Bussin' With The Boys - Chase Rice II

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

Recorded: April 14, 2021 | Second time on the pod, first time on the bus: the boy Chase Rice holds nothing back once again. Usually known for his country music career but more recently known as Nashville's greatest bison herder, Chase stopped by to catch up and sip some whiskey with The Boys. They start off by talking about Chase's new love interest: his herd of bison. He explains how he came to own them, Will shares a questionable story about a man pleasuring a cow, and Taylor flexes his knowledge of various farm animal breeding habits. After that, Chase addresses the backlash he received after playing a show in June of 2020 when Covid-19 was still a mystery and nobody knew what we were supposed to be doing. He explains his reasoning behind the concert, whether or not he stands by his decision, and what he would have done differently if given the chance. Next, the three amigos come back to the topic of animals (obviously) and discuss Chase's desire to get a dog. This leads to a discussion about good animal names, why dog movies are cruel, and then Chase reveals his plan for unveiling a new song that means a lot to him. Finally, Chase explains why he feels his next album will be his best music yet, Taylor explains why you should never let your girlfriend get on Drake's tour bus, and Will explains why Dave Portnoy is an absolute savage. ----- EARN YOUR WOLF: Want to be featured on our Instagram Story? Screenshot this episode, tag @bussinwtb, and share it to your Story. The Boys will take care of the rest... ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Chevy Silverado Better Help: BetterHelp.com/BUSSIN FreeFly: FreeFlyApparel.com/BUSSIN Blockfolio-FTX Ikon Pass: IkonPass.comFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Shout up from the mountaintops after you listen to it. subscribe on every channel but as always for the boys biggest of hugs and tiniest of kisses i'm a bison rancher now that's it i got kicked out of country last year i'm a bison rancher so what do you mean kicked out of country what does that mean i just did a show that people got pissed about what they get mad about hang on before we start this episode's brought to you by shabby and barstool hey it's bought to you by shepard and bison because he said he had some good some good bison stories and stuff so before we got going on yeah no yeah brought to you by Chevy. This is our third pod brought to you by

Chevy. I feel like I've said that every single time, but I added a number because that's how it goes. That's how numbers go, Alex. Did you have me so fired up? You're mad. You're mad. He's pissed. He said, I'm like, you just sit in front of Chase? He says, yeah, I said in front of Chase. I'm like, God damn. I got my Jack

here, so I'm like, oh man, if he's not going to be here for about 10 or 20, this is going to get a real interesting start to this interview. So, okay, um, yeah, I told, I told Will I wasn't going to go today and then he really

believed it. So that's that fucking story. That was a good one. I didn't believe it. No, I know you didn't believe it. I believed that when we were on the phone and you're like, I can come in 10 minutes. Oh, dude. You really didn't come. What if I didn't come? How would you? Talk to me about what you would do after that. I think I would have a deep breath. Sure.

Now I said, hey, Taylor's not coming. Chase. You can have his seat and we get this thing started. Yeah. Would you be disappointed? Would you be disappointed? I'd just be disappointed. I didn't get to see you. Well, that's very sweet of you to say. It's very nice of you to say. Last time I saw it. What was my heart actually right now? Well, last time was on a, uh, it's on the screens, the TVs.

Yeah, the Zoom. Your house looked nice. Yeah, that house is coming along with. That place is dialed in so I can stop fucking with the house. Yeah? The house needs to stop being fucked with. Like, I'm, I need to just move on from, it's good. It's like the Winchester Mansion or whatever.

You see that place in Santa Cruz? It's a haunted place where the guy who started Winchester, he died. And then the lady he was married to thought that all the people who were killed by the gun, was going to come back and murder her or get to her or haunt her. So someone came to her in a voice and I might be butchering this. The whole idea was that she had to keep on building

on the house. And the house is like in somewhere in California, but you'll literally go on a tour of the house. You'll open doors and it'll be stairways to nothing. But the woman always had the house under construction because that was the only way in her mind that she could be like free from the spirits getting to her that were killed. That's weird.

No, I don't have that going on in my house. If there's spirits in there, I don't care. You're welcome. I wouldn't say that. Do you believe in ghosts? Yeah, sure, probably. I don't know. You don't watch enough spooky movies because if you're saying, hey, if there's spirits

I believe, dude, I believe in the paranormal shit. That shit's creepy. I mean, it has to be, right? There's too much weird shit that goes on. Yeah, yes. But I also believe that they're not all bad. No, yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that they're all bad. It's like generalizing.

You know what I'm saying? You can't just generalize an entire group of things, especially at paranormal. I think there's some weird shit that goes on. spiritual stuff to people. That's real bad. Have you ever anything happened to you? No, not really. Anything growing up?

Nah. See, I've had a couple hairy things happen to me that were like, I'm just going to ignore that and pretend like it never happened, those types of things, you know? Yeah, well, just bury it deep down. Bar it deep down. It's scary. The thought of, because to me,

and I think I've said this before, like of a murderer, right, my karate stance, if a murderer came to my house, like, I got a fight and chance. I can see you, you can see me. Now we're playing the game of chess. You know what I'm saying? going to get who first. If I can't see you and you're pulling my wife's hair around the

room and I can't see what the fuck's going on. Oh, yes. A. I'm out of there. You lose it. I'm fucking... If my wife is getting slung around by her hair, I am fucking 80 and out the gate, dude. I'm in my truck. I'm gone. I'm at the fucking ranch with you. Say, keep building. Because shit's going on around here.

I tell you, you just fired me about Spooktover. Spooktober. So we say the whole month of October is Spooktober. It's a great time. Haunted houses. The leaves are falling. I love fall. I will say it was always like growing up playing football was like okay now it's finally our time But yeah so like it's season so I can lock myself down with a girlfriend because I have nothing else to do other than football and her And it's like break up through when the season's over break over the season is win state yep we're done but I just love that part of a part of the year yeah you need to buy the weather breaks too

I'm out I'm in you watch you got to watch you got to watch a spook every day Yeah, a movie or TV show these are all Taylor's rules too he introduced me when I got here in 18 and I was fired up about it. You're welcome, by the way. And then every weekend, yes, thank you. Every weekend, you go to a haunted house or something spooky. You know what I'm saying? Like, hey, let's go check out the hay bails out with the bison.

Cornfields. Yeah, scary stuff like that. You got to do that, you know? Because you're not going to, you're a bigger, dude. You're not going to get scared of, like, a haunted house. I would love it. But if you have a couple drinks and really just buy into it, you get a little scared. It's the best time of the year.

You get a group of people, too. Oh, a big group, but you go in, like, separately. We should do a spooktober night at my farm and do all that fun shit and just get a crew of our. Say less. Hey, that's a great fucking idea. Great idea. Just don't run into the fucking bison because they don't care about spookttoe. They don't care about spooktober.

Yeah, last time we were talking to you, you were about to get the bison. Now you got them. Dude, I touched. So what is that? What is that like? Bennington is my bull. I touched him for the first time this morning because we worked them, which means get them all in corrals. They're going fucking crazy.

They hate you. They want to kill you. And then you somehow get them into the shoot. And then you give them their shots, and we retagged them. So that's Bennington this morning with the new tags in his year. Oh, 76. 76, America. Oh, hey, he just needed to.

Kate. Yeah. I was going to say one more off of 77. I know, one more from 77, but you got to respect America, too. They got game. Yeah, so this is me touching him. This is before we change the tag. That's me touching him for the first time.

But he can sling his head around and stab my hand in a second. So they're not nice. You can't like. They're not like hamsters. Hamsters aren't nice either. They're not like dogs. You know what I'm saying? The answers I'd be a little more scared of fuck with than a buffalo.

Honestly, they're a little mean fuckers. Buffalo, man. These are not nice. They're pissed off at all times if you get near them. So why did you get them? So what is, how do you make money off me? Me,

yeah, it's going to take a while. Like if you buy a farm to do it, you're going to take forever to make your money back. But I already had the farm. So I was like, oh, let's put Buffalo on it.

Put Buffalo on it. Yeah. Yeah, this is a picture we got the, that was when it snowed. That's when the snow is going on. In Montana, you know, someday. Them boys look happy. So how old do they have to get before you send them to the old graveyard?

Usually about three or four. Do you want to get about 800,900,000 pounds somewhere on there? 8,900,000 pounds? Somewhere between there. Okay, 800 and 900 to 1,000 pounds. I could say, 800 to 9000 to a thousand. That's a lot for me to deal with to comprehend on my mind, but obviously numbers are hard too. It's all about the meat.

Yeah. So 800, 900 pounds, and you have to get the three or four, what is the ball? Bull, are you studying him out a little bit? Bull stays. Yeah, Bull doesn't ever know. So he's a rooster. He's, oh, yeah. He's just hanging out. Yeah, except for roosters. Like, we got chickens now. How's that? You don't need a rooster for them to have babies.

I don't know how that works, but, um, no, you need a roosters to have for them to have babies. They have to be fertilized. They can't have eggs. Hey, he's a farmer. Oh, to have the babies. I got you. Good point. Okay, different pages. Got you. I've been doing some homework on chickens. I'm going to get a few. To have eggs, though, you don't need to. Yes. But yeah, man, this is why I need to go back on tour because I have chickens now. I'm about to get a dog. Really?

And that's, of all the things you said, it's the most responsibility. Exactly. Yeah. That's going to be, I'm going to take him on the road, though. Like, I'd tell you, he would be in this interview if I had him. Really? How old? We get a puppy.

He's not going to be in this interview then. He would be all over place. He would be all over place. You know how nice this is. We've got this on Amazon. Yeah. That's some nice stuff. I don't want to chew in your night.

I don't want to have to send you an invoice. I feel like our friendship's fragile. I don't want to do that. I don't think I'm like, okay, you got to what I'm saying? I don't want to say invoice for your puppy and stuff like that. So what did you do to piss off? If you even want to talk about this, you did a concert last year. Wait, hang on before.

People got mad about it. I wanted to know is the bull like your breeder. Yeah, he breeds. So I'm getting. So do you got to like, do you got to do all the stuff that gets him, you know, gets a sperm and shit like that? They do it naturally. That baby's naturally.

It's easy. The only thing you got to do is what we did this morning. Twice a year. You got to work them, give them their shots, make sure they're healthy, weigh them, all that. I had to, I witnessed the cow get, like, jerked off once. Yeah. Like, I went in. Have I told you the story?

No, go ahead. But I was going in to do some, like, farm work or something like that and make a little money in the summertime. Sure. Go in. Nothing says money like jerking off the cow. Exactly. Yeah. And so you went in and they had it all set up and they had like this, what do they call, what do they call the women cows?

Calf. Cows? Cows. Cows. Yeah, they had a, yeah, they had a he had a heifer sitting. and they're like ready to go. And they get the bull kind of squared up behind her so he can jump up. And right when he jumps up, my man is, he's rocked up.

They got the giant deal. They got the giant thing that they slip on them. They slip off. They last like not even two pumps, but they slip on it off. And they get all the semen on them. They start putting them in the little, you know, the little tinctures to sell them. Yeah, it fills up like a baby bottle. Yeah.

All the way to the top. Yeah. I used to, uh, we used to do that with horses. I don't do that. the shit is a crazy sight I'm like standing there I've held I've held the fleshlight for the horses before

like saying you gotta walk him around the woman and then he gets all fucking excited and he just start slapping on his belly that's him like that's basically him jerking off that's what they do and then he put him up because horses will tear up a girl horse studs will tear up a girl horse

I can imagine like with their hooves they'll fuck their ass up physically like carve into it like start getting scrapes and hurt them like physically I did the show in Washington last year or two years ago or a guy got worked by horse and he got worked by horse

like a Mr. Hand situation yeah I killed you said a couple years ago yeah I thought I heard something about that when I was like in high school too yeah it was but I did the show a couple years ago there was a video on it right that's where they went oh yeah

you don't know about the infamous the infamous Mr. Hans video I don't know about I don't know it's like some dude he was like outside you don't remember college when you get all the boys together everyone's been drinking and you start looking up really fucked up shit online of course so like Mr. Hans

it's a dude's a video of a horse having sex with a man. Did it kill the guy? It caused internal bleeding and killed him. Yeah, this might be the guy. Because it happened in what, Seattle, right? Washington, right? Yeah.

He lets out a grunt in that video and you're like, oh, it's over for him. The thing's like this big, damn near coming out of his mouth. Yeah. It's wild. Anyway. You guys got any more Jack Daniel? He's got a little uncomfortable around.

Fuck, they need a minute. So you want to answer that? No, we don't do that to our place. Bennington's all now. I like his name. And so they, to do like upkeep on these, you just got to do shots twice a year. And then other than that, you just kind of let them be. You'll rotate them back and forth, field to field, stuff like that.

But they're pretty easy. Really? And the stud stays with the women. Yep. Hangs out. Now I'm getting 10 more. So I've had two die. We had one die a couple days ago.

What happened? She'd been sick. She looked awful. That's tough. Finally, my farm manager found her in the pond. Yeah. So that sucked. And then we had one die right the first week we got them.

got gorged on on transport so i'm getting 10 more so i'll have now i'll have 19 and those are from like the stud place diamond tail ranch in colorado so i'm getting nine uh nine females and then one bowl so you have two bowls now i'm real intrigued to see how that's yeah yeah i want to know what that dynamic's all about fuck each other out i don't want to i don't want to watch them square up oh yeah i mean i just hope it depends there that she would be yeah but how do you end it there you don't you just let them let them figure it out I'm sure Peter will run that. Runs in to break him up.

What's that? He runs in there to break him out. Hey, guys, stop this. Bennington. Bennington's like, all right, dad. You're right. I've never been as close to him as this horn. Obviously, I'm sitting there touching them, grabbing them by the horns where I retagged their left ears.

And it was cool. Those things are fucking powerful. And what made you want to get into that? Well, I had the land, so I always thought, like, that'd be cool to look around and see. I found arrowheads in my farm. I had two bald eagles on there. And I was like, man. Weiss and we'd go right along with all this.

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I think that was $7,500. Oh, so they're not like, they're not overwhelmingly expensive. No, I mean, you go out to South Dakota. And I think it's called, I can't remember what it's called. But, I mean, there won last year for like 30 grand. Which I think that's just the guy's slinging is right on the counter. Yeah. He's just trying to show, like, I can afford a $30,000 bison, which is just stupid.

Now is it like bloodlines like it is with horses? Yeah, a little bit of that going on. Yeah, but there's no like horses. You show horses, whether the thoroughbreds or quarter horses or perchrons, like they have their talent. And however well they do, that's their bloodline. And that's how you stud them and make more money off their young. Diamond tail. Nah, you sent me all the everything, all their genetics, what they gained weight on grain, what they gained weight on grass, how they're nuts, how big their balls are.

That's important, I guess. Sure. All these numbers that I don't know what they're doing. It's important to us too, right? I was just literally my first thing looking through. Yeah. Well, I was just like, this one looks awesome. He looks different than any other bowl, and he has by far the biggest.

Just a heavy ass. Bennington, we're talking about. No, this is the other bowl. This is the one from Colorado. Well, Bennington's going to have a hard time. Yeah, he's going to have a lot. His ego is going to get blasted with that. His what?

His ego. Oh, yeah. He's going to have a tough time with that. Yeah, it's, uh, you would imagine. Yeah. Although he could step up. He could. I mean, balls don't make the man.

That's what my wife tells me. You know? My monitor guy, Lee, he's got a hot girlfriend and he shouldn't. Really? Well, good for Lee. Shout out Lee and his hot girlfriend. Good for you, Lee. He, uh, yeah, he's got, he's got Cajonas.

If they're not down there, they're at least in his heart in his head. Yeah. He won the battle. It's probably pretty charming to you to have a hot girlfriend. Big wallet. Something of the sort, right? I don't know what he's doing right, but I'm like, damn, Lee. Good for him.

Did you get her? Right. Yeah. Pull her up. What's her name? We'll take it out. Okay, we need a last name. I will get to cut all this out.

Taylor says we laugh. We all find our DMs. Taylor says it. We all laugh. Taylor keeps a straight face. He's like, oh, yeah. Her ad is this. All right, cool.

Let's pull that up, boys. Because you haven't been to her at all in a year. You did one concert. We did. You said you've been going a little store crazy. Man. Yeah. Yeah.

There's certain times. Like, I'll keep myself busy going to like, Montana. for fishing or for snowboard. I did a lot of snowboarding this winter. Started writing again, but, yeah, I've been going a little bit nuts. I needed the year off for sure, 100%. I didn't realize, like, when you don't take a year off, what I realized was, I was touring. I wasn't living in real life.

I had nothing to write about. You'll sit in a writing room and be like, all right, what you guys want to write today? Yeah. I got this title. Let's see. Well, what does that mean? I don't know. Let's just write it.

And that sucks. That's good fun. I mean, your song's in a. and like shit. So now I have something to write about. Like I'll just be sitting writing by myself in the mornings at my house and I wrote a song

that's why I'm getting a dog. I wrote a song called Ben Seat about a dog and it's about this dog saving this guy's life. It's actually a true story about one of my best buddies from college. Really? Lee? Not Lee.

Okay. Lee and I did not go to college. Gotcha. I don't know if Lee went to college. But the story is about this dog saving this guy's life but the guy saving the dog's life too. It's a really cool song. It's coming out later this year.

So that's why when we shoot the video, I'm going to have my own puppy. The puppy that's going to be in that video is going to become my actual puppy. Oh, that's awesome. And what should I name the puppy, by the way? See, I feel like Benson's a great name. Bennington. Bennington.

Is that the name of the bull? The bull name is Bennington. I don't like you calling it Benton. Benson. Benson. I forgot what I was even calling it. Naming an animal is the most important thing you can do. Okay.

Because it sits there forever, right? It's a big thing. You can go with Ace, Trapper. I've always liked it for a dog's name. I kind of like human names for dogs. Like, just like Jack. Hey, Jack, get over here. Yeah.

I wouldn't even be like that. I've thought about Tonka. Jonathan would be hilarious. Tonka would be awesome. Definitely a human name. Tonka's cool. You talking about Tonka toys, though? Tonka trucks, but also Tatanka is the Native American name for Buffalo.

Nice. So you're all in on Buffalo. You might need to go with that one. I'm all in Buffalo. You could, uh, waffle is a great name for a dog. I do like that name, even though. Yeah. My buddy's name that the dog's about his name is butters.

Butters. Butters. I think, uh, one of my, my, my, wife's friends he has a dog named pound cake it's like a pug and I thought that was a fucking great name for a dog dude you got dozer dozers Ryan Johansson from the Preds dog

yeah and then the other one James Neal was around a lot last year with us he had Nipsey Hustle nipsy was Nipsey Hustle I like it dude yeah those are those are cool but making the decision I can't give you a name right now I think it's like a writer's round Tonka since it goes with the whole Buffalo

thing yeah see I was gonna get a chocolate lab but I end up going I'm going black lab because they're way better bird dogs and the game getting. So that doesn't make sense with the brown. But I did want like a little mini buffalo running around. And that would be Tonka. But he's going to be black. A little mini buffalo.

Yeah. I like that. How was it? How was it when you had your concert last year? And then obviously all the media and stuff grabbed your shit. It was interesting because I still don't fully understand it. I still think people are fucking crazy. Sure.

To be honestly. I'm like. Which I think you'd be right. Fuck is wrong with people. Yeah. Nobody asked why I did it. Nobody asked what I was doing. People are throwing around numbers of four.

thousand people that I did a show people were throwing around I'm I made this much money off as I didn't make a dime I was able to continue to pay my band though and that's why I was doing it I didn't make any money um but I wake up Sunday I'm taking a nap because I'm toast from the night before we had a blast the show was awesome and then uh I wake up and there's all these texts like a hundred texts in my phone sure the fuck is going and what the first one I happen to read was from jake o'an I'm scrolling through our read jakes and he's like fuck you man you're the reason we can't do shows I hate you yada yada dot da

dot ha ha ha just kidding buddy you'll be all right and I'm like coming hot what are you talking about if you don't remember do you remember the next day oh yeah that's when I started reading more text I'm like holy shit am I in trouble for this and so my publicist

hits me up she's like okay we're not going to say anything it's all good it'll go away didn't go away like two days later people are hating me He's like, hey, it's still happening. Like, EB, this isn't gone. So give me some back to it. What time was is that you did this? Early.

It was early on. It was too early. It was kind of right after our Zoom, I think, right? A little bit after the Zoom. I don't even like, it's such a blur like March, April. Like I'll openly say, looking back, no, we shouldn't have done a show. Sure. But it was way before anything was concrete.

Nobody knew what was happening. So we just went and did the show. Completely went by all the rules. Where was the show? It was Brushing Mountain State Penitentiary and right near Knoxville. Very Johnny Cash of you. That's awesome.

And that was the article. Watch Chase Rice go from prison to hell. Whoever wrote that, you're just a shitty reporter. Yeah. I don't disrespect you. I don't respect you. Like,

I just think you're shitty at your job. Go from prison to hell. He was saying that because you played this thing, you're going to go to hell because of it. I guess. Let me just say some real quick. That title's fucking badass. Like,

whoever wrote that, watch Chase Rice go from prison to hell. If it's like some headline. It doesn't matter about the facts. I'm just seeing the title of it. Actually, the facts don't matter at all because people don't read. I even realized from other people doing stuff last year, because last year I think brought out a lot of shit and a lot of people.

Right. No question. But I read other articles and I'm like, this piece of shit. How could they do that? And then I read the article. I'm like, oh, well, no, the headline just made me hate them. Yeah. But this one was like, there was 900 people.

And then the article's saying there's 4,000 yada yada. It's like, well, that's just not true. Anyway, we did it too early But the problem that I'm having with, even still, the other people are doing these days, it's like, y'all, hear somebody out every now and then. And stop reading headlines. Red lines are just flat out ignorant and wrong.

Because you're trying to get everybody's attention. That's what they made them change it to. Chase rises concert at Tenentenary ignites debate over safety or live shows. Anybody at that show, not one person of that show, that's another thing about it. would say that they felt like they were in harm. They had plenty of space. The place ceded 10,000 people and there was 900.

So anybody complained about it. The other artist stuff like that's like, y'all, what other artists complained about it? Well, there you go right there. I can't read that. There's one. Kelsey Ballerini?

Yeah. Why is she upset? I don't fucking know. I mean, it's not like it's like... Imagine being selfish enough to put thousands of people health at risk. Not to mention the potential ripple effect and play a normal country concert right now. And it disappeared. Okay.

Yeah, see, some might grab people's tweets. Oh, she tagged me. And they put it in their articles. We all want and need a tour. We just care about our fans and their family is enough to wait. I can understand where she's coming.

I can understand what Kelsey's trying to say there. I get it. Especially at the time that was going on. I understand it. I think a lot of it from what I've noticed. What I've noticed about country music is like, You kind of have to play a fine line. I don't know.

Obviously, we know what her view is. But I think when it comes to, like, how she resonates with her fans, I'm sure whatever her platform is that I don't know a lot about her. I'm sure she's trying to, you know, keep a large fan base with that. What's that? She's scorn points in all the way. The problem I have with it is you have my phone number. If you got a real problem with it, hit me up.

We'll talk about it. No question. And I fully understand that. And people are taking so much shit to social media that it's creating a divide that doesn't need to be there. Right. It needs to create conversation, not a divide. And that's not what's happening.

It's interesting you say that because I'll see, like, friends of mine, like, good things happen. Guy sends a contract or, you know, country guy does an album number one. And I want to tweet about it, but I'm like, well, if I have the person's number, I'll just text them. Because it's probably just better to do that. If you really want to congratulate somebody, you should send a text out if you have the opportunity. Right, like, if you make the Pro Bowl, like, I mean, obviously, I tell you congratulations in person. But of course, right, when I see it, I'm going to say, oh, the boy made the Poeux. Yeah, and obviously, you'll probably see me Photoshopped in some Pro Bowl that you made.

Have you, have you been? Yeah. Yeah, but like too, like I think another part we were coming from as well is like you're sitting here like, yeah, we did it too early. And also no one's giving you a chance to hear like, hey, listen, okay, like I might have messed up. But like you're already deciding that I'm standing on one side of the line when there's not even a line that it's being created. It's being created on social media. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And to speak to that even more, which is, that's an awesome point.

but I am anybody that apologizes because they're supposed to apologize, fuck you. That's a fake apology. Yeah, I can get that. I will apologize if I look at something. And first of all, give me a second.

I'm not going to apologize in your timeline. Right. Because you need a story to tell. I'm going to apologize when I've had a chance to sit back and think about something that's happened or I'm going to decide not to apologize. It depends on whatever the situation is. But stop apologizing because people are telling you to apologize. That's fucking fake.

and nobody wants to hear. It's not really. You're trying to cross a t. 9 so that people will forget about something. Right. Well, he said sorry. Well, she said sorry.

That type of thing. And we're starting to live in this like social media world of like, you have to say something immediately. Like if you're not saying something like your silence is, we hear you from your silence. Like you haven't said nothing yet. It's like you have a chance to actually think about what just happened. Right.

Right. Right. Have you talked to Kelsey since this since June 28th whenever that came out? No. Have you reached out to her? As she reached out to you? No. Honestly,

I don't, I don't have a problem with anything. No matter who the artists are, if you come out to me and we have a conversation about it, I bet it's going to be pretty chill and easy. I don't have a problem with anybody. What I do have a problem with is not having conversations about things that need to, like I said,

it needs to be more conversation and less divide of just, you did this, fuck you, you're wrong. 140 characters just putting on Twitter that. That means that is so useless in our world. And unfortunately, it's what people do. A lot of times, like I would go crazy with that. If someone I knew tweeted that about me, I'd be like, I was trying to get a hold to that person immediately, but hey, what's the deal? Not try to like fight them or get an argument

like, I want to know where you're coming from. Especially if this person has your number, if Kelsey has your number, like you guys probably have a relatively decent relationship of leaving up to that point. And there hasn't been a conversation up until then. That seems kind of weird. I feel like the next time you, I feel like the next time you see her, it's going to be, that would for me be hard. I got a whole lot to say. Yeah. I know, I hear you. Well, it sounds like she went off pretty hard on you well i'm just saying you gotta you gotta realize too like if you if you do something you're not like fully like you haven't digested or realize what's actually happening like you're just you're sitting back and you read something prison going to hell and then people tweeting and you're just

like what the fuck is going on and that's exactly people are just piling on and you kind of like you're just kind of in a corner with your hands up like ready to just be like you know you're in that uh like self-preservation because people are just back and you kind of into a corner to speak up you're forced to do something or oh he stands here and he's this and that and now it's political and really like you just have no time to digest what you're wanting to do but I assume that that's had that that fucking suck because even though we're like

you know it's a badass like headline because you think if you see 20 years from now people if you see like Johnny Cash watch Johnny Cash go from prison to hell I'm sure that's hanging up in somebody's wall because it's like oh that's a badass yeah Johnny fucking cash at the time

when you're just seeing that you're like wait what the fuck then your phone's going off and then this happened then you're reading about people who have your number and they're tweeting they're already deciding I mean obviously it's not it's tough to handle when it's going on. Yeah, fuck you. I didn't say a whole lot at all.

I was like, first of all, I wasn't going to apologize because I didn't feel like I had anything to apologize for. I didn't force anybody to come to that show. They chose to come to that show. There's still a lot of people. There were 7,500 people in Jacksonville and Florida last Thursday that chose to come to a show. Yeah. And just because now

it's more acceptable, like, is it really? We don't know shit about this vaccine. Well, based on some of the data and stuff with the NFLPA is like some of the numbers and percentages are still the same as they were in last July. But now it's more acceptable. I don't know why.

I don't fucking care either. What I do know is if states are going to allow us to play, I'm going to play. Yeah. And I want to employ, I want to give my guys money. Yeah. I want to give them a fucking job. Speak to that too. Like, especially in the artist world, like, you know, I'm talking with a couple

different managers and they had to get furloughed because they're not able. They were like somebody's tour manager. And now they got to get furloughed because there's just no work. Like when you said you didn't make a dime, because you're trying to get money on the table for your band and whoever your team is like speak on how hard that's been on like your group. It's brutal. I mean, there was a long period of time, probably six to seven months is how long I kept everybody on full payroll. And that is a ton of money.

I don't care what you have. If you're losing that much money every week without bringing any end, you're going to be in trouble at some point. Yeah. So it was awful. I mean, you see your account going that. that down that fast. It's a scary-ass place to be. But at the same time,

that's happening. You're also knowing that if you don't have that happen, that these people that you've been with for eight years that you've built relationship with, you've got to know their families, are not going to have a job. And that sucks.

Like, I don't want that for them. Yeah. And that's why I held on so long for my band and crew of paying them. That's why I'm doing shows now to continue to get these guys' jobs, continue to slowly work our way back into a normal life.

It's interesting that this is the first time I'm hearing about that, that you've chose to pay your ban for six or seven months, and I'm sure some people didn't. How is that not an article? You know what I'm saying? I don't know, but it's, you know, and not that it necessarily like needs to be an article, but there is like stuff that, yeah, you're just unaware.

People just aren't aware of it because it's not the hottest thing. Oh, this is going to be, you know, this is going to be a great hot take. Right. Yeah. Well, yeah, and especially with it you can't write an article like going to hell. The headline can't be going to hell. that you know what I mean helping out the band for whatever reason people just want to hate people these days and it's the most confusing thing ever people people people are becoming more and more reactive

and I think people the more social media comes out and the more there's so many new ways to engage of people and there's so many new ways to make money I think people want that dream of that and then don't really know how to go about it and then they see people with success doing things and they want to be reactive and get a response and they have chase rice they have a celebrity talk to them back because I can tell you you're a piece of shit and you say fuck off like oh I got I did something now yeah you know what I'm saying there's a there's a need to like that makes them feel relevant in the situation but I think uh jelly roll he was on here two days ago brought it up perfectly

it was like your emoji is a fucking a Pokemon you're right yeah yeah yeah your profile yeah you don't like you're just a fucking troll yeah that's what most of these people are I I'm I'm super intrigued by the Kelsey Ballerina thing because I'm just like do you think she did you read the article? I don't know. That thing to me, I wonder where we're hit her heads at now. After that, after a year, you know what I'm saying?

People will ask me like, what do you think of her? What do you think of Marin Morris also spoke out on? I don't, I don't really have a thought. I haven't talked to them, so I'm not going to sit there and speak into that. Do I hate their music now? No, I think their music's sick. Yeah. I especially think Marin's unbelievable.

But my biggest thing from all of it would be, y'all just be open to more conversations as opposed to just fucking thrashing people on social media that gets us nowhere right yeah absolutely nowhere and i think about the time it was june like we didn't know if we were gonna have football then we didn't know what the hell was going on the world was like and that's like probably the peak of everything and i think like you just said numbers are the same as they were in july right now according to the nfl p a's argument versus ota's right now that's the whole thing going on with us and it's like uh i think the only thing that's changed is people have become more impatient like they thought okay this would be a six-month thing

or it's a year hey 2020 sucked you know 2021 is gonna be way better and you sit there and we're getting towards that halfway point of 2021 we're going not a whole lot's fucking changed you know yeah and I think uh I think even people whatever side of the fence you're I think people are getting impatient

yeah and they're thinking I've always thought I well not always I remember thinking last year like wait a minute we're not going to tour till June that we're going to be out way before that yeah right yeah they knew the one show and it's like okay never not we're not going to be out. But then this year, I like, my mindset was the opposite.

It's like, we're going to have shows here and there. It's going to get going. Fall might be rocking a little bit, but 2022 gets your ass ready. Because I do believe by 2022, I'm not putting up with it. Yeah. Famous last words, man. I'm going. I'm going.

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Download Blockfolio today. How good was it performing the first, it was your first show last weekend? Yeah, it was Jacksonville. We had a full band show in Jacksonville. Then we had two acoustic shows in Atlanta. The Jacksonville was awesome. It was unbelievable, man, because it was not as rowdy as our standards, I guess, are way lower now. Yeah.

It would be for a normal show because you don't go into it with like, this is going to be epic. I went into thinking, I don't know what's about to happen. Right. And everything was, oh, the front was a lot of space for people. then the back there was a, you know, a little barrier. And it was as far as you could see people. No shit. I don't know what it looked like.

They did have pods set up, but it looked like a lot of people. And it was, but it was all positive. Everybody was happy. Everybody had a blast. It was good. Florida and Texas have definitely taken the reins saying, we're fucking going. Which is who am I to say. Florida is at the beginning.

That's kind of how Florida is. I didn't even believe in a COVID. Yeah. That place is fucking wild, dude. Last year we went out, we were like, let's drive down to Destin. How bad? We went out with the biscuit, Brad. And you go out there and we were in Florida and you're like, oh, it doesn't necessarily exist.

No, that she doesn't exist out there. It was a different world in Florida. Florida is a different fucking place. Yeah. So what made this concert, you doing this concert right now, okay, compared to last year? How many more people did this concert? Oh, there was 6,500 more people. But also, like, I want to say, like, between the vaccine.

nation stuff and like concert whoever runs that side of the industry they like you were saying pods like they were kind of talking about that toward the end of the year um last year about like how concerts might adapt in the future and shit like that so yeah they'll out of there that won't stick there might be sections where people can do it because not because of COVID but because oh that was kind of nice being able to have my own VIP section yeah but no it's going to go back to full on at some point because that's the only way that the artists can afford to do it. Yeah.

Full ban and pay everybody and pay their expenses and still make money themselves. I wonder if it'll turn into this like, like in the 90s when you go to a restaurant and they'd be like smoking or non-smoking. Like one side will be COVID or non-COVID. Like people, oh, you're from Florida? Non-COVID. Oh, you're from California? COVID.

I do vaccinate or non-vaccinated? Yeah. I do spots in my show sometimes will be left side versus right side. And whatever side say the right side would be the non-COVID. Yeah. And the left side is the COVID people that are. I guess more cautious with it. That would be fun to see

because I guarantee the non-COVID would be a bunch of fucking crazy people going nuts. Just a mosh. Yeah, just going nuts. And then over here, everybody just sitting and relax. Reading a newspaper, we're smoking a cornucat pipe, something, doing something elegant. Yeah, something real.

Kind of looking over at the other side. Like, literally these barbarians over here. I can't wait for things to get back to normal. I mean, I kind of stay out of the whole, like, vaccination, non-vaccination. I'm neither for nor against at this point. Like, do what you want. Do what you want.

Yeah. I do have a problem with people shaming people for not getting it. Yeah, that's tough to hear. Because it goes back to people just want to fucking blast other people for no reason. Nah, you're not going to tell me what to put my body. And I'm not going to tell you what to put your body. Don't get the vaccine. Don't go get it.

I don't care as long as it leads to me being on a stage, singing to thousands of people. Yeah. Fucking raging. And still the pace for the buffalo. He said, fucking raging. Talk about your new single. You got a new single that's out. You just made a music video.

Yeah. That was a. So drink a beer talking God, amen. I worked with FGL from the time I moved to town. We lived in a house on Benham Avenue and Green Hills. And now the houses that are nice. The house we lived in was not much bigger than this. Killer?

So it was very nice. It was extremely nice. Extremely nice. Stickers on the ceiling just like. And no, but we were just trying to figure it out. Nobody would write with us. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with us, which is fair, actually, because you've got to earn your stripes.

Why would they? Yeah. They didn't know who we were. And then we wrote Cruz. FGL already had something going with themselves for the publishing deal and all that. So that was all cool. Then we split our separate ways. We just don't do our own thing, which was used for me.

It made me go write with other people. It made me go find another crew of people to write with, which made me a better writer. And then 10 years later, here we are. I was actually going on stage at Brassy Mountain last year when Brian texted me. He was like, dude, I'll tell you how we make this song extra special. CRFGL collab, let's go. And I was like, I'm in. Done.

So, yeah, I didn't know, once again, going back to taking a year off, lonely if you are was my last single, and that died at eight, got to the top 10. And that became a massive hit, which I did not know that it was a massive hit until Thursday night in Jacksonville,

when all of a sudden I start playing it, and they go nuts. Yeah. Same to drinking, beer, talking, God. That song's going to be nuts, man. It's, like, we start playing. playing and people just are already going nuts and it's in the 30s or 20s right now. That's got a lot of life left.

That's awesome. And is that what you made the music video on? Yeah. So you talk about sitting around the fire? Yeah. Yeah. So that was, we just wanted to keep this simple. That's what we used to do at Benham or the brew house.

We lived that. And yeah, I just wanted to be us sitting around a fire that a robot. It was nuts how they filmed it and everything. But I just wanted to be simple. I wanted to let the song speak for yourself. What's it like making a music video? It can be hell or it can be easy. I was, we're lonely if you are.

I was only in like two or three scenes. So it was easy. I was just hanging out the whole day, chilling. Yeah. Drink of your talking, God. I mean, we were going probably four o'clock in the afternoon until about three, two, three in the morning somewhere. It's a lot of work, but that one was fun because we literally were just,

we had a lot of beer, broke out some whiskey, and then it was easy. Yeah, it's fun. All we had to do was sit around the fire and sing. Yeah, so you're right ripped around 2, 3 o'clock. Oh, 3 a.m. I was hammered. Game over. Yeah, which was awesome. Yeah, I love that. Do you get, like, the creative direction in that process? Like, do you get, like, the input on how you wanted to look, or do, like, producers and production kind of handle that stuff?

For that one, I did it all before. Like, me and TK. had the talk. You know, had conversations about what I like, what I didn't like. We figured out the treatment. Then I said, TK, it's yours. Go with it. Because I didn't really have a full vision for it. For some other videos, I can go completely different. Like, there's a video for the bench seat song about it. the dog that I'm going to do, that I'm going to be a huge part of directing because I know the story in my head and the way to show that. Yeah.

Yeah, especially if it's about your buddy who you, you said he was in high school, right? Yeah. Dog's a kid. College. He was my college roommate. No doubt. You might know him. He played in the NFL for a while.

He was Garrett. Garrett, what's his last name? Reynolds. Garrett Reynolds. What do he play? He was offensive lineman for the Falcons. Garrett Reynolds. I don't know if I do know him.

When did he, when did he play? He was probably 09 to. 18 somewhere I mean we overlap then it's a nice little career yeah yeah good it's a nice career are here 10 right yeah are you able to talk it all about like uh that story with him and the dog yeah absolutely he

uh so he was just going through a lot of tough stuff I mean life's hard in general life getting hit in the head all the time is even harder yeah um so he was just going through a bunch of stuff he visited me about three years ago and just starts talking to me about

all the depression and stuff that he was going through. And so I go up to the room, I flip on the light. I'm like, I was just kind of like, what are you here? Like, what's going on? They're more than welcome, but what are you actually here for? Yeah. He was doing some, you know, just therapy and stuff, just getting his head right.

And he's getting his head right emotionally or getting his head right because of all the hitting? Both. They were looking at both. And so he was just in an awful place. I'd never seen him like that in my life. He wasn't the buddy that I grew up. Yeah. Yeah.

And so I said, all right, dude, well, I'm here for you, however you need it. Like, let's go. Let's get this shit right. And so he put all the work in. And then fast forward literally two or three years later a few months ago. He was on my back porch. We were just sitting there having a blast. We're just drinking around the fire, having a blast like we used to back in college.

And he comes up with these song ideas every now and then he shoots him to me. And he said, I think he said something about, dude, you should do like. a dog song about a guy in his truck or something. I was like, oh yeah, I'll just do a song about a guy and a dog in his truck. Classic country. That's never fucking many of the country before. Exactly. And so we just start laughing.

It was the first one to come out. Yeah, we start going down that road. And I start mumbling this melody that's just an absolute joke. Right. And then I was like, dude, what if we actually did do a real song about a guy and his dog, but make it real, make it personal, make it kind of like our stories. And the ups and the downs and how this dog can come. save your life and while we're doing this butters is right on on my lap and butter's like perc's

it's all excited it is a cool um and then about three days later i texted him i just texted him like dude i wrote it and it was it was a time i was doing my time with god in the morning in my breakfast room and i start pull out my guitar and i start picking i'm like oh shit like it was one i had to buckle down for yeah it's like oh my god i'm gonna be here the next eight hours and i got to tell this story yeah and so it's called bench seat it's literally there's gonna be three dogs in it there's gonna be a puppy, mine, which is going to end up being mine, picking them up May 16th. And then there's going to be a middle-aged dog, which is, I think, going to be my, my guy's dad, and there's going to be an older dog for the end of the video when that happens.

So I'm not putting out the song. I can only tell what that end of the video happens. Is that puppy go? It's positive, okay? Oh, me. I can only do it. I watch Marley and me, not even all the way. No, no.

Seen Marley and me if you've seen a dog's purpose. Dude, a dog's purpose. Dude, bro. A dog. And then at the end, too, is the dog's purpose one, the racing? I don't know. Is that the racing one? I don't know if it's racing.

No, it's like the dog. Which one am I thinking of? The dog dies and comes back as a different dog. And then, like, saves a cop's life. That movie dies again. Fucked up. I haven't watched a dog's purpose. How bad you cry?

How bad you cry during that movie? It's okay. It's okay. I don't know if I actually did cry. Yeah, yeah. Not during the movie. Like the other day. Hey, you're safe here, man.

I don't think I cry. I probably teared. up a little because it hit me enough for me yeah to want to go write this song called bensi and it's it's it's the best song i've all i've ever done but i don't want to p i don't want people to guess what happens yeah yeah yeah yeah doing the video at the same time as the song because i want them to be very clear what happens in this story when does uh when does the video and song come out well now that i got the dog lined up i'm going to hit up uh the director and we're going to go through some dates and figure it out we got to get a female where i want to i want a girl who can be emotional

She's going to be have to be real good I don't want a model I want somebody who can actually You know who they are Yeah And be emotional I'm gonna imagine Imagine like Bradley Cooper

In a Star is born Fucked up type of guy Okay We're gonna go for something like that with me Which is easy for me to do Because I've lived that Literally exact life So it's like I'll just be me

But there's gonna be a dog involved And it's gonna be interesting So now I'm gonna hit him up And get that dialed in Because now I got the dogs lined up Are you gonna cry in the video Oh I don't know.

I'm not going to push that either way. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to be real if it happens. I will say, you asked that I cried during a dog's purpose. I don't remember. I don't, but during that song,

I'm sitting there bawling my eyes out. Really? When I'm writing the song, yeah, because it was so real. I cried in the work tape when I'm singing it. Yeah.

It was just like, there's so much bad shit that could have happened over with my life last few years, but especially with Garrett's life and other people. It's like, man it didn't happen and that's why I was crying because it was just like a

well shit I'm glad it didn't go that way yeah damn it's awesome I it's definitely one of those things of looking back on your life and thinking all the roads that you had a crossroad in the one you took and then you look back and say well what if I would have took that one no doubt dude that's the shit that like we'll make you tear up a little bit because it'll be you could have been a way

different story well then you think about all the positive and the good stuff that's happening your life now and be like this would never happen never yeah you can't I can't imagine my life being in the other way but it's like I could have been judging just like that too but just a different way yeah and that wild choice to be making stuff like that

and they slow down before we start I'm fired up I'm fired together I'm excited for this song this next record I'm putting part three out here in about a month which is a finalizing the album I did part two part one last year and I'm doing part three

finishing it up and it's got four good songs on it drinking beer, talking God being one of those and then three other ones. And then I'm also got a full album coming out next year that's going to be like, it's going to be the best music I've ever done.

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I forgot what I was going to ask now. I asked you to shit, though, that you just a little bit of there. Go ahead. I think I was going to ask something about Is the album that's coming out next year Is that you said it's some of your best music? Is that you writing all of it? Is that you teaming up with different people to write it?

There's three songs so far that I've written by myself With just me and a guitar And that's what's gone back to A lot of people aren't gathering Getting together to write So you're not going to have a track guy in the room Making the beats and whatever All the sound that you hear

While the songs be written, you're not going to have any of that. It's just you and a guitar which you can't cover up the lyrics with all the other shit going on when that happens. You have to write good lyrics when that's the case. So that's what I've gone back to it, and that's what 2020 caused, was me to go back to me just writing with an acoustic guitar and simplifying it and actually telling a good story as opposed to just trying to write a hit.

I think there's a lot of hits out there that are fucking terrible, including some of mine. Sure. I look back on some of my... What's a song of years that you're like, I can't believe that's a hit? Well, that's a hit. I think the ones that were hits, they earned it. I'm just more, for me, it's a lot of my other cuts. There's a song called Party Up that I put on a record that I think is trash.

Yeah. I think it's awful. Did you know it was trash when you were singing it? No, I thought it was awesome. And then you look back at it, man, what the fuck was I wearing that? What was I doing that? I said that to buddies and they're like, what are you talking about? It's great.

I'm like, no, it's not great. It might sound cool, but it's not. hear the song now you're like kind of like I won't even listen to it. Fucking I know what that's like. That's like that you just start playing it. There's a good list of songs that are like that for me that I'm like, if you could just take those away,

then I'm happy with my career so far. But they're there and they'll never go away. Can't take those away, man. Makes the good ones that much better. That is true. That is true. They can all be. You say some hits though right now or not it though?

I hear some shit I'm like, this is terrible. I'm not going obviously say who's and what. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I hear some of the mainstream shit that you just know a lot of monies behind it. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Well, especially with country music, like kind of jelly roll with saying that was interesting. They can just take somebody and say, we're going to put a million dollars into you and you're going to have the number one song, bang, bang, bang, just like this. That should not be the way it is. But it is that way, right? Like, you got to work it a little bit. You got to work the latter. Yeah, then you got a guy like Chris Stapleton who nobody would run into. His career's over.

He put out a traveler. He even said, like, well, I guess my country career is over. And then all of a sudden he blows up because they give him the opportunity to show how good he is. And that was just a small part of it. The rest of the steel drivers for a lot of damn good. He was in the steel drivers before that, right? Yeah. That's what's crazy to me is knowing that he was part of like another band and shit beforehand.

I'm like, damn, that is. It's just not how it all happens for people. But I think there's a lot of trash that needs to go away. And for me, that is not my control at all. So all I'm thinking about is how do I not become part of that trash? Because I want, and I'm not knocking country music in general. I'm just saying we, I think we need to get a little more real. And for me, I need to get more real.

Because like I said, I can't control what everybody else does, but I need to get more real because there's stories that need to be told. And they need to be told better. How do you put yourself in that position, though? Well, I think times a lot of it, just growing up in general. I was coming off of, I'll say it. I was coming off a cruise. Then I had ready set roll, which is similar sounding. Yeah.

Pop sounding, which is awesome live. I'm not taking any way Yeah, yeah. It was a hit. Yeah, it was huge. And then, where was I going with that? You were talking about

how do you put yourself in a position to be real? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was coming off of those two songs back to back. So all I'm thinking is, shit, how do I keep doing that? Because that's working.

Yeah. As opposed to, okay, that worked, but how do I just be great? How do I write great songs? How to write songs that matter that can actually affect people as opposed to just singing about who the fuck knows what you're singing about.

Right. I want songs that matter that you can look back on in 30 years and be like, damn, that song's still good. Yeah. That to me creates longevity. And it takes time for you to get to that place in your mind, to grow up a little bit to be mature enough to realize, I don't want to chase what's popular because that's going to come and go.

But if I chase what I know I'm great at and dial in on that, then I know two things. I know that I'm going to be the best version of me, and I'm going to sing the best songs that I can sing, and I'm not going to be anybody else, which is huge. Because why would I try to be Chris Stapleton? He's way better than everybody.

Yeah. So don't try to chase that. Is Chris Stableton the best in the game to you right now? He's most talented, for sure. Yeah, you think so? Yeah. To me, I think Eric Church is unbelievable. I was going to bring him up as an example of somebody that's done their own thing.

He's done his own thing. It seems like he's, I think Chief and Sinners like me, those two albums, I don't know if he says an interview or someone that said this to me, but someone Bob, like he was kind of doing what the production company kind of wanted him to do, kind of the bad boy outlaw thing. And then his more recent albums have been

more his kind of the way he views it and the way he wants to do, like from a, learning from a three-year-old, those types of songs. I mean, it's great songs. It's great songs. But what are great songs? Because you can have the best lyrics in the world, but if it sounds like shit, no one's really going to buy it, right? You can have the best story.

But if it, you know, and what is that noise? because some people might think pop country is bullshit. And then other people think outlawed country is old. And then you have guys like Midland who have like the 70s, like they're almost making fun of the 70s and 80s. That's how 20 they can get, you know what I'm saying? So it's like there's so many ways to skin this cat. How does that cat look for you?

Because you say you're not trying to chase what the most popular thing is. But in some ways you can put the realness of your lyrics with the popularity of some beats and stuff like that. Which I will do on some. Like ready set, let's roll and stuff like that. you can do those to kind of transition yourself into it what Eric Church has been able to do. Yeah, Eric's, I think, I'm not part of his camp or anything, so I can't fully speak into it. But I think a huge, huge thing for him has been Jay Joyce. Jay Joyce is an unbelievable producer.

They started this thing together. They built it together, and they're both talented enough to make it great. And who else does she work with besides him? Jay's a guy. Jay Joyce is the producer for Eric Church. does uh i think he did um a little big town for a minute but he was like caged the elephant yeah way back in the day like he was he came from the rock world no rest for the wicked dude it's a great song you can hear that in there it's music a little bit yeah but i but for me i'm not

going to chase that that's that's his thing what i am going to do is i'm going to write the songs that i want to write no matter how they sound but find the key in my voice and then take it into the studio and not just rely on one producer to make everything on on a piano. That's what we did a lot with Ray Set Roll, like Chris Ostefano, not knocking him at all. He's one of the most talented humans on the planet. But because he's so good, we got in there on a keyboard. He did the drums on that. He did all the electric guitars.

There's no diversity in the music. And there's no live sound of going into the room and being like, damn, I don't know what y'all just did, but you locked in one. And that's the take and then building on that. I hear you. the um fuck i i had a had a question for you so when oh explain to me what do you mean by i'm not a part of eric's camp like the so obviously in the country world like you know you mess with fGL for a little bit and you guys kind of did your own thing but they're still like you can go to them and probably make whatever you want whenever you want and then other groups do their things well why not go

to eric's camp and be like let me bring what i bring to the table along with what eric's able to do kind of his own thing and make that into something special because you with Eric stuff obviously that's an original thing right there Yeah, it would be I would love to work with him more than absolutely And is that kind of his choice?

That'd be his choice Yeah, he's well ahead of the game I mean, he's done music probably 10 years longer than I have One day that'd be freaking awesome Yeah But I don't work with his, I don't have his manager I don't know his people are not who I work with

And that's just It doesn't seem like he's out in these streets like that either Like Eric kind of like keeps himself Very big family guy Obviously from the outside looking at it. I don't know the guy. I'm just a fan. A brand new season is upon us and it is unlocked.

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Explore all these pass options at iconpass.com. But when you, how would that courting process go when you meet with a manager, meet with a producer? Like, is it you guys meet up for drinks? Like if you're trying to meet with this X, Y, and Z producer who's like big time and you want to work with them, How does that process go for a songwriter, country music singer, or anything? For me right now, I go into the studio.

I had a day with Cory Crowder, who's producing some of my stuff now. I typically like to produce the song with who I write it with if they do tracks at all. So like if I write a song, Chris Decefano, we'll go in and we'll meet. But this particular group of songs, I wrote a couple of them with Cory Crowder, and then a couple of them by myself, took them to them, played him about eight songs, send them to them the night before said all right dude let's pick four go in the next day we're talking about before we're talking about if our rock and roll which is one of the songs um sunday best which i'm actually doing with colby calais that's going to be a little bit more pop sounded yeah um and

she's just unbelievable um then i've got she's seen that sound bubbly yeah is that her that's a little banger too yeah that song starts in her toes dude that's a nice little banger though but dude so him I just talked it over and we picked the songs and then we went in the studio and and like for if I were rock and roll we were trying to make it sound like radio why in my head I just wanted to I was like let's let's make this sound like radio like what does they make that sound like radio like for radio like a radio sound and song yeah I got you be good for radio radio radio has certain things that they just are going to play no matter what yeah and then there's certain things there's no way in how they're going to

play I was trying to make this song that is awesome that I wrote on a guitar by myself into a radio song and it sucked. It was so bad. Yeah. And I just looked at Corey. I was like, man, I don't know what to tell you.

I'm pissed off right now because I don't know how to explain to you what I'm hearing. It doesn't look like we're going to get this song. Did he feel the same way that the song was trash? He thought it was okay, but he didn't know it could be as great as what it was about to be. Yeah. And that was because we saw what we did.

We decided to dial it back, not chase anything and just be like, y'all just play. and just keep vibe and keep playing back and forth and let's see what we can come up with. How's that, how that's got to be a frustrating thing

when you're frustrated with the song though like if you're like fuck this isn't sound like the way I wanted to and if someone's sitting there going hey hey just just relax like just go and play with it vibe with it. Fuck that'd be a hard thing to kind of get out of the okay after now set my ego off and be like I can't know that this song sucks anymore

I have to like go find a way for it to sound cool. Yeah because I know the song's good but the way it's sounding makes me hate the song. Yeah yeah yeah. But then we dialed it back. Corey was positive about it. He did what you just said. Like,

let's just play with it five minutes and just see what happens. Yeah. And they dialed it in. They locked it in. Added Schofeld got on like a baritone guitar, electric guitar. And he's, I think he plays for Jason or McGrawl.

Maybe a McGrawl. And I was like, yes, whatever he's doing right there, let's base it all around that. Yeah. Get the drums in there. We're not going big drums.

We're just brushing right along. And it was by the end of the song. It's like, hell yes. I like that. Yeah, dude, it's, I was listening to the last pot on the way over here and stuff. And it just seems like, like, last year at this time, you were talking about how you want to make your best music. And you just don't want to settle.

And you just seem to have, like, kind of that focus to kind of hone in. And you were speaking earlier, too, and I feel like it talks to kind of like having the awareness in the space, too. Like, understanding what you don't like, what you don't want to chase, kind of trying to block out certain noise. So you can focus on, I'm really good at this. And not only did you sound good at this, but you were like, and not only be good at that, but I need to figure out how I live and, hey, this is the right. this is the route I'm going to go and trying to like put yourself in that space and be like the magic's going to come the more I just kind of mess with it and it seems like a lot of that happened for you in 2020 when you're just kind of sitting at home and you got to kind of just actually

reflect on shit and kind of just like live in it and you know you seem stoked about the music that's to come but yeah I guess I'll have to say like I kind of respect the focus you seem like very focused about it yeah I mean I just cool to me it's I'm at a place now where I'm not I'm not going to try to chase something I'm not going to try to chase whatever's popular cool good for whoever but I just want to make music that I'm, I even want to play. Right. There's a lot of songs where I'm like, I said it last week. We have a, we have a guy that's coaching, kind of coaching us through our show at this point.

Because I told him last year, I was like, we got to get better. Coaching through it in what way like he comes to rehearsals, the kind of songs you see and win, the transitions. Transitions. He's big on that. He's big on order of songs. And we have an order that we know works. We've done shows for eight years. But it also open to the fact that, well, it works, but it could work better.

Right. The flow of the whole thing. Is there a place for interaction with the fans? Absolutely. Are you big on that? Oh, yeah. I like that. Love it.

But I don't want to talk a whole lot. I noticed last year we did an acoustic shows. And I listened back at the recording. I'm like, shut the fuck up and sing. Oh, you were like, bro, don't you fucking hate that? Sometimes I'll listen to the fucking pods. And I'll listen to how much Taylor and I go back and forth and stuff. I'm like, we need to shut the fuck up.

You know what I'm saying? Just let the get talk a little bit. Yeah. Or I'm like saying something. I'm like, what the fuck am I saying? right here like just shut up dude watching the film I like that yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly what it is

watching the film yeah yeah but I listen to that and then I told him that during rehearsals last week I was man I just want I want it if I say something if I talk to people I want it to matter like if I'm talking the whole time eventually I don't even want to hear myself talk yeah probably definitely you try to get all McConaughey

where everything is the most enlightening thing you've ever said I know right now just yeah this thing right here go to the next song Yeah. Maybe I just take a deep breath. Have a nice little pause. That always hits him too. Like, oh, he's about to put a banger on right now.

Yeah. Looked out of guitar and fucking slow. Oh, yeah, dude. Panty start dropping that way, dude. That's what we do with ride. One of my songs, ride. Yeah. Crazy fun.

That's what we do with my song ride. You want panties to drop? Hit that thing out by bed. Is it like that? It's just girls go nuts over that song. We were talking to Riley Green about his DMs. I'm sure it just gets outrageous. You put a couple songs out there like that.

Riley was funny, dude. He's a good dude. He's a boy for sure. Oh, Riley's awesome. Yeah. So for my deal, I guess the world I used to live in nonstop. I mean, you can get caught up in that thing for. Shit, that could be a deal.

Yeah. I've gotten completely off it. It's been the night I wrote if I were rock and roll, I got off socials. I sent it to Kaiser, who runs all my socials now and Eddie. And I was like, are you Kaiser? Kaiser. Shut out Kaiser. Like the machine, dude.

Shout out the boy Kaiser. He, but I told him, I was like, I'm done with it. shit man it was right after the Kaiser's in there, fuck concert stuff. Yeah I run the shit for Chase but he sends him a selfie. But if you're trying to get with this, it's all you. Let me see some you guys. I see you're like that game

bro. A little mustache flinging off that lip, dude. I like that shit dude. Fucking out there picking up game. I'll say this. Like not focusing on that anymore is it's made the music better for sure. It's a it's an interesting world that we live in because when

have you ever been to a town where you're not only the life of the party in that town that night, every single girl, for the most part, wants you. Whether they know you or not, doesn't matter. They want you and you can pick whoever you want. That's a fucking dangerous place to be. That's a dangerous deal. Yeah, it's a dangerous game.

I hear this up on stage knowing you're just fucking doing it too. Yeah, bro. One of my teammates from college, one of my teammates from college had a buddy who, he was at a Drake concert. And one of the one of Drake's guys came up to, his girlfriend was like hey Drake wants to meet you and she's like oh okay like y'all definitely meet him and then the guy

started to come with and he got the security guy's like no man just her and he's like hey you better don't go don't go in there if you go in there she's like I don't I just don't even I'm just going to say hi she's there for three hours bro that is so fucking tough I don't know what happened would that be you know exactly what happened in that room I don't know the details but I know if my girl does that it's over she better not even fucking try

she better find a different right at home Yeah. Oh, her ass definitely got a I'm just gonna go say hi. I'm just gonna go say hi. She'll be right now. Don't worry.

Like just sitting there. And you stand in wait? Oh, they had, they know, they were doing, they were in pictures. He said with a drink.

He can't. God, dude. Pour one out for him, man. Jesus. Christ. Here's, here's to that guy.

Yeah. He should be if he's not. I feel bad, man. That's like, oh, they were all taking pictures. Like, I just had to wait.

It's like, it's been 40 minutes. Still there. Yeah. Fucking tough, man. That'd be fucking tough. You want to do a couple, look at a couple of fan questions? Episode 95, dude.

Dude, isn't that crazy? We're about to be at 100? Dude, five weeks, we're at 100. That's crazy. You guys do, is it? Yeah, you don't want a week. Yeah, we do one a week. And we're blowing up, man.

I don't know if you've noticed what I'm doing it. Well, fuck yeah. Yeah, dude. With questions like this, what's your favorite steakhouse in Nashville? Was that? I said, yeah, we're blown up with questions like this. What's your favorite steakhouse in Nashville? That one.

Was it a Blasana? Hey, we need to start writing out the, so we can kind of like, you know, give the fan love for writing that question. Like, we asked a question like, oh, damn, I guess you're just going to take my question. Will there ever be a Chase Rice Bar on Broadway? I'm sure. I was, dude, I was thinking about that earlier because I just did, first of all, no. No, there won't be. Not with my name on.

I like that. But I was thinking about earlier, I went down to Jason Aldeens earlier for lunch and another deal I was doing. And it just doesn't have the same ring to it. In my mind, I guess because it's my name. That's your name or Chase Rice Bar? Same ring, I don't know. But like when you say you're going to FGL House, you're not, you're like, I'm going to FGL tonight or Al Dines.

You're like, I'm going to Al Dines. Mine has an extra like thing on the, Chase Rice's. Are you going to Chase Rice? Yeah. It's like what is that? Is that like a sushi spot? Yeah. Yeah.

Like a bro, a bro. Yeah. You don't see like a half bar half like. Yeah. Guys were pit vipers in there all they all they fucking rolling. We're doing in Cleveland though. We're doing a bar called. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but I'm going to.

It's going to be called Welcome to the Farm. These guys come down from Cleveland and they were like, or they came to a show and they were like, man, we really want to use your name for a bar. And I was like, I don't want you to use my name for a bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we started talking about names. And I was just like, yeah, you know, when these people coming to my place, I got a big old sign that we're about to put up called Welcome to the Farm. They roll through a Twin Eagles Creek farm. And the guy was like, what's wrong with that name right there for your bar?

He said, why don't we come down to your farm? We'll hang for two days. We'll drink. We'll take pictures. We'll chill. And we'll turn your barn or your farm into this bar that we're trying to build in Cleveland. And I think it's just something called Welcome to the Farms. Call it The Farm, whatever.

I'd be done. I like that. I mean, where's it, Old Reds? Old Reds. That's a Shelton. Blake Shelton's. But it's not his name, which I respect. Yeah, I like that too.

And it's a great song. Everyone knows Old Red. I'll tell you what. You name your dog Tonka. Like, hey, Tonka's. Tonka's is a nice place. There's small little tonka toys everywhere. It's a tonka.

The tonka. I'm about that. Who's your favorite songwriter to work with? Oh, man. There's a lot of good ones. Lately where I am right now, Casey Beatherd. Everybody else, you didn't make the cut. There's a lot of songs.

Casey Beather, you're the fucking best, dude. But Casey Beatherd, man, when you go into a song with him, I got a song called Get Me Fishing that I haven't written yet fully. And I, like, I was on a dock and came up with the, idea. I was actually with Brian Kelly from FGL down in his place. And I looked at Brian even. I was like, man, I'm going to write this with Casey Beather. Like, I just

have to write this song with him because I know what I want it to be. I know he can get it there. He was like, fuck yeah, you should, dude. He's in a place where he's actually putting out his own record. They're still doing FGL, but he's putting out his own record. And it's unbelievable. No shit. He's playing me shit. I'm like, damn, Brian. Oh, he's going to be killing it like that. It's good.

I have no idea what's going to work. I don't know what connects with people from outside of what I do. But I hope it does. Is that tough being like being around a songwriter and be like, I got to do with so and so. Like, you know. Not with him because him and I always worked together. He was always about, for me and my career, he was always about,

what's best for you, man, go do it. Which is a cool, supportive guy to be around. And I'm the same way with him right now. I'm like, what's going on with FGL is none of my business. I don't know. Doesn't matter to me. As long as you guys are cool and Tyler's cool with him doing his own record, go do it, man.

Yeah, absolutely. It's, if you want to make fucking music, go make music, as you should. Yeah, right, right. Which I'm supportive. The hell of that. Like, go, and I hope it works. Yeah. Well, he says it sounds pretty good.

You've heard a couple of songs on there? Yeah, he's got a... I mean, he just put out his four, his weight back. So it's four songs. Beach Cowboys is the one that's like he's... Hey, that's a cool title. Beach Cowboys, it's hilarious, though. Like, the video's fucking hilarious.

It's solid like that. I was like your Miami vibe last year. Yeah, it's gonna be playing on beaches all over. I like that. I'm all about the beach five. Beach Cowboys, that's a cool one. Yeah, those guys are talented. Cabo.

A little sneak peek, go check it out. They're talented. They are super talented. Tyler sent me like he spent like nine days and like, we're like 10 songs. On his bus, I think he's on his bus. Yeah, he just sent like I sent him all. I'm like, holy shit. Like they're like he just popped him off too.

That's pretty solid. He wrote Undivided. Yeah, with McGraw. McGraw and then Chris Locke, who was my, who was my electric guitar player. Because of that, Chris Locke can make more on one song than I could pay him for two years on the road.

So he's like, I'm good. He just had a baby, too. I was like, dude, he's like, man, I'm not sure if I'm coming back or not. I'm like, fuck you, Chris. If you do come back, you're stupid. Yeah. Well, good for him.

That undivided song, yeah, I remember where he was telling, talking about that. I was at a feeding Nashville. And he was like, I think McGraw wants this one. And McGraw, put his name on anything. Chris. Tyler. Yeah. Let's tell me that.

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Thank you so much for listening. He was out there at the Ravens game. He was in the suite right next to me. Guys got it. How old is he? 50 something. God, he didn't look anything like it. He's like, he looks like he's in his 40s, maybe.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. He had a big phase, though. A big phase like what? He was puffed up. He was, he was, he was heavy. Yeah, he was like, it was like a healthier looking vibe. He was, he was, he had real skinny there for a second, too.

Yeah, he got real skin. Real skin. I didn't say nothing to him because I just feel like the last thing people fucking. He's saying. He was skinny. He was shredded. Yeah, he was a workout. Him and Kenny Chessing, I feel like went through the same vibe, but like similar times.

Yeah. They both are like skinny cats. That's true. They came up together, so. No doubt. What else? We should be good. What time are we at?

I don't know, man. 108. That's perfect. Dude, thanks for coming on, man. This has been fucking fun. He crushed it. As always. I'm always afraid these days, like, what can you say?

What can you say? At the end of the day, fuck it. No, you'd be honest and be real. We're doing good, but we're not making national news right now. So I think you'd be all right. This is a good little side piece. Yeah, and anything that gets like too hardcore, you know, usually will, anything, anything that somebody doesn't want.

one in, he usually hit us up because our whole... Because, I mean, Portnoy goes after people. Well, pornoy don't, it's not... It's his rules. There's no, yeah. He had a sex tape come out a week ago and... He's like, so what, I fuck. I have sex.

How crazy is that? And dude, the video is aggressive. Yeah, aggressive. He's like choking the bra and stuff, but he comes out. He was like pissed that the pen stock was going down. He's like, my stock's going down because of my sex video. So what? I have consensual sex.

Like, I get a little weird. I've gotten a little older. I got a little older. I'm not mad. I showed that video at Taylor and I go, hey, what do you think about this? He's got a fucking belt around around. I can go by a belt right now. Let's figure this shit out.

Hell yeah. No, I listen. As long as the shit's consensual, you guys can do whatever you want. Dude, put fucking candle wax on each other. He can do whatever fucking want. Yeah, exactly. Do what you want. Consensual, go for it.

And you got to know, like, getting in a world with Dave, too. Like, you're just going to have to know, hey, whatever happens, it could be, it could be media or any kind of news because he ain't going to withhold doing anything. Yeah. because he owns his own shit too. But all right man. Hell yeah. Big shout out to you guys. If you enjoyed this episode

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