This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #651 - Ella Langley

00:00:00.000 Just a reminder that tickets for Busboys, the movie with myself and David Spade are on sale right now.

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00:00:34.640 I'm excited.

00:00:35.680 Thank you.

00:00:37.760 Today's guest is one of the biggest country artists in the game right now.

00:00:42.300 And I think for the future, she's got that power in her voice.

00:00:46.620 She's got that, you know, it's raw but refined. 0.99

00:00:51.720 It's delightful.

00:00:54.260 Her new album, Dandelion, is out Friday, April 10th.

00:00:58.440 wherever you stream music, and she'll be taking it on tour as well.

00:01:02.860 I'm excited to sit down today with the one-of-one, Miss Ella Langley.

00:01:25.340 And it's a little warm here. Do y'all feel that?

00:01:27.740 I feel great.

00:01:29.620 Damn, all right.

00:01:31.420 You want a little flow?

00:01:35.560 My little brother.

00:01:36.980 He ordered it.

00:01:37.540 Yeah, I know who he is.

00:01:38.220 I met him on the way in.

00:01:39.940 You meet the whole family now, pretty much.

00:01:42.280 Hey, I have.

00:01:44.220 I have.

00:01:45.560 That guy was fresh off the damn boat.

00:01:48.880 He seemed like he had some real grit to him.

00:01:52.060 We'll talk about him.

00:01:53.140 You could say that.

00:01:54.680 Yeah.

00:01:56.380 He do?

00:01:57.160 He do?

00:01:57.880 Yeah, yeah, he do.

00:01:59.740 Yeah, I met y'all's granddaddy.

00:02:01.120 He was a real...

00:02:03.320 He definitely seemed like he could just fix a flat tire with his tongue.

00:02:08.000 That guy had some grit in him.

00:02:09.020 What?

00:02:09.640 I mean, not like in a perverted way.

00:02:11.040 I mean, he seemed like he could just hold a car up while somebody fixed a tire.

00:02:15.140 He does love cars.

00:02:16.240 Does he really?

00:02:16.780 Yeah.

00:02:17.400 I didn't know that.

00:02:18.840 Tesla's big Tesla guy.

00:02:20.760 He is?

00:02:21.240 Loves him.

00:02:21.760 He's like one of them future babies or whatever?

00:02:24.500 Sure, yeah.

00:02:25.900 But I mean, he's like a guy that, I don't know.

00:02:29.400 I've pictured him more of like a garage type of guy, maybe.

00:02:34.180 I don't know.

00:02:34.640 Maybe I didn't.

00:02:35.280 He said he went to see the Grateful Dead, I think I remember him saying.

00:02:37.560 Yeah, he's my hippie grandpa.

00:02:39.700 Okay.

00:02:40.320 Yeah, so my parents are split in two, kind of.

00:02:42.820 Like, my mom's, you met her, too.

00:02:44.760 Oh, yeah, I met your mom.

00:02:45.880 Yeah, you did.

00:02:47.100 Dude, I met your mom.

00:02:47.840 I talked to her for probably almost 20 minutes.

00:02:49.280 I know.

00:02:49.640 I came in, and you were hanging out with my mom and my grandpa.

00:02:52.100 Yes.

00:02:52.360 What's going on here?

00:02:53.180 I don't know what was going on.

00:02:54.500 maybe it's my real family um yeah it was that jelly roll show liney's jelly roll was there

00:03:00.900 though yeah and you were on it too i walked out there you sang yeah yeah you guys did a great

00:03:07.720 job it was awesome that was cool yeah it was cool she's so good yeah she is just really

00:03:12.320 and she like kind of embraced i think some people get to certain points in their career where they

00:03:16.860 kind of embrace being this like thing that's bigger than them and i think she like she's done

00:03:25.040 that kind of yeah she's so good at giving her all all the time yeah i feel like i have to have

00:03:32.340 time away like recluse time and if i don't get that then i'm like an insane person even more

00:03:38.820 than usual really that's how i am yeah but laney dude she just goes and goes and goes like even 1.00

00:03:44.540 after the um cma awards we went to her bar afterwards here she is in her last outfit or

00:03:49.840 camo outfit you know like the cape the badass thing she had on i haven't seen that bring up 1.00

00:03:54.200 that camo she's in a damn camo cape yeah it was really good i love that outfit but she's then 1.00

00:03:59.060 she's in there shaking everyone's hand you know meeting everyone she's just hosted the awards by 1.00

00:04:03.640 herself and running around and yes she kind of yeah she just goes yes oh she looks like a nice

00:04:09.920 beautiful duck blind I feel like yeah I mean I bet a lot of fellas would show up to one hunt from 0.99

00:04:16.920 that I think but anyway she's also married I think but anyway sorry what are we talking about almost

00:04:22.040 um okay let me think about where we should start from sorry I'm trying to grow up in church I did

00:04:30.160 I don't think it was like the best church or whatever though what kind what denomination

00:04:34.160 It was like six, I think maybe Six Baptists or something.

00:04:38.400 I'm not even sure.

00:04:39.240 It was like—

00:04:39.720 Six Baptists? 0.91

00:04:40.940 It was like one of the—it was not—it was like—

00:04:44.280 One of them.

00:04:44.960 It was, yeah.

00:04:46.260 It was pretty—it was wild.

00:04:47.900 Yeah, no, I grew up with Southern Baptists.

00:04:49.440 You did?

00:04:49.900 Yeah.

00:04:50.300 Oh, gosh.

00:04:51.060 Really, really small church.

00:04:52.580 It started in a barn.

00:04:55.160 The house that I also grew up in, my dad grew up in, and there was an old barn across the street,

00:05:01.740 And it started in hay bales on that barn.

00:05:03.580 And then they moved it to a church.

00:05:04.800 And I mean, every Sunday and Wednesday.

00:05:07.080 I was 18 years old.

00:05:08.360 Yeah.

00:05:08.580 Was it a big part of your social life too?

00:05:10.660 Yeah.

00:05:11.160 Yeah.

00:05:11.400 I was homeschooled for some years.

00:05:12.740 So pretty much all we did was go to church.

00:05:15.120 No.

00:05:15.520 And what state were you homeschooled in?

00:05:16.980 Alabama?

00:05:17.480 Yeah.

00:05:17.920 South Alabama.

00:05:18.940 It's Montgomery.

00:05:20.300 That's one place.

00:05:21.160 I don't know if I would accept homeschooling in, to be honest.

00:05:23.700 We didn't do much school, you know.

00:05:26.600 Yeah.

00:05:26.860 We just played outside.

00:05:28.320 Oh, yeah.

00:05:28.820 But that's sometimes the best school.

00:05:30.660 It really was.

00:05:31.620 Oh.

00:05:32.360 It's like my imagination got to live longer than most.

00:05:36.360 Yeah.

00:05:37.040 That's a good point because you kind of take kids and you put them in like this way.

00:05:39.480 It's almost like being in a laboratory at a school.

00:05:41.700 Like you're sitting under there on those lights or whatever.

00:05:44.060 Some kid's eating paste or whatever and you're supposed to like not say something.

00:05:47.140 Yeah.

00:05:47.360 I got in trouble a lot.

00:05:48.420 I went into kindergarten and first grade and I was always in trouble.

00:05:51.380 Like what was the crime you were guilty of?

00:05:53.480 Talking.

00:05:54.720 Distracting others.

00:05:56.080 Yeah, dude.

00:05:56.740 well how great was that in school when you got back on your thing distracting others

00:06:02.640 distracting others um i had like a designated seat in the corner it was like this little green

00:06:08.480 metal desk and it was facing the corner and i just like sit over there oh i know

00:06:13.140 distracting and what do you think you were distracting them from probably i don't know

00:06:17.740 anything just talking and were you trying to get people to see you you think or you were just you

00:06:22.580 had something to say what it was going on there ella lyingly i just think that school is boring

00:06:26.820 for me i did not like that god i did not like it at all the whole time naps hated it what do you

00:06:33.480 mean i have to sit still for this long we had this lady named miss robin she kind of had hair like 1.00

00:06:37.040 yours a little bit and she would uh on nap time at when everybody's asleep she'd come over and

00:06:42.640 kind of kick me a little bit and she'd let me go out with her and watch her smoke cigarettes and

00:06:45.920 shit so i mean she's pretty good yeah she was cool and her husband was apparently he had some

00:06:51.560 domestic charges or whatever but anyway she let me spend time with her and watch her smoke 0.96

00:06:55.740 she probably needed it yeah like you're a confidant at a young age yeah dude i was just

00:07:00.240 sitting there that makes sense just leaning on this tire this car life lessons this lady you 0.98

00:07:04.620 know you're like well you know what i would do is like yeah carl is a piece of shit you know just 0.83

00:07:09.520 helping her out but she would smoke and she had this kind of like this kind of country you know

00:07:14.640 sometimes that when they get that feathered real country feathered look you know when it has a

00:07:19.680 a lot of feathers yeah a lot of feathers going on just a damn mallard of a woman you know 1.00

00:07:25.340 yeah but i remember that that was a good time i remember but yeah when you got distracting

00:07:30.840 others was just like gosh yeah and you were guilty of it too yeah yeah i had a bunch of

00:07:38.180 eye surgeries when i when i was young um and so like for the muscles in my eyes and what happened

00:07:44.260 you had bad eye muscles yeah sometimes i just be a little cross-eyed yeah yeah sometimes oh god

00:07:50.040 You know, well, you know.

00:07:51.240 And you were in the choir, too?

00:07:52.440 Was you just that cross-eyed girl to sing in the choir?

00:07:54.480 Everywhere I was, yeah.

00:07:55.660 Everywhere singing my heart out.

00:07:57.160 But then I had some surgeries, and then the teacher was like,

00:08:00.340 she just is not paying attention in here.

00:08:02.040 So, homeschooled until sixth grade,

00:08:05.100 and then seventh grade went back to the same high school my dad went to.

00:08:08.480 Graduated with 32 kids.

00:08:10.200 But how could you pay attention if your eyes weren't even teammates,

00:08:13.040 like buddies or whatever?

00:08:15.240 No, the doctor described it to me.

00:08:16.480 I just had another one, like, two, maybe three years ago.

00:08:21.900 And it's kind of brutal, honestly.

00:08:23.760 Like, they have to take your eyeballs out.

00:08:25.240 You're lying.

00:08:25.740 I swear, dude.

00:08:26.760 My God.

00:08:27.480 They get in there.

00:08:28.320 It's crazy.

00:08:29.020 And they go inside?

00:08:30.080 Yeah, get in there.

00:08:31.140 What's it called?

00:08:32.360 I don't know.

00:08:33.940 Damn.

00:08:34.620 I just called it eye surgeries.

00:08:36.900 Yes.

00:08:37.380 Yeah.

00:08:38.460 Yeah, that's fair.

00:08:39.800 But she described it to me like a horse and carriage, you know,

00:08:42.480 when you have two horses.

00:08:43.280 and one can't be going this way

00:08:45.600 and one can't be going this way

00:08:46.800 and it's not going to work, you know,

00:08:48.360 so they got to learn to work together

00:08:49.680 and mine just never did.

00:08:53.400 And now you got them trusty steeds in your face, huh?

00:08:55.480 Yeah, sometimes they slip up,

00:08:56.800 but it's all right.

00:08:57.300 That's just good character.

00:08:58.580 You can just go like that.

00:08:59.640 Yeah, yeah.

00:09:00.480 I just look at everybody like this,

00:09:01.920 you know what I mean?

00:09:02.620 Yeah, get them in line.

00:09:03.900 Wink, keep winking a lot.

00:09:05.020 Yeah, that's wild.

00:09:06.500 Did y'all have school dances?

00:09:08.860 Well, I guess you've used homeschool,

00:09:10.000 but once you went to your dad's school,

00:09:11.940 the same school he went to,

00:09:12.720 Did you guys have dances at school?

00:09:14.100 Yeah, it was like normal school.

00:09:15.620 Did y'all have like Sadie Hawkins and stuff like that?

00:09:17.300 Was like kind of Southern style or what was the...

00:09:19.340 No, it wasn't like a rich private school.

00:09:22.640 Like this is out in the country.

00:09:26.340 Sadie Hawkins, I guess.

00:09:27.640 You had to buy a t-shirt for something.

00:09:29.280 Like the girl had to ask...

00:09:30.380 Just like a homecoming dance?

00:09:31.720 No, the girl had to ask the guy and he had to get him a shirt that matched.

00:09:35.260 You had to do matching shirts or whatever.

00:09:37.720 You didn't have it?

00:09:39.120 Mm-mm.

00:09:39.340 But if y'all had to dance, what did y'all do with only that many students in the class?

00:09:44.760 I would just dance.

00:09:45.720 I don't know.

00:09:46.600 We just danced around.

00:09:48.280 Usually, we didn't stay that long.

00:09:49.760 We'd go to like a bonfire or something afterwards.

00:09:51.720 But was it hard to date like in a school that small?

00:09:53.780 Was it hard to fall?

00:09:54.560 Like, was it, what was the energy like that?

00:09:56.360 I mean, you've known all these people your whole life.

00:09:58.220 You know, they're, you know, what they're driving.

00:10:00.260 You know, what their parents drive.

00:10:01.500 I mean.

00:10:01.860 Yeah.

00:10:02.900 I mean, you know how it is.

00:10:04.380 Yeah.

00:10:04.600 That's why I really, this town and this job is very similar to a small town.

00:10:11.300 You get used to, like, I kind of look at the fame thing like that now, you know?

00:10:16.780 Because when you're in a small town, like, I would hear shit about me all the time.

00:10:19.960 I'm like, I did what?

00:10:22.380 You know?

00:10:22.940 Yeah.

00:10:23.520 And I don't know.

00:10:24.500 You just get used to that.

00:10:26.520 Do you think not being from Nashville is better coming into this kind of place?

00:10:31.960 like is it does it when you get here does it get so like is like the music scene uh for lack of a

00:10:38.900 better term is it more like is it so some type of way if you're from nashville do you think it

00:10:44.780 feels different probably i mean earn is from nashville i mean he's been here the whole time

00:10:51.920 but i'm i guess i was like does he feel like more of a pressure more of a response but i wonder i

00:10:56.520 guess i just wonder if anything's different like if you come from an outside group does it feel

00:10:59.900 tough or does it feel easier maybe or do you i think people probably in your town that you're

00:11:04.260 from look at you a little crazier you know i'm like 16 years old playing in weddings 18 years

00:11:11.100 old you know i went to auburn for two years university but i was playing shows the whole

00:11:16.460 time uh was that your first shows down there uh no actually my first show was at this tiny little

00:11:23.760 bar called bezlow's it's um this lake in alabama is called lake martin but there's all these little

00:11:28.900 Dude, I've been on Lake Martin.

00:11:30.860 Bring up Lake Martin, dude.

00:11:32.360 I can't even believe you said Lake Martin.

00:11:33.800 Yeah, this is the lake I grew up going to every summer.

00:11:37.120 It's one of the, actually, the biggest man-made lakes, I believe, in the, I want to say the

00:11:45.140 world.

00:11:45.440 It's not the world, but it's, I think, North America, at least.

00:11:48.400 It could be the world.

00:11:49.160 If you're from Alabama, that is the damn world. 0.99

00:11:51.120 Exactly.

00:11:52.180 I remember when going to Florida would seem like it was like, God, somebody had went to

00:11:55.600 damn mall, like they'd done it.

00:11:59.280 Like if somebody come back from summertime and they'd gone to Florida,

00:12:01.760 they had just done it.

00:12:02.840 They had won the world.

00:12:04.440 Big time.

00:12:04.880 Yes.

00:12:05.480 Or they had a shirt on that said Florida or Hard Rock.

00:12:08.200 One of those.

00:12:09.200 Hard Rock Destin or whatever.

00:12:10.700 The painted ones, whatever they do with the little air gun.

00:12:13.080 What is it?

00:12:13.420 Yeah, that shit.

00:12:14.140 An airbrush.

00:12:15.020 Yeah.

00:12:15.540 Ricky's in Destin or whatever.

00:12:17.780 Sick sunglasses.

00:12:19.100 God, and just a fist jumping across the back or something. 0.56

00:12:21.800 Everyone has like a tan line from the weird little band you have to wear.

00:12:25.000 It pulls your hair the whole time.

00:12:26.580 God.

00:12:27.460 Lake Martin in Alabama is considered the world's largest man-made lake.

00:12:30.260 Wow.

00:12:30.900 Upon its completion in 1926.

00:12:33.340 Created by the Martin Dam on the Talapusa River.

00:12:36.800 It covers approximately 40,000 to 44,000 acres.

00:12:39.860 Yeah, I had a girlfriend when I was a child, and we went out there.

00:12:42.700 And her family had a lake house out there.

00:12:44.580 And we'd go out there, do like, what's it called when you're kind of like behind?

00:12:49.260 Jet skis?

00:12:50.080 No, no, when you're behind the, you're like on the board, and you're like behind the.

00:12:54.540 Oh, a knee boarding? 0.97

00:12:55.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:56.240 Leg boarding.

00:12:56.800 Knee boarding, leg boarding, all of it. 0.87

00:12:58.820 Yeah.

00:12:59.100 Full body boarding.

00:13:00.020 Foot boarding.

00:13:00.720 Foot boarding.

00:13:01.520 Yeah.

00:13:01.740 Yeah, we was just boarding.

00:13:03.260 I mean, you'd see somebody out there on a fucking piece of plywood out there just managing

00:13:07.360 that bitch along the wake. 1.00

00:13:09.220 Yeah.

00:13:09.380 It was beautiful out there.

00:13:10.900 Yeah, that's what we did all summer.

00:13:12.300 Yeah, I loved it.

00:13:13.160 And lake life.

00:13:14.200 Like, lake life is different, dude.

00:13:15.740 Strange shit happens out there.

00:13:17.060 Especially lake life in the country.

00:13:18.720 Yeah.

00:13:19.820 There's some real perverts out there, too, I will say that.

00:13:23.160 Some damp perverts or whatever.

00:13:25.860 Yeah.

00:13:26.500 Yeah.

00:13:26.900 Redneck's everywhere. 1.00

00:13:28.140 Yeah.

00:13:29.300 Easter just happened.

00:13:30.220 Did you guys, do y'all do eggs for Easter?

00:13:34.160 Deviled eggs.

00:13:35.200 Really?

00:13:35.740 Yeah.

00:13:36.100 Y'all never painted eggs growing up?

00:13:37.280 No, yeah, of course we did.

00:13:38.620 Yeah, dot them, painted them.

00:13:39.920 With that little kid or whatever?

00:13:41.080 Yeah, it's so fun.

00:13:42.060 Yeah, dude, that was really nice.

00:13:43.480 But what do you do with them afterwards?

00:13:45.700 I don't know.

00:13:46.520 I think your grandpa would eat them or something.

00:13:48.960 A lot of times we would drop them at like a senior center or something.

00:13:51.820 Because regular people were not having like hard-boiled eggs.

00:13:55.720 That was more like a senior dessert, kind of a senior delicacy, I think.

00:13:59.620 Deviled eggs are amazing.

00:14:00.720 Do you like them?

00:14:01.540 I've had them once or twice, but I haven't really had them when I cared, I think.

00:14:07.200 They had a rule at church that you could only have two deviled eggs on your first go

00:14:10.840 because people would fight over them.

00:14:12.840 They really would.

00:14:13.900 We'd have potluck every Wednesday, so like best southern food you can think of,

00:14:17.840 like all these old women in there, just cobblers and casseroles. 1.00

00:14:22.820 Were people gambling?

00:14:24.440 Did they have that kind of thing, too?

00:14:25.620 Sometimes there's like a potluck where they gamble at a church for fun.

00:14:28.240 No, they try not to gamble.

00:14:29.340 That's the thing.

00:14:30.360 Oh, yeah.

00:14:31.040 Southern Baptist, they try. 0.95

00:14:33.520 Dude, the church bus.

00:14:35.080 Yeah, I don't know what was going on with it.

00:14:36.800 I do remember the church bus.

00:14:38.200 They had like, it might have been like Seventh Day, Seventh Baptist or Seventh Day Advertis, Advern.

00:14:47.680 And then, but they would put those circus peanuts in wine and the kids could have those like during communion.

00:14:54.300 You know, you know, those orange circus peanuts that your grandparents had, they would put

00:14:58.540 those, but they're not, if you soak them in like a, a wine, like a religious wine, they're,

00:15:05.800 they're not, they're good.

00:15:07.820 They're pretty good when you're a kid, you know, I've never seen that before.

00:15:11.640 Yeah.

00:15:11.880 They would have like a wine glass and you get one out of there and that was just for

00:15:14.540 the children.

00:15:15.240 Did y'all ever go to judgment houses?

00:15:17.460 No.

00:15:17.780 What was it?

00:15:19.640 It's like they do it around Halloween.

00:15:22.600 Okay.

00:15:22.960 It's like a haunted house for Christians, I guess. 1.00

00:15:27.600 Very scary.

00:15:29.220 Remember, our youth group took us.

00:15:31.780 You get in there, and it's like this car crash scene.

00:15:34.840 And it's pretty much like convincing you that, yes,

00:15:38.020 convincing you that you could die the second you walk out of here.

00:15:42.480 So you better settle up.

00:15:44.880 You better get saved.

00:15:45.740 You better get saved.

00:15:46.640 And I had already been saved.

00:15:48.500 But going through this affected me so bad

00:15:51.020 that at the end they were like anyone if you're not sure you know to sit down and talk

00:15:54.860 and so I like raised my hand you know and I sat down with the guy at the table in the booth and

00:16:00.920 we had the whole conversation I'll never forget coming home and my dad was laying on the couch

00:16:05.100 watching Titanic and he I said dad I need to talk to you about something and I was like I got I got

00:16:12.960 saved again tonight and he like my dad pauses the tv he's pissed off about something you know what

00:16:18.220 I mean, he's like, that's how you know.

00:16:20.160 It's like, he said, you did what?

00:16:22.700 I was like, dad, I just got so scared of this thing.

00:16:25.080 He's like, baby, you know, immediately just like, well, you are kind of a dumbass.

00:16:29.380 Because, you know, that's the whole point of being saved.

00:16:31.060 You had to get saved twice.

00:16:31.880 Yeah, I was so scared.

00:16:32.800 It was so scary.

00:16:34.380 Yeah.

00:16:35.380 But you seem like a little bit of that danger baby, you know?

00:16:38.620 You've always seemed like, I mean, like, I don't know you that, I don't know you very well.

00:16:42.500 But to me, you've seemed like kind of like that danger baby.

00:16:45.440 you know just seem like a dang like a hell's angel that got you know just took over a damn 0.78

00:16:52.140 guitar city you know like it just you know just got went haywire in a gibson store you know you

00:16:57.600 just seem like that uh like yeah maybe you needed it two times i was maybe fearless i think is what

00:17:05.560 it is i don't know i'm not you feel a lot yeah you feel risky or you feel fearless i definitely

00:17:11.920 take a lot of risks um and i do have a lot of fears which is funny that i think that but i think

00:17:18.240 i don't know i don't necessarily view myself as the same as i think everyone views me which is

00:17:24.240 funny um but yeah i say fearless would be the word i don't know i'm just not afraid to take

00:17:30.780 a chance on something whatever it wants i want if i want to do it then i just know like i'm gonna do

00:17:36.480 it i don't really even if part of me doesn't want to like i remember thinking as a kid with this

00:17:40.460 music thing like that seems like a lot i'm just be sure that's really what we want to do and it's

00:17:46.940 like there's this thing inside of me that's like if you don't do it you're gonna hate your life

00:17:51.500 for your whole entire life and so i was like okay but that still seems like a lot um but i just know

00:17:57.520 when i make my mind up i don't know it seems like that i mean just from an outsider's perspective

00:18:02.040 you just seem like you know what's going on dang it i try to act like it yeah but sometimes that's

00:18:10.040 part of it it really is really the whole thing yeah it's like sometimes it's like pretend until

00:18:15.740 the rest of you shows up and joins you no one's ever lived life before not one person has lived

00:18:21.580 what lived life before you know i mean it's my first attempt at life as a human being you know

00:18:26.540 what i mean every and so it's yours and everyone else's and it's funny just i think people forget

00:18:31.740 that yeah there's never a lot of credit for that it's never like it's like it's our first go we

00:18:36.400 We hope people do a lot of, like, serious stuff, and we're never like, yeah, you know what?

00:18:41.020 It's the first time.

00:18:42.700 It's the first time.

00:18:44.500 Maybe we need to nap.

00:18:45.840 Yeah.

00:18:46.340 Yeah, dude.

00:18:47.320 And first of all, if they had naps for adults, for everybody, it would all be so nice.

00:18:54.640 Yeah, but a nap goes one of two ways for me.

00:18:57.780 I either wake up, and I'm like, oh, I'm so glad that I got that.

00:19:00.740 Or I wake up, and I'm hell on earth.

00:19:03.740 Really?

00:19:04.320 Mad.

00:19:04.860 Upset.

00:19:05.500 Wow.

00:19:05.580 My day's kind of ruined.

00:19:06.160 I don't know.

00:19:07.540 I don't know.

00:19:08.100 I just, I'm like, gosh, I just wish I'd go back to sleep.

00:19:10.300 It's one of those things you either power through or you don't.

00:19:12.580 Well, you just sound damn volatile, Ella.

00:19:14.680 I'm not.

00:19:15.480 You're not?

00:19:15.940 Are you sure?

00:19:16.660 I think you're the only one saying that.

00:19:18.580 I could be true.

00:19:19.500 You might be right.

00:19:20.800 You might be right.

00:19:21.640 Maybe this is that people have a perception of you that's not exact, you know, or that,

00:19:25.040 I mean, nobody's perception of somebody else is, but, um, or rarely, but yeah, maybe people

00:19:29.380 have that perception of you.

00:19:30.620 Did, um, whenever you were first doing shows, did they ever have like some fights at your

00:19:34.460 shows or anything like that?

00:19:35.140 Like, were you in some real honky-tonks?

00:19:37.180 Yeah.

00:19:37.680 I've played every kind of show you can possibly imagine.

00:19:40.660 Same, same.

00:19:42.440 Like, I mean, restaurants, weird little wing sports bar things.

00:19:49.400 Funeral?

00:19:49.980 Oh, yeah.

00:19:50.940 Funerals.

00:19:51.440 So many funerals.

00:19:52.600 Weddings.

00:19:53.160 I started out with weddings.

00:19:54.460 It was my first gig ever.

00:19:56.740 Who would ever hire a 15-year-old to play while you're walking down the aisle?

00:20:00.660 I don't know.

00:20:01.220 If they're decent, maybe, or if they're cheap.

00:20:03.420 I don't know.

00:20:03.800 Yeah, well.

00:20:05.140 200 bucks, baby.

00:20:06.580 And I was like, I am rich.

00:20:08.900 Decent and cheap.

00:20:09.800 That'd be my first album if I ever had one.

00:20:12.560 But I don't know.

00:20:13.540 It was always just...

00:20:15.560 But do they have fights?

00:20:16.800 Do they ever have a good...

00:20:18.300 All the time.

00:20:19.280 Yeah?

00:20:19.600 Yeah.

00:20:19.940 I watched one guy get arrested in Tuscaloosa selling coke right in front of me on the floor.

00:20:25.240 And there I am just still playing, you know?

00:20:26.880 No way.

00:20:27.600 Yeah.

00:20:28.520 Random.

00:20:29.140 I played a lot before, but I'm a...

00:20:30.560 He's choosing prison, I can tell, huh?

00:20:31.980 Yeah, I mean...

00:20:33.060 That's crazy.

00:20:34.240 I played

00:20:35.500 one of my last gigs

00:20:37.580 I played

00:20:37.940 I fell through the stage

00:20:39.040 like my last cover gigs

00:20:40.140 I did that for a while

00:20:41.180 and I did never like

00:20:42.780 What, like a finishing act

00:20:43.400 or something?

00:20:44.300 Hmm?

00:20:44.940 Was it like a finishing like

00:20:46.100 No, I just

00:20:47.360 there, the stage was

00:20:48.560 terrible

00:20:49.140 It was low budget

00:20:50.640 Oh, you just want some

00:20:51.060 bad wood or something, huh?

00:20:52.240 Yeah, just the

00:20:52.580 they put a rug over it

00:20:53.940 thinking if she can't

00:20:54.680 see this hole

00:20:55.380 there, you know

00:20:56.480 Yeah

00:20:57.780 But, yeah

00:20:59.320 played pretty much

00:21:00.080 any and everything

00:21:00.820 And what is this?

00:21:04.240 Oh, that's you right there?

00:21:05.440 Oh, wow.

00:21:06.680 Yeah, it is, I guess.

00:21:07.520 Oh, that's at my family reunion.

00:21:10.360 I think I was like five, four or five.

00:21:12.440 Is that on Lake Martin?

00:21:14.280 No, that's in Brantley, Alabama.

00:21:16.160 That's way out in the country.

00:21:17.560 Funny about this is when we, I remember when we pulled up here and my dad was like,

00:21:22.080 we got the family reunion down here at the whale, a buried whale out here.

00:21:27.160 And as a kid, I was like, a buried whale?

00:21:29.700 Why would they bury a whale all the way out here?

00:21:32.040 yeah and you know it well i asked my dad about that he said i was saying well well

00:21:39.340 so buried well out there dude yeah i remember i used to have to clean out wishing wells in our

00:21:47.300 area they had this thing where they was trying to do like i guess make money for the area or

00:21:52.380 summer like a get a tourist thing and so they had they installed like a lot of wishing wells and

00:21:59.440 stuff and I got a job one summer cleaning them out so you get down there and have to get down

00:22:02.860 in them yeah I've never seen that happen yeah yeah somebody gets in there and I had very small

00:22:08.340 kind of lean wrists and everything at the time and said let me get down in there and you bring

00:22:12.120 up all the stuff and like put it on the side and you got to keep some of the change but then some

00:22:15.660 of it you had to give to the city um but you find a lot of people a lot of just throw a lot of junk

00:22:20.880 down the recyclables kind of a lot of to-go orders to go barbecue kind of seem like anyway

00:22:27.180 You got to keep some of the change?

00:22:28.900 Yeah.

00:22:29.500 You just got to pick out which ones you kept?

00:22:31.100 No, they kind of, you gave it to them, and then they kind of gave you some back.

00:22:36.080 All right.

00:22:36.520 Well, that's kind of nice.

00:22:37.360 That's a good gig, I guess.

00:22:38.260 I liked it.

00:22:39.280 Yeah, I really enjoyed it.

00:22:41.240 And I found a sword in there, too.

00:22:42.760 Like a, I don't want to say a. 1.00

00:22:43.960 What?

00:22:44.620 Yeah.

00:22:45.420 I found like a, I think it was.

00:22:46.500 What kind of sword?

00:22:47.380 I think it was a dang, I don't want to say like a murder weapon or something, but I think

00:22:50.740 it was a.

00:22:51.400 A murder weapon sword.

00:22:52.860 I think it was a weapon.

00:22:53.940 It looked like it had been used.

00:22:56.220 Can you imagine you murder someone and then your place to throw it in is a wishing well?

00:23:00.040 Yeah, I think so.

00:23:01.000 What?

00:23:01.600 I wish I hadn't killed him, maybe.

00:23:03.280 Just throw that bastard in there. 0.99

00:23:04.580 Hit the reverse on that.

00:23:06.300 Well, I think that's how wishing well's got their name.

00:23:08.580 It's like you dropped your money in a hole and you just wish you hadn't, probably.

00:23:13.080 Yeah, maybe.

00:23:14.100 That's what I think, maybe.

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00:25:45.840 Did you ever get in a fight at any of your spots or no?

00:25:49.480 Nope.

00:25:49.940 Anybody ever try it from the audience or anything like that?

00:25:52.320 No.

00:25:53.680 A lot of drunks just, you know, spilling their drinks all over the place,

00:25:57.440 bumping into my microphone stand.

00:25:58.600 I've had that happen a lot.

00:25:59.800 Oh, that's the worst.

00:26:00.660 When I hit the end of it, it just pops you right in the mouth.

00:26:03.000 Oh, yeah, because you're not really expecting that?

00:26:04.440 Well, they're just so close to the stage, and you're playing college bars.

00:26:07.300 Yeah.

00:26:07.820 Mm-hmm.

00:26:08.460 So a lot of college activity over there.

00:26:10.400 Yeah.

00:26:10.740 And was your family an Auburn fan growing up then?

00:26:13.480 Yeah.

00:26:14.100 My mom's from Michigan.

00:26:15.840 Like I said, so she just kind of never really cared about that stuff.

00:26:19.280 My dad was an Auburn fan, but, yeah.

00:26:21.000 That's kind of our football thing.

00:26:22.680 It's Alabama or Auburn.

00:26:23.940 Yeah.

00:26:24.380 There's no NFL team in Alabama, so.

00:26:26.660 Yeah.

00:26:27.400 And does your folks, your folks are still together?

00:26:29.980 Hmm.

00:26:30.800 Yeah.

00:26:31.960 Yes, they are.

00:26:32.980 And do you think, like, what makes you laugh about that?

00:26:37.060 It's been a wild ride.

00:26:39.820 But, I don't know.

00:26:40.700 But they haven't given up?

00:26:42.120 Nope.

00:26:43.360 Proseverance.

00:26:43.900 Pretty cool.

00:26:44.540 It is really cool.

00:26:45.240 It's really cool to see how they are now.

00:26:47.800 Because I think there were a lot of years we were all like,

00:26:50.400 y'all sure you like each other, you know?

00:26:52.400 Yeah.

00:26:53.600 But they did.

00:26:54.880 They really stuck it out.

00:26:57.140 God.

00:26:57.740 Mm-hmm.

00:26:58.600 Was there like a time when your parents were like,

00:27:00.900 that they always say like, oh, well, we knew when this happened

00:27:04.500 that she was going to be a, do they have that kind of thing, you know? 0.82

00:27:08.400 Like we knew when she, you know.

00:27:10.300 My grandparents on my dad's side pretty much raised me at their house.

00:27:15.020 I lived over there um they uh they my grandpa could play anything by ear he would they were a

00:27:21.000 lot older my grandma was 45 when she had my dad oh wow yeah um but I was like the first girl in

00:27:26.380 the family and I started to match pitch with her as a baby and so she figured out I could sing and

00:27:31.920 she's just like singing was her thing and my grandpa could like I said play any instrument

00:27:36.220 by ear and so at their house that's all we did like you was a little baby bird oh yeah that's

00:27:42.060 all we did and they were like this is what she's gonna do and so they yeah that's my grandpa right

00:27:47.200 there and they just put you out on the windowsill out there i sang at church a lot i learned how to

00:27:51.960 read from singing hymnals um but yeah i mean all i did and i really just the whole time like my

00:27:59.280 whole family we all just really this is what she's gonna do they just knew it the whole time was there

00:28:04.980 a scary point for you like when you kind of like got a little bit spooked i remember whenever i

00:28:08.320 met you at one thing i do remember you saying is that i just knew that this is what i was this is

00:28:13.340 what i was doing right i was so determined and um i've talked to like trey lewis i know you and him

00:28:19.940 are friends and uh he he mentioned that right whenever i ran into him one night we were watching

00:28:23.840 your show at the knitting knitting factory maybe someplace i can't remember might have been the

00:28:30.180 bluebird or threes i don't know i'm terrible at remembering these it was a musical place

00:28:35.600 and he said she's just always been so determined right um was there a part though when you like

00:28:43.540 even your own determination came up against like this just feels like it's going to be tougher than

00:28:50.080 i thought or i don't know if this is the way or did it never get to that point for you

00:28:54.880 i think i always knew it was going to be tough i mean how many people move to this town

00:28:59.020 in a day to do this job um I don't know there's just it's scary all the time because I love it

00:29:08.020 it's truly a part of who I am like my whole life I've done it and wanted to do it and thought about

00:29:13.220 it every day like daydreamed every time I'm in the car I mean hours and hours alone driving from

00:29:18.400 gigs um like dreaming about what just just doing this literally doing what I'm doing like playing

00:29:23.320 on stages and writing songs and getting to do this craft for a living you know um and I just

00:29:32.140 feel like not everything always works out for me in my life and so I like to leave like very little

00:29:36.820 room for error you know and so I think like just keeping my head down and I'm definitely my toughest

00:29:44.220 critic you know like when I watch something I'm never like oh yeah I crush that never ever very

00:29:48.920 rarely do i walk off stage and i'm like i was amazing out there i'm always just like dude i

00:29:55.600 was what was that shit that i just said that was so what was the fuck is wrong with me like why 0.97

00:29:59.140 would i say that well it must be crazy enough because you seem like such a like a loot like

00:30:03.780 kind of like almost say you'll say whatever you kind of save your i do that's the thing and then

00:30:09.740 to be such a tough critic of that person is a that's a lot of that's a lot of extra stress it

00:30:14.660 feels like yeah yeah i'm getting better at it for sure yeah it's weird um and i'm sure you

00:30:20.200 understand this like looking at yourself through the eyes of others like no one should know this

00:30:25.640 many thoughts about themselves like when everyone's like what superpower do you want i've never

00:30:29.880 understood when people were like i want to be able to read minds like fuck that i do not want 0.95

00:30:34.740 to know what somebody's thinking because half these people i wouldn't either dude especially

00:30:37.980 if you're at like someplace and everybody's just a damn pervert or something you know oh yeah that

00:30:42.580 would be most of it no way man no even if you're at like even if you're just at a dang um uh

00:30:48.940 golden corral no matter where you are everybody is like i bet you would read mine you'd be like

00:30:54.240 my dad loves a golden corral or a shonies dude my stepdad he was in one of the wars and um one of

00:31:01.000 them he would dude after they would go to like the golden crowd whatever was like chinese corral or

00:31:06.280 something or like um the yellow bin or whatever it was called uh he would sit he would sit my mom

00:31:13.880 in the car and then he would go back in and apologize for fighting these who who we thought

00:31:18.920 were like the same ethnicity people when he was in like iwo jima or something like that he'd go

00:31:24.040 back in and apologize every time yeah he would go back in and just kind of say you know give his

00:31:30.200 peace you know and it was like this moment that he kind of had you know where and i think it's

00:31:35.480 probably like that for some people that's like they probably went and fought in a war and then

00:31:39.240 the only people they ever saw from that culture again was that like a when if a small restaurant

00:31:44.140 popped up in their town 40 years later that's got to be crazy yeah they all i don't know i can't

00:31:50.260 imagine that yeah i'm very interested in that that's one of my favorite things to read about

00:31:54.480 is historical fiction yeah you watch every any of those war movies yeah my dad loves a war movie

00:32:00.600 jarheads i don't know how many times that's been on in our living room oh yeah yeah dude my uncle

00:32:05.340 even has the soundtrack to Jar Heads.

00:32:07.080 I'm like, who has the soundtrack to this shit?

00:32:09.720 On CD or what?

00:32:10.860 I think it might be.

00:32:11.760 He said it was Blu-ray.

00:32:12.920 He went all in on Blu-ray.

00:32:16.420 Yeah.

00:32:16.900 And he lost a lot.

00:32:18.020 Yeah.

00:32:19.460 But yeah, dude, I like some of those war movies.

00:32:22.020 I think because they just make you feel something, you know?

00:32:24.600 Yeah.

00:32:25.260 Feels like you're learning a little.

00:32:26.720 Feels like you're learning a little, but also, yeah.

00:32:29.100 And it makes you feel something.

00:32:30.720 I like something if there's a little bit of loss in something,

00:32:34.440 I like that shit

00:32:35.920 Yeah

00:32:36.520 Keeps your attention

00:32:37.540 I like something

00:32:38.440 That's got a little bit

00:32:38.920 Of loss in it

00:32:39.900 Um

00:32:40.780 Some of your music

00:32:42.400 And probably a decent

00:32:43.560 Amount of it

00:32:44.180 To me

00:32:45.000 Um

00:32:45.960 Seems like

00:32:46.720 It's like about

00:32:47.720 Uh

00:32:48.380 Kind of like

00:32:49.540 Like

00:32:51.060 Wanting love

00:32:52.520 Or

00:32:52.880 Or hoping for love

00:32:54.160 But not

00:32:54.760 Like

00:32:55.600 Kind of being able to

00:32:57.340 Make it work

00:32:58.700 Or

00:32:59.020 Um

00:33:00.000 I'm trying to think

00:33:01.400 What I'm trying to say

00:33:02.140 I think you're doing great

00:33:03.160 That was a good question so far.

00:33:04.660 They are?

00:33:05.180 Yeah.

00:33:05.880 Thanks, dude.

00:33:06.700 Yeah, I think I just get...

00:33:07.560 You're really good.

00:33:08.380 Sometimes I get worried or not.

00:33:10.080 I don't know.

00:33:10.640 I mean, I get nervous.

00:33:11.240 I was so nervous before I came in here today.

00:33:13.040 Were you?

00:33:14.060 So nervous.

00:33:15.100 Yes.

00:33:15.500 Why?

00:33:15.780 What do you mean?

00:33:16.200 You're the most confident person there is.

00:33:17.960 I don't know.

00:33:20.580 You are, you know?

00:33:21.900 Well, I mean, you got to put on the suit.

00:33:24.580 That's true.

00:33:25.460 And the rest of you will show up?

00:33:26.680 That's something that I told you I learned in Southern Baptist in a small town is you learn to put on a face a little bit.

00:33:31.820 You know what I mean?

00:33:33.160 You can't let everyone know everything that's going on all the time.

00:33:35.980 But also, it's like I run out of the ability to do that.

00:33:40.800 We get burned out of it.

00:33:42.060 Yeah, and I just – that's been something I've had to work really hard on

00:33:45.760 is the mental of this game.

00:33:47.800 And I knew the whole time that would be the toughest thing for me.

00:33:51.180 Really?

00:33:51.800 Yeah.

00:33:52.600 Well, you can't pin yourself to the way somebody else operates.

00:33:56.320 That's something that I've done over the years.

00:33:58.480 Like, if they can do it, I can do it.

00:34:00.760 I'm not the same person as them, right?

00:34:02.680 and our paths aren't the same yeah and i mean i've burned i've i floored it for 200 miles with

00:34:09.340 when i had nothing in the tank well i think it's because you are similar in the way where you're

00:34:13.360 like you kind of fly through life by the seat of your pants you know what i mean and it's like

00:34:16.740 you're just following your gut on what you should do with your life and instead of like you know if

00:34:23.460 you go to school to be a doctor like you know you do this many years of school to go and you're

00:34:27.340 gonna do this and this like we have no idea how this gonna every single day is different every

00:34:32.920 single day something could happen that could change our lives for the best or the worst and

00:34:36.860 you just never know yeah and um so I think like you you learn this skill to you know watch others

00:34:45.560 in the way where you learn you know and I think in the beginning it pushed me I would always like

00:34:51.260 compare my work ethic to Lainey was a great one for me you know yeah um but I don't know how she's

00:34:56.760 superhuman i i don't know how she does what she does um but yeah i'm i'm different than that you

00:35:03.720 know like i have to go be in my house and recharge recharge rest yeah take time insane i gotta do i

00:35:11.580 mean i'm getting dang ivs i'm petting animals for peace or whatever they have this yeah they got a

00:35:17.840 peace petting place that's out there and you go pet those horses for peace or whatever i just got

00:35:22.020 some horses did you yeah god i'm thinking about getting a doberman it's big but yeah it's nothing

00:35:28.180 like that be crazy if you came in riding a doberman it was big enough to do that it's like

00:35:32.420 you found clifford but he's a doberman this time and ernest is on the other one dude yeah yeah but

00:35:37.380 he's actually on clifford yeah and he's dressed like grilling for sure there's like a hundred

00:35:45.020 shades of ernest that's the crazy and there's nobody who has like is such a chameleon i think

00:35:51.160 and humanity is earnest, you know?

00:35:53.060 What a God.

00:35:54.620 Oh, my question.

00:35:55.660 So I feel like a lot of your songs are about like wanting to like find a love

00:36:00.200 or connect with love, but also like about like wanting independence, you know?

00:36:06.800 Do you feel like you have like commitment issues when it comes to that kind of stuff?

00:36:09.600 Or do you feel like some of your songs stem from that sort of thing?

00:36:12.520 Or, like, do you find, like, a common, like, root for some of your purpose in your music?

00:36:22.860 You know, I think that's the thing that sometimes people think about too much, honestly, where it's, like, what is the purpose to everything?

00:36:31.640 What is the finished product?

00:36:33.800 I don't know.

00:36:34.340 I'm only 26.

00:36:35.900 Yeah.

00:36:36.220 yeah it's like i'm just writing about i'm not going in the room thinking okay i need an up

00:36:41.500 tempo song today and i need it to be perfect for radio or i need to write this type of acoustic

00:36:47.140 thing you know like i'm going in there and just writing songs like whatever comes out that day

00:36:52.260 comes out you know and i i'm really big on not forcing um not forcing you know just if i feel

00:36:59.180 like i'm in there and i'm not having fun i'm like why are we doing this i somehow got to do the job

00:37:03.840 i've always wanted to do no way i'm not gonna let it be fun when we're sitting in here writing

00:37:07.520 these songs you know um so yeah i don't know just sometimes like i'll have a title that i really

00:37:13.680 want to write or someone in the room will say something and then it's just like if all of you

00:37:17.320 click on that title like you got to chase it so yeah i mean and obviously i mean me being 26

00:37:23.760 uh and not married like i've been dating you know i've been trying to figure that portion of my life

00:37:32.280 out too yeah which is complicated when you have pretty much given your everything to this one

00:37:40.940 thing you know oh yeah i mean that's yeah i can relate to that i spend so much so much time

00:37:47.660 working that yeah it's like this was my first love i liked work the most and because work was

00:37:52.960 reliable it's like i knew what i got in what what i put into this i'm gonna get out of this one way

00:37:58.920 the other and i'll i'll know if it's fair or not i'll know if it's a fair amount because i'll know

00:38:02.880 how much i put in that that part of myself i can't lie to so it's like i'll know and it's an even

00:38:09.620 it'll be even it may not be exactly what i want but it'll be it will be fair but you know you gave

00:38:16.960 it your all yes and to me i know i i know and so i know i will expect a certain return and there's

00:38:22.380 not somebody else there that like when when it's a human for me it's like that's just too

00:38:28.740 it's like whenever you first learn to ride that bike and you're doing that or whatever

00:38:32.920 you know what i'm saying and then you just you forget that like the you're like turning the

00:38:36.860 handlebars like this you think they're the pedals and you just if this starts happening

00:38:40.240 you're falling you're going down you're going down that's the scariest feeling ever the worst

00:38:44.860 yeah oh so many scars from asphalt and then you hit the neighbor's gate or whatever and somebody

00:38:49.740 He just called you like a queer yell, something like that or something, you know?

00:38:53.420 That's the worst I hate when that news happens.

00:38:55.260 Yeah, and it's your dad driving by.

00:38:56.860 It's definitely your dad.

00:38:58.160 It would definitely be my dad.

00:39:00.160 And you haven't even seen him in like two years, and you're like, this is how he shows up?

00:39:04.440 Yeah.

00:39:06.320 But, yeah, that's something I think about knowing what you're going to, like, what you put in and what you're going to get out.

00:39:12.180 Do you feel like, because now you've kind of hit this level of popularity that's a little bit different, and that's kind of scary, right?

00:39:18.860 yeah I mean it's cool there's a lot of great things um but that to me that feels interesting

00:39:25.640 because you kind of like you almost can't put put it back in the tube in a way it's like it's like

00:39:31.400 you know like you can't like once you kind of cross over a certain like threshold of like

00:39:36.940 people knowing you you kind of can't like you know your life can change and maybe you know people

00:39:42.080 come and go in in popularity but you kind of can't go back to not being yeah someone that wasn't known

00:39:50.780 i think um that's another one of the hardest parts for me and it's i think it's just people

00:39:57.680 treating you differently yeah i i just it's weird when somebody comes up and they're just like

00:40:02.460 it makes sense to me because if i were to see stevie nicks in the grocery store like i would

00:40:07.900 be a little like you know yeah but it's weird when it's yourself you know like someone's coming up to

00:40:14.240 you and they're like oh my god i'm gonna throw up on your shoes you're like whoa like yeah i am so

00:40:20.080 weird like just you know immediately try to like level myself in a way but um yeah that's an odd

00:40:26.200 part but it is cool i'm starting to i'm getting past the stage of like what like because it was

00:40:32.880 so in the beginning so new like it was weird when somebody knew who i was or when i'm sitting at the

00:40:38.800 table out to eat with friends or family and somebody's like hey can i get seven selfies

00:40:43.060 with you and i'm like have like a half a meatball in my mouth i'm like bro that's crazy um or you

00:40:48.280 haven't even washed up or you just don't even feel like a certain bathroom have you ever had

00:40:52.540 one to ask you is someone in the bathroom you're like bro no no and then if you say no i've had a

00:40:57.540 girl i was making my whole band do this ab workout routine we were in p fitness somewhere around the

00:41:02.780 world and uh this girl comes up to me mid-crunch she's like can i have a picture and then i like 0.99

00:41:10.620 it was in the beginning and now i would be like probably not right now yeah i'll sign whatever

00:41:15.280 you know what i mean just pick pick better time but oh yeah in the beginning you'll give it all

00:41:19.060 you'll give apps but then i get up to take the picture with her and she just like no no i just 0.92

00:41:23.080 want to take one of you you ever get that when they're like when i take one of you and with you

00:41:27.220 and you're like i was like no no if i'm sweating this you are yeah so you're just what some kind

00:41:31.480 a pervert or whatever or you're just making a time capsule or something you don't say you're 0.59

00:41:35.720 capturing me to keep no i just want to take one of you yeah i'm not doing all that what's your

00:41:39.900 pose if someone would take one of you you know i'll tell you a funny story i can't oh i'll tell

00:41:45.580 them no if somebody's like i just want to take one of you yeah you're like no i'm like get you

00:41:49.600 get over here you little urch and you're getting in this bitch with me if i have to stand here 1.00

00:41:52.800 and look like shit you do that's what i said yeah dude a couple probably like a year and a half ago 0.89

00:41:59.240 i started to have like because we would do meet and greets after every shows and and maybe some

00:42:04.180 of this sounds like kind of woe is me like i'm about popularity talk and and i'm not meaning

00:42:11.240 that i'm grateful that people come out to shows and and um and i've been to a couple of your shows

00:42:16.480 and i'm great i'm excited to go to more of them um i'm excited to come to that one in tuscaloosa

00:42:21.000 where you and morgan are playing together and then i know your your own tour and your new album that's

00:42:24.960 going to come out. Um, but, uh, yeah, but I couldn't smile anymore. The smart, the muscles

00:42:34.960 in my mouth. Yes. And then it got to the point where I just didn't even believe it anymore.

00:42:44.200 My mouth had just, there was some disconnection between like my true feelings and a smile

00:42:49.280 because these were all like kind of put on smiles and some of them are real, but you know,

00:42:52.860 you're you're just like smile you know just smile cheese that type of thing so i had to start doing

00:42:57.900 this so in all my that started yes so in all my pictures i was like i have to make another face

00:43:04.200 and this on me like it looks a little too like people are going to get scared of the kids are

00:43:09.980 going to kind of be scared a little bit so i think it's kind of nice so i'll do like you know like

00:43:14.400 just anything

00:43:17.180 yeah but because

00:43:17.960 this just started

00:43:19.340 yeah that

00:43:19.860 that

00:43:20.320 see

00:43:21.520 yeah

00:43:22.180 but just the

00:43:23.640 the closed mouth smile

00:43:24.700 was nice

00:43:25.200 well no no

00:43:27.040 that was different

00:43:28.620 you didn't do it

00:43:29.140 the same that time

00:43:29.740 let me try one more time

00:43:30.600 yeah

00:43:32.800 well

00:43:33.500 no

00:43:34.460 kind of close

00:43:35.580 try one more time

00:43:36.280 but don't squint your lips

00:43:37.440 so much

00:43:37.900 let them loose

00:43:38.680 leave them loose a little

00:43:39.500 start from the side

00:43:40.960 how you came in

00:43:41.480 okay

00:43:41.700 oh what's happening

00:43:43.580 nothing much

00:43:44.360 yeah that right there thank you take a picture of that practice you're an artist you're a conductor

00:43:51.460 well thank you she's a conductor um yeah i remember the first time i was like because i

00:43:58.520 didn't know like as your your popularity really i guess the first time that i met you and i remember

00:44:02.240 i said something like man laney really does such a great job of controlling the stage because i was 0.96

00:44:06.860 kind of complimenting her because she really does and you were i can't remember what you said but

00:44:12.100 it was something like I don't know if I said like something like no you were like you should try

00:44:17.260 running or you should try running around the stage like that or something yeah and I was like

00:44:22.600 first of all you ain't never ever been to a show so you know I know to show up and be judgmental

00:44:27.920 like that yeah and then that yeah I think I was just nervous I kind of move around a little bit

00:44:32.960 I've thought about that moment multiple times because I'm like should I move around more like

00:44:37.120 is that like has he seen things that i should do like no i thought you should come to rehearsals

00:44:42.140 and let me know i think i was just nervous and i probably didn't know what to say and it was a

00:44:45.340 woman and so i was just trying to say something and maybe it wasn't yeah i just didn't do the

00:44:50.000 best supportive job probably well it panned out but yeah i've seen it since and i'm not even gonna

00:44:56.280 weigh in anymore you're obviously no i really like it no i really made me think extra hard

00:45:01.480 about that and i was like damn the other thing is i'm lazy on stage no i didn't think lazy

00:45:05.580 i i didn't know i i had no idea a little lazy no i just i can't she run i don't know how she 1.00

00:45:12.160 does it she does the whole spin thing now she does a lot i told you she is she does a whole 0.99

00:45:18.280 like fantasia almost like that like yeah yeah she does she does that spin thing oh yeah fall down 1.00

00:45:24.580 100 percent just swinging that donkey around i'm like what is even going on out here yeah

00:45:31.560 she has got it yeah that's probably what it is i ain't got no balance like that you know i mean

00:45:36.520 evened out you know she's got them ballast tanks on her you know she's like set up to go oh she's 1.00

00:45:41.440 a pontoon i'll tell you that she's locked in yes she's locked in but no what a great person to

00:45:47.400 learn from and be around and even just to watch like um the things that she does and just to

00:45:51.520 notice all those things like how is she able to engage with people so much you know um i don't

00:45:56.280 know how jelly roll did it jelly roll got burnt out the same way but he got burnt out yeah i think

00:46:01.380 it happens to everybody it'll get you yeah i mean no one's no one's actually doing it all yeah i

00:46:07.400 mean everyone gets burnt out yeah did um was there a moment you kind of had to take it like a step

00:46:12.680 back you take a vacation what do you do like for that sort of thing have you learned to incorporate

00:46:17.160 that into things because you're already back out here you're going to go on tour again

00:46:20.860 yeah um i don't i'm still figuring it out i think my team's figuring out a little better how to

00:46:27.500 schedule in the time that's needed but when you're in this boom moment it's hard to say no i mean

00:46:33.540 you're saying no to stuff that i'm like i do kind of want to do that you know but it's like

00:46:37.580 you know i'm thinking of things six months down the road i'm like i'll be able to do that and

00:46:42.260 then i get there i'm like oh my gosh like i'm dying why did i do that what am i doing in this

00:46:46.900 lemonade drinking contest.

00:46:47.740 Yeah, but then I'm like,

00:46:48.500 if I turn it down,

00:46:49.640 you know, sometimes I'm like,

00:46:50.660 come on, you can't,

00:46:52.020 what's wrong with you?

00:46:52.780 You can't do that?

00:46:53.540 You're going to be,

00:46:54.180 some people would kill

00:46:55.300 to be playing that, you know,

00:46:56.760 and then I have that whole thing.

00:46:58.360 So last year,

00:47:01.420 it just, like I said,

00:47:04.340 I think the mental game for me

00:47:06.300 is definitely the hardest part

00:47:08.280 of this job.

00:47:08.880 Like I can do the gigs,

00:47:09.920 I can do the shows,

00:47:10.720 I can do that.

00:47:12.500 I don't know,

00:47:13.460 the the burnout i guess like thinking you can work through it i'll fight through it i'll figure it

00:47:20.700 out yeah and i i mean lord we we toured pretty much minus a couple weeks here and there from

00:47:26.720 2022 to 2025 you know and i mean hot and heavy most of that was in a van you know and then one

00:47:36.020 bus and we're all packed on there and it was still like it just happened so fast so it's like we're

00:47:41.120 still doing these things but these things are happening and so everyone from the outside is

00:47:44.780 like man that's pretty nice and you're like well you know we're still getting there we're still

00:47:48.240 doing our baths yeah um and a van people don't get even enough credit for even being in a damn 0.70

00:47:54.400 van somebody asked me the other day they're like do you miss that i'm like hell no i don't miss

00:47:58.840 that i think people should get a tax credit for being in a damn van dude i see years of that if

00:48:03.600 i see a van pull up any van and somebody gets out of the back of it yeah i'll start clapping

00:48:08.900 immediately immediately i don't care what they're doing i don't care if they are you know very

00:48:14.240 religious and that's you know when the side door's broken or whatever or they are just a big family

00:48:18.960 i always wondered what people thought we were um traveling around when they'd see us get out at a

00:48:24.300 gas station and it was just like me my photographer kaylee and a whole bunch of tattooed guys just

00:48:30.540 crawling out of a van looking disheveled smelling like doritos probably oh yeah and whiskey doritos

00:48:37.040 are good at over 50 miles an hour in a day yeah i lived off some gas station food for years

00:48:42.740 taquitos from the gas station they're good they're good in the moment yeah but some of my problem is

00:48:49.840 if you i'll get a bag and then i'll i'll go get them in the middle of the night and get more of

00:48:54.240 them yeah or you ever get a crunchy one where it just ruined the whole thing it's like uh-uh the

00:48:59.240 taquitos yeah i like them or a hot dog oh hot dogs are good but they're just sometimes they

00:49:05.740 They don't honestly tell you how long they've been on that twirler out there on the little riverboat thing.

00:49:11.680 They just put them back out there every so often.

00:49:13.880 What is that?

00:49:14.540 They put a bunch of hair curlers together and started just grilling them bitches. 1.00

00:49:17.980 Who knows what kind of meat is really in there?

00:49:20.640 There's not meat in there.

00:49:22.960 What are you talking about?

00:49:24.380 Dude, this ain't no meat, bro.

00:49:28.000 You don't wonder.

00:49:28.940 I have a lady that's doing all my health stuff. 1.00

00:49:32.200 You don't think so?

00:49:33.080 The buffalo chicken, you don't think that is?

00:49:34.720 I bet there ain't a half percent of meat in there, baby. 1.00

00:49:38.640 This is meatless.

00:49:40.300 They should just say something warm on the outside of it.

00:49:43.880 But yeah, when you get those Hunt Brothers pizzas, those little slices.

00:49:46.460 Oh, the breakfast one?

00:49:47.940 Yeah.

00:49:49.000 That's what I grew up on.

00:49:50.340 On Hunt Brothers?

00:49:51.060 Yeah.

00:49:51.720 I think it's Hunt Brothers.

00:49:53.380 Is there an S at the end of it?

00:49:54.360 Was there more than one?

00:49:56.560 There you go, girl.

00:49:58.740 Hunt Brothers.

00:49:59.280 I've been saying it wrong the whole time.

00:50:00.360 Hunt Brothers.

00:50:01.700 But that's what it is.

00:50:02.720 That's kind of Southern stuff.

00:50:03.880 That's how they say it.

00:50:04.720 Have you seen the country hoodlums people?

00:50:06.620 Have you seen those Instagram?

00:50:08.640 Pull them up, dude, if you can.

00:50:10.280 I put them on a page the other day.

00:50:12.920 The what?

00:50:13.800 On my links page.

00:50:15.340 This is the kind of place I grew up.

00:50:16.660 I'll show you right here.

00:50:17.940 Oh, I can't wait to see this.

00:50:19.580 This is like our street.

00:50:24.160 What you doing, Christy?

00:50:25.520 I'm out of burning his shit.

00:50:27.460 I knew something.

00:50:28.080 I knew something.

00:50:28.640 All the time.

00:50:29.920 About me on Facebook life.

00:50:31.460 I'm out of his shit when he was calling me five minutes later.

00:50:33.560 Well, Christy, he loves, Glass loves those golf clubs.

00:50:43.320 Glass loved those golf clubs.

00:50:45.920 This the kind of shit was going on on our street.

00:50:48.900 No, no, you for real?

00:50:50.540 No.

00:50:51.880 And you know what he did, probably.

00:50:53.680 Oh, yeah.

00:50:55.120 He done fooled around.

00:50:56.720 And he about to find out.

00:50:57.920 No.

00:50:58.700 Grab it, Willie.

00:50:59.500 Grab it.

00:50:59.980 Oh, my God.

00:51:00.920 Oh, my goodness, man.

00:51:03.280 That's the kind of shit we need more of, I think.

00:51:06.960 But yeah, this is just the kind of place.

00:51:08.320 Have you ever seen them country hoodlums?

00:51:09.860 Mm-mm.

00:51:10.420 Oh, man.

00:51:11.540 Is this like a whole thing?

00:51:12.960 They have probably like two or three hundred clips now.

00:51:17.160 They put up clips every day, and it's just them.

00:51:18.760 It's just like people living their lives.

00:51:20.900 Oh, oh.

00:51:21.560 Like it's real life people.

00:51:22.920 It's not like the same ones.

00:51:23.720 And this is the one Earn.

00:51:24.780 People always say this guy or him and Earn seem like each other.

00:51:27.020 No, go hit that top left one. 0.99

00:51:29.740 Keep them coming.

00:51:30.460 Miss Janet.

00:51:31.360 Miss Janet?

00:51:32.140 Yeah.

00:51:32.480 let's see he just got baptized actually let's do it hey gen and i'll say this the women are 1.00

00:51:42.080 the people they hold it together in this group usually are yeah but that's kind of i feel like

00:51:48.300 that's kind of enough man you know about four years ago i was jogging somewhere and it was a

00:51:55.460 pretty good area it was all right i don't know yeah there's some couple halfway houses but

00:51:59.340 i was going for a jog and i saw a snail out there and he was trying his best but you know

00:52:06.640 they don't even have feet but they're still going forward they're you know so i picked

00:52:13.060 that snail up and i moved him i moved him probably 19 inches brother saved him a month of travel

00:52:21.200 i'd consider that a power move just like how hiring morgan and morgan is a power move morgan

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00:53:13.160 pound five two nine this is a paid advertisement do you um did y'all have like a fate like a most

00:53:21.440 popular restaurant in your town growing up not really i mean a lot of chains um like i said the

00:53:29.940 shoney's my dad loves a a um like a what do you call it a buffet oh yeah oh any buffet the soft

00:53:37.100 serve ice cream you got to get at the end at the end how big can you make your own ice cream cone

00:53:40.940 make it tall baby make it long you like it long um shoney's was something else dude and they would

00:53:48.280 give away these stuffed animals up front and the sewing on them was real bad by the time you got

00:53:55.180 the Mitch's to the car

00:53:56.120 they was more of a

00:53:57.000 they looked

00:53:58.200 they was starting to give out

00:53:59.200 a little

00:53:59.560 did you go to IHOP?

00:54:01.260 we went to IHOP

00:54:02.300 but

00:54:02.640 Waffle House?

00:54:03.960 we went to Waffle House

00:54:05.020 yeah dude

00:54:06.520 at our Waffle House

00:54:07.420 they had like

00:54:08.080 it was like

00:54:08.560 our town was like

00:54:09.580 at the end of like

00:54:10.080 the longest bridge in the world

00:54:11.340 for a while anyway

00:54:13.520 and then they built a different one

00:54:14.700 but then that one got tore down

00:54:16.240 and so we were back

00:54:17.600 anyway

00:54:18.560 they had a

00:54:19.880 they had a

00:54:22.380 so the people that would get DUIs on there

00:54:25.020 at night, or DWIs at night, the police officers

00:54:26.960 would just drop them off at the Waffle House. They wouldn't arrest them.

00:54:29.080 They'd just take them down there and drop them off. That's kind.

00:54:30.840 Yeah, it was really cool. I'm just like, hey, stay here and sober up.

00:54:33.460 So when you was a kid, you was running around,

00:54:35.100 you could just pop in there and just hang, you'd be hanging

00:54:36.980 out with the drunks and eating with all these cool drunks

00:54:39.080 and shit. I think that's a lot of Waffle

00:54:41.140 Houses late at night. Yeah. Ours was

00:54:43.160 too. It's kind of like a little mini rehab.

00:54:44.800 Somebody's smoking sick outside, one of the cooks, you know.

00:54:46.780 Oh, definitely. I'll be in, baby. Yeah, yeah.

00:54:49.400 Or, dude, the best is

00:54:50.840 the white guy that can't even blink his eyes

00:54:53.000 Yeah, so he's so geeked up, and he's just fucking making eggs, boy.

00:54:56.140 Dude, so many, so many things.

00:54:58.240 Oh, he'll just rip an omelet out of a chicken's ass. 0.96

00:55:00.440 That dude's ready.

00:55:00.800 And they're all yelling at him.

00:55:02.180 Yes.

00:55:02.900 The best are the fights in there, when they start fighting.

00:55:05.740 It's so closed environment in there, when they do the fights.

00:55:09.580 I don't like being in the cage.

00:55:11.060 They do the fights?

00:55:12.200 So you've seen them?

00:55:12.920 Yeah, it's like, I don't like being in the cage.

00:55:14.920 I want to be outside of the cage.

00:55:16.220 If they lock the door.

00:55:16.620 Well, you sit on this side of the bar, and they're on that side.

00:55:19.060 Oh, that's, yeah.

00:55:19.880 Oh, you mean the employees fighting?

00:55:21.620 Yeah.

00:55:22.640 I don't like them.

00:55:23.200 Just random ones.

00:55:24.460 I like to go to Waffle House and watch fights.

00:55:26.320 Yeah.

00:55:27.680 Well, dude, the one in Baton Rouge used to do a,

00:55:30.340 look up Valentine's Day, Waffle House, Baton Rouge.

00:55:33.540 They did a special thing.

00:55:34.520 Did they do it at other ones you know about?

00:55:36.480 Yeah.

00:55:36.900 I, like the decorations.

00:55:39.920 Yeah, they would decorate it and you could make a reservation.

00:55:42.700 Yes, where they put like a white tablecloth.

00:55:44.740 Yes.

00:55:46.580 That.

00:55:47.060 It's romantic.

00:55:47.860 I would really like that.

00:55:49.500 Waffle House for Valentine's Day, 2026.

00:55:51.420 romantic and affordable let me read up on that a touch because i know my sister's fiance took her

00:55:58.780 to this uh let's be honest on every valentine's date needs candles tuxedos and stress many couples 0.90

00:56:06.080 now choose waffle house for valentine's day because it feels real relaxed and easy on the

00:56:13.340 wallet if you've been wondering whether it's actually worth trying you're not alone let's

00:56:20.040 Walk through what experience is like and how to make it special.

00:56:25.900 I like that.

00:56:27.100 Heart-shaped hash browns.

00:56:28.320 You kidding me?

00:56:28.700 You know they have that?

00:56:29.640 Mm-mm.

00:56:30.980 Steak and eggs with extra sides to share.

00:56:34.040 I think I've been to Waffle House on New Year's Day for the past, like, five years.

00:56:38.200 Oh, God.

00:56:38.780 Maybe even six.

00:56:39.740 Yeah?

00:56:40.200 Yeah.

00:56:40.640 That's beautiful.

00:56:41.060 They used to have, like, a badge or, like, a recurring partner system.

00:56:43.660 chocolate pie slices

00:56:45.580 and strawberry milkshakes

00:56:47.960 served as a simple date night

00:56:50.160 drink. A steak from a

00:56:51.880 Waffle House. Hell yeah.

00:56:54.440 I was doing it up. Dude, I met

00:56:55.920 a woman off the internet once and

00:56:57.900 she was from another country.

00:56:59.820 She'd never been to a Waffle House

00:57:01.780 and I took her to one and she loved

00:57:04.100 it. That's one of my red flags.

00:57:05.980 Guy's like, let's go to

00:57:08.040 Waffle House early in the morning. He's like, no.

00:57:10.360 He says no? Let's go to

00:57:11.600 Cracker Barrel.

00:57:13.660 I feel like Waffle House over Cracker Bear.

00:57:16.800 I don't know.

00:57:17.700 I don't know.

00:57:18.100 It depends on if I want pancakes.

00:57:20.760 I don't know.

00:57:21.660 A lot of these pancakes these days are too hot.

00:57:23.740 They're too fluffy and fat for me.

00:57:25.600 I like that bitch. 1.00

00:57:26.520 Like, it's like somebody already tried to eat it, and it said, hell no.

00:57:30.600 I like that thing tough.

00:57:31.900 I like a pancake.

00:57:32.200 What does that look like?

00:57:33.300 Just a pancake.

00:57:34.380 I like that bitch. 1.00

00:57:35.000 Flat?

00:57:35.140 Yeah, flat, kind of burnt.

00:57:36.840 I don't like that big fluffy.

00:57:38.220 It looks like part of a piece of, like an actual part of a layer of cake.

00:57:41.020 I think that's a flapjack. 0.96

00:57:42.100 yeah it could be what is a flapjack bring it up because yeah people are wandering around

00:57:48.120 people are eating hot what is the difference between pancake and flapjack people are eating

00:57:51.580 all of them ella i don't know a british flapjack is a simple chewy and only baked bar made by

00:57:58.600 melting butter no don't even pull up with that shit i'll burn your damn golf clubs if you pull 0.99

00:58:03.500 that shit up again it's not that bar thing no it's not it is a i like that now some people 0.86

00:58:10.720 came out with something here we go a flapjack is a baked oat bar this isn't it man yeah i think it

00:58:18.160 is the oat bar well then i've been getting something else i call it a flapjack i like that

00:58:24.100 thing it's real just kind of a little more flimsy kind of looks like it'll fucking slap your ass if 0.95

00:58:28.420 you're walking by you know what i'm talking about it would make the sound yeah finally your brother

00:58:32.880 made a sound so he's having a good time and i'll tell you something i don't love uh a ton of syrup

00:58:38.300 I like a fair amount, but I don't like too much.

00:58:40.580 I love it.

00:58:41.380 You do?

00:58:41.800 Do you like condiments and stuff like that?

00:58:43.260 Are you a condiment person?

00:58:44.620 Sauce.

00:58:45.280 Yeah?

00:58:45.620 Anything.

00:58:46.200 I love it.

00:58:46.860 You ever had that Zit Zaki sauce?

00:58:48.520 Bring it up.

00:58:49.180 Yeah.

00:58:49.720 You've had it?

00:58:50.780 The Zach sauce?

00:58:51.920 No, Zit Zaki. 0.82

00:58:53.000 Bring it up.

00:58:53.500 No, no.

00:58:54.240 Zad Zaki.

00:58:54.740 I never heard of that.

00:58:55.860 Zad Zit.

00:58:57.580 Zad Zaki.

00:58:58.500 Taziki? 0.94

00:59:00.060 Don't even fucking tell me that's how y'all spell.

00:59:02.140 Bro, that's.

00:59:02.840 Taziki.

00:59:03.120 Taziki.

00:59:04.480 What did you just say?

00:59:06.600 Zachariah sauce?

00:59:07.320 I said Levitians 4.13.

00:59:11.780 That's what I said, dude.

00:59:13.780 I said Copernicus 12.6.

00:59:15.560 Yeah, I've had that sauce before.

00:59:18.560 Yeah, people say.

00:59:19.720 Say it again.

00:59:23.300 Zatzyki.

00:59:24.460 I want that Zatzyki, baby. 0.99

00:59:26.440 Yeah.

00:59:26.920 People love that Zatzyki. 0.98

00:59:28.460 Now, what I will say is this.

00:59:30.240 I do like it.

00:59:31.900 How do you prefer it?

00:59:33.160 Zatzyki? 0.87

00:59:34.100 Yeah.

00:59:34.320 Just straight up in the little.

00:59:35.780 with a little bread thing or

00:59:39.080 oh I'll take it with a pita usually

00:59:40.620 I'll have it but I'll have a little I mean I've never

00:59:42.780 taken one and drank in one or whatever

00:59:44.540 like my sister used to steal all those little coffee 1.00

00:59:47.000 creamers from the freaking place

00:59:48.940 my stepdad would take us and she would drink them

00:59:50.880 in her bed at night all those little

00:59:52.260 the hazelnut

00:59:54.880 that cannot be good

00:59:56.840 that sleepy little bitch 1.00

00:59:58.740 that sleepy little bitch 1.00

01:00:00.700 would fucking finish off six of those

01:00:02.820 and wondering why she's having nightmares

01:00:04.420 because you're drinking damn stolen milk, okay?

01:00:07.680 I don't understand how those stay good out for so long.

01:00:10.680 I don't ever understand.

01:00:11.880 And why can condiments stay on the tables at restaurants for so long,

01:00:14.660 but they can at the house?

01:00:17.660 Yeah.

01:00:18.100 I got a lot of questions.

01:00:19.760 But no, they used to put them,

01:00:21.820 they used to put the creamers on a thing of ice.

01:00:24.380 In some places that I think still have respect.

01:00:26.140 They still do, yeah.

01:00:27.000 But some of them, those hazelnut ones, those are bad for you.

01:00:29.440 They'll just give it to you in a coffee mug.

01:00:31.520 They'll just hand it to you.

01:00:33.580 Yeah.

01:00:34.420 It was like piling them in a coffee mug and hand it to you.

01:00:36.420 Oh, yeah.

01:00:36.800 Somebody would just stack them in like that.

01:00:38.320 But my sister would have six or 11 of them bitches in there complaining she's got an upset stomach, bitch. 1.00

01:00:43.360 Of course you do.

01:00:44.360 She's probably going to have the upset stomach for the rest of her life due to that. 1.00

01:00:48.660 And she already had a damn liver transplant. 1.00

01:00:50.720 You ain't getting nothing else.

01:00:52.440 Mom got her that when we were kids.

01:00:54.620 What did you get?

01:00:55.720 I didn't get shit, dude.

01:00:57.380 I remember I got roller skates that were way too big for me.

01:01:01.120 What were you like?

01:01:02.460 What did you do?

01:01:03.300 Me?

01:01:03.660 I was pretty good.

01:01:04.420 I guess.

01:01:05.960 I don't know.

01:01:06.580 It's kind of a,

01:01:07.060 I like to do my own thing.

01:01:08.660 I just like to hitchhike

01:01:09.740 and just have angry thoughts.

01:01:11.640 I think a lot as a kid.

01:01:14.040 What did you do?

01:01:14.900 Did you like play sports or?

01:01:16.420 Yeah,

01:01:16.640 I played basketball.

01:01:17.580 What did I like to do?

01:01:18.760 I like to be on my bike

01:01:21.080 when I was a kid.

01:01:23.240 My dad was super old.

01:01:24.700 So we was always like

01:01:25.580 messing with him and shit. 0.89

01:01:27.520 My dad was like,

01:01:28.840 my dad was 70 when I was born.

01:01:31.080 So he was an old guy.

01:01:32.640 Yeah,

01:01:33.020 he was old.

01:01:34.420 and my brother used to come in the room.

01:01:36.720 I've told this before.

01:01:37.320 My brother would come in the room, and he'd be like, Dad's dead.

01:01:40.020 And I'd be like, what?

01:01:42.980 He'd be like, yep, go in there.

01:01:44.620 Go in there.

01:01:45.160 He's dead, and I'd go in there, and he wouldn't be dead.

01:01:48.140 Yeah.

01:01:48.560 How many times did that happen?

01:01:49.940 Oh, well, then this is how we started to flip after a while

01:01:52.500 because he'd be like, Dad's dead.

01:01:54.700 And I'd be like, he freaking better be dead.

01:01:57.700 Or you're dead.

01:01:58.560 Or I'm going to whip your ass, yeah. 0.98

01:02:00.480 So it got to the point where you're like, hope, like, if Dad's alive,

01:02:03.600 somebody's getting their ass beat so which is a crazy concept to have you have to go in there

01:02:08.200 and check one more time yeah when your dad is barely alive so they're kind of pissed off like

01:02:13.160 this there's three pictures i mean look at the top look top four actually are all me zoom in on all

01:02:18.200 of those god that looks good that one's me no i ain't yep no it's not well is it really we had

01:02:29.780 some tough years yeah i mean obviously bring that kid back up dude dude that is not you we had some

01:02:35.620 damn tough what's going on with that little thing on the side oh honey that's a fade girl 1.00

01:02:43.820 that's a one into a 19 have you ever seen that cut that's crazy it's like a bowl cut with like

01:02:50.300 a weird shaped bowl that's a christian cut right there yeah who cut your hair growing up ella

01:02:56.120 lyingly um all kinds of people i have a bad tendency to cut my own hair yeah yeah i like

01:03:03.180 that best i really risk there's something about it what why do you do that and why have you enjoyed

01:03:07.080 that i don't know because it doesn't always go most of the time it goes bad that's how i got

01:03:13.520 bangs in the first place i stopped i was wearing a cowboy hat for a while and then i took it off

01:03:20.560 because it was windy one show and it was pissing me off i decided you know i'm gonna take it off

01:03:24.660 and I liked how my bangs like were kind of around my face.

01:03:28.320 And like 20 minutes before I walked out on stage,

01:03:31.700 I decided to cut my fringe a little bit and it was so bad.

01:03:35.920 There was like one piece right here.

01:03:37.820 And I was shooting the cover art for my first record that next week

01:03:41.000 and Kaylee was like, I hate you.

01:03:44.200 At least she was honest with you.

01:03:45.240 So I had to get, I just told her to full send it with the bangs. 0.99

01:03:49.660 Yep.

01:03:50.500 And now you're in.

01:03:51.520 I don't think I can ever change it.

01:03:53.000 Yeah, you love it that much, huh?

01:03:54.660 It changed my life a little bit.

01:03:56.260 Really?

01:03:56.800 Yeah.

01:03:57.480 I would say.

01:03:59.320 I mean, I don't know.

01:04:01.160 The bang thing is that it's...

01:04:02.540 I think it's the music.

01:04:03.940 Well, yeah.

01:04:05.300 But yeah, I mean, I think...

01:04:06.660 Well, maybe a little bit of the music, but mainly the bangs.

01:04:09.220 The bangs are nice.

01:04:09.960 You know what's funny is there's a...

01:04:11.160 I think there's a...

01:04:12.260 There's a, like a...

01:04:16.060 What's it called?

01:04:16.840 Like a big poster board in the air or whatever?

01:04:19.580 I don't know what you're referencing right now.

01:04:21.820 It looks crazy.

01:04:22.320 Billboard.

01:04:23.420 There's like a billboard.

01:04:24.660 over on Hillsborough Pike

01:04:28.100 and I thought it was you on it.

01:04:29.820 I think I know what board you're talking about.

01:04:32.200 Dude, here's a funny thing.

01:04:33.640 I'd go by it sometimes

01:04:34.900 and I'd always just rattle off something

01:04:36.540 or sing a couple of your lyrics to it.

01:04:38.520 And then somebody told me,

01:04:39.640 somebody told me it's not you.

01:04:42.440 It's not.

01:04:43.700 But I know what you're talking about.

01:04:45.580 And what do you mean you'd sing a couple of lyrics to it?

01:04:46.900 I would just rattle off something, you know?

01:04:48.800 Just to be like, what's up?

01:04:50.100 Yeah, there's Ella just seeing how she's doing.

01:04:51.920 Oh, she's still high and mighty up on that billboard up there. 0.99

01:04:55.740 And I think it's for an earring company, I said, with her fancy earrings or whatever.

01:05:00.340 Big earrings, too.

01:05:01.320 I mean, this lady had damn bird cages hanging off her head over there. 1.00

01:05:04.380 No, it wasn't me.

01:05:05.380 It wasn't you, though.

01:05:06.420 Wish it was.

01:05:07.260 God, yeah.

01:05:08.740 Yeah, I'd have gotten to spend more time with you, so me too.

01:05:11.160 It would have been nice, I think.

01:05:13.900 At school, sometimes we ask about Valentine's Day.

01:05:16.780 Did you have a thing at school where you had Valentine's at school,

01:05:19.400 or was y'all school too small to even give a Valentine?

01:05:21.600 because other people's feelings could really get hurt

01:05:23.940 in that sort of closed environment.

01:05:26.880 No, we still had Valentine's Day.

01:05:28.980 God.

01:05:29.580 Yeah, we still did.

01:05:30.720 It did.

01:05:31.140 Every feeling did get hurt.

01:05:33.040 If there's nine kids in my class and there's Valentine's Day, dude,

01:05:36.660 I couldn't cut that.

01:05:38.120 I'll never forget this kid.

01:05:40.220 He was in our class.

01:05:41.000 His name was Freddie.

01:05:43.500 And he brought in this little bear and he gave it to me.

01:05:45.600 And he's like, for you to have this bear, you've got to be my girlfriend.

01:05:48.340 I was like, sorry, buddy.

01:05:50.800 Can't do it.

01:05:51.940 I'm a horse girl.

01:05:52.600 And then he gave, yeah.

01:05:54.200 But then he went over to Shelly and gave her the bear.

01:05:57.200 No, he didn't.

01:05:57.760 And I was like, hey, Freddy, come back over here.

01:06:01.360 I will be your girlfriend.

01:06:02.500 Oh, damn.

01:06:03.380 Give me that bear back.

01:06:04.080 So you saw that competition and Ella said, I ain't losing out.

01:06:07.020 Yeah.

01:06:07.900 And Freddy was willing to get a woman, an animal.

01:06:10.000 Dude, I remember we had a guy by us.

01:06:12.400 He was a taxidermist or whatever.

01:06:13.680 And I just remember he had all these hard stuffed animals.

01:06:16.560 I didn't know.

01:06:17.920 Hard ones, yeah.

01:06:18.480 Yeah, I was like, that dude has the hardest stuffed animals ever.

01:06:20.880 and he gave me like a squirrel

01:06:22.880 because my mother said

01:06:23.660 I'd love it over there all the time.

01:06:25.340 She'd find me over there

01:06:26.520 and he gave me like a squirrel

01:06:27.940 and I slept with that thing. 0.99

01:06:28.920 My mom said for like four years

01:06:30.080 this big taxidermy-ass squirrel.

01:06:32.160 No, you didn't.

01:06:32.920 With a hard tail, yeah. 0.96

01:06:34.580 What do you mean a hard tail?

01:06:36.300 He had it.

01:06:36.880 Bring up a, 0.98

01:06:37.640 look at that bitch. 1.00

01:06:38.400 Yeah, look at the one.

01:06:39.600 Yeah, that's a stripper. 1.00

01:06:40.080 I've never seen one done like that before.

01:06:42.200 Look at the one

01:06:42.840 that's a stripper right there. 1.00

01:06:44.800 That's the one that you had for sure.

01:06:46.340 I think, I mean, I don't know.

01:06:48.220 I was young,

01:06:49.220 but I was happy to have it.

01:06:50.520 Yeah.

01:06:50.880 Look at the one canoeing in its own tail

01:06:53.660 That's pretty great actually

01:06:55.100 Did it have a name?

01:06:57.880 Yeah, Mr. Tucker

01:06:58.880 So he could have been trans

01:07:02.240 I have no idea

01:07:03.180 Who knows

01:07:04.440 Okay, a couple questions about your album

01:07:08.320 And then your new, what'd you say?

01:07:09.520 Real quick, Ella, could you pull your mic to the right

01:07:11.700 Just a little bit? Will you come help her, Trevin?

01:07:13.760 She doesn't need any help, sorry

01:07:15.300 This is Ella

01:07:16.520 Why'd you say that?

01:07:18.820 Just because I'm thinking if there's one lady that doesn't need any help, it's probably you, I think. 1.00

01:07:23.700 Sometimes I need help.

01:07:24.800 You do?

01:07:25.340 Yeah.

01:07:26.960 I know.

01:07:27.640 Sometimes I do, too.

01:07:29.340 I think that's one tough thing about when you kind of like, when things start, like, I think if you're like a person that's kind of controlling or, you know, you like to have a say in everything you do, do you feel like you're that kind of person?

01:07:41.920 That's one thing that I love about Morgan is Morgan knows exactly what he's doing.

01:07:46.240 He is dialed in to a T.

01:07:48.700 i feel like on what is him and what represents him yeah i'm very much that way i mean every bit

01:07:55.080 of what i do i have my hand in it you know i'm co-producing the record i'm writing stuff for the

01:08:01.080 music video co-directing that i'm um you know making the set list for the show and kind of

01:08:07.360 creating that set i literally drew out our set on in my journal it was like gave it to the set

01:08:12.760 designer it was like that's what i want and they literally made that for me so it's all you so when

01:08:17.320 people come to see this next door, it's all you.

01:08:19.320 No, I mean, I have an incredible team.

01:08:21.780 Right, but it all comes from you originally.

01:08:23.980 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:08:24.920 And it's interesting.

01:08:26.280 It's hard to find people that,

01:08:29.480 sometimes people get stingy with your art in a way.

01:08:32.020 And it's funny.

01:08:32.720 It's like a pride thing.

01:08:35.260 And I care so much about the people that I work with

01:08:37.620 it being a collaborative experience, you know?

01:08:40.700 And so everyone on my team, it really is that,

01:08:43.700 whether it be my stylist or my makeup artist

01:08:45.720 or Kaylee over here, who's my photographer 0.97

01:08:48.180 and also a creative director in my management, you know.

01:08:50.780 My band, it's kind of, like I don't tell my band

01:08:53.960 to get up there and play this dang thing lick for lick.

01:08:55.660 I want us to get up there and have, you know, fun and play music.

01:08:59.660 And obviously there's a way a show should go, but I don't know.

01:09:03.060 I just think that sometimes people put these weird perimeters

01:09:07.240 around such a creative thing.

01:09:09.840 And something that, like, I think you look like you love me did for me

01:09:13.580 was like everyone told me that song was not going to work you know yeah they're all like what what

01:09:20.300 are you my label tried to get me to cut it or before yes after we had cut it they were like

01:09:25.840 we really think you need to go back in and sing these verses i was like i'm not singing it and

01:09:30.940 they're like you need to sing it and i just fought them really hard on it and they thought you need

01:09:36.600 to go back in and sing riley's verses is riley the one sings on that yeah but no like the yeah

01:09:41.720 the talking part

01:09:42.540 you know

01:09:43.540 I was all but 22

01:09:44.340 I think at the time

01:09:45.360 yeah

01:09:45.640 yeah no

01:09:46.460 they wanted me to sing

01:09:47.360 that go back in

01:09:47.960 they're like

01:09:48.300 this is like

01:09:48.980 gonna be the worst

01:09:49.720 performing song

01:09:50.300 on the record

01:09:50.740 nah

01:09:51.320 yeah

01:09:51.940 and so I think

01:09:53.980 with that one

01:09:54.620 I mean it was just

01:09:55.940 different

01:09:56.200 and you knew it wasn't

01:09:57.340 I mean I didn't know

01:09:58.140 what it was gonna do

01:09:58.860 but I believed that

01:09:59.740 you believed in what it was though

01:10:01.260 I believed that it was different

01:10:02.580 I believed that

01:10:03.620 it was something

01:10:04.580 that made me smile

01:10:05.640 and

01:10:06.320 I enjoyed singing it

01:10:08.440 and

01:10:09.220 you know

01:10:10.120 like I said

01:10:10.600 once I put my mind

01:10:11.340 something like if I go in and cut something it's because I believe in it and it feels like you get

01:10:15.780 to know you some in that song a little bit too I mean it's just there's something about when

01:10:19.320 somebody's talking to you you know when they're talking as well I think there's yeah tells a

01:10:24.560 story in a different way yeah yeah I think so dang who's out there telling Ella Langley no

01:10:33.000 I don't know but have there been parts you've like like like as things got busier you're like

01:10:40.680 learning how to be like kind of like a boss a leader not necessarily a boss but like a leader

01:10:44.660 yeah and then those are roles that you have to step into i think if you want to be like

01:10:49.480 exactly how you want to be you know because otherwise there's like especially in music and

01:10:56.660 um and hollywood type of stuff there's it'll it'll make something for you and serve it out there you

01:11:02.900 know but if you want to be on top of it it takes a lot it does i think that's one of the harder

01:11:07.880 parts of this job and kind of what i've watched from watching other artists my whole life obviously

01:11:13.780 wanting to do this paid attention in a way like you really do have to get up and fight to do it

01:11:18.980 the way you want to do it every day isn't that crazy you you do it's exhausting and people all

01:11:23.660 day and the more the more success the more um people care about what you're doing you know

01:11:28.540 what i mean in the beginning in a label you know when i was first signed it wasn't a competitive

01:11:32.560 deal you know they I didn't really have that much going on um and it was more of like a banking on

01:11:38.080 me type of a situation right so now you know everyone is a little paying a little closer

01:11:44.460 attention to what's happening obviously you know and everyone has um an opinion and it's like that

01:11:49.880 across the board and that's just because it's working and everyone wants it to stay working

01:11:54.160 and um you know you know yourself the best and your artistry and like at the end of the day I'm

01:11:59.400 the one that's gonna have to do that interview I'm the one that's gonna have to um sing that

01:12:03.760 song every night I'm the one that's gonna have to go take those pictures I'm the one that's gonna

01:12:06.440 have to work with these people you know and I think it's just constantly reminding them of that

01:12:11.360 and not compromising who you are as a human being because well this is how it's usually done I hate

01:12:18.180 that phrase I hate well this is what you would usually do I was like well I don't give a rat's

01:12:22.600 ass what you'd usually do I do not want to do it like that I really don't and I'm gonna stick my

01:12:27.280 heels in the mud yeah i don't even have any heels and i'm just gonna put my feet in there you do

01:12:31.940 have heels that's the bottom of your foot this is oh yeah you're right and i'm gonna put them in the

01:12:36.800 mud yeah dude i've always i don't want to do it how you want that's dude that's been the pilot

01:12:43.920 light of my entire existence oh yeah do it like this that's the worst thing you could tell me if

01:12:48.260 you don't want me to do it dude i don't want to do any i never want dude i couldn't even my eyes

01:12:53.980 wasn't even open and I was like I ain't doing shit like you want me to yeah keep your eyes 0.90

01:12:58.540 straight how about that bitch I'm coming with a remix right yeah yeah that's hilarious um 1.00

01:13:12.080 oh congratulations you guys is your tour with Morgan starts um April 18th in Tuscaloosa Alabama

01:13:20.120 That was Bryant-Denny Stadium.

01:13:21.660 I know, home state.

01:13:23.000 That's so crazy.

01:13:24.580 It's cool.

01:13:24.820 I think it's the first concert to be in there since, like, what, 19-something?

01:13:30.180 Bring it up.

01:13:30.860 1970-something.

01:13:31.900 I think Alabama was the last thing.

01:13:33.480 Oh, hey.

01:13:34.180 Bring it up.

01:13:34.840 Oh, my God.

01:13:36.820 Kaylee took that over there. 0.59

01:13:38.180 Did she?

01:13:39.420 God, take some of me, Kaylee.

01:13:41.920 I need to live like that.

01:13:43.300 I need to get a damn brooch.

01:13:45.000 A brooch?

01:13:46.060 I don't know.

01:13:46.780 Sorry.

01:13:47.460 I mean a nice necktie.

01:13:49.340 I'm just joking.

01:13:50.020 I'm trying to make your brother laugh.

01:13:52.140 The only joy I'm having is when you guys laugh.

01:13:56.120 That's the gig, huh?

01:13:57.960 Well, yeah.

01:13:58.880 It's just nice.

01:13:59.580 When people laugh, I feel okay.

01:14:01.500 Yeah.

01:14:02.360 Alabama Stadium show right there at Bryant-Denny.

01:14:05.820 When was the last one?

01:14:07.780 That's what we're asking.

01:14:08.860 Honestly.

01:14:09.940 This guy's just looking at pictures of men online.

01:14:12.360 That's the dang football team.

01:14:14.160 We just want to know when was the last one.

01:14:16.060 just ask somebody

01:14:19.520 fucking ask

01:14:20.280 who's that

01:14:21.800 Roll Tide guy

01:14:22.620 oh ask Roll Tide

01:14:23.660 Willie yeah

01:14:24.780 he's actually from

01:14:26.020 the RR Hotel

01:14:26.900 dude he's

01:14:28.200 he was in the military

01:14:29.060 with my buddy's dad

01:14:30.160 he used to be

01:14:31.120 pretty

01:14:31.600 not normal

01:14:32.680 but better

01:14:33.320 Island Home

01:14:34.180 that's where he's from

01:14:35.100 what

01:14:35.540 yep

01:14:36.140 God bless him

01:14:38.300 the last concert

01:14:39.320 held at Brian Denny Stadium

01:14:40.320 was a performance

01:14:40.820 by the band

01:14:41.380 Alabama

01:14:42.380 in 1992

01:14:44.000 which followed

01:14:45.160 a series

01:14:45.640 of Bama Blast concerts in the early 1980s.

01:14:48.380 A 2008 concert with Alan Jackson

01:14:49.880 was scheduled but canceled.

01:14:51.700 Dang.

01:14:52.800 So that's been 30, 33 years.

01:14:57.840 Yeah, I'm pretty excited about that one.

01:14:59.880 That's crazy.

01:15:01.340 And we're direct support this year.

01:15:03.040 We've really worked our way up on this tour.

01:15:05.060 First tour, we were first of four.

01:15:07.340 We did with him.

01:15:08.320 Last year, we were second of four.

01:15:11.760 This year, we're direct.

01:15:13.880 Congratulations.

01:15:14.320 Just climb your way, you know what I mean?

01:15:16.120 He says, I mean, I've spoken with him about you, and he's like, she has it.

01:15:22.140 She has got it.

01:15:23.100 He's been really cool.

01:15:24.120 He's a unique dude, man.

01:15:25.660 Well, you know, I mean, him and Earn and Hardy and that whole crew has just been super kind to me.

01:15:31.700 Yeah.

01:15:32.120 Yeah.

01:15:32.520 Oh, that whole group is so much fun.

01:15:34.240 I remember right whenever I moved in town, we had a podcast studio.

01:15:37.180 I was living over in Wedgwood, Houston.

01:15:38.260 I just was renting a house and putting a podcast studio, and the guy was always stopping by.

01:15:41.460 He's like, do you have a podcast studio in here?

01:15:43.020 I was like, no.

01:15:43.640 and just like a lot.

01:15:45.400 It's like for some reason this guy hated podcasting or whatever.

01:15:48.800 And one day we got to have Morgan and came

01:15:52.920 and then we kind of just snuck out hardy and earn

01:15:55.540 and we had a blast over there.

01:15:57.220 But that was fun.

01:15:58.160 That was like an early episode that we had here in town.

01:16:00.760 Yeah, those shows are going to be cool.

01:16:02.520 It's going to be so great.

01:16:05.000 And there was something else I was going to ask you about.

01:16:07.140 Oh, and then you're doing Stagecoach too.

01:16:09.160 Yeah, me and my buddy are DJing there.

01:16:11.480 Really?

01:16:12.200 Yeah, dude.

01:16:12.680 Have you DJed before?

01:16:13.640 No.

01:16:15.880 But it looks so dang easy.

01:16:18.680 Yeah.

01:16:19.100 I'm just joking, Diplo, but it looks pretty damn easy.

01:16:23.100 So, yeah, that's it.

01:16:25.120 Yeah, I don't know.

01:16:26.020 I've never tried that.

01:16:27.380 But, yeah, me and my friend Caleb Presley are going to play at Diplo's Honky Tonk.

01:16:32.700 Stuart met him.

01:16:33.960 You did?

01:16:34.500 I did.

01:16:35.200 Him and Glennie Balls.

01:16:35.920 Oh, they're great, aren't they?

01:16:36.980 Yeah, I love that.

01:16:38.740 Glennie Balls is a character, man.

01:16:40.460 He is.

01:16:41.200 Yeah.

01:16:41.440 He loves a nice cheese, too.

01:16:43.060 if you know of a restaurant in the area,

01:16:45.180 he'll tell you about cheeses in any area.

01:16:48.000 He almost has like a...

01:16:49.300 Did you say, yeah, you will?

01:16:50.760 You know that?

01:16:52.540 Like he already knew that?

01:16:55.540 Yeah, yeah, he loves them cheeses.

01:16:57.880 You know, I met him over a Havarti.

01:17:00.980 Listening to Hardy.

01:17:03.460 And, sorry, I'm just dropping a horrible

01:17:06.780 cheese country music lyrics here.

01:17:09.700 That was great.

01:17:10.780 I thought it wasn't too bad.

01:17:11.920 That's how easy it is.

01:17:13.060 but no that's so that's going to be cool i'm excited i'm excited to get to see you play out

01:17:17.760 there um let's talk about and uh and thanks so much for spending time with us today thanks for

01:17:24.080 having me i appreciate it i appreciate it we're happy to have you we had this girl and yesterday

01:17:28.300 have you ever seen that girl she's like on tiktok she has like she has um stenosis she has a like

01:17:37.100 syndrome cystinosis cystinosis she keeps changing the name of it but uh yeah this is her have you

01:17:43.580 seen her she talks about the spice a little bit of spice a little hint of spiciness like a little 0.97

01:17:48.620 hint of soy sauce a little hint of the tomato you know a little hint of the spice tomato and ramen

01:17:55.180 yeah it actually has like a hint little hint of tomato oh yeah yeah what is a hint i don't even

01:18:02.060 else it just sounds like a real word that's me all the time what even what is even there i don't

01:18:07.480 know just say it first and figure it out later yeah um you have your new album dandelion or

01:18:14.700 dandelion that's how people some people were saying it yeah um congratulations um did you

01:18:23.120 feel like you had to hurry up and get this out or because i think sometimes coming off of like you

01:18:28.660 know like you said earlier like your career starts getting bigger and things start to feel like you

01:18:33.420 don't want to lose the momentum right you've worked so hard to build a flame did it feel like any

01:18:37.720 pressures like what were some pressures that were involved with this or was it just completely

01:18:41.280 smooth and is that a ridiculous question nothing is ever completely smooth i don't think for real

01:18:46.900 some i don't know well i don't know maybe some things yeah some things um maybe yeah but this

01:18:54.880 But this record, I mean, I worked on it for like a year and a half.

01:19:01.240 So it still took a while.

01:19:04.040 But I keep saying the big word for this record is synchronicity.

01:19:07.760 It did just feel like a lot of things.

01:19:09.660 While it was, you know, I'm co-producing for the first time,

01:19:12.460 while I'm full-time touring two different tours,

01:19:15.040 while, you know, just trying to balance everything at the same time,

01:19:18.100 get the vocals done, you know.

01:19:22.100 It taught me a lot.

01:19:23.140 and that's what was so cool about having Miranda

01:19:24.960 to be a part of it you know

01:19:26.840 because she's just so honest you know

01:19:29.160 you've met her and hung out with her she's just so real

01:19:31.280 yeah she's great she likes barrel racing 0.99

01:19:33.280 too yeah she does

01:19:34.380 but she just you know she was just 0.99

01:19:37.180 honest about you know days where I was like

01:19:39.220 she's like you're burnt dude

01:19:41.140 take a step back yeah

01:19:42.940 but also like you know

01:19:45.200 some things I wanted to go in there I'm like can I

01:19:47.180 say that she's like hell yeah you can say that

01:19:49.200 you can say whatever the hell you want to

01:19:50.540 you know so like that

01:19:52.820 confidence of someone that has done it and like you look up their career so much like you know

01:19:57.460 what hell yeah you know what yes yeah actually i do want the symbols to be louder right there i do

01:20:02.500 and um no it was it was really cool this whole this whole record i'm so excited about it i've

01:20:09.040 never been more excited about music in my life really i think i've clicked in my artistry let's

01:20:15.680 go yeah yeah i think i really have a pretty badass thing to say yeah i think especially if

01:20:21.980 somebody you mentioned earlier that you're such a like a judge of yourself you know that you get

01:20:26.820 off stage you're like ah that you know yeah that was fine but that but there's it wasn't exact as

01:20:31.760 exact as i could possibly have been you know yeah i just man this is as exact as i want it to be i

01:20:39.580 just oh yeah we had such a vision for it like i had a hundred and something song reference playlist

01:20:44.060 of what i wanted sonically for this record and now what do you mean what does that mean i literally

01:20:48.980 just went on spotify and made a playlist of like all of these songs of the era i was listening for

01:20:54.600 like guitar tones and drum sounds and bgv background vocal parts and um you know start with that idea

01:21:02.040 before anything well actually it started with the title dandelion um we had written that song

01:21:07.800 it's the oldest song on the record it was almost um going to be put on the last record but i pulled

01:21:13.160 it at the last minute because i just kind of felt like sonically it's where i wanted to go and i

01:21:17.340 knew it was like the context was like feels like i'm growing and i'm not just so hung over and

01:21:22.480 doing debauchery every day of my life you know yeah yeah yeah yeah maybe just on tuesdays you

01:21:28.380 know um but um yeah so i found out that um dandelion tea is a detox for your liver oh yeah

01:21:37.480 and when i heard that it was like a light bulb went off over my head it's like oh my god a record

01:21:42.980 called dandelion coming after a record called hungover it's like you're just growing up you're

01:21:49.080 you know dandelions are resilient they're kind of considered a weed but i mean what are kids

01:21:54.340 going and picking out for their moms and bringing them you know it's a bunch of dandelions and

01:21:57.920 they're actually spread on the wind which is cool if it weren't for the wind yeah so that's a little

01:22:02.680 random little nugget in there but i mean so much of that stuff is in this record and god i love it

01:22:08.880 Yeah, I mean.

01:22:09.620 Sometimes I play it when I'm in my room or whatever.

01:22:12.920 You feel that?

01:22:13.680 You feel like a dandelion?

01:22:14.660 I will play it.

01:22:15.420 I'm not saying all that.

01:22:16.620 But I will say I will play it sometimes.

01:22:18.680 You never have felt like a dandelion?

01:22:20.360 I don't think so.

01:22:21.440 I don't know.

01:22:22.040 I mean, I could have to read through my diary, but I don't think so.

01:22:25.700 Probably not.

01:22:26.880 But that's okay.

01:22:27.980 That's okay.

01:22:28.340 But I just, yeah.

01:22:29.180 I mean, I love you.

01:22:29.660 You're more of a rose.

01:22:31.480 Okay.

01:22:33.260 I'm more of a damn, what's the plant that grows on your house even if you don't want

01:22:36.640 it to?

01:22:37.640 Yeah, I'm more of a cud.

01:22:39.460 You are more of a cut, too.

01:22:41.040 I'm more of a damn cut, too, because they can't get rid of me.

01:22:43.960 They're like, this bastard.

01:22:45.800 I thought we put him out years ago.

01:22:47.740 And it's like, bitch, I'm still.

01:22:48.960 You were growing under the porch the whole time.

01:22:50.800 I'll come out, and I'll tap on your window.

01:22:52.700 I'm only planting.

01:22:54.020 Late at night.

01:22:55.040 Yeah.

01:22:55.660 I'm like a damn fungus.

01:22:57.000 Thank you.

01:22:58.180 Sorry.

01:22:58.820 Thank you, sir.

01:23:00.500 I like to vine.

01:23:02.680 But we'll go fungus.

01:23:04.840 We'll go fungus.

01:23:06.320 No, but no, I love listening to your music.

01:23:08.760 It's great.

01:23:09.560 I mean, I'll be standing.

01:23:10.480 Thanks.

01:23:11.000 I'll be standing.

01:23:11.960 And who am I to judge?

01:23:12.880 It's great, dude.

01:23:13.640 One time I said to Morgan, I was like, man, that song is good.

01:23:15.920 And he looked at me and he goes, that song is great.

01:23:19.560 And I was like, he's right.

01:23:21.860 And he was right.

01:23:22.900 You just kind of sat there in silence for a minute.

01:23:24.480 I was just trying to, I think, be cool a little bit.

01:23:26.800 He's like, no.

01:23:28.200 And he was right.

01:23:29.240 He got kind of sweaty right when he said that.

01:23:30.580 Yeah, I think we're actually working out somewhere.

01:23:32.240 So it was like, you know.

01:23:33.560 Extra.

01:23:33.820 it was just like

01:23:34.860 I don't know what was going on

01:23:35.960 but I remember him saying

01:23:36.860 that song's great

01:23:37.640 I was like

01:23:38.700 I respected his confidence about it

01:23:40.480 but no

01:23:41.760 I love listening to your music

01:23:43.360 it's great

01:23:43.700 but

01:23:44.100 quit saying that dude

01:23:45.680 you sound like a fucking weirdo

01:23:47.020 I like listening to your music

01:23:49.660 there's that smile again

01:23:52.160 but here's what happens is

01:23:53.940 I'll be talking to dudes

01:23:56.040 and I'll be walking up and singing

01:23:57.280 or I'm at the dang market

01:23:58.400 and some guy's

01:23:59.660 walking by singing it

01:24:01.740 you know

01:24:02.820 singing it?

01:24:03.520 yeah

01:24:03.760 Yeah, you're singing it.

01:24:05.320 All of it.

01:24:06.180 Be her.

01:24:06.960 Yeah, just, yeah.

01:24:08.460 Oh, dude.

01:24:09.360 Yeah, my friend Alan the other day, he said, I can't get this out of my head.

01:24:13.480 And I was like, well, dang, go look at some porno or something.

01:24:17.000 You know, or go get a dang, one of them nudie mags or something, bucko.

01:24:21.680 Yeah.

01:24:21.840 You know?

01:24:23.160 That usually, yeah.

01:24:24.640 But anyway, I was just saying, because that song is more of like a women-focused song. 0.89

01:24:28.500 That's all I wrote.

01:24:29.020 I wrote it with three guys.

01:24:30.180 Did you?

01:24:30.700 Yeah, Hardy's one.

01:24:31.920 Did he?

01:24:32.520 Mm-hmm.

01:24:32.880 He does have long hair.

01:24:34.360 He does.

01:24:35.640 And he has nice hair, too.

01:24:39.380 Well, tell me, like, so when it comes down to making the final songs,

01:24:42.420 like, or did you...

01:24:44.260 You want to play one?

01:24:45.540 You want to pick one out to play?

01:24:47.620 Yeah, play a song?

01:24:48.800 Really?

01:24:49.460 Yeah.

01:24:49.800 Yeah, of course.

01:24:51.040 I'll give you all the titles.

01:24:52.700 All right.

01:24:53.320 And then you can just pick one of them.

01:24:55.040 Let me see about one.

01:24:56.380 Just pick one that's not out yet.

01:24:58.480 All right.

01:24:59.780 Well, how would you know?

01:25:01.080 How would you know?

01:25:01.860 I think I will know.

01:25:03.140 Okay.

01:25:04.200 Where was that sent to me at?

01:25:06.320 Thank you.

01:25:09.640 Okay.

01:25:11.420 All right.

01:25:12.200 Let me see that.

01:25:15.260 Just put my number in here.

01:25:16.800 Sorry, I'm just watching this.

01:25:18.060 Sorry.

01:25:18.700 Sorry.

01:25:19.280 Taken over by the devil.

01:25:20.680 The dang devil is.

01:25:21.540 She's swiping around in there. 1.00

01:25:22.580 It's always looking.

01:25:23.060 It's like you hand it to your dad and he just keeps swiping, you know, and you're like.

01:25:26.320 Bro, if you give somebody a phone and they swipe one picture, is there anything scarier?

01:25:31.620 you have no idea what that could be

01:25:35.180 you just swallow it's just so hard

01:25:37.360 immediately it could be casserole

01:25:39.260 it could be a damn somebody getting a tummy 1.00

01:25:41.180 tuck what is this something you

01:25:43.160 meant to take to show your doctor later

01:25:44.720 oh you're like that's for

01:25:47.340 my doctor

01:25:48.020 you're like you were going to show that young

01:25:51.300 lady to your doctor like I don't know 1.00

01:25:53.280 me and my doctor I need to go to a

01:25:55.360 meeting um

01:25:56.940 what about last call for us

01:25:59.120 yeah you can

01:26:01.300 play that one is it a fun one it's not as much fun but it isn't if you want fun not that one

01:26:10.140 oh that's true huh but it's i mean i like this song oh my god

01:26:18.060 i'll just listen and enjoy it thank you but it's almost three and i think we both know

01:26:31.300 And his last call for us

01:26:36.660 It's a sad, sad tune

01:26:40.480 That after these drinks

01:26:44.660 You'll let go of me

01:26:46.940 And I'll let go of you

01:26:49.600 Here we go

01:26:50.960 We ain't ever gonna make this work

01:26:56.420 Let's close it out and go our separate ways

01:27:01.280 Soon as we go walking out that door

01:27:06.240 We ain't ever gonna, ain't ever gonna be the same

01:27:11.440 It's last call for us

01:27:16.680 Might cry a couple tears

01:27:20.200 Get a picture of Chuck tapping in

01:27:21.720 He's my ultimate hype man

01:27:23.680 I can edit that in right there

01:27:25.920 But this time alone

01:27:28.160 We won't come back here

01:27:31.080 It's the last call for us

01:27:36.160 You can fade it out some.

01:27:39.120 I think we could play one more.

01:27:40.720 We can?

01:27:41.300 And then we can just pick which one.

01:27:43.680 Let's do that.

01:27:44.580 Play a fun one.

01:27:44.980 That's good because that might be sad

01:27:46.220 because what if somebody just put their animal down or something?

01:27:49.420 Then that's the song they want to cry to.

01:27:50.920 That's just a good point.

01:27:51.580 That's why we put it out there.

01:27:52.820 Yeah, and thank you for that.

01:27:54.160 Yeah.

01:27:54.600 And I'll say this.

01:27:55.660 I went and saw Dermot Kennedy one time.

01:27:57.300 You ever heard of him?

01:27:58.160 Mm-mm.

01:27:58.420 Dude, and I didn't know people cried together in a big group at the Ryman, right?

01:28:04.100 And so, there was a woman crying on my back because she'd lost a pet. 0.94

01:28:09.680 You just let her.

01:28:10.800 I couldn't do, what am I going to do?

01:28:12.900 Just let her.

01:28:13.900 She said, just push my legs back if they get up against you. 1.00

01:28:16.220 And I was like, all right.

01:28:20.700 But it was special.

01:28:23.400 That's a crazy Ryman show.

01:28:24.800 It was.

01:28:25.760 All right.

01:28:26.180 And I saw you at the Ryman.

01:28:27.220 Remember, you asked me to sing that part, and I got scared.

01:28:29.460 Why did you get so scared?

01:28:31.220 Because I couldn't remember it all.

01:28:32.900 There were words.

01:28:33.940 There's a teleprompter out there with the words on it.

01:28:35.900 I didn't know that.

01:28:37.420 Nobody told me that.

01:28:38.540 I did.

01:28:39.440 Yes, I did.

01:28:40.460 I would have known.

01:28:41.220 A teleprompter, I know about that.

01:28:43.060 I know about words moving at slow speed in front of me.

01:28:46.340 Yeah, there was one with the words on it and everything.

01:28:49.080 I didn't know any of that.

01:28:50.340 They were like, everyone was like, he was upset.

01:28:53.340 And I was like, well, why?

01:28:55.680 I think I was bummed

01:28:59.600 Because I wanted to

01:29:00.300 Because I like the music

01:29:02.600 And so I wanted to be helpful

01:29:04.600 And everybody else was helping out

01:29:06.780 And then I think I just got too nervous

01:29:09.060 I didn't want to mess it up

01:29:10.160 You would not

01:29:11.120 You could have come out there and said anything

01:29:12.580 And it would have been good

01:29:13.480 That's the fun part about that song

01:29:15.880 I mess up the words all the time

01:29:17.700 You do seem pretty much like

01:29:20.060 You're willing to just roll with it

01:29:22.020 No matter what

01:29:22.760 Hey this is a special show for y'all

01:29:24.760 I've never done it

01:29:25.420 like this before

01:29:26.140 I can't help it

01:29:27.660 I'm human

01:29:28.120 I think you know

01:29:29.140 in a world of

01:29:29.860 you don't know

01:29:30.600 what's real or not

01:29:31.360 like

01:29:32.000 I just think

01:29:33.380 going up there

01:29:33.860 and not being afraid

01:29:35.480 to be humble

01:29:35.940 a little bit

01:29:36.460 in that way

01:29:36.900 I don't want to

01:29:37.560 mess up the words

01:29:38.220 like when I did

01:29:39.140 what I want

01:29:39.580 with Morgan

01:29:39.980 I mess up the words

01:29:40.820 almost every single time

01:29:41.900 I've never been so nervous

01:29:43.040 to go out and do something

01:29:43.840 I just feel like

01:29:44.960 I could throw up

01:29:45.560 before I walked out

01:29:46.100 there every time

01:29:46.580 I was like

01:29:46.900 I just cannot

01:29:47.540 I could not

01:29:48.300 remember those words

01:29:49.200 like here's me

01:29:50.380 like there ain't

01:29:51.020 no hard feelings

01:29:51.740 if you only want

01:29:52.480 to act like lovers

01:29:53.300 do for days

01:29:54.200 like lovers

01:29:54.700 and I couldn't stop

01:29:56.340 I literally just

01:29:57.280 you really

01:29:57.800 I just couldn't

01:29:58.800 I don't know

01:29:59.380 and I would have it

01:30:00.300 but then

01:30:00.800 alright POV

01:30:02.320 you go through this tunnel

01:30:03.980 you know what I mean

01:30:04.640 and you're playing in the stadium

01:30:05.880 it's the most people

01:30:07.180 you've ever been in front of

01:30:08.200 you're walking out

01:30:08.720 with Morgan Wall

01:30:09.440 and everything gets dark

01:30:11.240 and there's smoke everywhere

01:30:12.220 and you gotta walk out

01:30:13.140 and I'm in pointy heels

01:30:14.300 and there's grates

01:30:15.460 out there

01:30:16.320 so you gotta make sure

01:30:17.140 you're not falling down in those

01:30:18.400 you get up

01:30:19.020 and then

01:30:19.460 here you go

01:30:20.920 you get one shot at it

01:30:21.980 there's no practice too

01:30:23.200 you know

01:30:23.480 You get like one rehearsal, you go out there, and it's like, okay.

01:30:26.640 But doing it in front of 80,000 people is different than 2 p.m. in the middle of the day.

01:30:33.300 But what was awesome is the last time we did it is he came out and messed up the words.

01:30:37.720 And when he did that, I just started to laugh so hard because he was giving me so much shit about messing up the words.

01:30:45.220 He was just like, you can't come out here and mess this up again.

01:30:48.500 I was like, I might.

01:30:49.740 I really am scared that I might.

01:30:51.240 and

01:30:52.740 so the last night

01:30:54.420 he did

01:30:54.920 and it was like

01:30:55.700 he just immediately

01:30:56.440 could never say

01:30:57.100 another thing to me

01:30:57.840 about most of the words

01:30:58.700 you know

01:30:59.100 I love that

01:30:59.880 so that was nice of him

01:31:00.960 if he did that on purpose

01:31:02.280 that's what he says now

01:31:03.700 he's like

01:31:03.940 that's why I did it

01:31:04.600 it make you feel better

01:31:05.340 about all the time

01:31:05.920 like yeah

01:31:07.380 and he may have

01:31:08.540 who knows

01:31:09.060 nah

01:31:09.400 cause when he looked back at me

01:31:10.600 it was pure like

01:31:11.640 frustration

01:31:12.300 that he like

01:31:13.560 I couldn't no longer

01:31:15.080 talk shit about me

01:31:15.860 messing up the words

01:31:16.480 but it was even

01:31:17.020 that's hilarious

01:31:18.040 I was like

01:31:18.740 yes

01:31:19.300 thank you

01:31:20.740 y'all do a great job on that one yeah let's play one more then let's play something mella that

01:31:24.840 well let me think about one more let me try and pick one more okay can i just say yes or no if

01:31:29.560 i think it's a good one yeah well we'll take that part out okay why because if people if you say no

01:31:37.720 it's not a good one that might they are but maybe not for this setting yes for this setting that's

01:31:42.040 what i'm thinking about bottom of your boots yes bang bro that was my freaking one that i wanted

01:31:50.740 My dad gave me that title, actually.

01:31:52.920 Yeah.

01:31:53.740 I was, like, having a freak out one night.

01:31:55.560 It's actually kind of a sweet story.

01:31:56.840 I was, like.

01:31:57.460 Tell me about it, Dan.

01:31:58.920 Well, I mean, he was just giving me one of his, like, baby, you know, you're fine.

01:32:02.940 He's, like, you know, I love you from the bottom of my boots to the top of my hat.

01:32:06.800 Oh.

01:32:07.240 Dad, that's a great title.

01:32:08.740 Anyways.

01:32:09.360 That's as much of a dad as there is.

01:32:11.380 Yeah.

01:32:12.620 You know?

01:32:13.520 Pep talks.

01:32:14.300 That's bottom to top.

01:32:16.380 Yep.

01:32:17.360 Bottom of your boots.

01:32:19.100 Yeah.

01:32:20.020 yeah

01:32:21.640 heck yeah

01:32:27.880 like I

01:32:31.200 I'm thinking it's love

01:32:33.740 I'm thinking it's sober

01:32:36.100 boy if your heart's

01:32:38.560 a revolving door

01:32:40.500 yeah that's alright

01:32:42.180 but I'm looking for more

01:32:44.820 if you're gonna love me

01:32:48.880 Lay it on the table

01:32:50.700 Tell me how you really feel

01:32:53.480 Give it a label

01:32:55.140 If you're gonna hold me

01:32:57.440 Don't just hold me all night

01:32:59.880 Better hold me like you wanna hold me

01:33:02.620 Yeah, they got them shoulders

01:33:04.000 If you're gonna love me

01:33:05.920 Better love me to the moon and back

01:33:08.900 From the bottom of your boots

01:33:11.200 To the top of your head

01:33:13.260 Yeah, let's go

01:33:14.320 Yeah

01:33:15.540 Oh, man

01:33:17.980 Blame it on you

01:33:22.460 Not on some bourbon

01:33:24.620 The things that you're saying

01:33:26.780 Behind closed curtains

01:33:29.080 Go on and leave me

01:33:31.480 For it really hurts

01:33:33.480 If you don't mean it

01:33:35.920 With those three words

01:33:37.920 If you're gonna love me

01:33:41.660 Getting closer to a love song

01:33:43.360 Tell me how you really feel

01:33:46.320 Give it a label

01:33:47.940 If you're gonna hold me

01:33:50.280 Just hold me all night

01:33:52.700 Better hold me like you

01:33:54.440 Or hold me for the rest of your life

01:33:57.400 If you're gonna love me

01:33:58.760 Better love me too

01:34:00.220 Moon and back

01:34:01.780 From the bottom of your boobs

01:34:03.940 To the top of your head

01:34:06.280 I love that

01:34:08.700 Hello Langley

01:34:10.640 That's good

01:34:12.880 That's good

01:34:14.800 That's good in there

01:34:15.600 That's good

01:34:17.080 Enough slices.

01:34:18.840 Dude, your brother is a great dancer.

01:34:20.180 That's a beautiful song.

01:34:21.360 Dude, but he is dancing, though.

01:34:23.160 I don't know.

01:34:24.400 Pretty good, buddy.

01:34:26.020 Heck yeah.

01:34:27.020 I told you he's my hype man.

01:34:28.840 Yeah, no, I would get him out there and have him do it.

01:34:32.120 Do you ever do that?

01:34:33.440 No, but maybe we should.

01:34:35.340 He's been streaming.

01:34:36.840 Has he?

01:34:37.400 Yeah.

01:34:38.000 He's a streamer?

01:34:38.840 Yep.

01:34:39.400 Nuh-uh.

01:34:40.560 I have been streaming Mustache Stew.

01:34:42.980 Mustache Stew?

01:34:44.140 Okay.

01:34:45.460 Yeah, I like that, man.

01:34:47.660 There's not a lot of southern streamers, really, I don't feel like.

01:34:50.260 I know.

01:34:50.660 I feel like I'm getting a lot of exposure, dude.

01:34:53.320 It's been awesome.

01:34:54.760 Mustache, dude.

01:34:55.440 I got the brand.

01:34:56.760 I got the stoop.

01:34:58.560 Type.

01:34:58.960 I like it, dude.

01:34:59.740 And is that a real hat from your sister's album?

01:35:02.020 It is.

01:35:02.660 Oh, yeah.

01:35:03.360 I got to get that.

01:35:04.060 We bought you some.

01:35:05.020 Yeah.

01:35:05.780 Unreleased.

01:35:06.640 Are they?

01:35:07.440 Did you really bring one?

01:35:08.560 Let's go.

01:35:10.340 I can't even wait to freaking put it on whenever I get home.

01:35:14.540 that's a great song.

01:35:16.640 Thanks for letting us play it.

01:35:18.740 And I think,

01:35:20.320 and what a great story to go with it,

01:35:22.300 that it came from your dad

01:35:23.300 saying that to you.

01:35:24.280 Yeah.

01:35:24.660 That's awesome.

01:35:25.280 That's a nice reminder.

01:35:26.320 Should we do one more?

01:35:27.580 I mean,

01:35:28.200 I will definitely be here for that.

01:35:30.880 He picked out a good one.

01:35:32.220 I think we should do Broken.

01:35:34.180 I'll do it.

01:35:35.500 All right,

01:35:35.820 it's first chorus.

01:35:37.100 And is it about,

01:35:38.640 well,

01:35:39.660 never mind,

01:35:40.120 I'll just be quiet.

01:35:40.920 You're figuring this town out one day at a time, aren't you?

01:35:45.580 Yeah.

01:36:10.920 thing to say because the words ain't working on me lately tears just fall on a hardwood floor

01:36:18.860 gonna wonder why gonna wonder what for don't ask if i'm doing all right can we skip all the talking

01:36:27.520 baby just let me just let me just let me be broken

01:36:33.540 just let me just let me just let me be broken

01:36:40.400 One night, baby, just one night

01:36:53.120 Let me feel everything that I'm feeling

01:36:55.800 And if it's all right, I'ma let it all out

01:36:59.960 I'ma let it all out tonight

01:37:02.360 So just let me, just let me, just let me be broken

01:37:07.820 Just let me, just let me, just let me be broken

01:37:14.660 You and me in the dark

01:37:18.660 Just keep holding me tight

01:37:20.340 While I'm falling apart

01:37:22.180 Baby, just for tonight

01:37:23.980 Just let me, just let me, just let me be broken

01:37:27.180 Can't you hear this live with the crowd, you know?

01:37:29.220 Oh, yeah, with their lighters.

01:37:30.780 Oh, lighters.

01:37:33.160 People holding up pictures of people they lost.

01:37:35.920 Look at them, there we go.

01:37:36.820 Literally.

01:37:37.820 I think you're one shot of you with that lightity.

01:37:41.220 That's pretty clutch.

01:37:51.360 That's awesome.

01:37:52.840 Let me be broken.

01:37:57.980 Yeah, a lot of singing choruses on this record.

01:38:00.880 I can feel how proud you are.

01:38:02.200 I thought a lot about wanting people to sing along to these songs.

01:38:05.360 Yeah.

01:38:05.780 You thought about that.

01:38:06.660 A lot.

01:38:07.060 you know i mean i don't know i just no it's important it's sometimes there's so many words

01:38:11.660 in songs and i'm just like i cannot remember but i can remember the melody you know so a lot with

01:38:16.460 these songs i wanted them to be kind of easy to remember big singing courses like you know you

01:38:22.020 hear that chorus once and you're already knew how to sing it yeah yeah because you want to feel a

01:38:27.000 part of it i mean i think as a as a listener you want to feel a part of it as quick as you can

01:38:30.180 sometimes especially if you're a fan of somebody you're like you know if it fits you some of them

01:38:34.160 You know, certain songs fit certain people better than others.

01:38:36.980 Well, maybe you haven't heard all the songs and you just know like one or two and then

01:38:40.120 you come to the show, but you can still catch on to songs throughout the show because.

01:38:45.060 Because I hate just standing there.

01:38:46.860 I hate just standing there.

01:38:47.760 I have too much ADHD to just stand there.

01:38:49.700 God.

01:38:50.080 And you have to keep getting snacks because you don't know the song.

01:38:52.380 You're like, well, shit, I'll get another snack or whatever.

01:38:55.480 Get another pretzel, I guess.

01:38:56.520 I'll get another pretzel.

01:38:57.680 Maybe make it cinnamon this time.

01:38:59.440 Yeah.

01:38:59.740 Maybe I'll change things up or something and get a damn diet Gatorade or whatever, which

01:39:03.880 they never came out with which i have written them about um i had this i had this like choosing

01:39:10.220 texas is probably it's the biggest song everywhere apparently they had like somebody called it they

01:39:14.700 caught it they found an alien or something he was singing it i think like there was like a family of

01:39:19.340 aliens they saw somewhere they were they saw them singing it like it's number one on everything it's

01:39:22.920 like you know it's like the biggest song that's ever happened some guy you see that guy in a coma

01:39:26.700 who he kind of wakes up and mumbles one of the lyrics and then goes back into a coma yeah he's

01:39:32.780 like getting them right back right off um no i haven't seen that one there's so many memes to

01:39:41.400 it though have you seen a lot of those yeah let's can we bring some up yeah what do you think about

01:39:46.460 all these i think that it's it's whatever people want to do with the song you know once i put it

01:39:52.500 out there it's like who knows what could happen and i'd like i said this is what's going to keep

01:39:56.800 songs alive you know it's yeah it does sound too close it does sound real close to that

01:40:07.080 drinking jack off by myself yep yeah i think it does it does and that like i'll get songs stuck

01:40:13.780 in my head and parts to it and i just have that right there stuck in my head like on repeat over

01:40:18.980 and over again now just drinking jack up on myself it's like drinking jack on and have you ever

01:40:23.780 accidentally sung it like that on stage or no i feared that a lot i really do because i have the

01:40:27.960 thing about me where it's like i have one specific thing i should not say and then i'm accidentally

01:40:32.980 gonna probably say it like i don't know why um god yeah yeah so damn satan's tickling you from

01:40:38.740 the inside here's one right here

01:40:42.260 there's jews in texas i can tell yeah it's jews there's jews in texas i see a new one all the time

01:40:53.240 drinking jack up by myself there's jews in texas i can tell and it's just a 0.99

01:41:02.140 see me a mixed guy at least possibly a black man fishing in a suburban man-made pond there's no 0.99

01:41:10.440 way that they're fishing that pond right now.

01:41:12.360 You don't think? No way.

01:41:14.140 I don't know. I bet there's some damn missing women in that 1.00

01:41:16.440 bitch. Pull up one more. 1.00

01:41:20.400 This.

01:41:30.180 My dad loves that one.

01:41:34.560 It says

01:41:35.560 some people can't see it because they're listening.

01:41:38.540 well let me spend it down and I can't help but cry

01:41:40.620 because I farted it says on the screen

01:41:42.620 so that's what they're saying she said

01:41:44.500 that's hilarious

01:41:45.280 yeah the only ones I've seen is the Jews 1.00

01:41:48.600 in taxes and then

01:41:50.080 drinking jack off by myself

01:41:52.060 it does it's like that you can be

01:41:54.600 my green bean you remember that thing

01:41:56.500 you can be my queen be

01:41:58.380 lord remember that song

01:41:59.700 and everyone was like you can be my green

01:42:01.980 yeah I used to do that

01:42:03.900 you can be my queen

01:42:06.460 life's a pain to bust

01:42:08.460 am I gonna

01:42:09.420 you don't want

01:42:12.180 something with us

01:42:13.920 you say it

01:42:14.780 you could be my green bean

01:42:16.280 oh yeah

01:42:17.000 you could be my green bean

01:42:19.140 everyone thought you said green bean

01:42:20.860 oh you could be my green bean

01:42:22.680 okay I gotta stop

01:42:24.560 some real man shows up

01:42:27.560 and chokes me out

01:42:28.660 can we

01:42:30.080 okay moving on

01:42:32.960 Ella Langley

01:42:34.320 and then your own tour

01:42:35.460 you have your own tour

01:42:36.320 is kicking off after

01:42:37.800 or it's in between the one with direct support from Morgan?

01:42:41.780 Kind of back and forth some.

01:42:44.100 We start in May.

01:42:45.200 May what?

01:42:46.320 May 7th.

01:42:48.480 Where did we start?

01:42:49.600 Toledo, Ohio.

01:42:50.340 Yep, Toledo, Ohio.

01:42:51.720 That's when Vietnam was. 0.99

01:42:52.820 Was that where Vietnam was?

01:42:54.000 I know it wasn't.

01:42:55.340 Sorry.

01:42:55.820 I know Vietnam was out in Toledo.

01:42:58.220 I think Vietnam started May 7th.

01:43:01.620 Oh, that's the day.

01:43:02.560 It doesn't matter either way.

01:43:05.000 At this point.

01:43:05.920 Let's pretend that's not part of this.

01:43:07.800 Well, you got double Marlowe's on it

01:43:10.660 You got Dylan Marlowe and Cameron Marlowe

01:43:12.620 Not related

01:43:13.240 Two totally different singers, both great

01:43:16.400 Caitlin Butts is on there

01:43:18.620 I'm trying to think if I've heard her before

01:43:20.800 Can you bring up Caitlin Butts? 1.00

01:43:21.940 You ain't gotta die to be dead of me

01:43:24.320 She has an incredible cover

01:43:27.120 Of

01:43:27.540 I went down to Tulsa

01:43:31.540 Oh yeah

01:43:34.200 Yeah, she's incredible

01:43:35.420 her voice is incredible

01:43:36.860 she's so fun

01:43:37.840 her songs are fun

01:43:38.780 she's also really funny

01:43:49.220 she's funny? 0.99

01:43:50.200 yes

01:43:50.480 that's the best

01:43:51.120 that's good

01:43:51.640 I love funny girls

01:43:53.540 being on tour

01:43:54.300 there's nothing better

01:43:54.780 than funny girls 1.00

01:43:55.200 a lot of funny girls

01:43:56.080 I noticed

01:43:56.580 and this is something

01:43:57.040 I noticed

01:43:57.460 is that a lot of them

01:43:58.840 are from Philadelphia area

01:44:00.880 yeah

01:44:03.380 what made you notice that?

01:44:05.420 I just noticed it, and I believed it. 0.98

01:44:09.620 Well, that's all you got to do.

01:44:11.000 When I noticed it, I believed it.

01:44:12.320 And then that's what it is.

01:44:14.520 Yeah, sometimes you meet some funny girls from Philadelphia area. 1.00

01:44:18.540 But anyway, also, Caitlin Butts. 1.00

01:44:21.700 And I look forward to getting to meet her sometime.

01:44:23.380 She's really good.

01:44:24.680 And then Gabriella Rose is first of three for almost the whole thing. 0.60

01:44:29.480 She's incredible.

01:44:30.400 Diplo was telling me something about her.

01:44:31.680 Oh, she's so good.

01:44:33.240 I believe in her a lot.

01:44:34.200 She's young.

01:44:35.420 And she's still, like, you know, finding herself in her artistry and, you know, doing the whole damn thing. 0.74

01:44:41.700 But she's so good.

01:44:43.140 Yeah?

01:44:43.560 Yeah.

01:44:44.060 Yeah.

01:44:44.220 The way she writes, it's like you can tell she means what she says.

01:44:47.900 And then Lacey K. Booth is another one.

01:44:49.860 My God.

01:44:52.040 They are just some good women out there. 1.00

01:44:54.680 Yep.

01:44:55.740 And we are glad they're doing it.

01:44:58.380 Well, yep.

01:44:59.540 We are glad.

01:45:02.080 We are glad.

01:45:03.040 sorry i don't know is this the weirdest interview is it okay guys

01:45:07.380 those guys are perverts both of them um ella thanks so much for hanging out with us thank

01:45:16.360 you for having me i appreciate it congratulations on all of your success on everything that's going

01:45:20.800 on and uh just learning to like figure it out because i think that's that's one thing that

01:45:25.900 everybody's trying to do i think sometimes people think that like people like it are in some sort

01:45:30.080 of limelight or going through some sort of like popularity or exposure or fame that they there's

01:45:34.640 like a conductor behind the stage that's like telling you what to do every second in the day

01:45:38.060 yeah no yeah sadly that ours is in there can you imagine what our conductors look like too in there

01:45:45.160 oh it's a mess if they pulled out whoever lives in my head from behind a building

01:45:49.800 from behind a building and they're like look what we look what we found back there

01:45:54.920 I would, like, fucking hang him from the nearest row, bro.

01:45:59.880 Have you ever watched the Inside Out movie?

01:46:01.660 And he wouldn't have pants on, I bet.

01:46:03.420 Probably.

01:46:04.580 You're like, wait, you're telling me the guy in my head...

01:46:07.020 Has never had pants on.

01:46:08.200 Has never had pants on.

01:46:09.280 Like, the officer's like, he doesn't own pants.

01:46:11.160 We're like, well, what?

01:46:12.580 We can't afford pants.

01:46:14.000 Yeah.

01:46:14.600 Oh, God.

01:46:17.120 Have I ever watched the Inside Out movie?

01:46:18.980 Yeah.

01:46:19.280 Uh-uh.

01:46:19.640 It was, like, the characters that live in your brain, the cartoons.

01:46:22.840 You would love this movie.

01:46:24.260 I actually think that you would

01:46:25.560 it's incredible

01:46:26.200 I've never seen this

01:46:27.620 you should

01:46:28.100 you should see it

01:46:29.220 with your eyes

01:46:29.780 it's very good

01:46:30.600 okay

01:46:31.200 it's like

01:46:32.920 about all these characters

01:46:33.780 they all are like

01:46:35.200 it's like sad

01:46:36.140 mad

01:46:37.420 there's like one main girl

01:46:39.140 and then there's like a

01:46:40.180 I don't know what the other one is

01:46:41.520 joy

01:46:42.240 yeah there's some anger disgust

01:46:43.720 oh I see

01:46:44.000 I see all of them

01:46:44.660 they're all labeled up there

01:46:45.860 oh wow

01:46:47.520 anyway

01:46:48.880 it's always made me think about that

01:46:50.200 I appreciate that

01:46:51.840 welcome

01:46:52.800 just something for later on the plane

01:46:54.200 whenever you're on a plane.

01:46:55.500 Yeah.

01:46:56.100 After I get done listening to Dandelion, then.

01:46:58.200 Yeah.

01:46:58.840 I'll put on Inside Out.

01:47:01.380 I'm sure the people sitting next to me are like,

01:47:03.160 this guy's going through a lot.

01:47:05.140 No, no.

01:47:05.460 If someone came up on you watching that,

01:47:07.000 they'd be like, yeah, for sure.

01:47:08.600 Probably.

01:47:08.940 It's kind of crazy that that's where we're at now.

01:47:10.480 If an adult came up on another adult watching a fucking cartoon, 0.73

01:47:12.700 they'd be like, yeah, man, you're doing everything.

01:47:13.900 Everything's fine.

01:47:16.440 He must be having a hard day.

01:47:17.960 It's a crazy world.

01:47:19.860 So you're going to be on tour for a bit then?

01:47:21.180 You won't get to go back home for a while?

01:47:22.300 Or do you have a set date where you're going to go back home?

01:47:23.960 Will you be home for Easter?

01:47:24.820 Will you be home for?

01:47:26.380 Yep.

01:47:27.040 I'm going to go home for Easter.

01:47:28.780 And then.

01:47:29.360 Will you go back to the church that you grew up in?

01:47:31.280 No.

01:47:31.960 No.

01:47:33.440 Just, I kind of, well, we moved to a different place.

01:47:36.120 My parents just sold that house, actually.

01:47:38.400 They closed out like a week or two ago.

01:47:40.020 Oh, nice.

01:47:40.580 Yeah.

01:47:41.500 But yeah, I just, I bought a house back there on a lake and don't want to say where because

01:47:46.420 people already come up on their boats and stuff playing my music.

01:47:49.460 It's kind of funny.

01:47:50.260 People are perverts.

01:47:51.000 People are seafaring perverts.

01:47:53.700 No, it's just a small town.

01:47:54.740 You know what I mean?

01:47:55.220 They're like.

01:47:56.420 Yeah.

01:47:57.140 They're cool.

01:47:57.820 There's like the closest.

01:47:58.800 It's just like a Piggly Wiggly and a DG there, you know?

01:48:01.560 Oh, yeah.

01:48:02.340 I mean, people used to pull up by our apartments and steal all the ditch onions that were out there.

01:48:06.460 I never.

01:48:06.980 What?

01:48:07.340 You haven't?

01:48:07.860 Mm-mm.

01:48:08.500 I have never.

01:48:09.540 Oh, they got ditch onions out there.

01:48:12.400 And congratulations on choosing Texas as a number one.

01:48:16.640 It's a number one for.

01:48:20.600 It's just so many.

01:48:21.500 I don't even.

01:48:22.180 It's too many slices.

01:48:23.700 Too many things.

01:48:24.740 For everything.

01:48:24.880 It's actually crazy.

01:48:25.840 It's a number one for everything.

01:48:27.260 I think it just came out on the moon.

01:48:29.300 It's the first number one on the moon, I think.

01:48:31.000 Yeah, I don't really know.

01:48:32.480 That would be nuts.

01:48:34.200 No, yeah, I don't know.

01:48:35.620 It's just so weird to believe that that's like a song.

01:48:40.940 That's my song?

01:48:41.900 Yeah.

01:48:42.220 What?

01:48:43.320 I know it's hard to feel attached to things that you do sometimes.

01:48:46.340 Yeah.

01:48:46.720 I think.

01:48:47.380 Yep.

01:48:47.760 I think that makes good sense.

01:48:50.340 Maybe that's one of the things that makes you you,

01:48:52.020 But whatever the things are that make you you, they're enjoyable to witness.

01:48:57.080 So thank you for spending time with us.

01:49:00.480 Thank you for your music.

01:49:01.820 There's so many people I know that love it and that it brings joy to their life.

01:49:04.760 And I'm glad I got to meet Mustache Stew.

01:49:08.400 And, yeah, when I need some photos and my conditioner sets, I'm going to call you and, Dan, get something swell going on.

01:49:15.560 Something swell.

01:49:16.340 Yeah, something swell.

01:49:18.640 Ella Langley, thank you.

01:49:20.000 Thank you for having me on here.

01:49:22.020 Yes, ma'am.

01:49:49.620 Spring break isn't what it used to be.

01:49:52.020 it's better. This spring, stay three nights and get a $50 Best Western gift card. Life's a trip.

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - April 07, 2026

#651 - Ella Langley

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