1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode one thirty six to the 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Bobby Cast with my buddy John Party. And sponsors are 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: Dollar Shave Club and Life Block, and you're go ahead. 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: It's like every time we talked, we we we talked 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: about kind of human stuff. But I was like, hey, 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: what's up, man, And You're like, I've been painting all day. 7 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: Paint pain is not fun. Wait, but what are you painting? 8 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: And I think most people would think that John Party 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: guy with you know, multiple smash country hits, we'll be 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: having someone paint for him at this point. I had 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: somebody paint for me the last time, and uh, we 12 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: did a better job than me and my dad. But 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: we're painting. The decks, have three decks and who just 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: remodeled the house, so they're pretty trash from foot foot, 15 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: you know, foot in and out and carrying stuff and 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: dry wall and white stuff paint that just we know 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: when they're fixing stuff up. So it looks great now. 18 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: So you go back and forth at home Debot, lots 19 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: of home Depot trips and loves. They know you when 20 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: you walk, not by John part of the artists, but 21 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: by the guy who comes in a lot. They know 22 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: me by both. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, you always like 23 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: places that you enjoy going to enjoy you being there. Yeah. 24 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: Well they always ask, you know, doing with your house yet, Man, 25 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: it's been a long time. I'm like, yeah, well it 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: has been a long time. We're playing at the Bluebird. 27 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: You and I we put that charity event. You're like, yeah, 28 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: having got I got a dumpster out. We're tearing out 29 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: the house. Still got the dumpster. Still the du dumpster 30 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: still there. Yeah. It was kind of like it's a 31 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: three story kind of cabin house that we started in 32 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: the center of the house and then we moved to 33 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: basically just remodeling the whole thing, like new windows, new 34 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: a c and heating and and sand in the floors, 35 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: a new kitchen, knocked down, three walls. You like that? 36 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: Do you like that? You like the house? Well, I 37 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: didn't do I helped. I helped, you know, get kind 38 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: of planed out. And because I'm on the road a 39 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: lit if I could do with my schedule would be 40 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: like four years. We'd still be talking about from all 41 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: in my house four years from now. But you know, 42 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: I enjoy it. It's a good released from music. This 43 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,279 Speaker 1: whole week, I've kind of just not really done anything 44 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: with music until like today I picked up a guitar 45 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: practicing a song I gotta play for a c monitors 46 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: and and then we got the podcast and just kind 47 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: of taking off. Tomorrow I go back on tour. But 48 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: it's good to like do something like paint a deck. 49 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: That's just kind of satisfying. You know, you can get 50 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: a hate painting walls. That's not my thing. It's just 51 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: so like even like you ever pay in your house, 52 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: did a good job, but like I did that, you 53 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: did that a like, oh yeah, I'm great. I'm the opposite. 54 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: When I could, I could hire someone to paint again. 55 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: I never painted again. Yeah, I know. I messed up 56 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: a lot of ceilings with my paint jobs. But the 57 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: deck was easy because it's it's kind of it's like 58 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: but it's more like sweeping kind of mindless. Yeah, and 59 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: you and you see, I could a dirty go to 60 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: like super clean. You ever watched the stuff on Reddit 61 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: where they do you ever get on Reddit? Because they 62 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: have to have a whole like awbredded of satisfying things, 63 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: AND's exactly what you're talking about. Like they'll take a 64 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 1: power washer, it's in power washing a deck and it 65 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: goes from being disgusting and you watch it just gets 66 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: super Yeah. Yeah, power washing day too. That the deckster 67 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: look like crap after even after the power Yeah, we 68 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: needed to be painting really bad. What are you planning 69 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: at a CM Honors? Do you know? Can you say 70 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: it's not on TV or anything? I guess or are 71 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: you supposed to be quiet about it? Um? I don't know. 72 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: You know it's a it's a a good buddy. I've 73 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: been on tour with them and I know his song 74 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: means a lot to them. So I don't want to 75 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: a CM honors. Are you honoring or you being honored? 76 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: I'm the hope, I'm a host. So that's right, you 77 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: and Lauren are hosting it. How about that? Yeah, I'm excited. 78 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: That would be good. Then reading out loud a lot, 79 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: trying trying to slow down my pronunciation, you'd be good. 80 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be you. Yeah, but you know you 81 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: gotta read. I try to practice reading out loud, you 82 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: know telephone? Just do you? You promptly gonna ask you're 83 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: using a prompter? Probably, I imagine? Oh so are you 84 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: doing any jokes? Yes? But I uh, we usually don't 85 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: write it, and we usually try to help them. It's 86 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: like I won't say that. I would never say that. Like, 87 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: let's try to get something else and it comes back okay, 88 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: we'll say that's funny. We laugh, you know, kind of 89 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: kind of we try to take if if it's cheesy, 90 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: you know what, kind of trying to make it a 91 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: little more. Let's let let's do something with this. So 92 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: I try to be hands on. That's that's what I do. 93 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: I mean, Mike d and I write, we both right 94 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: and new stand up comedy. But then we also I'll 95 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: do award shows and I'll have writers come in and 96 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: we're just sitting in a room and crank it out, 97 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: and I'll be like, I don't know even uh. Some 98 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: of the sketches we did, I hosted them on Fox 99 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: the Heart Country Special, and you know, you go and 100 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,559 Speaker 1: you sit in a bus, you do all these jokes, 101 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: and I go, I kind of get a little devote 102 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: just because I would. I'm like, I would never make 103 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: this joke. And like my integrity though, who came up 104 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: with the mini Bobby Bones? That was pretty good. That 105 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: was not me. I wish I could take credit five 106 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,239 Speaker 1: for that though. Yeah, that was a great idea and listen, 107 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: I have no issue. Ever, It's like, I love great writers. 108 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: I love working with great writers. I love when someone 109 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: writes a joke that I use, you know for these 110 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: um so yeah, a little bible is not me. There's 111 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: one of the if you're that's why you got a 112 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: good team and writers though where you can fantastic team. 113 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: You know, you agree on things that you would we'd 114 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: want to come up with, you'd want to say, and uh, 115 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: that's why whenever we get so you like presentation, present whatever. 116 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: You know what I'm trying to say. You give award 117 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: to somebody, but you're you tell them my presentation kind 118 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: of work on that one already got him words of 119 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: um but you know, just little things that we say, 120 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: Oh that I would say more like that, you know. 121 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: And there's some there's some cheesy jokes. Well cheese is good, ess, 122 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: but it's good if you know, if you don't tell 123 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: jokes all the time. Cheese is good if I go 124 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: out and throw out some real cheese balls. If not 125 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: good because I'm suposed to tell jokes. Yeah, you're supposed 126 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: to be able to see good and be you're funny. 127 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: You know, you're naturally a funny, warm guy to be around. Yeah, 128 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: I got to be funny, look warm, just be warm. 129 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: Well this one was like bluegrass and was talking about 130 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: weed and like I just did, oh no, I get that. 131 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: I wasn't like, I don't know, that's not even that funny, 132 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: Like you know, it didn't feel comfortable. There's a difference. 133 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: I was. I was, there's better high jokes. I mean, 134 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: if we're gonna get down to like comedy, but like 135 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: you you know, you're you're you c MT. I was like, man, 136 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: that was when we did the Hode. It was me 137 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: and Hode and we came back. We came back with 138 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: like they when they like really you know me and 139 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,799 Speaker 1: big words, and it was they gave me this whole 140 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: tongue twister and like just try to do this and 141 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: it like I kind of ab live with it and 142 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: it was really hard. It was like sea shores and 143 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: seashells all that. I'm like, oh my god, but it 144 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: were it were it was really funny. So let me 145 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: tell you what song I really like. I like this 146 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: new in this night shift. There's a good one man. 147 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: Whenever your record came out and I was listening to it, 148 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: this one stuck out to me early. I was like, man, 149 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: this was a jam. I like the record. It's been 150 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: out for a while at this point as we record 151 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: this with us today today is the August So when 152 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: when when the record come out? June sixteen? Is that right? 153 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: It's sixteen, two years? Two years. You gotta be kidding me. 154 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: I bet you're just craving something new, like a new record. 155 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: Huh yeah, we've been working on it. Well, this song 156 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: is a jam and we'll come back to it. I 157 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: love this song. Thanksh yeah, turn it up a little bit. 158 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: Not a thing between you and me and it fields 159 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: so nice when you now? Is this the fifth single 160 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: from the record. This is the last single off California 161 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: Sunrise five singles. Pretty good it's been. It's been a 162 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: great record and it's been a great time. It's brought 163 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: me to a level I've never been before, and I'm 164 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: very thankful for it. And uh but we're moving on 165 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: next year, and you know how it is with labels man, 166 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: and I was like, when's the next record? Can we 167 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: get it out? They're like August? Do that night? Team Like, 168 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: oh really right, but that's you know we're gonna Our 169 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: goal was to turn it in in January to that 170 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: nineteen and then hopefully we'll get another jum release or something. 171 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: There's just a lot of people on Universal. There's a 172 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: lot of Yeah, because a lot of people putting out artists, 173 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: I would say, putting out records. What that means is 174 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: your record label. How they have a lot of people 175 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: to put time and effort into investment, both money time promotion. 176 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: They can't just throw them all out. They're looking for 177 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: the fair slot. But basically and be almost three years. Yeah, 178 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: it's crazy. I'll say this though. I know for you 179 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: that it's felt like a long process because you were 180 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: in on the creation of this record. You were in 181 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: on the curating of the tracks and what to put on, 182 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: what to sing, you were in on the promotion. So 183 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: it's probably felt much longer for me, someone who actually 184 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: enjoys the record. I'm surprised it's been out two years 185 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: and I've enjoyed the record since it come And I 186 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: told you that when it come out, and said, wow, man, 187 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: this thing sounds progressive but still still uh contemporary tree. 188 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel as tired as you probably feel of 189 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: just playing the same songs. Well, were sorry, I'm not 190 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: overdriving this. We we get a lot of feedback and 191 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: it's not I mean, of course fans want new music, 192 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: but there's not like a super demand like they're like 193 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: still rocking still and you know that and a lot 194 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: of fans were happy the Night Shift was gonna be 195 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: on the radio, and uh, when it comes on the radio, 196 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: you know, it gives it's it's rocking and it it 197 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: feels good. And I think it's got a good spot 198 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: to have that kind of feel on the radio right now. 199 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: I like it. I wouldn't say I did. I would 200 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: just ignore it. If I didn't like it, I just 201 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: ignore it and not even not even do it. So 202 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: what is your your quintessential Nashville story? And everybody's got one, like, well, 203 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: what what was the moment for you where it kind 204 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: of went all I gotta go? And then what's the 205 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: story off you're getting to Nashville to actually pursue with 206 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: the career that you're in now mm hmm, well, let's see. 207 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot before Nashville. When was it Okay, 208 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: so you start making music in California about what age 209 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: when you start actually performing and making some money and 210 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: thinking okay, maybe I could do something musically. Well, I 211 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: have a first band of fourteen and we played the 212 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: Dickson Mayfair and you know, like during its kind of 213 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,119 Speaker 1: like rock and roll punkish, kind of like the rebellion 214 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: from being growing up singing out Jackson and George Strait 215 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: and we're you still doing some like Nirvana. And in 216 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: the nineties we we we did, you know, we were 217 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: in the linear skinnered phase and like you know, some 218 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: classic rock and Tom Petty lots of Tom Petty um 219 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: mom my friends jammed out like Rage against Machine and 220 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: Nirvana and you know, like Blink Blink went a two 221 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: and Green Day were huge at a time, and and 222 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: uh and I kind of took that one when you 223 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: ask the question when you start like playing for real 224 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: and kind of making tips and stuff eighteen but I 225 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: was singing country again, but I had this like kind 226 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: of fast rock and roll vibe to it. And then 227 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: when to a place called Chico, California, and has a 228 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: college They're called Chico State, and it is like party down, 229 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: good time and formed a country band and learned and 230 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: I had a mandalin player and he kind of taught 231 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: me a lot about blue grass, and so we had 232 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: this up about eighteen years old here I was a 233 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety basically that lasted nineteen to twenty two. And 234 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: then after that I moved to Nashville, and uh, I 235 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: was new. I wanted to move in Nashville. I took 236 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: some trips out kind of you know, realize that mash 237 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: should probably be twenty one so I can get into 238 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: the bars, you know, like hang out and like get 239 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: up and do a microphone you get there's still places 240 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: you can play it back into that out and eight 241 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: you know, either that way may not. I moved here 242 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: with an atlas, like I didn't have GPS on my phone, 243 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: Like it's still kind of it was. It seems so 244 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: like really did you have a horse and a buggy? 245 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: And it seems like it's so long ago, like what 246 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 1: would you do without your GPS now? But that we're 247 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: back in the day. We had maps and it was 248 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: pretty easy. Three three high ways and what's that drive? 249 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: What's that drive? Like? Three days? Um, three days of excitement, 250 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: you know, twenty two was excited, like I'm doing it. 251 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: My mom was sad. My dad was like, go get 252 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: a job, you like trying to he's such a worker. Um, 253 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: but he you know, my dad, everybody pushed me to 254 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: go to Nashville. You know, they always said it ain't 255 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: gonna happen here, you know, And so saved up some 256 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: money when I was working for my dad, and I 257 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: got my dog in a p A system and I 258 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: drove to Nashville, found a place to live and and 259 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: was on the ground, you know, kind of hanging out. 260 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: And you drove three days three three and a half. 261 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: I think, so you and your dog, you're sleep in 262 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: the truck. You stop at hotels that we accepted dogs. Mm, 263 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: we'd he'd stay in the truck because sometimes I'm sneaking in, 264 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: but we had you know, he had guitars and stuff 265 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: back there, and he like he wasn't the dog that 266 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: you wanted to open in the campershill people are like 267 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: he would buy you and he's scary, and uh so 268 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: he kind of and he was fine staying in the truck. 269 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: So how do you get a place to live? Like 270 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: if you're coming from California, northern California or so, and 271 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: you gotta find a place to live. But well, what 272 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: came a couple of trips that I've I've come out, 273 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: you know, like you can easily network and you know, 274 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: kind of meet people. And I just did that and 275 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was excited. I don't live 276 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: within you know, when you're twenty two, you live in 277 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: a of a bathroom. You know, if if you had, 278 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: if it was cheap enough to you know, provide and 279 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: and a lot of those people I don't even don't 280 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: talk to anymore, like that, that phase where it's just 281 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: you know, kind of starting at the bottom, I mean 282 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: the bottom learning learning the town, learning learning how it 283 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: was back in the day. I mean it's totally different. 284 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: Now you move here, you're twenty two, you're moving with 285 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: the roommate or two. Yeah, how do you start meaning 286 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: if you get here, you met a few people on 287 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: some trips where you kind check it out, But how 288 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: do you start making a life in music? What's the 289 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: first thing that you do? Well? I had songs I've 290 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: written in Northern California with my band called Northern Comfort 291 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: Shoutout during the Comfort. That were fun, they were upbeat, 292 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: they were different, you know, and so I always had 293 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: that in my back pocket, never like really even shared that. 294 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: But I just go out and mingle. I got a 295 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: job as a lifeguard, and uh, and after school counselor 296 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: that kind of help me get by, and um and 297 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: and and uh. I gotta back up before really getting 298 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: down to the nitty gritty of how I survived the 299 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: long hair days. Um So, in my neighborhood, while I 300 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: was living in the basement, there was a townhouse that 301 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: you can get with no payment down. Yeah, and my 302 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: mom was like, she was, I'll co signed with it. 303 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: It wasn't you know, going from cow California in Nashville. 304 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: That townhouse wasn't too bad. But I had like four 305 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: rooms and their two and a half bathrooms. It was 306 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: like I could totally rent this out. And like I 307 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: literally rented every room at the house. And I that 308 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: was I was paying my mortgage and I was playing 309 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: and I had my little life guarden job. But I 310 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: didn't um you know, through Mangland basically and kind of 311 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: getting that one shot to get up there and play 312 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: a song that at the time, you know, everybody kind 313 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: of liked and it was fun and we get like 314 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: get and play that song again. And that kind of 315 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: happened in place called Losers and that was kind of 316 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: like my home and I ended up playing substituting, you know, 317 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: the guy couldn't make a gig, They'd call me, come 318 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: play four hours. I knew a bunch of covers because 319 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: we played in covers. And we played for four hours 320 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: in northern California, like we were you know. We started 321 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: tending and we ended it too, So I was like, 322 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: I can do that, man, I can do that. So 323 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: we just kind of did that for two years, and 324 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: I landed through mingling and taking songs with publishers. And 325 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: I knew Bart, my co producer. Now I kind of 326 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: knew him, and he would sometimes answer my phone calls. 327 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: I always make that a joke. Now he answered my 328 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: phone calls. But he kind of set me up. We 329 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: in with some people and and and just kind of 330 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: climb the ladder. This is an old school way, like 331 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: shaking hands. You know, I'm John, Yeah, I'm a songwriter. Yeah. 332 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: I kind of focused on songwriting. I didn't want to 333 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: go play downtown. You didn't want to go play that 334 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: Broadway where all the more? Right? No, I was I 335 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: did that. You know, I got that I need to 336 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: learn how to write, Like what how does Nashville right? 337 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: How can I put? How could I fit into this 338 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: this system that that there, it's obviously songwriters, you know, 339 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: and really focused on that and got a publishing deal 340 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: and then got some songs and you know how to 341 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: show you know, started doing. We got enough songs for 342 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: a showcase. Three showcases in I got signed by UM 343 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: Capitol Records with handshake deal what's kind of like, And 344 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: it took a year to sign. The contract was two 345 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: down eleven. We got signed, and then they're like, your 346 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: first single comes out in two down twelve, so there's 347 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: another year. So two years and I just kept writing 348 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: and writing and writing and recording songs, even demos and 349 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: kind of learning, learning, and then you know, that felt 350 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: like forever though, like from the moment that your handshakes signed, 351 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: you're excited and you got your wait two years for 352 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: your first song to come out. I bet that was 353 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: I felt like a slow two years to get that 354 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: first thing out there. Well, I mean, we had a 355 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: great book and agent, and we had a lot of 356 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 1: we had a lot of through showcase. I found a 357 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: band and we had a van, and we learned the 358 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: South and there was a lot of places that we 359 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: still talk about playing and like a lot of guys 360 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: that are still I see all the time that that 361 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: gave us a shot because we could play cover. If 362 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 1: we could do this, you know, we could we could 363 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 1: play for three hours. You know, I have no problem 364 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: with me throwing some originals. Make eight hundred bucks, you know, 365 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,479 Speaker 1: max out your credit card, hopping a van and go 366 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: you know in the van. It's great. That's why not 367 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 1: white Everyways asked why is music in Nashville, Well, it's 368 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: it's easy for a van to get around really when 369 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: it comes down to because back in the day was 370 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: built for Cadillacs to get around. So we I mean, 371 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: the van was really hard to keep up with the 372 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: tour bus. Let me tell you that was like play 373 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: a show, getting a van, drive for five hours, sleeping 374 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: a hotel, wake up early to go keep you know, 375 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: trying to trying to catch up. But um, we were 376 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: always playing. I was always writing, so it just and 377 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: everything was new. You know, I wasn't from the South. 378 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 1: I learned what college football was all about because back 379 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: in the West it's not as huge as this year. Like, 380 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: so I was learning all this stuff. I was making 381 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: new friends and and of course you know I had 382 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: a record deal. 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This thing came 421 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: out and it was just like, oh yeah, well I 422 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: felt that the record sounded sounded super super forward while 423 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: still being a country record. You know, it wasn't one 424 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: of these where you listen to and you go, oh, 425 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: it's trying to be something new. You felt country. Yeah, yeah, 426 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: it sounded you're using cool sounds. There are sounds that 427 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: I think, am I to you? Sonically? What's this record about? 428 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: Um California Sunrise? You know? It was, it was, It 429 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: was kind of this is where I am now because 430 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: I had a first record. I had four singles on 431 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: the radio. My first record is called Rayue Song, and 432 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 1: we got up all night on the radio. We got 433 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: to number ten, and that let me get my album 434 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: out and my first record. Literally once he got on 435 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: iTunes and people started listening to it, We're selling out clubs. 436 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 1: We're selling out clubs with with We're we're out selling 437 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: people with number one. But and then you know that 438 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: it was just kind of fun and you got that 439 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 1: that crowd singing back with songs that were just on 440 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: the on the record, you know, and and and it's 441 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: still to this day we play songs about that first rick. 442 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: But four years being on radio tour, you know, two 443 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: down twelve January, Miss You Crazy comes out. Yeah, we 444 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: got it already, got it, you know, we got it, 445 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: got it. We we got the whole story down then 446 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: up all night and that was into down fourteen here 447 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: up all night, this is the jam too. I'm gonna 448 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: come back to this, but yeah, this is one. When 449 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: I moved to town, I think this had had lived 450 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: its life and had gone away, but was still one 451 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: that people were kind of in love with. Still this 452 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: is this is one turn up, a little bit of 453 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: the wrong baby, that's a good one. Do you still 454 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: like that one? Yeah? We played, we still played. I 455 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: still like what I can't put down? That was right? 456 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: That was right before up all night and I was like, 457 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: this is it. It's there's the one, you know, but 458 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: it just it didn't you know, test well and people 459 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: played it, but it got the thirty three and then 460 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: we put up on I know, and uh, we have 461 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: to put the album out, and which is a big 462 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: deal because you have to have some momentum in that 463 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: single for them to go okay, well, now put some 464 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: money behind over a full album. And it was a 465 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: full album, had eleven songs on it, and it changed 466 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: the van life basically. And so but what my point 467 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: is of California Sunrise, there's four years of writing and 468 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: being on the radio. Regardless of what you know, I 469 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: still was always top forty because I still have believers 470 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: in country radio. No matter how high, what failures, whatever it, 471 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: I still believe, like we got in. The label was 472 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: always like it's not a race, it's a it's a marathon. 473 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: You know, you gotta take your time and like just 474 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. You believe that what is happening. Um, 475 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: you know, I never really got two worked up about 476 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: it because you know, if you did listen to what 477 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: I was doing, it was kind of it was kind 478 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: of different. You know, it was country, but it was upbeat, 479 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: but it was the country, and um, I kind of 480 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: came into my own like I'm still growing up. I 481 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: was only I got signed at twenty six, and I know, 482 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: I don't even know, I don't even know, I don't remember. 483 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: But I was still growing up as like a into 484 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: a young man, into a man, and I got to 485 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: do that with the record label and kind of under 486 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: the radar, you know, not not like just boom, here 487 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: I am world. I kind of got to learn it 488 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: all and and not be like the in the headliner, 489 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: you know, where it's just like because you know, sometimes 490 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: like boom, I'm here, and it wasn't like that for me. 491 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 1: And then I kind of became this, you know, this 492 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: is this is who I am. When California Sunrise came out, 493 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: and I had friends on the works of radio, friends 494 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: that listen to my music. People are giving me great 495 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: advice and all that just through hard Word and what 496 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: California Sunrise with me is like, this is what I 497 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: this is the new take on that. Four years of 498 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: radio touring, country fiddle steel, you know, all this stuff 499 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 1: I love And it was just at that point. I 500 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: remember you posted the Instagram video probably two years ago, 501 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: and it was at a festival and the entire crowd 502 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: was singing head over boots, remember messaging going good God, 503 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: like it's a this is amazing like that. They were 504 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: singing all of it. Watershed it was Watershed, yeah, and 505 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: George Comma Washington, yeah, and it was the Gorge. Yeah, 506 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: the Gorge. I probably spelled him wrong. It was so 507 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: excit is it Gorge not George. No, it's the Gorge. 508 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: I've played that. I played Watershed. I thought it was 509 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: George Washington. I thought it was the Gorge and George. 510 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: I mean it's cooler George Washington. I always thought that 511 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: was the thing. I was like, named George Washington. Did 512 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 1: you ever think that, my dear, Oh, it is called 513 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: the Gorge. I thought it was the Gorge and George anyway, 514 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. But moving on, I were watching that 515 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: video and going, oh, this is now arrived on kind 516 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 1: of a macro level. No, it's not just a song 517 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: that it's cool is gonna come and go like it's 518 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: still the one when you have a whole thirty people 519 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: singing every word of it. Give me some of that again. 520 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: I mean, the whole crowd was out of their minds 521 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: singing this song. Bonkers. It was fun. That was the 522 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: That was the first that was probably one of the 523 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: most surreal, like, wow, this is the first you know 524 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 1: you kind of get emotional and stuff, and it was 525 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: that was that was really cool. And uh I was 526 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: always remember that because that here we go with him words, 527 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: but that slot, um was we finally got, you know 528 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: a little later on and like Merle Haggett was supposed 529 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: to play either I think right in front of me 530 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: or right behind me. I don't know. It was like, 531 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: you know, but he passed like two months before and 532 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: then then came out and played before us, and it 533 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: was like kind of crazy that like with that moment 534 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: and Merle hagg was, you know, gonna play right for me, 535 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: which probably would have been like, no, Merle not playing 536 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: before me, but it's like he just passed it, and 537 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: it was It's one of those things like dang, you 538 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: know uh from that crowd and that kind of just 539 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: that introspective me and Merle would have played together and 540 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. You know, It's one of the moments 541 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: I'll never forget. Yeah, it's a good one, just watching 542 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: it so that that hits. And then it was like, 543 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: all right, what's happened next with John Party? He had 544 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: head over Boots. Shirley's not gonna put another song with 545 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: Boots in it? And then boy did you ever? Yeah, 546 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: but I'm taking I mean, and you raised it. I 547 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: mean you saw Boots and you raised that funkier Boots. Man. 548 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: What's that conversation like where you go, all right, well, 549 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: you got another song that we love, but it's name 550 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: is basically the same thing. What do we do? Is 551 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: that a room conversation? Everybody's sitting around, Um, well, I 552 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: you know, I researched a lot. I you know, I listened. 553 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: You know. iTunes is great because they have like they 554 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: have you know, things like playlists of like a you know, 555 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: new mean artists from all the top of the levels, 556 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: and you know, I'm always like listening and stuff and 557 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: and so like I do pay attention. And I pointed 558 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: out that Keith Urban had too. He had at that 559 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: year he had cop car and then somewhere in my 560 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: car and I was like, well, there's there's another car song, 561 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: another Boot song out, you know. And my favorite was 562 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: the president of of Universal, Mike Dungan, was like, you know, 563 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: I don't care about back back boot songs. I care 564 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: about back to back hits. That's literally what he said. 565 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,959 Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, put it out. You know, Um, 566 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: I always say that. Everybody asked me. It's like I 567 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: wear boots all the time. I wear on boots right now. 568 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: So it's not it's not like something that it is 569 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: a just a thing. You know. I have a lot 570 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: of boots. And I look at that two Boots song 571 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: gonna row, you know, look at that hit after a hit. 572 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: He started, So when did you go from the vand 573 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: of the tour bus. That's a big step in in 574 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: the life because the tour bus expensive. Yeah, well they're 575 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: still expensive. Two of them are really how you got 576 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: two now? Humble brack right there? Oh, it's so expensive 577 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: good too? It really is it? Really? Uh? Now up 578 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: at the end of the year went up. All night 579 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: was was peaked and we started going in and we 580 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: started selling records and kind of selling out clubs. We've 581 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 1: got our bus. Uh it was fun. You know what 582 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: the wrap is on you is that. And we have 583 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: similar team members and so we have people that are 584 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: close to us and they're they're work together and they're like, man, 585 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: that John Party is one of the hardest working guys. 586 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: Like that is what you're known for, and that's cool. 587 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: I think it's cool because that's what I'm known for. 588 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: Just work. That's all you do. Which but for me, 589 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: like I I see the effort and I go, man, 590 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: like a lot of respect. You grind, grind, you grind, 591 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: and I say this as respectful as possible, Like you 592 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: grind hard and then you post picture your girlfriends but 593 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: on Instagram, Hey, it's too that in eighteen I mean 594 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: that in all sincerity, Like you you know from one 595 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: guy who just grinds it out. I think you grind 596 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: with more talent than I have. But you grind it, man, 597 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: You you go hard, and that's what everybody. That's the story. 598 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: People love you and they go, man, we just root 599 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: for him because he works so hard. He's one of 600 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: these guys that doesn't take anything for granted and and 601 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: you know, puts it all out there. I try not 602 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: to have to mean, you know, it's kind of like 603 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: what you see is what you get. And from Instagram, 604 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: two songs and to working hard, it's it's all about 605 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,239 Speaker 1: how I was raised and and things that Joel, you know. 606 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: And I think the more honest you people, more honest 607 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 1: you are with fans these days, with social media and everything, 608 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: is the more that you're gonna they're gonna know that, 609 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: like this guy is real. I mean this, you know, 610 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: I love like in summer was funny about the whole 611 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: but thing I was like, by the way John posted 612 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: a picture of his we we all both broke the Internet. 613 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: I was scrolling through my pictures, right, I mean, I'm hitting, 614 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 1: I'm scrolling and I see like a thong. But and 615 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, what one of my friends because I don't 616 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: follow anything about accounts, and I was like, what's my 617 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: friends post? I was like jump posting a picture of 618 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: his girlfriends and I was like, holy crap, that's John's 619 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: girlfriend's butt, Like right up, on the camera. So she's 620 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: laying uh tanning in a bikini. Yeah, and do you say, hey, 621 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: m I take a picture of your butt posting online 622 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: And I was like, hey, it's cool if I posted. 623 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, we had a little bit of vodka 624 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: at the time. But it's all right, we're a day off, 625 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: We're we're just chilling at the pool. I mean, that's 626 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: not my fault that the new high cup bait bikinis 627 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: are so in style. I mean, you didn't make the bikini, don't. 628 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: You don't set the trends. I'm not setting the trends. 629 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: You did. So the internet starts to go all the heads. 630 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: Do you get any text from your buddies or anybody 631 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: at the label going what are you doing post some 632 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: butts on your Instagram? No, actually got a lot of 633 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: likes people and from everywhere managing in the only thing 634 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: my manager was like, well, don't comment back. You know, 635 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: I'm I'm like whatever, I was just messing with people. 636 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: But you know, there's there, you know, regardless of what 637 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: you're gonna do, there's always gonna be some negativity. But 638 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: there was there was a lot of like it's somewhere 639 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: we go through the commas, and our favorite was which 640 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: my husband Pop pitched from my butt on Instagram. Right, 641 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: and obviously you know I got a girl. I got 642 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: a girlfriend. Now she's got a great butt. Like here 643 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: it is, I'm not lying, right, you're being honest, honest 644 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: with the people. How's that going? By the way's their girlfriend? 645 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: She's great? I mean it's it's the first time that 646 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: you realize you you found somebody great. Oh yeah, yeah, 647 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: it's a tough that's a tough thing for a man 648 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: to be, Like, I could be good when you when 649 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: you're so used to being bad. But I've been super 650 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: respectful to her, and we we don't fight, and we 651 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: do everything together and we talk about things. That's a 652 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: big thing to talk about things, to talk about things, 653 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: and it's never on a high level. It's always on 654 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: a very even even and like calm because she's so calm, 655 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: and uh, it's been an eye opener for me. So 656 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: we have fun and we live it to the fullest. 657 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: And and you know, we we'd like to. We don't 658 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: argue about things. Were like the same things. We're both 659 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: from California and out west. You know, it's just it's 660 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: a whole different kind of thing out there, and but 661 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: I love the South too, so it's kind of like 662 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: I said, I grew up here too, so there's both 663 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: both worlds. You know. It's funny about northern California because 664 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: I spend a good amount of time. I might actually 665 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: wanta te This weekend, I'm doing two comedy shows, one 666 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: in Sacramento, one in Bakersfield, and so I spend a 667 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: good amount of time nor the California. But it's probably 668 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: the closest thing to the South in form of people. 669 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: The people are very similar, and I think that's why 670 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: that I have embraced them and they have embraced me 671 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: so much because the sensibilities are very similar. They love 672 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: country too, they love country music, but they're they're real people, 673 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: and the southern California is tough for me. I'm not 674 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: a big Los Angeles guy. Everything feels a little plastic 675 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: to me. It's a good place to visit. The weather 676 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: is good, and I get I also get carsick, like bait. Yeah, 677 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: I like Northern California though, like the people, there's some 678 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: hospitality there. Maybe maybe that's what it is. Everybody's just 679 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: so aspitable it They're really hard workers out there. And 680 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: and most of my my my friends and the towns 681 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: that you know, my mom lives and sheets from Winners, 682 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: my dad's from Dixon is two small towns and right 683 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 1: next to each other. Most of all my friends got 684 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: a jobs and they're working hard, and and they're struggling 685 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: just to find a house because real estate is so 686 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,919 Speaker 1: higher out there, and and it's just but they're still 687 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 1: working and they work hard, and they chase their dreams. 688 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: And I feel like like any you know that blue 689 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 1: collar red neck you know, not even you don't have 690 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: to be ready to work at a bank. I don't know, 691 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: it's still like in all involved in that area is 692 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: it's like let's you know, go get it, you know. 693 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: And I feel like the South is a lot like 694 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: that too, and and there's nice people and and uh 695 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: the only thing with Nashville now is it's like you 696 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: gets spoiled here with food. So care food. Yeah it's 697 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 1: too good a food. You go back, you go back home. 698 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,879 Speaker 1: I was like, where are we going? Babble Bees? Like 699 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: you know, but there's and great, that's some great little restaurants. 700 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: Said I go to back home to you and what 701 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying, but it's funny because back in the day 702 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: when I moved in Nashville was like the Longhorn Roots 703 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,319 Speaker 1: Chris was we were going out, you know, that was 704 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: we were going there. Wasn't you know Caine Priyan or 705 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 1: Jeff Rubies or like all these like independent restaurants and stuff. 706 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,759 Speaker 1: So I don't know how I'm talking about restaurants, but 707 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: I used to go to a place called Bonanza and 708 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: um Hot Springs, Arkansas. That was town from Mountain Pine, 709 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: seven hundred people. We had to go to town to 710 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: get town stuff like Walmart and Bonanza. It's got a 711 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: place called Bonanza. And the art of the salad bar, 712 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: I feel has been lost a bit lately. At nice restaurants, 713 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,839 Speaker 1: they had the greatest salad bar. I crush a sala bar. Hey, 714 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: when I moved to Nashville, if you would have asked me, 715 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: what what's your idea of a great night and a 716 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: great restaurant all garden all day, I just still me 717 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: too super well. I think my car got busted into 718 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: Memphis Alive Garden like eight months ago, but I stopped 719 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 1: All Garden. I wanted it so bad. The super and salad, 720 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: the bread rolls, everything is good at Aden I think too, 721 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:09,239 Speaker 1: the thing birthday dinner at all. I think the things 722 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: that we liked and that we found were special when 723 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: we were growing up are still special to us. For example, 724 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it's simple stuff, you know, but it was great, 725 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 1: uh red lobster to me once a year my family, 726 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 1: you know, poor family. We we went to town have 727 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: one dinner a year, and it was a red lobster 728 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,480 Speaker 1: every year. And because of that, I still drop out 729 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 1: red Lobster and go. I love that place just because 730 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 1: of that. That was That's a special place for me, 731 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: and so I still go. But I think samething with 732 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 1: Alive Garden, like, I really don't even know how good 733 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: Alive Garden is anymore because I still go and I 734 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 1: just enjoy it because what it used to tastes like 735 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's good anymore. 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Um, I feel like I 765 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: knew everything about you already. I'm stalker, a big John 766 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,799 Speaker 1: Party fan. Yeah, but I know you got stabbed uh 767 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,680 Speaker 1: in the belly? Yeah five times? Oh, I didn't see. 768 00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: I didn't even know it's five times. So you're you're 769 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 1: You're like a bar No. I was eighteen, so the 770 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,720 Speaker 1: the first two are just slices on the arm. But okay, 771 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,240 Speaker 1: so where were you. I was out in the country 772 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 1: and I was at my one of my best friends, 773 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,959 Speaker 1: and we were two towns that we're not rivals, which 774 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,240 Speaker 1: just you know, you always kind of have bad kids 775 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,400 Speaker 1: in in your town. Man, there's always the guys that 776 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 1: always get in trouble or fight, you know, and Uh 777 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,760 Speaker 1: in this town and I won't name towns or anything. Um, 778 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,879 Speaker 1: he got jumped by my hometown by guys I didn't 779 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,719 Speaker 1: even know. But he found out that I was from 780 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: my hometown. And you know, we had a great time 781 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 1: at this party. I met a bunch of new people 782 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: and we were high. You know. I was nice to 783 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: meet you. We gotta go. We're leaving, and uh, he 784 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,879 Speaker 1: was waiting outside for me, and he was like having 785 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 1: me pinned out. And I was walking back to the 786 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,279 Speaker 1: to the car and he came up and asked me 787 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: where I was from, and I told where I was from. 788 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 1: I said, yes, you know, and he popped me in 789 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: the mouth, knocked me down, yeah, busting my lip. I 790 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 1: got back up and I started, you know, I started 791 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: fighting him, you know. And it wasn't he said, he 792 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: got scared and pulled a knife out, but he started 793 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 1: to fight, you know, and and uh, I ended up 794 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: with losing that fight. You know. He you know, he's 795 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,840 Speaker 1: just swinging. You know, I'm not like a trained karate 796 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,160 Speaker 1: man or something. You know, I was just swinging. I 797 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,880 Speaker 1: just it's you know, that adrenaline at eighteens like ah. 798 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: And then I didn't even know I got stabbed, and 799 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: um my buddy came and broke up the fight and 800 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 1: pushed me back in his hands full of blood. And 801 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,080 Speaker 1: then that was like the beginning of the ride to 802 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,440 Speaker 1: the hospital. So what happens. So we're in the country 803 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,320 Speaker 1: and my my, my buddy, he's now firefire to paramedic. 804 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: But he was always trying to be a firefighter paramedics. 805 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,920 Speaker 1: So he's like, I'll drive. We're going to hospital. So 806 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,840 Speaker 1: he's like he knew the back roads. So we're like 807 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 1: screaming down his back roads. Girls are screaming and crying, 808 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: calling nurses, and like the nurse through the phone was like, 809 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, compressing the wounds. Took my shirt off, blood everywhere. 810 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,400 Speaker 1: You got to have a part of your belly. Leven, 811 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: it's eleven inches across the center. Oh, he stuck it 812 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: and then went across and I got to right on 813 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,440 Speaker 1: the left side. Wow, so you're bleeding pretty hard. Yeah. No, 814 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: we were bleeding and we were bleeding. Um. The first 815 00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 1: hospital we stopped at didn't have emergency room. It was 816 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,399 Speaker 1: like an animal hospital I at the time, they didn't 817 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: have emergency room. So we had to drive I don't know, 818 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 1: fifteen miles to U C. Davis and we got there 819 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,279 Speaker 1: and they didn't even know what do mean that? Like 820 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,040 Speaker 1: there's not ever a feeling you want to go through 821 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,800 Speaker 1: when you're like going into like the sports e er 822 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: and like just a guy in the football paths like 823 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: busted arm and like you know, hold hold. It was 824 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: just kind of very calm injuries and where I busted 825 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: to the door, like you know, like he's dad. It's 826 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 1: just blood everywhere. Like I couldn't imagine being in a 827 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: lobby and like, oh my god, this guy comes in here. 828 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:30,920 Speaker 1: There's blood everywhere. Um. And so they kind of did 829 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,560 Speaker 1: some tests on me, like for visual and like asking 830 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 1: me like you know, they wanted me to pee and 831 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 1: try to see if there's blood in the ear and 832 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,080 Speaker 1: the kind of see if they caught any into an 833 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: organs and I couldn't pee. I she was kind of 834 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:51,239 Speaker 1: cute nurse and was like She's just sitting there like 835 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 1: pee and I'm like I can't pee right now, Like 836 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,880 Speaker 1: stop it stop, I'll be fine. Uh. And so they 837 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,319 Speaker 1: sent me off Sacramento and ambulance and man, I was 838 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,279 Speaker 1: it's and then you know, going from that like kind 839 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 1: of sports and you're not saying that they always get 840 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,319 Speaker 1: anybody will get bad things in the art, but when 841 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,719 Speaker 1: you got to a big city like Sacramento, man, there 842 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,200 Speaker 1: was it was people were shot. One girls to the 843 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: side of me got chopped up by a bulb appeller. 844 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:23,279 Speaker 1: One girls just grabs the curtain says how back. How man? 845 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 1: It was like literally like I said't I was in 846 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,320 Speaker 1: like this is where it goes down, like what you 847 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 1: see on you know, drama hospital movie or you know 848 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:36,640 Speaker 1: television shows, and uh and the doctor was like, oh, Victor, 849 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 1: you know, and he like put his glove on, put 850 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,400 Speaker 1: like put his fingers inside of my wounds and and 851 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,319 Speaker 1: just kind of felt muscle. You knew you could like 852 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: fill any my organs, and uh, they stitched me up. 853 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,360 Speaker 1: And then the next day I was out and I 854 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,359 Speaker 1: had to have a nurse come to the house and 855 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,680 Speaker 1: pack my We stitched him an inch apart so we'd 856 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 1: pack alcohol gauze down in the wound so it grew 857 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: from the bottom up, so you know, you didn't just 858 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,239 Speaker 1: have a big hole inside your your stomach. So we 859 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 1: had to pack wounds for I don't know. It was 860 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,360 Speaker 1: a long time ago, but would you ever do that 861 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,879 Speaker 1: dude to get whatever happened to that dude? Um, they jump, 862 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 1: he's still happening in town. They're still pay half on 863 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: each other. Everyone. Um, you know he uh he got 864 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,239 Speaker 1: away with he has a phony and he got away with. 865 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,760 Speaker 1: Um I saw it with that weaplin a deadly weapon. 866 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:38,360 Speaker 1: And uh, two years later, you know, I was I 867 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,759 Speaker 1: needed some money, and there was some he he got 868 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,920 Speaker 1: a job and he offered to pay the restitution, and 869 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:50,840 Speaker 1: uh and all realness, like he looked at me like 870 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,759 Speaker 1: he messed up, Like that's I didn't talk to him, 871 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 1: but you know, it was just kind of that moment 872 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,759 Speaker 1: because I'm like, you know, we're all young, you know. 873 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,200 Speaker 1: I I'm just thankful to be alive basically and not 874 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,000 Speaker 1: peeing out of a bag for the rest of my life, 875 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, because there was there was that option, and uh, 876 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 1: I don't know that's what what's that option? I don't know. Well, 877 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,600 Speaker 1: you guys terrible. You get cut cut right, you know, 878 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: and your your center and your all your organs. I 879 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,279 Speaker 1: don't know that that's that's that's what somebody told me. 880 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,400 Speaker 1: But that may not even be true. But regardless, I survived. 881 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,680 Speaker 1: I didn't die. Nothing really bad happened. I got big 882 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,719 Speaker 1: scars across my stomach um, and I was, you know, 883 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 1: I was getting ready to moving Nashville. You know that 884 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,920 Speaker 1: that would help out with the whole move, you know. 885 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,080 Speaker 1: And uh, he paid me like I don't know, eight 886 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,520 Speaker 1: or nine grand and and uh I got to keep it, 887 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,720 Speaker 1: and he got he got a little life of a felony, 888 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:46,120 Speaker 1: which isn't easy and um, but I didn't you know 889 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,920 Speaker 1: it was No. I think we both moved on and 890 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,359 Speaker 1: he's looking for better things, you know. In that guy's 891 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,759 Speaker 1: name at Dirk S. Bentley and that's how I met 892 00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,680 Speaker 1: Dirk's Bentley And that's the rest of the story. But yeah, 893 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,440 Speaker 1: you know, and how about that? That's crazy, huh. It happens. 894 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,600 Speaker 1: Happens to a lot of people around around the world, 895 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: you know, and you always think, man, never happened to me, 896 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,759 Speaker 1: but it sneaks up on you. So what are you 897 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,280 Speaker 1: doing right now in musical are you? Are you creating music? 898 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: I know you're writing, like, well, what happens right now? 899 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:20,520 Speaker 1: You know, you have the last single on the record 900 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,120 Speaker 1: that's on the radio now, and you're looking forward to 901 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,160 Speaker 1: a new record next year. You have some songs already recorded, 902 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,759 Speaker 1: you have worked out, like where are you now in 903 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,160 Speaker 1: the process of eight teen songs recorded? Well, you recorded 904 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,960 Speaker 1: like fully, fully full studio recorded. If you wanted to, 905 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,000 Speaker 1: you could put that album this week if I wanted to, know, 906 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,480 Speaker 1: I had to sing vocals, and it's been hard with 907 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,600 Speaker 1: touring and analogies and flaming and stuff. So they're all tracked, 908 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,040 Speaker 1: so they all this music, all the songs are down, 909 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,000 Speaker 1: the musicians recorded that, you just haven't sang on them yet. 910 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: But we're you know, we're gonna have to windle them down. 911 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,240 Speaker 1: We're still still writing, you know, still you know, looking 912 00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,920 Speaker 1: still kind of trying to see what the next movie is. 913 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,560 Speaker 1: But we're taking our time because we have time and 914 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,399 Speaker 1: there's no need the rush. That we don't need the rush, 915 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,480 Speaker 1: but our goals to get you know, at all kind 916 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,000 Speaker 1: of figured out by January Favruary. That way we get, 917 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,400 Speaker 1: we turn it into the label and like, hey, we 918 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,719 Speaker 1: really could use like a June you know, release state 919 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,000 Speaker 1: and kind of say like we're ready, Danny good or not. 920 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,439 Speaker 1: They're great, Yeah, they're great. Feel good about him? It's yeah, 921 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,000 Speaker 1: I mean I feel it's guy. You know, it's it's 922 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,279 Speaker 1: it's a little more countrier, but if it's upbeat, and 923 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 1: and that's the thing it's it's it's still the same, 924 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,480 Speaker 1: but it's it's just a little country. What are people 925 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,960 Speaker 1: gonna say when they hear the record? We're like, oh, 926 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,200 Speaker 1: this new John Party album. We'll just call it right now, 927 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,879 Speaker 1: John Party's Birthday, This new John Party Birthday album. It's 928 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 1: it's blank. Whenever they finally get to hear the new stuff, 929 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 1: they're gonna say, wait, it's blank. They're gonna say it's 930 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:58,680 Speaker 1: fun in his country is different. Um. I feel like 931 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,719 Speaker 1: as an artist like John Mayor just pulled. She just 932 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,480 Speaker 1: posted something about songwrite it was great, you know, and 933 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:06,839 Speaker 1: well I was reading it two or before we came 934 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,280 Speaker 1: with me. Read it was great, and it was talking 935 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,319 Speaker 1: about doing your own thing and being you because that's 936 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,279 Speaker 1: what people want to remember you for. It was something 937 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,320 Speaker 1: that I don't know. Yeah, it was a reminder that 938 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,800 Speaker 1: he posted to himself. It says songwriting reminders to myself. 939 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,520 Speaker 1: This is from John Mayer's Instagram. Be brave. You're not 940 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,040 Speaker 1: here to line up behind what's cool. You're here to 941 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,600 Speaker 1: share what you truly love, even if people aren't into 942 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,200 Speaker 1: it at the moment. Walk alone and gather a line 943 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:38,560 Speaker 1: behind you. That's pretty cool, he said. Seeing real words, 944 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: even if they're nonsense, they usually hold subconscious truths. Number three, 945 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,560 Speaker 1: write lyrics and total silence for at least twenty minutes 946 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,840 Speaker 1: a day. If you're cool, your beats are cool. Everyone 947 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,759 Speaker 1: is beat shy. I felt like he has some real 948 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,600 Speaker 1: I think the rhythm on your California Sunrise super strong. 949 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,920 Speaker 1: There's lots of rhythm on next, a lot more so. 950 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,920 Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people would have expected 951 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,759 Speaker 1: of a John Party record. I think all about grooving. Yeah, 952 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,400 Speaker 1: it's it's gotta groove I love. I mean, I can 953 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,960 Speaker 1: play the drums. I'm not good, but you know I 954 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,879 Speaker 1: still feel like that in your drummer. Whenever you get 955 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,880 Speaker 1: a good beat by a great drummer, you're like lip 956 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,719 Speaker 1: rises up and you want to go yeah, you know, 957 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,600 Speaker 1: like um, but this when I saw this today, all 958 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:30,080 Speaker 1: you know, all my kind of like, you know, it's 959 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:36,000 Speaker 1: hard being traditional, but this record is is upbeat in 960 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,399 Speaker 1: it and it it's in a different like. It goes 961 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,680 Speaker 1: to number one on John Mayer's Instagram. Be brave. You're 962 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,080 Speaker 1: not here to line up behind what's cool. Here to 963 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,759 Speaker 1: share what you truly love, even if people aren't into 964 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,839 Speaker 1: it at the moment, walk alone and gather a line 965 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,320 Speaker 1: behind you. When I read that, I was like I 966 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,680 Speaker 1: needed that, thanks brother, John. Yeah, isn't it too. Whenever 967 00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,719 Speaker 1: you have like minded people. I find this with one 968 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,280 Speaker 1: of my one of my friends who does radio and television, 969 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,719 Speaker 1: that whenever you share your insecurities and even we'll call 970 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,400 Speaker 1: them problems with what you do that they often relate 971 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,640 Speaker 1: and you go, oh, I'm not alone, like I would 972 00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,160 Speaker 1: like that. Walk alone and gather a line behind you. 973 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:15,680 Speaker 1: I would got I would have to think someone like 974 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,279 Speaker 1: you who you definitely have your own style. At times 975 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,919 Speaker 1: you gonna like, boy, this is it's kind of risk. 976 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,279 Speaker 1: But walk alone and gather a line behind you, which 977 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:24,880 Speaker 1: John Merrod, I would think you would relate to that 978 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,320 Speaker 1: a bit. Yeah, and and and this records you know 979 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,000 Speaker 1: it's more country. But we're never not thinking about being 980 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,680 Speaker 1: played on the radio, like there's something you know, like there, 981 00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,160 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do my own thing. You know, I 982 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,319 Speaker 1: don't need radio blah blah like they I've just heard 983 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,000 Speaker 1: that too many times. It's like, no, my dream was 984 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,480 Speaker 1: always be played on the radio. But I have to 985 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,320 Speaker 1: be me, you know, I have to you kind of 986 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,800 Speaker 1: have to meet that best of both worlds where he's like, 987 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,520 Speaker 1: this is it. This is the one that that I 988 00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,120 Speaker 1: want to hear on the radio. Who do you call 989 00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,920 Speaker 1: if you're like, man, I'm struggling artist wise, you're are 990 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,200 Speaker 1: just man, let me let me ask you some advice. 991 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,560 Speaker 1: Who what artists would you call that's kind of taking 992 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,680 Speaker 1: you under the wing or you've grown up with in 993 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,640 Speaker 1: Nashville where you could actually lean on them for advice. Um, 994 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:17,040 Speaker 1: Dirk Spiley, Luke Bryan. I mean, Thomas Rhett's really great 995 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,960 Speaker 1: because you know, he's he's a guy that that figured 996 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,279 Speaker 1: you know, he had started out with like that kind 997 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,239 Speaker 1: of redneck rock and stuff and then he kind of 998 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,640 Speaker 1: changed this whole world into this whole kind of almost 999 00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,600 Speaker 1: j T a little bit, but you know, and he's 1000 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,840 Speaker 1: doing great, but like he's still a huge fan of 1001 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,400 Speaker 1: my music. And like we wrote together and we just 1002 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,080 Speaker 1: kind of hung out and try to write a song. 1003 00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: We got a verse into course and and we just 1004 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,760 Speaker 1: kind of talked about where we were, you know, because 1005 00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,240 Speaker 1: me and Tomas went way back. We played acoustic together, 1006 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,680 Speaker 1: both had long hair, and uh it. You know, it's 1007 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,000 Speaker 1: just those moments that are like our release, you know, 1008 00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,520 Speaker 1: and I haven't really you know, I've had great a 1009 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,640 Speaker 1: lot of my label I'll ask for advice from and 1010 00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,080 Speaker 1: of course Dirks and Luke and everybody, but um, I 1011 00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:04,680 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time just figured it out, you know, 1012 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,000 Speaker 1: and then Instagram stuff like that's my favorite, Like when 1013 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,840 Speaker 1: I when it was really awesome. And actually Jared Jared Johnson, 1014 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,320 Speaker 1: he's he. I followed John and Jared he posts he 1015 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:16,960 Speaker 1: reposted it and I started really, I was like, oh 1016 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,840 Speaker 1: my god, this is great. And um so there's a 1017 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,840 Speaker 1: lot of things that you kind of remember and I 1018 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,400 Speaker 1: think that that post is something that thing will always 1019 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,319 Speaker 1: kind of be burned in my brains. Vulnerable Luke. Luke 1020 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,920 Speaker 1: told me a great line back in the day, and 1021 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,880 Speaker 1: it was right when some some didn't work out and 1022 00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,600 Speaker 1: and he told me, the longer it takes more time 1023 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,120 Speaker 1: you get to figure it out. I was like that, 1024 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,840 Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good, you know, and I kind of 1025 00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,319 Speaker 1: kept that with me and figured it out. That's another 1026 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,640 Speaker 1: guy too, who is as country as could possibly be. 1027 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,280 Speaker 1: He had is able to do some really progressive stuff 1028 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,040 Speaker 1: and nobody really questions how country is and they showed 1029 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,160 Speaker 1: it because he is. Yeah, you know, he's able to 1030 00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,160 Speaker 1: really be on both sides of it like he is 1031 00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,000 Speaker 1: who he is. Uh yeah, I mean that's I see 1032 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,479 Speaker 1: a lot of you and that. I mean he's hutting, 1033 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,960 Speaker 1: fishing them and every day man and that. But that's Luke, 1034 00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:11,319 Speaker 1: that is he and he's always fishing, he's always doing 1035 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,560 Speaker 1: something on tour and he's working. He's a workaholic too. 1036 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,640 Speaker 1: I mean he he has to work. He's so mean. 1037 00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:23,480 Speaker 1: Fifty six million dollars last year. He's doing good. I 1038 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,719 Speaker 1: spent a much time in Luke. Ain't no different look 1039 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,239 Speaker 1: now than was three years ago. Still goes the fly 1040 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:34,000 Speaker 1: rods and and fishing trips. Look at that. I don't 1041 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,000 Speaker 1: even know. I don't even know. It's it's fun to 1042 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,960 Speaker 1: watch you kind of you know, take take control of 1043 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,680 Speaker 1: this thing. And you never really have control. But like 1044 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,480 Speaker 1: you're freaking John Party now. And I met you. You 1045 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,680 Speaker 1: were John Party. This is other people. You've always been you, 1046 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,680 Speaker 1: but now you're walking around people like freaking John Party. 1047 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,800 Speaker 1: That's cool, man, It's cool. Yeah, I love it. I 1048 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,000 Speaker 1: just respect what you do. Mom was looking for the 1049 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,200 Speaker 1: next move and and and it is have been stressful. 1050 00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,560 Speaker 1: It has been stressful just with time being on tour, 1051 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,280 Speaker 1: not having new new music to play and and having 1052 00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of songs and not being done with that 1053 00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,080 Speaker 1: batch to really start carving in your your final track 1054 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,839 Speaker 1: list and so we're not there yet and that that's 1055 00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,520 Speaker 1: it's very stressful. But this week, you know, painting the deck, 1056 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,040 Speaker 1: organizing the tools, getting the pressure wash your route, mowing 1057 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,919 Speaker 1: the lawns, and just kind of doing that. It's really 1058 00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,959 Speaker 1: just kind of really helped. And and and the reason 1059 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,000 Speaker 1: I kind of just give that advice to anybody is 1060 00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:32,719 Speaker 1: like I picked up the guitar to day and I 1061 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,040 Speaker 1: had that feeling of like, man, I missed just playing 1062 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,080 Speaker 1: the guitar by myself, you know, and just and sometimes 1063 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,279 Speaker 1: you lose that when you pick it up every night 1064 00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,560 Speaker 1: and you you get in your singior songs every night, 1065 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,279 Speaker 1: and you come back and you're tired and you gotta 1066 00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,640 Speaker 1: do it all over again. So it's really good to 1067 00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,280 Speaker 1: put it down and just remember that that's a special 1068 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,520 Speaker 1: bond that you have with that guitar and songwriting, and 1069 00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,239 Speaker 1: that's that's that magic that I felt it in the 1070 00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,839 Speaker 1: day and it was awesome, Like at as we've done 1071 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:06,200 Speaker 1: an hour, it's in here talking. It's very selful. That 1072 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,600 Speaker 1: was a solful hour because how we ended on such 1073 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:15,040 Speaker 1: a poignant note, poignant party. Hey, I can I can 1074 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,120 Speaker 1: get down. I can get down. I have no doubt. 1075 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,839 Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to do some self healing and talk 1076 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,840 Speaker 1: about things. And I feel like, yeah, you know, Summers, 1077 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,400 Speaker 1: another person that taught me, like we really have to 1078 00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:32,040 Speaker 1: talk about things because uh, you know, going from being 1079 00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,960 Speaker 1: single maniac single artists too, you know, trying to make 1080 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,279 Speaker 1: things work. You know, it's honesty and talking about things. 1081 00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,359 Speaker 1: And she's she's really showed me a lot. So that's 1082 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,800 Speaker 1: good man. You know she'll be listening. Look at you, 1083 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,080 Speaker 1: look at your self healing. I did something I went 1084 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,000 Speaker 1: to on site. You know that place you ever heard of? 1085 00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:52,680 Speaker 1: That place like a little therapy camp self field, self field. Yeah, 1086 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,040 Speaker 1: they don't let them. I'll let yourself love though they 1087 00:54:55,080 --> 00:55:00,759 Speaker 1: have to get the rules walked out six ft dollar film. Yeah, 1088 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,040 Speaker 1: I did feel good four days. I didn't know writing, 1089 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,040 Speaker 1: no anything. I just went and do like therapy. But 1090 00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:07,359 Speaker 1: it was the same thing. It was like I didn't 1091 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,319 Speaker 1: write anything while I was there. I have a phone 1092 00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 1: that took my phone, took my computer, no TV. And 1093 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:13,320 Speaker 1: so you do all this and you go back like, 1094 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,600 Speaker 1: oh man, I forget how much actually enjoy like creating things. 1095 00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,959 Speaker 1: It's a good good break. Well, listen to my friend. 1096 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,640 Speaker 1: I can't wait to you know, we'll do this again 1097 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,200 Speaker 1: whenever you got some new stuff at night shift. Now 1098 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:24,680 Speaker 1: I'm here a little more this night shift. One of 1099 00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,759 Speaker 1: my friends, co writer of the song tofer. Yeah, he's 1100 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,640 Speaker 1: proud of this. I love the song. It's a great song. 1101 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,239 Speaker 1: Jam We're getting ray shoot the music video. Are you 1102 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:43,120 Speaker 1: at Night? At Night Downtown nash alright, had John Party Picks. 1103 00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,839 Speaker 1: That's is that the name at John Party Picks? John 1104 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,200 Speaker 1: p I c s like John Party Pictures? Is that 1105 00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:51,120 Speaker 1: what the inspiration? Yeah? I should I should change that. 1106 00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,879 Speaker 1: But at the time I thought it was cool. Yeah, 1107 00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,520 Speaker 1: you know, being new to Instagram, who like that? It 1108 00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,239 Speaker 1: was like when Instagram kind of first started. Who knew 1109 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,239 Speaker 1: what was gonna be like? But it was fun. And 1110 00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:04,879 Speaker 1: I don't know who need to be posting the thong, 1111 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:08,520 Speaker 1: but hey, there is so much booty on Instagram that 1112 00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,359 Speaker 1: that should not be an issue. All right, John Party, 1113 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:17,320 Speaker 1: good to see my friend. Alright, everybody, everybody, no, no, 1114 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,600 Speaker 1: this only record this. Let's go it back myself, no 1115 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,040 Speaker 1: one else, Here's this just me. Hey, I've I've had 1116 00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:26,800 Speaker 1: a lot of friends and people in the business truly 1117 00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,680 Speaker 1: say that they really enjoy your podcast. I was excited too. 1118 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,279 Speaker 1: I forgot because I was working. I forgot to text 1119 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,680 Speaker 1: you that I was excited about coming over here. But 1120 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,239 Speaker 1: I was I was covering in brown paint. All right, 1121 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,799 Speaker 1: I want thank you very much. We'll see you next time.