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Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up. You’re off in God’s Country Wi Ship boys. Yeah Monday, Bro, Yeah, you’re taking got you just do it?
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Speaker 2: Go well you boys read and Dan iswell. Keep going place where country music in the outdoors run together at an intersection also known as the Brothers Hunt, where we take a weekly drive to the country music outdoors where they meet at an intersection. You’re going, that’s all I got. You don’t remember your part? Oh, brought to you by meat Eater and to Covi shsh, let’s do it.
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Speaker 1: I think we skipped the two things to coops in the show Now Babe, to COVID.
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Speaker 2: Show Now Baby. We were able to get a pair for our guy Ray. So come on out here, cho tos and dance. It’s the course. Ray.
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Speaker 1: I’m gonna just start that over, start that over and get on out here.
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Speaker 2: Do a little dance for us, right, show everybody your boots, bro, give us little two step prash.
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Speaker 3: Everybody want out man, get the punk. Okay, okay, dude, I didn’t really, I didn’t know it like you made a little Irish jig on that dude.
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Speaker 2: He didn’t sick on an Irish sounding. I don’t know where these are coming. From man.
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Speaker 1: Ray, you can do it all, Ray, you can do it, do it all right now, I know you can dance too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we’re gonna use that. They look good on you. Ray.
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Speaker 1: Uh man this intro. Two things that go together, like, uh what I wouldn’t even say that? Yeah, sorry, Uh two things. That’s legos and uh the millennial Falcon is millennium or millennial millennial falcon falcon catfish and cut bait. Uh dude, Randall King cowboy hat dude Texas.
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Speaker 2: He’s that’s that’s that’s tough. He’s tough, dude. Yeah, you can tell he’s real. Texas sold Texas.
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Speaker 1: And that’s song about Texas is like it does feel like like every every Texas artist we get through here is authentic.
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Speaker 2: You know what I forgot or forget about, is how much how many unbelievable monumental artist Texas produces.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I feel like somebody, I feel like a Texas artist says a name that I didn’t need, Like every time they add somebody to that list and it.
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Speaker 2: Under the fly. I got under fly under the radar guys that because there’s so many Yeah, there’s so many singer songwriters from there. I mean, he even mentioned Tony Lane. I’m like, that’s my that’s my guy. That’s why I moved to town. Was Tony Lane and David Lee. Like I was, I was chasing what they did? You know? Killers man influential in the culture, influence, influential in the sound. Yeah, Texas guys, and he is one. He is one man through and through. Incredible singer, a great songwriter. Uh, just a just a dude’s dude. And I really enjoyed this morning with him. So I think you will too. A great storyteller, that’s right, that’s right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don’t care what you put in there, honestly, just give us five stars. That’s right, Randal Key, thanks just hanging with us here on the guys country. I see you later. I’d love to keep going. My wife’s the same way.
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Speaker 1: We live on a split level, and so pretty much when we merged and got married, the house I was living in just went to the to the basement level, and then everything she had was way nicer went to the top and so now like downstairs, at one point I had eleven deer heads down there, and then.
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Speaker 2: She was like, we need to take some of use to the studio.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, this is kind of like we’re going, we’re gonna go l hunting this fall, and when we you know, hopefully come back with one, it might go right there.
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Speaker 2: We don’t have to be a good spot for it. Yeah, we’s gonna take up that whole spot that is right, we have. I live in a little tiny house right now. We’re building and dude, there’s no room for yeah, and she’s just like none of these deer.
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Speaker 4: Bedroom house and one bedroom has turned into a gym, the other ones for the baby. And you know, daddy got no space. No four paces that came around. I had like like lego sets everywhere.
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Speaker 2: You know. It was ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: It said crap everywhere, and she goes, she goes, nope, yeah, put it all in the attic.
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Speaker 2: Just get your garbage in the attic. And I was like, whatever, it’d be all right. Lego like Lego, what do you worry?
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Speaker 4: I’m a leg On ther Bro what Yeah, Deerheads and Legos like that’s if I was a single man in my house would look like Neon signs, Deerheads, Legos.
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Speaker 2: Man, we got a text and a new dad.
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Speaker 1: As you just heard toured with the likes of Luke Brown and Cody Johnson fishes a little bit a mask over five hundred million streams Randall King of Guys kind of okay, wait, so what’s your uh, what’s your favorite Lego set?
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Speaker 2: You you’ve done Lego? I just would not. I kind of wanted to know how that I was a kid though, man, like I did Legos when I was a kid. That’s what I mean. You got your first set when you’re.
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Speaker 4: Like I was probably eight something that was probably five five or six, and I love them?
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Speaker 2: And are you like a fall of the thing guy? Are you just like a random now?
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Speaker 4: You follow the thing and the cool sets like I think the minifigures have been become like such a feature within the Lego sets. Now they’re all way too expensive because of it. But I mean I still build them. I enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: What do you what are you building? Crazy cars? You’re building?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there’s Star Wars, there’s uh Harry Potter got to sound like, yeah, this is what I do.
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Speaker 2: Man. I love it. It’s it’ll be cool.
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Speaker 4: If you were like building it’s got the Nightmare before Christmas set to oh cool, I was like, it’s follow dude, love not member for Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Build that thing, put it up there, and so do you? You just like when when do you have time to do this? You got a new baby, you’re on the road all the.
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Speaker 4: Dude, I got Lego set’s been sitting there for like two years, three years. They bring got me like the Millennium Falcon three years ago. I have yet to put it together and just don’t really have the time.
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Speaker 2: You have a process the space for it, right. I can’t put my sets anywhere? So why I build them? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And especially I mean as as you’re little and gets older, you’re gonna have to keep putting them high.
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Speaker 4: That’s out of it too, is like it’s major choking hazards. She started got a point where she can she can roll over and sit up and reach for things and everything goes in her mouth right now.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man on the side, that’s let’s just like that. Man. Yeah, my guy’s one, it’s like thirteen months or something, dude, and he’s yeah, he loves dog food. He wants to eat dog food. All eat dog food. Yeah, and I get like the healthy dog for it. No, it’s pretty healthy, so at least, you know, I mean, if it was up to me, I would have old Roy. Yeah, but my wife we do the farmer’s dog apparently, like farmers apparently that farmer’s dog, Like you’d be able to if you were, like if you were a hungry dude that in the middle of nowhere, you just toss them on the fire and eat it yourself.
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Speaker 1: That’s like the kind of keeping the fridge just got like carrots and peas and all that.
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Speaker 2: It comes in.
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Speaker 4: It comes in a box where’saw frozen, packaged up. It’s really expensive, but it’s good for him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Before before we had our kids, my wife we’ve got to I’ve got a red bone and a chocolate lab maybe merle and uh. Before we had kids. My wife was like, man, you know, I’m gonna get them healthy. They need to lose weight. So she’s like, I’m gonna cook. I’m just gonna cut the like puree of the carrot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: She did it for like two months, and it was like, all right, just go ahead and just buy them the Yeah, just go back to cost that’s too much.
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Speaker 2: Too much.
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Speaker 4: She had this old whiler and I was never in the rot wallers. I was they just for whatever reason. I thought of them like pit bulls, samon and just stayed away away from him. And uh. So she had this old rot waller when we first started dating, and he was just like this gentle giant and I could go lay on the floor, put my head on him, hang out with him. But he was oldest, like oldest dirt. Yeah, he was fourteen years old for a rot waller, that’s pretty.
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Speaker 2: Mas’s old end dog. Really, I mean that’s old. That’s a big day.
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Speaker 4: They typically don’t last between eight to ten years. It’s like their norm. So he hit fourteen and she was cooking that dog chicken and rice every day. No way, she did it every day. And I was like, I’m sorry, buddy, I don’t cooking your very day.
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Speaker 2: I ain’t McDonald’s big. I felt bad to the preservative city. Yeah, because my dog is like science Ariiam’s iris and she hits Science died like a thousand dollars a bag or some stupid And then our cats, dude, they get the cheapest I can buy on the shelf. Dude. I mean they’re just like my dog goes the vet for checkups. My cats once every five years.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you just set them outside and let them rugs.
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Speaker 2: Let them rock, dude, they rock, let them, let them, let them run away. And I don’t know what they do. I don’t know.
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Speaker 4: That doesn’t have to thing about cats, Like you just set them outside and like they just hang out.
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Speaker 2: We try to do that. Litter yeah, uh, what’s I don’t even know what it’s called anymore. The litter basket, little bucket, whatever it is. Anyway, it’s stunk all the time, dude, no matter how much you clean, no matter how much you put stuff, it’s stunk all the time. And finally I was like, hey, shit, I’m done. I’m done. Man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And they tried to make them where they like scent it and and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, man, if you’re tired of your cat, you can throw that. You can throw it outside, fine, don’t even care. So it kind of enjoys it more than me. So now they just live outside. Which I’m not a cat guy. Me neither me, neither did it. But I’m not a not a mouse guy. And so what I see, I’m cats The cat’s outside. Whatever, dude, I don’t want a cat inside.
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Speaker 1: I just don’t see who’s mad this morning?
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Speaker 2: Try try singing? I got this throat man? What are you going? The same one? I might have to go low. He’s still. I might have to go low on this morning? Are you singing that? You sing this morning? Watsch mad? Just tell us what it is? Watch you’re mad? Is it you in the Lost kids? Might be a boss man? Boss man cat there? Just tell us what mad little diddy for you? Randall?
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Speaker 4: Pretty good, that’s pretty good. It’s that’s rare thing for me to get serenaded at nine o’clock.
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Speaker 2: You go, picked dog. I’ll take it. Appreciate you, gentlemen. I’ll go first because this is about me. A minute ago, when jumps trying to fix my hat, I took it off. I looked. It’s a little baby peke. Oh what what? There’s a little baby puke on my hat?
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Speaker 1: There?
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Speaker 2: That why? I I thought, I don’t know when that happened. Camera. It’s like there’s a lot, it’s like a little market. It’s like like targeted. So I guess I’m kind of mad at my my baby Buck. Dude, his name is Buck. Throws up. Oh well, he’s a baby, so happens the other ones? Did that? Are you shaking? Yeah? But not shake shaky? What do you mean shaky? I flip him on the bed throw loves it.
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Speaker 4: You take a coke can and you flip that thing up on the bed and then you open it to what happens?
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Speaker 2: You drink twenty ounces of mealk a day. You be throwing up all the time to maybe I don’t know. I don’t know what his deal is, dude. They say he’s got a little I think it’s called schwinter or something. Is that what it’s called sphincter?
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Speaker 1: Evidently his adn’t closed yet because he’s thrown up on my caps.
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Speaker 2: They called that like the ugula or something. I don’t know what the sphincter don’t sound.
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Speaker 1: Sphinker don’t doesn’t sound like the other end I wish Jordan here we have ray?
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Speaker 2: Is that what you call that? Confident? I don’t know what it’s called either way, whatever it is that doesn’t close up, it still hasn’t closed up yet. That joker shacking on everything apparently, Okay, Randon, what you med at? You met anything? DAAs Cowboys man?
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Speaker 4: Dallas cows cow hard to be a fan?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you mad at the uh, Matt Jerry, you’ve mad at the performance? You mad at all of it? The Michael Parsons, you know, I try to let it, try to not let it all get to me too deep. Uh, you can’t.
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Speaker 4: When you paid millions of dollars to catch the ball and you drop four.
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Speaker 2: Of them, that’s you ain’t doing your job. You ain’t. Season’s over dog deal. He missed the ball, I didn’t want to drops drops, Still had over one hundred yards, still had a good game, All the same games on the line, be clutch. Do you think that? Do you think that’s the guy? No?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he played great, but he always plays great earlier in the season. The back half that you gotta worry about. The back half belongs to the Chiefs. Yeah, as as has belongs.
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Speaker 2: To the Eagles, right, now, John, last night, did Joe watch? Did not watch the you’re talking about? The late Black game.
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Speaker 4: Was playoffs Buffalo Buffalow in Baltimore. Yeah, I didn’t get to watch him in.
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Speaker 2: That’s about six o’clock. We do lights off trying to get that baby. I feel that, Yeah, I feel I feel that. You can look at the scores. You don’t pop it on your phone, you know, but pretty much.
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Speaker 1: They were Bills were down forty to twenty one.
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Speaker 2: They were down fifteen with four minutes left.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, forty to twenty one maybe so forty twenty five and uh.
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Speaker 2: And in the last four minutes they scored twice. The drove down, scored, forced to fumble from Derrick Henry. Dereck Henry fumbling on the thirty got.
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Speaker 1: It against, got it against, scored, came back, stopped him. Baltimore punted, and I mean Josh Allen just did his thing. Two minute, drilled down the field, kicked a field gold one d literally and there was no time, no timeouts. Matt Prater wouldn’t even own the team, dude. Yeah, Thursday night, he got the call, comes in and wins, that wins the game for its almost good for Matt it was crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he’s an old kay like the pills man, because I like Josh Allen.
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Speaker 4: I like Josh Allen, like the organization. Not not a big Baltimore guy, you’re not an Eagle fan. Yeah, but you know what, they can run an organization pretty well, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, Sirianni is a great coach. I don’t really like Sirianni.
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Speaker 4: But Howie, Howie Roseman, that’s one of the better gyms in football.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, talking in here this morning, we can talk. We can talk football, we can go deep on what about the legos?
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Speaker 2: I got you to, Man, I’m glad that this morning too.
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Speaker 1: When we’ll wrap with this, I’m just glad that’s September, bro, I got I had a hoodie on this morning.
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Speaker 2: You know. I felt good last couple of weeks. Played down a New Kenny Saturday night.
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Speaker 4: Where’s that a It’s like just north of Houston. It be in September. It was probably the sweatiest I’ve been on stage.
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Speaker 2: All year long. I got off stage, I was in a two shirt, took my T shirt out. I was like, oh ready for that to be right? When is it? Does it ever cool down? In Texas?
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Speaker 4: In about late September, it’ll start chilling like this. October will really feel like this up here. It’s on now it’s cold. It feels good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels good.
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Speaker 1: It’s always dope season, dude, It’s it’s always September one dove season kind of kicks it off, man, and it feels like I mean, we shot the other morning and it was one of the one of the most fun dove hunts I’ve ever been on. We went out with Combs. He just plants it to a little two acre plot and and usually it’s it’s a few of us and we just roll down there and we shot three three man lemon in two hours.
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Speaker 2: Damn just got it.
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Speaker 1: Got out there at uh sunrise.
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Speaker 2: It was it was so much fun. Man. He’s got this room. Man that when when they at the place, apparently a guy had like a I don’t know if it was a hunting room, you know, I’m talking about in the room in the barn. Yeah, I don’t know how you’d explain it.
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Speaker 1: But he’s he just puts all this a little man room, dude, little man hunting.
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Speaker 2: He puts his hunting stuff in there and then he has like a one of those things called like like a radio player. Radio he just got old. He’s got George Jones and he put alive George Jones and hit play five thirty in the morning. We’re drinking coffee. He has a little coffee pie in there. We drink coffee’s and go out and I was like, man, I think I was just sitting here.
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Speaker 1: He’s super like he’s he’s OCD so like he’s very so.
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Speaker 2: Everything in that room he walk into.
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Speaker 1: Everything’s hung up perfect, there’s like little spots for everything. Everything’s it’s like perfectly organized, perfectly clean.
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Speaker 2: He’s got a camo recliner in there. And uh. He was like, you know, I didn’t spend too much time in here when we’ve had babies, He’s like, but now that they’re a little older, He’s like, I spend a lot of time just trying to get it there clear. He’s like, I’ll sneak got a little plug in the unit, but that blows cold air in there. Sit every now and then I’ll come in here and just real quick found the noise out. Dove Hunt’s fun. Have you ever done any dove hunt? Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, my favorite dove hunt. We actually we went Friday, but like did they want the breathing birds. They actually turn ended up turning out like six hundred, letting them loose later on in the evening because people are paying for hunts. Oh really like, yeah, we plaid the show where like you buy a ticket or you could buy a hunt for the day and you got a ticket for that night to the show, to the show. It was a really bad concept. But the birds were thin man, so at the end of the night they had to turn loose six hundreds. For the rest of the weekend they had they had bird. My favorite hunt was down there in Lubbock, though I went it’s probably about five years ago. I was still living in Lubbock five or six years ago, and a company called Smoking Mount Doors down there in Texas. Good buddies of mine took me up there to a field and Lubbock just on the outskirts and it was sunrise first to the first week into December.
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Speaker 2: Cold.
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Speaker 4: Well, you talk about cold like you could fill your hands. And Lubbock is different when it’s cold because when the wind blows, it’s a painful, very painful cold can just dry and then the.
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Speaker 2: Wind just hits you.
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Speaker 4: It feels like negative fifteen, negative twenty just piercing you. And so you’re standing out there holding your gun and you can’t fit your fingers. But like, do you talk about just flocks every every time you turned, if it just flocked. I think we the three of us limited out somewhere around within that two hour range.
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Speaker 2: It goes pretty quick. They were just everywhere. God is fun, man, when they’re everywhere flying.
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Speaker 4: When it’s fly too right, so there’s not like a load of trees that’s flat, like you can see you can watch the flocks come in from half a mile down.
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Speaker 2: That’s one of the most fun thing.
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Speaker 1: What we talked about too, is like is being able to see him and seeing those three and four and five and six packs come in and holler, you know, coming over with the right And then did they just work perfect? And they come in low and you shoot them here and stuff and they had a you know, sky bang them and yeah, it’s fun. Yeah, I shot some of my house recently last time. My son loves them. He wants to go doub hunting so bad. Yesterday he was on the swing.
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Speaker 2: Griffin ate the hell out of them.
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Speaker 1: Last ate the hell out of I almost messed her up because I gave her a piece that was too spicy.
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Speaker 2: First, what you put on Courtney and Jason? The berry berry dust?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is like a bunch of garlsts, a lot of pepper in there.
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Speaker 2: It’s pretty spicy.
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Speaker 1: That’s I feel like that is almost four Uh, like big red meat, like big.
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Speaker 2: Steaks that you’re going to burn off, that’s right, but you’re going to keep on long and you can’t dust that. Barry. You can’t go Barry, that’s crazy on doves. No, No, you can’t. So how did you did you tempt them? Or how did you know they were? I did?
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Speaker 1: I just I just started the trigger and I just put it on four hundred to get it, because it usually if you put it on four hundred’s gonna cook at three twenty three thirty.
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Speaker 2: And uh, that’s all I put out.
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Speaker 1: Just did a little little vegetable ol and uh, just sprinkle berry dust on them and then laid them on there and they cooked for maybe ten minutes.
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Speaker 2: They cooked so fast. I cooked them. I cooked him a little.
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Speaker 1: I got them to like one twenty one thirty and then just got my cast iron hot and just like crysted them up on it and crunched them up on each side. Gave him a crust to it. Yeah, took them off at once.
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Speaker 2: Breakfasts, some bird let’s go.
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Speaker 1: It was funny because we had like I had, like, you know, ten or twelve breasts and Jordan was like, you gonna cook those doves tonight? And I was like sure. I was like, what else we gonna have with it? She’s like, I mean, I’ll do vegetables and stuff. I was like, well, it’s not a lot of not a lot of meat. She was like, no, it’ll be plenty. So I cooked them up and I had them in a little bowl. I was like, hey, the duck, the dove was ready, and she came here, she goes, where’s the rest of it?
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Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, that’s it.
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Speaker 1: I was like the breast, I mean, that’s like snacks man. Yeah, pop them, but god dang, they’re good, dude.
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Speaker 2: They put them in a halipinia poppers. Oh yeah, I know. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Friend of mine cooked up one time on his trigger duck poppers and uh and dove poppers and uh.
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Speaker 2: The greatest phenomenon.
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Speaker 1: I know people talk trash about the Super Bowl party on top of that, Yeah, let’s go, dude, I could eat a million of them.
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Speaker 2: I could eat a million of them. I always wondered if you did one of those Argentina things where you can shoot like a million, if you’re like, can I the back, can I take nine hundred of these back with me? You know they killed like the thouls. Now I didn’t know that. Yeah, there’s a down in Argentina. They do these guy that hunts.
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Speaker 1: Where they ruined. They ruined ranches down there by eating them and the and by what you’re saying, the dove on them. Yeah yeah, birds yeah. Yeah, it’s like hogs in Texas. Literally there’s no limit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, like, you’ve got a guy when you go down there, You’ve got a guy sitting beside you.
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Speaker 2: Two guns.
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Speaker 1: There’s three, no three, three shotguns. He’s handing you a gun. You’re shooting three, he’s loading the other one. You hand him the empty gunny and you want to.
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Speaker 2: And they tab on how many, how many shots you’ve taken and how many you’ve hiit really yeah, and you can see your percentages at the end of the year. It’s pretty cool. It’s incredible.
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Speaker 1: It is, man, it’s a I mean that’s you know, I’m pretty sure they shoot everything that flies though like parakeet.
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Speaker 2: They because they’re nuisance too. Yeah, they shoot everything. Yeah yeah, if you eat them, I’m sure you can eat them off. They’re any good. Yeah. Well I love to do that, dude. Awesome. I don’t know how much you cost. It probably costs a million dollars. Maybe be fun. Just go do that. I bet it don’t.
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Speaker 4: I bet it don’t cost what you think. Yeah, especially if they’re a nuisance.
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Speaker 1: Down there, right, coach, you’re rid of them. I’ve been dang, we can take a rider’s tree down there.
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Speaker 4: Come on, I know for sure, I know some folks. We can go down to Texas shoot some hogs out of a helicopter.
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Speaker 2: Man, I’m weird about Have you done it?
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Speaker 4: I’ve never done it, Honestly, I’m not big on helicopters. Same as an artist. It’s like there’s kind of a rule of thumb of no helicopters and uh, don’t fly private at.
00:24:59
Speaker 2: A love really really not doing it. Don’t fly private out of love it that things happening, man, just like we just don’t do it.
00:25:09
Speaker 4: I know he didn’t fly in Lubbock that day, but as somebody that started out in Loubbock and as an artist.
00:25:15
Speaker 2: I just don’t do helicopter interesting, you know, I was with the helicopter. I’d give it a shot. Though. If I was going to go hunt some hawks, that’s on with you. I’ll go with you. He adn’t gotta go. I would helicopters, man, that whole thing. Just did you see that one at the Fair of the Night.
00:25:33
Speaker 1: Yes, Griffin was like, let’s go ride the helicopters like never was. Hey, baby, one thing I ain’t never doing is riding helicopters.
00:25:40
Speaker 2: At the first the guy help me, God, what’s the guy that the helicopter crash? No, I’m trying to get to that. I was writing with an artist. You can’t hear. I was writing with an artist the day that that happened, the day that, uh, Troy Gentry, is it the day of the day after, I can’t remember. Tell listeners may not know about that. Tell tell the listeners. Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry don’t ride helicopters. Affairs people. This guy was wearing him out about getting in a helicopter and going up. Let me let me take you up, man. I’ll show you the town, I’ll show you wherever they were. And he’s like, no, man, I’m good. Anyway, he kept on the killing He’s like finally he’s like, okay, man, I’ll go with you whatever. He gets on. They go up. Without getting ridiculously detailed about the story. Basically, something malfunction happened where it just kept running until it ran out of gas and then just fell out of the sky, like brutal. Right, you’ve heard this right. I didn’t know about all that. I just knew he did add in the helicopters.
00:26:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, crash, Yeah, I mean it was brutal supposedly, I mean yeah, apparently, like I mean that had enough time to call people and yeah, yeah, all of his office i’d have been beating the ship.
00:26:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, this gonna be my last five minutes. I’m taking this off. I’m throwing out.
00:27:00
Speaker 5: Uh.
00:27:00
Speaker 2: Anyway, what’s this guy’s not gosh all over the world corn God, sorry, he’s I couldn’t remember, no for sake. So I was riding with him that day. His uncle called and was like and apparently he was like a ex helicopter flyer in the military or something, was like, hey, dude, never get on a plane helicopter that affair, And he was like, yeah, I know obviously he’s like, no, No, I’m telling you A lot of the a lot of the equipment they use is like not up to f f A or not a future farmers may a probably not, it’s not a farmers. They’re picky. I would probably trust it if it wasn’t. I’m getting they know they got that they ain’t going right.
00:27:52
Speaker 4: No, man, there was there was a helicopter guy that was, uh, there’s a little place called House Pasture out in Conkan, Texas. That dude have been there for years and like I’m talking like at least twenty sixteen seventeen since I’ve been going there. He’s always set up right out there in the field next to house. Past year taking who everyoneants to go up and they go ride right there because it’s like the Frio River right, so there’s canyons, it’s beautiful.
00:28:21
Speaker 2: It’s apparently a really cool ride.
00:28:23
Speaker 4: All my guys have done it, like almost everybody I know have done it, and every time they’re like you want to go Nope, absolutely not, I do not want to get in there. This past year that guy crashed, no way, and I was like, the rest his soul.
00:28:40
Speaker 2: But that’s yeah, yeah, Oh for sure. Yeah, it’s not worth it.
00:28:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, no worth you never know, man, And they’re not They’re not made the land. Where where’s home for you? Where’d you grow up? I grew up in Amarillo. I grew up so technically. I grew up in Herford for thirteen years, graduated out of Embrillo, which is where I was born. And then now, once I graduated high school, I dipped down to Lubbock, followed high school, sweetheart down there. I lived in Lubber for twelve years. Texas Tech may what is it?
00:29:14
Speaker 2: There for a year? Raiders guns up all of it. Uh. I was down there for a year and a half. Ern I broke up second semester as it happens. Yeah, and uh I stayed in my dorm room writing songs and ended up falling out of Tech. Stop going to class.
00:29:33
Speaker 4: Yeh so I still to this day remember calling my dad and going, hey, man, I know what you spent I know with them, I know, I know you’ve borrowed before one K. I know all these things. I want to apologize for wasting your money and your time. I’m not going back to Tech. You’re not going I’m not going. Just calm down, just listen to I’m not going back to Tech. I have a plan. Well, I’d like to hear this plan. I’m going to go to South Plans College, which is right down the road. It’s eighteen hundred semester. I spent eighteen k at Tech. Yeah, like, yeah, I’m going for eighteen hundred semester. I’ll find a way to figure out how to pay it and I’ll take care of it, and I’m gonna go actually get into a field that I know I’m going to use in my career, not business major, music minor at tech. Like you minoring something, you might as well major in it, right. I wanted to play music, and South Plans offered a program where you could learn science technology. There was a music program for to be a musician, to be an artist, and there was a live sound program. So it helped in all three fields of what I was doing, and learn how to produce my own records, got a sound tech degree and hit the road running. So I spent twelve years down there in Lebwick just figuring it out. Yeah, figuring it all out, learning the roads the horrible.
00:31:00
Speaker 2: You get your band and start playing. After the we.
00:31:03
Speaker 4: Played we played every little Die bar in Lubbock for for a while, just trying to get our feet wet, trying to get name out there, at least in Lubbock. And then we figured out if you play lesson Lubbock, you get bigger crowns. So we started up hitting the radius and spending an out one hundred miles, two hundred miles, three hundred miles. Eventually got to the point where we played Lubbock once a year. But it’s always on the stop, always got to go back to it.
00:31:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, where’s the place, where’s the where’s the place to play? Uh?
00:31:33
Speaker 4: My home bar is the Blue Light Live. So there’s a bunch of artists that come out of there. I mean, Lubby’s been home to a ton of artists, especially lately these days. I mean started with obviously all the way back in the day with Buddy Holly Whaling, Jennings, Joey Lee, mac Davis, you can you can go all the way back there, and then to the like late nineties, early two thousands with Coreymorrow and Pat Green, and then it was Wade Bowing, Josh Abbitt, William Clark, Green, Atlant Cavalry myself, and then uh, now it’s you’ve got Hudson Westbrook, he’s out of Lubbock. He’s a Red Raider, Grant Gilbert slid Coulter. There’s a ton of dudes that are crazy. Man, it just list goes on. But everybody, the samebody has come up through the blue light and it’s been it’s been the home bar, it’s been the spot.
00:32:28
Speaker 2: All right, man, I want to put your own spot here, give me, give me the mount Rushmore of Texas music, of Texas music. Yeah, I know it hurts. I know that’s tough, man. I know it’s tough. You’ve got four head there’s four. Yeah, it’s it’s hard because it’s you’re not everyone’s. You’re a mount rushing my Mount Rushmore of guys out of Texas that you can’t put yourself, I would put your own mind. Well, I appreciate that. I would not put me on yours, man.
00:33:10
Speaker 4: I would say out of the guys have been just majorly impactful in country music out of Texas, obviously George Straight uh Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. I’m gonna throw a fourth. I’d probably toss in there, probably tossing there. Gary p Nine, I love Gary Pine. I think I think he’s been super impactful within the entire Texas music industry.
00:33:39
Speaker 2: So that’s that’s a tough one. You got, you got a lot of really, there’s so Texas man, Yeah, that’s insane. Singer songwriters too, that’s just there’s contes.
00:33:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you look at what’s going on these days out there now, like with Kojo and Parker mccollumn, co.
00:33:59
Speaker 2: Edzel, all these guys have Texas that.
00:34:01
Speaker 4: Are just enormous now, tom Myers, Hudson Westbrook, all these guys selling out massive, massive venues.
00:34:08
Speaker 1: Yes, I think countries once that that style of music. I think they want to hear it. Commercials, yeah, commercials.
00:34:15
Speaker 2: Want absolutely Yeah.
00:34:18
Speaker 4: I think authenticity, man, they just come from a real place, comes from that’s right. There’s something in that the Texas, the Texas scene where you’re going out, you’re carving it.
00:34:30
Speaker 2: Out, bar bar bar live show, you’re.
00:34:34
Speaker 4: Living it, you’re writing it, earning, breathing, and you’re eating it. Sometimes you ain’t eating it, you’re sleeping on the floor of the van. Right, It’s it’s the real deal, Like you, they aren’t it the hard way. That’s how I built my my business is going out show to show to show to show and build it one fan at a time.
00:34:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, it’s Charlie Robinson from down there, from down there, killer dude. That guys so.
00:35:00
Speaker 1: Well r I P right yeah man yeah where yeah? Where did that love come from?
00:35:05
Speaker 2: Where? Where? When did you start? When did you realize you loved music? Wanted to do? Man, I’ve always wanted to do it. Uh. I picked up a guitar when I was seven years old. My dad got me a guitar. It’s like I was.
00:35:16
Speaker 4: I’ve been singing since I could talk, making up songs. Just really yeah, this is all I really ever saw myself do and wanted to do, and so got me a guitar. And I do like little talent shows and.
00:35:32
Speaker 1: Who’s your guy? Who is your guy? Back then when you’re little? Oh man, I mean George t Bag grows up.
00:35:37
Speaker 2: George. Yeah, I used to looking mirror and do all the did you know man.
00:35:45
Speaker 6: He love me?
00:35:47
Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, I’d sit there and imitate me. Man, I love you. So when Peer Country came out, Your Peer Country came out, that.
00:35:57
Speaker 4: Was that was Oh come on yeah yeah, top movies like your country is up there?
00:36:04
Speaker 2: Oh, I would agree with that.
00:36:05
Speaker 4: Your country irving cowboys smoking the bandit like classics.
00:36:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get my kids on most Yes, that was that’s something we we didn’t really your countries.
00:36:16
Speaker 2: I learned like you could.
00:36:17
Speaker 4: You could be a really talented artist and no acting. Dude, like nobody care. Nobody cares. Yes, right, like, hey man, I love you the pieces as an artist, but terrible.
00:36:27
Speaker 2: You’re pretty terrible in the dude.
00:36:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, don’t matter, like there was no the most like mono tone lines, go on.
00:36:34
Speaker 2: Get you sad of here. If I ever see you.
00:36:38
Speaker 4: Around country music again, I’ll sue you so fast you won’t believe it.
00:36:43
Speaker 1: It’s a personality in that meaning you mean it like scared nobody.
00:36:50
Speaker 2: What were the songs from that sound? I mean, I’ll try to remember. I remember obviously, and promised to.
00:37:04
Speaker 4: Add a lot of a lot of us on here, and then we’re side and walking in the road.
00:37:11
Speaker 2: Begain Oh dude, I didn’t even think he said goodbye.
00:37:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, there’s so many, had a bunch of them on there, but those are the three that I remember that standing out the most.
00:37:23
Speaker 2: Add a lot of he had that old budd Lot commercial. You remember that bud Lot commercial from the nineties.
00:37:28
Speaker 4: Add a lot of where he’s like, uh, he’s up on stage and he’s got a six pack sitting on the stage, and this fine ass girl walks in and she’s staring at him and he’s doing this George Straight thing, working it and she walks up.
00:37:42
Speaker 2: She goes reach for a beer and he just slides that beer back and goes, h. I don’t remember it, but it’s a lot. He’s singing add a lot on the stage. Look it up. What’s the one on.
00:37:59
Speaker 1: Right?
00:38:00
Speaker 2: Sound a bat that’s right? Dang, it’s so bad. Yeah, yeah, man, I wish I could remember the verses of that. I don’t remember. It goes god. I hadn’t heard that. I listened to that soundtrack probably twenty years. Yeah, dude, there was some jams on.
00:38:18
Speaker 4: Oh man, that was like that was a right around the time too that I think Straight out of the Box came out, which was like a massive, massive Like I would say, I would like to say b sides to me, they were all number one hits, right, they were all none of them. I don’t think any of those were singles really, I don’t think so. There might have been some, but like it was just like all the best of straight and my mom was in that straight out of the box.
00:38:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s not like I I mean, run is my that’s my Yeah, that’s my favorite one of all time from him. But that’s somebody I need like being for Tennessee. I feel like I feel like Garth Brooks was pulled more, you know, and and Joe Diffy and these guys were pulled more than like I feel like, if you’re from Texas, George straight is obviously the king, but like that’s somebody that I don’t know.
00:39:09
Speaker 2: Bob Willis but like according to Texas, Bob Wills will always that’s not George.
00:39:16
Speaker 1: Something I just need to Oh yeah, I just need to listen to George a whole lot.
00:39:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean everything’s good, there’s not there’s not bad. There’s not much bad. What was the one we used to do? Uh uh? Won? I can’t remember the.
00:39:37
Speaker 5: King’s to come on when?
00:39:41
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that’s you know, that’s right. Have you ever heard the story behind that song?
00:39:47
Speaker 2: No? Oh wait? Can you sing it? Yeah? Me about up? You’re very bitch Shong got problem.
00:39:58
Speaker 5: I’m Monna dre golf my chest.
00:40:03
Speaker 2: I don’t want to spend the night.
00:40:07
Speaker 5: Getting down sorry because adding woman that I hadn’t wrapping around.
00:40:12
Speaker 2: My finger just to come on, we gotta do one woman.
00:40:17
Speaker 5: And I hadn’t wrapped around my fingers to come on, will she give me out? I said, tonight I’m whisked by.
00:40:31
Speaker 2: Wanna be the drunk is fool in town because that woman night. I hadn’t wrapping around my finger just to come on wild. That’s what. That’s what I want to, That’s what that’s that’s what. That’s what I wanted the whole time. God man, he’s just it’s just gold.
00:40:51
Speaker 1: Oh So the story, Uh, it was good at interviewing.
00:40:57
Speaker 4: Didn’t didn’t have that song, and uh it was on hold for Johnny Paycheck.
00:41:03
Speaker 2: He wanted he wrote it for Johnny Paycheck. He wanted Paycheck to cut it.
00:41:06
Speaker 4: Well, Johnny Paycheck was in jail, and uh, they had this new artist over there that they had signed, the young artist, George Straight. They needed a song on him. So I think it was a producer. Producer called Dan up and was like, hey, man, got this young kid, George Straight. And then the song we want to we want to have him sing this, We want to put it out of his first single.
00:41:29
Speaker 2: Then he goes, who, I’ve done the same thing.
00:41:33
Speaker 4: They were like paycheck’s in jail man, like he record at least eight months. He said, yeah, give it to him, give it to him. And then that was his first single, but it wasn’t a number one, but it was his first single out there got.
00:41:46
Speaker 2: Them, It wasn’t that was his first single, number one. Dang iconic song.
00:41:51
Speaker 1: They always one of the number one ionic that song was on it straight somebody that. It just feels like he was always Texas though, like it felt like he didn’t. He doesn’t feel like a Nashville country artist. To me, he never was, you know what I’m saying. He never he never moved to that, That’s what I’m saying. Yeah, but I mean he’s he’s still i mean, what sixty something number one as an.
00:42:12
Speaker 2: Artist and he’s one than that.
00:42:14
Speaker 1: I think that he’s like sixty Yeah, I thought he’s seventy. But I mean it’s just always he just always felt like, you know, like I’m going to bring him up again, but Garth felt like you could run down here and talk to him.
00:42:27
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:42:27
Speaker 1: Straight, just felt like he was always like a long as a way, yeah, you know, doing his own thing, playing.
00:42:33
Speaker 4: You know, it’s a difference in difference in stars right, because there’s one star that’s like big giant energy, puts on a show and like super personal always and everything. You always see Garth, that dude is. He’ll shake your hand, sit there, He’ll talk to you all day long. Where Like then you have the star that’s like you feel like you can’t touch him. That’s right, You’re like the elusiveness is powerful, mister, Yeah, for sure. Like it’s two different kind of two different kind of stars man, both massively powerful.
00:43:06
Speaker 2: Though.
00:43:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s super interesting. Dynamic, the difference in dynamic, it’s so different. I’ve never really thought about that. But you’re very very true.
00:43:14
Speaker 2: I mean you really never see George doing interviews or kind of anything. Man.
00:43:18
Speaker 4: You catch him around sometimes, like really incognito ball cap, just like a regular little jacket hiding off somewhere.
00:43:26
Speaker 2: Just never met him or seeing him or anything. I’ve seen him around. Never met him. You’ve seen him? Where have you seen him around? I’ve seen him around. I played his golf course one time. Uh, I don’t remember the name of the golf course. It burned down like not long after I.
00:43:40
Speaker 4: Played it, but it was the first time I met Dean Dylon. It was me Aaron Copeland and Kyle Park and we were sitting there doing a song swap and uh, this was back when George’s keys player was managing. Uh, Kyle and Aaron gotcha and uh, my manager, how He Edelman called me and was like, Hey, let’s come down here and we’ll play this. It’s a little little benefit on the golf course up there. George trades he’ll probably be around.
00:44:12
Speaker 2: Kick out du Yeah.
00:44:13
Speaker 4: So me and Colin Aaron, we’re sitting up there, were playing on stage and we’re singing our songs and Kyle’s like, hey, we only play our favorite Keith Whitley songs. Cool, done do I’m gonna bust into Mia Miami right. Well, I’m playing it. I’m singing it. First verse, in singing it, hit the second chorus, and this old man.
00:44:41
Speaker 2: Walks up. That’s Kyle on the shoulder.
00:44:45
Speaker 4: Kyle just steps back and this dude’s like getting ready about to go in and start singing.
00:44:50
Speaker 2: And I’m like, happening here. Come in the middle of playing the song acoustic? Is it all acoustic? All acoustics? And I’m like in the middle of the planet and watching this dude and I mean he’s.
00:45:01
Speaker 4: Decked out looks like a star ritch golf. Of course, play Miami. Who wrote Miami Miami. That’s Dean Dillon And I was like, that’s got to be Dean Delon. I’ve never seen Dylan, didn’t didn’t know what he looked like. And Dan’s just slow, swaggy Yes, gets up and I was just went yep. I stood back and I kept playing guitar and I looked over and he starts singing Miami Miami, and I was like, this might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. And Kyle hands on his guitar after I get done, and he goes, boys, y’all want to sing one more? Yes, sir, mister Dylon, come on, and.
00:45:44
Speaker 6: He should we play Let’s play? Oh yeah, let’s play Tennessee Whiskey.
00:45:56
Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, let’s go. We’re sitting there and he goes, which version, which version should do? There’s you know, I think we should do Chris? Is that one made me the most money? I was like, yeah, cool, just cool. Yeah, he’s cool man, He’s well when I met him, he was a cigarette smoking son of I mean, I’m talking about lating them all. Oh yeah, manting on off? Is he not anymore? I don’t know. I hadn’t seen him in ten years, but I always always I probably told this story on here.
00:46:33
Speaker 1: That’s another guy man that just feels he’s a ghost, but he’s done everything. It just all Aura.
00:46:40
Speaker 4: Mana went down to his ranch in Gunnis and Colorado in the fall of twenty twenty.
00:46:48
Speaker 2: He brought me up to go right, had like I had three days with him. Yeah, that’s probably full circle moment for it was like it was, it was really impressive. It’s something that.
00:47:01
Speaker 4: As amazing, like my songwriting Mount Rushmore, Tony Lane and come on, that’s my god, that’s you mentioned run earlier Tony Lane.
00:47:12
Speaker 2: Oh he’s killing.
00:47:16
Speaker 5: Uh.
00:47:18
Speaker 4: So he were sitting up there and the whole time I was like, this is Dean Dylan. Oh I got to bring my a game right for writing when I write, Like we’ve we’ve alreadden together. Like I’m sitting there and I’m just in my head turning, turning sentences together before I spit them out. So I’m sitting there thinking, I don’t just like mumble jumble and spit out words. To spit out words, That’s not what I do when I write. So Dean sitting there looking at me, and I’m trying to string some sentences together then spit him spit them out, and he keeps saying some stuff, spitting out some lines, looking at me, and I’m like, yeah, yeah, like that, hold on, I was thinking. And then he finally looks up and he goes, son, if you don’t say some words and spit out some lines, you might as well writ by yourself.
00:48:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you. I all started saying, I just said it’s good or bad. It don’t matter if it’s good or bad.
00:48:22
Speaker 4: That’s how we write together, all right, all right, I don’t want to sound like a.
00:48:29
Speaker 2: Crap line. Spit it out. The first time I wrote with him, I brought this idea. I had this this concept, and it’s a pretty cool story my when my granddad came home from war, my grandmother was at my aunt’s house. She had a bunch of them dead bolts on her door. You know, it was a long time she couldn’t get them open, and she said, somebody opened this door. And I wanted to write a song I had I had. I’m sorry, I can’t say I wanted to write a song. I had the concept of that door. Seeing my granddad coming home and saying it’s the only customer. The only customord that door I ever heard was my grandmother saying open that door to get to my granddad. Right. So I was telling him I was over explaining it like a hundred I just overexplained. I could feel myself trying to kill the idea, right, and he was he has that long food anchew beard thing and he was like doing like this and at the end of it, and I was even second guess. I was like, yeah, but you know what I keep running into at the end of the day, it’s just a four by Yeah, it’s quiet, and he’s quiet.
00:49:28
Speaker 4: He sis here and he quiet, and he’s thinking about the idea, and so you start second guessing yourself.
00:49:36
Speaker 2: It was me and I got more that’s what I was doing. Yeah, that’s a good one. Yeah, you’re waiting for me and Benjie Davis just sitting there and he he loves the story too. Were I was like, but you know what, man, at the end of the day, it’s like a four by six piece of wood, Like it’s just a piece of wood. And he was like, yeah, but I did okay with the chair. And I was like, ship if there was a guy you’re gonna write a song about a piece of wood with probably the guy the chair.
00:50:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, he’s though, Man, what’s that legendary dude?
00:50:14
Speaker 2: What’s the guy he wrote the chair with? Oh? I don’t know.
00:50:16
Speaker 4: He goes He was telling me about he goes down there to he’d go down there to the Florida Keys and they’d get on the boat and they’d.
00:50:23
Speaker 2: Write, Oh yeah, yeah. They were only for like, why is his name slipping? I don’t know. He told me they do a buch of cocaine, smoked cigarettes and wrote songs for like weeks. Yeah, I can’t remember guy’s name. I know you’re about what Jordan’s here? She would look at he said.
00:50:38
Speaker 4: The chair was like, I think one of the easier songs that they ever wrote.
00:50:42
Speaker 2: It just came together. That’s cool. Yeah, those are the ones that you’re like, yeah, yeah, that was my chair.
00:50:50
Speaker 1: That’s a that’s a that’s a fan grave grave written around here. A lot of people do that. Yeah, a lot of people like that song too. Talk about your transition from Texas to Nashville a little bit like, uh.
00:51:00
Speaker 2: Is it you got it? Ain’t Cochrane? Yes? I was like, why is it sloping? Yeah? Awesome. Uh tradition from from Texas to Tennessee. Yeah.
00:51:12
Speaker 4: Uh so I’ve been coming up here to write since twenty sixteen. My manager, Scott Gunner found me uh in a little dive bar in San Angelo, Texas called Blaine’s Pub. He went down there and like.
00:51:28
Speaker 2: Like the old school days, we’ve been don’t do no way. We’ve been to San Angela. Have you been to Blas Pub? No, we didn’t go to man Blaine’s cornerstone. There ain’t nothing but a little down.
00:51:41
Speaker 4: The creek now Turkey hunt right now you get out like a bunch of these California’s coming up there, building these cool businesses. But it’s pretty It’s they’ve done up the town pretty good.
00:51:49
Speaker 2: Uh.
00:51:50
Speaker 4: But Blaine’s has been a cornerstone down there for forever. There’s a little college down there called uh Angelo State. We went down there like it’s it was a thursday. I was playing acoustic with a friend of mine, middle of the day and it was like old school Nashville, where like they sent a time, sent the talent.
00:52:12
Speaker 2: Scouts out to go recruit get right. Yeah, and that’s cool. He did.
00:52:17
Speaker 4: He looked me up and saw my name and he went traveled down to San Angelo to see me because he’d been wanting to see me. So he found me in the middle of the day just doing this duo with a friend of mine that worked at Texas Roadhouse with me. Her name was Laura Markham was set there and we made decent money back then, and uh, we’re.
00:52:39
Speaker 2: Just doing acoustic stuff.
00:52:41
Speaker 4: And he reached out through Facebook, of all places, as a DM through Facebook. Didn’t send me an email, didn’t reach out figure out my number and call me.
00:52:51
Speaker 2: Like, he sent a Facebook DM like a weirdo.
00:52:54
Speaker 4: And I read it all and it was like, hey, this has got gooder her manager blah blah blah.
00:52:59
Speaker 2: I went.
00:53:01
Speaker 4: This book slept to the side. Yeah, and my drummer at the time, it was like, let me see that, let me see that. I’ll just google him, googled him, looked him up, and he goes, hey, man, you should probably call this guy back. He’s just a legit, real deal. I was like, all right, So I linked up with Scott. I drove from Lubbock, drove from Lubbock all the way here to Nashville January of twenty fifteen to meet him for the first time, saying to play some songs and get to know him. And he goes, what else you’re doing up here? You have other meetings and stuff. I said, no, man, I literally drove all the way out here just to meet you.
00:53:39
Speaker 2: I will shu.
00:53:39
Speaker 4: I would have known that. I would have set you up at least some other meetings something.
00:53:43
Speaker 2: I feel bad.
00:53:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he goes, well, if you’re not doing anything in town, go watch the Rhymen. It’s at the operations at the Rhymen and they only do it for unlimited amount of time.
00:53:54
Speaker 2: I go see it. It’s the first time I got to see Montgomery gentry. Oh wow, that’s cool.
00:53:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, experience I’ll never forget. And it made me fall in love with one of the experiences I’ve made me fall in love with this town. And so I’ve been keeping in touch with him for years at that point, sending him songs, and summer of sixteen he heard hear me write a couple of songs and he was like, yeah, that’s it.
00:54:20
Speaker 2: I wrote a song called Another Bullet.
00:54:22
Speaker 4: Which is the first DP ever put out, and he goes, if you can write that song, you can hang in Nashville, going okay, So he started bringing me up here somewmer of sixteen, and every month and a half I was flying up writing.
00:54:35
Speaker 2: That’s when we wrote you were doing.
00:54:37
Speaker 1: That, huh yeah, man, the first time we over in a little building over here, huh yeah, because you hadn’t moved yet.
00:54:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:54:47
Speaker 4: So I was coming up here every month and a half, and then I was coming up here once a month, and then through the years, as everything got busier, there was more things going on. I was flying up here literally three weeks out.
00:54:58
Speaker 2: Of the month. Yeah.
00:55:00
Speaker 4: So March of twenty twenty one, I just started dating Brittany and she lived up here, and I was like, you know what, I’m here three weeks out of the month. Anyway, I’m just gonna move here. There’s no point and even.
00:55:15
Speaker 2: Trying to mess with having a place somewhere in Texas. Yeah, I’m just gonna move up here.
00:55:19
Speaker 4: So I moved up here, and transition wouldn’t all that hard, man. It just it’s just a matter of flying back and forth to Texas for bus call, yeah, and uh, dealing with the potholes in this town.
00:55:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas for bus call. I either a fly to Texas to go hit bus call, or I’ll fly to the show for real. Uh, huh is your band still down there? Everybody’s down there. Yeah, you can’t uproot them.
00:55:42
Speaker 4: Be got family, ever got kids and all their family takes care of their kids and helps them out while they’re on the road.
00:55:47
Speaker 2: So there’s nobody to up root them. So you make it. You make it work.
00:55:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, so anybody I hire a hire out of Texas and uh just makes it easy.
00:55:56
Speaker 1: Just big, keep them on. So you’re working on new music. Gotta world tour coming up?
00:56:01
Speaker 2: Yeap world to where you going?
00:56:03
Speaker 4: In May, we’re doing a it’s like twenty four days straight out there in Europe.
00:56:08
Speaker 2: Wow, May first, May twenty fourth, and we’re we’re.
00:56:12
Speaker 4: Working on I think we I think we took it. I got to reconfirm it, but I think we took it. There’s some John Party dates out there that we’re going to go do direct support on Nice Cool and then do some of our own stuff up there because we’ve been building that.
00:56:23
Speaker 2: For the last three years. That’s awesome. Yeah, doing that.
00:56:27
Speaker 4: Got a new record working on, just cut. We’ve got six songs in. I got five more to go. Oh yeah, we’ll cut October first, Nice and that’ll be an eleven song record coming out in may as well right around.
00:56:39
Speaker 2: The time that we’re doing the world tour. Good for you world tour. If you’ve been overseas before we played overseas, this would be our third time to go. I love it. They love country music, they love real love you.
00:56:50
Speaker 4: You get to experience, experience a new side of culture. You get to see ancient like buildings that are older than our country. Right, so, like you see things that have been that have been to I mean, go to Paris and you’re seeing Notre dime I things that you wouldn’t normally get to see ever.
00:57:11
Speaker 2: And uh, going over there.
00:57:14
Speaker 4: The fact that, like my I have fans out there and my fans are isn’t that crazy?
00:57:18
Speaker 2: They support the tour singing songs back to you.
00:57:20
Speaker 4: I’m able to go travel the world doing what I love and actually make money doing it.
00:57:25
Speaker 2: And it’s I mean, it’s incredible. Yeah. I feels like we’re cheating a little bit, right, It’s like it’s real.
00:57:31
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Okay, we didn’t talk about this. We kind of got any music. But I want to hear the story about your dad getting hooked while y’all were drug fishing.
00:57:42
Speaker 2: What.
00:57:44
Speaker 4: Okay, So, first of y’all know drug fishing that you can’t fish. I mean, I’m assuming I don’t have to explain that.
00:57:50
Speaker 2: You know, my dad’s probably drug fisher.
00:57:52
Speaker 4: Right now, we’ll put it in Laman terms for anybody listening that don’t know how to don’t know what that is. I have a family union every year. So we go out there to lake take soma.
00:58:01
Speaker 2: You jug face, Yeah, that’s what I’m talking. That’s what. We run two pontoon.
00:58:06
Speaker 4: Boats and set it out there, and it’s don’t drink, drink Oh no, there’s no alcohol.
00:58:12
Speaker 2: You probably don’t fry them after yeah, you don’t. You don’t eat what you catch. Probably this is called catch and release, judge. So you got, uh, you.
00:58:24
Speaker 4: Get twenty four twenty four to thirty jugs per boat. We set them out and spread them out across the lake and uh typically run through the channels. But the jugs, you know, you get your weight typically like you know, take a sonic cup filled with concrete with.
00:58:39
Speaker 2: A little Okay, that’s a whole nother thing. We make our own joke. Okay, okay, so we.
00:58:46
Speaker 4: We we put the my hugs in there and then it all sets and then that’s your concrete weight. Then you run your line, and uh, you can set five hooks up and down this line, and then you tie an empty gallon jug. Whether it’s a milk, drug colon, colon, yeah, whatever, you don’t bottle like it’s I think it’s got to be.
00:59:06
Speaker 2: I think today there was.
00:59:08
Speaker 4: Like a rule that had to be clear. Really there at one point it had to be clear.
00:59:13
Speaker 2: I wonder why that is. I don’t I don’t know.
00:59:15
Speaker 4: I mean, you see tide jugs and there a bit the chicken liver we used, we used shad so well we’ll run cast nets and go cut catch her own in the morning. The family union I’m trying to go to the first time I met Jake Worthington, I invited him out to my family re union. Yeah dude, old buddies playing guitar and whatnot. And he goes, you know, we never met, right, And I said no, I thought we’ve met before. He goes, no, we just been literally messaging each other on social media and I went, welcome.
00:59:51
Speaker 2: To the family.
00:59:54
Speaker 5: There.
00:59:55
Speaker 2: We got there and.
00:59:56
Speaker 4: Uh, we run these would run these jugs were baiting our own lines with had that we’ve caught on cast.
01:00:01
Speaker 2: Net and.
01:00:04
Speaker 4: My dad had a My dad had a bass boat before the pontoon boat. So we were running out of the bass boat and.
01:00:11
Speaker 2: Uh, that’s how we do it too. I want to know how you learned about the story too. By the way, it’s on your sheet, is it?
01:00:18
Speaker 4: It’s on the sheet now, that’s right, wondering who my team even knows this story. So we had that, we got, we got the we got the bass boat. And it’s not easy running drugs out of a basket. No, it’s not a lot of stuff.
01:00:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, a lot of hooks, a lot of lines, a lot of weight, a lot of boats where it’s at like it’s yeah, they’re made for it. Some room, there’s some room to move around. Yeah.
01:00:40
Speaker 4: So we’re in this we’re in this bass boat and my nephew is only like maybe eleven twelve years old at this time, and uh, I’m running the bass boat because daddy can’t drive worth of damn.
01:00:53
Speaker 2: He can’t put he can’t put you on a jug. Yeah, I got one too, I know how that we got one.
01:00:59
Speaker 4: So I put him on. He reached over and he got it and he’s pulling pulling it in. We’re up on a sandbar pretty close to the boat dock and uh, it’s like a thirty five pound catfish something like that. Decent, decent fish. Yeah, right, so his own and it’s it’s fighting him and whatnot.
01:01:20
Speaker 2: And he’s got a strong arm.
01:01:22
Speaker 4: Man, God, get this on the boat puts him in what it’s pretty lively. So it starts flipping around while he’s freaking out because there’s hooks and my nephews in the back, and he’s reaches over, grabs the line and that fish jerked and I heard him go anyway right right through his thumb. He’s probably the toughest man I’ve ever seen in my life because he sit there with that that hook right through his thumb and he goes, cut the line.
01:01:52
Speaker 2: Cut the line. Cut the line. I’m sure that fish is still jerking rolling, cut it, cut it. And he goes, I just cut the line. Fishes flopping around, and I looked over and I said, wow, what’s happening And he showed me and that thing was like barb was all the way out. Yeah, so they went through.
01:02:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, So he goes, I need the needle nose. He took the needle nose flyers and he cuts the off the hook.
01:02:20
Speaker 2: He know, you don’t go back in it’s already through.
01:02:24
Speaker 4: So he cuts the barb off and he sits there and he pulls it all the way through his thumb and I said, what are we gonna do now? And he goes, you’re gonna hand me that whiskey. So he takes a whiskey, takes a pull, pours a.
01:02:37
Speaker 2: Whiskey on it, wraps it, calls it a day. And I was like, oh, yeah, that’s old man fishing by guy. He dang right, Yeah, that’s tough. I love that man. I don’t know how I’ve never been. I mean, I’ve put little hooks, but I’ve never been like hook cooked, have you?
01:02:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, not like that, not to where you had to cut it and pushing through the new way to do it is is wherever it’s hooked, tie you know, like fifty pound braid or so if you got braid in the boat tied and then just grab that eye and bring it down to where the hooks kind of leaning and you tie that and you just I mean pop it and they don’t pop that bar about well.
01:03:17
Speaker 2: Daddy was.
01:03:17
Speaker 1: Daddy was a big bass fisherman and big tournament fisherman and he is currently a bass fisherman. Yeah, caught a twelve and to ten this year’s. And so he tells the story of one time he had this co angler and uh, you know, back in the day, you just got paired with people you didn’t like. You didn’t it wouldn’t team, it was just somebody. They threw somebody on the back of the boat, and you fished the front. They fished the back separate tournaments.
01:03:40
Speaker 2: And so this co.
01:03:41
Speaker 1: Angler was on the back and Daddy was throwing this crank bait and ripping it and he’s got big old you know, like three aut travels on each end, and uh, he said, this co angler kind of got toward the boat middle of the boat, and he didn’t know it. So he reached back and went to throw in the scagles and he looked back and he had hooked him right, and oh no, I don’t know the story.
01:04:01
Speaker 2: And he was standing out.
01:04:02
Speaker 1: I’m pretty sure his dad, dad may have told the story about somebody else, but I’m gonna tell it from dad’s angle. But this guy was going, oh oh, He’s like, all right, let me look at it. And he turned around and he was in there. He goes he’s like, oh man, He’s like it ain’t too bad. He’s it’s in there a little bit.
01:04:15
Speaker 2: He’s like, how we gonna get it out? He’s like just uh.
01:04:17
Speaker 1: He was like just hold on right here, and that dude held on to the side of the boat and he went and grabbed the flyers kick. He kicked him off the boat, flying in the butter and he was sitting with a chunk.
01:04:33
Speaker 2: But he got it out. He got it out. Yeah.
01:04:35
Speaker 4: Well those on top of that, those hooks that we were using, like they’re not them little eagle live.
01:04:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know fishing ride like yeah catfish dude like yeah, yeah, probably eight inch.
01:04:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, goma gotzus they get they hurt. Boy, they have to clip the bar. That’s fun though. Joe’s fishing is fun, man, getting a big one on there and seeing that thing take off across the water and knowing you’re hooked all.
01:05:03
Speaker 4: Jug fishing is one of the best, man, especially when you like you’re rolling up to the jug and you see it starts.
01:05:12
Speaker 2: That’s right.
01:05:12
Speaker 4: We catch a lot. We’ve caught a lot of guards, which is you know, they’ll tug that. You’ll think you got some big.
01:05:19
Speaker 2: See, we don’t have anything like, we don’t have gar like y’all have guard. I mean, y’all have the big alligator car to.
01:05:25
Speaker 4: Dude, text Omas overfilled really and that’s all.
01:05:29
Speaker 2: That’s a hell of a fishery though, for large mouth any anything. So it’s one of the best.
01:05:33
Speaker 4: For stripper That’s what the text is known for the most, is stripper fish really, and uh, they’ve got they’ve got some big ones, big ones. But and they’re fun too. We go, we take a stripper guy out every now and then just to go hit it.
01:05:48
Speaker 2: And sha use the shad on that too. Yeah, he used his live shot for that.
01:05:51
Speaker 4: And we did large mouth and small mouth fishing out there one time too, and that was probably my favorite thing I’ve done out there on Texoma.
01:05:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:06:00
Speaker 4: Takes us up into the arenas and right up there next to the docks, flipping them in there.
01:06:05
Speaker 2: Oh dude, huge, huge, that’s the best, the biggest.
01:06:10
Speaker 4: I’ve ever seen in my life. But takes so must full of it, but it’s full of it’s full of guar.
01:06:17
Speaker 2: Probably big bow fish in place of I’m sure it.
01:06:19
Speaker 4: Is now because like they’re they’re guards now considered the game fish. Really back in the day, they weren’t back in the day. You pull them up, you ain’t taking them off there, You smash their head, throw them on the bank. So yeah, let them because you don’t want them in there. They’re considered a fish now, they’re protected game fish out there, taxoma. So catch one on your line and it’s alive, you got to try to get it off.
01:06:42
Speaker 2: Don’t kill it. Wa man, I never knew that. I always but I always thought they were trash fish myself, you know, or at least up here there. Well, they they they’re not bad.
01:06:55
Speaker 4: Like if you take them out, they make like gator balls out of them.
01:06:59
Speaker 2: I really do that. Yeah, I’ve seen that.
01:07:02
Speaker 4: Clean though, super hard to clean because it’s a hard bony fish, like real thick scales, hard to get through, hard to cut through.
01:07:12
Speaker 2: Once you get to the meat, like meat’s pretty good. Huh.
01:07:14
Speaker 1: They look wicked, man, when you’re when you’re bowfishing, you’ve got them lights in the water and you see this big snake looking, you know, a huge six foot seven foot things when you almost look prehistoric like sturgeon.
01:07:26
Speaker 2: They are, I mean they are prehistoric. Yeah, it’s been around a long time. Man. I could do this all day. Yeah, shoot, it’s been an hour. We kind of started. Yeah, it was yeah, we kind of standing nuts.
01:07:38
Speaker 1: Good dude, you’re awesome. Congrats on everything, man, big fans.
01:07:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it having me honest, you’re a good dude too, man. I mean, I’d love to see guys like you win, man, because it’s like there’s a lot of not good dudes out there. It’s nice one of good one wins every now and then. I appreciate it, man, Proud for everything you’re doing. Absolutely well. Thank you.
01:08:00
Speaker 1: We in the show with a little segment we call our favorite greatest slash favorite song. All Right, I have a feeling it’s gonna be a Keith with a song for you.
01:08:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn’t. Keith. Keith’s one of my favorites for sure. Man.
01:08:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, he’s him, haggard and straight like you could. The fourth could be a toss up between Jones and Randy Travis, any of those man.
01:08:23
Speaker 2: Travis, like you said that, I love like he gets looked over a little bit.
01:08:27
Speaker 4: He gets looked over, and that dude change the game in the eighties. The way is Zach Top’s doing now like Randy Travis did in the eighties?
01:08:33
Speaker 2: I agree? Is he from Oklahoma? Randy? Pull your mic in DN if you can’t talk. I actually don’t know where he’s from Carolina. I think it’s from North Carolina. I know he used to work in the Nashville Palace. It’s a dishwasher for real.
01:08:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, they’ve got like hanging on their wall in there. They’ll tell you this whole story real. That’s I didn’t go see that. That’s what an act man. Oh dude, he changed the game songs. That’s a sing sing. The greatest part of it did is like he put these songs out like these days.
01:09:04
Speaker 2: You hear I Carolina. Yeah, yeah, these days you hear.
01:09:08
Speaker 4: A song and for whatever reason, the chorus has to jump a whole octave from the verse because it’s got to be big and powerful. This dude kept his melodies riding here and it was so simple, like even even like I know he didn’t write it on the other hand, but like even on the other hand, I didn’t really did a version two. Yeah it’s unreal, but uh, what’s the I’m gonna love you forever like that?
01:09:35
Speaker 2: Course, don’t go nowhere. Really may think that I’m talking food, Yeah, hit it, indeed, hit anything. I’m talking food. You heard it. I’m wild and I’m free.
01:09:58
Speaker 5: You may wonder have I can promise you now there isn’t love that I feel for you always hold You’re not just time and I’m killing I’m no longer one of those guys. But as short as I live there isn’t love, then I get it’s gonna be yours.
01:10:25
Speaker 2: And to that I die.
01:10:29
Speaker 5: I’m going on love you forever, forever and love hay Man as long as man sitn’t talk about with as long as on whym shit talking about old man. If you wonder how long now i’ll be face I’ll be to tell you how again.
01:10:58
Speaker 2: See he may bee. I don’t love forever, never, for ever, never a mess.
01:11:12
Speaker 4: But the course never goes nowhere just right there in the podcast, didn’t have to Yeah further than the.
01:11:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, dude, river, higher than the pine trees grow on tall on the you I love is here her than snowflakes, the fall in.
01:11:34
Speaker 5: Late December, honest day, Robin.
01:11:39
Speaker 4: Sorry, springtime, and no soon longer than the song.
01:11:45
Speaker 2: Of a whipper wood.
01:11:50
Speaker 1: Godlady three wooden cross.
01:11:56
Speaker 2: All right, graver, graver, what’s an hour? Come? All right? Which one ready? Travis? Anything? Travis? What was what was your favorite h equally don’t close your eyes.
01:12:07
Speaker 4: Ah, you gotta you’re gonna get a play.
01:12:13
Speaker 2: I think I got it all right? What is it? You play? What do you want? What is it? St g it goes down down down. See there is whistler man guy can do it all. It’s from Texas. I don’t know.
01:12:35
Speaker 5: You love him a long time go even when my home you still want him? But Darling this time, but your man mare’s does when you old me to, don’t close your don’t close your eyes, let it bleave me, don’t intend it’s him in some fantasity. Darling just wants letting you steary go. You’ll find Normo then you ever know? Just hold me tie when you love me too. Now, don’t close your eyes.
01:13:59
Speaker 2: God Lee, random King got it’s going. Thanks for hanging on. I’m not the greatest control player around. You did good. You did good. Hey, you’re the man uh to go.
01:14:09
Speaker 1: Sent you a little present for We got you a little something for coming on the show today.
01:14:13
Speaker 2: Can you wear them? You got some boot deal or some Texas guys always got illegally. We do have to give you this. You know, got to the crowd take us to jail if we don’t get something. Oh man, thank you, Boys on top. Yeah that’s right. That’s why we’re going for you because we know that gone. Yeah man, there you go. Hmm boys. Check them out. Thank you, thanks for coming on. You’re awesome. Yeah, you’re a killer. Bro, You’re great, You’re great, Thank you. Proud of your national sproud of you. We’re proud of you. Keep rocking, Bro.
01:14:48
Speaker 1: New Music Coming World Tour twenty six, Caussine. Check them out, Random King, thanks for hanging out in guys, count you We Let’s see y’ll next time.
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