Bussin' With The Boys - Riley Green

Episode Date: August 24, 2020

Recorded: March 3, 2020 Country music artist, Riley Green, joins Will & Taylor on The Bus the day after tornados ripped through Nashville. The Boys have been holding onto this one for a little bit, and it's a HEATER. To start it off, The Boys dig into the inspiration behind Riley's monster single, "I Wish Grandpas Never Died," and they discuss what it was like coming up in a small town in Alabama. Next up, Riley recalls his time in college gigging at bars while playing QB for Jacksonville State University. He then reveals that he was once a contestant on the reality show, Redneck Island, and how he actually won the whole deal. Later on, Riley lists a few of his favorite venues he's played, who he looks up to most in the industry, and The Boys break down a couple of his more questionable Instagram posts. A LOT of chirps throughout in this one so lock in. Great pod from start to finish. Riley is definitely #ForTheBoys ----- 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.comFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The grandpa's never died. I wish Grandpa's Never Die. Yeah. I was stoked. Number one song. I found that out. I said, you know. Why?

Well, because I heard the jam. I heard the tune. I loved it because I love my grandpa. Sure. RIP. Will Compton, Sr. That's yours. But, and, you know,

You know how I rock that hat if Mama ain't happy and nobody happy? That's right. It's my grandpa's hat. So, big grandpa guy. So hearing that song, obviously, huge fan. Probably the best name for a song you can have to. It's probably the most stereotypical country song without it out there. I disagree.

To write the most stereotypical country song is probably the goal. That's got to be it. I do remember the title I wrote down, my granddaddy passed away in February last year. I was in Vegas, found out, got on a plane, flew back to Nashville, and drove home. I got the Alabama like three in the morning and wrote the title down, which grandpa's never died. Really?

Didn't write it for another couple months, but I didn't want to write just a song about my grandpa. You know what I mean about like us fishing and doing this and that, whatever. That's kind of been done before. So I just wrote a song and I thought was like, if I was having a conversation with the two of them the day, what would they ask me like, hey, man,

what do you think about traveling the country? How's it been? What would you change about this and the other? And that was kind of the thing. That's unbelievable. That's awesome. Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I apologize.

Well, you know, that's just part of it. You guys are obviously really close. too close with all your family? Yeah, my whole family lives within about 10 minutes of me in Alabama. So my grandmother, Lola Jean, still lives at the bottom of the hill. My granny, my great-grandmother, she was 98, just passed away over Christmas. So, like, I grew up around my whole family, and they had a lot of influence on me, obviously.

That's unbelievable. When do you get into country music, so did you play sports? I did. I played football, baseball, and basketball all through high school, and then I played football at JSU for my couple years. Is that Jacksonville State? Jacksonville State, yeah. He has just a powerhouse out there. Gamecocks, man.

The game cox. Yeah, the best one, too. Yeah, we were pretty tough, and we were, uh, what position? I was a quarterback. You could sling that piece or what? I used to could throw it, man, back in the day, yeah. Were you big, uh, football was number one?

Do you, like, I'm going to the NFL? No. No, you thought, I'm going to play a little college ball and get out of here? That was one thing I learned about playing the little college football was there's no shortage of good athletes. Like, that's something I didn't know about. Like, obviously, we had some decent players. in my region when I was in high school, but like we got transfers from every division one school

every year. Like we would get some players in the fall that were high school graduates, and then in the spring we'd get a whole other team. Really? Because we were Division I, AA, you didn't have to sit out a year to come to Jackson State. So guys had got in trouble or maybe didn't make grades or got injured or whatever it was would transfer to JSU. And that was actually, I was the starting quarterback in 2008, and we signed Ryan Perilu

off of LSU's national championship team. Oh, no way. It was Matt Flynn's backup, you know. So he was obviously a lot better player than I was. But we had that every year. And that was one thing I picked up was a man, there's just a lot of great players. Guys come in and out all the time. Oh, yeah.

I always think to myself, because I was a guy that was almost ineligible. I didn't go to the University of Michigan, but I was this close to working construction the rest of my life. Like I was no offense. People working construction, that's a hard job. Same. But it's like, I always think to myself, like, what about like, there's got to be so many athletes for one reason or another, whether they get in trouble, don't have the grades,

that could easily be from an athletic standpoint. in the NFL, but that just aren't. Without a doubt. And the other thing is, and it, you know, it was like linemen. We would have a lineman that wasn't 6-7. He was 6-4. So you got that, like Alabama's going to get the cream of the crop, Auburn. You know, we were competing against all those guys in recruiting,

but you got guys that are just as good a ballplayer, but on paper. Right. Just didn't have that. A little too short. 350, not 375, you know, whatever it is. So there's a lot of great ballplayers out there. And, you know, like I said, the injury thing, and then the grades and staying out of Trouble is another big part of it with all the eyeballs. Players got on them now. So there's a lot of

good ballplayers out there. I did learn that. Was there some guys that you played with that ultimately played in the NFL? Yeah, it was a guy named TJ Heath from Alexandria that ended up going NFL. He was a great ballplayer. I saw a lot of guys that were like TJ that were great high school players and got to Jacksonville State and became really great ballplayers. You know, and there was a guy named Duane Talbert. There was a big old boy played defensive line, and he was a pretty good high school player at Jacksonville with me, got up there and just started working. And that's the thing is you don't, a lot of times you don't have those coaches that are really going to push you like you do in college.

Because, I mean, it's a job you don't get paid for when you're right, unless you're really good. You're expected to do your shit and then get out there. Exactly right. When did you get in the music? Right around that time, my granddaddy Buford was a big country music fan. He had old guitar and I'd like sit around and play with him. But as far as like doing it and going out and playing in bars, I was in college. So you were the man then probably at Jacksonville State?

Yeah. Quarterback, hey, slinging it. People didn't come. Got the guitar? Oh my God. Late nights at the bar. Yeah. I'll tell you what, dude.

There's a little bit. But everybody talks like that in Jacksonville. Yeah. Everybody talks like that down there. There's this old boy. He's a good de lineman. Yeah. I probably got into it in college.

He's making funny. You've been on, we've been on for five minutes. He's already making funny. Hey, no, no, no. I'm probably going to stand up for yourself on this podcast. I guess. No, no.

Disrespect. No disrespect. Don't try to start something. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm always trying to stir up Will a little bit. I mean, yeah, you'd playing football such a fun time, and D1DAA

didn't have the opportunity, didn't get recruited D1A Didn't have the opportunity. Didn't have the opportunity to get out there, but I mean, playing football at the boys is awesome. And being from that area is pretty cool too. Yeah, well, that was like a 13th grade for us. Yeah. I went to Jacksonville High School, so I was right there.

Oh, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, like, I had a couple opportunities to go play baseball to a smaller school here or there, but just playing football in the same city that I grew up in, that was like, that was cool. Your family come to all the games. I didn't interrupt you. Oh, yeah, no, we, I was just going to say we played our home high school games in Jacksonville State Stadium for a long time.

We didn't have a stadium. Yeah. So, I mean, like, that's just, that was home. That Jacksonville State was, oh, yeah, you were definitely the man. It was cool, man. Swinging that thing around, man. Yeah. That's awesome.

Where he grew up and everything, too. Buford, your grandfather's name is Buford. Buford, Green, and Lyndon and Lyndon Bonds. Buford and Lolaein and Nancy. Dude, that's something out of a movie. I've got a Francis Higginbotham. She called me a while ago earlier. Francis Higginbotham.

Yeah, for Higginbotham. That's unbelievable. Higginbotham, yeah. She called me to make sure the tornado didn't get me. Yeah, I tell you what. So where do you live around, you don't have to say specifics, but where do you live around Nashville? Mount Juliet. Okay, so it went through there, didn't it?

It did, yeah. It was a little bit north of me. It was on those side of 40 for me, but without giving the exact coordinates. Yeah. Were you up last night? Yeah, I was. I saw the lightning was kind of going crazy. So I went out and was watching for it.

Power went out, obviously. My phone wasn't working, so I really didn't. I mean, it's the same issue a lot of people came in. I guess you didn't really know what was happening. Power goes out. You don't have one of those little radios or something or a way to keep up with it. Yeah. So it's a little scary.

That stuff is while. I grew up in Arizona. So there was never a thought of a tornado and I went to Michigan, said that already. Weird. But they had like a couple tornado scares, but never did I ever think it was a big deal. I say that ignorantly now knowing that the damage it's caused. But it's, I literally slept through the whole thing. And it landed, you know, two, three miles from where I live and just started going.

but it was just, do you watch a Bachelor? No. That's how we were finding out too. And it was playing the weather channel just basically playing it's like, well, I don't think it's going to come back in.

Yeah, we're not going to catch the show tonight. I'll tell you what, I know, I know that Bachelor show is ridiculous, every sense of the word, but damn it, it really gets you going.

Really? Yeah, it does. See, now I don't want to watch. Do you make fun of it? The Bachelor? I don't really know anything about it. I know what the premise is,

but I've never watched enough of it to really. Like, if one of your boys, I apologize. what's what's Harrison if Harrison was on the Harrison was like hey you want to watch the Bachelor tonight what would you say? I know I know you make fun of him yeah Harrison you don't know yeah I'd make fun of

oh yeah I'd make fun of Harrison for sure yeah yeah he's watching a couple of times no doubt and I was the same way and I just I was getting an Ivy with Taylor and then we're the first episode of The Bachelor was playing and I was I got I got involved I got sucked in I can tell by how he's sitting he watches the bachelor hell yeah

I wish you was on the camera he's got a pink robe on right now People sit like that watching the bachelor. I'm sitting like this too. Hey, Harrison, you watch The Bachelor? I might have been watching last night. He said I might have. But it went off. It went off and then it was all the storm warnings.

Yeah. Yeah, and just a quick thing, if you guys want to go help people that have been affected by the tornado. You can go to our website, go to Barstow's website. Yeah. Purchase of Nashville Strong T-shirt. All proceeds go to the people that were affected by the tornado. Yeah. But back on The Bachelor, though.

All right. You know, so you obviously know who Chase Rice is. I'm sure you guys have met before. Yeah. And so there was, did you hear about the situation of him on the bachelor? I saw something about he, he dated the girls on the Bachelor and then he's on the show or something. Yeah. And there's been like a couple things back and forth.

And I don't want to put words and chase his mouth because that's not the kind of person I want to be. But I think he said something like they never, they went on like a date. And like he didn't want her to go on the show or something like that. And she ended up going on the show. Well, the producers of the Bachelor set up a blind date. Like they said it like they do dates. They do one on ones. There's 23 girls and they slowly go down.

And then girls get a card with a date. they don't know who's going. So this Victoria girl ends up going on a date. You know exactly what I'm talking about right now, don't you? Yeah, let's get you back there. So these two go on a date and they go to, what's that amusement park in Ohio? Oh, the one with the Cedar. Yeah, Cedar Point.

Cedar Point. So they go there and then there's a private concert with a country singer going, and this handsome bull with the beard's getting after it. And she's like, holy shit, that's my fucking ex-boyfriend right there. And so it's there on stage and they're from, you know, me to Alice. But they did it on purpose. They did it on purpose. The Bachelor did, but neither of them knew.

Chase nor Victoria. Nobody knew the setup was happening. Wait, did the Bachelor guy that took her on the date know that they used to do? No, they had no idea. So she broke it to him at dinner later that day. He's like, oh, shit. Because he thinks he's the man like, yo, I know you're loving this. And they're at dinner later that night.

And she, you know, starts crying a little bit, real dramatic. And then she's like, he... Man, that's awkward. It is awkward. I was watching. So wait a minute. I just told you that I didn't want to watch the bachelor. Now you got me watching it.

You got to say. It's not good, dude. Y'all get paid by the bachelor to give me. No, no, no, don't watch the bachelor. They don't support both of the boys yet. No free shoutouts. No free shoutouts. But I thought it was such a funny situation.

I was sitting there and I texted Chase and I was like, like, is all this stuff true? I didn't get a text. I don't know what to think of the whole thing. But I tell you what, I mean, I put my wife on that show. She thought I was, she thought it was dumb. She says, this is ridiculous. Why would you put people in the situation? The show is hilarious.

That's kind of how it happens. If you just want to tune off for a little bit, it's awesome. I think it's hilarious. But people are fucked up, man. They do fucked up shit. And when you go, we had a guy who was on the bachelor. He like, or the bachelor's rat. He won the show.

They got engaged. So if you win, you get married. If you win, you get engaged and you go to the. Yeah, it's crazy. And go on Jimmy Fallon. Then you, I'm sure you write a book or something like that. I don't know. Basically, it's a, it's a get popular fast scheme.

You know what I'm saying? There's different, there's different varieties of celebrity. And I would say that's probably on a lower tier on my list. of reality TV celebrity. But so they break up, he comes in the show, and he's telling us that when you go on, you basically sign away your rights. They can depict you in any way they want.

They can make you look however you want. They can cut a scene where you're looking all mad or maybe just staring off in the distance, and then it shows them showing up just to cause drama on the show. Oh, you know, I've lived it. Not The Bachelor. I was on a reality show on CMT.

Were you really? Yeah, it was called Redneck Island. Redneck Island. Redneck Island. I can't believe I'm bringing this up. I'm usually like hoping people don't bring this up in the interviews. We do terrible homework, man. Oh, by the way, I'm Riley.

I'm a country singer. Nice to meet you. Pleasure. Hey, look, was on Redneck Island. You were a winner. Hosted by Stone Cold? Well, I mean, yeah, if y'all want to tell the story, I will. Yeah, hell yeah.

I didn't know if it was important enough to bring up. Oh, yeah. That's important enough to bring up. I was playing a show at the Florida Bama down on the coast, and some guy comes up during my set. And he's like, hey, man, I'm a castan agent for this show on CMT. is called Redneck Island, you'd be perfect for it. I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever, you know, this dude's drunk. Give him a phone number, he calls me from, somebody calls me from L.A.

The next Monday, send over this contract, and it is, like, very plainly, like, can portray you in false light, can do this, that, whatever. So I was, like, very skeptical about doing it. Now, obviously, I was playing country music at the time, so I was like, well. What an opportunity. The problem is, I've never seen anybody on a reality show and thought, oh, my gosh, look how smart that guy is. Yeah.

You know, they make everybody look so crazy. I'm with you. There's always, like, if you watch enough shows, like, there's one or two people. They're, like, you're rooting for them. It's just hard to like a lot of people on there because they're, I mean, they're just, they make you look crazy. They want the drama. That's what makes a show.

So I was a little skeptical about doing it, but I figured, man, if they just mention I play and sing and some people watch it. You just need one person to believe in you, right? So, you know, I went on the show. I was super boring. I slept most of the time. And then one thing about it, if I went on the show when I was about 22, it'd have been all. But I was like 27, you know.

I was pretty boring. I kind of got that little bit of craziness out of my system. Everybody just fought, drank, got hammered. But the competitions were pretty tough, like swimming, kayak, and paddleboard and, like, basically fighting in the pit at the end of the thing. So it was pretty serious, but we ended up winning. Me and my partner was Becky, a little girl from Louisiana. And, you know.

You won. Won, yeah. You won by sleeping through it. Slept through it, man. Hibernated. The whole time. That's a bear's deal. So what happened?

What's the premise of the show? So that's the other thing. It's not like the real world where you're just in a house. Is that him right there? Real world. That's you on the left? I'm not on the right. If that's what you mean.

I'm not the girl in a bikini on the right. That's you right there. It's a great guest, Taylor. You started eating different, man. Like you look a little skinny there. You look a little more buffed up right now. Well, this is a smaller shirt. Is it?

I was skinny. I weighed like 175 pounds out of high school. What are you weighing now? Yeah, two, maybe right around two? Yeah. I'll tell you what. Boy's been getting after it. I don't mean anything by that.

I'm not coming on to you or anything. Thanks. Unless you're interested, then we talk about it, but my wife would be mad. Okay. Let's just hold up. Is it like real world road rules? It's like that. Yeah, the competition is similar to that.

And then they put a bunch of crazy people in the house together. So it's 24 people, 12 guys, 12 girls. And we all compete. And, you know, the drama's there. But it's just like one thing I saw because when the show came on after, we'd go sit around and watch it like in my hometown. And that was fun because obviously I was there, but I didn't know what the hell was going to be on the show.

Right. Because you really don't know how they're going to make you look. So, like, somebody would say one thing and then it would show me staring off like, I'm mad at them. And then they'd walk off and they would show them. But I wouldn't even looking at them. Like I was looking at. So they can do a lot of stuff with the cameras. And there's cameras everywhere on you 24-7.

Yeah. And I never thought that you would get used to cameras being around. But when you wake up on day three and you go in there and you're eating cereal and there's a camera on your face, you finally just get where it's like, you don't even pay attention to it. This is it. I'd be so worried about making myself like an asshole in those things. I think something like an asshole on this thing. You would. You'd be good at it. You'd think I'd be all right?

Yeah, you'd be entertaining. I don't know. They'd get to paint you however. Yeah, so that's the thing. I don't think I'd get the, I'd probably get the short end of the stick at the end of the day. So the other thing was like, we would go film for three days. And then we would do three days worth of interviews. So, you know, when you see them, like sitting in front of a screen of some sort,

and they're like, so this, and they're like commentating their own life. Yeah. That's done three days after it happened. Really? You got to talk about it like it's happening right then. So I'm like, so I'm like, so. I'm walking into the room and this is what I see in that. And, I mean, it would take, like, three or four hours to go and catch up.

She would have a script of, like, what all happened, you know? And some of them, they would, like, get drunk before that. Really? So they would say, like, crazier things. I was always curious about that, too, because they're talking about the situation. I'm like, have they watched, have they watched ahead of time some of their stuff? Are they just giving, they're just getting detailed? No, but the lady will sit there and ask you, she'll have a script of everything that's

happened and what she wants to talk about. But the other thing is, they, like, when they asked me to go to the show, they flew me to Atlanta and put me in a hotel with, I assume everybody else, took your room key, gave you like $100 per die a day to get room service, and they would just bring you like a scantron of a thousand questions. And you'd be like, my dad's a good person, true or false. The work of a library and interest me, true or false, like crazy stuff. Yeah. They could have just had one, I'm crazy, true or false. They ask a million questions. And it's because they would do like psych evaluations and figure out what your personality was, so they knew that you were going to clash

with this person in the house or that. Really? Yeah. Well, it's a hard. thing you had to do on that show because it looked like they were doing some they were like climbing up poles and shit i don't know this guy's falling what's that other show he's got it's like uh skull is yeah uh broken skull ranch broken skull ranch those are some men on there like fighting some stuff like serious they're getting after it and that thing so this stuff's fun yeah but it was it was tough like the the uh the finale took several hours and it was literally swimming kayak and put a puzzle together like this thing right here in the pit is like literally a fight is this when somebody gets It is.

Yeah. So, yeah, if you lose a thing, guy and guy, girl against girls, see, that was me in the yellow. You win that one? I did, yeah. Because he won the whole thing. Yeah, I won the whole thing. And I'm still alive. You can't lose in the pit.

If you lose in the pit, you're out. You're out. That's right. Damn, dude, that's some serious shit. And so you're around all these people, these guys and girls at the time, people just hooking up left and right? There was some going on. I didn't watch it or anything. Yeah, yeah, fair enough.

Yeah. That probably that probably a little creepy. I mean, yeah. Should I go there? Yeah. I ain't watching. You're going to go watch him do it in the? No, I'm good.

I'm going to go to sleep. They would come get me and be like, Riley, get up. We need some B-roll. Are you doing something? Get up and just go. And I'd go like watch them have a food fight in the living room. Just be like,

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Love it. Love sleeping. Big fan, yeah. Big sleep guy. That's a question, right? My dad used to give me. You're a sleeper, huh? A big sleep guy.

He used to give me hell when I was, like, when I dropped out of college and I was doing construction. I would sleep all day and then work a little bit in the afternoon. He'd be like, man, you just sleep in your life way. But I'm like, I enjoy it. Yeah. You're living your best life. I used to set an alarm when I knew it had anything to do so I could get up and have that feeling of going, I can go back to bed. Really? Yeah. That's great. It's a best field in the world. You kidding? That's unbelievable, dude. So you, so did this thing help at all with your music career? I didn't notice anything directly. I mean, obviously, I'm sure some people found me from that, but when I got back from the show, I just went back to playing clubs. And it was

It's kind of the same thing. It just kept kind of growing gradually, and I started writing songs and putting them out, and people started showing up. How hard is it to get in the music, to make a splash in the music scene? It's tough. I mean, with all the things that I've got going on,

I still feel like it's a ripple. You know, I mean, and things have gone really well for me in the last couple of years, but it's just, it's a tough business because there's so many people that are great. I mean, you can go to any bar you want to in Nashville, a riders round,

and listen to guys play and sing that can sing better than I can. Yeah. You know, it's got great songs. It's just I was really fortunate that I played about every hole in the wall bar there was in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and people were having to watch me because they couldn't go anywhere else and get away from me. So I just got my name out there like that. And, you know, they'd let me drink for free and pay me a couple hundred bucks every once in a while. So that was cool, too.

And girls seem to like it. When you say you got so many things going on, like what other stuff you, like you're just constantly riding, constantly playing? Yeah, I mean, riding is one of those things where, you know, you obviously come in town and you schedule riots with other riders and you meet up. But I'm not in town a whole lot, so I'm bringing riders out on the road. road. You know, obviously I wish Grandpa's never died by myself. So I write some songs on my own, too. But on tour with Jason Outing right now, my tour is kind of amongst that.

You know, I'm playing a radio show tomorrow in San Antonio. So, I mean, there's just always stuff going on. We had a meeting today about what songs we're going to record. You know, did another radio interview this morning. So there's just a lot of stuff that I had no idea about that's kind of always going on. That's wild. And then, like, as you're, as you're like getting. bigger and it's it's gradual does somebody like what is it like a label or some company comes in and

identifies you and like hey he's got something like let's work with him and get him around our people and you're kind of like how like how does that all work like as you're growing gradual are you talking about like being categorized of what kind of country singer you should be no no no like yeah once he gets discovered are you like is it you just come along with this management company and then they pretty much put you know their arm around you and you either sign away so how does all that work. I think it's changed quite a bit because there are so many other ways to find music now, because of Spotify. See, I'd put out 25, 30 songs before I'd ever came to Nashville. But I was just recording them on my own and writing them on my own. And, you know, they weren't great quality,

but they were getting me followers. So that was me playing shows and putting out music for what helped me get attention of record labels. A lot of people probably have done it in the past differently to where they come to Nashville, meet a manager. I would say getting a booking agent because you're not going to be booked for shows if you're nobody. But a booking agent can leverage somebody else they have on their staff or another artist say, oh, you want to take out so-and-so, well, then why don't you let this person open for them, that kind of thing. So management would be a big part of it, a booking agent. And then beyond that, it would be them getting you in front of record labels. You know what I mean? If you're really talented singer, I would imagine

Chris Stapleton could sign him with a manager and go sit in front of any label in town and just blow them away with his vocals. I couldn't really do that because I wasn't that kind of singer, but there's a lot of folks that are talented enough to do that kind of thing. Well, do you feel like, how do you feel about the direction country music is going right now? because it's well i mean it's i'm having some success yeah he's like number one on the charts i'm at least number one song yeah uh i'm at least i'm hopeful you know i mean guys like luke combs i was a big fan of luke and he's doing great and he's definitely got that traditional sound john party's got a little bit of it eric church i've always thought it was cool and he can do whatever

the heck he wants and he's got to be the coolest guy out there yeah so i'm like you know it there's definitely making a swing i think country mute's always done that it's always got a you know, and this was the deal for a while, and the more pop sound was a lot more popular for a while. But I think people are getting to where they're wanting something that's, I mean, look at the Tyler Childers and Sturgle Simpson and stuff like that where I don't know that that would have went over well five years ago. But now it's doing really well. You know, and the fact that I can have any type of career right now is a testament that people are enjoying something about a traditional sound and country again. Yeah, it's all about what you make you, right? Whatever your version is, I mean, as long as people listen to it, it's going to work.

Yeah, and, you know, they've got different names they call it Americana or. pop country or traditional country whatever but it's people writing songs and putting out music and you know the some of what they play on country radio some of they play on other stuff yep no question i mean and i was i'm in a arizona right now and i'll put on country like a country station and it'll be like i won't hear a guitar the whole time yeah it'll just be beats and then the next song it'll be like midland who plays like that old school oh yeah 80s like that got that hard twang they're almost making fun of it like they're that close to making fun of it so i i mean i i i i i like the different, the variety that country music brings.

We talked to Thomas read a little bit about this and I was, I have zero musical talent and my opinion does not matter at all. Trust me. But like I was like, hey, vocals are nice. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I can do a nice. I can do a dee skit more. I think that's about it. But while I was talking about how like, you know, I don't like the way the direction of country music is going. I don't like all the beats and the pop. And then he kind of brought the idea of like, well, Willie Nelson and Haggard and those guys, so they were outlawful country. And people were like, well, that's not real country. That's outlawed country. It's a way different. So it's constantly like evolving over and over. And I think one thing is from a popularity

standpoint, totally contradicting myself is going to those beats. Now, you know, guys in the locker room who maybe just listen to rap, like, well, I do, I like that song though. That's, a good song. That's kind of transitioning over to where it's hitting a whole new demographic. Yeah, it's definitely opening up country music to a demographic that probably didn't listen to the country music because of that traditional sound because of something that was missing in it. And the pop sound that's in country music now is probably opening that door. My thing has always been like, I hate to lose the storytelling part. That was country music to me.

I mean, there's nothing about a George Jones song, 90% of them anyway, that made you want to get up and dance around a locker room. Right. But it was something that made you feel a certain way. And it was something that kind of pulled on your heartstrings or whatever it was. So that part of country music, I hate to see us get away from. And what you're saying about listen to the radio and hearing no guitar for seven songs, that bothers me a little bit.

Like, play it. If it's got variety in it, we're doing a little bit of this and that, that's fine because it is going to sway one way or the other. But let's don't turn and run from traditional country music. Right. I want it to be sprinkled in there. Yeah, absolutely.

It's part of it. You know what I'm saying? Like the blues, the blues have a certain format you have to go by. And country music is not that, like, put into a box. No, no. But it's definitely there is like a, there's a, like, There's a Twain that needs to be there.

There's that Southern Draw that needs to be there. There's that classic talking about getting your heartbroken and horses and beers. I'll never forget they asked me in my first ACMs I went to. And I was, of course, nobody at the time. But they asked me about Old Town Road about if it was a country song. And I'd never heard it. Luckily for me, because I might have had a different opinion. But I said, well, what's it about?

And they said, well, it's song goes, take my horse to the Old Town Road. Ride to a can no more. I said, well, I think country music's about story. And so if the horse is going on some type of journey, then maybe it's a country song. I don't know. I haven't heard you, but I listen to it. But that's about the only way I can describe country music plainly is say it's storytelling. That's what country music is.

I tell you what, one country song, I have a daughter right now. And the song, I think it's Kenny Chesney's, there goes my life. Yeah. And the transition of being 18 years old and knocking up a girl and like all my life's over. And then she goes to college and I'm sitting there in the car by myself, starting to cry. Like, holy shit. Like this is, where's my daughter? or any you go find her, you know what I'm saying?

It's just, it makes you feel. It definitely makes you feel, man. It was, you're a good old boy, like, in the best way possible. I know, dude. I mess with his, like, telling stories. I rock with that. Yeah, dude, you tell a good story. It's, especially in music.

How much would you say, since it's, like, 1,500 streams for a buy, how much would you say, like, Spotify and all these streaming services has changed kind of the landscape of country? Or change the landscape of music, I guess. It's completely. It's nine day, yeah. I mean, and I came up in the era of burnt CDs. I was like we would go, what is it, bear share, lime wire, whatever it was.

Even computer aids. Yeah, exactly. A million pop-ups. But that was how, what we did, we went burnt CDs. I mean, I can remember buying CDs. That was probably when I was 12, you know, then it was burnt CDs. And then it was download music to put on your iPod. And now you can literally go on there and you can listen to anything you want anytime.

And the other side of that that people probably don't realize is as an artist, I could go or anybody, you could go and write a song. and record it tomorrow and put it out to anybody could find it. That's pretty crazy. I mean, not to say that if you're nobody, everybody's going to see it,

but if you write a great song and it gets on the right hands and gets bounced around a little bit, viral, going viral is a thing, and you can literally do that music. It's like that. You can get playlisted on Spotify or Amazon

or whatever it is and you can literally get heard by thousands or millions of people and be a nobody. Do you like that? Do you think that's like a positive thing for somebody? It's got to be. I don't know that I would have signed a record deal

if it wasn't for that. I really don't. I mean, I had, I don't know how many millions of streams that I didn't even know I had before I signed a record deal. That's crazy. I didn't, I didn't, I mean, I know a few thousand people in Jacksonville, Alabama, but I didn't know a million people. Yeah. So it wasn't just my family doing it, you know? Somebody found out about me.

Over and over. I got a lot of cousins, but it is. Dude, that social media has definitely played a huge part. It probably helps a whole bunch of me. I just saw it popped up for a second with 320, 332,000 followers. That's a shitload of followers. I don't know that many people. That's what I'm saying.

No question. I only know 1,600 people. You know 1600? I'll be honestly, I probably don't know 1600. You don't think so? Yeah, you probably don't. I bet you I'm one of those. Some of them were probably pretty.

Yeah? That's probably what I'm pretty. You got to chase them down. That's a whole new thing too, dating. After that Redneck Island. Yeah, they probably popping up in the DMs big time. I mean, maybe not with that body you had during Redneck Island, but probably a couple slides here and there. They were trying to help me out and buy me dinner somewhere.

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I apologize. Back to the episode. Go ahead. Do you ever do that? Do you ever go on Tinder or anything like that? You ever jump on that? I jumped on Tinder when I first got to Nashville. It didn't work out well for me.

Yeah. It wasn't popping. I mean, things were going decent, but it just felt uncomfortable. Well, you're going to meet somebody like that. And people get married all the time on dating sites. I know somebody that went to plenty of the fish, plenty fish in the sea.com, which is like a Christian dating website. Farmers only.

Farmers only.com. They had the best fucking commercials, too. They had the best commercials ever made. But I don't know, like swiping right and meeting up and you guys both know what you're going to do, but you have like 15 minutes of chit-chat. I don't know about that. Here's one thing we really need to talk about. It's like, used to dating was kind of hard.

You had to put in an effort. You had to text or call or go see them or meet their parents, whatever. We're taking all that out. Now it's like, all you have to do is sliding somebody's DMs now. And then that was too hard. So now we want to just. Just swipe at all you want to do is this to let them know that you like. Come on.

You know what I mean? It's one thing to say that we're using social media to date and you don't actually have to see a person or like go. But to be like a swipe is all you have to. to do now? Swipe right. Swipe left. Yes, no.

Do you like me? You don't have to ask. Don't know how to ask you. Just put your profile out there. Do you think I'm good looking enough to hook up with you? Do you want a piece of this? Swipe right. No, you don't.

Swipe left. See you. Gone forever. Do you want a piece of it? Now you explain me, how is it going to get easier than that? Uh, virtual reality headsets. Yeah. We just took a,

you're just playing with yourself in your bathroom. A club. When you walk in the club, it's a virtual reality headset. I think they do that. They do that porn now. They have virtual reality porn. I figured y'all would have a headset in here somewhere. What do you mean?

I know, Alex. They definitely have that. Somebody who had. If there was ever a place, he lives on this bus now. Virtual reality porn is on this bus. No, I'm not the guy for virtual reality porn. That's not me. Don't put that out there.

That's not your deal. I had a guy show me one time. It was like your phone and you'd hold your phone like this and the girl was doing whatever to you. And you could literally go and look around the room. And there's like an orgy going on in your lap. Yeah. There's like a plant over here.

Yeah, there's a plant. So there's some lady watering the plant As she's blowing you or something like that Something crazy. You're between crazy shit. You're between two ferns, dude. Between two ferns. That's going to get too boring

And you have to have like the cops For your mom bust in or something into. Dude, there's something. I was actually talking to my wife about porn the other day And she was saying that like, Oh. I'll tell you what,

we had a weird relationship, man. I just walked past that. We were at dinner. There was a family next to us and a small child and we were talking about porn. And they were saying something like the big porn thing now is like your step sisters coming in like your step sisters like like people are banging their stepsisters and stuff on porn that's like well no no that's not

really what's happened what do you mean that's the big thing that's what do you mean that's a big thing like if like in america in america if you go to these these porn sites it'll pop up like you not don't you pull up any porn sites right no go to go to go to a bus is not getting aids go to porn hub dot com and then i bet you it'll pop up like step sister bang Brothers Big Pieces or something like that. Banks Brothers Big Peas. Why are they purple? You've been clicking on them?

Yeah, you've been every morning they've seen. Hey, these are purple. You've clicked on all these damn things. I just want to be clear they're not purple. They are purple. It gets lonely on the bus. Run it out. Well, you're sitting right there.

That used to be dark brown. I always wonder why the boys come in two hours early. I'm like, man, that's so much time. Yeah, so much to work. What are they doing, ma'am? What was your family think when they listen to this pocket? as they hear us talking about porn. They probably won't listen to it.

Okay. They'll probably be. Disrespected on the bus. Yeah. They'll probably watch the Bachelor. Hey, the Bachelor. Go listen to the first five minutes of this and they'll go watch the Bachelor. I bet you watch that show once.

I feel like I have now. Y'all filled me in on this season. It's solid. There's three people left. Some girl from Knoxville is in it. She's a model. Probably Instagram model, but I don't know. Maybe she'll be on the French model.

A French model. Did the show? Just type pornhub.com. It says Fortnite. stormy daniels fortnight 4k romantic trans okay outdoor tattoos i can get on board with that you have any tattoos not tattoo guy uh i don't like have a problem with them i just i made it through the era of my mom would kick my butt if i got one and then didn't feel like i need one after that fair enough

yeah i would agree with that too i've never heard that logic but yeah my parents wouldn't wouldn't have wanted me to get one the entire time i was you know in their house My dad was always cool with me getting tattoos, but he never wanted me to get earrings, which I thought was such a ridiculous thing because you can always take earrings out. He's got like a thing. That's cool. You know what I mean? Do what you want.

So here, you can do this, but don't do this. All right. I got earrings once. I used to have gauges. I can put a pencil through my hair. We just met. We just met. We were working on a foundation of friendship here, and I feel like you're really wavering back and forth.

You're sizing me up on that 70s themed couch. I'm just trying to picture you growing up, man, just tattooed up with the big gays. in your ear. Yep, eight years old. Tattoo. That's cool. I'll tell you, I was a bad kid. I was a bad, bad kid for a little bit. You're probably one of those kids that picked up like, use cigarette buds on the ground. You know I used to do that. That's why you said it.

We got to do this for the pod. Let me act this scene out, dude. When I was, when I was in eighth grade, I used to, so freestyle motorcross is my thing. Anything with an engine, I'm obsessed with it. Would it? And I used to watch metal militia. Would it guess. I told you the story a thousand times. But I still would have guessed that. Yeah, yeah. And so metal, you know, do you ever ride dirt bikes? anything like that?

No. Okay. Well, something new to pick up because it's unbelievable. So metal militia, Nitro circus, talking about Travis Pistranah, Brian Deacon, Twitch, those types of dudes.

And metal militia were like these the badass dudes. So I'd be like, in eighth grade, I grew up in Cave Creek, Arizona, a small town. And so I'd ride my dirt bike everywhere. And if the cops tried to pull me over,

just rip in the desert, you're gone. So I'd go to the gas station, the target, and I'd finally half smoked cigarettes. And I'd smoke the cigarettes. I thought it was so cool. How disgusting is that?

Wow. I used to wear my pants so low If I wasn't wearing underwear You could see my assholes No I wasn't a Gets I was a Dickies guy I was Dickies Dickies

Bammar shirt I mean that's when I was CKY and Jackass I was a wanna be that Okay But I was terrible Running dirt bikes I was no good

It was my thing though That's how I grew up Let's get back to the Buena's music Yeah you're right That's probably fair When did it start to turn around for you Like when did it start to Trend upwards fast

I wrote a song called Barry Me and Dixie about Alabama. I played it at some shows and, you know, of course, people video stuff put on YouTube, and it started to get a lot of traction. I wrote a song called Georgia Time, and that was the second one that people started really singing at shows. When was this? 2000 and, I don't know, 15, somewhere in there, I guess, 15, 16. I did a show with Luke Combs at a bar called Zadico in Birmingham, him and Luke wasn't this was 17 probably Luke wasn't real big yet and I didn't think anybody knew

who I was or outside of my little county and I went down there and opened for him it was sold out and people were singing my songs so then I go back and I sell it out like two months later and then like two months after that I go sell 1, 260 tickets at a place called Iron City in Birmingham and just had no clue people knew me so then you fast forward me going to some new markets people's word of mouth I didn't have a booking agent, calling me to come play these places. And then I go play in Chicago at Joe's Bar. Five, six hundred people show up. Big Machine Records was there.

They offered me a record due on the spot. Really? Yeah. So are you going to take it? You take it yourself? Yeah. I mean, I had my phone number on a little card. It was on the website.

Really? Yeah. Well, how so real the feeling was that when you're singing? That's what I was wanted to do. And these people are singing back to you. It's crazy. And you stop singing. That's got to be the coolest shit ever.

I was nuts. And I mean, you know, obviously, you get some of the radio and that's a fairly a normal thing. Once people start hearing your songs played, they know them. But back then it was so crazy to me because I was just surprised people were showing up. People knew who I was because there was real no reason for it. It was just what was going on was I'd put these songs out and people riding around letting their buddies listen to them in the truck.

I mean, that's how it was spreading. Where are you putting them out at? I put everything on tune core, which would send it to like everything. It would send to like Amazon, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, all that. I didn't really know what I was doing. I just ask around and that was, you know, what people said. They said CD Baby was one of them, tune cores one of them. So I did that one.

And then I figured out you can go online and there was like a little account. And I was getting money like for streams and kept getting bigger and bigger. So like this is cool, man. It's framing houses during the week making like $500 in the hot sun and then make it on Friday night playing. You know, so that's awesome. I'm going to be rich. That's what I figured. That's bad ass.

So just basically word of mouth and doing your own research on the internet and then you're plugging the stuff on. Yeah. Because I mean, I never came to Nashville and like played a show. case or like, you know, got in front of the right people. They started coming to my shows. So it was really fan-driven. So when did you decide, like, I got to go to Nashville? I'm big enough to go to Nashville now. I didn't. I signed a Pubbison deal in 2018, like around March with Warner Chapel. I signed my record deal with Big Machine the next week. And then Big Machine got me a place in Midtown. And I went on the road on radio tour. Really? I just got done building my

own house. I was still a home builder at the time. I built my house in Alabama, moved in January of 18, signed my record deal in March, and I've stayed there like maybe two months and two years. So I've got a brand new house. My mom was sending me pictures of furniture getting delivered there. Like that year, I went on the road for the first eight weeks on radio tour, didn't come home. And it's just continued. How often you get home now?

You don't. I mean, I went home for, we played in Knoxville the other day, and I didn't have a ride home, so I bought a 66 Mustang for a few thousand dollars from a guy. I broke down before I got out of town. And then it broke down when I got home. But I drove it home. But now you have the first thing. frame of a 66 Mustang.

Fastback convertible. What is it? It's a hatchback. Is it like original everything? Original everything. The inside is perfect. And it's got that straight six motor in it. Like it's,

it's bad. It's got a little bit of paint work and he's done, but it's sharp. I'll show you a picture. Sometimes, dude, like those old cars are kind of beat up, got that like rusty. I love it. I wouldn't touch it. I mean, like the guys are all you need to repain it or whatever because the trunk's got some paint coming off and it's got some on the little lines.

But I love it. Just clear coat it. If you clear coat it, it'll stay the same way it is. Well, see, I'm not a showroom guy. I don't like showroom cars. I want to be able to drive it. Yeah, that's fair. I like, I like, I'm big into like the rat rod, kind of rusted out looking, looking trucks and cars.

And I'm a big Mustang guy. I had that, I had a 67 GT 500. And it, I mean, it was brand, like brand new. Everything inside was brand new. And I drove it maybe 15 times and two years. It broke down so many times. My first truck was a 68 Ford Bronco, and I still got it. Really?

I sold it. broke in college. The Broncos are the coolest. They're so awesome. I love it. And I'm always like getting on Craigslist at Facebook Marketplace when I'm going to shows and finding cars. Like I bought a couple of Jeeps last year when I was on tour of Paisley.

I bought a 1985 Chrysville-La Baron convertible with wood panel side and on it. That's badass. It's special. You can see the front tire. Like if I turned and it was raining, my feet would get wet. Really? Yeah, it's rusted out bad, but it's awesome. To me, that's way cooler than buying like, like guys got like,

like the new Mercedes or the new those words. The thing is, here's the new Mercedes. I see that Mercedes. Is that you outside? I apologize. I'm not trying to throw shade

at the boat when we just met. I feel like my car's on there. Ain't none to be disappointed in. I'll tell you, I was in comfort. I was creeping with me. Yeah, and hey, Mercedes does have a nice ride.

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I was cruising through this. You need to bring back the mustache. The mustache is serious. Dude, that thing was wicked. I get so much respect with that mustache. You know, look at that piece. Listen, how hard are you? flexing in that picture too that's solid that's a mustache flexing that's a mustache

listen you know how when you're driving and you got a full-way stop and you and another car pull up at the same time when you got a mustache like that you go first no question every time i see you got some dog in you too i think i saw it where's the after you find the truck there's like a rollerblade one it's like sliding into your girls dms or something like that the mustache makes the rollerblades i think it was after that the mustache the mustache makes everything wait go back down did you see this is my first album cover right here keep Keep going down. Come on.

Right there. In the middle. That was my first album cover. Get the lettuce. Dear. Look at that. Oh, my God. This, dude.

You like Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton. You got a variety. Yeah, some Duck Dynasty for real. I got better tips when I looked homeless. Did you really? Yeah. No question. And we need to help this guy out.

I like homeless now. I did a little bit ago. I shaved my beard. I got that patchy beard, dude. See, I would rock a mustache all the time, but I'm 3010 pounds. I got no chin. Oh. You know what?

I'm saying that adds a little depth. That's a thing. I didn't. Oh, come on. Don't pretend. Look at this guy. Don't pretend.

I'm like, look at this. Tucked in. You get ankle bending a little bit on those roller blades. You fall over after a little bit? Oh, yeah, it was horrible. You bad at that?

It took 20 minutes to get that shot. No way. Yeah, it wasn't good. About to roll in your girls' DMs on Valentine's Day, like. I like the fruit boots. Somebody hashtag fruit boots first time. I've never heard that before, man.

Fruit boots. I like that. What's funny is my guitar player brought those out on tour seriously. Like to rollerblers. Roll around for exercise? Not to be funny. No, no, no. Are you serious?

You get fired? Well, no, he didn't get fired. But you're thinking about it right now, huh? No, man, he went off to do his own thing. Oh, did he? Well, good luck to him. Mutual separation. So you have a whole band?

Yeah, I've got a band. What's the name of your band? The Riley Green Band. I don't know. It's my band. I mean, I can tell you the guy's names. Yeah, shut the boys out. Tyler Galloway, plays lead guitar.

He's from one of the Carolinas. I can't ever remember. Quinn, Stanfield's a drummer. He's from Florence, Alabama. He's been moved for like six or seven years. Been to Florence. Rob Joyce is from Boston, guitar player. Also got a little notoriety because he got on stage with Keith Urban in a concert and played and like jammed out.

Crushed it. There's a video on YouTube. He's like known for playing the guitar. He can rip. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He had like a sign with his girlfriend. He'll like, came my boyfriend, play your guitar.

And Keith called him up and he ended up being good. That's badass, man. Alejjo is my bass player. And then there's just me. Have you been with them the whole time? No. His guitarist just left. Yeah, Quinn was with me for a long time,

and we kind of picked the other guys up as we went. CTE. You got to give them a name, like Riley Green and the smoking aces. That's probably a thing already. Riley Green is smoking Aces. Riley Green in the Tennessee lottery. Riley Green in the Fruit Boat.

Riley Green and the boys. And the boys, man. That's solid. We can't play instruments, but we'll be your number one hype men. Cool. Oh, for sure. I mean, you're on the bus now.

You're on your family. You're plugged in. It's when you all coming to a show. when you get in here. Yeah, when are you playing around Nashville? October. Are you coming here? I knew that.

October. I don't know where I'm playing. I'll be here in October. I got a job then. CMA Fest? Yeah, we'll be, we're doing the riverfront stage and something. I don't know. Maybe I'm not supposed to say any of this.

I don't know. We're playing some stages. Hunting. You always hunted? No. When I was growing up, I was more in the sports, I didn't really do a lot of hunting. My dad never hunted. He was always, always worked.

He built houses his whole life, never cared anything about it. And I've gotten him into it now. Obviously, he's gone on a couple trips. That's Deary killed Mississippi this year. But I'm doing that for a different reason because I enjoy it so much now. And I want to buy a farm and have him retire and take care of it. You know, he needs a project because he's always wide open. He got that from my grandmother.

They're just like, she weeds in like 100 degree weather. It's crazy. Got to do something. Yeah, I mean, I didn't get that. Like, I don't mind sitting on my butt. These people are crazy. You've made it very clear in this podcast that you like to sleep. Don't know.

That's one thing I want to get across to everybody. Yeah. This man loves naps. Yeah. Don't have kids. You won't have a lot. I think that it was a little bit of the competitiveness in sports that made me take a like into hunting as much as I did. Because you and your buddies are like, oh, man, how'd you do today?

You know, so it's like, and you're like strategized and knowing how to go out and like where to get and, you know, sneaking up on a turkey or whatever, just calling something you can get better at. And staying in the camp with your boys. Yeah, I mean, there's a million things about hunting that I think people that haven't ever hunted don't understand that they would enjoy. man that they would enjoy. Like going to the camaraderie of hanging out at a hunting camp. You know what I mean? Like I've gone on. So my best hunting trips are not shot, I think.

But just had a good time. Had a fun time. I've been deer hunting two times and I have ADD really bad. And I caught myself after 25 minutes following a butterfly with my scope. And then I was like, I don't know if I can deal it. It's hard to hunt when you're worried about what's going to happen on The Bachelor that night. Yeah, it's a tough deal. But someone's got to stay in too.

down here before dark. Yeah, no doubt. And I know Hulu comes out tonight if you guys want to watch it because we missed it last night because of the tornado warnings. So if you want to jump on, if the women tell all tonight, I got to take a nap. I got a nap. I think that's called going to bed.

It's fast. It'll be about that time. No, because he'll send an alarm wake up. I realize. 2 a.m. I got some hours. That's bedtime. Hey, have you ever duck hunting?

So, okay, I was going to say I do want a bird hunt. Okay, so you'd enjoy that. You don't have to be quiet. You talk to your buddies, goof off. it's totally different. That sounds like a really good time, dude. Oh, there's the boy. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Thomas had never been, and he asked me to take him this year, and I didn't really know him all that well. He reached out to me at BMI Awards, and, man, like, I'd like to go hunting with you, so I carried him down there, and he was cool, man, he's a good hang. He's definitely a really talented songwriter and music guy. You know, one thing about him is he's from Georgia. I mean, he's his country as anybody, you know?

Bulldogs. Shout out the boy. Yeah, Thomas is a good dude, man. I've been around him a few times. He's a really good guy. Good person, good family man. So I'd written with his dad several times, but never, never been around Thomas that much. You guys think he'll do something together in the future?

I think so. Yeah, we've actually done a lot of talking about it. That's awesome. I'm excited to see what it happens from that. What about, fuck, I had something else I wanted to ask you. Do you want to get married someday? I have kids? Yeah.

What do you think? You're dating somebody now? No. Life's too crazy right now. I couldn't imagine. I had to give my dog away. How heartbreaking was that? I saw her the other day.

She remembered me. Sadie. Oh, no way. She was my YOLAB. I trained her. She used my duck dog. And I gave her to my little cousin. His dog got ran over and it was just when I was traveling.

This is taking the turn. Just a dog history. This is really taking the turn. Yeah. So, you know, there's that. But, uh, I can't imagine. And the, the, the, the, the, the travel and distraction of what's going on with me right now, it'd be pretty tough to keep a girl happy. No doubt.

The dog remembered you, though. Did. Yes. How good of a feeling was that? I was up on top of me and my dad. dad were building a gym in my barn and I was up on top and she came running in there and I said you said what were you building a gym dude what can't you do build houses well just saying house is in the barn I guess so but I said something to her she started whining and

trying to climb up the ladder to get up there like she was fired up that's awesome that's badass man you ever want to get into the dog yeah but I'll have to be in a place by chihuahua no I know that they're good for watching the bachelor like lap dog I'll tell you why you Hey, it'd be hard for a chihuahua to bring a goose back. You know what I mean? It'll get it. It's like a goose is this big. Yeah, they're feisty and they got a lot of energy.

I want a chihuahua so bad. They got like little dogs. You're just thinking in your head like what I get myself into. No, no, no. Just be like this on the chill right here. Name Chimaco. Chama's cool. I don't hate that.

You don't hate that at all. I don't hate the name. I mean, the name's solid. Names is half the battle when you name an animal. That's fair. This guy over here's got some pizza. The other half is a shirt over here. Hey, he's got some about Waffle now.

He was just at the... He was just at the house cuddling with Waffle. I wasn't cuddling with it. It came around me. He was cuddling with Waffle. Did you get picked? And he was like... No, I was upset.

Charles actually did. And he's like, it's cute pup. And I was like, Charles did you film that? Because puppies are cute because they're just straight... A puppy doesn't matter what it is. No one's arguing that. Like Haggerd, it's a good-looking dog. It's not like, oh, that's a cute, that's a cute grown dog.

I got a German chipper named Hank. He's one of those trained dogs. Global K-9. Shout out Global K-9. They do these like protective service dogs. And they're off-leash. They're awesome. You might as we'll get one of those.

It's cool. You say shout-out whenever you do a shout-out. That's a thing. We're all about no free shout-outs, though. Yeah, yeah, if it's like a business, like, hey, shout-out Chipotle, no free shout-out. But I'm like, if I said Thomas Ritt, I need to say shout-out, Thomas Ridd. Shout out Thomas Rowe. That's cool, okay.

Shout out the boy. The boys. I'm going to start doing that in life. There you go. There you go. Okay, Housson. Shout out Harrison,

let's go. Shout out Harrison, Mercedes. You guys do it at your concerts. That's cool. Hey, shout out the boys out there. Shout out to the boys. I could see you CMA Fest crushing it

in a Titans Blue 77 jersey. No. Getting after it. Shout out to number 77. Let's go. I'll take that too. I assume that's what it was. Shout out number 77.

Shout out number 77. Just say the number. I was number 77 on like scout team quarterback. That was a jersey. You were 77? No. I'm just saying that's what number I would. It's the only time I'd be 77.

I'd tell you what, that's the coolest offensive line number. I was so skinny. I only had room for one digit. No quite. I seen the picture. Yeah. You won looking like that. Bring that thing back up.

Do you have a picture of you when you were skinny? Skinny fat like that? No, just the ones of you flexing now, huh? Yeah, man. Well, see, I got a kicker's jersey on there. You know, we got a thing about guys wearing other guys' jerseys. What is it? They get to sleep with you.

Well, that one's got my name on. That's not our name. That's not our job. Shout out, whoever ever said that. Who did say that? Chris Alia. He said that. If you wear another man's jersey, they get to fuck you.

Yeah. Well, they gave me that jersey's got my number on it and my name. Okay, so we have another thing about that. If you were giving a jersey. Listen, these are all Taylor's things, by the way. Okay. But, okay, so I like this. If this happens a lot.

So what is it? If you give a jersey. If you, okay, so if you wear another man's jersey, if I go to a Predator's game and I put a Roman Yosee jersey on, shout out of Romano Yosie, not okay. And he decides he wants to. he can Okay, that's fair

I mean I'll put up a fight That's fair But he's probably gonna win that fight Because I'm wearing his jersey Okay Now I've been to the Predators games I know you've probably seen it Chugging beers off catfish

Maybe Allegedly Allegedly Well no that's actually this video evidence We went They invited the offensive line To come and do the pump up thing Before the games

And they gave us like Predator shirts 77 Lawan on the back Okay That's totally fine to do Oh that's okay Oh yeah you're full of supporting They do that with me all the time There you go

Oh, man, weird flex. Yeah. Shout out to people that give me jerseys with a name on the back. There you go. We'll hook it up. Titans, figure it out. I think you're going with the whole

your own name on a different jersey just because it happened to you. No, I've been okay with that. Yeah, so the rule's okay because it happened to him. That's usually how most of my life works. I'm trying to spin things to make it so it works for me. So how about this, though? Would you go to his concert and rock

or Riley Green t-shirt? Yeah, what about that? If you gave me the t-shirt, I would wear it. But if it's Riley Green on it. That means I get to it. Well, okay. It looks like I back myself into a bit of a whole. We got you a T-shirt.

We got you a T-shirt. You ain't getting in this, bud. Raleigh-Green number 77 T-shirt. If it has 77 on it, I'm solid. I don't know if I'd wear a Riley Green t-shirt. I'd go to your concert, though. I'd pay money. I'll tell you why you would, I think.

Okay, go ahead. You know what you know. I want to ask nicely. It's been an hour and 43 seconds. I mean, listen, you had an earring, tattoos. You had Jinkos. I can picture it. We grew up together.

I did not. I did not wear cheekos. Riding the moped. This is awesome. Listen. Because I don't have merch that's got like big gaudy Riley green all over it. Like I got stuff. It's got like a cool picture of a duck with a little RG kind of hidden.

See, I'm like big on merch. It's like enjoyable looking like. Like I could almost wear it. Almost. Would you rock? Would you rock this tea? Yeah. Live dudes.

Let's do it. With the boys on the back. It looks great. See, it's solid. At a concert. I'll wear it at a concert and do the shoutout thing. Oh, shout out the boys. I'll tell you what, you're starting a whole different thing for us.

BusWithner.com or BarcelonaSports.com. BusWet the boys' merch. You can go ahead and buy that. Look at that. Hey, he's for the boys. Praise Dale tank. Is that your, is this your stuff? Looks like it.

I've never been on my website before. The shirt hasn't popped up yet. So how do you know if it looks like it? I've never been on the website. I don't know. Maybe you've got bad bandwidth inside this bus. What's going on here? We try hard.

Allison. Now the website is cluttering up with all the porn. If I had a guess, Harrison broke the website. Harrison, are you a bad egg? what's the deal? You know, we're just sold out of everything. That's why. Oh my gosh.

Shout out to people buying merch. Shout out to all the people buying merch. Riley Green merch. You can get it on what? What's your website? I assume Rileygreenmusic.com or something along those lines. No one gets anywhere being subtle. I mean, if I would wear that if it's just a little RG on site.

Yeah, I got you. Yeah, I'd wear that. You found my loophole. I got one that says Ray Sal, Praise Dale. Yeah, that's a cool shirt. Yeah. I actually have a vintage like Dale Earnhardt T-shirt, graphic T.

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It's great. I told us the first thing I said when I walked in was it needs to be at Talladega. I think it has been at Talladega. Deco. At tailgate. I mean, like, it used to be in the infield at Talladega. We had a 91-1-Wanago that we took to turn three every year. Parked in turn three.

Watch the race. It's like, that's the spot. It's 20 minutes from Jacksonville where I live at. You know there's rumors about Nashville getting NASCAR. There is. You're going every year. And the MLB team. MLB?

And the MLB. So what happens to the sounds that happens? I'm sure they would still be, you know, a minor league team in Nashville. they would probably become the team. Yeah, because they just built a, I mean, they just redid that stadium over there. That's a new stadium. That's a nice stadium.

That's a nice stadium. You've been to a couple of those games? I have. I used to live, like, right in the parking lot in a little condo over there. Just off of, uh, third avenue? Yeah, just out of the out. Yeah, I had a buddy used to live out there. That's a nice little spot.

It is, man. You can see right over right into the game. You can. Dude, it was a party. Those games are parties, too. No doubt. Well, right field, they're playing bags out there. They have a whole open bar out there.

I'll tell you where I went that I had no idea how they, like, tailgated for baseball games was Mississippi State. They got after it? It's crazy. They used to have, like, you brought your own. They, like, built their own scaffold and you're right on the fence now. But they're just yelling at the outfielder's for the other teams and just party and grilling out. Then they built these big things and they've got like big condos up there in the outfit, but they throw down out there. Dude, that's awesome.

It's a lot of fun. I dated a girl that went to LSU. So I was down there for a little bit, went to a couple of LSU baseball games. they were, it was unbelievable. I don't know. Ellis says you're serious. And they got the open container law.

Like you're allowed to walk around with a drink in your hand like anywhere. So people are getting after it. Shout to Louisiana. Shout to people to drink. Shout to people to drink. No question.

No question about it. So you don't got people telling you what you can and can't do. They say, hey, just be yourself, write good music. Yeah, like my mom. Who would you be talking about? Like your management or anything?

Yeah. He's right over there. He's watching the bachelor. He shook his head three four times. Are you his manager? part of his man, it takes a team. Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the team, dude. What's a team name? Like, what team do you go with? Like, what's your... Riley Green and the band of Misfits. Riley Green and the boys?

And you kind of like the little band name behind it, don't you? But it's always just going to be Riley Green, but you, what's Riley Green's band? Riley Green in the Tennessee lottery. I stole that name, actually, but... Well, they don't get put in the paper

when I say some offensive either, so it's like quarterback. You get the praise when you win. Will you say offensive things? No. ever. No, of course not. No, no question.

Of course not. Those ostrich boots? They are. Can't hide money. Can't hide their money coming in, buddy. These are free. No, they weren't. This whole outfit was free.

This company gave me, shout out to the people that gave me this shirt. Stars and Stripes? What was that? They make a big American flag, wooden American flags. They paint them up. And they open up? Yeah. I got one of those house.

They gave me another one the other day at my show in Oklahoma City and gave me some shirts. Carhart pants. They gave me those. Those are Carhart? Yeah. Shout out Carhart. No free shoutouts. No free shoutouts.

Carhart. We're going to need you to give us some love. The businesses are no free shoutouts. The boys are free shout out. Unless you're sponsored by the businesses. We had some not so politically correct stickers up here. The stickers came as is. So we taped them up a little bit.

Yeah, frog's really offensive. He's a bit of an asshole. Shout out to reptiles in general. Yeah. Shout out to the reptile. Shout out to the reptile boy. You see that chicken right there? Bought that.

Saw it, bought it, needed it for the bus. That's cool. With the Mike Tyson's tag. Yeah. Do you look at our old videos and you're like, damn, like our bus looks way different. It does look way different now. See one of those neon signs? Is that new?

No, we've had that. That neon we've had since day one. Shout out the dude in Arizona. Yeah, guy and Billy D. Billy D. in the neon signs. Well, you don't see a lot of people change their set. So that's good on you all, man. Yeah.

Well, we're always trying to get better every single day. Yeah. We bring on guys like you who would like to give the boys a little shade. But it's okay. Your manager drives a Mercedes. That's the most uncountry thing I've ever seen in my life. Hey, you might need new management. You need a guy.

Listen, now you're talking to me. You might need the boys to back you up. No, we'd be terrible managers. Would we? I can see that. I think we would. Yeah, we probably would be. Show up with Ginkos and Converse.

Hey, I'll tell you what. Vans. Do you own a pair of vans? No, but you can't see what kind of shoes you got on with Ginkos, though. They took the whole shoe up. They take the whole thing, huh? Yeah. I'll tell you what.

We're about to fight in about 15 minutes, man. This right here is what I'm building right now. It's a 77. 100. My god damn it. Scroll left or right, your choice. That's bad. You like that?

Yeah. It's a beautiful house too. I don't know whose house that is. That thing's been in the shop for like eight years. Yeah, it's a ground. It's like, I'm building this right now. I'm building it in 2001. Yeah.

I'll tell you what, if I actually was building it myself, it would not look like that if I was building since 2001. Wouldn't work. We got fan, we have fan questions? Yeah, let's see some fan questions. Why do you think he would write better country? Wow. It's who do you think?

Are you want me to read it? Yeah. Shit. I can't read for help. But shout out to people to read. At Raleigh Green music. Who do you think could write a better country song, Will or Taylor, and why? Look whose question it is.

Oh, Mikey. Mikey. Shout out Mikey, dude. Shout out to Blazowski. Blazowski. That's such a Polish name. Who do you think would write a better country song, Will or Taylor? And why?

Let me give you a little taste. No, no, no, no, no. We had a good song. I know I knew I knew Something like that You know what I'm saying And hear Will Sounds like it's chewed on glass

This whole life Who do you think Well no that's not who would sing a better country song He would write it Yeah but it comes I mean to spell who Yeah Yeah so maybe writing

I think Will probably write the better song I don't know I feel like Will's a little quieter A lot of songwriters are the ones They're like Kind of laid back And little Sure

You know under the radar And then they come up with some It's cool feelings aren't hurt at all Yeah You know I mean All right, next question. Never heard a really good country song. Somebody wrote a Jinkos.

I'll tell you what, man. Dickie Pants, man. Hey, I'll tell you what. Y'all write a country song, each one of y'all. And the best one, you can vote on, and I'll sing it at a concert. Oh, hey, hey. Dibs earnest.

I'm doing a writer's round. I'm doing a writer's round. Yo, number one, we got to write it. Yeah, you know, you write your own. I'll write my own. Okay, so if y'all can write it together, that's fine. No, go ahead, go ahead, finish deal.

Uh-uh. Do you know Ernest K? I don't. Ernest. Do Ernest K? I don't think so. Up and comer, man. Up and comer, shout out of Rous K.

He was like, I call Ernest K. I'm like, we got to write our own song. No, he said, yeah, you write your own song, I write my own song. They vote on it, and he's going to sing it. Yeah. I heard the entire thing. Well, but you weren't listening. Shout out of the people that were listening.

Yeah. You said, I call Ernest. It's like, no, we have to write our own song. Yeah. But people, do you write all your own songs? Do. do not lie you just said you go to writers rounds all the time what do you mean i said oh i've like writers on the bus but he writes like i write all my own songs i'm a writer on everything i written

everything you are everything you are you know go on you are a writer and everything you're written but you're not the like you didn't write the entire thing don't this no i'm not disrespected that's that's part of that's part of music am i right it's yeah you're just he just looks to the left like who's no one ain't nobody talking to you over there you're saying it ain't a weird like like i'm like okay y'all ride it and then i come like now it's like we go sit down me and you and we write a song. We wrote that song. Yeah.

Now, some of them are right by myself. Sure. Some of I write with other people. Okay. But to say that I didn't write something. We were going to write a song. Yeah. I'll tell you what.

All right. Well, I guess what I call Riley? We're going to write a song. That was a good little deal there. Yeah, it worked out good. I'll tell you, I don't like how things are concerning. All right. What's the best advice Riley has for someone completely new to songwriting?

Boom. Perfect. I would just say to not be too critical. I think that a lot of new artists probably worry about whether this song is good enough for that. And I didn't. And granted, I probably put out a lot of songs that are not all that great. But I put out a lot of songs because I didn't really worry about it. I just wrote stuff that I knew about.

And I'd go play it. And if somebody liked it, I'd go record it. And it helped me gain a following. So I was like, write every day, write down stuff you think's not any good. Write down stuff you think is good. And, you know, something in there is going to resonate. with somebody, you know. And the other thing is don't model your songwriting after what you hear on the radio.

Model it after what people relate to at your shows. What I did was I wrote songs, I'd go play them. And if they liked this line, go, man, I need to write stuff like that. Or they really like this part. It's like, man, that's something that I need to put more stuff in there like that. So that was how I shaped my songwriting. So go play it for people. Is there someone that you, like, I'm sure there's lots of people, but is there a specific

person that you kind of idolize in the country music world? starting out I was a big Corrusmith fan you remember course man oh yeah and we got to be buddies I got to know him through winning the little songwriters deal with him and that was one thing he told me that kind of stuck with me was that songwriting was something that you'd get better at

I don't know why I'd always pictured my head that people were like one hit wonders was like you get lucky and write a good song and then that's it probably not get another one but if you think about songwriting something that you can actually do and get better at like anything else which you know it's kind of motivates you you go, okay, well, I might write 20 bad songs and one good one.

Well, one good one will do pretty well for you. There you go. I'm a big fan of Corey Smith, man. That guy's a stud. I'm surprised he's not way bigger than he is. I wish I was 21. That song was a banger. If I could do it again.

Shout out Corey Smith. Can we get him on the bus? Let's do it. He would love it. Did he like it? Yeah, man. Got that good shiny bald head too. That's a compliment.

No, he's not coming. I'll tell you what. The bald head's a good move to some people. He'll do it one-on-one with me. We'll just move him. I'll tell you what, I am, I've tasted my own medicine. I'm getting picked on. It's bitter.

It's bitter. It's how fun is it. I'm going to regroup. I'm going to come back tomorrow, stronger and more powerful than ever. He says, uh, miss on. Is, no, hey, this, this is, uh, Mikey again. Just from a different, just from a different, uh, all right, Mikey. Sure.

Shout out to Mikey again, dude. Double dipping on, uh, Instagram, Twitter. If you could tour with any old country artists, who would it be? I feel like Hank Williams, Jr., would be a lot of fun. That would be solid. I feel like he had some shows where it was borderline out of control. Those are the best kinds of shows.

Yeah, I'm with that. That would have been a lot of fun. Who was more fun to drink with, Brad or John? I didn't drink with Brad. Brad or Brad? I assume I'm talking about Brad Paisal or John Party. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't drink with Brad, so I'd assume John.

But Brad's a good hang man. He's a really funny cat. He's got a good personality. It's not a coincidence. He's been doing it for 20. 20-something years. Yeah. What is it like touring and going on tours with like those guys and kind of, do you get like,

is it stressful? Does it eventually, I mean, like I'm on tour with Jason. Notting. Now we play six songs. Yeah. You know, I play 25 minutes as a break. I mean,

whereas, you know, usually you go in and you're eating, you know, whatever they can round up for you in the band and you're, you know, traveling all over the place and play 90 minutes. And this is like you go in. They have catering. You know, Brad, they would have like lobster and stuff.

out there. No shit. Oh, yeah. I mean, catering was great on Bradstor, but you play a few songs. You get to go watch some guys that you grew up watching. I mean, I went to see Jason Outing in like 2008 in Birmingham. It was him, Luke Bryan, and Thompson Squared. And now I want to tour with him.

That's badass. But it's just great to get in front of the numbers, too, because, I mean, we're playing in front of several thousand as opposed to a few thousand. Not 80 million, but it's still quite a few. It's not quite 80 million, but, you know. You'll get there. It took us almost a year to get this following. There you go.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Year of talking about the Bachelor. Talking about The Bachelor and jerking off. Perfect. Having a Bachelor. I know the rest of me. I don't write a song like that.

Yeah. Yep. When you watch a Bachelor of Monday, jerk off on Tuesdays. We haven't even been a full year yet. April's a full year. All right. What else we got? Can I ask one?

Yeah. Okay. Was there? No, I don't want to have. I thought that was that guy talking. I thought it was Justin B. Was there any moments? Can you talk about any moments where you were like, I can't believe this is my life right now?

several times especially over the last couple of years playing the grand old opry was a big deal for me playing the rhyming my grandparents were there that I mean that was the hugest deal in the world with them you know like I was I was not even remotely close to famous until I played the opry and then my grandparents were like well he's made it now you know but uh award shows ACM awards like walking back there and meeting Tracy Lawrence and I mean just running to Eric church and people like that it's it's weird that I'm thrown into a category with these people and they're doing the same thing that I am.

When you go do these radio interviews and you walk in and you're sitting down talking the same people, Luke Brown was just talking to or this or that, it's pretty surreal, especially for me because I'm not very far removed from just being a fan, you know? That's pretty awesome. Yeah, that's right. Where were you when you first heard wish Grandpa's Never Died on the radio? I wish Grandpa's Never Died. Justin B. Get it right.

I don't remember. I know where I was when I first heard there was this girl because I was leaving Georgia. I was hunting. and I was coming up from South Georgia, and I heard it, one of those Atlanta stations played it. I don't remember where I was heard of which grandpa's never died, but I've heard it a lot.

And that's one of those that probably means a little bit more than any of them, just because it's such a personal song to hear, played on the radio and think people hearing it all over the place. Yeah. It's awesome. We're going to take a moment and shout out the boys at Paint Your Life. I told you before, I got a portrait made of my pup waffle,

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I was a Cowboys guy. Troy Eggman, Emmett Smith, Michael Irvin, Moose. Dion. Yeah, Dion Sanders. Charles Haley. that was Travis Pistrano yeah you weren't a football guy growing up

I never would watch football growing up I was we were like that family like my dad he was a huge Cowboys fan when they went in the Super Bowl in like the 90s he would like order the DVD or the Moves the VHS set you know what I mean so you can kind of watch and recap the whole year

but oh yeah I had a Dallas Cowboys Locker in my room and I can remember like being old enough to where like that wasn't a piece of furniture that was acceptable to me being like I'm not getting rid of it But like, yeah, no question. It's a place to keep my things.

Yeah. It's a bit, keep my things. No doubt. That's awesome. Is that all we got? That's it. Jesus. No more?

It's not very many questions. We miss anything? I mean, dude, an hour 20, that's a solid pot. It's a solid pot. It's a great job today. It was easy, man. What did you think? What was your thoughts coming into it?

And what are your thoughts now? I didn't think a lot about it coming in because I didn't know what the hell I was doing. Sure. Did you ever listen to a bus with the boys before? I've never listened to a podcast. What do you think you'll listen to this one? I just did. It's probably like us.

It's not like we listen. I don't like listen to our podcast. I don't like hear my voice back. I don't like hear myself talk, sing, anything. But no, I mean, I can see why this would be appealing. Did you search us before you came on? Did you search us? Damn, you just got hooked up and you're like, all right, let's go.

I don't like to know too much about stuff that I'm doing because like you go on a radio interview or something and somebody doesn't play your song or Sist Station and they didn't do this for me or whatever. I don't want going like disliking somebody. I mean, if I found out you had earrings and tattoos and Jinkos, I might not like you far out of out of. Yeah, fair enough. I want to give everybody a clean.

I still have tattoos. I still have tattoos. I'm definitely coming back on, though, just so I can just like dress like what I imagined you dressed like at that time. I'm going to ride in on a motorcycle. A bow pad. Of course. Yeah.

Is there another type? Is there another type? I cannot wait to see you in those stupid jank. Was it janko pants? I get caught in the chain. No question. They used to get so torn up on the back because they just hang over your shoes. You wore those, didn't you?

No. Get the hell out of here. Of course not. Let me tell you this. There's a guy named Alex Nanko that lived down the street for me that wore Ginkos. And I thought it was the coolest shit ever. And I was like, I got to get some of those. I was like, no.

Not happened. She would let me wear Lee pipes. That was as wide. You don't remember Lee pipes? No. How old do you? Okay. Yeah.

I'm 31. You're getting a dice and you're so old. That's fair. I'm 28 years old. No, you're getting there, buddy. Let's call that. Because, you know, Ginkos were just popular because they're like this big around. Lee pipes were like middle grade.

Look. those are worse than Jinko. No, they're not. Go to that third picture right there. That's what Jinkos is. Yeah, but they're trying to be like, so mom would let me get the ones that were in the middle. Hey, those are bad.

Get the ones that are in the middle. She wouldn't let me wear the Jinkas, man. They were outraged. You could put like a watermelon in your leg. People are going to look at us 20 years. I'd be like, people wear tight pants. Oh, no doubt, man. No doubt.

I think of Bell bottoms are coming back. What do you think about that? I'm not a fake. You know what I hated? The only trend girls were that I hated was Gouchos. You know what I'm talking about? I've heard of gauchos. They're like sort of look like tight pants and then they just do this and go to about right here.

Oh my gosh against those things right there? Yes. Don't like that. I was never a fan of one thing I didn't like that girls wore jeans skirts. It didn't do anything for me. I don't, I mean, you're talking about like the ones that were really long when they got their hair in a ponytail? The Pentecostal women, yeah. Yeah, that doesn't do that.

Now, even the shorter ones I wasn't a fan of. Gene skirts, they weren't. What are you got, Harrison? What are you laughing at? I'm glad that doesn't do anything for it. Yeah, that's it. I'll tell you what, we're looking for our first repeat guest. We want to come on tomorrow?

No, I'm going to fly out tomorrow. He's got to fly out. He's going to what, San Juan? Oh, boy, hey, 2699. Those pants are yours. You can relive the glory days. They don't wait in my size, man. What size is waist are you?

32. I'm 32, 36. Are you really? Good on you. Those pants are at 36. Yeah. You got half of your boots showing right there. Let's come sit there.

32, 36. Yeah, man, look. I feel like I'm a... How tall are you? 6, 3, 64, somewhere somewhere in there? God. I tell you what, a lot of times you look at celebrities and go, yeah, that guy's just, yeah, he's handsome, but he's just 5-11.

Right. Justmore. Not Riley Green. Yeah, he's a little guy. Hey, not Riley Green. He's got some piss on him, too. It's different around here. It's different around here.

What are you looking at? What are you looking at? What are you looking at? What's really different over there? That's where it's really different at. Dude, Justin, what you met him, obviously? Is he, uh, Justin's great. His little, uh, I could kick your ass.

Is that not a funny song for a man of his size? Well, I never knew. I didn't know. know he was that short at first. I'll listen to it and I was like, if I ever played baseball, that would be my walking song. Justin Moore, by the way. Justin Moore. Justin more. And then I saw a picture of him standing next to somebody and he is, well, how, he's got

be five, six. I don't want to, five, seven. Google helps out with an intro two. You don't want to do what? I don't want to put a number on it because I'm not good at guessing below six foot. Yeah, go that picture right there. No, no, one over. That one.

Who's he with that picture? Luke, Ryan. Luke tall? He's probably nearly my high. I've got a picture with Justin from when I made him at a show like six years ago and he's six foot. And in that other picture, he's kneeling down. Dude, it was Kenny Chesney that threw me off. You think he was too short?

Yeah. I'll tell you, I don't like throwing shade at celebrities. No, man, me neither. I'll tell you what, Kenny kills that beach bomb. He's 5, 6, too. 5.6. I didn't think he was that short. Back to ankles.

He's not tall. Back to ankles. Kenny No way Kenny's got that perfect country beach five deal going on I love it

him and Uncle Cracker Oh for sure They're killing it Cut off shirt Hey Harrison Anything we're missing That we need a shout out In the future

I want to see You have this picture With you and uh Go follows down low What are we doing We got to get the boys stuff out there There's me and Corey from a few years ago Bearded boys

He bearded Dude he's just done man I tell you before you leave tomorrow You need to go shave that mustache back in. It's me and Justin. Yeah, you look a little

on the hefty side in that picture, bud? No, man, I wasn't. That's a couple goo goo clusters too many.

I just said that big old shirt. That's a big shirt. Yeah, I'm sure. That's all you wear the big shirt and you're kind of just wondering and then they

take it off at the pool and you're saying, oh, fuck. Good for him. Yeah. Good for him. Good for him. Yeah, that's what they say.

What is your Instagram? Riley Duckman. Riley Duckman. Yeah. I wouldn't make that up. Hey, be more country. Riley Dirt Road Riley Dirt Road Duckman

Follow him on Instagram He's got too many followers Dude he's got to go man Yeah underscore Oh that thing's badass Yeah that's sick So you don't need that Oh yeah

You pull the bus with it I want to get uh Probably couldn't This bus is heavy And it's not running for a while We want to get the same running at one point But it was like 77 grand Yeah I'm out on that man

Yeah How many All the cars you said you bought in this damn podcast How many you have like 17 cars and half of them work. It's fair. At least half of them. At least half of them.

That's a good average. Yeah. You get this bus running? No, I'm not a car guy. Okay. I just like, I just like,

I'm just like, I'm going to take it somewhere. I'm the same way. I'm not handy for anything. I thought you're like a motorcycle guy. I'm a huge motorcycle guy and I'll ride them until they stop. Okay, that's cool.

Yeah, and then it's over. And I'm like, well, someone better fix this. I guess I'll be on a skateboard. Yeah. I used to write skateboard. I know. You didn't have a tell me that.

Oh my God. He's got some good banter. We got some banter from Alabama. When did you start chewing tobacco and you're six? I guess probably 12, 11 and 12. When you had your first chew, you throw up everywhere? I don't remember if I threw up, but I remember feeling like I wanted to. And still, my dad did Skull original wintergreen, fine cut, and that would make me sick right now.

Yeah? Because that was the one, you know? Oh, this is one bad kid named Waylon. I grew up on a ranch and there's this really shitty house in the middle that's where the manager lived that's where my mom was a manager but these like double wads

were all around it and Whalen lived in one of the double wides and he gave me he stole a can off his dad and it was Copenhagen straight long cut and he would ball it up he had braces and we'd do it and then yeah I smoked a weed

with him for the first time and I did that and I threw up everywhere I was sick for two weeks didn't start chewing again until I got the NFL then I quit and now I'm here. Here we are.

And here's the story. And I found five bucks. That's cool. Shout out of people that lose money on the street. All right. Get off our bus. Hey, Riley Green music on Twitter. Yeah, yeah, Instagram.

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