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Speaker 1: All right, welcome episode thirty to the Bobby Cast, our

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Speaker 1: first one after the break. By the way, Mike d

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Speaker 1: welcome back right yet before there you good, buddy, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you again extime, I see every day. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Today we have brand in, the late singer of a

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Speaker 1: Lanco here. Hey, Brandon, what is up? Man? You've been

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Speaker 1: adjusting your chair. The difference in this and any other

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Speaker 1: interview that you'll ever do in your whole life. These

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Speaker 1: are the most comfortable chairs. They are. You just sit

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Speaker 1: back and relax. Wait about eighteen nineteen minutes you'll start crying.

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Speaker 1: You won't even notice it. I know that's the problem.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm too comfortable. All about getting comfortable,

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Speaker 1: ready to watch a movie. But have a drink of this.

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Speaker 1: Don't look at what I dropped inside of it. Brandon's

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Speaker 1: here from a Lanco. And before we talk about stuff,

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Speaker 1: I want to play a little bit of Lanko because

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Speaker 1: you guys are considered brand new artists. So if you

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Speaker 1: haven't heard in the Atlanto's music, there's a little long

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Speaker 1: lived tonight, crazy baby baby, don't be scared. When you

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Speaker 1: got me, we can sit each other. There's a little

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Speaker 1: song called American love story the River, You go be

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Speaker 1: my wife. We didn't know any better. I didn't have clomb.

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Speaker 1: That was what you wanted. You want to need it

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Speaker 1: and we can meet him Twain, We're gonna be the

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Speaker 1: greatest love story is t sing. That's your best song,

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Speaker 1: by the way, And we know each other a bit.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people can. I've never met him before.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, hey, you know, come in out of

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Speaker 1: your story. I guess we've met a couple of times. Yeah, briefly, yeah, briefly,

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Speaker 1: but but we've met and you guys are you guys

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Speaker 1: are pretty young? Huh? We are young? Yeah? We uh

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Speaker 1: are each we are thirteen, Um, we're we're all twenties.

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Speaker 1: The we range from twenty four to twenty seven, So

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Speaker 1: meeting aid somewhere mid twenties. I guess. So Lanco is

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Speaker 1: a combination of a couple of words, right, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's a lancastering company. Yeah. From what I remember,

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Speaker 1: somebody worked there and that's where you guys like practiced

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Speaker 1: they got together. Yeah, well, why so the band name

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Speaker 1: comes from my name is Branda Lancaster. So I uh

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Speaker 1: so you know that's not like warehouse. There is a

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Speaker 1: warehouse in the story, but it's not not Lancaster. Um

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Speaker 1: my name is Branda Lancaster. So you know, early days

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Speaker 1: far to go back. I met Tripp, who's the drummer

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Speaker 1: in Lanco and he worked at a carpet warehouse, and

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Speaker 1: uh I met him in Chattanoga, Tennessee. I was going

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Speaker 1: And then I went to school and when I came back,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, where are you from? What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: More people aren't from here. Oh, especially in the business

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Speaker 1: I I've been writing songs, I mean virtually in my

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Speaker 1: me stop you for a second, because I always thought,

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Speaker 1: but there's a band around it that makes it unique.

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Speaker 1: And has its own sound. And when you keep those

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Speaker 1: we had just all become friends. We're all right, this

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Speaker 1: But let's shorten it to more of a band name

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Speaker 1: kind of sound selfless thing because Landco does not sound

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Speaker 1: I so Trip and I were jamming and which one

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Speaker 1: you have to be willing to be poor. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: a Little Big Town was also playing that and he

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00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,200
Speaker 1: had worked on both this record. So that's that's why

426
00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,920
Speaker 1: I was there. Um, he walks by and my line

427
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 1: was kind of dead. Oh you went after him at

428
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 1: the show. I shut down my register, asked the people

429
00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,720
Speaker 1: in my line if they could move to another line

430
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,520
Speaker 1: while they were yelling at me. I kind of just

431
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: left and walked up to him. And what are you wearing?

432
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 1: I individualized when you go up to J. Joyce is

433
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,240
Speaker 1: a big producer and big, big player and it's worked,

434
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 1: I mean again everything from Faith to Urban to Thomas

435
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 1: Read a little big. What are you wearing? I'm wearing

436
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 1: Khaki's in a bridge Stone Arena uniform, in a name

437
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,919
Speaker 1: tag that says my name is Brandon. What colors the

438
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,440
Speaker 1: shirt blue and gold? There because predators colors. So so

439
00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: you go up to J. Joyce, who's there too, and advisor,

440
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 1: a Bridge Stone visor. Oh now we're talking. Now we're talking.

441
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,720
Speaker 1: You go up to this really cool, innovative producer and

442
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 1: the dorkiest close imaginable and you say, what, Well, first

443
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 1: I saw, I was like down. It was kind of

444
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 1: at the very end of the arena, so it was

445
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:13,880
Speaker 1: kind of a dead part and he was the only

446
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 1: person standing there, and I'm down, and I kind of

447
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 1: go Jay Jay to see if he'll turn his head,

448
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 1: to make sure to make sure to him because it's

449
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: so weird that it could even be him, because you know,

450
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 1: it's like, what is he even doing here? He's you know,

451
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 1: he doesn't get out much. And uh, and I got

452
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: Jenny turns his head and I just walk up to

453
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: him and hey, man, my name is Brandon, which was

454
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 1: funny because I'm wearing a name tag my name is

455
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: but you know, my name is Brandon, and uh, you know,

456
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 1: I just wanted to tell you man, I'm a huge

457
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 1: fan of what you do. Uh, And and just told him,

458
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,919
Speaker 1: you know, I love the records he had worked on

459
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: and referenced some records and did you know this happens

460
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: to every minute of every day, Like, yeah, I'm just

461
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: wondering where the approach came in, like what did you

462
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: do this as different? You know, I don't know what

463
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 1: I will say. One thing about Jay is he doesn't

464
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 1: go out a lot like he was. I think three

465
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: of the five album of the Years the Album of

466
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 1: the Year this year for c m as either two

467
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 1: or three of the five he had worked on. He

468
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: wasn't at the c m A Awards, Like he didn't

469
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 1: even go. He was working. So he but when he

470
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 1: does go out, I know people approach him, but you

471
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: know I I didn't because people always say like, oh,

472
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,639
Speaker 1: you made a move, like you pitched yourself, like you

473
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 1: saw something you went not really like as much as

474
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,239
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, like, yeah, I really went for it.

475
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 1: I just loved what the guy did. I loved his work,

476
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 1: and we're you knowledgeable in his works and you know

477
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: you weren't. Absolutely that's a big deal. Yeah, if you

478
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 1: go to someone and you don't have time to prepare

479
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 1: and you know everything about them, Yeah, there's a respect

480
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 1: that even though you're pitching, they're like, oh, you actually

481
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 1: know what I do, right, And that's what I you know. Initially,

482
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: I just went up to tell him I love the

483
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: air The last air turch record the Outsiders that he

484
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: had done and and the little big town stuff and

485
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: also like Cage the Elephant. It's a rock band and amously,

486
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, and I asked him a few questions about

487
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: some of this stuff on the record, and and so

488
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: we just started talking music. Um. And then that came

489
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: around to him asking, you know about me and my thing.

490
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 1: And he was like, you're a songwriter, right, because I,

491
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: you know, talked about writing and I was like, yeah,

492
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: I'm a writer and I'm in a band. He's like, well,

493
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: tell me about the band. Kind of started talking about it,

494
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: and he just real nontionally because that that's cool. Managed

495
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: to complain me some music sometime and you got you

496
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: got a direction that that would be uh, that would

497
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: be putting it lightly. No, Uh well, I mean the

498
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: thing is Nashville though, you hear that kind Everyone's like,

499
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: let's have a dinner, let's get together, let's right together.

500
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: Let's right. I mean, that's that's the Nashville hey man,

501
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 1: Let's write together. You never and I've had producers before,

502
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, say like, oh, I'd love to work with

503
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: some stuff, man, and it doesn't happen. They don't call

504
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: you back, they're busy for two years, you know whatever,

505
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 1: and frankly you're unknown. Yeah, Like, what's the benefit of

506
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: working with some kids in a dorky set of khakis?

507
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean they were cool khakis. Man, there's always a

508
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 1: benefit if you hit the right one. But there are

509
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: a thousand door he gets khakis. So for him to go, hey,

510
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: play me some music, it's one thing, but for him

511
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: to actually follow up and now, how did that happen?

512
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: So I I said, oh, yeah, I'd love to you many,

513
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: that'd be cool, not even thinking it could be real.

514
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: That was towards me in the conversation. Kind of the conversation,

515
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: you know, came to an end, and I thought, what

516
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: if he is serious? What if I really could play

517
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: him some music? That'd be so cool, just to play

518
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: for him, you know, just to even go to a studio.

519
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: So I like started walking right away and awkwardly turned.

520
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, I just realized that I don't

521
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: have your number. Is there a way I get your number?

522
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: And he was like, oh yeah, Sharon. He was funny.

523
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: He just said it like he said his number, and

524
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: thank god I had my phone out and really quickly

525
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: put it in and saved it, and I was like, cool,

526
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: thanks man. Was it like, are you married? Single? Got

527
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: a girlfriend? Right right right now? Have a girlfriend? Was

528
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: it like when you meet a girl and you meet

529
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: them and you like them and you have it, like, oh,

530
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: I can't wait to call it. I don't know when

531
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: I should call them, Like I don't know what day,

532
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: what time of the day should I? Was that like that?

533
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: It was exactly like that. I went to that night.

534
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: So Trip the drummer literally lives on the next street

535
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: over from here, by the way, um, and we were,

536
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, neighbors down the street. We were over there

537
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: or we were pubbed down there, and he was there

538
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, I text him after work

539
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 1: like stay where we're at. I gotta come over the pub.

540
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: I gotta show you something. And I went there and

541
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: showed him, just showed him Jay's number, just said Jay

542
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 1: Joys and his number and he's like no, you know.

543
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: And then it kind of became like, well, now what

544
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean? What do we call them? So I thought,

545
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: let's get some music together, Let's get some good demos

546
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: so we can have an accurate representation of what we're doing.

547
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: So we went through like two different producers paid them,

548
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: like for demo costs. By the way, you're hiring producers

549
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: to produce something so another producer hears it, right, just

550
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: I mean it was just demos, you know. It's like, hey,

551
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: well demo aren't recording into your iPhone. There's the recording

552
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: into your iPhone, the work tape, and then there's getting

553
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: someone to actually put a little work into a track.

554
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: And you're paying a producer so an know the producer

555
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: will hear it and hopefully produce you Like, it's so

556
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: many little up That's what we were talking about, absolutely

557
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: and so and that's why that's the way you're supposed

558
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: to do. You're supposed to have demos when you go

559
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: to someone and and will demo stuff ourselves, which just

560
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: doesn't sound as good as going to a studio. So

561
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's play. Let's pay a

562
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: few hundred bucks per track and give him like three

563
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: songs and have some work tapes. And we had two

564
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: different producers, like we'd start and they'd bail. And now

565
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: a month had passed since I talked to Jay. I

566
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: totally forgot about you, and so I I was on

567
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: my way over the studio to like talk to this

568
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: producer that it had. He was a good guy, nice guy,

569
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: he was busy, and it just he wasn't getting to

570
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: our stuff. And I'm in traffic and I swear this

571
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: is like a movie and this sounds so corny, but

572
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the radio and Springsteen comes on not bruised, Yeah,

573
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: Church of Springsteen, which Jay had produced, and I hear

574
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: it and I literally just pull out of traffic, pull

575
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: into a parking lot and I'm like, you know, I'm

576
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: just gonna go. I'm just gonna call him. And I

577
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 1: just call him. Didn't have anything to offer, didn't like

578
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: I looved, just send you some demos. I said, hey man,

579
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: this is really round Money's brand Lancaster. I met you

580
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: like a month ago at Bridgetone. He's like, oh yeah, yeah,

581
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: what's up. I was like, hey, well, you know you

582
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: you you said about a month ago that maybe I

583
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: come over and play some music and I'd love to

584
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: do that. And I kind of started giving my story

585
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,199
Speaker 1: about not having demos. He's like, he goes, and this

586
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: is very J goes, look kid, what do you want

587
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: to do? Why are you calling me? What do you want?

588
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: And I was like, I want to be an artist.

589
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: I want to be an artist. I want to be

590
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: a songwriter. I'm in this band. I want to play

591
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: all over the world. I want to I want people

592
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: to hear our music. I want to be a songwriter.

593
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: I just the next step. I'm trying to get that

594
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: next step. He's like, all right, we'll come over tomorrow.

595
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm three o'clock. Wow that quick, huh. So I go

596
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: over by myself and playing some songs on acoustic guitar,

597
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: which it's funny. We put all that work and trying

598
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: to get demos. But the way Jay is, he wants

599
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 1: to hear it kind of. So he's like, I just play, Like,

600
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: pick up that guitar and play, Like, play what you

601
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: think is a single? So I played him a song.

602
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: He's like, what you play him? We do? Yeah? I

603
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: get there right here. This is uh, it's actually you

604
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: at Jay sent us this, this is you at his

605
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: but I do have we do here we go, So

606
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: you play you play this pharm acoustic? Yeah, just acoustics,

607
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: like when you're playing it, you're watching it kind of.

608
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm just trying not to think about that.

609
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: This means anything in my mind. When you're in those situations,

610
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: like I'm a very my personality. I'll look, I'm very

611
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: future oriented. I'll think like, well, how is this going

612
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: to play out? And what will happen if I do

613
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: this and this and this. But in those kind of situations,

614
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: I can freak myself out. So I kind of just

615
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: that's the kind of situation where you go, you know what,

616
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: this is really cool. No matter how this turns out.

617
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell my kids about this one day. I

618
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: want to be like, yeah, one of those guests, do

619
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: you do playing some songs. I got to meet him

620
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: and played his piano, you know whatever it was, and

621
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: and so I was kind of just in the moment

622
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: playing the song, just enjoying that I was playing it

623
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: for him, and uh, I finished, and he's stone cold,

624
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: like he's good poker face and he's you know, he's

625
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: not gonna like show emotions. She's like, cool man, Yeah,

626
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: so you can. You can write a good song. It

627
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: sounds like a hit. That's cool. Uh, now play a

628
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: song that never would be on the radio, but you

629
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: really like it. And I played him another song called

630
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: in the Morning that we actually ended up cutting. Uh,

631
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: and uh, it's not out yet. In the morning, every

632
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: not that one. If if I wrote that, then I

633
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: would have flown my private jet right here, um every

634
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: morning for those that are going to correct me on Twitter.

635
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: So you play in the morning for him, Yeah, And

636
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: and you know it's a it's a more of a

637
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: ballad and a different time signature, and it's a little

638
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: more artsy, but it's a very real song lyrically, and

639
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: you know it's a it's a love song. But it

640
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: starts out I'm tired of you, you're sick of me, um,

641
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: and it's kind of about just the journey of no

642
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: matter what we're going through in the morning, we're still

643
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: gonna wake up and be best friends. So just know

644
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: that and it's okay whatever we're going through right now. Um.

645
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: So I played him that, and then I played him

646
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: American Love Story, which is your best song, by the way,

647
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm glad I played it for him then,

648
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: and uh, and he he thought it was cool and

649
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: he was like, all right, that's that's you know, it's

650
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: I've heard I need to hear. And after that, so

651
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: he produced you because of that that and amery I guess, yeah,

652
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: I mean he hate producer because what we do and

653
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: and I hate you love the story and then this

654
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: is a good song. We love this one. We didn't

655
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: know a long life times ago. It's fine. Let me

656
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: tell you this American Love Story is earlier your best song.

657
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: Thank you man. We're excited about that one. And that

658
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: you know from day one. American Love Story is a

659
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: special song. It's a story. It's it's the reason it's

660
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: a song. That's the reason you're in country music. UM,

661
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: it's just that worry that people relate to. UM. And

662
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: it's been cool to play it on the road literally

663
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: every night, which we love it like people keep doing it.

664
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: But every night people come up to us and tell

665
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: us how they are the American Love Story, and that's

666
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: their story. Whether it's someone's deployed in the army and

667
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: they came back, or whether they met in high school

668
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: or met in college, or we'll have old couples, young couples,

669
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: and so it's been really cool to see a song

670
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: like that relate to so many different people on so

671
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: many levels and kind of put their story into it.

672
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: So you and I've call it and I got a job.

673
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: I was working that nine five. I don't think about

674
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: this band the singer. Kind of sucks. It's terrible. Never

675
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: fell so alive. A spaming day's work, can't spam a

676
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: night's drinking, Allen that screaming for them? Day you're coming back, No,

677
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: coudn't come too soon, couldn't come too soon. Well, now

678
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna be up forever. You're gonna better. And now

679
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: I've learning all about American love story there from Lanco. Man.

680
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: This a girlfriend you have? All you guys been together? Oh,

681
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: man a while. We met in college, so about six years.

682
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: M hm hm. I knew there would be something to

683
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: it when you took a breath before you answered, well,

684
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: it's because I always get it wrong. How long we've

685
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: been together? Six years? Uh? Yeah? How does she feel

686
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: about this? With you? The growth the road? You're a

687
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: good looking dude, you're fronting a band, You're getting some trade.

688
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: It's as much as it's a grind for you on

689
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: this front, I don't know. I never better. It's also

690
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: a little it's worked for her too, absolutely to have

691
00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: to be in a relationship. What's someone like you? Yeah,

692
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: I mean touring, being in a band, that's one thing.

693
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: Just being a relationship with me period, I think could

694
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: be tough, Um, But with all the added stuff. You know,

695
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: one thing that I think that we have an advantage

696
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: is that she was She knew me in college, We

697
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: got to know each each other in college, became friends

698
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: in college, start dating college. She's seen me go from

699
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: a college student playing in coffee shops and bands in

700
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: college to moving to Nashville, staying up, you know, talking

701
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: all night about I don't know what I'm gonna do,

702
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how we're gonna, you know, complaining. She

703
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: was there when we get the record deal. She's there

704
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: when you get the publishing deal. She's there when you

705
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: have first mixes, she's there when you everything that's happened.

706
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: She's been there for so when when times are hard,

707
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: she's kind of been through this journey with you. So

708
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: she's she's really excited for me, she's really excited for

709
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: the band, and she's been a part of our story,

710
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: and so she knows how hard we've worked for it,

711
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: and she knows how hard I've worked for it, and

712
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: so there's just so much support. And so even when

713
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 1: times are hard, when you're gone, you miss each other,

714
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Um, I think because we've built

715
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: such a foundation she's been a part of this. You'll

716
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: go you're a little bit like, hi bright, let's go

717
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: so low. I think you can do this, but not

718
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: at all. No, Yeah, she wants to be in a

719
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: duo and we're gonna that's that's the actually the next step.

720
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: She she used to like she's a musical person, she

721
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: can sing, but she's a teacher. So it's so good. Listen,

722
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in trouble for saying that it's really

723
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: good to date someone not in the same kind of industry.

724
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: Is as I say that at the time of this recording,

725
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: my girlfriends and artists. So it's it's grinding because we're

726
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: both we're both in different pat it's solid that she

727
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: has a foundation any job because you're nuts, right, and

728
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: it's a nice balance. Yeah, And and teaching specifically, you know,

729
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: it's cool because they get summers off and then breaks

730
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: off and stuff. So she can trat like this summer,

731
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: you know she can't. We played a lot of PLUSA.

732
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: She can't do all of PLUSA and just different festivals

733
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: like that. But then all so it's nice. There are

734
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: things where if you were dating someone in the industry,

735
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: I think it'd be cool because you guys could talk

736
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: about you can talk about industry things, and there'd be

737
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: you would understand it a little more than than a

738
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: teacher might. But it is nice to get off the

739
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: road and kind of have another life and kind of

740
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: be able to take a break. And when she's talking

741
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: about her day, I don't really have if she's talking

742
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: about her classroom or lesson plans or another teacher, whatever

743
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: it is, you know, I can just relax and listen.

744
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: And it's as supposed where if she was like a

745
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: songwriter or I'd be like, well, maybe you should and

746
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: before you know what, you're now like trying to handle

747
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: two careers. Um, but I mean I think that's cool.

748
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: I think that you know, you're dating an artist. I

749
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: think that'd be cool, you know, because you have then

750
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: you have a major thing in common. I'm dating a

751
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: good person. The artist thing. Artists are weird and and

752
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: I say that, and we're both different kinds of artists.

753
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: We we we create different things. We're nuts. You have

754
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: to be nuts to do what we do. Yeah. Absolutely, Um,

755
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: what what grade? Like? What age of the kids that

756
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: she teaches? She's been all over the place. She used

757
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: to do elementary then she did did middle school, and

758
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: now she is doing high school. Oh dude, I bet

759
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: the high school kids are like, all that would be.

760
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: So she's a young high school teacher. She's actually fifty three,

761
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: so that I'm talking about just kidding, got that November

762
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: March romance, it's even longer. So okay, high school kids. Yeah,

763
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: I mean they probably think they got I mean she's

764
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 1: not married, right, Yeah. Yeah. If I was in high school,

765
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: i'd be like, I'm gonna get I'm I'm gonna yeah.

766
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: Like did the high school dude a little bit flat

767
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: with her? Oh? Absolutely? Oh yeah. Like and she she

768
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: used to help coach cheerleading, so she would be at

769
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 1: all the fou She's at a private school, so it's

770
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, you do everything. Yeah, Like

771
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: she she was a cheerleader in high school for like

772
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: a year, so they're like, oh, help with cheerleading. It's

773
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: more just she wasn't like the actual coach, just help out.

774
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, I would get to football games or

775
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: basketball games. And oh yeah, those those seniors in high

776
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: school there, as far as they're concerned, they're grown men,

777
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: and you know, they got this like they're trying to

778
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: look up with mis Lanko right now in Mislanko. What's

779
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: that's funny? Man, So she's a high school teacher. Do

780
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: you know the stuff that she teaches, because I feel

781
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: like right now, I'd be so stupid with that the

782
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: curriculum that's happening right now. I know, I know it's

783
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: that's not it's so it's a world so far removed

784
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: from mine that you know, she teaches English and she'll

785
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: correct you, uh she has before, but it's not. She

786
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: mainly does like papers and like you know, they'll read

787
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: a book and do a book summary things like that.

788
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: So it is I'm like, you know, she'll be grading

789
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: all like look over her shoulder and see and she'll

790
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: like correct something that sounds good to me, Like I'm

791
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: a writer. I mean, who in the years that you

792
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: guys have been doing this and you've been able to

793
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: go out on the road with people like who are

794
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: some of the uh they acts that you've seen? And man,

795
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: that's really good because you see everybody in this town.

796
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: It's such a You may look at Nashville from the

797
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: outside to go it's a big city, but it's such

798
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: a small town for such a big industry. So you

799
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: get to see everybody at some point who have you

800
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: seen you look at and you go, man, that's really good.

801
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: That's how That's how I want to do. Maybe it's

802
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: not exactly what I want to do, but that's how

803
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: I want to do it. Yeah, I think, I mean,

804
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: I mean definitely, and we are talking about brothers. Osborne

805
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: would definitely one, but other than them, I mean, you

806
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: know this this summer it was really cool. We got

807
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: to play a lot of festivals and so we got

808
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: to see a lot of the huge you know a

809
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: list people like Jason Alden and you know, I grew

810
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: up with I knew Jason Alden since high school, you know,

811
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: I I'm familiar with his music, but I've never seen

812
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: him live. And it was so cool because, yeah, Lanko

813
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: is not Jason Aldan and and that may not be

814
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: what or who we are, but seeing him put on

815
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: a show and the energy and the way he's communicating

816
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: the audience and just being a ringleader that night of

817
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, just capitalizing on this opportunity where you have

818
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: all these people and you're leading the charge of this

819
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 1: is gonna be a great night. We're all in this together.

820
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: Seeing him do it a lot. I mean a lot

821
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: of the pros got you know, I got to see

822
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: Luke brian Um people like that that you see how

823
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: long they've been doing it. Miranda Lambert would be another one.

824
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: You know, got to see her this summer. And and

825
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,959
Speaker 1: there's just a craft that they've mastered of and there's

826
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: a reason they're up there. Yes, it's like that's when

827
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: you realize, you know, the music good and they're right

828
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: in that part of it's great, but there's a reason

829
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: why they're they're up there on that stage in front

830
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: of ten thousand twenty because they're so good. Keith Urban's

831
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: that way for me. Like to watch Keith Urban play.

832
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: You can hear songs are fantastic on the radio. He

833
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: can come into my radio show and he's saying, is fantastic.

834
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: To watch them play live, it's like a whole other

835
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: dimension you get. You're like, okay, I get it. Yeah,

836
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: he should be Entertainer of the year. Then you go

837
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: watch Karen like, okay, she should be entertaining. Then you

838
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: got look like, okay, he should be Entertainer of the Year.

839
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 1: So those guys that are at that level, they're there

840
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: because they are so good at doing that right. Absolutely,

841
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: it's something and we you can all no matter where

842
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: you're at, you can always be learning. And we you know,

843
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: this past year, we just we just absorbed everything because

844
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: and we're a big live band, you know, our live show.

845
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: We take a lot of pride in it, and and

846
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: we love the live experience. We love people showing up

847
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: and and just knowing that and that was one thing

848
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: I learned, honestly all the way back working at bridge

849
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: Stone was all these people are coming here. They all

850
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 1: have jobs, they all may have had a hard week,

851
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: they all may have problems in relationships, whatever it may be.

852
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: But tonight is a big night. It's a special night

853
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: that they're going to tell their friends about. I mean,

854
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's like trip he saw. Jay's not even

855
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: a sixteen and he still talks about it and it's

856
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: so cool. You know. Bruce Springsteen, I heard a thing

857
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: where he always, you know, will tell his band tonight

858
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,479
Speaker 1: could be somebody's first show and it could be somebody's last,

859
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: so let's play like it. And knowing that you have

860
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: this chance to impact people on a night and impact

861
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: their lives and relate to them and sing these songs

862
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: that it may be their anniversary song, or it may

863
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: take them back to a time in college where it

864
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: was them and all their friends. It's just such an

865
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: honor to be able to to have that opportunity to

866
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: to play in front of people like that, and seeing

867
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: these people have been doing it for so long it

868
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: have mastered it and still just go out. There was

869
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: so much energy and are so captivating. It's it's really

870
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: fun to watch. You know. One of my friends, and

871
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: I don't use that word loosely, is Christian Bush from Sugarland,

872
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: who is now doing stuff solo, but it's still they're

873
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: still sugar Land. And so you know, at five seven,

874
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: nine years ago, all those Sugarland was a list number one,

875
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: f number one, playing stadiums Mana's whatever you wanna call them,

876
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: you know, the big gigs, right, And I was talking

877
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: to Christian because Christian came out and played with us

878
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: the Raging Idiots, and he played guitar and just saying

879
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: background and Christian, I've written a bunch together. We've written

880
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: some some fun songs, goofy songs, you know, and so

881
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: um it was that I was were what we were doing.

882
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: We were playing dope Campbell Stadium we're playing Florida State University,

883
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: and so it was US an old dominion of Tyler Farr,

884
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: and Christian was playing guitar for us, and he's just

885
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: doing it because he's a nice guys, just a good dude.

886
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: And I was like, hey man, when and he goes,

887
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: you know, I have actually played the stadium, you know,

888
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: with sugar Land we played, And I was like, what

889
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: is it like moving up? Going from clubs to bigger clubs,

890
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: maybe theaters, then you start playing the arenas. He said,

891
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, it was a lot like I was so

892
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: excited for those stadium arena shows. But when once you

893
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 1: do them, he said, sometimes it sounds sucks. Sometimes the guitar.

894
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: All right, he goes, it's kind of the same thing.

895
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: It's always the same. And if you just practice in

896
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: the smallest places at being the biggest you can be,

897
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: and you condition your up to be that big all

898
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: the way up and maintain it stays the same all

899
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: the way through, because crap happens that at every state. Yeah,

900
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: you're making more money, but as an effect, how good

901
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: you are, but at that point you should already be there. Yeah,

902
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: And I think that early on that was kind of

903
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: our mentality. Like I said, we were playing restaurants because

904
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: even playing a bar was tough. So a restaurant maybe

905
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: like okay, you can play whatever you want for an

906
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: hour and a half. You know, we have losing money early,

907
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 1: a lot of bands losing gosh, yes, absolutely losing. I mean, yeah,

908
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: you would pay to play a gig, like as if

909
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: you're going to drive to Chattanooger, drive to Atlanta or

910
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: wherever it may be, or Indianapolis, they may throw your

911
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: two d five hundred bucks. Well by the time you

912
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: you pay for gas, or if you stay in a hotel,

913
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: you're absolutely paying about a hundred two hundred bucks to

914
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: play that show. But you're just doing it because one

915
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: you're you're trying to get better, you're trying to kind

916
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: of get your name out there. But a big part

917
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: of it early on was we weren't playing great gigs.

918
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: We weren't playing great venues. You know there we were

919
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: happy to be there, but you know they weren't. It

920
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: wasn't a theater, it wasn't a stadium, that wasn't a

921
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 1: club even, And we recognized early on, if we don't

922
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: go out there every night and just play the best,

923
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: that we can and have fun and enjoy what we're

924
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: doing and care that. You know what, there's only three

925
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: people here, but this could be cool for them. This

926
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: is you know, let's let's give them good music and

927
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: play the best we can. If you don't do that,

928
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: it'll get really old, really fast. Because it is it's

929
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: microphones everything. It's the same microphones, same guitars, it's monitors,

930
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: it's a stage, you know it a lot of it.

931
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: You're going through the same thing. So if you are

932
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: reminding yourself, like I get to be on stage and

933
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: play music and I get to give this gift to

934
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: people in the audience, then I think it could be

935
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: a letdown. It could be this point. I think that

936
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: people that have long careers, I think it's because they

937
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: really do love it and they're in it because they

938
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: love it because and they don't know how to do

939
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: anything else. Because if you were just doing it to

940
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: play the more people, and play the more people and

941
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: get more, there's always gonna be another thing you're trying

942
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: to get to. There's always it's like chasing money and

943
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,919
Speaker 1: the career world, the more you chase money, the less

944
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: money you're actually going to make. For the most part

945
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 1: you're if you chase passion, you're going to work harder

946
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: at it. You're going to get better at it because

947
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: you're working harder, and because you're getting better at it,

948
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: then the money comes. And I think too, you know

949
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: one thing in the band, when you travel a lot

950
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: and you you play with all these other bands, it's

951
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: weird when you start doing this professionally because there's literally

952
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: a ranking system. I mean there's literally a chart and

953
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you have the number whatever song, or

954
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: you have the number or and then you're on the road,

955
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: it's like, well they have a big fancy tour bus. Well,

956
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: then once you get a tour bus, will they have

957
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: multiple fancy tour buses and there's always a ladder to climb,

958
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll kind of just throw out this quote

959
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: that's you know, don't worry about it. Comparison is the

960
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: thief of joy because at the end of the day,

961
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: we're joyful just being able to make music and play music.

962
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: And the second you start saying if you get a

963
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: number one, we'll guess what, there's someone out there with

964
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: three number ones you get three number ones, or someone

965
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: out there with ten or twenty. If you're always looking

966
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: at other people and comparing yourself. It'll rip away the

967
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: joy from it and and it'll stop you from loving

968
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Let me ask you, this not awkward

969
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: for me, Dad, I don't care. Yeah, you put out

970
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: Long Left tonight. Okay. So the song comes out at

971
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 1: your first major label single and where did the peak?

972
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: I believe thirty two? Okay, So for all intentsive purposes,

973
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: the single failed. If you're if you're comparing it by

974
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: a chart standard, yes, and I and I I'm comparing

975
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: it by whatever I's gonna say in radio world, which,

976
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: trust me, I have issues with two. I'm in the

977
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: radio and radio more than anybody. Which is so funny

978
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: because it's like a normal person like if if you're

979
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: like A had a top forty single, people like, oh

980
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: my gosh, you're huge. But yeah, I know you're shooting

981
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: for that number one or top ten or whatever it

982
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: is or whatever it is. Yeah, So this song comes

983
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: out when they call you and say, all right, this

984
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: song is dead. We're not pushing it anymore. Who makes

985
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: that call to you? Our management talk to us about it, like,

986
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: and it was do you know what's coming? Yes? In

987
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: a way, I mean, you wanted to do well, and

988
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: obviously you have. Like I remember, it's funny because we

989
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: we were learning all this last year. I mean a

990
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: year ago, I wouldn't be able to talk about radio

991
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: the way I could talk about it now. Charts and

992
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I knew what they were and you hear,

993
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: like number one. I don't know, but how do you

994
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: get a number one? I just I'm just putting out music.

995
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: And you know, when you talk to your radio rep check,

996
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: what's your like, what's your goal for this song? Like?

997
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: Where do you there? Like number one? You're like, wait,

998
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: a number and you realize there's the standard is the

999
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: number one? That's and if it's not number one? So

1000
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: that was interesting for us to learn. But in our

1001
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: mindset releasing a single, we wanted it to reflect who

1002
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: we are. We wanted to have you height to think

1003
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: you're about to be a number one artist? Did did they?

1004
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: Did they have it in your head like you're gonna

1005
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: be a numb one artists? Trust us on this and

1006
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: you were like and you're like whoa And they were like, oh,

1007
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: it didn't make it. If they did, we weren't hyped.

1008
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: If they did. I think that their job is to

1009
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: be hyped into into work like it's got to be

1010
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: number one. We're just looking at is all right, you

1011
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: guys are gonna work the song. We're gonna play it,

1012
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: and we believe in the song and we're happy it's

1013
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: out there. If you're honest right now, I don't know.

1014
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: I most of I wouldn't believe that answer, but I

1015
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,959
Speaker 1: feel like you're being honest right now about this. Yeah.

1016
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just weird. It just all happened like

1017
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: last year the song was just happy it's your first single.

1018
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: I don't even know what a radio tour is a

1019
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: year ago, and then you're on radio tour, you what

1020
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: you made, you on radio stations and playing in front

1021
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: of programming recordar right, and so we were you're doing

1022
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: all that. So we're honestly just trying to get through.

1023
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: And we were also were touring a lot last year.

1024
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: So we're playing shows. So if they're like, hey, you

1025
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: moved up the spot, where like great, we gotta go

1026
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: on stage and play like be honest with Me was

1027
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: long lived tonight in your mind? I failure? Yes or no?

1028
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: No it was not because was it a success? Yes,

1029
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:56,959
Speaker 1: the way that I would look at it. I really

1030
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: think it was a success because, first of all, when

1031
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: we're looking at our first single, we're wanting an accurate

1032
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: representation of us. Who is land Co? What is land Co?

1033
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: What's the vibe, what's the style like? And when you're

1034
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: looking at a year that's an election year, you're looking

1035
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: at all the stuff that's going on, You're looking at

1036
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: people in social media and all the distractions that are

1037
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: around us. I wanted a song that came out first

1038
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: that accurately represented who we are, both musically and lyrically.

1039
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: And also we're gonna play a lot of live shows,

1040
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: we're playing festivals. I wanted an anthemic song that people

1041
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: could rally around because ultimately that's what we want Landco

1042
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: to be. So to have a song that goes out there,

1043
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: and I mean it had you know, it got up

1044
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: to I think near eighteen million streams on Spotify, So

1045
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: that's very playlisted. It is playlisted, not to hate on

1046
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: your no and there, I mean there there are instances

1047
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: where you look, I've looked. It's funny because I'll look

1048
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: at playlisting and I'll look at an artist that had

1049
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: number one and they'll have like seven million streams and

1050
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: be on the playlist, and then we're in the thirties

1051
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: and have eight million And although there is playlisting, at

1052
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: the end of the day, for me, it's not about like, oh,

1053
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: eighteen million went and loved our song. That means it

1054
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: was played eighteen million times, which means that that message

1055
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 1: that we cared about and we wanted people to hear

1056
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: it got out there. And you know what, getting in

1057
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: the thirties, people heard it on the radio. When we

1058
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: played these festivals, people are singing it. You know, if

1059
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: we play a club show, a couple hundred people come

1060
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: out there singing the song. So for us to have

1061
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: a first year on the road, first single at radio,

1062
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: we had never in our lives had people sing a

1063
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: song with us. We're just trying someone knows something that

1064
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: you yeah, and and so for us to know that

1065
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: a year ago, no one could sing one word of

1066
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: a song unless we're playing Sweet Caroline or Sweet Caroline. Dude.

1067
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: Once again, once again, if I wrote that song, we

1068
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: once again we beat my house in in my and

1069
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: on the top of the hill. Um yet John Richards

1070
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: House right exactly, but we uh so it was of us,

1071
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: so you it was not a failure to you know,

1072
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: it was a lot of time. It's not a failure.

1073
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: It was not a failure. That's because most first thing goes.

1074
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: I don't even get the thirties right right. I was

1075
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: gonna gonna pressure hard on that, and whatever you said

1076
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: to the truth, everybody has their own truth. I just

1077
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think if you're really an artist

1078
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: and you care about your art and you care about

1079
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: your songs, yes you wanted to be successful in the charts,

1080
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: but that can't be the measure. That's that can't be

1081
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: the way that you measure whether the song was successful

1082
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: or not, because you gotta eat. Okay, if you're talking

1083
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: about like monetary, like did it buy me as many

1084
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: meals at a restaurant as a number? One? Would have? No,

1085
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: it did not. But did people hear it? Did it?

1086
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: I mean we would have. I've had people after the

1087
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 1: show come up and be like, when you started playing

1088
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: Long Live Tonight, my friend I started crying because we're

1089
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: graduating college and that's been our college anthem. That one

1090
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: story right there, the songs of success. I mean, as

1091
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: an artist, you're very much an artist. I feel like

1092
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: you could just go and write songs and be an

1093
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: artist to be cool and happy. And I didn't believe

1094
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: that at first. I too, you're too pretty. I was like, okay, well,

1095
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: trust me, I've been writing songs and not having any

1096
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: success at all for a long time and been happy.

1097
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: So it's at this point in life it's kind of

1098
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: I hope to always keep that. But and trust me,

1099
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: I want success. I want if you have a number one,

1100
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: that means way more people have heard it and you're impacting.

1101
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: But to me, even the number one just means more

1102
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: people are hearing it, so more people have the chance

1103
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: to understand you and know you and then come out

1104
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: to a show and then you get to give them

1105
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: the full thing. So that that's kind of the way

1106
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: that I I look at it. Very interesting. Let me

1107
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: read about bue Apron you have boy afriend I did not.

1108
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: I not kidding. I've listened. I listened to a few

1109
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: year podcast and heard you talk about it and almost

1110
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: got it from my parents and my kitchen right now too,

1111
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: Like if you walk on my kitchen, I saw, like,

1112
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: literally it's in there. You're not lying, I have I'm

1113
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: not lying because they sent it in a box. It

1114
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: comes and all the ingredients are there and you could

1115
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: like cook for your Do you love your girlfriend not?

1116
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: You've been together six Let's maybe it's religion. I don't know.

1117
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: I don't know the deal to do you bet together

1118
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: six years? Yes, I still talking about boy aprim but

1119
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm post you've been together six years. She's got to

1120
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: be kind of pushing you a bit, like, oh, yeah,

1121
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: we we have to we have the talks about making

1122
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: We've definitely not just talks. We've had very serious talks

1123
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: about that next stage in our relationship because we're not

1124
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: We both wanted it was a thing where too, when

1125
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: you're an artist, I don't think that I could afford

1126
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: to live in a shoe box with my girlfriend up

1127
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: until even a year ago. So now it's just like okay,

1128
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,479
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, she's a teacher, she's a good job,

1129
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: but it's so yeah, it's you know, my life has

1130
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: changed the past year year and a half, which means

1131
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 1: that we could have more talks. I'm like, I lived

1132
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: with my parents for like two years here because I

1133
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: was making no money from music, and so when you're

1134
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: like living with your parents and and what I hope

1135
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: so what okay, and I hope it works out. I've

1136
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: never bet it right. I'm sure it will. It will

1137
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: to deal with someone who and I felt like in

1138
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 1: the last hour of us talking, I can tell that

1139
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:10,399
Speaker 1: you're you're an artist person. There are there are performers,

1140
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: there are artists, there are musicians, and they're all the same,

1141
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: but they're really not. An artist likes a full representation

1142
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: of them and they don't really focus on the accolades

1143
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: that come with it. They just want that product to

1144
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: be pure because it makes them feel pure. That's what

1145
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: I felt from you. Through talking to you. Would just

1146
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: said that's accurate. That is accurate, and too it's trust me.

1147
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: I want I want lots of people to know about Lanco.

1148
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: I want Lando to be absolutely huge. I would love

1149
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: to be a huge success, but if that's going to happen,

1150
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: I want everyone to be on the same page. I

1151
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: want the fans. If you have fans of audience, you

1152
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: want them. You want to feel like you all have

1153
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: a common thread, which is this music. And so I

1154
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: absolutely I want huge things for Lanco. I literally want

1155
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: to be the biggest band there is in country music.

1156
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: But if it's going to happen, I wanted to happen.

1157
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: I want to be able to sleep and not I

1158
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: want all of us be able to sleep in I

1159
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: and be like, we're proud of this. Well, speaking of

1160
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: Blue Apron, not all ingredients are created equal. And that's

1161
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: why Blue Apron is awesome because I send you all

1162
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: the ingredients are fresh ingredients. It's affordable, there's variety, it's flexible,

1163
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: it's easy, it's guaranteed. And they come and you can

1164
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: make you cook your own meals and it's all pretty

1165
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: portioned out. And you make crazy stuff too that you

1166
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: would never make because they have these great recipes and

1167
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: ten dollars per person per meal. And I don't just

1168
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: talk about it like literally and I didn't. I don't

1169
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: put it there because you came over it. It It was

1170
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: just thereca. It just came in the mail. It comes

1171
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: to the box, and um, you know, you cook it

1172
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: and you're like you can trick your girl to and

1173
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: be like hey when you come home, like I want

1174
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: gonna cook. She has no idea what so uh, first

1175
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: three mills are free right now if you go blue

1176
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: Apron dot com slash bones, Blue Apron dot com slash bones,

1177
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: Blue Apron A Better way to cook? Do you listen

1178
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: to some of these are one or two of these

1179
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: before you come over? Yeah, who'd you hear? Ryan heard? Yeah?

1180
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: Those are the people I know. So I know Ryan,

1181
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: so listen to his right. Are a lot of light

1182
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: dude in the approach of just like I just want

1183
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: my good next to be in the environment I want

1184
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: to do the bet and Ryan are a lot of

1185
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 1: like in that way. You look alike like I'm telling

1186
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: you looking at you, I'm like, look at this little

1187
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: pretty boy. Come on, you gonna talk about some girls.

1188
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: I need to grow my hair out, and kind of

1189
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: jesus Us. Ryan looks like you know Jesus, And it's

1190
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: a good Ryan's a good Brian's a good one. Who

1191
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: about you here? Hid In Preston from Local, which that's

1192
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: a good dude. I literally Trip and I listened to

1193
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: and Trip text him and I got a text h

1194
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: because I I did not know their story. I thought

1195
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 1: it was so cool to hear just how hard talk

1196
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: about working hard and sticking with it and and uh

1197
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: believing what you're doing enough to stay with it that

1198
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: long through all the hardships. I was really inspired by it.

1199
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: Success is not about getting it right. Success is about

1200
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 1: continuing after you get it wrong. M Yeah, that's it,

1201
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get it wrong five hundred breaking times,

1202
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 1: and every time you get it wrong, you learn a

1203
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: little something else until you learn just enough to get

1204
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: it right. And do you have the ability do you

1205
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: have the fortitude to continue hanging through all the misses

1206
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: to collect all of this knowledge and experience and then

1207
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: put out American Love Story? Because that's what's gonna happen

1208
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: to my friend. I'm telling you, I got a little

1209
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: thing called the ear right in my air. Likes American

1210
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: Love Story. I think it's a good thing. It's a

1211
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: good song for you guys, like the whole thing, like

1212
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: the song for radio, for the whole I hope. So

1213
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: because I'm excited about it. Tis a long long time

1214
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: is fine? I mean, liss none play it. I was like, yeah,

1215
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: it's fine. I like you guys, and I thought you

1216
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: guys were good and I and I told you guys that.

1217
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, you guys are good. I gott

1218
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: watch you playing, like, Hey, it's really good. Not that

1219
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: long love times? Fine? Yeah, American love Story. And I

1220
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't lie, I wouldn't be it. Why don't I care? Yeah,

1221
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: we well we just warmed you up then for American

1222
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: Lives Stay here. So what's the deal? Now you're out

1223
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: back back up planned tomorrow, you're back out in New

1224
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: Orleans with brothers Osborne Man. Well, is that American Lotores?

1225
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: Is that gonna be the radio It's gonna be the

1226
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: next radio song, right, Yeah, it's the next single. Did

1227
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: I know that? Or did I just hope that? I

1228
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: don't even know that I knew that. I think you

1229
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: hope that along with everyone else maybe, and so, but

1230
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: it is, it's it was decide. I mean, it's we've

1231
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: all been wanting that and pushing for that for a

1232
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: long time. It's not the single right now, there's not that.

1233
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: You don't have a single right now? Do you know?

1234
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 1: We haven't had an AD date yet for so I

1235
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: think I was just hoping it. Well, your hopes came

1236
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: true just for you. I'm a fan. I'm a fan

1237
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: of UM and you guys are good, Thank you very much, man.

1238
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: And so in the land of a lot of good

1239
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: stuff you get you know when you're a band and

1240
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:59,919
Speaker 1: it's rare now you know, UM not a lot of bands. Yeah, yeah,

1241
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,439
Speaker 1: and it's trust me. I'm I'm honored to being a band.

1242
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: I'm really happy that I'm in a band because it's

1243
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: such a different dynamic and it's such a cool dynamic,

1244
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: and it's it's and it's a cool dynamic to bring

1245
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: to country music. That You're right, there's not a lot

1246
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: of so I'm I'm proud of being a band. Every

1247
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: fifth fought with anyone in the band. No, we there's

1248
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: been a some definite you know, confrontations that needs to

1249
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: be though. Yeah, it's a relation. It's like a marriage, absolutely,

1250
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: and that's I think, you know, we actually there was

1251
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: a time. It's funny, Yeah, you got the infatuation stage.

1252
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: Then you go to that stage where everyone's getting on

1253
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: your nerves. And when you work through that and you

1254
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: learn how what kind of how everyone ticks and what

1255
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: everyone's strengths and weaknesses are, then you kind of learned

1256
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: what buttons not to push. And and if someone says

1257
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: something that maybe a few years ago you would have

1258
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: like reacted to and picked a fight, you're like, you know,

1259
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 1: that's just the way, that's how he said, that's how

1260
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: he handles that. Or or if someone handles the situation

1261
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: a certain way that you do not agree with or

1262
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: you would not do it that way, you kind of

1263
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: und sstandable. That's how they are, and you come to

1264
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: terms with that. I think that also there was strength

1265
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: we have and one reason that five guys we could

1266
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: stick together for so long. We do all have very

1267
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: different personalities we have, I mean, all five of us.

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01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: If they were all guys like me, I think we

1269
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: would kill each other. If they were all guys like Trip. Yeah,

1270
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: if they're all guys like Chandler, I don't know if

1271
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: they would kill each other. They might just like never

1272
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: talk to each other. He's the quiet, passive one. Have

1273
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: you seen all four of the other guys naked? Uh?

1274
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: Like totally naked? It's just me, I'm sure naked. Have

1275
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: you seen all of their genitalia? I don't think so.

1276
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: Who'd gonna tell you? Have you not seen? Uh? Jared

1277
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: work on that and Eric s you I'll work on

1278
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: that tonight. Actually, just I'm just saying, you know, we're

1279
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: on the wether a lot. I've seen. That's balls as

1280
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: part of it. You're just in a close starry You're

1281
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: just in places you're tight and changing. See, we like

1282
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: to keep some mystery. That's a thing, like you know, Yeah,

1283
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: we don't want to We're gonna be together long time,

1284
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 1: so we don't want to give it all the way

1285
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: too early. That funny. Well, listen, good luck to you guys. Man,

1286
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming by the house. Thank you. Thanks

1287
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 1: for having me. Man. Look, we kind of know each other,

1288
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: but not well enough to where like I'm pretty much

1289
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: a stranger coming over to your house. So thank you

1290
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: for inviting me, because I did peek in your bedroom

1291
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: and I could be totally crazy. Still anything wrong. You've

1292
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: got some nice guitars, I mean like they're tempting. You

1293
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: do have nice guitars. Man. Thanks, I've been I've been lucky.

1294
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: I've you know, I've got some cool, some cool signed ones. Yeah.

1295
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: You're left handed though, and have some cool ones that

1296
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: I pull. Yeah. It's what sucks for me is I'm

1297
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: left handed and I can't play anybody else's guitar. And

1298
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: that sucks because if I'm like, hey, I want to

1299
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: play something, I can't. Yeah, But what sucks for everybody

1300
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: else has they come over and I don't have any

1301
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: right hand of guitars. Yeah, I sund like guitar downstairs

1302
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: about picking up. I was like, oh, never mind, it's

1303
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: it's they're wrong. Yeah, so yeah, you know, I mean,

1304
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: who who else plays left handed? Uh? Hendrick? But he

1305
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: played the Stranger still flipped. Yeah, so um, Maddie and

1306
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 1: Tay Tay plays left handed, Chase Bryant plays left handed?

1307
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 1: Who else? Might you say, Kurt, We're very similar, curtain,

1308
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,840
Speaker 1: I are, yeah, pretty much the same thing. Does Paul

1309
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: McCartney played the bass left hand? He'd right? He does

1310
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: you ever read? You ever see it like and read?

1311
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of music you like? Like

1312
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: just you? Um, but you ever like the study the

1313
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:38,919
Speaker 1: Beatles and now they would have played like six hours

1314
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: a night in Germany. Oh yeah, yeah, they would play

1315
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: for hours night. I saw one thing where this manager

1316
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: came out early on to see them play and passed

1317
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: on him. He's either manager or someone that wanted to

1318
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: sign them and passed on him because he was like,

1319
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: this whole electric guitar thing is a phase and big

1320
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: band music is a coming back. And it's like, man

1321
01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: to be that guy and think you missed out on

1322
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: the Beatles. You know, everybody though, the biggest act were

1323
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: all passed on at some point, and it's Luke was

1324
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: passed on. I mean everybody everybody was paying. Everybody had

1325
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: failed singles like Yeah, I've talked to Luke many times,

1326
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 1: even off the year, Um, Luke and I are friendly.

1327
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: Off there would say it's a friend, but we're friendly.

1328
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: There's there are stages with me. I try to stay

1329
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: away from artists like personal so I can be objective

1330
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: and say things like long list to Night was just fine. Yeah,

1331
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 1: you know it well, No matter what, I still want

1332
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: you to say that if a song is fine, I

1333
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: want you to say, no matter how good friends we become,

1334
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: if we have a fine song, please say it's fine,

1335
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 1: because we need honesty. I would just not say anything

1336
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,919
Speaker 1: that would be that would be like, no, say it's fine. Man.

1337
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: So with if you look at failed singles like crazy,

1338
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 1: like crazy and he and people pass on on Mike Crazy.

1339
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: So my point was I have no point. Let's do

1340
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 1: this quickly. Take everyone out of country music from your

1341
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 1: answer that you're not allowed to answer anything country. Okay,

1342
01:03:56,320 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: So three artists that you love that aren't country that

1343
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: are alive right now? Who are alive? Um? Do you

1344
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: know Jason Isabel with that Countess country? You can say

1345
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: whatever you want. There's not a referee here. I would

1346
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: say Okay, well you said not countries, but he's kind

1347
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 1: of but he's like in that folk American Mary, I

1348
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: would say it's American who love Jason Isabel uh seeing

1349
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: him a couple of times. The ryman um Ryan Adams

1350
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: uh Art, you're an art, dude, I mean like Ryan

1351
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: Adams is pure art. I mean that's that's an art

1352
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:37,920
Speaker 1: and you love them or you're you don't get it,

1353
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I don't get Ryan Adams,

1354
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: but sometimes I love it. Yeah, and then that's that's

1355
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 1: the thing with me. It's like as long as even

1356
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 1: with artists like that, there are things I don't get either,

1357
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: but you're more forgiving when you really love them as

1358
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: an artist. You're like, that's not speaking to me, but

1359
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: I know that this artist has the ability to as

1360
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: opposed to just act where you're like, oh, I like

1361
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: some of those songs, and if there's not a song

1362
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 1: you like, then you're done. You're like, whatever, I don't

1363
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: like that song. It's also the people that take chances

1364
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: I admire in respect, even if I don't like the

1365
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: chance they took. Yeah, yeah, totally absolutely, And you know

1366
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: who is an artist? And I want one more before

1367
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: I before I want to, I mean another artist, it's

1368
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: not in country that you're like, Okay, Um, you know

1369
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: I like cold Play. I've seen them freaking awesome. Yeah,

1370
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 1: and they they're that's one, you know, Ryan Adams, Jason's

1371
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: Bill are more. Yeah, they're more artsy and more you know,

1372
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: kind of more cold Play was artsy than when they

1373
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: came out Super arts. So I love cold Plays combination

1374
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: of the arts nests and the authenticity, but also their

1375
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: live show is what I would want out of the

1376
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: live show. And they're so I mean, they're so entertaining

1377
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 1: and so charismatic on stage and so captivating. So those

1378
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:47,960
Speaker 1: would be my three guy called play So good. Yes,

1379
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: every part of them is so good. Like Chris Martin's

1380
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 1: a nut, by the way, and I've met chrismartin a

1381
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 1: couple of times. He's nuts. He's really nice, he's nuts.

1382
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: But to be an artist, you're nuts, like I said earlier,

1383
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: and in our profession you realize that too, that to

1384
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: be super creative, you have got to have something inside

1385
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: of you that's different than everyone else. And when you're

1386
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: different than everyone else, you're different than everyone else. And

1387
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: it's tough, and I think that if you're like that,

1388
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 1: that's why I'm just so thankful to be an artist,

1389
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: because I've always kind of known I was different than

1390
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: everyone else. But when you actually it's your job to

1391
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: be different everyone else and you're responsible for it, it's

1392
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of captivating. It's it's freeing from this talk here,

1393
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 1: and I'll go to Mike d for his thoughts in

1394
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: a second too. I don't really know I was getting

1395
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: into it this. Frankly, I was like, yeah, I'll bring

1396
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: her up and talk to him. Um, but I don't

1397
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: like I there's an artist element that I respect more

1398
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 1: about the band now, thank you. Then just like, hey,

1399
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: let's make a man and put out some songs. Yeah.

1400
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: You can't trick me either, because I'm amazing. Yeah, I

1401
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: mean you see that sniff out the bull crap. Sometimes

1402
01:06:57,560 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is a joke. Yeah, and that's I'm

1403
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: glad you see that. That's one of the biggest things

1404
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 1: we talked about that and that's we try and do

1405
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,640
Speaker 1: video series stuff. We were to get across that, dude,

1406
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm telling you, don't waste your

1407
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: time with it. Just put out good songs and your

1408
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: fans will then find it and then everyone like Coldplay,

1409
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: do you think people knew it first? It took years

1410
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: first to figure it out. Don't focus on that because

1411
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: nobody cares. Also, nobody cares, like really nobody cares. Man

1412
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: give them a song, they find the song, they learn

1413
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: more about you to give him another song. They learned.

1414
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: Then you have fans like really, so and we've accepted,

1415
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: we've accepted, you know what what our path is and

1416
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. It's gonna take time. It's

1417
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: gonna take work because it is. It is. It's you

1418
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: have a relationship with your fans, and there's that first

1419
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: stage like the first singles, connect, the first date. Then

1420
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a hit, that's kind of

1421
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: like and you just keep moving along, and it takes

1422
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: an album or two for people to really understand and

1423
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: really I mean, and I think artists keep evolving and

1424
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 1: it really is a relationship with fans, and but it

1425
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:00,160
Speaker 1: takes a while. I think when you take that app

1426
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: that does take off for people to figure out who

1427
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: you are and then people really love who you are

1428
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 1: and stay with you. But if you do that, I

1429
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: think that then there's more longevity because your fans that

1430
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: are not just like, oh, I love that song. It's cool,

1431
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 1: it's catchy, it's I really love Land. I appreciate them.

1432
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: I like to work, you know whatever it is, um,

1433
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: but it's gotta start with just yeah, you're right. Put

1434
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 1: out some songs. People like them to listen, and nobody

1435
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: fell in love with could play because of their art.

1436
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: They fell in love with Yellow was freaking off exactly.

1437
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 1: You gotta trust me. I know you gotta have hit.

1438
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that, you gotta have it. It's

1439
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 1: the name. Uh, we're run out of time. But who's

1440
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 1: in your class of artists? Not classes and good or bad?

1441
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: But you guys kind of came into this earth together

1442
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 1: of music signing at the same time, like a few

1443
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: artists could they could have many hits and then but

1444
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,759
Speaker 1: who do you consider to be in your class? Well,

1445
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: you know Maren she signed like right around the same

1446
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 1: time we did. Now she has just exploded. She's coming

1447
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: in next week. Yeah, she's she's awesome. We signed. You

1448
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 1: never heard of her? She she signed at the same time,

1449
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 1: But I would I mean, we signed, and then we

1450
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:06,919
Speaker 1: took a while to actually get things. Give me some answers.

1451
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:13,759
Speaker 1: Same class Maren Ryan. I would consider Ryan heard, Kane Brown,

1452
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 1: Jordan reagor uh like Brooke Eden. I'm thinking of people

1453
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 1: that were like on radio to the same time. That's

1454
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm asking for. So in five years we're

1455
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 1: gonna be like we were in the same because all

1456
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: the guys are in different class. You know that the

1457
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:30,560
Speaker 1: Cole and Tyler farrs that you know, there are a

1458
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: lot of these guys that kind of came up together

1459
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 1: the things that I was talking about earlier. I just

1460
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: want to mention this before we get off of this,

1461
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: is that when I was talking about artists, what I

1462
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: appreciate is people that go and take chances and being

1463
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: okay with failure as long as they took the shot

1464
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 1: that felt good and felt right to them. He didn't

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01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 1: listen to a lot of people going, hey, this isn't

1466
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: gonna work on the radio. And who's done that recently

1467
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: and without commercial success to this point is Aubrey Sellers. Yeah,

1468
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of her record. Yeah, I've

1469
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: never I've never maybe i've seen her, I have that.

1470
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen her. I don't think

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01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 1: it's there alive. But I love a record because nobody

1472
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:20,839
Speaker 1: else it's it's a full like country, bluegrass blues record.

1473
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 1: They're no acoustics, no doubt about it. It's a country record,

1474
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: but it sounds like nothing else. And you know what,

1475
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: it could fall on its face and no wake aby it,

1476
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: or it could really switch up an entire format. It's

1477
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 1: that kind of thing totally. The fact that she puts

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01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: herself out there to fail makes me love it. I

1479
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: love failure. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's it's just

1480
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: and it's more interesting than just someone who even if

1481
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: it works, it's like that you just don't want to

1482
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 1: be a carbon copy of something. You don't want to

1483
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: be like so and so Junior. You know, if there's

1484
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 1: a floor, you don't want to be Florger's line, Junior L.

1485
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: We definitely definitely don't want Flora Georgia line first, like pease,

1486
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: God go ahead. But that's I think as an artist,

1487
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 1: if you're an artist, it's like you want to work

1488
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: and you want to be successful. Yes, you want everyone

1489
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 1: to love you know who you are, but if you're

1490
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:09,480
Speaker 1: gonna do what you wanted to be because your original

1491
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 1: and you offered something that other people weren't offering and

1492
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: so yeah, and aubrus Sellers absolutely does that. I have

1493
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 1: decided you are the Chris Martin country music to this right,

1494
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: I'll take it a little weird. You can sing, you're

1495
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: passionate about it, like it all right. Good to see you, man,

1496
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: Good to see you. Thank you so much for having

1497
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: men you download American Love Story down download it. He's

1498
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: on those streams. That's that's all. It's like Facebook do

1499
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: metric full of craphic. But I'm glad you have much

1500
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 1: stream it right downloaded. That's where the key is. I

1501
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: agree downloading. If you love an artist, download their music,

1502
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 1: because I agree those real money. You know. You guys

1503
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: gotta eat. Yeah, you gotta eat, and you gotta have

1504
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: money for the next record. Oh that's like it's fifty

1505
01:11:55,920 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 1: million straight. Yeah, all right. Any questions, Ran, We've you've

1506
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: been listening for? How long after that first meeting with

1507
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 1: Jay did you quit your Bridge Stone job? Um? A

1508
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 1: few months? Uh? Well I quit when he finally I

1509
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: started riding with him and some other people for a

1510
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: few months and then he said, hey, you guys ready

1511
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 1: to come in here and make a record next week.

1512
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 1: That was how much notice we had. We were like sure,

1513
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 1: Like how long I'm gonna be in the studios? Like,

1514
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll stay in here until it's done. But

1515
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: two weeks, three weeks with it, so we all kind

1516
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: of could. You can't ask for three weeks off work.

1517
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: We all kind of lost our jobs after that. That's

1518
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 1: why you have You have those jobs, you can lose them.

1519
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:40,880
Speaker 1: What were you making a bridge stone? You're working at

1520
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: that wage like says uh seven eight bucks an hour

1521
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 1: and free hot dogs you got the end of the

1522
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: night there and yeah, and I know you got one

1523
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: free hot dog when if you wanted. And in the

1524
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: night after they counted what you didn't sell, you could

1525
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:58,720
Speaker 1: have a burger. Whatever you didn't sell. Was well, it

1526
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:00,600
Speaker 1: wasn't really a fair game, but it kind of was,

1527
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, what are they gonna do

1528
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: with it? Yea, and by law they can't donate it. Yeah,

1529
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: they have to throw it out right. They donated to me. Yeah,

1530
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: you'll barely got donation, Mike. One more question is anything

1531
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: else you want to ask? How do you feel about it?

1532
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:13,719
Speaker 1: You go, what do you think? I think this guy's

1533
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:15,639
Speaker 1: he can't hear us? You think there's full of craping?

1534
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: Think I'm gonna put him back here, Okay, put it back. Yeah. Uh,

1535
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 1: good to see you. Good to see you, man, think

1536
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: so much. Download go see Lanko is that was going

1537
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 1: to the river one piece of advice. Really good as

1538
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: you get a hit solo. Hope my bands shout. All

1539
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 1: these other guys did the guys. I like you guys,

1540
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: Thank you man, but I'm only about four of you, right,

1541
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: we gotta find the missing link. I don't. Yeah, that's

1542
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:48,640
Speaker 1: the weird. Last time I tell you guys outside the

1543
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: hotel inside like the Hilton. Yeah, it's freezing cold, whiting

1544
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,639
Speaker 1: on our car. Yeah, I was like CRUs or whatever.

1545
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: It was something like it was real brief. We were

1546
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 1: like trying to say hi, but yeah, we were all

1547
01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:01,880
Speaker 1: freezing and it was like yeah, good good bye. All right,

1548
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: we'll see you next time. I have thirty is over.

1549
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 1: Thanks our sponsors, Blue Apron Sleep number. We go buy

1550
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:11,719
Speaker 1: all that stuff and download Lanco. We go watch Lanko

1551
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,639
Speaker 1: and tattoo Lanko on your body, all that stuff, yeah,

1552
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:18,680
Speaker 1: especially that one. We'll see. We'll see you guys next time. Thanks.

1553
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 1: Thirty ones up by learning good