E397 Parker McCollum
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 20 minutes
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204.20937
Summary
In this episode, I sit down with country music artist Parker McCollum to talk about his upcoming tour. It s hot as hell outside and Parker talks about how he deals with the heat and how he handles it.
Transcript
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I want to let you guys know that next week I'll be touring there doing Florida.
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Yeah, I mean, it's like somebody just put a bunch of heat in here.
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Like somebody just damn back the damn truck of sunlight up into this bitch.
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Today's guest, fortunately he rolls with the punches.
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And he has hit singles, Pretty Heart and To Be Loved By You.
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I think if you like this podcast, I believe you'll like some of his tunes.
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And that's, I mean, that's, you know, that's unbelievable.
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I'll set that parking brake and let myself unwind
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Because I guess you're from kind of a desert area.
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From, like, the sprawling metropolis of North Houston.
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I mean, I grew up, you know, out in the country, but very, very close to a lot of shit.
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I know you were in Texas, and is that West Texas considered?
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I grew up in Southeast Texas, just north of Houston.
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Ten days after I graduated high school, I moved to Austin, and I was like, I'm gonna be a fucking country singer.
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We had to go do an intervention on a family member yesterday, so it was like, damn, you know?
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Yeah, where he talks about taking his sister that was doing heroin to her intervention.
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It was like the flag of surrender, and she didn't, and you know, and we didn't see it.
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Um, my mom was there, so I think that's kind of cool, you know?
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I probably didn't look like the most promising prospect 10 years ago to play country music
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Probably helps her sleep a little bit at night to see it going well like that.
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So 10 years ago, you think she didn't have probably as much confidence in you?
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No, I mean, I just, I don't think I was, you know, if you'd look at it from like a scout
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evaluating a ball player, you'd probably be like, he's never going to make it, you know?
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Um, did it feel like that last night coming out there, like, that I'm making it to the
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I mean, that must have felt like something unique.
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I mean, not many people get to play a stadium, uh, no matter how well they're doing.
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I was so tired and so hungry, um, that I was really excited to get done with it and
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When, was it the kind of the thing where, I am, am I on dang drugs?
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If there's anybody out there with dry skin, come...
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Yeah, did it feel like, so you're walking out in front of that many people, uh, can you
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feel, does your body start to not, because, I mean, I have feelings I'll walk out in front
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of a few thousand and there's moments where, like, I think especially the first time where
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it's like, okay, are my legs still moving forward?
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Like, it's almost, do you disconnect a little bit from yourself?
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Man, that's only happened to me one time when we played the Houston Rodeo at the beginning
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It's like the only time that I was, like, gummy worm legs out there.
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You know, I'd had, like, I tried to have, like, a couple cocktails take the edge off.
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And I was just, it was just, like, a mess, dude.
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And when you were singing, do you feel like, as you were singing, that you also, like,
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Because I would, I'm trying to wonder if, because physically I could understand.
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It's like, usually if I'm nervous, like, one or two songs in, you're back to, it's probably
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Like, you know, even if you are nervous, like, once you get into your jokes, you're rolling,
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But that was, like, the one night that I was, like, the whole entire show, I was just, like,
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So last night when I walked out there, I was just, I don't know, you're kind of, just
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Isn't it kind of interesting how things that would seem like a dream start to feel kind
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Well, that, like, kind of messes with me with crowds, man.
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When we go somewhere, we'll only sell, like, three or four thousand tickets, which is a lot
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And now, when we only sell three or four thousand, I'm like, have we peaked?
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But it's, like, it's that perspective thing, man.
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So, you started out, I know you started out over there in Texas, man.
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And tell me a little bit about, like, do you remember, like, the first, like, song or anything
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The first, like, song I ever fell in love with was Amarillo by Morning by George Stray.
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I called it their national anthem on stage, and I got a real good reaction.
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I remember hearing, I'm trying to think of the first, oh, I heard Bon Jovi was the first
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The first time I remember hearing a song, Bon Jovi, and I was with, like, a babysitter.
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I've told this story before, but I was with a babysitter.
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And so, I think, like, there was also, like, a woman there.
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I feel like all babysitters are hot when you're the baby they're sitting.
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Kendra Scott actually used to be my babysitter when I was a kid.
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And do you have any recollections of the babysitting going on?
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She's like, oh, yeah, she used to date your uncle, and she used to watch you guys.
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I've never really heard the full story, but he, uh, it's my Uncle Chris, my dad's little
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brother, and he was just, like, a future Hall of Famer in the game of life.
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And it does not surprise me that he was pulling that back in the day.
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He's been, he's a real aficionado when it comes to the gals?
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I guess I didn't get that part of that gene in the family.
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Dude, I'm sure you, I mean, you kind of feel like you kind of look like, I mean, you look
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like you play, like you would play center on, like, on Justin Bieber's, like, fantasy
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I feel like if he had a fan league basketball team, you'd play center.
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I would love to play center on Justin Bieber's family basketball team.
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And I know you recently got engaged, or you recently got married.
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No, I've been home, like, three nights since we got married up on the road.
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Other than now when I come off stage, I just get on my bus and go to bed.
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So take me out of then, so take me where you start music.
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You start, the first song you hear, or that you remember hearing is George Strait, Amarillo by Morning.
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The first one I can remember being, like, I like that.
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Um, and I was probably, like, I don't know, seven, maybe six years old, something like that.
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But my older brother, Tyler, he's, like, phenomenal songwriter.
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He was the one that when I was a kid, you know, I mean, he's a big brother.
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Like, he could have been fucking ice skating, and I would probably be a professional ice skater right now.
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Like, whatever big brother was doing is what I wanted to do.
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But he happened to play guitar and want to write songs, and I was like, all right, I'm going to do that.
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So, that's, so, do you have no doubt that that's kind of where your, where your passion for it came from?
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And I just, I don't know, I remember being, like, a little kid, and I would hear that song, or any song, and I would sing it, and all the time.
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But I don't think anybody ever thought that I would sing it for, or be singing 20 years later.
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And at what point did it start to turn into kind of a job for you?
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Or even, like, how did it evolve then into a hobby?
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Did somebody get you an instrument that you, like, were you, like, dialed in at school and music?
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I think it's kind of setting the vibe, setting the tone.
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Like, there's no question with the time of year that we did this interview.
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The good thing is summer's almost over, though, so not a whole lot of heat left.
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Well, at least two months of her sitting right over here on my forehead.
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I feel like the Lord is just, God, washing me with his tongue.
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I can't even, like, I feel like getting my thoughts together, dog.
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Because sometimes you hit the pin and, like, you're real funny and you're witty and it
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And the other times you hit the pin and you're like, I mean, just as worthless as could it
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So I was like, man, I think I'll just, no pin this morning.
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Because you can't tell exactly how much you're going to get.
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And it's my driver, shout out Flex, always gives me these pins.
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You know, when I'm getting out, I'll, like, give him a $100 bill and he hands me these
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little, these, like, the pins nowadays look like they come from Target.
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And he'll hand me one and sometimes they're, I mean, it's like, you know, doing crack or
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I mean, you hit it and you're like, I don't, what is weed nowadays, man?
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Back when I was in high school, like, it was dirty and had seeds and stems, you know?
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And nowadays it's like, like, you may end up literally, like, dead.
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Some of the stuff, man, I remember hitting something one time and I felt like they were
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just, like, somebody had done construction in my head, you know?
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I didn't want to hit it because I would come in here and I would look you dead in the
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And then you get done talking and I'll have to go, Theo, what did you just say?
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Because I'm out there thinking about the fact that we're on a rock floating around a ball
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of fire in the void, you know, instead of having the conversation that I'm a part of.
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And so I was like, we'll just, we'll hit it after.
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I feel like it gives my mind a vacation sometimes.
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When I used to smoke weed, it would give my mind a vacation, but sometimes I would get too
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And then one of the first times I ever got high was at this girl's house and everybody
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We all smoked weed and everybody else left the room.
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And then I remember her dad, I kind of like, her dad had been like sitting there watching
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Like I was just like laying on the couch being stoned and it scared me so bad.
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I thought I had been in this room for like 15 minutes by myself.
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I was like talking out loud and kind of like saying positive things to myself and shit.
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And then I look over her and her dad, who was one of our teachers at our school, was
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And man, I think at that point it made me feel so like kind of introverted about when I was
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And then I used to get, when I was young, me and my buddy would, we ate a bunch of no-dos
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And this is before we could get any weed, you know.
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This is like, we're just like, what can we do at the convenience store?
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To make us feel different than we do right now.
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And we were supposed to pick these girls up for this date.
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And we parked like by the street and we were so hot.
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We just, I don't know, we could feel our hair growing and shit.
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And we literally, we couldn't, we couldn't move and get out of the vehicle.
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So we just looked over at these, we could see them on the porch waiting for us and shit.
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And, and we just sat, we just, just sat in that car for a long time.
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It's, it's a, it's like, it's a hit or miss thing, man.
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Sometimes I hit it and I'm like, you know, I've written some of the, some of my biggest
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Some of the biggest songs I've ever written are right after.
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And then, but it's so funny, like I hit that pin all the time, way too much.
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And every single time I take a rip of it for 20 minutes, I'm like, I need to get my life
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And then after 20 minutes, I'm like, damn, I want to hit that pin again.
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But it's the paranoid thing you're talking about.
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Cause then why would our brains be like, Hey, I want to hit it again.
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Well, it's cause after the, the paranoid goes away, you're like, Oh, this is great.
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Now remember like, it's like Wolf of Wall Street when they take the quaaludes, you know?
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And like, you have to get through the phase of like, when they're moving like snails, like
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It's like, once they get past that, it's like pure euphoria.
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I remember like, yeah, I, if I smoked weed, like I remember if I was with a chick, I felt
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like it made your girlfriend feel like a new girlfriend.
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Dude, if you don't, if your girlfriend doesn't, it seems like the same old girlfriend and you
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I remember one point sitting there having to guess my girlfriend's name, bro.
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I was looking around the house for clues and shit.
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And let them order a coffee and then they put their name on the cup and that's the old
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We had a question come up with, uh, well, I'm just, this, this, today's just been a
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So had you canceled it, I'd have been like, hell yeah, let's do it another day.
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You know, like when you have something, you know, like last night, had you had a dinner
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you had to go through after everything that you went through yesterday, if you had something
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The point comes like an hour before we're like, dude, I don't want to go.
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And like the greatest relief in the world is when you make up your mind that you don't
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Like after that, then you're just like, oh, we're not going.
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You know, but it's like when you're stressing about having to go and you decide to cancel
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it, it's like, it's better than any drug in the world, dude.
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I was like, dude, I've been in a, yeah, I've been.
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In an intervention, I would say that, yeah, that's a gravy one.
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We're in there like pleading, you know, and they said it was like three hours and it was,
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um, it was good, but it just, and then when you come up with an L in an intervention, you're
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Like, what do we need to pull off the solid intervention?
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And then, you know, like it's, it's a blessing and a curse, right?
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But sometimes I'm just like, fuck, dude, I'm not going.
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And I'm like, how do I thought about just driving or just getting a driver?
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I was in Baton Rouge, so it was just like, it was just a lot.
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And it was just like, family, people had been crying.
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That's like if the members of the game Clue had to have an intervention on like Mr. Plum or something.
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So, like, you kind of have been picked as the guy.
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Like, you get these, they get these accolades in the business side of music, right?
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Like, this is the guy that, you know, the pick to click, little things that rhyme, you know?
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Like, the, you know, like the, I don't want to say, like, the key.
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Like, you know, from, I don't know if it was the Country Music Awards that gave you, like, the top new male artists of the year, right?
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What I'm trying to get to is, how do you get to, like, is there then some type of formula?
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Is there, and what pressure comes with how to fulfill that?
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Because really, it's kind of like saying, hey, bro, here's a bunch of pressure.
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You know, like, I watched the award shows as a kid.
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You know, it's just kind of like, it's kind of like the stadium thing last night.
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You know, you're like, damn, I used to sit out there.
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Now, it's kind of the same concept, which is really cool.
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But, man, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but I just don't give a shit.
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I just want to be as successful doing this with as much integrity and respect as I possibly can.
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You know, like, started from the very, very, very bottom in my pickup truck, got a van, got a trailer, got a nicer van, got a tour bus, then signed a record deal.
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Now, we have, like, three tour buses, 18-wheeler, the whole deal.
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Did it the long, hard way how I wanted to do it.
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But, it just doesn't, like, that's not what makes me feel successful, you know?
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It's, they're, like, just little bonuses, I guess.
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I mean, you know, whether you win that award or you don't, you still got to put out another record and you still got to go on the road next weekend, you know?
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If you're not doing it, if you're not relevant in, like, 20, I mean, you look like George Strait, dude.
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He's, like, he just turned 70 and he's still selling out, like, U.S. Bank Stadium.
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I just played a Cend Amphitheater in Nashville.
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So, the awards are good, but very, hopefully, the very, very beginning of the road.
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And what gets you to that next, like, is there a thing, is it more, you know, because I wonder, I don't know if it translates with comedy, but it's just, like, is there some, I guess, is it a certain type of song that kind of,
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like, what do you feel like you have to have then to continue to keep a trajectory then, or even a continuation of where you're at?
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And that's what I tell all, like, you know, it's weird now that there's, like, young guys asking me stuff, because I was always the young guy asking the stuff.
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And now I got these younger kids asking me for advice and stuff.
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And I'm like, dude, if you don't have the songs, you're fucked.
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Like, you may have a good, you may have a big single on country radio.
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I mean, if you have songs, you can sell tickets, and that's how you tour and have a career, right?
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You got to have, you got to have, you got to write and have the best songs.
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I mean, mega hits, George Strait, mega hits, Tim McGraw, any genre.
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And, you know, country music really probably has the most longevity of any genre, it seems like.
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You know, like, rap and pop music, like, you don't see a lot of 50-year-olds still killing a game and popping rap.
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You know, it's like, yeah, it's not like every couple of weeks, you know, a young Tim McGraw gets gunned down somewhere.
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The bullet would probably bounce off of Tim McGraw.
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He's also a future Hall of Famer in the game of life, probably.
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I feel like they could gun me down pretty easy.
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Especially if I was, if I had hit the pin already.
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When you, if you get off stage, here he is right here, dude.
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I mean, he's making a million dollars on stage that night.
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And you're going home to Faith Hill and you look like that?
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I'd like to say grace and let everybody thank you for me.
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Do you have a routine when you're out there on the road?
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I either wake up and play golf or I try to go to a gym and work out.
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I like to go and put a lot of weight on either side of the bar and sit there for like 20 minutes
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on my phone and I'll just take the weight off and go back to the bus.
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But that's kind of the cool thing about touring is, I mean, you're in a different city every
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So you can play a different golf course every day.
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Now, some days you're playing like these really nice country clubs that you're not
00:33:26.760
And then the next day you'll be in like Albuquerque, New Mexico playing like Antler Hole.
00:33:30.900
It's a community golf course and it's solid dirt.
00:33:44.280
Or maybe we were in Las Cruces or Albuquerque, something like that.
00:33:53.100
Dude, everybody at the gas station had a parole officer with them.
00:34:02.560
Like Will Smith and whoever was in that movie with him is going to roll up on that little
00:34:08.320
It's almost like if I saw a drug dealer, I would be at least happy to be seeing a business
00:34:14.760
Like, oh man, glad to meet somebody with an LLC here, you know?
00:34:26.740
I didn't know what was going on, you know, and they were, and I was talking about this
00:34:30.640
the other day, but they're always like talking about the aliens and stuff.
00:34:34.980
It's like the drugs got to be good out there because they're seeing UFOs we're not seeing
00:34:38.720
anywhere else and you don't have any video footage of them.
00:34:41.620
It's like all of a sudden everybody has a camera in their pocket and we're not seeing
00:34:57.980
You know, and it's not, I'm not saying it's the citizens, but it's, there is, there are
00:35:03.060
easily aliens or, you know, bots or what, I don't know what they're called, drug bots.
00:35:10.440
I don't know what you'd call them in Albuquerque, but they are woven into the fabric of the species
00:35:16.160
Maybe that's how they're getting that stuff into the United States.
00:35:18.500
I mean, there is, it's definitely some, there's fentanyl in the DNA over there.
00:35:24.260
They're sucking people up into that UFO and they're dropping down kilos of coke and all
00:35:31.860
I wouldn't, there's a, I wouldn't be surprised if they are, it's like a, it's like a Greyhound
00:35:39.180
That's a great, I mean, it's, I'll tell you this, it's not somewhere, it wouldn't be on
00:35:43.820
You know, if someone told me that they're retiring and headed to Albuquerque to live
00:35:50.140
out their days, I'd be like, are you in prison?
00:35:56.680
And that's what you mean by, yeah, this is my federal retirement.
00:36:00.840
Cause I think, uh, yeah, dude, it just blew my mind.
00:36:05.660
There was a lot going on, you know, a guy in there is like promising the lady, he's like,
00:36:09.840
hold my cell phone and let me pump as much gas.
00:36:12.780
Then I'll come back and get my cell phone from you.
00:36:16.420
She's like, I have to give you your cell phone back and you get gas.
00:36:21.060
And then this is all just at a guy, we're like at a pilot or a loves or something, you
00:36:24.920
And then there's this other guy walking around like this, like with his arms, like above
00:36:30.100
And, uh, and he's talking, and he had a parole officer with him.
00:36:38.860
And it was just like, I've seen the backstroke and I've seen the front stroke, but this was
00:36:43.180
just, this guy was like, dog, dog, dog, dog, dog, dog.
00:36:49.180
He was like, I think he worked for Peter or something, you know?
00:36:52.660
Oh, dude, I'm like, this dude is definitely this guy's like, they, they got to start
00:37:05.200
Cause it's, I feel like that's getting out of hand.
00:37:15.480
Did it ever, I always wanted to smoke crack, honestly.
00:37:18.540
And after seeing Wolf of Wall Street, I did want to.
00:37:24.420
I never wanted to smoke crack until I saw that video.
00:37:28.820
Man, they look, man, they make it look great, dude.
00:37:31.700
And they're just super rich and they're dressed really nice, smoking crack.
00:37:40.320
But for the immediate, like, 24 to 48 hours, if you had a hundred million dollars in
00:37:44.260
a nice suit, like, let's say you had like 48 hours to live, I'm smoking crack.
00:37:50.580
In the beginning or at the end of the 48 hours?
00:37:57.940
So, you know, go like skydive and then maybe even smoke crack on the way down before you
00:38:06.560
You'd have to get in like a little box or something to be able to probably light it in
00:38:15.200
Dude, I got, I was at a smoothie place in Maui.
00:38:18.160
This dude's like, Hey, you want to do some DMT, right?
00:38:27.540
Well, this guy takes me back to his house with his wife and there's children running around.
00:38:34.380
I was like, are you sure this is the place to do it?
00:38:38.880
And, um, they had like this little dish of macadamia nuts.
00:38:44.640
Like, I mean, you know, you know, everything probably going pretty good.
00:38:50.260
And it was, yeah, it was definitely, I mean, I went out there, you know, I was like, I remember
00:38:56.760
feeling like I was at like, I kind of went into the speaker at like a drive-thru, like
00:39:02.400
a, like a, like a drive-thru food place, like a Sonic or something.
00:39:06.040
I went into the speaker and then I fucking worked at a footlocker.
00:39:12.700
No, it lasts, I don't know, maybe six, seven minutes.
00:39:21.040
I was living on UT's West Campus, University of Texas West Campus at the time.
00:39:27.040
I was writing that first record, the limestone kid I put out.
00:39:30.520
And, uh, there was actually, um, this kid from India who was a chemist that we had gone
00:39:36.440
to high school with that was, was majoring in chemistry at, uh, University of Texas.
00:39:41.340
And, uh, he had like ordered the bark from like the Amazon rainforest or wherever that, whatever
00:39:52.440
He made it like in his, and now looking back, I'm like.
00:39:56.180
That, like our thought, my thought process that day probably should have taken a little
00:40:01.660
Um, but a buddy of mine was in town and he was like, Hey, let's go over to this house.
00:40:05.040
And then this, he's like, he's incredibly smart.
00:40:08.400
This kid that we went to high school with and he's a chemistry major.
00:40:10.360
And he made the shit in his dorm room and everybody took a little hit.
00:40:23.020
Like I saw a little, like five-year-old me running across our front yard in the house
00:40:35.700
For y'all that don't know what DMT is, it's the chemical in your brain that makes you dream.
00:40:47.000
I would recommend everybody one time in their life does that.
00:40:49.900
Cause it's like, it's very, I think it's a good thing.
00:40:57.620
You're probably not going to see somebody like, you know, you're not going to get it
00:40:59.980
in like a back alley or something, you know, there's not going to be a shooting
00:41:06.400
And then like a few minutes and you're out of it.
00:41:22.120
I'm like, Oh, I can't, I want to beat that level.
00:41:24.860
Like all that kind of stuff, like any kind of psychedelics or anything.
00:41:30.460
I think they're my, I think that like, that's what those should be.
00:41:33.580
Like people who like, like I had buddies that would eat mushrooms like all the time.
00:41:38.340
And I'm like, I don't think those are for that.
00:41:42.160
You know, like Welch's grapefruit snacks, 10, 15 packs, no problem.
00:41:48.140
But mushrooms probably, probably don't want to buy the box of those, you know, just a
00:41:58.620
I think everything's kind of like that, you know, but yeah, I remember that DMT man.
00:42:02.440
And then we went outside and did it and it was like in a park and then people were recognizing
00:42:06.980
And I felt like I could see kind of skeletons a little and that wasn't good.
00:42:12.740
And, you know, skeletons, dude, you want it to be happy.
00:42:19.040
We had a question that came in about partying and stuff on the tour.
00:42:27.880
At least you can call Guinness Book of World Records and say we just did the hottest podcast
00:42:36.800
Dude, we should go do one in the Sahara Desert and really set the record.
00:42:46.980
The fuck is somebody left the oven on up in Albuquerque.
00:42:49.600
It's been on for 100,000 years out there, dude.
00:42:57.840
Yeah, they got a dude with two tongues and he'll be standing there talking to a dude with no tongues.
00:43:13.660
Absolutely insane to see you doing a podcast together.
00:43:22.760
Been a huge fan of the more Texas style of country music, you know.
00:43:27.360
And you kind of hear a lot of tall tales, a lot of speculation, a lot of crazy stories about you and Coe Wetzel on these tours doing crazy stuff, doing just all kinds of shenanigans.
00:43:39.860
I'm wondering if we can get a story or two out of you, some crazy shit you and Coe have done.
00:43:44.200
That'd be really, really cool to hear coming from a fan.
00:44:01.480
A true future Hall of Famer in the game of life, that young man.
00:44:08.560
And it kind of bugs me sometimes because, you know, people overlook how good of a singer he is.
00:44:15.400
Because his show, it's all about, you know, so hardcore rock and roll.
00:44:21.160
And no one ever talks about how just fucking good of a singer.
00:44:26.340
The first time I ever met him and heard him sing, I'm like, I'm fucked.
00:44:37.580
If I was just a fan, I would be a huge fan of his.
00:44:39.600
Because he is like, he gives those people 110% of Coe Wetzel.
00:45:00.040
Yeah, there's one in particular that comes to mind.
00:45:06.540
Man, I hadn't thought about this in a long time.
00:45:15.300
And we used to do this acoustic tour during Christmas time, him and I.
00:45:19.200
And even before we had tour buses, like first year we did it, we were just in a van together.
00:45:24.440
And we do like, you know, six nights the week before Christmas, it's acoustic, go play bars, you know.
00:45:30.600
And it's like the level of entertainment was just unbelievably underwhelming.
00:45:35.940
Because we were just so messed up every night by the time we got on stage.
00:45:39.500
And the first year we ever did it, we played in Waco at the backyard.
00:45:43.700
And before we even went on stage, I mean, we were floored, dude.
00:45:48.160
Like, I mean, I don't even remember being on stage.
00:45:50.740
And after the show, he wanted to go to the titty bar.
00:45:57.540
And I don't know if you've ever been to the titty bar in Waco, but it's smaller than this room.
00:46:07.300
I've never been a fan of the – I never wanted to have to pay to touch, you know what I mean?
00:46:24.220
If I've got to go in one to get to where I'm going, I don't mind passing through, you know?
00:46:32.000
And so we – I don't know who drove us, an Uber or somebody drove us.
00:46:36.440
It's the worst – it's like Hall of Fame, not Hall of Fame.
00:46:47.820
Yeah, and so we go in there and we have a few shots and we don't even – we didn't
00:46:54.880
We're in there for like 30 seconds and he orders a drink and the room's very small.
00:46:59.340
And he picks the drink up in a glass and just slams it against the mirror on the wall and
00:47:08.220
And I'm like, dude, we're literally – we're either going to jail or we're going to die.
00:47:20.200
Well, so they kick us out and we have to go out into the parking lot.
00:47:27.580
And it's like a Tuesday night, you know, the first night of that tour.
00:47:34.580
I'm like fucked up on my phone trying to like find a way to get us out of there.
00:47:38.560
And I look over and he's in the road on all fours crawling at oncoming traffic.
00:47:48.980
I'm like, oh my God, he's going to hit by a fucking car.
00:47:55.240
And so eventually he, you know, he gets up off of the road and somehow or another somebody came and got us and took us back to the venue.
00:48:01.420
And the venue has like this apartment you stay at.
00:48:06.560
And he's like screaming at me in the face to kick a hole in the wall.
00:48:11.120
And he's like, you're not fucking going to bed until you kick a hole in the wall.
00:48:16.700
And I get – so I get real, you know, even more fucked up.
00:48:20.320
And I end up laying on this little air mattress.
00:48:27.940
And he's just going, I'll never let you sleep in your boots, B.
00:48:30.620
I'll never let you sleep in – and just yanking my clothes off of me.
00:48:36.060
That was like one of the first times him and I had been on the road together.
00:48:41.720
He's one of my best friends in the world, dude.
00:48:43.960
I would take a bullet for him any day of the week.
00:48:50.660
He's – well, dude, when you go that hard and you give that much of yourself to those
00:48:54.400
people every night, you know, you're going to get that in return.
00:48:58.300
I mean, he definitely – I mean, like there's something about him where he will give – he
00:49:09.080
And I – and everything that kind of surrounds him and his brand and his vibe and everything,
00:49:14.440
I just – I mean, I don't even think people understand or appreciate just how like good
00:49:21.740
Like we get fucked up seeing Frank Sinatra and he can just rip it.
00:49:27.600
Yeah, he's got a – I mean, yeah, he gives the blood right out of his body.
00:49:41.400
I mean, I'll tell you, global warming's not affecting that shit, huh?
00:49:52.100
So that's like – you think about a gallon of water.
00:49:57.440
That's crazy to think that's all that's in us, huh?
00:50:05.100
I wonder if that's ever been a thing, if that's ever – has there ever been a baby pool full of blood?
00:50:21.040
We are on the last leg of production staff here as they Google baby pool full of blood, baby.
00:50:30.440
So how do you get to that part where, you know, you're just learning about music,
00:50:35.680
and then you get to the part where you and co are going out and touring together?
00:50:39.360
How do you – just get me through some of that timeline just for our listeners.
00:50:43.000
I put out my first record, The Limestone Kid, in 2015, and I had a song called Meet You in the Middle
00:50:52.920
that kind of blew up off of it, and I had a Twitter message.
00:50:58.820
I had, like, just gotten a Twitter, and it was from this guy named Coe Wetzel,
00:51:12.240
And I actually ended up meeting this guy named Jake Murphy,
00:51:14.960
who's one of Coe and I's greatest friends, also a future Hall of Famer in the game of life,
00:51:22.140
And he was buddies with Coe, and he had started to roll on the road with me.
00:51:28.520
And he was like, man, you've got to meet my buddy Coe.
00:51:30.220
And I'm like, dude, I think he messaged me one time on Twitter.
00:51:35.020
And so the first time we ever hung out, we went fishing.
00:51:39.760
I think, I want to say it was on, like, the Leon River or something in Stephenville,
00:51:45.040
And it was, like, us three people in the smallest John boat that has ever been made.
00:51:49.500
And we were fishing, and the river had flooded.
00:51:52.560
We almost just had a great time and started hanging out.
00:51:56.200
And, you know, I mean, we just kind of ran around with the same people.
00:51:59.680
And I was kind of rolling a little bit at the time.
00:52:05.420
And obviously when I met him, I was like, dude, he's so fucking good.
00:52:10.120
So I was trying to kind of, you know, whatever I could do for them.
00:52:17.860
There was no question they were going to be big time.
00:52:20.300
But me and him just became really good friends.
00:52:23.200
And we were kind of the only two in our circle when we started to see a little bit of success
00:52:28.520
that kind of understood, you know, kind of the things that were going through our minds,
00:52:33.480
And so that's really kind of where I think we became really good friends
00:52:36.980
was we kind of had each other to be like, yo, you know, talk about your shit.
00:52:41.480
And so, I mean, it was, I don't know, probably a year or two later,
00:52:46.700
I was sitting at my house in Austin working on that next record.
00:52:50.400
And he called me and he's like, hey, man, I wrote this song called Love.
00:52:53.880
Would you want to finish it, write the last verse and sing it?
00:52:57.220
And I was like, yeah, do you mind if I kill her?
00:53:02.560
Like, right there, I think I was still on the phone with him.
00:53:07.120
And it was a huge song for him and did a lot for me, too.
00:53:10.140
I got way too much credit for that song, more than I deserved, certainly.
00:53:13.120
That whole, he really deserves all the credit for that.
00:53:15.380
I just killed her in the little small verse at the end.
00:53:18.680
And, man, it was like the second that song came out, it was like, all right,
00:53:24.540
Because, I mean, there was no question in my mind he was going to be a superstar.
00:53:29.140
He's one of, I would, I'd take a bullet for him any day of the week.
00:53:34.480
A lot of people ask me about him, just spending time with him.
00:53:48.860
I mean, I think people see him and, you know, the way he looks and the way he acts on stage
00:53:55.540
And they probably think that's like, you know, like he wakes up in the morning and is just
00:54:02.080
But, I mean, he's really just a good dude, man.
00:54:16.520
I think he has an album cover or something in a baby pool now that I think about it.
00:54:28.340
Well, I just want to have him on just from the pure stories.
00:54:33.000
And I've also been, I mean, I just went through Texas touring.
00:54:36.820
So it kind of was like, you know, and I was, we talked about you on, Jelly Roll was in
00:54:46.640
And I don't know if that part made it in the episode because there was some lighting issue.
00:54:49.840
But we were both singing a lot of your songs and stuff.
00:54:53.340
And then when I was going through Texas, I was like, oh, man, this is kind of the perfect
00:54:59.200
Because I didn't know Texas was what it was, man.
00:55:08.160
And it's, I mean, it's, they got some real people out there.
00:55:17.640
You'll see a lot of dudes and they'll just be walking around like this.
00:55:20.240
It's like, I think you've been hiding behind a cactus, bro.
00:55:28.540
It's almost like being on Mars, but with ranch dressing kind of.
00:55:32.040
I always say it's like Corpus Christi without the ocean.
00:55:35.280
If you've ever been to Corpus, that's what it reminds me of.
00:55:39.200
I grew up in East Texas, and so Southeast Texas.
00:55:42.500
And so pine trees, like thick-ass national forest, stuff like that.
00:55:46.500
And so West Texas has always kind of been, like you said, like Mars to me.
00:56:13.460
Yeah, it's amazing how big it is, amazing how many people are out there.
00:56:18.260
Like, we'd pull up at a venue, and we'd look around in the parking lot, and you couldn't
00:56:23.920
You're like, where's people going to come from?
00:56:28.680
It's like you're going to see like a Mars rover pull up, and like 10,000 people get out.
00:56:34.900
It's like the last, like that into, all the way out to California, there's just not a
00:56:42.040
There's like Vegas plopped in the middle out there.
00:56:52.080
By the law, and you love hardcore drugs, you have like a thousand mile stretch right
00:56:57.700
there where no one's going to find you, and you can get great drugs.
00:57:03.160
You're really on the front porch of great drugs coming up through Mexico and stuff.
00:57:19.560
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What about, sometimes you're saying about drugs and some of your music and stuff.
01:00:27.280
Have you ever any point where you wanted to kind of rein yourself back in?
01:00:31.160
I got, I do not go near as hard as I used to now.
01:00:36.320
I kind of had like a, just a point where it was really through COVID.
01:00:40.800
Like, I hadn't been off the road like that since I was 22.
01:00:46.100
And, I mean, sitting around with money in the bank and nothing to do.
01:00:50.820
You know, living in downtown Austin, there's plenty you can get yourself into at the time.
01:00:58.020
And I had a couple nights where I was like, you know, is this it kind of thing.
01:01:04.260
You know, and, but, well, you know, next day I was like, I got, I got, I got to get out.
01:01:10.800
And I was like, you know, it's, if I want to see 30, 35, 40, you know, it's probably, I just had, I had to get out, dude.
01:01:19.940
I started, you know, it all started partying and all the fun and games on the road.
01:01:23.440
And then, you know, when you, when you take that stuff back home with you and you're by yourself, still doing those same things.
01:01:31.200
That's, that's when I was like, I think, and I had so much to lose, man.
01:01:38.680
You know, I'd had pretty heart went number one in platinum and I had a major record deal and all this stuff.
01:01:43.020
And, and I was just going down the wrong road and nobody knew, like I didn't go to rehab.
01:01:48.140
I didn't go tell anybody, I didn't tell my parents, I didn't tell anybody.
01:01:51.240
I told my brother a little bit, but I just kind of was like, dude, you're a grown fucking man, you know, and you got a lot to lose and you got a lot on the line.
01:01:58.940
And, and it's going to be a whole different ride and probably a lot shorter ride if you keep on the road, you're on.
01:02:06.860
So I just fucking woke up one day and I was like, I'm done, dude.
01:02:13.680
That's powerful to have that ability to have that wherewithal and then, but also to have that ability.
01:02:17.740
I think that's where some people lack that to say, this is it.
01:02:24.000
I was like, dude, you can, you can, it's, you can get used to something so quickly.
01:02:28.180
You know, you think about like, I'm sure you've been on a private, you've been on a private jet.
01:02:34.060
I just applied that same mentality to the shit that I was doing that I wasn't supposed to be doing.
01:02:39.860
And I was like, I can get used to living without this.
01:02:44.840
But I was like, I just, I had to get out, dude.
01:02:48.560
I like, I love being on the road and waking up in the morning and feeling good.
01:02:54.960
I look forward to writing a record and going to work and, and trying hard.
01:03:00.600
That was like something I didn't think was cool for a long time.
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Now I'm like, dude, trying hard's dope as fuck.
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Like, trying hard's a great thing that I wish I would have realized a long time ago.
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You know, like, look at this guy fucking putting effort in.
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Bro, that's so captivating because, yeah, when you're like, if you're kind of going through
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school and stuff when you're in high school and it's like, there's some dude trying real
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But then you kind of get around in your own life.
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You're like, oh man, if I took what I, some of the natural blessings that I've had
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Man, I was living in that condo in downtown Austin.
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And there's a bar on top of that building that's residence only that's open from like
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I'd always lived, you know, on land or out in the country or whatever.
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Like inside the city like that, I'd never lived there.
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But it just – and I think any advice I give to a young dude, I'm like, set your time.
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Like you're going to go as hard as you can fucking go.
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You're going to party until 28 or 35 or 25, whatever it is.
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We had a question coming here about a suggestion right here from a young fella.
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So, Parker, I'm getting ready to move to Nashville as a songwriter.
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And I was wondering, what advice would you have for making those industry connections and getting in better rooms?
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And just what advice would you give to somebody getting ready to move to Nashville to try and do it?
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I know it's kind of a general question, but he seems sincere about it.
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I mean, dude, it kind of goes back to the trying hard thing, man.
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He's never lived in Nashville, never moved here.
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I moved here because I had to get out of what I was just talking about in Austin.
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And that was my, like, the only option for me at the time.
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And I can't wait to move back and buy a ranch and move back to Texas.
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But if you don't know what you're trying to say and you don't know who you're trying to be or who you want to be, then it's going to take a long time to figure it out in this town.
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Like, when I started coming here, Randy Rogers from the Randy Rogers band was managing me at the time.
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He's like, dude, I think you could be a superstar, but you got to go to this town and do it.
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And even when I started coming here, I would call him and I'd be like, dude, I don't want to be here anymore.
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And he's like, you need to, like, just trust me.
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And so to that young man right there, dude, I would just say know what you're coming here to do before, you know what I mean?
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Like, what kind of, what do you really want to be?
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Then you need to have some songs that are absolutely as stout as a song can be, as well written as they can be.
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So when you come here, you have a little something to bargain, you know?
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It's kind of like when I signed my record deal, I was already selling a bunch of tickets all over.
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So I had all the, the ball was kind of in my court on the record deal.
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If you're coming here trying to get a publishing deal, have a little something going already, you know?
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And be like, hey, I've, I've got these songs, you know, have a little something in, in, you know, you don't just want to come in empty handed and you get signed into a bad deal.
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Cause you don't know any better and you don't have anything to offer.
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And I think knowing what you have planned, I noticed at the comedy store in Los Angeles, that's like a popular comedy spot right there.
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And, uh, and there'll be people that go there, they make the Mecca out from wherever, you know, to different cities or wherever town they're from.
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They get the, you know, and I'm going to live here.
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And then some of them choose to just be somebody that sits on the ports and drinks there every, every, every other night, you know?
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It's definitely a way to be, you know, but it's like, are there, are you really living out what your goal was?
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You know, some people, yeah, they just, they'll move to LA and they'll get invited to all these parties and stuff.
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But then there's up in the hills doing Coke every night and it's like, you know, five years go by and it's like, okay, well, what were some of your goals and aspirations?
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That's a, you know, I wish I'd have set some of those lines in my own life at certain points.
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Well, dude, I just realized, I realized like as organically as you can watch it unfold.
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Like the people around me, I was like, man, nobody's like, nobody, everybody's coming over to my house to party, but nobody's trying to make any money.
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And it just took me like going to the bottom of that hole to be like, the fuck, dude, trying hard and taking care of your business and acting like a grown man.
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And I just, it took me a little longer to realize it than I wish.
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I like, they're just destined to hustle and everything's success.
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You'll see a baby, some of them cut their own umbilical cord.
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I, I think my sister may probably, Michael was probably one of those people.
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It's, I wish I would have realized that younger.
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And your music is kind of like, you still make music that almost feel, it's funny because
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Your music makes me feel, I feel young when I listen to your music.
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So I feel, I don't feel like it has, because it only can have, I feel like music can really
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And this, look, I don't know anything about music.
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But, but yeah, your music makes me feel like, I don't know, I sing along to it.
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You know, I feel like, I mean, my shit is, it's not, you know, like nowadays in country
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And, and like, like Wallen is like, that's the greatest pop country I've ever heard in
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Like he, it is, the songs, the production, his voice is so fucking good, dude.
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But I, like, that's just not, like, I love that I have that to listen to.
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I just like writing sad country love songs about everything going terribly wrong.
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That's why this whole podcast is about half the time.
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And I'm, and I'm like, it's kind of hard to, you know, it's like so, so much of the,
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of the genre of country music, especially in Nashville is so pop influenced and mine's just,
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And so it's like, I really struggle all the time.
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I'm like, who the fuck is going to listen to this shit?
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It's not making you want to dance or drink beer.
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Like it's making you want to go fucking text old gal that you swore you would never talk
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But that's a big feeling sitting there in the chest of a lot of people.
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You know, lamenting, thinking about things, looking back, you know.
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And I think what's interesting about it, here's what it is, for such a guy, for a guy at your
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age to have some of that perspective, you don't get a lot of that sometimes.
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So I think that's what I think is really enjoyable about it because it makes me feel kind of young
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Because there's some perspective in it, you know.
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It's a lot of like, like you're driving away from something, I feel like a lot of times.
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Like every song is about going somewhere and leaving.
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And I'm like, who the fuck wants to listen to this shit, you know?
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Dude, I thought your name, I listened to you for a long time before I realized that your
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Because I would always be like, dude, you guys know this guy, The O-Vaughn?
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Let's get into one more question that came from a fan for you.
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So I just want to make sure so that we got, so you started out music, you started out in
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I just want our listeners to know everything about you, because some of my listeners may
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And they're probably going to be like, who's the dipshit wearing the gold chains?
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Like everybody in like fifth and sixth grade was wanting to be in the band, and I was like,
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And then my mom bought me a guitar, just because my brother wanted one for Christmas, and she
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didn't want me to be all upset that I didn't get one.
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So she bought me one, and my brother would never fucking teach me anything.
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Like he would never, like I'd be like, yo, we teach you how to play that?
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And so I really just had to like, you know, I'd like learned on like the internet, once
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the internet very first, like there was a thing called cowboy lyrics on the internet
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And you could look up like chords, how to play, and I would learn how to play Chris Knight
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And that's when I was in like seventh grade, and I wrote this song called One Man Mariachi
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And it was about like going to Mexico and running away and starting a one man mariachi
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And so that, and then my mom was like, hey, that's pretty good.
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So I kept doing it, you know, and then I wrote a song in my freshman year of high school called
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And my brother was like, dude, like he came home from college, and I played that song for
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And he was like, he was like, dude, you're going to be the next George Strait.
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And I was like, damn, that's a lot of pressure, too.
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But it was him saying shit like that and stealing that confidence in me that I actually might
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I was like, I mean, you know, all my buddies when I was in junior high and high school listened
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to, like at the time, it was like Chameleon Air and like Flo Rida and all these rappers
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And I was listening to Chris Knight and Adam Carroll and Slade Cleaves and James McMerchant
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and Robert O'Keefe and Randy Rogers and Pat Green and Cross Janey Ragweed and, I mean,
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And Todd Snyder, I was just completely obsessed with it.
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So it was kind of like, and then once I got into high school and I was like, I was a real
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average athlete, like I wasn't going to play college ball, clearly.
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And I was like, because I would like realize when I was like a sophomore in high school,
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I was like, I was like, I'm not faster than anybody, but I can play guitar and sing better
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And so my junior year of high school, I was walking out of the workout and I told my head
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coach, I was like, yo, I'm going to quit football and go play guitar.
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And he's like, that's the biggest mistake of your life.
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Also, if he's a Texas football coach, he has to say that.
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And you know, Pink and he doesn't want to sign the contract.
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I was like, and that's like one of my favorite movies of all time.
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And all my buddies were like, dude, you're such an idiot for quitting football.
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Now every one of them is like, damn, dude, I saw you on television.
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Shout out my buddy Jeff Bean if he's watching this, man.
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Yeah, I'm trying to think of what else to talk about, man.
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I always apologize when people come up and ask for pictures and stuff.
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You can't compete with what you're capable of or whatever your skill is.
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It's like, as a human, you falter to feel like, you know, people will be like, yesterday,
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I was like, there was plane delays and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Dude, the airport, the airport can be the worst.
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Because usually, like, if you're on your way, it's like a Thursday, you're flying somewhere
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And you're like a connecting flight home, you know, and you just feel so shitty or so hung
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You know, but I'm always trying to be as sweet as I can be.
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I wish I was like, I just write sad country songs.
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I'm just, I'm basically just a musical Kleenex, baby.
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I mean, I just, and I hate to, you know, make it about me.
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It was just hectic yesterday, and I was like, how do I do, because I was like, how do I
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get my feelings and my mental back to a regular level where I can just have a conversation?
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Yesterday sounds like it was some heavy shit, so.
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I've been through that with someone in my family back home, and it's still, he's still
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I still think the Ray Charles reverse ghost joke is one of the greatest jokes I've ever
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I tell it all the time, and I heard that, and I was like, I want to go on that show.
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Yeah, I didn't know what it was going to be like, man.
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Parker McCollum, guys, if you guys haven't heard him, check out his music, man.
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If you're listening to this podcast, then a lot of his music is going to fit right inside
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I've been talking about Kite Club for so long. Longer than anybody else. So great.