're here. Thanks for coming on. There's a pair
Speaker 1: of a slick should yeah get in there though? Should
Speaker 1: I should? I wear them without socks like him, Dan
Speaker 1: does not have socks on today. But that we should
Speaker 1: just keep the We should just keep the cameras on
Speaker 1: until he gets them off. I think we're I think
Speaker 1: we're that closed. Put me on blasts long pod clo.
Speaker 1: That's a dumb that's a dumb mood. I will try
Speaker 1: to take thee off. Try to take them off. Start
Speaker 1: right now and start trying to take them off. Take
Speaker 1: a minute, there you go, start taking them off here?
Speaker 1: Do you need help? I need a boot jack, dude.
Speaker 2: Not that bad?
Speaker 1: Not the left one Yeah, dude, I can smell those
Speaker 1: ridonculous you you look ridiculous. You want to see that's
Speaker 1: gonna toe where my son dropped that gun on my toe?
Speaker 1: Oh dude, you're just a baby. Can tell you it's broke.
Speaker 1: That didn't look hurt. It broke. No, it's not that.
Speaker 1: They still smell good. Can not send can to go?
Speaker 1: Does not send you all some socks? Maybe they can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I moved my lawnmower back to the
Speaker 1: shed this morning because I ran out of gas and
Speaker 1: I forgot to put socks on and wore my crocs crocs,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you can do crocs with socks.
Speaker 1: I can smell those and they smell amazing. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: smell like the best boot and country music. I love it.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thanks, thanks, thanks for coming on. I'll
Speaker 1: put them to good use. You're a great example of
Speaker 1: a country artist that cares about his family and his career.
Speaker 1: And thanks for coming on. Thank you all for your time,
Speaker 1: your time for sure. Hey where are you on the
Speaker 1: road this fall? Where can people watch? I have no idea,
Speaker 1: So go check out Just More Some everywhere. Just Moore
Speaker 1: is everywhere. This is this fall playing eighty shows? Go
Speaker 1: check them out. We are out.
Speaker 3: We're doing a lot of shows with Joe Nichols, who
Speaker 3: girl brother and Arkansas guy. Y'all should get him on here.
Speaker 3: I'd love to love He's a great guy. He cuts
Speaker 3: some my songs in this last record, man did he Yeah, look.
Speaker 1: At you a little sneaky good writer over there. I
Speaker 1: got cuts too, I got hits. Oh really, yes, we're
Speaker 1: talking about really. He's the only one who brags. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm secure in my manhood. Listen, I need
Speaker 1: every stream I can get. They're tearing us up out Hey,
Speaker 1: songwriters need them all, no for real. Thanks for coming on,
Speaker 1: Thank you all for tuning in and watching, watching this episode,
Speaker 1: listening to this episode. Justin Moore, everybody appreciate you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We come back, appreciate you coming back some time. Absolutely
Speaker 1: next year, when you're back, when you're back in town
Speaker 1: for the c m A Fest, when your first time
Speaker 1: years from now. Can we do this bea zoon Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love zoom everybody. Hey, we'll check y'all next time. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks