Bussin' With The Boys - Riley Green Talks Touring W/ Luke Combs, The Current State Of Country Music, Life On The Road + His Love For Hunting

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

Recorded: March 31st 2023 | In this weeks episode, country music singer, Riley Green joins the boys on the bus. He gives us some time before he makes gets back on the road as he is touring with Luke Combs and Lainey Wilson. He talks about the differences performing in a stadium with 50,000 people compared to a smaller venue with maybe 50 people. He then dives into the current state of country music, and the different sub-genres that follow under country. He explains his music writing process as well as the different artists he learns from. Finally he explains his love for hunting and how enjoys being able to be disconnected from the world for a while. Riley and the boys are able to chop it up and fire some chirps back and forth. This is a chill and insightful pod that you will enjoy listening too. Enjoy boys. 0:00 Intro 1:42 Rue turns 1 2:29 do babies get cake and babies nutrition 7:29 a favorite rue moment from her first year 9:00 Will wanted boy at first 10:19 thinking about names 12:15 Ohio State recap 14:01 LSU preview 16:17 Ranking ohio state 24:17 March madness talk 29:54 LSU v Iowa championship 48:35 S/O no free S/O 58:46 INTERVIEW STARTS 59:29 playing in a big stadium vs smaller venue 1:00:59 when you watch big performers, what do you watch for, and not getting repetitive 1:04:11 best part of first stadium 1:07:20 how many men go to his shows 1:09:46 what do you think of people who say current country isn’t country 1:15:05 how riley goes about writing music 1:16:42 does he like the tyler childers country 1:21:11 how long did it take him to get good at working the crowd 1:22:58 wild stories from his shows 1:27:30 what’s harder, MLB or Softball and sports talk 1:31:41 Riley’s tour schedule 1:32:46 Riley's love for hunting & hunting same deer for 3 years 1:42:52 talking dying by doing something dumb 1:45:57 Riley's dad's first time in the airport 1:49:14 tier talk 2:00:19 Tour bus life ---- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Chevy Silverado - The Strongest, Most Advanced Silverado Ever. Black Tux - Go to https://barstool.link/BlackTuxBWTB and use code bussin, you’ll save $30 off your order. Sport Clips - Sport Clips. The Pros in Men’s Hair. Duke Cannon - Use code BUSSIN10 at https://barstool.link/DukeCannonBSS for 10% off your entire order HeyDude - Shop Now at https://barstool.link/HEYDUDEBSS Barstool Store Shop now at https://store.barstoolsports.comFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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in her iPad and her playbook you don't have to put her up for adoption she is worthy of being in the family. But the birthday party couldn't want any better. She had a lot of fun. She had kind of that separation anxiety. She's getting to that age where, you know, new people come in and she doesn't want to, you try and like let, you know, your dad and our parents and other people hold her. And she's kind of like ripping you stronger. Um, but all in all, a very good one-year-old birthday party and also a celebration of just being a parent for a year. Like that shit is wild, bro. My wife celebrating her after having that 40-something hour laboring experience. But, Um, yes, we will.

Do babies get like cake or is it like a baby from like, like do they get like cake like we would eat on a birthday or is it like a baby for? So there's just like smash. There's something called a smash cake. And Charles dad, her grandpa made her a smash cake. This little double-aired thing. It's kind of her first time getting into the just having something like that, getting the sugar involved and everything else.

She has fruit and all that fun stuff. But it was her first time. Her first little cake eating experience. She was a little hesitant at first. I'm whipping the icing up with the finger and trying to like, You give it to her and she's like shaking her head, no. And then she kind of, you kind of force it on her lip for a second. Sounds weird.

And she realizes, yo, this shit kind of hits. And then she just starts digging in. It was awesome. The boy, you know, follow me on Instagram underscore Wilcompton. You see some flicks on the gram. But yes, they have something called a smash cake and they just get in and dig in, bro. They're just a normal cake? Basically, I think so.

I don't know why they called a smash cake other than just like you can smash it. Really. The shit we grew up on vegetable oil, canola oil. You know what I mean? Just making a flour-based sugar rush cake. You're going to make her follow some sort of weird diet growing up? Like, are you going to say like no sugars, no? No, I mean, I don't think I'll do that.

I think we'll be conscious of what, you know, she puts in her body and just hopefully try and foundationally, I guess, teach her. You can't really teach kids. Like, they're just fucking little animals. But, dude, I go back and forth on that because, you know, not to throw the word woke around. But we have way more access to nutrition these days. Like people can get well versed on how healthy everything is.

And we're all starting to learn more from documentaries and everything else. How bad some of this processed sugar, all the nut oils and everything else that are out there that can like cancer causing, just bad for you overall, right? Like when we're growing up and in high school and you're trying to gain weight, like your coach is telling you eat three peanut butter sandwiches before you go to bed. And you're eating a whole wheat wonder bread thinking, oh, I'm getting the good shit because now I'm going to be healthy.

healthy, only to get to college and then you learn that, like, enriched wheat flour is the, is the enemy. And enriched wheat flour is in, like, the whole wheat bread, right? So then you start trying to find that real whole wheat out there. Then you kind of learn about gluten. Like, you weren't learn about all this shit. But your boy, like, growing up, like, grew up in small town Missouri, we're eating fucking anything. And if I'm going to sit here and be like, am I going to be super conscious, like, I'm going to be conscious about it, but I'm not going to be some, like, strict dad. Like, you can't do X, Y, and Z. Like, she's going to have her. her cakes or smash cakes and shit like that.

But I feel like I'll be a little bit more conscious about maybe the ingredients, per se. So it's like she wants cake. How can we make a healthier cake, right? Like use the good flowers, the good oils. Like let's see if you can turn something out like Pinterest and Instagram. Like some of these people out there have recipes that just look off the chains. And if it, if it doesn't taste anything remotely like it,

it's like why not go the healthier route? But I'm not going to be a stickler. Like your boy, I would leave my grandparents' house. slamming four sodas and have like three, however many I could fit my pockets on the right home because we didn't carry like soda at the house. Not on like a health thing, we just didn't carry soda at the house. You know what I mean? Where I go over to her friends and just launch cereal into my mouth because I'd be like, oh, you can have cereal midday or late at night. Like we only got to eat one bowl of cereal in the morning for just breakfast. So it's like, you know, they're going to do

what they do when they go somewhere else anyway. I feel like it's more of just, I guess, being conscious of and then maybe teaching them as they get older, but they're fucking kids, man, they're going to do with their thing. Well, like, what's the new ingredient that's, like, popular right now that in 10 years, they're going to be like, yeah, that actually wasn't that healthy for you because, what was it, 10 years ago, kale was like the rage and health food. Super food. But apparently kale cuts your stomach lining.

Like, for some reason, it's not as healthy for you. And before the whole, like, explosion of kale, one of my buddies told me this this weekend, the largest consumer of kale or like a purchaser was Pizza Hut forever because it was the like the dressing around the pizza that would come on the platter. I don't know if you remember that. It'd be like this green stuff that came around the pizza. And apparently pizza was the number one for or not producer, consumer, I guess, purchaser of kale.

And up until then, like no one fucked with kale. That's a good point. Like who knows what the new fads going to be? I feel like a lot of like data and stuff is usually five to ten years later. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I have no fucking clue. But all to say is like I'm not going to be some strict dad.

I am conscious of that stuff at times. But then I like try and check myself immediately. Like, hey, brother, like you grew up drinking canola oil. Like it's going to be all good. Like you're just fine. You got time. Drinking that hose water and stuff. Exactly.

Drinking that hose water out there. Like rolling around like just doing the most shit like Bontair, Missouri. not to shit on the, not to shit on the hometown, but the small town people of small town America, like you fucking, you know what I mean? Gas station's food. You loved it. So, anyway. Since Surrulians now one, is there a moment that stands out to you from the past year?

Hate to put you on the spot like that, but is there a moment that stands out. Yeah. Over the, over the past year. I don't know, man. It's like, it's like the whole cliche of like time flies. Like it just does, bro. All the day, like, it's. A lot of the stuff like being a dad, like I posted yesterday, like it's just indescribable.

Like people talk about wanting to have kids and everything else. And every parent tells you, you know, whether, you know, you're trying to get your boy to go out and they have a kid and they're like, oh, you'll know one day. Or when you're thinking about having kid, they're like, oh, the love you have for a kid, like, oh, you'll know one day. Or it's just, it's truly indescribable until you're just in it. Like the amount of joy and love in your heart that gets created when your kid comes. And then as they age, like every month seems to get better and better. better because they get more personality. They get, you know, little mannerisms.

And, you know, it's just the fucking best. And then you want to slow down because you know at some point in time, they're not going to want you. They're not going to need you as much anymore, which is going to hurt us more than it hurts them. Because you think of us growing up, like, you were always ready to be an adult. You thought your parents were always just trying to hold you back from being great

or from hanging at your boy's house or, like, just getting in trouble, basically. All you want to do is just go back now and not have to worry about any of that shit. I know. Yeah. Now we want to travel back in time or relive it because you just know how easy it is. But just all of a man. Like it's just, dude, it's just a fucking blast. I'll tell you this, though.

Like, you know how your boy was pre-Rue. Didn't want a boy. When the pink thing came off out of the cake, I was like, yeah, I didn't want a girl. My fault. I didn't want a girl. I wanted a boy. Wanted that Willie Earl Compton the fourth. And then when that pink came out of the cake, I was like, fuck, dude.

And I was trying to intentionally be that dude. Like, yeah, I'm not just going to pivot and act happy when I, I, knew the whole time I just wanted a boy. But I'll tell you what, having Rue, man, and it makes me not care if the next one's even a girl. girl, being a girl, that's fucking awesome. I know having your little boy would be dope. But Rue has like, uh, it's just cool, man.

It's really cool. So you're the third, right? William Earl Compton, the third. So was your dad, Bill growing up? Or was he went. My dad was Billy. And then my grandparents wanted to call me little Billy. and my mom was like, fuck no.

Like, you are not, shut up. He's not going to be Little Billy walking around. Bill would have been nice. Just little Bill. And so if you end up having a boy, will you go, like, will you just go by Willie? I think I'm going to do Liam. You're going to end it with you?

No, no, no, William. Because there's like, you know, the boys that are named Liam, like some of their first full name is William. I think the last four, L-I-A-M, Liam. I might just go by Liam. That's pretty cool. Well, we're dabbling with a couple names.

It's the first time I've actually thought about maybe I get away from the fourth. Probably not. If my wife's listening to this right now, like I'm strong on, we're not, I'm not moving. The heels are digging in the ground for William Earl the fourth. You know what I mean? I just think it's fucking cool, man. I just think like having the, what is it, suffix? The Roman numerals, what's it called?

I'm trying to think when you click on the, when you're filling out for like a flight information. or something. You're trying to put the third. That little number at the end, I just think it's cool. And Earl, like, I used to fucking hate Earl growing up, and now I think it's sick. Low-key, I kind of want to go by Earl. The fourth is like, it's not just, you have the IV then. The IV, bro, yeah. Yeah, but I don't know, it'll be, it'll be cool.

Boy, I'm going to start dropping the troops off. You know what I mean? We're going to start, the boys are going to start coming out of the helicopter in hot here pretty soon, and we're going to see what we can make shake for this kid number two. It'll be 2002. It'll be a little chaotic. that's kind of the route we wanted to go. Yeah, grow up together.

That's why also I wouldn't care if it's a girl too. One of my boys was telling me the other day, he didn't care if it was two, like, it was like, hey, what do you want a boy or girl? And he was like, I don't care. Shout out the boy, Colton Wigger, but it was two boys or two girls, as long as I get two in the same just so they can grow up really good friends. And I'm not saying like a boy and girl can. It's just like, you know, you got somebody who you're going to hang out with the whole time.

So it doesn't matter to me. Like, I selfishly want a boy. Because if I get two girls, like a boy. we're thinking about three kids, but if I get two girls and I'm fucking surrounded by females, like that's when the dad shell up. They get quiet over time. You know what I mean? That's when they start to not speak as much anymore.

They're overtaken. I've seen it happen. It's a sad thing. And then one day you basically have to wait until there's a friend or a boyfriend or they're going to marry somebody that's like, oh, finally a fucking dude in my life. I can open up a little bit more. Maybe my opinion does matter. But we're spending a lot of time on talking to kids stuff. Love the family vibes.

Roos one years old. Ohio State. We went to Ohio State last week. That was a great time. I know the boy Jerry, he was kind of hosting us around. He's a little weary about us at first until we made a lot of common connections. But the Ryan Day interviews out, that went really good. He shouted out how Nebraska was, the 2021 Huskers were, has been the best three-win team he has ever seen in college football. You guys can check that interview out. Coach Hartline, Brian Hartline, he was an absolute stud in the league, drafting the fourth round, white boy receiver, getting it how he lives, dude. Dolphins he played for Miami had a few the I think he had I think he had three I don't want to put that number out there multiple thousand yard seasons never wanted to coach in his life got con back into going back to his alma mater Ohio State to coach he absolutely loves it you can tell he's a competitive son of a bitch dude um you just see when he talks and everything else but again coach day coach heartline and then we interviewed paris johnson who's going to be a top who's going to be like a top 10 top 20 pick in this upcoming NFL draft he was

was really cool to sit down with. The dude is an absolute tank. He's 21 years old. Potential as high as he doesn't have a ceiling dude. And he were pulling for him now. He's one of the boys. We had an awesome time that night at Seesaw. It was Seasaw. Incredible time at Seesaw. We sold out crowd. We had a lot of fun. We did the little Chuck bit. We did a lot of fun stuff. Also like, I forget his name, but shout out one of the boys who just, after the show he had like tears in his eyes. his dad was is about the past shout out the boy um and the boy just wanted to hug because he was just fired up just to listen it's like stuff like that reactions like that is like it's a good reminder on doing the podcast and everything else and um the boy it was a strong hug you could tell he was in and

you could tell he was super happy to be there but we're going to lSU this week shout out the ls u women's basketball team. We're celebrating the Natty at Fred's Bar and Grill. We still got tickets. I assume we sell tickets. That's been one of our lowest selling spots. It's all good. Like Jocko willing, good. Didn't sell a lot of tickets. Good. You suck. People don't like you. Good. More time to do more work. Put into the crowd. We got to build our base down there. Jack, you got any words of encouragement? Yeah, I mean, we've heard word that LSU is a town that's a lot by the seat of their pants last minute type cats. You got to appreciate it. They say that the line's going to be crazy, buying tickets at the door.

And that makes us a little nervous. But if they do show out, that's going to feel good. Absolutely. And it's like, at the end of the day, like, it's part of the gig. Sometimes you're going to hit some adversity. You're going to hit some bumps in road. Bill Burry talks about doing shows for eight bucks for a show. Eight people would be there.

Whatever his little motivational speech was. Everybody start, like, you get humbled along the way. If we're fucking performing in front of seven people, it'll be the best goddamn show with those seven people in our lives. We might just sit in a circle and all have to do a problem. podcast ourselves. You know what I mean? We're not going to shy away. Just like what's the worst that, what's the worst thing that would happen if nobody showed up? We have a good time. We have a good time. Maybe our ego gets bruised a little bit. Yeah. But it's like that said that's,

you know, hey, that shit happens at times. The ego's going to get bruised every now and then. But that's probably the worst thing that can happen is what I'm thinking, because what, you just stand up there? Like, maybe it's just you guys. I mean, we have like 30 people. Don't know, like 30 tickets sold already? There's been, yeah, last like, check, there were 29, tickets sold, which is the lowest. Like we've sold North of 150, I feel like, at every show. But LSU, maybe they're a flyby to see their pants. Maybe they just needed the LSU women's basketball team and winning Natty to start

pubbing it a little bit more. But we'll be down there. We'll be, hey, for everybody who buys the VIPs, too, we're doing a little crawfish boil before, do a little mean greet. We get a professional photo. We do all that fun stuff. Every stop's been a great time. And I hear nothing but great things about Fred's Bar.

Like even if afterwards we're just to hang out and we just want to party with everybody else. Not even, we'll say we're hosting the party, but at the end of the day, people just want to go to Fred's because I hear it's a good time. But Fred's, I think, will just be a great time. Did we go over, like, where does Ohio State rank compared to the first two stops? South Carolina and Texas? Yeah. As far as what? You got to give categories because when you look at, let's just say food, right?

Love the barbecue in South Carolina. Texas loved the bar. We had barbecue in South Carolina. Oh, yeah, yeah, the home team. Oh, yeah, home team. That was a good spot. Texas barbecue Terry Blacks, that was fire. But Warriors, man.

Worriety sandwich, again, because I'm not a big, I'm not a big Ohio cheese state guy. And Warios is fire. I think I'd have to give the edge to Ohio State there just based on the experience. Like barbecue I'm all about, like I'm a little connoisseur and barbecue. So just Terry Blacks is awesome. I think the overall experience, Terry Blacks,

I think as far as the Biden kind of being like wild, I would say Warriors. And I guess what's the next category? Hospitality? Hospitality? I think you got to go South Carolina one. Ohio State 2, Texas 3. And I'm not saying Texas was bad. I just think like we were limited in the things we could do.

We ended up getting along very well. Facilities, I think you go Texas 1, Ohio State 2, South Carolina 3 in the stops we've been at. Did we get to, did you guys guess? like a full tour of Ohio State's facilities? No, because we had three interviews. Yeah, but also like we saw some we saw some familiar faces there. So that kind of took out of the experience. We kind of

lost our time because we wanted to hang out more with the boys than we did want to see the facilities. We saw the weight room. We saw long hallway. We saw the trophy stuff. Like, you can just tell that campus like they're lacrosse field. Insane. I don't know how lacrosse fields are around the country, but that was like just a whole campus

around sports. Like all of a sports, sporting facilities was top-notch, like getting to see where Vrabel. Their indoor is nice, dated, outdated, but getting to see, like, you're around the tradition. Like, I thought Ohio State was sick. But that's why I placed some number two and not, like, one over Texas. Texas is just insane. Yeah, and then I guess.

About as good as Nebraska. The final one, I guess, is the live show. Live shows. I don't know. What do you guys think? I think you guys are a better judge on the live shows. A live show is... I give it to you guys, because I stay in my head on live shows.

Like, it's all like... I feel it's very dependent on location. Like, I will put number three at South Carolina just because we were at a tin roof. And it was, like, very, like, open space, not that intimate. Yeah. And it was the first one. But I'd probably put the Texas live show at number one.

Only because the Vulcan was, like, a very intimate place. It was, like, where you would go to watch a comedy show. Yeah, and apparently it's a spot you go to. Like, it's on 6th Street, a couple row... He saw the way we were treated there and like the accommodations, the staff, dude, they were fucking awesome. Like, every, like, time I'd turn around, someone to be like, hey, do y'all, like, need something here?

Like, need more food or, like, what can we do to make your lives easier? Even y'all's walk-up song, they didn't have it. And they, like, were, like, freaking out. And they went, like, crazy. Got on the computer. We're, like, downloading, like, a legal file of it just to the- Yon-Wire. They had to download LimeWire to get that song going.

So, I don't know. I really enjoyed the Ohio State one. Yeah. And if you see-saw is nice. Yeah, I think you've got to go Texas one, Ohio State, two, South Carolina, three. I think, like, Texas is one because it's a comedy club. Correct.

So it had a real green room, like, not like it had a green room where you're seeing photos of comics who have been there. You got the stage, you got the two floors where people are even over top of you. Yeah. The other two, it was awesome. The other two were just bars. Yeah. Like 10 roof, obviously is like a chain, but like Ohio, the seesaw,

it was like obviously it was another bar but they don't really have like a stage yeah but i saw like i love seesaw it was definitely a really cool bar and like we had the most amount of people there which was sick yeah yeah no i'm with that dude um do we need to hit an ad of blasi let's throw up an ad read get it in here guys we got about five oh before we get to in the adery we do got to let you guys know we're going back to one episode a week for the rest of April. When we get in May, we will be getting back to twice a week for those four weeks in May. We're going to be off Memorial Week. I don't know if that's news to you guys are not for the boys in the back, but we are going to be off Memorial Week. That's news. That's big news, right? That's big news

for the boys, because you guys work your fucking ass off. You guys really do. We got to, and we're reeling in from two to one because we've been going two since Super Bowl week. The boys in the back absolutely fucking grind. They don't bitch about it a whole, they don't bitch about it much. you know, every now and then Jack gets in a mood. You never know it can come out. He doesn't get in a mood and complains, but you just know the boys are in it every day, all day long. We get to fly back Thursday mornings.

Taylor and I get to go get in a nap or whatever it is. The boys got to usually come back and work because we're dropping. When we drop on Tuesdays, we're shooting the episode or intro on Monday. When we drop on Thursdays, we're shooting the intro or episode on Tuesday because we leave at the ass crack of dawn on Wednesday, do all the springs tour stuff on Wednesday, they go hard after the live show because the vibes are high. We're a little nervous.

You take the edge off with some tequila. And so we have a good night. We have a good time on Wednesday night. Then we get back Thursday. We fly back Thursday morning and the boys come back and work. And then hopefully we try and figure out an episode like Riley Green for the next week to where you're not grinding on Monday and Tuesday. But all to say is the boys have been absolutely fucking grinding.

And we were trying to figure out a way. And the simple solution is get back to one a week. They'll be releasing on Tuesdays, per usual. the month of May, we will do two a week just for those four weeks in May. And then we'll probably get back to a regular program the one a week. So that way we can pour more into vlogs, more into different content, tight-in use coming to town, doing more fun things out there. But that's an update for you guys.

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look right it's Tuesday that means the March Madness men's final is tonight right on Monday look thank God March Madness is over, am I right?

Probably some people love March Madness. I know I'm hitting a little, touch on a little spot there. Here's my thought about March Madness. I think March Madness, the March Madness Tournament, your boy loves brackets. Loves brackets. A 64-man bracket, I think March Madness is the best fandom kind of tournament in the game. You got 64 teams.

We're all making our brackets. We're putting our stuff. I even love the thought of making a bracket. And then you kind of see how it goes. No one usually gets it right. but as far as men's college basketball, I think it is the most overrated sport out there. I think it's the most overrated.

That doesn't mean it's more overrated than, say, like, wrestling or some of these track sports out there. I'm just saying it's overhyped because at the end of the day, basically everyone gets in this tournament. FAU is in the final four. We're talking about a nine seed. Anybody from one to 64, you're in the tournament.

Now we've got playing games. You're allowing everybody. Anybody can win this fucking tournament, too. Like, we're not watching the best of the best compete in the finals. We're watching a four versus five, I believe. And in the final four was a nine, five, five and a four, or a nine four, four, four, four. Like, it's like, it's like if FAU, FAU had a shot, it's like somebody who fails all year long. And just because they pass their finals test at the end of the year, means they're in the running for valedictorian.

I think it's a sham. FAU is not failing all year. You are going to strike a nerve with people out there. Good, good, good. That's what, that's what we got to. But all I'm saying is. But all I'm saying is everyone has an opportunity to win. Like, there's a lot of parody in college men's basketball.

But again, I think it, me personally, your boy, I think it's the most overrated sport of the big, I mean, of the big three, the big four, who fucking knows? I think March Madness. I think March Madness is great for fans. It's the best tournament for fans. But I think it's the most overrated sport. Here's your fucking clip. Men's basketball or just college basketball? We'll say men's.

They look. Like, like, I'm talking like NBA as well. Oh, no, no, no. I think, like, it's playoff time and NBA. I think people are actually locked in like, uh, I guess I'm just speaking for myself. I'm not saying like NBA. I just think like everyone gets so fucking hype for March Madness. But truly like the finals isn't a very hyped event.

Like it's like, I think basketball is overrated in general. Yeah, I'm with you. But I'm just saying like just because I'm talking about basketball, like I love watching, you know, playoff basketball, just like any playoffs. But March Madness, you love day one. You love like day one through five, like the first couple rounds because it's all sorting itself out. But once you get into the final four, unless there's some like rivalries happening or some dogs in there that are actually going for it and they got some number one overall pick or some top five pick and they're all duke in it out. Unless they got that, there's not a lot of flare to it. Like who's in the final San Diego State and Yukon?

I'm sure people are going to watch it. Like Jack, you can tell he's about it. I know you're rooted for Tennessee hard. Like when you got your school in there, you're fucking pulling hard. is in there, your boy, all of a sudden, I'm a basketball fan, right? But all I am saying is, I think when the national championship game is being played, I don't think it lives up to the hype at all whatsoever compared to the magnitude of the start of March Madness.

Like when you get to Super Bowl, playoffs, NBA playoffs, hockey playoffs, all these other playoffs, all these other tournaments, people get hype for that national championship game. I don't think overall you see that same amount of hypeness for when you get to the finals, because everyone, everyone loves making the brackets. Everyone will make it. And that's kind of my take on it. How do you feel about it? I know you're like, you're somebody who likes college basketball.

If JP or Garrett loves college basketball, I love to hear their opinion as well. But I'm just saying, I think overall. I'm a fairer of basketball fan. I like the Grizzlies. I like Tennessee, but like I'm nowhere going to just like be standing basketball. But I definitely am not on the boat that is overrated. The first few days of March Madness are some of the best days in sports,

like undeniably. especially when you're in high school and you have cool teachers that will let you throw the games on like maybe during lunch or like a study hall and you've got like an hour to with the boys. That's a great one. But yeah,

you got like an hour to with the boys when you're like 16 at school and you're like, dude, fuck English class. Like we're rooting for FAU. Like they're going to make a run in this. And that's the beauty of it because at the beginning of the bracket, there's nothing but hope.

It's like my bracket may go the whole distance. It'd be 100% perfect. And within three hours, your bracket is shattered. But it's fun every year because you don't have to know basketball to make a bracket. You just fucking pick whatever. And a lot of the times, like, whether it's like one of your like girlfriends or a guy who like doesn't ever watch it, they are throwing in crazy upsets.

And you're like, that is so fucking stupid. And then next thing you know, their bracket is on the way to winning it. Yeah. So that's the beauty of it. It's like there's anyone can join in on the fun. Yeah. And look, I agree with you. I think that speaks to the point of like it's the best tournament for fans.

because you're right, those first few days, teachers, this and that. But when it gets to the finals, the flames kind of died. I agree. You know what I mean? It's like all the way up here and then it's like... And when you say all the way up here, I agree with Jack. Those are some of the best days of the year when it comes to sports. Again, four fans.

I think it's fucking awesome. But, you know, I love thinking that this can cause a little bit of chaos. But if you're listening to this episode, I think people can sit there and kind of like nod. And maybe there's some dire college basketball fans out there. I'm not saying there's not. I'm just saying overall, I think... As the tournament goes, the flame kind of dies, right? That's just my, you know, that's, I don't fucking watch college basketball.

It's like, I can stick to football, but a podcast, we are a role. And all to say, too, I think women's college basketball is more entertaining in the men's this year. I'm proud. I disagree. I didn't watch a lick of March Madness this year. All of a sudden, fucking Twitter was going off about this Caitlin Clark chick. I didn't even know what she looked like none of that. I just see everybody's like, you know, some chick must be going off in women's college basketball.

Iowa dethrones basically South Carolina. Well, South Carolina one seed, yeah? Over all the one. 42 game win streak. They were supposed to be them. I know JP, he was sulking about South Carolina losing. But I see all of a sudden this gal, Caitlin Clark, is balling out there.

And you kind of look at some highlights and you're kind of like, you're kind of fired up to see what the women's final looks like. She's the women's Steph Curry. Yeah, that's like what I'm seeing. Again, your boy, I'm not watching a lick of basketball, but I'm seeing all of a sudden like, oh, there's some energy surrounding this game because this Caitlin Clark chick apparently is like this unanimous MVP in women's college basketball. And you see these highlights. She's throwing up shots

midway between half court and the three point line. So I start to get in the women's college basketball drama. You know, I've thrown a couple jokes about women's basketball over time on my Twitter career. But all of a sudden, I'm bought in. I got a group chat. I got a group chat going off. I'm talking my Huskers group chat. There's about, you know, seven black dudes and two of us white boys in there. And I see a couple of my boys, one of them, Nigeria. and he's like he's pro culture all the time he's pulling for this white chick i'm like okay if my boy's pulling for this white shit she must be nice they're pulling for iwa for the game like okay we got people pulling for i win this game so i go in i want to watch this game ls u versus iwa like hey let's get

the national title to the big 10 again right so i get in and right out the gate you know twitter's gonna be on fire because people are not watching this women's basketball game like women's basketball Women's basketball took a fat dub coming out of their final. Now, I know that's like a little take me saying women's basketball is more entertaining than the men's. I'm saying that to ruffle some feathers and everything else. But all in all, the most improved award goes to women's college basketball. They got everybody talking about it. You know what I mean?

Especially you got everyone just losing their minds over this. You can't see me sports spectacle where people are just pure competitors competing and shit talking each other. Everybody's getting involved. You throw racing anything. It's going to bring millions of views to all of it. everybody's losing their fucking mind. So right out of the gate, you see LSU versus Iowa. I mean, everybody knows when these introductions happen.

Everybody's thinking the same thing. We've got five white girls versus five black girls. Like everyone's already thinking it. We're in the group chat. Everybody's having a good time with it. All of a sudden, Fox News Dads now have something to root for. They're all of a sudden watching women's college basketball. Fucking all of a sudden, just fist pumping.

You're like, hey, Dad, what are you doing? It's like, okay, let's take it easy. And then you get into this game. LSU, hell of a game by LSU. Again, I don't watch. The best part is everybody's losing their mind over this. All of a sudden, everybody loves women's college basketball for a day, right? Because nothing else is really on at the moment.

Nothing's going on besides women's college or March Madness in WrestleMania. But football is out of the question. So everybody's putting all their eggs in this woman's got. Everybody's got an opinion on this shit. Everybody's arm's share quarterback in it. We watch this game. Iowa gets in foul trouble. Did you guys watch the game?

Jack, did you watch it? Oh, so I'm briefing you guys. Maybe I'm fucking just... I saw the highlights and stuff, but no, I didn't. You just saw the fourth quarter? Yeah, yeah, okay. So maybe... Who knows?

I would love to see the viewership. I think they fucking crushed it. But I'm bought it in this game. Iowa gets in the foul trouble early. Caitlin Clark, one of the big girls, I don't know, they get in foul trouble early. The LSU's bench is coming off the bench, is dropping bombs and dimes outside beyond the arc.

You got this gal going like six for six, hits a little buzzer beater at a halftime. LSU's putting on a fucking clinic. Like, there's no chance that I, Iowa's got a shot. I was starts to chip away and come back at the end. I know everybody's tuned in and watch to see what Caitlin Clark does. The gals dropped over 40 plus apparently in like, what was it?

Like the last six games or some shit? I don't, again, I don't fucking know. I'm just watching it for just the love of the game. I'm like, hey, these girls got some, got some shake to them. This is going way different than I thought it might go. Do you get to the end of the game? What's her name? Angel Reese?

Angel Reese. She apparently, she or not apparently. She does this. You can't see me. she's chasing Caitlin Clark around like my one-year-old with separation anxiety to try to get her attention to taunt in her face. I get it, but everybody losing their fucking mind, especially like the whole race car comes in. Like, that's just sports. That's just competing.

Caitlin Clark hit it first, though. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang it. We'll get into that. Because I love that conversation, too, because I think ultimately you have to compartmentalize these things. You have to put them into their own separate boxes. Because me, I'm thinking, like, I love that. that for the game. Like, you need villains. And I'm not saying villain like Angel Reese is some villain. I just love that she was about her taunting. Because even, uh, even Caitlin Clark waved her off at the

three point line. Like, nobody go check her. She ain't got it. And she hits a three. Like she takes it. You're fucking competing. You are in the arena. We got the chief seats. We're on Twitter. Everyone's got, everyone's throwing their opinion out. They're the fucking ones battling. So she takes it as like a slight disrespect. And she knows her story. I don't. She says after the game, I'm hood, I'm this, I'm that. Everyone's kind of wrote these stories about us all year or about me. Like, I'm unapologetically myself. I don't know her story, but I'm thinking, fuck, yeah, go off.

Like, do your thing. If you got this built up in your head, I get that. You won the national title. When you win the national title, you have the right to celebrate however you want. Whether or not it's my style or my flavor, it doesn't fucking matter. You win. You do your thing. Now, Jack, if that is a, here's what we can get into.

And just talking about, like, let's just say sportsmanship. I hate fucking saying it because everyone talks about, oh, classless, this, that. Like, guys, look, you're all falling into the traps that is Twitter. Your usual suspects are out there talking about it. Dave Portnoy, Acho, fucking RG3. People are going to do their thing to start building this car. Like Dave says classless piece of shit. Like, oh, the shit.

Like, you're falling for the trap. Like, that's like the monster that is Twitter, right? But let's get this thing dialed in and talk about. Jack, let's say you do that in a regular season game. Because again, here's my opinion. Angel Reese, do you won the national title? You beat Iowa. Like your story, you grinded all fucking year to have that moment. Do whatever you want. Everyone's going to comment about it. But who gives a fuck? That's why I love that. She's like, I don't give a shit that I'm being me. So let's say regular season game. Because everyone's saying like Caitlin Clark did the same thing, XYZ. So you do that in a regular season game, Jack. You're on LSU, you're Angel Reese. You do that in a regular season game. game. If we're sitting there the next day in the film room, and I'm pulling this because, you know, I've had coaches like Pellini, Vrable, I've had these people that I've gotten to learn from. If we're sitting in a team meeting, it's like, hey, I get you want to celebrate,

maybe celebrate with your teammates. When we win the national title, you can do some shit like this, but in this moment, you know, like let's not make it too much about that. We'll have our time to do that. That said, they won the national title. There's not a whole lot. Like, do your fuck it. If that's how you want to handle it, do it, right? Be yourself. Yes. And as far as the Caitlin Clark comparison, that's what I would say. Like when Caitlin, when Caitlin did that, she looks to the sideline, she looks to the bench and does it with her team for a split moment. She's not hawking somebody around to taunt and throw it in their face all time. And again, this is your boy zooming out and trying to explain why there's some differences there.

Because I get it's so easy. It's a low-hanging fruit to do on social media and everything else. So-and-so do it. Hey, keep the same thing. energy here. We all know why. They're this color. They're that color. We wouldn't be saying to X, Y, and Z. I think ultimately, everyone buys the cheap tickets and says whatever they want, but it's not that fucking deep. Like, everyone's got their own story about it. You were at Angel Reese post game talking about it. She took some things as disrespect. They won the national title. You were in the right to celebrate however you want to, and that's how she wanted to do it. Whether or not it's your cup of tea, it doesn't fucking matter. You won. You won it all. You won

the big dance. You're cutting the net. You're wearing the championship hat. You don't give a shit, dude. You're like, yo, I'm being me. That's me. I love that. We love to celebrate the Connor McGregers of the world. You know what I mean? There's a big fan base. Like, you got the shit talk. Best shit talkers of the game.

Floyd Mayweather's, Muhammad Ali, Connor McGregers, all these people who do the shit talking. When they're successful and everything else, it ends up coming back around. Like, they all have their moments, right?

Even fucking like the Jake Paul shit. Like everyone blows up when there's some, oh, I don't fuck with this or I don't mess with this. Look at this class of shit. I wouldn't go about it that way. You know, when you earn the right to win and stand on the podium and everything else, you can do that.

But Jack, that's what I would say the discrepancy is with all the whole sportsmanship talk and the difference. Again, I didn't watch that game that Caitlin Clark was going off and then she did it. But everyone's saying, and when you look at it, she's looking to the sideline and doing it with the team. The other one, she's chasing her around and taunting. I think that's where it lies a subtle difference. I get that it's the same gesture. Your boy's trying to stay zoomed out as high as you can. I'm trying to stay a thousand feet tall on this thing and put you in the room.

like if that's a regular season game, I think that's what gets said. I know in a football, in a football team meeting when you're going over celebrating at the end of the game like that. I know Vrable or somebody, but hey, teammates, like celebrate with your teammates.

Like, let's not get too out of character. And it would literally say, we win the Super Bowl, do whatever the fuck you want to do. But until then, like, pick your moment. That said, they won the Natty. Fucking go off and do whatever you want to do. And, you know, everybody does the whole,

the race baiting and everything else on there. It's just absolute chaos. At the end of the day, women's college basketball won. You don't want to know who lost to, which they always fucking do, the referees, because they always want to show their ass and make it about them. But LSU put on a hell of a hell of a performance. The head coach with their little fit and get up and fucking shining over there. I thought that was hilarious.

But hats off to LSU. You got to give them their flowers. And they can, again, they won. You earn the right to win. You earn the right to celebrate how you want to celebrate how you want to celebrate. People are like, oh, what would you want to teach your daughter? It's like, listen, my daughter wins a third grade soccer game. Yeah, she's not winning a fucking national title.

She's a third grader. you're going to win with grace, you're going to lose with grace, you're going to teach foundational things that's like, hey, we don't do that. But if one day you earn a scholarship and you become her or you become this and that and you earn the right to do that and you're no longer in my house and operating under my philosophies, do what you want to fucking do. And again, she earned the right to do that. Not in a way of like showing her ass and being some arrogant like, yo, I'm trying to be some asshole about it. Like you're in the highest, you're in the highest level of competition. The finals go off. And again,

You feel disrespecting the type of way. You have your storyline throughout the year. Journalist writing shit about you. You're like, I don't fit your box. I don't fit your narrative. Talk your shit. You deserve it. You want it.

But that's kind of like my piece on the whole, the whole, don't matter. And for everybody who didn't watch the women's college basketball finals, you probably should have watched it. That's a good, I feel like that's a decent little breakdown of it all, but that's kind of my,

I don't know, it's kind of my opinion on the matter. What else? Jack, do you have anything to add or to talk about? No, I just feel like, if you're on that stage and clearly Angel Reese is a competitor to her core, that competition, when it's inside of you and like how much it means,

if you're able to like take yourself back and be removed from the situation and handle it with like poison grace, then you're like a superhero in my opinion because I too love competition and if I'm in that moment in the heat of it and some other person has been giving me that shit or like she's known to have done that, I'm going to give it right back at them because like in that moment you're so fired up you're like yeah motherfucker we just won like give me that ring get the fuck off the court and then yeah Twitter's gonna go ham and then but all it's doing is making people want to watch college women's basketball more best part about all this like everyone gets caught up it's like this is what i fucking love about sport i want to kind of hate people

and i'm not saying i hate angel reese at all but you kind of want those like that builds rivalries it's just like you're and you're right bro it's like Aaron rogers say like Let's just say Aaron Rogers doing discount, double-tick, discount. And all of a sudden, you beat him in the Super Bowl. I might just sprint out of nowhere over to the sideline and just go, bam, right in his fucking face. That might be a classless piece of shit move. But, hey, we won the Super Bowl, bitch. You know what I'm saying?

Like, you just in the moment, bro. You went on the biggest stage in your sport. You're entitled to do some extra shit. Yeah. There's obviously a line that you can go over, and I do not think that Andrew Reese went over that line by any means. No. If anything, she could have been walking off the court still doing it. She did it for five seconds, and then it was over, and then they started celebrating with their team.

Yeah, bro. Everybody's going to take that five second clip and fucking cry about it for a week, and then we'll forget about it. And it'll be another villain. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, hopefully it does, bro. But I'm with you, man. It's like, you're doing your thing. Like, this shit is, that's what I love about sports.

And all of a sudden, that day, yesterday, everyone's becoming a women's college basketball fan. It started a rivalry not only between, like, L. see you in Iowa, but like now when Angel Reese and Clayton Clark go to like the league, they're going to have a rivalry there. Yeah, bro, which I love. Yeah, like it's definitely good for like women's sports. Absolutely, man. And shout out to the women's sports, bro, because that's, that was a big win, I feel like

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busson anything else or should we get to this interview with Riley Green I know we got shoutout no free shoutout we're going to hit that I would love your guys's opinion I think if you do the uh you like hitting kind of the headlines at the beginning or would you rather go like a shout out no free shout out at the beginning

I was kind of thinking about that when I was naked in the shower earlier I like I like we go headlines and then save shout out never shout out for the end of it okay I thought we've always done that We have. I just want to throw that question out there. Yeah. I think preferably that's the best way to do it, but. Yeah, because I feel like I've just, we've never asked or kind of talked

about the flow. You kind of just do it and then you're like, oh, it's time for our favorite segment type of deal. Yeah, I think it's like a little fun thing to wait for it. And if you're watching right now and you're in the YouTube comments or the live chat, making friends, like leave a comment, let the boys know how you like the flow of the show. And shout out everybody who's out to ride and dine on the hill for us to keep long intros and everything else. Like, that's what you need.

Have you ever thought about doing like the, like the things that bother you type of shout out you know what I mean pet peeves yeah pet peeve of the week or something yeah whatever it would be I think it'd be fun dude there's a lot of pet peeves out there yeah you know what I mean to figure out a name for that segment yeah I think that could be good I think that it could be good especially when you're trying to uniform the show a little bit just having another segment to talk about and just kind of like workshopping an idea maybe it could we tied into shout-or-no-free shout-out, but like you can address if it's going to be a positive or a negative one.

So like, depending on the day, like, you know, if you're in a bad mood, like, no, fuck this. I'm about to start complaining a little bit. Yeah. If you're having a good day, it's like, no, I'm going to glorify a little. Yeah. Well, you could have both in there, right? True. You could have both.

Like, you're saying, shout-o-no-frey shout-out, you can kind of go about it however you want to. Yeah. If you wanted to be positive or negative. Yeah. But, again, drop a comment. Yeah, drop a comment. I feel the shout-out nerfrey shot-h kind of sounds more positive. Yeah, it does.

Like, we need to come up with like a thing for like a, like, not negative, but I guess it is negative, like, pepive of. Yeah. But it's like, again, you come correct with a positive and a negative one every time. Or can you kind of open it up? Because I do like the thought of, you know, like, let's take off the positive hat here for a second. Like, let me bitch for a minute. Yeah. You know, let me get something off my chest.

Four times than not, we have more shit that we fucking, we get pissed off. off about all throughout the day. But I do. I like that idea. Again, boys, girls out there listening, watching right now, leave comments, let the boys know what you think. We're going to do shout. I know for a shout out. We're going to get in this Riley Green episode.

Listen, Riley Green is fucking exploding. You go, I do. I love following him on Instagram. The dude is a smoke show of a human being, and I'm not scared to say that. But he's a stud. Avid Hunter, we get in everything. He's one of the boys. He's been on.

He was on in season two. Yeah, I think so. Year two when we were in that little... Shed. Yeah, a little cheap-ass garage where the homeless broke in and slept here and stole a couple things. But he was one of the... He was in the earlier days, but the boy is just that he is a boy, and he was a great hang. I think everybody's going to enjoy it.

Yeah, there you go, G. G from the Raptors, dude. Shout out Jelly Row. Jelly Roll. I'm like, Jelly Row. Jelly Row. won three CMT Awards. Was it best mail video,

best, uh, breakout, best breakout mail video. And then digital. Yeah, digital. First fan voted. Mail video, digital first performance and breakthrough mail video. Man, dude, what a stud, bro. And he speaks his stuff into existence.

I love he's like a loser. You guys picked a loser. You know, I know that's a stitch and his vibe. But the boy is a fucking winner right now. Nashville. everybody's at his back and I absolutely love that he brings the city along he brings along his original base of people which he sticks to and he's

he is a I cannot say enough things about jelly I'm so happy to see his success and watch it from afar and this dude is on national television hosting three different awards man and it's just shout out the boy jelly roll let's give him a fucking round of applause dude but an absolute stud

a Nashville stud at that shall we get into the show Shout out, no free shoutout. Blassey, what do you got, Big Dog? Since we covered our God tier of shout-offs with Jelly Roll, I'll go to my shout-up this week is a good April Fool's joke. And I say that not because I saw many good April Fool's jokes this week, but you reposted your April Fool's joke from last year,

which I thought was hilarious and got people riled up so, so much. but yeah shout out no free shout out to a good April fulls joke I say that because I had a

bad April Fool's joke I posted a photo of myself in a hospital bed that I found on on Google last year come to find out

a week later I ended up actually breaking that exact same leg that I found the photo but it's been exactly a year

and I just got cleared to return to work so a full year later but yeah my shout out no free shout out Go to say April Fool's joke.

That April Fool's joke was I loved it, bro. When we were laying in bed, Charles, just 40-something, like, however 30-something, however far along she was, dude, just in pain, she was already like a week or so late. And I'm like, hey, I got something. It's just drop a black baby. Willa Earlein. And people were falling for it.

Like, friends. Taylor called. Taylor called me that morning thinking that I posted that and didn't say it to him. I'm like, brother, like, take a look at the photo, man. And he's like, well, you know, you kind of get worried when something like that goes out. Like, does he not see it? But I'm with you, dude. A good April Fool's joke goes a long way.

Yeah, I love one of our boys in a group chat this weekend hit another one. Our friends, he goes, dude, he goes, did you mean to post that to your story? And that was it. And he was like, what are you talking? And then I was out and he's like, dude, fuck. Just like something that gets you for like 10 seconds. You're like, maybe my career is over. My shout-out was going to be to Jelly Roll,

and I can't pivot off that right now. That's why you reacted like that. I thought you were, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to double down. Shout out, no free shout-out to Jelly Roll. Obviously, it was all hit on. But there's one thing I do want to say. Jelly is, like, the most intimidating-looking man,

but also probably the nicest human on the face of the earth. And he's always treated, like, all the boys in the back of the bus with respect. And, like, always wants to hang out and, like, kick it and stuff like that. So shout out to him. Everything is like what is coming his way is so deserving. And he's doing such a good thing for the city of Nashville and especially just like growing up here. And like he grew up in like the hood. And I grew up in like white suburban Brentwood.

But for two people on like opposite sides of like the railroad essentially, to him just still be like the nicest human being ever is I like love that. And he's done such a good thing for the city of Nashville. And hope he just keeps fucking hitting that trajectory of nothing but the star. So shout out to the boy. Well said, brother. It's a good shout out, Jack. I'm supposed to follow that one up. Always going to shout out Philly cheese steaks.

My shout out this week goes to that fan that you put on when you go to sleep. It's that constant white noise in the background that, for me, I cannot sleep without a fan or some sort of constant white noise because it's just too silent. And the jet, like, kind of like, just not freaks me out. It's not scared of the dark, but it's just kind of, like, way too quiet. but that put that fan on every single night. You get it gets that little cool breeze going, cools you down. Yeah.

That little white noise. I mean, your electricity bill is a little bit higher, but every time that I have the opportunity to sleep with a fan on, I do. And I've been doing it ever since I was like 10 years old, even in the winter. Yeah. Fan on everything. That's a good shout out. Shout out.

Shout out. That's a good shout out. No free shout out. It's like the simple pleasures in life. I'm surprised if it went this long without something like that. That's a great one. People who don't sleep with a fan. It's

I don't know if we do I think we're we we bring the The AC down a lot to where it's nice and cool We have we have like a white noise like we play stuff every night If it's cold like that then I feel like you can You can be excused Yeah, but I agree with that though I agree on just a fan or some noise being on like

Up until maybe me admitting that I'm sitting here thinking like I've always rocked with the fan A ceiling fan or when you're in college You got that little That little side piece next to you When you were young in high school Traveling the camps That didn't have the AC You ever all the boys would have like fans just set up all around

Do fans are Fans are God too That's a nice shout out Mitch I had one in college It was like had the two Had two like side by side ones And you could flip one to be like blowing air in And blowing air out

So like it'll get the hot air out And the cool air in the good one also helped if you were smoking in your room my shoutout no free shoutout goes to the tide stick no free shoutouts to the tide stick today your boy i'm sure you can see it a little bit but i had a a cup of coffee and was ready to go like i had i was messing with my backpack sitting right next to the cup of coffee and it hits a cup of coffee and it's about to fall off and i grab it it just goes all over my arm gets all over like i was like i was like

Oh, this fit. I'm about to crush it with this fit. They just backed. I wanted to rock some boots with it. Forgot to rock the boots with it. But coffee got all over me. Obviously coffee stains. You can see a little bit of a stain here.

But the Tide Stick was working his ass off. So I just want to give a little, oh, shout, no free shout out to them stain removers out there, specifically the one I was using the Tide stick. No free shoutouts to the Tide. But if you want to sponsor the boys, we're ready to go. But that's mine, dude. Appreciate that, Jack.

We're going on an hour. Solid little intro. fun little intro. We're going to get into this. Riley Green. The boy has been crushing it. His latest single that dropped this past Friday. Everybody get along. He's also got a, this is some insider information boys. He has a new single coming out May 11th with Luke Combs called Diff around here. And right now he is actually on tour with Luke Combs and Laney Wilson. I'm sure that's an electric tour going on. He's just performed at Lucas Oil Stadium. Dallas AT&T Stadium. They're selling shit out, dude. Wherever, whatever city you're in,

you look it up, he will be in Nissan. He'll be at Nissan. He'll be at Nissan State. stadium on April 15th. Is that right? On April 15th, if you're in Nashville, he'll be here at Nissan Stadium. But check the game time app to get any tickets, whatever city you might be in. But hey, this episode, this interview is a fun one. He chirps a little bit. I think he rattles the boy Taylor a little bit. You guys are going to like it. Subscribe, do all the stuff. Leave comments on YouTube. We love us when you guys are fucking either correcting us, telling us what we should do better or double down, getting a little double down on what we are doing. But big hugs, tiny kisses.

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Shop now at Heydud. Carlisle Green. Bro, welcome back to the bus. Yeah, man. Awesome to have you. Last time you were here, it was definitely started out strong and then you started chirping pretty hard. I think we started talking with The Bachelor, right?

Yeah, it was good. He was, yeah, I was on The Bachelor back then. I remember when we started talking about your outfit. What's that? I don't know. That's what we got talking about, your outfit. Yeah, and you started coming. I didn't know you, so I was like, hey,

I'm trying to make a good first impression. He started coming at me. I don't know what to do now. That's a good first impression. I don't know how to handle myself. He knows with the boys. here too long. That's what it was. The beginning it was very civil. But dude, your fitness

in, man, we were just talking about outside the bus. Like, you were in Oxford? Oxford, Mississippi. Oxford, Mississippi. Playing at a bar you used to play at. Yeah, like a real college show in a college town kind of thing. It was a Ducks Unlimited, like, charity thing. But it's kind of, like,

what we're talking about was kind of cool to play a stadium and then go to that. You know, and I think a lot of it, what I get tired of with the bigger stages, like, you're so discontical. connected from the crowd. Whereas, like, a girl could have touched me on my foot last night. You know, sitting on a stool, just played, you know, and we played 60 minutes, 75 minutes,

and, like, you kind of didn't want to stop, you know, because everybody was so happy you were there. So it was like, you know, with the things growing and you get these big stages, you kind of missed those shows a little bit, you know, that intimacy of being right there in front of everybody. Yeah, but what about that first time being in a stadium? Like, that's got to be like a, I fuck. Oh, really? Last week was the first one. Yeah, we did AT&T.

Oh. Last week. And you got to feel like, hey, I've really made it. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of overwhelming. You can't comprehend that many people. It's 55,000 there. It's kind of like what's the difference between 30,000 and 50,000, you know. Yeah, 20.

But, yeah, I mean, 5,000 people is more than I know. You know, that's pretty good bunch. So it's just a big looking room. You feel like you've got to do more than you can do, like to fill the whole stage up, you know. But it's cool, man. You learn a lot on these tours. you're going open for somebody like Luke Combs or I did Luke Bryan last year did Aldine

and you like watch how they kind of you know because I mean it wasn't that long ago me and Luke Colms played a lot of the same venues kind of came up the same way so you know it's it's cool to see somebody like that have that kind of success too when you're watching like what are you looking for like when you're watching these big performers we just kind of what works

I think a struggle that uh that I have especially is like the music the show itself can get a little monotonous. Like, I do the same thing, you know, all the time. So it's like, you have to keep in my mind that it's the first time somebody out there seen this show. So even they're just cutting up or onstage band, or between a little band or whatever it is, it's like, how do you keep that feeling fresh when you do it every week?

And I, like, I tour with Brad Paisley was my first major tour, I guess, opening. He's been there for like 30 years. He's been doing it for a long. It's the same show, you know what I mean? But it's just, people love it. So, you know, just kind of watching how they keep that energy up, I guess, you know, because it seems to me like it'd be really easy to kind of just get tired of it and kind of half-hast through the show.

But it's a little easier when you got 50,000 people kind of pumping you up too. It seems like perfecting that craft is an art. Like you say, Brad Pais has been doing it for so long. And you talk about sitting with your band and making the same jokes over and over again. Like, I would think, because we do a show once a week, right now we're on a spring tour. And a lot of our show, as we keep going, is like trying to move things around. and see how it works. But when you're saying the same joke to your buddy,

and he's whistling out, make laugh, you're kind of like, man, it feels a little more awkward than the first time you do it. I've done this thing for well over a year now where, you know, everybody introduces their band on stage, and I did this thing where I was like, you know, hey, you know, during COVID, I think I said, you know, we didn't play a lot of shows, it's been tough, money's tight, we're going to have to get rid of somebody tonight's going to be our last show. But I don't know if the crowd here and wherever we are,

pick who stays in the band. Oh, that's awesome. And, like, whoever comes in last place rides back to Nashville, Tennessee, and a Subaru route back with my tour manager, whatever it is. Everybody gets a laugh kick out of it. And then I pass it around, and everybody really cheers for, you know, these nerds in my band and, like, really make it feel good. Yeah.

And then at the end, I said, oh, man, we have a five-way tie. I'll still got one more show together, like that thing. And I've tried to get rid of that for my set for over a year because I do it every night. Right. But it just goes over so well, you know. I know, dude. Was there ever a time, like, your drummer would get, like, no applause? I'd be like the guitar player, bass guy.

everyone's fucking loser. And the drum, everyone's like, well, he could probably go, actually. I actually were talking with him. I will tell you one that was,

I don't know how I came up with this. It was very accidental. Probably didn't really know his name. But I always say, hey, what's the bass player's name? You know, like,

and he walks up and he's like, whispers in my ear where his name is. And I was like, oh, man, it's Dave. And then I was like, kind of confused. I don't know my bass player's name.

And I said, well, I think y'all like him because he's born and raised and I say, whatever city we're in. And so he gets the biggest applause to everybody. And I was somewhere doing a meet and greet the other day.

It was when it was last week. And this lady came up. She had like a real strong Canadian accent. She said, oh, yeah, you were in Montreal. And so-and-so. And she said, you have a bandmate from there. I was like, really? Yeah, I think it's your base player.

And I was like, oh, well, yeah. Yeah, he's from Montreal. And then they had to watch me say he was from Salado, Texas that night or Salado, where we were. Hey, did you think about her as you were saying that? I'm trying not to make eye contact with her. Luckily, they couldn't find her. So they're all confused? Like, Americans are weird, dude.

What was the best part of, like, the first stadium last week? I wish grandpas never died, you know. That doesn't matter where you are in a coffee shop. That song is such a great song to play because everybody knows it. And, like, they don't sing that song back. Like, people scream that song back, you know? I mean, there's 20 people a night I can see literally crying. You know, that's just cool.

It's cool to write something and people relate to it. it like that. Right. But I play that song and I play a song a row called A Hell of a Way to Go. I come out and sit on a stool and kind of finish the show and it's always the biggest

biggest moment of the show and also it's kind of the coolest moment because there's, you know, a lot of them kind of driving it, you know? When you sing a song like Grandpa's Never Drive? Grandpas never... Shouldn't drive, probably at a certain point. Should not drive.

I wish Grandpa's never died. And you're giving Ernest T. Judd some weird Al Yankovitch some material. Yeah, something like that. If you, you see people like crying, obviously it's an emotional song.

Like, do you ever catch yourself getting a little emotional on stage? Or is it to the point where you've sang it so much, you know, like, you've moved past the emotion of this.

It's, I always compared, it's not an emotional, like, crying thing. I always said it was like scoring a touchdown or dunk in a basketball or hitting a home run.

Like, that's what that moment feels like. Yeah. It's just that same thing. You know, when you walk into the end zone with the football, it's like, whatever that feeling is,

that's what it feels like. I've felt that lots of time. going in the end zone. Like when you block somebody will, or you know, whatever else. Whatever else, I don't know. Whenever somebody else doesn't get tackled. Oh, 2016, I had a touchdown.

Don't worry about that. He knows that feeling. Once in college, too, if you guys are keeping, I have two, I have two touchdown. Well, let's do. It should be a bigger deal because when you scored touchdown, I assume it was an accident. No.

It shouldn't have happened. Oh, buddy, I caught the ball. Really? You get the old woman, pull that up, the old lineman gets me a game plan. Okay, yeah. Two weeks in a row, we'll get to watch this. Well, you had it on top, ready.

You just, how did you segue me into this on purpose? This is a well-oiled machine in here. Taylor does this with every guest. Yeah. That's Delaney Walker. He's more tan than me. It's easy. It wasn't you at all.

This one right here. Boom. Snipe. Look at this. Running away from that. Come on, man. He was looking back and see if I was going to catch him. Yeah, I'd take a peek.

I got nervous. And I saw some thick boy back there. I was like, oh, he's no way. Not a gym. Not catching me at all, dude. Yeah. When you get inside the 10-yard line, offensive coordinator is now.

They'll get creative with the O-Lignment. Especially Arthur Smith. Arthur Smith was always, he's now the head coach to the Atlanta Falcons. Every week he would put in some sort of tackle eligible plays. Really? Yes. And he'd be like we're running this multiple times a year. Like Dennis Kelly, he can barely even run in that photo.

This is like three years before. We went to the AFC championship three years later and he had like two touchdowns that year. Really? Just over the middles, just popped it over to him, little pop passes. That's awesome. It's exhilarating. Exilarating. And there's nothing better than seeing a big boy score.

No, man. Everybody pulls for that. Yeah. Everybody pulls for it. It's awesome. That game, too, our right tackle almost had a touchdown as well. There was a fumble in the end zone. And he grabbed it.

And the only two touchdowns we would have been me and him. We lost. We lost that game. It wasn't a storybook ending. But, ma'am. So yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Seeing in front of 50,000 people. We're the same guy.

We are the same guy. Out of those 50,000, how many you think are men? Well, I'm a hundred. Yeah. Good-looking cat. I'm not a good judge because I don't usually gravitate to the men and the crowd, you know. You know, it's funny is, it depends on what the show is. Obviously, I'm opening for Luke Combs. Me and Luke have a lot of guy fans. I mean, we're not really the love song,

like, you know, we white tennis shoes. We're a little rougher. Like, our songs are a lot more like, beer and there. Luke's got the beard, a heavier set gentleman. Listen, it's a complete 180 difference. I'll just say it right now. Luke Combs ain't no Riley Green. Yeah. No doubt about that. You need to be going out. You just have a hot voice to do. call it that. Yeah, yeah. And the best-looking

dudes in country music. Rip around. Who would be the top three hottest dudes in country music? That's not the one that's not

whatever that thing used to you all do is like, let's rate that who's the top three best-looking dudes? I'm like, he's just like

programming in this hand. No. Yeah, I got to go, fellas. 10-minute episode. Yeah,

man. What if I just had? I'm just ready. Who's another dude out there you tip tip your cap to in the country world? Uh.

Well, You mean like as a person? Like as a... You don't have to say he's a good looking dude. You just think, back in the day, guy was probably single. He's slayed. No question about it. Okay.

You look at a guy like Dirk Spanley. A little older. But man, back in the day, he's slayed. Hey, but those like settled for slowdown days. Like, I took a girl to his concert. Oh, yeah? Like 2007. She didn't go home with you, did she?

She was trying to get that VIP. You could have got there. She was trying to get on the bus. Yeah. Yeah, man. You know, there's a lot of guys like that have been around a long time. I mean, I was not with a lot of. Luke Bryan, he was like, he's a heartthrive.

I'll tell you something. Every show I open for Luke Brian, there were a handful of guys there. You know the guys I'm talking about. They're like, man, this ain't country music, you know, those guys. There's their girlfriend drug him to the show where they came to see me, you know. Yeah. And I'm going to tell you this is, I'll watch it happen every night because this dude puts on a show. They're seven beers deep and he's up there and he's doing the thing.

Yeah. And they're like, I got that. They're real. Good. And the guys are just like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because he's like, he does it, man. He does the thing.

He brought up. He ends up turning the guys. The guys start fucking. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can't help but like it, man. It's because he just, he just has fun with it. Did you brought up a good point about those proud boys that are like this country music,

this pop country music is bullshit. Like, why do you think that's happened? Because I got to Thomas read about it and he's like, yeah, but when the outlaws came out and day of like Willie and Waylon and all them, they were saying back then, that's not country music. And now we all look. back at that like, man, what an era for country music. Yeah, I think there's some stuff now that's a little more of a stretch, you know? Yeah.

I mean, comparing Waylon Jennings to, you know, Johnny Cash saying their night and day back then, it's not quite like some of the hip-hop type stuff we have going out. But music does change all the time. And there's a lot of different musically ways you can go in this genre. But I always say that the storytelling is what makes country music. A song that has a story has some kind of meaning That's the kind of thing about country Obviously you can go like

Technobar and just Like people just want to dance And people like to have a good time There's songs like that too But I always say if it's got some kind of meaning to it And story it can be somewhat Considered country music Right

But there's a line for you Are you ever surprised on certain country music That takes off or gets wildly popular? I am but it's also like How many country artists you sing that have come out Had a song to and then gone pop You know I mean there's a lot of those So yeah I mean there's just a

I think that country music, the way it's set up, especially with country radio, and this town, how it's so connected, so different than any other genre, because, like, where is pop music at? You know, where's rock happening? You know, so, like, L.A., I guess, I don't know, but you don't have to live there. It kind of all over, but you can come to Nashville, sign a deal, meet the radio PDs and do this one and have a career in country music, even if you go a different way after that.

So a lot of people will start here. But I think that, you know, what you originally asked about, why there are those people that are like, this is a different way. and country kind of put their foot down is like it's such an era of like everybody wants to know about the guy nobody knows about first i remember when chris stapleton i saw him playing in birmingham this is the was the year that he blew up he had the three eight acm awards or whatever and still the steel drivers yeah yeah and but i mean you know i think what do you listen to was one he had like on youtube i don't know if he had any music out but i remember thinking that was a

cool and then when he kind of blew up i'm doing like that's not that was cool which is he's still great he's still great songs but people are like that about it i had a lot of them in my career that would like have burnt CDs of stuff I wrote when I was like 16 years old. And that was what they would request at my shows. Yeah. Those songs were garbage. But they just wanted me to know that they knew them. That's all it was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're saying you were that way with Chris Tableton. Yeah, with a lot of folks. You knew you were on him early. And then when he blew up, you're kind of like, ah, he's original stuff better. Remember, I put you on that. Remember, that's what everybody wants to do. So it's like the stuff that gets commercial becomes less cool to a lot of fans, I think.

But it's, you know, kind of a double-edged story. Yeah. What's your struggle? Is there a struggle at all of like kind of informing to the mainstream country music and where it's at? Because you could easily, with the backing you have, you could go and put some techno beats on something

and have it play across every club everywhere all the time. Yeah, and you know, there's still time. There's still time to sell out. It's such a- Yeah, he said, brother, give me a week. He actually got a couple of things coming out right now. Things don't turn my way, man. It's a weird time.

What I'll say is it's really hard to have blinders on in this town. Just because it's so easy to watch what somebody else is doing, oh, they're having success, they're having success. And then also you've got the fact that a lot of these songwriters write for everybody. Well, they have a style of writing, too. They know what's getting played. Songwriters don't make anything unless it's on the radio and a hit anyway. So they want songs to go on the radio.

And for a song to get put on the radio, it has to sound something. The word I use is somewhat commercial. It's got to be very relatable to a mass audience. So what that does is it takes some things that are, what I would say, cool, and kind of makes them live in a different space, which fortunately for me and a lot of artists now, the Tyler Childers of the world, there is another space they can live in and you can have a great career without having that. But it does, man. I'm in a great spot because I've kind of got a little of boasts. I've got some grassroots following that people that found me a long time ago before radio. And then I've also got some couple of songs that were hits on the radio.

So it's finding that line of cool and commercial and trying to. trying to get songs that are that. I think that's the struggle that everybody's got. When you're talking about songwriters and how they write to put stuff on the radio because that's the only way they can make money, how do you go about writing? Like, do you have a certain core group of dudes or you kind of bounce around a little bit? I do. I don't try a lot of new folks just because I know what songs I'm going to get with certain guys. You know, like I write a lot of stuff with the same core guys. And also, it's really not rocket signs. You know, writing songs. I mean, yeah, there's, I guess, some skills that you can be born with. You can kind of

work on and get better at, but it's like, you sit in what people you like. You're going to write better songs with people you enjoy being around, people that grew up the same way, whatever that is. But, you know, but even still, my biggest songs are wrote by myself. So it's kind of keeping a little bit of that both, trying to, you know, find some guys that can write stuff that know what's going to get played on the radio and then write some stuff that's really, for lack of better term, me, you know, and just play it out and see what works. I think a lot of my success came from just playing songs on YouTube or Facebook,

I guess, at the time, and just seeing what people thought they liked, I'd go record it. When you talk about not being rocket science, dude, it kind of seems like it, because no musical talent over here. I'll speak for myself. I heard Will singing the car yesterday. That boy can belt it out.

He's putting up in five like it was nothing. He was getting after it. But you go, like we all sit in the car, dude, and I'll put that radio up to 10. and I'll be singing and be like, fuck, why couldn't I have thought about doing this? Or why couldn't I do like... Well, I feel that all the time.

Yeah. I wish I wrote this. You say it's not rocket science. Brother, like, it's an absolute talent. Like, where... How did you learn to even write music? Like, how did that process start for you? It was hard.

It was really accidental. So my Granddaddy Beaufort was a really witty guy. Like... What a name. Wrote, yeah, Buford Greenman. Wrote, uh, wrote poems and like Drew and painting and stuff. He just had really good words, I guess. But we didn't write songs.

I wasn't doing country music back then. but I think that I got a little wit from him. He was really good with just that kind of thing. But as far as like writing songs when I started my career, I was just getting, I got so tired of playing the songs I knew. I was playing covers at bars every night. I was like, man, if I wrote a song kind of like this,

just to change something up and people started to like him, a couple of them did well. And I just, I learned to write from playing shows. Like, fans taught me how to write. If something went over one line really made people go, Oh, yeah, then I thought, well, it's something more like that. So I did that for, you know, six or eight years before I ever stepped foot in Nashville. So I just think it made me ride as certainly.

And a lot of those guys that are having that success outside of country radio, say Tyler Childers, Texas country, a lot of that stuff. They're not here riding. They're wherever they're from riding. And that's where that comes from. So they're writing from a different place than everybody else. Are those Tyler Chilers in that Texas country? Is that kind of your favorite? I've liked Texas country stuff for a long time.

but, you know, I just think different is cool. I mean, a lot of what Eric Church did, I thought was different. You know, like he had some stuff that he put out that's, you know, it doesn't sound like everything else. I think that's the best thing you can have right now. I think that's where success come from. Luke comes from. is, you know. Yeah, because they would,

you would sit there and be like, oh, that's who sings it. Oh, this guy. I mean, there's guys with four or five number ones on the radio that people don't know who it is. They sing along and tap their foot when it comes on, but that's such a big hurdle to get over unless you have something that's a little different. Right. It's unique seeing the people that are singing the songs, like you brought Tyler Childers

a couple times. And before, like, you hear his songs, then you look him up. You're like, I did not think that man. Sometimes that is interesting. Like, who's that Colter Wall? Yes, too. Is it Wall and or Wall? Wall. Wall. Quil to wall?

He looks like that. You look at him and you're like, it looks like a teenager and he's got that deep ass voice. Yeah. It's crazy. Well, I'm sure a lot of folks felt like that about Luke first time, too. You know, I remember for me it was a guy named Corey Smith. He's a banger, bro. Corey Smith is fucking awesome.

He was 21. Fuck the police. I could do it again. Corey went on tour with me last year. Yeah. I was such a huge fan of Corey Smith growing up. He played a brother's bar and jacks full up. I feel like I got arrested a couple times sneaking into a show with the fake

ID, like just a huge fan of his open for him several years ago and kind of full circle got to call him and him come open for me and it's written together. He's an awesome dude. But it was you know, you just wouldn't expect he was a school teacher, I think when he was having all this. Yeah. That's wild. But never had a song on the radio and had a

15 year career. Is he a good hang? It's great, man. He seems like a good hang. One of my boys, like, his name's Jordan Thompson. Shout out J.T. But he could play the guitar so he would play the Corey Smith Jans. Like we'd just sit down on the back deck and he'd play him and it's like, Corey Smith, He fucks, bro.

Yeah, he's got a cool, unique voice. Yes. A big fan of that guy. I thought you were going somewhere with you. No, I just wanted to shout out JT. and kind of talk about, course. He's still brought him. If he's out there, listen, hey, you're more welcome to come on the bus, brother.

Yeah. I get you. I get, like, him, though. He's a, he would answer the questions of how do you song write way better than me. He's a really smart, like, analytical guy when it comes songwriting. When you're saying how smart and analytical he is, how come he's more of like an underground cat in a lot of ways? Like, he's definitely, like, more known in Georgia, obviously.

Yeah, college teams especially. I mean, like... You gotta be in, like, certain parts of the country for people to know who that is. You're more of a nationwide dude. Is that just intentional? No, no. I'll tell you what's really impressive about Corey is, like, there's a lot of guys that are doing what he did now. They're going out and they're having a successful career tour and without big commercial success or radio.

Think about doing that then before social media, before Spotify, Amazon, all these other ways you could put music out. if you didn't have a song on the radio then, how is anybody ever going to hear it? It was completely through somebody going, hey, man, you heard this guy and putting a CD in their truck, making them, or going on spring break and Blair, and I wish I was 21 or if I could do it again or whatever it was. Yeah, man, and I just remember hearing it thinking it was the coolest thing ever, wherever I heard it from, and him coming through and me getting to go watch and play. And then it was like he was coming to some more two hours away.

I was like, I'm going to go there. Yeah. I mean, I've sat around and played his songs at college parties, you know, all the way through. but, uh, and it seems like too, um, like the way he entertains the crowd. Like, you just listen in his music, like whether you throw in a CD or throwing a song, like when he does fuck the police and stuff like that, you just hear, yeah, he does it live and you can just hear it in the crowd.

It seems like he does a really good job entertaining everybody to makes you go, hey, have you ever checked this dude out? No doubt. Well, you've heard the live version of that song, I'm sure. Yeah. There's also a little bit of that, too. There are songs that live in such a good space like that. Like, you think about live records that you really listen to.

I mean, there's a handful of. them. Obviously, you know, the last waltz by the band, I used to listen to that a lot. And there was some, you know, some Texas country stuff from like Billy Bob's that I used to love the live version of because the crowd, you know, really being involved. But I heard Billy Bob's as a vibe. Oh, it's awesome, man. Really cool plays. But it's like that song lives with the crowd in the background screaming and hit. So, I mean, it's just, it's cool to see guys that made it that far by just strictly going and writing songs and going and play shows.

Well, brought up interacting with the crowd and stuff like that. How long did it take you to really, like, dial that in for your performances? It took a lot of watching other people. Yeah? I used to go down to the... Still jokes? Well, I mean, I'm... Would it be called stealing songs if you, like, cover somebody?

You know, I mean, so, yeah, yeah, yeah. How they introduced a song, if it was theirs, I probably stole that. You know, there was a guy that plays around to Flora Bama named Big Earl. Then my parents used to let me go in and see, and he sings, like, really dirty songs, you know? And I remember being like, oh, it shouldn't be here, you know? But he was just... the craziest thing. He would act a fool on the stage and like, you know, like, get people to come up and spend this, like, wheel that had like, I'll play Sweet Home Alabama or this or show your tits. And like, it always landed on show your tits. Like, it was weighted, you know. But he had a whole thing. And it was like such a show beyond what songs he was saying. The songs were like 40 seconds long, like little just like whatever jokes, you know. And I, like, I learned a lot from that, even though it wasn't so much the comedy thing. It was just like, nothing has to be perfect. Like, it looked like every single night. He went up there just made up. everything he was doing. I thought there was something cool about that.

Yeah, improv's awesome. But I like little gimmicks in shows, like the big wheel, and there's, like, tiny slots for other songs, and then show me your tits. Yeah, he had this one where he got somebody on stage and said, he had a lawnmower accident, and he lost one of his nuts. And he's like, if you can come here and tell me which one was missing, you can have a free big girl CD. And this, like, lady comes up on the stage, and she, like, reached down his pants and fills around, and he's like, it was close. Like, okay, which one? He said the left one he said, nope, try again.

I stuck her hand back down there. No, try it. And she's like, I don't say, well, here's CD. That's awesome, dude. What are some of the... We don't do that at my shows, just so, you know. But not, like, building on that or anything else, but what are some of the wilder stories you've had at some of your shows?

Something were you always, like, whether you're with the boys or you're telling somebody new, you just met, hey, this one time. There's been some pretty crazy stuff. A lot of the... I think a lot of the craziest days that I had were when I was playing those club shows, and I was probably rowdy enough back then that it didn't seem as crazy to me as it should have. Yeah.

I mean, I didn't have a tour manager for a long time. I didn't have any management. I was just playing shows. I was driving my truck, me and whoever, whatever buddies could make it. We'd jump in and we would just head out. I mean, like, we went to some pretty rough areas, you know? I mean, like, I had a two or three of my buddies that I ran around with

were black guys who grew up together, and we went, just not thinking about it. It was like, so-and-so would just get a car to mine. They'd call me to play a show-be birthday party. we'd go out in the middle of just like some country, you know, country places and pull up and we'd all be in the truck. I see you're working through that. We'd all be, yeah. Well, I mean, just, you know, we'd be looking around and, like, what you think?

I'm like, I don't know, let me go fill it out, you know. Of course, it always end up being there, like, they're in there, like hugging her mom and they're all that drinking jackdowns together, whatever. But there was a lot of stuff that I think if I had a security person or management or whatever, sometime, they probably would have stopped me and had me think about it. There's some sketchy places out there. No doubt. Like, you just, you look under.

there's some of these rocks out there and it's like, you know, I did not know a place like this exists. No, we, a lot of like, uh, Montana. Yeah, I mean, you, you get us like, we were going to, uh, we're going to Gallenberg one time. There's a lot of rule in Alabama, too. Oh, buddy. I feel like that's like the part of scariest. That rule Mississippi. Yeah.

We play some RV parks, like just where they do rock crawlers and like dune buggies and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. Just, yeah, man. Beyond the redneck, just like the white trash. Yeah. I mean. I think that's a classy way to say white trash, right?

It is. Right neck, yeah. A lot more, yeah. Let's just hit the nail on the head. Yeah, that's the white trash out. Shout out white trash. Yeah. He's just shout out white trash.

I know y'all do that. I don't know what it means. I'm just trying to fit in. Yeah, I feel. But I appreciate you even noticing. Yeah, man, that's, you all did a lot of that last time too. So I just. Yeah, we were trying to get shout out.

We weren't getting shout enough for shout out going, but. It was a new implement. Yeah, it was young in the game. Yeah, so I was at the beginning. You all really good at it now. Yeah. I'll see y' all on your show. Yeah.

Shout out you for knowing that. Yeah, man. That's a big deal. When you go to these like RV parks and see where you're at now, like where do you think, like what's the pinnacle for you, like you have truly done what you've wanted to accomplish in music? 30,000 feet in the air looking at your career. I mean, complete honesty, I'm past it.

I never thought I would have a song on radio or like, I can remember at one point being like, man, I wish I could just write a song that like even if people hated my guts, they'd have to go. that's pretty good. Yeah. And I mean, there's enough people that I wish Grandpa never died has been successful to

that I can kind of feel that way about it. You know, I'm like, I can kind of be like, suck it, you know? Yeah. And what's funny is I believe you, just based on the conversation we were texting about last week, like when he's like showing his spot, like come down and hunt, like I'll send the bus. You guys want to make a, yeah, very accommodating.

The hospitality is. Well, I mean, well, I mean, you know, I benefit from hanging out with y'all. you're going to shout me out, man. Do the shout-out thing. Yeah, yeah. Like, we were that one guy,

shout-out, RG. Right. But, yeah, but also it's like, it's not like we know each other that well. Like, yes,

we, we ran game in a successful softball game one time. Did get after, man. We did get after it. Yeah. But, uh, yeah.

Dude, hey, you talk about a stud now on the softball field? Yeah. Yo, bombs, bro. He was the, were you the MVP?

Did we win? We won that game. That's right. That's right. I kind of, You know how the thing goes. The impressive part was we pulled up late, and I'm, like, running in throwing cleats on.

I'm thinking, well, you know, it's charity thing. I got a bunch of people here. I probably won't even play. I'll be at the end of the list, and I'll get there and, like, walk into the dugout, National Anthemans, and they go, first up, number nine, Riley Green. I'm like, oh, crap.

I go up there and played, and they hit it off the foul pole, man. Really? He's got some fucking juice to him. Were you a big baseball guy growing up? No, I mean, I played. I played football, baseball, and basketball. I was not the baseball player that I am the men's league softball player.

When I found out they threw the ball underhanded, I was like, are you kidding me? I remember being like, are they going to do this the whole game? Yeah, yeah, he was a... He could do this whole game. And then... A mile an hour lob is my speed. Men softball, though, there's usually like a home run rule. Like, you can't hit more than three a game.

Yeah, yeah, we've had them where it was like inning ending. We're like, if you step up your first, it better than inning, hit it out, it's like, y'all go back to the field. And I've been that guy. That brings us to a very pressing issue. What do you think is harder to hit? A pitcher or a softball pitcher? Like, an MLB pitcher.

or like an underhand. Like the girls that fucking rip that thing. Is that a big question? Is that a big question? Because it's way different because the ball, when you're a baseball player sewing, the ball comes up. The girls are rising. The women's rise and they can make that ball move now. What a...

But I've seen like some sports science stuff talking about how it's like equivalent to a 90-whatever mile. As far as the mounds are close. The mound is really close. It's like a little league mound. I don't know. I don't want to sound disrespectful. But it is like a little league. It's way shorter.

It's shorter. It's shorter. It's right. I would say that. Yeah. We would go at Michigan Ball's bigger, okay? Come some slack.

We would go at Michigan and play with the softball team and try to do like a home run derby in their softball field and there was a girl there that was like a two-time All-American pitcher and she would fucking rip that thing. I feel like I've seen like baseball players

tried it. I feel like I've seen that happen on like videos. I've seen that too and usually the baseball player is send it yard. I was going to say at home. Like some girls talking shit and he's like all right

it's like the first pitch fucking rips that bat two stories high. It's like, yeah, it's closer, but also the ball's bigger. Like, dude, you're trying to take a 95-mile-hour fastball from a major league player. It's definitely different. I'm sure it would take a little getting used to. But imagine that 95-mile-hour fastball, then all of a sudden, like a 72-mile-hour curveball. Like, that's that change of pace.

Yeah. Brother, that'd be so hard to hit. They say it's a hard thing to do in sports. Hit a curveball. Maybe. I have no clue. I haven't tried all of them. Curling, you know, I'm in.

People are getting begging to curling, though. We had George Kittle on here. He's doing curling, Jared Allen. You got to have too many ingredients to really enjoy it. I like games that you can, like, you know, I can get a football off the bus and go out and throw. Yeah. Whiff a ball, basketball. But, like, curling, you got to have an ice ring, you got to skates, a broom thing.

I don't think you need skates. You don't? No, you're just sliding. But also, it's like you need the resources to, like, have fun doing it. Yeah, I mean, you'd, like, ham down your hardwood floor in your house and play if you want to do. But a game that seems fun is pickleball. Yeah, pickleball. People are picking up pickleball.

Pickleball is a new thing. I haven't played it yet. I want to play it. We need to get out there this summer. Here's my problem with pickleball. It's the same problem I have with like ping pong or pool for that matter. It's such a game that like if you play it, you can be really good at it. I don't like games that somebody less athletic can beat me in.

Like I want to be able to show up and have an advantage because I'm taller, faster. Like I work out a little bit, a little better shape. But I don't like it when somebody like it's a little nerdyer and a little more like can just like show up and just more. More of a mortal. Yeah, I don't like that. You can practice that, like, at your house. Yeah. You know, I was like, so basketball, like, you know, a guy's going to show up and me and I might have a little advantage, you know.

No, man, ping pong. What about, hey. What about, hey. You can just practice yourself, too. I don't have ping pong table, man. Brother, you've done all right. Like, you can go to Walmart and get the $200 ping pong table. If they notice you are, you'll get a bucket of balls free, too.

Seems like he likes the more masculine sports out there. Yeah. Yeah. Or you can get a little more physical. I don't look at pictures. Shooting guns. A 5-4 guy could walk up and smoke me at ping-pong. That's what I struggle to sleep at night with.

You see what I'm saying? Like, hats off to him, but I'm going to go home and be like... That's what bothers you about the game. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like people that. You're talking about, you're talking about masculine games, like shooting skeet, you can have the same 5-4 guy dust you. Yeah, but it...

Uh-oh. But that's like a... That's like a hobby. You know what I mean? I know this is like a sport thing, but you think shooting a gun is like, would you call it a sport? I mean, if you get paid for it? No, do you really think so?

No. I'm pretty sure it plays on like the Ocho. I mean, I will say this is called shooting sporting clays. Maybe it is, no. Yeah, but just listen, doing the whole rifling deal, that ain't, that ain't a sport. I'm not here to, I'm not here to die on the hell of weather. We're going in the wrong direction. That's not what I'm trying to fucking take here.

Spike ball. Spike ball's a fun game now. Yeah, that's it on the little. Yeah, the little net. Maybe trampoline? That's like a beach game. Yeah. You can do it anywhere. Yeah.

You can do it out here if we had enough room. To the spike ball tournament. You think it would be all right? I don't know. What does your touring schedule look like? How often are we on the road? We're on the way right now. We're from the last one to the next one.

God bless. We had four shows last week. I tell you what we played at 11.31 night. Went last Wednesday, college station. Yeah. I used to do that all the time. I'm getting so old. I said, I was like five.

And I was just looking. in six hours before I go on. How old are you now? 34. Yeah. You are old. I'm getting there. Yeah.

You just feel it more, bro. You just feel it. Yeah. Yeah. Have you thought about taking something? For what? Like TRT or like some sort of supplement. What's TRT?

Asteroom replacement therapy. I mean, I probably should. I think if I'd take something like that, I'd want to wait as long as I could. Like getting a hip replace. It's going to last you a few years. I think I've to do it again. Yeah. I don't want to be like hooked on something the rest of my life.

It looks like I can still get out of bed and, like, maintain. They got some stuff out there. You'll be solid if you ever got off of it. I don't know I was going to get medical advice here, man. Yeah, we're here for you, buddy. We're like a Jack of All Traits podcast. Yeah. We can talk a little bit of everything.

Yeah, we're here for you. Can we get to do some tear talk? I would love to do. I want to ask him about his hunting. Dude loves his hunting. You're going to come down, Turkey? Yes. We have to come down.

You're hunting. You sent me a photo. What was the last year? You got a big one in Illinois? I don't know if I killed one in Illinois. I killed a big deer in Arkansas. A deer out hunted a few years. Big deer down there.

Now, are these ranches you have or just you got buddies who? It's a little bit of everything. Some of it's leases that I've had for a while. Some of it's my property. Some of it's buddies property, you know. Yeah. I don't got the time to go like I used to, but I think I enjoy it for a different reason. I used to be really like, it's kind of a competitive thing.

You and your buddies all hunt, like who did this? Who got the most ducks, the biggest deer or whatever. Now I just like going somewhere that phone doesn't work that nobody's at. And it's quiet? Yeah, man. What's your favorite thing to hunt? That's tough. It changes.

Right now it's turkey season. I'm just right around and just cussed at turkeys and fields, I see. I get pretty mad at them, but I don't. I didn't have anybody show me how to hunt when I was growing up. My dad just worked, the construction work, and he never got into it. So I can remember turkey hunting for about three years without even getting close to kill them. So I hate turkeys. Just mad at them.

Just mad at them. I heard birds are like the most fun social way to hunt. Because you can like, with ducks, you're all sitting in blind. Not turkeys. Not turkeys. No, I mean, any kind of like upland bird, like quail, pheasant, you're walking around, kind of interacting. Duck hunting, you're sitting in blind with your buddies, you know, that's very much a social hunt. Turkey's got to be like motion.

Turkeys can see, like, you wouldn't believe it. Really? Yeah, I mean, turkey would be like 400 yards out in the field and, like, scratch your nose and take off. Well, the thing about like a bird guy. That's crazy because I'll be driving down the world. the road and I'll see 50 of them. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I was hunting, the label president was sending me pictures of turkey like in his neighborhood, like chased him to his house and he goes on his morning walk and I'm running all over the place trying to kill one. But it's,

it's to like back and forth. You're calling to it acting like a hen. They're goblin trying to find them and make them. Yeah. Like I said, they're, they're tough. They're catfishing the turkey. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got a little fan, a little fake hen, you know, and like shaking his butt and all that. Dude, I would turkey hunting one time. It was like three of us were walking back to

the cabin and all of a sudden a tom right yeah a tom like pops up and then everyone like got on a knee and one did just held a fan up and then he started a call and the things like what the fuck's going on over there that's a weird looking turkey he ended up running away yeah he didn't have an opportunity to get him it was like the first time i turkey and i've been hunting like three times in my life with deer hunting in louisiana one time sat in like a little blind or whatever it's called a stand who'd you go with then drew dillio we'll see him this weekend in lsu oh nice and uh it's got out drew dillio do you got how drew dillio do him, man. And I sit there for three and a half

hours and I saw a bunny rabbit and a butterfly and I was like what the fuck am I doing here? And plus it's like you gotta be quiet the whole time. It's very difficult for me to You got a lot of energy going on over here. And I gotta sit there. Yeah, I'll just move around. The bus will start. Yeah, but it's I did that and I went turkey hunting and so I need to get out there and really kill something to feel it. Yeah, I'm going to feel alive. I want to feel alive. I want to

feel alive. I want to like fight a bore or something like that. I want to do something real. I want to do something dangerous. I don't want to just I want to do something precise Like a mile away Get them We're checking the wind A little bit more than the left You fucking take his ass out

That's good shot right in the ribs Different than like You go sitting in a blind somewhere Somebody had up and like wait for a deer to walk out I enjoy the like I bow hunt So you gotta get a lot closer To the animal

So you have to really like What tree you picked To put your climbing stand in It makes that much of a difference You know so I like the You know the wind's got to be right Where do you think the deer's bedding at Versus where's he eating

Where's he going What time's moving Checking cameras all the time trying to like that cat and mouse of us where I enjoy. Yeah, you're the, you're the reason why if any other country ever try to infiltrate America, like we're relying on people like you. You got the cameras, you got the feed. You're watching these people walk around.

Me, I'm dead quickly. I'm probably coming over to your house as fast as possible. Y'all come down to the farm or show where things are you. You can hide out down there. I'll just put me in a foxhole or something like that. We'll be all right. You enjoy the game of the strategy. Yeah, I mean, I like thinking about it when I'm not even hunting.

Like thinking about, man, I wonder if that deer's going to. So this deer, I killed an orchard. saw that I've hunted for three years. It's a bow hunt only unit, so you can't gun hunt there, and it's really swampy. So this deer, like, swim to where they bed at. Oh, my God. And I hunted him, like I said, three years, and I took a buddy over there. We hunted for four days.

He busted me going in the sand, saw him. I mean, like, just screwed it up, you know. And I was taking my buddy home, made it to Memphis and was like, man, I got to go back. He went home, and I went back hunting two more days. No luck. Drove to Nashville for a meeting. Sitting in Nashville, like, looked at Panama City. See if I was going to go down to the beach for a couple days of weather.

perfect. It was like 65 degrees in Arkansas rain in miserable hunting weather. I drove back four and a half hours. Got up four o'clock in the morning and sat in the dark for two hours because I wanted to make sure I was and killed him that day. That's the big one. Man. But you gotta be mad at. I mean, I drove nine hours that day.

Sounds like you took a lot of shit personal to get that deer. And the feeling was like then I'm good. You know, like if I get that one deer that I was like really after it, I don't got to hunt anymore. You said you were hunting him for two years. Oh, yeah. Like when deer season ends, you just like kind of get tipped the cap to him.

Be like, you won this one. I'll see him in the bad months. Yeah. See you next time. And then for eight months, you're stewing. You got a picture of them on your mirror when you're brushing your teeth in the morning. You know, people are messing on the phone. Look at TikTok.

I just look through your pictures. Just watch him. He's still around. God forbid, the semi-truck rolls by and takes him out. Yeah. Because then he won the battle. Yeah. I spoke to him one morning, the morning before I killed him.

I was on an electric bike. Dr. Doolool. Like going in and I see some eyes and I look up with light and he's standing like in a place, a mile from where I thought he would be at. Like just completely bust me and I was just like, you got to be kidding me. And he just takes off. I spoke to this deer before. So I had some real personal.

After the show, I want to see a, I want to see a picture of it. It sounds like this is a hell of a deer. Do you, uh, elk hunt? A ben. I feel like, I feel like you'd like elk hunting and the strategy. The problem is, is like, you, it's such a short season. And it really, to bow hunt at elk, you've got. to have time to go find a herd.

It might take a week, two weeks. Right, right. And I can't, I don't take anything time off. So I hunt, like, if I got Sunday through Wednesday, I'll hunt, then I'll go play shows and keep my stuff from the bus. If you're hunting, you're a lot more flexible. You've got to put in for a tag to Elk Hunt. You've got to draw the tag.

You've got to do it a certain time. And I might not even be able to go. Right. I drew a tag the last two years, and the first time I did, I had four days that I could go hunt. And one of them got cut short because we ended up going to play a show in Dallas, popped up that I couldn't say no to. So, like, you know, I hate to have that. that much into it and not be able to go.

Because I got some boys in Utah and they're about the elk hunting. And you've got to like climb mountains and shit and like hunt these things for like. You would like that. I mean like the physical aspect of, you know, going after them. Yeah. Yeah, I was thinking myself. You're on my face. I'm about that.

Mud on my face. Knife in my mouth. We're fucking moving around. Spot and salt. That's kind of hunting you would like. You spot them. You go up on a ridge and you spot them and you go try to get where they're going. That sounds cool to me.

Rambo style. Yeah, hell yeah. I mean, that makes me sound way tougher than I actually am. the idea of doing it sounds awesome. Yeah, but you got the mustache and everything. You could fool somebody. I don't know if you've heard the news. I'm making a bit of a transformation right now.

It's coming soon. What you'll have to wait and see. Kind of transfer? Oh. Yeah, easy now. Wait. I like those boots, though. I will say that.

Nice. When you, now I know what I should have brought him. Boots? Yeah. I got some eyes on some Western Diamondback rattlesnake boots. That's what I want. Some daily wares every single day.

Yeah. Rattlesnakes. Anything get you out of them convers, man. Those are vans. I need you to be a little more respectful of those. I'm not about that. You've had these shoes. Actually, these are relatively new, but I got a pair I've had for nine years. You've probably wear both of these sets of shoes right here.

You've worn these. You've worn these shoes before. You went through a phase in middle school. No, man, I didn't go through my chemical rodents. I didn't go through the ginkgo phase. I know. I had some hot phase. Hold on now, brother. I need you to back up a little bit on that ginkgo phase.

I had some high tops that were like this basketball. But that was like retro, you know, like that back. But no, I mean, they look good on y'all. I love you. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like the way you said that. Wait, so when I'm on Instagram, I see people hunting,

there's like all of a sudden a dare, a bear rips up a tree. Have you ever had like a crazy situation like that? I haven't hunted a lot of places with it, but I've seen what you're talking about. Yeah. Would be absolutely. And they're just in, they're like sitting on those little things. Yeah. What can you do?

Bears are a little mushroom. man, there's nothing you can do to get away from a bear. Can outrun you, can climb a tree if you get in one. That's tough, man. I saw someone of people on a kayak fishing the other day and two cubs walk by. Yeah, and the mom comes out of fucking nowhere, charges. And the dude just rips off a gunshot and the bear luckily, like, ran off. Yeah.

Bears are absolutely terrifying, dude. Bears are scary, but I go up to Canada. Trees, too? Yeah, I go up to Canada with my wife and her mom is like, loves fishing. And she will, like, drive 45 minutes in the middle of, like, BC Canada. go with this lake you literally have to like hike to for like an hour. And we'll be, we'll be fishing.

And all of a sudden, like, you'll hear loud footsteps. And I'm like, hey, what do we do for in that situation? And Tayl and my wife, her dog's there.

And the mom's like, we'll throw the dog at the bear and we'll run. And like all seriousness? Yeah. Oh, all seriousness. But it's always like, if it's a black bear,

you do this. If it's a grizzly bear, you do that. But they're always like, bears are fine. It's the cougars you have to worry about. Because you don't know they're there until they get you. The mountain lions,

Cougars. Yes, because they got from the back of the neck. Yes, that's terrifying. And it's one of those situations like, let's say we went hunting, the three of us. We go up to Montana.

If I got attacked, or I saw a bear and I was in that situation, how dumb am I? What do you mean? Like, you literally are, I'm asking myself to be put in that situation.

I could just stay in Nashville and chill. I love your, not necessarily about hunting, but that mindset, I'm like that. You do like that or don't like that? I don't like doing things that if I was to die doing it,

my buddies are like, idiot shouldn't have been doing that. That's the stuff I said. Like helicopters, I don't do that. I don't go play shows somewhere and somebody's like, you want to play a show somewhere? No, not doing that.

And like my buddies that are pilots. No. Because I, you know, all my buddies are idiots. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, really, that would be tough. Yeah.

Some way, shape, or form, you said every friend you have is a moron, you know? And I don't want to put my, because if I go up with, with Lee and we. Got it Lee. Yeah. You know, I, everybody's going to be like,

who the heck, what the heck was you flying with Lee for? Can you got more money in that? He's flying his little crop dust and playing, you know? Yeah. I think flying is awesome. Like, I have an obsession with aviation. What about skydiving?

Would you do skydiving? Why am I going to go through that little duster? I just don't think, no, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You skydive and I die. All my buddies are like, you get his whole life head and we've had a great career. God, that was it. You never skydive? Oh, I would skydive.

I would sponge you? I would you bunch of jump to you. Would you bungee jump? No. For what? I'm just finding the line for the thrill of the game. If I died, if I died at six flags, that's not too much. And be like, well, you know, it's a way softer way to go.

You see what I'm saying? But I'm on a hand on a roller coaster and just fly off. But I'm like, that would be a huge catastrophe. If I died cliff diving or cliff climbing or whatever people do, people are like, what the heck what is he even doing out there? Yeah. I mean? You ride roller ghost?

I want people to be like, moron. What a fucking idiot, dude. If you died, skydiving, we'd all be a little. We'd call you a moron, but we'd be sad, too. Thanks. Yeah, no worries. I didn't like that, Jaycoe. Why didn't he jump out of the plane?

Yeah, that was my fault. Dickie's brother. You ever went through a Dickie's face? Mm-mm. Yeah. No. You really missed out on a key point in life. I was, uh, I had a sister who was 10 years older than me, so I went through the phase

of whatever guy she was dating. He was a coolest dude on the planet. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, like, I think I became an Auburn fan from that. It was like, uh, new bounces, I guess, for the thing. Like, Fargo, khaki shore. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. That kind of thing. The pants that zipped. The white college hat, they just had the little stripes and the letters, you know what I'm talking about? Those. I had a fish shook on it. It would just be one clean spot with the fish. The cable guy fan.

I was before that, man. I don't know. You're 34. You think Larry the cable guy is a fictional character that compiled a lot of stereotypes of a person into one. Yeah. So I had a couple of those things. No, man. Come on now.

Blue collar comedy tour guy? I did, yeah. Billingville, Jeff Foxworthy. Yeah, man, that was great. Larry the cable guy came to a show on the farm tour with Luke Bryan and we're sitting on the bus, me him, Red Aiken's, Ben Hay Slip, a couple of songwriters. And my dad was at the show and his brother

who've never been anywhere. And they come on the bus and my dad's like the king of old man jokes. And I literally just sat there and watched Larry the cable guy, my dad go back and forth with dirty old man jokes. That's got to be something to see. I mean, my dad was doing like this while he was selling his joke. You know, like, I got it. I got it.

He wouldn't even listen to what. He held up. He held up well. Yeah. Speaking of which, this was fun for me. I took my dad and his brother, first time his brother had ever flown, like, does not get off the farm. The Nebraska, hunting. My dad doesn't care anything about hunting.

He just a shout out to the state. Shout out on Nebraska. Sorry. And I didn't know if y'all did it there because I was telling a story. So my dad just makes Whittles fake arrowheads all day and just like walk in front and throw him and go, hey, look at that, you know. So that's all he did. But this is, this is.

is the part. They got me. So when I was flying him out there, I got him a flight from Atlanta. And I told him, mom, dropped him off, whatever. And I was like, man, they're not going to know how to, like, get through the airport. You know, like, they'd never flown. Like, so I called my travel agent and said, is there somebody that, like, when you have somebody from another country that, or like, they can't speak English or whatever, that's never flown, and they have to, like, get, like, there's a person that does it. I said, yeah. So, okay, well, just like, it's a baby. I need somebody to get them to, and so a lady picked them up and took them through the airport, put them on the plane and all that. Well,

we were in Nebraska and I had to get him a flight back and I thought this is crazy there in their mid-60s grown man lived a full life and I could just leave him here and they would just have to live here they could never get back my dad would like walk up to the Delta thing go hey

two tickets to Jackson Alabama police just like it was a train or something he wouldn't know how to do any of it my dad's the same way you gotta give Bill a little more credit he made it to Nashville he's made it to Nashville driving yeah but he still got out my dad's never flown by himself

but I mean like there's still like directions that you write down. You know, like, I don't know that they know how to put a thing in the GPS. Well, that's, it seems like it's on you a little bit to help them out with that. Yeah, but still, they should be, yeah. My dad could walk out of an Applebee's and get lost. He has done that before, because we moved the car around. We were

going to pick him up in the front and he went out the side door and just literally stood there looking around. And then he calls my mom like, where'd you guys go? Yeah, but it's, but it's from a fucking fun, dude. He called. He figured that out. He didn't know where he was. It's from a tough place, though. It was sort of different generation and they're like, they're not worried about being lost

because they'll find figure it out. I don't know if my dad would figure it out. But I think he would. Yeah, yeah. You like to think. My dad doesn't, he just does stuff. He don't think about what could it possibly happen. Whatever, like a tire falls off of the truck.

We're going down the road. He's like, I'll see if we can get one. So another tire might have fell off of the fit somewhere close by or something. He just, he's not like. He's optimistic. You got to love that. There is no consequence. It'll work out.

Yeah. That's kind of how it is. It's a good vibe to have. That is a good vibe to have. Older parents really got fucked when flip phones fell off the face of the earth. Once technology started getting in there, really separated, drew a line of the sand for all those people. Yeah. Tough stuff.

When color came on the phone, too. Whoa. Oh, yeah. Come on. Come on, guys. What's up, dude? You got to worry about Taylor every now and then. You say a couple words and he's like, oh.

You hear that accent. I get a little word myself. His? Yeah. It's wrong. Strong. Never know. We always get there.

Yeah. Hey, how about some tear talk? Yeah. I thought that's what we were doing. Yeah, tear talk, Jack. Oh, H. Hey, we were doing our live show at Columbus the other day, and any time it felt like there was a dead period or anything, just yell O-H and they just yell O. That's what will things happen.

What really happened during the show is I would be in the middle of telling a story and then he'd yell O.H. And people would just yell I-O, and I have to regather myself. Yeah, because we're in Columbus. Billy Madison, they actually says the whole speech about the dog at the end, he says, Knip-Hop football rules. That's exactly what it was. We interrupt this episode to shout out Duke. Canaan. No free shout-outes to the boys at Duke Cannon. They are back on the bus and here to keep everyone looking good and smelling great.

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back to the episode what you got for us on Tier Talk, brother. Well, I'll tell you this, my mom's really excited about watching this podcast. She loved it all this last time. Maybe we'd go with best snacks on the road or something. I'm supposed to be like cheat. And I thought this show was live.

then y'all will rehearse. No, well, the... We can go right now. You want to go off the top? I like it. Let's go off the top. No break then. We all go break then.

Hey, man. Boys, that's the value. Yeah, shout out of the going on the fly, man. Oh, y'all cheat? Who's going, who's going first? You got to go first. I'm ready. I'm not ready.

I'm not ready like that. Yeah, do it. The back of the bus will go. No, there's only... You got a guess. It's just us three. Well, we can add a fourth row. I'll just...

I'll just... I'm not. I'm like... seconds. Are you nervous? I need one more. You don't want to do it? Go ahead.

Rip a few. I got it. Is there a right answer? No. No, this is your opinion? It's your opinion. After you do your tier talk, we will all go around and give one word about how we feel about how you did. And then we can argue about it.

I know what number one is. Don't say it. You got to start tier three, tier two, tier one. You start third. Start three. Yeah. Yeah. If you got four, you put on it up.

Work it up. Yeah, if you got four, you put on a mention. I will go first. I'm going to give, my honorable mention is going to go to my number one candy because I don't like to eat candy a whole bunch,

but I do like when you're on a long road trip, you're feeling a little crazy about yourself, the long one, get you some sugar in your boss, and that's going to go at the Sour Patch Kid watermelons. That is, that is my honorable mention.

My, it can get real, it's going to get real meaty up here from here on now. It's not going to be a whole lot of variety, but I will say, as a child especially, this is a level of nostalgia

for me on Tier 3. I'm going to give a tip of the cap to the slim gym. A slim gym as a kid, you get one of those boys. Man, that is everything to you. My tier two is just your classic bag of beef jerky. Beef jerky on the way. You're getting that protein in you.

You're riding. You're feeling a little better about yourself because you made the healthy decision. And my number one, my tier one, is one that I feel like doesn't get enough credit. But it is probably my favorite snack to grab from a gas station. and that is the pork rind. A pork rind goes a long way. You get that a little bit of hot in there. You get the hot sauce is a good crunch, good flavor.

It is my number one by far. And that is my tear talk. Doesn't start back there for your word? Iphanated low carb. Interesting. Ifanated stuck in your teeth. That is a sentence. Salivating.

Jay P liked it. One word. to describe the whole thing? Yeah. Lost me. I lost you. I know it could be a negative word, man. Oh, it could be whatever you want.

It sucks. Oh. Oh, I'm going to get out of this. Wrong. All right. It was one word. Not three, motherfucker. I can't wait to hear yours.

I hope you come with some serious shit. Who's going to do with too wrong? Go ahead, brother. Okay. And I get an honorable mention too? Yeah. I think so. Is this kind of a snack?

I mean my God's here. Mine goes there. It's like for a long ride, anything to keep your mind off the drive, sunflower seeds. Doing something, you're eating them. It's never really ends.

You don't eat a whole bag. That's a two or three? I think that's, I think that's my honorable mention because it's, I don't think about them, but if I need that thing to keep me fidgeting,

you know. Yeah. Takes a place of that at times. I've quit dipping several times by doing sunflower seeds, so. You want one? What do you do with it? Nicotine. It's all it is.

Helps with focus. multitasking. I'm real focus, man. Upper lip. Really? Oh, yeah. For Dekke. And we got him back on.

In a week, he's going to text me a picture of a can. He's like, can't help myself, dude. It's awesome. Oh, so you haven't really quit. That's a real man shit. Yeah, I know. What do you expect? Did that when I was 12?

Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Tier three. I assume those come with a pair of those shoes. Don't fucking laugh that hard, boys. Don't fucking laugh. For the exact same reason, can I use anything that you use? Absolutely.

Watermelon, Sawyerpatch Kids, just because it doesn't really do anything, I feel horribly eating candy because it has no purpose. My only diet I ever have is just a, what is nutritionally beneficial. I don't like the snack a lot, but those are awesome. I get those to airport all the time. my travel is a little different than y'alls I spend my life traveling so I've got a lot more of like

what would you say like wraps make a lot of wraps on the bus that kind of thing but you're talking strictly gas station you're talking about snacks you can see whatever you want in the aisles right do we got to be in the aisles gas station with this but I'm talking about in the aisles okay if you're on a tour bus fillet mignon you can't just you know yeah

if you go to buck the buckies that's what I'm saying it but anything in there Yeah. I'm going to go number two, here to, uh, chili, sweet chili Doritos, the purple bag. They, they, they have so much flavor that you don't want to eat anything else after. So as far as like ending your snack and you eat those and you're just going to drink a lot of water and ride. Number one, I don't know what y'all are doing is beef jerky.

Like, going on the gas season, I'm getting beef jerky every time. There's seven compartments on a bus that's got beef jerky stacked in it. Yeah. I'll do my word first. Confused. Strong. Solid. Solid.

Solid. Veteran. Road dog. All right. Hey, William. I said strong. Oh. Yeah, mine was strong.

They were all positive. What's wild. to me is you, you, you insulted mine so much, you had two in the same category as me. Yeah, but where they are makes a big difference. Jerky was two. I know, it's not close.

It's one. It is jerky, and I was going to get me picky about that, but I decided let's like it's your bus. So you just don't like pork rinds? No, pork rinds are great. Okay. It's, it's tier eight at best. It's because you don't think about pork rinds

and you go, nobody's like, let's go, I've got to get some pork rins. Porgon's is a happenstance. You walk by me and like, oh, that looks okay. or your dad or your grandma got him. You're like, I'll try one. Brother, if you're on the road, you grab some pork rinds, that shit's fire now.

I came in here the other day of pork rinds. They're fire. Right. Thank you, Mitch. So I feel like, you know what you did there? I feel you're projecting something else that you're probably going through. You know what I mean? Everyone had their word, brother.

I know you got to battle it. I know you're trying to win it back. Well, I just something confused because two of mine on my list are also on his list. But he said, he said, he said, he said, he was wrong. He actually had three words. You don't know, briefing me next time? Just like, let everybody else win. And the show.

Go ahead. Come on, William. All right. Mine are, I'm going to be specific with mine. My tier three, there's no honorable mention. My tier three, because I love gas station food now. But my tier three is going to be a king-size Reese's peanut butter cups. Love Reese's peanut butter cups. My tier two, ranch, ranch sunflower seeds. Love ranch sunflower seeds.

My tier one, and I'm with you guys on the jerky train. but specifically the terriaki beef jerky, whether it's, I'll go to that if you're getting the Jack Daniels kind. Sometimes I'll try to find me like a sweet heat, something that's in the clear bag, like something that might be local that you might feel a little bit better about. But it's always like a terriaki or a sweet heat beef jerky. Good.

Your talk. Thanks, seeing. On brand. Convinced. Foundational. Yep. On point. I see it.

I see it. I see what I've been here today. Taylor, Taylor, this is... It's all right, boys. Taylor's in his own movie. He thinks everybody's against him right now. All right. All right.

I did like the sunflower seats. I didn't think about sunflower seats. Those were solid picks. Yeah. That was my honorable mission, sunflower seats. I know, but it's where it was at. How can we liked it when he said?

Oh, see, now we're getting out the same way. Yeah, we're getting somewhere now. I will say... I was surprised you put it to honorable mention. Your specifics of ranch was a little necessary to me because I don't think there's another kind of sunflower. Seas. Hill Pickle goes a long way.

That means I just said, you set on points. It's right. That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of variety out there, but I think you get a ranch, bro. I don't look at it. You're not elevating right now thinking about them. It makes you grab that water. We should do gas station drinks, too.

I wish I'd have brought y'all Sunflower Seas and there's cigars. You know what I mean? I'm fired up about cigars. We're just like, sit them in the floor. What about that? Like, Logan's, you just throw the stuff on the floor. Just do that with the bus now? It's like Sunflower seeds up to your knees.

That'd be cool. I like it. Yeah. It'd be on brand for us, for sure. It really would. When do you head off to Minneapolis? We leave midnight tonight, and that's Lucas Oil Stadium. Why do you leave at midnight?

A lot of people ask that. So, you don't, for me, personally, I don't ride well. I've never ridden any. I always drove growing up. I was always the friend that, you know, turned 16 first. I had a car, whatever. Yeah. But I don't ride well, so I have to sleep when I'm on the bus.

And, you know, you leave it, you know, six in the afternoon. it's kind of hard to go to sleep so I'll wait until I'm like absolutely tired maybe even drift off and walk downstairs get on the bus and go back right to sleep you got a bed on the bus? Yeah you got a nice bus. It's really nice for me I was really good about

because I didn't do any tour support my record deal meaning my label didn't pay for anything I pay for all my stuff bus and everything myself which is good and bad because I don't have to pay it back later but it's also they're expensive at least and we just got our third bus we got an 18 wheeler and three buses so I was on first a bus with 12 bumps with like 12 people, which was absolutely miserable.

It just had a lounge in the back. Then we got two buses. And so I've always stayed with like kind of crappy buses so that everything seems really nice to me when I get a newer one. Yeah. But this is like an early 2000s bus, like polished brass doorknops and stuff, you know, from that era. But it's, I mean, it's got a bed and like three or four bunks in the middle and, you know, kind of kitchen thing. So it's nice, you know. I feel like when he says he doesn't sleep well, it's like he doesn't like to, like, not be in control.

Like I'm always the driving part The bungee, the bungee jumping, the ride in the helicopter I'll go along with that I'm not a good rider anyway Like I got several buddies that we would go hunting trips And they'd pull up in their truck And they would just get out and get in the pasture seat I drive their truck

They don't nobody drives me You know? Why is that? I don't know I just control I guess I don't I'm scared to die I got somebody that like you know making phone calls doing their taxes I got the little green vizor on stuff

While they're driving I mean just get out letting you do all that over there Because I'm driving Yeah traveling to me is not an experience. I don't enjoy anything about it. I like to get wherever I'm going, so I don't talk.

I just, you know, like y'all do whatever you want. You'd be a tough road dog. I'm not, but you would also appreciate it because you just be there. Like you come, you don't have to talk to me,

or stay awake, lay in the back, put pillows, just go to bed, and while I'll wake you up and we'll get there. Oh, yeah. How's,

what's the longest you've driven at one, at one period? I got done playing a show in Auburn a few years ago at a fraternity house, left there at like midnight, got the Jacksonville

where I live at two in the morning, picked two of my buddies up and we were going to Wisconsin. Deer hunt, 17 hours, and we were going to stop every six or so and I was just throw away. Really? And through the night, too, it's more impressive. But I'm going hunting, you know?

Like, I get fired up. I'm ready to rock. I'm going, yeah. Dial. Is that your number one fair thing to do is hunt? Yeah, yeah, probably so. I enjoy now, because I've had some, I've killed some big deer.

I mean, I'm duck hunter for several years in turkey hunting. I enjoy taking people. So I wasn't being as nice, it seemed like when I invite y'all down in the place. I like, especially people that haven't really done it a lot or haven't had killed a turkey order. Like, there's some hunts that I don't care what your beliefs are as far as like, you know,

if you don't like hunting, you don't like this, there's some hunts that I don't care who you are you would enjoy. You enjoy something about like going duck hunting and being out in the middle of a swamp in the morning, like sun's just coming up and like knowing that there's no reason anybody else in the planet would ever be where you are. Like standing in mud in the middle of it. Like that's awesome.

That doesn't get old. Yeah, we got to get down. there. I do want to come check that out. And the video you said of your spot too, very impressive. I've got a nice little cigar room with a bunch of, I mean, it's got this kind of a feel, you know. Well, y'all come down there and we can do, I'll come up with some fun

games, list games, you know, and y'all can do my show down there. Yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We would love to. I'll sit in the comfortable chairs. You're not comfortable? No, it's fine. I got all this stuff over here, this is my mind. And you all can sit on the couch, like in a weird angle, and I'll get some of my

buddies that don't have anything to do with it to come, like, sit just off in the distance behind some bright lights that you can't look at? Hell yeah. You can't tell if they're judging you or just, like, on their phone. It is nerve-wracking when they're quiet in the back, and you're kind of just talking for 30 minutes. It's great. Really, it's a lot of fun.

A good crew back there. Do you guys have any questions where we let him go? Are you an Alabama fan or an Auburn fan? Oh, he said he's an Auburn fan. I know, but in the songs. From fans, that is a very common confusion. I'm an Auburn fan. But my Granddaddy Linden was such a big Alabama fan

And like, you know, just was such a fan of him It was like I kind of had respect for it So I would say I'm a good Auburn fan When Auburn Alabama aren't playing and Alabama's doing well I pull for them to win There's a lot of Auburn fans that are the other way They're just like cheering for any team that Alabama's playing But I, you know

There was a few years when Nick Marshall and Cam Newton And Alabama and Auburn swapped national championships For like, what, five years, you know You were hype Yeah, man, come on fresh robbery ever What do you

Well no What do you think is the best College Football Conference Big Ten Who y'all got on next man Who's somebody I guess in your career That you've met

Or at least knew of That you ended up Either really enjoying Or vice versa That you looked up to And then found out They maybe were an asshole Or something of that nature

That question gets to ask a lot, you know, because my success was so recent. You know, like, I'm meeting a lot of people and hanging out in a lot of people that I was just a big fan of. I haven't really met the asshole. That's what everybody wants to know. But it's like, I think that in this business, everybody has kind of been where you are. And also, everybody kind of works together. You know, Nashville, it's really a small town in the industry. And you kind of can't get away with being like that, you know.

So everybody kind of pulls for you. And everybody's been really great to me. I mean, I've, I was a. a huge fan of Jamie Johnson growing up and wrote with him week before last at his house and like just seeing how similar we write and how similar we kind of grew up and that

it really kind of motivates you because you realize that all these people that you thought were this giant star or whatever is really just regular people you know and I'm still finding that out which is pretty cool that's sick dude right with Jamie Johnson yeah man it's uh I'll tell you this he

he was tough because a lot of people write different and some people have like a lot of like they throw a lot of stuff out just random and some of it's garbage but just like there are people that write with that style it's like saying everything and then sometimes you just pick through it and find stuff the words some people kind of write in their head and they'll like try to write a whole verse kind of to their self and then say it you know and some people get really excited when they hear things and jamie's like just so he doesn't give you a lot so I say a line or whatever and he just get up go in the kitchen four cup golf and come back sit down and I'm

already thinking about something else because he hates it you know He's like, that's one of the best lines I've heard. I'm like, I've already scribbled it out. Yeah, yeah, I got to rewrite that. I forgot. I forgot the line already. But that's the tough thing. It's trying to go through the personalities of writing and find out how you write with certain people.

We'll write a song when y'all come down. Yeah, on your show. Yeah, on my show. I'm not than to do that. Learn to do that. Hey, that'd be fun. Yeah. Going down, I just feel like that'll be a good time.

How long is tricky season? It came in, this is March. Right? Yep. Nice week. It goes out the first week of May. You got all April. We got to figure out of time in April.

I mean, I'll just text y'all when I'm going to be off the road and home for a couple days. If I slip in here, y'all can jump in a ride down and hunt a day or two, man. Yeah, well, you know you're driving. Y'all can be the first episode of my hunting show taking y'all out. Would you ever want to do a hunting show? I've done them. Like your own? Yeah, I've co-hosted a bunch, but as far as having my own.

I don't remember who it was. It said it, but they had a really cool idea. It was called Going in Blind. Obviously, duck blind, deer blind. But, like, taking people that have never been. Or that don't hunt. Hell yeah. Like, explaining it and, like, let them shoot and do all.

Like, I think it'd be really cool. And, like, getting them different shoes for the terrain. They just fun on skateboarding up to the turkey. I appreciate y'all having me out again. Hey, this is a good time, bro. Thank you. It was kind of a good time. Yeah.

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