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Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up?
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Speaker 2: You’re off in God’s Country with your boys read and is feeling it this morning?
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Speaker 1: Sorry? Brought to you Nope.
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Speaker 2: Two things Nope also known and Thanks Grady, also known as the Brother’s Hunt where we take a week leg drive to the country music store and the outdoor Store.
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Speaker 1: Two things that go together like your Granddaddy’s gifts are and the grand Old.
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Speaker 3: And a hunting trip and maybe meeting your wife.
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Speaker 1: You’ll never get so thirsty when you’ve got a moon. What did you just say?
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Speaker 4: Man?
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Speaker 1: That was really wrong?
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Speaker 4: Coast to coolas show that baby?
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Speaker 1: Why did I say thirsty?
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Speaker 3: I don’t know what you said.
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Speaker 2: Really, I just try to find when you put them on. You’ll never get so thirsty when you put them on? Because I don’t know. That’s the worst. We try again, Go again, Ray, he said, more time you get the first one, t c oh, and you’re gonna get the last one.
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Speaker 1: Oh, sure’s cola? Second time around is bad? Coldas I’m for staring the show now baby.
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Speaker 3: Just slip them on and you’ll find out that they fit like a glove.
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Speaker 2: Have a good time anywhere you go down below her above coas to Cola sponsor the show, No baby.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I’m second guy.
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Speaker 1: Jeez, you’re off today where either you’re shooting deer or shooting No, I don’t try not, it’s too late. Second guy, man, Jake Worthington came in wearing some new balanced comfies Hikey’s actually with some pleated wranglers. I did see that they were pressed. Oh yeah, that’s what I’m saying, like he pressed down the middle, down the middle. Yeah. Man, such a cool cat.
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Speaker 3: Just an authentic to his music. Human. There is no act on that, brother.
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Speaker 2: No, No, he ain’t acting. He’s just living man. He’s just living in sad what’s on his mind. And he did all podcasts. Just a part of a part of the movement that is happening within country music that’s bringing back that traditional country music thing.
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Speaker 3: I love a guy that was like a Marty Rayburn.
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Speaker 1: Thing.
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Speaker 2: I’m feel like Marty’s range is probably but like dude, he’s he’s so smooth. Jake is so even today at nine o’clock in the morning. Yeah he was killer. Yeah that low Redures where he lives.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I said something the other day that was brilliant. I don’t know if you picked up on it.
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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, but when I said Jamie Johnson lives in the basement, I meant like the B A. S. S mant the bass.
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Speaker 2: Are you using a show? Did you go back and listen to that and then.
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Speaker 1: This show genius? I just feel like to face what you’re saying. My genius made me remember.
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Speaker 2: It’s not genius if you have to if you think about it later being genius I did.
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Speaker 1: I knew it was genius when I say it. You no, No, Jake Worths is awesome. Please stay tuned. We got to go to our corps. We’re super late. We’re not gonna get this.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for us following, for for listening.
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Speaker 1: And leaving reviews with five stars. Go hit the notification or quitting. So it’s up to you. Favorite five star reviews, give us live, peace out. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Jake Worthington, hey man, Welcome to God’s Country. We got a cowboy hat wearing girl Dad and he’s on the Zach Topping John Party tour. This fall.
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Speaker 2: Luke Comb’s tour, Hardy Tour, Park McCollum Tour, in Mon’s It, Riley Green twenty twenty sixth of Texan. His album When I Write The Song dropped in September and we got to listen to it and it’s good stuff, man, it’s really good stuff. We’ve got Jake wordings out in God’s Country a little bit man, truth, that’s right, Thank the boys. Hey, uh hey, ray, can I get a little more volume in my headphone?
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Speaker 1: Already?
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Speaker 3: Just a little bit, dude, already whining? Get to bed.
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Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta do it. You gotta do it, just a little bit more. Up up, up, up, up, up up up up.
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Speaker 3: Got it?
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Speaker 1: There it is? There it is. Yeah, all right, that’s it. Jake, what’s up?
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Speaker 5: Dude?
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Speaker 3: You know it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: You know what? Just here in music town.
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Speaker 1: You been wrote road dogging for eleven years, buddy, ain’t tired of it yet? No, did you play? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I feel that we’re gonna work. We’re gonna work in the dirt that way either way. Yeah, that’s right. That’s where I can get your hands dirty. I will see the world doing it. Were you somewhere last weekend? Did you played last week anymore?
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Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
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Speaker 3: We was out in Carolina. Uh, Georgia went to Savannah, Georgia. Didn’t see a golf club nowhere? You know, are you big golfed? I mean, yeah, I like to, but I don’t like we was talking, buddy, I ain’t got the time to. Yeah, I don’t have that luxury yet. Yeah, one day I like to be able to go do that when we’re out there.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, what do you do? What do you do past the time?
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Speaker 3: I play guitar? Bleeve it or not? In your spare time on the road, you play guitar? Yeah? Or sleep?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think uh yeah, man, I made up with it. I don’t get no better at it, but I try to get them boys warmed up. Yeah, got again inspired.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We’re gonna warm you up real quick with this one right here hanging see if you like this, I wrote it on the way in today.
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Speaker 4: Little dinny, you’re mad at, just tell us what it is. What you’re mad at is that your in lost kids might be a boss man or your neighbor’s cat.
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Speaker 1: Just tell us what you mad.
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Speaker 3: The traffic this morning, buddy, that’s where I’m mad at.
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Speaker 1: I mean I always thought, we always though, and there’s this town’s full of them? Son, Yeah, which town? Where’d you come from?
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Speaker 3: I’ll stayed at the Marriotte down there in Green Hills. Oh yeah, had me and crawl to get here, buddy.
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Speaker 1: Isn’t it crazy how that works? Like you can be as the as the crow f a mile and a half from downtown and it can take you forty five minutes. Yeah, easy, easy, And that’s when we when when we started looking for property to live on, I was like, well, it takes me an hour to get from Franklin. So if I have to go south another fifteen to twenty minutes and it be a fifty minute drive to have a little bit of ground. Yeah, it’s gonna it’s gonna take that long.
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Speaker 2: Surprisingly, as much as we do talk about yeah, as much as we do talk about sixty five and like traffic, like it’s kind of the quickest, it’s kind of one of the quickest round The intersection is kind of the quickest route. It is because if you’re if you’re log jamming in town trying to that’s.
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Speaker 1: Gotta be miserable, dude.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 2: Sitting in traffic on Interstate sucks. But like sitting in the traffic on music row a milewhere you’re supposed to be even harder.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sucks hard.
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Speaker 3: It ain’t, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that’s a good one. We always we always bitch about traffic. Mine kind of mine’s car related. Here’s what I’m mad at. The Tesla truck made me really mad when it came out. Yeah, it made me really mad.
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Speaker 1: Wait why Just just the way it’s it’s just like, I guess against everything you believe. Yeah, it’s like you can’t fit you can’t fit a four wheeler in the back of it. You can’t.
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Speaker 2: You know, like it’s not meant to A truck is meant to work, you know, And I don’t feel like the test truck is a working truck. But I saw something the hands free thing right now that they’re trying to sell these cars on like corsials. They’re like they’re like the that’s what. Well, it came out and then they took it away because it was so dumb. But now it’s back and it’s like it’s like the all new Ford lightning and electric truck. You can you can you can drive itself. It’s like tell, Yeah, it’s like tell the story with your hands, and then it’s about about driving, and this woman is like she hits a button and she’s like and I’m like, bro, get out of my face.
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Speaker 3: And then I saw another thing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if we were in the commercial, if if if it went to a Ford line and had you in it, then went to a Ford line and had you in it, and went Ford line and had me in it and your hands free hope Ford line. I hope Ford doesn’t sponsor this podcast. I wish it would. What would you be doing? What would your what would they be like? Okay, just do something. They’re film I’m filming you. All right, you’re on the commercial, okay, all right? Read you got a five second clip if you’re doing something with your hands not driving, what do you think about it? What are you gonna be doing? Already? And eating a hot dog? You’re eating a hot dog? Eating a burger?
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Speaker 3: What do you drinking?
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Speaker 1: Mac?
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Speaker 3: Big Mac?
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Speaker 1: An hot dog? Both?
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Speaker 3: Sure?
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Speaker 1: I mean I got them sitting there. If I ain’t got to have my hands a driving, do whatever, Okay, I can do whatever I want to. Jake, you got I need an eight second clip of you doing something with your hands not driving? Ready, said go, uh.
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Speaker 3: I’d probably, Yeah, that’s a great I hadn’t even.
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Speaker 1: Thought of that. They’re gonna have to start giving the trucks tickets. So if the truck can.
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Speaker 3: Drive, you can you drink and ride. You’re supposed to be able to have one open container. Yeah, less than whoever’s driving vehicle. By the way, there’s gonna be a loophole somewhere that comes out of I did not know that these cars were a real thing. I was down in Austin last week. Yeah, and uh, I same one, this car drive by and that had all these crazy and dannas on it and satellites and censors on it. Yeah, and my buddy is like, that’s one of them. Way more is right there, way more it’s wimo or something some kind of over it without without a driver in it. I didn’t believe that, dug. I mean way more expensive, you know, way more dome, way more terrifying, way more, way more wrecks.
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Speaker 1: So you’re telling me a car. I haven’t seen this.
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Speaker 3: It’s in Austin.
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Speaker 1: A car pulled up with no one in it and you can just like click an app and it.
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Speaker 3: Open somebody in it. But that’s something wasn’t driving.
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Speaker 1: That’s crazy.
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Speaker 2: That’s my second. What you’re mad at is this new Lexus. They’re like, you need a parallel park, but you can’t. They’re like, get out of the car, open the app, and parallel park with your on your phone. I was like, you kidding me, gosh, I mean, can you imagine how many cars are gonna get ran into.
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Speaker 1: When I have to stop on seventeenth out here and for somebody to a like game, I’m going I’m gonna put my rear view mirror as close. I’m gonna shave their face with my rear view mirrors while they’re trying to draw that thing in there. I hate I hate it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate all this.
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Speaker 1: I hate all this. What you what you met at? Man? I got like a lot of things I could be mad at. I had a really kind of and only parents are going to understand this. I told her about it earlier. He got it.
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Speaker 3: He’s not necessarily parents, so maybe you can get it. So, my baby he looked good today all black days it was black dad. I saw him look look good in there.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 3: Jake’s like, where is he? Yeah he’s back there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So my our nanny took the car seat out of her car that my baby rides in. Well, his name is Buck and he throws up all the time.
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Speaker 3: I just have one.
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Speaker 1: It’s the one of my just consistently. The other two, I mean, if they’re sick or something, but like this guy, he’s a baby’s still a little.
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Speaker 3: It’s still little. Much. You got babies on the bottle, They throw up a lot.
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Speaker 1: So the chair is dried and fine in the car, right, she sets it out on the porch to make room for something. It rains a couple of days, a couple of days past, I forget that it’s there. I’m supposed to take kids to school this morning. So I grab the car seat to put in my car, and when I do it, all the rain has drained through the seat and puddled thanks for that word, ray in the bottom of the car seat. So when I put it into my car tipsy turvy, it dumps all that it dumps into my seat, just throw up. You don’t really think about it at the time, right, You’re like, oh, there’s you know.
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Speaker 3: So I’m like, oh, it’s just water.
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Speaker 1: So I grab a camouflage shirt that I was drying out to wear and outside and I wipe it all up real quick because you’re trying to get out of the door, right. Throw my kids in the seat and.
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Speaker 3: I wipe it all up, and I throw them in there, and I’m like, man, something kind of smells funny, right, So I drop the kids off, and then I come on into town. I’m like, man, I’m smelling something. So I go back and I open the door and I lean down and I smell the seat, and bro, it is excellent. So I come in and I’m crying to Ray about it. He’s like, so it’s like out there cooking right now. It’s like, yeah, right now. I sneak into the bathroom. I find chlorox wipes and I just.
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Speaker 1: Scrub the entire But right now, if it gets hot, it’s just steamy bacon in there. Pute, vomit, diarrhea. Water, damn son, yeah, puke vomit, diarrhea. Water is tough. That’s tough water. Tough water, dude, that’s water.
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Speaker 3: It’s just there, stagnant for probably a week while we’re at the beach. You can only find it in certain places.
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Speaker 1: Kind of a commodity to find that bottled up somewhere. Why are we talking about? That’s funny? How many kids. You got one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she’s about to turn a year old next week. It’s uh. I mean, you boys know it’s it’s something I never felt worthy of. It’s something I never Yeah, all coming with that little girl. Man, uh change the stuff, don’t you know. I don’t like to think I’m a uh man. You got to be who she finds in life. You know, it’s the biggest thing. How old is she? A year is about to be here with the little girl land Worthington. She got her both to her grandma’s middle middle names. My mama’s Anne and her mama’s an Ann, so we gave her the extra E on it.
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Speaker 1: That’s awesome, man, those little girl girls. Dude, there’s something bag heaven. Yeah, exactly, I saw I saw something pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: Guy.
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Speaker 1: It was it was a dad’s end of the day.
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Speaker 2: He’s like, man, my little girls are are water in the ocean and they’re getting pulled different ways and going. You know, some day, some days they’re calm, some days that they’re raging and they’re getting the tides pulling them one way and they can’t control it and the other way. He was like, our job is the dad’s to be the harbor wall that sits there and never changes, and that when she needs to crash into something always she can go to you and stay right there in the harbor.
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Speaker 1: She ain’t getting now to me too.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 2: It struck me pretty good because, you know, I think that’s true. And in a world that’s changing constantly every day, man, they’ve got to have something that’s that’s firm, and that’s that sound and steady.
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Speaker 3: You know, I feel fortunate that I had. I had that and a father, and I mean, granted, I got hit over the head a few times, but you know, I feel really fortunate that I had that, and uh, you know, us doing this music stuff, it’s a very obviously it’s a very different experience that I had growing up, but it is my experience. It is going to be her experience, and I don’t think that’s got to be a bad thing. No, it doesn’t at all. I’ve seen some of these old boys out there running with four or five buses. I figure, you can do that kind of thing. You can bring your kiddo’s out. Yeah, I got I’m gonna do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you’re well, I’ve got I have mad respect for those, for the for the for the dudes and the and the women in our industry that travel with their family and make it a point and a priority to bring them along. And yeah, get them schooling out and bring it, bring a tutor or whatever they’re doing. Involve in them in life, man, and not because you know, most of our listeners know at this point that the artist, the artist grind is a grind man.
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Speaker 6: And if you’re going to use the shove, you grind doing that, no doubt, ain’t no doubts, right, But you’re gone a lot, and it’s and and you know, if you can bring your family along, man, and get them experiences like you ain’t missing nothing, you know, And and and they’re getting to see the world with you, and they’re they’re going to experience those things with you, and that’s that’s awesome.
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Speaker 1: My nanny was playing some music for Boone on the way to school the other day and she said, he went, hey, who wrote this?
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Speaker 3: She was like, he’s three, She was like what he was like, who wrote this song?
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Speaker 1: She was like, I don’t know, Like he’s already conscious of like that. People write songs for other people that sing it, which is nuts. I didn’t even know that until I was, you know, playing music myself, and I started realizing that there were, you know, songwriters.
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Speaker 3: I mean, here’s it constantly.
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Speaker 1: But it’s like a thing for him, Like, hell, here’s somebody like you write this daddy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I did. My kids call it. I want to hear a daddy song. It’s just like whichever, you know, whatever song, it’s gotta be me singing. Yeah, that’s cool, daddy song. Yeah, it’s coming for you, buddy. She’s gonna be the biggest fan.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 3: It probably already is her littlest biggest fan. She’s pretty fun, buddy. I I you know, I didn’t know what to expecting it with a child. I yeah, I didn’t know. Yeah, I didn’t. You know. I feel like I, damn sure can’t be the one teaching her math, you know what I mean, my teacher to play guitar though, Yeah, yeah, I’ve started. Yeah, you know it’s the I kid you not.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 3: I wish I learned piano a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I got my Pompa’s keyboard at the house, and I’ve been learning cords and whatnot. And uh and I don’t know why, and it ain’t every time, but it does happen to me, it’s the most amazing thing. It might be pretty damn normal, but I could hit a note on there and that little turd some will coincidentally hit the same one somewhere on it. Like she’s got ears, man, I’m not. There’s something she’s I think she’s so born, buddy, I think she’s I think she’s got got it, got got in her. Yeah, I mean she she’s affected by music in ways that I’ve seen grown ups not respond.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that’s powerful. It’s like.
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Speaker 1: That.
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Speaker 3: And puppy dogs. Boy, she she loves her dogs and she loves her Rerong Haggard. That’s two great things to love for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you tell me how. I mean, we read over this a little bit, but I’ve never heard of a more fitting story for this podcast. Then, as far as the two people coming together than you meet and your wife on a hunt, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Damn right.
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Speaker 5: This?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, hell split hair s?
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Speaker 1: So how did that?
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Speaker 3: How’s that going to happen? Uh? So? I spent a lot of time going out there in Oklahoma, the right and hunt just coincidentally that’s where I went, Like when I got off the road, I found myself through songs out there. I found peace out there and uh, I had this guitar player named corn Bread, and he’s got much of family out in Zirconia.
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Speaker 1: I know exactly what he looks like. I’ve never seen him.
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Speaker 3: Oh he wanted him. Uh what they call that dude on Instagram. He’s got a love Uh god, dang it. He got like the shirts that say, uh I figured that uh bubby child, bubby child.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love that’s uh yeah, we can do we can. I’m pretty sure probably get that guy on here. Oh, I would love to get that guy where you’re bubby chubby, little bubby yall, this is a little bubby chill. Knights County Sheriff. Go give me a second. We said, how does it start like it goes? Nos County Police Department. Yeah, he says, Uh. Some deputy look like its balls ain’t dry. Come up here talking some mess here, Yeah, hair talking some a mess saying Ernie Michael had a go cart on a highway and didn’t have no he said, and didn’t have no helmet on. And I’m gonna tell you something. I’m about red aste over it. He’s like, sir, I’m just the I’m just the debut. I can’t he’s like yeah, and then that’s when he gets you. That’s the second one. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Man, that little Bobby child didn’t have his helmet home. I said, I told him too, I said, folks, I said, son, there’s men laid down they live, so you didn’t have to wear on the highway.
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Speaker 1: Ernie Michael, Sir, if your son’s on the highway with a go cart without a helmet on, we’re gonna pull him over. He goes, well, good luck, he said. Uh, I’ll tell you this much. He said his Uh, he don’t stop for nobody in his hondle run. I caught it all. Yeah, bread sorry, Yeah, well it sounds just like him.
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Speaker 3: Gosh. Uh, I had about his family had access to like seventeen acres and on the on the mountain in there, everybody’s got little little parts of the mountain. And I’ve never been there. I’ve never been hunting out there. I didn’t even realize Carolina had mountains, which was really cool to go get in there, you know, but uh, you know, we just sat around waiting to see black bear. Uh when he saw one on last day and uh got a boarheaded sail. He’s three.
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Speaker 1: She was little.
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Speaker 3: She was three and twenty pounds big bigger bear bear.
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Speaker 1: I that’s little. I feel its huge to me.
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Speaker 3: Three man, we had one on camera. Respective right in my mind she was pounds giant bear. We thought it was a board, you know, but uh, it was a girl. And you know, I expected it to just be dirty and smell bad, you know, and be harder than clean hog out or whatever. Everybody told me it was, you know, rougher and uh, but she was clean. She cleaned really well.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 3: We canned all the fat and gave it to the family.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 1: It was really fun.
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Speaker 3: That’s awesome, made some stew meat with it and then some.
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Speaker 1: But what have I have I have we ever had bear?
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Speaker 2: I haven’t had the fat on it is like, yeah, it’s like renowned, right, Like yeah, people love you know, people love cooking bear grease.
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Speaker 1: I think maybe making Patrick brought some to a deer camp in Illinois one time. We may have this year, we may have eaten some, but maybe I don’t remember. Yeah, it’s not I preferred eating sure, but I ain’t bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so that’s your wife tied to this.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I love him. Man that gets asked about his wife and tells the hunt story. Yeah, like I got so corn bread and I made the deal.
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Speaker 3: He was gonna get me hooked up on the bear hunt. I was gonna get him on the deer hunt. Now in Oklahoma, we do that. We drive Oklahoma, we get on some white deal for a week. And uh my wife was quite essentially living across the way there, and uh we invited her to you know, dinner, and we sat around drinking and picking and grinning and eating all that, and me and her just uh, I mean, buddy, I promise you I was headed straight for it, straight for hell, you know, straight for something I didn’t. I didn’t deserve her, ever, but I got her. We we were inseparable. That’s awesome.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 3: Uh I noticed she drove that Dodge truck. You know, it’s a big, old red Dodge truck. I said, she can drive a truck. I like it. Yeah right, she’s she’s a beautiful woman, and yeah, she loves to hunt, so hell, that’s what I was doing. So we went hunting the next day, and went hunting a couple of days after that. Buddy, I didn’t get nothing but a two legged dog, and I hain’t been hunting. I got married, God did Yeah, same, man, it happens. My wife look me in the face with dimes.
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Speaker 1: She was like, hey, if you do every decide to cheat, She’s like, you better enjoy it, because I’ll sit.
00:25:40
Speaker 3: In the I’ll sit in the pen with a smile on my face. I’m gonna kill you.
00:25:45
Speaker 1: And I believe it.
00:25:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wholeheartedly believe her. Man. Man, what that does to people, It really, it really hurts folks.
00:25:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:25:53
Speaker 3: Man, you just need to just keep it clean.
00:25:56
Speaker 1: Dude.
00:25:56
Speaker 3: I get all that out early, you know what I mean. Yep, that’s kind of when we started dating.
00:26:00
Speaker 1: It was like I was nearly thirty and I was like, hey, just heads up, Like, if you want to cheat on me or something, just break up.
00:26:05
Speaker 3: I ain’t got time. Let’s just keep it going. Yeah, and I’ll be durned. Now. We got three kids, yep. Now they get you a TV yeah, or a blanket or something.
00:26:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:26:17
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, I want to know about your h So did you buy rents in Oklahoma?
00:26:22
Speaker 1: And y’all no.
00:26:23
Speaker 3: So her daddy had bought that place twenty five something odd years ago, and as a kid, they would take horses up there, and her and her sisters and they just spend their summers out there. So at the time that I met her, she was leaving a life from West Texas and she was going to start there again, start over out there on that property, and I was looking for I was looking for a life, you know. I found it with her. That’s also we got a trailer house and there’s a barn on the property and it’s in the barns. I shouldn’t the house, you know, but man, we’re live in large out there.
00:27:05
Speaker 1: You find peace out there every day.
00:27:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, Yeah, it’s uh. I don’t know, man, I think I think, uh, when you have to get up and you have to take care of other things, it forces you to have to take care of yourself. It forces you to good word. Uh yeah, it’s true. I think it’s good for a man. I think it keeps a man honest.
00:27:29
Speaker 1: I feel like you, like speak in the lyric for everything you’re saying, like that makes a good song. That makes a good song, like my my Radard We’ve got we’ve got all the titles.
00:27:38
Speaker 3: For that’s really great, man.
00:27:41
Speaker 1: I agree.
00:27:42
Speaker 3: I agree, And I don’t feel like you know, uh, how to.
00:27:48
Speaker 1: Be responsible in life until you have those other things that you have to care for you know, and it and it causes you, like you said, to kind of assume some responsibility and some ownership those things because because like they need you, you know, whether it’s kids or horses, like somebody got to cook their eggs or put their oats in there in the sack.
00:28:08
Speaker 3: And in turn, you need them. Sure, I mean they do. They do just as much for you as you do for them.
00:28:13
Speaker 1: But ya, do you feel like I feel like even though the stress of that, like the morning rush and trying to get everything done, I do feel like.
00:28:22
Speaker 5: Getting here right.
00:28:24
Speaker 1: No, it definitely does. And I also feel like it like, uh, it’s kind of like a natural like what I feel like I’m supposed to be doing anyway, you know what I mean, Like it kind of wakes me up and kind of gets me going, like there’s some sort of rhythm to it that makes a lot of sense. And just being being a man and being responsible to human.
00:28:44
Speaker 3: I think it’s uh, I think it’s God said, yeah, oh it’s biblical man.
00:28:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I completely agree. I completely agree. I like the Oklahoma two on your record.
00:28:56
Speaker 4: Man, is it.
00:29:01
Speaker 3: You’re you’re born in Texas? Yeah, I was born that I committed the ultimate sin. Is that the ultimate sin?
00:29:07
Speaker 1: To move on?
00:29:08
Speaker 3: Yeah?
00:29:09
Speaker 1: Across the don’t cross the Red River.
00:29:11
Speaker 3: That’s what he says in the song across the River. I hate the pirate up a woman, yeah, and what comes with her?
00:29:17
Speaker 1: You know. It also helps if she.
00:29:19
Speaker 3: Has hugging on suck.
00:29:21
Speaker 1: But pretty nice, pretty nice. The fiddles on it tuned are tough too, man, Jane Flinner. I was wondering if that was who that was? It was her?
00:29:32
Speaker 3: Uh uh Larry. I had worked with Larry Franklin in the past. Yeah, uh, but Jannay came in there and just killed it. Oh man, who.
00:29:41
Speaker 1: Played the laps still doing on that solo? I gotta know, uh, Paul Franklin played the pedal still it was j Fleinner? She is she?
00:29:48
Speaker 3: Uh is? She would box, Yeah, she would box with Josh Martin and yeah to battle on every damn record. Oh she’s nasty. All right, Hang on before get a music, tell us your best hunting story ever? Well probably yeah, yeah, uh man, I tell you this probably isn’t just it’s not all that great, but for me, it was. It was life. It was a change. I hadn’t been on one of them, my fence ranses or anything.
00:30:19
Speaker 1: Like that.
00:30:20
Speaker 3: And a buddy of mine, uh, the Nomadics. Yeah, yeah, we know. He’s great pediography. He’s one of my oldest friends. Wowmall world.
00:30:36
Speaker 1: I had no idea he’s great.
00:30:38
Speaker 3: On some really cool opportunities. Got the hunt Missouri. You know, this is never something I ever saw happening from. Sure went hunted that sanctuary place, which is where they filmed all them big buck hunter.
00:30:52
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, movie shows and stuff.
00:30:54
Speaker 2: And I just saw a sanctuary deer in my taxidermis shop the other day. Really came from the shanctuary.
00:31:00
Speaker 1: It looked like it was crazy.
00:31:03
Speaker 3: I never seen it was because I’ve never seen they’re all boonies walking around. Man, it’s the biggest deer you ever seen. I mean they got rope burns.
00:31:11
Speaker 1: But I mean we select a few pigs. I don’t care. It’s true.
00:31:22
Speaker 3: They all eat the same. I reckon, Yeah, reckon. But yeah, I ever knew that people were hunted like that. You know, some old suit fly in at eight o’clock in the morning, drink his cocktail and or coffee, and we’ll shoot a two hundred and thirty inch deer. Come back in for lunch. He just breakfast and fly out go pick his wife up, fly her in that evening, give her a cocktail, put her out in a deer stand. That woman comes back with an even bigger deer, you know. And I was there to shoot a cold buck, yeah, which was was the biggest deer I’d ever killed at that time, one hundred forty inches. Anyways, the best I’ll tell you now, I’m thinking the best hunting story. Uh right, at least one I’m more proud of. I would have to say all the years with my dad in these Texas, I mean them times when we would we would spend seasons without seeing any any buck. Yeah. I remember the first first buck I killed, the big old eight point one hundred and twenty something. It’s just uh, it’s Texas deer. Yeah, he was the old some bitch too. He’s five years and that’s what that’s what it is. It was the one right, and the big one is going to get racked.
00:32:40
Speaker 1: Eight racks change, man, the ract age doesn’t Yeah, six year old deer, seven year old, it don’t matter.
00:32:46
Speaker 3: What’s Yeah, they’re hard to hunt, that’s a war, hard to kill, that’s right. They gave you about eight seconds man. Yeah, true, you really don’t have a lot of time with them. It’s like in big Fish, they don’t get that big for no reason.
00:32:57
Speaker 1: Right.
00:32:57
Speaker 3: But uh, anyways, my dad had built this standing at a hardy plane is heavy something bit. I remember we had to We had this hond of recon, a little two fifty two thousand, two thousand, two thousand and one machine.
00:33:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, forever run like a scallar, run like I.
00:33:20
Speaker 3: Mean, my dad had me, my brother, my mama, yeah, my grandma and him driving that all of Yeah, I do we do it every day. Yeah, that’s that. That’s living. It wasn’t no damn fifty thousand dollars side by side of the radios in it.
00:33:38
Speaker 2: So we got an eighty nine Honda bear Cat that’s been rolled out, that’s been thrown out, the trailer’s been flipped in the creeks. Has to start right now, drive all the way to Oklahoma. I guarantee it’s it is bad.
00:33:50
Speaker 3: I remember the way he had built it. Uh you know he had it was like there was a porch and then there was the box. And the box might have been three feet maybe four maybe maybe an eight foot platform.
00:34:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is pretty standard. I guess what firewood and all those sheets come in. So it’s you don’t got no cuts, right, So uh, of.
00:34:16
Speaker 3: Course every now and then we would have to trade out who had to sit outside and who didn’t, you know, and uh, this one in particular, man, my dad, I mean this is a place he hunted since he was in high school. So it’s like I grew I got to grew up hunting the same ground, you know, for an extensive time of my childhood. Special, it’s the best. It’s I wish I’ve never found another place like it.
00:34:44
Speaker 1: You want, you want we do the same thing. I mean, we got some ground we hunted on with our dad. There’s so many memories there. I don’t matter if we kill something.
00:34:51
Speaker 3: The deer camp that was then don’t exist anywhere, no, man, it’s hard to find that. They’re pretty pure back then.
00:34:59
Speaker 1: He broke break had buddy, Yeah, for sure, learned a lot too, man.
00:35:03
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but I learned how to drink, cuss, fight, pray, Yeah, got a deer drag one out, yeah, buddy, load of Musloader played on it, gamble yeah. I mean yeah, special times. Man. I wish every kid in this world gets that experience. Come on, uh, I wish that.
00:35:26
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I’m doing as much as I can to make sure my kids experience that and read this too.
00:35:31
Speaker 5: Man.
00:35:31
Speaker 3: It’s it’s that that means a lot. I mean, it means everything to us. Honestly, we’re the.
00:35:35
Speaker 2: Same way, man, like those like we’ve I’ve been with my dad when he’s when he’s killed a one hundred and twenty inch you know, five year old that was twenty inches wide in West Tennessee.
00:35:46
Speaker 1: And had six inch times and had six inch times, And the memory is as vibrant in my mind of that as.
00:35:52
Speaker 2: When we just went two weeks ago and took him to Kansas and he filled his first Midwest tag with one hundred and sixty inch oh Man Giant makers everywhere, Kansas deer.
00:36:01
Speaker 1: Five year old.
00:36:02
Speaker 2: And yes, that deer is is gonna if you put them up beside each other, that deer is gonna stand out. It’s gonna be bigger, it’s gonna be whatever. But the the the memories that those two things made are right there. They’re they’re on the same shelf, man, And that’s what that’s what it is now to us. It used to be let’s go chase big deer, let’s go travel the world or country and and but now it’s like, man, I just want to hunt my daddy and my brother and and I don’t care where it’s at or what we’re hunting.
00:36:27
Speaker 3: Man, I don’t care if we see nothing. I just won’t be out there in the woods with them. It’s the hard and it’s the hardest thing for me to make. Happened seems like these days, I’m sure. But my dad, man, uh we put we will put some PBC pipe railing around this platform. And uh Walmart was selling this bush Camo mission. Yeah, look like like it had leaf cut out.
00:36:58
Speaker 1: Oh, it’s terrible.
00:37:00
Speaker 3: And this was years that it was your camera.
00:37:07
Speaker 1: It was like two dollars for a hold. One’s not of it.
00:37:11
Speaker 3: He just flipped the bucket over and you sat out there. It was cold, I mean it was cold, and uh, I’ll never forget it when that when that buck come out, he just poked his head out out the out the tree line there and my dad all I could hear was that bucket, that book. It was violently shaken and I look at it and my Dad’s just doing this thing. It was like, did you better shoot that so and uh, I’ll never forget it.
00:37:40
Speaker 5: Man.
00:37:41
Speaker 4: He gave that to me.
00:37:42
Speaker 3: He he didn’t uh, he didn’t want he didn’t want that there. It was the first was first book buck we had seen in five years.
00:37:53
Speaker 1: You know, he wasn’t wanting without me. He wants you to shoot it.
00:37:56
Speaker 3: Yeah for me, Oh, that’s a good question. I was probably that’s probably nine.
00:38:03
Speaker 1: Jeezuz, that’s awesome. Hey, it on in there though, Okay, okay, keep it rolling. We talk about what you shoot you with thirty six to so I have a forty three.
00:38:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I’m still hunt with that. I don’t hunt with another gun, that’s all.
00:38:15
Speaker 1: That’s a mean gun.
00:38:16
Speaker 3: That’s a Model seven hundred.
00:38:17
Speaker 1: I just bought.
00:38:18
Speaker 3: I just bought one from my for my son. Mine was a single shot. It’s a great gun. He’ll he’ll use that for the rest of his life.
00:38:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:38:25
Speaker 3: Anybody that can’t kill a deer with that gun ain’t shooting it.
00:38:28
Speaker 1: That’s right, I agree, right, Yeah, those two forty three that’s what we grew up on. Yeah, it was a brown In two forty three. I had that square scope.
00:38:34
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:38:34
Speaker 1: Hell, killed a bunch of deer tasko in that. That’s right.
00:38:39
Speaker 3: Mine, mine, my great granddaddy and got it somewhere down the line. And it got passed down to I got it, just got passed down to the first hun Yeah, so I ball got it. My dad got it. Now I have it.
00:38:54
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, so the buck sticks it said out, yeah, two forty three down. I want to hear the rest. I shot him.
00:39:00
Speaker 3: He ran off. He run off into the into the abyss. So me and Dad have to you know, we waited there because our buddies was just down the road there, not too far far enough where you ain’t got worry about hitting nobody. It wasn’t that you weren’t on top of each other. But another shot went off. You know, they texted each other. I didn’t have a cell phone. I just remember the communication, and uh, you know it’s like, hey, we got a buck down. They Josh and Jimmy was coming to coming to help us find this buck. You know, we just all high five and stuff. Well, the way that this spot was, it was just a three way off a pipeline, but thick o East East Texas wood. Okay, I mean the clearing was clear, but everything else that brush country thick buddy. Yeah, and that’s where my buck was. But we was we was all the way down straight away. You can’t see what’s happening back here in the stands off here. You know, Jimmy and Josh are coming from here. We’re here, We’re hear them on their way, but everything just stops. You know. It was like it’s like we’re we’re that, you know. So we start walking down. Next thing we know little Josh, Jimmy’s got his son laid over the top of that bull wheeler pointed across from us, had a dough. It’s like, you know, you know, so, I mean, we didn’t even realize them deer we’re over there. So we got out the way real quick and he shot this dough. We’re his first deer. You know. Josh was a little bitty man and that was a really cool moment too.
00:40:47
Speaker 1: At this point, you think you have three you have three deer.
00:40:49
Speaker 3: We have two deer on the ground.
00:40:51
Speaker 1: I don’t know if they shot earlier. U.
00:40:52
Speaker 3: No, that that was yes, it was that that. I guess that part didn’t really matter. I don’t know why I said that.
00:41:01
Speaker 1: You got two deer now.
00:41:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we’re high FIV and it’s all good. We’re shimmy and is shaking, man, we’re getting ready to Yeah, we go look at that dough. She’s dead in the door knob.
00:41:12
Speaker 5: You know.
00:41:13
Speaker 3: Uh, I’ve never seen more blood in my life. Like, she’s dead, right, no questions asked.
00:41:19
Speaker 5: Uh.
00:41:20
Speaker 3: So we start going to get mine. We pull them out the brush, and we’re all excited. Look at this deer. You know, great, great job, all these things. Yeah, yeah, awesome moment. All right, Well let’s go get Josh’s deer. That gone, she’s gone gone, yeah, gone gone. Hey, hoss, I mean to tell you, we just went ahead and field dressed mine right then and there, and.
00:41:46
Speaker 1: Uh, make sure he didn’t get away. Yeah, Olazarus, Yeah, Olazarus. Uh dude, I mean the whole deer camp. We we went looking for that dough for all the way up till the next morning. It’s wild how that happens.
00:42:04
Speaker 3: The most resilient animal on earth, for sure, I agree, I tell yeah.
00:42:09
Speaker 1: Sure man. I mean, how many stories of those do we?
00:42:13
Speaker 5: Oh?
00:42:13
Speaker 1: Dude, I just like I’m talking about first the first big Buck ever shot. I watched him fall half, I mean just roll down a hill and he laid there and I called down and called daddy. I was like, I did we did it. I did it.
00:42:23
Speaker 2: Finally killed Big deer got down. When I got down, I looked up and he was walking off.
00:42:28
Speaker 1: Man. I never found him. Yeah, we never never found him. I don’t know what I did. I don’t know if I knocked him out or what. But but I’ve had the same thing I’m talking about, like blood and it’d be a done deal and then they just get up.
00:42:40
Speaker 3: It’s wild, man.
00:42:42
Speaker 2: Their stories, their stories of them like people put them in the back of the trucks and them getting up.
00:42:46
Speaker 3: And that’s fo. That’s funny. I’d love to I had that story. Yeah, I don’t have it yet, but yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey man, when you performed at the Opry, you used your granddaddy’s guitar, right, Yeah, that had.
00:43:06
Speaker 1: To be special.
00:43:07
Speaker 3: Well what is it? What was it? Seventy seventies to seventy three? Yeah, not a yori, but it’s Japan made.
00:43:16
Speaker 1: It’s nice.
00:43:17
Speaker 3: Still, really great guitar. Yeah, my pop all a surprise.
00:43:22
Speaker 1: Possession is so he played a lot of music, your papa.
00:43:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he wrote songs an integralot.
00:43:30
Speaker 3: I’ll show you one of his songs please. Well, I can’t play it for something on YouTube.
00:43:36
Speaker 1: But your granddads on YouTube.
00:43:39
Speaker 3: One song I found awesome it’s it ain’t you know. His only claim the fame was he had the Dallas Cowboys song is pop When I grow up, I want to be a Dawn this cowboy. But I found it on you.
00:43:54
Speaker 1: That’s awesome.
00:43:55
Speaker 3: I can hear him talking it. It’s just funny.
00:43:58
Speaker 1: That’s awesome.
00:43:59
Speaker 3: Was see a part in your in your musical background? Definitely my music. That was our relationship with My relationship with him was nothing but music, country music. Uh, That’s what I got with him. Now, I was fortunately I had three grandpa’s and I got something from all of them, but with him, it was it was music. So yes, Uh, I never went into that building. I wouldn’t go. I didn’t.
00:44:25
Speaker 4: Uh.
00:44:27
Speaker 3: I didn’t feel like I deserved to be in there.
00:44:31
Speaker 1: I wanted to.
00:44:33
Speaker 3: I wanted my first time in there to be ironed it.
00:44:36
Speaker 1: You know.
00:44:36
Speaker 3: I wanted to get invioted, to work it. All them years, my Papa’ll come to town. He never went, and uh, I didn’t kind of find that out until you know, I was well into doing this, and uh, one day we was talking and I just made that promise that I said, Okay, well we’re I’m not gonna go until we get the opportunity and we’re gonna do it together there And when he died, I had gotten boded. Like it happened not too far.
00:45:08
Speaker 1: After that, So well you got to take you with you though in that guitar, man, you still got to do Yeah, well what did you play?
00:45:16
Speaker 3: I don’t remember? Just yeah, I know, I don’t remember. Man, that stuff happened so fast. It’s and you know, it’s kind of sad, like you know, I don’t.
00:45:32
Speaker 1: I’m not always able to have a people with me.
00:45:37
Speaker 3: So it’s like as all these moments, these things are over what I waited my whole life, or not even waited, but these are things that we dream of and it happened every day. Yeah, it’s hard for me to I just try to soak in every moment. I wish I remember things better, but I tried forgetting a lot over my years, and I might have trained myself to do that.
00:46:03
Speaker 1: I think I did too.
00:46:04
Speaker 3: Man.
00:46:06
Speaker 1: Recently, I’ve been experiencing that with my wife when she asked me about something, I’m like, I think I pushed that out to make room for something else. You know, it’s weird, man, I feel like I’m forgetting stuff all the time these days, do you I feel like so many songs and so many melodies? Doctor asked me yesterday. He was like, do you feel like you remember the same as last year or better? Really? Yeah, he asked you that. Yeah, I don’t remember. I should have. No, I think it’s the same. I don’t know, dude, I don’t know. I just I don’t know.
00:46:41
Speaker 2: I forget some stuff. I remember some stuff, you know. Yeah, Hey, let’s talk about your record man. When I write the song, uh that one by yourself? I saw what you wrote that one by yourself. Yep, where did that come from?
00:46:56
Speaker 1: Uh?
00:46:58
Speaker 3: I mean me?
00:47:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don’t know.
00:47:03
Speaker 3: I but hosts. I ain’t want to claim that I write a bunch of songs by myself.
00:47:08
Speaker 1: Never have I find it.
00:47:10
Speaker 3: I think we all we all do it, we all start the process. I think all of us as songwriters ought to do it. But I I I’ve always found it really difficult.
00:47:23
Speaker 1: Me too.
00:47:24
Speaker 3: And h one night I was coming home from a gig and I was I was staying at my parents and uh, you know, five six years into it, old worlds tell me country music ain’t ever going to sell all these things. Nothing’s making sense. I don’t gotten nobody’s seeing old Jake have no success or money or things. I’m still living at Mama’s and the only thing I can do is write sad songs. Why do you write sad songs? Why do you write sad? So? I write country songs? Damn it. I don’t talk about these things exactly. Life sad, Yeah, it is, you know, it’s beautiful, it’s it’s it’s nothing like it, but it’s sad, damn and it ought to it’s it’s you take, you take the good.
00:48:12
Speaker 1: With the bad, and that holds just as much worth, in in the in the path and the in the travel of the of it as the happy days.
00:48:19
Speaker 3: I mean, it holds the same weight. They’re they’re good. Wouldn’t be good without the bad, you know. I I’ve and I’ve had a lot of good. I’ve had a great life. I’ve had a I’ve had a great life. But I’ve seen a lot of people. I’ve seen a lot of sadness. Yeah, and it’s and it’s okay to think about, man. Yeah, And I don’t know what I wanted to think about. I don’t know why, Uh, those kinds of things. I’m more inclined too to write or want to. I don’t know. I don’t know why those things are uh uh come out wrong. There ain’t nothing wrong with it at all. But that’s what that song to me was about. Yeah, the worst part of me comes out when I write. I don’t know. I was afraid to even cut to some bitch because I didn’t know if it was any good. You know, we get in the whole mindset of writing, trying to write it’s songs. Yeah, it ain’t in this formula. It doesn’t matter well yeah to me, uh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there’s a there’s a certain level of a song that we all recognize that tends to get cut and but on the radio, sure, uh you know, but I didn’t give a damn bout any of that.
00:49:43
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:49:44
Speaker 5: Uh.
00:49:44
Speaker 3: Then, but I had gotten locked out of the house. I had a six pack long Star, and I had a guitar and hasts. I feel like in fifteen minutes, I just wrote them words, sing it and uh wow.
00:49:57
Speaker 1: And that was five six years ago.
00:49:59
Speaker 3: Wow. But like I said, I didn’t know.
00:50:03
Speaker 1: I know it’s early.
00:50:04
Speaker 3: Could you give us a piece you care?
00:50:05
Speaker 1: Give me half?
00:50:07
Speaker 3: Yeah?
00:50:07
Speaker 1: My favorite uh, it’s half of stuff. Uh m hmmm, uhh My life before music’s life.
00:50:26
Speaker 3: I can’t from them live before picking ems of life off. Don’t recall the best part of me. He’s going out last night. It’s him worst part of me come down when I write this song, no duntree, rusted or gold.
00:51:09
Speaker 1: I can’t be free.
00:51:14
Speaker 3: From failure too long. I’d like to say that I’ve done good, but I can’t from the worst part of me comes out when I write the song.
00:51:39
Speaker 1: I’m glad you get the arm Thank you, man, I’m glad you got locked out that night because that’s a great song.
00:51:45
Speaker 5: Man.
00:51:45
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I don’t uh thanks.
00:51:49
Speaker 1: Who’s your idols?
00:51:50
Speaker 5: Man?
00:51:50
Speaker 1: Who’d you?
00:51:51
Speaker 3: Who’d you? Daddy? And my grandpa, my dad? I’m with that. Here’s your musical idols?
00:51:57
Speaker 5: Uh man.
00:52:03
Speaker 1: Uh.
00:52:05
Speaker 3: I think it’s really hard to well, it’s hard to look past any of the work of Jones and Haggard. If you’re in this town and you’re ignorant to any of that equipment, you got iTunes, get on.
00:52:22
Speaker 1: Homework.
00:52:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, it’s good stuff. It’s it’s the level. So there’s a certain level to it that you know, this town gets so occupied on the level. That’s the level. Yeah, in my mind, everybody is succeptible to have their own opinion. There’s no right or wrong way to do music. We agree on that, but we’re in country music. Boys, that’s the greatest. To me, they’re the greatest.
00:52:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that that stuff’s hard to be had, old Jones stuff.
00:52:50
Speaker 3: It’s just he’s the greatest country Why Why are why is the world? Why are the world’s greatest entertainers or the greatest consider to be the most revered people on earth that make music. When you ask them who their favorite artists are, in the same sentence as Ray Charles, they say, George Jones.
00:53:10
Speaker 1: Man, I think the conviction and and like when you hear George Jones sing a song or what I’m sorry, When I hear George Jones sing a song, I feel like he lived it, and most of the time he did, you know. And and I mean that’s hard to find these days as that type of conviction. I mean, apart from him just being a great singer and having unbelievable Southern tone in his stuff, I mean the conviction. You believed it, believed it, man, even as a kid, even as an eight year old.
00:53:43
Speaker 3: So born brother. Yeah, that’s that’s a real thing. Yeah, it is I mean when when, when, I mean the forever.
00:53:50
Speaker 2: You can play a George Jones song and know it’s a George Jones song and know that no, it’s his vocal, and know that’s it’s him singing. And I mean, he’s just gonna be a He’s gonna be on Matt Rushmore of music for for the for the entirety of creation.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: They’re just playing. There just ain’t nothing without him, And before him, it was Lefty, and and before that it was Jimmy Rogers. Right, and without Lefty, we don’t have Jones or Haggard or Whitley, any of the guys would like any of the records.
00:54:19
Speaker 1: I’ve heard his name his last name said in multiple ways. How do you say left Yeah, that’s what I say, left Texas thought he was.
00:54:29
Speaker 3: I think he’s from WAXINAHATCHI. I could be lying, it’s Waxing Achier. It’s uh, I’m gonna get that. Somebody can google it. Yeah, Jamie, where you are?
00:54:39
Speaker 1: Jamie?
00:54:41
Speaker 3: Now, he’s from Texas. Buck Owns is from Texas too, that’s right?
00:54:46
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean think about who all he influenced?
00:54:49
Speaker 3: My gosh, everybody. Uh.
00:54:52
Speaker 2: I love to see country music doing the thing right now, and and the and the the cycle that we’re in coming back to to what we’re doing, you know, and and and and songs, you know, tunes like yours and and Zach’s and.
00:55:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, you’re getting you guys are getting your moments.
00:55:07
Speaker 5: Man.
00:55:07
Speaker 1: It’s like and we’ve we’ve talked about this crew forever, you and Zach and uh, I mean, uh, what’s Willie will Jones? Yeah, man killer dude and Sam Banks and all them guys like traditional players that can Chandler. I mean like, well, all those guys are just so good. And I’m I’m glad you guys are having you deserve it. You’re you’re you’re unbelievable your craft and it’s time he gets some light shd on it. So we’re happy to to shed a little bit. I mean, we got a bright light, but we’re shining it on you. I love to hear you sing and play. We’ll make you do it again too. Is good at it? Well?
00:55:43
Speaker 3: Man, I tell you, I’m a little I really appreciate it. I have I’ve got upset and watched y’all’s interviews with guys and I always wanted to I like getting to know, uh, how people think, and yeah, uh I Rivera, y’all’s work man, thank you. At the same to you, yeah, you seem like a very grounded and grateful dude, Like did you ever see yourself in this position that you’re in and getting to make music on a on a national level and people.
00:56:13
Speaker 1: Revereing you with the with the point zero one players in the world. No doubt those studio casts we got that we just cut demos with occasionally makes are the greatest players in the world. And bro getting the right songs with Roger Springer and and then Jeff.
00:56:29
Speaker 2: Clint Daniels Man, those those guys are part of those the thread of country music absolute right.
00:56:36
Speaker 1: Uh.
00:56:36
Speaker 3: And I think when guys like that let the young guys like me work with them, that is that is how the past it comes, That’s how we get forward, how we move forward. For sure, you’d be surprised with you know, how much they have to offer us. I mean, we’ve watched men and women die over this stuff. People get heart broken over music. That’s right, and uh, I mean like it or not, It’s true.
00:57:04
Speaker 1: Some in the past year. People in this town died this year over country music. Yeah, crazy man, crazy, how it keeps turning, and one day we will, man, And that’s okay.
00:57:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, may we give our lives of music, that’s right.
00:57:17
Speaker 1: But hopefully we’ll have passed down like these other guys do to to to the younger generations. Keep it rolling.
00:57:22
Speaker 3: That’s that’s the way it goes. It’s bigger than us, you know. It’s culture architecture, dude, it’s not. It’s not a this ain’t no get rich quick scheme. I can’t stand. I can’t any one of you. Some bitches are like that. I can’t stand period trying to get rich on music speak. I mean, we all want to make money, but like your music can’t suffer, our music can’t suffer. Country music ain’t a stone integrity it has to have into it should have integrity. I think the biggest Well, that felt good saying that. Yeah right, Yeah, that’s how I feel, man. I feel like a lot of people have used our genre as a stepping stone, and I feel like I feel like country music ain’t a sub genre.
00:58:15
Speaker 2: And I don’t think country music is happy about it either. I don’t think the true fans of country music. Well, I appreciate that because because I agree with you, man, and it feels like there’s a pushback against that.
00:58:25
Speaker 1: It’s yeah, we’re not a stepping stone, man. You know you’re part of the pushback, which is great, I think.
00:58:30
Speaker 3: Man, it takes an army, it takes all of us. It’s not about sitting here bitching and owning about fiddles and steels. Sure, it’s about writing great country songs. And if it ain’t what comes out of you, it ain’t what comes out. If you want to go shake, make pop music, go do that. I don’t twenty places to do it. I don’t call it country. It just ain’t.
00:58:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, it ain’t.
00:58:50
Speaker 3: That didn’t come from the woods. You get your kick for doing that.
00:58:54
Speaker 1: It’s I love this guy, you know.
00:58:58
Speaker 3: Yeah. And like I said, it ain’t about no fiddle and steal guitar and uh, it’s about identity. Man, we’re getting our identity back. He used to be you could hear somebody and you know who that was, and uh, and.
00:59:13
Speaker 1: That’s so true.
00:59:14
Speaker 3: It’s like that in rock music. You know the difference between Eddie uh, David Lee Roth and yeah, you know the difference you do Bonn Scott and Brian Johnson, dudes, Robert Plant, you know, Steven Tyler, great voices of the world all have an identity.
00:59:36
Speaker 1: That’s right, and I’m with you. I do feel like in the height of country music, those identity those I’m sorry, those voices were almost more recognizable than seeing the person. I mean, when I was younger and we didn’t have the internet, crazy like, I could hear well even in country though I could hear. I could hear Garth Brooks and know that was gar no doubt.
00:59:59
Speaker 5: Man.
01:00:00
Speaker 1: I could hear the Drugs and know it was the Juds or I mean, I remember, uh Dave Ball. I used to like know his stuff, you know what I mean, Like, I mean, you just I didn’t have any idea what they looked like.
01:00:14
Speaker 3: All I knew was what they sounded like. There was a mistake, as in the fandom. There was a mistake in wondering what it would be like. I wonder what George Strait’s like. I wonder would be like with him.
01:00:26
Speaker 1: The only place, the only place you got to see that is on stage and go to a show.
01:00:34
Speaker 3: The interview you couldn’t wait to watch, could not wait. Everybody wasn’t as successible. And I think there’s something I feel for Snate that we grew up in that time experience. Maybe that’s why we hang on to and you know, it is what it is.
01:00:51
Speaker 1: But uh, we have that voice, you have a recognizable voice, and you have them. I think so you’re part of them. I think you’re part of a movement. I think you’re an integral part of given reasons. That’s happening in country music right now, man, And you can tell the listeners are craving it, dude, they’re craving it.
01:01:08
Speaker 3: Yeah. Them pencil pushers can’t tell us country music don’t sell no more. There’s ten thousand reasons. Every night when you go to the ZAC top show, it’s it’s bad, it’s back. It’s a fact.
01:01:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s.
01:01:19
Speaker 3: Anybody that ain’t getting behind country music is losing money.
01:01:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:01:23
Speaker 3: If you’re about money, you better start using it. Well.
01:01:26
Speaker 1: I think that’s why some people have popped over recently, kind of dipped their toes in, Yeah, because they know people want.
01:01:32
Speaker 3: In fact, some of the most musical people on earth are coming to country music and making great records. They’re not just doing some Yeah you know, uh that post Alone records great. I think the next one’s gonna I think the next one’s gonna gonna be really. I think they’re going deeper in the vein as everybody should. I think it’s funny. It takes a rapper. Yeah, it’s so, it’s springing a little lot.
01:02:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:02:00
Speaker 3: I mean, as you guys know, man, there’s people that’s been in this town that be singing right and work circles around all of us that you know that may not ever get a shot, right, or some oble working the feed store back in Texas may not ever get it.
01:02:14
Speaker 1: All right, all right, I know we gotta go, but lightning around real quick. Let’s all name one person that we think people need to go check out that that has not necessarily banister, Will Banisters years, Dan Smalley. That guy’s a killer. Smally is a killer, and he needs the light.
01:02:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, Will Jones, Yeah, fantastic, Yeah, yeah, three great dudes. Yeah, go check them out.
01:02:37
Speaker 1: May Estes killer. That’s so good, man, and I think her shots, I mean it’s coming. It’s it’s so good. So many, man, there are so many, like you said, man, and they’re just fighting the good fight out there and trying to stay true to what they do.
01:02:54
Speaker 3: You know. Drake Milligan, Oh killer, Hey, Alex Miller’s awesome. I don’t know who that is.
01:03:00
Speaker 1: Check them out, okay.
01:03:01
Speaker 3: Either hell of a guitar player, great singer, Alex Miller.
01:03:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah man, it’s a real, real old school. But Josh, I feel like there, I feel I kind of want to just say forty more. There’s so many out of theres that are so good man. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, go check those names out for sure. All right, Hey, we gotta get you out here. We gotta go to co writes, But will you do a favorite force, any song you want to do, any song you want to do? Here, you go, what you gonna do, what you’re gonna do, what you’re gonna do. I don’t even want to know. Just okay, okay, put that micro from.
01:03:36
Speaker 7: Ye lost my life almost mental win. I come so close, but never.
01:03:59
Speaker 1: Tone’s perfect.
01:04:00
Speaker 3: And just when I thought I finally made it, I find myself back where I started from. And I hate to see him. I’m giving up, but I believe.
01:04:25
Speaker 5: Losing has just become a waylive for me, and losing wouldn’t be so bad at all. I’m always all when I fall, honey, then you came along. Hadn’t even leeve in.
01:04:59
Speaker 3: Or wants in my our life, my luck finally change. M Now you say.
01:05:12
Speaker 5: You’re gone, Believe me, it seems everything I do wind’s up the same. I hate to say I’m giving up, but baby, I believe the losing has just become a way of life for me. He losing wouldn’t be so bad at.
01:05:40
Speaker 3: All, But I’m always on a mountain.
01:05:47
Speaker 1: Well fall, dude on my favorite. You’re the real deal. You’re the real deal, man, You’re the real deal.
01:05:59
Speaker 3: Hey, I’m just lucky that you guys are good to me.
01:06:03
Speaker 1: We’re lucky to have you.
01:06:05
Speaker 3: The town is lucky to have you, The business is lucky to have you. To man, as aggravated as I might have been, I’ve we all do. This town is amazing magic. Yeah, I’ve had some of my one of my best memories here. You know, this place, ah makes a lot of dreamers. Man. I think there’s a lot more coming your way. Man.
01:06:30
Speaker 1: I think you’re I think you’re on the path to do great things and be a part of country music history.
01:06:35
Speaker 3: Dude, Hey, all I want to be is a spoke in the wheel. I don’t care for no accolade, you know, I really don’t. It don’t make me happy. I just want to make records, and I want to be told I can’t. I want to make records, and when I want to make them every every year, Well, we want you to make records. You know, think about all the cool you guys have done. How many songs? How many? Can I ask you?
01:06:59
Speaker 1: So sure?
01:07:00
Speaker 3: How many songs do you writing? A month?
01:07:05
Speaker 1: In November? About three season? But it’s what month it is? Do you and May the bunch? Twenty yeah, twenty two, twenty three? Probably a month, I would say, normally. And are you.
01:07:17
Speaker 3: Typically y’all just writing them or are you jumping the Oh, we’re all co rupping.
01:07:21
Speaker 1: We’re coro. I was built to be a co writer. I care nothing about writing them by myself. Sometimes I’ll start stuff and all that, but I really do. Uh And this probably doesn’t make me the coolest guy in the room, but I feel like I, with my brain and my uncertainty and my not shreedness of lyric all the time, I like having a couple other heads on it, you know, it helping me kind of kind of chip chip, chip and chisel.
01:07:45
Speaker 3: Sure, but yeah, right and along we’re staff. We’re staffy guys.
01:07:49
Speaker 1: Man.
01:07:49
Speaker 3: We write a lot. Twenty thirty songs a month.
01:07:51
Speaker 1: I would say probably fifteen to fifteen to twenty.
01:07:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably maybe fifteen to twenty. How many of those would you put on a record? How do you feel like like out of the songs?
01:08:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, one or two, that’s pretty good.
01:08:06
Speaker 3: I think that’s that’s the whole point. Yeah, and if everybody here did that, we don’t have enough songs to record our own record. That’s right and make them that’s right for sure.
01:08:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:08:17
Speaker 3: I understand it costs money and stuff. But what I don’t understand is it costs money, but we’re making records cheaper. Yeah, you know, yeah, we are, which is just lazy. It ain’t what I dreamed about. If I’m going to go through all this bullshit doing this, if we’re going to sacrifice the changes of our lives to do this, I’m not going to feel bad for romanticizing the idea that I want to go spend a week in the studio. That’s I want to I want to create something. Yeah, yeah, I don’t want no, And you’ve earned right, Yeah, you’ve earned it.
01:08:48
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:08:49
Speaker 1: Man, it just seems to be the theme of this is week. We kind of don’t like computers and batteries.
01:08:59
Speaker 2: All right, Well, can sit here and do this. Yeah, bro, here’s a little little princ ship.
01:09:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, Oh you take my goal faster you take them, just take them out and show them to the camera. So to COVID be happy. Uh No, it’s a little dift from to COVID for coming on the coming on the show man, taking some time out of your Maybe you’ll think about us when you wear them sometime.
01:09:23
Speaker 3: There you go.
01:09:23
Speaker 1: Those those are chocolate. Yeah, yeah, sharp, I like them. There you go, ladies and gentlemen, Jake Worthy out with us.
01:09:31
Speaker 2: Appreciate check out when I write the song streaming everywhere. Let’s go spend it, play it, go see him out live. I’m gonna come to show. I’m gonna can we come see you. You’re on that Cones tour next year, right, You’re on that Combes tour next year. Yeah, the we’ll see that out there. That’s so Buch loves country.
01:09:47
Speaker 1: That’s right. Yeah, don’t thank God?
01:09:50
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, thank go Combes Man, Hey company, thanks for coming out.
01:09:54
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, buddy. We’ll see how next time. In God’s Country
01:10:00
Speaker 5: A
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