Bussin' With The Boys - Brantley Gilbert Talks How @KeithUrban Saved His Life, Battling Addiction & A New Album W/ @JellyRoll ​

Episode Date: June 6, 2023

Recorded: June 5th 2023 | The Boys are finally back from their week off. Will and Taylor recap their weeks away and what all they did with their family. Will compared a Florida town to Italy, which is a wild thought. The Boys are also playing in a celebrity softball game so they preview that game as well. Following the intro, we are joined by country music artist, Brantley Gilbert. The guys get right into how Brantley had an epiphany during a party and decided to change his life. He talks about his road through addiction and what made him realize he wanted to get better. Then they get into how Corey Smith was such a big influence on Brantley because they are both from the same small hometown. He tells a story of how Corey actually saved him from getting kicked out of a bar when he was young and then actually let him perform. Then Brantley talks about some decisions that he would have made differently coming up in the industry as well as some that he would do the same. The boys reflect back on the time when burning CDs was a thing and Brantley tells the story of how he gave a CD to his girlfriend, now wife. Which then sparks the topic of boyfriends since Will, Taylor and Brantley all have daughters. Each of them tried to figure out how they would react to that situation when it arises and Brantley has a hilarious idea to get his point across to that boyfriend. This pod has some deep conversations but also has some hilarious stories from Brantley’s time on the road. He fits right in with the guys and even decides to share some of his “Getcha high’s” with the boys. Enjoy fellas. ---- 1:58 Softball game preview 7:35 Recapping the week off 22:17 Get your Dad merch now 25:50 Taylor had a dream about Vince Vaughn 29:35 BRANTLEY GILBERT INTERVIEW STARTS 30:18 Balancing tour life & being a dad 34:50 His battle w/ addiction 49:36 How he became boys w/ Corey Smith 58:23 What choices would Brantley have done different? 1:03:03 Brantley talks being a dad 1:27:47 He lit a joint on stage at the Ryman 1:33:53 Guys dating your daughters 1:39:12 Brantley's sketchy situations with fans 1:44:52 Tier Talk 2:00:07 Pet Peeve of the week/Shoutout no free shoutout 2:15:47 Will has something to say about Taylor’s pet peeve 2:25:05 Will would be that guy to send back a steak ---- 1:58 Softball game preview 7:35 Recapping the week off (Khabib talk near the end) 22:17 Get your Dad merch now 25:50 Taylor had a dream about Vince Vaughn 29:35 BRANTLEY GILBERT INTERVIEW STARTS 30:18 How’s life going for Brantley/and how it is touring leaving his family 32:00 Fidel Castro's long lost son?? 34:50 Talks about his battle with addiction and wanting to change his life 49:36 How Brantley met Corey Smith and their relationship 58:23 What choices would Brantley have done different? 1:03:03 Brantley talking about his kids 1:15:36 How he feels about telling his kids about his wrongdoings 1:27:47 He lit a joint on stage at the Ryman 1:33:53 Guys dating your daughters 1:39:12 Brantley has been in sketchy situations with fans 1:44:52 Tier Talk 2:00:07 Pet Peeve of the week/Shoutout no free shoutout 2:15:47 Will has something to say about Taylor’s pet peeve 2:25:05 Will would be that guy to send back a steak ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Chevy: Head over to chevy.com to learn more Turo: Find your drive. Forget boring rental cars at https://bit.ly/3Lwerc1 NetCoins: Sign up today and enjoy no fee crypto trading at https://netcoins.com Duke Cannon: You have to try Duke Cannon, so for a limited time, we’re hooking The Boys up with 20% off your first order at DukeCannon.com with code “THEBOYS20” Georgia Boots: Use code BUSSIN for 20% Off at georgiaboots.com True Classics: Get 25% OFF @trueclassic with promo code BUS at trueclassictees.com/BUS ! #trueclassicpod MoreLabs: Go to morelabs.com and use code BOYS for 20% off your first order of Morning Recovery.For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There is a charity softball game. And for whatever reason, the sick bastards who put this game together. Olds of honor. We have put me and Will on different teams. Everybody always wants to do that. They're always like, we're going to split up, Will and Taylor. We're going to split you guys up. Yeah.

We're going to split you guys in one locker room. It always causes that silent competitiveness that goes on. But here's the deal. That's me. I actually ordered that because your boys hungry. You just put that. We got a podcast to do now. But I will say like every single time, even if we're split together or we're just playing a game like it's risk.

Like we do for whatever reason never want the other one to win. That's true. It's not about winning most of time. It's about making sure the other individual doesn't win. And that's something that we should probably unpack someday. Yeah, for sure. Because this softball game, like, I'm fired up about who I have on my team and everything else. But ultimately, like, the little voice in the back of my mind is like, stack this dove on tape.

Yeah. It's your why. It's your why. I'm more worried about just playing well. I haven't swung a bat in over half a decade. I was surprised because I was trying to fill you out for some shit talking the other day when I was like, just letting you know we're going to mercy rule you. And then I sent you the video the diving catch you.

Yeah, which was impressive. Even when I saw that, I go, damn. Will might actually have it. I'm not really known. I'm like, ah, he's not talking about. I got to get out there. I'm glad we're going a few hours early. I know you went there a couple years ago and you kind of just showed up and played.

Good on you, by the way. Those are young, healthy knees. After a little torn hamstring, PPC 157. BPC 157 got me right in seven days. You get the, like I, I just don't know what to expect out of myself, so I don't want to go in there and talk a big game, but I will say if I'm feeling it,

I'm going yard. And I'm going to say this now because this won't be airing until tomorrow. I might bunt my first at bat and try to run it out to first. Just to see how the wheels are feeling. Just to see how the wheels are feeling. Haven't really ran at all. The scariest part about playing softball,

especially when you haven't played in a while, is if you miss your first swing. And then the, ooh, all the boys. When you miss your first swing, like, it's tough because you're just getting that soft toss, dude. Yeah, and that thing's just up in the air. What was that rookie of the year? When the big fucking burly guy and the kid

loses his powers and he has a soft tosset to the guy? I don't think. Is that rookie of the year? Oh, where he's like? Major league, no, it's not major league. Are you talking about where he like... The kid he falls on his elbow and all of a super fast game. They're like in the World Series or something

and he can't do anything but soft tossing. The guy's like grunting at the ball and misses. Anyway. What a fucking movie, by the way. Like, you hurt your elbow and you just get to toss at like $110 an hour. And also it just fucking rips. Pull the, can I see the roster? I need to see who my teammates are. I don't know if they have the roster released online.

I'm looking for it. I think they have on Instagram where you can swipe. Yeah. It was on Instagram. I saw Jellyroll as my partner, but here's the thing that really... Joe's the captain, team jelly. Yeah. I don't know why I said partner. Teammate captain. My fearless captain, which is great and I love jelly. But the situation we're

going into it. It's on a hot streak right now. We got to, we got a at that fire. And I was, and also, too, nothing that scares me is Riley Green being on your team. The way he was talking, like, this man doesn't even do ping pong. He's like, man, fuck that shit. I want to play against somebody who's athletic and do it. He was the MVP when I played a couple years ago. Who's this guy on the right? Who's that?

That's Bradley Gilbert. Yeah, dude, look at his muscles. Are you kidding me? And then we got, uh, the backstreet boy himself. Oh, that's, he's not going to. Yeah, Brian LaTrell. He's not going to swing nothing. Then we got... I got Mike E.C., I love that. But he's a wrestler. Like, there's nothing that worries me about Chandler. Like, yeah, in the octagon

and the wrestling mat, he's got it. I don't know. Did you see the spinning back fist I put on him this weekend? Yeah, you would have slept him. I would have slept the shit out of him. But Hardy... I'm not worried about him with any...

Hardy might be nice. Hardy texted me last night and goes, you ready to hit piss missiles tomorrow. I just thought... He won't go. Thank God. Yeah, I was so far. I was like, all right.

He got Ernest, too. Ernest was a ball player. He could... He could... He could put... That's a bad omen. That's a bad omen. Uh-oh, he's all right.

Will's already holding the belt. He touched it. He touched it. That's bad luck. Dude, we got a... That was a gift. That was a gift. We got Chris Lane.

Chris Lane, he's a shortstop now. That boy is athletic. He played college baseball, UNC Charlotte. Oh, he did? No wonder he's so fucking good. I remember when we were watching him when he was on the other team. I was like, fuck, man, this dude is nice. We had the police officer?

No, that's us, brother. That's you? Yeah, Team Green. Sean Booth. Julia Cole's Athletic. Booth has an athletic build. I don't think he's an athlete, though. I will say that.

Missy Franklin? Olympian. Olympian and what? Softball? No. Just kidding. No. No.

Just how you tell the voice, pull it back. Put it back. Oh, it's a big time. Is that it? Is that the whole list? You got Cortland Finnegan. I bet he's solid. Yeah.

Funny thing about Cortland Finnegan, I feel like every, like the first seven years I was in Nashville, everywhere I'd go there by, oh, you just missed Cortland. He was here 15 minutes ago. Oh, he was here 25 minutes ago. Oh, he was here yesterday. Never met him in my life.

Dude, I think he'd be a good conversation on the bus with the fights he's been in and the league. Like, those would be fun to talk to him. He got his, he got pieced up by Andre Johnson now. He was always about it now. He was like the OG Honey Badger. Yeah, I was going to say that too, dude. He's just like a little fucking Honey Badger.

He doesn't give his shit. Doesn't care if he's too small. Just let it rip. Yeah. Let it rip. But he did catch hands from Andre Johnson. I will. I mean, that is, that is the reality of the situation.

Yeah. That's okay. Yeah. Keeps it moving. Yeah. Just keep fucking moving forward. That's what you do. But that's going to be really exciting.

And after a whole week off for the boys, like it was amazing. You want to talk about your week off? Absolutely. You want to dial me in? Yeah, we can dial it in, bro. Because I feel like we didn't talk very much. We didn't talk a whole lot. We talked like once I got back.

Like we got on the phone or sent a couple voice messages back. Once you got back is when I left. Yes. Yeah. Dude, 30A is where it's at, boys. I'm talking. I went to, I went to Rosemary Beach for the first time. Charles always wanted to go, con me and talked to me in the going,

booked the spot ahead of time. You know, I'm always like a last minute planner. I'm always like, eh, eh, eh, and then when you do it, you don't seem really enthused. Like, I'll get enthused when I get there. You're a guy who's pointed that out as a well. But 38? 38, annual trip.

Yeah. Annual trip. Like, Roo, I want that to be like a beach she checks out, or she sees every year, grows up, going there, gets excited. Maybe she invites a friend one day as she gets older. She invites him along, wants to tell him about the trip, but white powdered beaches, different shades of blue in the ocean,

not overwhelmingly crowded. Like, yes, there's some people, but not like, you know, I've been to death in a couple times, and on the holidays, those things are crowded, you know what I mean? But you travel down to 38 a little bit,

which is a little uppity for sure. But, dude, it's a vibe, man. I'm talking townhouses. They got these brick roads, so it's narrow. It reminds me a lot of Italy. I've never been to Italy, but around the pictures you've seen,

the screensavers. I've seen. It reminds me a lot of Italy. But just like one of those spots where it's like you can access the beach right outside of all these little townhouse communities. And you can invite like we can have several of us go with our families. And everybody's got their own little townhouse. It's like a dude you want vibe. They got coffee shops there.

Great spots to eat. No reservations. So you go, especially for families, you go around 430 or 5 when they open up. You get seated. If you wait a little bit longer, it'll be like an hour away. But there's no reservations. Everything's walkable. You're wanting to ride a bike.

You're wanting to walk. minutes every morning. An active little deal. Yes, you're wanting to sit on the little park benches. Like, it's just a fountains. Like, it's just beautiful. It's beautiful, man. Arthur Smith was there.

No shit. Yeah. You guys have dinner? You guys hang out? No, he was, uh, we were, he was like going out when we were kind of coming in. He invited me over one evening, but didn't make it over there. But it seems like, uh, he's in Alice Beach, which it seems like that's like next to Rosemary.

But it seems like a nice spot. He shot me his address. I zoomed in on the GPS. It seemed like a nice spot. When you, When you say next to Rosemary, like how far are we talking here? A mile? Yeah, so.

Is it all kind of close? Yeah, it's all kind of close. So there's like 38, right? And somebody helped me out. You guys said you grew up going there. But it seems like there's like Alice Beach, Rosemary, Inlet, Inlet Beach. And this is, these are all in between like Destin, Florida and Panama City. So if you want to fly, you'd fly into Panama City.

And you're talking like a 15 minute drive. Oh, shit. Not bad at all. Yeah, not bad at all. I love that. I saw Ben. Ben Jones was down there. Yeah.

So I'm at the donut hole. Donut hole was awesome. Donut hole. Yeah. I saw Mike Sullivan, assistant a line coach for the Titans at the airport yesterday. He said, man,

you lost a lot of weight. I was like, for every pound and I've lost, Ben's gained. But Ben was also hit me yesterday. He was like, hey, were you working out of?

Ben's just start working out with me. Oh, that's awesome. The little 6 a.m. spot I'm going to. He literally texts me this morning and goes, UGA mascot respect.

I guess he was listening to the recent episode he did mascot. He listened to the show. Like, he hit me up like four or five times this week. Yeah. I guess he was on that drive to Alice Beach. That's awesome. But he was telling me he goes, bro, next time you go a mile up the road, you find, like, a lot of nice communities, a lot of good spots with, like playgrounds and everything else.

And not as crowded. You're already saying it. What's not crowded? He's like, he's like, cheaper. So I'm like, brother, you're speaking my language. Watch everything you need. And he starts sending me links to, like, potential spots we can go. It's like that.

Super helpful. Yeah. You ever want to find a place? Ben would be the best realtor in Nashville. He's always on Zillow. Always ripping around. Always on Zillow. He's like, I was thinking about buying a place.

I was like, man, I popped on Zillow 2 because it was so nice on there. I'm like, bro, it is insane down there. Is it expensive? Yes. It was wild because I know, with talking to the Tomlins, they bought their place. They told me what they bought it for, which was not overwhelmingly expensive. And they sold it for, like, double or triple, like two years later. I'm sure.

Yeah. It definitely seems like a place that, like, just jumped. Maybe we have the boys go halves you on one, keep it as like a little Airbnb. Maybe. What? Brother, I'm telling you, some of these prices are. Oh, it's like that? We're talking three to, like around 3,000 square feet.

We're talking in between the 6 to 8 range. I'm out. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. Get that in top of her way cheaper. Yeah. But all in all, it was an incredible time. We were there for five days. My shout out to that was having a TV in the room.

It was nice having a TV in our room. Yeah. Like going in laying in bed and just watching TV and watching movies because we don't have a TV in the room. At your house? Yeah, yeah. We don't have one. When we get in the room, it's time for, it's time to get an audience, it's time for sleep. That's it?

Yeah. That's a nice little rule. Yeah. I mean, we go to sleep fast. You know what I'm saying? You know, the boy gets to take quick. You get naughty fast, too. Which would you do faster?

It just depends. If I got to ask the question and she's about it, we'll still be asleep probably, probably sooner, because I feel like we talk more. She likes the pillow talk a little bit. I'm like, sweet, Ari. Let's get the tunes on. Yeah.

The pillow talk to me is always, like, when I'm, like, laying in bed, I don't know if Charo does this, but Talon will just go and, like, put her pajamas on or whatever, and then lay in bed. And then an hour later, go brush her teeth and get ready for bed. I'm like, why wouldn't you just get ready for bed right now? Yeah. I don't understand it.

It gets ready first, but it always seems like when she wants to hit the pillow, like that's the time to talk about everything going on. Dude, that is. I'm thinking, can we not handle this? Yeah. And then they get upset. You're like, well, you had an hour ago. Yeah, we were going to have done whatever.

We were just chilling, binging Netflix and stuff like that. You was bishing about their wives, episode 226. And I'm sitting out of my, hey, sweetheart, like, something to get some shut eye. This is a conversation. This isn't like, you're not like filling me in on something. Like, this is, you want me to be receptive and contribute. Like, think about it and have a response that, yeah, contributes to the conversation. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough because at first they'll kind of like shorter answers.

Maybe they'll pick it up. Give them the hint. Yeah, yeah. Hey, you kind of turn your head and like, yeah. Like, it'll be a little louder or whatever. What happens? And they're like, hey, are you not into this conversation? You're like, no, I am.

And you're like, damn, I really got to talk about this. I'll take what the move is. That's the whole, you know how we've messed around with tape in our mouth while we sleep? Yeah. You tape your mouth or back. I'm going to tape my mouth. She'd be like, okay, you don't want to talk anymore. I'm like, oh, you can still talk to me.

I'm just letting you know. Like, oh, I'm going to sleep. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I'm putting it on. Give me a kiss good night. Damn. Once you put the tape on there, ain't nothing you can do. Well, I first started doing the mouth tape thing.

I would open a little pack of that, I'm not going to say the tape with no free shoutouts, but I would start to put the tape on. And if you say something, I'd like pull it off. And then it would lose its stick and I'd like get a new one. And then you're like, damn, bro! Yeah, you got a, okay. I got a little thing you just right there. that that's a fucking, you're asking for it.

You're asking to catch some fucking hands with that little, that little gesture. But anyway, yeah. But no TV in the room. No TV in the room. Then we got back, went out to get it a couple nights. We had a couple of her friends in town, had a couple Stogies. It was a, it was a tremendous week off.

I love that. I love it. Tell us about yours. Did you win again? Yeah, won again, 65, boom, in and out. It was just, it was. You've taken Vegas now for about what, half a million? No, I did the next.

numbers. Getting close. 395. Which bums me out because I was like, if I would have known, I would have just try to bink in a five right there if I could have. I'm sure we could find a 5W somewhere along. Yeah, we'll find a sense. Yeah, maybe. You know what I mean? I really just go off of what I've done with Dana and then the one night that we got hammered. Like that one night we got hammered. Oh, you're talking about before the, I got drunk and I just started putting chips down and it ended up working out. I probably would start losing, but JPs and then I going, stop, stop because I like was up bigger and then I lost the couple hands james

he was like stop but like that's the tone but yeah do we how was Napa? Let me start before that because we the family had a nice what Friday from Friday to Thursday just nothing but the fam and it was it was everything and more

kids were all about it do we were catching frogs we were fishing we were we were ripping around kids love those damn goats too but we went up to go to Napa when I was packing for Napa I thought I literally brought my computer I was like, I have 500 unobody emails. Maybe I'll get some work done.

Maybe I'll do some work. Because when we were on the phone, you weren't the most excited. I wasn't. It's a nice spot, but I'm not a wine guy. And I get weird about uppity stuff like that. Yeah, I know. Let's take off. And I'm starting to realize that's my problem.

I like it. But then also those other things, I'm like, totally against. It's very weird. Because if you go back to like, who do you want to party with? Like the tier talk we did, I dropped three names or like, it would be a country club-esque party. Yeah. But now, but I talk about country clubs, I don't like it.

Anyway, we go to Napa. It's awesome. The Chandler's, we went with them, and they had, like, they knew a bunch of people. They knew where to go. And the guy who was our driver, Tim was awesome. He was telling him pretty bad jokes, but he was a good vibe. So we were enjoying it. Sometimes you need those.

Yeah. And so we hit, like two little wineries in the beginning. Wines couldn't tell a difference between any of them. I could not tell one fucking different. Immature palette. It's all good. They would ask me, what do you see here? And I would just do kind of the same thing we did with that smelly test.

We did a while back. You were hitting the smelling test. from the hip here because I have really had no idea. And then the next day, everyone's like, hey, how many wineries are you hit tomorrow? We're like four. Like, oh, don't do four. That's way too many. We're like, ah, we're going to do four. We'll be fine. We'll be fine.

Who said don't do four? The people from the first night? The people in Napa. The people of Napa. Yeah, yeah. And so the next day, sure not, we start like 10 a.m. We go to the first one, get a little cooked because Mike knew this guy, Tom, he was porn. We were revisiting. That's the word you used when you're in Napa. You don't say, hey, can I try this wine again? You say, hey, can I revisit this?

and they just keep pouring for you. And there's a dump cup, which I fell in love with the name. You got to just spit in there? None of us spit. We're all swallowing. We go to the next place. A place called Quintessa. That's the only place I found a wine that I thought, okay, this wine kind of fucks.

I mess with this. Is it a red? It's a red. I did enjoy white, though. But it was a 2011 Quintessa, for those of you who are wondering. And we're drinking and we're buying wine. I'm thinking, as even I'm buying the wine, I'm never going to fucking drink this. but I'm drunk.

So I'm like, yeah, we need this wine at the house. So we buy that wine. The third one we get to. The Chandler's know them as well. And there's like, there's a picture that they have. It's like a table in this giant wine barrel and there's wine glasses everywhere. Like they just kept pouring like full glasses of wine. And that's where rumblings of Vegas happen.

I'll tell you what, the wine drinking is a vibe. It's a vibe, dude. Like, no, it's fun. Especially those beautiful environments out there in Napa. Napa's incredible. The weather is incredible. The people are so kind and nice. And when they educate you, when they educate you, educate you.

Yeah, you had it. Educate you about the wine. They talk about the climate and where it's different from over across the pond and why it's different from. Valley wine versus mountain wine because the grapes do this. You see the passion that these people have and you're like, fuck, man, that's amazing. I wish I could be like, yeah, I wanted to love wine so much more because I was around their passion.

And the environment was insane. It was incredible. But we ended up getting hammered junk. I threw up all over this restaurant's toilet. It got to the toilet, though. But not a lot of it got in the toilet. And we ended up booking a flight for Vegas the next day. And we went to Vegas for 23 hours.

So we flew from Napa to Vegas. Went to the UFC. Banked him. How was Vegas Fight Night? It was awesome. It was like we were in the same place at Apex Spot. They had us like right in the front. It was killer, dude.

And we had a bunch of, you guys. UFC fighters behind us. And we started talking to them. And they're like now like during the fight telling us like this is what this guy is thinking. They're like educating us like as they're fighting. Like this is what he's going to try to do next. And sure as shit, the guy would try to do the next, that thing he'd say. It was a really, it was fucking awesome, ma'am.

It was just a really good time. But all that said from the beginning of story, like I thought I was going to, you know, have a nice relaxing weekend. And I essentially went on a three-day bender. Yeah. Essentially went on a three-day bender, got home last night, watched Pirate to the Caribbean and fell asleep. Did you get like you and the boys did in Vegas this last trip in Vegas?

No, Vegas was the most tame part. Like, we day drink, we did some day drinking and played chandelier in the room. Great game. Yeah, it was awesome. We hit like four or five of those games. The boys wanted to go. We went down to the tables. We were playing for a while.

And I got binked for like 5,000. And then we went to the UFC and I told Dana and I lost five. He goes, don't gamble anymore. He went to dinner with Khabit. So he was at dinner at that tie spot. No, no. He's like, no way he's coming back. He said he's like 205 right now, though.

Like, dude's fucking like that. He says no way he's coming back. That's the first thing I asked him. I was like, what do we think? He's he coming back? He goes, he's not coming back. Kabib is not coming back to the U.S. I don't even know if I should say that.

But they did have dinner. And he came back. I literally waited for dating until like 1130. Like on the boy, everyone's gambling. I'm kind of watching him fun. Taylon was fucking killing them. Like out there, I'm making money. You're talking.

No, they're playing dice. This is me just doing a hand gesture. They're fucking killing them. 21, killing him, dude. Yeah, but everything, he came in and it was like legit 10 minutes. Did Mike gamble? Mike didn't gamble like that, but Mike did gamble. I think he won like 5,000, 6,000.

Oh, he won that. He won. Yeah, he won, though. I know he was in the gutter last time. Yeah, he got in the gutter last time. But Kyle from the milk boys, he was there. He was down 40. And then they were doing like a, they were really working. They went to Hakkistan because it was one of his boys' birthday.

birthdays. So they left like 10 minutes before Dana got there. And I was in a little. group with them and Kyle hit it and he's like, hey, I'm down 40. We got to figure it. And it's like, oh, we'll get you right today. Don't worry. And so that's where it all leads back to.

I need you to hit those tables hard and fast for that I think you get away with murder. Yeah. Trust me, I feel better about it. Yeah. Yeah, good. And it's just every single time I go, it's just like, oh, this feels safer for Will to do, you know? I'm glad you're always thinking that way too.

Oh, yeah. Like once you see a boy. Like once you see a, you know, a chip throwing somebody's way, you're like, I literally think of you immediately. I'm like, okay, Will's going to love that. I got to make sure and tell him that. Write that shit down, dude. Yeah, man, it was, it was an awesome time.

Got back, the kids were so stoked. It was sad, though, because we were gone for 72 hours. And, like, the day before we got back, Taylor's mom hit us and she was like, when woke up in the middle of night crying, she was missing us and stuff. When we got back, though, dude, it was, they were all about it. They were so fired up.

There's not a better feeling than not seeing your kid for a couple days and walking through the door and the excitement that they get. That is the coolest feeling in the world. They absolutely love it. They're ripping. They're like dogs. They can't really control their body. They're kind of just like rolling around and so fucking excited.

I want to show you everything probably. Yeah, exactly. They'll go grab a bone, put it in their mouth. And I hate this is what I got. That's what I want to show you. But it was fucking awesome. You being a girl. That's the best.

It is. Hey, speaking of, you're listening to this is June 6. You got 48 more hours. 48. 48 more hours until June 8th to order all of your dad merch, the girl dad merch. We got a lot of cool shit. Those cream, the cream and green hats, those are sold out. Those are gone. That's the one you had that everyone loved, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are gone right now? But are there, are there the dad ones that they

get put in the store, Garrett? Or it just says dad. Okay, so those are new that hit the shop, right? But if you want all of your merchandise for Father's Day, order it by the end of June 8th to get it for and by Father's Day. I had a lot of people hitting me about us doing grandfather hats. I had like older people like in Napa that were like, you guys do those dad hats. I'm like, yeah. And they're like, you should do grandfather hats.

Yeah, I think we should. I've thought about the old man too. I'm like, I think he'd like a... He'd love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think old Bill watching bustle with the boys on Tuesday. And then I've been getting hit up a lot about dog dad hats too. Dog dad.

Dog dad. So... Might need to keep our secrets close to the vest. Maybe we let the people speak. Maybe they want that. Yeah. Now that it's out there. Yeah.

Now that it's out there. But yeah, what a fucking, what a week, boys. Any highlights we want to talk about back there? Do you want to do an ad? Yeah. I will talk about, did you guys, have you guys been using it? We used it our entire way to, uh, to Rosemary Beach. What'd you use?

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What a deal. Yeah. It's a great deal. It's a great deal. That's outstanding. People helping people and that is powerful stuff. I haven't used that in a while. I know you have. I did watch a Vince Vaughn movie on the air on the flight back. Had a dream about Vince Von last night. What kind? I had a dream that had a redemption. I was on a plane, a giant, plane and there was like a had a bar there and I went up to him and I literally go do want to talk about it and then we had banter back and forth. Then the plane crashed. We were on the, we were on a

plane and it like didn't make it off the runway, but it was in a weird way where like there were these things we had to go up before and they ended up going down. Everyone was fun and I really didn't. I didn't. I didn't. Yeah. Everyone was fine. But I did have a dream about Vince Vaughn last night and we, I don't know if we fully worked it out, but there was a lot more banter, a lot more what I would have wanted. Yeah. In the situation. But he was, he was. He was. He was kind of giving me heat in the dream or whatever. Yeah. But.

So you guys aren't, you guys aren't back yet? No. Yeah. I was a dream. Yeah. So. It would have been nice to know that there was light at the end of the time. Yeah.

There would have been, yeah. But I need that redemption. Yeah. And I bust and posted something that said, don't meet your heroes. I'm not ready to say that. I'm not ready to. Because at the end of day, it was his boys. Yeah.

This was boys looking out for him in that moment. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe they fucked him over. Could have had a best friend waiting. Yeah. Yeah. But it sets up for a better story down the road.

But I watched the breakup on the flight, but I probably would treat my brain. Also sad. Sad. I didn't like the ending. But anyway. Yeah. It's like you like it, but you want it. You're rooting for it.

Yeah. You're rooting for it. And at the end, they see each other. Hey, it's great to see you. We should do this again? Baby wanted 12 lemons. Yeah. She wanted 12 lemons.

Well, maybe once it begins. Yeah. As he's like playing the game. Yeah. There was a lot of cool crossover, too, because like his brother in the movie. Vince Fonz's first movie he was ever in was Swingers. Thank you. And Vince Fonz's whole thing is.

say, baby, your money, baby, you have no idea how money you actually are, baby. Like, he always uses the word baby. His brother in the movie, when he's getting broken up with is, like, constantly saying the word baby. And you can see it's like a little callback. John Favreau, who is also in the movie. He's like his best friend in the movie. Incredible. Incredible.

Dude, John Favro. And you see a lot of cool little Easter eggs in there, which I enjoy when I was sitting. Is there a Hall of Fame for acting or is there a Hall of Fame for like Hollywood, I think it's the star, right? You get the star. Does John Favro have one? He's got to get it if he does it. He needs one.

Incredible, dude. Writer, director, actor, yeah, he's a first ballot. Yeah. But that flight brings me my pet peeve at the week if you guys want to hit that real quick. I know. Yeah, Brantley's about to be here. We can talk to Brantley. He seems like a sports guy.

We can talk to him about some of the stuff. We get on the docket. Yeah, absolutely. We can do that? But I did say pet peeve. Do you want to hit Pet peeve before he comes? Do you want to wait for him for Petpeep? Maybe we should put him on the hot seat?

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It's an honor for me, man. I'd watch you two play ball and I'd get to hang out with you in a bus. It looks like it's somewhere I belong. Yeah. This thing's awesome, man. We found this thing in the back of a warehouse. A lot of like $2,000. Put another $8 just for like some.

That fell off, but that was soundproofing, soundproofing. No. What happened to that? You gave him more flowers than they deserved. We found him in the back of a parking lot. A parking lot. Yeah, there was a warehouse and then in the back of it. Yeah.

And Will, when he first started, he's like, I don't know. And then I saw it and I was like, even if we don't use it for the podcast, this is what I want. This is, I need to have this bus. It's perfect. This thing is badass. Yeah. I fucking love it, ma'am. But you're a badass yourself, dude.

How's fucking life? How's everything going? Life's awesome. I got a three-year-old and a five-year-old. my three-olds, my little girl, she's a gangster. And then my five-year-old's just, man, he's an incredible, he's got an incredible little heart. He's just a special little dude.

My wife's a rock star mom, and she's hot as hell. Yeah. It's not a bad situation at the house. Hell yeah. How does it go with, like, touring and all that? Leaving them, obviously, I bet when you were younger, it was way easier. Oh, yeah, well, man, it was kind of a transient. I lived on a tour bus for a long time.

It's like, man, I'd take my bikes out, and, wherever we were traveling to, whenever I got done with the show, or when I ever showed up to a town, a couple guys would come meet me, and we'd ride around wherever we were and go to the clubhouse and then go play a show and go back to the clubhouse, so it's time to go to the next town. And I was happy doing that, man. You know, it was a different life, but I made some life changes,

got some stuff out. I found out I was allergic to alcohol. Allergic. Yeah, break out handcuffs and bad decisions. Yeah. So I got that out of the way. And, man, Amber came into my life and then brought me those two youngings, and I've never seen God and known love like that.

So, man, just trying to balance being a dad and do this, too. And I don't know that that balance exists. So we're about to go out with Nickelback. And most time it's not bad, right? Like, when we're doing shows on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I get three, four days at home, three, four days gone. But, like, the five-finger Death Punch Tour we just came off of, and this Nickelback tour, like playing shows on Mondays, Tuesdays,

like the entire month of June, I'm in Canada. No way. It's interesting. Out there ripping it. Oh, yeah, buddy. What's your vibe on Canada? How do you feel about Canada? Well, I think it's beautiful up there.

I just have some, sometimes I have trouble at the border. Yeah? Yeah, we've had a couple run-ins in the past. Yeah. A couple run-ins in the past. Literally the last time we went. It seems like you got some good border stories. Oh, buddy.

One of them I can't tell because it was kind of scary, but the last time we went through, we were on the bus, and they pulled me inside, and the guy literally, the Border Patrol guy said, you got your gun, will you? And I was like, not in this fucking country, I don't. You know what I mean? I left it in Michigan. I'm going to pick it up as soon as we crossed the border going all the way. No shit.

Taylor loves Canada. Well, I like British Columbia. My wife's from Canada. That's a one pivot. My wife's from British Columbia. They do have some wild laws out there. Because you think everyone is a certain way, did you, you, especially in West Coast Canada. They hate Trudeau out there.

They are not a big fan of that Trudeau guy. There's a proud boy who's out there. Trudeau is like their prime minister. Oh, got you. They're president. He's on some weird shit. He's like, he just came out with the thing a little bit ago. It's like from this point forward, you cannot trade, sell, or buy handguns in Canada.

And his name, what you said? Justin Trudeau. Trudeau. And there's a, hey, you love conspiracy theories. Love conspiracy. There's a whole thing about he's like the bastard child of, who was a dude that was in Cuba? Castro. Castro. Fidel Castro and they put up photos in him and they're like, they look so similar.

And his mom was down there around the same time that he was conceived. Have you not heard this? No. Then I'm just saying, I'm just saying bullshit. I have no idea if I'm whatever saying is real. So allegedly, Justin Trudeau is the bastard child of Fidel Castro. No shit. Allegedly.

Isn't that wild? Mine blown right now. There you go. There you go. When you were going from Michigan, you're going to Windsor. Oh, he does have Castro vibes. See? Is that up there?

telling the truth this time? Fidel Castro is not Canada. But there's a whole article. That's what they had to figure it out. But that's media, dude. That could be, you know. Yeah, that could be the mainstream media trying to take you down. You don't know.

You don't know. So you went over to the border and they're like, you have you gun on you and you're like, no, I don't. You said there's been a couple of scary times. Yeah, well, I used to run around with some fellas that they ride motorcycles and they're well known. And I guess I was considered an affiliate. Is it like the opposite of Heavens, demons? Kind of something like that. Are we talking sons of anarchy type stuff?

Do you ever like the real ones? You have like the real ones? I've always in the show. I've always in the show. So yeah, I had to walk the little red line and they dumped my bag out. It was a whole story. But it ended up getting out and going to play the show. I just had to leave by 9 o'clock next morning.

So we chartered the jet. As soon as the show was over, it was going out of the States. Yeah. I want to go back when you were talking about. about, you talked about being allergic to alcohol, but I was reading an article about when you made your shift in your career and in your life about being a functioning alcoholic and you had a number one hit going on at the time. And I want to say you were maybe a bandmate or a friend or somebody. You were sitting back with somebody and kind of talking about, you know,

wanting to make a transition and realizing like I'm supposed to be celebrating this and you were in your own head. Can you talk through that? Oh, yeah, man. So, I mean, it was when countrywide, our first number one, the, the night it went number one. We were on tour. And, of course, we did a little celebration for it. And in the middle of it, I kind of walked back to the bus for whatever reason by myself,

and I got in the back lounge, and I just went into this little train of thought. It was kind of, what's the, there was a philosopher at some point that said the majority of man's struggles come from his inability to sit in a quiet room alone. And for whatever reason, I felt like I needed a quiet room alone that night for a minute.

And remember, I remember sitting on the back of the bus being like, I mean, this is really cool, but we're not really celebrating anything because we did the same shit last night and the night before, for months, years. You know, so it was like, I knew there were some things in life that needed to change. And I was just like, man, I'm not, the things that I was raised to prioritize and, you know, value in life, just so far from the life I was living

and like kind of like just knowing I was kind of at an impasse. There's some medical stuff going on too, but I was losing the battle with addiction, man. It was kicking my teeth in. But if you didn't know me well, you wouldn't know I was, you know, I was, you know, tore up. I had my cruising altitude and highly functioning. It wasn't worried for it. It was life, but it was like, you know, I never stopped. But I remember sitting back there and I called my manager.

I was like, hey, man, I need. to find some time and just go in and get medically detox. I don't have a seizure or something. Something happened in the moment that made you feel like you were getting close to those. Yeah, like it was like an epiphany. Oh, well, I'd had like pancreatitis. My liver and kidneys were starting to, you know, throw me a little bit of trouble. And my health was kind of in decline.

I was only 24, 25. It was just kind of not sleeping, partying from the time of the sun came up until it went down. then maybe till it came up again, you know, on a repetitive basis. And it was just like, man, people work their entire, or half their lives, right, trying to get a number one on country radio. Some of them, most of them never get a song, you know, on radio at all. And here we are. Like, I felt like I was kind of being disrespectful to those people and all the guys around

me by, you know, when we're supposed to be celebrating something, we're just doing the same shit we did last night. It's just cake tonight that says number one on it. That's the only difference. And I got my second number one in rehab. Nice. Sitting in some smoking porch from my buddy Darrell. Yeah.

Shout out, man. Got Darrell. Yeah, I was there. Wherever you're at, buddy. Good looking out. But yeah, man, it was the best decision I ever made. It's a whole new life. And I don't use the word sober because I have a lot of respect for the sobriety community

and the recovery community. And I'm not that. I'm California sober. I mean, I Smoke wheat. You enjoy some vitamins. Yeah, I do. Yeah.

I brought some with me. I didn't know if y'all smoked or not, but these little things are magic. They're, they're jeeters. So just so you all know, we rode the bus up to the nearest legal, Michigan. So. What's the nearest? Michigan, Florida. Legal.

We're in a legal state right now. Yeah. We are in Michigan. We're in Michigan. Yeah. We're in Ann Arbor, Michigan right now. Shout out the Wolverines. Yeah.

Got it. Go blue. Go blue on that. Was there such an interesting time for you to have an epiphany, first number one, and for you to go sit in a room and be like, okay, this is not the way I want to live my life. You would think it'd be the opposite. Like, you'd sit there and be like, oh, shit, I'm doing everything right right now. Like, we got to ride this hard and get put away wet.

Absolutely. So is there like, like, what was the process for you in that situation where you like, oh, this is not, this is not it? Like, what is anything specific? happened that night, or is it just the redundancy of everything that's been going on and realizing, like, you want to keep the dream alive? It was, it was kind of an epiphany moment, right? Where it was kind of a moment of surrender to.

It's like me and God at that point. Like, I'm a, I know I taught rough, and I'm definitely, I'm a rougher dude, but my face is really important to me, man. And as far as I got away from God, I don't feel like he ever let go on me. So even in times like that, like, even in the fucked up way, I used. used to talk to him. It was like I was talking to one of my buddies, you know, but, um, it was kind of a conversation between him and me. And I think addicts just, most of us, man, we, you know, they say it takes like a traumatizing life-changing event to get a lot of our

attentions. Well, that had happened time and time again. And I had been, you know, court ordered to go to treatment a couple times, uh, for lesser charges. And, uh, I'm letting y'all know a lot today. By the way, I didn't know. I thought we were going to happen. I think how we came to Michigan. We'll get to the laugh. We'll get to the laugh.

We're going to smoke this. We'll get to the laughing. But yeah, man, it was like, you know, we have this thing where, you know, in times a crisis or I think a lot of times it's a crush, too, like if we get in a lot of trouble, you know, oh, I'm going to sober up. I'm going to change my life. Yeah. Or for my mom, my mom at one point, just they'd age 20 years in a year.

I had a lot of stuff going on and I was just stressing her out but you know you want to make that change for her but that night what was different and I knew it was different was like man this is a moment of clarity amongst all the chaos and mayhem in my life and I felt like it was the time

and like God was like hey man now I've got your attention for whatever reason he had my attention that night and it was just like man if I make a decision to change now when I'm not in crisis like when I'm not at the end of my road when I'm not, you know, suicidal or just that and other.

Like, I'm making a conscious decision to change my life, and it's on my terms. I'm such a maniac when it comes to that. It's like I have a bar in the dog house is what we call. It's a 75-100-square-foot man cave. It's got all my shit in it. The dog house. The dog house.

Where I live. So I've got a bar in that, and people ask me, like, dude, if you don't drink, why do you have a bar? Dude, because I like winning. Yeah. Every time I walk by that summer bitch, Every time I go behind the bar and pour somebody to drink, like I get to whip its ass.

You know what I mean? And it's a, it kind of turned into that thing for me. I never tell people I can't drink. I can probably drink half this buss onto the table if we went like that. But I made the decision not to. You think you still got it like that?

Dude, I don't think it'd take long. I mean, my worst, dude, I carried around a laptop bag. It seems a little rusty. Oh, I'm rusty, sure, but we can do. It would be like old Frank the tank in old school.

Maybe we crack one right now, huh? A little d'clock. on the bottle. Don't let it fool you about what's inside. Bub, I drank with my heart. Yeah. But yeah. Drink my heart.

Drink like you mean it. Yeah. Yeah, man, it was definitely a life-changing thing. It was crazy. I went in. Keith Urban showed up when I was in there just on a whim one day. And I've told this story a bunch. But he sat down and had a conversation with me.

And I don't know if I'd be playing music right now had it not been for that conversation with that man. So that was pretty cool. and then the day I got out, my record label president, my manager, picked me up at the rehab facility and took me straight to the tour bus and I went out on the Eric Church Blood Sweat and Beers Tour in 2012.

No shit. Yeah, man. How was that tour? Just had the devil right next to you the whole time. Yeah, no doubt. If y'all only understood, like I've been uncomfortable on stage several times of my life.

But then I literally fell out of my skin. I felt like I was butt-knacket up there in front of thousands of people every night. And the good thing was the conversation with Keith, he was like, he told me that. He was like, you're going to feel like you're out of your skin up there. He said, and it's never going to be what it was. He said, but it will be better.

You have more control over what you're saying, just to show itself and how you're communicating with people. And it made all the sense in the world. And it eventually got there. But yeah, that whole tour, dude, I was like, I felt like I was button naked up there holding the guitar. When did it start to feel more comfortable? I don't remember.

It was such a, like, it was a battle for a long time. And I'm not necessarily one, I'm not a real scary dude. You know what I mean? Like, snake, sharks, and commitment are legitimate. But anything outside of that, like, I don't worry about too much. Spiders are pretty fucking terrifying. No, I'm looking on that first one. Snakes scare the shit out of me.

No question. No one. Broke. Broke. You know what? No probes. The devil got one chance to come to earth. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And that's what he picked to come ass. That's all the fuck I need to know. Yeah. When people have them as pets, I'm like, you're something's wrong with them. No doubt. You're going to hell. What is it called?

Fatal Attraction? That show Fatal Attraction where they're, like, getting in tight with reptiles. And they end up, I think, dying. You guys know that show I'm talking about, right? Fatal attraction? Yeah. If it's got reptiles like that, we're probably both not watching it. If I think of a snake, I get a little queasy.

Oh, I'll have my hair. Snakes are absolutely fucking terrifying. They're just fucking terrifying. I know everybody's heard the story. I want to say maybe it was a girl in Omar. Omaha, but where the snake, her pet snake would, like, lay by her and sleep with her night, and it would, it would, like, stretch out. Yeah, stretch out and, like, lengthen this.

See, like, when am I going to take this girl down? Yeah. That's what they found out. They literally went there. They thought the snake was sick because it wasn't eating, and they took it to the vet. And the vet's, like, the reason why the snake is laying next to you is trying to figure out if it can fit you in its body. Yes, bro.

I'm telling you, that's true. Nice fucking pull on that one, brother. That was unreal. It was the first time we did that. I got to learn that shit. Yeah. Fuck that was. You guys make your own little.

you guys have that baseball game today. Oh, you guys can make up your own little fucking deal on that. It's going to be a mercy rule. Can you play? Can you play? Well, you got a little shit to you now. You got a little build on you.

I got sick for about a month with a whole bunch of G.I. stuff and I went from 215 to 188. So I'm back to $1.99. So I'm back in it. Yeah? Is it a good 15 or was it like a wolf? A good 15. What is it?

Best I ever felt my life. Hey, boy. He feels out that guy. He's great nice. Yeah. He's really good. Yeah. He kind of flexed his pecks a little bit too.

when you said he's like, I don't know. He pulled me in Thailand, like kind of, what's up, brother? Good to make sure. All right, man. This dude, let me tell you, he is one of two men I've ever known in my life to get like cat called by women.

Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, you got it like that. You got the juice. Get the camera on them. Make sure the camera's on them. Yeah. What did you do with it?

God took it. That's what I'm saying? God took it. Wait, would you ever, would you ever go back to the plugs? Do they go to Turkey? Get that thing done? You should do it.

If you're going to talk, give him the mic. Give him the mic So you would go to Turkey Tomorrow, you coming? Oh, I'm good We'll be all right Can we heard of Turkey in Turkey?

Cowboy went and did his plugs Yeah And I was like, dude, I'm going There's nothing There's nothing wrong with that anymore If I ever started to lose it God ever started Tvers to take it, I'm taking it back

Yeah, you got lettuce And he's like Yeah, I'm taking it back Like God ever tries to put you in that Barber seat, dude Yeah In the barber seat He's gonna have to

find those hands that day. It'll come from me at some point, but that might be the move. I don't know why you just want, right? Just keep it. You look younger. And if you're getting cat called by women, you start having that cul-de-sac ripping back there. You might not get as many cat calls. Yeah. But you might pretend like you don't like it. I bet when the girls call him, he's probably like, you know, whatever. And don't make a big deal out of it. He literally has the run from them. Yeah. But I tell you, they stop calling. You're going to be like, damn, that was nice. Look, I fell off. That was nice. I fell off. I've lost it. I've lost it. Well, congratulations on the ass, dude.

Yeah, that's amazing. Married, two kids. But also, congratulations on that. That's unbelievable. Strength he got. Yeah. We got a buddy. His name's Rob Mugi.

We talk about him all the time in this podcast. We do. He's a handsome boy. Yeah, he'll walk away and I'll be with a group of people and like three or four girls be like, do you fucking see him?

Like, they were talking about him like that. So good for him. Seems like both of you guys are in the same playing field. Birds of a feather. You need to find that guy. Yeah. Fly together. Let's talk about this one, boys.

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That's okay. That's where to go today? You're from Jefferson, Georgia? I was supposed to say, I've had this on calendar for a minute. Yeah. Boy, I got to roll. Are you from Jefferson? Yes.

boys with Corey Smith? Yeah. Are the police, are the police really that, were that corrupt? So, well, it's crazy. So the night that happened, there was a roadblock in town. And the dude knew that you were with him that night? Oh, before, yeah. We played a show at mics, I think.

Shut up Corey Smith again, man. I know. You saw you tweeted at the boy, said he'd come on. So, dude, that was basically, before I met Corey, the way I met Corey, Corey will always be one of my like main influences as a songwriter because he put out that first record and it was man, it was all about where we grew up, right? And it showed me that, well, Skinner showed me

and then he doubled down the fact that it's cool to write about home. You know what I mean? And that made a huge difference in my writing, but he was also one of them that was extremely independent and everything he did. Like he was able to quit teaching and go full-time music. And when he did that, I was like, there's a possibility that I could do this for a living

and not have to go work on a blow truck, you know, insulation truck. But, yeah, I was in, I was touring around, not touring. I was playing around with this little cover band, motorcycle club houses, like the worst VFWs you've ever seen. Like, we're fighting every night. Probably a reason why you might have been affiliated going into Canada. Maybe. Yeah, that probably played into.

We're figuring out the backstories. There are a lot of things that played into that. Yeah. But yeah, I met Corey. So they opened a bar in my hometown. It had been Dry County forever in Jefferson. It was called Mike's Down Under. And God bless Mike.

I miss him. The first night it opened, I was with a dude. It was a lot older than me. We were riding around on Dirt Rose drinking. And he goes, hey, man, you want to go check out that new bar in Jefferson? Here I am. I'm like 16 or 17 years old. Sure.

I had told my parents that I was out of town playing praise and worship music at some convention called Winter Blast or something. Hell yes. In Gatlinburg. Yeah. Meanwhile, the bar is literally like, if there were no trees, you could see it from my house. So we walked in, and I brought my own beer because I knew I was too young for them to sell it to me there. Yeah.

So the logical thing. B-Y-O-B. Yeah. Hell yes. They didn't like that. So I got in and a guy came up to him was like, hey, how old are you? I need to see some ID. And I was like, well, I don't have one that says I'm old enough.

So he said, I need you to finish that, or I need you to get rid of that beer. And I said, yes, sir, I went to chug it. And they went to taking me outside. And I was on the way out the door. And they went to taking me outside. Yeah. He's got that. He's got that accent too.

He got that the accent. Yeah, they got after it pretty good. Right over. Yeah, I knew where I was headed, you know. Best of intentions. But there's this dude singing, and his voice was incredible. and I recognized it and recognized a couple of songs, but I wasn't going to bother the dude, you know.

And on the way out the door, he goes, hey, hey, are you up to be Brantley Gilbert? And I was like, yeah. And he said, man, everybody here, this is just super early on, Corey. Everybody here, these are my friends and family, man. They've heard everything I've got a couple times. He knew I had a little five song, he'd pee out.

He was like, you want to play a couple? And I said, dude, if it keeps me for getting my ass kicked out of here, hell yeah, I'll play as you won't, you know. So, yeah, that was the beginning of the Corey Smith chapter. And after that, dude, I toured college markets with him for several years. And we had a blast. I have as much respect as humanly possible in the world for that dude. I think the world of Corey.

Let's get back to those police, though. He just got that song, Fuck the Police. Oh, yeah. So there was this dude named Vic Green. It was a dick. And he kind of, Corey wasn't really in the mood to be fucked with that. night, I think, and those guys kind of were a little rough on him. I know one of the guys, he's not all that bad, but that night they, they didn't do

right by court. He was, he was not in a great mood, and I don't think they were either. And, you know, then the fuck-the-pop-po song came out, and it was like, it, he started a war. Yeah. You heard that song? Yeah, fuck-in-po-poh-ball? Yeah. They mainly just play the live version, right?

Yeah, the live version of Spotify, but I heard it at his, at his concert. now when they play that song and they'll turn to the security and give them the finger. Yeah, that's hilarious, man. The crowd will turn around and fucking get the police the bird. It was the whole thing. Yeah. It was like, it was news in our hometown and everything else. And buddy, every time he played Athens or Jefferson or anywhere else, he told that story.

But yeah, one of the guys' names is Fick Green. And I want to say... What's what you're doing now? So you got fired, yeah? I don't know what Vick's up to. Did he? Did he flypottness? Yeah.

Yeah, I think he said in that live version that they're not. now gone. They used to be notoriously corrupt. Vic was one of those dudes, man. We're in a small town of Jefferson, right? Where I graduated with 66 people, and this is before I graduated. So there's nobody there. He's like one of the cops that belonged in, like, New York City. You know what I'm saying?

Like, straight about business, like showing up in tactical geared stuff. But I feel like all small towns have one of them. You got one of them. You got to have one. I think the job's so serious. There ain't nothing to do in the small towns. Like, you're fucking. It's his most power he'll ever have in his life.

All in order, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what happened. Yeah. That's the entirety of the situation. So I hope wherever Vicks at, he has found an extremely dangerous job that is filling that violent gap in his soul. Violent gap in his soul. Do you know, Brantley says he calls it a washer?

Yeah. Yeah. There's no question. Orcher and dryer. A washer. Wow. I thought he was definitely a washer. I thought you were judging a book by its cover, Will.

Yeah, yeah. But I agree with you. I used to say, wash your clothes, yeah. Washer. Yeah. You all about, y'all back don't get washed up. Yeah. We were talking to Riley Green about Corey Smithman, and it's so peculiar how, like, country music works.

Because it seems like some guys, like, Corey seems like he's all the talent in the world, but he's never done, like, the stadiums and all that. Like, why do you think you are able to make it and some of these guys aren't? You're obviously extremely talented. Wouldn't Riley saying that was kind of intentional? Like, he kind of kept it that way? I can't remember. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't feel too. comfortable talking for Corey, but I can't say this. When I was around him, he really took a lot of pride, man, in being able to be independent and independent to his core where he didn't want a label telling him what to do. He didn't want

to be cutting checks to people for this, that and other, you know, for things that he was capable of doing himself. And I don't know if there was a moment of regret later in his career, but I think all of us look back and wish we'd have done some things different. But I remember there was a time when it was like there was a there was kind of a the hell of Nashville vibe and I loved it and I was on it with him I didn't want to play this town until I could sell out whatever venue I was playing in it that was my goal and we did it it wasn't it wasn't a bridge stone first time in but it was sold out um but he he wanted to come to this town if he did business in this town he wanted to come with with leverage and

and he did that man he built something so special uh he did it by I mean, a limited number of guys around him, Corey really did have a vision for what he wanted to do and he made it happen. I have so much respect for that. I do think there was a time where he was like, man, you know, maybe, I don't know if it was after, as he was having kids and stuff, or he was like, maybe I want to do, you got to pursue it a little heavier. And I think he, they brought him to town and he did like try to do 21 again where they did the video for it and that kind of thing. And it just didn't take for whatever reason. It broke my heart, man, because this dude, I mean, watching his process and seeing him

right, like, he wasn't crazy about co-writing. The majority of the songs y'all have heard from Corey or solo written, like written in their entirety by him, produced by him. This is rare, right? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. He's getting into co-write now, from what I understand.

And he and I have been trying to get in the room for months. We live in the same place. I still live in Georgia. We literally live maybe five, six miles from each other. No shit. Yeah. It's just tough. Schedules like that.

It is, man. It seems like the only, like, the only guy that I know that's really done it from, without signing with anybody is jelly roll. Like, he was so prideful on being independent. He's, in the last two months. He's doing fucking everything, man. Man on fire. He is crushing it.

That's my brother. He really is crushing it. Yeah. Oh, asking you were talking about everybody kind of looks back and kind of has choices they would have made different. What about you? What are yours? Oh, man.

So, we came in, like, independent. Right. And when we came to town, we had a little leverage because we were selling out rooms that, you know, there were really good artists at really good labels that couldn't do the numbers we were doing. You know, when we came to tell, we had some good leverage. And I found a really good partnership in Scott Borsetta early on in town where it was more of a partnership than me having a boss. So I made a deal real early on with myself. Once I started doing music, I wasn't ever going to have a boss again. I don't handle authority very well. Uh, some of the statement. You don't, yeah, I feel like, your energy is that.

No one's really going to tell you what to do, huh? Well, yeah, I mean, they do, but it just doesn't work out well, because whatever you tell, I'm literally the guy, whatever you tell me not to do, I feel like there's, there's just a little demon that lives in me, man. It's like, all right, well, you know what we got to do now. Right, so I do, hey, under no circumstance, do you strike out tonight? No.

No. I did tell you what to do that, so now you have to strike out. Oh, shit. Don't worry. I probably will whiff one real bad. Dude, I'm swinging for the fences, brother. Like, don't worry. I was going to bat in a minute.

I am trying to go yard every time. I'll tear all my shit. I am trying to get that thing out of there. That's awesome. Yeah, I need you to fuck up. I need you to fuck up. I'll give a shot. Yeah.

But yeah, having people tell you what to do. I've never been done well with authority. Even with football especially, like, never done. Not with coaches and stuff? No, like, I've always said coaches I get along with. But the minute, like, it becomes like, you have to do this or you have to act a certain way. That's, for me,

being coachable from like playing, never an issue. Right. But it's like, if you have to, but for the most part, not an issue. For the most part.

If you tell me how to act, like you, hey, you need to, when you do this, this press conference, say this, don't say this, make sure,

and that always rub me the wrong way. Absolutely. I was like, man, I got to be able to, there's only two times in my career that I tried to be something I wasn't and just burnt down

every single time. It's an awful feeling. Well, somebody that recognizes that, man. I mean, we live in a society full of folks that can, you know, fit the mold and be a chameleon and whatever. I just think I have more respect for those that are, I don't know if it's just against the grain or if it's just the consciousness of a grown man to be who the fuck you are, not anything else because you are good enough.

You know what I mean? Especially if you're living your life in a way that you're trying to better yourself, the people around you, you're acting all right. Yeah. But when yours, obviously you have a lot of opinions and you wear it, like, do you think that hurts or helps you in the country music landscape? Oh, it hurts, yeah.

Yeah? What's a decision where somebody was trying to guide you the right direction, you went against it when you were young? Like, tried to sponsor you. Or, uh... Yeah, I knew that was coming. Yeah. That was so funny because everybody was like,

the irony's lost on this guy, right? Because he just, he slammed a bud, like him while playing a queen song. It was like, no, the irony's lost on you motherfuckers. I'm playing a queen song. I love queen, and I love that song, and I don't give a shit if the guy's gay or not. I love, there's plenty of people in my life that I love,

I have no issue. You've been gay with. Yeah. Yeah. You know, damn. I try everything twice, friendly. He's jerked out of the cloth. Yeah. Yeah. That mic is awfully close to your face.

Yeah. I'm fighting the hurt. Fighting the urge to just grab a hold of it. But no, it was like, no, the irony's lost on y'all. My whole thing with that was, man, I got a three-year-old and five-year-old. And I don't like the idea of these big companies pushing a sexual preference or gender preference on to, like, promoting something as a brand that could possibly affect my children. When I became a dab man, I've always.

run with a rough group of dudes. I've never been wanting to really run away from a sketchy situation. But, man, when I became a dad, I became the most dangerous version of myself that I've ever been. I've never loved anything like that in my entire life. I've never felt that kind of sense of protective, you know, need to be protective. And it's just something that struck a chord with me, man. I have no issue with anybody or what they want to be. That's their freedom to do so. and all that. But if it starts to get to a point where I feel like it's affecting children,

and I'm going to do a little more and stand out, probably. Yeah. Which one of your kids is your favorite? Man, honestly, I could always say this, right? Don't say it, don't do the thing. My thing. I love them all the same.

Yeah, yeah. I have favorite things about both, right? All right, I'll take that. Like, I'll say this, just so you can, you know, speak freely. Like, my daughter, whatever comes after, like I'm hoping it's a boy so I can remind him that he's not like Surulian Rue is the favorite. Right.

My daughter, I'm sure I want to also ask the difference between having a boy and a girl because I just feel like every dude needs to have a little girl. Everyone, yeah. I agree with that. I cried when I saw the little pink balloons come down because I was like, oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, I got a few years before I'm definitely going to prison this time. But what's bad is I think she's probably going to beat me to prison. She will run a criminal organization by kindergarten.

You think so? Oh, dude. She's a little demon. Not demon. She's just like Al Capone, man. The other day, we're getting ready for bath time, and my wife is walking out of the room as she says this, but my daughter is sitting on her little rocking chair,

and she's reading them. She can't read yet, but she knows all her books by heart. So she's just kind of making up her own little story as she goes and mixing the real words in where she wants to. Amber said, and Cici go getting the, it's time for you to get in the bathtub. And as Amber walks out, my daughter looks to where she was at when she said it, and says, no.

So, all right, let me preface this by saying, my little girl could get away with murder. If there ever comes a time when she calls me, she's like, Dad, you know, this old boy had to go. Yeah. You know. You had to take him to the train station. He had to find out. Questions asked, I'll bring them, I'll hook the backhoe up to the flatbed. I'll be on the way, baby.

tell me where yet. But she can't do that to my wife and I, right? So when she said that to Amber, I literally, I knew it was my responsibility as a dad. Yeah. Got to take issue, right? So I'm sitting about as far as I am to you guys, and I got close enough to where I'm about half the distance with me and you.

And I'm kind of in her face a little bit, and I said, Sissy, no, it's not an option for you unless we ask you a question. If mom or I ask you a question, you could say no. If the answer is no, but it better be followed by ma'am or sir. I said as far as, you know, when we tell you to do something, the only answer, the only option you have is yes, ma'am or yes, sir, and you go do it. This is not the way this works.

Dude, I shits you not. She looked me dead in my eyes. Like, Stone Cold Gangs, let me dead my eyes, cocked her head sideways. And then a whisper voice said, this is how this works without breaking face and I looked at her went back to her book

oh dude oh no she's just held the gaze I'm telling you she is staring me to hell like a stone cold killer so she said three yeah so I had it she was testing my gaseer yeah she's like to come back at her you know what I mean so now I've heard that

he's feeling and he's getting a little trigger yeah no doubt so my blood just drained all the way out of my body like I'm seeing why I'm just like this is happening and what do I do? And I said, I started to open my mouth to say something. And I'm looking at her kind of mean, right? Yeah.

She goes from this side. And as I open my mouth to say something, she goes, rolls her head to the other side. She goes, it do be like this sometimes. It do be like this sometimes. And that was it. So she didn't take a bath that night. I popped her ass. Yeah.

Oh, okay. You know, yep, she got the back. Yeah. Yeah. And by popped her ass. I mean, I'd. Yeah, yeah. My son gets real ones.

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his name's John Lovell. He runs something called the Warrior Poet Society. And there's a thing on there called Order of Man. And it's really about kind of a lot of Christian-based stuff. But John was a Ranger. There's a lot of military structure and, like, discipline things on there, like parenting tips. Just like ways to make yourself better and kind of be a sharper tool in the shed, you know.

To, you know, I look at it like this. Like, I'm not really raising a little boy. or a little girl. Like, I'm raising a man and I'm raising a woman. And the way I want them to come up, if I have my choice, I want them to be leaders of men, right? Like, I want to, so essentially I'm raising a king and a queen. You know, the rules change at that point.

And I hold my boy to a higher standard because I feel like in society today, you know, there are a lot of things for kids to be confused about, but we're really pushing a lot of soft shit. Everybody gets a trove. thing and, you know, just kind of encouraging boys to not be so much boy. Yeah. Like a masculinity. Right, right.

And I'm a believer in unapologetic masculinity. The love is not toxic. And, you know, there's, like, when he fights with, like, his buddies, you know, he'll have buddies over and they'll put on boxing gloves and fight or they'll wrestle in the yard. Like, I'd take a minute before I'll break it up. Yeah. And the rest of the parents are freaking out.

And it's like, look, I want to encourage you a little bit. My son needs to know what it is to be aggressive. Then when he's old enough to understand, he needs to have the capacity to do violence. I mean, I know that's a terrible way to say it. But if he's going to have a family one day, you know, and if he's going to be taking care of people around him, he needs to have the capacity to be the most dangerous. You need to have it in you, but have it under control. What's that phrase?

It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. Yeah. Say that again. It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a person. a gardener in a war. Yes. I love that, man. And, you know, I won't, and my boy is so soft-hearted, right?

Like, he has the kindest little heart in the world. And it's just like, man, I look at him and I love, like, I adore that about him. That's something he has a heart that I don't have. I mean, and just the way he sees the world, man, is incredible to me. It blows my mind. But it worries me that he's going to get run over like that. But he's starting to show, we're getting some grid in him. He's showing a little grass.

And he likes to find a little rassel. And, yeah. And the other thing. If he had another little brother he was running around with, I think he'd be different. But, you know, with Sissy, I let him wrestle and stuff, but she's tiny. She's three and he's five.

Yeah. But it's kind of jacked up now. Dude, she planned to, like, coordinated attack on him now. Yeah. In the playroom. Yeah. I walked in and he's sitting there playing with Legos by himself in the floor just sweet as he can be.

And I see her little braids kind of popping to the top of the stairs. So I just kind of sunk back. I was like, what's what's happening? Yeah. dude he was facing this way so she walked around the room behind him this way and came up behind him like tiptoeing no grant she has no idea that i'm watching at all comes up behind him and dude she ran back as far as she could and she hit him in the side of the face like the ear area with the flat part of her fist and he just puts his head and his head

and stop crying and i yelled at her i was like sissy and you would think that she'd turn around and be like scared of death that she's supposed to get in trouble that that child turned around it looked to me like, you remember Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac says his little niece looked to him. It was straight up right out of the Kings of Comedy. She looked at me and kind of poked her hip out. It was like, yeah, whatever. What are you going to do about this? This is the way life is, dad.

I have a question for you. So your daughter, did she have a onesie that says straight out of Compton? She does not, dude. She doesn't. I know, I know. I've seen people drop that before. that would be funny to have. That would be funny to have straight out of Compton.

God, that'd be hilarious. But what I wanted, what I was wanted to pick your brain on too because I don't have a son yet and put that in the world. Like, there's going to be a young Compton. There's going to be a young William Merrill Compton the fourth out there one day.

But I feel like if you're raising a boy, you almost default to being a little hard on them because you want the son to be better than you were. And I feel like having a little girl is just such a change of pay. because we aren't girls. And you're just a lot sweeter with them because, like, you just don't, it's not like you're looking at them, like, as your son, you would your son on wanting to be harder

than them. Absolutely. I think we understand their responsibilities more than we understand our daughter's responsibility. Yeah. I feel like there's more of that connection to, like, being more of a daddy's girl and then a mama's boy because the opposite sex on that part. It's like, my wife raising Rue or, like, any mom raising their daughter, they're

probably a lot harder on them as well because they want them to be a better version than they were and they understand growing up in the world how the obstacles that you have to overcome. And with a boy, it's like we know the same thing as far as like raising a leader and knowing the obstacles we had to overcome and we know what that young boy is going to go through as he gets older with the girl. It's almost like you have a softer heart because they're just like your little girl. Absolutely. That's how I would think.

You know what I did notice though? And this is no joke. Historically, yes, I've been three times. My grandmother, my wife, everybody says I'm too hard. on him. But I also see tendencies in him that I remember from myself and things that I had to work out. And I know a lot of that he's going to do on his own. If I can give him a head start, man, you know, I want to help. But yeah, you're totally right in everything you said. My wife is, she kind of gets to play good guy a lot of times with my son. And I'm a little rougher on him.

And she knows she's got a muscle up on Braille a bit. But sucks this when I'm out of town, she's, she has to play good guy and bad guy. Yeah. You know, it's the coin. There's no way I could do what she does. But, I will tell you this, man. Lately, like, all jokes aside, my daughter has been kind of testing us, and she's kind of figured out, you know, she's a little gangster, right?

So she's figuring out she's got some. Oh, yeah. Just getting away with that. Yeah. So I've had to, I've had to give her, show her a little more, but stern side. Like, I've had to kind of toughen up on her a little bit. Yeah.

And I thought it would push her away from me. but honestly, dude, it has it has drawn her more to me. Real, recognize real. Yeah, because, well, that, but I think, yeah, she's learning that, hey, man, this respect thing is real. And I'm not going to tell you that you can't do something just because I'm trying to ruin your fun. You know what I mean? I'm only going to tell you to do something if it's for your own good or if it's just because

it is what it is. It's time to go get into bad. It's time to get into bed. It's time to, you know, but it's a parenting is one of the hardest. honest? What's that? I say let's not smoke your brother in the side of the head. Yeah, let's definitely not do that. Speak up on him. Yeah, yeah. I feel like do you think if your son

and your daughter had switched personalities where your son's a little more rough around the edge, is a little of a gangster, and your daughter's a little more sweeter, do you think he'd be a little easier on your son? Knowing there's got a little shit to him. The thing I'm gathering from you, you think so? Because you're saying earlier, you were saying,

I got to tough him up a little bit. If he's already got that tough side, I feel like, for me, I'd beg him. okay, I'd have to teach some empathy here. Yeah, it'd be a different approach for sure. He's talking back to mom, though. I hope y'all get a chance to meet him at some point because, well, we all think our kids are the coolest thing in the world,

but it's like, man, they both got a lot of their good from their mama, and I've never been so thankful. But it's like, also have, you know, I'm going to have a different relationship with my kids coming up, and it's just something I've kind of kind of run into. I got a song called The Man That Hung the Moon, It's about the fact that one of these days, you know, right now they think I'm the coolest thing on the planet. One of these days they're going to figure out that there's chinks in armor and I don't have a cape.

I'm not a superhero and I've made mistakes. And for me, it's going to come sooner than for most dads. As soon as they're old enough to read, you know, they're going to be hearing stories, reading stories and... Watching a busing with the boys. Yeah, and they're going to be like, Dad, what's rehab? Yeah. Yeah. But as opposed to being, you know, scared of that or...

I'm not saying I'm looking forward to it, but it's kind of going to give me an option or an opportunity more to just get real with them and kind of let them know what's ahead of them. A lot of that stuff's genetic. Yeah. It's like, hey, if you know it early age, I don't want to hide anything from them. I don't want to find it out from other people that, you know, daddy had some issues or daddy ran with a rough crowd or daddy got in trouble with the police or whatever.

Like, I plan on being extremely real with them. Just, you know, feel like a home net. When they get to school, too, because other kids' parents are going to know who you are. And they're going to say something like I was at a function with my daughter at her school. And other kids were coming up to me like, my daddy told me about you. My daddy said this about you. And I was like, oh, fuck. I hope most of it's good.

Yeah. Because you don't really know. Like, they're going to start other kids are going to take their parents' opinions about you and then press it on your kids, which is like a, it's a unique thing. you're going to have to navigate that everybody has to do. Absolutely. It'll be, it'll be interesting. I got stuff out there that my kids are going to see someday that I'm going to have to, I'm looking forward to explaining to them because it's like,

then you get an opportunity to, you know, lay it all down. And I'm a person that, if I just live where I have no skeletons in the closet, then I'm solid. The minute I got a secret, I start to get anxiety. I start to feel like a certain way. That's why I have to live. I have to, you know, if I do something, I'm like, this is, I did this. And I'm on that tip now, and I'm new to it.

Yeah. But it's like, mine for me as much as anything was like, you know, for a long time, like rehab addiction, trouble, any of that stuff, it's kind of taboo to talk about. Hide it from everybody. Like with me, I've been to the point where I've just been out and open about everything, you know, but really living and making conscious decisions based on, man, do I want to worry about that coming to bite me in the back? You know, do I really have the time in my day to lose sleep over shit?

And the answer is no. Time's the most valuable thing in my life. If I'm taking time away from my kids and my wife, because I'm, you know, I've got something taking my brain over that has anything to do with conviction or guilt that I'm fucking up. Right. I'll tell everybody, my nose was a vacuum in college. Yeah.

He's a sniff up there near everything. Yeah, we were out there, brother. And it used to be, obviously, when you're in the middle of, you're like, no one can know about this. And now, like, I think in my head. like, what if somebody comes down and says, I was playing my second year, we were playing Detroit in Detroit.

And some guy in the back, I was like sitting on the bench. Some dude was yelling, Taylor, we used to do coke together in the dorms. I'm kind of sitting there. My coach was like, what's that about?

Like, he's drunk. He doesn't know. That guy's a liar. He's a fucking liar. When you're sitting there on the side, listen to some of your old friends tell stories. Yeah, we were in Vegas, what, in January? Yeah.

Some of my boys are telling the stories. I don't even remember. And they're like, Taylor made me do this. And then we went and, did that. I'm like, holy fuck. Yeah. Not the worst, dude. It is. But then you, like, as long as, like, you've tried to be better

since then, and you're like, I'm better. Like, you in your head, you can, like, go look yourself in the mirror, be like, buddy, you've been doing a lot of work, a lot of reading. You've been doing a lot of good stuff, man. You should be proud of where you came from. You should be proud of all that. You should be proud of all that. You got to get in front of everything, brother. That stuff is the shit that keeps my ass up.

And I think ultimately when that stuff does come up, it's, I think there's a lot of, there's a lot of positive to it because, I mean, you're Brantley Gilbert. You've been at the top of the mountain. You've been at the top of the mountain and then had to admit that you had a problem and then going to rehab. And that's just like being human. Everybody has like false and shortcomings. And you're open and talking about it. And somebody who's been as high as you have to see that this dude struggles with a lot of things that everybody struggles with. And you'll get to tell them about that. And like, yeah, I'm sure it'll be

uncomfortable. But at the same time, like, you know, dad doesn't, it's going to be a lot of stress off your shoulders when they do realize we don't have capes. And it's like, hey, Yeah, your dad went through this and did this. This is why I teach you and why I tell you to, you know, try to avoid certain situations because we've all, like as parents always try to do, like our parents did with us, like try to tell them about situations that they went through. But it's usually one of the other. But when you see it in it's public, especially when you're a figure, it's going to be like,

I think a lot of positive will come from that. Like, yeah, I'm sure it'll suck. Like when kids are telling them at school about what their parents did and shit like that, but, you know, you've grown through a lot of things. and I think there will be a lot of good stuff that comes from that. It also gives them an opportunity. I think if we're that honest with them, right? Kind of encourages them to...

Yeah. ...got to return to favor and be honest with us. I don't ever want my kids to feel like they're dealing with something that they can't talk to me about. God, that would suck. You know what I mean? That's one of my biggest fears as a dad. It's like having a relationship with my son

where he feels like, him, I'm dealing with something, but, man, I can't talk to my dad about it, as he won't... You know what I mean? Like, I want to be the opposite. Yeah. Right. That's going to kill me if he knows it about this.

Right. The whole day trying to figure out a way to lie about it. Yeah, yeah. Your daddy holds you accountable, but I ain't never go, you know, take it overboard with him. And showing that you do talk about it is an example of that, right? So, oh, yeah. Hopefully you do have those conversations do happen,

and your kids feel comfortable because they see that dad gets in front of a microphone and it isn't scared to talk through some of these shortcomings in his life. Absolutely. It would be a good podcast for kids to look back on. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They'll see the bus with the boys interview. There's no question. No doubt in my mind.

Will and I are both in our mid-40s still doing the show. They'll also see the rhyme of performance last week with Jelly Roll where I lit a joint on stage. But it was classic. Dude, I was actually a little bit nervous. So we were in the backstage room and, you know, jelly smokes a lot. I do too. So we lit up. We're backstage and we're talking.

And his manager comes in. And I was like, dude, you know what? Has anybody lit a joint on stage at the rhyming? And he said, I don't know. I know they have back here because we're doing it right now. Yeah. But I don't know if that. So I just told him one out there with me and halfway through the song,

dude, honest God, it was almost just muscle memory. I told it out there with me and lit it up and got the singing what I forgot to do. It was not, I hid it a little harder than I meant to. So it came time for me to sing my part. And I'm like, fell out with me. Yeah. Yeah, it was great. It was fun.

brings it out of people, man. Of all the places you've played is rhyming one of those spots, it's like, fuck, I've made it. Man, I'll tell you, it's like, so my goal in the music business was to sell out to Georgia Theater. I saw Corey Smith do it when I was like 17 and I was on the show. And it was so freaking cool, man, just seeing how proud he was. And it totally rubbed off on me.

I was like, if I can do that. And if I can do music full time and just make ends me, like, how cool would that be? And I did that early on in my. my early 20s and really, man, everything since then's been a really, really cool bonus. But I've never been one of, you know, kind of, one of my biggest regrets of my careers, I never really was very good about stopping smelling roses, right? It's always been head down. I'm worried about what's next, you know.

Cool, this song went number one. All right, what's the next one? How did you do it again? You know what I mean? Cool, this album's out. It's great. Release day was great. on release night or probably actually several months before.

Like I'm always working on the next record. I just did not do a good job of kind of stopping and soaking things in. I'm going to try to do a better job of that later in life. You know, it's invaluable though because if I've got that, if I look back at that and it's something I would have done different to my career, I'm damn sure I'm not going to make that same mistake with my kids. You know what I mean? Make a point to stop and just kind of,

just kind of let the weight of the moments with them sinky in so I don't lose them. A lot of times, man, shit, when I talk about my career now, you mean, he asked me about like when you know you made it venues and she, hell, I don't remember half places I played. Right. I will tell you, the rhyming, there's the sanctity there. It's, that's different. The opery's got a vibe.

But the Georgia Theater's got an incredible vibe for me, you know, because that was, that was the. I mean, you were 17 watching Corey Smith being like, Yeah, this is fucking awesome. Walking out on stage, being like, I did that. Yeah. Well, even that night, I was like, man,

I feel like I had to do something to do with it, maybe, you know? Of course, I didn't. He was freaking on fire then. But also, man, it's like, I'll tell you, Red Rocks in Colorado.

Have you ever been to a show there? You got to do that. That place, man, there's so much history on that stage, but there is like, it's like a sanctuary moment kind of. It's just a different show than you're going to get.

anywhere else on the tour. Like, we'll play this Nickelback tour. It'll be balls to the walls. I'm, you know, we're going to have great nights out on that tour. But, dude, a solid show at Red Rocks in Denver is just hard to be. If you didn't play country music, what genre of music would you play instead? I don't know. I'd be doing music.

Man, I'll be honest with you. This is honest to God truth. I think my stuff ended up country because I'm a country dude. I don't really write songs about a lot of stuff I don't understand or hadn't lived. So all my stuff wound up being country But I listen to a little bit of everything I mean when this Jelly Roll and I are working on an album together right now

And when it comes out you'll get to see a little bit of that You know we change hats a little bit But my records early on You know they've shifted to More just straight directed at country For a little while We've always had a little heavier rock element at most But in the next few records man

I'm kind of going to go back to doing what I really love doing, and that's what that's, that's letting a song be whatever fucking wants to be. You know, if a song wants to be a rock song, I've had a habit, you know, through the years I picked up this thing where we'd have a rock song, it's like, all right, that's cool,

but we need to try to put some instrumentation on it and bend it back towards country, which is cool. You know, it's a decision we made along the way, but now, man, the way people are consuming music is so different. Like, all the rules are out the window. Like, I'm really ready to have fun again. If I'm going to spend time away from my wife and kids,

I might as well be having the most fun I can't. Yeah, man. I mean, that's where I'm at in life. What rules are out the window? Everything, man. So we can say fuck now. It's a big, not on the radio, but for me, it was just more,

more about what songs were saying and how they sounded than anything. I always said if country music itself, if the genre was a box, we always knew where we belonged, and it was right on the outside of it, close enough to touch it. But we've always been outside of the box, and I love living there. But now it's like, you know, I've always been a fan of huge records, right? Like long records, there's a bunch of songs on them that are themed, tell a story. Every one of my albums up to this point has been a chapter of my life.

You could literally listen to my stuff from the beginning to end and have a really, really good idea of who I am and what I've been through. And I've always liked that about my career in the way we chose to do things. But it's now, you know, it's hard to get somebody to listen through a fool. Unless somebody's a die-hard fan of years, they're listening to the songs with stars beside them and bouncing. Right. You know what I mean? So now it's kind of like it's turned into it to me.

I'm going to try a couple of these next records. I'm almost like, man, we all remember burning CDs, right? Yeah. where you had a 90s country song right next to Tupac, you know, right next to whatever. It was just a little bit of everything. I enjoy listening to a little bit of everything, but I'm a country dude. So the way something sounds may be a little different, but what it's about will probably be pretty consistent. Yeah.

But, man, I just kind of want to let songs be songs. I want to get in writing rooms with guys that are insanely talented, the best in the world at what they do, and just see what the room's got to offer. You know what I mean? See what everybody's bringing to the table instead of going, ah, It's a little too country. That's a little too rap. That's a little too rock.

Fuck, all that. Let's write it. They won't write something else. Dude, I miss burning CDs. That's, like, one of the most fun things to fucking do. Sharpie out. You felt like you had that shit, too. Like, when you, like, name your little thing, it's.

When your voice sees, like, when he's flipping through the. Bangers. Bangers. You got some bangers. Bangers. Oh, yeah, bangers one, two, and three, which one you want. Right. Or when you, when that first friend who could burn CDs and you're thinking, like, burn CDs,

you're talking, you're talking, you're talking. You can put all these different songs on there. Like, hey, could you burn me a CD? Right. You write you a list of the songs you want. They have it the next day. You have that big fucking stack of like just CDs put in it. Yeah.

Better. Dude. We had a dude at the flea market. This dude still around. His name was Chunky. He sold like burn CDs. But we're selling them. Yeah.

They came down on him pretty hard, I think. That ain't in the grass Georgia one time. But he's, dude, he's such a good dude. But yeah, that was the greatest, man. I remember my wife still had a burnt CD I made for her after during one of our breakups back in the day. With the breakup burn. Yeah, dude.

Get them back. Get them back, 2017 or whatever. Straight up nickel back saws on there, some Brian McKnight. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Boys to Me and all the things. All those. You knew, and you gave that to her.

You're like, when she listens to this, she's coming back. Yeah. You know, she has to listen to it. It's a rule. Yeah. You know what I mean? There's no way she's not listening. She's not getting to her.

first day, maybe in the first week. Yeah. But she'll be in the, she'll be in a 30-minute car ride and be like, looking at it. Let me pop this thing. You'll be like in-paciently. You're going to call 15 minutes later. Yeah, impatiently waiting for- Yeah.

Oh, she was going to call me after that one. No. We went five or six years without speaking each other at that time. Five or six years? Yeah. Yeah, we both went her separate ways. We were about five or six on and all. She was young when I met her.

I was working on some community service hours at a church around my hometown, and that's the church her family went to. and I met her there, and I think she was like 16. I was like 18 or something or 19. So we talked on the phone for a long time. And then when she turned 18, and her parents weren't going to let her have anything to do with me. We tried to do the talking thing, the dating thing,

and it was on and off for a long time. But what it came down to me was I was doing some things and hanging around with some folks that she wasn't cool with for good reason. and I'll never forget, dude, I pulled back in her driveway one night to drop her off. This was the night. And, you know, we both knew we'd come to a point. I'd got into some things with some dudes that I didn't want her around. I needed to kind of distance myself.

It goes back to the motorcycle guys. The motorcycle club. Yeah, this wasn't like these weren't like a one-percenter club or not. Yeah, these were. Those angels. Not those guys. No, this was just a group of dudes that I read. ran with around my town.

And not all of them were bikers. It was just, but there was some weird stuff going on. I didn't want her being a part of that. She didn't want, she wasn't going to be a part of it. And I remember her saying, like, we had named Breeland, like, our daughter's name. I knew I wanted to marry this woman, like, early, early on. But she, she said that night, you know, I told her, I said, I, you know, got some things going on that that aren't awesome.

And she was like, well, I need, I've been meaning to talk to you anyway. She said, look, I love you. And, you know, but yada, yada. But she said, it scares me, you know, to talk about having kids and having a life, like a forever with somebody that rides around with a truck full of guns and, you know, two-fits of liquor in the console and pills. And it was like, you know what? And I, there is no argument for that.

you know what I mean? I remember dropping her off and I never would drink around her when I had her. When I dropped her off the house by the end of the time I got to end her driveway, number one, I was shaking like a dog by the time I dropped her off. By the time I got to end her driveway, I had a quarter gone out of a bottle. You know, I drank all the way home. So it was just, man, I was in a terrible place in life. We went five or six years without speaking.

We both went on her separate ways. And then my cousin, who was the youth pastor at that church, called me on June 16th of 2014 and said, man, I got somebody over here that, wouldn't mind talking to you. I hadn't talked to you in a while. I heard you were sober, this, that, another, and wouldn't mind seeing any.

I was supposed to be in L.A. for a week. And I told him, I was like, dude, you know what? My schedule's wide open this week. I'll be over there tomorrow. I know exactly who he was talking about. And I remember sitting in a driveway being like, all right, sober for life, no matter what,

or not sober for life, Jesus. Single for life. Yeah. matter what. Because really, dude, like I was talking about earlier, I was getting ride motorcycles every day, going wherever the hell I wanted to, doing whatever the hell I wanted to.

I was happy, you know, but I did want to see her. But I remember thinking, single for life, single for life, single for life. She walked around the corner and I was like, fuck. All that shit went out to window.

Yeah. It was, I knew then. Like, I absolutely knew then. We were engaged. We got engaged. We were married a year later. No shit. We got married June 28, 2015.

That's awesome. Tell you what, the one part of that story, your girl comes home. She's in high school. She's like, Daddy, I met this boy. He's 18. Yeah, and tough. You're already behind the eight ball, man. I have nightmares.

I was 18. She was 16, 17. I was like, oh, no. Oh, brother. Yeah. Yeah. Because you remember those girls in high school. Oh, yeah.

That would, that, we're all 14 to 15. And they're going with the kids that can drive. Yeah. Hold on, man. Your eyes keeps going down. I watch chasing him. He said, yeah. He was 12.

And, uh, no. Wait, what? What the fuck? I just turned into a... I'll tell you what, man. You got close. You got closer. You're telling the damn story.

It was almost the worst crime you did. No. I thought it was, hey. But you, as a dad, I got two girls. I'm terrified for that. It's probably one of the scariest things on the place. Just dating in general. Yeah.

I'm just not excited for it. I hope I could be cool about it. You know what my biker dad said something pretty cool. This might make you feel better. Like your dad, biological? No. Okay. Not far from.

Okay. He does have a sick beard, though. So I guess I kind of wish I'd have got that. Hey, brother, don't sleep on your beard now. Yeah, you got a beard. You see this over here? It's coming. Good have that.

But, dude, it's coming. Like, you just think, you don't got to do this. I got the little, okay. I know, I get it. All right. Well, if you would just let it go, it go. Yeah, no, no, it doesn't do that. No, I'm a mustache guy.

Okay. That's who I am. See, my mustache grows weird. When I just try to do a mustache by itself, it's super weird. My dad always had a mustache. Yeah, if I think if you had a mustache, you'd have a big 19-year-old dating a 15-year-old vibe. You know, you think about that. She got younger and I got older.

You're right. That's my dad. Everybody's picking this up, right? Yeah. He keeps getting younger. I keep getting older. Yeah, that's my bad. Yeah, fuck, man.

But your bike are dad. Yeah, so he tells me he should love me. So I was telling him, I was like, dude, I don't know what I'm going to do. Like, the first dude that shows up. up at our house, walks, talks, acts, anything like me, like, I'm going to stab the fuck out of him as many times as I can until the cops pull me off. And he's like, okay, that's a little much, but he said, here's the deal. We did hear what he told you. He said, listen to me, listen. Here's the deal. Girls that have good relationships with her daddies, usually ain't the ones we got to

go pull off the pole, which made sense to me. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's like, dude, I mean, I'm going to try to have the best. relationship I can with my daughter, right? I don't want her looking for things she should be getting for me from other folks. You know what I mean? Having the daddy issues. Right, right. We don't want that, right?

But I think at the end of the day, ma'am, if we raise our daughters to the best of our ability, right, I think they're going to be young and they're going to make mistakes, right? But that's what's going to turn them into the women they're going to be, that we're going to be so proud of. I don't look forward to them making mistakes and having to deal with that. But at the same time, I have faith in my daughter already as a three-year-old.

By then, we're going to have her coached up. And if old boy pulls some shit, I'm not teaching my daughter to remove herself from a situation. I'm teaching her to shoot that son of a bitch as many times as you can and then remove yourself from the situation. Oh, my God. I'll probably have to edit that. Sorry, Aaron.

Are you having a heart attack back there? I woke up really honest this morning. I did. I woke up honest. 15, 16 years from now, your daughter's going to bring up a boy. His name's going to be William Earl Compton, the 4th. He'll be a good young man.

He'll be a good young man. But when you find out who the dad is, you're like, fuck, right, brother. I'm like, hey, brother, put this on when you go over there. They'll love it. They'll love it. Oh, no. So the other thing is,

is. I mean, I do have a couple of plans, though, because if he's a douchebag, like, I think maybe I'll just line our entire driveway with bikers and make him drive past every one of them. Bad boys type stuff. Yeah, and then just some good intimidation. Just meet him out there, be like, what kind of bikers? The good ones. The good ones? The most scary ones. Yeah.

Just they're all nice men. They're great people for the most part. Yeah. But lying the whole driveway with bikers, right? Yeah. Having drive past every one of them. And then we'll circle him. in the driveway and walk out and meet him

and be like, look, man, I ain't going to clean a gun in front of you. You know I got them. Just know that anything you do to her, every one of us is going to do to you. And there's some of these boys that's been upstate that they got some practice. Hey, the best part about that,

you don't have to deliver that message. You have, you know, you have one of your boys deliver that message and you get to come out, hey, how you doing? Yeah. Eric, how you doing, man? That's even better. Yeah.

You get to be like the good energy, and he's just thinking, oh, my, these dudes right here. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure you. Too bad, didn't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

They're nice guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be funny, dude. Right? You got to get that recorded.

Yeah, you got to get that recorded. You'll have the camera. Yeah. Make sure you dial that in. Brian goes lots of places with me. You've got some pretty weird shit on camera. I'm feel safe to say. A lot of editing.

Do you get intimidated? In the beginning, did you get intimidated? The night you were. with the Walmart. Hold on. Say that again? Yeah, yeah. So we were going to do a music video for one of his songs.

And I love that you're using Walmart. Yeah. Well, and so we're like... We don't have a target. Yeah, I come up with the idea that is like, hey, you know, we should do the music video with you standing in front of a projection screen. And we were like, yeah, that sounds great, but we didn't have the projection screen. So at like 11 o'clock at night, we decided we were going to go to Walmart and buy some

sheets, white sheets that throw up. my hair is bald at this point. I had a bald head. So we walk into this Walmart and then sometimes people don't recognize them, but this night they were on them. And we go and get like 20 stacks of white sheets. And we're walking through Walmart and people are coming up asking for pictures. And we're just like, this does not look right.

I don't know social media. Like that did literally look like we were about to sponsor Clan Rally. Yeah. God. It was tough. He said I didn't have my hair. It was on. Yeah.

Babe, if someone was posted about it. Oh, no, no, no. We ended up doing the music video. It was just, we just laughed about it because it's like all the nights that everyone in Walmart wanted to come up to you, we're carrying 20 white sheets. Yeah. Oh, my God. Not a good look. He's been a pretty interesting situation.

We were at Taco Bell one night, and it was late. And it was our little part of town, it's not like it's, you know, a super high crime or anything. they do have the M word over where we're from. I mean, if you go to the Dollar General, they'll give you a six pack of Coke and like a bag of meth half off. So when it gets late, you kind of just... Half at a dollar general. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That's a good bag. Hell of a deal. Hell of a deal. Yeah. So we're sitting in and I carry a gun most places. I got asked to leave the Opera Mills Mall yesterday for having my gun with me. The dog got me.

Really? Yeah, you know, they walk around with a dog in there? I honestly didn't think anything about it. Like I told most of the places I go. But this, we noticed that the dog flipped around in the middle of the aisle and kind of followed us down a little ways. And I was like, shit. I had to get my wife's sunglasses.

So we were in the sunglasses. When we came out, he had the cop with the dog that standing over here looking at. That's real weird. And a little security guard, bless her heart, she was sweet as she could be. And she was shook. Like, she was shaking. She went up to us. She said, um, guys, we're running a little program at the mom.

where the dog is he's alerted to you guys would any of you happen to have a firearm i said yes ma'am i have mine and uh she said okay well we have a policy against that i'm so sorry but we're going to have to actually leave i said i totally understand will you please more than the direction of the first exit and i will be the hell out of here and uh yes it was kind of uneventful we thought it was going to get interested for a minute but one night at taco bell we're in a drive-thru pitch dark all lights are out there the only place open There shouldn't have been anybody there. Out of nowhere, a dude comes up.

And the first time I see him, he's in my mirror, but he is literally over my left shoulder. I'm going to drive her side seats. I reached down and I have this little thing in my truck that have y'all seen the magnets where your pistol will go in it? And it just sits in the slide and you push it forward and it racks it. I think I might have seen it. I'm picturing it.

Yeah, yeah. They're awesome. We've put it together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're awesome. I caught the dude last minute, and it was like, like that. He was like, whoa, blah. And Brian was like, dude, you did that so fast.

It's like, you've been training for this. You've been waiting for this moment. Zero to 60 in a second, dude. What do you want? Real quick. A picture. Yeah, he was like, he literally said, do you do this to all your fans? Like, do you walk up to people's door at a dark?

My fans don't run up on me. Yeah, there you go. There they are. Right there. Yeah. Things are genius. But yeah, most of my fans will sneak up on me at two in the morning. He saw you, man.

He had to get that. What you worried about? What you worried about? Hey, dude. You know, from a long-ass way away, why are you going to sneak up on it? Oh, yeah. So the inside of the Taco Bell was, like, closing. So the parking lot was pitch black.

Like, the only thing you could see is the light coming off the menu in the drive-through. And that's why it was like, whoa, like, what's going on here? So there was just some reason for it. Oh, yeah. Random. And the hour of night, too, because you... Two in a moment. You were shady.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like... You just trying to get some Taco Bell, some late night. Gee Bell. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the only time to you get it.

Yeah. Come ball, bro. $5? $5. They don't see. They don't see. Hell yeah. First time Taco Bell's putting a crunch wrap in the $5 box.

Bro. Have y'all tried that grill cheese burrito they got? No. Son. Would you put a Taco Bell, the number one on your list is fast? Fast food places? Probably.

Yeah, probably. Talk about your favorite? Yeah. That's a good one. Strong. We've done that tier talk before. We could always revisit it. Yeah, but that was without you.

Wasn't that with George? And then I had the next episode, I started, I said mine. Yeah. We may have never done late night fast food. Late night fast food drive fast food would be a good tier talk. Yeah, let's hit that. Let's hit that. So tier talk is.

We're going to hit it now. Yeah. Would you like to? Yeah, I'm down. Do you have anything else? No, no. thought it'd be a good pivot. Yeah, it's a great pivot.

Introduce them to our segments. You're doing our segments with us. Usually we just do them by ourselves and the guests is just usually interview, but we want to include you in our segments. Oh, yeah, come on. So, tier talk is you're going to rate the category is going to be late night fast food. So you're going to do your third favorite, second favorite, and your first favorite, tier three, tier two, tier one. And you're allowed to have an honorable mention. So we'll take a couple minutes.

We're going to take a couple of minutes and we're going to think about it. It's late night. Oh, good to go. Yeah, this is, you're good to go. I know Will was ready. I've been traveling for 20 years. Me, I got two, but I got to make sure, like, I cover my bases, man. Yeah, we've been on a tour bus for 20 years, but I've been on a road for 20 years.

I know exactly what truck stops have. We've lived on truck stop food. Hey, also, I didn't tell you this past week. I made it to what, Bucky's. I made it to Buckees. You made it to Buckees? I drove to Atlanta in one day. The company, an apology after she's hitting on Buckees,

and now he's claiming it's the greatest gas station in the world. I've never seen anything like this before. Did I say greatest gas station in the world? In your video, you did. You're not wrong. No, no, we... No, the caption was world-class. Oh, okay, maybe...

World-class gas station. That's high praise when you wouldn't... I hadn't been to a Buckees. I know. Look, there's no... I love it that you're there, because it is, it's a spectacle. It's a place where even if you're... You don't need gas or food, you stop regardless, just to walk around.

Yeah, my wife took the kids in there literally just to take them in there. Exactly. Get a picture with the mascot, the statue sitting outside. Is there a mascot? Yeah. There's a mascot that comes every now and then. I'm thinking I should probably go. You never been? I think we passed through it, but that's probably when I was drinking.

There's a good chance I probably tried to fight the mascot. Why? A lot of people. I'm talking hundreds of cars. They have like, what, 100 gas pumps? They got a beef jerky stand, though. They got... The hardest thing from a controlled environment.

Yeah, I'll pass. I'll tell you what, it's clean, though. Yeah, I'll pass. Would you say it's like it's Disneyland for lower... Lower to middle class people? It's, yeah, it's a Disney land for low to middle class people. Huh. It's out there.

That's... Oh, I found it. Legit. I mean, people will go in there and get their food and then stand out in the parking lot and tailgate and eat. The fuck is that? You're yelling in the kitchen. That's a... Yeah.

It's a spectacle now. It's massive. Wawa. I think that's northeast. Oh, it's like... What about the coming goes? Have y'all see those? Yeah.

Why the spelling? Yeah, I don't know. How they spell it? Like, K-U-M. But why? You know what I mean? Somebody's dirty. It's fucked.

It's like the Disney movie. Everybody's dirty. And there's all kind of sex stuff in it. In the Little Mermaid Castle of Dick, somebody told me that. Oh, yeah, when they go down the, yeah, the conspiracy theories on the, on the Disney movies. Right. Yeah, that'll keep you up on that. That'll keep you up for a while.

It's terrifying. Hey, sweetheart, do you see this? Our pastor of our church is on vacation with his wife in Disney World right now, and I'm significantly worried about them. No longer a member. Are you a Star Wars fan? You pulled your card? Are you a Star Wars fan? Bro, so I've actually received.

a generous amount of hate over this recently, but I was, I feel like, tell me if I'm wrong, but were they like either Rambo and Rocky Kids and then Star Wars kids? No, brother. I'm all the above. I was a Rambo Rocky kid. I never watched the Star Wars movie.

You never seen one? But my son loves it, so I'm thinking I may need to watch them. Worth your time. I haven't seen them all as religiously as he has, but I have seen a few. They're solid. My mom was big Star Wars. My dad was big Rambo,

Rocky. I got you. I'm talking, son, this is the bad guy. This was Rocky 4. That was my first movie. Oh, dude. Young Buck. This is the bad guy right there.

This was Rocky 4? That's the Russian. Yeah. That's probably the best one, huh? Probably the best one. You need a glove for today. It's the most popular. It's the most popular one.

No. See, I'm left-hand. I got her to get a glove. Good, good deal. I brought 34 extras. Let's go. I don't know about you. I'm actually excited about

Oh, I can't wait. It's a great deal. time. I'm just figuring out if I want to go baseball pants or shorts because I'm sliding if I have to. Oh, I'm going shorts. Just fucking let it eat, dude. All right.

You said it. You said it. You said it. When they call strawberries and you don't go yard a few times, you look dumb as fuck. That might be my move then. That might have to be my move. Do people really wear baseball pants? I think it would be hilarious if we were all in real uniform.

Okay. Next year we need to like do the real deal. Show up and like being involved in the uniform and everything and show up. up looking like we know what number they give you i don't know we'll find out we'll find out i don't know what number y'all are well i'll probably he'll probably be 51 i'll probably be 77 you'd i have no clue did they even ask numbers i don't think they don't know didn't you submit you submitted taylor for 707 7 or 69 um yeah i don't know your numbers are all it was was was 14 songs like double zero man yeah yeah yeah well zero is hard always like double zero you uh you strike

me as the guy that wears the number x from like um Longest yarn. Yeah. That could be you for sure. He's trying to miss the guy. The helmet. Who's the guy that has a helmet with a cigarette in? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joey Diaz, I think. Is there? No. Not him. No. No, Deas is in that movie. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

You're talking about, like, the Hispanic Chuck Ladell. Yeah. Hispanic Chuck Lidel. Wow, man. That is the best way to say. That is who it is. Yeah, I think we can all put that. All right.

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Plus free shipping included on purchases over $100. Back to the episode. Fear talks. William, would you want to start? You want me to go. You go. I'll go. My

my honorable mention, and this is a shout, a callback back to my Nebraska days when we would be drunk and hit the late night Dailyones, a taco spot that straight gasoline, dude. I'm talking you'll be a foster for the next couple days,

but it is worth it. It's a good time, and it's a great memory with the boys. My tier three is going to be Hardee's. I think pulling up the Hardee's late night, growing up in Bontara, Hardys was a move growing up in Bonterre. growing up in Bontair, Missouri.

My tier two, and this was tough, because I feel like my tier one and two, they're not far off. But my tier two is Taco Bell. Come on. Taco Bell, it's, Taco Bell is one of the best fast food places, period. But you get that late night Taco Bell. I'm talking the, it's a, the menu, you can pick whatever you want, dude. I recently, I got the $5 box because I was inspired by JP's tweet on the $5 box and what was in it. But a $5 box with a Pepsi goes a long way at Taco Bell.

Isn't out in the Baja Blast? I'm a Pepsi guy at Taco Bell. It's not my time. It's not my time. The Baja Blast is nice. But I think Taco Bell's Pepsi is second to none. Up there with the McDonald's Coke. Now, my tier one is going to be none other than,

and I visited this spot frequently with the boys back in the day. But Jack in the Box. Come on. The 99 cent tacos, you just can't beat Jack in the box, dude. That is my tier one, and I'm very proud of that tier list. Let me, so now we say one word to describe how we feel about his. I'll go first. Okay.

Perfect. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you, man. Yeah. JP, what do you got? Or Garrett clockwise. Goge.

Just in the middle. Let's, let's button this up. Tasty. Solid. Sensational. Extremely solid. Pretty solid. He said pretty solid.

Everybody used solid. Yeah. Solid's been used. I'm going to go fucking. Let's fucking go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Damn. I don't even need to do mine. Is that it? I swear to God, that was it. Three, two, one, in that order. Wow. I'll give my honorable mention because it was different.

I didn't have what he had. My honorable mention will go to Wingstop. I think Wingstop's incredible. Is Wingstop open late night? Then they're open to midnight, yeah? I can change that up right now. I have to give out my honorable mention.

My honorable mention is going to go to Big Ten Burrito. Okay. And I Aber Michigan open until 3 a.m. Their cassidias, they give you a cup of queso. That's about that fucking big right there. The cassidia, that's half the size. Yeah. And it's, like you said, a faucet.

But 3, 2, 1. Exactly. It was Carl's Jr. instead of parties. Yeah. How about that? I'm shocked you didn't have a, was it Skips or not a one in Michigan. Oh.

Skeeps? No, not Skeeps. The place that we always go is. Spots. Mr. Spots. Spots is an open late. But right next to Spots is Big Ten Burrito. Right next to Spots.

Okay. But Spots would be. So Spots is the pregame. Mr. Burrito's the late. That's a hell of a day, brother. Yeah. You either backed up for a minute or you got used to from a leak halfway through the night. There ain't no fans are butts between those two.

Yeah. All right, what you got? Bro, all right, so I'm going to have to say, for my honorable mention, we'll go with Denny's. Denny's? Most of mine are like truck stop shit. Go ahead. You go off.

You go off. We're not allowed to see nothing right now. Three. I'm going to have to go with the truck. Stop McDonald's. Because this guy, well, actually, that's... I love how you're just getting a thicker accent as you talk about this. Yeah.

Windy's pretty solid. We get into them at the, you know, dipped the frost in the fries, so that'll take number three, number two. I love how you do that, too. McDonald's, just on the count of this, got some real good shit in it. And I don't know what any of it is.

It'll probably kill you, but it's good. So you got three is Wendy's, two is McDonald's? Yeah. All right. The motherfucking Waffle House. Oh, Taco Bell didn't make it. Oh, shit. Oh, hold on.

Oh, yeah. Hey. The Count. Stop the count. Stop the count. We're going to have to go Danny's Taco Bell Waffle House. Those are, that, yeah. Can we go first? Yeah, go ahead. Jefferson, Georgia. He put the fist on.

All-Star. Veteran. Oh, you're not. You're fucking stuffed. Stuffed. Veteran, literally. What's your? Delicious.

Delicious. Grand, grand slam. Damn, damn. I was wondering. What you? Say it again. Say to you. smoke today.

Hey, was you out, Will? Grand Slam. Oh. Hey, that was elite. I like that. Hey, I'm sick, bro. Bro, you can.

That was, you're playing baseball. Those are singles and doubles every single time. Like, you played a good game right there. He had the cycle. He had the cycle. That wall of a house.

I knew we were in for it when you said Denny's. I was like, oh, man, he's hitting the map. We didn't even think about. Huddle House? Oh, yeah.

What's Huddle House? Huddle House is basically like, Waffle house I never had a Waffle House And also steak and shake Oh yes Pretty like 40 meals under four dollars Damn

Frisco milk dude Yeah Woffice house was I know Cookout's got a lot of flavors The milkshakes still I'll give them that Yeah bro

I don't know It's entertaining as shit I wish I could go back man I know I know Well Well done man What you say

I know it was fucking hilarious. I don't know if you're saying. Just the look at his face. He was like, can't, man. He's like, he can't. Sucks, man.

Well, since we got you, so we hit pet peeve? And shout out, no free shout out. And shout out. No free shout out. So this is a, this will do one.

It's going to be a complete 180. Pet peeve of the week is just something small that pisses you off. Like, why are we doing this? Yeah. And then Shadow, no free shout out is a positive that probably is overlooked.

Like the main one you probably think of is wake up in the morning first sip of coffee. That's a shoutout, no free shoutout. Pet peeve is when people don't turn left on a yellow light. That type of thing. Yeah. Sacrvate.

What's that? I'm so bad at road rage. It's like a thing. Brother, you fucking pulled a gun on somebody I talk about it. It's like you. It was dark. It was a joke. It was dark.

I get it. Yeah. I get it. Stay safe. Stay safe. Pain. Crazy world we live in right now. Paintball gun.

You want to do pet peeve? You want me your first this time? Sure, yeah, yeah. All right. So my pet peeve of the week actually came to me yesterday. I got on a last-minute flight from Vegas to here. And I was in B-14 on Southwest. I was graced with a window spot.

However, it wasn't in the aisle. It wasn't in the front. It was a regular general pop seat. If you sit in a general pop seat and you don't have right behind you the exit row, under no circumstance should you ever lean your chair back. And if you're going to... Hold on. And if you're going to lean your chair back,

have some fucking awareness. You see this giraffe of a human being moving out of the exit row fucking thing out of the way because I'm so goddamn tall. And I literally said to a guy too. I said, hey, brother, this is tough, but I'm going to have to sit right next to you. I admit it known.

Like three rows. We all had a giggle about it because I got to be the guy that's going to sit next to this guy ruin his fucking day because he's got a three-hour flight going with me. We're bumping shoulders the whole time. Five minutes in to fucking take off a ginger.

Oh, no. Oh, wow. Pop that seat back on me. And brother, he hit me with the, got both my knees at one time. And you know the knee, I got shaky knees. I had to eat that shit the whole flight like that. To her both. Like this.

Watching the breakup with Vince Vaughn like this. That was not nice. I mean, you set it up. So my pet peeve for the week is reclining that seat when, and not having awareness. Disagree. Hey, go ahead. Why? I disagree, man.

Like I. Will is, you have the worst etiquette on a plane. How is that? Because I was loud when I was talking? We were on a flight. Loud when he talks. We take off and Will goes across the aisle. He's in the aisle seat.

Looks over the guy. Excuse me, sir, can you roll down to your window? That's his property for the next flight. And he asked the guy and the guy kind of looks at him and goes, okay. And Will looks back at me. He's like, would you say the guy always say, always get your fries? Yeah, always get your fries. He fuck him.

He looks at me like I'm going to support him in that choice of my brother. That is not your jurisdiction to tell somebody. Early morning flight. You let that son bink you in the face. That is not your jurisdiction. No, no, no, no. You hit your window, and if you want to let him know, you close it hard. So he knows.

When that thing, binks, he's like, he's by eye-pot. He closed my motherfucker, too. It wasn't like it, like a, like, it was like, hey, sir, could you put that window back down, man? Oh, yeah, he did roll it up first. He put it up. He pulled it up, and we'll hit him with the, do you mind putting that down? I was like, hey, man, you mind putting that down? Like, you know.

That's the etiquette we're talking about. He's straight up did it, right? He put it back down. Oh, yeah, he bent the knee, but I'm still out. I was being, like, you know, I was using my manners. He was polite about it, but even the ask. Yeah, I was polite about it. I was like, hey, sir, you can't put that window back down and then sit back and like,

yeah, I get your fries, man. I do, dude, when it comes to laying a seat back on a plane, like, I'm not shooting you. I'm not trying to fly nowhere. I'm, like, snakes, sharks, commitment, and flying. Yeah? Or like my four. Oh, you don't get on the-chair flying? You don't get on the plane?

I don't really dig it, huh? You don't get on the plane? I don't, I don't, dude, so our last tour ended in California and I rode that bus from California to Georgia. No shit. Now, when I have to fly, like I have a two-week rule, right? So while we're out on this knick-and-back tour, there's several times where I don't go two weeks without seeing my wife and kids.

Wherever I'm at, but two-week mark hits, I find the next off-day, next part of the schedule and I fly home. And I'll charter a jet usually just sun get there and back. But my goal would I get on that plane? is to manually shut down, meaning I'm going to hit my damn ambient. I'm going to smoke me a hooter before I get on it, and I made a gummy too, and I'm going to try to pass my ass out for the entire. You tell the pilot, hey, don't take off until you see me asleep.

He already knows. Yeah. You let him know when he signed the paper. Oh, absolutely, because I'm out there hammering cigarettes outside of the plane before I get on it. I haven't quit that yet. Put everything out. That's right, dude. You know what I mean?

You got to have all of ice. I told my wife. You see these little boys right here? trust a man that doesn't have at least one vice. If you don't have a vice and you hadn't been to prison, the military or rehab, I just don't trust you. Fair enough. We all have had vices here. I'm not going to disagree.

Jerking off his mind. Go ahead, man. When Chris Long, Chris Long came on the pod, he came on the bus. And we had some, yeah, we had some, yeah, Dr. Pack. We had some vitamins. You scared the fuck out of me. We're going on the road right now, folks. Here's a lighter flick.

Yeah, here, one flick. Can't be in a water in it? Man. What's your pet peeve of the week, Willie? My pet peeve of the week, and I get reminded of it every night, peeing in the middle of the night when I got to wake up and go to the bathroom. And I only got an hour of sleep left or something or less. I'm so pissed off because my mind's already starts,

it already starts running. Like, you know, depending on if you're rocked up and out, you've got to lean, you got to point that thing down. It takes longer because you've got to push it down. and then it cuts off a little bit of the circulation, a little bit of the flow. But peeing in the middle of the night is my pet peeve of the week. It always, it pisses me off a little bit. What?

Pee in the middle of the night? Yeah, I mean, it means you're hydrated for sure. It fucks up your sleep, though. Yeah, I just hate when my sleep gets interrupted. And then I see that I only have like less than an hour of sleep left. I think a lot of it, for me, that pet peeve depends. Because if I have, like, three, four hours of sleep, like, if I have a lot of time in my head, I'm like, damn, I get to sleep that much longer. Like I somehow make a pause.

You're right. That it could be a shoutout. But if it's like 30 minutes, it literally could be a shout out. And it's now going to be my shout out. Yeah. Yeah. So go ahead then. Yeah.

My shout out of the week is when you wake up in the middle of the middle of night to pee and you have like four or five hours left. Early in the morning. Yeah. Early in the morning. But if it's like 1230 or one and you feel like you woke up and you go to check that clock, like you don't check it right away. You're almost ready to tap your phone and you kind of keep your eyes away from it because you're, I don't know, you're playing some weird game with yourself.

You're doing it. And then when you see it's like one in the morning, that does fire you up. Yeah. But when it's about 5.15, you know you got to be up at 6? Yeah. No, fuck that. I'm like, God, can I just go back to sleep and not have to pee? And then you try and then you just, you got to get up and go pee, man.

You're like, you know, when you got several hours of sleep and you're on the bus, you can step right up front and just about half one of these and go lay back down. That's a nice little pivot. Is that your shout out? Yeah. Yeah, that'll be my shout out. That's a shoutout. We got two shoutouts in one pet peeve.

Fuck yeah. Hell yeah. That's two birds and one stone. What you call optimistic? What you got about your pet peeve of the week? Close talkers. That's not a week. That's my whole life.

Close talkers. Close talkers. Hey, brother. How's life? Everything good? You don't get that? Tell us about that. What's the deal?

You too big motherfuckers. A whole lot I can do. But when people feel like, I got to be right here on you. Yeah. Especially when you're like a bar, right? I'm already the dude that don't drink in a bar. So I have a limited amount of time in there before I need to go.

Yeah. You know? Yeah. The only way that would be better if I was yawning. I just want to. Fucking. Got that, that, got it. Yeah, if you're in the bar.

I can't watch this. If you're in the bar sober and you got people come up to you, and even worse, want to have a deep conversation with you. Dude. Will you listen to my demo? I got it with me in my cargo pants pocket. Oh, man, I bet you. Yeah, I bet.

And they're like, in their breasts all fucked up. And it's even worse. It almost gets me like, dude, since I quit drinking and I smoke now, I am more passive than I've ever been in my life. Like, I have a quick temper and not so much anymore. But it almost gets me fight ready. If somebody, like, if you make it known. Like, not verbally so much,

but if you show somebody through body lanes, hey, I'm trying to get my ass away from it. You know, when you go to leaning back or leaning away, and they keep leaning towards you, then I'm mad. Then I'm to the point where it's like, hey, both, like, do you mind getting the fuck up out of my bubble just by an inch or two?

Like, I can smell what you ate. Send the mic, say the mic. Oh, sorry. You mind just getting the fuck out of my bubble just for a few, give me a few. Give me a few inches. I feel like your breath's awful, you know. Plus, if somebody's that close enough to talk to you,

if they wanted to, they could stick you, shoot you, do whatever. You know what I mean? They're just too close. I don't like people getting inside you. Yeah, you got a lot of situations about getting... I like to be conscious. Yeah. You know bullets travel long distances, too.

Like, they don't got to be up next coast to you. Yeah, exactly. I'm sure you're aware, brother. The move you should see is called American Sniper. Oh, I love that. Oh, you've seen it? Yeah. Okay.

Because he shoots people from really far away. What's the dude? Marky Mark? She thinks she's real hot. Bradley Cooper? Bradley Cooper. He is a good-looking cat. Bradley sets the perimeter when he goes places.

Motherfucker. Dude. Wow. He saves money on tour. He doesn't need a security team. He is his own security team. These people are going to be leaving, watch this podcast thinking I'm like a Donesday guy or not.

Are you, you got an underground. You got some cans in a basement. You got cans of beans. Yes. You can put that live on there. All right. You had some dehydrated fruit somewhere. I just bought a farm near my hometown.

And there was a, like basically rumors for years that this gangster had come down from New York and built a farm down there and there were alligators on it. And this, that, and other. We're in northeast Georgia. There are no alligator. Soon after I bought the property, we went out fishing and there was an alligator there. No shit.

Oh, hell. It wasn't rumored that was the property? Oh, yeah. I didn't know it, but I bought the property that we'd heard about all those years. And the previous owner took me down and showed me, this guy built a fort, man. And when I say, I won't go too in depth on this, but there were always rumors that there were tunnels. And there are tunnels on the summer got. No shit.

A bonker and a bunch of tunnels that go off. You found that after you bought it? That's kind of cool. That's a nice little surprise. Yeah. That's awesome. You're going to stock it up, huh? We're going to turn into a school.

No question. A school. Yeah, like a micro school. My wife's building a, like a, it's like a homeschool school. Yeah. Like, they're called pods, right? That's slightly different, but I think similar in ways. It's like, I think the way it works is, this is her thing.

I try not to take anything away from it. But like, parents will say their own school and their kids and they bring them here. And basically, I love it because I know my wife, you know, these kids will be learning about faith. They also be spending a lot of time out on the farm learning how to do stuff outside Catch a fish Like cook stuff They'll learn history

And they'll be protected So I'm excited about it for her man She's like I said she's a rock star So yeah the farm I think is going to turn into Eventually we'll build a house on it And move over right now It's all about deer ducks and fish

Land air ants. Yeah. Y'all don't smoke meat. You got to smoke. I don't want to be selfish. We got a game coming up. You're going to be perfect.

You're going to be like comfortable in the box and everything. Mom's home. Super tasty, right? That is tasty. First time Will and I ever smoked to weed together. What were you asking that came up?

But Talon taught you that. I thought you taught me that. Well, Taylin taught me that. we were talking about, oh no, we were talking about, um, I was kind of like, he was, no, he was asking, he was asking, like, uh, how long to hold it in, like, no, it was like, how do you, he's only done out like a pipe or something like that? He's like, how do you have a joint? And the way my wife, uh, explained it to me is like, you take a hit and you're like,

mom's home, like, as if she was, like, walking through the door, like, she caught you. Yeah. And now, every time we smoke, that's what he does. Yeah. Yeah. That one time I was the first time I ever smoked on the bus. That one time? That was the first time I ever smoked on the bus.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well. Oh, really? Yeah, do my shoutout. Oh, yeah, do your shoutout because we've already done ours. So my shoutout, no free shoutout, goes to the chocolate piece at the bottom of an ice cream drumstick.

Oh, come on, dude. Fucking nailed it well. Hey, you felt good about that one, huh? I did. Yeah. That was money. Because I was, we were at this ice cream spot to where they're putting ice cream in the waffle cone. and I was getting toward the bottom of it

and I was like, man, I wish there's that little chocolate piece. I was still hopeful too. Yeah. I was like, man, I hope there's a chocolate piece down at the bottom of this thing. And there was, I was like, oh, this would be a killer. Shoutout. I'd enough for shout-out. I'd grab my phone, write it in.

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built for that little bit of extra leg room. And I think it's perfectly fine to recline your chair. There are literally articles. Unless, unless somebody like you was behind me and asked me beforehand, hey, if you could not recline your seat, I would greatly appreciate it. I would never. Then I would think about it. Or maybe just out of consideration, like if you see a giraffe behind you, maybe don't do it.

But maybe I'm not looking to see who's behind me. Maybe you're not. You see me walking down the aisles. And you know if you're on Southwest, I always tell, hey, listen, brother, it is what it is. I'm going to sit in that window seat. That's all right. So you never recline your seat? Not if I'm in a regular seat.

No, if I'm in first class or if I'm in the Exero, which I don't even know if the Exero does recline. I've seen you recline plenty of time, you're a liar. Brother, I'm just letting you know. And there are actual articles that came out about how airlines put the most minimum possible amount you can put in. There are that old extra leg room thing. There is none. And you know the little spot under the chairs where your back supposed to go.

I can't even fucking, I can't do that sometimes because the little thing will hit my knees. On a lot of? So I can't put my legs out. There's way more positives than negatives, but when you're writing on a 10 can, 30,000 in the air, that just happens to be one con. Yeah.

It just happens to be what it is. Your knees are lower than the little dashboard. If I'm sitting regular and I open the little dashboard thing, it comes down, it doesn't lay all the way flat. Yeah, yeah, but I'm saying your knees, like, it's under the little dashboard. Like, it might touch the bottom.

It, no. I know what you've, mean? Like, because it's the same way with me. Yeah. People reclining front of me all the time and I'm not Everyone feels a certain way when somebody reclines. I'm not complaining like a little bitch about somebody reclining on the bag. I just said that, it's not like a little bitch and I need you to button that up a little bit, Will? I need you to button that up the cut.

We need a death for social media. We need that. We need that for the going after it in here. I'm going yonder way. Yeah. What do you guys think about the reclining? I'd like to get more opinions in here. Mitch is ready. Have a little enthusiasm. I'm with Taylor. I fucking hate it. And the people that do it in front of you are the worst scumbags of all time.

Oh my God. That is aggressive. They are top-lossed. But because you told my son I'm going to agree with everything you just said. There's nothing worse because I never recline my seat because I just think it's disrespectful. And I'm not going to do that to the person behind me unless it's like a little kid. If it's a little kid, that's the pro. Yes, exactly.

But the people that do it to me, I'm like, what are you doing? You're getting an extra inch of like leaning back. It's not even... You get a little bit more comfort. Because they got... Get yourself a neck pillow. I got some lower lumbar instability. And it helps me recline and take a little bit of pressure off the spine. So take a sweater, roll it up and put it behind your back, Will.

For God's sakes. J.P., what do you got? I think that it should be a rule. You take it, you put it behind your back. And then it helps the lumbar support that Will, for as bad as my knees are, Will's back just as bad. You know what happened? What happened?

So when I flipped... you in the pool. Oh, no. A year ago? Remember that whole next week? I was like, I'm a whole boy here. He's from Missouri.

Missouri, they wrestle out there. Oh, I love Missouri. So I've tried to wrestle will on three separate occasions. All three times I've gotten tossed. He puts that hip on me and tosses my ass out of there. I've been successful. He's going to get his, though. I got to wait until he's not paying attention.

Because my boy is quick twitch. I'll be honest. And he'll get low on you quick and kind of get under the armpits a little bit. He does a good job. You can tell he's trained. You can tell he's trained. Gotcha. I'll give him his flowers. Flower ear. We got to get you something. I got a little bit on the left. Oh, yes, you do, sir. Oh, he means fucking business. There you have it.

No, it's not bad at all. Like, Codys are fucking swollen to where you can barely see the hole. This one right here, I got, I got some guy in college. Swalled up. I was terrified. I was going to. You cut him? Like, cut. Like, a cut is when, like, you go high to low and take out their knees. Yeah, I got you. See, this is where we speak different language. It's all right, brother. What did you say? Did you say you're with it or not?

Oh, the planes? Yeah. What the hell did you say? Hey, he's hostile right now, huh? Want me a little bitch? What did you say, JP? Yeah. No, I said, personally, I don't do it because I feel bad, but I think planes, because I want to do it.

And I just feel bad, but I think planes should make everybody recline once you reach the certain air, so then everybody can lean back and there's no harm, no foul. It's not a bad deal. You can recline as well. like when somebody reclines. But it should be like mandatory. Here's the, here's the trick. You recline it literally as you're taking off. Everybody feels a little bit of pressure leaning back.

You hit the little recline. Then it's like a natural. People won't even notice. That does happen to me because my legs go out and I'll hit that little button and I'll end up being reclined. I'll end up being reclined. It just happens. It just happens. No, but that's an accent because it is, it is on assent.

I go, I'll look over and I'll be like not even with the other chair. I'll like, oh, fuck. And then you just, then you're good, man. You have the luxury of a first-class seat or an exit row seat. Be my guess. You own the plane. While you sitting and Jen Pop, you need to be a leader. You need to be a leader.

I'm just saying. Jack, what you have? Yeah. Yeah, if you're saying commercial, I think there's two seats. You're allowed to do it. And it's the ones in front of the exit row where there's only two. And you get, you're like your favorite seat in Jim Pop, the real extra leg room. Yeah, yeah.

You're sitting in front of. of that seat, then it's all day. That might be the best seat in the house. Yeah, but yeah, I'm not a big recline guy. Just because when you're tall enough and you get that knee pressure, especially if you're on a flight from, like, L.A. to Nashville, fuck that. That's miserable.

It's never gentle and always aggressive. Yeah, and it's always a hard hit. It's always like a 50-year-old lady who's like, in my mind, she's already yelling at me and, like, doing all this bullshit. She's like, you're not good enough for this plane, so I'm going to take your room. So I'm already angry. That might be a little bit of something.

That's how I feel about it. But I say no. But, you know, I guess the end of the day, you pay for your seat. Yeah, I mean, the button's there for a reason. I'm just saying it's a scumbag move. It is. And especially the little people, dude. Not little little people.

But like, if you're 5'4, you got all the leg room, you can kick them little feet out. Your feet probably don't even touch the ground. Like, you just let yourself chill. Uh-oh. I didn't like the way Garrett asked for that mic. No, I just got a question. if a little kid is in front of you

and they go to lean back, have you ever just If I'm aware, if I'm aware, buddy, I don't need to put the hand. I just put that, I put that knee right in the middle. I have. You go to do it. And that's where I had to look at my boys downstairs and go, hey, you guys got to fight this battle. Some people hit you, like,

start pushing it back. And I fucking put this thing in there. Like, brother, that is not the game. I've definitely given the. Yeah. A little kid does it? Yeah. Bitch, they're on your switch.

Yeah, you're little, dude. Dude, like, I've definitely done that. I also am guilty of... I'm also guilty of sitting down and giving it a little bit before we even move. I'm a big... Dude, I'm a big leg, like, put my legs up to where my knee needs that room and everything else, and I just...

I, like, slowly make contact with it. And if it goes up a little bit, it goes up, but I'm not trying to be disrespectful to put my knee. Like, it's like, yeah, they want to lean back. He must be tired. As far as it goes, sorry. Yeah. Oh, that one's broken.

Yeah. That one's broken. See what you're getting here. I don't know if you're putting the pieces together. you got a me guy as a teammate today. The last thing I just said is... Sir, as soon as we go up, I got to be comfortable.

I paid for the seat. For me, it's like, we're all on this thing together. No one really wants to be sitting on this point. Let's all get there as a team. When I recline, there's just... There's probably a reason I'm doing it. It's not like I always recline every flight. And I just think to myself,

like, I just don't think twice about going... About going back if I need to... If I need to recline, because the button is there for a reason. And like I just said, when you said the me guy thing, like, when I put my legs up, because I need the room, I don't like try to, like, head it to where I need the space or let them know that I'll be putting my legs up. I just slowly, if I make a little contact, I try to get myself comfortable with the space that I have.

If I want to be a little bit more comfortable, then you figure out that comfort. You feel. That's why they got comfort plus. You figure out to get yours the most polite way possible. Amazing. You figure out the best way to get yours, the most polite way possible. Excuse me, sir. Can you please put down that window?

everybody else in the flight is probably like God damn he just asked him that that's crazy yeah he turned back every day in a play way I'm like oh my god I can't believe you did that he looks like you even say

he looked like you mind yeah because I want it but it ain't my jurisdiction brother I want it listen I want all the things you want if I could just lay down the fucking ground for the whole flight that'd be great

but I don't do it because I didn't fucking making sure everyone else is enjoying themselves too he looks back at me during that and I was like what did you just do and he starts telling me

this whole story story about him and his uncle and these kids, they go to Wendy's and they get meals and he should have fries, but he didn't have fries. And the uncle's like, hey, you always get your fries and goes up and grabs the fries. Because me also another thing I don't do, unless it's devastating, like blue cheeses on my food, I do not send my food back. If I want that steak, medium rare, that thing comes out well done. I'm going to eat that fucking steak. I'm eating that fucking steak. No, man. Those vegetables come out a little cold. Hey, it wasn't cooked all the way through. I'm going to crunch the shit out of those vegetables, right? This jaw is putting working.

I feel you on that. I'm not going to sit there. Have you seen the movie Waiting? What is it? Waiting. It's like a Ryan Reynolds movie. He's a waiter at this place that kind of looks like shenanigans. And it's like a raunchy comedy.

It's awesome. It's hilarious. And they go, one lady, some ladies being a bitch, she sends her steak back. They start putting dandruff in it, spitting in it. And I've, my mom worked in that community. I've been to Heralds. They do that. Gross shit in that movie.

But that's when that lady's being a bitch. I think there's a way to come. communicate and handle all these situations, man. Excuse me, do you mind? No, I... Fuck, dude. That shit. Taylor did that a couple weeks ago.

She felt terrible about it, but I still let her know that was not okay. You eat the food that's given to you. Now, if there's blue cheese on there, I'm going to send that shit back. Blue cheese, yeah. Blue cheese is not my fucking thing. But yeah, ma'am. I get the... If a state's got to be right, or at least close to right.

And if that's your truth, brother, you can have it. Yeah. I mean... He said, well done. eat that thing. I'm going to eat the fuck. I'm going to chew that jerky down. I'm going to go ahead.

I'm going to eat it. And I'm going to talk shit about it as I'm eating it. Mine is just like cold blue or something or like still breathing. I'm going to ask you just go throw it. Throw it back in there for a minute. But if it's too well done, I'll eat it because I don't want them to have to cook a whole other one. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I see what you're saying. I see where you're navigating to. Yeah. You struck me as a guy that's like, ma'am, just make sure the cow is mooing. Like you say that type of dad joke. Yeah. Cut it. Make sure it's moon and send it over, honey.

That's how, like, I was getting from you, you know? Shoot the sunbeach. Yeah. Yeah. What was that movie? Bleeding. The cowboy weight. You all remember that?

No. Yeah, I don't know. Dude. Somebody remembers that. No, fuck you don't. You're all young as fuck. How old are you? 38.

Yeah, you're old. You're getting up there. What do you think about when you hit 40? I mean. I got to quit smoking at 40. That's it. You're giving yourself a two-year buffer? Yeah, I start doing those.

So my dude So I got a dude that Well I met him through Jelly Roll had a guy out It was like a nutritious Nutritionist guy And so It's like a really good idea

Huh Jelly Rolls nutritionist Yeah dude All right So this Tuesday is George Lockhart And him and Presley are the two guys And You think you put

I know what the fuck you're getting that But listen god damn That's my boy Yeah Joe's great But Jellie will go through bouts of, like, working out. Like, he came on the bus one time, and I think he had a gallon of warm water and lime. Oh, lemon juice in it.

I'm doing this, Bub, we're doing it. Fucking, this thing. Fucking love jelly roll. But anyway, jellies and Trishol. Yeah, I was putting you on game. George put me on to Anthony. And Presley, like, before he came to us this last time, he was in London with Tyson Fury.

in this fight camp for a minute and basically does fight camps fighters are doing weight cuts and stuff like that he's a chef and he trains you a little bit too so like I'd been running that man man that's how I got that was 215 cling feeling the best I ever was

what the fuck are we talking about how did I get to this what were we talking about it? You're like why don't you try to do his ends and Presley does them things he's the 215 boy I was feeling good I danced around my elbow to get to my ass Damn. Good weed.

It is. Yeah. Them little things are little... Michigan makes good weed. Hardish, what is it? Jelly, oh, jelly calls him get your highs. Get your highs. Yeah.

Little mini get your highs. Kind of like that little name. There's a... If you're in the nutrition and wellness landscape, you need to be in shape. Yeah. Yeah. I just, when you're talking about jelly rolls nutritionist, I'm thinking, I wonder what that guy looks like. Oh, he's a monster.

I bet he's a beast. I bet he was telling me about him over a year ago because he was working with him. You know that Steve Will Doids trainer. Have you ever seen him? He's got, he is massive. Like he is on, he's got to be on everything. He lives at the Red Rocks in Las Vegas.

Oh, really? And just goes where Steve tells him to go. That is hilarious. All dude, like he's got the six-pack, the, like he's a bodybuilder. He's out there, yeah. That man is fucking. But he's also a guy You're like, hey brother,

if I'm trying to build some arms Like what kind of curls should I be doing? Like that's the guy you're going to probably ask, right? What kind of? How many push up the day you do? I can't stop thinking about this well done steak. Go ahead. None of I'm just saying I just can't stop thinking about it.

Like you wouldn't, here's what I will. Like, I wouldn't Let me think of how I'd handle it. I would wait for the waiter, waitress, to come over and it'd probably be like, how are you enjoying your meal?

Yeah. And I think that's when I take my opportunity to be like, I'm absolutely terrified to tell you that it's a little overcooked. I'm going to eat this. But I don't want to make your job any harder by sending this thing back. No, dude. I'm petrified. But, like, it tastes good. It tastes solid.

However. And then, no, no. There would be no, however. I would let them say, oh, no, it's not a hassle. Like, I'll easily take it. I bet no, no, no, no, please no. And then as they're like trying to think the plate up Like look if you insist

And you back, listen No fucking shot Listen listen No fucking shot No problem at all We will do another one And then I bet the manager Probably come out and hey we'll comp this for you

Yeah that don't that I've seen that happen in front of me Hey let's get that steak for you We're going to pay for that steak And you look at them and you look at their victory But to me it's at what cost You just cause that waste just a whole bunch of anxiety The chef's going to be a little pissed off The manager's probably going to go say something

to the Shep. Now he's already been on the rocks, all right? And he's probably, his home life isn't going well either. Now things are just dominoing effect. I'm thinking about their people the long ways. Right. Right. But here, you're not, you weren't listening to what I was saying. I didn't say nothing. The option was there to leave it. I was like, I'm not, that's the option part. Yeah, you know what they're going to do right by you. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm thinking about that 20% at the bill. I'm not going to make your, yeah, I'm not going to make your job harder. I'm going to eat this. This still tastes good. Are you a 20% guy tip? Yeah, yeah, at least. At least.

Yeah, yeah. I used to be a fucking scumbag in college. It was $1 and rounded up to the next dollar. Yeah. I mean, when you're bowling on a budget like that, that's what you got to do. I have to say the bill is like 43 and 12. Yeah. But you're giving back now.

I'm giving a dollar. I'm giving a dollar and $1.88. Hey, by the way, that coffee shop I told you about where I 100-piece them, the well, is where it was. It was like $4.30 for that coffee. but I did the they give the tip it's like $1, $3, $5

you know they have the little thing I spend it around I hit it with the $5 let them know I do got a problem every now and then with that little fucking screen yeah because it says

it's because it used to be 18 or 15, 18, 1820 and now it's 1820 or 1823 25 or even 2023 21 and then whatever the last one is yeah I try to get you over that 20

I go to that last one but a lot of these places didn't start doing the, hey, charge for a tip before the service happened. Now they're just, everybody's flipping it around and they're charging, you know, they're asking for a lot more of a tip. Like even you go to the spot says $1, $3, $5, they didn't used to have that at all. Ever since the whole COVID thing and you were supporting small businesses and every

restaurant was doing it because everybody was trying to help everybody stay in business at that point. Yeah. But even after that, all the business owners know, like, hey, keep that on there. Just raise it another percentage. No question. Yes. And so you think they're trying to get you in that situation.

So sometimes. So, like, if you're, if say I'm at $5 Dollar's Bakery, this is $5.00's bakery. Phenomenal. And you're just grabbing a donut and putting in the box and handed to me. There ain't no tip that need to be involved with that, my man. I'm going to hit the no tip. I'm going to keep it moving.

Yo. You're, you, you, you're. Oh, I got a question. Is that wild? Would you rather have the option to round up? For a dollar? Like, hey, just help a charity? Absolutely. I'm going to hit yes every time. No, every time I go to Peshmore.

We should have to donate $10 for the dogs that don't have owners or whatever. I'm like, yes, boom. I do the 10. I do it. I fucking have to. It's karma. You're going to get that back. You're going to get that back 10 times. No, no, no, no. That's weird. You guys have been seeing the boy giving lately and I've, seems like everything's well in my end.

Brother, you give with the intent to receive? That ain't given. No, brother. I just- I got to load the karma bucket to get some positive eyes and return. That ain't what I do. That's exactly what I do. It don't matter how you're still giving. This ain't the, they don't ask, They don't ask how many.

This is that. Especially what I just fucking said to you. We got two hours. Less than two hours. We have to be at the ballpark. And I got to get a ball glove. A ball glove? I got to get a glove.

Pick some more of those get you guys when we get to the ballpark. Those things are our elite. They are. We got to fly back to Nashville, though, because we're in Michigan right now doing this podcast, correct? Oh, yeah. We got to hurry up and get there. Boys, thank you for tuning in.

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