WEBVTT - ITS Home Edition: Chase Rice 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:05.120 Welcome the Inside the Studio presented by I Heart Radio. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:12.720 I'm your host, Joe Lousy. Okay, So, if you have 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.119 talked to as many musicians as I have, you have 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.160 heard a lot of stories about life on the road, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.440 and some of them are hilarious, and some of them 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.720 are sad, and some of them are something else. Because 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:34.040 I've talked with musicians who simply cannot adjust to staying 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.080 in one place at a time after so many nights 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.680 in vans, buses, airplanes. I mean, I've talked to guys 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.920 who have trouble sleeping in a bed that's not moving. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.000 And I thought of that when the guests on this 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.280 episode of the home edition of the show, Chase Rice 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.200 opened up about having some difficulty tapping into his creativity 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.959 because these last few months of quarantine are the longest 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.560 he's ever been off the road since he started putting 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.320 out music ten years ago. I mean, as he puts it, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.240 when he's on, he's on, and when he's off, he's off. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.160 And I guess lately he feels like he's off. He's 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.240 been on vacation sort of. I mean he's even checking 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.440 in with us from Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina. So 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.440 things are not all bad. You know. We started the 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.200 home edition of Inside the Studio to let you know 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.920 how the pandemic has impacted the lives of artists and 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.520 how it's affecting the way they make music. Chase Rice 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.039 has released two EPs already this year, and he tells 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.920 our Quarantine correspondent Jordan Runtog that there may be a 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.959 stadium sized guest collaboration on the third, which he's working 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.880 on now. If you enjoy this episode, be sure to 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.000 listen to the I Heart Radio podcast that Jordan's hosts. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.560 It's called Rivals, Music's Greatest Feuds, and it's available where 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:13.480 ever you get your podcasts. Hello everybody, my name is 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.480 Jordan run Tug. But enough about me. My guest today 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.880 has worn many hats over the years. He was a 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.000 college football linebacker, a member of the NASCAR pit crew, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.000 and a contestant on the reality show Survivor Nicaragua. But 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.519 you know him as a country powerhouse who first climbed 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.560 the charts with Ready Set Role. Since then, he scored 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.880 hits like Eyes on You and also panned the Florida 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.920 Georgia line smash Cruise in January. He's surprised fans by 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.600 releasing the album Part one, the first in a series 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.560 of EPs featuring what he says is some of the 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.440 most meaningful music he's ever made. I'm so happy to 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.760 welcome Chase Rice, Chase, thank you so much for being here. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.520 Oh no, thank you man. This will be And I'm 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.920 literally at the beach and I'm just chilling. So oh nice. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.440 Wait what beach right? Soul Beach in North Carolina? Oh nice? Oh? 0:02:58.440 --> 0:02:59.679 I used to go to the Outer Banks as a 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.640 kid every year. Yeah, actually just south of there. So 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.280 um so this this day in quarantine finds you very well, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.480 I should say, yeah, this is this is one of 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.000 the good ones for sure. Oh man, that's good to hear. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.360 How have you been feeling, I mean, are you feeling 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.839 particularly creative during lockdown or not so much? Uh No, 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.720 I'm not. I haven't been on the type of I 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.480 think that like when I'm on, I'm on, I'm I'm go, 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.760 go go, and when I'm off, I'm off. And I've 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.200 always been good about that because I'm on ten months 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.000 a year, so there's two months off are pretty easy. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.040 It's like, okay, well I don't have that long, so 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.920 I'll take off. But this has been weird. Obviously, this 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.080 is the longest time I've ever not towards so um 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.840 I'll shut my mind off from that. And it's been 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.160 very hard for me, especially live shows or what I 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.400 really thrive off of, and that that's the energy that 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.400 I love. UM, So not being able to do those 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.840 it's been it's been hard. Well. I know, in January 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.160 you put out the album Part One, which I think 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.480 you've described it as like the beginning of your career 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.720 as I think the quote you had for why is 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.200 that was it feeling like you were getting back to 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.560 basics in a way, or I mean I've only played 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.320 I didn't even learn how to play guitar, so I 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.920 was like twenty two years old or around there. So 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.080 I think you just do something long enough, no matter 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.160 what it is, and you get better at it as 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.640 you go. And I think tip of the iceberg for 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.640 me was was for sure eyes on You. I just 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.320 really really found what I really wanted to do, I 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.640 think with that song, and so that gliding right into 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.560 the album Part one, I think that's the That's that's 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:35.839 why I say it at the beginning of my career 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.839 because it's really what I found what I want to do. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.800 I mean, you weren't so many hats in the past. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.880 You've football, linebacker, NASCAR pit man, been on Survivor. Did 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.440 you know from an early age that music was what 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.640 you wanted to do with your life or was this 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.320 something that kind of revealed itself to you later? No? No, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.360 I definitely revealed itself later. We Uh, Like I said, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.200 I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.160 years old somewhere around there. So once I learned that, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.839 it was more just I just love playing guitar. I 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.800 love learning these songs from the guys that I grew 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.080 up listening to. And and I remember one of my 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.880 college roommates was like, he said, man, you should be 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.120 a country singer, where he was sitting there playing and 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.960 I'd sing along in the dorm room and stuff, and 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.880 that was as foreign as him saying you should be 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.720 an astronaut, like that's how fun was playing football. I 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.080 was focused on that, And so when he said that, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.479 I just it's funny now that after seeing obviously what's 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.320 going on with my life and and doing this for real, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.080 is is um it's crazy that that not that long ago, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.520 it was such a foreign concept to me, and they 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:43.360 tore in with Willie Nelson Garth Brooks, that's crazy. What 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.200 would Baby Chase think of that? It's incredible. Yeah, I would. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.839 I would definitely look back if you had told me 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.719 that way back then, I'd be like, wait, what, So 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.279 a lot of fun, It's been a lot of fun 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.720 to get to this this point. Now. It's uh, obviously 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.599 this year's kind of a weird one for everybody, but 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.080 it's it's still in a great direction and I'm I'm 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.680 excited to the day where we can finally actually play 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.800 the album Part one live into the album Part one. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.440 Part two came in in May. What was the strategy 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.920 behind sort of dividing the album up like that. It's 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.360 just the white people listen to music these days. Um, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.239 it's just it's become a singles world. And I don't 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.640 like that very much because I think it just focuses 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.839 to that's just not how I how I grew up 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.560 listening to music. So I tried to find a little 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.080 bit of a middle ground of I don't want to 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.479 just put out singles. I don't want to just do that. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.400 I want to still tell a story. Albums to me 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.000 are still very important, but I want each song to 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.120 have it's it's time in the limelight. I want each 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.240 song to have it's time to be heard. And if 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.480 you put fifteen sixteen songs on a on a record anymore, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.480 people tend to just kind of go through and pick 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.039 a couple of their favorites and move on. But if 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.479 you give them less to listen to, but giving more music, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.400 you know less music more often. I'm finding that that 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.960 gives people the chance to really dive into seven songs, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.839 or drive into four songs or three songs and learn 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.080 those and then they can move onto two more music. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.120 What can we look forward to on part three? I 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.279 haven't fully put it together yet, to be honest, but 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.080 I think I've never really done a huge, huge collapse. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:14.560 I did ride with Macy malloy and she's amazing, um, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.440 But for me to do a song with any artists 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.680 that just is up in the stadium's level of music 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.880 and a huge arena level of music, um, which I'm 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:31.200 not there yet. I'm still clawing and fighting to get there. UM. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.040 I think that could be something pretty special. So I'm 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.520 working on a possible song with f gl Um. I 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.840 think it's It's a cool story with those guys because 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.120 we were roommates when I first moved to town, and 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.040 I don't hope a lot of people know that. We 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.560 literally just lived in the house. We we're broke as 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.160 you can pretty much get, and we were just writing 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.280 songs together. We ended up writing Cruise and that changed 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.200 my life, it changed their life. Um, and we haven't 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.200 put out anything mainstream ever together. So I think if 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.200 if we could figure out a way to find a song, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.640 we got a couple in mind, we're gonna go in 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.880 the studio and just kind of see what happens. But 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.960 I think that will be the highlight of the album 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.280 part three and possibly um pushing whatever song we end 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.920 up figuring out to being the next thing. Oh, that 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.760 is incredible. I I also heard you're working with Shay 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.960 from Tan and Shay Too. What's the latest on that? Yeah? 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.520 I love Shay, I don't Shay years. Um. We have 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.680 a song called Secrets that we've just never finished. It's 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.240 I mean, we started it one night and literally after 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.800 bar we just wanted to his apartment which is also 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.000 a studio, started this song and then like two and 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:44.520 a half years later, got back together, started to finish it. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.079 Still didn't finish it. Um and now we every time 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.760 we see each other like, hey man, when we're gonna 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.000 finish secrets. So I don't know one day what day 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.160 that will happen, but we'll finish it at some point 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.560 because it is a great song. It sounds like a 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.760 good Quarantine project. Yeah. That's the thing is that you 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.199 think right now we have all the time in the 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.960 world to be creative and do music. But for me, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.400 my mind just in there. So I think it's gotta 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.400 it's gotta come to you. Yeah, I can't force it 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.280 for me, it does I I can't force it. If 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.240 I force it, trust me that you ain't gonna life 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.000 what you hear. I know you're you're a very active 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.800 journal or journalist, diarists something like that. Do you ever 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.360 draw your song inspirations from what you write in your 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.600 in your journal? Not really. I don't think that it's 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.520 directly correlates to a song, Like I don't write something 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.400 and be like, oh, that's a good song title. But 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.079 I do think it's it's been why I can write songs. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.520 I think it's it's allowed me to just be able 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.600 to dive into that part of your brain when you're journaling. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.920 My only rule is just to write. I have no rules, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.520 just right Philip age, Philip page, and whatever comes out 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.400 comes out. Um, And usually it's about the day before 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.520 that that day whatever, I do it in the morning 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.120 and night. But I think that allows me to go 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.000 to that part of my brain that is kind of 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.720 similar or at least close to writing songs and get 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.719 creative in that way. So it's it's definitely helped me 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.920 along the way. I would say, do you start with 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.520 a lyric or a title or do you have a 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.320 tune in your head and then put lyrics to sort 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:12.439 of fit whatever that tune is. Um, they kind of 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.000 hit at the same time sometimes, But I like, I 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.640 like having titles and ideas and when I say that, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.000 like to me, the melody is gonna come. We're gonna 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.560 figure that part out. But as long as I have 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.400 a title and where I kind of wanted to go, um, 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.959 like like guys on you, for instance, I'll tell you 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.200 about how we wrote that one. It's uh actually Groy 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.760 was in there playing the piano and I was just 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.200 I had I walked in and I was like, man, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.320 that that sounds amazing. But I don't. I don't know. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.120 I mean, obviously, what is it about. It's just a 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.719 piano melody. So I'm looking through my phone, looking through 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.800 my phone. It's where I keep my notes. And I 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.560 had a song called eyes on You travel the whole world, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.640 but missed it all because your eyes are on her, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.400 And I just thought about that. I was like, that's 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:55.920 enough for me. If I have that and I have 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.160 the title, at least have the idea of what that means, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.679 then you can put it to a melody. And that's 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.280 what we did that particular day, and uh, and obviously 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.600 the rest of that one is history. So it's some 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.360 days it works like that. Some days it doesn't work 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.160 at all. So songwriting songwright could be the toughest thing 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.560 you've ever done. And then some days a song like 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.640 guys on You comes. It's like going fishing. Some days 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.360 he catch nothing, and then some days you get a 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.600 big one. Some days you catch them all. So yeah, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:24.959 some days you read a bunch of little or you 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.720 catch a bunch of little ones, and some days that 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.120 that big one hits, and it's, uh, those are the 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.440 fun ones. I love fishing. So you're talking about language, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.760 I I saw a video tour you were giving of 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.160 your house recently. Uh, beautiful house, something I had never 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:44.199 seen before. You have an indoor crossbow range. Yeah, that's 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.040 compound bow is what I should. I could shoot across across. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.280 I have a different target for that, but it's mainly 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.079 just I have my bow set up right there. When 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.199 I don't feel like walking the when I'm lazy enough 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.959 to not want to walk the hunter yards out to 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.920 the outdoor range, or if it's too hot or some 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.240 like that, I'll just pick it up real quick watching TV, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.000 take a couple of shots. And it's a good practice 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.280 for me. I'm a big hunter. Um and and for 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.959 me it means a lot. I mean, you're going out there, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.000 you're putting an animal in danger like that. You better 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.240 be good. You better practice what you're doing, because my 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.079 goal is to go out there and get it done 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.360 as quick as possible so that they feel the least 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.920 amount of pain they can. And uh, and then I 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.480 have a freezer full of food for at least a year, 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.280 So that's uh. I take it very seriously. And that 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.760 that that compound bone in my kitchen helps a lot. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.360 Let's gonna say, what is your favorite distraction these days 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.400 when you know, we all need that, we need to 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.600 go exercise, binge watch, tiger king or something like. Is 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.040 that hunting for you? What's your favorite distraction these days? Uh? 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.960 Well that that's usually the time of the year for me, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.160 which is the fall. So I haven't been able to 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.280 do that a lot. Um. I've been starting to get 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.200 back into two fishing a good bit. Um, but I 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.280 like going out west of fish so and I'm a 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.200 big fly f fly fish. That's about all I do. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.800 I might start going back out there now that everything's 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.520 to open it up a little bit at least to travel, Um, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.120 go out there and start doing a little bit fishing. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.480 I'm at the beach this week and just kind of relaxing, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.360 getting away from everything. Um, and a lot of drinking. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.280 I have, me and my buddies. We've had we've had 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.280 a quarantine crew with a couple of families and a 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.600 couple of friends and and we have we have drink 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.360 enough enough to fill this ocean over here, I believe 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.040 in the last three months. And I think a lot 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.960 of people are doing that. Um. It went from like 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:34.000 Friday Saturday too, all right, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.960 all right, Monday? Why not? Uh so we gotta we 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.520 we've better tone it back a little bit, but we've 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.640 got fun. How has there been a sort of a 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.600 silver lining of all this for you? Is it like 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.280 taught you something about yourself? You picked up a new hobby. Well, 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.800 I remember telling him John, my tour manager. So we 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.360 took February and March off the beginning of the year. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:52.840 It's just a week of gear up for the rest 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.360 of the year. And I said to him, like, probably 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.400 three weeks before we're about to go back out in April. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.199 I said, Man, I'm not really ready to go back yet. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.880 I just kinda that was a short break and we 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.880 just kept traveling through the break. We pick up an 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.120 acoustic show here, uh, any type of show just to 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.520 go play, you know, whatever it was. And and I 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.719 didn't get my break in. And I remember and I 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.679 talked to God a lot. Whether whether he hears me 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.880 or not, I'm not real sure. But I was just like, man, God, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.600 I'm not really ready to go back here, um just yet. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.520 And uh, he answered me, and possibly the biggest way 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.160 he's ever answered anybody, he said, all right, cool, take 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.840 the rest of the year off. And I didn't quite 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.440 mean that, but here we are. It's a It's definitely 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.200 allowed me to fall in love with wanting to get 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.120 on the road again and wanting to tour and wanting 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.040 to be Um, you get tired, I mean you get 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.520 real tired on the road, especially when you toured for 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.520 seven basically seven straight years like we have. So this 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.280 has allowed me to realize I'll probably never complain about 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.440 tour again in my life. I'll be like, oh, thank God, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.800 let us go. It's definitely a big be careful what 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.480 you wished for a moment, I guess so you're for sure. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.800 I'm still I'm still living in this wish right now. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.800 I UM, I loved your song Belong. I just thought 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.520 it was such a sort of a hopeful, optimistic message 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.640 in these you know, really stressful to multiple divided times. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.360 Uh what does that song mean to you? Where did 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.360 that come from? Yeah? It's um, it means a lot. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.160 It means a whole whole lot, especially right now, and 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.800 I think it's it's getting even more important the more 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:43.080 stressed out people are getting. The more I'm not real sure. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.360 There's just so many different issues going on right now 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.040 and so many different opinions on on so many different things. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:55.280 So the part that I don't love about something's going 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.000 right now just is a lot of negativity, whether that's 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.240 people not wanting to hear other people's opinions. And I 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.080 just think that people need to slow down and actually 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.440 have conversations about these things because the battles on social 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:10.400 media and stuff, it's, uh, it's dangerous. It allows you 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.680 to kind of hide behind the screen. And if people 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.880 will just have conversations and actually talk about it, I 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.400 think they'll realize that every it's not as crazy as 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.480 as some people are making it out to be. So 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.400 that's why I just wanted to put that message out there. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.760 It's like, y'all, let's take a second. We're right where 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.280 we belong. We're not changing what's going on right now, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.400 that this is the world we live in. Whether it's quarantine, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.320 whether it's social injustice matters, um, so let's have a 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.440 conversation about it and enjoy where we are. And I 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.400 think that will actually spring forward a lot more change 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.600 for the future. And uh, it's conversations need to happen, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.040 and I think that's what belongs about for me especially, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.600 We're right where we belong. Let's talk about it, let's 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.080 live in it, and hopefully learn from and move forward 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.800 in a in a positive way. Great song, a great message. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.920 What have you been listening to during quarantine? Because I 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.120 don't know about you, but I've been sort of following 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.280 back on the old familiar like I've been listening to 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.480 the stuff I've been listened to since high school just 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.159 because I want to feel that sort of connection and 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.680 just familiarity. How about you? Yeah, it's I started laughing 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.119 because I was like, oh, my god, So I've been 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.600 hanging out. There's there's been two buddies that, uh, that 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.400 I've become and that he's talked about silver lining. These 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.440 two guys, I didn't really know him that well before quarantine. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.120 And one's Ryan Johansson from the Nashville Predators and once 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.000 James Neil from the Evans and Oilers who used to 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.600 play for the Preds. And they're hockey guys. These are 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.440 got hockey guys straight out of Canada. And my god, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.120 like now we've just become really good buddies. But I'll 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.639 say this, I have never heard more nickel back in 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.880 my entire life. Than hanging out with these two guys. Man, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.520 it's it's I mean, we have a playlist that the 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.280 day will be going, that they'll be going as soon 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.080 as rock star or photograph comes on. It's like our 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.080 eyes are gonna meet at some point around the house 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.280 or some point point around the pool wherever we're all hanging. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.600 It's like, oh God, here we go again. We're actually 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.600 doing this again today. Okay, nickelbacks off, Let's go No exactly. Yeah, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.360 that's like the kind of stuff that we playing. It's 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.320 just like I want something I I know that just 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.760 makes me, just takes me away from where I am now. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.480 I guess maybe I'm not sure why I do it. Yeah, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.280 I know. I love reminiscent songs. I think one of 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.720 the best to ever do songs like that, um is 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.520 Kenny Chesty. I think he's got a lot of songs 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.080 like that. I'm at the beach right now. Anything but 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.520 mine is one of my favorite songs of all time. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.679 So I love songs that do take me back, and 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.200 I will I will forever after this, I'll be able 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.000 to hear nickelback and it'll take me back to this 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.159 quarantine promise. Oh yeah, Well, I guess I didn't think 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.480 about that being but I'm I'm putting new memories on 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.919 these old songs now exactly. Now you're gonna think about quarantine. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.680 Oh man, I gotta choose my songs more carefully now, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.280 I gotta ask. I'm a huge Willie Nelson fan. I 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.160 know you've been on the road with him. Uh what 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.520 was that? Like? My God, that's that's a dream for 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.040 me because I have a lot of memories. My grandpa 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.919 and grandma will come visit me and my brothers once 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.439 a year and they take they take us on the 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.119 road and their motor home. And that's part why I 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.000 think I got it. I love being on the road 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.320 so much because I grew up like really wanting to 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.800 enjoy and really looking forward to hanging out with my 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.040 grandparents for two weeks in the summer in a motor home, 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.760 you know, kind of tour bus type style, UM and 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.720 travel in the country. And the song he'd always played 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.639 when he rolled in on this ultimate horn, this little 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.879 push button thing that they have, UM was on the 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.919 road again by Willie Nelson. And every time he'd come in, 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.400 he'd be playing that, and every time he'd leave, they'd 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.240 be playing that, so that always took me back to 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.040 hanging out for on summers, kind of my training for 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.119 being on tour for the rest of my life. And 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:43.879 then the very first guy that I go on to 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.480 tour with, it was a two week long thing eight 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.360