#606 - Lainey Wilson
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1 hour and 36 minutes
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191.68105
Summary
Lainey Wilson is a country singer and songwriter from Louisiana. She just released the deluxe version of her latest album, Whirlwind, and is on tour now. She always is up to something, and I m so grateful to spend time again with her.
Transcript
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Today's guest is a country singer and songwriter.
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She just released the deluxe version of her latest album, Whirlwind.
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I'm so grateful to spend time again with Miss Lainey Wilson.
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Dang, girl, you got that deluxe coming out, huh?
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I mean, it's five, but I'm already working on that next record.
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I'm already working on the record before the record's out.
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I feel like you're just working in the past and the future.
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That kid that got under there and told that ghost story.
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He put it straight into your eyes and you were like, God.
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Did you ever hear any stories from the Myrtles in St. Francisville, Louisiana?
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I mean, my mama took her gifted students down there.
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I mean, first of all, being gifted in Louisiana, I was in some of those courses.
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I mean, you just got the full alphabet they gave you.
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I remember like regular ed, they were cutting kids off at like M.
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You'd meet kids that could only knew words that had the first half of the alphabet in them.
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But then you'd get in that gifted class and they had, dang, 13 more letters in there.
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I was like, dude, I was never in a gifted program.
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I mean, I'm like, I never really got like diagnosed with it, but I absolutely know that
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You know, I was thinking about, I wasn't thinking about spelling and reading and...
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Yeah, you can't pay attention, but you'll pet something if it shows up.
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This is like, you're holding like right there at the, you know, at the bit.
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And then, so you walk out like this and then you have to like get all four of their feet
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And my horse half the time was a pain in the ass, but I think I got like first runner up,
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I think they, something happened in our area got discontinued for a year or something.
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I think the barn sunk or wherever they were running it out of.
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They had a dang infestation over there or something.
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They took that thing down in a night, that barn.
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They ate all that wood and just took off, you know?
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I bet there's a, because a lot of women put in extra hair.
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I bet there's a horse out there that is so happy you are wearing its hair.
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He's good, but I think I just got the last ride on him.
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I don't know if any of these pictures right here are Tex.
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The one that looks the closest to him is that one right there, though.
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I got him when I was 9 years old and taught me a lot.
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My God, he's got to be getting a pension now, huh?
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And he's, I think he might be like a year or two younger than Tex, but they hang out in the pasture.
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I mean, they are like, you can't separate them.
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As soon as I get a family or something, I'm going to give me a little horse.
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You live on a quarter acre and you got a horse.
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Yeah, I do miss being in Louisiana a lot of times.
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It gets interesting as your life changes when you get outside of there.
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You know, do you notice it feels slower when you go back now?
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That's why I do call and FaceTime my family so much.
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I just kind of, you know, you think about the fast pace of all of this.
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I mean, it is like life is constantly changing every single day.
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But it's important for me to just call back and kind of, that's what kind of plants my feet
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FaceTime my nephews who don't think I am cool at all.
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They were talking about like the farming way of life and the country living life and all
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And she was like, does anybody in here like country music?
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Like, and Knox, he's in the back of class and he's just like, you know, not raising his
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And she's like, Knox, you don't like country music?
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And then she goes, if you had to choose a favorite, who would it be?
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There's nothing I could do that would make them think that I'm cool.
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I mean, I don't know what it takes for these kids, you know?
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They're almost like the damn CMA voters or whatever.
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My little nephews won't even answer my calls anymore.
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They don't, I think they just, they're locked in their own universe, you know?
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So, have you guys, you're just getting married.
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I'd have been dang, I'd have considered it, and I prefer women, you know?
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That would make Superman sit down for a half hour.
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I remember seeing the video, seeing something of it.
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He just lets me do my thing, and he does his, and it just works.
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I wonder what errors people make in that type of thing, I guess.
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I mean, it's so hard because people's schedules just get so hectic.
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Does he come on the road with you if you're out, or does he kind of pop in and out?
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He's busy doing his own stuff, and that's great.
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Like I've always said, I have to have somebody that has their own dreams and goals and motivations,
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and then we have things to talk about and come together and dream.
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I just didn't want to be the only one dreaming kind of thing.
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I got to check in with Mr. Hodges and see what's going on.
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It was from South Mississippi, and it was good.
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I can't even believe I haven't done it that much.
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We have some during the season at our bar downtown, Bell Bottom's up.
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I mean, I'm surprised they don't get hijacked more by criminals and stuff, but I think that's
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Sometimes you get the dark red one, the one that's been to hell and back or whatever.
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They say sometimes it died and got brought back to life.
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I heard the one with real flat tail is the one that was dead before they cooked it.
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I heard that one got around a lot in college, too.
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But there is always like the crawfish that's like way too dark.
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It's like, it just like at the colored way, you're like, what is going on?
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And there's one, sometimes they're still blinking at you a little bit.
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You know, one of them still has got that left turn signal going when you pull them out
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I'm like, some of these you should, people should not be eating.
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You know, congratulations on everything you're doing.
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Every time I would talk to somebody, I'd be like, is Lainey okay?
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Because it seemed like you were just as busy as possible.
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But like, you know, I've been at this for a long time.
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I remember last time you were when we talked about, you know, when you got there and living
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in your camper and, you know, the shower breaking and you standing in there just doing a prayer
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And I feel like the last two years, at least, I felt like all my dreams were really just
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Like, honestly, tenfold more than I could have ever even imagined.
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And it was a lot of opportunity coming at once.
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And I wanted to, I wanted to say yes, because for so long, I didn't have opportunity, you
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I was tired mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, all of it.
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And I am in a healthy, healthy place right now.
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I feel like I've had a lot of balance this year.
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You know, I've learned like what you say yes to now might not even come into effect until
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And so it's, it's important to like protect your peace and, but also like, you know, roll
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It's kind of tough because you feel like I got it, you know, you want to take advantage
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But at the same time, you're like, I don't even like, how do I even show up for this?
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Well, that's the thing too, is what I'm realizing is like how important it is to, I mean, your
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cup's got to be full in order to keep pouring out, you know, and then if you're just pouring
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out from a half empty cup over and over and over again, at some point in time, the dang
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Oh, you turn into a damn methadone clinic at that point.
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Like, I feel like, and especially we put out a record last year called Whirlwind, and
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I think it's just funny how even though like music is the thing that like, how can I say
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it, is the thing that like was about to make me lose my mind, you know, like all of these
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opportunities, it's still the thing that I ran back to.
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It was a thing that like helped me kind of navigate that time of my life was writing more
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music and just like putting pen to paper and picking up my guitar.
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That's like, that's what I do when I was nine years old coming home from school and
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I didn't know how to, you know, talk about what I wanted to talk about.
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I mean, I was, I was writing songs about tequila and cigarettes, you know?
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I have one that went like, uh, my cigarette pack at 10 years old.
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I keep looking for the future, but it comes to the past.
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People would pull up in the yard, like coming to buy a horse from daddy.
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And he'd be like, hey, sing them that song you just wrote last week.
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Just your big tail just popping up out of the back every now and then.
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Wait till you're at that, like, crescendo of your jump to hit the high notes.
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Is that a picture of you in that red and white on top left?
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Yes, and I don't know why, but during this one phase of my life, I was doing, like, this underbite.
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It looked like I need to be on a milk carton, yeah.
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I was just watching, now I seem like a real creep, but I was just watching videos.
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I think I shared it yesterday, or maybe I'd have saved it.
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It's this little girl who just, man, she gets out there and barrel races.
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She must weigh 40 pounds out there and looks like she has two jobs.
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I wish I could, if I had, like, that would be one thing I would like to invest in a rodeo
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team, if I could get enough money and then invest in, like, a rodeo team, you know?
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You let me know when you need some more investors.
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But my daddy is still the president of the rodeo committee back at home.
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And so it's like, it's just, there's something about it.
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Even when you just roll up and you just smell it, you know?
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We used to barrel race and we were PRCA flag girls and all that.
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So I'd ride in with the flag and sing the national anthem and screw the lyrics up every
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There was a text message, you know, back when there used to be, like, forward this to 10
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If you don't, you're going to die kind of thing.
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There was a text message going around the arena that ended up making its way to my sister
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somehow that said, did you hear Laney Wilson mess up the national anthem, send this to 10
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Dude, if she worked for DoorDash, we'd be getting our stuff quick.
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Yeah, I love, I mean, I just, like, even just growing up in Louisiana, like, did y'all
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And we'd ride through the town, and everybody'd come out, and we'd throw candy, and...
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Did you do a lot of, like, Mardi Gras parades and stuff like that?
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But the parade in our town, they had, like, even the people in it would be, like, tallest
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Yeah, it would be, like, kid who can walk backwards.
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We don't do that kind of stuff in North Louisiana.
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First of all, they're not that different than each other, okay?
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I mean, they are, but these are, like, our heroes in the community or whatever, you know?
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And they would just walk through the parade or, like, be in a car and wave?
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Sometimes, if you had a little bit of cash, you'd get your daughter out there or whatever.
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That was a neat thing, I thought, because it was kind of showcasing the goods of the
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I mean, that was kind of the original OnlyFans.
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I mean, like, you know, kind of more of a Christian OnlyFans version, but driving a decent woman,
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So, there are so many, like, different festivals in Louisiana, what I've realized, and I got to
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It was like the Duck Queen, the Duck Festival Queen.
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It was like the Strawberry Festival Queen, the Watermelon Festival Queen.
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It was like any kind of queen you could think of, any kind of animal or fruit.
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In rain, they had the Frog Princess or whatever.
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Yeah, they have, like, the Mosquito Queen or whatever.
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Just some nervous, this thin girl, just standing on all fours, just shaking.
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Do you notice, like, as your career gets busier, that, like, you have to spend so much more
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And it changes, like, is there stuff that you miss from, like, the earlier parts?
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You know, I don't miss going to the grocery store, I'll tell you that.
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Well, the one area gets so cold or whatever, you got to go in there to get the cold goods
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That's right, and you got to run over to the other side just to warm up.
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God, I'd be in there looking at something, and I'd be like, oh, I'll be right back, and
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I have to go over there and just go like this by the cereal boxes and then head back
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over there, or I'd open up that little chicken warmer thing they got out of here standing
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Oh, I'd be, well, I wouldn't get in, but I'd put my hands in, like, you know.
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I feel like I'll be the guy, like, at a Circle K who will have both of his hands in that,
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That right there is why nobody needs to be eating the hot dogs from the convenience stores
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Well, they should have a little warming section right above that for people that are cold.
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And, I mean, of course, there's things that I miss, but I also know, like, on a serious
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And so, I just think, like, with anything in life, there are times when there are things
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And so, I'm okay with that because this is what I feel like I was, like, born to do and
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It's tough sometimes because you want to be the same person, but also who you are changes
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And, you know, like, I didn't really, like, sign up to be a businesswoman or whatever,
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You have to, like, rise to the occasion and other opportunities have come my way and I'd
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be silly not to, you know, to hear what it's about and take that step.
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So, I thought when growing up, you know, when I was jumping on the trampoline and singing
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Freedom At Last, I thought that I was just going to be writing music and playing shows
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This is, like, 80% business and 20% music, but I'm willing to do the 80% business so I
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It's just all, it's mostly all the music, I guess.
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Or actually, I don't know if now, maybe it hasn't merged more, like, you have to make
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I remember having to make my own flyers at home and, like, trying to figure them out on
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My granny used to make these little, like, CD covers and little stickers.
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Like, put them off on the computer, like, we'd burn the CDs where I'd recorded some songs.
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Dude, I found a triple-decker CD burner one time.
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Look, my daddy found a burnt CD of ours that had Colt 45 on it.
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He popped it in the CD player and listened to it.
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At the marijuana bar, we can take our turns singing them dirty rap songs.
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Next time I see you, you better have learned every lyric to this song.
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You need to come up at a show, and we do Colt 45.
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As long as your dad will dang two-step over there on the side a little.
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We'll get the trampoline out there, too, I think.
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I saw Afro Man at a frat party one time up at University of Mississippi,
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And just threw it, and some, like, some freshman kid just was, like, excited.
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I think he thought it was just a hat, not that a hat that had vomit in it.
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But, yeah, Afro Man, that guy's played everywhere, huh?
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Colt 45, I don't remember it, but I believe that it happened.
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But my daddy, like, he, like, tore up the CD, and, you know, he's like, you ain't going
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But it was okay for me to write about tequila and cigarettes, you know, and be like, hey,
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I guess as long as you were, like, the person writing that made everything okay, you know.
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So when I was writing Whirlwind, like I was saying earlier,
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it was like during that time of my life that was chaotic
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And then I felt like after the dust kind of settled
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I had a minute to really just kind of like just get my stuff together.
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And so I just wanted to, you know, add a little bit to the story.
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One of my favorite songs I've ever written is on there.
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What made you feel like it was your favorite kind of?
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And you just kind of feel like the song's going to be around for a long time.
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Even if that just means that like you're going to sing it 30, 50 years from now.
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I was like, I'd be okay with singing this song for the rest of forever.
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Do you feel like you can't do any more vehicle songs?
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One called King Ranch, King George, King James.
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Yeah, I got a heart like a damn F-150 hybrid, I think.
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What about, look up some Lainey Wilson songs that she,
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I think you need an MRI, bro, if you have a twang in your bones.
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It sounds like you need some damn calamine lotion.
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Dude, there has been a time where I thought I was about to have hiccups on stage.
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Oh, I think you're supposed to eat a bunch of sugar or something, right?
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And then there was one time where I was like, I don't know what's happening, but I feel like
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And it's just like you have to just get it off your, like somehow get it off your mind.
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Just like start staring at somebody or you're about to sneeze.
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One guy came to get, like, somebody was introduced me to their friend the other day, and the
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guy just kind of came in for, and as he's coming in for like a close, like handshake
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And I think that's like a mating call in some cultures or whatever.
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I didn't mean it to be, but it just was like, I don't know.
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I was like, well, what do you expect, you know?
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So then that's what I think about the government.
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What are some of the goofier titles bringing back up?
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That's what you're doing over there, right there.
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Hardy took me and some of my crew to a strip club in Huntsville.
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Well, he gave me 101s, and it was like, have fun.
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And you're over there just buying biscuits and gravy?
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Well, it wasn't biscuits and gravy night that night.
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I've seen them do bingo night at a strip club, too, which is kind of cool.
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Because everybody will get right up there and be using their blotters and stuff.
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And some of the Christian women will even blot out their eyes so they don't see all the sexual stuff.
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Yeah, we're going to have to ride on down there.
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I'll take Tex for one last ride down there to Huntsville.
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I'm trying to think of what food goes good with a good tit or whatever.
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We're kind of like, I shouldn't even say it, but, you know.
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I don't know if this is true or not, but they were like, y'all got to come back for biscuits and gravy night, blah, blah, blah.
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And I thought, oh, that's nice, you know, sit around, eat some biscuits and gravy.
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They're rolling around in the gravy and people are throwing the biscuits.
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If I took her and you didn't get to eat it, she would be upset.
00:37:59.620
Oh, this is Uncle Buck's third annual biscuits and gravy rassling.
00:38:08.020
Well, the recipe better be good because I'll tell you this.
00:38:18.440
You're telling me somebody ain't going to whip something around fast enough or just something's going to land in my mouth, honey?
00:38:36.680
Could y'all even trick or treat or was there not enough folks?
00:38:39.160
We'd have to go to Monroe to trick or treat because that was like the biggest town.
00:38:47.360
People that had lights out in front of their house.
00:38:58.100
But some people had a light right outside of their front door and I was like, you got
00:39:04.980
Must be nice to open your front door and see what's happening in the world at night.
00:39:14.360
But we would like some years, like I lived on this one road that we just had a few neighbors.
00:39:19.960
And so we'd go like see my granny and we'd go see, you know, the Olivos and we'd go
00:39:33.960
I had some kind of alternative or not like like our mom was always working.
00:39:38.500
So we'd have to get dressed up like our dad was like in charge of getting us dressed up
00:39:49.420
Oh, I remember one year I was a ghost, but I was like too scared to stand to the sheet
00:39:54.960
Yeah, or I was just like, I'd be like, ooh, but then I'd lift it up and be like, it's
00:40:09.520
One year I had a little chair, like a kid's chair that we put like around a rope on my
00:40:22.280
That parade that went through your town, that's the parade you needed to be in.
00:40:30.940
He's over there just trying to whistle at people.
00:40:37.060
Dude, yeah, there was something nice about that or somebody that had too many freckles,
00:40:43.680
You know, there'd always be some girl named Abigail or something that had too many dang freckles.
00:40:48.080
Dude, I'll tell you something that was amazing was, I was in, I had a show in Winnipeg, Canada
00:40:55.500
They said there's some people here that are actors in town that were doing a show here
00:41:00.340
and they wanted to come and say hello and I got to meet the people from Little House
00:41:11.720
It's coming out and I got to go to set the next day too.
00:41:18.420
Was it just like even the, like the clothes and everything just seemed like from a different
00:41:30.840
You think you'd ever want to be in something like that?
00:41:33.260
I met the man who's doing Charles Ingalls and he's, I would have to be his brother that
00:41:40.780
Because he's really got the looks all locked up, you know?
00:41:45.960
They keep all the good looks to themselves, you know?
00:41:52.800
They're over there looking at photos of themselves and shit and I'm just hiding from mirrors,
00:42:00.360
I'm over there just buying five watt bulbs from my house, you know, just trying to keep
00:42:09.920
I was in one pageant and it was a Farm Bureau pageant.
00:42:17.500
My mama back in the day was the Farm Bureau queen and so she was like, you know, I'd love
00:42:25.740
And so the onstage question was, what does agriculture mean to you?
00:42:31.900
And I think I had one line and I think it was what really sealed the deal.
00:42:35.220
And I said, agriculture is the backbone of America.
00:42:40.160
And then I think they just said, give it to her.
00:42:46.580
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was right there.
00:42:56.800
But my sister, she went through a little phase where she was doing some pageants and this
00:43:03.140
is hilarious, but she was doing the watermelon pageant.
00:43:07.760
And she gets up to the microphone and she goes, I'm Jana Wilson, Kunkeska Kent number three.
00:43:37.900
And they asked her, they said, what does going green mean to you?
00:43:48.820
Y'all needed what y'all needed was like a kind of a question answer groom or something.
00:44:10.280
Yeah, we got to get these crops out of the ground.
00:44:15.100
Did you ever, did you tune in with a lot of that JonBenet stuff?
00:44:21.840
Being a kid, I remember a little something about all that.
00:44:24.960
But is there a new like show or something that's out about it right now?
00:44:35.180
And I mean, I think it's one of those weird things because like a little kid was like
00:44:43.220
I think, and I know he's not going to be happy to hear me say this.
00:44:47.200
And I'd love to have him come on the podcast and talk about it sometime.
00:44:52.280
I shouldn't have said that or he might have come on.
00:45:08.620
But yeah, anyway, sorry to bring the buzz down.
00:45:24.180
Was there people in there out there where you're like, oh, this kid, you know, like
00:45:27.980
did you, were you guys that deep in the trenches of it?
00:45:32.260
We like went to the consignment shop and bought up, you know, bought the dress they had.
00:45:41.740
Yeah, you guys were just kind of last minute pageant.
00:45:43.840
We're just like, or a double up, like if for the Farm Bureau pageant, I was like, I'm
00:45:48.700
gonna wear my prom dress for like, I'm gonna, we got to get our money's worth, you know?
00:46:03.240
They did have a good, but I didn't have any direction as a child and I did get to dress
00:46:22.000
And then one year, one year I did do a nice outfit.
00:46:25.480
It was kind of like a bow tie and stuff like that.
00:46:27.500
Maybe see if you can search that up real quick.
00:46:35.160
Well, I'd seen somebody else dress nice and I was like, oh, I see what they're doing.
00:46:44.040
That's when I lived in Russia for a little while.
00:47:00.580
What if that picture of you and I look the same?
00:47:24.160
My mama got my ears pierced when I was like a few months old.
00:47:35.900
Your kid can't even see that good and you got dang, you know, you got...
00:47:42.520
You got some big hoops coming off her or something.
00:47:46.340
What's the youngest you can get a child's ears pierced in America?
00:47:54.780
There's got to be like a catch and release type of thing or something.
00:47:57.860
What's the youngest age to pierce a child here?
00:48:07.880
Because I guess if they put in that metal or semi-precious metal through your ear...
00:48:13.460
You can't be allergic to things that are semi-precious.
00:48:20.020
When you're touring, are you choosing places to go now?
00:48:24.280
Well, it's kind of like mapped out to the point where it's like...
00:48:28.540
It's like, we want to try to make sure that, you know, we're letting the demand build back up in that city and things like that.
00:48:35.880
And then trying to make sure that we are going to different places, you know, kind of like popping in some of these little corners that we hadn't really got to hit just yet.
00:48:46.220
It's a team effort of just figuring out where we're going.
00:48:55.700
Bring it up real quick, just so you don't forget to go.
00:49:05.840
It's the most beautiful beach I've seen that's not like a super tropical place, if that makes any sense.
00:49:18.080
If you have a family and stuff, do you think you'll raise them over there in Nashville or not?
00:49:23.580
Well, I think Nashville's just a good spot, like, even if, you know, music wasn't a thing.
00:49:29.540
I think they got, like, good schools, and I feel like you can go far out...
00:49:34.880
Right now, you can go far out enough on any side and still feel like you're in the country.
00:49:40.500
I want to raise my kids like I did, like, playing in the dirt, and I don't know.
00:49:48.140
I just want them to, like, be outside and do the things that we grew up doing.
00:49:53.780
And, like, just enjoy those things, too, because, man, you see these kids at these
00:49:58.220
supper tables on their iPads and on cell phones.
00:50:03.620
Grilling, like, digital meats and stuff on there.
00:50:08.180
Me and Duck took some kids that he coached last year to eat Mexican food not too long ago,
00:50:24.480
That's the Louisiana way of kind of saying we're having a United Nations meeting.
00:50:32.140
But these two boys sitting across from us, they were twins, and they were just, like,
00:50:39.500
for 17 years old, like, carrying on, great conversation, making eye contact.
00:50:47.140
You could just tell that they were, like, raised right.
00:50:49.980
And then I realized, like, they said they had never had social media.
00:50:53.620
And I was like, that's why you can carry on a conversation?
00:51:01.500
Well, a lot of people are homeschooling their kids now, too.
00:51:04.580
And keeping everything away from them, you know?
00:51:08.460
Which I'm not trying to, like, you know, keep everything away from them, because I think
00:51:15.780
Well, they said there's pedophiles in the roadblocks now.
00:51:25.440
Well, yeah, but I didn't think they were in the roadblocks, honey, you know?
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So, I just want you to think I'm making that up.
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You have to be protecting and watching, like...
00:52:17.700
With a unique style that a lot of people don't do.
00:52:22.040
A lot of people breathe straight into the lungs.
00:52:25.340
What are you, like people's elbow on them or something?
00:52:48.400
Just by somebody in town that was a sheriff gave you one?
00:52:55.720
And then daddy was like, I'll do it if Laney can do it.
00:53:06.340
I was at a Vols game like probably a year and a half ago.
00:53:08.420
And some guy up there, and I won't say he was an alcoholic, but he had drunk a lot.
00:53:15.400
And you could tell because some of his kids didn't even talk to him or whatever.
00:53:18.220
But anyway, what I was saying was, he was like kind of, he was getting drunk.
00:53:24.100
And I said, I'm going to go downstairs and say to somebody, and he goes, well, look, man,
00:53:28.960
if you have any trouble down there, he goes, I'm a sheriff.
00:53:40.040
And then something happened in this area where like some people started, like we're kind
00:53:47.980
You're like, you had the right to mean silence.
00:54:07.340
And then a real cop, a female, a police officer, kind of like pushed me up against the wall.
00:54:15.300
And they, she like, uh, was like rep reminding me for having a fake identification or whatever.
00:54:22.040
And I was like, the guy gave it to me, you know, but it was spooky for a minute.
00:54:29.040
I thought you were really about to get in trouble.
00:54:33.780
Probably two years ago or maybe a year and a half.
00:54:35.980
I think they were playing Georgia or something.
00:54:37.780
And they got their, they got their tails kicked.
00:54:41.900
But I remember like, God, that guy's the worst sheriff or whatever.
00:54:49.480
If you got a piss somewhere or something or just whatever, that shit gets heavy.
00:55:08.200
That looks like a, first of all, that looks like a pretty decent looking woman in the town.
00:55:18.400
When we had our bus driver, we cut everybody's hair.
00:55:25.720
I thought you meant as y'all were walking off the bus, he just.
00:55:41.440
Everybody'd be looking slick walking off there.
00:55:46.360
And the best thing is if everybody looks the same, nobody looks better or worse.
00:56:00.880
I think if you just look through pictures of me online, you'll see them.
00:56:05.100
I went to that Roberts Beauty College or something that was in our town and they were running
00:56:12.040
And I was like, well, at that price, I got to go over there.
00:56:22.460
And they were letting people that were just like, I don't even know if they were hair cutters.
00:56:27.200
Some of them were just like recovering mechanics and stuff.
00:56:30.980
Anybody who could keep their hands stable enough in that bitch, they put a pair of scissors
00:56:40.060
And I had to walk home about two and a half miles.
00:56:44.420
And I kept trying to get a good reflection in my head and different things I was walking
00:56:48.320
Dude, a bad haircut, like a real bad haircut can, it can be painful.
00:56:54.740
Well, especially as a man, because it's like you don't have, as a man, you're not going
00:57:06.820
And then you just got to wait for it to grow back.
00:57:10.840
You know, maybe you can do eye drops, but otherwise it is a haircut.
00:57:21.500
Well, I don't know, but I'm going to tell you right now, I didn't think it was funny.
00:57:26.160
I said, you better sleep with a ball cap on until that thing grows out.
00:57:33.660
We'll take him down a day in Panama City and let him make a little bit of money.
00:57:38.160
As a joke, we were playing Panama City and my mama and his mama, and he had this bright
00:58:09.480
Do you have to play at your own wedding if you're like a really good musician?
00:58:16.740
I want it to be about what it's supposed to be about that day.
00:58:21.420
I might write him a song or something and share it later on or whatever before, but
00:58:31.800
Yeah, I just didn't know if you have to play at your own.
00:58:36.880
I want to have some kind of jazz band or something like that.
00:58:46.780
We went and watched a show in Nashville when he was there.
00:58:51.120
Yeah, it's just like, it's great energy, you know?
00:59:22.520
It's like they stepped out of another time and they're just doing something so different.
00:59:31.700
And their audience, it's a lot of men, too, are their fans, I realized.
00:59:45.080
Oh, my goodness gracious, let me tell you the news.
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Do you like to do a lot of collaborations like that or do you not like it?
01:00:31.340
But I was doing a bunch of collaborations there for a minute.
01:01:09.340
Yeah, I got a damn heart like a damn little 50cc motorcycle, honey.
01:01:14.880
Yeah, I got a heart, got a damn outboard motor on it.
01:01:24.720
I got a heart that's got damn training wheels on it.
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So right when I think they don't love me, he says stuff like that to my sister.
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Yeah, I think it would be fun to like teach a kid
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But I don't want the homeschool kid that stays at home
01:07:23.920
but I think I may just say that because of hard worker.
01:07:30.720
and just help get my kind of sights lined up, you know?
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but I embarrassed to think that I let somebody do me that way.
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and then met somebody who just would never in a million years.
01:08:45.300
but those years were like really important for me.
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I'm not going to spend a few years of my life with this person.
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And I hate to say that this is even a quality on my list,
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I want to do even more of it because I want to see how fine tune could you get that arrow?
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I'm texting her right whenever I get her number.
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I'm just trying to like envision what this chick is going to be like.
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I want to be able to have kids that have like a comfortable,
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Maybe she has a couple of animals or something.
01:11:08.460
You could see they're trying to do their own little zoo or something.
01:12:10.280
because I was in like several different episodes,
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it was probably like a little bit more filming.
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because we've talked about it on too many episodes.
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So it's probably like putting a record together.