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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode. To Craig Morgan, it's just a fantastic interview.

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Speaker 1: He talks about going to the military, talks about being

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Speaker 1: a country artist, his friendship with Blake, It's friendship with Gwen,

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Speaker 1: living in a remote part of Alaska. It's just fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So I do want to get to that pretty quick.

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Speaker 1: But the top five releases this week in my mind,

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Speaker 1: let's do this. At number five, cold Play has a

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Speaker 1: new song out called Higher Power. Listen. I love cold Play.

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Speaker 1: Here's the clip of that song. But You've gotten higher?

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Speaker 1: Got to sing in every second? Don't sing everyhow got

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Speaker 1: At number four, Miranda Lambert has released her album The

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Speaker 1: Marfa Tapes. Here's a new song called Waxa Hatchie. Is

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Speaker 1: that your hometown? That is my hometown? Yeah, so walk

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Speaker 1: is out of wax I said it wrong. How does

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Speaker 1: it feel to have a song about your hometown? I

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Speaker 1: love it? Dang, how can be there? What is there

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Speaker 1: to do in Walsa Hatchie? Nothing? Basically what she says

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Speaker 1: in the song go buy a thirty five? It's it. Well,

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Speaker 1: why do they make us write a song about it?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a funny, funny name of a town.

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Speaker 1: Funny name. It's if you're coming from Dallas, you go

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Speaker 1: right through it. But other than that, there's not much

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Speaker 1: to do there. And that's crazy that you're twing. Got

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Speaker 1: a song at number three, The Black Keys have a

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Speaker 1: new song They're back. It's called Going Down South Song.

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Speaker 1: And number two Brandon Ray has a new song out

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Speaker 1: called hold On Here you Go, hold On Still a

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Speaker 1: little bit longer, hold On you gotta be stronger, hold

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Speaker 1: On You're not hold On It's gonna get better. And

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Speaker 1: the number one Weezer has a new album called Band Wheezer.

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Speaker 1: It's their fifteenth album, and, as its title implies, band

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Speaker 1: Weezer is Weezer's take on hard rock, drawn from Van

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Speaker 1: Halen Ozzie Aerosmith. Here's a new song called I Need

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Speaker 1: Some of That, I Need Some of It's just I

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Speaker 1: do love Weezer so much so that I went on

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Speaker 1: a podcast recently as Weezer Expert. Really, what did you

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Speaker 1: talk about Weezer and my love of them and why

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Speaker 1: and the difference between the Blue Album and Pinkerton and

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Speaker 1: why people don't like Pinkerton and which is your favorite?

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Speaker 1: The Blue album? But I liked what Pinkerton anyway, just

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Speaker 1: because everybody hated it when it came out, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, you guys are stupid. I love Weezer and

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Speaker 1: I really didn't like it as much, but I said

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Speaker 1: I did. But now I like it even more, I

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Speaker 1: think because it's different than the Blue So but anyway,

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Speaker 1: we talked about that. Yeah, let's see albums out. Kenny

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Speaker 1: Chesney's got a deluxe edition of Here and now Mighty

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Speaker 1: Mighty boss Tones have one. Van Morrison has latest record

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Speaker 1: project Volume one. We were in their names ran out,

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Speaker 1: bb Rex has Better Mistakes, Stained has Live. It's been

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Speaker 1: a while, get it there as once it's been uh

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Speaker 1: tickets to Bobby Fester on sell. Now we're doing one

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Speaker 1: day festivals in two different cities, Whitewater Amphitheater, New Brombls, Texas,

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Speaker 1: which is between San Antonio and Austin, and then Wave

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Speaker 1: and which Tack Kansas. It will be us, the Raging Idiots,

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Speaker 1: Russell Dickerson's gonna play God, Maddie and Tay. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a big fun event for all day family. If

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Speaker 1: you want tickets, ticketmaster dot Com get tickets there. Ever,

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Speaker 1: Clearer is hitting the road with Living Color, Hubba Stank

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Speaker 1: and wedis love ever clire so ourt Alex's play recently

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Speaker 1: by himself songwriter show his voice is just not there.

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Speaker 1: I've seen him too recently. He just wasn't there. Thankfully,

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Speaker 1: thank Yeah, it was really cool. Thankful the crowd knew

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Speaker 1: the songs. We'd sing them loud enough to help him.

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Speaker 1: But I would still go to this. It sounds fun.

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Speaker 1: Hooba Stank has the reason which is this song? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: crawling in the dark. Um we just had I'm just

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Speaker 1: I do cult the personality, I know that, but I

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Speaker 1: skip out in the Living Color part. There you go,

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Speaker 1: let's see. I think that's it. Thank you all. I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed this interview with Craig Morrigan. It was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: If if you don't mind, go rate this thing all

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Speaker 1: It really does boost us up the charts, and we're grateful.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Enjoy I walked out of my house and

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Speaker 1: there was like a massive army jeep out there. If

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Speaker 1: looks like that, like about four guys. A better start

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Speaker 1: peeling out of the back to fix a problem. That

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Speaker 1: that's a jeep you drive somewhere when it's something to

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Speaker 1: fix a problem, or unless you're sitting in a ditch,

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Speaker 1: agree with unless you have the problem. It's getting fixed.

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Speaker 1: If you're the problem getting fixed, it's a great vehicle

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Speaker 1: to see. If you're the problem, you don't want to

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Speaker 1: see that truck and those guys. Is that a truck

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Speaker 1: that you did special stuff too? Or would you buy

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Speaker 1: it like that? We do a few special things. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. Like I was jealous. I saw it, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think I could pull off like a big man,

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Speaker 1: even when you pulled up, even you pulled up to

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Speaker 1: the gate. Here, Mike, you know, the camera looks out

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Speaker 1: and I was looking over some notes for this here

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Speaker 1: and it goes. I got a little note and I

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Speaker 1: hit it and it's Craig. But you don't see him

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Speaker 1: because it's so tall. You literally just see a black door.

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Speaker 1: It's like Bobby, I guess so you are. Okay, let

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Speaker 1: me let you know whatever. My wife can't hardly stand it, though,

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Speaker 1: she says, actually she calls it the wobbly shopping cart.

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Speaker 1: you know. I was coming over here a minute ago

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Speaker 1: and I told Caitlin, who you met my fiance. I

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Speaker 1: was like, hey, I'm going over to see ye like

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Speaker 1: we're both more than Bobby. Yeah, I said, um let

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Speaker 1: going over to see Craig. And she goes, hey, check

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Speaker 1: with him and see if that shirt he told me

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Speaker 1: about was real. And I was like which one. She

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Speaker 1: goes the one that said I'm the guy that had

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Speaker 1: still making those, can you get me one? Oh, we

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Speaker 1: can definitely gets. But I told us that I think

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Speaker 1: he was joking. No, I really did a shirt that way.

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Speaker 1: the back it has a list of all the hits,

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Speaker 1: well not all of but this was early on, but

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Speaker 1: there's like ten hit songs and it says the guy

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Speaker 1: Craig Morgan, the guy who sings, and it lists the

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Speaker 1: songs she was because at that point in my career,

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Speaker 1: they still didn't really know who Craig Morgan was. So well,

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Speaker 1: was it, by the way, one of those shirts. I

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Speaker 1: her because we're both massive fans, and she, as much

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Speaker 1: you guys who have one. The how I found out,

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Speaker 1: there and that's what I about. Sundays comes on and

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Speaker 1: And she goes, this is my favorite songs ever. I remember.

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Speaker 1: What was it for you that actually started having people

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Speaker 1: Can't you lose your bullet. You can't come back even

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Speaker 1: and she says, you're Craig Morgan, you idiot. Like That's

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Speaker 1: when it hit me. He's like, Wow. Do you think

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Speaker 1: Or do you think it was just so many hits

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Speaker 1: a lot of other things too. I'm always fascinated when

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Speaker 1: Risolian isles and I googled you or I seen you

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Speaker 1: you know, but I am. Yeah, I gotta imagine too.

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00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: That's what I love about Sunday does that with a

424
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 1: lot of people, because even with me, it makes me

425
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 1: think about Mountain Pine, Arkansas. Maybe the characters aren't exactly

426
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,400
Speaker 1: the same, but you know, when you're from a small town, yeah,

427
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,119
Speaker 1: the characters are kind of all the same because that's

428
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,119
Speaker 1: just life in a rural part of America. Dude. I

429
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,359
Speaker 1: sing that song, and I have sang it for many years,

430
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,159
Speaker 1: but to this day, I can sing that song and

431
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 1: if I close my eyes, I can see my house, uh,

432
00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 1: you know, with the swing on the front porch, kids

433
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: in the yard. I can see all of those things,

434
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: my mom next door, you know. I mean, there's things

435
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 1: in that song for me too, and I'm the guy

436
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,400
Speaker 1: that's saying there. But that's those are rare. I gotta

437
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 1: be honest. I think those songs that are that impacting, uh,

438
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,399
Speaker 1: they're just not That's not every song And that doesn't

439
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: mean that every song is that you know, that's the

440
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: number one isn't a great song, but but not every

441
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 1: number one does that, right, well, not every number one

442
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 1: is actually good and lasts more than you know, a

443
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: chart run. That's why when we talk about you know,

444
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 1: almost Home, a song that I just thinking, you're sending

445
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 1: that writer's room and you're all right, I'm a homeless guy.

446
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: I'm asleep, I'm dreaming about almost being back home, you know,

447
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 1: a guy in a bad situation. You wake me up.

448
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 1: It's like, oh God, I go like, how does that

449
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:33,360
Speaker 1: concept even come up? And then it's fruition to get

450
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: recorded to be a single, Like there's so many steps

451
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 1: for that song, but it all starts with somebody in

452
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: the room going all right, like what what what happened

453
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: in that room with that song? Uh? Me and carry

454
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: Kurt Phillips, I was actually this song started. I was

455
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: on the road and uh we were doing a lot

456
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,959
Speaker 1: of shows that year, and my wife had called me.

457
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: And this was early on, you know, early on in

458
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: my career. But we were doing so and and and

459
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 1: at this time, they weren't like big paying shows. But

460
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of radio stuff to promote not

461
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: just the music but Craig Morgan and let people know

462
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,239
Speaker 1: who I am, because, by the way, it doesn't pay

463
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 1: at all. No, so we're literally doing visiting radio station

464
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: three sometimes three a day. Uh. And I was calling

465
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: her on the way home and she said, you know,

466
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: she was actually griping because I early on I thought

467
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 1: for some reason, I told her. She says, I told

468
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 1: her this. I don't recall it. She said, I told her, Look,

469
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: I promise you I won't do over ten days at

470
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: a time. I'll come home for a few days. I mean,

471
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: we had kids, you know, we had a life and everything.

472
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: And I guess I've been gone for more than ten days.

473
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: And she was complaining. I said, look, just relaxed, it

474
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: won't be long. I'm almost I'm like, oh, that's a

475
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 1: great idea. So I remember writing it down and thinking

476
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: about it, and I come back, had a writing session

477
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: with Carrie and I told carry the idea and we

478
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: started writing on it. And three months. It literally took

479
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: a long time because I was going in and out

480
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: of town so much. But every time I would come

481
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,239
Speaker 1: in and we would write, we would write on it,

482
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 1: and I was coming. I was going over there one

483
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: day and I've seen an old guy on the side

484
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 1: of the road. Then they're holding up a sign, literally

485
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 1: was holding up a sign that uh, A lady was

486
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 1: holding up to sign for said pregnant it need food

487
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: something like that, and he had marked out pregnant need food.

488
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: And I told Carry and I said, I've seen this guy.

489
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: Would the sign And I said that guy was almost home,

490
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: and Carry said stop the boat and we finished that song.

491
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: It was it took that long and that actual thing

492
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: happening in the situation. Okay, so the song is written,

493
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: but now you gotta decide what you're gonna cut. So

494
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: here's the favorite thing about this song from me, for

495
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: of all the stories of any song I've written there

496
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 1: yet we've had. I was leaving the session and I

497
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: felt really good about this song and I'm just kind

498
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: of singing it to myself. When we did a work tape, uh,

499
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 1: and you know then I think it was a cassette.

500
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: And so I had the cassette tape and I had

501
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: a jeep, I had an O wrangler, and I was

502
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: playing it back and forth and going down the highway

503
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: and Phil o'donn'll Phil Billy called me and he goes, hey,

504
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: how did it go with Carrie? And I said, man,

505
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: we finished the song and he said, well, tell me

506
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 1: about it. So I read him the verse, read him,

507
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: didn't sing it to him. I read no reality spoken,

508
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: or the verse and the course. And he said, well,

509
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: how does it going? Does it? You know? I just

510
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: climbed out of a cotton woods tree. I was running

511
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: from some honeyy and I kind of sang a little

512
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: bit of the melony a little different than what I

513
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: ended up with. And he goes, hey, let's hear. He goes,

514
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: you know that forty acres that I have that you've

515
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: been wanting over in Hickman County. I said, yea. He said,

516
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 1: I'll give you that forty acres for half of your publishing.

517
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: I'm not making any of this up half of your

518
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: publishing period, of everything or that for that song, that song.

519
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: He said, I'll give you that forty acres for half

520
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: of the publishing on that song. And I said, Phil,

521
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: I can't do that to you, dude. There ain't no way, man.

522
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: Uh you know it's I just I can't do that

523
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: to you. It wouldn't be fair, thank God. So you know,

524
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: low and behold, we end up tracking it. I remember

525
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: taking it the label, and the label tells a completely

526
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: different story. They say that I came in and played

527
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: it for him, and they're like, oh, this is gonna

528
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: be a hit. That is not what happened. Revision his

529
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: history on their part. Yeah, So I go in, I

530
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: play it for him, and they're like, I don't know,

531
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: it's awful long, that it's extremely country. I will say,

532
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: in John Loebe's defense, the head of Broken Boat or

533
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: actually was head of a and rn't Broken Boath at

534
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: the time. He promotions, he was head of promotion. Just

535
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, this is two thousand two two because this

536
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: was all three when it came out late oh two.

537
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: And he says, uh, man, I think I think we

538
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: can make this work. It's just just country and just

539
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: different enough that I think, you know, And he was

540
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 1: he was confident song. But others at the labor like,

541
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: it's too long, it's too country. You know, We've got

542
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: other things, other songs that we think will do better,

543
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. And I'm like, hey, look, you know,

544
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: I mean a Nanim's decision kind of guy, you know,

545
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm gonna say this is it, and

546
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: everyone else says it ain't, so we have to collectively agree.

547
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: So we fought around about it, and finally John's with

548
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: not telling anyone. He took this song and he went

549
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: to Ooxville to w i v K hitting w V kid,

550
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: I don't know some one of the country stations out

551
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: in Knoxville, not the one I'm on, an I suppose

552
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna come in so uh, but this is

553
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: a long time ago too, you know, and he literally, uh,

554
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even see. So he sets up a tent

555
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: in the front yard of the radio station. He set

556
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: up a tent in the front yard. He camped out

557
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: there for three days. Well, he literally came there, literally

558
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: camped out. Three days later, they finally talked to him

559
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: and they played the song, and that was the beginning

560
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: of the history making of that song. He believed in

561
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: that song so much he camped out for three days

562
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: three days. So, like I said, I gotta give John

563
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: Lobo credit because he's the one that really fought for

564
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: that in the beginning. And then it just became it

565
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: just blew up, and I remember thinking, oh cool, we

566
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,239
Speaker 1: gotta hit you know, what's the next song gonna be?

567
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I mean. It's terrible, but

568
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: it's kind of where my head was, you know, and

569
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: and it is, it's already work at this And then

570
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: it fell off the charts, or it didn't really fall

571
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: off the charts. It had an increase in spins, but

572
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: for some reason it lost its bullet and there was

573
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: a big discussion, you know about the chart about oh,

574
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: it's got to not come off, it's got to stay

575
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: on and all this stuff. And so I didn't really

576
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: pay much attention. I'm just like, I just let me

577
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: know where we're at, let me know what's going on,

578
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: what I need to do. You know, I'm here for

579
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: the job. Uh, anything I can do support it, that

580
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And all of a sudden they tell me, hey,

581
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: it's got his bullet back, and um, it never lost spins,

582
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: but I don't know, something weird happened. I would imagine

583
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: a big deal. I would imagine that audience went down

584
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 1: because there are a couple of big stations that probably

585
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: played it less, but other stations played it more. So

586
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: spins went up and a bit of audience went down. Yes,

587
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: it was one of those, was one of those, and

588
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: back then it was there was a lot of questions

589
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: as to what, you know, how that managed to stay

590
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: on the charts. And because it's different, you know, songs

591
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: went on the charts and up and down. Back then,

592
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: they didn't stay like you know, all of a sudden

593
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: between that song and uh International Harvester, where a song

594
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: would be on the Church Art for you know, oh

595
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: my gosh, forty weeks. It was insane. You know, it

596
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: was terrible how long the song would stay on UM.

597
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: But it ended up, you know, going back up again,

598
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: and it just became this huge, huge hit which today

599
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: is probably still one of my biggest songs. When I

600
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: do a show, I'm I'm fascinated to look out to

601
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: the crowd and there's a kids singing every lyric to

602
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: the song that wasn't alive when that song was released. Yeah,

603
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: that song. That's what I love about Sunday. To me,

604
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: I see more than that song. But that song hits

605
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: me harder than than anything you've ever done, you know,

606
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: and they all have different It's funny. What's really funny too,

607
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: from what I've experienced, is it can be different regionally.

608
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: You know, International Harvester in the Midwest maybe one of

609
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: my biggest songs. It's crazy out there. I mean there's

610
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: people riding around with you know, my name on their

611
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: tractors and crap because they're so into that song, you know.

612
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: But of all the songs, the song that I personally

613
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: received the most response from through all that, and I

614
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: think a lot of that has to do with the

615
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: fact that we now have a social media platform that

616
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: we didn't have in two thousand two. You know, all

617
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: of the outlets that we now have, we didn't have them,

618
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: so we didn't have the opportunity to give utilize that

619
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: and to communicate that way. Uh and now we do.

620
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: But The Father and Son the Holy Ghost, I have

621
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: experienced more response, more stories than any song I've ever released.

622
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: It's just been amazing. I would imagine the more you

623
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: put yourself out there, the more people relate. And because

624
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: tragedy lead to that song and so you going. And

625
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: I learned a bit about this when I wrote my

626
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: first book, because I talked before my mom died in

627
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: a forties from you know, drug addiction and alcohol, and

628
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: I wrote on my first book a lot of struggle

629
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: before she died that I had, and I was very

630
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: vulnerable about my situation, her situation, in our situation, and

631
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: I thought, no one's going to relate to this. People

632
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: if I don't, people fel sorry for me. But I don't.

633
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: I don't want that. But what happened was people went hey,

634
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: like I felt that, Like I'm glad you said that

635
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: because I feel that, and it was that to me

636
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: was such an awakening. And I have to imagine with

637
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: you being extremely vulnerable with the song about something so

638
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: close to you that people had to go I felt like,

639
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: thank you, because I feel the same way about something

640
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: in my life, almost verbatim what you're saying. That's the

641
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: that's the verbiage they use. I feel exactly what you're

642
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: saying in my life, and I'm glad that you were

643
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: able to do that. It helps me in the same

644
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: way that you're talking about doing it with your book.

645
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: And that's that's difficult. It's really hard for any of

646
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: us as humans to be so vulnerable because it hurts,

647
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: and it hurts every time. It's scary. It is. It's

648
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: scary to be so vulnerable. But at the same time,

649
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: when you I know I can say this now having

650
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: done it in that situation and I'm not I'm not

651
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: doing it and everything that's happened in my life, but

652
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm able to do it with that for whatever reason,

653
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: and I can say I feel like I did the

654
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: right thing it even though it hurts and the story's

655
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: hammer me, man, I mean it just it breaks my

656
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: heart to hear them sometimes. But but I know that

657
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: I know that, I know that, I know that it

658
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: was the right thing because it helped that person and

659
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,719
Speaker 1: my pain, it's my whatever I may be dealing with

660
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: at that time when I'm reading it is what I'm

661
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: supposed to experience in order to help other people. I

662
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: think that's the way it is. You know, we're as

663
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: a human race. Sometimes we have to hurt to help others.

664
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is, and we should do that.

665
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: We should be willing to do that. That's what I think.

666
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: That's the problem with our society now. Nobody is willing

667
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: to hurt to help. And it's okay, it's okay to

668
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: hurt to help a little bit. And when I say hurt,

669
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: be hungry, uh to help those who are more hungry

670
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: or you know, do a lot without something. And everybody

671
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: that's listing with probably, so it's easy for you to

672
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: say you know you've been you're successful, but you don't know.

673
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't know where where are we hurt? And so

674
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: I don't question anyone else's hurt. You know the I

675
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: know billionaires, but I know they have pain, and I

676
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: know they hurt, and I know that they help others

677
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: through that sometimes. So you know, because I'm gonna asking

678
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: really dumb question in a second to make up for this,

679
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: but you know, I've seen you perform that song alive

680
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: a couple of times. And I know at times when

681
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm speaking and I have to speak about my mom

682
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: or my grandmother or tragedy in my life, like every time,

683
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: I have to fight off the hurt. And sometimes I'm

684
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: good at it, and honestly, sometimes I'm not. Amen. And

685
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: so when you have to sing this song and it's

686
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: about your son that passed away, does it feel different

687
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: every time? Are you fighting it off every time? Or

688
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: is it does it like how just in your mind,

689
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: in your head, what what's happening? I have to fight

690
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: it every time, even now I'm discussing it. My chest hurt.

691
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: The same thing. Everyone has a t everybody that has

692
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: experienced some sort of tragedy, has that same I think

693
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: has that same feeling. Our feelings, our emotions, our reactions,

694
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: all those things are a little different. But that physical,

695
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: that literal physical feeling is I think kind of the

696
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: same for all us. It makes your chest hurt, Like

697
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: talking about it, my chest hurt, and you have to

698
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: breathe a little deeper, you know, to kind of calm

699
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: that heartache or whatever. Um. But I have to fight

700
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: all time. Sometimes I can't, I reckon. I've gotten to

701
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: the point now I can recognize that I know that

702
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: if I'm really tired, if I haven't rested well before show,

703
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: there's no way I'll be able to do it. And

704
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: so there's times I won't. I just don't do the

705
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: song because I know there's no way I'll finish it.

706
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: And and and my guys have they they know me

707
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: well enough now to know that there's no way he's

708
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: gonna do it. He's just not in the emotional and

709
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: not that I'm not in a good state. You know,

710
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: we all have the ability to overcome and adapt and improvise.

711
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: And I can throw a lot of military terms at you, um,

712
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: But for me, in that particularly, I don't have to.

713
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to force myself to, uh, to

714
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: endure that when I know the the outcome is outcome

715
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: of it is. I don't think we'll accomplish anything for

716
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: anybody out there. Um, I gotta finish the song in

717
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: order for it to be what that person who's there

718
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: needs to hear. And if I can't, even if I

719
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: struggle at the end, I gotta get to the end anyway.

720
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: But there's times I recognize that I know I won't

721
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: make it to the end. I mean, dude, there's other

722
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: songs that have absolutely nothing to do with my son,

723
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: and I have to scratch him from the show. Sometimes

724
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: depending on my mental state, you know, my my where

725
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: my headspace is and how I'm thinking about it. There's

726
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: good days and bad days. Uh. And even on the

727
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: good days, it's you know, it can be a struggle. Um,

728
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: I just I have to find a good place, you know,

729
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: And and and and some days I just can't do

730
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: certain songs because I can't help but think about him

731
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: and or my wife, you know. And and I hurt

732
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: from my wife, I hurt from my kids. I hurt

733
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: from my dad. My dad and my son Jerry had

734
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: such a great relationship that it it impacted my dad,

735
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: you know, and it's made it it's really tough on him.

736
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: So I have to think about it sometimes when I

737
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: go see my dad and how I'm talking about and fishing.

738
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: That's what they did together. That was their thing, going fishing.

739
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: My wife and Jerry's thing was going to the beast.

740
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: They both loved the beast. You know. I have to

741
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: be real sensitive and we have a place on the beach.

742
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: Have to think about it when I'm there and how

743
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: I approached that, you know, and and sometimes just freaking

744
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: sitting back trying to think about what it is you

745
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: gotta say. And dude, can be struggle, a struggle, you

746
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean. There's a lot like you know so,

747
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: but everybody else has to deal with something like that

748
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: as well. Uh, And I can't help when I talked

749
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: to somebody, I remember that that, Oh it's been all

750
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: over all the socials everybody talked about. You know, you

751
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: never know what someone else is going through at that

752
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: time in their life when you're there, and I try

753
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: to keep that in mind. Um, and I would hope

754
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: that as a human race, we all try to do

755
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: a better job at that as we moved forward in life. Well,

756
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: my really dumb question now is about a song. How

757
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: many people were like me and thought that you were

758
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: harvesting in other countries international Harvester not the actual brand you. Yeah,

759
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: I did, and I'm embarrassed to say it. And you

760
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: know what, we had, your honesty, there were a lot

761
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: of and it wasn't just obviously harvested internationals a brand

762
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: we had all around us growing. Never I was such

763
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: an it that I would be like, he's international, hard Like,

764
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: what other countries is he harvesting in? What am I

765
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: missing about this song? And I mean, you know I

766
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: have harvested in other countries. Well, I'm a different product,

767
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: hasn't Am I the only idiot that's ever said that

768
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: to you? I wouldn't say idiot, but I will heard that.

769
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: I would say that because I would hear I'm and

770
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, but why are you going

771
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: to other countries? Crag like do you do your family prows?

772
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: But I did think that that's the truth. I'm making

773
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: your word, you own them. I'm being honest. I appreciate that. Um,

774
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: what other what? What other songs? Like I was talking

775
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: about international harvester. I gotta tell you something and this

776
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: is worth the Google for you. So there is a

777
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: guy in another country that apparently in this country they're

778
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: not allowed to do music videos or something, so they

779
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: kind of sneak around and and go to other places

780
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: and do videos. It is my favorite version of International Harvester.

781
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: Oh he's singing it, yes, yeah, him and his girl

782
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: and it is. The video is do this prices what country?

783
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he says, I'm the son of

784
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: a third generation farm and they got the they got

785
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: the harvester, they got the corn fields. The girl in

786
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: the denim shorts and boots and tank top kind of Oh,

787
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: it's great you're talking. Definitely, I'll find it for you

788
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: in Texas. Get to see it. Yeah. Most things I

789
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: get from you are dead animals. I'll take. It's always like, hey,

790
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 1: look what I killed. It's a it's a nine headed platypus,

791
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: three horns coming out trying to get you to go.

792
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: Hunts attached to it. You know what I was the

793
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: song I was talking about in my show. I've never

794
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: heard it, but I was playing them corn star Oh please,

795
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: oh good? And that's what I said, i'mnna be honest

796
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: to I was like, you know what, I said, I'm

797
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: the biggest Craig fan as a person. And I said,

798
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: but the one song that he where did you why

799
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: did you do that? That he's ever put out? This

800
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: is a couple of days ago, right, I said, the

801
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: one song he's ever put out. But I was like,

802
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's corn Star. And you know,

803
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: at the beginning, we're like, I look at her boys,

804
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: you know she's in the aisle of the store. Tell

805
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: me about corn Star because I need to know the

806
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: conversation about cutting and putting this song out. Okay, I'm

807
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, I thought, and I still do this day.

808
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: I think that's a hit song. I don't think it's

809
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: not catchy. I think to me, it was a rid

810
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: solo cup kind of thing. Okay, just a catchy, goofy

811
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: fun but a play on words. Any time you can

812
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: do something, you can play on words like that and

813
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: and it and it worked, and I felt like that

814
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: word it was just a matter of timing. And I

815
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: told them I did say, they were like, this is

816
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: the next song, Like, no, we are not ready for

817
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: this yet. We need a much bigger hit on this

818
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: album before we released this as a single and I

819
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: and I still stand by that to this day. I

820
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: still think that it is a great, funny, fun play

821
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: on words. All of that is true. I compared it

822
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: to a song like Honkey Donk, but Donkey Donk because

823
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: without the big hits, I said, that song doesn't make

824
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: sense by itself. Yeah, you gotta have you gotta have

825
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: the train really on all engines running full speed for

826
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,280
Speaker 1: that one to stay on the tracks. And it didn't.

827
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: The rest of the show. I didn't even hadn't even

828
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: heard of before, and I was like, what do you

829
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: mean it was? I had to be like top ten?

830
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: And then I look, it wasn't. Wasn't. I guess the

831
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: stations just don't want to play it because of the

832
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: uh yeah, they just do want to play it. It was.

833
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: It was a timing thing, you know. And and even

834
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: they said the same thing, you know, which I'm glad

835
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 1: because it made me look like a genius with the label,

836
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: Oh well, we should have listened to you. Maybe you'll

837
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: listen next time. You know that the song that I

838
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: have I always liked and sang along to it, but

839
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: I didn't quite understand. Until I, uh, I had met Caitlin,

840
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: who's my fiancee, was this old boy. I didn't ever

841
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: quite feel it in my gut until you actually have

842
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 1: and yep, and and and you know, and the songs

843
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: about you know what, this old boy. You can't believe

844
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: you have her. You know, she's the best. And finally,

845
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: because she loves to listen to your music. And sometimes

846
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, we just change it from Craig Morgan for

847
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: a minute, but that song, I would hear it and

848
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: I would be like, yeah, I know all the words

849
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: of the song from on the radio, I said, But

850
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: now I kind of get it, Like I finally feel

851
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: like this old you know who gets you? This old

852
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: boy right here? You make me look good? Yeah. Yeah.

853
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: We were at a restaurant last night is True Food.

854
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: It's a little healthy place, um, a little chain about

855
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: six seven miles away. We were in there eating and

856
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: there was a couple and Caitlin's way prettier than I am,

857
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: even on a scale like points wise, I like, I don't,

858
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: it just isn't and so but people look at her

859
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: and then they look at me and they're confused. I

860
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: get that every time. And with mamie. Yeah, they're just

861
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: like and they go, there's something. There must be something

862
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 1: about him that we're not seeing because she's so pretty

863
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,280
Speaker 1: and funny and smart. Everything I'm good at, she's actually

864
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: better at, which is weird, Like she's funnier than I am,

865
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: smarter than I am everything. But people look at me.

866
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: But but it's like that song. I'm like, yeah, but

867
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: you know who gets it? This guy right here like

868
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: that I won. Yeah, that's the way I feel most

869
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,919
Speaker 1: of my life, and I get the same thing. People

870
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: looking they go, oh, that's a great woman. Oh look

871
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: at his wife. Oh I get it. Country singer. I

872
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: don't know married, she married the guy. I think. They

873
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 1: look at me and like, like U a surgeon. I mean,

874
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: it's such a nerd. It's gotta be something like that.

875
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: Play a little bit. Do you have this old boy

876
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: cute up there? My go shent. We go to the

877
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: river and get in the water, and buddy, she's hotter

878
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:19,479
Speaker 1: than South Georgia and jew Lave and we're not whether

879
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: I can get another. I gotta kiss her and I

880
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: gotta hug your brother. She is mine. Oh my, that's

881
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: a you know the songwriter. The guys Georgia peach peach pickers,

882
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: that's who that wrote that. Really, Yeah, read I got

883
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 1: that from one yet so you got uh so, what's

884
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: up with the Craig Morgan Camo hats right on your website,

885
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: Craig Morgan. Yeah, have you seen the Craig Morgan Camo

886
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: hats you have up there? Twenty five bucks? I look good.

887
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've just seen those. In fact, I'm flying

888
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: up the shelves. Yeah. They've done real well. It's not

889
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: it's just like a military and old military pattern or something. Yeah,

890
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: I saw that when it came over here. I don't

891
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: tell people they need to get one of these, you

892
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: know some of the you know, we have merchandise guys

893
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: and all these people again that are smarter than me,

894
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: and they just they come up with a bunch of

895
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: stuff and go to you like this. It's like, yeah,

896
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: that's cool, and they go, we think it of somemody,

897
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: let's try it. Sure. You know. COVID was ironically enough

898
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: was I hate to use say that it was good

899
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: for our merchandise sales, because you don't want to think

900
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: COVID was good for anything. But we did really well

901
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: during the pandemic I want to thank everyone that went

902
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: and bought stuff, the merchandise, um, but I was kind

903
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: of mind boggled by it, Like I can't believe. I

904
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: feel like nobody's working and everybody's buying merchandise and CDs

905
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: and stuff. So it's kind of weird maybe, but that's

906
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: the joy is getting a package. Like that's only joy

907
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: we were getting. People are leaving in her house, some

908
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: things had to come to us. We're like ordered something online.

909
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I should on stock at Amazon. My wife.

910
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: Did you stay in Alaska for a lot of the shutdown?

911
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: We did? Yeah? Why Alaska? I've been going up there

912
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: for about twenty five years for everything from and I

913
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: only ask because it's far because of any other I don't.

914
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't like cold either, but some people do. But

915
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: it's far from it's it's far from Tennis, it's along

916
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's quite an endeavor just to get

917
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: up there, especially where I'm at. It's one thing to

918
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: go to Anchorage or Fairbanks, one of the major cities,

919
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 1: but I'm off the grid. So you know, you fly

920
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: into one of the cities and then you either drive

921
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: to a spot and then either walk in or float

922
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: plane in walk in. What do you mean, I mean

923
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: my my My place is about nine miles from the

924
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: nearest road, So you have to you would want, so

925
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: you drive for three hours, park your vehicle and then

926
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 1: I parked near a big lake and I can either

927
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: have the foat plane pick me up there and fly

928
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: over to our lake, or I can walk in. Or

929
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: in the winter we snow machine and you can walk

930
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: nine miles. You you will walk nine miles to your place.

931
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with a gun of course. But you're a

932
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: country stars. Why are you walking nine miles? Well, I

933
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: mean in the summertime. If if I can't get the

934
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: plane up the weather, inclement weather, and they can't fly. Uh,

935
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: there's not a landing strip there, you know, they have

936
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: to land on the water. Why even have place out

937
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: that far man? Because when you get there, Bobby, I

938
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: gotta tell you you got the experience that you need

939
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: to come up one. I always tell people to to

940
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: come in the winter because getting there and getting out

941
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: of there is so much easier. In the winter. I

942
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: can literally get from where I part my truck to

943
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: the cabin in about fifteen minutes on a snowmobile. So

944
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: and we have a property on the road as well,

945
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: So that's where I store everything. So you'll just leave

946
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: your truck on the road. Well, on our property there

947
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: near the road, and it's a gravel road, so it's

948
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: not improved. It's not uh, it's they do great during

949
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: the all the snow. Uh. They do kind of get

950
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: the snow off the road kinda um, and then we

951
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: park it on our property and we hop on our

952
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: snow machines and ride in. But when you get there, man,

953
00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: or if you're not real keen on, try srying the

954
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: snow machine. And if somebody's worried about that, I just

955
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,479
Speaker 1: have the plane pick them up an anchorage and land

956
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: on the skis on the lake, on the on the ice.

957
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: You know which sounds scarier walking down miles are getting

958
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: one of their plants with the things on. Walking is

959
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: a little freaky, I gotta say, especially at that time

960
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: of year, because you know that uh, you know the

961
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: moose are out, you know that bear are out. Anything

962
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: ever tracking you, the bear will uh. The greasy black

963
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: bears are kind of like cats. Uh. And this is

964
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: the my personal experience. Um, A black bear is a

965
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: lot like a cat. They're skittish and they'll run from you,

966
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: and they don't really come around the fires and stuff

967
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: too much. But if you corner them, or if it's

968
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: a sow with cubs, they get real ignorant quick. Or

969
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: if they're really hungry and you're between them and their food,

970
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: will you ever be their food? You could be? Yeah, yeah, easily.

971
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 1: That's why we we don't go in without a weapon.

972
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: What about the grizzlies though, Compare that to the black bear? Uh?

973
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: Different story. Yeah, yeah, there are a lot brave uh,

974
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: and they're very territorial, much more so than a black bear.

975
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: But honestly, the bear don't scare me as much as

976
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: a moose. A cow moose with the calf will fight you.

977
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: And and there's more people injured, harmed or killed by

978
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: moose up there than all the other animals combined. What

979
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: will the moose do and talk you to death? And

980
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: why will it do it? Because it's threatened to buy

981
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: you in any way, it's protecting its territory. It's calves.

982
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: If it's a female, she's protecting her calves. If it's

983
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: a bull moose and heat, he's protecting his territory. Uh,

984
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: to keep you away from his cows. Kind of thing

985
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: you ever had to kill an animal to save yourself. No,

986
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: thank god, I have allowed a uh, I have had

987
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: to allow. I harvested a a blacktail deer on the

988
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: island of Kodiak, and I did not get to go

989
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: get that because the bear got there before I did.

990
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: And we set for six hours and watch that sal

991
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: and her three calves eat, my dear, because if the

992
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: animal gets if the bear gets to the harvest before

993
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: you do, you can't do anything about it. It's there's

994
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: at that point. You can't shoot them, you can't scare

995
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,720
Speaker 1: them off of it or anything like that. By all,

996
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: it becomes their food. And so she got there first

997
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: and she owned it. Now, if I'd got there there

998
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: before she did and then she came up, I could

999
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: have shot her and protect him myself. But I don't

1000
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: really want to do that, you know, it's not that's

1001
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: not my that's not my not the way I want

1002
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: to do It was up in Montana about at this

1003
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: point six months ago, and this was from my my

1004
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: na Geo show that's come out a few weeks that. Um.

1005
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: We were protecting sheep. There's sheep herders and there are

1006
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: two thousand of them and they move around. It's all

1007
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: government land and they're all plots, and you know, you

1008
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: lease the land, you move the sheep around. They can

1009
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: only eat certain parts in certain orders. They but at

1010
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: night the bears will come and try to or not

1011
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: just the bears, coyotes, you know, occasionally a wolf depending

1012
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: on what part and so. But you know they had

1013
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: My job was to make sure the sheep didn't get

1014
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: eaten all night. I had to. I had to watch

1015
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: the sheep and with uh you know, these night vision scopes,

1016
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: you'd see like a little bears, you'd see the coyotes

1017
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: and um. But they were like, hey, you can't. You know,

1018
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: you can't shoot a bear. Like what you do is

1019
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: you you have your bear spray and that what they

1020
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: told me to do is if a bear comes out,

1021
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: you spray the spright into the ground and it lifts

1022
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: and then the bear won't come through the bear spray.

1023
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: I was like, you gotta be kidding me. I've got

1024
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: a rifle. If I feel like a bear is coming

1025
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: at me, I'm not grabbing the bears, but I'll just

1026
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: go to jail for a couple of days. If a

1027
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: bear is gonna attag me. Do you travel with bear

1028
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: spray at all or is it just I've never taken

1029
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: bear spray. Um, because I just tried to. I will.

1030
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: I will avoid the circumstance of putting myself in a position.

1031
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: Now having said that, I always have a side arm,

1032
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: and it's a very large side arm. So if I'm

1033
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: deer hunting, I got a rifle, but also keep my

1034
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: bear gun with me. Um, I will just try to.

1035
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: I don't want to shoot a bear. Now this is

1036
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: people are gonna god. I'm sure I catch fight, but

1037
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to shoot a bear in defense. I

1038
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: want to hunt the bear. Does that make sense? If

1039
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hunt it, It's like running over a squirrel

1040
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: in the road. I will hit the ditch in an

1041
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: attempt to not run a squirrel over because that's not

1042
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: the way I want to do it. But I do

1043
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: go squirrel hunting rights an analogy though, But I also

1044
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: I also don't want to shoot anything that I'm not

1045
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna eat or someone's not gonna eat or prosper from that.

1046
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: And I don't mean financially, but I mean you know

1047
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: that someone's gonna get that meat. And so I have

1048
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: a real issue with people who go out and just

1049
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: shoot crap like that just dropped. Makes the hair on

1050
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: the back of my neck stand up and I want

1051
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: to shoot them. Yeah. I get it because as someone

1052
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 1: who had to hunt to eat the first same fifteen

1053
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: years of my life age one through six, I didn't

1054
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: really after that it was squirrel and it graduates up

1055
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: slowly and we had to eat. Yeah, and we had

1056
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: to catch fish to eat. Same here. It would piss

1057
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: me off when people would be out just hunting to

1058
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: shoot and kill just to have the just just for

1059
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: the trophy. Yeah, I get really aggravated. And I've been

1060
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: on some hunts in in some places, in nice places,

1061
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: and we go out and I work hard, even though

1062
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: I might not be the guy that did the work

1063
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: to prepare the hunt. You know, there's other guys that

1064
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 1: do the food plots and do that stuff. And I'm

1065
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate enough that and because of my scheduled demperment,

1066
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: I get to go there and hunt. And I'll go

1067
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: there and hunt, and I'll be there and camp and

1068
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: see a guy go out and do it and the

1069
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: shoot the animal, go over and take a picture and

1070
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: then go back to the lone. It's like, aren't you

1071
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 1: gonna clean that animal, or help them at least. I mean,

1072
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: it's one thing to get your picture with your bigger act,

1073
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: but I mean and they're like, ah, you know, no,

1074
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: I just wanted to hunt, you know, and they're going

1075
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 1: to give the meat to charity and not not that's cool,

1076
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: but at least help them harvest it so you can

1077
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: appreciate what that animal is viding. You know, I don't know.

1078
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: It just kind of drives me nuts. Man. You know,

1079
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: your story into country music and I just touched on

1080
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: this briefly, is really cool because you were in the

1081
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: military and like, weren't your superiors going, hey man, you

1082
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: gotta go chase this music thing. Uh. That's the reason

1083
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: I'm here today. I would not have left, man. And

1084
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm from Nashville, but I was born in General Hospital

1085
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: down here. My mama used to always say I was

1086
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: supposed to be born at Baptist, but they didn't make it.

1087
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: They had to stop at General. Um Um. Grew up

1088
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: in and around the music business my whole life. My

1089
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 1: dad was a musician. Kingston Springs was home. I graduated

1090
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: in Cheatham County High School. I went to m Tissue.

1091
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: You know, so music it was always part of it

1092
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: avoided it. Uh, went in the military, and I think

1093
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: being in the military really made me a really miss

1094
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:55,240
Speaker 1: and appreciate not just music but home in Nashville. Um

1095
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: So it was always a big part of my life,

1096
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Uh, what was it not?

1097
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: You didn't realize it was as valuable to you until

1098
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: you got away from it. Yeah, I think so. Again,

1099
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: it's what my dad did. But my dad also had

1100
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: another job, and I thought, I don't want to do

1101
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: something that that. I got to do something else to

1102
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: be able to do it. Of course, then I got

1103
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: out of the army and uh and did everything else

1104
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: while I was trying to make it in the business. Uh.

1105
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: But if it, to get back to your question, it

1106
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: was a you know, I didn't. I was always nervous

1107
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 1: about it. I'm like my wife and I would talk.

1108
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,919
Speaker 1: I was writing songs and kind of writing at while

1109
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: you were in the army. While I was in the

1110
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: arm and you're playing fun you know, were you playing around?

1111
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: I mean, were you playing around the other guy? Dude?

1112
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: Like in Panama. I just did a I just did

1113
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: a show, a TV show, and I brought in five

1114
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: of my buddies that I served with in Panama in

1115
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. It was my team. The guys worked

1116
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: for me, and we sat around and talked about it,

1117
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: and they talked about how I used to play music,

1118
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: and like, I don't even really remember that. You don't

1119
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,919
Speaker 1: remember we should sent her into racks and drink beer

1120
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: and you would play in tim My buddy was like, man, men,

1121
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:07,320
Speaker 1: you played all the time together, like a vague memories

1122
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: of that. I more remember all of the stuff that

1123
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: we went through it and they're like, yeah, but when

1124
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: we weren't doing all those things, this is what we did,

1125
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: you know. Like so they were all very encouraging, and

1126
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: it came to a point in my career. I was

1127
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: ten and a half years of active duty. You have

1128
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: to make a decision. I was gonna realist again or

1129
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: I was going to pursue the music. Uh. And I

1130
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: was just nervous about it. I didn't have near the

1131
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: confidence that a lot of people. You know, I talked

1132
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: to Blake about it a lot, especially early on in

1133
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 1: our careers. You know, Blake left everything. Man comes here

1134
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: A lot of musicians that try this. Excuse me, They

1135
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: come here with nothing or no one, And so in

1136
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 1: my head, I'm going well. At least it's where I'm from.

1137
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: I got family. I can you know, I can work

1138
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: with dad. I can at least have that so and

1139
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: then if it don't work, I can go back in

1140
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: the army. I'm gonna stay in the active reserve so

1141
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: I don't lose any of my time and service, my rank,

1142
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: any of those things. I never would have done it.

1143
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. If I had been a guy

1144
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, from Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma, I didn't,

1145
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: I would never be I would not be a country

1146
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: singer today. It's only because I was from Nashville and

1147
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: my family was here and it was home to me.

1148
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: So I felt like my worst case was at least

1149
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: I'm around my family, and if it don't work, I'll

1150
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: go back in the army. How long until you came

1151
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: back home? But also you're kind of venturing into this

1152
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: new world of country music. How long until you realize, Hey,

1153
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: I kind of do deserve to be here, Like maybe

1154
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: I'm not as good as I'm going to be, but

1155
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: like I I can compete. How long was it in

1156
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:42,919
Speaker 1: the country music before he started to feel that way?

1157
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. Yeah, Well, who told then who

1158
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: told you because we talked to it before we came

1159
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: on the air here. Like people, when people invest in you,

1160
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: that means they believe in you, and I believe you're

1161
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: going to make them eventually down the road some money,

1162
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 1: right because business and friendship, there's there's a lot of

1163
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: friendship in business. But you know, if someone's gonna spend

1164
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: money on you that they believe in you, wasn't know

1165
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: what that means. They believe you're gonna help them make money. Yeah,

1166
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: and that was who believed in you, Uh, you know

1167
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: early only it was a bunch of different people. Ironically enough,

1168
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't. One of the guys was the guy that

1169
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: wasn't even in the business. Uh. He was a contractor

1170
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: um and he wanted to be in the business. And

1171
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: he had done very well with his business, made a

1172
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: lot of money, and he's like, you know, you gotta

1173
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: do this. You know, I'll if if I will pay

1174
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: for your house. If it doesn't work, give it a year.

1175
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: And he's one of the guys that convinced me to

1176
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: get out of the army because and that was the

1177
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: reason why he said, if you get out of the

1178
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: army and you try it after a year. If it

1179
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: don't work, I'll pay your house off and you can

1180
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: go back in the army. I got nothing to lose here,

1181
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: you know. And there was also a couple of guys

1182
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: that had a small publishing company. Uh West Mayor's was

1183
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: one of those guys, and they said, we'll sign you

1184
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: to a publishing deal. And they've paid me money. You know,

1185
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't much, but it was enough and they believed

1186
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: in me, which led to uh Maypop Publishing, which was

1187
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: owned by Alabama, which led to Sony Publishing. So it

1188
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: was a lot of those little pieces. Um. But back

1189
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: the other the commander, my my colonel at Fort pot Louisiana,

1190
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: when I was at that deciding point, I'll never forget

1191
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: setting down with him in the general and both of

1192
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: those gentlemen said, we believe that if you stay in

1193
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: the army, you will be the sergeant major of the

1194
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: army someday. You're you're fast tracking, you know, you're you're

1195
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: good at what you do, but we also think that

1196
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 1: you should at least try this. It was that conversation

1197
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: that led to me pursuing, you know, taking those forty

1198
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: weekends when I was off and come into Nashville, meeting

1199
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: with the West mayors, meeting with the Brian Schweitzer's and

1200
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: all of these different people, and and literally within a

1201
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: year of me leaving the army, almost of the day

1202
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: when I was ready to cash in on my buddies,

1203
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: come it and go back into the army, Brian Schweitzer

1204
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: called me from Atlantic Records and said, I want to

1205
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: offer your record deal. And how did that make you feel? Nervous?

1206
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: Because I was wanting the publishing. I had those small

1207
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: publishing deals. At this point. I was writing from may Pop,

1208
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: so I had I was getting a little more money

1209
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: which allowed me to not have to work in vinyl sighting.

1210
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: And I was working as a sheriff's deputy as well,

1211
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: So I was doing vinyl sighting on the side working

1212
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: as a sheriff's deputy and then doing security as a

1213
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: Sharff off duty shaff's deputy, you know what I mean.

1214
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: And for doing writers nights every weekend, and you know

1215
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: what I mean. There was a lot going on. So

1216
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: it gave me a little bit more confidence, but it

1217
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: also made me very nervous because I knew, based on

1218
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: everything everybody told me as an artist in the beginning

1219
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: you make nothing man on shows and stuff. Uh, in fact,

1220
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: everybody else will be making money and you want. But

1221
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: I was also making a little bit in the publishing,

1222
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: and I started started getting a lot of interest in

1223
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: a lot of the songs that I was writing, so

1224
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: I thought, in I might try Uh, this is at

1225
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: that point, so I'm going to try it. When I

1226
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: left the Army to come here to pursue the music,

1227
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: it was not to pursue it as an artist. It

1228
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 1: was to pursue it as a songwriter because I had

1229
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: a wife and two kids, and I knew that you

1230
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: could make money writing songs, and I could still do

1231
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: other things to make more money, you know. And then

1232
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: in the process of writing my songs and doing that,

1233
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: I was doing my own demos, and then I started

1234
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: doing other people's demos, and in that one year's time,

1235
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: it turned into that phone call. But which was really

1236
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: weird the way that phone call came from where he

1237
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: heard my music. It wasn't through an A and R team,

1238
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: It wasn't through a publicist or a publisher. It came

1239
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: from a guy who boarded his horses, who I knew

1240
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: who every time I would demo my music, I would

1241
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: take it to him, and Jeff would play it. And

1242
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: this guy, Brian Sweitzer happened to be boarding his horses

1243
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,439
Speaker 1: at Jeff's stables and heard it and asked him who

1244
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: is that? And he told him and he called me

1245
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: and he made a decision that he wanted to sign

1246
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: you from just listening to a demo. Wow, call me

1247
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: and said can you come in. I was on my

1248
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: way home from a writing session. Had had the third

1249
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: shift with the Sheriff's department at that time. I said, Jen,

1250
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: and he said where are you? And I said, I'm

1251
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: on Interstate forty, but I can turn around. I had

1252
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: a jeep wrangler and I'll never forget a cuss across

1253
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: cut across the inter state, right in the middle of

1254
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,440
Speaker 1: Inner State, and turned around and came right back. Fifteen minutes.

1255
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: I was in the office and they asked me to

1256
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: sing something, and I said, well, I mean, you know

1257
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: they heard one of the demonists singing I want to

1258
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: hear you sing it live like well, I don't really

1259
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: play as a pianist, it's just and Al Cooley was there.

1260
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: Al Cooley was one of the most horrendous A and

1261
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 1: R guys, A brutally feastfully honest, a and r guy.

1262
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: Looking back, he was one of the best. But I

1263
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: just remember he had this reputation of being like mean, terrible, mean,

1264
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: you know, but what it was, he was honest and

1265
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: he probably saved a lot of people's lives. Um And

1266
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: they had me sing a song, uh called three or

1267
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: two South Maple Avenue Acapello and so I sang it

1268
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: and uh literally right setting like this right here? Do

1269
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: you too? Sound me but ivenue? And I sing a

1270
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: little bit and he says, we'd like to sign you

1271
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: to a record Yeah, just like that strangest thing ever.

1272
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,560
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh yeah, sure, he goes you ever turning,

1273
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, how about management? I'm like yeah, yeah.

1274
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: So I walked out of the office and I called

1275
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: my wife. Uh no, I did not call my wife.

1276
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: I did not cause I got home and I said

1277
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: I just got offered a record deal And she said

1278
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: what did they say? I'm like, I said, they asked

1279
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: me if I had managers and attorney and what did

1280
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: you say? As I told him yeah, And She's like, well,

1281
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: you got a manager? Like and I'm like, no, I

1282
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: gotta find a manager. I didn't have nothing. You know

1283
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: that's wild that it all came from a horse, from

1284
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: from a guy who boarded horses. Crazy. He owned Joe

1285
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: go Quick, the world champion quarter horse at the time,

1286
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: and I would take him music and if Jeff liked it,

1287
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 1: he would let me ride Joe, and if he didn't

1288
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: like song, he put me. Well. How did you and

1289
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: Blake become friends? How did you? Because it seems like

1290
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: he got pretty close we were and are we still are? Um?

1291
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. Blake had got here before I did.

1292
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: Blake was working on his career long before, not long before,

1293
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: but a few years before I got here, and so

1294
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: he had started having some radio success. And we we

1295
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: literally met at a some event in Nashville and just

1296
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: started hanging out. And then he had lived in Hittman

1297
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: County and I was in Dixon, so we weren't that

1298
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: far apart. Uh both realized that we liked hunting. I

1299
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: invited him on a hunting trip on a trip that

1300
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: I was doing in Kansas. I'm sorry, yeah, in Kansas.

1301
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: And at that trip we became like we we were buddies.

1302
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 1: I knew right then that I liked the guy. Uh

1303
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: and and and and we were both kind of like

1304
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 1: I said, he had already had a couple of songs

1305
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: on the radio, and and then I started having some

1306
01:03:55,280 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: success at Broken Bow. Uh. And then we just stayed

1307
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: in touch. I mean at one point we were we

1308
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: were with each other all the time. Every time we

1309
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: could do something together we would uh. And then he

1310
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: got divorced from Cat and he and Miranda got married.

1311
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,560
Speaker 1: And I had known Miranda a little bit uh, and

1312
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: really thought that Miranda and I had a decent relationship. Um.

1313
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: And she used to tell a story about how she

1314
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: came to Fanfare and it was one of my early

1315
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: on first to or three years of fan Fair when

1316
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: he still called it fan Fair, you know. And she

1317
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: tells the story, and I remember her telling me that

1318
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: how she waited after the show to meet some of

1319
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: the artists and and that I came out and was

1320
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: the only one that came out afterwards and gave her

1321
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: an autograph. Uh. And so I thought, man, this is

1322
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. You know, my buddies marrying this girl

1323
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 1: who's turned into an artist of her own right and

1324
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: turned in this you know, it's great. But something happened

1325
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: with them too, got married, and it I don't know

1326
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: she she was no longer a Craig Morgan fan for

1327
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: some reason. You know, I don't know, um, but you

1328
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 1: know that's history. And here we are now. I remember

1329
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: when you can do in the opery Blake when him

1330
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: I think him and Gwen were playing from his ranch.

1331
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I was there. I've just I've done

1332
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: opery shows in the past year. But was he setting

1333
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: you up? Are you setting him up? Are you going

1334
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: back and forth? Always? It's yeah, it's horrible. I will

1335
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 1: tell you though. We Uh, when my son died a

1336
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: lot of my friends in this business came out there

1337
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: and and I had, man, I gained so much respect

1338
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: and admiration. Already loved all these people. But it's really weird. Uh,

1339
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: And Jerry was with me. It's it's weird when I

1340
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: know them and I love them and they're I consider

1341
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 1: them friends. But when I got like Trace Atkins, Blake Shelton,

1342
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: Jim N. Brown and John Colley, these guys show up

1343
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: at at my son's funeral and they stand in line

1344
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: with everyone else out there, asked nothing. I didn't want

1345
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: to come in early. You know, it just meant it

1346
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 1: just floored me. And when I'll never forget we were

1347
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: we were downstairs and Cec had come in and was talking.

1348
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: She's saying, at my son's funeral, and uh, you know,

1349
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to I don't know have a

1350
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: sense of I wanted to comprehend my people and and

1351
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: and them to know that I appreciate them being there.

1352
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 1: But I remember Blake coming in and we cried, you know,

1353
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: we cried together, and he hugged me, and I felt

1354
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 1: such an embrace of friendship from him. Uh, And I knew.

1355
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 1: I knew then that there was nothing that Blake or

1356
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: I could do that would sever that friendship. It wouldn't happen.

1357
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,120
Speaker 1: And I also, at that moment, became Gwen's biggest fan.

1358
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: I had met Gwen via FaceTime a few times when

1359
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: Blake and I were together, and he was like giddy,

1360
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: silly and love FaceTime and her and we would, uh,

1361
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 1: we would lay there together and sit and talk to

1362
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: Gwen her own FaceTime, you know. And and I really

1363
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: liked her, but I didn't really know her. But when

1364
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 1: he came in the room and I said, where's Gwynn?

1365
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: And you know, was she not able to come? He said, no,

1366
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: she's outside. Uh she was being respectful and she did

1367
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: not want to come in until she was invited in,

1368
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: and I just men, I thought, my lord, you know,

1369
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: she came in and she too like cried and hugged

1370
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 1: my wife and showed her such an embrace of friendship

1371
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: and kindness and warmth, and it just absolutely hammred me.

1372
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: And I've never experienced anything from her but that since,

1373
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: you know, when we're at the award shows and he's like,

1374
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: let's get out of here for a few minutes, and

1375
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: we got out the bus and hang out, and they're

1376
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: just He's in such a beautiful place with her that

1377
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 1: I've never seen and I love that. I love it. Now.

1378
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 1: Having said all that, I can text Blake on Monday,

1379
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: April the first, and it might be Monday June one

1380
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: when I heard from he is the worst man. Uh,

1381
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: And then I'll get nothing a picture of him flipping

1382
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: me a bird or something, you know. Um. But yeah,

1383
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 1: so we've been friends for a long time. I mean

1384
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: he came out when I did read net y'all club, uh.

1385
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 1: And I remember when we did read net Yall Club,

1386
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: he had a huge hit and even you know, just

1387
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: to show you how weird this business is, I remember

1388
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: talking to Blake, him going, man, I don't know if

1389
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 1: this is gonna work. I don't know what's gonna happen.

1390
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, you got a big, huge hit, are you kidding?

1391
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: You know? And he's like yeah, but you just don't know.

1392
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: And now you look where he's at. You know, it's

1393
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:48,920
Speaker 1: just it's wonderful. What is there left for you to do?

1394
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: You're just thinking about everything that you are doing, have done,

1395
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:56,719
Speaker 1: are doing more than have done, between the music, the TV,

1396
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: the passions, walking nine mile to your house and everything,

1397
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: the opera, everything you stand for, all of the philanthropic

1398
01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 1: work that you do, Like what what, What's what's happening? What?

1399
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: What is your vision for the next ten fifteen years?

1400
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:13,680
Speaker 1: Like what what do you want to do? Um? I

1401
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 1: want to do good And I know it sounds super cheesy,

1402
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 1: but if you talk to anybody in my camp, they'll

1403
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: tell you. And if as long as I'm doing things

1404
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: that afford me the opportunities to do good things, I'm

1405
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing it. And I also want to. I

1406
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 1: don't want to be in this business when I'm no

1407
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: longer relevant. I don't want to. I don't want to

1408
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:38,600
Speaker 1: do it just because I want to do it. I

1409
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:40,639
Speaker 1: want to do it because people want me to do it,

1410
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: because they want to hear it, and because when when

1411
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 1: I do some of these things. For example, I just

1412
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 1: did a military benefit UH to raise money for a

1413
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: organization that provides trips for not only the veteran the warrior,

1414
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: but for his family. And after that event, when I

1415
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 1: got a text the next day from the guy who's

1416
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 1: over that said, we raised this much money, which is

1417
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: so much more than I had ever expected. Thank you

1418
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: for being a part of that. When I can no

1419
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 1: longer do those things, or when my impact at those

1420
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: events is not impacting, I'm gonna do something else and

1421
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: know that something else it's just spend more time in

1422
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: Alaska with my wife, in Florida with my wife and Dixon,

1423
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:30,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee fishing and hunting and you know the kids. Um,

1424
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:33,679
Speaker 1: I've already kind of transitioned into trying to do more

1425
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: of that. But I just want to do more of

1426
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: the good things. I wanna. I wanna transition my life's

1427
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: efforts into providing for those other things, not me. I mean,

1428
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: I got all I need, man, I've got more than

1429
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: I deserved. That is the truth. I want the people

1430
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 1: around me to prosper I liked it when I like

1431
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: to see that when guys that worked for me go

1432
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: on and are having success of their own, that's cool

1433
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: man to me. Yeah. Final question, have you been recording music?

1434
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: Are you going? Are you gonna have new music? What?

1435
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: What's happening here? Because it's been it's been a minute.

1436
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: I'm as excited about what I'm doing is anything I've

1437
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 1: ever done. So my wife is a big fan of

1438
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 1: me singing certain music life. He's not a big fan

1439
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: of my kindry music. Uh I love all music. If

1440
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I can go all the way back to

1441
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: the very beginning of our conversation. Who is Lina Richie Luther?

1442
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: I love I love, love love music with the emotion, energy, soul.

1443
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: You know I love that. Uh So, my next project

1444
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: that I am in the process of working on is

1445
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna sing with those people whose music I love.

1446
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: I'm trying to cool. I wanna, I wanna. You know,

1447
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Kelly Clarkson fan. I love to hear

1448
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: her sing. She's a monster in my opinion, and I

1449
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: want to I want to sing something with Kelly. I

1450
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: want to sing something with that Sharon. I want to

1451
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: sing something with c C. Juannas. I want to sing

1452
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 1: something with Liona Ritchie. I want to do those and

1453
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: it might be one of their songs, maybe one of

1454
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,719
Speaker 1: my songs, maybe something that we write, maybe something I'm writing.

1455
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: I just wrote a song. I think it's one of

1456
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: the better songs I've ever written, and it's it's not

1457
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: a straight up country. I'm sure it probably sounds country, um,

1458
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: but to me, it's not a country song. It's more

1459
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: of a soul song. And I want to record that

1460
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And the label is all about so

1461
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:44,720
Speaker 1: that's exciting. Well, listen, we've we've been talking for over

1462
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: an hour. I hope this wasn't too long. I could

1463
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: sit here and do another hour. I could too with you, dude.

1464
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 1: I love talking to you, you know, and I'm sorry. Uh.

1465
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: You know we shared a label relationship there for a

1466
01:12:56,240 --> 01:13:02,680
Speaker 1: minute on Black Yeah, and I remember thinking, uh, I mean,

1467
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,639
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna make stuff up. TOLDJ I said, really,

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01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: I think I'd like to get to know this guy

1469
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: better because I think there's something there that I can't see.

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01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 1: Because you know, you were a national syndicated show host

1471
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: and you had your own band thing, so you were

1472
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: super busy doing all these other things. But I felt

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01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: like there was a person there that I that I

1474
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: would probably do more with if I got to know.

1475
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: And in this business, it's it's weird. Man. Everybody, especially

1476
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 1: early in my career, would try to encourage me, you

1477
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: need to get to know this guy, spend some time

1478
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 1: with this guy. I'm like, okay, cool, I found you know,

1479
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,639
Speaker 1: and I try, but there was nothing men this guy

1480
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: had in time. It's like, look, if me and this guy,

1481
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: that's why I love Blake, Blake and I. If we

1482
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 1: weren't in this business, Blake and I would still be

1483
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,599
Speaker 1: hanging out on a Friday night having a beer, talking

1484
01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 1: about certain things or wine, or we'd be making fun

1485
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: of each other, like we do. You know what I'm saying.

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01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: That's why that worked. It's now actual. I've never forced

1487
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,640
Speaker 1: an issue on a I've never forced a relationship in

1488
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: this business. Not one of the people that I know

1489
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,719
Speaker 1: and love and hang out with when we're not doing

1490
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: this is someone that I wouldn't be doing that if

1491
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: I weren't in this business. And I found out long

1492
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: after the fact that Bobby Bones is one of those guys.

1493
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: That I probably would even if we weren't in this business.

1494
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 1: And it's taken a long time to get to that point,

1495
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: so which is why I can talk to you forever. Well,

1496
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:23,560
Speaker 1: that's nice to me to say. I think you're a

1497
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:29,679
Speaker 1: lot cooler, stronger, tougher worldly. Now you play that wimpy guy,

1498
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 1: all of that whatever, but playing the act, buddy, Listen,

1499
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: sell the books, get the TV shows, play the geek whatever, Craig.

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01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, my friend. It's been fantastic.

1501
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful that you cant. You know, I'm a fan.

1502
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 1: So I'll Alaska in February. You guys are coming up.

1503
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm more of a Florida guy. It's just a long way.

1504
01:14:57,080 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 1: It's just a long ways up there. It is. What

1505
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 1: if I flew you up on a plane. It's just

1506
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: a long ways up there. Privately, I hear you. It

1507
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: just a long ways up there, Like that's I gonna

1508
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 1: hug me. I'll be honest with you. I mean you everywhere.

1509
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: I just you're gonna do it. You're probably she would

1510
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: love it. You get the fun gear and you're warm,

1511
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: and you set out in a like semi iglue around

1512
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: the fire and then at night, you watch Netflix movies

1513
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: on a big screen electricity. How do you have WiFi?

1514
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: Nine walk. I actually do have this little WiFi box

1515
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,600
Speaker 1: thing that we started using and I put it in

1516
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 1: the window and you get enough WiFi that you can

1517
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: send emails and text messages. And I've literally been able

1518
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 1: to depend on the weather download Netflix from it. We

1519
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: in our cabin in Arkansas, we did had one of

1520
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 1: those little boxing and wife I went out, so we

1521
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: used it for three days and I got my bills

1522
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: like seven oh no. We did stream, just stream shows.

1523
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 1: It was like here's your mill seven and eighteen dollars

1524
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:09,599
Speaker 1: for a while. Five box. You guys follow and follow

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01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: Craig on TikTok. Uh on TikTok, It's Craig Morgan eighty five.

1526
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: Uh see Morgan music on Instagram. You have all these

1527
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: different names. Tell your people, I know you have them.

1528
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: They need to unify that thing. You know, I know,

1529
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: and they should. I don't even know. Problem. You see

1530
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: they do that stuff and then I go, I got

1531
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: this man, I can do it. And then I end

1532
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: up starting Craig Morgan eighty five. I like, why did

1533
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: you do that? Why didn't you do? See them all

1534
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:39,600
Speaker 1: access like everything, like I have no clue about and

1535
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: now they're like can you do this? And they're like what, man,

1536
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,800
Speaker 1: you gotta show me what button to push? Just give

1537
01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 1: My wife hates that stuff, man, she absolutely hates me

1538
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 1: trying to get her to do something with me, Like

1539
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: I want to do the thing. I'm afraid my wife

1540
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: would leave me though, Like if this is terrible, I

1541
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: don't know if we should say this, but like there's

1542
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 1: something trending on talk. It's so bad, y'all, Like these

1543
01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 1: guys fart in a bag and then like tell them

1544
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: that it's gas and get him to snippet or to

1545
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: inhale it. Like I'm afraid if I did that, she

1546
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: would diforce, she would leave me. Listen, we've gone off

1547
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,920
Speaker 1: the rails. Alright, alright, but thank you, thank you, thank you.

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01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: It's been fantastic here