This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #672 - Trace Adkins

00:00:00.000 Today's guest is a country music legend.

00:00:03.460 He's got six gold and platinum albums.

00:00:06.380 He's a Louisiana boy.

00:00:08.840 He's got so many hits.

00:00:11.440 Every light in the house.

00:00:13.720 You're gonna miss this.

00:00:15.840 That honky town.

00:00:18.040 But don't get...

00:00:19.200 He's on a special 30th anniversary tour right now.

00:00:24.040 I've been a fan for a long time, man.

00:00:26.000 I had a blast with the one and only Mr. Trace Adkins.

00:00:30.000 I was just looking at, uh, I was just, what was that?

00:00:48.480 I was seeing a commercial that it was for, was it pogo stickers or something?

00:00:53.500 See if you can find something. 0.68

00:00:54.460 It's like a pogo, uh.

00:00:57.600 I didn't have a pogo stick. 0.66

00:01:00.000 yeah this is it extreme pogo athletes this was what is it wow

00:01:05.680 that's insane that's pogo stick and did they have that

00:01:12.300 y'all had pogo sticks when you were a kid any toy you remember not like that

00:01:17.880 that's crazy no ours it had like an old shock absorber spring on it i mean i didn't have one

00:01:29.080 but I remember seeing them when I was a kid.

00:01:31.980 That's, like, supercharged.

00:01:34.340 Oh, yeah, that's for somebody that's trying to probably make their own power

00:01:37.040 at home or whatever.

00:01:38.880 You know, you got four kids out there in the yard just pogo-sticking,

00:01:43.260 you know, so you can watch an episode of As the World Turns.

00:01:46.220 Yeah, charging your batteries.

00:01:48.160 Yeah, dude, so you can be sitting inside watching Unsolved Mysteries

00:01:51.660 or something.

00:01:52.120 That would have been something you maybe would have seen nowhere.

00:01:56.820 Yeah, I'm trying to think of toys they had.

00:01:58.100 Was there any toy you remember growing up, Trace?

00:02:00.360 I'm just trying to think.

00:02:01.980 I remember when I got a gas-powered little car for Christmas one year,

00:02:08.680 and it had a little gas-powered motor on it where you had to mix the gas and everything.

00:02:13.240 It was like a tiny little motor on it, and it had a propeller on the back of it

00:02:17.080 where it would propel the car, you know.

00:02:20.360 But, I mean, I guess my old man didn't know you really needed to have, like,

00:02:24.700 a lot of concrete to have this car because it wouldn't run in the yard you know what i'm saying

00:02:30.060 and we had a gravel driveway so it was it didn't work at all but i thought man

00:02:35.240 yeah nowadays i mean that thing was dangerous it had a propeller on the back of it and there was

00:02:40.700 no guard or anything and it took real gasoline yeah well what you had to mix it up what with

00:02:47.140 something else yeah you crank that sucker up man you know it cut your finger off 0.61

00:02:54.120 it looked like it was like that just like that man that was the car it was that green 0.74

00:02:59.700 i remember that it says high performance prop driven racer yeah super action on free runs

00:03:08.000 roars around on tether not sure what that means you had a string on it and you could just stand 0.98

00:03:14.560 and it would you just go in a circle you'd stand still and just go in a circle oh hell yeah damn 0.80

00:03:19.580 I can't believe you had to mix your own gas for that thing. 0.90

00:03:22.880 Just the fact that they entrusted kids.

00:03:25.520 There was definitely some things that they were too entrusting.

00:03:28.720 There was one that had lawn darts, I remember.

00:03:31.260 Oh, lawn darts, yeah. 1.00

00:03:32.560 Them bitches got recalled. 1.00

00:03:34.180 Well, you don't want to give drunk rednecks lawn darts. 1.00

00:03:38.580 Yeah. 1.00

00:03:40.040 I think what happened, was there a lawn dart recall?

00:03:44.360 Hall? Well, I think the general public probably just at some point went, we're not buying our

00:03:52.680 kids that anymore. Yeah, we got one. Yeah, you got a kid who's got- We got one kid left, and

00:03:59.060 we've lost two from lawn dart mishaps, so. Yeah, you got a daughter with two new dimples all of

00:04:05.960 a sudden. Metal-tipped lawn darts were found to present an unreasonable risk of death or serious

00:04:12.300 injury, and that's on perplexity

00:04:14.740 right here.

00:04:16.280 About 6,100 people were sent

00:04:18.380 to the emergency room in the

00:04:20.480 1980s. Wow, that was it,

00:04:22.720 man. I remember

00:04:24.320 also, they had something,

00:04:26.600 was it called Tugger?

00:04:28.540 This was an animal thing.

00:04:32.580 This was, and you know, we're just going down memory road here

00:04:34.400 a little bit. It was Tugger.

00:04:36.680 Can you look it up? It was a dog.

00:04:38.240 See if they have a, oh, that's a dog 0.94

00:04:40.580 there.

00:04:42.300 oh i see

00:04:44.760 look at this i mean that's that's weird it's a bit much because 0.98

00:04:53.680 i mean it's kind of crazy man look at this shit i mean dude look 0.98

00:05:01.360 you'd see some real creepers grabbing them i think you'd see a guy walking four of them 0.99

00:05:07.500 and you don't have any children or whatever that's when it's a bit much

00:05:10.200 Yeah, Tugger, that was it.

00:05:13.080 No, I never saw that one.

00:05:15.020 Tug my sock, that was his motto or whatever.

00:05:17.620 Yeah, play that.

00:05:18.180 That's crazy. 0.98

00:05:19.400 I remember one year, the most ridiculous thing my mama did 0.93

00:05:22.380 was bought us all three a pair of boxing gloves. 0.67

00:05:25.400 I had two younger brothers, and so one Christmas,

00:05:28.300 we all got a pair of boxing gloves, and that was bad.

00:05:32.720 Yeah.

00:05:33.500 That just, yeah, that didn't work out well.

00:05:36.740 What was your record?

00:05:39.300 I was undefeated until my old man, yeah.

00:05:44.640 I remember my old man came home from work one day,

00:05:47.020 and I was on my knees, and I had one glove on.

00:05:49.800 And then my baby brother, he was 10 years younger than me,

00:05:53.660 and he had on his little gloves.

00:05:55.800 And so I'd let him hit me a few times, and I'd knock him down.

00:05:59.780 And then my old man was like, he came walking down the hall,

00:06:04.760 and he had my other brother's pair of boxing gloves on.

00:06:06.960 And he said, get up, boy, and put that other glove on.

00:06:08.980 Nuh-uh.

00:06:09.540 You know, I was like, oh, yeah.

00:06:11.620 And I was like 18 years old in good shape, you know,

00:06:14.620 and I was like, I'm about to wear you out.

00:06:17.740 And I just remember crawling down the hall to my bedroom.

00:06:22.800 I couldn't stand up, you know.

00:06:24.340 He knocked me out so good.

00:06:26.180 He had that man strength on him.

00:06:27.640 Oh, man, he just, yeah. 0.97

00:06:29.360 Because I was going to hit him in the gut because I knew he'd be soft. 0.76

00:06:32.600 And so I went under, and he just hit me right between the eyes. 0.98

00:06:37.980 And I remember my mama screaming, Aaron Doyle, you killed him. 0.95

00:06:41.940 You killed him. 1.00

00:06:43.720 Damn, damn. 1.00

00:06:46.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:06:46.640 Wow.

00:06:47.220 I think that was it for the boxing glove.

00:06:50.300 Yeah, I'm trying to think of a good toy.

00:06:51.900 We had, oh, I remember we grew up by this guy.

00:06:54.040 He was like an Elvis impersonator, but he didn't really want to be.

00:06:56.640 but he um he had broke his hip like in like a in some type of deal he'd broken his hip or his leg

00:07:04.240 and they'd set it in cement you know he'd had some locals set it and so when they broke the

00:07:10.280 cast off of him they broke it with like a ball peen hammer or something they broke his leg in 0.95

00:07:14.100 another place when they broke the shit off so his leg was bad man Elvis impersonator but he didn't 0.59

00:07:20.160 really want to be well yeah and this is what happened sorry I think I started the story in 0.81

00:07:23.940 the middle but um so he ended up having that like he had that oh he was an elvis impersonator after

00:07:31.060 he broke yeah because he had he ended up getting this at because he had that he had that forrest

00:07:36.440 gump thing yeah he had that like you know the thing he didn't want to show elvis how to dance

00:07:41.180 but he did yeah yeah yeah i hadn't thought about it like that but you ever know yeah you ever see

00:07:47.000 that thing like on a like a rich guy's desk that moves back and forth and keeps time or whatever

00:07:51.520 he had that just he ended up getting that tick tock in him a little bit and so he ended up

00:07:56.260 everywhere he'd go people started calling him elvis and so he started impersonating him

00:07:59.880 but um i can't remember what that story was about uh yeah what was it where were we oh christmas

00:08:07.140 stuff yeah you want to talk about christmas for some reason yeah one night i went over to i was

00:08:11.640 walking by their house one night and he was making his son um he was trying to make his son like a

00:08:17.180 shirt out of wood and i remember thinking this they've really gone off you know yeah it was just

00:08:23.660 like different times people are always using wood for different stuff in our town but um

00:08:28.660 anyway uh yeah sorry i got a little bit lost there but trace adkins man thanks for coming by man

00:08:34.660 it was on my way i didn't have to go far out of the way it's good to see you man i know we've

00:08:42.520 been talking about it for a little while man so thank you very much um dude one thing that we

00:08:47.520 talked about last time i saw you i think it was two times ago that your mom was a mayor your mom's

00:08:51.340 a mayor we're both from louisiana and your mom's a mayor in sarepta sarepta yeah sarepta she's

00:08:57.240 still the mayor how's she faring as the mayor nobody else wants to do it and nobody else i

00:09:03.500 mean it's one of those little towns yeah uh that you know it's just not a lot going on around there

00:09:10.120 anymore once the mill's shut down and everything.

00:09:14.140 It's just not a lot happening.

00:09:16.860 So the population decreases every year, you know.

00:09:22.380 So she's trying to hold it together best she can,

00:09:25.880 but nobody else wants the job.

00:09:27.960 It's, you know, there's nothing, not that much to do.

00:09:31.180 What kind of issues do you feel like is she dealing with this?

00:09:33.060 Does she even relate any of that to you? 0.87

00:09:34.340 She just writes a lot of letters to people to clean their yards up, you know.

00:09:39.420 That's what she does, I swear, man.

00:09:41.700 She's always writing people letters.

00:09:43.360 Your yard looks bad.

00:09:44.660 You need to clean it, you know. 0.69

00:09:46.400 She wants everybody to clean their yards up.

00:09:49.640 I mean, hey, it starts with that kind of with making your bed or whatever. 0.71

00:09:52.860 Dude, I got a freaking letter one day here from Neighborhood Watch.

00:09:55.900 They're like, you haven't been doing your shift. 0.79

00:09:57.300 I'm like, I didn't even, I didn't know we had a Neighborhood Watch, you know.

00:10:02.480 And I'm like, I haven't been doing my shift.

00:10:04.200 And my shift was from, it was Saturdays from like 1 to 4 in the afternoon.

00:10:07.980 And I'm like, that's, you know, I'm usually trying to enjoy.

00:10:10.940 That's when I kind of will enjoy myself on the weekends. 0.96

00:10:13.180 But I'm like, bitch, I don't even have, I didn't know we had a neighborhood watch. 0.94

00:10:17.080 And I don't think y'all want me out there because I forget what team, what side I'm on. 0.97

00:10:22.180 You know, I start going near people's houses or whatever.

00:10:24.600 I forget what team I'm on, brother.

00:10:26.460 And that's a volunteer thing too, right?

00:10:28.980 So.

00:10:29.440 Yeah.

00:10:30.300 Or they just volunteered you.

00:10:34.600 I think that's just a way to announce.

00:10:36.440 I mean, if I'm, I don't recall volunteering to take a shift.

00:10:42.980 That's what I said.

00:10:44.040 And I was like, well, I don't even know, you know, I don't even know.

00:10:46.360 And I was like, I wrote back, do we have a uniform or anything?

00:10:48.660 And they wrote back, ha-ha, like in caps. 0.97

00:10:51.180 I'm like, bitch, don't, you know, I don't know. 0.97

00:10:54.100 It's just kind of like, I think it was. 0.99

00:10:55.120 You're asking a serious question.

00:10:57.140 Well, yeah, I don't want.

00:10:58.280 Don't I get like an orange vest or something? 0.97

00:11:01.920 Don't I get a damn merit badge on a hat or something? 0.96

00:11:04.480 Because what I don't want to be is wandering around somebody's yard saying, 0.98

00:11:08.620 I'm Neighborhood Watch, and they don't have any, you know what I'm saying?

00:11:12.400 They've never heard about it.

00:11:13.160 Sure you are.

00:11:14.140 Yeah.

00:11:14.960 Yeah.

00:11:16.180 And you get popped off.

00:11:20.020 How's Sarepta changed since you were there?

00:11:23.560 Before you answer that, actually, what does Sarepta mean?

00:11:26.140 Can you look that up for me, or do you know?

00:11:27.600 It was an old, it's a town in the, it's an old biblical somewhere around Israel way back in the day.

00:11:41.680 Sarepta.

00:11:42.280 But they named it after an old woman named Sarepta Carter back in the late 1800s.

00:11:48.160 Sarepta, Louisiana, yes.

00:11:49.300 Has got its name for Sarepta Carter, an early benefactor who donated a large Bible to the community's first church around 1868.

00:11:55.980 That's all it took to get the town named after you?

00:11:59.020 That was it.

00:11:59.520 Just a Bible.

00:12:01.440 Huh.

00:12:01.920 I wonder what it would cost to get it renamed.

00:12:04.200 I could see it being a—

00:12:05.420 Two Bibles, maybe. 0.76

00:12:08.940 That reminds me of one thing my mama did. 0.99

00:12:12.360 There was this girl who got in trouble for something.

00:12:14.840 I can't remember.

00:12:16.800 Something to do with drugs.

00:12:18.100 and so my mama was she gets to play judge every now and then over these little you know misdemeanor 1.00

00:12:26.800 type things you know and she sentenced the girl to go to sunday school for six months 0.87

00:12:31.980 and she my daughter called me and she was like dad you're not gonna believe what mamaw did i was

00:12:38.480 like what she said she sentenced this girl to go to sunday school for six months and i called my

00:12:44.180 mama and I was like, you can't do that. You know, I'm pretty sure that's illegal. You can't make

00:12:50.920 somebody go to church. And she said, well, I did. Yeah. Okay. Oh my God. That's her. This is my

00:13:01.160 jurisdiction. I can't believe y'all have a picture of my mom. Oh, she's beautiful lady. What's her

00:13:05.800 first name? Peggy. Peggy Adkins. Does she go by? Peggy Adkins. Yeah. She's the mayor. Thank you 1.00

00:13:13.480 for your service peggy over there keeping it together somebody's got to keep it together

00:13:18.080 and that town's changed you said a lot had a mill did it have a mill when you growing up yeah it had

00:13:21.820 a mill about eight miles away that's where everybody worked yeah oilfield still doing

00:13:27.400 pretty well around there but that's the only game in town and um but then you know the school was

00:13:33.200 what really made that town special i thought when i was growing up it was k through 12 all on one

00:13:38.100 campus but then when they you know when they consolidated the schools now all the kids have

00:13:46.120 to go to another town and they just made that took that campus and just made it a middle school

00:13:51.760 yeah it's not the same anymore i think that happened to a lot of places over the time yeah

00:13:56.940 you know i think that was kind of a popular just all the people moved away and there just weren't

00:14:00.820 enough kids to justify having a k through 12 there just weren't enough kids so yeah i think

00:14:07.480 when you start to lose little things like that,

00:14:09.060 it takes away something, you know?

00:14:10.500 It did.

00:14:11.340 It takes away some tradition.

00:14:12.520 It did.

00:14:14.040 It had that little charm about it

00:14:17.020 because all the kids in town went to that school.

00:14:20.460 Oh, yeah.

00:14:20.980 You know, so it was just,

00:14:22.160 so the whole community was always behind the school,

00:14:24.900 supported the school at every ball game and all that, you know,

00:14:29.160 but then that just, that went away and they're, you know, sad.

00:14:32.940 Yeah, a lot of things started to kind of change like that.

00:14:35.320 I wonder, do you think that was, like, a financial choice that towns made,

00:14:38.680 or was it, like –

00:14:40.060 Well, there just weren't enough people, man.

00:14:41.840 Once the mill shut down, people started leaving.

00:14:44.720 So, you know, it's decreased.

00:14:47.780 The population has decreased pretty much every year since that happened.

00:14:51.700 Yeah.

00:14:52.180 You know, decades ago, it's just –

00:14:54.360 It's a lot of towns like that in this country.

00:14:56.240 Yeah.

00:14:56.940 When a lot of business went away, man.

00:14:58.380 When we go out touring, I'm sure you've seen it over the years.

00:15:00.720 You go by places.

00:15:01.600 Some places, it's – you know, they're trying to redo the downtown.

00:15:05.320 Like Amarillo, I was surprised at downtown.

00:15:07.720 Like, you know, I'd always heard about it in country music, you know,

00:15:10.240 and I went there and there's some things that are coming back in it, you know,

00:15:13.780 and it's a night, there's structure there, but it just doesn't have, you know,

00:15:18.480 it's just missing like a, you can see like an energy that once was, you know,

00:15:23.200 in a lot of places, you know, Shreveport's the same way.

00:15:26.460 Yeah. Yeah, sure.

00:15:28.320 I mean, I've never spent a lot of time in Amarillo, but yeah, Shreveport,

00:15:33.160 So, you know, the casinos have helped, you know, on the river.

00:15:37.940 Bossier City has really prospered more than Shreveport has.

00:15:42.940 I think in the very beginning, I think Bossier Parish was a little more receptive to the casino stuff than Caddo Parish was.

00:15:51.080 Yeah.

00:15:51.320 Yeah, dude, I remember learning about the parishes growing up in Louisiana, and that was fun, man.

00:15:57.960 Louisiana's still the only state in the country that's still under Napoleonic law.

00:16:03.440 I mean, they practice Napoleonic law as much as they can.

00:16:07.120 I wonder, what are some wild things that happen under Napoleonic law?

00:16:10.940 See if you can bring that up.

00:16:12.120 I don't know, man.

00:16:13.260 Because it used to be, I would hear a rumor like if you lost a thumb or something

00:16:16.320 during employment, that was $25,000.

00:16:19.860 There wasn't any law suiting and there wasn't any, you know what I'm saying?

00:16:23.600 Really?

00:16:24.240 Yeah, like you had a justifiable rate.

00:16:26.060 If you lost a whole leg now, we're talking $80,000, you know?

00:16:31.300 I always thought it was like per joint.

00:16:36.040 Like a whole finger was like maybe that, but then if just this,

00:16:40.780 then it was not as much if you just cut it off here.

00:16:44.500 Oh, I see.

00:16:45.260 You know what I mean?

00:16:45.960 It was per joint.

00:16:47.680 But then you'd have some drunk guy who was late on his rent or something

00:16:50.760 just chopping one off just to catch it, you know?

00:16:53.340 Yeah, I could see that.

00:16:54.700 But I guess that's fair.

00:16:56.720 Louisiana's civil law system, the most notable and practical highlights.

00:17:02.860 Louisiana's the only state that practices forced airship, a concept rooted in Napoleonic Code.

00:17:07.520 If a person dies with children age 23 or younger, a specific portion of the estate must legally go to them.

00:17:15.500 Oh, so you can't even write your kids out of the wheel in Louisiana, I guess.

00:17:19.180 Dang.

00:17:20.240 I moved for that.

00:17:21.700 Yeah.

00:17:21.920 what uh no buyer beware oh wow what does that say no buyer where in standard common law states

00:17:31.000 real estate sales operate under caveat emptor which means buyer beware because louisiana

00:17:36.520 follows european civil law the burden is strictly on the seller to disclose known defects and

00:17:41.120 potential issues prior to the sale i like that yeah that ain't bad we should do that everywhere

00:17:46.260 feels fair uh what about if you lose a limb or something if you get a rebate on it

00:17:52.200 i don't know get into that i got that you know but they put it back on are you missing something

00:18:01.000 no like i cut my little finger off but they put it back on and just fused all the joints together

00:18:08.060 because it didn't work anymore so can you straighten it or not no no it's fused like that

00:18:12.940 because he asked me how I wanted it and he said you want me to put it straight or and I was like

00:18:18.880 no man I said put it like in the sus position yeah you know and he's like sus position I said

00:18:25.020 yeah playing guitar because at least I can if you put it straight you might as well just cut it off

00:18:30.280 it's gonna be useless but put it like that and I can still play you know play a little guitar I

00:18:36.020 can't reach up the neck with it anymore but a b sharp it'll help huh I just I can't reach with it

00:18:42.200 But, you know, and piano playing, I mean, it's really bad.

00:18:45.920 Oh, yeah.

00:18:46.660 I mean, maybe you could rattle off some Christmas carols with that bad deal.

00:18:50.440 But is that true, though?

00:18:51.460 You had it set up like that?

00:18:52.660 Yeah.

00:18:53.760 He asked me how I wanted it before he fused the joints.

00:18:58.800 You're almost like a little bit of Pinocchio.

00:19:01.720 That's wild, dude.

00:19:03.020 Yeah, I wonder what I would get in my hand, say, if something, if they had to have it.

00:19:08.680 I'd probably get these down and this one up, to be honest with you.

00:19:12.200 You know what I'm saying?

00:19:13.380 Just in case they ever come around asking me to do that neighborhood watch again.

00:19:18.060 But that's wild.

00:19:19.320 That's one of the wildest stories I think I've ever heard, bro,

00:19:21.320 that you thought about that in advance.

00:19:22.740 You said, well, look.

00:19:23.820 I had plenty of time to think about it because I cut it off.

00:19:27.240 I was working offshore, so it took them six hours to come get me

00:19:31.200 and fly me back to the beach to go to the hospital.

00:19:35.720 That was before you were doing music?

00:19:37.580 I was playing guitar, you know.

00:19:39.740 That was the first thing I thought when I cut it.

00:19:41.880 It was like, oh, man, I ain't going to be able to play guitar anymore.

00:19:45.420 You were wrong.

00:19:47.000 Well, I'm not very good, but at least I can still use it a little bit.

00:19:52.020 So you worked on an oil rig?

00:19:53.620 Because that's kind of a Louisiana job.

00:19:55.360 That's something I forget about, dude.

00:19:56.620 When I got out of school, you'd hear like some guy, if he was kind of lucky,

00:19:59.880 he got a job out on the rigs.

00:20:01.560 He was going to do two weeks on, two weeks off.

00:20:04.660 Yeah, that's kind of my first wife's uncle worked offshore.

00:20:10.340 He was a superintendent for Texaco.

00:20:15.820 And he got me a job working on a drill and rig for Global Marine.

00:20:21.280 Was that a pretty good gig?

00:20:22.660 Do you remember enjoying it when you went out there?

00:20:24.580 What was that like?

00:20:25.720 I loved it.

00:20:26.960 Yeah, I worked in oil field for 10 years.

00:20:29.240 Six years I worked offshore on a drill and rig and enjoyed it.

00:20:35.280 And when y'all hit oil, would people lose it

00:20:37.580 and just be, like, beating their hat against their knee and stuff like that?

00:20:40.800 Man, that never happened, you know.

00:20:44.200 It wasn't like that anymore.

00:20:46.400 Were y'all having a good time out there?

00:20:48.280 Like, were you guys, would you play music at night for the gang?

00:20:51.220 I'd go up to the wheelhouse and, you know, try to write.

00:20:55.500 And they would start coming up and wanting me to do haggard tunes or whatever,

00:21:01.240 you know, Hank Jr. and stuff like that.

00:21:03.380 But by the time I was working out there, you know, those wildcatting things that you see from the movies back in the day when they'd hit oil and it'd just blow out, you know, wasn't like that anymore. 0.99

00:21:16.300 People catch it in their mouths and shit. 0.98

00:21:18.180 They had it dialed in, you know, so very, very seldom did we take a kick. 1.00

00:21:23.240 That sucks, man. 1.00

00:21:24.360 It almost takes the fun out of it because some of the fun would be running under and letting that shit hit you. 1.00

00:21:28.080 I remember I used to work on a soybean farm up near, like, Faraday, Louisiana, 0.99

00:21:35.560 up near, like, right across the river from Natchez.

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00:21:43.460 and I'd forget the fertilizer was going in there.

00:21:46.380 And so I'd be sitting there just daydreaming or whatever,

00:21:48.620 just kicking dirt or just, I don't know, listening to country music.

00:21:52.680 I used to, it would just be top 40 out there all the time,

00:21:55.620 and I'd listen to it.

00:21:56.500 and that spray rig would just start it would just right off the top just geysering out and it would 0.98

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00:22:14.740 be like oh damn because i was so absent-minded but then you're standing in the hot sun with 0.98

00:22:18.160 this fertilizer on you man and that shit would just god i didn't i couldn't get body hair to 0.99

00:22:22.280 or on my neck or anywhere near some of my glands for probably 18 months, I would bet. 1.00

00:22:28.540 I thought I was going to turn into a damn turnip, you know. 0.98

00:22:31.820 They're going to put me in a little chair or something, a little baby seat. 0.98

00:22:34.540 I used to have dry spots on my hands from sometimes when we would complete a well,

00:22:40.120 which was very seldom.

00:22:41.180 Usually we'd just drill one and move on to the next location, drill another one.

00:22:44.760 But sometimes they'd want us to stay and complete it and test the well.

00:22:49.760 And so when you completed one, you'd have to displace all the mud

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00:22:58.140 And, man, I worked Derek, so it was my job to make sure all that stuff was mixed up right.

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00:25:53.300 What's up, Gary?

00:25:54.980 Oh, that's a little dog, huh?

00:25:57.780 Yeah, it's Victoria's dog.

00:26:00.040 That's a beautiful dog.

00:26:00.920 His name's Gary Busey.

00:26:02.520 His name's what?

00:26:03.540 Gary Busey.

00:26:04.600 Is it?

00:26:05.400 Yeah.

00:26:05.760 How'd y'all choose it?

00:26:06.620 because I was pulling a float in a Christmas parade

00:26:13.280 in our little town we live in.

00:26:16.360 And it was for a pet shelter that Victoria volunteers at.

00:26:24.780 And she came running up to my truck and had this little bitty dog,

00:26:28.640 and she held him up to the window.

00:26:30.640 And at the time, he had like his baby teeth and his grown teeth at both

00:26:34.900 because he had like two full sets of teeth.

00:26:37.720 And she brought him up to the truck, and his teeth were sticking out, 0.99

00:26:40.420 and he had that blonde thing sticking up on top of his head.

00:26:42.840 I said, that dog looks like Gary Busey.

00:26:46.060 And so we took him home that day, and that was his name.

00:26:50.980 They do have similar kind of hair structure or whatever.

00:26:53.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:26:55.060 But he's lost all his teeth now, so he doesn't look the same.

00:26:58.820 Oh, as you haven't seen Gary in a long time.

00:27:01.020 If you put their pictures side by side, it'll look exactly alike.

00:27:04.400 They should put a dog collar on Gary Busey, the man, just so people.

00:27:07.720 A leash.

00:27:08.720 Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

00:27:10.020 I think all of us at certain points in our lives should have a collar on

00:27:13.240 with our mother's information on it.

00:27:15.740 Oh, my God, that's not a real picture of him, is it?

00:27:18.080 Is that Gary?

00:27:18.780 Someone said he was delivering pizza somewhere.

00:27:20.560 Oh, geez, dad, is that real?

00:27:23.580 Oh, my God.

00:27:24.480 That could be him or that could just be any guy from Maine.

00:27:28.620 So I think that could go either way, man.

00:27:31.220 That's unfortunate.

00:27:32.520 No, but I think he looked pretty good.

00:27:34.160 How old is Gary Busey, though?

00:27:36.180 He's got to be late 70s, I'd say, probably.

00:27:41.380 At least.

00:27:42.300 82.

00:27:44.240 82, wow, okay.

00:27:46.340 I've got to go back and watch some of his work, man.

00:27:48.480 He's a talent that I sometimes forget about.

00:27:51.420 A lot of people have.

00:27:52.860 He's a talented guy.

00:27:55.580 I know he was doing a lot of TikTok.

00:27:57.780 talking he was doing like a lot of like uh christmas cards for something like audio verbal

00:28:02.600 those things yeah i saw a couple of them they're pretty cool i thought one of them was kind of

00:28:07.460 wild though what was it i think he'll do anything if you'll send him some money he'll read anything

00:28:15.240 for you yeah oh this might be it let's see let's see that is that a video that we can i'll do that

00:28:20.340 too. People don't ever ask me to.

00:28:23.180 Hey, it's Gary

00:28:24.460 Busey, and I have

00:28:26.340 got a great Christmas present for

00:28:28.480 you. Listen to

00:28:30.460 this.

00:28:32.120 Hawk!

00:28:34.180 Hawk!

00:28:35.680 That's what a goose sounds like.

00:28:38.480 When they're flying, they're letting you know

00:28:40.320 they're up there.

00:28:42.120 Hawk!

00:28:43.640 Hawk!

00:28:44.520 You get a bunch of geese together. 0.50

00:28:46.940 Hawk, hawk, hawk!

00:28:49.260 They're hawking in the air.

00:28:52.760 Thanks, Gary.

00:28:53.820 That's awesome, dude.

00:28:55.060 But I'll tell you this.

00:28:56.260 He needs to be on National Geographic channel

00:28:59.400 with that kind of insight to the wildlife. 1.00

00:29:04.360 That's shit we didn't know. 0.99

00:29:07.720 That's more than I've learned. 0.99

00:29:09.020 Thanks, Gary.

00:29:09.860 That's more than I've learned in a while, I think, though.

00:29:12.780 But at least he still has a great sense of humor, man.

00:29:16.360 I'll say that.

00:29:18.440 I don't think he was trying to be funny.

00:29:20.980 You don't think so?

00:29:22.400 I don't know.

00:29:23.460 I hope he was.

00:29:24.540 Yeah.

00:29:25.200 He might have been.

00:29:26.040 I've been around Gary a good bit.

00:29:27.840 Oh, you have? 0.99

00:29:28.340 He's legit crazy. 0.99

00:29:29.920 Yeah. 0.99

00:29:30.220 Oh, he is?

00:29:30.640 I didn't even know that.

00:29:31.600 Yeah.

00:29:32.460 Yeah.

00:29:33.900 I just see stuff, and you always think it's just him being him, you know?

00:29:39.140 Oh, he had a traumatic brain injury.

00:29:41.240 I didn't even know.

00:29:41.620 Yeah, he had a motorcycle wreck.

00:29:42.760 Oh, I didn't know this, or I didn't remember it.

00:29:44.980 he had a malignant tumor

00:29:47.740 from a sinus cavity as well

00:29:49.420 it said in 97

00:29:50.100 in 88

00:29:51.080 he had a motorcycle crash

00:29:52.440 so there was kind of

00:29:53.420 a before him

00:29:54.100 and after him

00:29:54.800 type of energy

00:29:55.460 oh wow

00:29:56.200 he's always been

00:29:56.860 a little crazy though

00:29:58.100 yeah

00:29:58.800 but then after

00:29:59.440 the motorcycle wreck

00:30:00.380 he went

00:30:00.800 full blown

00:30:02.160 oh yeah

00:30:03.240 that'll bake it in

00:30:04.160 that'll bake

00:30:06.240 it is

00:30:06.760 it's in the ingredients

00:30:09.260 then

00:30:09.800 I love him though

00:30:10.840 he's funny

00:30:11.300 yeah

00:30:11.980 entertaining guy

00:30:12.920 did you have

00:30:13.760 Did you have any other jobs, man, before you took on music full-time?

00:30:18.580 Well, when I moved here, I went out to DuPont and worked out there on O'Hickory Lake at that plant out there.

00:30:27.700 I worked for B.E.N.K. Construction.

00:30:29.680 I worked out there for a couple years before I got a record deal.

00:30:35.140 And was that just like day-to-day?

00:30:37.400 Like what kind of stuff they have you doing?

00:30:39.220 Pipe Fitter's Helper.

00:30:41.360 Fitter's Helper.

00:30:42.120 Oh, you worked with Pipe Fitting?

00:30:43.760 Were you in the union?

00:30:45.140 No.

00:30:45.720 Oh, dude. 0.98

00:30:46.480 My buddy, freaking Corey, was in the freaking union, dude. 0.98

00:30:50.300 Fidder's union? 0.98

00:30:50.940 Yeah, he said he was.

00:30:51.780 He was always over there just drinking.

00:30:53.240 He'd drink a big thermos of milk and drink it all the time on the sidelines of work. 0.99

00:30:57.760 And then he'd get sick if they were out in the sun and shit. 1.00

00:31:00.080 He was a damn liability. 1.00

00:31:01.920 But my brother ended up hiring him because they were friends. 1.00

00:31:04.820 But he's a gypsy. 1.00

00:31:07.620 You know, some of those guys can do whatever. 1.00

00:31:09.660 They'll spray your house and, you know, they'll spray your driveway

00:31:12.740 tell you it's asphalt you know i'm talking about if somebody show up with a truck full of nothing

00:31:18.080 and be like yeah we got a truck full of and you don't even go look in the truck to see if anything's

00:31:21.120 in it nothing's in it it's just a spray rig a little bit of paint no painted on there um but

00:31:27.900 anyway yeah uh i'm trying to think what are we talking about just jobs we had oh dude i'll tell

00:31:33.820 you one i remember i sold they had door-to-door italian going on in our area for a while they had

00:31:38.900 This guy, Donnie Ferrari or whatever, and he was selling door-to-door Italian food.

00:31:42.820 And I got linked up with him somehow through some guy my mom was kind of dating or whatever.

00:31:47.000 Some guy she met at a damn, probably by a Xerox machine or something because it was in the 80s or whatever.

00:31:52.160 And I ended up working for him for a while. 0.92

00:31:55.340 And it was just door-to-door.

00:31:56.480 We would take Italian food and try to get people to buy it, dude.

00:31:58.960 And that was probably—

00:31:59.720 Well, they weren't even calling you to bring it.

00:32:01.500 You were going to their house trying to sell them.

00:32:04.460 Yeah.

00:32:05.560 And I was apprentice assistant or whatever.

00:32:07.080 I'm sorry, dude, but I'm not buying any food.

00:32:09.420 You come up and knock on my door.

00:32:12.300 I'm going to look at you and say, no, man, I ain't buying no food from you.

00:32:15.960 Bro, when I show up at my little ravioli dance, bro, it would be popping out there.

00:32:20.080 Come on, man.

00:32:22.000 But I will tell you this.

00:32:23.180 It did help me because I was kind of an apprentice at first,

00:32:25.580 and so it did help me, I think, get a little bit of that,

00:32:29.060 I'm going to do something I don't want to do.

00:32:30.640 You were an apprentice for what?

00:32:34.080 Salendam.

00:32:35.100 No, man. 1.00

00:32:37.140 Everybody that sells door-to-door is a fucking apprentice. 1.00

00:32:42.200 There's no professional door-to-door selling food. 0.99

00:32:45.700 Oh, this guy was good, brother.

00:32:48.320 Donnie was pretty good.

00:32:50.340 I mean, he was the best in our area.

00:32:52.760 And, yeah, I worked at him for almost 11 months, four months.

00:32:57.680 Probably almost seven months.

00:33:00.820 But, yeah, I was out there, dude.

00:33:02.500 i think it did help me a little bit because we get a new you know the big thing that all the

00:33:07.440 ladies wanted at the time was uh garlic bread and it's still what they want it's it's still

00:33:16.880 what they want but uh but i remember that was kind of probably one of the wildest jobs that i had

00:33:20.900 but when i first started listening to country music was when i was working on that farm and

00:33:24.760 i would put on top 40 they'd have like casey casem or something at the time but and i think

00:33:29.080 that was a little more like pop but on one day they would do I guess it was country top I think

00:33:35.280 it was probably top 40 it might even be a day where they would do a hundred songs or something

00:33:39.080 you know and uh I'd cut the tractor off and I'd stand out there and just just sing the songs that

00:33:44.560 I loved man I remember every Sunday morning it was always as a countdown that's what it was in

00:33:51.060 but it wasn't Casey Kasem oh my god who was it you're right believe that I don't remember his

00:33:56.980 name. I did a bunch of

00:33:58.880 interviews with him, and now I can't think of his name.

00:34:01.560 I'm getting to be that way,

00:34:02.900 though, man. Forgetting names and

00:34:04.860 stuff. Yeah. Mixing them up.

00:34:06.960 I do it. It's hard. I know, Leo.

00:34:08.700 It's terrible. I can't remember.

00:34:12.260 Well, dude,

00:34:12.940 I can barely remember Donnie Ferrari

00:34:14.880 who I freaking apprenticed with. No, why

00:34:16.820 can you remember something, some 1.00

00:34:18.760 insignificant Italian dude

00:34:20.840 from back then, and

00:34:22.840 you can't remember stuff from

00:34:24.900 just a few days ago.

00:34:26.980 I think it's just because you go through so many neighbors with the man.

00:34:30.040 You're pulling the wagon.

00:34:30.820 He's pulling the wagon.

00:34:31.760 You're pissed.

00:34:32.540 He's pissed.

00:34:33.080 Y'all are right there.

00:34:33.720 But when you get to the door, you got to work together.

00:34:36.960 So I think.

00:34:37.780 But you know what? 0.89

00:34:38.300 I'm going to remember, though, next time I'm trying to woo a lady, it's garlic bread. 0.52

00:34:42.640 Oh, yeah.

00:34:44.100 I got to remember that. 1.00

00:34:45.620 Oh, fucking. 1.00

00:34:46.280 I'd warm peace up in the microwave and just freaking dab it on the sides of my neck, brother. 1.00

00:34:50.800 They know what's up.

00:34:52.060 They know what's up.

00:34:53.440 But that's when I fell in love with country music, man.

00:34:55.720 That's when I felt, because I would just be out there all day,

00:34:58.220 and I think that's what a lot of the radio stations would play.

00:35:00.560 I used to put a cassette in and record the Top 40 Countdown.

00:35:04.080 That's the way we always got our tunes,

00:35:06.100 because back in the mid-'80s, I was playing in a cover band,

00:35:10.880 and you needed to know a certain number of songs

00:35:14.600 from the current Top 40.

00:35:17.980 It was a big deal.

00:35:19.280 You needed to know a bunch of those songs,

00:35:21.680 because that's what everybody wanted to hear,

00:35:23.300 was what they were hearing on the radio.

00:35:24.640 so we cover all those tunes and and that's how we learned them we just record them on cassette off

00:35:30.700 the off the countdown and that's how we learned them when did you put together uh i mean your

00:35:36.960 first album dreaming out loud was your first album how did it get to the place where you're you know

00:35:41.640 you're working on an oil rig you're playing some and then you're playing covers and then how do you

00:35:46.140 get to that next step is that of your own volition fully or did somebody come along and kind of give

00:35:50.400 you an inspiration or let you like take me through a little bit of that if you don't mind

00:35:54.400 Oh, God, it's just such a long story.

00:35:56.720 Oh, is it?

00:35:57.380 Yeah, but it did start when I was working on a drilling rig.

00:36:00.760 I'd take my guitar out there, and I'd try to write.

00:36:03.140 And then I met this guy out there that knew these other guys in a band

00:36:07.480 in Lafayette, Louisiana.

00:36:09.180 And he said, man, this time when we're off for two weeks, come down.

00:36:12.720 I'll introduce you to these guys.

00:36:14.860 So I went down there and sang with them a little bit.

00:36:20.120 And then they wanted me to go to Dallas.

00:36:23.280 They had already won a local competition in the Battle of the Country Bands,

00:36:27.380 and they wanted me to go to Dallas with them for the regionals.

00:36:32.080 And it was going to fall on a time when I was off for two weeks, so I went.

00:36:36.760 And we won the thing in Dallas, and then we came here for the finals,

00:36:40.600 and we lost here, but that was my first taste.

00:36:46.540 I came off a drill and rig, and then I'm on stage at TPAC

00:36:51.560 in front of all these industry people, and it freaked us all out.

00:36:56.100 You must have been nervous, huh? That's nerves.

00:36:57.600 Oh, we choked, yeah, so we didn't win.

00:37:00.740 But anyway, that kind of gave me the fever.

00:37:08.920 And then a few years later, I moved up here,

00:37:13.840 and that's kind of how it started and met the right people

00:37:17.720 and, you know, songwriters and some other music executives.

00:37:23.260 And that's been it.

00:37:24.240 That was it.

00:37:25.660 Man, I saw you at the Ryman a few weeks ago, dude.

00:37:28.300 You have, and I hate to say this,

00:37:29.980 but I just was reminded of so many songs.

00:37:32.680 You know, you just kind of like, when you go watch,

00:37:34.760 it kind of takes you through little parts of your life.

00:37:37.040 You'll hear a song, you're like, oh, I used to kind of,

00:37:40.440 that song almost becomes a champagne,

00:37:43.120 and then bubbles of, like, memories during that time

00:37:45.800 start to come up through it, you know?

00:37:47.720 um that was a lot of first single june uh june 26 96 30 years ago and you wrote it i wrote it

00:37:56.060 with vip vipperman carl vipperman everybody calls him vip and was there any story behind some of

00:38:01.840 that was there no he was just we were just sitting down getting to know each other because i'd never

00:38:05.300 met vip before but you know a guy i was working with producer at the time just hooked us up said

00:38:11.800 i think y'all right with vip he's good dude you know i think y'all get along and we sat down

00:38:17.220 together, and we were just kind of getting to know each other, and he was asking me questions

00:38:20.460 and asked me where I'd come to Nashville from.

00:38:23.380 I told him I'd been living in Texas and playing honky-tonks out there for a while, and he

00:38:30.720 asked me, he said, well, is there a girl in Texas?

00:38:32.700 And I was like, yeah, a bunch of them, and he said, well, let's write that.

00:38:38.900 I was like, what?

00:38:40.120 That's how y'all do this?

00:38:42.200 So that's what happened, and we just wrote it.

00:38:47.220 One of my favorites is Every Light in the House, man.

00:38:49.740 That song, dude, I frickin'.

00:38:52.360 Well, that was my first hit.

00:38:55.640 I mean, Girl in Texas, I think, got to 17 or 18 or something like that.

00:39:00.180 On the charts?

00:39:01.780 But then Every Light in the House is on got to number five.

00:39:05.300 Wow, man.

00:39:06.920 Dude, that song, bro.

00:39:07.840 And then the next single went to number one,

00:39:09.640 and the next single went to number one, and I was like, here we go.

00:39:13.460 That song.

00:39:14.260 because i was all broken hearted because i'd separated my girlfriend and i went separate ways

00:39:19.920 because we we were we were boyfriend and girlfriend and then i was going to school

00:39:25.060 in arizona she was staying in louisiana not to make your song about me but um but that's what

00:39:31.080 was going on and i think i think i i think i ate a bunch of mushrooms or something i was and i was

00:39:35.520 saying goodbye to her at this gas station and i didn't know these mushrooms were really going to

00:39:38.780 start hitting and they had a lot of oil spots on the ground and uh just from course a gas station

00:39:45.220 what's that it's a gas station yeah yeah so it's a gas in louisiana yeah yeah so a lot of oil spots

00:39:52.760 but the mushrooms was kind of getting my brain and started massaging my brain a little bit and

00:39:57.000 really touching my brain stem and then i saw those all those oil spots started moving i thought they

00:40:02.260 were roaches because louisiana we also have a lot of roaches and uh you'll see somebody you know 0.99

00:40:07.060 That's how I just stamped the hell out of a damn oil spot. 0.96

00:40:11.200 But, yeah, I started freaking out, and she got kind of scared, 0.99

00:40:14.420 and it was like this weird moment.

00:40:15.720 Like, anyway, that relationship ended, but I remember just being heartbroken.

00:40:20.620 I'd be out there in Arizona just listening to that song, dude,

00:40:23.480 and it was just – anyway, I'm sure a lot of people –

00:40:26.680 You want to see oil spots, pull up in front of an O'Reilly's or an AutoZone.

00:40:30.640 Oh, God.

00:40:31.280 Oh, my God.

00:40:32.360 It's like just oil slicks out in front of those stores.

00:40:35.220 Pull up in front of my sister's house when she was married to her ex-husband, too.

00:40:39.200 Pull up in front of my house until I started making some money and got a car,

00:40:44.880 got a truck that didn't just pour oil out the bottom of it.

00:40:49.240 I used to put as much oil in my trucks as I put gas in them.

00:40:55.000 Well, hell yeah, you did.

00:40:56.140 You did it with your first toy as a kid. 1.00

00:40:57.880 No wonder that shit made sense, bro. 0.99

00:40:59.720 That was just a predecessor of what was going to go on. 0.98

00:41:01.800 dude you remind me i had this 86 jimmy or something it was called right i think they're

00:41:06.420 called it was a chevrolet it was 86 maybe chevy something like that gmc jimmy yes gmc jimmy man 0.52

00:41:13.000 i would always fuck up i would tell people it was a chevy and i'd get chevy parts for it and

00:41:17.120 it wouldn't fit or whatever but something was broken on it and about every 80 miles i had to 0.88

00:41:23.080 pull over and i headed out to arizona driving out west for my first semester of college dude i must

00:41:27.760 have stopped i can't even tell you 90 times i had to stop let it cool down and then keep it cruising

00:41:35.440 oh it was kind of like that brown one it no it wasn't that nice it was something different

00:41:39.360 oh it was a blazer it was a chevy blazer blazer yeah not the gmc jimmy no and the seats were uh

00:41:46.680 flammable but you could use chevy parts on the gmc that was it right there dude and you had to hold

00:41:54.640 Yes, chick magnet.

00:41:57.080 Oh, dude. 1.00

00:41:58.480 It was some chicks. 0.86

00:42:00.500 And your girlfriend left you and you were driving that sweet ride? 1.00

00:42:07.220 What's wrong with that bitch? 1.00

00:42:09.440 I know, you're right, dude. 1.00

00:42:11.560 You know what?

00:42:12.560 She's probably with some low-rent dude now, man,

00:42:16.760 driving around in a Corolla or something.

00:42:19.660 Yeah.

00:42:20.060 She could have had that.

00:42:21.900 I know.

00:42:22.400 Well, look, every now and then I'll send her an email and say she missed out.

00:42:27.280 Toyota ain't one of y'all's sponsors, are they?

00:42:29.240 No.

00:42:29.720 That's good.

00:42:30.480 No big company like that would sponsor us.

00:42:33.640 But, yeah, dude, that vehicle right there, I'd have to pull over.

00:42:36.440 And, dude, the whole back of the vehicle, even for a while, was antifreeze

00:42:41.200 because that's what I needed the whole time.

00:42:43.100 So I couldn't even have guests come in the car because it was full.

00:42:46.120 I'd probably have – I'd be sitting there.

00:42:47.460 Sometimes I'd have 20 bottles of antifreeze in there,

00:42:49.820 And I'd have to use them all, pull over and use antifreeze and water.

00:42:52.500 But if you just use water, it would burn off too quick.

00:42:54.760 But, man, sometimes the car got so hot, I'd have to step away from it for a while.

00:42:58.560 You know, and I'd go walk or go sit in the distance and write a poem or something.

00:43:02.260 You sit in the distance. 1.00

00:43:03.880 But that bitch was hot, dude. 1.00

00:43:06.920 I don't know if they allow cars to get that hot anymore. 1.00

00:43:08.760 But, yeah, dude, that was unrequited love, I found out it's called.

00:43:13.520 Where'd you go to college?

00:43:14.540 I went to University of Arizona at first.

00:43:16.040 Oh, yeah?

00:43:16.960 How'd you do that?

00:43:18.740 I mean, why?

00:43:19.500 I just want to do something.

00:43:20.400 Way off in the desert.

00:43:22.160 I want to do something different.

00:43:23.660 Well, you want deserts different from Louisiana.

00:43:26.860 Yeah, just like I'm going to do something different.

00:43:28.160 But I came back after one semester and went to LSU.

00:43:31.220 And then.

00:43:32.220 I don't like the desert.

00:43:34.000 Yeah.

00:43:35.080 Do you?

00:43:36.140 I don't like the desert.

00:43:37.120 You know what?

00:43:37.520 There's a moment in the day I really like it.

00:43:39.560 You know, right around that.

00:43:40.960 You know what I like?

00:43:41.480 Daylight.

00:43:42.120 Yeah.

00:43:43.200 Daylight, yeah.

00:43:43.900 Or even just right at dusk.

00:43:45.020 Dawn.

00:43:45.500 Yeah.

00:43:46.480 I like that.

00:43:47.560 There's something nice about it.

00:43:48.760 there's something that uh but there's something about it that it doesn't really have much of a

00:43:52.760 memory but it's but it has like a wisdom or something i don't know there's something about

00:43:56.420 it that i think is pretty interesting um but i didn't like it then man that was a tough time but

00:44:02.160 uh but it was a good time man but that was when you know love was just your whole body was just 0.81

00:44:08.780 damn made out of damn uh hormones or whatever and you you know you took you know you'd touch

00:44:15.260 You'd pet a dog and it'd give birth, you know. 1.00

00:44:17.380 It was just like you were just that agile, just that viral or whatever. 0.98

00:44:21.740 You know, you'd spit on a tree and it'd fucking grow fruit or whatever out of it. 0.98

00:44:24.920 How many puppies you had? 0.99

00:44:29.460 That's true.

00:44:30.360 I don't know what I'm talking about.

00:44:31.740 That's nasty, bro.

00:44:33.220 And Gary Busey just left the room, I will say that.

00:44:37.520 What about, is there a story behind that song?

00:44:40.900 Is there a story behind that song?

00:44:41.960 Which one?

00:44:42.500 Every Light in the House.

00:44:43.440 Oh, dude, that's just when I heard it.

00:44:45.260 i was like that sounded like a hit to me you know and scott hendrix who was producing that first

00:44:50.720 record i mean we just there's some songs you hear and you just go that's a hit yeah just there's no

00:44:56.820 doubt you know so that was one of those no doubters was there a song you wrote that you felt like had

00:45:02.520 a story to it more like that uh more like what that's a great question actually i don't know

00:45:09.960 what the end of my question was?

00:45:11.180 Oh, all of them have a story.

00:45:13.400 Was there one,

00:45:15.140 who was,

00:45:15.840 there was one,

00:45:16.660 somebody said Arlington

00:45:17.680 has a cinema.

00:45:19.180 Well, yeah, of course, man.

00:45:20.920 That was a very personal,

00:45:23.460 I didn't write that,

00:45:24.660 but it was just

00:45:25.520 such a personal thing

00:45:26.920 that I knew who wrote it

00:45:30.540 and I knew the story behind it

00:45:33.200 and I knew who it was written about.

00:45:35.280 And so before we released that song,

00:45:37.540 I asked the family to come in,

00:45:39.280 And, you know, and we played the song for him.

00:45:41.860 And I said, look, this song's written about your son.

00:45:44.800 So we want your blessing before we put this out.

00:45:48.600 And, yeah, it was a very personal thing.

00:45:51.640 Everybody listened to it and cried.

00:45:54.120 And we got their blessing.

00:45:56.060 And so that was cool.

00:45:57.600 Wow.

00:45:58.680 And has that family come to some of your shows and stuff?

00:46:01.460 I haven't seen the Nixons in a while.

00:46:05.400 Was it about their son?

00:46:06.900 Yeah.

00:46:07.780 Yeah.

00:46:08.220 It was about Patrick Nixon, Lance Corporal Patrick Nixon.

00:46:13.840 He was a Marine, and his dad was a Marine, and his grandfather was a Marine,

00:46:18.760 and so that's where that song came from.

00:46:21.800 Amen.

00:46:23.320 Yeah.

00:46:24.760 But I've written some personal ones.

00:46:28.320 They all come from that kind of place, you know?

00:46:33.480 Yeah, I was just wondering.

00:46:34.860 I just didn't know because I think, you know, as a person who just like,

00:46:38.220 And, you know, I've written a lot of, you know, love letters and all of that.

00:46:42.800 Really?

00:46:43.660 Oh, yeah.

00:46:44.800 Love letters.

00:46:46.260 Apologies.

00:46:47.600 Well, I can imagine that, but I don't know about the love poems.

00:46:53.600 Yeah, I've written a lot of apologies, I think.

00:46:55.600 More apologies than love letters, probably.

00:46:58.940 Oh, yeah.

00:46:59.900 If you'd have written more love letters, you wouldn't have to write so many apologies.

00:47:02.840 That's probably the truth, right?

00:47:04.220 You're better at the other one.

00:47:05.640 Yeah.

00:47:08.220 I think there might be a song in that little idea right there, that song.

00:47:12.040 I think probably one of the most personal songs I ever wrote to me

00:47:16.160 was a song called Welcome to Hell.

00:47:19.400 And I was really, really pissed off when I wrote that.

00:47:24.080 You know, so, I mean, of course I wrote it in 2001, you know,

00:47:28.800 sometime after the World Trade Center thing, after 9-11.

00:47:35.400 No, it was personal.

00:47:36.280 It was very personal to me, you know.

00:47:38.220 Where did that angst come from?

00:47:39.460 Was it just from that sort of thing, just from, like, America,

00:47:41.780 like just the devastation in our country and what it felt like it did to us?

00:47:46.560 Yeah, I wrote it because I thought, you know,

00:47:50.400 these guys, they think that they're going to do this kind of stuff

00:47:53.260 and then they're going to end up in heaven with 72 virgins and all this.

00:47:56.740 And I said, how surprised are they going to be, you know,

00:48:01.360 when they end up, you know, and the guy says, welcome to hell.

00:48:04.940 You know, this is, oh, you thought you were going there.

00:48:08.680 Well, no, dude, you know, this is where you're going to be.

00:48:13.020 And so that's how I wrote that.

00:48:16.300 As your career is going on, has it been tougher to have inspiration for songs?

00:48:21.060 Or do you feel like certain songs kind of check a certain box as an artist moves through time?

00:48:26.060 And then that has kind of been filled.

00:48:28.880 Man, I don't write as much anymore, but it's because I don't.

00:48:34.940 That inspiration that you're talking about, every now and then, you'll hear something.

00:48:40.980 I'll hear a phrase or just a line that somebody said, and then it rings the bell.

00:48:48.540 And I'm like, oh, God, that's a song.

00:48:50.660 I'm going to have to write that.

00:48:52.840 And it's almost like it's a gift that's just given to you, and you have to deal with it.

00:48:59.780 Like having some kind of disease or something.

00:49:02.840 I'm going to have to deal with this now.

00:49:05.820 That's a good point, actually.

00:49:06.860 Yeah, like having a disease.

00:49:08.700 Because creativity is kind of a disease, I feel like,

00:49:10.880 if you want to tend to it.

00:49:12.080 Yeah, you got to.

00:49:13.280 You know, you have to deal with it.

00:49:15.120 It comes knocking, and you just got to deal with it, you know.

00:49:18.600 Dude, it's so funny.

00:49:19.520 I forgot about that.

00:49:20.680 I forgot that that's, like, how creativity happens a lot of times.

00:49:23.480 It's like herpes, you know.

00:49:25.660 Yeah.

00:49:26.680 I don't, I mean, you know.

00:49:28.020 Yeah, neither one of us have it.

00:49:29.080 No, but I've heard that it's like, you know, it just comes.

00:49:34.200 you got to deal with.

00:49:34.960 Yeah, yeah.

00:49:35.940 I've heard it shows up 0.99

00:49:37.060 like a damn... 0.99

00:49:37.880 Cousins. 1.00

00:49:38.760 Oh, it shows up like...

00:49:39.520 Like family.

00:49:40.380 It shows up like

00:49:41.360 door-to-door Italian food.

00:49:43.020 Yeah.

00:49:43.580 That's how it shows up.

00:49:44.440 I got to deal with this guy now.

00:49:46.240 Oh, Donnie.

00:49:46.780 Trying to sell me food

00:49:47.920 that his grandma cooked,

00:49:50.380 you know,

00:49:51.680 in her roachy kitchen.

00:49:53.300 Hey, I'll say this.

00:49:54.400 I will say this.

00:49:55.160 I remember we had

00:49:55.780 a manicotti in May special 0.99

00:49:57.300 and that shit was popping, dude. 1.00

00:50:00.620 What was it? 1.00

00:50:01.620 Manicotti in May. 1.00

00:50:02.940 because a lot of women they get in may well they get so hot in the summer they're like i ain't 1.00

00:50:07.560 cooking you know well you know in our town you give your damn kid a piece of ice or something 1.00

00:50:12.000 put a little sugar on the back of it you know give that to him or whatever you know or just 1.00

00:50:17.100 sometimes a woman just spit cold water in your mouth or something and that's that count as a 0.99

00:50:21.320 side item but uh yeah it was just a different time we had a beautiful manicotti bring manicotti up

00:50:28.300 Yeah, it was a different time.

00:50:35.100 Now, look at that, Trey.

00:50:36.400 You're telling me.

00:50:37.040 Well, yeah.

00:50:37.700 It's like Italian burritos.

00:50:39.560 You're telling me a man named Donnie Ferrari with an 11- or 12-year-old kid he doesn't know shows up at your door trying to sell you that.

00:50:47.560 You ain't going to get you a couple for your lady?

00:50:48.980 I don't think so, man.

00:50:50.820 Not today.

00:50:52.040 Not today, man.

00:50:53.600 Not now.

00:50:54.920 Not in this time.

00:50:56.080 Maybe in that time, but not now.

00:50:58.860 Yeah, you're right. 1.00

00:51:00.100 That's some desperate shit. 1.00

00:51:01.720 No, I'm not buying food from you, kid. 1.00

00:51:04.680 Go away before I call social services to come get your ass. 1.00

00:51:10.280 Some of them we kept in the warmer, and some of you had to warm yourself. 1.00

00:51:14.520 But it was a good job.

00:51:16.480 It was how I learned to go on ahead and approach people.

00:51:23.040 What's the love life been like over the years, Trace?

00:51:25.300 You got some stories from it, and I hate to lead you in like that,

00:51:28.200 but sometimes a creative person, they feel love kind of deep, I feel like.

00:51:33.560 If your brain is kind of deep, I feel like your heart can be kind of deep as well.

00:51:40.360 I reckon I gave as good as I got.

00:51:43.560 That's fair.

00:51:44.400 You know what I mean?

00:51:45.320 Yeah.

00:51:46.260 I love you as good as you love me, I guess.

00:51:48.700 Yeah.

00:51:49.480 It's got to be that kind of deal, though.

00:51:52.860 Oh, yeah.

00:51:53.300 I'll just love you if I ain't getting any back.

00:51:55.900 I'll quit.

00:51:57.260 Yeah.

00:51:57.980 I'll quit loving you if you quit loving me.

00:52:00.860 Dude, that sounds like a deal.

00:52:03.880 I mean, you know, but I'll love you as hard as you want to love me.

00:52:08.280 I'll get down.

00:52:09.220 Come on.

00:52:10.420 I'll match you.

00:52:12.060 Heartbeat for heartbeat.

00:52:13.660 Yeah.

00:52:15.060 Dude.

00:52:15.540 Whatever.

00:52:16.460 I'm not joking, though.

00:52:17.840 I swear to God, one of my past relationships,

00:52:20.160 if we'd have just met one day in the kitchen and said,

00:52:22.560 look, I'll quit loving you if you quit loving me.

00:52:24.800 We would have both, and if we would have, because we both,

00:52:27.220 that's what we both wanted to do.

00:52:28.460 We just didn't do it, you know?

00:52:30.900 Yeah.

00:52:31.920 It's happened, of course.

00:52:33.860 I mean, I'm on my fourth marriage now, so.

00:52:37.520 Are you really?

00:52:38.960 Yeah, really.

00:52:41.020 Dang.

00:52:42.060 What'd you learn about him?

00:52:43.480 I think really because Blake married us,

00:52:46.920 so we're not 100% sure if we're actually really married,

00:52:51.660 but I think we are...

00:52:53.020 Who Shelton did?

00:52:54.440 Wow.

00:52:55.440 Dude, somebody said he has like a sandal collection.

00:52:57.700 I heard a room he has like a male footwear collection or something.

00:53:00.720 Sandals?

00:53:01.240 Yeah, men's sandals.

00:53:03.140 Is that true?

00:53:03.860 Have you heard anything like that?

00:53:04.580 I hope not.

00:53:06.100 I'm going to stop being friends with him if it's true.

00:53:10.300 Because Blake's always said you can't trust a guy wearing flip-flops or sandals.

00:53:14.740 Oh, well, maybe he's doing it on the side.

00:53:16.460 or you know

00:53:18.220 I don't mean

00:53:18.660 I just mean

00:53:19.540 maybe he

00:53:19.960 you know

00:53:20.420 maybe he keeps a pair

00:53:21.560 under his bed

00:53:22.140 I don't have any idea

00:53:22.980 that's just something

00:53:23.500 that I heard

00:53:24.040 bring that up

00:53:24.700 wow

00:53:25.060 that's

00:53:25.760 bring that up

00:53:26.920 bring a Blake Shelton

00:53:27.780 sandal rumor

00:53:29.400 that we just started

00:53:32.340 oh my god

00:53:33.960 see

00:53:34.380 he's anti

00:53:35.300 oh is he really

00:53:36.680 yeah

00:53:37.100 yeah

00:53:37.780 I was like

00:53:38.420 no man

00:53:39.060 he said you can't

00:53:40.580 ever trust a guy

00:53:41.300 wearing flip flops

00:53:42.120 or sandals

00:53:42.620 because if you get stuck

00:53:44.200 he ain't gonna help

00:53:45.180 push you out

00:53:45.820 It is true, bro.

00:53:46.560 He won't help push you out.

00:53:48.180 He won't help do anything.

00:53:49.180 A guy wearing sandals is not hardly going to help you do anything.

00:53:53.140 You know what I'm saying?

00:53:54.060 Because he's going to get his toes banged up,

00:53:56.600 and so he's not going to help you do anything.

00:54:00.440 He's not even wearing shoes, so he can't help anybody.

00:54:05.000 He's not going to run in a house and save children when the house is on fire.

00:54:08.620 He ain't got no shoes on. 0.99

00:54:10.520 He's worthless. 0.99

00:54:12.160 He's a worthless male, you know? 1.00

00:54:16.220 He ain't got no shoes on. 1.00

00:54:17.960 He's absolutely worthless. 1.00

00:54:19.480 There go half of the Sigma Tows out there. 1.00

00:54:22.340 I think probably out of those guys. 1.00

00:54:23.760 Give a shit. 1.00

00:54:25.240 Oh, I don't care either. 1.00

00:54:26.520 I'm just saying. 1.00

00:54:26.960 Give a shit. 1.00

00:54:27.700 Yeah, if somebody has sandals on. 1.00

00:54:29.480 I mean, it's like soccer, you know? 0.99

00:54:31.020 Come on, stop with that crap. 0.98

00:54:32.900 Well, if somebody has sandals on, it's just like, well, the worst is you will see someone, 0.99

00:54:39.500 and I'll say this out loud right now, Trace,

00:54:41.440 you'll see somebody with sandals on

00:54:42.880 who have sunburn on the top of their feet.

00:54:45.640 They wear sandals a lot.

00:54:47.280 Yeah.

00:54:48.240 And they can't do nothing now,

00:54:50.020 like my buddy Bryce.

00:54:51.580 Can't put shoes on

00:54:52.760 because you got sunburn on your feet.

00:54:54.240 Yeah, if you can't put shoes on

00:54:56.380 and go to work.

00:54:57.320 Because your feet are sunburned.

00:54:58.420 Because your tops of your feet are sunburned,

00:55:01.280 then you are not,

00:55:02.320 then you definitely.

00:55:03.580 You're not helping society at all.

00:55:05.740 Yeah.

00:55:07.100 Yeah, then you're definitely, 1.00

00:55:08.240 You should be selling damn door-to-door Italian. 0.99

00:55:10.360 That's from Johnny Farago or whatever. 0.99

00:55:13.120 What his name was.

00:55:14.400 Donnie Ferrari.

00:55:15.200 Donnie Ferrari.

00:55:16.060 Okay. 1.00

00:55:19.780 That's some made-up shit anyway. 0.99

00:55:21.680 His name. 0.99

00:55:22.240 His name wasn't really Ferrari.

00:55:24.160 You know, I never saw any of his paperwork.

00:55:26.460 I know he lived in city limits.

00:55:30.620 Okay.

00:55:32.220 Well, then he's legit.

00:55:38.240 bro thank you so much for hanging out with me today man i know we've been trying to catch up

00:55:43.060 for a while and i've been a fan for a long time and i didn't know if i was gonna be able to make

00:55:46.740 it i've got the explosive diarrhea you hear about that going around yeah bring that up what are they 0.96

00:55:52.520 doing some funny shit isn't it you ever had explosive diarrhea i have not i've had like 0.98

00:55:58.320 semi-explosive or uh you know something that you know the dot would pull you over if you didn't 0.99

00:56:03.520 have the right tags on your truck you know what i'm saying that if you didn't have the right

00:56:06.280 placard showing oh i've had that cyclospora yeah that's the new one yeah oh explosive diarrhea

00:56:14.040 i've had it have you really yeah if you had a colonoscopy i haven't had one i mean i've felt

00:56:21.840 around the outside have explosive diarrhea when you get that really yeah oh it's fun i don't want 0.59

00:56:28.360 that i shit my pants twice that day nuh-uh same day same day oh twice and it wasn't like you know 0.99

00:56:35.980 it was involuntary totally involuntary of course it was involuntary i just don't voluntarily shit 0.98

00:56:43.200 myself you know very rarely do i do that oh that's that's when the italian comes i probably 0.98

00:56:49.700 got but i can't remember last time oh yeah oh voluntarily shitting yourself that's just a way 0.88

00:56:55.620 to get out of a fight usually uh or church yeah yeah yeah even the lord don't want you around at 1.00

00:57:04.060 that point offering plates coming i gotta shit myself so you got this you got this disease that 0.99

00:57:10.600 happened or what is this cyclosmora i didn't have that i just took all that stuff the doctor gave 0.99

00:57:15.440 me the day before i had a colonoscopy and so you're saying you didn't have a choice if you

00:57:19.180 wanted to go to the bathroom or not it just went for you well no it was kind of a weird thing

00:57:23.700 i thought i kind of thought i felt fine i was taking all the stuff drinking the stuff taking

00:57:29.200 the pills the whole thing and i was at the farm and i was just like i think i can go do some stuff

00:57:34.540 i don't feel bad you know at all so i went and i had a little 10 foot john boat in the pond and i

00:57:42.360 was going to pull it up on the bank and i just reached down and grabbed it don't weigh very much

00:57:46.220 you know just a little old aluminum boat i reached down there and grabbed it and pulled it and just

00:57:51.180 you know it was like damn i mean really in my boots bad you know what i'm saying to the top

00:58:00.820 of your hat and uh so of course i you know just went on in the pond would you oh you just got in 0.95

00:58:07.020 the water cleaned that up that's the way to do it and i'll leave your clothes in there and i thought

00:58:11.040 well okay that's not gonna happen again you know so that's got to be it you know so what do you

00:58:17.980 mean you don't think I went and changed clothes and then I went to try to do something else yeah

00:58:21.900 and I had a flat tire on one of my side by sides and I had it on jack and I was gonna take the

00:58:27.660 jack out from under it because I'd already changed the wheel so got up in there took the jack out and

00:58:33.800 then I was gonna get up off the ground and I grabbed the tailgate on that thing and pulled

00:58:38.060 myself up and when I strained just that little bit I call that explosive diarrhea I mean you

00:58:46.780 If you make the least little exertion, it just comes, you know?

00:58:53.360 Oh, yeah.

00:58:54.360 That's explosive. 1.00

00:58:55.800 Oh, I've had some shit where you try to blow your nose. 0.99

00:58:58.280 And my wife thought it was the funniest. 1.00

00:59:00.080 That woman laughed at me all day long.

00:59:03.380 She's laughing right now. 0.77

00:59:04.140 She's laughing right now because she loved it.

00:59:06.380 She thought it was the funniest thing in life, man, seeing me soiled like that.

00:59:12.840 God.

00:59:13.760 And just, you know.

00:59:14.960 That bums me out.

00:59:16.060 She professed a deeper love for me than ever before

00:59:21.440 because I guess I was at my most vulnerable, you know?

00:59:26.320 That's what they say.

00:59:27.200 She thought. 0.88

00:59:28.100 They say a vulnerable man attracts a woman.

00:59:31.380 I was attractive that day.

00:59:34.840 Super attractive, man.

00:59:36.720 I was drawing them like flies and flies.

00:59:43.480 Dude, I remember.

00:59:44.160 Green flies.

00:59:44.940 I remember one time I was on something.

00:59:47.160 I think I was on antibiotics, and I'd also been using a lot of Tabasco or Frank's Red Hot.

00:59:54.680 Had to clap.

00:59:56.060 Oh, no.

00:59:56.620 I don't know.

00:59:57.040 No, no.

00:59:57.560 Nothing.

00:59:57.940 I was using it on food.

01:00:00.540 And I took a – dude, I've tried to blow my nose. 1.00

01:00:04.420 It just blew my ass. 1.00

01:00:06.480 I just shit my ass. 1.00

01:00:08.860 I didn't even want to. 1.00

01:00:10.780 I know.

01:00:11.480 Well, of course you did.

01:00:12.520 Well, maybe you did.

01:00:13.440 I didn't.

01:00:14.940 I didn't want to either.

01:00:16.360 Yeah.

01:00:17.500 And then that was it.

01:00:18.700 I didn't go back outside for the rest of the day.

01:00:21.280 Yeah, you didn't go back outside.

01:00:22.360 I didn't go back outside.

01:00:23.160 I didn't put clothes on again.

01:00:24.800 Oh, that's when you're really bad off.

01:00:27.520 My wife put like four towels down on the couch,

01:00:30.840 and I just laid there for the rest of the day naked. 1.00

01:00:33.800 Oh, God, that's when the devil's got your ass. 1.00

01:00:35.780 Yeah. 1.00

01:00:36.720 God.

01:00:38.000 So I'm sympathizing with the explosive diarrhea people

01:00:41.800 that have had the misfortune of being.

01:00:45.320 Yes.

01:00:46.000 I think it's the lettuce.

01:00:47.400 And so last night, my wife made me this big old salad.

01:00:50.780 And I was like, uh-huh.

01:00:52.300 I know what you're doing.

01:00:53.740 Just trying to make some vulnerability.

01:00:54.800 I know what, yeah.

01:00:55.600 And some more, she wants to love me hard again.

01:00:58.300 So she wants me vulnerable, man.

01:01:01.080 You know.

01:01:02.240 God, I think we put women through so much pain, 1.00

01:01:04.580 they just need to, sometimes they just have to poison us. 1.00

01:01:08.480 That's what I think.

01:01:09.860 Well.

01:01:11.380 But I don't know.

01:01:12.660 I'm alone.

01:01:13.320 anyway

01:01:14.780 hungry now

01:01:18.940 now

01:01:21.660 what about now

01:01:24.680 whenever it hits you

01:01:26.660 wherever you are

01:01:27.940 grab an O'Henry bar

01:01:29.800 to satisfy your hunger

01:01:31.580 with its delicious combination

01:01:33.620 of big crunchy salty peanuts

01:01:35.620 covered in creamy caramel

01:01:37.020 and chewy fudge

01:01:38.620 with a chocolatey coating

01:01:40.060 swing by a gas station

01:01:41.620 and get an O'Henry today

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01:03:22.520 Dude, I'll tell you this story.

01:03:24.180 So I got invited to a Randy Moss fishing tournament once, and it was up in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota.

01:03:30.060 and the night before they took you out everybody went out and i got i was out and this was when

01:03:37.960 jägermeister was popping remember that it was basically german motor oil or something that

01:03:43.260 they'd fermented and they were selling here allegedly that's what it was like robot tussin

01:03:47.220 yeah tastes like robot tussin too dude tasted horrible tasted like you you know it just made

01:03:53.840 you so angry at everything when you ate it you just you just didn't even want to have anymore

01:03:58.940 And some people would put it on their skirt steak. 0.98

01:04:00.920 They'd put it as a damn demi-glaze. 0.99

01:04:03.360 And that would blow my mind. 0.99

01:04:04.780 But anyway, so I go out to this fishing tournament.

01:04:07.180 I'd sit up all night, dude.

01:04:08.260 I'd slept maybe 40 minutes, and I was like,

01:04:10.220 I'm not missing this fishing tournament.

01:04:11.980 Roy Jones Jr. was there.

01:04:13.680 It was like this is the first time I've been around any celebrities in my life.

01:04:18.500 So I got out there.

01:04:19.480 Why did they invite you?

01:04:20.900 I don't know.

01:04:21.940 Were you a celebrity then?

01:04:23.080 When was that?

01:04:24.000 No, I don't remember.

01:04:24.820 That was a long time ago.

01:04:25.880 It was a long time ago.

01:04:26.540 Oh, you probably went to their house selling that Ferrari stuff.

01:04:31.360 Oh, yeah.

01:04:31.780 You mean the manicotti?

01:04:33.080 Yeah.

01:04:33.660 Yeah.

01:04:34.100 Won them over with that, and they invited you to the fishing tournament.

01:04:38.480 Yeah, so they invited me.

01:04:40.400 And now this is a true story now, Trace.

01:04:42.960 And so I get over there, and, dude, I definitely had adult diarrhea, right,

01:04:48.280 or young adult diarrhea is what I had.

01:04:51.500 And so I get there, and we've got to start catching fish.

01:04:54.740 It's a fishing tournament.

01:04:55.780 i've never been in a fishing tournament i don't know what it was i thought you go around you see

01:04:58.940 the fish or whatever you go back and you wrote down how many you spotted or whatever it was almost

01:05:02.860 like a scavenger hunt so anyway the second i get a bite man the second i get a bite i just uh

01:05:11.320 i get a tug on the front brother i got a tug on the back uh there it went you know i'm saying it

01:05:18.180 had i don't care what i was getting on my line i had a bunch in the live well you feel me and it

01:05:24.000 was uh yeah they ended up having to just troll me hanging off the ladder on the back and with no

01:05:29.820 shorts on and stuff just to wash my body i just couldn't fish anymore but like you got to fish

01:05:34.340 man and i didn't want to tell him like i'm you know so you didn't tell him i didn't tell him

01:05:39.180 bailed off into the water yeah i said i gotta hang off the back for a little bit i gotta go to the

01:05:42.680 toilet i used to yeah but it was just i don't think young adult explosive diarrhea is as bad

01:05:49.540 is oh man

01:05:50.540 explosive

01:05:51.200 that's worse

01:05:52.500 probably

01:05:53.240 yeah

01:05:53.940 you know

01:05:54.620 just the

01:05:55.760 fermentation

01:05:57.480 oh yeah

01:05:58.700 the recipe

01:05:59.600 yeah

01:06:00.140 oh that recipe

01:06:01.500 yeah

01:06:01.780 probably much worse

01:06:02.960 cause yeah

01:06:03.400 as an older

01:06:04.300 young adult

01:06:04.880 still kind of fresh 1.00

01:06:05.920 yeah shit still 0.99

01:06:07.020 yeah 1.00

01:06:07.240 you know

01:06:07.560 your guts

01:06:08.980 aren't rotten yet

01:06:10.000 yeah

01:06:10.460 but adult 1.00

01:06:11.480 you got that damn 1.00

01:06:12.080 crock pot on you 1.00

01:06:12.960 ooh it's

01:06:13.520 yeah

01:06:13.880 stuff is

01:06:14.860 aged in there

01:06:16.440 oh yeah 0.57

01:06:16.920 that's a booyah base

01:06:17.960 baby

01:06:18.160 that's a french on your own

01:06:19.220 right there um i know i heard a story that i think well you told me this i'm saying i heard a story

01:06:27.240 but you told me this uh how did things fare like with some of your first marriages how did things

01:06:31.620 like when you look back on your love life what do you think maybe could have been a little bit

01:06:35.960 different i know you said you that i know you said that you kind of gave more maybe than you

01:06:39.480 got it felt like at times or like you got to have both people loving just as much to make it work

01:06:44.700 but uh do you have any thoughts on it looking back on love because having four marriages

01:06:49.840 that's a lot of experience you know well just it but it certainly doesn't make me um

01:06:58.980 very good at it you know I've got a pretty bad track record yeah you know so don't take any

01:07:08.420 advice from me man i'm no authority on what makes everything great but um did you learn anything

01:07:15.700 along the way though like really sure i mean you learn what not to do you know yeah well that

01:07:23.620 didn't work that was bad did you take any of it to heart you think because i mean i you know yes

01:07:27.900 yeah yeah a lot of the bad stuff that i used to do i don't do anymore amen yeah yeah

01:07:34.480 And I heard that one of your wives 0.99

01:07:38.460 I don't even know how to say this 1.00

01:07:41.120 Shot that they shot you

01:07:42.480 Is that true?

01:07:44.720 Yeah that took it a little far I thought

01:07:46.640 That was just

01:07:48.560 That was uncalled for

01:07:50.220 That was totally uncalled for

01:07:52.860 Just leave

01:07:53.640 That's a true story?

01:07:56.560 Let's just call it quits

01:07:57.820 We don't have to go that far

01:07:59.840 Do you think she shot you with the intent to tell you?

01:08:04.080 I don't think so, man.

01:08:05.420 I don't think she even had any idea what that gun was going to do.

01:08:11.180 I'd never seen her hold a gun. 0.93

01:08:13.060 I'd never seen her shoot a gun.

01:08:14.240 I knew she had one, but I'd never seen her use it. 0.95

01:08:18.920 I mean, I had a bunch of guns, still have a bunch of guns,

01:08:22.500 and I shoot them pretty often, but I'd never seen her do that.

01:08:29.460 and I just don't think she knew what was about to happen

01:08:33.460 when she pulled that trigger.

01:08:35.260 She thought it was a toy, you know.

01:08:37.320 Was she saying anything as she was pulling it?

01:08:39.580 Was she pulling it like in a fit of anger or was she just kind of?

01:08:43.000 No, she was mad, yeah.

01:08:44.240 Okay.

01:08:45.260 Wanted me to leave and I wasn't going to leave,

01:08:47.580 so that's how it went down.

01:08:51.960 How did it hit you?

01:08:53.420 She put it under my left arm

01:08:55.560 and the bullet came out under my right arm

01:08:57.520 so it went straight through.

01:08:59.460 Did you have your hands up or something like that?

01:09:01.060 I had this hand out, like that, reaching for it.

01:09:03.380 I told her to give me the gun.

01:09:04.860 She just shot me.

01:09:07.640 What did it feel like?

01:09:09.800 Like a bee biting you?

01:09:12.580 Man, I think when one is that serious, your body protects you.

01:09:18.140 You're just going to shock.

01:09:19.700 You don't really feel anything.

01:09:21.280 I just remember getting up off the floor and then taking a few steps

01:09:25.740 and then going back down.

01:09:27.660 and that's all I remember.

01:09:29.660 You blacked out?

01:09:31.000 Yeah.

01:09:31.480 No way.

01:09:32.860 Yeah.

01:09:33.520 I mean, yeah.

01:09:35.200 So, yeah, I didn't really feel like it really hurt me, you know.

01:09:41.680 And where did it go through your body?

01:09:44.180 It went under this arm, came out this arm, so it went straight through.

01:09:47.140 It went straight through my heart and both my lungs.

01:09:50.280 Nuh-uh.

01:09:51.880 Yeah.

01:09:53.300 Oh, my God.

01:09:53.800 It was a kill shot.

01:09:54.680 And the only reason that I survived was because the doctor said the only reason I survived was because the bullet went through at point-blank velocity, at muzzle velocity, so it didn't have time to mushroom.

01:10:07.380 It was just, you know, muzzle velocity, so it just went straight through.

01:10:11.520 Oh, I see.

01:10:12.260 So, and after that, it would have mushroomed.

01:10:14.320 Yes. 1.00

01:10:15.220 Damn, bro. 1.00

01:10:16.880 Thank God she shot you so close then. 1.00

01:10:18.980 Yeah.

01:10:20.300 In a way, I mean, that's crazy to say.

01:10:22.140 Sorry.

01:10:23.080 God, I'm just not good at supporting people.

01:10:27.440 Like verbally, you know?

01:10:30.240 No, I don't need any support anymore.

01:10:32.360 That was a long time ago.

01:10:33.400 Was the healing?

01:10:34.040 What's that like when you get shot right through the heart?

01:10:35.420 Oh, my God.

01:10:35.880 Well, that was the hard part.

01:10:37.000 That's the part that hurt, you know?

01:10:39.100 The healing up and stuff.

01:10:40.580 I mean, because when I went to Vanderbilt, they life-flighted me to Vanderbilt.

01:10:45.700 So when they do the trauma surgery, they just cut you and just crack you open, you know?

01:10:50.560 Could you feel any of it?

01:10:51.720 No, of course not.

01:10:53.080 I was out.

01:10:54.260 But so the recovery from something like that, though, man, that hurts, you know,

01:10:58.820 because they don't care.

01:10:59.840 They just stretch everything and break stuff. 1.00

01:11:02.940 They don't give a shit. 0.98

01:11:03.600 They're just trying to get you open to get to your heart to save your life. 0.99

01:11:06.920 Oh, I see.

01:11:08.740 And thank God, you know. 1.00

01:11:10.920 Damn. 0.99

01:11:12.140 If I hadn't been for that life flight in Vanderbilt Medical Center, I wouldn't be here. 0.99

01:11:16.400 So it took a long time to recover from that.

01:11:20.500 And then six months later, I had to have another open-heart surgery

01:11:22.920 because they had to put a Dacron patch over that hole in my septum

01:11:26.280 because it didn't heal up.

01:11:28.560 Because when they went in in the beginning,

01:11:31.180 they sealed the hole on this side of my heart

01:11:34.640 and sealed the hole on the other side of my heart where the bullet went through,

01:11:37.260 but they didn't seal the hole in my septum. 0.99

01:11:40.680 Damn. 0.99

01:11:41.580 So six months later, I had to go back. 0.99

01:11:44.340 And that one was a lot easier, though,

01:11:46.220 because they took their time and very careful.

01:11:48.800 Right, they're not, they're not, yeah, it's not, time isn't of the essence as much.

01:11:52.180 Yeah, I actually walked out of the hospital the next day.

01:11:55.500 Did you?

01:11:55.820 That one.

01:11:56.860 That one wasn't so bad.

01:11:58.500 And did your, did she ever apologize to you?

01:12:02.140 Oh, yeah.

01:12:03.920 Yeah.

01:12:04.500 Did you forgive her, you think?

01:12:06.400 I think, you know, I've just always felt like, I don't think she meant to do it, man.

01:12:11.000 Yeah.

01:12:11.160 I don't think, I just don't think that she thought it was going to hurt me.

01:12:16.600 she she thought i was indestructible you know yeah dang yeah that's wild man anyway um did

01:12:26.960 anything like that ever happen again or not no no i never got shot again

01:12:31.680 that's a blessing then you got to see the blessings yeah nobody shot at me in a while

01:12:40.520 that's good yeah that's what i'm saying man that's the kind of yeah that's the kind of stuff we need

01:12:46.960 man and your guess you can always say that you know how you doing well ain't nobody shot at me

01:12:52.440 today that's good and your third wife's canadian right fourth wife yeah canadian and your fourth

01:12:58.920 wife's canadian yeah which is maybe you got her so my first wife was from louisiana my second wife

01:13:04.020 from arkansas my third wife's from illinois my fourth wife's from canada so i'm just like

01:13:08.500 My fifth wife's going to be an Eskimo.

01:13:13.200 I just keep working on up.

01:13:16.220 I'm going to be a hot Eskimo chick.

01:13:20.860 Well, you're moving up to the Arctic, man. 1.00

01:13:24.500 Well, I guess, and at least you've got a Canadian because they can't even own guns 1.00

01:13:27.540 because they don't have any guns. 1.00

01:13:28.720 That's probably a good.

01:13:30.480 I didn't even think about that.

01:13:32.200 That's a plus.

01:13:33.300 Yeah.

01:13:34.520 Canadians are good, and they have great posture.

01:13:36.220 Have you ever noticed that about Canadians?

01:13:37.860 And most of them are pretty polite.

01:13:39.560 Not so much with my wife, but a lot of them are, you know.

01:13:43.480 Yeah, I've heard that all.

01:13:44.820 Very, very polite, and they're always saying, I'm sorry.

01:13:48.180 Yeah, sorry. 1.00

01:13:49.560 Oh, I've had a Canadian come across the street. 1.00

01:13:51.560 They didn't do anything. 0.97

01:13:52.340 They just said, hey, sorry, and then went back across the street.

01:13:56.020 Came over just to apologize, in case they ever did anything, I guess.

01:13:59.940 That's pretty cool of them.

01:14:01.300 Which apologized.

01:14:02.640 No, I think they were coming over just, and they looked at you and went, sorry.

01:14:07.440 yeah that's probably right

01:14:09.620 you know I think that's what

01:14:10.760 you mistook that for

01:14:11.980 maybe you had wronged them

01:14:14.480 in some way

01:14:15.060 I think they just felt

01:14:15.900 sorry for you

01:14:16.760 they probably could have man

01:14:18.680 and that's what I get

01:14:19.800 for buying some of those 1.00

01:14:20.640 sandals from the damn 1.00

01:14:21.620 from the damn 1.00

01:14:22.860 Blake Shelton 1.00

01:14:23.740 sandal collection

01:14:24.440 see

01:14:24.720 yeah

01:14:25.720 that's what did me in

01:14:26.780 yeah were you wearing

01:14:27.680 them at the time

01:14:28.380 yes I was

01:14:28.940 that's why they came over

01:14:30.100 that's why

01:14:30.680 oh man

01:14:33.680 knew you weren't ever 0.99

01:14:34.540 going to get laid

01:14:35.420 yeah

01:14:35.900 so 1.00

01:14:37.080 Oh, there's nothing sadder than some woman invites you over, 0.56

01:14:40.800 and it's got to be sad she opens in order and sees those sandals on. 0.99

01:14:45.320 Just bam. 0.99

01:14:46.820 Yeah. 0.74

01:14:47.420 Unless he's carrying the cannolis from Ferrari,

01:14:50.260 and then she let him on in.

01:14:51.800 Yeah.

01:14:53.120 Now, every now and then, we did have a dessert.

01:14:55.840 A little cannoli action.

01:14:57.360 Oh, it'll show up. 1.00

01:14:58.580 If the women weren't interested, but they were semi-interested, 1.00

01:15:01.500 we'd leave half a cannoli in a little box there on a welcome mat. 0.98

01:15:05.260 You know?

01:15:05.900 A little 11-year-old gigolo going around with a bunch of Italian food.

01:15:11.300 If they didn't have a pet, because otherwise pets would get into them. 0.99

01:15:16.140 You'd see Gary Busey with his damn cannoli all over his chin. 0.99

01:15:23.360 Country music, it's big right now. 0.99

01:15:28.720 Have you felt through your career that it's went through a lull,

01:15:31.180 that it's been different?

01:15:32.380 How have you seen it kind of?

01:15:33.520 Man, I don't think there's ever been really a lull, you know

01:15:37.960 I mean, it started blowing up, you know, right before I got signed

01:15:43.160 I think it really started blowing up in the 90s

01:15:45.740 And it's just continued to dominate as far as genres go, I think, ever since

01:15:51.460 And still going stronger than ever, you know

01:15:54.980 But, I mean, of course, you know, my career's stagnant

01:16:02.340 but the rest of it's doing great.

01:16:04.800 You've had a great career.

01:16:06.160 I've had a great career.

01:16:07.320 Don't get me wrong.

01:16:08.120 I'm totally content.

01:16:09.480 I mean, I'm very happy, and I've had a great run.

01:16:13.820 It was a great ride, but things pass you by.

01:16:17.680 People move on to different things, and I'm cool with that.

01:16:21.740 When you say that, do you mean that certain opportunities kind of come and go?

01:16:29.440 Yeah, what does that mean kind of a little bit?

01:16:31.640 What?

01:16:32.340 Like when you say that, like, you know, that people come and they kind of go.

01:16:35.900 Oh, yeah.

01:16:36.760 Well, I'm not competing really competitively anymore in the game.

01:16:41.460 You know what I'm saying?

01:16:42.140 I'm not releasing singles to radio and trying to get them to play my stuff, you know, whatever.

01:16:48.180 That game that we used to play, I don't play that anymore.

01:16:50.580 You know, I'm not playing the game competitively anymore.

01:16:56.740 I'm just doing it for just the joy of doing it and because I still like to do it.

01:17:01.180 Oh, yeah.

01:17:01.480 But I'm not in there crossing swords with the young guys anymore.

01:17:05.180 I don't need to do that.

01:17:07.260 Yeah, for sure.

01:17:08.520 I mean, yeah, I don't think that you need to.

01:17:10.160 Do you feel like, was there a part in your career where you felt like established enough?

01:17:13.840 Because I think this is just interesting to talk about.

01:17:15.700 It's like, you know, in my own career, even with comedy, it's like, you know, I've had some success.

01:17:20.220 And it's been like, for like the gods of this career have been good to me, right?

01:17:27.140 They've been good to me.

01:17:28.240 um and i've been treated better really than i probably ever should have been maybe you know and

01:17:34.680 uh and then i guess i wonder like yeah i guess it's like i don't know it's interesting because

01:17:41.720 you can you can try to still like be on the gas you can look at like well where am i and what's

01:17:47.720 going on what do i need um you're like i guess are you happy with your career because you've

01:17:51.740 had a great career very yes like i said man super happy with it i mean i i've been able to do what

01:17:59.920 i wanted to do i recorded what i wanted to record sang what i wanted to sing said what i wanted to

01:18:05.780 say i've had an opportunity to do some acting stuff and had a lot of fun doing that um so yeah

01:18:12.380 man it's great and to answer your question about was i ever when did i felt like i was established

01:18:18.400 enough i think about probably a year or so after badonkadonk came out i realized i really probably

01:18:27.740 don't have to put my saddle on another horse you know i can just ride that one on off into the

01:18:34.600 sunset you know what i mean i just kind of knew that that one was going to be around for a while

01:18:40.840 did you know it from the beginning after you wrote it or was it just people's i didn't write

01:18:44.040 that man okay got it but uh jamie johnson and dallas davidson and randy hauser wrote that and

01:18:52.060 and uh jamie johnson's birthday's coming up and jamie was singing the demo

01:18:57.220 and and when i heard it i was in scott henry's office i'll never forget and he played that song

01:19:03.720 for me and as soon as i heard jamie's old cornbread mouth at the beginning of that

01:19:08.480 hustler shooting night ball i just started laughing you know and it got worse from there

01:19:15.660 you know with him singing and it was so funny i about pissed myself and and just to hear him

01:19:21.300 do that you know and and i just and i told scott i said oh my god i gotta cut that i was like you

01:19:29.120 know probably i mean i don't care it won't have to ever get it probably won't ever get played on

01:19:34.440 the radio but i'm gonna cut it because that's hilarious you know it's cleverly written it's

01:19:38.540 funny as hell and so we cut it you know and didn't think any more about it that's crazy and it's

01:19:44.640 crazy how much that really uh that made it into like edm places and everything that made it into

01:19:50.040 like a there was a lot of like a lot of remixes that i've heard over the years there's been a lot

01:19:53.580 of stuff i was at a um i was at jack behind this summer camp he uh yeah he played it that he played

01:20:01.060 it last year we were at this uh summer camp together uh jimmy john has his summer camp we

01:20:05.420 go up there and he played that and i had no idea that he had anything to do with writing that oh

01:20:10.080 yeah man but it was awesome dude yeah that's funny god he's a great artist man he's fun to

01:20:15.500 be around him and his wife he's funny he uh he's a good dude he is a good dude i lost a good old

01:20:20.760 marine bet to him on the super bowl i think or ufc fight something and we had to donate to a

01:20:26.060 charity i don't remember what his charity was or something i think it was might have been helping

01:20:30.820 and Blake Shelton

01:20:31.680 with that

01:20:31.980 recover from that

01:20:33.180 sandal thing

01:20:33.840 he went through

01:20:34.400 but that's rumors

01:20:37.020 I don't know

01:20:37.540 about all that

01:20:38.380 oh

01:20:39.360 Jamie Johnson

01:20:41.680 and his wife Brittany

01:20:42.260 run the Give It Away

01:20:43.120 Foundation

01:20:43.720 named after his hit

01:20:44.860 George Strait song

01:20:45.940 yeah

01:20:46.360 the foundation supports

01:20:47.680 veteran family

01:20:48.500 and crisis charities

01:20:49.660 and is funded by

01:20:50.460 merch sales

01:20:51.180 and a one dollar

01:20:52.260 donation from every

01:20:53.160 concert ticket sold

01:20:54.360 yeah he just

01:20:57.180 did you play at

01:20:58.020 Gary Sinise's

01:20:58.880 fundraiser

01:20:59.580 no

01:21:00.620 I know he just had a fundraiser

01:21:02.620 yeah I wished I could have been there

01:21:04.800 but I was out

01:21:05.420 me too

01:21:05.980 I was on the road

01:21:08.300 I'd just gone through some plant medicine

01:21:10.360 and I couldn't make it out of an air

01:21:12.140 has there been a song that

01:21:14.780 was Badonkadonk probably the most

01:21:17.260 was that the biggest surprise

01:21:19.520 for one that you cut

01:21:20.400 and you were like wow

01:21:21.200 yeah I mean I was surprised

01:21:23.960 that it

01:21:24.680 succeeded the way that it did

01:21:28.560 you know

01:21:30.040 But then I was equally shocked whenever I thought, okay, if that one worked, then this one will work. 0.88

01:21:36.840 And that's when I put out, that was the horrible brown chicken, brown cow incident. 0.89

01:21:42.920 Oh, yeah. 0.99

01:21:44.440 When I put that out. 0.63

01:21:46.420 And I thought it was going to blow up like we donk donk did.

01:21:49.640 And the radio was like, no, you've gone too far here. 0.54

01:21:53.860 It just ended up like a porn meme, didn't it?

01:21:55.520 Yeah.

01:21:55.960 Yeah.

01:21:56.340 Brown chicken, brown cow, you know.

01:21:58.460 dude i don't even know you started that well i sang the song you know and then 0.99

01:22:06.620 you know and so the radio people were like no he playing that shit that's porn you know whatever 0.97

01:22:15.080 yeah and it was a nasty song but i thought it was in the right spirit you know it was meant with 0.99

01:22:22.680 love so i mean it was they were married these two people i was singing about they were married

01:22:28.520 oh yeah you know doing it in the barn that's not like illegal or anything no i don't think it is

01:22:34.440 good clean fun there i mean it's fine with me i don't know them you know but now i will say this

01:22:40.560 if i'm a neighborhood watch guy and i pull up and you're doing something yeah well that's why we

01:22:46.020 need you to wear the vest so we can see you coming i mean if you come up you ain't got on your

01:22:50.820 official you know neighborhood watch uniform you know you can't watch you can't come walking up on

01:22:57.520 me and betty lou in the barn doing our thing man i agree i'm just saying if i pull up in your yard

01:23:04.520 and you were doing something that goes against our charter we're doing something that goes with

01:23:09.260 brown chicken brown cow you know then that's probably against your charter yeah yeah i mean

01:23:16.280 it's just i don't know it's so hard to keep you doing that out in the yard well it's so hard to

01:23:20.640 keep a neighborhood safe that's what i'm trying to say out loud um was there a tour that you almost

01:23:27.300 went on over the years and that you didn't what is that like like how is it over the years how

01:23:31.720 you choose to tour and when not to tour because i'm at a point where it's like you know touring's

01:23:36.460 great and stuff but it takes up a lot of your time and i feel like you'll get off of a tour

01:23:40.120 and you realize wow you know my life has been sort of just like little pictures little moments

01:23:45.080 here and there and it hasn't been a real like a streamlined thing um did that happen to you at

01:23:50.840 times and you had to kind of slow it down to make things happen in your life that you wanted uh

01:23:55.260 outside of work no i mean i've had to take some time off you know to maybe do a movie project or

01:24:02.920 something like that but as far as tours go i never i i went on the tours that people wanted me to go

01:24:11.540 on and and if i if somebody offered me a tour and i didn't like them i didn't go you know so yeah i

01:24:19.220 did the tours i wanted to do and was there any that i regretted i probably should have done that

01:24:25.940 madonna tour when she asked way back when because i she heard me do my go-to karaoke song is like a

01:24:35.120 virgin and she heard me do it once and wanted me to tour with her did she really that's all a lie

01:24:39.440 I will sing that song though 0.90

01:24:42.820 At karaoke

01:24:43.980 I'll tell you a story

01:24:45.500 You don't expect to hear that coming from me

01:24:47.520 When I get up and bus out like a virgin

01:24:49.760 It takes the audience

01:24:51.280 Touch for the very first time?

01:24:53.120 Yeah, they like that

01:24:55.080 I bet that's probably the best part of it

01:24:57.920 Well I'll tell you this man

01:24:59.360 I'll tell you this

01:25:00.200 So my grandparents would let us come up there

01:25:02.740 Sometime in the summer

01:25:03.680 But I was probably

01:25:04.420 After about five they wouldn't let me come up there

01:25:06.640 But one time

01:25:09.040 i went across the street to the park they live in a small town probably

01:25:13.920 maybe 800 people in this town i went across the street at a nice park there

01:25:17.940 and i went across the street and some girl was over there and she had a radio she plugged it

01:25:22.560 into the little outlet under the uh they had a couple picnic tables under a little like just a 1.00

01:25:28.480 steel shed kind of top and uh she plugged in that radio and she played like a virgin 0.99

01:25:34.440 and danced on this picnic table, 1.00

01:25:38.440 some little kind of native-looking girl. 1.00

01:25:41.320 I'd never seen her before, and I didn't even know.

01:25:44.200 I didn't say anything.

01:25:45.360 Native to the town or native?

01:25:47.620 I don't know.

01:25:48.500 I don't know.

01:25:48.940 Native-looking.

01:25:50.460 What does that even mean?

01:25:51.620 I don't know.

01:25:52.040 I could draw a picture of her,

01:25:53.140 but I don't know that much about her.

01:25:55.040 But she plugged in the radio, and she played. 0.88

01:25:58.140 Like a virgin. 1.00

01:25:58.760 Like a virgin and just danced to it.

01:26:00.720 And it was just bizarre.

01:26:01.660 I just remember being like, I don't know.

01:26:04.240 I think it was the first time I felt anything towards a woman or whatever.

01:26:06.660 I just didn't know what was going on, you know.

01:26:08.300 A little cocktail wane, he stood up on you?

01:26:10.560 Yeah.

01:26:11.760 Yeah.

01:26:12.580 Were you five?

01:26:13.740 You were five?

01:26:14.520 I mean, I had, you know.

01:26:15.820 Wow, I can't remember that.

01:26:17.560 I had that wiener in me. 0.81

01:26:19.560 I can remember.

01:26:21.120 You know.

01:26:21.720 I was a lot older than five, though.

01:26:23.660 I think I did.

01:26:24.720 I don't know.

01:26:25.100 Some of that could be in my imagination, Trace.

01:26:28.460 Yeah.

01:26:28.740 But now I did plug it in, and she sang that song. 0.85

01:26:31.060 that was the first time I'd ever seen a woman

01:26:32.900 kind of perform something like that, you know? 1.00

01:26:37.300 How many times?

01:26:38.660 Now you pay for it.

01:26:40.300 Yeah.

01:26:41.100 Now you pay to see it.

01:26:42.620 That was the first freebie you got.

01:26:46.440 Yeah, they were baiting me, man.

01:26:47.360 Now you got to put money in their drawers.

01:26:49.580 That whole thing.

01:26:52.620 That whole thing was a big bait and switch, man.

01:26:55.120 That's what it was, man.

01:26:57.800 You've gotten to play with a lot of legends over the years.

01:27:01.060 as a legend like yourself does, man.

01:27:04.360 And are there some, did you ever get to,

01:27:07.160 did you ever get to play with like,

01:27:08.380 or see Jerry Lee Lewis play?

01:27:09.960 No.

01:27:10.440 Before your time?

01:27:12.460 Well.

01:27:13.000 He still plays some.

01:27:14.060 Does he still play when he passed away?

01:27:15.300 He finally passed away.

01:27:16.180 Yeah, but man, he lived a lot longer.

01:27:18.660 He lived longer than Keith Richards.

01:27:21.500 Yeah.

01:27:22.380 He kept on living, dude.

01:27:23.920 Mm-hmm.

01:27:25.080 Yeah, no, I didn't see him.

01:27:27.940 I never got to see Johnny Cash.

01:27:31.060 I did a show with Waylon and I actually got to sing with Haggard and Ronnie Millsap and Buck Owens and some of those guys that I just revered and, you know, just put on that pedestal, you know, and I actually got to sing with them.

01:27:48.300 And so, man, that was unbelievable, just the surreal moments that I'll never forget performing with those guys.

01:28:00.100 So, yeah, I've got to be a fan, and that's what I am.

01:28:05.480 I've always been.

01:28:06.280 I've been a country music fan.

01:28:07.700 I still am, you know, and those opportunities that came along were just priceless.

01:28:14.540 Who's that photo right there?

01:28:16.540 George Jones.

01:28:17.880 Gosh, I love George.

01:28:19.920 Was he a pretty neat guy to be around?

01:28:22.040 George usually didn't have a whole lot to say, man.

01:28:26.540 I'd go over to his house and watch TV, and we'd sit and watch TV.

01:28:30.680 Yeah.

01:28:31.200 We weren't talking.

01:28:32.440 Yeah.

01:28:32.740 No.

01:28:33.600 We'd just watch TV.

01:28:35.080 Yeah.

01:28:35.660 George would want to watch a ball game or a movie or something.

01:28:38.240 That's what we'd do.

01:28:39.560 We didn't talk.

01:28:41.440 You remember doing some of those early mornings?

01:28:43.500 Like, I remember I used to work as a tour manager for an artist for this guy, Josh Kelly, and his brother, Charles, is a musician as well, Charles Kelly.

01:28:51.420 And I worked with Josh for a while.

01:28:53.780 He would go play at all the radio stations in the morning to push his single.

01:28:57.280 So I was just working as just a tour support, you know, for him.

01:29:00.900 So it was just me and him traveling around the country.

01:29:03.060 He was pushing this single that he had that did well.

01:29:05.760 And I just remember those mornings at those radio stations.

01:29:09.660 And you'd be like, we're bringing in lobster.

01:29:11.280 And they'd have, like, lobster at, like, 5.55 in the morning, dude,

01:29:15.040 which is, like, not a good time to put lobster in your system.

01:29:17.820 And also they'd have donuts.

01:29:19.460 We got – it's like donuts and lobster on the Waz or something 0.98

01:29:23.280 that has, like, some crazy radio shit, you know? 0.83

01:29:25.500 Like, we're giving away a free bass boat or whatever, you know? 0.99

01:29:28.820 And it's like, who can eat the most lobster, you know? 0.99

01:29:32.480 Remember that kind of shit? 1.00

01:29:33.720 Those morning shows. 1.00

01:29:35.080 Oh, my God, when you're trying to –

01:29:37.260 It never ceased to amaze me, and I would bring it up every now and then,

01:29:41.420 and they would just blow it off because I'd be like, let me tell y'all something, okay?

01:29:46.200 Let me say this on behalf of everybody that sings.

01:29:49.420 We can't do it well at 6 o'clock in the morning.

01:29:53.400 It's just an impossible thing to do, and you expect us to come in here and do it

01:30:01.120 and be good, and it's not going to be good.

01:30:03.900 I'm just telling you, it's not going to be good.

01:30:06.420 And nobody's going to do it well at 6 o'clock in the morning.

01:30:09.940 I mean, you know, that's why we do shows at 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock at night.

01:30:16.680 Because that's, you know, man got to wake up, you know, have a few cups of coffee.

01:30:22.100 Trace Adkins goes good with lobster.

01:30:25.400 I never went and had lobster at a morning show.

01:30:28.320 He must have been in Maine or somewhere.

01:30:30.280 No, dude, this was some place where we got 40 pounds of lobster coming in.

01:30:36.420 And they would have, like, car washes and lobster.

01:30:38.140 But it was always some, you know what I'm saying?

01:30:39.660 It was always some rigmarole, like, we got hot air balloons and lobster or whatever. 0.99

01:30:44.280 And it would always be some kind of shit. 0.99

01:30:45.880 And you're like, what in the fuck am I getting involved in? 0.99

01:30:48.300 Because comedians, we had to go there, too. 0.98

01:30:50.740 So it would be crazy that I went on this tour with Josh.

01:30:53.240 We probably went to 100 radio stations around the country.

01:30:56.300 Like, it was a couple months of him going.

01:30:58.460 He'd play this single.

01:30:59.160 I'd bring in some coffee.

01:31:00.300 We'd sit there, you know.

01:31:01.780 And then we'd drive to the next place.

01:31:04.220 And it was great, man.

01:31:05.340 i felt lucky to have the job i was getting to travel around the country but then 10 years later

01:31:09.260 i'd be there doing it with comedy you know yeah doing it with as a comedian going in to the radio

01:31:13.980 stage you'd have to go in early you know you'd have to be in there and like you know you have

01:31:17.720 to be funny on the radio at you know at 6 40 a.m i know yeah and you know it's like and we'd see

01:31:24.000 y'all in the lobby i've always thought to like actors like big movie stars you know i always

01:31:32.160 thought if i okay i want to go in i want to talk to these people and and you know tell them about

01:31:38.360 my new project and and how good it is and what the inspiration was and blah blah blah and all

01:31:44.160 that kind of stuff but then then just play the song yeah play the song play the song on the radio

01:31:49.540 the way that i recorded in the studio that's what we want to hear you don't want to hear me try to

01:31:54.740 sing it at six o'clock in the morning and it's like actors with the go do talk shows promoting

01:31:59.360 a new movie or something.

01:32:00.820 You know, the guy sitting there

01:32:01.820 interviewing them, you know,

01:32:02.920 at some point he doesn't go,

01:32:04.720 okay, well, how about doing a scene

01:32:06.080 for us from the movie?

01:32:08.240 And you know what I mean?

01:32:09.680 Can you imagine that?

01:32:10.700 Leo DiCaprio will be going,

01:32:11.800 excuse me?

01:32:12.860 They should have to.

01:32:13.580 Do a scene from the movie.

01:32:15.160 Then they should have to.

01:32:16.080 No, show the clip.

01:32:17.260 No, we want you to do a scene.

01:32:19.060 You do it.

01:32:19.980 Here, right now.

01:32:21.380 Do it.

01:32:22.040 And action.

01:32:23.080 You know, and I mean,

01:32:23.720 it's like, come on, man.

01:32:24.720 But we have to go in

01:32:25.840 at six o'clock in the morning

01:32:26.880 and sing.

01:32:28.280 And we have to go in there and be funny.

01:32:29.960 And tell jokes.

01:32:30.660 Yeah.

01:32:31.100 It is kind of unfair, isn't it?

01:32:33.100 I think so.

01:32:33.940 That's why they bring in the lobster. 1.00

01:32:35.940 That's why they add in the bullshit every time. 1.00

01:32:38.120 It was always something. 1.00

01:32:38.980 Every time.

01:32:39.500 With comedians, I'd be up there like,

01:32:41.180 we're giving away a free Christmas treat at 8.30,

01:32:44.060 be on the jingle dial or whatever, 0.94

01:32:46.260 and we'd be shitting in there, 0.92

01:32:47.360 and there'd be somebody calling in, 0.99

01:32:48.660 asking if it's a damn Douglas fir or whatever. 1.00

01:32:50.240 It's like, bitch, I don't give a shit what it is. 1.00

01:32:52.540 I'm trying to get in here, be funny if I can, 1.00

01:32:56.720 and help sell some tickets, you know,

01:32:58.280 and get people to know I'm in town.

01:32:59.640 But I just always remember those morning radios, man.

01:33:02.400 That stuff was a...

01:33:03.280 I do too.

01:33:04.100 That stuff was a haul.

01:33:05.220 And it was also great.

01:33:06.180 I did it a bunch of times.

01:33:07.140 Same, man.

01:33:08.760 Yeah.

01:33:09.360 I did it so much.

01:33:11.380 I did it so much, dude.

01:33:13.200 But sometimes you did get to know a place a little bit better.

01:33:15.680 Sometimes it would get me out of bed in the morning.

01:33:17.240 I think there was blessings to it.

01:33:21.160 What do you...

01:33:21.920 Do you think you've achieved all your goals with entertainment?

01:33:24.880 way man I did way more than I ever thought I would do you know I mean this whole thing was like

01:33:33.960 I would never have allowed myself to dream that big you know I'm I think I'm a I'm a realist in

01:33:42.400 that respect I wouldn't have allowed myself to dream that I would have this kind of career and

01:33:48.340 get to do this for as long as I've done it no way so everything's gravy now did that change

01:33:55.800 any of your perspective about certain things or give you like did that adjust like kind of how

01:33:59.100 you think about life or even how you like how you like things you talk with your kids about 0.96

01:34:03.400 because that's pretty interesting to think that shit life gave me more even than my dreams you 0.97

01:34:09.340 know yeah or that God gave it you know what you know what I'm not sure what your beliefs are but 0.96

01:34:13.660 or that's, you know, the entities of the universe gave me more than even my dream.

01:34:18.300 That's pretty wild.

01:34:19.040 More than, you know, I think I took just a very little bit of talent

01:34:27.300 and just went way farther than I should have, you know.

01:34:32.600 So, I mean, Buck Owens told me one time I went to Buck's place

01:34:37.740 and went to his radio station there in Bakersfield,

01:34:41.560 and it was raining that day.

01:34:43.660 And so Buck wasn't playing golf, and he was actually in the radio station.

01:34:47.960 So he wanted me to go in his office, so he and I went in his big office there,

01:34:52.880 and he locked the door and wouldn't let nobody else come in.

01:34:55.160 I was sitting there with guitar, and he'd tell me to sing this, sing that.

01:34:58.900 And he said, sing that new single you got.

01:35:01.740 And so I did it, and he was like, son, let me tell you something.

01:35:06.620 He said, that low note that you can sing, you need to do that on every song

01:35:11.440 because that's all you got going for you.

01:35:13.660 That's what he told me.

01:35:15.760 It was just something.

01:35:18.440 That's all you got going for it.

01:35:19.620 That's what Bucko said to you?

01:35:20.780 Yeah.

01:35:21.540 And he was serious.

01:35:22.540 Yeah.

01:35:23.220 And I appreciated him for it.

01:35:25.060 You know, it's like he was, you know, go with that.

01:35:29.120 Do that all the time.

01:35:31.480 Do that because that's kind of the one thing you got that nobody else has,

01:35:34.920 so do that, you know.

01:35:37.260 Was it good advice?

01:35:38.400 I've done it in just about every song.

01:35:40.380 Yeah.

01:35:41.480 You know, hit that low note and rattle the subs and, you know, 1.00

01:35:46.660 chicks kind of get a little wiggly. 1.00

01:35:48.240 Badon-ka-donk. 1.00

01:35:49.420 Yeah.

01:35:49.960 Yeah.

01:35:50.700 Can't sit still.

01:35:52.400 Yeah, look, I mean, you got a deep voice, you know.

01:35:54.440 Look, I'm not even a woman, and it makes me, you know,

01:35:57.280 want to at least make sure I have deodorant on, so. 1.00

01:36:01.700 Chicks dig the bass singers, man. 1.00

01:36:03.420 They do? 1.00

01:36:04.660 Yeah.

01:36:05.440 God, I should have done it.

01:36:07.240 Been a bass singer?

01:36:08.580 Yeah, I couldn't have done it. 0.77

01:36:10.620 I'd have to get more balls added in my bag, I think.

01:36:13.140 I'd need six balls, I think, to hit the notes you hit, man.

01:36:17.280 I'd need probably eight balls or something.

01:36:19.740 Dude, you must have some.

01:36:21.040 Yeah, I can't even imagine hitting those. 1.00

01:36:22.840 You must have some damn balls on you. 1.00

01:36:24.720 It would take probably two hours to neuter you. 1.00

01:36:28.100 Do you shave your balls or do you get somebody else to do it? 1.00

01:36:34.320 You don't know? 1.00

01:36:36.520 Not sure.

01:36:37.680 Oh, you're not sure.

01:36:38.500 They just end up shaving.

01:36:39.880 You don't know how the hell it happened.

01:36:42.120 Remember Nair?

01:36:43.700 When people would rub that stuff on there?

01:36:45.860 God, yeah.

01:36:47.180 I freaking put it in my...

01:36:48.140 That stuff was painful. 1.00

01:36:50.340 Oh, that shit. 1.00

01:36:51.540 Especially you put it all your... 1.00

01:36:52.620 I remember doing my legs one year.

01:36:54.280 I was trying to get ready for Christmas or whatever,

01:36:55.800 and I was like, I thought I was going to...

01:36:57.180 Getting ready for Christmas?

01:36:58.240 You didn't want to have hair on your legs for Christmas?

01:37:00.320 Well, I knew that I'd gotten these cool Velcro pants.

01:37:03.100 My grandfather had died.

01:37:03.960 And sandals.

01:37:05.020 Yeah. 1.00

01:37:05.380 You want to get that hair off your feet before you put the sandals on it?

01:37:08.500 you know i mean toenail fungus is okay but hair you can't have that no dude i remember what

01:37:17.300 happened was i got this pair velour not velcro pants my grandfather had died in them and i

01:37:22.140 inherited them and so i was so excited about it and i said but the hair on my legs died in them

01:37:28.380 he died in them he died in them he had smoker's foot or whatever and they cut both of his toes

01:37:32.820 off. Two of his chin toes.

01:37:34.860 Smoker's foot is not a thing.

01:37:37.460 Yes, it is. Smoker's foot?

01:37:38.960 No, it's not.

01:37:40.940 Yes, it is, Tracy. Smoker's foot?

01:37:42.920 Bring up Smoker's foot. 0.99

01:37:46.280 Oh, my 0.95

01:37:46.940 God. That's just straight-up diabetes,

01:37:49.240 man. It ain't Smoker's foot.

01:37:52.060 Well, I know.

01:37:53.040 He got it from smoking 1.00

01:37:55.020 cigarettes and watching the damn St. Louis Cardinals 1.00

01:37:57.100 play. 0.99

01:37:59.380 Smoker's feet refers to various foot

01:38:01.040 conditions.

01:38:02.520 Oh, well, that dude shouldn't wear sandals, that guy.

01:38:09.480 Yeah.

01:38:10.400 Don't even come close to a pair of sandals.

01:38:14.300 Yeah, I agree.

01:38:15.620 But, yeah, Granddad lost those toes.

01:38:18.880 And he was wearing a pair of velour pants.

01:38:21.500 He wore a pair of velour pants when he passed, and so I got them.

01:38:23.440 Classy.

01:38:24.500 But my leg hair would gather in them, and it would come out the pants kind of.

01:38:29.080 You know when your leg hair will come out like you threw up?

01:38:30.920 No, I don't know how that is at all.

01:38:33.600 It would shift through the fabric.

01:38:36.620 It would kind of come out through the textile or the tapestry of it.

01:38:39.820 No, no, I've had that happen, you know,

01:38:41.920 putting on a pair of them tight insulated underwear,

01:38:45.800 but not just regular pants.

01:38:48.360 Well, I think at the time—

01:38:49.400 Oh, they were skin-tight pants?

01:38:51.060 No, they were pretty—no, they were a little bit tight.

01:38:54.200 At the time, I'll be honest with you,

01:38:56.080 I think I was using steroids or something,

01:38:58.260 so my hair was growing fast.

01:38:59.540 so I had 0.98

01:39:00.400 my body was damn 0.99

01:39:01.920 I mean I'd give dang 0.99

01:39:04.560 little Gary Busey

01:39:05.460 a run for his money

01:39:06.260 over there

01:39:06.740 you know I was full

01:39:07.620 I had a lot of hair

01:39:08.520 and uh 0.63

01:39:10.140 and that's a true story

01:39:11.060 and I

01:39:11.480 but anyway

01:39:12.080 I used an air on my legs

01:39:13.020 but also

01:39:14.040 uh 1.00

01:39:14.680 yeah that shit was painful though 0.99

01:39:16.160 my legs 0.99

01:39:16.680 got all kinds of like

01:39:18.160 uh

01:39:18.760 pimples and stuff on them

01:39:19.960 and just it was horrible for them

01:39:21.260 that stuff was toxic

01:39:23.120 so we got there

01:39:23.980 talking about an air or something

01:39:25.720 that was toxic man

01:39:26.980 um

01:39:27.900 What's one of the most humbling moments in your career or in your life?

01:39:33.160 Has there been a moment that's kind of like, I guess more in your career?

01:39:37.120 What's been a part of your life or your career, I guess, that you've kind of felt humbled by?

01:39:42.200 Oh, wow.

01:39:45.000 That's an interesting question.

01:39:47.880 The first time I really remember being humbled was when I, my first year of college,

01:39:54.080 when, you know, I'd had a good, dominant senior year

01:39:59.540 playing football, and then I went to college

01:40:01.380 and I got out on the field with those guys.

01:40:03.900 It was like, whoa, this is a different game right here, you know.

01:40:10.320 Yeah, that step up in talent right there, that was humbling.

01:40:15.520 And you've got to pretend that it's not, I guess, out there.

01:40:18.360 You can't.

01:40:18.700 Well, yeah, but I mean, you know, going from a year in high school

01:40:23.140 when you kind of felt like the stud pretty much every Friday night

01:40:27.600 and didn't really run into anybody that I couldn't handle my senior year.

01:40:33.780 And then the toughest guy, I always tell people,

01:40:36.940 like that toughest guy that I faced across the line of scrimmage

01:40:40.420 my entire senior year, you get to college

01:40:43.680 and the whole field's full of those guys.

01:40:46.240 You know what I mean?

01:40:47.460 Especially on there, you played at Louisiana Tech?

01:40:49.520 Yeah.

01:40:49.880 That's where Terry Bradshaw played, yeah?

01:40:51.660 Yeah.

01:40:52.280 And Antonio Brown's dad played there.

01:40:54.700 Yeah, well, and then you go into the field house at Louisiana Tech,

01:40:58.620 and it was just a big mural of Terry Bradshaw at the end of the building.

01:41:04.060 He's a god there, you know.

01:41:05.920 So, yeah, that was really humbling.

01:41:08.480 Did he ever come to one of your games?

01:41:10.560 I don't remember him coming.

01:41:12.200 He should have.

01:41:12.620 Y'all look alike a little.

01:41:15.100 I can see that.

01:41:15.780 And, of course, I've been humbled since.

01:41:20.180 I mean, you know, you get into this business, you've got to eat a little humble pie every now and then or you're not going to stick around.

01:41:30.680 Yeah, I think it's the same probably in most things.

01:41:32.580 I think it's like, I don't know.

01:41:34.260 I think in most parts of like entertainment, probably comedy, there's always like somebody better and or younger and different that comes along, you know.

01:41:42.120 And I think, yeah, just make sure making sure I stay on the side of like, oh, I think that's cool or that's awesome.

01:41:47.180 instead of getting on any begrudging side of it.

01:41:50.480 Yeah, you get humbled.

01:41:51.560 I mean, you know, I had my – you have to wake up and realize, you know,

01:41:57.240 like I said earlier, you know, I had my turn, somebody else's turn, you know.

01:42:02.740 And you just got to accept that, and it can be a little humbling,

01:42:07.160 but you just deal with it and move on.

01:42:11.820 You said that Buck Owens probably gave you a decent piece of advice there.

01:42:14.820 Was that probably the best advice you ever got, you think,

01:42:16.880 or what's a decent piece of advice that you've gotten in your life

01:42:19.140 that's kind of stuck with you?

01:42:21.260 Even if he didn't follow it at the time, in hindsight,

01:42:23.660 you'd look back and be like, hmm.

01:42:27.860 Yeah, my old man.

01:42:30.080 Yeah.

01:42:30.940 Keep your knife sharp and your gun is loaded.

01:42:33.800 Yeah, yeah.

01:42:35.720 Ain't there two useless things in this world, 0.69

01:42:38.440 a dull knife and an empty gun.

01:42:42.720 Yeah, my old man told me that.

01:42:45.300 And he also said, this Christmas I'm going to get you an anvil and a rubber hammer

01:42:50.080 and see how long it takes you to tear it up.

01:42:52.620 Because I tore up everything the poor man had, trucks, tractors.

01:42:57.520 Did you do it for fun or you did it on purpose, do you think?

01:43:00.020 No, I didn't do it on purpose, no.

01:43:02.920 But I tore them all up.

01:43:04.600 Yeah. 0.99

01:43:06.340 Yeah, I'm trying to think if I tore a lot of shit up. 0.97

01:43:08.640 My buddy, Jeffrey, he had some sort of issue, but he would. 0.98

01:43:12.820 and we survived the gas leak

01:43:14.920 at his house also

01:43:15.720 but I've talked about that

01:43:17.440 he would get upset

01:43:20.200 and beat all the drywall

01:43:21.540 out of the wall in his room

01:43:22.740 at his house

01:43:24.200 and for Christmas

01:43:24.920 his parents would get the room

01:43:26.040 redone every year

01:43:27.200 and get a fresh drywall in there

01:43:29.440 probably if he's just sitting around

01:43:31.100 smelling gas all the time

01:43:32.680 I never thought about that 0.93

01:43:34.700 they thought he had a damn 0.99

01:43:36.680 it'll make you go crazy 0.99

01:43:37.700 eventually you just sit there

01:43:39.180 and just keep smelling it

01:43:40.280 and don't fix the leak

01:43:41.400 Yeah, they thought he had—

01:43:43.420 You all survived the gas leak.

01:43:44.820 Why, you just sit there in it and, you know, okay, well, you get a new merit patch on your neighborhood watch vest for surviving the gas leak.

01:43:57.400 For reporting them.

01:43:59.860 Doing an experiment to see how long a man could survive in a gas leak.

01:44:05.120 You sat there, you and your buddy, what was his name?

01:44:08.360 Jeffrey.

01:44:09.320 Jeffrey.

01:44:11.400 A guy's name, Jeffrey, sounded just a little, that's just, you know.

01:44:15.460 He was doing some things.

01:44:17.500 I apologize to all the cool Jeffreys.

01:44:19.640 No, there ain't no cool Jeffreys out there.

01:44:21.620 I mean, first of all, yeah, Jeffrey, I think Jeffrey.

01:44:26.380 Your name is Jeffrey.

01:44:27.340 You don't ever go by Jeffrey.

01:44:28.520 You shouldn't.

01:44:29.280 Yes.

01:44:29.820 No.

01:44:30.480 I mean, once you get hair on your nuts, you go Jeff, right?

01:44:36.340 Yeah, you go Jeff immediately.

01:44:37.560 Dr. J, I'd go Dr. J.

01:44:39.800 Yeah, I'd go Dr. J, boy.

01:44:42.460 I'd go Big Jeff with them nuts.

01:44:44.660 That's what I'd call myself.

01:44:49.000 What else, Trace?

01:44:50.060 What's new in your world right now?

01:44:52.040 What's something that you're looking forward to?

01:44:54.240 Oh, I'm going to do another record, another country record.

01:44:58.460 Because you're on your 30th.

01:44:59.460 This is your 30th anniversary tour right now, right?

01:45:02.080 I came and saw it, man.

01:45:03.060 It was a great show, man.

01:45:04.200 Thanks.

01:45:04.900 It was really great.

01:45:06.020 We sat there, and I just didn't, you know, you just like,

01:45:09.160 Yeah, you just kind of lose track of all the songs that are attached to certain people,

01:45:13.120 and then you lose track of ones that just that you don't remember, you know,

01:45:17.780 and it's nice to sit there and just go through the anthology, man.

01:45:21.040 It was awesome, dude.

01:45:22.420 Well, thank you.

01:45:23.900 So, yeah, I'm going to do another record.

01:45:26.540 I didn't know if I was going to or not after I did that last one.

01:45:30.600 We did that The Way I Want to Go album, and it had 25 songs on it,

01:45:36.240 because we did that during COVID when we didn't have anything else to do.

01:45:39.560 So we just stayed in the studio all the time, you know,

01:45:42.860 and ended up with 25 songs.

01:45:44.560 And I thought, okay, that's it, you know.

01:45:46.520 I don't have to do another record.

01:45:48.460 And then when 30 years came along and my voice is still the way it is,

01:45:56.280 I thought, you know, I guess I will do another record.

01:46:00.680 And I've always been like that, you know.

01:46:02.620 So I'm going to let this determine how long I keep doing this.

01:46:10.060 As long as I can still sing those songs in the same key that I recorded them in,

01:46:15.160 and I can still hit the licks and hit the notes

01:46:18.440 and do all the things that I need to do.

01:46:23.460 And I guess I'll just keep doing it, you know.

01:46:26.120 But it's kind of like it's just the old jock in me, I guess.

01:46:30.060 You know, I had to walk away from football when I just couldn't do it anymore.

01:46:33.860 I was too tore up and couldn't perform at the level that I was satisfied with.

01:46:39.140 But as long as I'm satisfied with my performance and I think that I'm doing it okay,

01:46:45.980 then I guess I'll just keep doing it.

01:46:48.940 So I might as well make another record.

01:46:51.160 Do you feel like a calling, almost a responsibility to do that?

01:46:54.180 Or is it just sort of a personal thing like, hey, if I can do this

01:46:57.080 and I do love doing it, I'm going to keep at it?

01:46:59.080 That's kind of it, you know.

01:47:01.680 I'm just going to do it because I feel like I'm still good at this.

01:47:08.040 You know, I feel like I've gotten better at my craft.

01:47:12.500 I think I'm better at it now than I ever have been.

01:47:15.640 I don't know.

01:47:16.480 My voice is still, you know, I quit smoking and the range got better.

01:47:23.300 The bottom's gotten better over the years.

01:47:25.880 I mean, I can go deeper than I ever could, and that's just going to get better with age.

01:47:30.640 Your voice just gets lower and lower.

01:47:32.600 But I haven't lost anything on the top either.

01:47:34.900 I can still hit everything, you know, on the top end that I always could.

01:47:39.840 So, hell, why not?

01:47:41.720 Just keep doing it. 1.00

01:47:43.080 Yeah, shit was popping when we came, man. 0.99

01:47:45.060 We didn't feel like, you know, sometimes you're there and you feel like the artist is kind of, 0.99

01:47:49.060 it's not like what you've heard, you know?

01:47:50.900 I know.

01:47:51.580 We didn't feel a lot like that.

01:47:52.420 I don't want to be one of those guys.

01:47:53.700 I've seen those guys.

01:47:54.820 i've been to those shows where they're still out doing it it's like dude just quit yeah and just

01:48:00.020 please stop we don't want to remember you like this you know what i don't want anybody to say

01:48:05.940 that about me ever you know what was one of the uh has there been what was like one of the toughest

01:48:11.300 points in your career do you feel like i mean obviously got shot well that wasn't that was way

01:48:16.100 before i got a record due on it you know uh toughest points of my career i don't know there

01:48:22.980 there was a period, you know,

01:48:24.600 there after that sophomore album came out,

01:48:27.500 you know, that sophomore jinx kind of thing,

01:48:30.700 and it reared its ugly head

01:48:32.780 and started biting me pretty hard, 0.56

01:48:34.880 and things got, you know,

01:48:38.220 they just slowed way down,

01:48:40.020 and I thought, I mean, when I first came out,

01:48:42.080 you know, that first album, you know,

01:48:43.860 two number ones and platinum and, you know,

01:48:47.480 this is going to be easy.

01:48:49.320 You're the hot cake in town, yeah.

01:48:50.760 Yeah, and then reality sets in when you put that sophomore record out.

01:48:57.460 But I wouldn't say that it was hard times, just, you know, disappointing.

01:49:05.020 I just thought that graph was going to keep going that way, you know.

01:49:09.380 When you look back on that, do you think, like, it's like that you stuck to all your laurels,

01:49:15.240 even though you were, like, a young artist at that time?

01:49:17.080 Or do you feel like—because a lot of times with artists, you get it.

01:49:19.380 like after that first album sometimes they'll try to attach a lot of other producers and things like

01:49:22.980 that can happen and no blame or anything i'm just thinking like what would you would there be any

01:49:28.180 suggestions you would offer from your experience to an artist that had has had some early success

01:49:33.300 as to what like you know if there's any like um thing you could share about that next experience

01:49:39.460 that maybe you would have done different i don't think you should ever try to change your game to

01:49:44.500 fit in to what's going on

01:49:46.500 now you know

01:49:47.820 don't do that

01:49:50.380 you know just be who you

01:49:52.620 are and dance with the one

01:49:54.660 that brung you you know just keep doing that

01:49:56.800 and you know

01:49:58.160 it's been my experience anyway that

01:50:00.620 those fans that you had

01:50:02.120 those people that became fans

01:50:04.660 of yours for what you did

01:50:06.500 if you keep doing that they'll stay

01:50:08.920 you know

01:50:11.080 don't run them

01:50:12.700 off

01:50:13.600 Yeah.

01:50:16.180 You have a farm.

01:50:18.300 What y'all growing over there?

01:50:20.340 Weeds and trees.

01:50:22.780 Weeds?

01:50:23.720 Weeds and trees.

01:50:25.060 Oh, yeah.

01:50:25.760 That's it, huh?

01:50:27.440 Yeah, not weed.

01:50:29.000 Okay.

01:50:29.580 Just regular old weeds.

01:50:30.880 I didn't know.

01:50:31.480 I don't care if you smoke it.

01:50:32.240 You smoke pot or no?

01:50:33.380 No, I haven't in a long time.

01:50:35.660 It's making me kind of nervous. 0.99

01:50:37.340 Turned me into a damn heart. 0.99

01:50:38.140 Made me so paranoid. 1.00

01:50:38.940 The older I got, the worse the paranoia was.

01:50:43.140 that came with it

01:50:44.100 and it just finally

01:50:45.060 got to the point

01:50:45.620 where I can't do this anymore.

01:50:46.920 Yeah.

01:50:47.480 That's how I am, dude.

01:50:48.720 And I mean,

01:50:49.140 now that stuff

01:50:49.860 they're growing now,

01:50:50.680 I mean,

01:50:50.900 that's just like acid

01:50:52.020 or something.

01:50:52.640 Yeah.

01:50:52.800 People having

01:50:53.540 hallucinations and stuff. 0.99

01:50:55.760 That shit's like 1.00

01:50:56.080 having a fucking gas 1.00

01:50:57.060 leak in your head. 1.00

01:50:58.060 Yeah, man. 0.75

01:50:59.220 Like sitting in a gas leak

01:51:00.780 all day long. 1.00

01:51:01.660 Oh, that new shit 1.00

01:51:02.580 will just turn me 1.00

01:51:03.600 into a damn haunted house. 0.99

01:51:04.660 Dude, I'll be doing 1.00

01:51:05.120 neighborhood watch

01:51:05.940 inside of my own head,

01:51:07.020 brother.

01:51:07.280 It gets bad, you know?

01:51:09.240 Yeah. 1.00

01:51:09.640 This shit gets 1.00

01:51:10.040 a little bit dark. 1.00

01:51:10.800 No, I haven't done it

01:51:11.540 in a while.

01:51:12.280 What's in the news?

01:51:13.140 Anything we want to look at, fellas?

01:51:16.440 Semi-truck spills nearly 40,000 pounds of Frank's Red Hot.

01:51:20.880 Boy, I'd pull my pickup truck there.

01:51:24.260 Start loading that.

01:51:25.600 Oh, God.

01:51:26.640 I'd fill my pockets with that. 1.00

01:51:29.440 Dude, I'd put two handfuls in my little sister's mouth, 1.00

01:51:32.280 make her bring it home, dude. 1.00

01:51:33.300 We would be storing that in our cheeks like damn recipe squirrels. 1.00

01:51:39.920 Amid a brutal near nationwide heat wave, 0.98

01:51:42.240 it seems strangely appropriate the spill scene on an ohio highway now i will say this they could

01:51:48.000 use a little bit of seasoning up there has been labeled red hot um a semi-truck leaked a strange

01:51:54.960 reddish liquid on a highway near columbus uh frank's red hot near a 40 000 pound shipment

01:52:01.120 now what i'm looking at here though is the jeremy roth they're the guy that wrote the story for cnn

01:52:08.240 news source

01:52:09.880 you know

01:52:11.180 I mean what do you think

01:52:12.180 Jeremy's gig is

01:52:13.340 there at the news station

01:52:14.740 right

01:52:15.160 it's like

01:52:15.620 okay 1.00

01:52:16.540 we got this shit 0.99

01:52:18.140 spilled out here 1.00

01:52:19.100 on the road

01:52:19.780 we need somebody

01:52:20.900 to go write about it

01:52:22.080 Jeremy

01:52:23.400 you ain't doing nothing 1.00

01:52:26.320 go write about this shit 1.00

01:52:28.140 spilled out on the road 1.00

01:52:29.400 out here

01:52:29.860 poor old Jeremy

01:52:31.300 Jeremy

01:52:32.060 Jeremy's this far

01:52:33.640 from getting fired

01:52:34.520 you know what I mean

01:52:35.580 so we gotta find

01:52:36.800 something for him to do

01:52:37.920 until it comes into the month

01:52:39.300 and we can get rid of him.

01:52:40.680 So we're going to send Jeremy out there

01:52:42.740 and he's going to write a thousand words 1.00

01:52:45.080 about this red shit spilled on the highway. 1.00

01:52:49.060 He's probably drinking a morning coffee 1.00

01:52:51.180 out of a damn baby bottle or something over there 0.99

01:52:53.420 because he's been through some stuff. 0.99

01:52:55.760 Maybe he has PSTD from like,

01:52:58.040 he got a computer with bad spell check on it

01:53:00.100 or something in college

01:53:01.120 and he never really processed it.

01:53:03.500 But dude, I can't even...

01:53:04.760 I bought a bad Italian burrito from an 11-year-old.

01:53:09.720 Hey, man.

01:53:11.540 We worked hard, okay?

01:53:13.720 I'll say this.

01:53:14.640 Some of those driveways were uphill, Trace.

01:53:17.140 Okay.

01:53:17.900 In Louisiana, they weren't that far uphill.

01:53:20.060 Okay, you're right.

01:53:21.000 Okay, that part I am.

01:53:22.600 That part I've slightly made up,

01:53:24.340 but there was some mild elevation in some of the sidewalks,

01:53:27.040 and you know that.

01:53:27.520 Okay.

01:53:28.760 I know that you have a new single,

01:53:30.400 American Made, that I haven't gotten to here yet.

01:53:31.900 I'm going to check it out.

01:53:33.760 Good. 1.00

01:53:34.760 I appreciate you preparing for this interview, you unprofessional son of a bitch. 0.99

01:53:40.860 Dude, please put that. 1.00

01:53:42.320 You ain't worth a shit, you know. 0.98

01:53:45.840 I've had better interviews on a small market radio station in the middle of Nebraska. 0.99

01:53:51.360 Hey, we got some lobster coming in right after this, guys.

01:53:57.480 You have shows coming up.

01:53:59.020 Oh, a lot of these festivals.

01:54:01.280 I love that, man.

01:54:03.220 Do you like being at the festival?

01:54:04.840 It seems like it's a good time because you get to be around other artists.

01:54:07.820 Yeah, every now and then, you know.

01:54:11.240 And you got a short Raleigh Green coming up.

01:54:12.840 I know that's happening.

01:54:13.780 Really?

01:54:14.340 Yeah.

01:54:14.940 Yeah, I heard he's doing pretty good.

01:54:16.720 He's doing all right.

01:54:17.400 We just had him in here, man.

01:54:18.600 It was fun chatting with him.

01:54:19.680 This was actually really great, too, though, man.

01:54:21.940 I had a nice time.

01:54:23.860 Well, thanks.

01:54:24.960 I did, too.

01:54:25.940 Hey, look at that, huh?

01:54:28.820 Dude, that's awesome, man.

01:54:30.480 That makes you feel good.

01:54:31.320 me excited

01:54:32.660 this is what I look like

01:54:36.200 hey look man

01:54:37.200 this is orgasmic face

01:54:38.960 hey look

01:54:39.920 you know

01:54:40.580 now I know why 1.00

01:54:42.420 some of them ladies 1.00

01:54:43.160 said I can't 1.00

01:54:43.760 I ain't sticking around

01:54:44.820 through any more of this

01:54:46.380 I'm obviously

01:54:48.000 not doing them any good

01:54:49.320 man

01:54:50.220 Hastings New England

01:54:52.440 Fond du Lac

01:54:53.360 Wisconsin

01:54:53.900 dude I'm so excited

01:54:55.020 to go up to Wisconsin

01:54:55.960 this

01:54:56.260 I'm gonna go take a

01:54:57.420 we're gonna rent some campers

01:54:58.660 cheese curds

01:54:59.420 oh god yeah

01:55:00.640 I love cheese curds.

01:55:03.800 Is there a part of the country that surprised you?

01:55:06.700 There's a few for me that have surprised me over the years

01:55:08.680 of just places I've gone, like La Crosse, Wisconsin,

01:55:12.340 Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

01:55:14.920 I want to go to Charlevoix, Michigan now,

01:55:17.520 Grand Rapids, Michigan, I thought.

01:55:19.020 Just little places that I've gone to and I've been like,

01:55:21.500 oh, wow, this place is really unique

01:55:22.840 and I never would have got to go.

01:55:24.200 Is there a surprise or two?

01:55:25.520 Clear Lake, Iowa, that's another place.

01:55:27.360 why are you just coming up with these random places man that's like wow i've been to all

01:55:33.240 those places by the way played all those festivals in wisconsin so cool in michigan yeah i mean they

01:55:40.580 throw down in the summer because you know it only lasts for like a week so they get it all in when

01:55:46.300 they can you know yeah your husband's thawed out you find you got to get him out in the yard do

01:55:50.320 shit yeah so well he's thawed out or whatever yeah i've done all those festivals up there i think the 0.85

01:55:56.260 the craziest and most surprising place. 0.98

01:56:02.340 I would have to say it's a place that I just played a couple of weeks ago,

01:56:07.100 but it's like the third or fourth time I played there because I love to play

01:56:11.300 there because it's the most unique county fair in America,

01:56:17.460 and that's Neshoba County, Mississippi.

01:56:20.120 Dang.

01:56:21.240 Yeah.

01:56:22.080 Hardy talks about that.

01:56:23.240 People talk about that place.

01:56:24.300 bring it up because they got the beautiful homes that are all painted up over there and people

01:56:28.220 rent them out well they're not homes they're shacks but yeah they're oh they are they're nice

01:56:33.700 i mean yeah you know but they're very small because they're built on these little uh lease

01:56:40.280 pieces of land that basically were meant to be where you would set up your vending tent you know

01:56:47.840 to sell stuff at the fair like they usually do you you rent this little place and you come there and

01:56:53.660 you set up your tent and sell, you know, turquoise or, you know, funnel cakes or whatever the hell

01:56:59.320 it is you're selling.

01:57:00.360 Oh, yeah.

01:57:00.900 But then these people started doing these long-term leases on these places and just

01:57:04.760 keeping them in the family for years and years.

01:57:06.780 And so they bought these narrow, built these narrow little houses that just go straight

01:57:11.140 up for three stories.

01:57:13.620 So it's supposed to be wide enough just to sell a funnel cake out of, but then they end

01:57:17.140 up making it so, stacking it up and making it loose.

01:57:19.780 Yeah, I mean, they started doing that years ago, a hundred years ago, you know.

01:57:23.120 And so that's what they do.

01:57:25.740 And, I mean, this picture right here just doesn't do it justice.

01:57:28.600 I mean, because this fairground is, you know, hundreds of acres.

01:57:32.340 And these things are all over the place, man.

01:57:35.180 It's huge.

01:57:35.680 I didn't know it.

01:57:36.600 Well, this thing must be calling me because we were just talking about this last week, you know.

01:57:41.540 With Hardy?

01:57:42.380 Yeah.

01:57:42.620 He's from there.

01:57:43.640 No, with Riley Green.

01:57:44.840 We're just talking about it.

01:57:45.580 Oh, yeah?

01:57:46.000 Yeah, he was bringing it up.

01:57:47.560 Really?

01:57:48.040 I was just at that UFC event a few weeks ago.

01:57:51.160 Did you watch any of that?

01:57:51.880 You watch any of that?

01:57:53.120 UFC fighting?

01:57:54.460 The one where Conor McGregor just whatever he did.

01:58:00.520 I don't know what that was.

01:58:02.220 I felt like he really did get hurt.

01:58:05.000 No, he was hurt before he got in a ring.

01:58:07.000 Well, I don't know if he was or not.

01:58:08.900 Some things, his energy going to the ring did feel suspect.

01:58:11.960 It felt different.

01:58:13.580 And it may be just because he's been five years removed.

01:58:16.440 Sometimes it's hard to show up and fit into a different you

01:58:20.800 or you from a different time.

01:58:22.640 I think he was hurt.

01:58:23.860 You do?

01:58:25.480 He might have been, dude. 0.98

01:58:27.000 But, God, it just would have been all the people in Ireland 0.98

01:58:29.180 were fucking cheering for him, and you're like, God. 0.98

01:58:33.520 But you have to show up in the ring because you have to get paid. 0.99

01:58:35.660 He had to do it.

01:58:36.480 But I don't know, man.

01:58:37.460 I think he should have backed out.

01:58:38.820 I think he was hurt. 1.00

01:58:40.420 Damn. 0.99

01:58:41.260 I wonder if they'll do a lie detector test on him. 1.00

01:58:43.400 You think they will?

01:58:45.400 I don't know.

01:58:47.040 I just think that's funny.

01:58:48.920 A lie detector test on Conor McGregor.

01:58:52.020 That would be crazy, huh?

01:58:54.120 Yeah.

01:58:54.560 If they did it.

01:58:56.440 Yeah.

01:58:56.720 Because you can't press charge.

01:58:58.040 Like, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

01:59:00.360 I don't know.

01:59:01.120 I've never known.

01:59:02.320 I know, man.

01:59:03.020 That's the thing everybody loves about you. 1.00

01:59:04.720 You hardly ever know what the fuck you're talking about. 0.99

01:59:07.800 It's charming. 0.99

01:59:09.320 Thanks, man.

01:59:11.160 Thanks.

01:59:13.640 All right, man.

01:59:14.860 Well.

01:59:17.180 Okay.

01:59:18.000 I appreciate your time, man.

01:59:20.180 I appreciate.

01:59:20.920 Oh, Bob Kingsley, is that him?

01:59:22.500 That's him, Bob Kingsley.

01:59:24.380 Thanks for bringing that up.

01:59:26.300 Oh, man, and I knew him good, too.

01:59:29.020 Bob was a great guy, man.

01:59:30.860 He did that American Country Countdown show for decades, man,

01:59:35.800 and he was the one I'd listen to.

01:59:38.640 If you hurried out of church, if the preacher quit right before noon,

01:59:43.160 you could get out there and hear the number one song.

01:59:45.280 You know, I always tried to get to the truck before Bob, you know, got to number one.

01:59:52.560 Can you play him?

01:59:53.620 Just play his intro.

01:59:54.500 I want to hear it for a minute.

01:59:55.420 Just the beginning of his show.

01:59:57.320 If you're on YouTube.

01:59:58.760 Classic.

02:00:00.340 You know what I just bought?

02:00:03.180 Jerry Clower's suit from when he performed.

02:00:05.580 Oh, no way.

02:00:07.440 You just got it.

02:00:08.100 They knew I was a fan of his.

02:00:09.400 And so they said, I love Jerry Clower.

02:00:11.300 Did you?

02:00:11.820 Oh, my God, man.

02:00:13.100 And we had his albums, and Justin Wilson.

02:00:15.920 You remember Justin Wilson?

02:00:17.280 Yes, dude.

02:00:17.900 I just got on to Justin Wilson not even too long ago, man.

02:00:20.860 He was funny, too.

02:00:21.840 He was like the Louisiana Jerry Clower.

02:00:24.140 He was Louisiana's Jerry Clower, you know?

02:00:27.040 Yeah, I got that red suit right there.

02:00:28.780 Oh, wow.

02:00:30.320 I can't even believe it, man.

02:00:32.200 I love Jerry Clower, man.

02:00:33.520 I got it inside.

02:00:34.160 Oh, dude, he was still one of the best storytellers ever, I believe.

02:00:36.780 Oh, yeah.

02:00:37.580 I don't think they make them like him anymore.

02:00:39.560 He talks about playing college football.

02:00:42.120 Oh yeah he does

02:00:43.460 Yazoo City, Mississippi

02:00:45.720 Marcel Ledbetter

02:00:47.360 Oh dude I love listening to Jerry

02:00:50.520 And there's a lot of great artists like that

02:00:53.100 That kind of disappeared

02:00:54.360 Because they didn't have as much

02:00:56.240 I wear my overalls the way Marcel wore his

02:00:59.140 Do you?

02:00:59.840 Yeah with nothing under them

02:01:01.240 And the buttons not done together 1.00

02:01:03.820 My wife gets a kick out of it 1.00

02:01:05.660 When I wear my overalls 1.00

02:01:07.020 No drawers and nothing under them

02:01:09.580 Well look I'm just glad 1.00

02:01:11.280 you got a wife that gets a kick

02:01:13.640 out of you, man. You know? 0.99

02:01:15.520 Yeah, well. I'm glad you do.

02:01:19.120 Yes, right

02:01:19.780 here it says, yes, under Napoleonic

02:01:21.460 law, you can be compensated if

02:01:23.640 you lose a limb. However, there is no fixed

02:01:25.460 price. Huh.

02:01:28.860 Instead of a flat

02:01:29.740 fee, courts and insurance adjusters calculate

02:01:31.580 damages using individualized categories

02:01:33.800 known as heads of loss.

02:01:37.560 Huh.

02:01:37.920 I thought it was different. I thought a thumb was

02:01:39.820 14k

02:01:41.940 I thought each

02:01:42.960 I thought each body part

02:01:43.980 Had a little

02:01:44.440 Price tax to it

02:01:46.040 So

02:01:47.220 May have back in the day

02:01:48.840 Yeah

02:01:49.280 Things change huh

02:01:50.720 You just gotta roll with it

02:01:52.880 Yeah buddy

02:01:53.380 That's the only thing

02:01:54.280 You can do

02:01:54.680 Trace Adkins man

02:01:55.740 Thanks so much for your time dude

02:01:56.800 Thanks for your music

02:01:57.400 It was nice to get to

02:01:58.360 Meet your daughters

02:01:59.480 In the past year or two

02:02:00.400 I've gotten to see them

02:02:01.080 At a couple of shows

02:02:01.840 Thanks for always

02:02:02.880 Letting me feel welcome

02:02:03.920 At your shows man

02:02:04.860 And yeah

02:02:06.780 Thanks for your music dude

02:02:07.900 Your stuff got me

02:02:08.820 Through some tough times

02:02:09.540 of my life and it's just been a

02:02:11.300 blessing to witness. The new tour is great

02:02:13.400 if you guys get to go see them. The

02:02:15.280 30th anniversary tour, go

02:02:17.360 check it out and I'll be back out at one.

02:02:20.420 I'm a fan, man.

02:02:21.360 Thanks, Thiel. Thank you, brother. Okay.

02:02:23.480 And your mom, too. What's up?

02:02:25.200 Peggy. Vote for 0.99

02:02:27.000 Peggy. Nobody 0.98

02:02:29.120 runs against her anymore. 0.80

02:02:32.800 She's 0.99

02:02:33.240 run unopposed, I think, in the last

02:02:35.600 two or three elections.

02:02:36.960 Now I'm just

02:02:38.340 Falling on the breeze

02:02:39.960 And I feel I'm falling

02:02:41.540 Like these leaves

02:02:42.880 I must be

02:02:43.980 Cornerstone

02:02:46.220 Oh, but when I reach that ground

02:02:50.760 I'll share this peace of mind

02:02:52.940 I found I can feel it

02:02:54.980 In my bones

02:02:57.100 But it's gonna take

02:02:59.660 Recently, our company's softball team

02:03:05.840 Lost the big game by one run

02:03:07.860 Then Dale tried to console us with the quote, winning isn't everything.

02:03:12.500 Well, Dale and I are very different.

02:03:16.180 I get early payout from Bet365.

02:03:18.100 If my team goes up big, I get paid out instantly, even if they blow the lead later.

02:03:22.920 Sound familiar, Dale?

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - July 28, 2026

#672 - Trace Adkins

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