E529 Post Malone
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2 hours and 7 minutes
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181.72107
Summary
Post Malone is a musician, artist, producer, actor, and all-around great dude. He has a new album coming out called FUTILLILLION, actually it's out now. I saw him perform at the Grand Ole Opry last night, and it was magnificent. I'm so thankful for the energy that he's given to the world.
Transcript
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Today's guest is a musician, artist, producer, actor.
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He has a new album coming out called F1 Trillion.
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I saw him perform at the Grand Ole Opry last night, and it was magnificent.
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I'm so thankful for the energy that he's given to the world.
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To bring us together, really, today's guest is Mr. Post Malone.
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They're pretty fucking awesome whenever they come out.
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They're like, I've been fucking drinking before I was born.
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A lot of them have real pale skin in their gingers, which are good citizens of the society.
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And they wear North Carolina jerseys, so they fucking go hard, bro.
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If you drink like a nice Bordeaux, as opposed to like Franzia, which I love fucking Franzia.
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Well, Franzia was always like that wine that every now and then your parents would have
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And then you would like go into the kitchen late to get a little snack or a little like
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And you'd go in there and some lady would come just stumbling out of the Christmas tree
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Or at that point, sometimes they'd have it out of the box or naked, as they call it.
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Well, you have to have it out of the box, I believe.
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It's like, it makes me feel like a frontiersman.
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Whenever they have those like fucking, what shape are those?
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Yeah, it has a very, at that point it gets a, like a camelback vibe.
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Yeah, it gets a, I'm not surprised if some of those bagpipe players aren't just, well,
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Right, but a bagpipe is the blowout and the Franzia is on the way in.
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I had a bag of wine in my bed, under my pillow, all of, for all of school.
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Yeah, because it's kind of like a, I told them I bought like a waterbed pillow.
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It's like sucking on Romulus or Mother Rome's teat.
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That thing that like, it's like you hit it and like somebody's whoop bracelet goes off in the distance or whatever.
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It's like that vapor you hit it and somebody's whoop bracelet is like, I'm fat or whatever.
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It's like a bracelet that tells you you're sleeping well.
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And then there's like a little plug or something.
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Maybe I think allegedly you can put it into your side or something that'll monitor your sugar and it'll send the information to it.
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So it can tell if you're dreaming or if you like, if you, if you're, you know, you've never met your father.
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I think they have the Find Your Dad app on the Apple Watch.
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Then they just, somebody didn't trademark it then because a lot of people are doing it.
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Because sometimes it'll say on the whoop bracelet, it'll say, whoop, there he is.
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And I remember I laid down after I got home last night and I was like, was Theo Vaughn there?
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Because I'm 85% sure I said hi, but I didn't know if I was just dreaming.
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Well, I imagine it was such a tough place to be.
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I mean, there were so many stars in the building and that was your first time performing there.
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Because it's like going to like the Mount Everest of performance of live venues.
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And you brought out John Michael Montgomery, Lainey Wilson.
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Brad Paisley came out and played three or four songs with you.
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I, you know, I never know what to expect, but it was someone said that there were two
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tickets sold for like twenty two grand a piece, which is awesome.
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Well, no, they got to see Lainey and somebody else is buying their wife a set of supreme tits
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You could have got two tickets, forty four grand.
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What kind of breasts can you get at forty four grand?
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And I have a blocker on this computer because I used to have a pornography issue, but it's
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And just tell me to look away if it gets too crazy.
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I'm five, six and two hundred forty five pounds.
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I've always had a severe back and neck problems because of them in quotations.
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And they're talking about them, OK, ever since.
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And look, I don't want to use pronouns, but we're talking about us, them.
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Ever since I was in high school, I've been medicated.
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Maybe that's why my A-cups are driving me nuts.
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Oh, the best, the funnest thing to do there would be order one of those.
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Like, you know, you go to a restaurant and they put the little shots of different tequilas.
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Yeah, yeah, you do a whole flight, which you guys can't see at home.
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I mean, one of them looked like it washed up on the edge of the ocean.
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No, I think, obviously, all women are beautiful.
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What we're saying here, what we're saying here.
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How would you, you couldn't even see your kid if you're feeding him.
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I can't believe I've never Googled this before.
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Okay, so I think we put in 44K as the money, and it took, the computer took it as a breast
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Yeah, that's, I mean, she's got more Ks than Joe Musgrove during a good game, brother.
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But it is nice to look at something, and also, it's not pornography, you know?
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It's just like my feet pic stuff, like, it's just science.
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Have you ever had any, you didn't even have an account on there?
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Well, I don't know about this one, don't, um, WikiFeet Men.
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And I'm not going to say that I know this, but let's go to WikiFeet Men, okay?
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Yeah, I mean, that, that's the only trusted source.
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Are there any pics of the actual hoofs, though?
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Oh, so you really are a barefoot little soldier.
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Postman gives you his dirty sock and draws you a tattoo.
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Your bodyguards in the background are like, nobody.
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That's the kind of behavior you gotta, that you gotta offer off to people.
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When you do your live shows, do you have a big ensemble?
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Because everybody kind of has different stuff, you know?
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But, you know, now, we started doing, like, a band a couple years ago, as opposed to just
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But now we have, now we brought Cheese out, Play Steel.
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But Ern, you know, he's played with Ern forever.
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Both of them were so excited that he was going to play with you.
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I mean, and also, if all the men died or something, he would immediately be referred
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I mean, it's like, God, if I didn't love these women so much.
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I think he just had his first number one recently.
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Yeah, because at breakfast the other day, he said, uh, uh, or Ernest said, yeah, he just
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And I was like, and I don't know if we went into what it was.
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Well, yeah, because he wrote and played some steel on it.
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How does it even work that you bring another member in?
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So we had a band and they, um, were more rocking.
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Um, but we, we had said that, you know, we want like, you know, fiddle playing and like
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Now, like we're still going to jam with that band whenever we do.
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Like, I want to do a whole nother Nirvana deal, like do another Nirvana live stream
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Like the one we did in COVID where we did all the Nirvana covers.
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So I want to bring it's people said it was good.
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I think, you know, you watch it back and you're like, oh, I could have done way better.
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Uh, if you're drunk or if you're just hanging out one of these nights, um, anyone out there,
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you know, give it a watch if you haven't seen it.
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So I guess if you're with, um, if you want to get more country, country tuned artists.
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The steel, you know, steel and like, there's a different way.
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She kind of does like these plucky things, which is kind of mandolin ask, but no Mando.
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Like watch, like band coming here and doing, uh, like band days where the, all the session
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You had to almost, cause there's so many stars in the building and you have to kind of,
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He was nominated for an ACM last year for bass player of the year.
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There's so many great musicians here in Nashville.
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You know, you're walking down the street and you're just like, somebody's incredible.
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Um, there is so much talent here in every crack and crevice and it's insane.
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And somebody will pull out a violin and write a song about you dying right there.
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Oh, but I'm just saying it's that it's so musical here.
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And someone will say, that's why I want to hire, not a writer.
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I mean, old people always say something, you know, like that dog wouldn't sit piss.
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That's why we just go get a little hammered at losers and just talk.
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You know, someone will say something so dumb, but the melody was sick.
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It was like all these artists got up there and it was so fast.
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It was like John Michael Montgomery, Lainey Wilson, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill.
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Um, and then you played, I had some help by myself.
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And then, oh, your last song you played, uh, uh, Sunflower by yourself too.
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You look like a Christmas ornament that Jelly Roll would have, you know?
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I was driving to the stadium and some dude was like, Jelly Roll.
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He gets up there and he's like, I want to say to everybody, right now, there's somebody
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out there who's got no arms and no legs living under a bridge.
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And I want to tell you in two short months, you can be winning a sea of my awards.
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And then fucking, and everybody's just bawling, crying.
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He put the fucking, uh, crispy bear claw on somebody, I think.
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Just pull up a video, if you can, of Jelly Roll in the WWE.
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But now I'm older and I'm like, he's so cool, man.
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It's a lot of standing around waiting once you, look at this.
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Oh, Jelly hit him with the never floss fucking.
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That's a fantasy to be hit by a chair by Jelly Roll?
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He hit, he put him in that fucking carb walrus, baby.
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He hit him with that fucking Antioch injection right there.
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My finisher would probably be the, uh, I would hold somebody down and cry directly into
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I think it would be very, like, maybe in, there would be ancient poets that would enjoy
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Well, I had, I've always had a concept for a wrestler that doesn't touch anybody.
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So I think my move would be, like, grab somebody by the neck from, cross the ring.
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See, but there's no wrestler that does that, I don't think.
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Were you a ladies' man when you were young or not?
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you felt like a girl was, like, interested in you?
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Yeah, I already had, like, a million bucks by that time.
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I remember, like, I got stood up at Homecoming, like, all my crushes, like, you know, it never
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But I think that worked out for me in the long run.
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You know, because you could be a kid trying to get some cooch, but I was in my room playing
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It's like, yeah, if you don't feel some ambiance from women, or if you don't feel, like, seen
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maybe in the world or something, then you're like, well, I have to make myself be seen
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And that comes, I guess, like, it's kind of a weird way of, like, oh, I want to express
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myself more, so I become more introverted learning how to do that.
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But the only way to make music is, like, to do it.
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And so I just sat in my room with Audacity and played the guitar and wrote songs.
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And it's like, I want people to hear my music, but the way I do that is learn as much
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Like, taking the time to learn a skill or become an outlier, I guess.
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Well, I probably got 10,000 hours behind it, but, you know, it's an interesting thing.
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Yeah, I think that's something that part of people don't maybe, I don't know if they
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don't realize it, but, yeah, there's a lot that goes into being good at something.
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If I saw six of those dudes, dude, I'd fucking beat their six.
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What if they're naturally talented at fighting?
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I'd call the cops, dude, and the cops would never come.
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But I'll never say, hey, I'm going to call the cops, because that would end up on TikTok,
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Like, Theo Vaughn calls cops on six naturally gifted fighters.
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I was at the Dustin Poirier-Max Holloway fight, and I remember texting 911.
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Oh, I said, dear God, two men are beating the shit out of each other in Atlanta.
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And they wrote back, I'm not even joking, what's good?
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They put a musical gif with it, and it was Andre 3000 singing something.
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I don't remember what they said, but they did accept the text.
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Yeah, you can text them like, hey, I need some help or something.
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And then I guess they probably hopefully would have the location.
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Because if you're in a situation where it's almost like a blink twice if you need help type deal,
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Because you remember there was a story about a lady saying she was getting abused in her home
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and she was like, he was like, order a pizza or whatever.
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So you're going out on tour with the new album, right?
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And do you feel like are you going to all the same markets?
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It's just, you know, I got my two-year-old now and it's hard being away from home for months,
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but I love playing music and seeing people sing these songs.
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You never know if that's like their one thing of the year, you know?
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And that's why I like, I've only missed a handful of shows and that kind of drives me
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And I know there's reasons oftentimes, but it's like, this could be their one thing of the year.
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And I just want to go and kick ass for people who, they're willing to spend their hard-earned
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fucking money to come and see this piece of shit.
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So I'm like, I want to bust my ass for everyone.
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So like, I wait till the last minute to do things, which was the definition of procrastinator.
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Some people are like, damn, he's a procrastinator.
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Some people think, yeah, like, what do you think?
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Yeah, but every school project, it was the night before.
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And that's why I just want, you know, that's my excuse.
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There's so many great options is, I just want to make it right, you know.
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Yeah, that's what we were kind of thinking of is having, like.
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And then, you know, either, like, take it in, like, quadrants or quarters, you know,
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and have, you know, different artists who are available come out and open up.
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And that kind of encourages people, if they want to, if they love that person to come
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to a show, even if they don't like me, and maybe then they will.
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It's just like, you know, I just want people to have a great time, you know, and just come
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Like, a lot of your energy is very, like, gratuitous.
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And, you know, you feel a lot of, like, indebted, almost, in a way.
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It's not like, I don't mean that it's a negative.
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But you can feel like, oh, this guy, he really, he feels that we're here.
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Yeah, that's, like, for me, it's, I know there's so many, much more talented people.
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Like, fuck those naturally talented people that are just so awesome at everything, you
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People call her on Reddit, and I didn't say it.
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But, yeah, you know, it's like people could be anywhere in the world.
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And they spent their time hanging with me, and that means the fucking world to me.
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Oh, that's what feels the toughest sometimes when you have a show that's kind of, you feel
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And sometimes it's the acoustics, or sometimes it's the way that the venue is shaped.
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Like, you're playing in a hockey rink, and you're like, well, this is not even built for
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And maybe you just feel like, what if they don't know that, you know?
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And at rehearsals, too, I didn't realize how steep it was.
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It's just like, there's people all the way up here.
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And at rehearsals, I didn't even see that, because that, like, wasn't lit.
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But maybe it was lit, and I just wasn't paying attention.
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But I walked out, and I was like, oh, shit, there's a lot of folks here.
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We sat next to, there was a Japanese family, and I'm paraphrasing, because they may or may
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not have been Japanese, but they were near Japan, or semi-near.
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And they were in, they were enjoying, it was unbelievable.
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I was like, wow, I'm at the Grand Ole Opry, and I'm with a Japanese family, enjoying Post Malone.
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Well, it's like science class, because you're figuring this shit out.
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It's like, whenever you had an Erlenmeyer flask or whatever, you're like, I don't fucking
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Closed-toed shoes, no flammable clothing, and hair tied back, you know?
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Anybody that wears open-toed shoes to their child's birth is obviously, first of all,
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I think Jimmy Buffett could wear thongs to the child's birth.
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It'd be cool to prank the shit out of your kid who doesn't know anything and just wear
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Just full Realtree or fucking multi-cam, anything.
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Or she picks Willie from Duck Dynasty, and you're like, oh, damn.
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But if I had two dads, it would be Willie and my dad.
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I don't want to have some children, I think, but I just got to get a wife and stuff, and
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Was it hard to make the choice to have a child?
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And for a long time, I always told myself, like, when I was younger and going through
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shit, like, you know, coming up when I was, like, you know, 20, 21, 22, and all that,
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It was to feel something that I felt like I was missing.
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But at one point, I was like, I want to create a fucking awesome life and create life.
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And whenever I realized that it wasn't for a selfish reason, then I was like, let's fucking
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And then I made a baby with my jizz, and it's fucking awesome.
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Like, oh, I was saying, I pulled her right out.
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So she had a 4.8, and I was like, this is good enough.
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But you couldn't see it because of the shoe rule.
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The closed-toed, you can't wear open-toed shoes.
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At one time, she looked at me, and she goes, scrub up.
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And then I grabbed her head, and I pulled her out.
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And so I'm trying to equate the, like, how hard?
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And if you call your daughter gold, what you do.
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Because you're scared you don't want to break them.
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I'm like, no way you pay to get fatality by this fucking dude.
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Pull up some Brother Neck Magic if you can, real quick.
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This sounds like a fucking mixtape from the crazy chiropractic neck pain ejectment.
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This lady's never going to be able to read again, dude.
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Do the one where they put the wakeboarding rope up to the neck or whatever.
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And I think they do that down in Orlando during the wakeboarding championships or whatever.
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If your kid ends up doing this, that's going to be full circle, bro.
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Yeah, get to the big pull at the end where they pull.
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Yeah, where the lady tells all her secrets right after.
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You used to have like cowboy chiropractors just rope you and fucking.
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I've been to a chiropractor, and I always tell them, don't touch me right when I get there.
00:53:17.240
Yeah, you can just fucking like, that's kind of a thing.
00:53:37.480
He's like, I'll sell you a bracelet, weed, and do some Reiki on you right now.
00:53:51.320
Yeah, I mean, think of all the Reiki you could get.
00:53:57.720
You're single with Morgan already when it's to the moon, dude.
00:54:14.920
So we were doing Stagecoach the day after, I think.
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And I think the last time that flag was used was like at Joe Biden's inauguration.
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I don't know if he's going to do anything with it.
00:55:12.780
And that's like, you go and you look at the writers on each of these songs on the record.
00:55:17.480
It's because it's not like, there's a lot of motherfuckers on every song.
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And I didn't know it was like a nine to five kind of deal.
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But we would go to the studio at like seven p.m. and stay till like four in the morning.
00:55:42.980
And we would all just hang out and have some beers and smoke and laugh.
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And that's, I think, like, like I said earlier, you know, that's just how songs get made.
00:56:03.960
I knew during the pandemic, I remember telling people, like, hey, Morgan is the next Elvis Presley.
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Like, do you guys realize, like, he had a trainer.
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And one of his trainers is now also works security with him.
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And he and I would go out on, I think it was like 17th or 18th Street in Nashville and be doing, like, reps out there and, like, walking up hills with the weights and stuff.
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But then we'd be out there just doing our reps and stuff like that.
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And, yeah, and I was like, dude, I was like, I remember telling my friends, like, he's the next Elvis Presley.
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Do you think he's the best that he'll go down as, like, the greatest country artist of all time?
00:57:08.880
He, Hank Sr. for me will always be my favorite.
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And I don't think that he won't be, you know, the biggest artist of all time, maybe.
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I mean, every one of his, so many of the songs are, the craziest thing about Morgan, I'll be around Morgan.
00:57:49.480
And I'll just start singing one of his songs because it's stuck in my head.
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But then you're like, oh, I can't sing that song.
00:57:57.720
What you got to do is change the lyrics and then tell him you wrote it.
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Morgan Wallen matches Adele and Elvis with another week at number one.
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I think he has his trial for throwing that thing off the building or whatever.
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That there's a sign that says don't throw anything off this building?
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I'm trying to think what I would throw off a building, dude.
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You know, oh, dude, you know what I would throw off a building?
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I would throw a replica of the building off the building.
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Because if somebody's like, hey, I just got hit by that building.
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And then the officer would be like, what are you talking about?
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Like, yeah, I just got hit by a really small building of that building.
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And the officer would be like, you're going to jail.
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Like I say, there's a random stranger walking down the street.
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And I throw like a replica of like a, I mean, like a state capital.
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And it's a replica of the building that I'm in.
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And they tell the police, hey, somebody just threw that building at me.
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Now, there's a couple things that you can't get in trouble for throwing off of a building.
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You can throw as much bird shit off of a building as you want.
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Because who's going to prove it that you did it?
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Oh, you saying I'm throwing bird shit on people down there?
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What's another thing you could throw off the roof of a building and not get in trouble?
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You'd just throw pieces of a meteor off the roof.
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Dude, did you ever get to meet like Elvis Presley or anything like that?
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Dude, the craziest thing about Graceland, I didn't know he's buried there.
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So we're going on the tour, and we're like, this is a lamp and stuff.
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This is where Elvis used to hug his wife and kiss his mama.
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Like, he didn't need me, he would kiss his mama.
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I think his name, it was like, kind of like this, it was like a redneck sort of Native American.
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I think his name was like Featherbed or something.
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And I'm like, what did he, and people, and there's some old women that are like, and I'm like, and he's like, hee, hee, nah, nah, nah.
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You're just stuck with whoever the tour guide is, dude, you know?
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But then we get out the back, and I'm like, if you guys want to go to Smokey, you can go out there.
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So there's people out there, and I'm vaping, and his grave is right.
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Like, they say, I didn't get to go up in the room.
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But they say nothing's been touched in the room, in his bedroom.
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And like his slippers are still there and everything like that.
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The museum part of it, like, where you can go in and see, like, the books he was reading
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Like, the JFK assassination book that he was reading.
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There's like a tour group of four people like, what's up with this dude?
01:04:10.380
Because some people, I don't know if, some people were adopted.
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At first, I was like, but then I was like, yeah, Emmy Lou.
01:05:02.100
One time, my uncle was on weed or whatever we played.
01:05:04.260
That was about as Magic the Gathering as we got.
01:05:13.700
My ex-girlfriend, Megan, me and her family used to play some sort of rummy.
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But I think sometimes women might need aggression, you know?
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Emmy Lou seems to sound like she's going to be the rogue agent of those three.
01:05:51.820
You could imagine, like, Aragon going to meet with Llewellyn.
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Maybe at a Love's truck stop, I think I could imagine.
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He's got a T-shirt that says, get your motor running on it.
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He's got a big Peterbilt fucking, like, fucking...
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I guess I was just wondering, where do you get your influence to be...
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Like, I think when I was a kid, I always wanted my mom to see me, you know?
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I remember my mom, sometimes, like, if we had misbehaved, we'd have to go downstairs and perform for my mom so we could get out of punishment, right?
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But it was, like, we'd try to be, like, all right, we gotta do something for mom.
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We're gonna go in there, and my two little sisters are like, what's happening?
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Memorize your minds and get the fuck in there, dude, and put the bra on, dude.
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And so we would go in there, and we would try to make the play, and I would try to be the director and one of the actors, and it was just a nightmare or whatever.
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But sometimes my mom would have so much fun out of it that she would be like, okay, I'll let you watch TV for half an hour.
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Or sometimes she would say, you guys are the fucking...
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She's like, this is why I don't go see shows in this area, and you guys need to go to bed.
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But that was fair, because we were already in trouble.
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We did this sort of like, it was kind of like Boy Meets World, kind of like a Paw Patrol mashup, right?
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And it was, some people would say it's nothing, whatever.
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We had a small Dalmatian that got fleas, played by my sister.
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And she dies immediately, right, in the first 40 seconds.
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And then the last 120 seconds is, there's a mourning and a small wedding.
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Well, essentially, you know, like the creation of life.
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So I think there was some things my mom appreciated about it.
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But yeah, I was just wondering, like, what was your, like, did you get, like, where do you get your idea that you wanted to be seen in the world, you know?
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Maybe you're just having fun, and you're like, I'm having fun.
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Well, whenever she let me out of, we had a little, like, two-by-two kind of room, and it had all these locks on it.
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So whenever she slid me a piece of cheese with a Post-it note that said, come on out, I want to hang out.
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A raw crap single with a Post-it on the front says, come out.
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All my parents have, and I'm so, you know, lucky to have such supportive parents.
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They got me into music, like my mom and my grandma.
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My grandma would be flipping out, you know, seeing me play the fucking Opry.
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And my dad, he was a wedding DJ, and he loved metal and hip-hop and all that.
01:10:05.820
And it's just everything together gave me the appreciation of just music in general.
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Like, you know, I'm a believer that, like, you know, it doesn't, everything doesn't need to be super pigeonholed.
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There's fucking beauty and love in every piece of music.
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And that's why you listen to fucking everything.
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It's just, you know, oh, I feel like fucking this today.
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I feel like this today, you know, and it's the best, you know.
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I think that's the best thing about being your own DJ is you get to, like, you know, I want to play this, I want to play this, and I'm going to play this, you know.
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You know, that's what I feel like you are in a lot of ways, in some ways.
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But I feel like you're, you're not America's DJ, but you're like.
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But it's like, I think people find so much joy through you, you know.
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And I don't even know if it's always because of music.
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I think people relate to somebody trying to be themselves.
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Whether it be music or art or dance or affection.
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I think it's more me trying to explore you because I think that it's an interesting thing.
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It's just like I think people appreciate and can relate to being yourself.
01:12:13.000
You know, it's like there's so many societal pressures.
01:12:17.740
And then with the pickup of social media and how it just moves at 100 miles a minute.
01:12:24.880
We talked about this a little bit earlier, but it's just 100 miles a minute.
01:12:29.980
And you can't like you don't have time to even if you this is who you are, you're going to I feel the pressure to go with the next thing.
01:12:43.260
It's like that's why I feel bad like for some of these kids that are just, you know, super immersed in social media and because it's a crazy fucking place.
01:12:58.980
It's like, oh, like when do I let my daughter have a account and shit and even less like a like a smartphone.
01:13:08.520
I'm happy with her running around with one of those like what are they called?
01:13:11.520
Like Ladybug phones or whatever that has like your mom's number, your dad's number, all this shit.
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The alias to or whatever where it went like this.
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Or dude, what if your daughter had like one of those CB radios like you actually gave her one in her crib or whatever or, you know, or whatever crib she has at two and a half years old if she's still in there and that's fine.
01:13:34.400
But what if she had in there, she's just sitting in her crib and she's like, break her, break her.
01:13:41.260
So once she could pass the cert class, then we can get her the CB.
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I don't want her fucking wild rogue on the airwaves.
01:14:09.660
And it was about this kid and his dad like had passed or something and he got a hold of his CB radio and was just like, hey, I want to be a truck driver one day.
01:14:22.960
And then they all come and like take them for a ride in their truck and stuff like that.
01:14:29.900
I would be tempted to call the police or report him at least because I know for a fact he's not certified.
01:15:10.460
Dude, it's out of you, the rock and a probably a diversity hire.
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Because some people don't consider the rock diverse anymore.
01:15:26.000
So and what song do you play for the aliens, right?
01:15:29.020
Because it's got to be a banger because if the first one isn't a banger, it's going to be a rap, dude.
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When them pigs try to spit at you, drop it like it's all.
01:16:12.700
And we're standing there in the audience, and I think it's me and, like—
01:16:20.160
And Pitbull's on, and we're like, how do we know this is a real Pitbull?
01:16:23.300
Like, there could be 30 Pitbulls playing around America right now.
01:16:31.100
But then we looked at the guy, and we're like, this could be any Uber driver.
01:16:38.040
He was like, dude, there could be seven Pitbulls playing right now.
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Pull up that picture right there in the middle, right above, right there.
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You don't have to say it, and that's fine, dude.
01:17:13.220
Because if that's a mugshot, that's the hardest mugshot of all time.
01:17:37.700
My friend told me that he can bust big loads, dude.
01:17:51.080
You're on the Elvis tour and Featherbed comes and says,
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You were saying, it could be not your child out of your wife's vagina.
01:18:43.540
Amazon is going to, like, it's going to probably be very dystopian.
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I just think, like, it's, like, very thought police-y.
01:19:11.440
Relating to or denoting an imagined state of society where there is great suffering or injustice,
01:19:18.060
the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason.
01:19:21.920
And then the noun is a person who imagines or foresees a state or society where there's great suffering or injustice.
01:19:28.200
So, it's, like, I think with all the drones, like, you, now, we were just in San Francisco.
01:19:36.860
And our driver got cut off by a self-driving car.
01:19:43.140
And how do you go home to your wife after that?
01:19:45.540
It's just, like, you seen the Tim Robinson show?
01:19:49.600
But there's the one where he goes to a magic show with his wife and the magician brings him up on stage and just, like, makes fun of his suit or whatever.
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And they go home and his wife's, like, laying there.
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And she, like, they get divorced, all this shit, because the magician on stage made fun of his suit and just, like, made jokes.
01:20:10.240
But, yeah, cut off by a self-driving car, 100%.
01:20:14.820
And it gets to this point to where it's, like, all humanity is lost.
01:20:22.540
And now, even with social media, it's, like, it's very thought police-y.
01:20:33.560
And then, now, everything is heard and seen and everything.
01:20:41.000
So, it's just, like, I can't tell you how many times I've been on my phone and thought about something.
01:20:48.380
And then, the next time I Google something, it comes up.
01:20:55.900
Like, I was thinking, like, oh, maybe, how sick would it be to, like, jack off on a jet ski in my head?
01:21:07.080
And it's, like, wiki feet and then get this jet ski.
01:21:14.300
Does it just know you so well that it knows what you're going to think at this moment?
01:21:46.560
But it's, like, yeah, it's, yeah, I don't know.
01:21:50.160
I don't know what we turn into more and more as things get, you know, Bernie Sanders was
01:21:55.120
just on, and he was talking about, and I loved it, too.
01:22:05.080
Yeah, and I don't know all, I don't know every one of his policies, but I was a fan
01:22:09.140
He seems like a great guy to crack a beer with or just hang out with.
01:22:12.080
And he comes in, and he's like, and he's got his bag with him, and every zipper on the
01:22:26.120
There's visine in one and, like, a couple masks in the other.
01:22:52.320
And the things he wants, it's like normal stuff.
01:22:55.520
It's like you just want people to feel safe and normal.
01:23:21.960
There are people with lots in different cities or whatever.
01:23:37.180
Yeah, just say the most wild thing you can into that camera right now.
01:23:43.840
And just for you sitting in it, you'll go to jail, too.
01:23:56.340
So the country tour, will there be anything different than your last tours?
01:24:06.520
I went and saw George Strait and Chris Stapleton in Utah.
01:24:12.940
My brother lives right outside of Mount Zion Park.
01:24:17.240
Yeah, we're like 30 minutes outside of Salt Lake, and it's lovely.
01:24:26.280
There's a sense of, like, I want to do what I want to do.
01:24:29.820
I lived in L.A. for, like, five years, and I was like, I can't do it.
01:24:40.560
It's beautiful, but the people there, and that's not even L.A. people.
01:24:51.540
And it's just always, I felt, like, this oppressive energy.
01:24:54.120
It's always, like, there's always something to do.
01:24:56.960
There's always something someone wants from you.
01:25:06.460
But I did a show in Utah, and I was like, this place fucking rocks.
01:25:15.200
And so a week later, we got the house, and it was the best decision I've made, you know.
01:25:22.460
I, yeah, some of my best shows that I've had recently were through Idaho and Utah.
01:25:29.060
Bro, those, dude, I didn't know if they like G-U-N-S over there, dude.
01:25:42.000
Yeah, fucking single action cult, fucking single action army, yeah.
01:26:02.940
And so that was pretty amazing, man, is going there.
01:26:08.240
And I think a lot more people are like, what are we doing in these cities?
01:26:16.760
Did you feel like as you got more famous that part of you like changed or disappeared?
01:26:25.160
Or let's just say popular, because fame is a weird word.
01:26:35.500
I mean, Migos had a song called I'd Rather Be Rich Than Famous.
01:26:44.160
It's just, especially whenever it's, you're coming, like, the whole music world so young.
01:26:53.060
It's super easy to just be a fuck up kid, you know what I mean?
01:27:11.560
I just, like, and, you know, for a long time, I was very sad.
01:27:16.420
And I find myself now getting back into what is fun to me and what I love doing.
01:27:25.480
Been a lot of riding, a lot of time in the fucking woods.
01:27:29.280
I just got a really awesome piece of property where I can just sit and fish and be to myself.
01:27:34.900
And I wondered for the longest time why I was so sad.
01:27:39.720
And it was just because I wasn't able to do what I like to do in my current circumstance.
01:27:47.420
And I think it's important for anyone who's doing anything to be able to get out and take some time for yourself.
01:27:59.940
You know, it was just head down and go, go, go.
01:28:02.420
So, but now, taking this time to really just do what I like to do, and I have a daughter, I guess.
01:28:23.720
Like, I just keep feeling like I need to do more to prove, like, I don't know what I'm trying to prove things to sometimes.
01:28:31.240
It's like there's this constant, like, I've had it since I think I was a kid.
01:28:36.420
Like, I'm not enough, and I just, I don't know if it's I'm not enough.
01:28:41.540
The feeling is like, I need to keep, I need, what else can I do?
01:28:52.180
Am I trying, that's the thing I struggle with sometimes, you know?
01:28:55.020
And I think in the end, later on, I've realized, I think as an adult, it's just this endless feeling of, like, oh, I'm not enough.
01:29:05.120
Like, and if I proved myself to you yesterday, that's not enough.
01:29:12.240
And I think it's just this, I don't know how that magnet started that keeps pulling that energy out of me, you know?
01:29:20.880
Well, you, I think people have the natural inclination to want to be great, you know?
01:29:28.380
And it's like, even with music, with me, I can only speak on my behalf.
01:29:35.780
But whenever I make a record, I'm already writing new songs.
01:29:50.380
And we get caught up in this kind of deal where it's just like, it's just, like I said, everything is so fucking fast.
01:30:00.200
And like you said, I proved myself to you yesterday.
01:30:09.380
I think humans inherently want to be great and be accepted.
01:30:33.480
Maybe you go be a minister, like a volunteer minister.
01:30:36.940
I was thinking about signing up for the fire department.
01:30:41.500
I agree you're still getting people out of fire, but a little different than volunteer ministry, okay?
01:30:45.980
But pulling people out of Hades and pulling people out of a fucking, somebody fucking, somebody set off a space heater in a Hampton Inn is a little bit different, okay?
01:31:04.200
Yeah, one day I think I would like to end up in that or in some form of like, is there anything from my life that I can share that will help somebody not feel some of the tough parts that I felt?
01:31:19.860
Your heart is bigger than your hat, dude, and I can tell that from the first moment I met you, I think we met at Losers the first time.
01:31:52.320
He's the funniest person I've ever met in Nashville.
01:32:00.240
Like, it's kind of like hanging with John Mayer.
01:32:02.380
Like, whenever you meet John Mayer, it's like, everything you say, he has a one-liner in response.
01:32:08.160
And it's the coolest thing you've ever heard anyone say.
01:32:12.320
I've, like, he's just, he's going, going, going.
01:32:16.540
So I went, I met John Mayer probably 17 years ago, right?
01:32:20.480
And then seven years later, I saw him at the comedy store.
01:32:25.840
And when I met him, I was working as a tour manager for an artist named Josh Kelly, who
01:32:36.920
And seven years later, I was at the comedy store.
01:32:43.980
And he goes, I met you at an apartment in New York City seven years ago.
01:32:57.060
And so we went, yeah, we went and saw him recently at the Grateful Dead and Co.
01:33:07.300
I can't, I don't even have the words for how much I love my brother.
01:33:11.020
And in between the shows, his assistant came out and said, hey, John wants to say hey
01:33:21.940
Like, he's like bought like Jerry's like replica DNA off Reddit and shit.
01:33:28.020
He's had some tough moments, but he's a great guy.
01:33:30.380
And so we're, and my brother's like looking at all the dressing rooms, like shit you don't
01:33:36.060
You don't fucking, you know, my brother's like looking at like the, you know, he's looking
01:33:39.800
at like the coffee tray and just, what's going on?
01:33:42.300
You know, he sees Bob Weir's dressing room, he introduces himself to a security guard.
01:33:50.260
And I literally just sat there while they talked about Grateful Dead.
01:33:53.520
And that moment right there was the highlight of my life.
01:33:59.840
You sit there because to be 100% candid with you, I could not name one Grateful Dead song.
01:34:08.240
And for you to sit there and them talk about the Grateful Dead.
01:34:15.340
Because I just knew, and they're both, and my brother is very articulate and extremely
01:34:19.460
smart, especially when it comes to like child development and stuff.
01:34:22.160
And so, and I knew that in a weird way, his intellect and John's would be cool.
01:34:26.680
And it was just nice, but it was nice of John to welcome us.
01:34:30.180
I'm kind of bragging there, but, but that was like a cool moment, you know?
01:34:34.320
And the other day I was texting my brother and he's like, yeah, he's like, hey, you
01:34:37.320
know, John, I like, it was cool that John just let us have a regular conversation with
01:35:05.460
And you know, um, did he work on a new, is he on one of your new songs?
01:35:10.500
He wrote a bunch on the record and he's just like, dude, he's on top of it.
01:35:22.200
Um, through them, I met everyone here and it's a, it's a great spot right here, man.
01:35:47.380
Um, whatever, you know, if you get a new spot, I'll move in with you.
01:36:03.660
I'd like a spot out here because every time we come out here, we stay at the hotel or Airbnb
01:36:08.100
and the folks at the hotel are so sweet and they take such great care of me.
01:36:16.620
So we started Airbnb in a little bit cause we have the baby out and all that stuff.
01:36:20.300
And, um, then I was like, well, we'll get a spot.
01:36:24.080
So we started looking and like stuff that I'm looking at, I'm like, Jesus Christ.
01:36:44.020
It's so, I, it's so hard for him to get something that's fancy.
01:36:49.900
Well, all you need to do is start doing like those, you, you do the youth pastor stuff,
01:37:02.280
Who's the, I don't want to be in an airplane with a bunch of demons.
01:37:27.060
Ask you about why you don't want to fly commercial.
01:37:29.820
Why have you said that you won't fly commercial?
01:37:32.300
You said that it's like getting into a tube with a bunch of demons.
01:37:47.280
If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65% of what I'm doing.
01:37:54.460
Isn't it true that you want to fly commercial so that you can fly in luxury?
01:37:58.720
How much money did you pay for Tyler Perry's Gulfstream jet, for example?
01:38:03.080
Well, for example, that's really none of your business, but...
01:38:12.720
Well, you kind of caught me off guard here, okay?
01:38:19.340
It's a chance to catch your breath and have a conversation.
01:38:38.040
You said that you don't like to fly commercial because you don't want to get into a tube with a bunch of demons.
01:38:43.320
Do you really believe that human beings are demons?
01:38:51.260
We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but principalities and powers.
01:38:57.340
Can you explain what you meant by that term, then?
01:39:32.900
What were some of the music you grew up listening to in Texas, man?
01:39:36.460
Or what were some music that kind of first influenced you?
01:39:39.460
I mean, John Michael Montgomery, to see you play with him the other night, dude.
01:40:01.520
Those are some of the musicians of, like, No Doubt, like, shit like that.
01:41:06.680
Like, Young Thug, for me, is my favorite lyricist and melody maker, like, of all fucking time.
01:41:29.460
Like, he goes to such crazy fucking places that...
01:41:35.960
He goes to such crazy fucking places where you...
01:41:45.420
I would go down one place and he would go, like, two octaves up.
01:41:58.260
In my early teens and everything was Thug and, like, Rocky and George Strait.
01:42:23.980
But, dude, there's so much fucking cool shit going on at any...
01:42:30.780
Like, I remember, like, SoundCloud just first started.
01:42:37.280
And I was maybe one of the first artists to really, like, blow up strictly on SoundCloud.
01:43:01.700
And it's so hard now, I feel like, for new artists to...
01:43:07.860
Because of the volume of music that's getting put out.
01:43:19.140
Things that start, that means they open their doors.
01:43:24.260
Type in, when did SoundCloud really start popping?
01:43:41.640
But, yeah, it's hard now, like, to get discovered, especially.
01:43:45.660
Well, it might be, it's either easier or real hard.
01:43:48.820
Because you can do something that really just tricks the algorithm and saying, like, people get, like, viral.
01:43:57.300
But songs don't have to be viral to be awesome.
01:43:59.980
And we miss out, I feel like, on so many, like, artists that never, you know, so many talented people that never, that never get the algorithm going for them, but they're fucking killer.
01:44:16.680
And that's, like, the hard part is the volume of stuff.
01:44:21.900
Like, the first recording software I got, I think making music should be as cheap as it possibly can.
01:44:38.540
And I would sit in my room and fucking make these songs.
01:44:43.240
But it's hard now because it's, like I said, it's so fast.
01:44:51.880
And then, like, you don't hear much after that.
01:44:59.480
But that's what people, people are like, let's make something that goes viral.
01:45:02.900
I just, like, I want people to fucking express themselves the way that it is.
01:45:08.040
And if you work super fucking hard and you go, like, I'm the luckiest dude in the world.
01:45:16.000
And that was because of Fat Man Key and he's fucking amazing.
01:45:21.220
But you also feel like you were sharing yourself honestly.
01:45:25.980
And I think there's so many artists out there that I want to do something in the future where, like.
01:45:39.720
That's the only editor I know how to use, dude.
01:45:42.100
If our shit's bonk in the middle of that, I'll be up on Audacity.
01:45:55.900
Because, yeah, I'd be up in the middle of the night, a podcast episode, something be wrong.
01:46:02.800
Yeah, I think, you know, I think express trying to be real to yourself.
01:46:14.240
Or what makes you, you know, what makes you uncertain?
01:46:21.500
You know, like, if you can find a feeling and attach your art to it, I think that that,
01:46:27.880
I just, I don't believe that we can't see authenticity.
01:46:34.800
I know there's hooks and you can get hooked, you know, you can get hooked on the hooks,
01:46:39.280
But I feel like authenticity, you can never lose by just trying, you know.
01:46:47.780
Well, Bernie, that's one thing Bernie Sanders said.
01:46:49.340
I said, well, what would you say to a young politician who wants to be, you know, someone
01:46:53.160
young who wants to affect culture the same way you did in the 70s when you decided to
01:47:10.400
But no, no, no, he said, I said, Bernie, if you had to say something to a young person
01:47:16.380
who was the same as you in 1970 or 1968 who wanted to affect change, right, who really
01:47:22.880
wanted to have a, you know, who believed that I'm a human that can have an effect on the
01:47:28.980
He said, do it because of what your purpose is, not because you want to get elected.
01:47:33.480
Like, you don't have to get elected anymore to serve your purpose, right?
01:47:39.060
You can serve your purpose because of social media and because of the internet these days
01:47:51.080
It was like, yeah, find the new road, you know?
01:47:56.480
Like, just like even with SoundCloud, it's like, yeah, if you couldn't get a deal, if there
01:48:00.420
wasn't a deal, somebody handing you a deal, that's like, find the new road.
01:48:06.640
And it's such a cool thing to see, like, independent artists and fucking them doing all the shit
01:48:15.460
Like, printing the records, putting it up on DSPs, you know, all this stuff.
01:48:21.240
That's why, like, I think I was saying, too, I want to give, like, down the road whenever,
01:48:26.900
you know, there's more time and I'm not so selfish and self-focused.
01:48:31.280
Well, and I got my family, too, so I'm working hard for that.
01:48:35.140
It's like, yeah, you get going on your own dream and your own dream takes off and then
01:48:38.620
it's like, how quick do you feel like I need to start to turn around and figure out help?
01:48:45.980
And that's, like, the most important thing for me is either you do it with music, help
01:48:50.280
people, you know, through hard times or help them get through a tough week or whatever.
01:48:54.660
But I want to make it bigger and help, you know, artists really get a fucking spot and
01:49:01.380
showcase talent because there's so much that doesn't get, you know, like, it's cool.
01:49:07.060
I'm excited, you know, and now I'm about 30 years old.
01:49:11.360
I'm 29, but tomorrow, or not tomorrow, but next year I'll be 30 and I'm like, I don't
01:49:17.440
have it in me anymore, you know, I'm figuring it out.
01:49:19.560
I'm like, I'm like, my back hurts, you know, whenever your knees click, whenever you stand
01:49:26.380
Dude, I went to an audition one time and they're like, all right, do the part.
01:49:29.340
And I started reading and I like pointed and you could hear, it was a quiet room.
01:49:37.080
It was like somebody loaded a shotgun and you saw, like, there was one cute girl in the
01:49:48.740
Like, everybody came, even I, you could see in my eyes, one of my eyes was like, I'm
01:49:58.020
You could see fucking my, you could just see things change, you know, but, um, but it
01:50:06.120
And also you want to get to a place in your life, uh, when it comes to like giving back
01:50:13.420
It's like, I've been in discussions with like about a year and a half with, uh, an attorney about
01:50:18.160
starting a foundation and like, well, what do you want to your foundation to be?
01:50:21.280
You can't just make a foundation and it's blind.
01:50:24.620
You like the government, you have to make it very specific.
01:50:28.220
And so you have to figure that out and you don't want to just be blind.
01:50:32.520
Cause otherwise then you're supporting something you don't even really care about and your passion
01:50:46.740
Dude, I'm putting this Elmer Fudd hat on, dude.
01:50:52.540
I look like a referee at a fricking, uh, that's horrible too.
01:51:15.600
I think there's a constant feeling of like, um, I think, you know, I think it comes from
01:51:24.780
So how do I make myself enough or okay where you'll see me, you know?
01:51:32.680
Well, I see you and you're a stud and I love you.
01:51:38.140
And there's so many people out there that think the same.
01:51:49.940
It's just so crazy that it doesn't get built into me, man.
01:51:59.680
I hate that I'm always having a like, you know, after a while it gets, you know, it's
01:52:14.900
That's, it's like the same thing you're saying.
01:52:16.280
It's like, um, so I'm not getting in, uh, I'm not getting into, uh, self pity mode here.
01:52:22.500
I'm just looking at it, you know, I want people to know that some, you know, sometimes
01:52:27.400
I got to be careful there, you know, I don't want to get into self pity, but it's like,
01:52:32.100
You know, but even thinking about it like this is kind of helpful, you know?
01:52:37.140
And dude, the shit that you do and how many lives you brighten every day just by being
01:53:11.840
Yeah, I wish I could think, you know, I think it was just so hard when I was a kid, it
01:53:15.680
was so hard to feel highly of myself, you know?
01:53:23.740
I felt like I just wasn't worth a lot, you know?
01:53:40.800
This is where Theo Vaughn used to kiss his mama.
01:53:45.940
Sometimes that old shit fucking comes up, you know?
01:53:49.680
And I want to respect it because that's the old kid's feelings.
01:53:52.640
But also, yeah, I want to let that kid know the same things you say, that like, you know,
01:53:57.520
I'm a deservant person, and that I'm a good person, and that it's okay.
01:54:11.440
Well, I can only, you know, we've met times before, but today I feel like take some time
01:54:22.780
You deserve it more than, more than you know, I think.
01:54:28.740
You are such a good person, and I'm just honored to know you, and you fucking kick ass, dude.
01:54:42.340
I know it's not always easy to talk about, and I didn't mean to push it on you.
01:54:49.940
It's something a lot of, like, the listeners of this show think about a lot, you know?
01:54:53.580
It's like, we talk about that stuff a lot, you know?
01:54:56.340
It's like, yeah, how we feel, our relationship to ourselves, that kind of shit, you know?
01:55:05.200
Yeah, it gets, I mean, I can't believe it's not a class in school.
01:55:21.260
It's crazy that there's not a world of, a little bit more a world of emotional intelligence.
01:55:32.380
Yeah, and yeah, like, I feel, yeah, most of the time I feel great, you know?
01:55:36.840
And, dude, the past few years have just been so good.
01:55:39.680
It's like, going through, like, so much therapy, and I've done ayahuasca treatments, and I've
01:55:43.780
done, I've been in 12-step recovery, like, 95% of the last 10 years.
01:55:49.380
And so, you know, all of that whole universe has been great.
01:56:06.700
Dude, I, yeah, could I ask for two more sweethearts?
01:56:11.960
If I had a Valentine's when I was a kid, I would have picked a woman.
01:56:15.040
But instead, I got you and Bernie, and I'll take it, bro.
01:56:31.820
Dude, do you ever, have you seen all the Halloween costumes of you?
01:56:59.420
We went on Halloween, and people thought I was a costume, and didn't get stopped once.
01:57:14.840
I don't know why babies dress up as me so much.
01:57:17.600
I don't know why my music is so big to the three and under demographic.
01:57:52.340
This kid looks like somebody Gypsy Rose would date.
01:58:01.520
That looks like somebody Gypsy Rose is probably going to leave prison for Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
01:58:10.120
But she is okay with meeting men outside of prison.
01:58:22.980
I'm not convinced those aren't prosthetic feet, though.
01:58:36.220
Tristan, I love you and your sister and your father.
01:59:20.180
Just do your best real quick and put it together.
01:59:22.900
We'll put it together then and we'll come back to it, dude.
02:00:36.680
Let's not avoid the Theo Vaughn baby Halloween costumes.
02:00:45.740
Get the one with the mountains right there on the fourth one.
02:00:53.500
Well, you just got to get enough land, then you could carve it yourself.
02:01:43.760
Imagine, it's like the Jesus on a cracker or whatever.
02:01:53.800
You don't want to cut into your Christmas ham and fucking.
02:02:11.560
And that's a, that's, it's a cheap joke jelly roll.
02:02:17.080
It is a low blow, but I'll say that it's a low blow to a high guy.
02:02:23.360
And I, I, I believe that, uh, I can apologize to him.
02:02:30.280
Dude, that's the most, that those are the most Malones I've ever seen.
02:02:34.420
Is there something, when you think about your career, um, you've had a storied career.
02:02:41.340
You know, thank you for just taking us like, you know, you feel like a concierge that takes
02:02:51.740
Cause a lot of artists, they, it's like, um, their wheelhouse is, uh, it's not limited,
02:02:57.860
but it's like, it's, um, it's not as multifaceted, you know?
02:03:02.740
And I appreciate that because people are multifaceted.
02:03:05.560
You know, there's a lot to people and, and, um, and yeah, it's just good to see that.
02:03:10.820
It's good to see you share, uh, like, uh, vibrant sides, thoughtful sides, um, introspective
02:03:21.800
Um, it's just cool to see you share the different sides, man.
02:03:24.360
You know, I think that's the new wave of what a lot of people want to see about, of, of,
02:03:31.300
Cause it's not that you love the music as much anymore.
02:03:40.180
And I think that that says a lot for me, it's the perfect marriage of those two.
02:03:44.820
You know, like I can't tell you how many times, like I've seen someone, I'm like that dude.
02:04:14.920
Hey, paper don't need to finish school to work here.
02:04:25.600
But even if he wasn't one of the best actors of all time, he seems so fucking cool.
02:04:33.560
He's got a great smile and a nice German accent kind of up here.
02:04:44.840
I haven't said trill, and I don't throw that term around loosely.
02:04:52.880
Oh, breaking up a bottle of trill is like breaking up a fine wine.
02:05:05.160
Being who you are and being kind to people and just doing your best to be kind to people
02:05:12.020
is the kind of vibe I get from him and the vibe I get from you.
02:05:14.980
So you could be shit, but you're going to win because you are a kind, kind person.
02:05:25.780
I don't know how Christoph Waltz got brought in, but I love you, Christoph Waltz.
02:05:37.040
I thought I was going to get the me too on that one.
02:05:40.840
I've enjoyed, I've enjoyed listening to your music over the years.
02:05:44.000
I've enjoyed seeing you being like, you know, I feel like when I see you, sometimes you're
02:05:49.440
a reflection of the better parts of myself and others.
02:05:57.340
And so I see you and it reminds me in a smile about where I'm at.
02:06:03.260
And there's a lot of people that do that, but you're, you are one of the people in the
02:06:08.240
And yeah, I've loved listening to the songs I've heard in your new album so far.
02:06:13.400
The ones with Morgan, Luke Combs, Lainey, Blake Shelton.
02:06:21.800
And I think it's the only four I've listened to so far, but I'm looking forward to listening
02:06:43.220
I think it's important that we have people like you in the world.
02:07:18.900
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.
02:07:38.620
It's gonna tell because I feel like I'm going to be a addict.
02:07:41.020
There's a WarnerM Online team, but I can just wait a minute.
02:07:42.820
I have to see if I only want you to travel by the end.
02:07:54.520
And it seems like me to know who you're lying here now.