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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to the Bobby Cast. A bit of

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Speaker 1: a different episode this week. Today we're highlighting one of

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Speaker 1: our favorite people in country music, Craig Morgan. I just

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Speaker 1: Opery and he had been working out on like the

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Speaker 1: done so much, you know, he stopped by the Bobby Cast,

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Speaker 1: he stopped by the radio show, and he had such

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Speaker 1: an unexpected career in country music after going from the

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Speaker 1: military to being an artist. So I wanted to actually,

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Speaker 1: after spending a little time with him, make this into

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Speaker 1: an episode, and if I'm being completely honest, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: air it in a few weeks. But I got very

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Speaker 1: sick this week and had to cancel two different Bobby

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Speaker 1: Cast that I think you're gonna like real soon, So

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Speaker 1: this was coming at you anyway. I'm super pumped that

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Speaker 1: Mike d was so prepared that he had this ready

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Speaker 1: to go. Mked A nice job for you, buddy. You

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Speaker 1: get five stars today, and we hope people rate this

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Speaker 1: five stars. As well. So I hope you like this

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Speaker 1: the Craig Morgan Special. It's a lot of really cool

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Speaker 1: stuff put together so you can kind of get the

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Speaker 1: full picture of one of our favorite people, Craig Morgan.

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Speaker 1: So here you go, the Bobby Cast Special with Craig Morgan.

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

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

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Speaker 1: I would I would be scared because it looks like

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Speaker 1: that like about four guys about to start peeling out

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Speaker 1: of the back to fix a problem. That that's a

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Speaker 1: jeep you drive somewhere when something to fix a problem,

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Speaker 1: or unless you're sitting in a ditch, then you're happy

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Speaker 1: to see me and pull. I would agree with unless

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Speaker 1: you have the problem. It's getting fixed. If you're the

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Speaker 1: problem getting fixed, it's a great vehicle to see. If

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Speaker 1: and those guys. Is that a truck that you did

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

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Speaker 1: We did a few special things. Man, it's awesome. Like

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Speaker 1: I was jealous. I saw it, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: I could pull off like a big man, even when

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Speaker 1: you pulled up, even you pulled up to the gate. Here, Mike,

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Speaker 1: you know, the camera looks out and I was looking

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Speaker 1: over some notes for this here and it goes a

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Speaker 1: little note and I hit it and it's Craig. But

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Speaker 1: you don't see him because it's so tall. You literally

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Speaker 1: just see a black door. It's like Bobby, and I guess,

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Speaker 1: so you are, okay, let me let you know whatever.

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Speaker 1: My wife can't hardly stand it, though, she says, actually

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Speaker 1: she calls it the wobbly shopping cart. I was like

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Speaker 1: but I've driven wobbly shopping carts. So yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: I was coming over here a minute ago and I

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Speaker 1: told Caitlin, who you met my fiance? I was like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm going over to see Kreig by the way, Yeah,

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: these songs. In fact, yes, she said if he's still

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Speaker 1: definitely get that. But I told us that I think

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Speaker 1: he was joking. Oh no, I really did a shirt

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Speaker 1: the on the front, it's got my picture? I think?

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Speaker 1: mean I'm on the back and has list of all

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Speaker 1: the hits, well not all of but this is early on,

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

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people knew the music, but

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

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

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Speaker 1: So I remember, I remember when you said that I

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Speaker 1: And then because you followed it up with a future

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Speaker 1: was like four or five hits into it. Um. I mean,

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Speaker 1: And that's that was kind of what changed that So Um,

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

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Speaker 1: I've been very fortunate to have hits over the years,

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Speaker 1: label after label um, but but I also managed to

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Almost Home was my favorite song, always

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Speaker 1: and you know, but still to this day, we still

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Speaker 1: This is not my whole life. My whole life don't

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Speaker 1: revolve around singing country music. I love singing and writing music.

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Speaker 1: I love it and I love country music with everything

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Speaker 1: fiber that's in me. But I also love riding dirt bikes.

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Speaker 1: working with law enforcement. These are things that I do

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to continue to do. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to not do those things in order to make

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Speaker 1: So they you know, it's it's tough. It's tough for them,

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Speaker 1: and I respect that. I understand it, but I don't care.

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Speaker 1: It's I'm not gonna stop being who I am in

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Speaker 1: order that I might become more famous, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Did they ever try to make you a

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Speaker 1: hat act? Oh? Yeah, I got pictures of me in

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Speaker 1: the cowboy hat? Was that because they said, hey, we

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Speaker 1: sometimes I wear one? Uh? It was a little bit

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Speaker 1: It ain't really a cowboy hat because I ain't no cowboy.

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Speaker 1: But it's a western hat that I use on the farm.

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Speaker 1: If I'm on my tractor, sometimes I'll wear it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it's dirty and nasty, but okay, well what if

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Speaker 1: on my phone I'm like, oh, that's a great idea.

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00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,639
Speaker 1: So I remember writing it down and thinking about it,

427
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,639
Speaker 1: and I come back, had a writing session with Carrie

428
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 1: and I told Carry the idea and we started writing

429
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 1: on it. And three months. It literally took a long

430
00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:39,960
Speaker 1: time because I was going in and out of town

431
00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 1: so much, but every time I would come in and

432
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,800
Speaker 1: we would write, we would write on it. And I

433
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,399
Speaker 1: was coming. I was going over there one day and

434
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,200
Speaker 1: I've seen an old guy on the side of the road.

435
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,600
Speaker 1: Then they're holding up a sign literally was holding up

436
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,879
Speaker 1: a sign that uh, a lady was holding up to

437
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,159
Speaker 1: some force, a pregnant need food something like that, and

438
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,680
Speaker 1: he had marked out pregnant need food. And I told

439
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 1: Carry and I said, I've seen s guy I would

440
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,560
Speaker 1: to sign And I said that guy was almost home,

441
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 1: and Carry said, stop the boat. And we finished that song.

442
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,680
Speaker 1: It was it took that long and that actual thing

443
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:15,480
Speaker 1: happening in the situation. Okay, so the song is written,

444
00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 1: but now you gotta decide what you're gonna cut. So

445
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,520
Speaker 1: here's the favorite thing about this song from me, for

446
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 1: of all the stories of any song I've written there yet,

447
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,520
Speaker 1: we've had. I was leaving the session and I felt

448
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,639
Speaker 1: really good about this song and I'm just kind of

449
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,439
Speaker 1: singing it to myself. When we did a work tape,

450
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,520
Speaker 1: uh and you know then I think it was a cassette,

451
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 1: And so I had the cassette tape, I had a jeep,

452
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,919
Speaker 1: I had an O wrangler, and I was playing it

453
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 1: back and forth and going down the highway and Phil

454
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,159
Speaker 1: o'donn'll phil Billy called me and he goes, hey, how

455
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,359
Speaker 1: did it go with carry? And I said, man, we

456
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 1: finished the song, and he said, well, tell me about it.

457
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,160
Speaker 1: So I read him the verse, read him, didn't sing

458
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,640
Speaker 1: it to him. I read normality, reality, spoken word, the verse,

459
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,159
Speaker 1: and the course, and he said, well, how does it going?

460
00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,200
Speaker 1: Has it? You know? I just climbed out of the

461
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:06,159
Speaker 1: Godden three. I was running from some honeyy and I

462
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 1: kind of sang a little bit of the melony, a

463
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,199
Speaker 1: little different than what I ended up with. And he goes, hey,

464
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 1: let's hear. He goes, you know that forty acres that

465
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 1: I have that you've been wanting over Hickman County. I

466
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,440
Speaker 1: said yea. He said, I'll give you that forty acres

467
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: for half of your publishing. I'm not making any of

468
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 1: this up half of your publishing period of everything or

469
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,160
Speaker 1: that for that song. So he said, I'll give you

470
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 1: that forty acres for half of the publishing on that song.

471
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 1: And I said, Phil, I can't do that to you, dude.

472
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 1: There ain't no way, man. Uh you know, it's I

473
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 1: just I can't do that to you. It wouldn't be fair,

474
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:49,120
Speaker 1: thank God. So you know, low and Behold. We end

475
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,399
Speaker 1: up tracking it. I remember taking it the label, and

476
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 1: the label tells a completely different story. They say that

477
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 1: I came in and played it for him and they're like, oh,

478
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a hit. That is not what

479
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 1: happened revisionist history their part. Yeah, So I go in,

480
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: I played it for him and they're like, I don't know,

481
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: it's awful long that it's extremely country. I will say,

482
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: in John Loebe's defense, the head of Broken Boat or

483
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: actually was the head of A and R Broken Boath

484
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: at the time. Here promotions, he was head of promotion.

485
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 1: Just you know, this is two thousand two two, because

486
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 1: this was all three when it came out late oh two.

487
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 1: And he says, uh, man, I think I think we

488
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: can make this work. It's just just country and just

489
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: different enough that I think, you know, and he was.

490
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 1: He was confident song. But others at the labor like,

491
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: it's too long, it's too country. You know, We've got

492
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: other things, other songs that we think will do better,

493
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. And I'm like, hey, look, you know,

494
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: I mean a nanim's decision kind of guy. You know,

495
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: I'm there's no way I'm gonna say this is it,

496
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: and everyone else says it ain't, so we have to

497
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: collectively agree. So we fought around about it, and finally

498
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: John's with not telling anyone, he took this song and

499
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: he went to Knoxville to w I V E K

500
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: H w V. Kid, I don't know some one of

501
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: the country stations out in Knoxville, not the one I'm on,

502
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: an I suppose I'm not gonna come in so uh

503
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: but this is a long time ago too, you know.

504
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: And he literally, uh, they wouldn't even see. So he

505
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,439
Speaker 1: sets up a tent in the front yard of the

506
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 1: radio station. He set up a tent in the front yard.

507
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: He camped out there for three days. Well, he literally

508
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: camp there, literally camped out. Three days later, they finally

509
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 1: talked to him and they played the song and that

510
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: was the beginning of the history making of that song.

511
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: He believed in that song so much he camped out

512
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: for three days three days. So, like I said, I

513
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: gotta give John Lobo credit because he's the one that

514
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 1: really fought for that in the beginning. And then it

515
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: just became it just blew up. And I remember thinking, oh, cool,

516
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: we gotta hit you know, what's the next song gonna be?

517
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I mean. It's terrible, but

518
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: it's kind of where my head was, you know. And

519
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: and as it started working this and then it fell

520
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: off the chart arts, or it didn't really fall off

521
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 1: the charts, it had an increase in spins, but for

522
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 1: some reason it lost its bullet and there was a

523
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: big discussion, you know, about the chart about oh, it's

524
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: got to not come off, it's got to stay on

525
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. And so I didn't really pay

526
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: much attention. I'm just like, I just let me know

527
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: where we're at, let me know what's going on, what

528
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: I need to do. You know, I'm here for the job. Uh,

529
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: anything I can do support it, that kind of thing.

530
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, they tell me, hey, it's

531
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,479
Speaker 1: got this bullet back and um it never lost spins,

532
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: but I don't know, something weird happened. I would imagine

533
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,160
Speaker 1: a big deal. I would imagine that audience went down

534
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: because there are a couple of big stations that probably

535
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: played it less, but other stations played it more. So

536
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: spins went up and a bit of audience went down. Yes,

537
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: it was one of those. Was one of those, and

538
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 1: back then it was there was a lot of questions

539
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 1: as to what, you know, how that managed to stay

540
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: on the charts, and because it's different, you know, songs

541
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 1: went on the charts and up and down back then,

542
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,719
Speaker 1: they didn't stay like you know, all of a sudden

543
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: between that song and uh International Harvester, where a song

544
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 1: would be on the chart for you know, home my

545
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: gosh forty weeks. It was insane. You know, it was

546
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: terrible how long the song would stay on UM. But

547
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 1: it ended up, you know, going back up again and

548
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: it just became this huge, huge hit, which today it's

549
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: probably still one of my biggest songs. When I do

550
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: a show, I'm I'm fascinated to look out to the

551
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: crowd and there's a kids singing every lyric to the

552
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: song that wasn't alive when that song was released. Yeah,

553
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: that song. That's what I love about Sunday. To me,

554
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: I see more than that song. But that song hits

555
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: me harder than than anything you've ever done, you know.

556
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: And they all have different It's funny. What's really funny too,

557
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: from what I've experienced, is it can be different regionally.

558
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: You know, International Harvester in the Midwest maybe one of

559
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: my biggest songs. It's crazy out there. I mean there's

560
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: people riding around with you know, my name on their

561
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,239
Speaker 1: tractors and crap because they're so into that song, you know.

562
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: But of all the songs, the song that I personally

563
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: received even the most response from through all the and

564
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that has to do with

565
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: the fact that we now have a social media platform

566
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: that we didn't have in two thousand two. You know,

567
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: all of the outlets that we now have, we didn't

568
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: have then, so we didn't have the opportunity to give

569
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: utilize that and to communicate that way. Uh and now

570
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: we do. But the Father and Son Holy Ghost, I

571
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: have experienced more response, more stories than any song I've

572
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 1: ever released. It's just been amazing. I would imagine the

573
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: more you put yourself out there, the more people relate.

574
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: And because tragedy lead to that song and so you going.

575
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: And I learned a bit about this when I wrote

576
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: my first book, because I talked before my mom died

577
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 1: in a forties from you know, drug addiction and alcohol.

578
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: And I wrote on my first book a lot of

579
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: struggle before she died that I had, and I was

580
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: very vulnerable about my situation, her situation, in our situation,

581
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: and I thought, no one's gonna relate to this. People

582
00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: are gonna I don't people fel sorry for me, But

583
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: I don't that. I don't want that. But what happened

584
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: was people went hey, like I felt that, Like I'm

585
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: glad you said that because I feel that, and it

586
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: was that to me was such an awakening. And I

587
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: have to imagine with you being extremely vulnerable with the

588
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: song about something so close to you that people had

589
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: to go I felt like, thank you, because I feel

590
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 1: the same way about something in my life, almost verbatim

591
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: what you're saying. That's the that's the verbiage they use.

592
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: I feel exactly what you're saying in my life, and

593
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you were able to do that. It

594
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: helps me in the same way that you're talking about

595
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 1: doing it with your book, and that's that's difficult. It's

596
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: really hard for any of us as humans to be

597
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: so vulnerable because it hurts, and it hurts every time.

598
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: It's scary. It is, it's scary to be so vulnerable.

599
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: But at the same time, when you I know, I

600
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: can say this now having done it in that situation,

601
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not doing it and everything that's

602
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,719
Speaker 1: happened in my life, but I'm able to do it

603
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: with that for whatever reason, and I can say I

604
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: feel like I did the right thing it even though

605
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: it hurts and the story's hammer me, man, I mean,

606
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: it just it breaks my heart to hear them sometimes.

607
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: But but I know that, I know that, I know that,

608
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: I know that it was the right thing because it

609
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 1: helped that person. And my pain, it's my whatever I

610
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: may be dealing with at that time when I'm reading it,

611
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: is what I'm supposed to experience in order to help

612
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: other people. I think that's the way it is. You know,

613
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: we're as a human race. Sometimes we have to hurt

614
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,479
Speaker 1: to help others. That's just the way it is, and

615
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: we should do that. We should be willing to do

616
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: that that's what I think that's the problem with our

617
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 1: society now. Nobody is willing to hurt to help and

618
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay to hurt to help a little bit.

619
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: And when I say hurt, be hungry, uh, to help

620
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: those who are more hungry or you know, do a

621
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: lot without something. And everybody that's listing with probably so

622
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: it's easy for you to say, you know you've been

623
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: you're successful, but you don't know. I don't know where

624
00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: where are we hurt? And so I know a question

625
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: anyone else's hurt, you know the I know billionaires, but

626
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: I know they have pain, and I know they hurt,

627
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: and I know that they help others through that sometimes.

628
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: So you know, because I'm gonna asking really dumb question

629
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: in a second to make up for this, but you know,

630
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 1: I've seen you perform that song alive a couple of times.

631
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: And I know at times when I'm speaking and I

632
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: have to speak about my mom or my grandmother or

633
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: tragedy in my life, like every time, I have to

634
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: fight off the hurt. And sometimes I'm good at it,

635
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: and honestly, sometimes I'm not am And so when you

636
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: have to sing this song and it's about your son

637
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: that passed away. Does it feel different every time? Are

638
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 1: you fighting it off every time? Or is it does

639
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: it like how just in your mind, in your head,

640
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: what what's happening? I have to fight it every time,

641
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: even now I'm discussing it. My chest hurt. Same thing.

642
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: Everyone has a t Everybody that has experienced some sort

643
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: of tragedy has that same I think has that same feeling.

644
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: Our feelings are emotions, are reactions, all those things are

645
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: a little different, but that physical, that literal physical feeling

646
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: is I think kind of the same for all us.

647
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: It makes your chest hurt. Like talking about it, my

648
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: chest hurts, and you have to breathe a little deeper,

649
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: you know, to kind of calm that heartache or whatever. Um,

650
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: but I have to fight all time. Sometimes I can't,

651
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: I reckon. I've gotten to the point now I can

652
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: recognize that. I know that if I'm really tired, if

653
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: I haven't rested well before show, there's no way I'll

654
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: be able to do it. And so there's times I won't.

655
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: I just don't do the song because I know there's

656
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: no way I'll finish it. And and and my guys

657
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: have they they know me well enough now to know

658
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: that there's no way he's gonna do it. He's just

659
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: not in the emotional and not that I'm not in

660
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: a good state. You know. We all have the ability

661
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: to overcome and adapt and improvise. And I can throw

662
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 1: a lot of military terms at you, um, but for

663
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: me in that particularly, I don't have to. So I'm

664
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: not going to force myself to, uh, to endure that

665
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: when I know that the outcome is the outcome of

666
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: it is. I don't think we'll accomplish anything for anybody

667
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: out there. Um, I gotta finish the song in order

668
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: for it to be what that person who's there needs

669
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: to hear. And if I can't, even if I struggle

670
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: at the end, I gotta get to the end anyway.

671
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: But there's times I recognize that I know I won't

672
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: make it to the end. I mean, dude, there's other

673
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: songs that have absolutely nothing to do with my son,

674
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: and I have to scratch him from the show. Sometimes

675
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: depending on my mental state, you know, my my where

676
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: my headspace is and how I'm thinking about it. There's

677
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: good days and bad days, uh, And even on the

678
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: good days, it's you know, it can be a struggle. Um,

679
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: I just I have to find a good place, you know,

680
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: and and and and some days I just can't do

681
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: certain songs because I can't help but think about him

682
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: and or my wife, you know. And and I hurt

683
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: from my wife, I hurt from my kids. I hurt

684
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: from my dad. My dad and my son. Jerry had

685
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: such a great relationship that it it impacted my dad,

686
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: you know, and it's made it it's really tough on him.

687
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: So I have to think about it sometimes when I

688
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: go see my dad and how I'm talking about certain things.

689
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: Fishing that's what they did to there. That was their thing,

690
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: going fishing. My wife and Jerry's thing was going to

691
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: the beast. They both loved the beast. You know. You

692
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: have to be real sensitive. And we have a place

693
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: on the beach. Have to think about it when I'm

694
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: there and how I approached that, you know, and and

695
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: sometimes just freaking sitting back trying to think about it.

696
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: What it is you gotta say. And dude, can be struggle,

697
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: a struggle, you know what I mean. There's a lot

698
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: like you know so, but everybody else has to deal

699
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: with something like that as well. Uh. And I can't

700
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: help when I talked to somebody. I remember that that.

701
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: Uh oh, it's been all over all the socials everybody

702
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: talked about. You know, you never know what someone else

703
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: is going through at that time in their life when

704
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: you're there, and I try to keep that in mind, um,

705
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: and I would hope that as a human race, we

706
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: all try to do a better job at that as

707
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: we moved forward in life. Well, my really dumb question

708
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: now is about a song. How many people were like

709
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: me and thought that you were harvesting in other countries

710
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: international harvest not the actual brands you. Yeah, I did,

711
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: and I'm embarrassed to say it. And you know what

712
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: we had, you Honestly, there were a lot of and

713
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't just obviously harvested internationals, a brand we had

714
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: all around us growing. Never I was such an it

715
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: that I would be like, he's the international harb Like

716
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: what other countries is he harvesting? And what am I

717
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: missing about this song? And I mean, you know I

718
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: have harvested in other countries. Well, I'm a different product product,

719
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: hasn't Am I the only idiot that's ever said that

720
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: to you? I wouldn't say idiot, but I never heard

721
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: that I would say that because I would hear and

722
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: I'll be like, all right, but why are you going

723
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: to other countries? Craig like like doing you do your

724
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: family prows? But I did think that that's the truth.

725
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm making your word, you own them. I'm being honest.

726
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Um what other what what? Other songs?

727
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: Like I started about International Harvester. I gotta tell you

728
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: something and this is worth the Google for you. So

729
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: there is a guy in another country that apparently in

730
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: this country they're not allowed to do music videos or something,

731
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: so they kind of sneak around and and go to

732
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: other places and do videos. It is my favorite version

733
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: of International Harvester. Oh he's singing it, yes, yeah, him

734
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: and his girl and it is. The video is do

735
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: this price? But country I don't know. But he says,

736
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: I'm the son of a third generation farm and they

737
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: got the they got the harvester, they got the corn fields.

738
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: The girl in the denim shorts and boots and tank

739
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: top kind of Oh, it's great you're talking. Definitely, I'll

740
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: find it for you in Texas him get to see it. Yeah,

741
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: most things I get from you are dead animals. I'll

742
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: take It's always like, hey, look what I killed. It's

743
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: a It's a nine headed platypun three horns coming out

744
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: to get you to go hunts attached to it. You

745
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: know what was the song I was talking about in

746
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: my show. I'd never heard it, but I was playing

747
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: them corn Star? Oh please, oh good? And that's what

748
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna be honest to I was like,

749
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: you know what, I said, I'm the biggest Craig fan

750
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 1: as a person. And I said, but the one song

751
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: that he where did you why did you do that?

752
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: That he's ever put out? This is a couple of

753
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: days ago, right, I said, the one song he's ever

754
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: put out that I I was like, I don't know, man,

755
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: it's corn Star. And you know at the beginning, we're like,

756
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: I look how her boys. You know she's in the

757
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: aisle of the store. Tell me about corn Star because

758
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: I need to know the conversation about cutting and putting

759
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: this song out. Okay, I'm gonna be honest, I thought,

760
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: and I still to this day, I think that's a

761
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: hit song. I don't think it's not catchy. I think

762
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: to me it was a rid solo cup kind of thing. Okay,

763
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: just to catchy, goofy fun, but to play on words.

764
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: Anytime you can do something, you can play on words

765
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: like that, and and it and it worked, and I

766
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: felt like that word it was just a matter of timing.

767
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: And I told them, I did say, They were like,

768
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: this is the next song, Like, no, we are not

769
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: ready for this yet. We need a much bigger hit

770
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: on this album. Before we released this as a single

771
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: and I and I still stand by that to this day.

772
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: I still think that it is a great, funny, fun

773
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: play on words. All of that is true. I compared

774
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: it to a song like Honkey Donk, but Donkey Donk

775
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: because without the big hits, I said, that song doesn't

776
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: make sense myself. Yeah, you gotta have you gotta have

777
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: the train really on all engines running full speed for

778
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: that wanted to stay on the tracks. And it didn't

779
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: the rest of the show. I didn't even hadn't even

780
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: heard it before, and I was like, what do you mean?

781
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: It had to be like top ten And then I

782
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: look it was and it wasn't. I guess the stations

783
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,479
Speaker 1: just don't want to play it because of the uh yeah,

784
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: they just do won't play it. It was it was

785
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: a timing thing, you know, and and even they said

786
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: the same thing, you know, which I'm glad because it

787
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: made me look like a genius with the label, Oh well,

788
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: we should have listened to you. Maybe you'll listen next time.

789
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: You know. The song that I have, I always liked

790
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: and sang along to it, but I didn't quite understand

791
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: until I U I had met Caitlin, who's my fiancee,

792
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 1: was this old boy. Oh I didn't ever quite feel

793
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: it in my gut until you actually have and yep,

794
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: and and and you know, and the songs about you

795
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: know what, this old boy. You can't believe you have her.

796
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: You know, she's the best. And finally, because she loves

797
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: to listen to your music. And sometimes I'm like, we

798
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: just change it from Craig Morgan for a minute. But

799
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: that song, I would hear it and I would be like, yeah,

800
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: I know all the words of the song from my

801
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: list on the radio, I said, But now I kind

802
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: of get it, Like I finally feel like this old

803
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: you know who gets you, this old boy right here? Yeah,

804
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: you make me look good. Yeah. Yeah. We were at

805
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: a restaurant last night is Done True Food. It's a

806
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: little healthy place, um, a little chain about six seven

807
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: miles away. We were in there eating and there was

808
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: a couple and Caitlyn's way prettier than I am, even

809
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: on a scale like points wise, I like, I don't

810
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: it just isn't and so but people look at her

811
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: and then they look at me and they're confused. I

812
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: get that every time. And with Mama, Yeah, they're just

813
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: like and they go, there's something. There must be something

814
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: about him that we're not seeing because she's so pretty

815
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: and funny and smart. Everything I'm good at, she's actually

816
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: better at, which is weird, Like she's funnier than I am,

817
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: smarter than I am, everything. But people look at me.

818
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: But but it's like that song, I'm like, yeah, but

819
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: you know who gets it? This guy right here like

820
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: that I won. Yeah, that's the way I feel most

821
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: of my life. And I get the same thing. People

822
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: looking they go, oh, that's great moment. Oh look at

823
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 1: this wife. Oh I get it country singer. I don't

824
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: know I married. She married the guy. I think they

825
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: look at me and like a surgeon. I mean, it's

826
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: such a nerd. It's gotta be something like that. Play

827
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you have this old boy cute

828
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: up there my a go she doesn't. We go to

829
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: the river and get in the water, and buddy, she's

830
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: hotter than South Georgia and Jelave. And when I with

831
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: the I can get another other. I gotta kiss her

832
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: and I gotta huger brother, she's mine. Oh my, that's

833
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: a you know the songwriter the guys Georgia Peach Peach Pickers,

834
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: that's who that wrote that. Really, Yeah, yead, I got

835
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: that one yet? So you got uh so, what's up

836
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: with the Craig Morgan Camo hats right on your website,

837
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: Craig Morgan. Yeah, have you seen the Craig Morgan Camlo

838
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: hats you have up there? Twenty five bucks? I look good.

839
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've just seen those. In fact, I'm flying

840
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: up the shelves. Yeah, they've done real well. It's not

841
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: it's just like a military and old military pattern or something. Yeah,

842
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: I saw that when it came over here. I can't

843
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: tell people they need to get one of these, you

844
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: know some of the you know, we have merchandise guys

845
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: and all these people again that are smarter than me,

846
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: and they just they come up with a bunch of

847
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: stuff and go to you like this, like Yeah, that's cool,

848
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: and they go, we think it of Stummich, let's try it. Sure,

849
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: you know COVID was ironically enough was I hate to

850
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: use say that it was good for our merchandise sales

851
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: because you don't want to think COVID was good for anything.

852
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: Um but we did really well during the pandemic. I

853
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: want to thank everyone that went and bought stuff, the merchandise. Um,

854
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: but I was kind of mind boggled by it, like

855
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: I can't believe. I feel like nobody's working and everybody's

856
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: buying merchandise and CDs and stuff. So it's kind of

857
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: weird maybe, but cool. That's the joy is getting a package.

858
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: Like that's the only joy we were getting. People are

859
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: leaving in her house. Some things had to come to us.

860
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: We're like, order something online. Oh yeah, I should on

861
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: stock at Amazon, my wife. Did you stay in Alaska

862
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: for a lot of the shutdown we did? Yeah? Alaska.

863
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: I've been going up there for about twenty five years

864
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: for everything from and I only ask because it's far

865
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: because of any other I don't. I don't like cold either,

866
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: but some people do. But it's far. For it's it's

867
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: far from tennis. It's along. It's I mean, it's quite

868
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: an endeavor just to get up there, especially where I'm at.

869
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: It's one thing to go to Anchorage or Fairbanks, one

870
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 1: of the major cities, but I'm off the grid. So

871
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: you know, you fly into one of the cities and

872
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: then you either drive to a spot and then either

873
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: walk in or float plane in. Walk in? What do

874
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: you mean? I mean, my my my place is about

875
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: nine miles from the nearest road, so you have to

876
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,479
Speaker 1: you would want, So you drive for three hours, park

877
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,919
Speaker 1: your vehicle and then I parked near a big lake

878
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: and I can either have the plane pick me up

879
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: there and fly over to our lake, or I can

880
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: walk in. Or in the winter we snow machine and

881
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: you can walk nine miles. You you will walk nine

882
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: miles to your place. Oh yeah, with a gun of course.

883
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: But you're a country stars. Why are you walking nine miles? Well,

884
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: I mean in the summertime, if if I can't get

885
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: the plane up the weather, inclement weather and they can't fly, Uh,

886
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: there's not a landing strip there, you know, they have

887
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: to land on the water. Why even have a place

888
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: out that far? Man? Because when you get there, Bobby,

889
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you got to experience it. You need

890
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: to come up one. I always tell people to to

891
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: come in the winter because getting there and getting out

892
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: of there is so much easier in the winter. I

893
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: can literally get from where I partner my truck to

894
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: the cabin in about fifteen minutes on a snowmobile. So,

895
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: and we have a property on the road as well,

896
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: so that's where I store everything. So you'll just leave

897
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: your truck on the road. Well, on our property there

898
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: near the road, and it's a gravel road, so it's

899
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 1: not improved. It's not uh, it's they do great during

900
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: the all the snow. Uh. They do kind of get

901
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: the snow off the road kinda um, and then we

902
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: park it on our property and we hop on our

903
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: snow machines and ride in. But when you get there, man,

904
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: or if you're not real keen on trying to snow

905
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: machine in, if somebody's worried about that, I just have

906
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: the plane pick them up an anchorage and land on

907
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: the skis on the lake, on the on the ice.

908
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: Which sounds scarier. Walking down miles are getting one of

909
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: their plants with the things on. Walking is a little freaky,

910
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: I gotta say, especially that time of year because you

911
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: know that uh, you know the moose are out, you

912
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: know that bear are out. Anything ever tracking you, the

913
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: bear will uh greasy. Black bears are kind of like cats.

914
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: Uh And this is the my personal experience. Um, A

915
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: black bear is a lot like a cat. They're skittish

916
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: and they'll run from you, and they don't really come

917
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: around the fires and stuff too much. But if you

918
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: corner them, or if it's a sow with cubs, they

919
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: get real ignorant quick. Or if they're really hungry and

920
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: you're between them and their food, will you ever be

921
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: their food? You could be? Yeah, yeah, easily. That's why

922
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: we we don't go in without a weapon. What about

923
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: the grizzlies though, Compare that to the black bear? Uh,

924
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: different story. Yeah. Yeah, they're a lot braver, uh and

925
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: they're very ratorial, much more so than a black bear.

926
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: But honestly, the bear don't scare me as much as

927
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: the moose. A cow moose with the calf will fight you.

928
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: And and there's more people injured, harmed or killed by

929
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: moose up there than all the other animals combined. What

930
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: will the moose do and told you to death? And

931
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: why will it do it because it's threatened to buy

932
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: you in any way. It's protecting its territory. It's calves.

933
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: If it's a female, she's protecting her calves. If it's

934
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: a bull moose and heat, he's protecting his territory. Uh,

935
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: to keep you away from his cows. Kind of thing.

936
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: You ever had to kill an animal to save yourself? No,

937
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: thank god, I have allowed a Uh, I have had

938
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: to allow. I harvested a a black tailed deer on

939
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: the island of Kodiak, and I did not get to

940
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: go get that because the bear got there before I did,

941
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: and we set for six hours and watch that sal

942
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: and her three calves eat, My dear, because if the

943
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: animal gets if the bear gets to the harvest before

944
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: you do, you can't do anything about it. It's there's

945
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: at that point. You can't shoot them, you can't scare

946
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: them off of it or anything like that. By all,

947
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: it becomes their food. And so she got there first

948
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: and she owned it. Now, if I'd got there there

949
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: before she did and then she came up, I could

950
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: have shot her and particular itself. But I don't really

951
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: want to do that. You know, it's not that's not

952
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: my that's not my not the way I want to do.

953
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: It was up in Montana about at this point six

954
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: months ago, and this was from my my nat Geo

955
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: show that's come out in a a few weeks. Um. We

956
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: were protecting sheep. There's sheep herders and there's two thousand

957
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: of them and they move around. It's all government land

958
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 1: and they're all plots and you know, you lease the land,

959
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: you move the sheep around. They can only eat certain

960
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: parts in certain orders. They but at night the bears

961
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: will come and try to or not just the bears, coyotes,

962
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, occasionally a wolf depending on what part and so.

963
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: But you know, they had a beau. My job was

964
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: to make sure the sheep didn't get eaten all night.

965
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to watch the sheep and

966
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: had with uh you know, these night vision scopes. You'd

967
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: see like a little bears, you'd see the coyotes and um.

968
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: But they were like, hey, you can't you know, you

969
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: can't chewt a bear. Like. What you do is you

970
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: you have your bear spray and that what they told

971
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: me to do is if a bear comes out, you

972
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: spray the spright into the ground and it lifts and

973
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: then the bear won't come through the bear spray. I

974
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: was like, you gotta be kidding me. I've got a rifle.

975
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: If I feel like a bear is coming at me,

976
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm not grabbing the bears. But I'll just go to

977
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: jail for a couple of days if a bear is

978
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: gonna attag me. Do you travel with bear spray at all?

979
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: Or is it just I've never taken bear spray. Um,

980
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: because I just tried to, I will. I will avoid

981
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: the circumstance of putting myself in a position. Now. Having

982
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: said that, I always have a side arm, and it's

983
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: a very large side arm. So if I'm deer hunting,

984
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: I got a rifle, but I also keep my bear

985
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: gun with me. Um, I would just try to. I

986
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: don't want to shoot a bear. Now this is people

987
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: are gonna uh god. I'm sure I can't fight, but

988
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to shoot a bear in defense. I

989
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: want to hunt the bear. Does that make sense? If

990
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hunt it, It's like running over a squirrel

991
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: in the road. I will hit the ditch in an

992
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: attempt to not run a squirrel over because that's not

993
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: the way I want to do it. But I do

994
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: go squirrel hunting, right, that's an analogy though, But I

995
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: also I also don't want to shoot anything that I'm

996
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: not gonna eat or someone's not gonna eat or prosper

997
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: from that. And I don't mean financially, but I mean,

998
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: you know that someone's gonna get that meat. And so

999
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: I have a real issue with people who go out

1000
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: and just shoot crap like that just drops. Makes the

1001
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: hair on the back of my neck stand up, and

1002
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: I want to shoot them. Yeah, Yeah, I get it

1003
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: because as someone who had to hunt to eat the

1004
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: first same fifteen years of my life age one through six,

1005
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: I didn't really hunt, but after that it was score girl,

1006
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: and it graduates up slowly and we had to eat. Yeah,

1007
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: and we had to catch fish to eat. Same here.

1008
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: It would piss me off when people would be out

1009
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: just hunting to shoot and kill just to have the

1010
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: just just for the trophy. Yeah, I get really aggravated.

1011
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: And I've been on some hunts in in some places,

1012
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: in nice places, and we go out and I work hard,

1013
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: even though I might not be the guy that did

1014
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: the work to prepare the hunt. You know, there's other

1015
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: guys that do the food plots and do that stuff,

1016
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm fortunate enough that and because of my

1017
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: schedule demperment, I get to go there and hunt, and

1018
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: I'll go there and hunt, and I'll be there and

1019
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: camp and see a guy go out and do that.

1020
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 1: Now shoot the animal, go over and take a picture,

1021
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: and then go back to the lune. It's like, aren't

1022
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: you gonna clean that animal? Or help them? At least?

1023
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing to get your picture with

1024
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: your bigger act, but I mean, and they're like, ah,

1025
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: you know, no, I just wanted to hunt, you know.

1026
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: And they're gonna give the meat to charity and not

1027
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: not that's cool, but at least help them harvest it

1028
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: so you can appreciate what that animal is providing. You know,

1029
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just kind of drives me nuts. Man.

1030
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: You know your story into country music. I just touched

1031
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: on this briefly. It's really cool because you were in

1032
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: the military and like, weren't your superiors going, hey man,

1033
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: you gotta go chase this music thing. Uh. That's the

1034
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: reason I'm here today. I would not have left, man.

1035
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: And I'm from Nashville, but I was born in General

1036
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: Hospital down here. My MoMA used to always say, I

1037
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: was supposed to be born at Baptist, but they didn't

1038
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: make it. They had to stop at General. Um. Um.

1039
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: Grew up in and around the music business my whole life.

1040
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: My dad was a musician. Kingston Springs was home. I

1041
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 1: graduated in Cheatham County High School. I went to MT. Issue.

1042
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: You know, so music it was always part of it.

1043
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: Avoided it. Uh, went in the military, and I think

1044
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: being in the military really made me a really miss

1045
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: and appreciate not just music but home in Nashville. Um.

1046
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,280
Speaker 1: So it was always a big part of my life,

1047
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Uh, what was it? No,

1048
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 1: you didn't realize it was as valuable to you until

1049
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: you got away from it. Yeah, I think so. Again,

1050
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: it's what my dad did. But my dad also had

1051
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: another job, and I thought, I don't want to do

1052
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: something that that. I got to do something else to

1053
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: be able to do it. Of course, then I got

1054
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: out of the army and uh and did everything else

1055
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: while I was trying to make it in the business. Uh.

1056
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: But if it, to get back to your question, it

1057
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: was a you know, I didn't. I was always nervous

1058
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: about it. I'm like my wife and I would talk.

1059
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: I was writing songs and kind of writing at while

1060
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: you were in the arm, while I was in the arm,

1061
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: and you're playing fun you know, were you playing around?

1062
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: I mean, were you playing around the other guy? Dude?

1063
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: Like in Panama, I just did ah, I just did

1064
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: a show, a TV show, And I brought in five

1065
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: of my buddies that I served with in Panama in

1066
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,919
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. It was my team. The guys worked

1067
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: for me, and we sat around and talked about it,

1068
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: and they talked about how I used to play music,

1069
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: and like, I don't even really remember that. You don't

1070
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: remember we should center in the barracks and drink beer

1071
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: and you would play in tim My buddy was like, man, men,

1072
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: you played all the time together, like a vague memories

1073
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: of that. I more remember all of the stuff that

1074
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: we went through it and they're like, yeah, but when

1075
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: we weren't doing all those things, this is what we did,

1076
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: you know. Like so they were all very encouraging, and

1077
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: it came to a point in my career. I was

1078
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: ten and a half years of active duty. You have

1079
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 1: to make a decision. I was gonna reenlist again or

1080
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: I was going to pursue the music. Uh, and I

1081
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: was just nervous about it. I didn't have near the

1082
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: confidence that a lot of people. You know, I talked

1083
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: about Blake about it a lot, especially early on in

1084
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: our careers. You know, Blake left everything. Man comes here.

1085
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: A lot of musicians that try this, excuse me, They

1086
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: come here with nothing or no one. And so in

1087
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: my head, I'm going, well, at least it's where I'm from.

1088
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 1: I got family, I can you know, I can work

1089
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 1: with Dad. I can at least have that so and

1090
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: then if it don't work, I can go back in

1091
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: the army. I'm gonna stay in the active reserve, so

1092
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: I don't lose any of my time in service, my rank,

1093
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: any of those things. I never would have done it.

1094
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. If I had been a guy

1095
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, from Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma, I didn't,

1096
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: I would never be I would not be a country

1097
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: singer today. It's only because I was from Nashville and

1098
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: my family was here and it was home to me.

1099
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: So I felt like my worst case was at least

1100
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: I'm around my family, and if it don't work, I'll

1101
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: go back in the army. How long until you came

1102
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: back home? But also you're kind of venturing into this

1103
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: new world of country music. How long until you realize, Hey,

1104
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: I kind of do deserve to be here, Like maybe

1105
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: I'm not as good as I'm going to be, but

1106
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: like I I can compete. How long was it in

1107
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: the country music before he started to feel that way?

1108
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. Yeah, well who told then? Who

1109
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: told you? Because we talked to before we came on

1110
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 1: the air here. Like people, when people invest in you,

1111
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: that means they believe in you, and I believe you're

1112
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: going to make them eventually down the road some money,

1113
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: right because bus is in friendship. There's there's a lot

1114
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: of friendship in business. But you know, if someone's gonna

1115
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: spend money on you that they believe in you, wouldn't

1116
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,399
Speaker 1: know what that means. They believe that you're gonna help

1117
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: them make money. Yeah, and that was who believed in you. Uh,

1118
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: you know, early on it was a bunch of different people.

1119
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: Ironically enough, it wasn't. One of the guys was a

1120
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: guy that wasn't even in the business. Uh. He was

1121
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: a contractor um and he wanted to be in the business,

1122
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: and he had done very well with his business, made

1123
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and he's like, you know, you

1124
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: gotta do this. You know, I'll if if I will

1125
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: pay for your house. If it doesn't work, give it

1126
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: a year. And he's one of the guys that convinced

1127
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: me to get out of the army because and that

1128
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: was the reason why he said, if you get out

1129
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: of the army and you try it after a year,

1130
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: if it don't work, I'll pay your house off and

1131
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: you can go back in the army. I got nothing

1132
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: to lose here, you know. And there was also a

1133
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 1: couple of guys that had a small publishing company. Uh

1134
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: West Mayor's was one of those guys, and they said,

1135
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: we'll sign you to a publishing deal and they paid

1136
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: me money. You know, it wasn't much, but it was enough,

1137
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 1: and they believed in me, which led to uh Maypop Publishing,

1138
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: which was owned by Alabama, which led to Sony Publishing.

1139
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: So it was a lot of those little pieces. Um.

1140
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: But back the other the Commander, my my colonel at

1141
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: Fort pok Louisiana, when I was at that deciding point,

1142
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,280
Speaker 1: I'll never forget setting down with him in the general

1143
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: and both of those gentlemen said, we believe that if

1144
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: you stay in the army. You will be the sergeant

1145
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: major of the Army someday. You're you're fast tracking. You

1146
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: know you're you're good at what you do, but we

1147
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: also think that you should at least try this. It

1148
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: was that conversation that led to me pursuing, you know,

1149
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: taking those forty weekends when I was off and come

1150
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: into Nashville, meeting with the West mayors, meeting with the

1151
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: Brian Schweitzer's and all of these different people, and and

1152
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 1: literally within a year of me leaving the army, almost

1153
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: of the day when I was ready to cash in

1154
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: on my buddy's commitment and go back into the army,

1155
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: Brian Schweitzer called me from Atlantic Records and said, I

1156
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: want to offer your record deal, And how did that

1157
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: make you feel nervous? Because I was wanting the publishing.

1158
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: I had those small publishing deals. At this point, I

1159
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: was writing for may Pop, so I was getting a

1160
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 1: little more money which allowed me to not have to

1161
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: work in vinyal sighting. And I was working as a

1162
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 1: sheriff's deputy as well, so I was doing vinyl sighting

1163
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: on the side, working as a sheriff's deputy and then

1164
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: doing security as a shriff off duty sheriff's deputy, you

1165
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,280
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And for doing writers nights every weekend,

1166
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean. There was a lot

1167
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: going on. So it gave me a little bit more confidence,

1168
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: but it also made me very nervous because I knew,

1169
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: based on everything everybody told me, as an artist in

1170
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: the beginning, you make nothing, man on the shows and stuff. Uh,

1171
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 1: in fact, everybody else will be making money and you want.

1172
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: But I was also making a little bit into publishing,

1173
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: and I started started getting a lot of interest and

1174
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: a lot of the songs that I was writing, so

1175
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, I might try Uh, this is

1176
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: at that point, so I'm going to try it. When

1177
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: I left the Army to come here to pursue the music,

1178
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: it was not to pursue it as an artist. It

1179
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: was to pursue it as a songwriter because I had

1180
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: a wife and two kids, and I knew that you

1181
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: could make money writing songs, and I could still do

1182
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: other things to make more money, you know. And then

1183
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 1: in the process of writing my songs and doing that,

1184
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: I was doing my own demos, and then I started

1185
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: doing other people's demos, and in that one year's time

1186
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: it turned into that phone call. But which was really

1187
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: weird the where that phone call came from, where he

1188
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: heard my music. It wasn't through an A and R team,

1189
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: It wasn't through a publicist or a publisher. It came

1190
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: from a guy who boarded his horses who I knew

1191
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,919
Speaker 1: who every time I would demo my music, I would

1192
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: take it to him and Jeff would play it. And

1193
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: this guy, Brian Schweitzer, happened to be boarding his horses

1194
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: at Jeff's stables and heard it and asked him who

1195
00:56:58,200 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: is that? And he told him and he called me

1196
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: and he made a decision that he wanted to sign

1197
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: you from just listening to a demo. Wow, call me

1198
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: and said, can you come in. I was on my

1199
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: way home from a writing session. Had had the third

1200
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: shift with the Sheriff's department at that time. I said year,

1201
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: and he said where are you? And I said, I'm

1202
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: on Interstate forty. But I can turn around. I had

1203
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: a jeep wrangler, and I'll never get a cuss across

1204
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: cut across the interstate, right in the middle of inter

1205
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: state and turned around and came right back. Fifteen minutes.

1206
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: I was in the office and they asked me to

1207
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: sing something, and I said, well, I mean, you know,

1208
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: they heard one of the demonists singing, I want to

1209
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: hear you sing it live Like well, I don't really

1210
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: play as the pianist, it's just and Al Cooley was there.

1211
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: Al Cooley was one of the most horrendous A and

1212
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: R guys, a brutally beastfully honest A and R guy.

1213
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: Looking back, he was one of the best. But I

1214
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: just remember he had this reputation of being like mean, terrible, mean,

1215
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: you know, but what it was, he was honest and

1216
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: he probably saved a lot of people's lives. Um. And

1217
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: they had me sing a song, uh called three or

1218
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: two South Maple Avenue Acapello and so I sang it

1219
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: and uh literally right sitting like this right here through

1220
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: you oh too sound me but ivenue and I sing

1221
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: a little bit and he says, we'd like to sign

1222
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: you to a record. Yeah, just like that strangest thing ever.

1223
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh yeah, sure, he goes you ever turning,

1224
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, how about management? I'm like yeah, yeah.

1225
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: So I walked out of the office and I called

1226
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: my wife. Uh no, I did not call my wife.

1227
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: I did not cause I got home and I said,

1228
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,439
Speaker 1: I just got offered a record deal, And she said,

1229
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: what did they say? I'm like, I said, they asked

1230
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: me if I had managers and attorneyship, what do you say?

1231
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: As I told him, yeah, And She's like, well, you

1232
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: got a manager like and I'm like, no, I gotta

1233
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: find a manager. I didn't have nothing. You know, that's

1234
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: wild that it all came from a horse, from from

1235
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: a guy who boarded horses. Crazy. He owned Joe go Quick,

1236
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: the world champion quarter horse at the time, and I

1237
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: would take him music and if Jeff liked it, he

1238
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: would let me ride Joe. And if he didn't like songs,

1239
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: he put me well, how did you and Blake become friends?

1240
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: How did you? Because see think he got pretty close.

1241
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: We were and are we still are? Um? You know,

1242
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: I don't. Blake had got here before I did. Blake

1243
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: was working on his career long before, not long before,

1244
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: but a few years before I got here, and so

1245
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: he had started having some radio success and we we

1246
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: literally met at a some event in Nashville and just

1247
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: started hanging out. And then he had lived in Hitman

1248
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: County and I was in Dixon, so we weren't that

1249
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: far apart. Uh. Both realized that we liked hunting. I

1250
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: invited him on a hunting trip on a trip that

1251
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: I was doing in Kansas. I'm sorry, yeah, in Kansas.

1252
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: And at that trip we became like we we were buddies.

1253
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: I knew right then that I liked the guy. Uh

1254
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: and and and and we were both kind of like

1255
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: I said, he had already had a couple of songs

1256
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: on the radio. And and then I started having some

1257
00:59:56,240 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: success at Broken Bow uh. And then we just stayed

1258
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: in touch. I mean, at one point we were we

1259
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: were with each other all the time. Every time we

1260
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: could do something together, we would uh. And then he

1261
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: got divorced from Cat and he and Miranda got married.

1262
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: And I had known Miranda a little bit uh and

1263
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: really thought that Miranda and I had a decent relationship. UM.

1264
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: And she used to tell a story about how she

1265
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: came to Fanfare and it was one of my early

1266
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: on first two or three years of Fanfare, when he

1267
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: still called it fan Fair, you know. And she tells

1268
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: the story, and I remember her telling me that how

1269
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: she waited after the show to meet some of the

1270
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: artists and and that I came out and was the

1271
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: only one that came out afterwards and gave her an autograph. Uh.

1272
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: And so I thought, man, this is gonna be awesome.

1273
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: You know, my buddies marrying this girl who's turned into

1274
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: an artist of her own right and turned in this.

1275
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's great. But something happened with them too,

1276
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: got married and it I don't know she she was

1277
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: no longer a Craig Morgan faan for some reason. You know.

1278
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, um, but you know that's history. And

1279
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: here we are now. I remember when you can do

1280
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: in the Opery Blake when him I think him and

1281
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: Gwen were playing from his ranch. I think, yeah, I

1282
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: was there. I just I've done opery shows in the

1283
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: past year. But was he setting you up? Are you

1284
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: setting him up? Are you going back and forth? Always?

1285
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's horrible. I will tell you though. We Uh.

1286
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: When my son died, a lot of my friends in

1287
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: this business came out there and and I had, Man,

1288
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: I gained so much respect and admiration. Already loved all

1289
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: these people. But it's really weird. Uh. And Jerry was

1290
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: with me. It's it's weird when I know them and

1291
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: I love them and they're I consider them friends. But

1292
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: when I got like Trace Atkins, Blake Shelton, Jim and

1293
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: Out and John Colleen, these guys show up at at

1294
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 1: my son's funeral and they stand in line with everyone

1295
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: else out there and asked nothing. I didn't want to

1296
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: come in early. You know, it just meant it just

1297
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: floored me. And when I'll never forget, we were we

1298
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 1: were downstairs and Ceci had come in and was talking.

1299
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: She's saying, at my son's funeral, and uh, you know,

1300
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to, I don't know, have a

1301
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: sense of I wanted to comprehend my people and and

1302
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: and them to know that I appreciate them being there.

1303
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: But I remember Blake coming in and we cried, you know,

1304
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: we cried together, and he hugged me, and I felt

1305
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: such an embrace of friendship from him. Uh, and I knew.

1306
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: I knew then that there was nothing that Blake or

1307
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: I could do that would sever that friendship. It wouldn't happen.

1308
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: And I also, at that moment, became Gwen's biggest fan.

1309
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: I had met Gwen via FaceTime a few times when

1310
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 1: Blake and I were together, and he was like giddy,

1311
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 1: silly and love FaceTime and her and we would, uh,

1312
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: we would lay there together and sit and talk to

1313
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: Gwen or her own FaceTime, you know. And and I

1314
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: really liked her, but I didn't really know her. But

1315
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: when he came in the room, I said, where's Gwynn?

1316
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: And you know, was she not able to come? He said, no,

1317
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: she's outside. Uh. She was being respectful and she did

1318
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: not want to come in until she was invited in.

1319
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: And I just, man, I thought, my lord, you know,

1320
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: if she came in and she too, like cried and

1321
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: hugged my wife and showed her such an embrace of

1322
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: friendship and kindness and warmth, and it just absolutely hammred me.

1323
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: And I've never experienced anything from her but that since,

1324
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: you know, when we're at the award shows and he's like,

1325
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 1: let's get out of here for a few minutes, and

1326
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: we got out the bus and hang out, and they're

1327
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: just He's in such a beautiful place with her that

1328
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: I've never seen. And I love that. I love it. Now.

1329
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: Having said all that, I can text Blake on Monday,

1330
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: April the first, and it might be Monday June one

1331
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: when I heard from he is the worst man uh,

1332
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: and then I'll get nothing a picture of him flipping

1333
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: me a bird or something, you know. Um. But yeah,

1334
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: so we've been friends for a long time. I mean

1335
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 1: he came out when I did read net y'all club. Uh.

1336
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: And I remember when we did read net Yall Club

1337
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: he had a huge hit and even you know, just

1338
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: to show you how weird this business is. I remember

1339
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: talking to Blake him going, man, I don't know if

1340
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: this is gonna work. I don't know what's gonna happen.

1341
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, you got a big, huge hit. Are you kidding?

1342
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: You know? And He's like, yeah, but you just don't know.

1343
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: And now you look where is at? You know, it's

1344
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: just it's wonderful. What is there left for you to do?

1345
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: You're just thinking about everything that you are doing, have done,

1346
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: are doing more than have done, between the music, the TV,

1347
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: the passions, walking nine miles to your house and everything,

1348
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: the opera, everything you stand for, all of the philanthropic

1349
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: work that you do. Like what what, What's what's happening?

1350
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 1: What what is your vision for the next ten fifteen years?

1351
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: Like what what do you want to do? Um? I

1352
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: want to do good? And I know it sounds super cheesy,

1353
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 1: but if you talk to anybody in my camp, they'll

1354
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: tell you. And if as long as I'm doing things

1355
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: that afford me the opportunities to do good things, I'm

1356
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing it. And I also want to. I

1357
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 1: don't want to be in this business when I'm no

1358
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: longer relevant. I don't want to. I don't want to

1359
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: do it just because I want to do it. I

1360
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: want to do it because people want me to do it,

1361
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: because they want to hear it, and because when when

1362
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: I do some of these things. For example, I just

1363
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: did a military benefit UH to raise money for a

1364
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: organization that provides trips for not only the veteran the warrior,

1365
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 1: but for his family. And after that event, when I

1366
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 1: got a text the next day from the guy who's

1367
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 1: over that said, we raised this much money, which is

1368
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 1: so much more than I had ever expected. Thank you

1369
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: for me and a part of that. When I can

1370
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: no longer do those things, or when my impact at

1371
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 1: those events is not impacting, I'm gonna do something else.

1372
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 1: And that something else is just spend more time in

1373
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 1: Alaska with my wife, in Florida with my wife and Dixon,

1374
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee fishing and hunting and you know the kids. Um,

1375
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: I've already kind of transitioned into trying to do more

1376
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: of that. But I just want to do more of

1377
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: the good things. I wanna. I wanna transition my life's

1378
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: efforts into providing for those other things, not me. I mean,

1379
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: I got all I need, man, I've got more than

1380
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: I deserved. That is the truth. I want the people

1381
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: around me to prosper. I liked it when I like

1382
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: to see that when guys that worked for me go

1383
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: on and are having success of their own, that's cool

1384
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: man to me. Yeah, final question, have you been recording music?

1385
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: Are you going? Are you gonna have new music? What?

1386
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: What's happening here? Because it's been it's been a minute.

1387
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: I'm as excited about what I'm doing is anything I've

1388
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 1: ever done. So my wife is a big fan of

1389
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: me singing certain music life, it's not a big fan

1390
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: of my country music. Uh I love all music. If

1391
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I can go all the way back to

1392
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: the very beginning of our conversation, who is Lina Richie Luther?

1393
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: I love I love love love music with the emotion, energy, soul,

1394
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: you know I love that. Uh So my next project

1395
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: that I am in the process of working on is gonna.

1396
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,919
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sing with those people whose music I love.

1397
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I wanna, I wanna. You know, I'm

1398
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: a huge Kelly Clarkson fan. I love to hear her sing.

1399
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: She's a monster in my opinion, and I want to

1400
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: I want to sing something with Kelly. I want to

1401
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: sing something with that Sharon. I want to sing something

1402
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: with c. C. Janas. I want to sing something with

1403
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: Liona Ritchie. I want to do those, and it might

1404
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: be one of their songs, maybe one of my songs,

1405
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: maybe something that we write, maybe something i'm writing. I

1406
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:27,560
Speaker 1: just wrote a song. I think it's one of the

1407
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: better songs I've ever written, and it's it's not a

1408
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: straight up country. I'm sure it probably sounds country, um,

1409
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: but to me, it's not a country song. It's more

1410
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: of a soul song. And I want to record that

1411
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And the label is all about so

1412
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: that's exciting. Well, listen, we've we've been talking for over

1413
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: an hour. I hope this wasn't too long. I could

1414
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:49,800
Speaker 1: sit here and do another hour. I could too. With you, dude.

1415
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: I love talking to you, you know, and I'm sorry, uh,

1416
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, we shared a label relationship there for a

1417
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: minute on Black Ever, Yes, and I remember thinking, uh,

1418
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm not gonna make stuff up. TOLDJ

1419
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 1: I said, really, I think I'd like to get to

1420
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 1: know this guy better because I think there's something there

1421
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 1: that I can't see because you know, you were a

1422
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 1: national syndicated show host and you had your own band thing,

1423
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: so you were super busy doing all these other things.

1424
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: But I felt like there was a person there that

1425
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: I that I would probably do more with if I

1426
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 1: got to know. And in this business, it's it's weird. Man. Everybody,

1427
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: especially early in my career, would try to encourage me,

1428
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: you need to get to know this guy, spend some

1429
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: time with this guy. I'm like, okay, cool, I found

1430
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: you know, and I try, but there was nothing men

1431
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: this guy had in time. It's like, look, if me

1432
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: and this guy, that's why I love Blake, Blake and I.

1433
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 1: If we weren't in this business, Blake and I will

1434
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: still be hanging out on a Friday night having a beer,

1435
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: talking about certain things or wine, or we'd be making

1436
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:58,560
Speaker 1: fun of each other like we do. You know what

1437
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's that work. It's natural I've never forced

1438
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,640
Speaker 1: an issue on a I've never forced a relationship in

1439
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: this business. Not one of the people that I know

1440
01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,719
Speaker 1: and love and hang out with when we're not doing

1441
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 1: this is someone that I wouldn't be doing that if

1442
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: I weren't in this business. And I found out long

1443
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: after the fact that Bobby Bones is one of those

1444
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: guys that I probably would even if we weren't in

1445
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: this business. And it's taken a long time to get

1446
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 1: to that point. So, which is why I can talk

1447
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: to you forever. Well, that's nice to me to say.

1448
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:29,559
Speaker 1: I think you're a lot cooler, stronger, tougher worldly now

1449
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: you play that wimpy guy. I think all of that whatever,

1450
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: but playing the act, Buddy, Listen, sell the books, get

1451
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: the TV shows, play the geek whatever. Craig, good to

1452
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: talk to you, my friend. That's been fantastic. I'm so

1453
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: grateful that you can. You know, I'm a fan. So

1454
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: I'll see you Alaska in February. You guys are coming up.

1455
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm more of a Florida guy. It's just a long way.

1456
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 1: It's just a long ways up there. It is. What

1457
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 1: if I flew you up on a plane. It's just

1458
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: a long ways up there. Privately, I hear you. It's

1459
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 1: just a long ways up there, Like that's I gonna

1460
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: hug me. I'll be honest with you. I mean everywhere.

1461
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: I just you're gonna do it. You're probably she would

1462
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: love it. You get the fun gear and you're warm,

1463
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 1: and you set out in a like semi iglue around

1464
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: the fire, and then at night you watch Netflix movies

1465
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: on a big screen. Wat electricity. How do you have WiFi?

1466
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: Nine walk? I actually do have this little WiFi box

1467
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,600
Speaker 1: thing that we started using, and I put it in

1468
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 1: the window and you get enough WiFi that you can

1469
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 1: send emails and text messages and I've literally been able

1470
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 1: to depend on the weather download Netflix from it. We

1471
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 1: in our cabin in Arkansas, we did had one of

1472
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: those little boxing and wife I went out, so we

1473
01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: used it for three days and I got my bills

1474
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: like seven stream just stream shows. It was like seven

1475
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 1: and eighteen dollars for a while. Five box. You guys,

1476
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: follow and follow Craig on TikTok uh on TikTok It's

1477
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: Craig Morgan eighty five. Uh see Morgan music on Instagram.

1478
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: You have all these different names. Tell your people, I

1479
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: know you have them. They need to unify that thing.

1480
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,679
Speaker 1: You know, I know, and they should. I don't even

1481
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: know problem. You see they do that stuff and then

1482
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 1: I go, I got this, man, I can do it.

1483
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: And then I end up starting Craig Morgan eighty five.

1484
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: I like, why did you do that? Why didn't you do?

1485
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: See them all access like everything, Like I have no

1486
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 1: clue what's about. And now they're like, can you do this?

1487
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: And they're like what, man, you gotta show me what

1488
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: button to push? Just give. My wife hates that stuff, man,

1489
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: she absolutely hates me trying to get her to do

1490
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: something with me, Like I want to do the thing.

1491
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm afraid my wife would leave me though, Like if

1492
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: this is terrible, I don't know if we should say this,

1493
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: but like there's something trending on TikTok. It's so bad, y'all.

1494
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,760
Speaker 1: Like these guys fart in a bag and then like

1495
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:09,440
Speaker 1: tell him that it's gas and get him the snippet

1496
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 1: or to inhale it. Like I'm afraid if I did that,

1497
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 1: she would force me, she would leave me. Listen, we've

1498
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 1: gone off the rails. Alright, alright, but thank you, thank you,

1499
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: thank you. It's been fantastic on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Greg,

1500
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: how are you, man? I'm good, buddy, how are you?

1501
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: It's good to see. I mean I see quite regularly,

1502
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: but still it's really good to see in studio you too, man.

1503
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: Today is a special day because never in the history

1504
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: of my show has my now fiance wanted to come

1505
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:44,479
Speaker 1: and watch a performance. No. Once I started following you,

1506
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you did. I'm not a creeper to

1507
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: the Instagram. I love Bobby and so I kind of

1508
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 1: watch who he follows, and and then I see all

1509
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: y'all's post and so I started following you. Oh I'm

1510
01:13:57,600 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: going to follow you back. I turned my phone off,

1511
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: so wouldn't you off right now? I did? But I stopped.

1512
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: What did I do? I'm sorry. I just felt weird.

1513
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: But that's awesome. She might be your biggest fan ever.

1514
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: Oh you're so sweet. That's awesome. And I didn't know,

1515
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: but I would just start, you know, I'd have different

1516
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: playlists that you were on, and she would know every

1517
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 1: single word, every single song on your playlist if I

1518
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,640
Speaker 1: turn it on. Craig Morgan artist on Spotify, no skips.

1519
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: Oh you sweet, that's awesome. What is your favorite Craig

1520
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: Morgan song of all time? Well, what I love about

1521
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 1: Sunday obviously, do you guys know that having it right now?

1522
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, here we go, that's the

1523
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: little of it. Raymond's and his soundy bess, he's usually

1524
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 1: up to his chairs and Greece there's a moderns logging

1525
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 1: in with that mean little freckled face kid who broke

1526
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 1: a window last sweet miss Benny likes to sing off

1527
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: key and the put behind and me. It's what I

1528
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:25,719
Speaker 1: love about Sunday. I sing along as a quiet ways

1529
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 1: every verse of amazing grace. Then we shake the feature's hand,

1530
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: go home into your moo jeans, have some chickens and

1531
01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: made me pick a backyard football team, not them to anything.

1532
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 1: It's what I love about Sunday, nice glood. I don't

1533
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 1: think once we set you a voice memo her singing

1534
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: that in the cars was like, correct, you're singing every song.

1535
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 1: I can't get to stop. Its awesome. I do have

1536
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: a question. Can I ask you a question? You do

1537
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: whatever you want? Okay? Is it Sally and rod Ron

1538
01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: or Rob Because I trail off, I hit raw hard

1539
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: and don't ever know what I don't know you don't know,

1540
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: So where's that line? Looks like Sally and Ron looks

1541
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 1: Ron Sally and Ron n Sally and run. It's up

1542
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: to our interpretation. Ron. Yeah, it might be robbed. It

1543
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:47,120
Speaker 1: could be Bob Sally. Hey. So today we're bringing you

1544
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. One, um, she loves you,

1545
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: obviously I do. But it's also a Veteran's Day today.

1546
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 1: It is which very special day right for all of us,

1547
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: but especially you who served Creg Morgan's Here. You mentioned

1548
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: almost Tome, which again has probably been played in my

1549
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:06,640
Speaker 1: house more times than a month. I'm sorry, and she's like,

1550
01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: this is such a set. Why you love this song?

1551
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:12,559
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It's about a person whose dreams are better

1552
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: than his real life and he wants to stay in

1553
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: his dreams and someone wakes him up because they think

1554
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:19,720
Speaker 1: he's needs to go home, but he's like, I was

1555
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 1: home in my head. Oh you just described that song

1556
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: to the I mean, to its perfection. That is exactly

1557
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: you know. I just wrote a song called the Mask,

1558
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a current description of that same thing.

1559
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 1: You know, we have to put on this mask when

1560
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 1: we go to work, and I'm not talking about the

1561
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 1: physical mask that we're wearing, like you have a crappy day. Uh, Bobby,

1562
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 1: You've had crappy things happen in life, and you still

1563
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 1: get up and you go to work. You put that

1564
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: mask on. And that's what that Almost Home for me

1565
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 1: was about. The old man was laying there asleep, and

1566
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 1: he was even though he might have been chilly in

1567
01:17:55,800 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 1: his dream and in his unconscious state, he was happy. Uh,

1568
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 1: you know, and that and that's okay. That's I think

1569
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: it's okay that we do that we're supposed to. It's

1570
01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 1: called dreaming. You know, when you quit dreaming, you quit living.

1571
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Craig Morgan's here. Do you guys want

1572
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:11,559
Speaker 1: to play a little bit almost Home? Yeah, I would

1573
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:24,520
Speaker 1: be glad today from two thousand two. He had plastic

1574
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 1: bags wrapped around the shoes, he was covered with the

1575
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:33,679
Speaker 1: evening news, had a pair of ool socks on his hands,

1576
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: banks times flashing five below. It was freezing rain and

1577
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: spitting snow. He was coloneled down behind some garbage cans.

1578
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: I was afraid that he was dead. I gave him

1579
01:18:54,040 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 1: a gentle shame. When he opened up his eyes, I said, oh, man,

1580
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: are you okay, he said, just climbed out of the

1581
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:16,799
Speaker 1: cotton wood tree. I was running from some money bees

1582
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: drim dry in the summer breeze. After jumping into calico creem,

1583
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:40,560
Speaker 1: I was wroking down in older ol past field of

1584
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: me that it just spam mold man. I wish you

1585
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:59,560
Speaker 1: just let me long because I was almost home. Come on,

1586
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: that's great, man, that's great here. I didn't listen. I

1587
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: assumed you guys know all of your songs, you too know,

1588
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: you know I forget the words regularly. I can help

1589
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: it out if you an when you're on rob who knows?

1590
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: Will you bring up the mask? And I, I mean,

1591
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 1: you guys know enough of that to play a little

1592
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: bit of that. Now play? Yeah, you guys don't mind, right, No,

1593
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm here to have fun. You all right.

1594
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:29,639
Speaker 1: I've been doing this while I still can't believe people

1595
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 1: want to They still listen. You're kidding, here's Craig Morgan. Yeah,

1596
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: I got pains inside of me. Pains I don't let

1597
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: people see I see I'm fine, cause I know they

1598
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 1: see me strong. Behind my eyes. Inside my soul feels

1599
01:20:56,560 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 1: like I'm digging a deeper hole. But Apple it on

1600
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: a smile a line, and I ho because Man, I

1601
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: get home and it's late and night, no one's around,

1602
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: and I turn off the lights. I cry and scream

1603
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: and yell like a crazy man. I don't have to

1604
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: pretend that I'm doing well. I can tell the world

1605
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 1: it can go to hell. It's just me and God

1606
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: when I take off the mask. Nice. That's awesome. Man.

1607
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,839
Speaker 1: I've been singing one of your songs wrong for thirteen

1608
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,799
Speaker 1: years now. You know which one? Which one? National International

1609
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 1: Harvest again. So we're in Virginia, Caitlin and I are.

1610
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: We got a Virginia from my Nagio show, and we're

1611
01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: on a farm and Caitlin singing every word. You wanna

1612
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: sing a little bit of it? Go ahead, that's the thing.

1613
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 1: She knows it all from the beginning. Go ahead, you

1614
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: got at that deep point. I'm you already to go there?

1615
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 1: I don't know I'm gonna do. That. Sounded like a

1616
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: little bit of life. Are you sure you're on the right?

1617
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: I love that, sound like the intriguer A little bit

1618
01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: of life. Um. I'm a son of a third generation

1619
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 1: farm I've been mary change here, super farmers Dot. I'm

1620
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:29,600
Speaker 1: a hard working god fearing combine driver hugging up the

1621
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 1: road with a flower checking like a legging five miles

1622
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: an hour. I'm an international harvest No, no, because I

1623
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: sang I'm an international harvester, because that's how he sings it.

1624
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: But it's on my Yeah. I was like, where's the

1625
01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: harvest in Russia? China? Are you speaking of? Speaking of Russia,

1626
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: you guys have to google this. Uh. There is a

1627
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:02,599
Speaker 1: a guy in some country e uh of the Russian

1628
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 1: Russia era, and I guess they outlawed music videos over there,

1629
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:10,639
Speaker 1: and him and his remember that him and his girlfriend

1630
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: do international harvest. They made a video on everything. It

1631
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 1: is the best worst thing you've ever seen on the

1632
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 1: nothing of Harvey. You have to watch it. I mean

1633
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: you'll put yourself laughing. Give us a little bit of

1634
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: that two thousand seven international harvester from the From the

1635
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: mouth of the man himself, I'm a son of a

1636
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:43,720
Speaker 1: third generation farmer. I've been many ten years to a

1637
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:49,440
Speaker 1: farmer's dog. I'm a god fear and hard working gumbine

1638
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 1: driver hogging up the road on my flower, lugging five

1639
01:23:54,000 --> 01:24:04,960
Speaker 1: miles an hour on my international harvester. I think if

1640
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:07,520
Speaker 1: people go to you, and this is the most complimentary

1641
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:09,160
Speaker 1: thing that I can say, And OBI take it this way.

1642
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:10,880
Speaker 1: I think sometimes you go to a show and you're like, oh,

1643
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know I knew that song. I didn't know.

1644
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: If they go to one of your shows, I bet

1645
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 1: you if they're not a super fan of just a

1646
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:17,640
Speaker 1: casual fan, they go, I didn't know. He's saying that,

1647
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: because you have so many hits, you're not a fan

1648
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: in me at all. In fact, I had a T

1649
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: shirt made then on the back it's literally and we

1650
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: sell them, he says, the guy who sings International Harvester.

1651
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 1: That's what I love about Sunday. I can read lives

1652
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 1: and I can't tell you how many times I've been

1653
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: on stage and I see someone go, I didn't know

1654
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 1: he's saying that. I love that dude. This Old Boy

1655
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: is a song that I feel like I relate to

1656
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: now and I never did. I never really did in

1657
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: my life until I met her. And then you would

1658
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:49,600
Speaker 1: hear I'd hear this Old Boy and it's like a

1659
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: song about you, just like I'm lucky I get this

1660
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: old boy gets to have all this stuff. Yeah, And

1661
01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: I really never felt like I understood that song. Until her.

1662
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome, that's that's so sweet. And probably her

1663
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 1: playing it for me over and over again. Yeah, you

1664
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: get tired of it. Uh, that's really what it's that

1665
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: sounds all about, you know, that relationship been. I've been

1666
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: married to the same woman for over thirty years. Uh.

1667
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 1: And she just I mean, she has just gotten hotter lately.

1668
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, god, dang, she has like, not gray,

1669
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 1: but this silver hair. It's natural. I'll show you a

1670
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: picture in a minute. I'm not kid y'all. Uh. And

1671
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: she's gotten it back into her health kit. You know,

1672
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 1: when we lost our son, it was a real difficult time. Uh.

1673
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 1: And and we managed to stay strong in our faith,

1674
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: in our relationship. But it's just tough. Um. But man,

1675
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:45,679
Speaker 1: she has gotten back in and good god. Yeah, let's

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01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: do Let's do one more. Let's do Redneck Yacht Club.

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01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: I feel like if we don't, my listeners are gonna

1678
01:25:50,080 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: be upset. All right, I made my But he's out

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01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:04,559
Speaker 1: on the lake. We're headed out to a special place

1680
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: we love. But just a few folks know there's no

1681
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 1: signing of no monthly dues. Takey Johnson here, Mercury or

1682
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:20,120
Speaker 1: you're living rude and fired up, made us out of party.

1683
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:29,600
Speaker 1: Go I come on in the waters fine, I just

1684
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:36,760
Speaker 1: iddled on over and toss the loud best trackers, May

1685
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: Liners and a party bart Strong together like a phone

1686
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:45,040
Speaker 1: and trailer park angered out and get loud all summer

1687
01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 1: love South Beside there's five house boat front porches, has

1688
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 1: to turf launcheers and ticky to orches. Regular Joe's rocking

1689
01:26:56,840 --> 01:27:05,839
Speaker 1: the boat. That's us, the Redding Yacht. Craig Morgan, Craig Morgan, everybody,

1690
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 1: thank you, Greig, thank you all. Craig Morgan's on with

1691
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 1: us right now. The tour is happening. Tickets at Craig

1692
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 1: morgan dot com. You're gonna go October nineteen all the

1693
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 1: way through the middle of November. When you go out

1694
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 1: and do this tour, Like, what's are you doing all

1695
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:24,760
Speaker 1: the hits, Craig? But no, I'm gonna be honest, I'm

1696
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 1: not doing them all. There's a few that we don't

1697
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: do because to do some of the new stuff, new

1698
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: material um and we have fun with it. You know,

1699
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:34,679
Speaker 1: we might do a cover too. I just want aybody

1700
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 1: to come enjoy the show. Now. Having said that, if

1701
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: we're in a place and you know, we're good on

1702
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: time and someone's out of particular song. The guys are

1703
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 1: prepared to play all the hits. In fact, they're probably

1704
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 1: more prepared than I am. I don't remember all the

1705
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:52,439
Speaker 1: words sometimes, Will you play that's what I love about

1706
01:27:52,439 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: Sunday though? Okay, that's all I really wanted to know.

1707
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask it in a nice way,

1708
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: because if I came to your show and you didn't

1709
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 1: play that's what I love about Sunday, UH might walk out.

1710
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: That's right, I agree, Hey, I agree with you. If

1711
01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 1: I went to a show, uh, and and and the

1712
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 1: Ticular Arts didn't sing a big fat hit that they had,

1713
01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:14,360
Speaker 1: I don't know that I was, I'd be kind of

1714
01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:16,800
Speaker 1: ticked off. So the problem is, you know, I had

1715
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: some songs that were hits that were just kind of

1716
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: like so so hit that that's so so hit was

1717
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: really important to someone coming. And so I've gotten text you.

1718
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:31,200
Speaker 1: I can't believe you didn't do whatever. You know. I'm

1719
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm sorry we only had so much time. What about

1720
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: International Harvester, Yeah for sure, Okay, all right, we're good.

1721
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: Then I want to ask for a refund. We're all good, Mike,

1722
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: here's my second question for you. Craig Morgan's on with us.

1723
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: You guys can get tickets to his tour just go

1724
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: to his website Craig Morgan dot com. What I'd like

1725
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 1: to do because I know what you love about Sunday

1726
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna sing this to you this question.

1727
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,040
Speaker 1: I'd like to know what you love about the other days?

1728
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 1: Here we go. What do you love about Mondays? Go ahead, Creig,

1729
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: Monday is my Sunday. Oh, because it's like a day

1730
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: off artist like. Alright, I started to do another one.

1731
01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 1: What do you love about Tuesdays? Stay night? Okay? I

1732
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:17,559
Speaker 1: like all right, right to the point. Every Tuesday, Every Tuesday?

1733
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:21,560
Speaker 1: You have steak every Tuesday? Why Tuesday? Every Tuesday? Just

1734
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 1: what me and my wife has been doing. Okay, alright, alright,

1735
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna try the next one. What do you love

1736
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:33,600
Speaker 1: about Wednesdays? I have no idea I could say what

1737
01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:37,639
Speaker 1: I do? Ok ok okay, Amy take Thursday? Go ahead?

1738
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 1: What do you love about Thursdays? That's when I get

1739
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:46,639
Speaker 1: on the button. Head your way. Oh that's good, that's

1740
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 1: pretty good. Well, we got two more days here. What

1741
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: do you love about Fridays. That's when I get to

1742
01:29:54,040 --> 01:29:57,040
Speaker 1: stand on my stage. We're good now, he's got to

1743
01:29:57,040 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: feel of it. We're singing the song with each other.

1744
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:03,560
Speaker 1: Good one more? What what do you love about Saturday?

1745
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:08,360
Speaker 1: Bike ride and run? Before I play? Every Saturday, you

1746
01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: go get a bike ride, you have a run triathlon?

1747
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 1: Basically you have a wrecked before a show? Oh yeah,

1748
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: every pretty every show. He's like, every show every Saturday. Now,

1749
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 1: but Saturday, I do a long ride. How long is that? Wow?

1750
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 1: Are you not tired when you get on stage? No?

1751
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 1: Not at a give energy. I walk on the treadmill

1752
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:34,560
Speaker 1: before show and I'm like, I can't even do it.

1753
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 1: All right, Craig Morrigan is on with us. What we're

1754
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 1: gonna do In a second, We're gonna play a new

1755
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:43,519
Speaker 1: unreleased song that Craig is sent up. I haven't even

1756
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: heard it yet. We're gonna play that. We're gonna talk

1757
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:47,160
Speaker 1: about it. The rest of the show. Have questions for

1758
01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 1: you as well that they have prepared that probably are

1759
01:30:49,520 --> 01:30:51,240
Speaker 1: not as stupid as mine. Where I sing them to

1760
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:54,879
Speaker 1: you and let Craig will be in Green Bay October nineteen,

1761
01:30:55,240 --> 01:31:00,240
Speaker 1: Mason City, Iowa on October and Wisconsin Dell's October first.

1762
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:02,840
Speaker 1: Is there anything that I missed? I mean, i'd also

1763
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:05,000
Speaker 1: encourage you guys to read his new memoir that came

1764
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 1: out God, Family and Country that came out into last year,

1765
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: like September October. So that's out. Oh, I forgot it's

1766
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: this September. I was wondering, whych that because I haven't

1767
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:16,040
Speaker 1: read it yet, and I was like, I'm not a

1768
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 1: good friend. So it's this September. Okay, good. I thought

1769
01:31:20,240 --> 01:31:24,200
Speaker 1: I missed it and I was just all right. Last

1770
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:26,920
Speaker 1: thing I remember now what triggered this call. I saw

1771
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 1: you were doing your tour and long ago I said, hey, Craig,

1772
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,760
Speaker 1: we really need a tore t shirt from because my

1773
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:36,479
Speaker 1: wife and Craig promised me a Torti shirt. And you

1774
01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:38,479
Speaker 1: know who doesn't have a Torti shirt from Craig Morgan?

1775
01:31:39,400 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: You know who still doesn't have it? Me? That's right,

1776
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:47,479
Speaker 1: asked him. That's all. That's all I'm saying. I'm still shirt.

1777
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 1: Let's Craig, Well, I have to get you one of

1778
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 1: the older ones. Yeah, yeah, hard to find? Were these guys,

1779
01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:58,759
Speaker 1: all of my guys. You're not gonna believe this because

1780
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,519
Speaker 1: of course you asked this now. They have literally been

1781
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:10,160
Speaker 1: on Etchy and everywhere trying to old shirts. So you're

1782
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:12,960
Speaker 1: saying that they've been looking for me one are looking

1783
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:16,640
Speaker 1: for you to have old ones, looking for one for

1784
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 1: your That's right, that's what it's for. Yes, Okay, well

1785
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:21,080
Speaker 1: I mean I can do that. I go to ed

1786
01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:23,360
Speaker 1: In trying to find one. Okay, no, no, no no,

1787
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:25,639
Speaker 1: I got your T shirt coming and we'll make sure

1788
01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 1: you get one of the new both of your half

1789
01:32:27,680 --> 01:32:28,840
Speaker 1: one and you'll have to wear it on the show,

1790
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 1: the new God Family country shirt. Okay, we're there, we can.

1791
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 1: I wait to see you in town here, but Craig

1792
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 1: Morgan is all over you guys. Go to Craig Morgan

1793
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 1: dot com. The book comes out in September, which I

1794
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:39,479
Speaker 1: was very confused why I thought it was this past

1795
01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:41,080
Speaker 1: September And I thought Craig and I weren't here as

1796
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:43,560
Speaker 1: close because you never sent me a book other than that.

1797
01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 1: Hey man, good luck with those tomato plants. And you

1798
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:48,360
Speaker 1: know I love you and I'll see you soon now.

1799
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 1: I love you guys. Thanks you buch forward to seeing

1800
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:52,960
Speaker 1: you all right, Craig Morgan. Everybody. That's awesome, Thanks Craig.

1801
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:54,639
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, anybody