Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: You're off in God's Country with Breed and also known
Speaker 2: as The Brothers Hunt, where we take a weekly drive
Speaker 2: to the intersection of country music and the outdoors, two
Speaker 2: things that go together like Mexico and or two things.
Speaker 1: That go together like Carbos.
Speaker 2: Produced by Meat Eater and iHeart podcast.
Speaker 3: So hop on up Rod Shotgun with us as we
Speaker 3: take the back roads with some of today's biggest stars
Speaker 3: and creators of the songs you know and love.
Speaker 2: We're gonna sit down with Dustin Lynch today, a fellow
Speaker 2: Tennesseean YEP told.
Speaker 3: Gold platinum and multi platinum certified singles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, had nine number one something like that. Land manager.
Speaker 2: He's got a farm. We're gonna talk about that. We're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about him as an outdoors and he loves
Speaker 2: to hunt, loves to fish.
Speaker 1: I was literally gonna say that.
Speaker 2: That's that's what we're gonna talk That's what.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about. So, how y'all hang with us?
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with us in God's Country. Do
Speaker 2: it feel like we're all feeling good this morning?
Speaker 4: Feeling great? Yeah?
Speaker 1: With coffee? Do you guys?
Speaker 2: Is this your podcast? I'm with it?
Speaker 4: Go for it. No, well, you're just messing coffee. And
Speaker 4: Dan grabbed his and it was just it was just like,
Speaker 4: do you have to throttle your coffee intake every morning?
Speaker 4: Like me, Yeah, I feel like I feel like I
Speaker 4: don't know, I'm right. I switch up bags of beans
Speaker 4: so they react differently, and so every now and again
Speaker 4: you're like, man, I've had too much. I've had too
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm dialed in. Though I was worried
Speaker 4: about being stripping a podcast, Okay, go ahead, Sorry, I'm
Speaker 4: just saying I was worried about being too jittery for
Speaker 4: a podcast, and I think I'm I think I know
Speaker 4: my mixed What cup is that?
Speaker 1: This is?
Speaker 4: Uh two?
Speaker 2: Okay? And how do you do it? Are you a
Speaker 2: pour over guy? Are you like a what are those
Speaker 2: things called the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've just got a regular coffee pot.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked that about you too. Yeah, I'm with
Speaker 2: that house. I got jittery yesterday because because we, I
Speaker 2: mean we got back at like one o'clock from that
Speaker 2: duck hunt. I had a cup of coffee at the
Speaker 2: house and then got here out smash smashed a couple
Speaker 2: of coffees here. I got to Sony.
Speaker 3: Jumps feels like this. This is I can't even I
Speaker 3: appreciate the juice.
Speaker 1: I got plenty, man, I got plenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't move that too fast. I got to Sony
Speaker 2: yesterday before our co write drink another one, and dude,
Speaker 2: I got in the I got in the room sitting
Speaker 2: there and Dan and him are talking and like, I
Speaker 2: don't like I don't drink enough coffee to do that.
Speaker 2: But I got weird, got weird. I was like, bro,
Speaker 2: what this like? I had to sit down, like take
Speaker 2: a couple of deep breath and you know, walk outside
Speaker 2: like drink. Yeah, I was, I was.
Speaker 4: I think it's a sign of getting old. Is uh?
Speaker 4: You enjoy like coffee is my favorite with the time
Speaker 4: of day, with that straight is it straight?
Speaker 1: Favorite time I don't have.
Speaker 4: I mean you guys have kids running around. I'm sure
Speaker 4: in the morning. I don't. So I'm just like a
Speaker 4: peaceful yeah black straight black, just a piece, will like
Speaker 4: get catch up on emails.
Speaker 2: Zero piece, there's zero pit. You got to have peace
Speaker 2: at our house. We have peace. We put our kids
Speaker 2: down at seven. We don't even talk for this is
Speaker 2: my wife.
Speaker 1: By way.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you knew that I didn't know that. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, just not my roommates. But we don't talk
Speaker 2: for about an hour and a half. We just kind
Speaker 2: of chill and then you know, we start conversing after
Speaker 2: an hour and a half of silence. But you got
Speaker 2: to get up at five o'clock if you're going to
Speaker 2: have any piece at all. At seven, it's Mama, Dad
Speaker 2: dad booey booeye. Wait, let's go back to the coffee
Speaker 2: beans thing. You said you mix them up, Yeah, like
Speaker 2: like flavor wise from different different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as much as I travel, like come across the
Speaker 4: coffee shop and you're like, oh, let's try these from wherever?
Speaker 2: What's your favorite? What's your favorite?
Speaker 4: Because I want, like I will say honestly what I'm
Speaker 4: ha And right now. I had a buddy that went
Speaker 4: on a mission trip. He does it every year down
Speaker 4: at Guatemala. It's awesome and they're like super small batch
Speaker 4: coffee farms down there, and he gifted me, just surprised
Speaker 4: me with a package and it had a bag of
Speaker 4: the beans from the farm he was there helping out,
Speaker 4: and uh, his favorite cigar that he came across down
Speaker 4: and then a bottle of wine and he was like
Speaker 4: three of my favorite things. This goes good with you
Speaker 4: know whatever in the morning. This goes good with uh
Speaker 4: friend cool and yeah, so that's what I'm drinking right now.
Speaker 4: It's dang good. That's off the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Fahome from tell them at Tennessee. Yeah, and that ain't far, No,
Speaker 4: it's not. It's not far at all. I mean, but
Speaker 4: growing up, we wouldn't really ever get up here. We'd
Speaker 4: come up here for Christmas shopping.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sometimes we did the same thing you come to
Speaker 1: Opera Lamb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we used to do its working West, Like you know,
Speaker 4: the mom would come up here and get a mammogram
Speaker 4: or whatever right with her.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The big doctor appointments were always in Nashville. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: kids you make a day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I remember when Opery Lamb was where the mall is,
Speaker 3: like the theme park theme park.
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually went by there yesterday. I got to him
Speaker 4: all right, and I'm like, I'm gonna go bast right
Speaker 4: and mind a while. And it hit me. I'm like wow,
Speaker 4: because I hated it when they whenever they shut down
Speaker 4: the theme park. Yeah, for a mall, Like, we've got
Speaker 4: plenty of malls.
Speaker 1: What do you all do?
Speaker 4: But yesterday at you know, three pm, there's a thousand
Speaker 4: cars in the parking lot shops. Somebody knew what they
Speaker 4: were doing.
Speaker 1: So people are still going to malls.
Speaker 4: Oh man, that places passed.
Speaker 3: I figured it was Amazon Central, Man, I figured that
Speaker 3: all those guys were hurting.
Speaker 2: But it's not Can you do that? Can you rock
Speaker 2: around town and not get like too bothered?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in a beauty of like the cowboy hat. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I still uh you on social media. I
Speaker 4: think you're around. You know, I'm seeing them walk out
Speaker 4: most of the time on social media. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: still think, you know, just from years of people thinking
Speaker 4: I'm always in a cowboy hat, I can, man.
Speaker 2: I'm in that that dynamic because because I was I'm
Speaker 2: not even talking about that, I'm saying I was kind
Speaker 2: of hoping you were going to be in a cowboy
Speaker 2: hat today because I'm the first cowboy hat in here. Really, yeah,
Speaker 2: we hadn't had a cowboy hat. It's all good, like.
Speaker 3: You would just rake like occasionally be like I thow
Speaker 3: it on today and wear a cowboy hat do in
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 4: Not usually, No, it just doesn't like for what I do,
Speaker 4: it doesn't make sense. Like if I'm home usually and
Speaker 4: I have the day off, I'm working on the farm.
Speaker 1: See wait a second.
Speaker 3: I personally think if you have a farm, it qualifies
Speaker 3: you to occasionally, you know, maybe wear cowboy hat during
Speaker 3: I don't think that's fake, right, Like I think we
Speaker 3: need to come up with a definition of who can
Speaker 3: wear cowboy hats during the day and who can't. You
Speaker 3: have a farm, I think you're in I don't think
Speaker 3: we look out of place at all.
Speaker 2: But it's just like we'd all be like I got
Speaker 2: I've got a cowboy hat, and when I put it on,
Speaker 2: it look like rip, except like the version of rip
Speaker 2: from Yellow Stuff. I wear it one time in Jackson
Speaker 2: Holt Rodeo and felt legit as hell.
Speaker 1: But I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not a cowboy bro.
Speaker 4: It's amazing. What how a cowboy hat makes you feel?
Speaker 4: It always like when I put it on, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And boots, like the cowboy hat and boots, you're yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Just always you know, for me, I put it on
Speaker 4: and it's like it's time to go. But only that's
Speaker 4: like have fun, you know, get man, I think it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean when I come home though, like I'm working
Speaker 4: on the tractor. My hat's I got a pretty big lid,
Speaker 4: so like it gets in the way. Man, Like, what's
Speaker 4: your number? Seven and three eights?
Speaker 2: That's not that I'm seven five days, bro, already mellon basketball.
Speaker 4: You got a little bigger than mine.
Speaker 2: Jordan got me a new tobogg and she was like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about just like I just we'll just put
Speaker 2: it on it cause I put it on his way
Speaker 2: too tight. And she was like, just put it on
Speaker 2: a basketball for a couple of days. And then to
Speaker 2: get smart, bro, I have done like a baseball glove.
Speaker 2: You used to do that. All it up and yeah,
Speaker 2: what was it?
Speaker 1: Put in the all it up?
Speaker 3: Put two tennis balls in it, two baseballs, belts around it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, strapping down? Stick it under your bed for a
Speaker 1: few months.
Speaker 4: You got to be under the bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah did you put yours on the bed? Why does
Speaker 1: it have to.
Speaker 4: Be on the passed down from the granddad?
Speaker 1: So that's crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean that's exactly where we put our. We always
Speaker 3: sensed it down, stuck it under the bed.
Speaker 2: I was when I was doing my research, which probably
Speaker 2: Dan didn't do. I was looking at your instagram and uh,
Speaker 2: I saw a thing that said my kind of sunset.
Speaker 2: And I watched this video of you working on the farm, songs,
Speaker 2: going down, playing with your dog, throwing the thing, grilling
Speaker 2: some burgers. Is that, like, is that what you do
Speaker 2: when your time off?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that plugging in and recharging for you?
Speaker 4: It is? And and you know, I searched. It took
Speaker 4: me a while to like search around and figure out
Speaker 4: how to find balance because you jump into to roaming around.
Speaker 4: I know, you got to spend a lot of time
Speaker 4: on the road, you know, writing songs too. But that's
Speaker 4: not normal, right, It's it's overloaded, sensory overload. And as
Speaker 4: many people as we get to meet, it's awesome, but
Speaker 4: it's it's not normal. And so you come home and
Speaker 4: have this few days. And I was living for a
Speaker 4: few years. I was living at a condo downtown in
Speaker 4: Nashville before it became Nashville. It was like the only
Speaker 4: condo you could have down there. We'd have a grocery
Speaker 4: store or nothing. And it was terrible. After a few years,
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't feel right, and it just felt
Speaker 4: like I was in another hotel. I never got to
Speaker 4: turn off, and so I moved out outside of town
Speaker 4: and I finally found peace, you know, getting back into
Speaker 4: the country and and just having something to grasp onto
Speaker 4: and and recharge with and and now you know, fast
Speaker 4: forward to have the farm out out there outside of
Speaker 4: town about an hour and it's the best.
Speaker 2: I was telling Pat in the in the parking lot.
Speaker 2: We uh, when we moved to town, my dad moved
Speaker 2: his house book from where we grew up to Percy
Speaker 2: priest Elm hill Marena and that's where we lived for
Speaker 2: four years. And that's awesome.
Speaker 1: And dude, I know that. Yeah, it's catching. We talk
Speaker 1: about it all the time.
Speaker 2: I know people guests, Yeah, that is we were catching
Speaker 2: dinner and I mean, you know, doing that whole thing.
Speaker 2: And Dan got a publishing deal with a little startup
Speaker 2: and had a lot of money. They're like, man, we
Speaker 2: got to sit flat downtown in the Bristol it's right
Speaker 2: above Losers And we were like, yeah, dude, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, working plumbing, Like we're in.
Speaker 2: A washing machine for our clothes as from Virginia's.
Speaker 1: We can buy sandwiches and ceareheads all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we moved in for six months and after
Speaker 2: six months we were like, man, I think we're going
Speaker 2: we kick it back at the back. Well, it's just
Speaker 2: it was so sireny century overload.
Speaker 1: And I mean, it's what you're talking about. It. It
Speaker 1: was just.
Speaker 3: It's like your brain never turns off. But when you're
Speaker 3: used to, like if you're from Tellahoma, you're from West
Speaker 3: Tennessee where we're from, Like this ain't normal for us,
Speaker 3: you know, And as much as you try to fit
Speaker 3: yourself into that thing, it's like, man, I need some crickets,
Speaker 3: you know. And I mean that's what I fall asleep to,
Speaker 3: not not drunk people trying to get home from losers.
Speaker 4: And like you said, sirens, Yeah, every minutes.
Speaker 3: Every five seconds felt and hell that was what eight
Speaker 3: years ago, like a ten years ago maybe. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's I'm sure it's way.
Speaker 4: And I've always wondered what it's like living arena.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. It's awesome till it's not awesome. It's awesome until.
Speaker 1: You're until it's just like the worst.
Speaker 2: But we had like we had wife. They got WiFi
Speaker 2: out there, but you.
Speaker 3: Can't technically live so we didn't live a rena, right.
Speaker 3: We just visited three hundred and sixty three days here,
Speaker 3: you got it.
Speaker 2: We couldn't afford anywhere else.
Speaker 4: It seems like I think I spent a lot of
Speaker 4: time on the water. I love it. And that was
Speaker 4: the first one I moved out of downtown. I didn't
Speaker 4: mention I moved to Old Hickory Lake. Come on, I
Speaker 4: got a house out there and had a dock and everything.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, there's just as it seems like
Speaker 4: a different walk of people that are attracted to that
Speaker 4: lake life, and for you guys, obviously Marina life even
Speaker 4: more so. You know, when I'm in Marina's on a
Speaker 4: whole deckree, it feels a little bit like the Keys. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a little sense of pirate Yeah, for sure, all
Speaker 4: of those people. I know exactly where it's ak and
Speaker 4: I know for a fact there's people on Old Hickory
Speaker 4: Lake that are living there full time. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: you can just tell.
Speaker 2: Oh, dude, there were there were visit visiting, visiting. We
Speaker 2: would step out on the back and you know, pee
Speaker 2: off the back porch and or about the back of
Speaker 2: the boat. I said, the back porch as we call
Speaker 2: it the back porch. But I mean, dudes, there would
Speaker 2: be like four or five dudes doing the same thing
Speaker 2: on Like those cats live there too, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, Like he's like, couldn't get enough Christmas lights? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know they've got it all decked out, music playing.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a flooding trailer park, that's really all
Speaker 3: it is. Yeah, you just get expensive though.
Speaker 1: Well we're proud of them now. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've looked at getting a slip and I'm like, might
Speaker 4: just stay in the driveway, dude.
Speaker 1: For us, it was like three hundred a month. We
Speaker 1: split it.
Speaker 4: That's not mad at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we just that was cheaper than rent, you know,
Speaker 3: and boat was paid off. Yes, we just kind of
Speaker 3: just kind of hung out.
Speaker 4: Do you guys still house boat the enjoyed?
Speaker 1: Is that? Are you over it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: We just I mean full up, full up to Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I mean we don't have enough time, you know,
Speaker 2: with kids and stuff. But did every chance I get
Speaker 2: to get on the water. I mean I'm on the water.
Speaker 2: You know. I love bass fishing. And I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you, did you do a lot of old
Speaker 2: like fishing and old heckory I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was obsessed with you know until I got my
Speaker 4: farm and then that just became crazy to do list
Speaker 4: a lot of chores. I was avid, like so much,
Speaker 4: so I would get you know, get on the bus
Speaker 4: and I would nerd out on NAVI ONYX. Come on,
Speaker 4: so I don't even have to look at a depth
Speaker 4: finder because I know I know that lakes so well.
Speaker 4: Some studying those maps constantly, I can kind of tell
Speaker 4: you where everything is.
Speaker 2: I fished a I fished as a co angler in
Speaker 2: one of those like bass Master series or whatever it was,
Speaker 2: and it was like one of the first terms I
Speaker 2: ever fished, and it was on Old Hickory and we
Speaker 2: grew up close to Pickwick and kind of the same
Speaker 2: style like boat docks, secondary points, you know, in the
Speaker 2: summer you fish ledges, and so this is like June,
Speaker 2: and I called the angler of the boat I was
Speaker 2: gonna be riding in and I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: what do you want me to bring you and bring
Speaker 2: some you know, drop shots Carolina riggs. We're gonna be
Speaker 2: doing them. And he was like, no, man, He's like,
Speaker 2: just bring a flipping bowl. And I was like, it's
Speaker 2: middle of summer. He's like, just just bring a couple
Speaker 2: of you know, flipping flipping rods. I was like, all right,
Speaker 2: So we get in that morning, and did we run
Speaker 2: twenty miles up the combery and back there into those
Speaker 2: some of those a's and those log jams yep? And
Speaker 2: bro he homemade made his jigs and gave me a
Speaker 2: few of them, and did we pulled them out of
Speaker 2: them logs all day? He won the tournament. I boated
Speaker 2: an eight and like eight three for him out of
Speaker 2: the river, and dude, it was It's the only time
Speaker 2: I fished old hickory like that. But gosh, it was awesome.
Speaker 4: I've done the same thing. I got in with the
Speaker 4: guy and we ran way up there. Yeah, and hell,
Speaker 4: I think it took us an hour and a half
Speaker 4: or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was about a forty five minute ride for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we got way up in it and we
Speaker 4: missed a couple that could have got us up up
Speaker 4: in the money. But yeah, he was throwing a frog
Speaker 4: too up in there. Really Yeah, top water Yep. There
Speaker 4: ain't no better buiting than that, right, I know, it
Speaker 4: was really cool, But yeah, there's something about those guys
Speaker 4: that can custom this is this is an old cat
Speaker 4: like he was. He was traditional like the fish. Haven't
Speaker 4: ever seen it? Yeah, their own colored and uh.
Speaker 2: The hook sets not unbelievable. He's not ripping, he's just
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, grabbing that and I'm like okay, And
Speaker 2: then there's an eight pound and that's it. There.
Speaker 4: God, what's the biggest match you've ever caught?
Speaker 2: I mean in open water around seven in Pickwick, but
Speaker 2: in a pond, you know, eight I've got We've got
Speaker 2: where we live. We've got a twenty acre lake behind
Speaker 2: our house in the community and literally there's there's a
Speaker 2: bunch of houses back there and it's a private lake
Speaker 2: to the communit and me, my dad and dad are
Speaker 2: the only one that fishing. We when we moved in
Speaker 2: the day we were moving in the next day the
Speaker 2: next you have.
Speaker 1: To live there in order to fish, ye, which is
Speaker 1: really convenient for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is awesome. The day we moved in, we
Speaker 2: were exhausted from moving furniture all day. And that next morning,
Speaker 2: like six thirty, my dad calls me and wakes me up,
Speaker 2: and I rolled over. I grabbed my phone and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, it's wide awake. And I was like
Speaker 2: what he what? I was this six thirty that I'm exhausted.
Speaker 2: He was like I'm here. I was like, bro, we
Speaker 2: ain't getting started till like ten. He was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I want to go check out. And I looked out
Speaker 2: the window and he had his bass photo and he
Speaker 2: stopped voting and he yeah, well, yeah, not a big motor.
Speaker 2: You can just troll the motor. But dude, he's been
Speaker 2: ripping brim and crappy and BASSI that thing ever since.
Speaker 2: And so it's it's super convenient. He's caught a seven
Speaker 2: and a half out of there. I know of some
Speaker 2: eights that have been caught out of there, and it's
Speaker 2: big enough and deep enough to grow and hold a
Speaker 2: you know, ten twelve, a big one. So it's not
Speaker 2: when you can go back there and catch fifty fish
Speaker 2: a day, like you got to go look for him,
Speaker 2: and I just find the pattern and stuff. So it's
Speaker 2: it's fun.
Speaker 1: I want to everybody, farm man, tell me what you
Speaker 1: what you got where you're at.
Speaker 4: I'm northeast of Nashville, got about an hour from downtown,
Speaker 4: and it was one of those I grew up always
Speaker 4: looking for permission to hunt same and then moved up
Speaker 4: here to Nashville out of high school and just the
Speaker 4: permission farms kind of went away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird that that's been happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We kind of talked to Ronelle about it the other day,
Speaker 3: like I did. I did the same thing. I bought
Speaker 3: a farm and we were talking about allowing people to hunt,
Speaker 3: and he was like, you know, you let people hunt.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh dude, yeah, what are you talking about.
Speaker 2: It kind of blew him away and he was like
Speaker 2: what And I get that Western thing too.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, like I worked.
Speaker 3: I want to secure a place for my kids and
Speaker 3: my brother and his kids and my dad. Like, ain't
Speaker 3: nobody else coming on, you know, because I'm letting deer
Speaker 3: go and trying to suw.
Speaker 1: Deer and you know, you can't do anything. It's like,
Speaker 1: what about like wounded veterans?
Speaker 2: And I was like yeah, he was like what about kids?
Speaker 1: He was wounded?
Speaker 4: You know, I think that is you know, we we
Speaker 4: do have you guys obviously, especially right now. I mean,
Speaker 4: have a platform to make a lot of good happen
Speaker 4: with yeah, our dirt, you.
Speaker 1: Know, sure, sure, that's the reason we got it right.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But I started, you know, I got to Nashville
Speaker 4: and I started looking, Okay, well let's hunt public. So
Speaker 4: I started hunting out in Pegram Yeah, Land between the Lakes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, South you ever hear you?
Speaker 4: No, I never did.
Speaker 1: That's where that was our public ground for a while.
Speaker 4: I've got buddies that still hunt it really oh yeah.
Speaker 4: But there's something about those big public tracks, man, they're
Speaker 4: just stilled to me today. I mean, I get to
Speaker 4: hunt some of the best dirt in the world, and
Speaker 4: I still have this drawl to Land between the Lakes.
Speaker 1: I feel that it's it's so.
Speaker 4: Hard to get on deer there, but if you get
Speaker 4: on them, man, there's some I mean still the biggest
Speaker 4: year I think I've ever seen on hoof was it
Speaker 4: Land between the Lakes when I was scout. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is that bow hunt only or is that they do it?
Speaker 4: They do a couple of quote hunts a year, put
Speaker 4: in for that, put in for it, and then you
Speaker 4: have your zones you have to stay in. But we
Speaker 4: would always come in on the on the north side
Speaker 4: of in Kentucky. We'd always hunt Kentucky and uh, there
Speaker 4: was this one year where it was like a drought
Speaker 4: year and nobody could find deer. Like this group that
Speaker 4: we went with, they're always on good deer, So I
Speaker 4: always killed, couldn't find him, coudn't find him, and Dad
Speaker 4: and I came across the sky with a big deer
Speaker 4: in the back and he's like, man, just because I'm done,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you all what to do. Come on,
Speaker 4: get down by the water and these drawls for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: you know, acrons are down there this year. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: we did that, man, and got on them, got in them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Never.
Speaker 4: I never never got a shot on one. Had one
Speaker 4: come in, A giant come in that was too dark.
Speaker 4: But so I've never killed up there, So it's like
Speaker 4: one of those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got closed several years and I never got it done.
Speaker 4: So it still eats at me.
Speaker 2: That's the box that had been checked.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but years go on, and just because I always
Speaker 4: had to ask for permission, you never had a place
Speaker 4: to go hunt. I was like, man, a dream of
Speaker 4: mine is to have my own dirt eyes. And I
Speaker 4: finally got I finally got to a place where I
Speaker 4: could start looking. And I was looking, you know, looking
Speaker 4: for about a year year and a half, and came
Speaker 4: across a few options northeast of town. At the time,
Speaker 4: I was hunting on a lease south of Nashville, but
Speaker 4: I was having to drive through downtown Nashville to go hunting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ye, and with all your gear.
Speaker 3: It was just like it's unpredictable too. I mean, you
Speaker 3: try to catch you out at two o'clock, yeah, you may.
Speaker 3: You may get caught in two hours worth the trailer.
Speaker 4: You're trying to be in a headspace of let's go hunt,
Speaker 4: and now you're stuck in a traffic jam. It wasn't right.
Speaker 4: So I started looking north of town. So I have
Speaker 4: to go through downtown.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The first three farms I thought were gonna be the ones, yeah,
Speaker 4: just fell flat. It wasn't what I was looking for.
Speaker 4: And like the last farm on it, it didn't show
Speaker 4: well online. It was because they had logged it and
Speaker 4: it was like dead of winter, muddy logging road pictures beautiful.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the forum, I won't baby.
Speaker 4: And so we get there and within you know, a
Speaker 4: quarter of mile riding on the on the four wheeler,
Speaker 4: I'm like, holy crowd, this is it. And not only
Speaker 4: is this it, it was dirt cheap, like this logy
Speaker 4: company try to unloaded.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was able to afford a pretty good chunk
Speaker 4: and I just got lucky, like it was probably gonna
Speaker 4: be a flip farm.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I had buddies at the time that were getting
Speaker 4: farms and kind of hunting them for a year or two
Speaker 4: and then you know, putting food pots in and flipping them,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, it'll probably be that. And then my
Speaker 4: neighbor to the east the next turkey season came around,
Speaker 4: and the turkeys would always stay on the perimeter of
Speaker 4: this farm because it was so thick from where they
Speaker 4: had logged it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tough to get turkeys on it.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, comet, you know. And I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna cold call this guy to the east
Speaker 4: of me and see if he'll let me hunt. And
Speaker 4: he's like he answers, and I was like, I was just
Speaker 4: calling about your phone.
Speaker 3: I want to know exactly how you said, because do
Speaker 3: you go, hey, I'm dust No, no.
Speaker 2: Like country music, keep that card, keep that card.
Speaker 1: The podcasts possible.
Speaker 4: But I know I called him, It's like, hey, I
Speaker 4: was calling about your farm, you know at this address.
Speaker 4: He goes, how do you know I wanted to sell?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh great.
Speaker 2: And just fell from the heavens right.
Speaker 4: So got to talk to him and his sister got involved.
Speaker 4: He was older, and his sister got involved and screwed
Speaker 4: the whole thing up. She wanted to like triple the
Speaker 4: price of So I just passed and sat on sat
Speaker 4: for about a year, and then she came back and
Speaker 4: actually wanted to make sense of it. So I ended
Speaker 4: up getting that piece to the east of me, and then.
Speaker 2: That connect that joined you joined me.
Speaker 4: And then the neighbor to my north had this cow
Speaker 4: pasture and you'd always see birds out in it from
Speaker 4: my from my original piece and.
Speaker 2: Had this is.
Speaker 3: It wasn't sure exactly where you were on the scale,
Speaker 3: but now it's like our good.
Speaker 4: That went through me, and and it got to the
Speaker 4: point where I'm like, okay, I want to build like
Speaker 4: I'm going to be here. It's not I want to
Speaker 4: build a little something and have a little cabin or
Speaker 4: put an r V in or something. And how it cut.
Speaker 4: I'm like, man if I could get that farm, I
Speaker 4: would build on that farm.
Speaker 5: You always think that though, yeah, man if I can
Speaker 5: get that hement through my original piece to come in
Speaker 5: on the south side, because all of this, come to
Speaker 5: find out, used to be.
Speaker 1: His all like an actual gravel road.
Speaker 4: Actual gravel road. Yeah, And so he's like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: not ready to sell yet. He's just summer and cows
Speaker 4: on it. And I'm okay, well, if you ever get
Speaker 4: ready to sell, please let me have first shot at it,
Speaker 4: because you run right through me. And he's like, I'll
Speaker 4: do it. So I get We go another couple of
Speaker 4: years and I get concrete poured and trust is delivered,
Speaker 4: and this sucker stops me in the road. No way, Yes,
Speaker 4: a pad you pour it's a forty eight by ninety six.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I'm putting, I'm putting, you know, boats
Speaker 4: in there in the off, the whole thing. And he's like,
Speaker 4: my wife wants me to get rid of it. I'm
Speaker 4: of course he does now that I've put a pad.
Speaker 2: Down where I don't want right where I try not
Speaker 2: to put a pad down for years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just put casters on it who could track
Speaker 1: it to it, just pull.
Speaker 4: It up to the movie. He knew he had me, man,
Speaker 4: He worked me over. He would not budge on the price.
Speaker 4: I finally got him to throw in he had because
Speaker 4: I wanted to, you know, another dream of minds to
Speaker 4: get back into cows. That was my first job ever.
Speaker 4: Was was helping on a farm down the street from
Speaker 4: where I was living.
Speaker 1: Another check on the you can wear a cowboy hat list.
Speaker 4: If you actually worked dollars an hour road.
Speaker 1: Farm, you worked with cash, you can wear a caboy
Speaker 1: as much as.
Speaker 2: You all the time.
Speaker 1: Legit. Yeah, I was sleeping.
Speaker 2: Nobody's saying nothing about that.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I got it. I convinced him to
Speaker 4: let me keep a corral he had made in these trees.
Speaker 4: He's like, fine, I'll do that. And then he had
Speaker 4: this old junker disc in, this old junker like eight
Speaker 4: foot deck bush hog and he's like, now you got
Speaker 4: to buy those from me. I'm like, dude, you haven't
Speaker 4: used you haven't moved these in four years. They've been
Speaker 4: sitting on our property line and a bush in a
Speaker 4: bush hog. And he's like, now you got to pay
Speaker 4: me for those. And I'm like, okay, here's what I
Speaker 4: was like, come on, man, you haven't budged on this price.
Speaker 4: Finally he gave me those and I was like, we
Speaker 4: got a deal.
Speaker 2: You had to get to the point where I ended
Speaker 2: up with.
Speaker 4: This original farm that was, you know, just a logging dump,
Speaker 4: but ended up having a giant on it. I ran
Speaker 4: cameras like, of course the first month, dumping out corn
Speaker 4: and see what's on it. And there weren't many deer trails.
Speaker 4: There weren't many deer on the farm, but there was
Speaker 4: an absolute monster on this thing. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm at least gonna hunt him for a little bit.
Speaker 4: But I started out with that original track, and then
Speaker 4: I wound up with three farms that joined the years.
Speaker 4: Like you come across your neighbors and are they cool people?
Speaker 4: Are they idiots? And most of them around me are
Speaker 4: cool and and I would like to say most like
Speaker 4: to grow big deer. They don't, you know, But.
Speaker 2: We run in the same problem.
Speaker 4: But I think if I do, I still got a
Speaker 4: lot of work to do to get my habitat where
Speaker 4: I want it. But that's what I'm obsessed with right now.
Speaker 4: But I think I think I'll be there pretty pretty
Speaker 4: much long term.
Speaker 2: Now, where where do turkey? If turkey and deer right here,
Speaker 2: which one do you prefer?
Speaker 4: Like, Oh, it's pretty even for me. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: that what I obsess about the most, and spend way
Speaker 4: more money on it than I should it is probably
Speaker 4: you know, bow hunting, white tail come home, man, I
Speaker 4: just I love it is crazy and you get to
Speaker 4: chase the same animal for years, and uh most of
Speaker 4: the time they win.
Speaker 2: And you know, literally said that same statement. That's why
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with bo hunt too.
Speaker 3: I Mean, we love it when we win, but I
Speaker 3: almost equally as much love it when they win because
Speaker 3: it just keeps the challenge of And that's what to
Speaker 3: me bow hunting is. It's just like, man, if you're
Speaker 3: going to fool an old buck bow hunting, you gotta
Speaker 3: be you gotta have it.
Speaker 1: All on that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and still get lucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there ain't still get real lucky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he's got to be. He's got to make
Speaker 4: her own move for sure.
Speaker 1: What happened to your big buck that you were seeing
Speaker 1: on the farm?
Speaker 4: Man, I got to watch. I chased him for a
Speaker 4: couple of years. You know, I don't get to hunt
Speaker 4: as much as I would love to. And now with
Speaker 4: the opportun he did a hunt with Drury Outdoors. I've
Speaker 4: been hunt with those guys for a handful of years,
Speaker 4: and you know, so that takes a couple of you know,
Speaker 4: weeks of hunting away from what I could be hunting. Tennessee,
Speaker 4: I don't get to chase him full time, but I
Speaker 4: hunted him for a couple of years. In November, I
Speaker 4: had a video of him chasing a dough down the
Speaker 4: slogging road, like November twenty second, I think this year
Speaker 4: or no, this would have been three four years ago now,
Speaker 4: and then I never saw him again, so I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think he was so big. I think if somebody
Speaker 4: would have got him, we'd have seen it or heard about.
Speaker 2: It, you know what. Score wise, what were we talking about?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: He was one sixties for sure, I mean an absolute
Speaker 4: like I always showed him to Mark Drury and his
Speaker 4: team and they were like, holy crap, like we didn't
Speaker 4: know you had deer like that, Tennessee. I mean he
Speaker 4: was a dagumshooter. If you can lad and seem more
Speaker 4: like that sense, yeah, yeah, if you.
Speaker 2: Can just let him, if you can just let him
Speaker 2: age man, if you can let him get out there
Speaker 2: to six.
Speaker 4: I had a one that was like finally showed some
Speaker 4: awesome potential this year, and he was for sure a
Speaker 4: four year old because I had him last year as
Speaker 4: a three on camera and I'm like, all right, let's
Speaker 4: let's see, let's roll the dice five and.
Speaker 1: Uh, you got some killers around you? Huh.
Speaker 4: My neighbor, yeah, he and his brother hunt. They usual
Speaker 4: only hunt a week of muzzle utter, which is as
Speaker 4: we know in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: That's that's the jam.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if you got him then or later,
Speaker 4: but my neighbor ended up getting them. And of course
Speaker 4: you hear about it. He's like, man, biggest year I've
Speaker 4: ever shot. And I'm like, I bet it's the four
Speaker 4: year old. Like, do you'll get a picture of him?
Speaker 4: I had. The other neighbor's like, yeah, I think he
Speaker 4: posted on Facebook. Pull it up for me.
Speaker 1: We're all living the same.
Speaker 4: Guming yeah, but you know we always have there, you know. There,
Speaker 4: I don't have anything that's I'm super pumped up, sure,
Speaker 4: but there I've got a bunch of old deer. Still,
Speaker 4: there's all They're always going to get through. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: there's always gonna be something to get through. You just
Speaker 4: hope like the the pretty boys making.
Speaker 2: The ones with potential for sure.
Speaker 3: Man, I'll tell you what I started doing, and this
Speaker 3: might be a good alternative if you if you're not
Speaker 3: able to buy a lot of land around you, not
Speaker 3: you specifically, I'm just talking to the listener as I went.
Speaker 3: And so I bought my farm and there was a
Speaker 3: couple of hundred acres over here that the guy just
Speaker 3: let kids hunt it like crazy, and bro, every three
Speaker 3: year old I have was just getting capped every it'd
Speaker 3: be opening day arrival. I checked Facebook two hours later. Man,
Speaker 3: I've been passing them for two years.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so I actually went to the guy and was like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: he was talking to me.
Speaker 1: He had ran over a shed and it pierced his tractor.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, I had my kids at the green.
Speaker 1: He was like, man, I had to put a damn
Speaker 1: tire on that tractor. There's three hundred and eighty bucks
Speaker 1: for a front tire. You know they're expensive.
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, man, why don't you let me
Speaker 3: lease that ground for you and I'll pay you X amount.
Speaker 3: Then you can you know, you can buy tractor tires ever.
Speaker 3: You know you can be able to In that moment,
Speaker 3: he was like, all right, let's do it. And I
Speaker 3: don't even hunt that.
Speaker 2: Just what you're saying, you took kids hunting rights away
Speaker 2: from you just thought about one.
Speaker 1: Of the kids. There's no way.
Speaker 3: Out here without taking somebody's rights away. I'm just saying, yes,
Speaker 3: I took it to some kids from the kids, yeah,
Speaker 3: from the good job man.
Speaker 1: And then because of that, I've been killing bigger. So
Speaker 1: if you can lock up that ground around you, just
Speaker 1: by like.
Speaker 3: Maybe leasing it, you can acquire enough to actually grow
Speaker 3: some deer. And I think that's what what I've been
Speaker 3: able to do over there, Thank goodness. It's just kind
Speaker 3: of have enough, or you can hold them tight, you know,
Speaker 3: and hold them and keep them in there with food,
Speaker 3: with cover. Honestly, the thing that's worked best for me
Speaker 3: is not pressuring those areas and just letting them know
Speaker 3: that they can walk in there and the refuge man
Speaker 3: hang out and Chase does getting shot at it.
Speaker 4: I've learned so much from Mark. He is like absolutely
Speaker 4: and like I grew up watching those guys and and
Speaker 4: now getting to be buds with them and talk to
Speaker 4: him on a regular basis. It's just amazing. You know.
Speaker 4: The strategy that goes into, yeah, you've got to you've
Speaker 4: got a farm, But what's the best way you can
Speaker 4: you can hunt the farm. What's the best way you
Speaker 4: can design it to where you're giving the deer the
Speaker 4: best chance at survival? You know, not only from hunters,
Speaker 4: but from everything else. And you know, and and and
Speaker 4: I don't think what a lot of people realize is
Speaker 4: is we're the least of a deer's worries. Like we're
Speaker 4: their best option, seriously, because if if the hunters not
Speaker 4: you know, harvesting a deer, it's going to get eaten alive, sure,
Speaker 4: which is not fun. Or or they're going to disease out,
Speaker 4: you know, and get weak. So just learning how you
Speaker 4: design farms and like the access of you know, designing
Speaker 4: you know, to and from the food plotter or the
Speaker 4: deer cent however you're going to hunt them.
Speaker 1: Has passed my mega legit.
Speaker 4: Dude, I'm he's I'm every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like.
Speaker 2: And it kind of takes it kind of takes like
Speaker 2: because I heard you say earlier with your dad growing
Speaker 2: up and all that stuff, and that's a lot of
Speaker 2: like hunting back then, it's just getting in the truck
Speaker 2: with a gun, going and sitting in a bon and waiting.
Speaker 2: When you start prepping a farm and start learning about
Speaker 2: that stuff and and and really looking at it from
Speaker 2: the deer's eyes instead of your own, like that takes
Speaker 2: it to another level and of obsession.
Speaker 4: To exactly because I'm sitting here right now talking to
Speaker 4: you guys and listening to y'all talk, and I'm thinking about, Man,
Speaker 4: I've got to you know, I need to create some
Speaker 4: more cover on that real side. Like that's what I'll
Speaker 4: do on my off time. Like I'm gonna be in
Speaker 4: the woods creating cover for deer on my off day.
Speaker 4: It sounds so silly. I love it that much.
Speaker 2: You have to.
Speaker 4: I literally get injuries from yea, I just.
Speaker 2: Took I just took a stitch out of that one
Speaker 2: right there from Browton's rattling because I didn't cut my
Speaker 2: brow Tons smacked it. Yeah, I had to get stitching it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Bro. Let me ask you this, what do you feel like?
Speaker 3: Are some things you've done or implemented on your farm
Speaker 3: that is that has either helped your population or has
Speaker 3: helped helped give your bucks and and those some some
Speaker 3: of that cut What do you feel like? Okay, I
Speaker 3: did this to my farm and this made a difference
Speaker 3: in the outcome of mind.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, you know. I got a new
Speaker 4: You get a new piece of land, and you want
Speaker 4: it to look good and you have fun keeping it up,
Speaker 4: you know, and manicuring it. Ye, and then you realize,
Speaker 4: wait a second, I've taken I've taken all of my cover,
Speaker 4: all of my edges, all of my soft edges out,
Speaker 4: and so like, for me, it's the discipline of letting
Speaker 4: weeds grow, letting it fields grow up quick. You're like, man,
Speaker 4: this looks so good and you're really manicuring everything, and
Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, stop bushogging because the turkeys are getting
Speaker 4: picked off, nowhere to go. Like you feel good about
Speaker 4: yourself because it looks awesome and it's pretty, but you're
Speaker 4: actually doing damage. And I would say that like really
Speaker 4: trying to make sure I'm throttling how much I'm on
Speaker 4: the farm. It's to like, I definitely need some help
Speaker 4: out there, but it's tough for me because I don't
Speaker 4: want I don't want to get you know, somebody involved
Speaker 4: that feels like they've got to go.
Speaker 1: Every day do something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, yep, And yeah, I think just letting it
Speaker 4: rest and let it be more natural. I completely agreeze
Speaker 4: your question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we took I would say probably thirty acres of
Speaker 3: my farm and that we used to bush hog. I
Speaker 3: mean three or four times a year, honestly, and just
Speaker 3: let it grow and cut fibrakes around the outside, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna start burning it every every four years. We
Speaker 3: hadn't made it four years yet since we started doing it,
Speaker 3: but I've already seen pictures of more turkeys, more poles.
Speaker 1: More falls.
Speaker 3: And I mean it's kind of a dual deal because
Speaker 3: you're given once that natural growth comes up, you're giving
Speaker 3: protection to the to the poles and a place to feed.
Speaker 3: But that's also really great deer brows. Yeah, and we've
Speaker 3: and we've seen a lot of We didn't kill a
Speaker 3: lot because we're just letting the deer grow, but the
Speaker 3: buck I took off there spend a ton of time
Speaker 3: in that natural browse. And then I don't even really
Speaker 3: even I mean, my wife's like, let's take a ride
Speaker 3: on the subside, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, no, yeah, no, no. Some of my friends are like,
Speaker 4: let's go outside. Say it's like only you know, only
Speaker 4: in January.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly late January.
Speaker 4: And once you start, you know, once you start riding
Speaker 4: around your life crap, you know, keeping up logging roads
Speaker 4: is a lot of work.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, and they start rutting up a road.
Speaker 4: It's not fun when you own when somebody else is
Speaker 4: You're like, yeah, but I think you know to to
Speaker 4: piggyback onto that. Probably my next biggest project is going
Speaker 4: back in, you know, because I've had this the original
Speaker 4: farm for five six years, seven years now, and all
Speaker 4: of that logged early sessional growth is now getting shaded
Speaker 4: out by like some mid story stuff. So I've got
Speaker 4: to go back in and like create a lot more
Speaker 4: openings than that that used to be there and get
Speaker 4: that browse back up. But my favorite project each year
Speaker 4: is control burns. I had the state come out and
Speaker 4: do it the first year.
Speaker 2: I find that's a common thing people that control burned.
Speaker 4: That's their favorite adult fire.
Speaker 2: I think I would burn all of West Tennessee if
Speaker 2: I tried to control burn our place.
Speaker 4: I love it and like now watching watching pros do
Speaker 4: it and you can like one of my favorite Like
Speaker 4: I obsess every day on you especially certain times of years.
Speaker 4: Growing Dear TV with.
Speaker 2: Grant and Great Information.
Speaker 4: Man, it's incredible and they're they're big advocates on control
Speaker 4: burns and rotating all that. But that's really kind of
Speaker 4: how I've learned how to safely do it. I was
Speaker 4: watching the guys doing on my place. They kind of
Speaker 4: forced it. They shouldn't have burned. It was just like
Speaker 4: they knew they were getting paid and it was still
Speaker 4: wet and like not even half of it went. But
Speaker 4: I initially started out with with my tour manager, a
Speaker 4: bus driver and their buddy, Hey.
Speaker 2: What you got going on? I need you have a place, and.
Speaker 4: We we burnt like the first year we burnt h
Speaker 4: this hillside that was eight acres and last year we
Speaker 4: burned eighty acres. Nice man, and dude, you talk you
Speaker 4: like eighty acres on fires? The coolest thing. It looks
Speaker 4: like the end of the world.
Speaker 2: Is there any Is there any freak out?
Speaker 4: Oh, there's always streak out. Yeah, keeps fun though.
Speaker 2: Me and Dan we had this on our place in
Speaker 2: West Tennessee, this one spot that was super overground.
Speaker 1: First off 's say this, take Dustin's advice and like.
Speaker 2: Do your research before you just go. Don't just go
Speaker 2: throw gasolina.
Speaker 1: That's what we did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I think we like we could
Speaker 2: burn this. Dan was like how I was like, dude,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think we just dumped some gasoline
Speaker 2: out here and lining on fire and Dude, before we
Speaker 2: know it, Man, there's this group of we dude, there
Speaker 2: was like helicopters flying over hiding in the trees. We
Speaker 2: had town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we lift the woods on fire man. But there
Speaker 3: was a big grove of dead trees. And so when
Speaker 3: it got I was like, maybe I'll just skip around.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden it was and it was going
Speaker 3: and we just had this giant like inferno having it
Speaker 3: in front of us and and neighbors.
Speaker 1: We gotta stump that out over there. We go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: buddy comes like y'all burn or something. No, man, just
Speaker 1: a little campfire put it out.
Speaker 3: Right, and we were running through the woods like I mean,
Speaker 3: luckily it didn't get out of control.
Speaker 2: He could have.
Speaker 1: But easy talking about freak out mode. Bro, we were
Speaker 1: we were there.
Speaker 2: We need to win the switch, We need to win
Speaker 2: this ship.
Speaker 1: I think God had a little grace on us and
Speaker 1: just maybe dropped.
Speaker 4: It's crazy how how quickly dead grass goes and it
Speaker 4: gets to a point you're like, oh, I'll just you know,
Speaker 4: they'll get in front of it. It gets so hot
Speaker 4: you can't yeah and leave, you can't even get close.
Speaker 2: That leaves burn it in an instant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and one thing almost my neighbors saved me for this.
Speaker 4: I just called him like, hey, just so you know,
Speaker 4: I'm about to burn this hillside is the first one
Speaker 4: I was going to tempt on my own. He goes,
Speaker 4: did you call the state? I was like, I didn't
Speaker 4: realize I had to. He's like, yeah, you better get
Speaker 4: you a burn from they're gon hanger and.
Speaker 1: There's certain times of years you don't have to have one,
Speaker 1: and there's a majority time.
Speaker 2: Of the year stay wide or is that county wide.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. So anyway, I call the state and
Speaker 4: then I call the county you know, fire department, and
Speaker 4: you'll still have people driving down the road thinking it's
Speaker 4: the end of the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, you can let all your neighbors know. There's still
Speaker 4: gonna be somebody driving around. All the cops Andy, this
Speaker 4: farm's on fire. If they know about it, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we know, control burn whatever whatever for habitat. So that's important.
Speaker 2: Was it your dad, like got you that got you
Speaker 2: into this?
Speaker 1: Dad?
Speaker 2: Did your dad hunt?
Speaker 1: It was dad?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I started bow hunting when I was thirteen,
Speaker 4: So I think my entry, my entry to hunting was
Speaker 4: tough hunting. Yeah, which I think is a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Dude, you're the dog, like when your dad's going and
Speaker 2: he's like, he's like, yeah, you can go. If you
Speaker 2: go pick up the dove.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: And so that's where it started. And I loved it,
Speaker 4: and he could tell that I loved it. And you know,
Speaker 4: he grew up in Florida, so he was chasing deer.
Speaker 4: Wasn't huge, you know, but he was. He was still
Speaker 4: out chasing hogs and trapping raccoons and stuff. So it
Speaker 4: was it was in his blood. We did a lot
Speaker 4: of fishing growing up, but for whatever reason, took an
Speaker 4: interest in and uh and honey, he went and he
Speaker 4: I remember, I think the first thing I remember of
Speaker 4: us doing with deer Honting he went, uh and built
Speaker 4: a buddy a deer stand. I think it was. I
Speaker 4: think we just built it out of wood. And I
Speaker 4: was like, man, I want to do I want a
Speaker 4: deer hunt. So I think we just started doing it.
Speaker 4: I loved it. And then he got uh, I believe
Speaker 4: it or not. Right down the street from us was
Speaker 4: a guy that did had a little archery shop and
Speaker 4: I was garage. It's part time archery shop.
Speaker 1: You were in there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he and I got bows. I was thirteen, and
Speaker 4: we started shooting and I started hunting, man, and it
Speaker 4: was game on. Yeah, you feel that you feel out
Speaker 4: of drilling when you're on the ground with a deer.
Speaker 4: I was hunting on the ground at first, come on
Speaker 4: thirteen with a bow.
Speaker 2: And then you then you actually like harvest one. You
Speaker 2: shoot one and it just sets it on fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it was all that was just that was it.
Speaker 4: And and and still like just the the end anticipation
Speaker 4: of watching the Outdoor channel. Yeah, on the weekends. You know,
Speaker 4: you're looking for the weekend because you're not in school.
Speaker 4: But then you've got you know, Jury Outdoors coming on,
Speaker 4: and you know, this is when they we still had
Speaker 4: video cameras. This big me and my buddy started videotaping
Speaker 4: each other when we were fifteen bow hunting. We had
Speaker 4: camo duct tape on these giants, these giants. And that's
Speaker 4: what I was going to do for a living, for life.
Speaker 4: I was going to be outdoor TV. Yeah, bro host
Speaker 4: and cameraman.
Speaker 1: Even before you started like playing music and singing, that
Speaker 1: was the driver.
Speaker 4: That was it, man. I was obsessed really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The guitar.
Speaker 4: I picked it up originally when I was eight and
Speaker 4: then gave it up and then I picked it up
Speaker 4: again when I was fourteen.
Speaker 1: Did you always kind of write and sing or were
Speaker 1: you just kind of yeah?
Speaker 4: I immediately, like as soon as I could kind of
Speaker 4: get through playing and singing, I had this infinity to
Speaker 4: like really try to write a song. Man. Getting to
Speaker 4: record something on my mom's like cassette deck, go play
Speaker 4: it in her car was the coolest thing ever. I
Speaker 4: remember like it was yesterday, and it was like so addicting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that that became hunting and fishing always stayed.
Speaker 3: But that was like, Okay, So when did you just
Speaker 3: saw going, I'm going, I'm gonna I'm gonna chase this
Speaker 3: thing down.
Speaker 4: I will say probably fifteen, fifteen or sixteen we started
Speaker 4: a band. I know I was fifteen because my mom
Speaker 4: was taking me over to my buddy's house so we
Speaker 4: could even drive. I can't even drive yet.
Speaker 1: Was it the Dustin Lynch band? You have some names?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 4: It was back in the day. We uh, it took
Speaker 4: forever to find a name, but we finally came across
Speaker 4: this This name called fifteen Rain was our band.
Speaker 1: Name by.
Speaker 4: Matchbox two. Fifteen Rain, and it took us forever to
Speaker 4: figure out can have a bunch of names.
Speaker 1: And my mom was fresh than fifteen, so mine was
Speaker 1: the thing in a number ten.
Speaker 4: Yes, my drummer was taking a was cheating on a
Speaker 4: quiz in English class on uh, I forget what it
Speaker 4: was great gas beer or something, and the answer to
Speaker 4: number fifteen was rain and somebody shouted like he was like, hey,
Speaker 4: what's you know? And somebody's like fifteen rain and he's like,
Speaker 4: and so that's what we know ourselves, and we did uh.
Speaker 4: But we were straight into like trying to do originals.
Speaker 4: It was like like kind of pop rocky immediately immediately, No,
Speaker 4: we were doing covers too, but like we mean started
Speaker 4: trying to write because I was obsessed with writing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, were you writing with your little band? Like fifteen
Speaker 2: Rain was writing fifteen rains?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sham, it's still it's still wild. It's still how
Speaker 4: I love to like make our shows just there. I
Speaker 4: don't have like somebody that helps me out and like, hey,
Speaker 4: what we were thinking about this is the soundtrack to
Speaker 4: this tour or anything like that. I know some people
Speaker 4: have like a musical director that kind of maps out
Speaker 4: their songs and whatever. Like I still get with my
Speaker 4: band and we'll huddle up and just jam until we
Speaker 4: find it. And that's how we how we still do
Speaker 4: our shows.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: And that's how we were doing. We would just sit
Speaker 4: around and like jam and find it and then I'll
Speaker 4: go home and lyrics. And we came up to Nashville
Speaker 4: and recorded in Antiok, Tennessee, and this dude's basement, went
Speaker 4: home on our you know parents printer printed off the
Speaker 4: CD cover and burned them on our burned CDs.
Speaker 1: On the you know, our family computers.
Speaker 4: And and started handing those out and selling them.
Speaker 2: And playing shows and and yeah, we would play.
Speaker 4: We would play you know, walk a Thons and car dealerships,
Speaker 4: and on the trailer they pull up, yeah are uh
Speaker 4: We We had this guy that that approached us and
Speaker 4: was like, man, I can get you all into Manchester,
Speaker 4: Tennessee at this this club. And we're like, you know,
Speaker 4: sweet big times, yeah, our first club. And he was
Speaker 4: hanging exit in over our heads too. I'll get you
Speaker 4: in there too. It's just you know, whoever.
Speaker 2: He grind trying to make.
Speaker 1: I signed contracts with like eighty of those.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, and uh so we go and we go,
Speaker 4: we we play this thing. We play this building and uh,
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, is this a Mexican restaurant a tire shop.
Speaker 2: Combined?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Why is there a stripper pole? But at sixteen
Speaker 4: you're like, hell yeah, Well, come to find out, it's
Speaker 4: like a rotational venue. So on Thursdays they have strippers
Speaker 4: and I forget what day we played one is. My
Speaker 4: dad at the time had a insulation company, like a
Speaker 4: little side gig insulation company, and a couple of his workers.
Speaker 4: I was telling Dad. I was like, it's sound like
Speaker 4: Hispanic restaurant. I can't figure out what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dad's like, wow, massa workers and they're like they
Speaker 4: tell them like, no, it's a strip club on whatever.
Speaker 4: That didn't go over well with mom.
Speaker 2: That's they couldn't come.
Speaker 4: So we got to play that place twice and then
Speaker 4: that that plug got full. Yeah, but yeah, we we
Speaker 4: just beat around in the college comes and everybody kind
Speaker 4: of had different aspirations. My drummer was a huge Alabama fan,
Speaker 4: so you wanted to go to bambas he went there.
Speaker 4: I was headed to MTSU with the guitar player. We're
Speaker 4: going to keep the music thing going. The bass player
Speaker 4: super talent. He wanted to go to UT Knoxville and
Speaker 4: do architecture. So we kind of split up out of
Speaker 4: high school. And what year was this two thousand and three?
Speaker 1: Gotcha?
Speaker 4: And uh then at last minute, I got a call
Speaker 4: from Lipscomb University to get a scholarship to play golf. Wow,
Speaker 4: and really, so I did that. It got me to Nashville.
Speaker 4: It was like that golf got me to Nashville, so
Speaker 4: I could actually really jump into learning how that man,
Speaker 4: it's funny how and uh, that's that's what got me here, man.
Speaker 4: And the first night I moved in, my parents left,
Speaker 4: and before they got to the end of the road,
Speaker 4: I was at the Bluebird man.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And uh, scared of death. I thought it was in
Speaker 4: the ghetto. Yeah, yeah, I mean I did. It was
Speaker 4: like I was scared to death. To go anywhere in
Speaker 4: Nashville is like I'm going to get killed everywhere I go.
Speaker 2: Do you remember who you saw? Who was playing? I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't remember that. I didn't.
Speaker 2: I was playing yesterday.
Speaker 1: This was playing.
Speaker 2: Every time we asked me who they saw, Yeah, dance
Speaker 2: nine o'clock.
Speaker 4: I didn't get in. I got you know that. It
Speaker 4: was capacity. I just watched through the windows. But I
Speaker 4: was like the most epic moment of life right there,
Speaker 4: first night in Nashville and get to watch the Blueberd Cafe.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, that's that's that's a great story.
Speaker 4: We had come up in high school, me and the
Speaker 4: band and played an open mic at Bluebird though cool,
Speaker 4: so like I knew, Yeah, I was obviously, Well they're
Speaker 4: actually still airing back then, they're airing like Tuesdays at
Speaker 4: the Bluebird on TNN.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember channel thirty three for me. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it was for y'all. We used to
Speaker 1: watch TNN all the time, yep.
Speaker 4: And it's just it's cool. Like moving to Nashville. It
Speaker 4: was the Grand Old Opry, it was Bluebird Cafe and
Speaker 4: Lower Broadway and like just trying to you know, my
Speaker 4: goals were to play all three of those things, and
Speaker 4: that's kind of where I was, man, And of course
Speaker 4: those goals have changed at this point, but so did.
Speaker 2: You Just got to Nashville, started connecting networking, writing as
Speaker 2: much as you could.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it took a while. I had a
Speaker 4: lot of my plate trying to continue on my gos
Speaker 4: call ship was the reason I could be in Nashville. Sure,
Speaker 4: it couldn't afford to be here anywhere other way. So
Speaker 4: like that was a huge focus a lot of time,
Speaker 4: like trying to play my butt off and keep that
Speaker 4: thing that's awesome, you know, and I did and and
Speaker 4: then you know, at Lipscom University, I think it's got
Speaker 4: a lot more relaxed now, but back then, it was
Speaker 4: super strict. Like if you've left campus after seven pm,
Speaker 4: you had to check out, tell them where you're going.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: Then you come back and they're like, where'd you go?
Speaker 4: You know, at the Sounds game? Okay, do this breathalyzer.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know college could do that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you're twenty one and even showed up anything on
Speaker 4: a breath lizer, you're out of college.
Speaker 1: Anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, golf colarship gone, Yeah, super strict.
Speaker 4: So we would go to Vanderbilt. You know, we'd go
Speaker 4: see our parents, but we'd go to Vanderbilt and go
Speaker 4: to their frat parties. And that's where I was like,
Speaker 4: wait a second, you're hiring these bands for how much
Speaker 4: money to play these cover songs. I can do this.
Speaker 4: So I started chopping away at getting my cover list
Speaker 4: up and uh and and taking notes at these parties
Speaker 4: on like where I was working and research.
Speaker 3: I mean, we did this eut of the band that
Speaker 3: did basically the same thing you're saying you did in Mississippi.
Speaker 1: And like I'm a MISSISPI steaked.
Speaker 3: I'm a bulldog guy and I can't even be mad
Speaker 3: at Ole miss because of how much money we made
Speaker 3: off those I mean, they.
Speaker 1: Would shell it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it really sets a great foundation, uh for
Speaker 3: for for knowing what the listener wants to.
Speaker 1: Hear without a doubt whether you like it or not.
Speaker 4: That's it. I still I still use a lot of
Speaker 4: those skills from those days. Frat houses on Lower Broadway,
Speaker 4: play Lower Broadway for years two like that never changes.
Speaker 4: We were just in Mexico for our ninth crash my
Speaker 4: apply with Luke and we've created this monster down there.
Speaker 2: Let's get give us, give us the give us your
Speaker 2: the Dustin Lance story on what happened last year.
Speaker 1: That's drunk.
Speaker 2: I know, no doubt tind of release of an apology,
Speaker 2: didn't he he did?
Speaker 4: Yeah? There's no context, right, so you see in writing
Speaker 4: in these articles on what right, but but there's no
Speaker 4: context of like how it was said. You just read
Speaker 4: it and it's like, wow, that's terrible.
Speaker 2: Oh he's snow dust and Liz, Yeah.
Speaker 4: So's he's like trying to crack jokes, and you know
Speaker 4: he's because I've been down there with them every year,
Speaker 4: Like we kind of I have done that every year
Speaker 4: together down there and multiple nights together. It isn't just
Speaker 4: like I play and he plays like we've collabed every
Speaker 4: year on stuff. So the crowd down there, everybody's been
Speaker 4: seven times or like, they've all get it, and they
Speaker 4: all understand what it is and how loose it is,
Speaker 4: and that's why they go back like you're getting a
Speaker 4: once in a lifetime show. Absolutely a circus that.
Speaker 2: You can only get there.
Speaker 4: And he's never able to say any of that in
Speaker 4: the States on tour because Live Nation will pull his
Speaker 4: contract exactly, so we know what we're getting down there,
Speaker 4: and he's trying to be funny and introduce me. Well,
Speaker 4: he starts going down this road of just bashing me,
Speaker 4: and to the point to where I'm looking at his.
Speaker 1: Manager like that you care, just that, like it might
Speaker 1: get him in trouble.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, we hit the stage and it anyways,
Speaker 4: it catches fire. We get back home, he's duck hunting
Speaker 4: and I'm deer hunting or whatever. We're looking at all
Speaker 4: these articles pop up like oh crap, and so he
Speaker 4: has to apologize, you know, especially with you know, now
Speaker 4: he's worried obviously American idol. Yeah, who cares about the
Speaker 4: country music thing. It's an American idol, no doubt. You know,
Speaker 4: you got to watch out for, no doubt. And so
Speaker 4: he does that.
Speaker 1: So he like he can't.
Speaker 4: He gets to worry. He can't sleep at night because
Speaker 4: he's worried about what my parents think, oh man, which
Speaker 4: is just shows you what kind of guy Luke is.
Speaker 4: So he like calls me, He's like, what's their email?
Speaker 4: I want to apologize to him, and he goes, you
Speaker 4: know what, next year you get to introduce me. You
Speaker 4: have a year to figure out how to do it.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, oh crap. You know, I can't like
Speaker 4: go in I don't want to go in hard on
Speaker 4: him like he did me. What can I do? So
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know what, We're going to do an
Speaker 4: official roast? And uh, the best roaster of all time
Speaker 4: is Jeff Ross.
Speaker 2: And so did you get him down there?
Speaker 4: Got a hold of him and we wore him out.
Speaker 1: Out.
Speaker 4: It was one of those things where like please connect,
Speaker 4: please connect, you know, and the first like one of
Speaker 4: the first singers that was I knew was not yeah
Speaker 4: I want to hear some of some of them, just
Speaker 4: just yeah. One of the first singers. Like the crowd
Speaker 4: reacted pretty good too, and I'm like, oh, we got them.
Speaker 4: What's coming now? You know his I think his new
Speaker 4: single Southern and Slow, so like he cracked him on that.
Speaker 4: He's like, finally you're writing something autobiographic. But it was
Speaker 4: more of that stuff. There's some stuff we had to
Speaker 4: edit out about Caroline and Ryan Seacrest and uh, but uh,
Speaker 4: we kept it pretty family friendly. But it was great, man,
Speaker 4: it was good Jeff. Jeff did a great job and
Speaker 4: he went like above and beyond. Yeah, he was really
Speaker 4: into it. So it turned out great. And and it
Speaker 4: come to find out they you know, you're always going
Speaker 4: at what point there is enough crash my applians and
Speaker 4: uh confirmed the last night of the festival, the guy's backstage.
Speaker 4: Luke was on stage and I went back to get
Speaker 4: another beer or something, and they're like, we're thousand percent
Speaker 4: do in year ten start playing for it? So that's
Speaker 4: all what we started out doing. They asked me to
Speaker 4: do a couple of songs by the pool the first
Speaker 4: year ever. They were just making it up and I'm like,
Speaker 4: a couple of songs. Screw y'all. I've never been to Mexico. Like, so,
Speaker 4: me and my band I had it was me and
Speaker 4: my guitar player and my drummer had a cahone. We
Speaker 4: stopped by the liquor store on the way there in
Speaker 4: the resort and we just grab a bunch of bottles
Speaker 4: of liquor and we take them out to the pool
Speaker 4: and we sit on the edge of the pool and
Speaker 4: we start playing songs and they wanted two songs. We
Speaker 4: played for an hour and a half and people going crazy.
Speaker 4: The promoters came to me, They're like, dude, we got
Speaker 4: to do this next year. I was like, well, give
Speaker 4: me some speakers next year. Yeah, And so we looked,
Speaker 4: did a little stage. It went off great, and then
Speaker 4: it just They're like, Okay, this is your thing. Let's
Speaker 4: start growing it. And it's grown into this just circus
Speaker 4: of like we do a big parade walk in and
Speaker 4: this year we did a theme and we're bringing it.
Speaker 1: It sounds like we brought fun.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we we branded it the Pool Situation. We brought
Speaker 4: up to Las Vegas and sold out three of their
Speaker 4: night clubs with the Pool Situation, and we'll bring it
Speaker 4: back to Vegas. We did it at c Mayfest, so
Speaker 4: it's kind of like it's come back to the States
Speaker 4: and become one of our staple events.
Speaker 2: Now, how many nights do you do y'all do down there?
Speaker 4: It's it's a four night festival. Cool and then the
Speaker 4: hot pool parties every day. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: I always encourage anybody that, especially you know, songwriters, anybody
Speaker 4: that's in the creative community go down there. There's there's
Speaker 4: plenty of room and you know, to to get everybody
Speaker 4: in and just see it. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 4: always crappy weather here anyways. Yeah, and man, it's great
Speaker 4: to get down there and just mingled. There were so
Speaker 4: many artists, you were sixteen artists, Like, yeah, why would
Speaker 4: you not be down there mingling? Right?
Speaker 1: For sure? Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you're on what six studio album with Killed the
Speaker 2: Think So yeah, well I think it's six. Yeah, when
Speaker 2: when did that come? When did Kill the Cable come out?
Speaker 4: It came out September this this past year twenty three,
Speaker 4: and I'm still loving it. You know, I'm still getting
Speaker 4: better at the process. That's what I think I'm having
Speaker 4: so much fun doing. Is like you start out and
Speaker 4: as all of us do, you're like, you've recorded songs,
Speaker 4: but then you get into you know how we used
Speaker 4: to do it, you know, you you know, we're cut
Speaker 4: with eight guys and you've got his producer, and you
Speaker 4: feel like you're running from the cops trying to make
Speaker 4: what's going to be you know, what's your life and
Speaker 4: career hang on your first album?
Speaker 1: No pressure?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't know how to communicate to these guys, right,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean all these guys, like I've read
Speaker 4: their names on track lists, your you know, a whole life,
Speaker 4: and they're played all my favorite records. And now he's
Speaker 4: sitting there like, Okay, I don't like what he's playing,
Speaker 4: but I'm not going to tell him.
Speaker 1: Right, you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I know exactly, But now I am going
Speaker 4: to tell them, you know, like we have like the
Speaker 4: confidence in the rapport now with with musicians and worked
Speaker 4: with them so long that I feel comfortable in the
Speaker 4: studio now and it's it's a lot more fun and
Speaker 4: I've I've learned how I like to make music and
Speaker 4: and how I'm loving it right now. We cut with
Speaker 4: a smaller band, you get the bare bones of it,
Speaker 4: and then we'll just take it back to the studio
Speaker 4: and and slowly chip away at it and try to
Speaker 4: make each song unique. And been around doing it long
Speaker 4: enough to see that, you know, the pendulum of country
Speaker 4: music is constantly swinging. Luckily, I've been able to hang
Speaker 4: on to it and not get bucked off. And we've
Speaker 4: got to you know, make a lot of cool music
Speaker 4: and and and get to make some very traditional music
Speaker 4: and very you know, kind of genre pushing forward thinking
Speaker 4: music too. And and I've had fun doing all that,
Speaker 4: you know, growing up being a rock fan and getting
Speaker 4: to make some more rocking countries cool and growing up
Speaker 4: and being a George Strait's my hero. So getting to
Speaker 4: do all of that I think been George. Thank you, Yeah,
Speaker 4: thank you. That was just a fun tip of the
Speaker 4: hat of like how can I how can I get
Speaker 4: my my hero on an album? And that way, you know,
Speaker 4: I went to George show and no it was in
Speaker 4: November of last year.
Speaker 1: That was stable too, was that the thing?
Speaker 4: You know, this was a two night only at at Dick.
Speaker 4: He's in fort Worth, and I was like, man, I
Speaker 4: to get to see Straight fort Worth, Like yeah, get
Speaker 4: me straight and then like go down the street and
Speaker 4: two step billy bobs. That sounds like a great night.
Speaker 4: So I flew down there and did that. And I
Speaker 4: was sitting there and before Straight comes on, they played,
Speaker 4: you know, thirty or forty minutes of house music, but
Speaker 4: it was all songs, all country songs that had mentioned
Speaker 4: George Straight. Dang in the lyrics. Dang, it was really cool.
Speaker 2: How long was it?
Speaker 4: It was like thirty or forty minute Every song had
Speaker 4: mentioned George Straight and the lyric.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. And you could probably do thirty forty minutes
Speaker 3: out of my catalog with every Straight, no doubt.
Speaker 4: It was pretty cool though, Like, as you know, I'm
Speaker 4: sitting there as a songwriter like wow, and they're all
Speaker 4: most of them are like hits for sure. Yeah. It
Speaker 4: just shows you the magnitude of his success and his brand.
Speaker 2: So you're hitting the road on Kill the Cowboy Tour.
Speaker 2: When that when's that starting?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That kicks off Actually the Ryman, it'll be our first
Speaker 4: time to headline the Rhyman April second, and uh with you,
Speaker 4: I've got I'm taking out of a buddy. His name Skis.
Speaker 4: I don't know if y'all heard of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to know this guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's a lot of fun. He's like a
Speaker 4: chameleon man. He does he's Uh, I don't know, he's
Speaker 4: got like this arm. I guess pretty much R and
Speaker 4: B based, but he's a big country fan. And he
Speaker 4: also does collapse with like top forty artists and you know,
Speaker 4: like in the rap scene a little bit. And he's
Speaker 4: just like we met honestly just hanging out at a
Speaker 4: bar and uh. I started coming across his name and
Speaker 4: liking what he was doing, and I'm like, man, what
Speaker 4: can we do? That's a little different, you know. And
Speaker 4: as artists, like if you're gonna do a tour or somebody,
Speaker 4: you want to love their music and who they are.
Speaker 4: And I love him as a person and I love
Speaker 4: his music. I'm like, hell, let's see if he no
Speaker 4: way he's going to say yes to this. And he's like, dude,
Speaker 4: I'm a thousand percent in let's go. I'm like, okay, wow,
Speaker 4: is it him and the guitars? And he got to
Speaker 4: he's gonna yeah, so I think, you know, and like
Speaker 4: he has it to a whole lot yea. And in
Speaker 4: the past he's just kind of in that world you
Speaker 4: just throw the throw the DJ or whatever. But he's
Speaker 4: bringing a band out with us so to be cool
Speaker 4: to you know, see those songs, but you know, and
Speaker 4: that interpretation. So we'll see how it goes. It's kind
Speaker 4: of a big unknown, you know, it's not like it's
Speaker 4: the country orders of the band. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: what he's gonna do, which is kind of fun.
Speaker 2: You've got to collaborate with Jelly Row on this latest thing, Chevrolet.
Speaker 1: How's that?
Speaker 2: How's that? Working with him?
Speaker 4: Man? Oh, it's really cool. Man, He's you know, he's
Speaker 4: a great energy. I don't think you guys have got
Speaker 4: to spend a lot of time with Jelly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know him personally, but I've dude, what just
Speaker 2: just the fact that he went up to Washington and
Speaker 2: and so I got hi chill bumps right now thinking
Speaker 2: about that man and and him fighting for you know,
Speaker 2: for for that and it was just really cool to watch.
Speaker 4: And really he's got a lot more in the pipeline
Speaker 4: of good that he's doing. I know, actually on the
Speaker 4: drive end today, I was talking to Buddy that that's
Speaker 4: you know, in on it, working with it, and and
Speaker 4: Joey's just you know, with his background and I think
Speaker 4: he has I know, he has a lot more experience
Speaker 4: than I do. I go to the Bluebird Cafe and
Speaker 4: think I'm in danger when I moved to Nashville. That
Speaker 4: dude's an Antioch running the streets. So like he knows,
Speaker 4: he knows what's out there.
Speaker 2: And and a lot.
Speaker 4: Just a demographic that I'm not aware of in country music.
Speaker 4: And that's what I got asked the other day, like
Speaker 4: what's he bring to country music? He brings that to
Speaker 4: country music. So he brings that walk of life and
Speaker 4: like the street smarts and knowing how that works and
Speaker 4: what they need to hear. That's what he brings to
Speaker 4: country music.
Speaker 2: A voice for those people man that haven't really that
Speaker 2: voice hasn't been.
Speaker 4: Around, not not at this yeah, not at a scale
Speaker 4: like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And and that's what I think he's bringing. And that's
Speaker 4: why it's a rocket ship ride. This this whole collab
Speaker 4: started before the rock ship Ride happened. It started before
Speaker 4: he knew he wanted to even try to make a
Speaker 4: country or if that's what we want to call it, right,
Speaker 4: And it started with my producers at Krall and Jelly
Speaker 4: worked forever ago. Zach grew up in Nashville and he
Speaker 4: was making like all the street beats for all the
Speaker 4: rappers cool, and he and Jelly had worked together and
Speaker 4: known each other through that for years and twenty one
Speaker 4: when when you know, we were just stuck in Nashville,
Speaker 4: Jelly and Zach reconnected and we had noticed Zach and
Speaker 4: I had noticed, like, man, Jelly's like he's got a
Speaker 4: connection with his fans. If you look at his back
Speaker 4: then if you were looking at his post, like the
Speaker 4: interactions were through the room really just having a conversation
Speaker 4: with him man where like yeah, just his reach and
Speaker 4: like just his fan base. If he would post something,
Speaker 4: we're like boom and all involved and where like anybody
Speaker 4: else was posting, because that's all we were doing, was
Speaker 4: like hey, come hang on a basement tonight, you know,
Speaker 4: like we're doing a thing. But Jelly was like Craig
Speaker 4: going crazy and we noticed it. And so Zach's like, man,
Speaker 4: let me reach out to see what you know, see
Speaker 4: what he see if you and you know, enlighten us
Speaker 4: or whatever. They got to talk and like, man, let's
Speaker 4: start making music together. Let's screw around and see what happens.
Speaker 4: And so Zach and I are working and he starts
Speaker 4: working with Jelly, and like we start talking about collapse
Speaker 4: and Chevrolet came across, and it's like, man, this thing
Speaker 4: is you know, it's a melody that's been around for
Speaker 4: decades and it's been performed by multiple artists already. We
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to continue this legacy on with a
Speaker 4: new country lyric on it, and Jelly has one of
Speaker 4: the most soulful voices in the genre at this point.
Speaker 4: Let's see if he'll do it. He was all in,
Speaker 4: so yeah, just you know, one of those lucky timing things.
Speaker 2: Me and Jordan were I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: Halloween or Christmas or something, but there's this little farm
Speaker 2: that has like a pet and zoo close to our
Speaker 2: house and you can take the kids. And we were
Speaker 2: leaving and there was like a group of kids over
Speaker 2: here playing with sticks and hitting the tree. And we
Speaker 2: walked by him and they were going only talk to God.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay, man, this is gonna work.
Speaker 2: This guy's gonna work there's like seven kids singing the
Speaker 2: whole course of that beating that tree, stabbing with those swordsticks.
Speaker 3: For me, man, I just love how grateful he seems,
Speaker 3: you know, and and he's you know, he's well spoken
Speaker 3: and and it just seems like he's he's really enjoying
Speaker 3: his moment, man. And I love to see that, especially
Speaker 3: in using that platform in that moment to help you
Speaker 3: know the people that he cares about and where.
Speaker 1: He comes from. I just I don't know, I like,
Speaker 1: I like his stance.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have to do it right right, They just
Speaker 4: not have to do. Artists that are that are global
Speaker 4: superstars that you know, stay in the shadows, and that's great.
Speaker 4: Some people don't don't want to spend their off days
Speaker 4: talking to politicians and Dan and we're glad ye does.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can see his heart through that.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can see where he's at. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: was important what you were trying to say. But it's
Speaker 2: that time of the show for the one that got.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: It catches the.
Speaker 1: Usually I try to interrupt you, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard when it's so quiet, and I'm like.
Speaker 4: You know, I just freaked out, Like, am I gonna
Speaker 4: have to put a line.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't. Once we can co write it.
Speaker 4: Back to coffee, I think, like, I'm down to here
Speaker 4: on this cup.
Speaker 2: And start working on that next record.
Speaker 4: If you want to, dude, I'm ready seriously.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: We do this thing called the One that Got Away
Speaker 2: and uh, and we ask every guest that we have
Speaker 2: in your life if it could be a deer, it
Speaker 2: could be a fish, it could be a song, be
Speaker 2: a girl. What what's the first thing? What's the story
Speaker 2: that comes to your mind when we say, man, d
Speaker 2: l I'm gonna start calling you deal if as.
Speaker 4: Please do everybody?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the uh? What's the one that got away?
Speaker 2: For you?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think girls the right answer. There's
Speaker 4: a bunch of those.
Speaker 1: But have you ever had deer season interrupt a relationship?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: I mean how many girlfriends have you broken up with
Speaker 2: it or have broken up with you because of deer season?
Speaker 4: Well, just at this point, I don't. I don't allow
Speaker 4: that to happen.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 4: I'm smart, man, I just I can't imagine having to
Speaker 4: say no to hunting opportunity right now because I need
Speaker 4: to go home and entertain something.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 4: It seems so shallow, but that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Tough, It's not so shallow, right jumps, I.
Speaker 4: Would you know, there's okay. I will try to make
Speaker 4: this quick. I don't want to like drown everybody in
Speaker 4: a long hunt story, but go for it. What for?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 4: So I have this and this is still a heartbreaker,
Speaker 4: we can This is just another layer to it. So
Speaker 4: this is a turkey that got away and now a
Speaker 4: farm that got away. There's this farm in Normandy, Tennessee,
Speaker 4: which is right outside of Tullahoma there where I grew up,
Speaker 4: and it was a permission farm. And it was a
Speaker 4: permission farm.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, you gotta have that.
Speaker 4: So just through my dad like this, this uh gentleman
Speaker 4: had you know, this farm and it was a beautiful
Speaker 4: farm and overlooked Normandy Lake. And I had a bunch
Speaker 4: of turkeys on it. And so me and my high
Speaker 4: school buddy that we used to have the cam camp quarter.
Speaker 4: You know, we're hunting this farm year after year and
Speaker 4: had some incredible hunts. Well we start, we get this
Speaker 4: gobbler that we've been after for a long time and
Speaker 4: we can't ever get him. Off of uh this TVA hill.
Speaker 4: He always hangs up over there, so we're like, hey, today,
Speaker 4: let's just get aggressive on him.
Speaker 2: So like it was to get aggressive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we uh we had something hang up on the
Speaker 4: west side of the farm. We come back to this guy. Well,
Speaker 4: let's go try him because he always hung out over here,
Speaker 4: and like, let's just get aggressive. And I don't know
Speaker 4: if you'll remember this slate calls old yeller. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: At the time, it was like what all the turkeys
Speaker 4: were reacting to. And so I had that. I forget
Speaker 4: what he had. He had another slate and he starts hitting,
Speaker 4: and so we're like, all right, let's just have a
Speaker 4: like a big cut and fight, you know, and we
Speaker 4: just went hard hard hearted. Well, he starts coming and
Speaker 4: so how we're sitting. We're across this creek and uh,
Speaker 4: just trip of pasture. It's probably thirty yards. It's not far,
Speaker 4: but there's a there's an old fence.
Speaker 1: And a creek. So he's got to come down the hill,
Speaker 1: across the creek, cross the.
Speaker 4: Creek, across a fence, and then another creek. But if
Speaker 4: he gets to the fence, he's within thirty Okay, So
Speaker 4: I'm like shoot, we'll popping through this fence.
Speaker 2: Money yeah, money time.
Speaker 4: And uh so we get him down and this sucker
Speaker 4: pops out of this creek bottom and he has two ropes.
Speaker 4: I'm talking big. You see him, and this is the
Speaker 4: first time we had seen him, not knowing he had
Speaker 4: two giant double beers, you know. Gosh, boom, I smoke him,
Speaker 4: drop him. We start celebrating. No man look back, and
Speaker 4: this joker pops up and start run. He's boom and
Speaker 4: cut my buddy Cody at the time.
Speaker 1: Boo boo boo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fired at anything.
Speaker 4: Nothing. So we jumped the fence, take off running. He's
Speaker 4: had to back up his hill and there's like cuts
Speaker 4: through this field in this brush and he's like popping
Speaker 4: it out trying to reload. Gets away. Never find look
Speaker 4: for days for him, never really so that would be
Speaker 4: the one that got away. And then years later the
Speaker 4: farm gets away from us, and it's like that's a now,
Speaker 4: you know, every time I go home, I pass it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, God, I've never killed another double beard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we killed double beards.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I've killed a triple bearded goblin
Speaker 2: jake one time. Yeah that I couldn't see, but yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing like you know, you get a beard in
Speaker 4: like a couple of little minis. Yeah, this sucker had
Speaker 4: like two ponytails.
Speaker 2: Two tens, two tens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and of course that's the one that falls over
Speaker 4: and then decides that he's wild beau.
Speaker 2: I've heard of deer. I mean, I've shot a deer.
Speaker 2: Plenty of deer that have five watched fall, get up,
Speaker 2: take off, never found them. I've never heard of somebody
Speaker 2: dropping a turkey. The turkey jump back up, running off and.
Speaker 1: They'll find them.
Speaker 3: That's why it definitely happens. We killed double beards last year,
Speaker 3: now that I remember it. But they were the little
Speaker 3: sprigs like you're talking rutting off the.
Speaker 2: Big well, the ones we killing your place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was able to get, uh, let's talk some
Speaker 4: turkeys real quick. Yeah, I was able to get. You know,
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one, we weren't touring. I was I
Speaker 4: was like, you know, what, if I'm ever going to
Speaker 4: get a chance to do the Grand Slam, let's go
Speaker 4: and uh it about killed me. Even not touring, it
Speaker 4: about killed us.
Speaker 2: You're going Grand Slam within a year, within a year.
Speaker 4: So within the season, Yes, Osceola is where we started
Speaker 4: a course in Florida, and man, that was tough hunting
Speaker 4: down there.
Speaker 1: I have thought only that that might be the only
Speaker 1: thing in a merit like continental Ola. We haven't it.
Speaker 1: We haven't hunted Ostiola's.
Speaker 4: Take your mosquitoes, prey and thermoicels and everything you can
Speaker 4: think of. It opens early, but it's think about Florida, like,
Speaker 4: they're right on the Everglades where as birds are, you know,
Speaker 4: because you get easterns once you get north of that.
Speaker 4: So we're down there in the Everglades. It's hot, but like, no,
Speaker 4: only mosquitoes will kill you down there. You've got snakes, gators, panthers.
Speaker 4: Our last morning we got there and there's a bear.
Speaker 4: There's a bear track.
Speaker 1: There's definitely there's a lot of bears about that.
Speaker 4: They're all eating turkeys. So you're calling. You've got decoys
Speaker 4: beside you, and you're calling like a turkey, and it's
Speaker 4: just so dumb to be down there doing that. It's
Speaker 4: so dumb.
Speaker 2: I've seen a video of somebody sitting I don't know,
Speaker 2: it might have been somebody we knew, sitting there calling
Speaker 2: a turkey and just on the road bed it's two
Speaker 2: tracks and this panthers, a black panther.
Speaker 1: It's like, what is crazy? Man, Florida?
Speaker 2: Have you got wild?
Speaker 4: Have y'all Have y'all seen the python?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen you check him out.
Speaker 2: I've got to go.
Speaker 4: I think I might have to go on a hunt
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 2: It gets wild, Python cowboy.
Speaker 4: You can like, I don't want to do the python thing.
Speaker 4: I'm good on that. I'm gonna let him do that.
Speaker 4: I want to do that. The air rifle best control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, whether they' shooting iguanas or something out.
Speaker 4: There, all the invasive iguanas and then make some boots
Speaker 4: out of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they eat me.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I try it, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 1: Like, I think it's just probably frog. It's just a
Speaker 1: beefed up frog. Probably.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I missed that, man. I haven't frog gigged in
Speaker 4: a long time, y'all frog gig man.
Speaker 1: We don't have time.
Speaker 2: The only time, the only time we got a story
Speaker 2: about that. Only time I've ever been frogging was we
Speaker 2: were down and West Tennessee story.
Speaker 1: I was in the boat. I was in the boat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the only time I've ever been
Speaker 2: frog again, and we went down there and this dude's
Speaker 2: red Man, He's super red and he comes up strap
Speaker 2: he's got a twenty two.
Speaker 1: Red is not even a good description. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is beyond the most wacko human in the world. But
Speaker 1: you know that, and you're not. He wouldn't mind.
Speaker 3: He would love for me to say, you got that
Speaker 3: guy in high school that like drives the giant truck
Speaker 3: and wears like the Pooka necklace and like the flip
Speaker 3: philosophies just this that he's this guy, right, But he's
Speaker 3: he's a great he's a great fisherman. He loves the hunt,
Speaker 3: and he's just a completely out of the box human.
Speaker 3: Like there's no way I could have him on this
Speaker 3: podcast because it would just turn into like aliens and
Speaker 3: insanity before we ever got out of here.
Speaker 1: And he but he's sneakily like a.
Speaker 2: Very good shot, pretty good woodsman too, just all just
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, he lives and literally lives in it.
Speaker 2: And so he asked us to go frog gig and
Speaker 2: so we piling there and.
Speaker 4: Are all using a gig or he's shooting.
Speaker 1: Them both mostly gigging, but he has like a pistol
Speaker 1: on his hip right.
Speaker 2: It's like a six shoot or twenty two.
Speaker 1: I can't make this up, dude. I can't make this up.
Speaker 3: And I'm not one for like animals come after you,
Speaker 3: because they generally don't. Man Like, even if you think
Speaker 3: one's coming after you, it's probably not.
Speaker 1: But that night, on that wake, a snake comes out of.
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you guys, this actually, dude.
Speaker 3: It comes out of the bank and it's coming towards us,
Speaker 3: and he's like, man, you shoe that snake Oarders And
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I think maybe we need to back up. And God
Speaker 1: is my witness.
Speaker 2: Hey wait, if we're sitting there, this snake's coming towards
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey man, I'm sitting in the front of
Speaker 2: the boat. I'm like, hey man, you need you need
Speaker 2: to back up.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: This thing's getting and I mean it's out, mouth open,
Speaker 2: coming at it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It sees us and literally goes mouth open and it's
Speaker 3: and I think it was probably just trying to intimidate,
Speaker 3: but it goes mouth open and comes at the boat
Speaker 3: like this, and we.
Speaker 2: Were like oh, And then I mean a split second, dude,
Speaker 2: you just feel the back of the boat rock crots,
Speaker 2: grabs a gig, takes the gig over us left handed,
Speaker 2: get into snake here, holds it up into the thing.
Speaker 2: This snake is doing this gig.
Speaker 3: He's hit him aout halfway down, so he's still got
Speaker 3: a foot down like this flashed like a from the
Speaker 3: snake's head goes front.
Speaker 1: From the head goes, God, we're not on level ground.
Speaker 1: This is a canoe.
Speaker 2: Canoe.
Speaker 1: He's like, sou God, and the thing goes. We were like, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean something, best have you'all ever heard? So?
Speaker 4: I had a roommate in Nashville from Paris. Paris, he said,
Speaker 4: obviously big duck hunting a lot of swamps out there,
Speaker 4: right right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He said that you can go out and they would
Speaker 4: do this and they would take a bunch of you know,
Speaker 4: shot you know, shells, and you'd get a couple of
Speaker 4: guys in each boat and you would shoot a snake
Speaker 4: and then for whatever reason, the vibration from that more
Speaker 4: snakes would come at the boat, and it was like
Speaker 4: zombie apocalypse? Is that? Is there any truth of this?
Speaker 1: That kind of happened that night? Honestly, we ended up
Speaker 1: killing like six or seven snakes. I don't think it's vibration.
Speaker 1: It may be.
Speaker 3: I what I've understood to be is a the motor Yeah,
Speaker 3: older that a snake under some anxiety.
Speaker 4: Whatever you call got it and more come at it
Speaker 4: and more come.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I've definitely heard of people, especially cotton mouse. Now, look,
Speaker 3: this is not one hundred percent certain this could be complete.
Speaker 3: That sounds so horseshit.
Speaker 4: Well you've heard it, he's told me.
Speaker 2: But but probably there's a likelihood that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we also all thought that what was sindbad
Speaker 1: was a was he remember the shazam? Then? Yeah? We
Speaker 1: also Marylyn Manson pulled out two ribs. Remember. Sure, nobody
Speaker 1: knows if that's true or not either. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I think it's true, but I cannot.
Speaker 2: Be certain they do amit an odor?
Speaker 1: Wait, says who Google?
Speaker 2: This is according to in distress, the snakes do emit
Speaker 2: an odor, especially foul odor that's easy to trace.
Speaker 1: Does it attract.
Speaker 2: And lead you to it?
Speaker 4: There you go?
Speaker 1: That sounds pretty tried to that's smart on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry anybody. I mean I think that would be
Speaker 4: like the scarier cousin of you know, shooting silver carp
Speaker 4: or something done in order to.
Speaker 1: Do that though you have to be in a highly
Speaker 1: snake invested area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not snakes to get me though, spiders get
Speaker 4: me to snakes man.
Speaker 2: Spiders, snake. I feel like I'm going to die either
Speaker 2: by a rattlesnake or a grizzly attack. That's how I felt,
Speaker 2: which be sick, but that's how I kind of feel.
Speaker 4: Like grizzly would suck, but it'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 2: To Yeah, it wou'd be a cool story that was
Speaker 2: out there. You know what, do you nothing about?
Speaker 4: How much rather like grizzly than a shark, because like,
Speaker 4: at least you get halfway appreciate it happening, because you.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, in a moment, you're like, this is in
Speaker 2: the ocean.
Speaker 4: You can't see it, and you're just what, it's all possibility.
Speaker 2: We're all going to go one day.
Speaker 4: The better Here's what's crazy. The better possibility was think
Speaker 4: about this in Mexico last week. I'm sitting there, I'm
Speaker 4: chilling out, drinking and I'm like sketchy all the time,
Speaker 4: and it's windy, and I'm like, I get to thinking
Speaker 4: about sharks because I'm like, I ain't getting an ocean today.
Speaker 4: That's so dumb, and then I start running the stats.
Speaker 4: I'm like, wait a second, coconuts kill more people than
Speaker 4: anything any animal. I think every year I look up
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I gotta get out of it. So
Speaker 4: I just start scouting all the coconut trees.
Speaker 1: We get back to my room.
Speaker 2: Man, we've been jumping the ocean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, We've been there so many years. We have like this.
Speaker 4: We stay down the beach aways and it's this compound
Speaker 4: of four homes. It's incredible spot. But then you know,
Speaker 4: in between all the houses or coconut trees, and I'm
Speaker 4: like trying to map out how I'll walk out to
Speaker 4: the van to get because I'm like, you know, there's
Speaker 4: a better chance of dying for one of these.
Speaker 3: I mean, I say this, this happened for a fact,
Speaker 3: and it was I think last year they were saying
Speaker 3: that we're we vacationing in Florida. Thirty A beach was
Speaker 3: the deadliest beach in the world at last year, like
Speaker 3: with waves coming and pulling people out. There's this insane
Speaker 3: undertow thing that was happenings and there were shark attacks.
Speaker 1: Right, So I'm down there with my wife's family. You know,
Speaker 1: kids are screaming.
Speaker 3: It's like, dude, give me five minutes myself right before
Speaker 3: I know it, Like, I'm pretty far. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: like chess high water, you know. So I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: better get back in this a little sketch. So I
Speaker 3: start coming back and I meet my other a brother
Speaker 3: law of mine, and we're we're probably the belly button,
Speaker 3: you know, so we're looking at we're sitting out there
Speaker 3: and I hear like a commotion to down the beach.
Speaker 3: I was close with the beach to hear like, you know,
Speaker 3: didn't think anything about it. Simultaneously, I see. The only
Speaker 3: way I know to describe it. I can see it
Speaker 3: in my brain right now is like a lateral laying refrigerator,
Speaker 3: except silver coming right here and it goes it does
Speaker 3: the thing like this thing. And I'm like, hey, Adam,
Speaker 3: do you and He's like back up, back up, back up,
Speaker 3: And I was like, so we just start kind of
Speaker 3: like squeegeeing back, and as we do, I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: like I'm like you saw what I and and he
Speaker 3: was like, yes, get back, we got to get that.
Speaker 1: We start, we start going back and the people down
Speaker 1: the beach are like, did you see it. Did you
Speaker 1: see it? Did you see it?
Speaker 3: And I couldn't even talk to I mean it was
Speaker 3: I mean I see it right now in my brain
Speaker 3: and and and everybody's like, oh, it wasn't. And I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: it might have been like some weird giant to ray
Speaker 3: tarping things. But people from the beach were seeing it
Speaker 3: and screaming down the beach like, hey man.
Speaker 4: Probably the big hammerhead or something.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, dude, I was. I ain't even dipping
Speaker 3: my toe in that. I didn't even take a bath
Speaker 3: for two weeks.
Speaker 4: That's one of those Like and now I think about
Speaker 4: I used to love getting in the ocean and surfing
Speaker 4: and man, now just man, it's weird. That's probably one
Speaker 4: of those. Like, if I've developed any sort of phobia
Speaker 4: through the years, it's got to be the ocean now,
Speaker 4: which is so weird.
Speaker 2: It's you know, what's out there like that Rogan calls.
Speaker 4: It monster soup. It's like spot on, you know, it's
Speaker 4: so weird, pretty great, crazy, Like we have no idea
Speaker 4: what's going on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I don't know what the stat is.
Speaker 4: Man. They taste good, yeah, sharks no, Well, I don't
Speaker 4: know about sharks. I've probably had a shark, yeah, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: hey this is a yeah, it's probably shark.
Speaker 1: But ocean fish.
Speaker 4: Fresh water, Yeah, I don't know, man, what's your favorite
Speaker 4: fresh water fish to eat?
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a we have a fish which
Speaker 1: is a cousin to a walle I called a man.
Speaker 4: I've got a couple of those.
Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, that's that's number one for me.
Speaker 1: Right under that though, it is brim.
Speaker 3: I actually posted to our thing the other day like, hey,
Speaker 3: guess what this fish is, and it took forever.
Speaker 1: For somebody to guess. Brim was like catfish, that's cross.
Speaker 2: Which I found interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, no, dude, that's breas obviously golden brim.
Speaker 3: But the thing is, most people don't fill at their brim.
Speaker 3: They just spoon them down and cook them whole like this.
Speaker 3: So I guess that's that's where it came from. My
Speaker 3: kids love them, everybody loves these.
Speaker 2: Can't beat the good old fish for I just catfished out, dude.
Speaker 4: I've had so, me too, I mean like a couple
Speaker 4: of times a year. But yeah, I would rather crop.
Speaker 2: Your crappy as a crappy your face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'll tell you, like shockingly enough, you know
Speaker 4: old Hickory that July August, the striple little striple getting jumps.
Speaker 4: You can catch them every cast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the white fun fish. And they're not terrible fish, dude.
Speaker 3: If you soak them over now, they're not bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was gonna say I did that, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean you got to you gotta be careful with
Speaker 4: the bones and all. But yeah, if you soak them,
Speaker 4: and then like I'll tell you, I cooked mine in
Speaker 4: a cooking oil and its sweetened it up a little bit,
Speaker 4: really phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Do you live it in salt water over now? And
Speaker 1: had you do it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yep, Yeah, it was actually really good and it shocked me.
Speaker 3: But we used see them all the time back home
Speaker 3: because they're on the Tennessee River. It's like you're talking about, dude.
Speaker 2: We would they pile up in there and we go
Speaker 2: catch crawfish out of a creek and throw and rip
Speaker 2: them in half, put tails on, put heads on, and
Speaker 2: do every castro.
Speaker 4: So you can catch a hundred in afternoon, fill five
Speaker 4: gallon buckets so much.
Speaker 1: That's what we did.
Speaker 3: We would literally feel just fill five gallon buckets up
Speaker 3: and early, I mean gets pretty big.
Speaker 1: I mean there'll be two and a half two bounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we would. We would leave Nashville when they would
Speaker 2: start running. We'd leave Nashville and go down there and
Speaker 2: spend a day doing it. Man, it's just so much fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fun. We also eat bass. I know, we're
Speaker 1: not supposed to be weave bass.
Speaker 4: I really love basket too, I know too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the thing about like having that lake behind the
Speaker 2: house that he said, one thing about management is if
Speaker 2: you're trying to grow a trophy bass lake, every bass
Speaker 2: you catch under fourteen inches, rip.
Speaker 1: It out of there. Yea.
Speaker 2: So we're we're frowing them up all time. They're great,
Speaker 2: as you should, no at all, you gotta do it.
Speaker 4: It was it was cool, you know. Following Yeah, we
Speaker 4: know Luke Bryan's avid fisherman, but following him trying to
Speaker 4: get his first double digit you know, out of his
Speaker 4: out of his leg. He finally got I think it
Speaker 4: was last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. Do you remember that post he was
Speaker 1: holding that giant, the big one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 4: Giant he fished down there. No I haven't. Yeah, I've
Speaker 4: been down there. I haven't fished it yet.
Speaker 3: He's kind of close to us. That's kind of where
Speaker 3: we're in that neck of the woods down south.
Speaker 1: We missed anything song?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your what's your favorite country song? What's your
Speaker 2: what's your if you've got one, if you could listen
Speaker 2: to one song for the rest of your.
Speaker 1: Life, name something that have been named. So he knows
Speaker 1: kind of the uh boys like me. I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's been just like the ones.
Speaker 4: You know, I would say, man, and we actually I
Speaker 4: had a little bit of a selfish playlist last week
Speaker 4: and put yourself all over in Mexico. Now I want
Speaker 4: to play some songs that are my favorites and and
Speaker 4: I all said, answer that question of what made the
Speaker 4: set list? Is time marches on t L Dude, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just uh.
Speaker 4: And I'm still like I've heard it a thousand times,
Speaker 4: I've sung it a thousand times, and like it still
Speaker 4: makes me feel something and it's forever will ring true
Speaker 4: on at least America. Yeah about everything Like that scenario.
Speaker 1: Is I feel like in the in the nineties Prime
Speaker 1: tal was hard to touch. Dude, he had some shame.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: What's sneaky about him is like he had eighteen number one.
Speaker 2: Like, that's a lot.
Speaker 4: It's one of those concerts you go to and you
Speaker 4: were like, oh that one, yeah, oh that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these are that one. Yeah, dude, I love him. Man,
Speaker 2: that's great. That's dude. You're legiti hell Man.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys. Come back man, please, I'll promise you
Speaker 4: I'll have a lot more stories once we get through Turkey.
Speaker 2: You're great, man.
Speaker 4: I think I'm just saying there's gonna be more to
Speaker 4: the pot. That's why we love around and tell the story.
Speaker 1: Let's kills part of it.
Speaker 2: I would venture to say this is going to be
Speaker 2: the best podcast voice from something from a guest that
Speaker 2: we have this.
Speaker 3: Pro voice, best podcast teeth. You got some good teach,
Speaker 3: no doubt what you dude.
Speaker 2: Your voice is just like it was made to be
Speaker 2: in front of a microphone.
Speaker 1: Man, he didn't ask what about what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Teeth you got?
Speaker 4: I give him some giant teeth.
Speaker 1: No, I gianna look great, dude.
Speaker 4: You can God bless you with pain. Real, dude, it's
Speaker 4: a pain to eat at these things.
Speaker 1: It isn't.
Speaker 4: I ended up more steak in my teeth than I
Speaker 4: did going down my hat.
Speaker 2: They look good, They look just a little appetite.
Speaker 4: Always have floss in my pocket everywhere y'all.
Speaker 2: Dustin lynch Man, thanks for coming hanging out with us,
Speaker 2: and thanks for hanging out in God's country. We'll see
Speaker 2: all next time.