This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #669 - Riley Green

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00:00:29.160 the support. Thank you for being a part of our world. Today's guest is a country musician and

00:00:35.220 songwriter from Jacksonville, Alabama. His new album, That's Just Me, is out September 18th,

00:00:42.900 and he's currently on his Cowboy As It Gets tour. Just a reminder, you can watch video versions of

00:00:49.420 our episodes on Spotify as well, if you didn't know that. I had a time with today's guest. I'm

00:00:56.100 glad that he brought the humor Mr. Riley Green. It's nice when I get home too to get on a bulldozer

00:01:20.700 or something and go clear. Man that's the most relaxing thing in the world. Is it? Yeah get on

00:01:25.360 a bulldozer and go out there and start clearing a road oh yeah and you don't realize how far you've

00:01:29.040 been till you get off it to walk back to your car you know but it's just pushing trees over and

00:01:33.380 clearing fields god just yeah except the animals are like here comes out look we love his music

00:01:39.780 but this guy's yeah well that's that's pretty fair of course i'm making like a field i'm gonna

00:01:43.960 plant some food for him man you know okay so the yeah so some of it's just rezoning for them yeah

00:01:48.380 that's all yeah all it is just yeah it's like look guys we're kind of i'm not gonna put a parking

00:01:52.440 lot or Kmart there.

00:01:53.440 It's going to be like,

00:01:54.480 you know,

00:01:54.780 there's a field.

00:01:56.580 Yeah.

00:01:57.040 I'll leave him some shade trees.

00:01:58.520 It's fine.

00:01:59.020 Sorry, man.

00:01:59.680 I'm acting like you're the bad guy.

00:02:01.660 I was like,

00:02:01.960 but you,

00:02:02.280 you made me the,

00:02:03.260 the developer on Fern Gully.

00:02:05.240 It's like burning the woods down.

00:02:06.940 Like I'm not doing,

00:02:07.740 I'm making it nicer.

00:02:08.900 Like I dug a lake,

00:02:09.820 like threw him somewhere for him to swim.

00:02:11.080 Oh really?

00:02:11.820 Yeah, man.

00:02:12.520 Oh God,

00:02:13.320 that'd be beautiful.

00:02:14.060 You made me the man.

00:02:15.060 Yeah, dude.

00:02:15.440 I freaking,

00:02:15.820 yeah,

00:02:16.080 I made you the bad guy.

00:02:17.320 You made me like the bad guy on the,

00:02:19.300 what's the movie with the blue people?

00:02:21.060 Avatar.

00:02:21.740 Yeah, you made me that guy.

00:02:22.940 It's like just destroying the forest.

00:02:24.600 I'm like making it nicer for the animals.

00:02:26.680 Yeah, you're down there repurposing.

00:02:28.620 Yeah, man.

00:02:29.740 God, I got to get in prayer.

00:02:31.980 I got to get in the word.

00:02:33.640 What you got to do is get on a bulldozer.

00:02:35.620 Come down there and get on a tractor.

00:02:37.560 You figure your life out down there doing that.

00:02:39.200 Do you?

00:02:39.900 Well, what do you do?

00:02:42.720 What is your thing that you say is your biggest disconnect from all this?

00:02:50.540 What do you do?

00:02:51.340 i don't honestly that's the problem right i don't have an immediate answer i would probably say

00:02:56.560 i would say probably working out and going for a walk probably okay well that's that's definitely

00:03:04.600 one of them but like you're still thinking about yeah you're still in it you know what i mean yeah

00:03:09.560 i mean if i go for a walk with a good friend it's that's more like just kind of like contemplating

00:03:12.860 discussing stuff but i agree having some having like it's time for me to kind of like uh find

00:03:18.500 some other outlets and stuff you know and i just got off a tour and so that's like this is one of

00:03:22.620 the first times where it's like well who am i you know what do i do with myself oh both of them who

00:03:28.220 am i and what do i do with myself like you know not in a not in a whiny way but it just like kind

00:03:32.220 of hit me like that it's like okay so it's time for me to like kind of embrace some of those um

00:03:36.760 but just so people know i think we started in you said you have like you guys got a couple thousand

00:03:41.420 acres down there in alabama i bought i've got 1780 right now that all touches but i bought it in like

00:03:47.700 little pieces here. Every time I go down there, I'm calling my neighbors up, see if anybody wants

00:03:50.960 to sell anything. But my granddaddy Buford's brother, my uncle Bill had some property that

00:03:55.040 I grew up running around on. It was 141 acres and I bought that first. And then just since then,

00:04:00.200 I've grown it. And it's just a never ending project. I mean, you go out there, I'll go home

00:04:05.080 and it kind of keeps me sane on the road too, because I'd be thinking about, man, when I get

00:04:09.300 home, I'm going to take the D3 over here and clear this one field off or make this road around the

00:04:14.120 outside of the property

00:04:14.840 so I can go in here

00:04:15.640 and I'm going to dig a lake

00:04:16.840 over here

00:04:17.240 so you're just constantly

00:04:18.060 creative

00:04:18.840 because there's

00:04:19.960 I mean

00:04:20.660 everything you do

00:04:21.500 is making the land

00:04:22.180 more valuable

00:04:22.700 right

00:04:23.040 you know

00:04:23.300 so

00:04:24.100 and you have a crew

00:04:25.440 that does that with you

00:04:26.320 my dad and his brother

00:04:27.740 used to frame houses

00:04:28.640 my dad was a carpenter

00:04:30.020 and

00:04:30.260 he's 70 now

00:04:32.640 so I mean

00:04:33.440 they're both pretty old

00:04:34.340 and kind of beat down

00:04:35.100 so I let them work

00:04:35.920 around the farm

00:04:36.560 and just you know

00:04:37.200 run tractors

00:04:37.800 and they love that

00:04:38.480 kind of work

00:04:38.880 and I got a couple

00:04:39.460 buddies I used to do

00:04:40.300 construction work with

00:04:41.100 that helped me out

00:04:41.960 out there

00:04:42.320 so

00:04:42.580 there's always

00:04:43.580 something going on but when i get home like you know when you get on a tractor like that you're

00:04:50.120 not gonna have your phone i mean yeah you forget about it you know oh yeah and then going out there

00:04:53.720 and and you get caught up in what you're doing and i've always enjoyed the kind of work where

00:04:58.100 you can see what you did at the end of the day i love that about construction work but that's

00:05:02.080 something you don't get in what we do like yeah there's a lot of accolades and big moments and

00:05:06.920 highs out of it but as far as like what we do never has an end you never finished with yeah what

00:05:14.100 we're doing like there's a little thing she's okay well that went well check i'll go to the next

00:05:17.060 thing but like being on tours you know my tour doesn't end we just tour till holidays get here

00:05:23.340 and people stop coming to shows and we start back around february you know so it's nice to have

00:05:27.360 something that you can finish amen yeah yeah having that justification like just like looking back

00:05:33.300 seeing something the day is done the sun you know i'm saying like that you can feel the evening

00:05:37.100 coming in you're like okay that's time yeah i used to work on a uh on a soybean farm over there and

00:05:42.000 um near like vidalia louisiana right over on the louisiana mississippi border over there

00:05:47.000 and that was those are some of the best days man it was tough work but you like i still go back in

00:05:52.360 a frame a little bit with my buddy build out just to remind myself what it was like yeah dude i'll

00:05:56.960 just love whether they had me painting or just like moving seed or just like um cleaning spray

00:06:02.680 rings just whatever it was man it there was just something like yeah there was something real

00:06:07.060 rewarding about it and you could also like i could be hung over or whatever it was and be having a

00:06:11.560 bad day i could get through a day at work doing that but this you have to be happy every day yeah

00:06:15.600 you gotta at least act like you are oh yeah i can't get on stage and you know be up so i gotta

00:06:19.720 be enjoying myself because everybody's there to see me and they want to see that so it's uh it's

00:06:23.980 nice to be able to go over and kind of cut loose on something like that well look welcome to this

00:06:28.480 podcast, dude, because I've spent probably

00:06:30.540 a third of my life whining on this bitch about

00:06:32.500 Stutt. I'll whine with you.

00:06:34.600 What do you want to complain about?

00:06:36.440 I know one thing I'm going to complain about on this podcast

00:06:38.480 is you don't have no coffee maker here.

00:06:40.860 I'm sending you one.

00:06:42.580 I'm on it right here. You were in my

00:06:44.480 kitchen. Yeah, you saw I didn't have one.

00:06:46.120 I looked through every closet in your house.

00:06:48.880 There's not one here.

00:06:50.240 I looked through all your stuff. Dude, look, I ain't making coffee in the closet.

00:06:52.640 I'm not doing anything in the closet, dude.

00:06:54.520 I like women.

00:06:55.900 But yeah, the last thing I'd be doing in there

00:06:57.900 Dude, if I'm in the closet so long that I'm making coffee in there

00:07:00.980 It's been a while, yeah

00:07:01.940 Yeah, I guess I'd be

00:07:03.000 But sometimes you have a tough time picking out an outfit or whatever

00:07:05.680 And I'd just say outfit

00:07:06.820 Let's keep it moving

00:07:07.460 Outfit, yeah

00:07:08.020 Shirt

00:07:09.280 Yeah

00:07:09.700 Picking out a shirt

00:07:10.380 It really is a shirt

00:07:11.340 What made you pick that one today?

00:07:13.140 I tried on another one

00:07:14.320 I took it downstairs

00:07:15.140 It was just

00:07:15.800 It was a little

00:07:16.720 It felt a little more formal

00:07:17.940 And then I was like

00:07:18.600 That feels right

00:07:19.260 I feel like that

00:07:20.080 See, I took it like you wore that

00:07:21.820 Because I was coming

00:07:22.560 Well, I appreciate it

00:07:24.120 I feel

00:07:24.480 It just felt right, man

00:07:25.600 Dude, you remember I saw you

00:07:27.440 Good to see you, man

00:07:28.500 We're doing this interview backwards

00:07:30.660 Thanks for coming

00:07:31.480 This is how it goes in here

00:07:33.980 By the way, I'm Riley Green

00:07:35.140 Ladies and gentlemen, Riley Green

00:07:36.940 This past weekend

00:07:37.680 Thanks for coming, bro

00:07:40.380 I appreciate it

00:07:41.580 We've been talking about doing it for a while

00:07:43.500 Yeah, we have been

00:07:44.500 And this is good, man

00:07:45.720 I saw you

00:07:47.440 Remember I went to your surprise party

00:07:48.860 You remember that?

00:07:50.040 Yeah, but I don't think you were invited

00:07:51.460 Technically

00:07:52.560 I think you came in and got a piece of cake

00:07:55.580 left honestly is what happened okay that could be true but i remember though like you weren't

00:08:01.640 in a few i don't think it's a prize party yeah i don't like surprises yeah i always because i

00:08:07.440 walked in with your sister somebody's like you know sometimes over there at losers they'll be

00:08:12.300 like yeah you know it's a riley surprise party you know we got to go don't say sometimes like

00:08:16.640 it happens a lot that was one time that happened good point yeah sometimes riley's having a surprise

00:08:20.320 party no and it'll never happen again uh but sometimes you'll be there and they'll be like

00:08:25.060 this is going on there so we got all so people will make like the um the mecca or whatever the

00:08:30.760 the the the you know the journey over to uh your bar which is right next door yeah but you have to

00:08:36.380 go in the back door you have to sneak up the back i'll come to the back but you were heading in so

00:08:39.720 they're like yeah it's a surprise party don't say nothing i'm like i'm not saying nothing i don't

00:08:43.840 even know i'm that good you know and then we all walked in and people yelled surprise people thought

00:08:48.420 you did. You were at my surprise party. It was true.

00:08:50.600 I thought you planned the whole thing.

00:08:52.820 People thought I was in it, man.

00:08:54.340 I'll give my management up. I said, I picked out the cake, you know.

00:08:56.620 Yeah, it was great. I mean, you ate some of it.

00:08:59.220 I took two pieces, huh?

00:09:00.320 I took two pieces. Sounds right. Okay, this

00:09:02.420 is no joke. You literally got

00:09:04.040 invited to my

00:09:05.080 surprise party last minute.

00:09:08.320 Walk in, take two pieces of cake, and leave.

00:09:10.740 Yeah. That's what happened. Amen,

00:09:12.520 brother. Yeah, that's cool.

00:09:14.260 When we got in there, I was like, well, shit, if you

00:09:16.420 don't even want to be at a surprise party, then I'm going to

00:09:18.260 get my I'm gonna head on I just don't need to be surprised to enjoy something like for me I don't

00:09:24.180 get to see my family and friends that often I'm traveling all the time so if you gathered everybody

00:09:27.340 just tell me yeah and we'll go over there and we'll do it it's enough that they're there yeah

00:09:31.680 you know I I give my manager a hard time because uh I won an ACM award in uh 2020 and they call me

00:09:40.320 and they're like hey you need to do a zoom with the label and so I don't have the computer so I

00:09:44.920 go over to their place

00:09:45.520 and they got it all set up

00:09:46.300 and there's my president,

00:09:47.120 my label

00:09:47.520 and the vice president,

00:09:48.700 everybody.

00:09:49.240 And I'm like,

00:09:50.200 what are we talking about?

00:09:50.840 And then Keith Eberman comes in.

00:09:51.680 I was like,

00:09:51.880 hey, Riley.

00:09:53.100 I'm like,

00:09:53.540 hey.

00:09:54.540 He's like,

00:09:55.520 you want to come to,

00:09:56.200 what are you doing on August 8th

00:09:57.420 or whatever?

00:09:57.740 You want to come to the ACM Awards?

00:09:58.920 I was like,

00:09:59.220 yeah.

00:10:01.260 And why is he asking you?

00:10:02.800 Because he was the host,

00:10:03.760 I guess.

00:10:04.080 But my point is,

00:10:04.740 why didn't they just tell me?

00:10:05.600 And I could have been like,

00:10:06.140 oh,

00:10:06.500 like surprised.

00:10:07.300 Then there was all these articles

00:10:08.240 about how Riley Green won

00:10:09.420 an ACM Award

00:10:09.960 and couldn't care less

00:10:10.700 because I just was confused.

00:10:11.900 Yeah.

00:10:12.260 So just get, you know, don't, I can act surprised.

00:10:15.060 Right.

00:10:15.940 But yeah, tell me about it.

00:10:17.180 Yeah, tell me a little earlier.

00:10:18.640 If you tell me 10 minutes early, I'll just be like, yeah.

00:10:22.080 I'll be like, oh.

00:10:23.640 Yeah.

00:10:24.340 That was good.

00:10:25.040 I believe that.

00:10:25.620 You did?

00:10:26.420 How you looked when I got here.

00:10:27.580 No way.

00:10:28.260 That wasn't too bad.

00:10:28.800 That's how you looked when I walked in.

00:10:29.800 Oh, now you're kind.

00:10:31.760 What about me and you trying to schedule this

00:10:33.500 was really stressful for everybody involved.

00:10:35.280 You know what?

00:10:36.100 Everybody on my team's like, so are you doing it?

00:10:37.540 I was like, hell, I don't know.

00:10:38.440 I think we just said we should do this.

00:10:39.980 well we were supposed to do here's what was happening we did you and i decided we're going

00:10:43.740 to do it yeah your schedule also got different because you now are uh heading out to l.a because

00:10:48.360 you're working on the voice now yeah so that started to happen and then there was supposed

00:10:53.020 to we were supposed to have conor mcgregor supposed to be on and there was this looming

00:10:56.100 moment where it was like like you had to pick but no pick me okay i didn't his schedule was super

00:11:00.940 tough his schedule you know you can lie to me for the sake of the oh i'd lie to you but i just

00:11:05.840 soon tell you the truth it's just right now it's easier okay but there's just like a lot of little

00:11:10.340 moving parts if he comes while i'm here you're gonna make me leave and come back another time

00:11:13.860 yep maybe he'll bring coffee honestly if he comes and realizes you don't have coffee he might leave

00:11:19.160 bro i didn't know you said this much stuff i always feel like you're kind of a quiet guy man

00:11:24.680 that's my bad read on you you know i usually talk a lot when i got coffee you know i'll probably

00:11:29.760 The news are fading here soon.

00:11:32.060 So you want me to do the interview?

00:11:35.460 No, I got things.

00:11:36.660 Okay.

00:11:37.200 I didn't know if you studied up or whatever.

00:11:39.480 Oh, yeah, man.

00:11:40.300 I studied up, dude.

00:11:41.160 I got a good plan.

00:11:42.320 Yeah, I got a strategy ahead of me.

00:11:44.380 It's mild, but it is what it is.

00:11:46.100 Well, listen, if you start to run out of stuff, just give me the, and I'll, you know what I mean?

00:11:51.660 Yeah, dude.

00:11:53.040 Yeah, if I need some help, I'm going to definitely, it'd be nice to get a little help from Raleigh Green.

00:11:57.480 Everything's good?

00:11:58.960 Everything's pretty good, man.

00:12:00.380 What was I doing this morning?

00:12:01.140 I was texting with John Pardy this morning.

00:12:02.780 I like that dude.

00:12:03.500 He's going out on tour.

00:12:04.420 He's an interesting guy, isn't he?

00:12:06.260 I've been a big fan of him for a long time.

00:12:07.980 Unique voice.

00:12:09.440 Everything's just kind of like an interesting guy.

00:12:11.800 I've always used him as an example.

00:12:13.700 When I signed a record deal and started having songs on the radio,

00:12:16.720 I think the toughest thing to do is to be commercial enough that radio will play it

00:12:21.140 and then also still unique and cool enough that it's a good song and not just cheesy.

00:12:26.160 He's always done a good job of that.

00:12:27.360 He's had a lot of big songs.

00:12:29.660 Agreed, man.

00:12:30.640 Yeah, he's an authentic dude, man.

00:12:32.360 Oh, man, I didn't know you put pictures of people

00:12:33.960 when we were talking about him.

00:12:34.880 He's an interesting guy.

00:12:35.920 I've got a picture of me opening for him

00:12:37.540 in Mobile, Alabama at the Soul Kitchen from like 2006.

00:12:41.420 Is that where you started over there?

00:12:42.900 I know you started in Alabama, but at the Soul Kitchen,

00:12:45.260 is that a popular spot?

00:12:46.720 I'm not familiar with it.

00:12:48.680 It's on Dolphin Street.

00:12:49.980 I mean, yeah, it was like one of the clubs

00:12:51.660 you come up playing, you know?

00:12:52.640 Got it.

00:12:53.020 It was a big deal for me to play it.

00:12:54.140 I opened for Chris Cagle there, Corey Smith there, John Party, several people.

00:12:59.320 And then eventually I got where I was headlining it and then moved to the Sanger

00:13:02.080 and then went down and played at the Floribama.

00:13:04.400 That Sanger's nice over there.

00:13:05.560 It is cool, yeah.

00:13:06.380 Yeah.

00:13:06.920 You played at Floribama during spring break times?

00:13:09.340 I played Floribama forever.

00:13:12.420 $150 a show, played for four hours.

00:13:15.400 You get one free drink per break.

00:13:17.240 And you play 45 minutes at a time.

00:13:19.600 and I remember

00:13:22.020 John McGinnis

00:13:22.740 that owns the Floribama

00:13:23.460 was a good buddy of mine

00:13:24.240 and he asked me

00:13:24.760 to come down and play

00:13:25.540 during spring break

00:13:27.220 every day

00:13:28.400 for three weeks

00:13:29.060 it was like

00:13:29.320 Alabama spring break

00:13:30.140 one week

00:13:30.500 LSU one week

00:13:31.360 you know

00:13:31.580 the LSU folks

00:13:32.540 love it up there

00:13:33.320 oh they love it

00:13:34.040 anywhere dude

00:13:34.900 it's true

00:13:35.260 anywhere where

00:13:36.280 something is fermented

00:13:37.420 enough where they can

00:13:38.320 make alcohol out of it

00:13:39.940 it's fermented down there

00:13:40.860 they love it

00:13:41.460 I had to set my own

00:13:42.980 tent up on the beach

00:13:43.840 and it was like

00:13:45.360 I'd be in the shade

00:13:46.100 for about an hour

00:13:46.740 and I'd have to move it

00:13:47.420 you know

00:13:47.740 nobody down there

00:13:48.660 listened to me

00:13:49.180 and I played every day from 12 to 4.

00:13:51.260 Wait, you'd play under a tent on the beach?

00:13:53.040 Like a tent you camp with, like a tailgating tent.

00:13:56.960 And I had to set my own speakers up and everything.

00:13:58.880 I played from 12 to 4 every day,

00:14:00.360 and then I would go back to the river house across the road

00:14:02.420 where they would keep the bands.

00:14:03.680 Band would come in and play that night,

00:14:05.100 and I would go party with them,

00:14:06.700 and I did that every day for three weeks,

00:14:08.540 and it about killed me.

00:14:09.580 Definitely took 10 years off my life.

00:14:11.120 Playing that early shift.

00:14:12.520 Well, yeah, and then staying up all night, too.

00:14:14.180 I would, like, mosey down to the beach

00:14:16.200 and get there in time to play at noon the next day.

00:14:17.900 Oh, I'd be partying down there, dude.

00:14:19.540 Oh, I remember partying down there.

00:14:21.200 We buried a guy in the sand.

00:14:23.240 I don't know.

00:14:23.920 Still there?

00:14:25.160 I don't know.

00:14:25.580 I haven't heard from him.

00:14:26.320 Kind of Weekend at Bernie situation?

00:14:28.060 Look, dude, I'll say this.

00:14:29.260 He wasn't that great of a guy anyway, to be honest with you.

00:14:32.320 And I'll know that, and I'll tell his daddy that.

00:14:35.020 But, yeah, we've had some.

00:14:36.860 I mean, who didn't have some time down there?

00:14:38.460 There's some pretty epic stories down there.

00:14:39.900 Broke a guy's arm one time, arm wrestling in the floor balance.

00:14:42.960 For what?

00:14:43.520 Just for fun or for money?

00:14:44.420 No, I mean, I didn't do it on purpose.

00:14:46.840 and I wasn't for money

00:14:48.320 I was playing a show

00:14:49.220 and I took a break

00:14:50.540 and I go over on the side

00:14:51.520 and these guys were like

00:14:52.480 man you're a pretty big old boy

00:14:53.560 let's arm wrestle

00:14:54.280 and that's for whatever reason

00:14:55.900 that's what we grew up doing

00:14:56.720 my dad and his brother

00:14:58.060 and all them

00:14:58.520 and I beat two or three guys

00:15:01.060 and they were like

00:15:01.460 man we're gonna get somebody

00:15:02.280 and they brought this dude over

00:15:03.480 he was probably 40

00:15:04.380 you know

00:15:05.520 and he's all jacked up

00:15:07.040 and somebody videoed it

00:15:08.480 and his arm just snapped

00:15:09.700 oh

00:15:10.300 yeah

00:15:10.900 was that a popular video

00:15:12.560 that went around

00:15:13.100 I'm trying to think

00:15:13.580 I don't even remember

00:15:14.040 singing that

00:15:14.740 I mean like

00:15:15.580 we can show you right now

00:15:16.540 right

00:15:17.080 Oh, there you go.

00:15:18.060 You got to listen to it, though.

00:15:19.180 Oh, come on.

00:15:19.600 You got to have the sound up.

00:15:20.400 Three, two, one.

00:15:23.740 Oh, my God, bro.

00:15:28.140 Stop, dude.

00:15:28.780 That's enough, man.

00:15:30.400 Sorry.

00:15:30.860 How do you find that so fast?

00:15:32.040 Huh?

00:15:32.580 I don't know, bro.

00:15:33.680 We got it.

00:15:34.400 It's on the internet.

00:15:35.180 Oh, my God, dude.

00:15:36.620 Yeah.

00:15:36.860 I love that movie, Over the Top, you know?

00:15:38.740 Yeah.

00:15:39.180 He turned his hat around.

00:15:40.080 He was serious about it.

00:15:40.980 Oh, that was a movie.

00:15:41.700 I forgot about that film, man.

00:15:42.980 That was a good one.

00:15:44.880 You mentioned John Party.

00:15:46.020 what about uh red clay strays did you come up around them they were always a little bit i mean

00:15:50.300 i was already here i guess by the time they were kind of touring around alabama but yeah uh it's

00:15:54.960 always a good sign when you hear somebody's name or a band and then you keep hearing it over and

00:15:59.600 over again before they've gotten to a place where they're really recognized you know on radio and

00:16:04.860 award shows and all that now it's awesome because they've made it there yeah they're winning awards

00:16:09.140 And what a cool thing

00:16:10.560 The town that you grew up in

00:16:13.460 What was the

00:16:14.080 How big was it?

00:16:17.100 Jacksonville

00:16:17.460 I know it

00:16:17.980 I don't know how many people

00:16:21.040 I mean

00:16:21.380 There was a college there

00:16:22.240 When the college was in

00:16:22.940 I think it was around 8,000

00:16:24.100 When I was going to school

00:16:25.400 What college was it?

00:16:26.500 Jacksonville State

00:16:27.180 Yeah

00:16:27.520 But it was

00:16:30.880 I mean

00:16:31.900 It was a really small town

00:16:33.040 But school wasn't in

00:16:34.040 And I grew up in a community

00:16:34.940 Right outside of there

00:16:35.540 Called Pleasant Valley

00:16:36.280 In Williams Community

00:16:37.040 And it's one flashing light

00:16:38.380 one store called Green Store.

00:16:40.860 E.L. Green runs the store.

00:16:42.260 He's 94 years old.

00:16:43.200 Still there?

00:16:43.800 Doesn't charge tax.

00:16:44.780 Yeah, he just guesses

00:16:45.520 what everything costs.

00:16:46.380 Oh, I love that.

00:16:46.980 He'd bring the Snickers up there.

00:16:48.140 He'd be like,

00:16:48.420 it's $2 and next it'd be $2.50, you know?

00:16:50.300 But all my granddaddy's

00:16:51.340 and their brothers

00:16:51.800 used to go out

00:16:52.420 and play dominoes in the morning

00:16:53.560 before work.

00:16:54.440 We'd stop in there

00:16:55.060 and it was a cool little vibe.

00:16:56.600 Hadn't changed much either.

00:16:58.100 Look at that.

00:16:58.460 There's E.L. right there.

00:16:59.340 He got a picture of him.

00:17:00.240 So was he related to you?

00:17:02.120 Probably.

00:17:02.620 Look at this dude.

00:17:03.680 Probably.

00:17:04.100 That guy's a legend.

00:17:05.300 No way.

00:17:05.860 That's him.

00:17:07.300 I saw him yesterday.

00:17:09.100 Dang, I want to go see him.

00:17:10.640 Come on.

00:17:11.640 My dad said they bought their basketball shoes there.

00:17:14.680 They played in Converse All-Stars.

00:17:16.100 He sells Converse All-Stars.

00:17:18.880 Those shoes are horrible to play in.

00:17:20.580 Oh, it's like begging to break your ankle.

00:17:22.900 And you slide.

00:17:23.900 You just slide everywhere.

00:17:24.760 I don't know how they did it.

00:17:25.420 They must use a different type of, maybe some type of turpentine.

00:17:28.520 I'll tell you what old Benny the Jet Rodriguez using things, though.

00:17:31.800 You know who that is?

00:17:32.440 Uh-uh.

00:17:33.080 Remember on Sandlot, the guy that jumped the fence?

00:17:35.080 Oh, yeah.

00:17:35.860 He put those black ones.

00:17:38.240 There he is.

00:17:38.880 What did he put on?

00:17:39.540 Man, this, hey, your man is quick.

00:17:41.800 He's crushing today.

00:17:42.540 This is easy to do an interview like this.

00:17:44.100 Oh, he's doing it.

00:17:44.780 You just say anything.

00:17:45.660 Oh, yeah, look at those.

00:17:46.680 What are those?

00:17:47.040 What were those?

00:17:47.600 Something flyers or something?

00:17:48.760 PF flyers.

00:17:49.600 PF flyers, bro.

00:17:51.040 PF flyers were a real shoe.

00:17:53.600 No doubt.

00:17:54.120 We had those ones that would, remember when those shoes came out that would blink or whatever?

00:17:58.340 You talking about light up shoes?

00:17:59.540 Yeah, and everybody would just call you like a queer all the time.

00:18:02.640 Did they say that?

00:18:03.780 What?

00:18:04.360 Yeah.

00:18:05.040 Why would they say that?

00:18:06.060 I don't know, because your shoes were dang blinking.

00:18:08.340 I get it a little bit.

00:18:09.600 Or people are like, your feet are gay or whatever.

00:18:12.420 Well, I don't guess I had any.

00:18:14.220 Those were probably expensive shoes.

00:18:15.680 My parents wouldn't buy me those.

00:18:17.620 Were your parents, what were they like?

00:18:18.700 Growing up pretty strict over there?

00:18:19.900 What was it like?

00:18:21.620 I mean, it sounds like just a good small town environment.

00:18:23.560 It sounds like a real kind of American southern environment.

00:18:27.440 Yeah, there's a lot about where I grew up that kind of looks like a movie,

00:18:30.640 like going back in time.

00:18:31.740 I'll bring people down there and they'll be like, man, it's really like this.

00:18:35.080 My dad built houses.

00:18:36.200 My mom was a school teacher.

00:18:38.220 I never got away with anything.

00:18:39.420 Mom caught me anything I ever did.

00:18:42.240 Pops built houses for a living, and I used to go out and work with him,

00:18:45.340 and I wasn't playing ball, so I tried to play any sport I could

00:18:48.400 to keep from having to work.

00:18:50.220 I was really lucky.

00:18:51.700 All four of my grandparents lived in the same town,

00:18:54.000 so I saw my grandparents every day, so I was really close with all them.

00:18:56.680 That's awesome, man.

00:18:57.860 Yeah.

00:18:58.060 And do you think that's what led you to writing Grandpa's Never Die?

00:19:01.960 That's just a lot of influence of why grandpas never died.

00:19:06.200 My granddaddy Buford loved country music.

00:19:08.580 He'd sit around with the old Epiphone guitar when I was a kid,

00:19:10.820 and we'd sit around and kind of play.

00:19:12.260 And we ended up turning his parents' house, my great-grandparents,

00:19:15.380 into a music hall.

00:19:16.700 And on Friday nights, all these old people would come out there

00:19:18.480 and play and tell jokes.

00:19:20.160 And I'd sit around and watch how they made chords

00:19:22.240 and learn how to play like that.

00:19:23.440 But, yeah, that's my granddaddy Buford.

00:19:25.440 And my granddaddy Linden was a big fisherman, golfer,

00:19:28.700 so I'd hang out with them every day.

00:19:30.140 and I wrote the song about them as a tribute

00:19:32.880 and then, of course, it became a big hit for me

00:19:35.280 and I ended up putting both of them

00:19:37.340 as co-writers on the song.

00:19:39.920 Dude, that's awesome.

00:19:40.820 I got songwriter credit for it.

00:19:42.080 Bro, they must have felt,

00:19:43.440 I mean, they must be so proud, huh?

00:19:46.060 Yeah, my granddad Buford died in 2010

00:19:48.120 so he didn't really get to see me, you know,

00:19:49.940 have any real success.

00:19:51.540 I was kind of starting out with music

00:19:52.740 but my granddad Linden got to come see me at the Opry.

00:19:55.480 My grandmother Nancy did.

00:19:56.400 My grandmother Lola Jean's still alive

00:19:57.880 so she's probably cutting grass right now.

00:20:00.140 she loves it

00:20:01.580 that's awesome

00:20:02.600 yeah man

00:20:04.020 I missed

00:20:04.460 I definitely miss

00:20:05.360 things about like

00:20:05.940 that at home man

00:20:06.900 dude what

00:20:07.840 dude what if

00:20:08.540 grandpas never did

00:20:09.440 die

00:20:09.720 you ever think

00:20:10.180 about that

00:20:10.780 like cause there

00:20:14.080 would be some

00:20:14.580 side effects of it

00:20:15.380 there would obviously

00:20:16.200 okay so everything

00:20:17.300 in that song

00:20:18.020 there are side effects

00:20:18.900 too there's a

00:20:19.580 if every road

00:20:20.420 was named Copperhead

00:20:21.240 yeah

00:20:21.660 it'd be really hard

00:20:22.420 to get anywhere

00:20:23.000 right

00:20:23.340 really confusing

00:20:24.180 you know

00:20:24.500 yeah that's a good point

00:20:25.680 coolers never ran out

00:20:26.440 of beer

00:20:26.700 people alcohol

00:20:27.940 poison

00:20:28.240 yeah people would be

00:20:28.940 yeah and then they'd be

00:20:30.040 out on the road.

00:20:30.800 High school home teams

00:20:31.660 never lost.

00:20:32.320 Everybody would be 500

00:20:33.140 at the end of the season.

00:20:34.260 So there are problems.

00:20:35.380 If you want to just pick apart

00:20:36.600 the songs that I write,

00:20:37.680 we can.

00:20:38.440 No, I'm not picking it off, man.

00:20:40.240 I wish Grandpa's never died.

00:20:42.460 First of all,

00:20:43.200 it's one of my favorite songs.

00:20:44.360 Thank you.

00:20:44.760 And second of all,

00:20:45.920 but no, I do think

00:20:46.760 if they never died,

00:20:47.760 first of all,

00:20:49.580 Inheritance would never start.

00:20:51.760 That'd piss some people off.

00:20:53.360 Yeah, but only people

00:20:54.100 with rich grandpas.

00:20:55.460 Right.

00:20:56.000 Because I mean,

00:20:56.380 but even if you had

00:20:57.760 a shitty grandpa,

00:20:58.580 if he had $50,

00:20:59.180 you knew you was getting a little waterfall.

00:21:01.300 Yeah, but grandpas always give you a little

00:21:02.700 walking around money. A lot of them, but that other pocket.

00:21:05.320 Some of them, my grandpa only reached into one

00:21:07.120 of his pocket and I knew in that other pocket. That's where it was.

00:21:09.400 Oh, that's where it was. Yeah, my granddaddy always had a $2 bill

00:21:11.420 that had a picture

00:21:13.440 of Bill Clinton blowing a whistle on it.

00:21:14.880 So it was not real, but he'd give me that a lot.

00:21:17.040 But he'd give you that? Yeah. That's a good idea

00:21:19.120 of giving fake money to children. Yeah.

00:21:21.980 Well, you know, it keeps him out of trouble.

00:21:23.420 Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah.

00:21:25.040 Yeah, what if grandpas, I'm trying to think of just some other

00:21:27.140 interesting facts. Okay, if grandpas never died.

00:21:29.020 just like if they never died um so a positive i think would be the the things that i do

00:21:39.480 miss about that generation was like they were hard workers yeah you know i always say i was

00:21:45.660 kind of the last generation like work with my dad like my buddies didn't but like you know now i

00:21:50.720 mean i don't know that people get out of high school and college and really have to bust it

00:21:55.680 anywhere you know there's a certain amount of like work ethic that's lost a little bit well yeah i

00:21:59.760 think and also a lot of the trades i mean one thing like we've had mike rowan here a few times

00:22:03.480 and he talks a lot about how there's not enough um viable tradesmen right now like there's jobs

00:22:10.300 there's just not people that can fill them that have the skill sets you know we could be working

00:22:14.880 and we're just talking yeah you know yeah but also i thought mike rowan lived in my house for

00:22:19.000 most of my childhood my dad watched dirty jobs and deadliest catch every day oh dude he was in

00:22:23.480 yeah listen to his voice it just it makes you feel like you got to fill out a job application

00:22:28.840 every time i hear mike rowe's voice i'll fill one out online yeah you know i'll buy a damn

00:22:33.520 just buy a second quick creed or something just just in case just yeah i just feel like something

00:22:37.900 could happen see that's what i'm talking about though you you go down to alabama and you get

00:22:42.280 up and you're like man you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna i'm gonna build a little pen and buy

00:22:46.240 some goats and then you just go to the store and buy you make a list you make it happen and then

00:22:52.700 you go and you dig the holes and like you're not thinking about anything else when you do that yeah

00:22:56.460 oh dude i think there's like i do think with society sometimes we took a very errant path

00:23:03.180 out into like existence you know like this like you know and i think there also became like a

00:23:08.620 greed you know there's a greed has a lot to do with that i think when somebody wants to keep

00:23:12.640 leveling up you know so but i think i think we'll we will look back at some point or generations

00:23:18.440 in the future will look back and be like, man, we were missing out on a lot of the things

00:23:22.420 in life that really mean something, you know?

00:23:24.560 Well, yeah.

00:23:25.120 I mean, it's social media that's caused it.

00:23:27.100 The amount of comparison you have to somebody else.

00:23:29.780 Yeah.

00:23:29.960 Also, let's talk about how me and you were talking like a couple of grandpas now about

00:23:32.980 the younger generation.

00:23:33.860 Like, man, these kids now, they don't know, man.

00:23:36.180 They don't know what it was like, you know?

00:23:39.020 I mean, when I was growing up, I had a phone.

00:23:40.880 It didn't do anything.

00:23:41.840 Yeah.

00:23:42.080 You could call.

00:23:43.400 If you wanted to send a K, you had to press six, seven times, you know, like it was tough.

00:23:47.820 and I didn't have social media

00:23:49.160 or anything

00:23:49.600 now all they've known is

00:23:52.140 and I remember people

00:23:53.980 I thought were rich

00:23:54.600 growing up

00:23:55.140 oh yeah

00:23:55.960 but now everybody seems rich

00:23:57.540 there's like a handful

00:23:58.640 of people that had money

00:23:59.540 in my town

00:23:59.980 I was like man

00:24:00.380 that was big time

00:24:01.580 oh dude if somebody

00:24:02.640 had a garage

00:24:03.560 dude we had this one kid

00:24:05.180 Jeremy

00:24:05.780 and he

00:24:07.360 it's always Jeremy

00:24:08.140 he got a garage

00:24:09.680 and we were like

00:24:11.260 look at this mother

00:24:12.540 you know

00:24:13.480 we couldn't believe it

00:24:14.560 but then dude

00:24:15.620 two days later

00:24:16.540 we're over there

00:24:17.260 They're just doing the door up and down and running back and forth.

00:24:20.140 Oh, it had an automatic door?

00:24:21.360 Yeah.

00:24:21.620 Oh, that's wild.

00:24:22.480 He got the real deal, dude.

00:24:24.580 But, yeah, man.

00:24:25.400 Dude, what was I reading the other day?

00:24:26.600 The first 911 call was in Alabama.

00:24:31.000 Did you know that?

00:24:31.880 Domestic dispute?

00:24:33.340 It could have been domestic.

00:24:34.280 I think it was two people fighting over a baked bean recipe, probably.

00:24:37.980 I mean, I don't know.

00:24:38.800 And I bet they didn't get it.

00:24:39.520 Yeah.

00:24:40.040 You know what I mean?

00:24:40.580 Yeah.

00:24:41.040 But they're sealed down there, brother.

00:24:42.620 Oh, yeah.

00:24:43.120 Try to get a recipe in Alabama.

00:24:44.420 How dare you?

00:24:45.060 They wouldn't.

00:24:45.520 that the government wouldn't unseal it.

00:24:47.720 That's hilarious.

00:24:48.120 Not on our watch.

00:24:50.280 Haleyville, Alabama, 1968.

00:24:52.920 There you go.

00:24:53.560 The very first.

00:24:53.860 We started it.

00:24:54.960 We launched the standard across the United States.

00:24:58.160 I don't know if that's good or bad.

00:24:59.420 Like things were kind of getting a little rocky down there.

00:25:01.360 Like, look, we got to figure out a way to get help over here quicker.

00:25:03.720 Or it could have been, dude, it could have been just, look,

00:25:06.460 somebody's like, you know, there is a guy over here just hugging his sister

00:25:10.840 in like a, in the worst way.

00:25:14.000 Nice.

00:25:14.880 You know?

00:25:15.520 I mean, there's just, hey, yes, officer, there is a man over here.

00:25:19.620 I mean, and he is just hugging his sister.

00:25:23.180 Yeah, I mean.

00:25:23.900 I just don't know what that, I mean, that 911 call could have been anything, you know.

00:25:27.660 Honestly, what would that hug have to look like?

00:25:29.160 You're sitting over there just crushing the heater.

00:25:30.680 Yeah.

00:25:31.140 In Walmart parking lot, and you see somebody hugging, you know, their brother and sister, you go,

00:25:35.600 that's a little too long.

00:25:36.580 Yeah, yeah, it's a little too long.

00:25:37.520 Honey, give me the phone.

00:25:39.180 I'm going to call this in.

00:25:40.960 Yeah.

00:25:42.080 It'd be out of town if they'd call it in, I'll tell you that.

00:25:43.800 Yeah, it would be.

00:25:44.440 and it wouldn't be somebody from louisiana i'll go ahead and tell you that too

00:25:47.640 louisiana mississippi is not making that call they're like hey these people are stealing our

00:25:51.880 style that's what they would say bro they're stealing a cigarette holding a baby yeah oh god

00:25:57.620 dude i remember and i've told this story but we had this lady miss robin and she was like our

00:26:02.480 teacher she was like our um she sounds like a teacher miss robin oh yeah good call and she was

00:26:07.660 So, damn, Riley, cooking me today, man.

00:26:12.780 And she would, well, the other kids would do nap time, right?

00:26:16.940 But I didn't really believe in nap time.

00:26:19.060 I just wanted to get busy and get at it.

00:26:20.920 Yeah, I got that.

00:26:21.540 I was ready to get to work.

00:26:22.300 I was probably like that, yeah.

00:26:23.380 Even as a kid, I was like, what are we fucking doing?

00:26:25.260 We're barely, nobody's doing shit.

00:26:26.720 We got to take a break from that.

00:26:27.880 You get old and realize nap time was for them, not for you.

00:26:30.820 Oh.

00:26:31.400 You know what I mean?

00:26:31.720 That was their break.

00:26:34.080 Dang.

00:26:34.500 Lay down for a little while.

00:26:35.700 Yeah.

00:26:36.000 You need a nap.

00:26:37.140 You know what I mean?

00:26:37.660 Yeah, I'm going to hit this heater.

00:26:39.340 And that's what she would do, though.

00:26:40.440 Ms. Robin, though, she knew I didn't sleep, and we had similar hair.

00:26:44.120 And so she would come and kind of hit me with her foot,

00:26:47.220 and that meant I could go outside, and she'd light up a cigarette,

00:26:51.380 and I would just lean on her car tire, and she would just tell me about her.

00:26:56.300 Smoke and look at you?

00:26:57.500 Yeah, and she would just tell me stuff about her husband or something, Roger,

00:27:02.760 and he wasn't doing shit.

00:27:05.420 Most Rogers aren't.

00:27:06.780 Yeah.

00:27:07.660 Hey, listen to this.

00:27:11.560 I don't know why I got the last today, but I'm glad I do, man.

00:27:14.720 Thanks for coming in.

00:27:15.600 Thanks for having me.

00:27:17.420 We'll get some coffee coming shortly.

00:27:20.100 You know what bothers me?

00:27:22.000 What bothers you, Riley?

00:27:23.140 Because I bet it's a lot.

00:27:24.100 Well, one thing that really bothers me a lot.

00:27:25.820 How do you look at a baby and name it Roger?

00:27:28.340 Yeah.

00:27:29.680 You know what I mean?

00:27:30.640 Yeah.

00:27:31.220 Like my granddaddy's name was Buford.

00:27:33.240 How did you look at a baby and say, that's Buford?

00:27:37.100 That Buford right there.

00:27:38.420 You know what I mean?

00:27:39.260 But in the South.

00:27:40.000 And then like think about you're playing with the kid when he was like 10

00:27:42.940 and you're another kid.

00:27:43.800 You're like, Buford, get over here.

00:27:44.820 Like that's wild.

00:27:46.040 Yeah.

00:27:46.960 We had a fellow named Fremont by us.

00:27:49.960 And people thought he was rich or whatever or gay

00:27:52.400 just because his name was like real high end.

00:27:54.540 Rich or gay?

00:27:55.660 People thought.

00:27:56.240 One of the two.

00:27:56.720 Did his shoes light up?

00:27:58.760 They did.

00:27:59.600 Did they roll?

00:28:01.020 Oh, those wheelie shoes?

00:28:02.340 Yeah.

00:28:03.000 Those are the best.

00:28:03.960 I mean, you saw a kid doing that.

00:28:05.060 that was a little after my generation

00:28:06.880 so I feel like

00:28:08.000 I don't know if we had those

00:28:09.100 I would see kids have those

00:28:10.120 they had the Reebok pumps

00:28:11.540 remember those

00:28:12.000 people would pump those shoes

00:28:12.900 I like the Reebok

00:28:13.360 I feel like I've always judged

00:28:15.120 my shoes and clothing

00:28:17.700 as in like

00:28:18.440 would the version of me

00:28:19.580 that doesn't wear that

00:28:20.620 kick the ass

00:28:22.560 with the version that did

00:28:23.520 you know what I mean

00:28:24.840 wait say it one more time

00:28:25.820 so like

00:28:26.220 the version of me

00:28:27.260 that wears wheelie shoes

00:28:28.260 would get his ass beat

00:28:29.300 by the version that didn't

00:28:30.520 you know what I mean

00:28:30.940 oh yeah

00:28:31.580 that's why I make decisions in life

00:28:33.000 and then you go with what

00:28:34.580 you're like that

00:28:34.980 That's not for me.

00:28:35.680 Yeah.

00:28:36.040 Got it.

00:28:36.600 Yeah.

00:28:37.400 What's the worst,

00:28:38.460 what's one of the best

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00:31:20.940 i ain't been on a podcast where they can look up stuff you're talking about in a long time i guess

00:31:27.540 i did it on busting with the boys yeah those guys are cool that's nice man oh it's nice man i mean

00:31:33.480 look it's been i mean one of my goals this year is to try and learn more stuff and get a little

00:31:38.720 bit more involved in kind of what's going on like in the universe since i'm not torn i have a little

00:31:42.320 bit more time to absorb some things and and just to want to do that you know it's like how far

00:31:46.840 pluto is from neptune or just like more social things like i think no just consume more like

00:31:53.180 different types of artists work right different films just absorb more stuff so it's like i have

00:31:58.740 more things to like think about and talk about i can comprehend that you're probably like me in

00:32:03.200 that i don't listen to as much new music as i used to before i got in this world not necessarily

00:32:08.660 because i'm burnt out on it and not really because i'm like i don't want to get you know drawn to

00:32:13.660 something that's going to influence me to be like that i just i don't know i just i think i'm busy

00:32:18.280 and don't pay attention to it like i used to i don't have a passion for it like i did but i mean

00:32:23.220 like you don't want probably watch a lot of stand-up or i mean yeah isn't it weird that you

00:32:27.520 get removed from it when you're in it you know i feel like i feel that way with me that's a good

00:32:31.160 point yeah you think you're in it so there'd be you'd be in more of it you just got so much of

00:32:35.560 your own stuff you got to be concerned with it i don't yeah there's a lot that goes into it

00:32:39.680 especially once you get to touring and like with podcasting,

00:32:43.340 like I'll sit and watch through every single episode.

00:32:45.080 Like I was up last night till probably, you know, 11.

00:32:48.860 Watching yours.

00:32:49.600 Putting notes on an episode, like giving notes and like, you know, stuff.

00:32:53.300 And like, cause sometimes we'll say stuff where it's like, oh, we can't,

00:32:55.340 we can't leave that in. You know, we just can't.

00:32:57.880 Like sometimes we'll say stuff that slander. That's like, you know,

00:33:00.620 it's like you got to check through or send it to an attorney.

00:33:03.060 Like there's just different things you got to do now. Um, and so, yeah,

00:33:06.780 there's a lot of, I think there's a lot that goes into that. Um,

00:33:09.660 Did I hear you say that you don't have a computer?

00:33:13.900 No.

00:33:15.160 No, I mean, I certainly didn't.

00:33:16.440 They got me one during COVID to do like Zooms and stuff.

00:33:20.120 And I remember my managers had me set up on this Zoom interview

00:33:22.200 with a radio station.

00:33:23.140 They were asking me to go to like speed.com or something

00:33:26.640 and see what my bandwidth was.

00:33:28.660 And I didn't have internet at my house.

00:33:30.820 And they couldn't believe that.

00:33:32.060 Damn.

00:33:32.820 Yeah.

00:33:33.400 When I go home, it's a disconnect from it, you know?

00:33:37.040 Yeah.

00:33:37.180 And it's separate when I do, like, photo shoots or interviews or something down there.

00:33:40.940 You know, it's nice.

00:33:42.020 I've started steering people that way because every time I did a shoot, we'd, like, rent an old truck.

00:33:46.420 We'd go out to some farm somewhere and stand in front of a bunch of cows.

00:33:48.940 I'm like, man, I got all that in Alabama.

00:33:50.280 Let's just do it down there.

00:33:51.560 Yeah.

00:33:52.960 Do you run into a lot of, like, ex-girlfriends and stuff around home?

00:33:56.340 What's that energy like?

00:33:57.980 Because I'm sure you had a girlfriend at some point.

00:34:00.240 At some point, I've had a girlfriend.

00:34:01.600 Yeah.

00:34:02.100 I'm glad you brought that up.

00:34:04.060 Because you seem like a guy that's, yeah.

00:34:05.880 That would have a girlfriend at some point in his life.

00:34:07.900 Yes.

00:34:08.500 Yeah.

00:34:08.820 You're right about that.

00:34:12.060 Thank you.

00:34:12.820 And we just had to switch our coffee into some different cups.

00:34:15.980 That was for the people watching?

00:34:17.640 Yeah.

00:34:18.320 Okay.

00:34:19.000 Dude, and yeah, so you just said something that's kind of interesting.

00:34:22.200 It's Tony's cup.

00:34:23.240 Oh, Tony.

00:34:23.920 Hell yeah.

00:34:24.700 Hope he's good.

00:34:26.300 Yeah, Vivian's cup.

00:34:27.420 Well, Tony used to drink.

00:34:28.500 He'd passed.

00:34:29.440 He had HIV.

00:34:30.920 Damn.

00:34:31.620 We washed it.

00:34:33.160 R.I.P.

00:34:33.560 Not a lot.

00:34:34.520 He didn't have the big case.

00:34:35.560 he had something light.

00:34:36.700 But a lethal case all the same.

00:34:38.060 Well, he caught it in the spring.

00:34:39.460 Yeah.

00:34:39.900 You know, so you don't get the...

00:34:41.060 You catch that winter here, baby,

00:34:43.000 it'll climb up your legs.

00:34:46.180 Starts with the toe.

00:34:47.420 Yeah, it starts.

00:34:48.140 And then it comes looking for you, dude.

00:34:49.940 That's...

00:34:50.060 Sorry to get that.

00:34:51.760 What a horrible thing to talk about.

00:34:52.880 It is.

00:34:54.000 We're joking, obviously.

00:34:55.580 No, no, yeah.

00:34:56.040 I know.

00:34:56.380 People haven't figured that out by now.

00:34:58.680 They thought we were being serious

00:34:59.640 when you explained the coffee thing.

00:35:01.040 That's like,

00:35:01.360 that seems like something

00:35:01.960 a serious podcaster would do.

00:35:03.480 Well, you have to remember

00:35:04.540 that some people can't see it.

00:35:05.940 Some people just listen.

00:35:07.000 Half of our audience

00:35:07.780 is just listeners.

00:35:08.740 Oh, you're going to want

00:35:09.200 to watch this one.

00:35:10.100 So, yeah,

00:35:12.840 half our audience

00:35:13.420 is just listeners.

00:35:14.100 So it's like you got to

00:35:14.920 kind of explain stuff sometimes.

00:35:15.980 It's like we just do a cut

00:35:16.940 and we swap chairs.

00:35:17.900 I'm like, hey,

00:35:18.240 we're right back.

00:35:18.780 We had to swap chairs.

00:35:20.180 You know what I mean?

00:35:20.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:20.960 You got to move this plant.

00:35:22.140 You got to do a different plant in here.

00:35:23.660 Dude, one time I got so high

00:35:25.840 in...

00:35:27.760 Taking pot?

00:35:28.560 In California, yes.

00:35:29.840 I was absorbed.

00:35:30.660 I was doing...

00:35:31.660 Yeah, I was smoking weed.

00:35:32.700 and uh i called down to the i got back to my room it had been a long day i called down to the front

00:35:38.980 and i said somebody put a bunch of plants in my room while i was gone right and they're like

00:35:45.560 excuse me and they're like i said somebody there's a bunch of big plants in there said somebody put a

00:35:49.940 bunch of plants in my room i was gone and they came up and it was just the regular plants that

00:35:53.700 had been i've been in this room for a week and i just had never really noticed them i guess okay

00:35:57.200 that's that's really fun for me because i had a thing when i first got a tour bus i'd been touring

00:36:03.700 for several years but i was driving to shows or whatever so there was such a big like that was a

00:36:06.880 huge moment oh that's a relief and i took a buddy of mine out on the road with me to kind of help

00:36:10.660 me you know whatever he was doing assistant whatever you want to call it and i had this

00:36:14.240 thing where when i was drinking i would take all the plants from the lobby of a hotel and put them

00:36:18.460 in my room and when i say we got a bus i was just i was partying back then you know i got after it

00:36:23.100 So, as I say.

00:36:23.960 Yeah.

00:36:24.720 And I don't know where that came from.

00:36:26.640 I never wanted to steal anything, and I would always, like, take it back.

00:36:30.040 But my room would just look like a jungle.

00:36:33.200 Any potted plant, I could get furniture from down there.

00:36:36.800 Just wheel them in.

00:36:37.580 Now, how would you guys get them in there?

00:36:39.340 We just, I'd just go to the downstairs and pick them up and kind of like, you know,

00:36:42.540 you'd see on, like, cartoons where they walk behind the thing, like it was covering them, you know?

00:36:46.080 Yeah.

00:36:46.780 It was a real silly thing.

00:36:47.960 I remember being in Mobile.

00:36:48.860 We played Mardi Gras down there, which is where Mardi Gras originated, by the way.

00:36:51.520 Mm-hmm.

00:36:53.100 Thank you.

00:36:55.220 Somebody probably called 911 because shit was getting weird down there.

00:36:58.960 It does do that.

00:37:00.280 Get here with a Moon Pie down there.

00:37:02.460 But Moon Pie started down there, didn't they?

00:37:04.600 Where did Moon Pie start?

00:37:05.380 I don't know if the Moon Pie started.

00:37:06.300 Here we go.

00:37:07.840 Where did they start?

00:37:08.620 Before you move on, we're going to hold that thought.

00:37:11.500 Tennessee.

00:37:12.240 Let's go.

00:37:12.980 Chattanooga.

00:37:13.820 Wow.

00:37:14.500 The Windy City.

00:37:15.620 The Moon Pie originated in 1917 at the Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee.

00:37:19.380 You know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee.

00:37:21.520 Did you know Appalachian coal miners wanted a snack in their lunch pails,

00:37:25.260 and that was how it started?

00:37:27.340 God, I'd love that.

00:37:29.300 Wouldn't you love that?

00:37:30.540 You've been in a mine all day.

00:37:32.020 They requested a filling treat as big as the moon.

00:37:35.320 Did they really?

00:37:36.120 I just knew that.

00:37:36.820 I didn't read that.

00:37:38.480 They requested a filling treat as big as the moon.

00:37:42.740 That's why it's called a moon pie.

00:37:44.220 Who wrote this?

00:37:46.100 You know there's made-up stuff on the internet?

00:37:48.440 Did you know that?

00:37:48.980 I figured that out

00:37:51.140 the last couple of years

00:37:52.020 people can just say

00:37:53.200 whatever they want

00:37:53.760 put it on the internet

00:37:54.200 yeah we never figured that out

00:37:55.060 we'll just look it up

00:37:55.680 and say it

00:37:56.320 yeah

00:37:56.680 we don't really test anything

00:37:57.880 well you can just

00:37:58.520 you can just say

00:37:59.280 you can like

00:38:00.200 oh nowadays

00:38:01.120 you can say whatever

00:38:01.660 what I've found is

00:38:02.880 all you have to say

00:38:03.620 before you say

00:38:04.560 whatever you want

00:38:05.080 is get ready with me

00:38:06.040 yeah

00:38:06.680 if you say get ready with me

00:38:07.720 you can say whatever you want

00:38:08.540 after that

00:38:08.820 it doesn't have to be true

00:38:09.360 I found that out

00:38:10.040 did you see that

00:38:10.780 there's videos

00:38:11.620 they'll say get ready with me

00:38:13.320 and they just make up stuff

00:38:14.860 well it's gotten bad too

00:38:16.000 it's like get ready with me

00:38:16.940 for my nephew's funeral

00:38:18.000 or whatever

00:38:18.440 and I'm like

00:38:18.840 what why is that dude you know it's like or they're like oh get ready for me while i cheat

00:38:25.000 on my spouse or whatever and sometimes it's just like this shit is not helpful to people that's

00:38:29.560 hey well hold on a second there no you're right but there is a there's a world where i get ready

00:38:34.440 with me like if you did it to go do something yeah that'd be interesting i mean i'd be putting

00:38:40.540 makeup on you're just like the actual get ready part's gonna be pretty slow right you're putting

00:38:45.300 your clothes on right uh but explaining where you're going yeah same where i'm going get ready

00:38:51.300 with me guys do they do like to go fishing that'd be good get ready with me to go fishing and then

00:38:55.880 talk about what lures you're going to take and stuff oh yeah talk about my rigs let's do a good

00:38:59.720 old boy get ready with me that's not a i like that that's not a bad idea it's not a great idea

00:39:04.220 it's not a great idea it's not gonna we're not gonna get any endorsement deal i don't know yeah

00:39:08.300 who would watch it though swim bait you'll get a lot of women watching it dude i think yeah and

00:39:14.560 i'll get their friends you know that's right and that's fine i think that's okay with me dude

00:39:19.680 you know i just i just thought of it you kind of remind me of uh brink who is it you know the movie

00:39:25.560 brink uh-uh bring it up maybe it's a combination of the good guy and the bad guy oh you see what

00:39:34.180 i mean those two guys together that's kind of that's a man on the right yeah and he's the bad

00:39:40.380 guy man look immediate like hate when i look at him for me because you saw you saw this movie yeah

00:39:47.600 but i think there was a little redemption at the end i think he like helped somebody up after you

00:39:50.780 pushed him down or something brink yeah yeah and i'm sorry i don't know this actor and sorry dude

00:39:55.760 i i did it i it this guy does look also a little bit feminine in this section in this image because

00:40:02.800 he's wearing a neck i think the necklace has a woman it's the lips he's got yeah never mind it's

00:40:07.720 a great point the guy definitely looks kind of feminine in this yeah you don't have to you don't

00:40:12.040 have to tiptoe around that i don't have to apologize dude yeah he's gonna be way more

00:40:14.860 offended if he wears a lot of shoes than what you just said about him looking feminine i promise

00:40:18.200 that dude will do a get ready with me i feel like and this character would do a get ready with me

00:40:21.880 that's fair to say 100 okay good okay good that's what i feel like but yeah dude that's got to be

00:40:29.120 why i mean like i can't figure out what we've been talking about that's okay this is what this

00:40:33.100 okay that's what this is i've been doing that for 10 years cool it seems like we start somewhere

00:40:37.620 we'll get somewhere but it's rubbing off on me i did the brink thing and i don't know what we're

00:40:41.880 talking about before that that's okay dude i'll tell you this you've done a great job of just

00:40:46.100 being yourself managing things well staying in control confidence and a lot of good humor i

00:40:53.160 didn't even expect it i was working on posture i was hoping that was gonna come that's not really

00:40:56.320 there do you want some good posture i'll tell you where to go you're a funny guy man i'm all right

00:41:00.120 Today I'm okay today

00:41:02.200 It's contagious man

00:41:04.720 Being around funny people

00:41:05.880 Do you feel like

00:41:06.920 Like totally honestly

00:41:07.940 Do you feel like

00:41:08.440 Like if I showed up

00:41:09.320 At a music place

00:41:10.180 I would feel like

00:41:11.240 You know

00:41:12.820 I would sit there

00:41:14.160 Wishing I could do music

00:41:15.260 If you show up to a place

00:41:16.240 Where there is a comedy

00:41:16.960 Do you feel like

00:41:17.720 You have to be a funny guy

00:41:18.680 No

00:41:20.000 No

00:41:20.540 But I think everybody

00:41:23.620 Wants to be funny

00:41:24.280 Do you

00:41:25.020 That's a good question

00:41:25.720 I think so

00:41:26.120 I mean right

00:41:26.860 Huh

00:41:28.960 I feel like funny is probably the quickest way for somebody to like you.

00:41:33.860 That's fair.

00:41:34.900 Because, you know, when you see somebody, especially somebody that's famous,

00:41:37.460 you see somebody that's famous, you're thinking, oh, he's probably a jerk.

00:41:39.800 You know, he's probably –

00:41:41.100 That is people's first thought.

00:41:41.920 But then if you're a little self-deprecating and you kind of cut up,

00:41:44.360 oh, man, he doesn't take himself too seriously.

00:41:46.560 I feel like those are the people I like.

00:41:48.520 Do you feel like people think that about you ever?

00:41:50.180 Like probably especially if you're also a handsomer guy and a popular guy,

00:41:55.400 people probably need to be a harder time about it.

00:41:57.180 You need to be real funny.

00:41:58.640 is what you need to do yeah you know yeah you gotta be real funny word of the wise

00:42:05.180 did you uh yeah what was the best what was one of the best bar fights time did you tell me that

00:42:09.820 i don't know if i asked you no we went into a complete completely different rant after that uh

00:42:14.280 it's always girls girl fights are always way more serious than guy fights i feel like

00:42:20.260 you know and i'm always surprised too at the song they get in a fight during one of your songs well

00:42:27.360 there's been a couple videos

00:42:28.280 I've seen of people

00:42:29.000 like

00:42:29.320 getting in a fight

00:42:30.760 during

00:42:31.220 I wish grandpa's never died

00:42:32.380 or I got a song

00:42:33.660 called Jesus Saves

00:42:34.640 you know

00:42:35.660 and like that's a

00:42:36.300 like how do you

00:42:38.060 emotionally

00:42:38.720 go to

00:42:40.500 blows

00:42:41.640 right like Jesus saves

00:42:43.000 but he better not

00:42:43.700 save that bitch

00:42:44.760 you know

00:42:45.260 yeah

00:42:45.680 and somebody just

00:42:46.460 comes across

00:42:47.280 and just

00:42:47.720 and the craziest part

00:42:49.540 people sometimes

00:42:50.020 that are fighting

00:42:50.600 like already will be

00:42:51.880 in like a cast

00:42:52.700 or something

00:42:53.120 in an arm cast

00:42:54.000 or something

00:42:54.540 that's the kind of shit

00:42:55.960 I don't get

00:42:56.700 yeah

00:42:57.500 like they just

00:42:58.500 got out of a fight

00:42:59.220 to come

00:42:59.620 like they just

00:43:00.700 got out of a fight

00:43:01.660 and now they're

00:43:02.760 you know

00:43:03.020 I will venture

00:43:03.780 to say this

00:43:04.320 I bet you

00:43:04.800 the people

00:43:05.160 that fight

00:43:05.920 at bars

00:43:06.660 or concerts

00:43:07.820 probably

00:43:08.980 do it

00:43:10.140 often

00:43:10.520 habitual

00:43:11.020 you know

00:43:11.600 I mean

00:43:11.720 those are the ones

00:43:12.380 it's probably

00:43:12.640 not a lot of people

00:43:13.360 it's a handful

00:43:14.240 of them

00:43:14.700 that are just

00:43:15.680 they keep doing it

00:43:17.200 I had buddies

00:43:17.820 growing up

00:43:18.120 that liked fighting

00:43:18.800 yeah

00:43:19.320 you know

00:43:19.460 they're like

00:43:19.780 that was

00:43:20.280 they go to the bar

00:43:21.100 like they were

00:43:21.460 gonna get in a fight

00:43:22.380 right

00:43:22.740 I feel like

00:43:23.200 I got goofier

00:43:23.920 you know

00:43:24.320 I mean

00:43:24.520 I was always like

00:43:25.480 take my clothes off

00:43:27.360 or like

00:43:27.920 jump in a lake

00:43:28.860 or something like that

00:43:29.520 you know I don't

00:43:30.560 right

00:43:30.880 instead of the fighting guy

00:43:31.860 yeah I don't

00:43:32.420 yeah like get ready with me

00:43:33.480 while I go fight

00:43:34.300 or whatever

00:43:34.700 like that would be

00:43:36.200 put an eye black on

00:43:37.060 I'm about to go kick

00:43:37.800 somebody's ass

00:43:38.520 I'm about to go to a concert

00:43:39.660 and fight somebody

00:43:40.540 I've never met

00:43:41.360 for no reason

00:43:42.340 get ready

00:43:42.700 okay now I'd watch that

00:43:43.820 during Jesus saves

00:43:44.820 get ready with me

00:43:45.760 while I beat somebody's ass

00:43:47.200 also what would you wear

00:43:47.500 if you were going to get in a fight

00:43:48.500 think about that

00:43:49.100 you get dressed for

00:43:50.680 a lot of things

00:43:51.880 knowing that there's a

00:43:53.500 potentially maybe

00:43:54.380 you meet a girl

00:43:55.080 That's a good question.

00:43:55.660 So you put on something maybe a girl would like.

00:43:57.700 I know what I mean.

00:43:58.080 Or maybe you're going to be, it's going to be hot.

00:43:59.700 Well, let me tell you.

00:44:00.340 You're going to be comfortable.

00:44:00.960 I'll tell you right now.

00:44:01.700 What would you do if you were going to fight?

00:44:02.420 It's a great question.

00:44:03.400 Thank you.

00:44:03.940 Boots would look intimidating, but they wouldn't be as good for a fight as tennis shoes would.

00:44:07.520 I agree.

00:44:08.580 Roller shoes would not be good.

00:44:10.020 Light-up shoes might distract.

00:44:11.060 But roller shoes might be good, say, if you're on a hill, hit the guy, and then you just

00:44:14.740 activate them, and you roll right downhill, and you're home, you're back at the house.

00:44:18.880 You know, if you had a strategy like that.

00:44:20.380 No, that would be good if you were going to run from a fight.

00:44:22.540 If you were going to try to escape a fight.

00:44:23.980 Like, you think somebody's going to kick your ass at this place you're going

00:44:25.900 and wear roller shoes.

00:44:26.980 Yes.

00:44:27.560 I got to go.

00:44:28.120 I'm out.

00:44:28.440 Yeah.

00:44:28.980 And, like, you ain't leaving, and you're like, watch this.

00:44:31.020 Watch this.

00:44:31.660 You just lift the front of your feet up.

00:44:32.840 That's what I'm saying.

00:44:33.600 But, like, no other part of your body has to move,

00:44:35.920 and you just look back, and your hair is just flowing, and you just –

00:44:38.540 That's cool.

00:44:39.880 Honestly, I changed my opinion about this.

00:44:41.540 That would be nice.

00:44:42.320 But, yeah, dude, there's some chick out there.

00:44:43.920 She's in an arm cast or whatever, and she has a dog.

00:44:46.760 She says she does, but it's been taken or whatever.

00:44:49.020 It's gotten by CPS.

00:44:52.160 Is that Child Protective Services?

00:44:54.060 It is.

00:44:54.420 They take dogs?

00:44:55.160 Huh?

00:44:55.860 They take dogs?

00:44:56.840 Oh, yeah, they will.

00:44:58.140 I mean, if you're not being a good—

00:44:59.540 So she says she has a dog, but it's gone.

00:45:02.380 Yes.

00:45:02.720 She's got a cast.

00:45:03.640 Yes, she's got a cast.

00:45:03.980 Or I feel like I'm there now.

00:45:05.060 And she's like, get ready with me while I go over there.

00:45:08.040 I'm getting my dog back.

00:45:09.320 Yeah, over to Snooker's Tavern or whatever,

00:45:11.320 and I'm beating somebody's ass after dinner tonight.

00:45:14.140 Yeah.

00:45:14.980 And then she probably puts on nice earrings.

00:45:16.760 just so you can take them out

00:45:19.440 because that's intimidation right there

00:45:21.220 that's a move dude

00:45:22.600 honestly I wish

00:45:24.900 I wish I had them

00:45:27.680 just for

00:45:28.620 think about this

00:45:30.360 me and you in the bar

00:45:32.340 and we just disgruntled

00:45:35.020 we're just disagreement

00:45:36.100 I don't know what it is

00:45:37.140 I can't even imagine

00:45:38.040 because we're good old boys

00:45:39.580 but let's just say we're not about it

00:45:41.460 same girl or something

00:45:42.340 and we're about to go down like

00:45:44.380 are we doing this?

00:45:45.040 and you're like hell yeah

00:45:46.020 And I just.

00:45:48.040 And we're going to fight each other?

00:45:49.220 Yeah.

00:45:49.880 I mean, wouldn't that do something for you?

00:45:52.280 You're going to get her.

00:45:53.620 No, no, no.

00:45:54.740 And no judgment or anything, but you're going to get her.

00:45:56.660 Like, I would rather be like, you're going to get her.

00:45:59.540 Okay, well, this is just a pretend thing.

00:46:01.920 Okay, it's just a pretend thing.

00:46:02.560 Sorry.

00:46:03.020 You know what I mean?

00:46:03.740 Okay.

00:46:04.160 You're mad at me.

00:46:05.200 Okay, and then you take your earrings out?

00:46:07.760 I'm like, oh, shit, he means it.

00:46:09.240 I guess it's about to go down.

00:46:09.920 Yeah, he don't ever take his earrings out.

00:46:11.620 You know, he didn't even take them out when we went on the water slot after, you know,

00:46:14.140 senior year or whatever.

00:46:15.300 See, now it makes it hard for us to be in a fight

00:46:17.500 because we were hanging out senior year on a water slide.

00:46:19.900 That's a good point.

00:46:20.720 But you didn't take earrings out then, dude.

00:46:22.100 If you're taking them out now, you're here to beat some ass.

00:46:24.280 Yeah.

00:46:24.920 Huh.

00:46:25.900 Yeah, dude, I think if I got in a fight, I thought about this now,

00:46:28.180 I would wear a nice suit.

00:46:30.260 Because the story after would be like,

00:46:32.160 man, you see that dude in that suit beat that guy's ass.

00:46:35.840 He beat his ass in a suit.

00:46:36.940 Yeah.

00:46:37.360 That's cool.

00:46:38.180 I like that.

00:46:38.640 And then he went to work, probably.

00:46:42.500 And then he went to work.

00:46:43.460 See, I was picturing like a wedding suit, like a tuxedo.

00:46:45.980 But you're talking about like a suit like you work on Wall Street.

00:46:48.160 I'm talking business suit.

00:46:49.400 Yeah.

00:46:49.820 Or just work on any street.

00:46:51.480 Like some people, you know, people used to get dressed up a lot more than they do now.

00:46:56.520 Think about that.

00:46:57.780 Think about the fact that on a daily basis.

00:47:00.000 Every day.

00:47:00.740 People would get, like, people took a, like a, there was a lot more, I think, care and concern about how they looked.

00:47:08.280 Bring up some images of people, how they dressed, say, 70 years ago.

00:47:12.700 I didn't grow up around that.

00:47:15.240 Well, not for us.

00:47:16.040 I'm talking about maybe two generations earlier.

00:47:18.000 Oh, yeah, like in the city or something, yeah.

00:47:19.060 No, I think even—

00:47:19.760 I feel like a person that dressed nice who had a nice job when I was growing up

00:47:23.200 was like the bank president, and he just wore a polo shirt with khakis.

00:47:26.060 Yeah.

00:47:26.900 You know, like my mom wouldn't let me wear that to church.

00:47:28.920 That was fancy then, you know?

00:47:31.180 Oh, yeah.

00:47:32.800 But look at people dressed, I think, snazzy.

00:47:35.580 Do you think that's true?

00:47:36.520 Maybe I'm just kind of romanticizing it.

00:47:38.060 Well, I will go along with the whole sweatsuits to the bar.

00:47:43.720 That's what I'm saying.

00:47:44.420 It's gotten pretty casual.

00:47:45.980 It has.

00:47:46.660 Dude, there's even men's shoes at ALO or whatever it's called.

00:47:51.280 A-L-O.

00:47:52.120 And it's crazy now.

00:47:53.300 We're so dumb.

00:47:54.120 It's A-L-O, and I don't even know how to say it.

00:47:57.460 What is it?

00:47:59.500 Yeah.

00:48:00.380 Yeah, I don't know.

00:48:01.240 I agree, dude.

00:48:02.280 What is it?

00:48:04.180 A-L-O.

00:48:04.660 But yeah

00:48:06.260 I'm just trying to think

00:48:06.980 Was there a bar fight

00:48:07.600 That stood out to you

00:48:08.500 Over there

00:48:08.960 Uh

00:48:11.320 Like is there one

00:48:13.020 That stood out

00:48:13.460 Cause that much time

00:48:14.280 At Floor Mammon dude

00:48:15.220 That's a lot

00:48:15.840 Cause Floor Mammon

00:48:16.600 Was always a place

00:48:17.240 You could get

00:48:18.060 I never saw a lot of

00:48:19.440 Feist down there

00:48:20.200 You could get your stomach pump

00:48:21.140 And you could get

00:48:21.780 A lot of splinters

00:48:22.680 It used to be a place

00:48:23.440 You could get a lot of splinters at

00:48:24.460 You could yeah

00:48:25.120 Like everybody in that bitch

00:48:26.460 Had a splinter dude

00:48:27.200 If people were doing

00:48:27.980 The stanky leg

00:48:28.680 40 people would get

00:48:29.600 A damn splinter in there

00:48:30.520 There's a vibe

00:48:31.660 About that place

00:48:32.440 That's very

00:48:32.920 You know beach bars too

00:48:33.860 We got a little more like Jimmy Buffett laid back.

00:48:36.700 Let's all get along, have a good time.

00:48:38.240 We've done a bop, bop.

00:48:38.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:48:39.660 God, it's good stuff.

00:48:40.800 It really is.

00:48:42.020 I do remember, oddly enough, I was in Louisiana.

00:48:44.600 I played at the Texas Club.

00:48:48.380 Down in Baton Rouge?

00:48:49.440 Baton Rouge, yeah.

00:48:50.360 And I remember I was about to sign a record deal.

00:48:52.620 I had somebody from a label down there, and I was horribly sick.

00:48:56.320 Like, threw up for the show, like, just trying to get through it.

00:49:00.320 It was one of the worst right-before-show sickness I've had.

00:49:03.860 and somebody got in a fight during the last song,

00:49:07.280 and I was like, hey, knock it out.

00:49:09.540 And I couldn't get their attention.

00:49:10.660 They were still going at it, so they were close to the front.

00:49:12.700 I took my guitar off, and I poked the guy in the back,

00:49:14.340 and I was like, hey, let me play one more song,

00:49:17.700 and then we'll all go out back and just beat the shit out of each other.

00:49:20.120 And everybody just cheered.

00:49:21.040 The two dudes were high-fiving, and then we went through

00:49:22.620 and got the song done.

00:49:23.400 Oh, that's great.

00:49:24.960 Yeah, that's what people, because some people just want to plan.

00:49:28.180 Some people just don't know how to, they're like,

00:49:29.820 well, I guess we'll fight now, and it's like,

00:49:32.060 yeah, you come along with a little bit of strategy for people

00:49:33.740 some people will follow suit

00:49:34.780 when a leader shows up

00:49:35.960 people will follow

00:49:36.540 that's what's kind of wild sometimes

00:49:37.800 you know

00:49:38.160 even in an instance like that

00:49:39.900 I think

00:49:40.280 well it's a little bit of like

00:49:41.400 you go at somebody

00:49:42.200 in a

00:49:43.300 like high

00:49:43.940 situation

00:49:44.840 with a little calmness too

00:49:45.920 okay listen

00:49:46.640 you don't want to fight

00:49:47.220 right

00:49:47.700 we can do it

00:49:48.580 it's fine

00:49:49.140 yeah let me give you a little

00:49:49.780 let me

00:49:50.000 I got this one more song

00:49:51.240 yeah

00:49:51.600 let me play this song

00:49:52.440 and then

00:49:54.320 back to the fight

00:49:55.680 and they're like

00:49:55.940 oh that's reasonable

00:49:56.840 yeah

00:49:57.600 just be reasonable

00:49:58.500 yeah be reasonable dude

00:49:59.960 um

00:50:01.180 what was I looking at

00:50:02.860 oh I saw you like

00:50:03.500 You do a good bit of hunting there.

00:50:05.100 Do you hunt out on your property out there in Alabama?

00:50:07.580 I do a lot of turkey hunting out there.

00:50:09.200 I usually go up north deer hunting.

00:50:11.660 What do you think about turkeys?

00:50:14.100 I think about them a lot.

00:50:15.480 You think they're one of the best birds or not?

00:50:16.900 We had Steve Rinello on here.

00:50:18.280 No.

00:50:18.640 He loves them.

00:50:18.960 I mean, the best bird to just in general.

00:50:20.840 Steve Rinello gave them top bird, he said.

00:50:22.980 For what?

00:50:23.640 Like, what stipulations are you going by?

00:50:26.920 They don't fly that good.

00:50:28.380 Yeah.

00:50:29.280 Look, I agree with you.

00:50:30.220 What I'm saying is he said they were the best bird,

00:50:31.580 and I said, well, look, Steve,

00:50:32.340 I begrudgingly kind of supported him because he was going through it when he said it.

00:50:38.720 Just because we're so close to him.

00:50:40.640 And there he is with one right there.

00:50:42.020 Oh, he loves him so much.

00:50:43.100 That one looks dead.

00:50:44.220 He's got to be talking about hunting birds.

00:50:46.580 I would think an eagle is an easy win for best bird.

00:50:50.600 Trevin, what do you think he said?

00:50:52.080 He said that bald eagles, despite being America's bird, they're scavengers,

00:50:56.500 whereas turkeys are highly intelligent.

00:50:59.100 Their heads change color based on their mood.

00:51:01.220 They do that?

00:51:02.340 Yeah, so he was all about it.

00:51:04.440 Yeah.

00:51:05.240 But then he's also deceasing them.

00:51:07.520 So that's kind of an interesting concept.

00:51:09.920 Turkey's the most challenging bird to hunt.

00:51:12.280 Yeah?

00:51:12.600 By far, yeah.

00:51:13.720 I hunted turkeys for two or three years before I even got close to killing one.

00:51:18.660 Really?

00:51:19.040 Yeah, my dad didn't hunt.

00:51:20.080 I kind of just taught myself how I was interested in it.

00:51:23.280 Yeah, like they're tough, especially down on those eastern birds down there.

00:51:28.420 They're tough, man.

00:51:29.520 We went and hunted some Osceolas down in...

00:51:32.200 Florida?

00:51:32.780 Yeah.

00:51:33.340 Yeah.

00:51:33.720 And it was interesting, dude.

00:51:35.140 It's a little different down there, so it's flat.

00:51:38.120 You're hunting in the hills and mountains.

00:51:40.520 You know, you got a bird that's calling,

00:51:41.820 and you're calling to him,

00:51:42.420 and you think he's right there,

00:51:43.100 but he's two ridges over.

00:51:44.000 He's not...

00:51:44.320 You know what I mean?

00:51:44.660 You got to know how the land lays,

00:51:46.020 and you think he's going to pop right over top of the hill,

00:51:47.980 and he walks around the side and spots you

00:51:49.400 before you see him.

00:51:50.040 It's tough.

00:51:50.540 Yeah, I think maybe the place we went

00:51:51.460 was a little bit easy.

00:51:52.200 It might have been like sort of like a beginner's

00:51:53.860 or like summer league or whatever.

00:51:55.120 That was you and Caleb.

00:51:56.660 Yeah.

00:51:56.880 You're on Michael Waddell.

00:51:57.860 You're on Michael Waddell.

00:51:58.540 Yeah, y'all were goofing off.

00:51:59.280 I saw that.

00:51:59.660 They wouldn't even let me have a gun.

00:52:01.220 So I thought that wasn't cool.

00:52:02.500 I get that, yeah.

00:52:03.420 But then the second part was, dude, they—

00:52:06.320 What did you wear?

00:52:07.500 You put camouflage on.

00:52:09.080 You're like you're going to the city pool.

00:52:10.540 I did well.

00:52:12.320 First of all, they did not even send a fan flitter or anything about what we were supposed to wear.

00:52:15.580 They gave no directions.

00:52:16.620 So they had some stuff for you.

00:52:17.760 Yeah, they had some stuff down there.

00:52:19.020 And it was good, dude.

00:52:20.220 Like, the food was great.

00:52:21.160 We had a great time.

00:52:21.720 But I agree it was flat, so that's an easy place to shoot them.

00:52:24.740 and dude so we were out there and we maybe saw some or maybe didn't see some i don't remember

00:52:29.720 what happened but afterwards we're leaving and there's like a couple like the game's over or

00:52:33.720 whatever it's like around 11 a.m there's a couple turkeys just hanging out in the ditch right and

00:52:38.680 like you know it's over like we were over there hunting them and we happen to just see some over

00:52:43.400 here yeah it's like you know like they're in the locker room the game's over one of them has a towel

00:52:47.200 around his neck you know one of them's texting his texting his wife or whatever he's not worried

00:52:50.480 about it yeah yeah because when i was taking his feet off you know what i'm saying taking his wings

00:52:54.940 off he's just a fucking sparrow with a fucking morning job you know we got him yeah yeah and

00:53:00.000 fucking they're like let's shoot him i'm like dude the fuck that's not fair you know yeah like i just

00:53:04.700 want to be a fair challenge that's the thing sometimes with hunting i do like i had a great

00:53:10.360 time i would like to go duck hunting is something i would like to do um i know a guy but uh but that

00:53:15.420 is a fair that's a fair like i just like a little bit more of a fair challenge you know

00:53:19.680 well you go out in the woods like in my farm with a call first of all you gotta figure out how to

00:53:26.160 call yeah you camouflage and you go out there and like try to kill a bird on your own it's it's

00:53:31.880 tough you know like with no weapon no you could take a weapon i just mean like you call in one

00:53:38.120 is not the easiest thing to do and then you almost have to get busted by one to know how

00:53:42.140 well they can see you know oh that's pretty like we'll have one sneak up on you yeah and turkeys

00:53:47.340 because they're not going to come in the way you want them to yeah you go and you pick your spot

00:53:50.400 but he's going to try to come in where he can see you from as far away as he can you know wherever

00:53:54.460 that hen is that he thinks he's going to see yeah they kick my butt for sober years yeah yeah i saw

00:54:00.700 that you call him you do a call can you do a regular can you do right now no i mean i i use

00:54:05.460 like a diaphragm or I got a slate call

00:54:07.480 or I mean it's a slate call

00:54:08.940 you know

00:54:12.100 no that's something that one's

00:54:15.500 fucking yeah that wasn't that wasn't

00:54:17.380 that's from Key West I think but let me try it one more time

00:54:19.620 oh that's yeah that's pretty good

00:54:25.500 it's pretty simple because the goal is you're trying to do it one more time

00:54:28.020 yeah that's better

00:54:33.780 that's it see how you use your chest yeah that was good yeah save your chest that was good yeah

00:54:41.940 that's cool yeah that's nice man dude and when people get out there with those calls

00:54:46.260 i love guessing what birds different birds there's so many birds out there it is kind of

00:54:52.240 interesting how uh how some birds you can hunt them but so many birds you can't hunt them

00:54:59.540 yeah uh do you think that is a these taste good kind of thing because i've never heard anybody

00:55:06.900 that'd be like a cardinals delicious you know i mean like right those birds don't have a lot on

00:55:11.180 turkey's got a lot of meat on them yeah uh dove and pheasant are obviously really good birds eat

00:55:16.140 duck or good to eat geese yeah you think that's what you think that traditionally indians whatever

00:55:21.040 it was back in the day like started hunting birds that they ate and they ate some robins and then

00:55:26.480 they were like that's not good and then we just adapted to that and we're like these are the ones

00:55:29.560 we're gonna hunt i bet you're probably right i bet there was always also some pervert always eating

00:55:33.020 a blue jay or whatever off on the side like look at this little weirdo i mean because i don't think

00:55:37.400 people eat like skunks either you know maybe in louisiana but i mean no i mean raccoons people

00:55:42.380 eat a lot my brother would kill raccoons people eat he would put notes up at the church and see

00:55:46.720 if people had any in their area and he'd go get them or whatever um but yeah i guess that is a

00:55:53.260 good point you kind of eat whatever's the most plentiful because you also had to feed a lot of

00:55:56.380 people yeah it's like you're like you know if you're just out there hunting for one all day

00:56:00.100 it's kind of yeah i mean turkeys are from back like settler days yeah you know like that was

00:56:04.100 that's what it was like the guy and turkeys that came over on the boat yeah and if you saw a fat

00:56:10.620 turkey if people like hey bring some lunch and you bring one dude brings a turkey and one dude

00:56:14.280 brings a little nightingale or whatever it's like the dude eating the nightingale if they brought

00:56:19.420 like a nightingale

00:56:20.580 stew

00:56:21.580 yeah

00:56:22.480 you know what I mean

00:56:23.120 yeah you'd be like

00:56:24.000 that's a fucking weirdo

00:56:25.040 I think making that shit

00:56:26.060 all night

00:56:26.500 yeah

00:56:26.820 blue jay casserole

00:56:28.080 yeah dude

00:56:29.040 that didn't sound good

00:56:30.680 some dude out there

00:56:32.060 yeah

00:56:32.980 would it make

00:56:33.880 making whooping crane

00:56:35.040 omelets or something

00:56:35.980 what about some

00:56:36.920 swan nuggets

00:56:37.840 now them bitches

00:56:38.400 sound good

00:56:39.340 you ever eaten swan

00:56:41.620 you know they also

00:56:42.580 don't hunt a lot of

00:56:43.340 real pretty birds

00:56:44.120 either though

00:56:44.580 you know

00:56:44.880 I haven't eaten swan

00:56:45.740 no

00:56:46.000 I'd have a little

00:56:47.220 you would have a little

00:56:48.440 yeah

00:56:49.000 if you went to Thanksgiving

00:56:50.900 they had swan

00:56:51.840 I bet they

00:56:52.540 I bet the

00:56:52.900 I bet Trump's eating it

00:56:54.900 it would look

00:56:56.700 like on a silver platter

00:56:57.980 like with the

00:56:58.600 yes

00:56:59.300 if they kept the

00:57:00.240 the arch

00:57:01.140 you gotta make sure you keep the

00:57:02.240 yeah

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01:00:00.140 and the bedroom.

01:00:02.700 Let me see,

01:00:03.480 Raleigh's doing calls here.

01:00:04.980 What do you got, an earpiece in or something?

01:00:06.140 How'd you know that?

01:00:06.780 No, we showed it a second ago.

01:00:09.620 Oh, that's how I'll start the show.

01:00:11.140 Oh, it is?

01:00:12.100 A little duck call.

01:00:20.900 Let's go.

01:00:26.100 Let's go, dude.

01:00:27.380 I've never seen anybody catch that.

01:00:30.440 Catch the duck call.

01:00:31.840 And I do it at every show.

01:00:33.600 Yeah.

01:00:33.800 People are there like, signs, throw me the duck call.

01:00:36.280 They never catch it.

01:00:37.960 Well, I don't want to judge these people, but a lot of them could be women.

01:00:43.480 And that is judging them.

01:00:44.760 I'm going to take that out.

01:00:45.120 No, what you said was exactly what you said you weren't going to say.

01:00:48.060 It was what you said you weren't going to do.

01:00:49.220 You're right, dude.

01:00:49.620 You haven't seen a league of their own?

01:00:50.960 What the heck?

01:00:51.900 Yeah, I have, dude.

01:00:53.080 Maybe a duck call is hard to catch.

01:00:54.460 Maybe the shape of it is not something they're used to.

01:00:56.420 Maybe they're great catchers.

01:00:58.440 And you're kind of throwing.

01:00:59.720 It looks like you weren't throwing it easily towards them, you know.

01:01:03.800 I don't know. That's a good question, man. What, uh, you're on your biggest tour right now. Is that

01:01:08.560 true? Yeah. Every year it's a little bigger. Has it been? Yeah, it's been great, man. What's the

01:01:14.520 fear like about that? We were talking about this the other night, dude, you and I kind of had our

01:01:18.400 first conversation the other night of a couple weeks ago. We're talking a little bit about just

01:01:21.720 like when, like, as your career goes along, the pressure, it feels like, like, you know, like,

01:01:28.540 what is the rest of your career going to be like? And how do you try to shape that if you can?

01:01:32.600 yeah and how do you try to shape yourself so that you're okay with however things go

01:01:36.880 there's a certain amount of uh i've already accomplished way more than i ever thought i

01:01:42.860 would so there's a there's a peace of mind in that and you know there's also a little bit of

01:01:47.000 i'm guaranteed a certain career at this point you know even if i never have another hit i can go

01:01:51.480 tour and you know i can make a living support my family whatever i need to do so there's there's

01:01:56.620 peace in knowing that but i think the competitive part of me and like we talked about the other day

01:02:00.860 is like when I have a hit or win an award or whatever it is, I don't feel like I can relax

01:02:06.160 now. You know, I've accomplished that. It's really more like, okay, now I got to go do the next thing

01:02:10.600 I got to take out in my, I think I always say that it's, I want to try to get as much out of

01:02:14.660 the opportunities I've got as I can. Cause I mean, what you're doing and what I'm doing is very

01:02:19.540 rare, you know, to be, to be able to have the opportunities you've gotten to be able to go and

01:02:24.160 and do some acting and stand up comedy and have a podcast that's this popular and this successful.

01:02:28.740 So I feel pressure in that regard of just like I want to go and be as successful as I can.

01:02:36.400 But it's not necessarily a nervous thing.

01:02:38.080 Certainly not with the shows getting bigger.

01:02:39.660 That side of it is not a pressure thing because, I mean, the fans make it enjoyable.

01:02:45.120 When you go to a show and you've got a sold-out arena for your stand, they're excited you're there.

01:02:48.820 It's easy, you know?

01:02:50.400 Yeah.

01:02:51.020 Well, yeah, I guess with stand-up, it feels like it's a – I can't tell.

01:02:53.840 Do you lose – does the venue lose intimacy with music?

01:02:58.740 Because as it gets bigger with stand-up, it feels sometimes like,

01:03:01.980 man, I wish I could connect better with these people.

01:03:03.420 It's just the way it is.

01:03:04.340 But I don't know if music fits the same like that.

01:03:07.080 I did a stadium tour with Luke Combs, and that's too big.

01:03:14.660 Like, I feel like there's no way the person in the far back top row

01:03:18.860 is getting their money's worth at a concert, you know?

01:03:20.620 And you also lose some sound, too,

01:03:22.140 and you have to have two rows of speakers, one halfway through.

01:03:25.040 That's wild.

01:03:25.540 There's so much reverb and bounce back.

01:03:27.520 and then you think about how much of a pain it is to go to that show the traffic to get in for a fan

01:03:32.620 and then you know to be able to find a place to park and all that i just and then they charge in

01:03:37.000 the park too a lot and then you got you know the fact that it's also an open air stadium you got

01:03:40.960 weathered issues and your openers are starting in the daytime so they don't get the you know the

01:03:46.060 full effect of the lights and everything and so arenas has always felt like a great place for me

01:03:51.920 and i and you still have an intimate show you still feel close to everybody you feel like

01:03:55.820 everybody got their money's worth but it's still you know 20 25 000 people yeah yeah i guess like

01:04:03.180 yeah that intimacy yeah the intimacy get gets lost i think at certain levels kind of and so

01:04:08.560 you try your best you try to figure it out you know um yeah i guess it's kind of interesting

01:04:15.580 as your career goes on you're like man this has been interesting it's been fun to have this

01:04:20.000 experience yeah and you want to keep it going you want to like try your best and you also want to

01:04:24.480 challenge yourself too because you got to evolve too like i think your does it feel like your music

01:04:29.580 kind of has to evolve as you do with your life like like because um one time i sat down with

01:04:35.460 uh there was this famous comedy manager and i sat with him and he goes you know at a certain point

01:04:40.540 if you stay the same your audience will kind of they age they'll grow older and yeah so you have

01:04:45.460 to like also like because it's almost a trap like i want to stay this i want to stay this song you

01:04:50.840 know like because if like say you get an or a first hit or something like that you're like

01:04:55.420 well i can't ever be different than this person you know the person that sings that song because

01:04:59.900 i may lose people you know i'm saying does it make any sense yeah i think that the what your

01:05:04.980 guy said is a little bit not true in the sense of you know that may have been true 10 15 years ago

01:05:11.440 before social media was as relevant as it is but now if you do something well like your stand-up

01:05:17.500 videos or your podcast or whatever it lives forever so the next generation you know whereas

01:05:21.920 when you had a song on the radio 10 years ago it lived when it was on the radio and then it went

01:05:25.180 off and that was it it was over it didn't live anywhere else now everything you do lives on the

01:05:28.620 internet forever so if you're doing something well i would really especially like up-and-coming

01:05:34.820 artists i would advise against trying to do anything too different for me what i always do

01:05:39.360 is i try to make sure i've got songs on my record every record that are writing from the same place

01:05:45.420 i started writing from that are very me and then i try to take a few songs and write that are a

01:05:50.000 little stylistically different just to kind of ease outside of my comfort zone a little bit but

01:05:53.980 but so you would but so it doesn't mean like so you're saying that you can change because the

01:05:59.000 thing you did will still stay out there that's right so it's kind of a safe space to be able to

01:06:03.100 kind of if you're doing something different like yeah i just think you don't turn and run from

01:06:07.860 something that was successful you know and like with country music you know well it's scary to

01:06:12.020 do that for sure it is yeah and and but then i guess i'm thinking like do do like i guess i'm

01:06:16.960 wondering sometimes it's like yeah do you try to stay that like do you try to make your life fit

01:06:20.240 this this certain time you know i'm saying a little bit i'll give you an example and i know

01:06:23.660 you've done some acting is you know i imagine in your role you went into something that wasn't too

01:06:29.160 far of a stretch from what you do and who you are so i did marshals and and like uh with luke grimes

01:06:36.240 Yeah, with Luke, it was great, and I didn't want to take a role that was crazily different.

01:06:43.200 You know, I wanted something that I could ease into and introduce myself into that world

01:06:46.860 and then kind of go on.

01:06:47.540 That's how I am with music, is I might try a song that stylistically is a little different

01:06:51.360 than what I normally do, but it's not going to be, I'm not going straight pop.

01:06:55.080 You know, I'm not going to do something totally different.

01:06:57.080 I think melody-wise, I'll try some things out and see if it works, but keeping that

01:07:01.760 familiarity in what you've done well for so long, I think, is extremely important now

01:07:05.700 because I think the best thing you can be is different,

01:07:08.240 not necessarily from something you've done before,

01:07:10.700 but from everybody else, you know?

01:07:12.740 I mean, your stand-up and your humor on this podcast,

01:07:16.540 I don't know anybody else.

01:07:17.760 I mean, in a weird way, Norm MacDonald,

01:07:21.040 like the dry sarcasm of Norm,

01:07:24.100 I always thought he did something that was so unique,

01:07:26.120 and I don't know who I would compare you to, you know?

01:07:28.380 Yeah, I think you always kind of like, yeah, I don't know.

01:07:31.480 I guess you want to be like,

01:07:32.700 you want to try and like honor yourself as much as you can.

01:07:35.700 I think with humor, it's hard to pretend to be somebody else.

01:07:40.200 And I think with music, if somebody, if you pretended too much

01:07:43.880 and some of it didn't come from a real authentic place for you,

01:07:47.300 then it would kind of start to, you'd be able to see that after a while.

01:07:50.900 I think fans can tell.

01:07:52.060 I think that.

01:07:52.780 Well, I don't think you'd have a ton.

01:07:53.860 I think the longevity wouldn't be able to be there

01:07:55.860 because you're playing, especially if you're trying to play somebody else's.

01:08:01.200 Authenticity is really, it's so obvious now, again, because social media.

01:08:05.700 I mean, 10 years ago, you could have a song on the radio

01:08:08.060 and people would not necessarily know what you look like.

01:08:09.880 Yeah.

01:08:10.440 Now they know everything about you.

01:08:11.720 My dog's got 150,000 followers on Instagram.

01:08:14.420 Does he really?

01:08:14.920 Yeah, I mean, people know everything about you.

01:08:16.440 So if you're not authentically what you act like you are,

01:08:19.840 people are going to figure it out.

01:08:21.420 You think your dog knows he has that many?

01:08:23.040 Yeah.

01:08:23.640 No way.

01:08:24.580 Oh, man, that dude, when the camera's on him,

01:08:29.060 he's a different person.

01:08:31.280 What?

01:08:31.800 Yeah.

01:08:32.400 And where's he from?

01:08:33.360 uh i mean he lives in jacksonville alabama he lives on my farm he's been playing cards what

01:08:38.700 the heck dude yeah folded oh dang bro he lives like that dude it's carl man oh he's handsome

01:08:48.220 and that's a uh stogie what's that dog called uh stogie's a cigar he is a corgi and blue healer

01:08:54.220 Oh, Blue Healer, huh?

01:08:57.200 Damn, he's Native American?

01:09:00.020 I don't know about that.

01:09:01.960 Look it up.

01:09:03.060 Blue Healer.

01:09:05.440 Are Blue Healers Native American?

01:09:07.880 No.

01:09:08.860 Do you know what?

01:09:09.460 That's the most direct answer to anything I've ever seen asked on the internet.

01:09:12.300 No, Blue Healers are not Native Americans.

01:09:15.960 Man, this shit might be fake.

01:09:17.960 I don't know if you've ever been that completely wrong.

01:09:20.220 That was crazy.

01:09:21.140 Where did you get that from?

01:09:22.000 I don't want to know.

01:09:22.980 Blue Healers are Native American?

01:09:24.080 Yeah.

01:09:25.140 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:09:26.760 Look up what dogs are Native American.

01:09:30.620 Some of them have to be, huh?

01:09:31.880 How'd we get them?

01:09:34.540 Dogs native to North America fall, nah.

01:09:37.600 Look up what type of people think dogs are Native American.

01:09:41.940 Oh, come on, bro.

01:09:43.300 You're giving me a hard time.

01:09:44.380 No, no, seriously, I was curious about that.

01:09:46.740 Well, will you look up what would possess a person to think a dog was Native American?

01:09:50.480 Can we look that up?

01:09:51.220 tell me about the acting

01:09:55.400 did you enjoy it

01:09:56.580 yeah I'll tell you about it

01:09:57.480 just a second

01:09:57.840 I want to finish this conversation

01:09:59.020 I think this conversation is done

01:10:00.180 you said that dog was Native American

01:10:01.680 and no dogs are Native American

01:10:03.100 how about this

01:10:03.880 look up this

01:10:05.720 how about this

01:10:06.420 what dogs were owned

01:10:08.980 popularly by Native Americans

01:10:11.180 but it's changed so much

01:10:15.260 since what you

01:10:15.820 I don't think it has

01:10:17.360 I'm saying

01:10:17.900 okay here we go

01:10:18.920 Plains Indian dog

01:10:20.060 okay uh solace wool dog well popular historical and chihuahua them little bitches were going back

01:10:29.060 then uh remember the taco bell dog yeah i remember it dude but this i'm talking about real native

01:10:33.820 that's the first famous dog i remember you think except for the one that has a cigar that asked

01:10:37.980 questions at the uh oh the you know what i'm talking about he's not a real dog so that i guess

01:10:42.500 that doesn't count that's a puppet yeah so hey look at what puppets are native american uh can

01:10:47.960 you look up what types of people think puppets are real dogs please that's funny i like that

01:10:54.640 i'm glad we got one funny thing today fine you piggybacked off my funny stuff but you really

01:11:00.340 you hammered it finally finally well we'll play rally ball i didn't know i forgot it was a puppet

01:11:05.440 for a second okay i will say that you didn't see the guy's arm you see a guy's hand in a sock

01:11:10.200 acting like a dog long enough eventually it becomes a dog to you well look if i see a guy's

01:11:13.960 hand in an animal. I freaking, I know what's

01:11:15.900 going on. It don't seem right, but

01:11:17.440 you know, that was probably... We've all been to

01:11:19.620 the Neshoba County Fair.

01:11:21.640 That was probably... Yeah, shout out Hardy.

01:11:23.780 Yeah. But we all know... That's why they run with

01:11:25.840 those chairs at the front. You know, they want to see the show.

01:11:28.400 That's probably what the first

01:11:29.940 911 call was all about right there.

01:11:32.100 There's a man with his hand up an

01:11:33.880 animal over here.

01:11:36.380 Bring it back to those Native American

01:11:37.820 dogs. I do want to know what they were, and I want to see

01:11:39.880 a little JPEG of them, or a drawing

01:11:42.000 probably.

01:11:43.060 Yeah.

01:11:43.960 If you can see that, please.

01:11:45.600 I'm serious.

01:11:46.240 I just want to know which dogs they were.

01:11:48.260 I'm going to get you a hand-painted, oil-based painting of a dog

01:11:53.480 with just Native American things on it.

01:11:56.660 You know what I mean?

01:11:56.900 Like a bow and arrow with feathers and everything.

01:11:59.220 That's actually not a bad idea.

01:12:00.380 And a coffee maker.

01:12:01.760 Plains Indian dogs, American Indian dogs, found across the Great Plains.

01:12:05.760 These dogs were essential beasts of burden.

01:12:08.220 They were used to pull V-shaped wooden sleds called Travois.

01:12:13.960 Loaded with meat, household goods, and children before horses were introduced.

01:12:18.160 Wow.

01:12:18.880 So they used to use dogs to do like field plowing.

01:12:23.060 The Salish wool dogs kept by the Coast Salish tribes in Washington State and British Columbia.

01:12:29.900 These small white fluffy dogs were sheared like sheep.

01:12:33.800 Their thick wool was spun into blankets and textiles.

01:12:37.060 Dang.

01:12:37.380 Read the next one.

01:12:38.740 The Xalophone.

01:12:40.640 Welcome back to Puppy Talk.

01:12:48.720 I'm Riley Green with my guest, Theo Vaughn.

01:12:50.800 And I'm here also today.

01:12:52.360 We're so happy.

01:12:53.180 We're going to look at the bone structure of a Zwolacistilia.

01:12:57.420 And they are a Native American dog popularized by the Aztecs and Mayans.

01:13:01.560 These dogs were kept as pets, guards, and physical heaters.

01:13:06.080 Dude, imagine that.

01:13:08.160 I can't even imagine it.

01:13:09.640 What do you mean?

01:13:10.140 You get the dog tonight.

01:13:11.480 That's hairless.

01:13:12.280 Mexican hairless dog is a wild-looking dog.

01:13:15.560 Oh, that shit ain't nothing.

01:13:16.720 Look at that little bad boy.

01:13:18.900 Look at the one down there.

01:13:19.980 I'll say I saw him.

01:13:20.780 I saw the one you're looking at, yeah.

01:13:21.980 Yeah, look at that little boss.

01:13:23.120 If you put him on that commercial with Willie Nelson playing You Were Always On My Mind,

01:13:28.540 I would give the money, whatever it is.

01:13:31.560 He looks like he's got farm aides, dude.

01:13:33.800 That thing has had a tough run right there.

01:13:38.180 And that was a pretty good joke.

01:13:39.320 That was really good.

01:13:40.340 It made me close one eye for a while.

01:13:43.100 I'm just joking.

01:13:43.980 Shout out Willie Nelson and Farm A.

01:13:45.280 Dude, I just saw Billy Strings this weekend, actually.

01:13:47.300 I went there with him, Stephen Wilson Jr.,

01:13:50.520 Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Lucas Nelson.

01:13:54.140 They had a show outside of Austin.

01:13:58.000 Lucas is great.

01:13:59.820 Stephen Wilson is so talented.

01:14:01.860 So talented, man.

01:14:03.140 That's awesome.

01:14:04.020 That would be a cool thing to see.

01:14:05.500 Oh, it was just great to be over there, man.

01:14:07.740 um how was the acting let me think it was there was just like a lot going on it took like

01:14:14.520 i wish i'd have had more time to like work on the character and i just had we were wearing a lot of

01:14:22.800 hats yeah so when you're doing a lot of stuff it's a lot yeah and you think it's not gonna be

01:14:28.040 you know we were i was on tour and we're filming in park city utah for marshall so i was flying

01:14:33.220 every week to utah playing three or four days or filming and go play shows and fly back and i feel

01:14:38.200 like i didn't know enough about the character like i was getting the script for like that day

01:14:43.060 and i didn't know any of the backstory so when i went and watched it there were so many things i

01:14:46.240 would have done differently if i'd known this about the character or that and i i would have

01:14:49.780 really enjoyed it if i could have just lived in that world and filmed for a month you know yeah

01:14:54.020 also do it's really bothering me a lot just to think about if you knew that that picture of that

01:15:01.860 dog was on there and you went on a dog native american dog rant just so you could say farm

01:15:05.760 aids because if that's the case one that'd be awesome and two how much preparation would that

01:15:11.500 take you know i mean like that would be coming into an interview don't worry about learning

01:15:14.280 anything about the guy that's here like me you don't know any of my songs or anything but if i

01:15:17.380 can come up with a way to say farm aids with the dog that'd be awesome yeah i wouldn't that's

01:15:23.440 insane i don't know if i'd like the version of you better that did that or the one that just

01:15:26.700 came up with i don't know they didn't that's a good question actually either way i like you

01:15:29.700 That's a lot of thought.

01:15:30.520 Well, thank you.

01:15:31.200 I've been sitting here hoping you would.

01:15:33.740 I just decided just now.

01:15:35.740 The coffee thing threw me off.

01:15:36.880 I knew the jury was out.

01:15:39.560 Yeah, what do you think, like, so one thing you said a little while ago, you said that, like, achievements, right?

01:15:47.540 Like, they'll keep you going.

01:15:48.680 But do you feel a lot of achievement?

01:15:50.260 Like, if you achieve something, do you really feel it?

01:15:52.360 Or does it feel like, um, like, you don't strike me as the kind of guy that feels a

01:15:56.920 lot of like, like that sit there and relishes some, like if you, like something does happen

01:16:02.660 to you, like you get an award, you get this certain thing.

01:16:04.940 It's just like part of the thing.

01:16:06.640 Yeah.

01:16:07.200 I think you get a little numb to it, especially when you're so busy, you know, you get a

01:16:10.980 little, you don't really, I guess for lack of a better term, sit back and appreciate

01:16:15.020 it.

01:16:15.300 I try to make myself live in the moment a little more, but for me, I look at a lot of

01:16:18.360 the things that happen is like checks, you know, not that I had the goals of accomplishing those

01:16:23.420 things, but I'm like, man, when I, you know, ACM awards or whatever it was, we won a couple of

01:16:27.180 awards, CMAs, whatever it is, I'm more looking at like, okay, I got a performance that's got to go

01:16:35.480 well. I need to, you know, figure out the song and make sure it goes well when it does. And I

01:16:38.780 get the award and I got a little speech or something. I'll make sure that goes well. And

01:16:41.600 then I'm like, okay, all went well. And it's like a little bit of relief, but not necessarily like

01:16:45.160 i accomplished this and also that stuff's a little bit political you know what i mean

01:16:50.760 the best song doesn't always win and and for me i think i appreciate a lot more a sold-out show

01:16:57.240 but when fans are are there and they're like singing a song that i wrote in it like i can

01:17:02.420 tell it means something to them there's emotion in it like that means more to me than an award

01:17:05.620 yeah you know do you but yeah i guess i'm just wondering like do you feel like you

01:17:09.300 like you're good at like uh feeling pride for yourself like that sort of thing you know

01:17:14.120 Because that's something sometimes I've struggled with that.

01:17:16.040 It's like, I don't think too much about it, but it's like, man, sometimes that is, like, if somebody's like, man, do you feel proud of yourself?

01:17:22.180 I don't feel that a lot of times.

01:17:23.820 Does that make any sense to you?

01:17:25.380 I think that, I mean, it does make sense.

01:17:27.340 I think that you got to find things in your life that you do feel proud of yourself about.

01:17:32.220 Like, for me, it's not musical achievements.

01:17:35.220 For me, I feel proud about my farm.

01:17:37.560 I feel proud that, you know, I could put my parents in a nice house and buy my dad a truck or whatever.

01:17:42.320 Those, like, I feel more for that than anything I've ever bought myself, you know?

01:17:46.240 And, like, my niece and nephew sending me pictures, my sister, of them catching fish in my lake.

01:17:52.160 Like, I'm proud of, like, that.

01:17:53.800 And those are things that I know will last forever.

01:17:56.980 And, you know, I mean, there's a little bit of songwriting pride, I think.

01:18:00.160 When I write a song that, you know, I wrote by myself and I think it was good, it made me feel something.

01:18:05.860 And when people relate to it, like, I feel proud about that.

01:18:09.260 But that's a little short-lived, you know?

01:18:12.320 like a joke that really lands.

01:18:13.640 I think that you got to find things in life

01:18:15.600 that you constantly want to be attached to, you know?

01:18:21.520 For me, it's stuff like my farm

01:18:23.160 and, you know, having a little place at the beach

01:18:25.100 or something, my folks going down there.

01:18:26.600 When people send me pictures at my beach house

01:18:28.340 saying, man, this was nice, we had a great time,

01:18:29.840 that's what I feel proud of, you know?

01:18:32.080 Things I never thought I'd have.

01:18:34.440 And where's that?

01:18:35.200 I think you said Panama City Beach.

01:18:36.820 You got a place down there?

01:18:37.860 Yeah.

01:18:38.260 That was so funny.

01:18:39.160 What did you say?

01:18:39.660 You said that was my favorite thing about you?

01:18:41.220 One of my favorite things that I heard, dude, when somebody's like, man, I got me a beach house down in Panama City Beach, that shit just made me laugh.

01:18:47.260 Because what I remember of it from being in, like, high school and college, it was just a place where we were just trashed kids, you know?

01:18:55.540 So, just to see a text from somebody, we got a beach house down there.

01:18:59.360 And I know it's a nice beach.

01:19:00.580 I know the Gulf is nice, man.

01:19:01.920 It's like, there's not a part of the Gulf that's not even, like, built up now, man.

01:19:06.800 It used to be so different.

01:19:07.880 Yeah.

01:19:08.240 No, I'm in

01:19:10.180 I'm right outside of Panama City

01:19:11.940 And it's a little quieter where I'm at

01:19:14.080 But yeah, we all had our spring break

01:19:15.980 Trips to Panama City

01:19:17.000 It was rowdy

01:19:18.960 Yeah

01:19:19.580 Right now you got

01:19:23.340 I'm trying to think

01:19:25.840 Was there something that you guys wanted to talk about that was specific?

01:19:28.960 Oh yeah

01:19:29.220 I'm Riley

01:19:29.660 Get ready with me

01:19:33.620 While Riley gives me a hard time

01:19:35.980 You got a new

01:19:38.020 album that's coming out in september september 18th i think yeah uh that's just me it's the name

01:19:42.860 of the album uh i put three songs off the album out uh last week a song called go again uh the

01:19:49.660 girl named hannah mcfarland's on that song a song called think is you drunk it's my new single at

01:19:54.660 country radio and a song called my way uh there you go and uh yeah the album's gonna come we're

01:20:01.480 gonna put a couple more songs off the album out between now and then but album will be out 19

01:20:05.340 songs comes out september so hell yeah do you feel any type of way about this album different

01:20:12.700 than other albums do you feel do you feel pressure to get well answer that question

01:20:17.320 first if you don't mind yeah what's different about this album or what's kind of the same

01:20:20.460 i think it's uh don't mind if i do that record i think had a lot of different types of songs on it

01:20:27.160 i think that's something that i i did well on that one so i made sure this one was the same way i got

01:20:31.420 a lot of songs that sound like stuff i've written for years then i got a lot of songs that are a

01:20:35.100 little different you know and I got fun beach songs I got drinking songs I got you know love

01:20:41.060 ballads and so I think that that's what I'm excited about the album is I think as a whole

01:20:47.780 it's a good project uh but again I try not to do anything too different in the sense of how I go

01:20:53.640 about putting out music you know it's it's always what I've done so far is kind of work yeah um what

01:20:59.960 about like in your like outside of music life outside of your farm and stuff like that do you

01:21:04.640 think um like you're a guy that probably has an easy time meeting ladies do you feel like

01:21:09.420 like settling down is in the future like if you ever think about that like well yeah i feel like

01:21:16.320 you you you know better than that because you're in that world too like it's really not that easy

01:21:20.260 to meet a girl when you're doing what we're doing like i mean i'm not gonna meet a girl to show

01:21:24.380 you know i mean i'm i'm confined to the back you know on a bus and uh i'm not gonna meet a girl on

01:21:30.600 instagram you know i mean and when you get to a place where people are you know it gets tough to

01:21:35.440 know who you're meeting for what and i always feel like if i met somebody that was like a fan i feel

01:21:39.380 like it would be tough for me to be like you know i would look at them like you're probably the same

01:21:43.480 way too as i go in a bar and when people start but you get a little bit like it makes you

01:21:48.820 anxious yeah i mean yeah i i don't mind being the center of attention at like a show or if i'm in a

01:21:54.540 town i'm playing a show and i go to a restaurant or bar down the street but like i don't like being

01:21:57.840 the center of attention when i'm not supposed to that always makes me feel i agree i don't like to

01:22:01.800 feel like if i went to another show and people were asking me for a picture and there was somebody

01:22:05.340 else on stage that would make me feel really really rude you know so like a restaurant it's

01:22:10.080 not that people ask me if a picture bothers me it's just i don't want to be standing up causing

01:22:14.020 a scene now on the center of attention yeah i don't like that so you know when you go like i'm

01:22:17.820 not going to meet a girl at the bar you've been to losers and duck blind with me and we sit on the

01:22:21.660 back deck away from everybody you know kind of hiding oh dude one night i sat out there by myself

01:22:26.400 on Loser's Back Porch

01:22:27.980 and I was watching

01:22:28.600 Netflix back there.

01:22:29.780 Yeah.

01:22:30.740 Just watching two,

01:22:31.580 I watched two episodes

01:22:32.300 of something.

01:22:33.100 Yeah.

01:22:33.820 Well, no,

01:22:34.220 it's tough.

01:22:36.060 Is it cake?

01:22:36.640 I think it was.

01:22:37.420 Yeah.

01:22:37.960 I feel like if I could be

01:22:38.900 in one place for a while,

01:22:39.940 like live somewhere,

01:22:40.800 that's another thing.

01:22:41.240 I don't feel like I live anywhere.

01:22:42.520 I've got a house in Nashville

01:22:43.460 and I stay there

01:22:44.960 every once in a while.

01:22:45.720 I've got a farm in Alabama.

01:22:46.340 Have you always felt like that?

01:22:47.440 Well, you must not.

01:22:47.960 Your farm must feel

01:22:48.700 like some type of way to you,

01:22:49.880 but have you always felt

01:22:51.120 like you didn't live somewhere?

01:22:52.700 It's kind of an interesting feeling,

01:22:54.060 bro.

01:22:54.180 I've never heard anybody say that

01:22:55.440 And I relate to that 100%.

01:22:57.080 I've never really felt like I lived somewhere.

01:22:59.520 Well, my farm is like, by the time I get there, I'm already thinking about I got to leave again.

01:23:05.240 Like, I'm there for two or three days.

01:23:06.120 That's not long enough to really get settled in.

01:23:07.840 You don't really know which way to go while you're there.

01:23:10.700 But no, when I was doing construction work, playing shows on the weekends, I'd be home every night.

01:23:14.400 Like, that was, no, that's always felt like home to me.

01:23:17.440 But right now, I just don't live in one place.

01:23:19.720 You know, I'm flying to L.A. every week and on the road on the weekends.

01:23:23.200 But if you think if you keep it like that, though, then do you think that there's a possibility that something could change that you could like, you know, meet somebody, start a family with that type of lifestyle?

01:23:33.040 No, not the way it is now.

01:23:34.940 Yeah, it's going to have to change in the sense of like, well, you talked about you're coming off tour and not knowing what to do with yourself.

01:23:41.260 I've got to get to that point.

01:23:42.200 I would love to try to get bored of being at home.

01:23:44.760 I just I can't remember the last time I had a week off, you know, I mean, maybe around Christmas.

01:23:50.740 Yeah.

01:23:50.940 but I played shows until January

01:23:53.020 I mean December 27th last year

01:23:54.600 you know so I mean it's

01:23:56.000 it's

01:23:56.900 if I could

01:23:58.960 and right now I could go take a month off

01:24:00.940 I could

01:24:01.360 but I just can't

01:24:02.360 with everything going on

01:24:03.280 and the opportunities I've got

01:24:04.080 I can't make myself do it

01:24:05.060 so I'm sort of like

01:24:05.780 grind right now

01:24:07.400 keep my nose down

01:24:08.160 say yes to everything

01:24:08.980 and then in a couple of years

01:24:10.980 things will stop doing this

01:24:12.140 no kind of playing off

01:24:13.040 and I'll have this career

01:24:14.180 and I'll say alright

01:24:15.260 I'm gonna play 40 or 60 shows a year

01:24:17.440 I might film a little TV show

01:24:19.140 or a movie or whatever

01:24:20.100 and then I can have a life outside of it you know but it's just tough to do right now

01:24:23.860 but do you start to think about trying to because yeah because here's the thing like

01:24:28.380 there will always be probably I don't know if there will always be opportunities but

01:24:32.880 there's always like things you can say yes to you know like do are you at a spot where you can kind

01:24:38.020 of couture it a little bit more and kind of shape it how you want it I am are you still are you still

01:24:42.460 in a space where there's a little bit of fear of like fuck if I don't do this stuff you know

01:24:45.540 The really fortunate thing I've got going on is right now my career is in such an upward slant that the things I'm getting asked to do, I can't say no to.

01:24:54.300 Wow.

01:24:54.780 They're hosting CMA Fest or being a coach on The Voice.

01:24:58.180 I mean, you've got to think there's one country music artist that's a coach on The Voice.

01:25:01.660 That's a good point.

01:25:02.180 I mean, like Blake Shelton, Reba's been on there.

01:25:05.220 It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you've got to think about all the people in country music that are so lucky to be where they are and have the careers they are, and they don't even have that opportunity.

01:25:12.820 Yeah.

01:25:13.860 Did you have to audition for that opportunity?

01:25:16.020 They met with me, and I sort of told them that, you know,

01:25:20.200 they were considering me.

01:25:20.940 I sort of told them that I got what they wanted.

01:25:22.920 They want somebody that's sort of funny, sort of dry, that cuts up.

01:25:25.900 And they came to a show, and I had a little Q&A with somebody beforehand,

01:25:30.620 and we cut up back and forth.

01:25:31.820 And then I went on Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon,

01:25:34.120 and they got me on the couch.

01:25:35.460 And we had a little duck call moment, you know, that was funny.

01:25:38.140 And that's how I got the job, you know, just goofing off doing this.

01:25:43.360 Yeah.

01:25:43.460 Yeah. Did it feel, does that feel like a, like, I don't know. I mean,

01:25:47.720 it's just interesting because it's kind of a mainstream thing,

01:25:50.100 but it's also a thing that kind of like you're saying, yeah, like it,

01:25:52.820 like eternal, like it like kind of makes you eternal in a way.

01:25:56.680 It like kind of puts you in a different perspective.

01:25:58.840 It's very household. Right.

01:26:00.900 And it's very outside of the genre of country. So, you know,

01:26:04.360 I would guess that most of my fans are country music fans, you know,

01:26:08.520 I can tell, and I could tell it from the first day of filming,

01:26:11.180 I'm the least famous person as a coach on The Voice right now

01:26:14.960 with the people that are fans of The Voice.

01:26:18.420 Kelly Clarkson's been on it forever.

01:26:19.760 Adam Levine's been on it forever.

01:26:21.160 Queen Latifah's on it with me, and she's iconically famous, you know.

01:26:24.940 So the fact that I can tell I'm not as well-known in that world

01:26:29.620 only tells me how much I'll gain from it

01:26:31.200 because it's putting me in front of so many different people, you know.

01:26:33.720 Did you ask somebody, like, do I think this is –

01:26:35.740 how fast does a chair go?

01:26:36.960 i mean a little like about like you would turn normally in an office chair if somebody said

01:26:46.640 hey look at this native american dog you know i mean get ready with me while i look at this

01:26:51.540 native american dog yeah yeah yeah but it's not it's just not gonna throw you out of the chair

01:26:57.460 yeah okay got it if you had someone sit on your lap would it turn slower you think it would turn

01:27:02.600 the same amount i think it's got enough power you could have two people on your lap and it

01:27:06.520 wouldn't change the speed i think you go much over that you're gonna the ball bearings issue i

01:27:12.520 imagine i don't you know um what was the idea dude i remember we talked one night about this

01:27:17.440 for a few minutes you said you had a different idea for how the chair could work that would be

01:27:21.060 interesting what was it i can't remember i think the chair should start facing the contestant yes

01:27:26.600 and then you turn away when you don't like it okay now what would be tough about that is you're

01:27:31.600 gonna be looking at them yeah so you know like they're gonna take it it's personal yeah because

01:27:37.580 the surprise when you turn you know sometimes people don't look like they sound you know

01:27:41.140 or it's not who or what you think it is right so there's a little more of a reveal there but

01:27:45.700 there'd also be a neat reveal if you turned away and you're like you just you're sitting there and

01:27:49.760 they're singing and they're just singing their little heart out here it's like you know i mean

01:27:53.620 you just turn because here's the thing yes that would be awkward for a split second yeah because

01:27:57.800 you'd be making eye contact when you press a button and turn away but then you're facing the

01:28:00.460 other way you're good yeah problem what we're doing now is i'm facing away and then when i turn

01:28:05.840 to them or don't turn they still turn your chair and then you got to explain to them why you didn't

01:28:09.560 turn yeah oh it's tough have you guys started filming it and do you have like total carte

01:28:15.540 blanche on what you think like do they is there any like are they intervening or is it it's it's

01:28:20.620 completely unscripted uh they don't even tell you like what might be coming up next i mean we would

01:28:27.740 do like 18 people a day I think and it's a long day we get there at nine leave it like nine at

01:28:32.140 night uh we're done with the blind auditions now but that was it's not it's not that hard to do

01:28:38.000 because it is it's this you know you're just cutting up it does get tough to find new things

01:28:42.160 to say when somebody's not quite oh yeah dude I could imagine that it's hard to think of anything

01:28:47.720 well yeah if you're trying to think musically there's only so many terms you know and and I'm

01:28:51.900 sitting here and I'm like I don't want to say the same thing over and over again but sometimes a lot

01:28:55.440 of it is just nerves a lot of it i've heard people that are you can tell really talented singers but

01:28:59.840 they come on there and it's a very awkward thing you got chairs facing away from me the lights are

01:29:04.080 on camera it's on television there's an audience there and then they start singing and they're

01:29:07.720 really winded which is a nerve thing you know you can't kiss their breath and then by the end they'll

01:29:12.020 they'll get it going you know but it's a it's a yeah i mean it's people's dreams there you know

01:29:19.300 and we're trying to make it fun and make good television out of it but that there's also a lot

01:29:23.700 of really great stories that come out of it i'm sure i'm excited about getting to work with the

01:29:26.860 artists and all that dude i was staying at a hotel i went like whenever they had the freeze

01:29:31.980 in nashville when everything got frozen or whatever you know yeah um i had been at the

01:29:36.840 ufc that weekend and the freeze was like coming on monday and everybody like wasn't sure what was

01:29:41.260 gonna happen you know because you don't know if it's gonna be how bad it's gonna be and so i was

01:29:45.280 like well i'm just gonna get out of town i was like i'm just gonna go to uh so i went to hawaii

01:29:49.740 for a few days because like it was like it's not gonna freeze there right not gonna freeze it was

01:29:53.800 one place that had good weather so i was like i'm out and i went with like a security guy so i had

01:29:58.520 somebody to go with me right because otherwise i was just gonna be out there by myself and he and

01:30:02.080 i stayed at this place and like it was all like people that was like getting married or whatever

01:30:06.900 you know and then just me and him meeting like like we had like five like romantic like nice

01:30:12.200 damn like candlelit dinners it's just fucking me yeah just me and him dude but your shoes light up

01:30:16.820 Oh, no, it didn't, dude.

01:30:18.540 Get ready with me.

01:30:20.040 No, his shoes didn't light up, dude.

01:30:22.240 Mine didn't either.

01:30:23.220 Okay, hold on.

01:30:24.080 This is a good game show.

01:30:25.140 I don't want to do this on a side note,

01:30:26.780 but what if you had shoes that were like a mood ring?

01:30:29.380 Yes.

01:30:29.880 So when you're fairly into somebody,

01:30:31.840 think about how easy dating would be then.

01:30:35.200 Shoes are just flashing red or green, I guess,

01:30:38.140 would be like, and she's like, oh, he likes me.

01:30:41.060 And what if hers are like flashing, just not flashing?

01:30:45.340 And hers are just-

01:30:46.160 Indifferent.

01:30:46.560 No, you need to, like, really not into you needs to be a color red, probably, right?

01:30:50.120 Or hers start making that back up, sounding like a big truck's back up.

01:30:53.080 Yeah.

01:30:53.600 And she just starts moving.

01:30:54.840 Yeah.

01:30:55.200 Yeah.

01:30:55.640 Oh.

01:30:56.900 God, we should have that.

01:30:59.160 Dude, we have freaking so much stuff.

01:31:00.940 So however mood ring works is like the heat or blood flow, whatever.

01:31:04.360 Your feet have to have the same thing.

01:31:05.740 They can do that.

01:31:05.860 100%.

01:31:06.220 Well, yeah.

01:31:06.720 You might not be able to wear socks with them, but big deal, you know?

01:31:08.760 Some people say your feet, like, are like the...

01:31:11.140 The hands of your leg.

01:31:12.560 Yeah.

01:31:13.360 Yeah.

01:31:13.640 No, they say that.

01:31:14.940 Yeah, dude.

01:31:15.340 The hands of your leg.

01:31:16.560 Is that what you meant?

01:31:17.980 Yeah.

01:31:18.200 The eyes are the brains of the face.

01:31:21.680 Yeah.

01:31:22.520 From a visual aspect, yeah.

01:31:24.160 Yeah.

01:31:24.680 I mean, from all of it.

01:31:27.280 But no, dude, that's exactly what I'm saying.

01:31:29.300 But no, I think-

01:31:29.920 The ears are the elbow of your head.

01:31:31.700 That's crazy.

01:31:32.440 Come on, dude.

01:31:32.900 Think about it.

01:31:33.620 Nuh-uh.

01:31:34.240 I'm not thinking about any more stuff.

01:31:35.480 What were we talking about?

01:31:36.320 I went on the shoe thing.

01:31:37.680 You were doing good.

01:31:38.360 Have you been in here?

01:31:39.400 Yeah.

01:31:39.480 What were we talking about?

01:31:41.400 It was pretty good.

01:31:42.540 No, you were talking about-

01:31:44.340 look dude this whole thing is we're just running a sting operation on the neighbors okay that's

01:31:49.140 that's all this is about the he's home yeah yeah he's home let's go um no i was just gonna think

01:31:58.840 what yeah what were we talking about i want to get through that one idea did we get through any

01:32:02.800 ideas on this you know uh i i've had a good time do you think that the guy back there knows what's

01:32:09.360 i mean like what's going on is he like you were talking about this dude he sat in here with so

01:32:13.520 when he tells you to people,

01:32:14.380 sometimes it's one way.

01:32:15.600 I'll say this.

01:32:16.320 Trevin, do you feel like you ever know

01:32:17.500 how one of these conversations is going to go?

01:32:20.480 Never know, man.

01:32:21.460 What bothers me about it is

01:32:22.660 I feel like I should be able to retrace my steps

01:32:24.800 to why I was talking about light-up shoes.

01:32:27.380 Oh, you're going to dinner with your security guard.

01:32:29.460 Oh.

01:32:29.880 Romantic dinner.

01:32:30.540 And this is what happened.

01:32:31.360 So right next door,

01:32:33.440 and they were doing the show that Luke Bryan is on.

01:32:40.680 America's Got Talent.

01:32:41.500 America's Got Talent.

01:32:42.180 American Idol.

01:32:43.360 American Idol.

01:32:44.720 With respect.

01:32:45.760 And he even called it America's Got Talent once.

01:32:47.960 And I corrected it.

01:32:48.740 Really?

01:32:49.140 Yes.

01:32:50.200 But now other people are correcting me because I caught it from him.

01:32:54.700 Yeah.

01:32:55.180 But what I'm saying is, yeah, we're sitting there and right there they had the show.

01:32:58.260 Anyway, it was just kind of interesting because for five days we watched them tape this thing

01:33:02.100 right there on the beach.

01:33:03.060 Yeah.

01:33:03.320 You know, so.

01:33:05.080 Luke was in Hawaii?

01:33:06.180 Yeah, it was nice.

01:33:06.900 I got to see him.

01:33:07.580 I got to meet him.

01:33:09.080 Wait, I met him before.

01:33:10.320 We went fishing like a couple weeks ago at his place.

01:33:11.980 He loves to fish, hunt, golf, and drink.

01:33:13.860 Dude, I'll say this.

01:33:14.960 He's one of the...

01:33:15.680 What?

01:33:18.180 He does.

01:33:18.800 He loves that.

01:33:19.440 What do you think?

01:33:19.900 He likes to fish, golf, and drink?

01:33:21.160 Fish, hunt, golf, and drink.

01:33:22.580 He loves to do those things.

01:33:23.740 How do you know that?

01:33:24.820 He's wrote a song about it.

01:33:26.060 No, he didn't.

01:33:26.880 Yeah, it's called...

01:33:27.840 I think it's called Fish, Hunt, Golf, Drink.

01:33:30.860 And what else?

01:33:31.580 And something else?

01:33:32.120 No, no, no.

01:33:32.500 Just those things.

01:33:33.620 Oh, that's it?

01:33:34.340 Yeah, you can play it if you want.

01:33:37.500 Is it good?

01:33:38.500 It's called Fish...

01:33:38.900 What kind of question is that?

01:33:40.080 It's a country classic.

01:33:41.520 I imagine

01:33:42.040 get ready with me

01:33:42.960 while I listen to this

01:33:43.760 get ready with me

01:33:44.260 while I go fish hunt

01:33:45.420 now what would you wear

01:33:46.580 for that

01:33:47.100 fish hunt golf drink

01:33:48.640 dude I'd fucking

01:33:49.800 you don't have to play it

01:33:50.580 right now

01:33:50.940 no we don't have to play it

01:33:51.640 just put it on here

01:33:52.320 we'll play it in our imaginations

01:33:53.560 I'll play it in the car

01:33:54.060 on the way home

01:33:54.440 let it up

01:33:55.240 no he

01:33:56.360 he gave me credit

01:33:57.780 for him writing that song

01:33:58.900 he gave you credit

01:34:00.060 or he blamed me

01:34:01.600 one of the two

01:34:02.120 oh he did

01:34:02.680 I don't even know that

01:34:03.920 he texted me

01:34:04.700 and said that

01:34:05.240 we need to get together

01:34:06.640 it's been too long

01:34:07.320 and he said

01:34:07.700 fish hunt golf drink

01:34:08.940 oh nice dude

01:34:09.840 so I was not there

01:34:10.720 I didn't write the song

01:34:11.960 It had nothing to do with the song

01:34:12.960 I didn't even send the text

01:34:13.920 I didn't even say

01:34:14.720 That's a cool text

01:34:15.600 Or you should write a song

01:34:17.300 I didn't have nothing to do with it

01:34:18.380 So I want to say that

01:34:19.180 While we're here

01:34:19.820 Well I'm going to read

01:34:21.880 Some of it right here

01:34:22.580 Okay

01:34:22.800 Do me a favor

01:34:23.740 Read it like

01:34:25.240 Stand up poetry

01:34:27.220 I have not heard this song

01:34:28.400 Okay well so just

01:34:29.160 You know

01:34:30.320 Like put a little

01:34:31.380 Feeling behind it

01:34:32.460 Some passion

01:34:33.500 Wake up coffee

01:34:34.740 Camo

01:34:36.160 Climb tree

01:34:38.100 Wet line

01:34:38.860 18

01:34:39.200 So you said wake up coffee

01:34:40.520 like you were saying like good morning moon or good night moon you did it like that that was

01:34:44.600 cool go ahead i'm sorry wake up coffee camo climb tree wet line 18 fish hunt golf drink

01:34:52.500 all fall all spring all summer long i'll be living it up and living it on a country boy's dream fish

01:35:02.000 hunt golf drink i like it it's a haiku it's got a little bit of the like the caterpillar book to

01:35:09.280 It's got a hit of the tism, dude.

01:35:10.880 Have you ever read children's books?

01:35:12.740 Huh?

01:35:13.220 Like, I mean, out loud, like for audio book.

01:35:15.740 You'd be great at that.

01:35:16.700 Yeah, thanks, man.

01:35:18.240 Fish hunt, golf, drink.

01:35:19.760 Fish hunt, golf, drink.

01:35:21.580 I wouldn't mind that.

01:35:22.480 I'm trying to think.

01:35:23.520 Well, I don't need to be drinking, but fishing, I would love to go.

01:35:27.780 I'm going to take you duck hunting this year.

01:35:28.960 Will you really?

01:35:29.520 Yeah, you just got to like, I know that you're as bad as me about scheduling stuff,

01:35:33.980 but I'm not going through management to do it.

01:35:35.540 So I'll just text you and be like, hey, man, I got these days.

01:35:38.220 You was a busy guy.

01:35:39.280 You were down in Pensacola.

01:35:40.480 You were going to somewhere else, Barbados or something.

01:35:42.840 What?

01:35:43.480 Yeah.

01:35:45.060 I don't think I've been to Barbados, man.

01:35:47.340 Yeah, well, I guess you didn't go then.

01:35:48.880 I'm going to Saskatchewan.

01:35:50.000 Oh, are you going there?

01:35:51.000 Yeah.

01:35:51.180 She was making up names of places.

01:35:52.480 It's a windy city.

01:35:53.120 Is that how you say it?

01:35:54.440 No, that's a real place.

01:35:55.600 Saskatchewan?

01:35:56.120 It's in Canada.

01:35:56.880 No, it's beautiful up there.

01:35:57.720 I've been up there.

01:35:58.160 It's in, is that next to Ed's, what's the one next to Edmonton?

01:36:01.060 Is that?

01:36:01.540 The Big Apple.

01:36:02.500 No, it's not the Big.

01:36:03.360 Edmonton, yeah.

01:36:03.940 No, it's not the Big Apple.

01:36:04.540 That's what they, I mean, yeah, you don't know what they call it there.

01:36:06.800 Bro, I didn't know you were so funny, dude.

01:36:08.900 I thought, God.

01:36:09.720 I've been trying to tell you.

01:36:11.020 No, I was honestly going to tell you how funny I was at my birthday party when you just got

01:36:14.280 two pieces of cake and ran out the door.

01:36:15.700 Fuck you, dude.

01:36:16.500 I didn't even want to do it.

01:36:17.000 He literally was going, I saw his back.

01:36:19.440 He was eating cake out the door.

01:36:20.600 Dude, I came to your party.

01:36:21.840 You hated it.

01:36:22.520 No, seriously.

01:36:23.000 Thanks for coming.

01:36:23.560 I'm out of here.

01:36:24.320 Thank you.

01:36:24.460 No, thank you for coming.

01:36:25.400 I left because you weren't having fun.

01:36:28.660 Dude, you wouldn't.

01:36:29.560 And also.

01:36:30.480 No, here's the thing.

01:36:31.140 you came to my surprise party

01:36:32.580 and you didn't even

01:36:33.180 want to be there

01:36:33.640 that's how bad it was

01:36:34.400 you were downstairs

01:36:35.940 sitting by yourself

01:36:37.020 in the back deck

01:36:37.800 of losers

01:36:38.140 and you're like

01:36:38.460 I'd rather be down there

01:36:39.360 than in this room

01:36:40.100 with these people

01:36:40.720 in this celebration

01:36:41.480 dude I was watching

01:36:42.440 a series

01:36:42.920 I was on the third episode

01:36:44.060 yeah

01:36:44.460 you know

01:36:45.600 it's like

01:36:46.200 people are trying

01:36:47.420 their best

01:36:48.140 you know

01:36:49.300 not everything's gonna

01:36:50.060 be just for you Riley

01:36:51.560 you know what would be

01:36:52.400 really fun

01:36:52.940 is if you did a

01:36:54.120 get ready with me

01:36:54.880 to go to my birthday party

01:36:56.260 man I ain't doing

01:37:00.240 all that shit

01:37:01.020 bro you got me messed up let's do one get ready with me you got me messed up i'll pick what yours

01:37:06.700 is you can pick what mine is bro we can't do a damn get ready with me yeah uh oh that might not

01:37:12.940 be a bad idea really if we thought of some good ones dude wonder what yours would be dude get

01:37:19.280 ready with me while i'm while i go be an asshole somewhere that's what i would pick dude maybe

01:37:23.900 I swear.

01:37:25.340 But what would you pick for mine, though?

01:37:29.280 Get ready with me while I go to the pound and try to find a Native American dog.

01:37:34.860 And I would bring, like, some sage or something with me?

01:37:37.520 I feel like you would go to a dog park and be like,

01:37:39.580 so is this a Native American dog park?

01:37:41.200 Like, is it just all regular dogs, or is there any dogs that are—

01:37:44.620 There's, like, a burial ground there or something?

01:37:46.860 Maybe I would.

01:37:47.960 That's a talent to ask weird questions, though, to be able to come up with them.

01:37:52.100 You know what I mean?

01:37:52.600 yeah I guess I don't know man I don't have a ton like a lot of times it's just like you know we're

01:37:57.320 gonna catch up you know I know that you have a lot going on in your life so it was I was glad to get

01:38:01.380 to catch up and yeah I mean doing the something like the voice it feels like a big change because

01:38:06.400 it's like um you know you have this kind of like you're you're a country musician you're respected

01:38:11.620 by people in that world and you've had a lot of success in it and and then you kind of there's

01:38:17.680 something that's a bit more of a like a commercial appeal which is awesome and I understand like

01:38:21.860 your your understand and understand like your perspective on it and i don't know i just think

01:38:27.000 it's interesting you know it's interesting how things come along in life because some people

01:38:29.980 probably say no to things some people probably say yes to things well the interesting thing about

01:38:33.600 a career like we've got is you're kind of in charge of how successful you can be i mean yeah

01:38:37.980 things have to go well people have to like whatever art you create where there's comedy

01:38:41.460 music whatever but like if you don't go do the stuff you're not going to get the opportunity

01:38:46.600 and i can't tell you how many things i've gone and done that necessarily on paper were not going

01:38:51.520 to be beneficial or financially worth doing but there was an opportunity there that led to

01:38:56.220 something else that led to something else that's how the voice was uh all the acting stuff that

01:39:01.060 i've been able to do so far and you know i mean think about stand-up comedians how many of them

01:39:06.460 that are you know household names have been really successful only have done stand-up they've all

01:39:10.940 acted or been on some other platform saturday night live whatever even the even the like guys

01:39:16.940 that were just great stand-up guys

01:39:18.380 like Eddie Murphy

01:39:19.940 and Dave Chappelle

01:39:20.840 and they all had other avenues

01:39:22.240 after I mean

01:39:22.860 you almost know

01:39:24.120 Eddie Murphy better now

01:39:25.340 for his acting

01:39:25.980 you know

01:39:26.440 and he's a great stand-up comedian

01:39:28.020 so

01:39:28.320 Richard Pryor

01:39:29.640 I bet there's a lot of people

01:39:30.860 that wouldn't know

01:39:31.880 that he was a stand-up comedian

01:39:33.520 that's what I mean

01:39:34.220 and if you didn't get your start

01:39:35.880 on Saturday Night Live

01:39:36.720 that's kind of

01:39:37.320 how you branch out

01:39:38.620 and do something else

01:39:39.200 because I feel like

01:39:39.940 in comedy

01:39:41.740 it would probably be much worse

01:39:42.780 because you have to

01:39:43.320 come up with so much

01:39:44.160 more material

01:39:45.320 whereas music

01:39:46.560 you can now about tour for a year off of it

01:39:48.540 and still play some of those songs for years to come.

01:39:50.920 But you have to be a whole lot more creative regularly in comedy.

01:39:54.420 But if that's all you did,

01:39:56.640 it would get really monotonous after a while.

01:39:58.200 You'd get tired of it.

01:39:59.420 The only time I ever got tired of music was 2014, 15, 16 in there,

01:40:05.960 and I was playing the same clubs, same venues over and over again,

01:40:08.400 playing the same songs,

01:40:09.220 and it got to be where I just didn't look forward to it.

01:40:11.880 As long as things are growing, you can find other things.

01:40:15.460 like was there ever a tour that you did that you got asked to go on that you just chose not to are

01:40:19.480 there different tours that you get asked to do how often does that happen with it with artists

01:40:22.960 i've been really fortunate that i've had a pretty good touring business for the last

01:40:27.020 10 years so i i have to turn down some tours because i can make more money touring on my own

01:40:34.940 plus i feel like there's a little bit of if you get caught in that opening act role it's hard to

01:40:39.800 get out of it you never go because you know like what's open for somebody's great because one you

01:40:44.400 guaranteed money the venue if it snows and the venue shuts down you still get paid you don't

01:40:49.420 have to pay for production catering anything like that so there's no overhead and you get in front

01:40:53.680 of new fans so it's a great way to get some exposure but if you don't go play your own show

01:40:58.200 you're not building a fan base right because people have to be there to see you so it for me

01:41:02.720 I always if I went open for somebody and played a stadium or an arena I'd go back and play a club

01:41:07.340 there you know after and try to get the most out of it if I could but yeah I don't I don't do any

01:41:12.780 real open slots anymore so it's nice yeah yeah oh no i mean it's definitely nice and sometimes i

01:41:19.060 forget about the work that i have done i forget about all the spots that i played i forget like

01:41:22.660 i forget about all the time i put in on things you get there and you remember something about

01:41:26.320 the backstage of the green room looks familiar like i've been here yeah happens to me all the

01:41:30.200 time yeah um right now you have the cowboy as it gets tour um who's opening who's working with you

01:41:36.520 on it

01:41:36.800 Justin Moore

01:41:39.700 Randy Houser

01:41:40.980 oh nice

01:41:42.200 a guy named

01:41:42.860 Drake White

01:41:43.560 Hannah McFarlane

01:41:44.860 Mackenzie Carpenter

01:41:45.720 I kind of

01:41:46.840 try to have

01:41:47.360 a parade

01:41:47.920 of first

01:41:49.020 first of four

01:41:50.260 and second of four

01:41:51.160 guys and girls

01:41:52.200 just cause I like

01:41:53.020 having people out

01:41:53.740 that uh

01:41:54.300 you know

01:41:55.900 give them an opportunity

01:41:56.620 to get in front of

01:41:57.060 a bunch of fans

01:41:57.540 I'm really fortunate

01:41:58.100 that all these shows

01:41:58.840 are selling out

01:41:59.440 we got big crowds

01:42:00.240 that's so cool dude

01:42:01.640 yeah man

01:42:02.100 god I wish I could

01:42:03.600 freaking sing

01:42:04.400 you freak

01:42:06.900 Sorry.

01:42:07.520 They're a pretty good turkey call, though.

01:42:10.020 Yeah, but I ain't meeting, you know what I'm saying?

01:42:12.920 I had a turkey call.

01:42:13.640 I saw you sing my song.

01:42:14.960 Oh, you're going to meet a turkey call?

01:42:15.560 With Ella.

01:42:16.040 You sang at the stagecoach.

01:42:17.200 Oh, yeah, dude.

01:42:17.420 I missed it.

01:42:17.920 We got there the next day, I think.

01:42:19.760 Oh, I thought you were there.

01:42:20.800 And then we got winded out.

01:42:21.480 We didn't get to play.

01:42:22.260 I thought you were there.

01:42:24.280 Yeah, dude.

01:42:24.880 That was great, bro.

01:42:25.820 You told me you're nervous.

01:42:27.340 Yes, I was freaking nervous, dude.

01:42:29.060 That's such an easy song in the sense of the crowd knows every word

01:42:34.360 and the talking verses and all that.

01:42:35.580 you know it's a little easier to do but i'll bring people up out of the crowd to do it sometimes oh

01:42:39.800 you will yeah oh dude that's cool bro yeah well the tough part was like i knew the song but then

01:42:45.220 when you have a responsibility to do the words you're like you know it kind of sets you like

01:42:50.300 all right now i have like i gotta do the responsibility you start thinking about it

01:42:54.780 right yeah and then uh the craziest part this part was kind of funny my uh my buddy we wrote

01:43:01.160 the notes down, the words

01:43:03.240 on the cards. We wrote the

01:43:05.140 words on the cards, on

01:43:06.880 poster boards.

01:43:09.280 He's standing there with them by the side of the

01:43:11.140 stage just in case, right?

01:43:13.640 But I didn't need them.

01:43:15.120 I started doing good in my brain

01:43:16.600 and I didn't need them.

01:43:18.640 He starts shaking the card. He's getting pissed

01:43:20.940 that I'm not looking at the cards. Because he made these cards.

01:43:23.220 Yeah. I'm like, dude, I don't

01:43:24.940 need them. You're here for living happy

01:43:26.980 that you didn't need them. Right. You should have just been

01:43:28.780 a little selfish. He should have been ripping them up

01:43:30.820 and throwing them in the air or something.

01:43:32.200 But he's sitting there like,

01:43:33.140 yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,

01:43:34.320 and just giving me like a bunch of grief or whatever,

01:43:36.840 you know, just like a bunch of poster board grief

01:43:38.660 or whatever.

01:43:39.500 And so, yeah, I don't know.

01:43:40.280 That was kind of a lot.

01:43:41.620 But, oh, and then it was windy

01:43:43.220 and my hat kept coming off

01:43:44.420 and I kept having to get it.

01:43:45.040 You had a cowboy hat on?

01:43:45.660 Yeah.

01:43:46.180 I kept having to get it.

01:43:47.300 And I was like, dang,

01:43:47.920 I wish they made a really heavy hat.

01:43:49.980 Or a, could have went that route.

01:43:52.180 A chin strap?

01:43:53.280 Yeah.

01:43:53.640 Come on.

01:43:53.960 A cowboy hat?

01:43:54.580 Come on, man.

01:43:55.380 You think I'm gonna wear a cowboy hat

01:43:57.240 with a chin strap on it?

01:43:58.180 desperate times man

01:44:00.960 I can't

01:44:03.840 I can't read lyrics

01:44:05.360 and sing you know

01:44:06.980 I can't read lyrics and sing

01:44:09.540 I've got to just know it you know

01:44:11.020 like a teleprompter or whatever I can't

01:44:13.460 and so if I look out in the crowd

01:44:15.380 and read a sign or something while I'm

01:44:17.740 I'll forget who I am

01:44:19.840 it messes me all up

01:44:20.740 I can't look at anybody's sign in the crowd when I'm singing

01:44:23.000 well it's two different things totally

01:44:24.680 I would rather just guess

01:44:27.260 Than be reading something

01:44:28.960 You know

01:44:30.000 Just take my chances

01:44:31.060 With whatever is going to come up

01:44:32.120 In my brain

01:44:32.700 But

01:44:33.660 Which could be anything

01:44:35.100 Yeah

01:44:35.840 Which is kind of the best thing

01:44:37.120 Your brain is just like

01:44:37.900 Sometimes it is

01:44:38.780 Yeah it's like a glass of champagne

01:44:40.340 Some bubble just comes right up

01:44:42.020 And that's a new idea

01:44:42.920 Or something like that

01:44:43.780 I love that

01:44:44.600 That's my favorite thing

01:44:45.400 About being alive

01:44:46.120 Is just seeing kind of

01:44:46.840 What comes out of your brain

01:44:47.740 You know

01:44:48.120 Yeah

01:44:48.720 And other people's brains

01:44:49.840 I think it's interesting

01:44:50.980 But yeah man

01:44:52.000 It was

01:44:52.300 I felt lucky to get to do y'all's songs

01:44:54.260 So yeah

01:44:54.840 I was happy

01:44:55.680 I got to see some clips of it

01:44:56.880 You did good.

01:44:57.380 I was happy to get to do it.

01:44:58.520 Oh, dude, once I got out there and realized that I could sing, it was over, dude.

01:45:05.320 I was like, I was a singer.

01:45:10.680 We'll find one you can do with me, and we'll come out to the show.

01:45:13.780 We'll get you out to do one.

01:45:15.500 Yep.

01:45:16.600 I like that.

01:45:17.200 Get ready with me.

01:45:18.480 Get ready with me to go sing with Raleigh Green tonight.

01:45:20.300 Yeah, there we go, dude.

01:45:22.800 You have your new album.

01:45:23.980 It's out on the 18th.

01:45:25.820 Yep, that's it.

01:45:26.580 September 18th

01:45:27.400 that's just me

01:45:28.020 you have three singles

01:45:29.500 that are already out from it

01:45:30.460 yes sir

01:45:31.220 excellent

01:45:31.980 and

01:45:32.780 and

01:45:33.640 the

01:45:34.280 Big Is It Gets Tour

01:45:35.440 no

01:45:35.800 Cowboy Is It Gets Tour

01:45:37.380 just wait on the slide

01:45:39.300 it'll be easy

01:45:39.960 I'm Riley Green

01:45:41.720 and it's the

01:45:42.440 Cowboys It Gets Tour

01:45:43.340 in 2026

01:45:44.320 you know what this is like

01:45:46.060 this is like honestly

01:45:47.100 when you're having

01:45:48.100 a rocky day at work

01:45:49.220 and one of your boys

01:45:49.940 shows up and helps you out

01:45:51.080 I thought that's what this is

01:45:52.620 oh that's exactly

01:45:53.440 what I'm saying

01:45:53.960 yeah

01:45:54.620 that's exactly what this is

01:45:55.860 so thank you bro

01:45:57.160 yeah

01:45:57.820 thank you for showing up

01:45:58.880 you know if you ever need me

01:45:59.500 to come in

01:45:59.940 when you got somebody

01:46:00.640 cool here

01:46:01.260 that you're doing

01:46:02.040 I can just sit on the couch

01:46:02.920 and you know what I mean

01:46:04.300 just help

01:46:05.120 dude just come

01:46:06.100 and do my part

01:46:07.160 yeah

01:46:07.920 dude you're good at this man

01:46:09.800 you're really good at this bro

01:46:11.760 I watched your show

01:46:12.400 this past weekend

01:46:14.840 with Theo Vaughn

01:46:16.100 I watched it

01:46:17.700 I appreciate that man

01:46:19.480 say some creative stuff

01:46:20.520 on here

01:46:20.900 yeah

01:46:22.300 we have

01:46:23.400 over time you know

01:46:24.400 sometimes it's hidden

01:46:25.100 it's not all gold

01:46:25.800 but man if you sit here and talk for what two hours there's bound to be something funny in there

01:46:31.320 oh there's fun stuff man i mean i don't know it's been interesting sometimes you find different

01:46:35.200 things sometimes you learn stuff sometimes you don't learn stuff no i enjoy that it's uh there's

01:46:39.420 some seriousness in there you know oh yeah i mean sometimes you get a lot more serious it just kind

01:46:43.720 of depends you know i think i can't tell if it has to do with my energy or it has to do with the

01:46:48.760 gas energy it's probably just both of us and whatever's going on you know well i feel like

01:46:52.480 there's a lot of places where me and you are in a similar spot with life

01:46:57.500 outside of our careers.

01:46:58.800 Yeah.

01:46:59.200 You know,

01:46:59.540 so maybe we didn't talk about that enough.

01:47:01.420 We did.

01:47:01.720 Okay.

01:47:01.860 Okay.

01:47:01.920 Yeah.

01:47:02.520 Yeah.

01:47:02.840 But we can do like a real deep thing.

01:47:06.120 You know,

01:47:06.240 we'll just share one mic and sit Indian style on the floor with just candles

01:47:09.860 and do it.

01:47:10.500 You know what I mean?

01:47:11.280 Oh,

01:47:11.620 I know what I'll bring my Indian dog with me.

01:47:15.200 If you can get your hands on one.

01:47:16.420 Yeah.

01:47:16.820 There's one out there.

01:47:19.440 Riley Greenman.

01:47:20.280 Thanks so much,

01:47:20.880 bro.

01:47:21.040 Thanks for the music.

01:47:21.900 thanks for the entertainment

01:47:23.220 thanks for the entertainment

01:47:25.100 today dude

01:47:25.780 you're so

01:47:26.300 you're a funny guy bro

01:47:27.460 I didn't realize that

01:47:28.100 and I know that's a weird thing

01:47:28.820 to say to somebody else

01:47:29.500 but thanks for making me laugh

01:47:30.720 that's what I mean

01:47:31.300 I appreciate it bro

01:47:32.100 that was fun

01:47:32.660 and congrats on all the success

01:47:34.320 and I'll have to get out there

01:47:35.980 and check out

01:47:36.500 one of the shows this year

01:47:37.620 The Biggest It Gets Tour

01:47:38.820 you're going to some good spots

01:47:40.340 Cowboys It Gets

01:47:40.940 God

01:47:41.760 yeah

01:47:42.100 I'll be out there

01:47:43.580 Bradley Green

01:47:44.820 ladies and gentlemen

01:47:45.300 thank you brother

01:47:45.860 appreciate it man

01:47:46.540 yep

01:47:46.800 now I'm just floating

01:47:48.940 on the breeze

01:47:50.080 and I feel I'm falling

01:47:51.680 Like these leaves, I must be cornerstone

01:47:56.360 Oh, but when I reach that ground

01:48:00.920 I'll share this peace of mind I found

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - July 15, 2026

#669 - Riley Green

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