Fore Play - We survived Vero Beach, with special guest Chase Rice

Episode Date: November 5, 2019

Despite much speculation, we did indeed survive our trip to Vero Beach. We relive rolling around with our rockstar friend in his hometown, including chatting onstage with Jake Owen himself just minutes before Jimmy Buffett performed. Then Chase Rice joins the show (~91:23) where he pulls the curtains back on the music industry and tells a phenomenal John Daly story!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Carolina, Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. Yeah. We're live from North Carolina. We are at Tobacco Road.

We're the Stewart Cabin at Tobacco Road. We've been on the road for, what, four days now? We left Friday morning. We got a lot to talk about. Chase Rice is going to be on this show. Country Star, Music Star. went to UNC with Caleb. He is Caleb in a rock star form,

which Caleb is also a rock star. But I've never met anyone as calm, cool, collected with that type of swagger that Caleb Presley has until I met Chase Rice. Very cool guy. He's just cool, man. He's cool than like we'll ever be without trying to be cool. Yeah, he was a UNC linebacker.

He was a pit road guy for, one of the big companies. Oh, yeah, the NASCAR. It's like a big family. What's the big family? Hendrix Motorsports. Yep. He was doing the Zuzz, all that shit.

Yeah. He's got great stories about it. Yeah. The whole thing. Really cool stories. We get in, obviously, a little bit of golf. He is a golfer. He's got a good John Daly story, but also we get in a lot of, like, the music behind

the scenes, Florida Georgia Line. He, like, wrote one of their biggest songs. You're not going to spoil it, but you can get into that. He, like, helped kind of co-wrote that. Yeah, to me, that was the most interesting part. It was like talking about how you become a music star. Everyone, it's just like when we talk about how golf is one of the hardest sports in the world because like anyone can go out and like learn how to play golf and just hit balls in the backyard

and like you just get your own clubs, you get your own balls and just hit and you learn how to play it. Anyone can go out, learn how to play the guitar and sing. And it's a matter of like finding out that you have that voice and then like what makes you separate yourself from the others. And like it's crazy to like make it, right? Think about it. Every kid in their room just playing the guitar. Everybody wants to be a music star.

You got to be the best. And every athlete wants to be a music star. Right. Definitely. And he is a star. We were on his tour bus. We were on his tour bus. We did the interview on tour bus. I sat in a little baby chair that was preposterous.

Tiny little chair. Feel like a child. Little baby boy. The picture. Why the hell you can say it like that? There's like this whole thing. Succession is like one of my favorite shows of all time. Succession is very good.

There's a little, there's a whole, for anyone that hasn't seen. succession succession go watch it by anyone who has there is a parody video of this guy being a whole thing and he says like whatever he says you're just my number one candy baby in the way he says it just makes me fucking laugh being a baby that photo of all of us with lurch and myself next to each other i look like a baby yeah you're a little child in that picture is lurch has to stop being on the end but the way it is now he needs to continue to be on the end dude a guy that big can't be closest to the to the frame to the camera like that's literally it's not only is it he's just huge but it it's an illusion yeah right he could have picked rigs up like if he's a kangaroo just put him

in his little pouch and just hop away with him he's massive it looks ridiculous it does chase rice interview again it's a lot of the we get into behind the scenes of music going to nashville making it the different connections we we did that interview at the jake owen foundation concert like an hour before the concert started on his tour bus that was parked on the tarmac at the Viro Beach private airport. So there's a lot to get to. We had a hell of a weekend. A quick reminder that Supreme Golf is our presenting sponsor for the entire year. They love us.

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Like I said, we're in North Carolina. We just played Tobacco Road. We're going to save that. We're going to put all of our round recaps into one podcast in the future, recapping the entire Carolina trip. So after we do this show, we're going to go record us talking about. I don't know why I said record. We're going to go record us talking about the Tobacco Road round,

and we're going to keep that fresh, those memories, those thoughts, those moments fresh. And we're going to put that all into a North Carolina. Carolina travel episode that we'll put out Brian next week. Yeah, I think that's the way to do it instead of like we could have put it in this one. But, you know, we have a lot to talk about with the Jake Owen Foundation and the event we were on. We had we had nightmare start and an incredible finish. Like everything about that has to be talked about.

I'll give you a little tease about Tobacco Road. I feel like I just got done with war. And that's no disrespect to our military. Okay. But you feel like you just went through war. Like, yeah, you know, I was in a battle at Tobacco Road. I wrote that something happened to me. I tweeted this out.

Something just happened to me at number five at Tobacco Road that will live with me and haunt me for years to come. And that's true. Yeah, we were there. Again, we're not going to spoil it. It's a tease. It's a good tease because it was. I'll never forget where I was, what I was doing. Happened on number five.

Yeah, I'll always remember that, always. So we're here doing, we're going to Pinehurst tonight. We're going to be at Pinehurst for the next three days. then we're driving from Pinehurth to Aiken, South Carolina, to hang out with our good friend Kevin Kisner and a bunch of other PGA tour pros, Tyler Farr, country musician at the Kevin Kisner Foundation event

in Aiken for a couple days. So we've been on the road for a while. We've got a long-ass way to go. All good things, all fun stuff to be doing. So keep your ears peeled, I guess. Can you keep your ears peeled? Keep you pealing back. Yeah, peel back.

Sure. Keep them ready to go. Yeah. For that type of info. And we're doing, we've been, we've filmed the shit out of this place, tobacco road. So the footage, the videos that come out from here are going to

be outrageous, so get excited about that. Okay. Viro Beach, Jake Owen, who, now, just to recount, like, Jake Owen came into our podcast studio, and I think late March is when it actually was. It was before the Masters, maybe mid-March, somewhere around there. And he came in and

usually here at Foreplay, Trent Daddy and myself starting it now for the last year and a half or so, Frankie being a part of it, like, we've been very grassroots and kind of like a gorilla effort to get people on the podcast. We almost have booked almost all of our own guests, DM guys who make connections in the golf world.

We meet kids. Kids introduce us to a guy in the range. Turns out that guy wants to come on the show. Matthew Fitzpatrick on the range. His caddy had heard the story and comes over and grabs Frankie. We get him on the show that way. Yeah, you threaten to fight somebody. They'll come on the show.

That's kind of how we got Fitzpatrick. That's how grassroots this thing is. You call somebody just like soft as Charmin like Justin Thomas, and then he becomes your friend and comes on. the show. So it's been, we've done a lot of. Jake Owen, when he came on our show, was one of the very few instances where our PR team, been like, hey, we've got country star Jake Goan coming through the office. He's a golfer. Would you guys like him from Foreplay? We said yes. I like country music a lot, so I knew who he was. We had him on. Didn't know exactly what was going to happen.

I had no idea the fuck he was. Had I said that to him. Yeah, no, we've told him this before. So it's not like, I didn't know. I didn't know what was going on. Jake Owen came in there and I said, that's the first time I've heard that name. That's the first time I've seen that person. He's wearing incredible shoes and then he sat down with us. I didn't realize at the time how big of a golfer he was and honestly not knowing who he was right off the jump made me feel more comfortable with him. Like if I knew how big of a star and folks, he is a superstar, I think I would have been much more nervous, but it was very chill, very relaxed when we first interviewed him. I think that was part of it. So he came in, he gave, you know, the most viral podcast interview we've ever done where he had

Phil Mickelson's story about Jordan Spee's wedding going up to him, where he had a Tiger Woods story, about being at Augusta. He had, and there's a loud beeping going on right now. Does anyone hear the beep? Can you hear the beeping, Jake? You can't hear the beeping on the pot? If that doesn't come through in the pot, I'm going to be stunned. Stunned.

Now you guys point the mics at it. Yeah. I would just stop to see you guys pointed the mic. I wanted people to hear it. I wanted people to hear it. I pointed the mic and it stopped. That's all right. We're on the road, baby.

That's what happens. We're at Tobacco Road. Look at you guys dabbed it up. Yes. Cali dab. So he came on, he told us the Sergio Garcia story, Wayne Gretzky's story in the podcast. It was one of our biggest shows we've ever done.

And, you know, then he rolled out and it felt like we were all best buddies, but yeah, it's kind of how it works in the podcast studio. You don't know, this, that, whatever. Well, he stayed in touch. He ended up coming and playing in the Barstall Classic Championship a couple weeks ago. We had a great time with him there. And then he had invited us months ago to come down and do the Jake Owen Foundation to be a part of it, which we didn't really know what that meant.

Mostly like, yeah, you want us to be there and hang out with it. you're like, that sounds fucking awesome. We'll go to your hometown down in Vero Beach, Florida, where you're the hometown hero because you became a gigantic country rock star. Great. We'll come down. Well, after we hung out with him at the Barstow Classic Championship, he was like, we're going to send you a private jet, which we told that story.

Then we talked on the last show that you guys all heard about if we're going to die on that private jet, if it's going to go down. Turns out we didn't. Folks at Barstall Sports really got a hold of it, and the whole world was really mocking us about the fact that there's a good good chance we were going to die on our private jet. So something was going to go wrong. That's kind of the, let's laugh it up at the forward play boys. I did find that our crowd is not shy about just sending links of articles about plane crashes

to us. Like they, every day leading up to when we were going to take the private jet, it would just be like, oh, two people died in Florida, two people died in New Jersey. It's just like you guys are really. They were dropping out of the sky like flies. They were. What was wrong with private jets last week? People were dropping left and right, man, RIP, but seriously. Yeah, unless they do drop all the time and we just don't. don't pay attention. Right. I think that's what it is.

Every second I check my mentions, I was being tagged in another plane crash. Why are all these planes crashing? So we get there 5.30 in the morning for a 6 a.m. flight out of Titorboro. I've been told for years now, man, when you fly private, you roll right up to the tarmac, pull your Uber right up, basically back it up and touch it to the jet. Your bags will just transfer from one vehicle to the other. You step out, you walk five steps. You get on that cool little staircase.

Take your picture. You're on your plane and you're there. Well, that's not what happened. I was the first one to arrive at 5.30 in the morning after 48 hours of straight talk about how this plane was going to go down. Something was going to go wrong. This was going to be our rock and roll moment where we crash in the middle of some field. I said by to my parents on the podcast. You said by your parents on the podcast.

You wanted the island just to do some sort of patch on there. I want the Brock Nelson to maybe put some tape on my FB on the tape. So I woke up Friday morning. I think you get an FB. Yeah. Yeah, I think so too. I woke up Friday morning. I cleared it all from my mind.

I was like, this is going to be fine. This is an experience that we're getting to go. through, thanks to Jake Owen, get to the Teeterbury Airport, pull up in the Uber, and the first two people I see are the pilots. And I'm like, this is service. This is what happens when you fly private. I'm excited about this. I shake their hands and they say, you're going to Vero Beach? And I say, yes, I am. I'm going on a private jet today. And they say, it's got a flat tire. You're not going to be able to take off for a couple hours. And then

all of the nightmare thoughts returned. Because we've been talking for 48 hours about how something was going to go wrong. And as soon as we got there, as soon as I got there, something's wrong. What are the odds that our private jet that we talked about that we said, oh my goodness, this is the one that's going to go down. We're so nervous. Everything's bad that's going to happen to us. Everyone's like, oh, no, don't worry. Nothing happens to these things.

It's one in a billion. You show up to the first experience and they're like, we have a flat tire. You know how bad a flat tire is on a private jet? You just can't go. You can't move. And then everybody finally arrived. We're now like sitting in the airport. Like, what are we going to do?

The pilot comes out. We're chatting with him and they're like, how common occurrence is this? A flat tire on a private jet. And the words he uses, the two words he uses, he says, extremely rare. And at that point, I was just like, what do we do it? Like, I'll walk to, I'll walk to Vero Beach if I have to. It was very scary. On top of that, and we all woke up at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, you pull up your weather app,

and it says extreme caution weather. You click on that, and it says extreme wind advisory. The whole ride there I was looking at, dude, it was so early that Twitter hadn't really been, like, firing yet, but I like read one from the night before. It was like Sydney Assison tweeted out like everyone, all my neighbors look out like two branches just went flying down in front of our house on Long Island. I'm like, what is happening to this wind right now? I got like an amber alert.

Like don't leave your house. The wind will knock your to pay off. Well, and you have flown probably a few times now with Dave Portnoy because the college football show on a bunch of other different events. And what do they say? Like wind is the one thing. Yeah, like it can rain. It can be downpour. And like we got wind show wipers.

But he's like. Boy, oh, boy, can we not fly in high winds. High wind, extreme wind advisory is what it says on the weather app. The weather app. Not only the weather app, but there was a TV in the waiting area at the private airport. Huge red lettering. They just kept running. It was early in the morning, so they just kept showing over and over and over again, like wind advisory.

Trees are down in the New York area. It's like, we had to change the channel. We had to change the support center because we're like, just give me anything else. They were showing like uprooted trees in the roads. It was a fucking hurricane that had come through. And we're sitting at that airport. watching that stupid TV on rerun basically over and over and over again for about two and a half hours before we got an update. So about 6 a.m. it goes until about 8.30 or so as we get another update about our plane that they came out.

They said there's no way that they're going to be able to fix the tires. So they're trying to figure out an alternate solution. What is an alternate solution? It wasn't even a flat tire anymore. The whole thing cracked. Like the whole inside paneling crack. They need to bring it back to some other place to get to reduce. redo the entire plane, I think.

Yeah, because how do you get a plane somewhere to be fixed? Right. You don't bring, you don't call in triple A. No. And you don't like you, if it has to go somewhere to get fixed, which they said, I think it did like, you're not going to drive down the highway. It's a fucking, it's a plane. Yeah, they don't just pull planes down the highway behind trucks. I don't know what they did.

All I know is that, like you said, they came out. They said that we will not be flying that plane today. And we will come back to you with more information when we get it. That's it. At one point, there was like a 30 to 4. 40 minute window in which we had no plan. None. They were like, it's 8.30 of the morning.

I know we were supposed to take off at 6. We now can't use this plane, but let me make a couple phone calls and see what we can do to get you guys out of here. And we were like, this is a nightmare. Like, we've been there for two and a half hours at that point, three hours. And there literally wasn't an itinerary for us. It had been, at that point, it had evaporated. And they were starting from scratch. How long three hours is when you're sitting on a little chair just staring, waiting to get an answer?

Three hours is an eternity. So we're just sitting there and then they're like, yeah, we have no plan, but we have a couple calls out to make a plan. End up, I believe it was at about 1145 that we got into a plane. Yep. One came for us. Wheels Up came and saved the day, the way I understand it, was able to get a jet to us. Now, Wheels Up kind of got screwed a little bit because we were mixing in all of our posts about, ha ha we finally fly private and we're sitting at the airport for six hours which really was just unlucky because how often does a flat tire happen on a plane extremely wear according to our pilot the pilot also said we asked him with a delay like this how often has this happened in terms of like length of delay at that point is two or three hours and he said he'd been flying for four years and this was the second time that the delay had been that long so it happens almost never except to us to us of course is it champagne problems yes you know complaining of

about the delay in your private jet, I would argue that this spills over into just real world problem. Yeah, I said that when we were walking out of the tarmac. It's probably there, we, I said to Jake, I was screaming because we were walking out. And I'm like, this is no longer champagne problems. Our flights aren't taking off. We've now, we have a chance of missing the event totally. Like, we could have just flown anywhere else.

We're not saying that, like, our private experience isn't good enough, like, to meet our private experience standards. We're saying that the private experience. is not allowing us to have any experience. We have no experience. There is no experience. There is no problem. It's not champagne problems.

It's just problems. It becomes travel problems. We're trying to get from the New York area to Vero Beach. However, however way we're doing that, if there's problems and it just so happens to be that it's a private jet problem, that's just a problem. Yeah, champagne problems would be like, I didn't, like, you said, oh, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like the carpet on this, on the drapes, you know. I mean, carpet on the drapes. I was trying to think of the most What?

I do you say it's a carpet on the drapes? This can't This caviar is too cold for my chair No, this caviar's a little too. There's a little too salty. This is from the Atlantic I like a brother of the cavern of the saviour and take all the salt out So that when I eat it, I say, it's going to be just fine. That's champagne problem.

We just had actual travel problems. The carpet on the drapes. Man. The point is, oh boy. No, that wasn't your best. It's been a long day. Yeah, no, super long. three or four days.

If we were complaining about maybe like the seats weren't that comfy on our private jet, fine, champagne problems. A private jet just didn't come. No jet came. And we were just sitting at a gate at an airport for six hours. Yeah. That's just a problem. That's a problem for anybody. Wheels up comes in.

They saved the day. They ended up being like, okay, you know, 1130, 1145. We're here. We're going to get you on. We're a takeoff. They load up, try to load up our luggage. this was the craziest part of the whole trip turns out

so we we the plane is standing up we finally get a plane and we're like oh man and we've got all this luggage and we our first pilots go hey guys you guys have a plane coming in an hour we're going to get breakfast

and we thought that they were going to be our pilots they just never came back no yeah they abandoned us completely they're just like yeah we're going to get something we're going to hit this breakfast spot no we knew the luggage was going to be a problem right away but we didn't know how big of our problems

we tried to get out in front of it the day before we finally got a plane we finally show up we're finally like we're going to head to Vero Beach and then of course as we're talking about like oh I bet there's probably going to be a problem with the luggage the pilot walks in and claps his hand and says we got a problem with the luggage we can't fit all the bags on here we're going to have to take a couple off which we're like now we're we're strategizing on who needs clubs actually what should we leave behind what should we take with us big old lurch walks out we all walk out to the plane and Lurch just starts shoving bags onto the plane this is a tiny little plane tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny little plane. We had six golf bags. Yeah. Six huge suitcases that are going to fit 10 days worth of travel and all this stuff. And

Lurch. Cameras. Cameras, batteries, drones, the whole thing. Can't tell you how heavy batteries are. Oh my God. They're so, so heavy. And Lurch is literally rearranging. So now the pilots that are in charge, which when you're in a situation, when you're on a private plane or any sort of plane,

you want to just show up and have the smart people do the smart things. And I'm just an idiot imbecile that sits on the chair and you just get me from one place, you fly me in the air in this tin can, and then you land me and then I go on my way and I spank my grundle somewhere, right? This situation, in this situation, we had lurch, dumb-ass lurch, telling the pilot I got this and I'm going to rearrange all the stuff on the inside of plane. I'm going to take this bag out. This is going to go this way. That's going to go that way. Oh, we can fit this.

The guy's like, I don't think we can fit at all. He goes, give me that. He shows that one, and he's shoving it in like in a cartoon. So then we get out there and we're like, we're probably going to have to leave a couple bags behind. Nope, we get out there and we shove them all in there and now we just have all of our luggage on the plane. At one point, me and Trent looked at each other. We said the pilot said that we weren't going to be able to fly with all these bags. Like that even close.

And now we are flying with all these bags. So what changed? Have we now bullied the pilot? Right. Thinking that we are now at an acceptable height and weight that we can fly this plane? Are we telling him that? Because Lorch's grandfather flew around in World War II? Are you fucking kidding me?

The only thing that changed was Lurch, like, through his body. No disrespect to the veterans, but I'm just saying. No, yeah, the only thing that changed was Lurch, for some reason, took it upon himself to be like, we can get all these bags on the plane, a guy who knows nothing, at least to my knowledge, about aviation and how planes can actually fly. So not only that, but then the pilots said, okay, we were able to get everything on the plane, but since we're so heavy, we have to make a stop in Charlotte because our plane is so heavy, we can only take so much fuel, so we have to stop. And for people who don't know, we were supposed to play in a golf event. Jake Owens Charity Golf Event, it was supposed to start at 1 o'clock.

So we were already up against it. We finally take off at 1230, so we're going to miss a bunch of the holes. Lurch is only down there for a couple days. He then has to go do back to his regular job. He can't be here the whole trip. So essentially, at that time, we were putting on Lurch's golf bags, adding extra weight to the point where we have to stop in Charleston, South Carolina, to get more fuel because Lurch wanted to play 11 holes that day.

Like, I kept telling him that. Like if we crash up here landing taking off any of those things, it's your fault because this is unnecessary. You're going to go play not even a full 18 holes and you shoved all the luggage on there to the point where we might just drop out of the sky. So we have to do the horrifying stuff twice. We have to take off land, take off land. Yeah, then we get to the point. We're finally all packed in like sardines. We've got all the baggage.

Baggage is literally on our lap, on the bench. Strap out of the bag into one of the seats with a seatbelt. If you go to the bathroom, you got to move like 8. pieces of luggage out into the aisle and then piss and then rearranged. On takeoff all the bags came flying down because there was so much I was like this we are going down. We get on the plane, the pilot, I shit you

now, he goes through his little spiel and then he goes and just so you guys know on takeoff we are going to experience some extreme turbulence. Extreme. And he goes, there's just no way to avoid it. They only had one runway going out because of the

crosswind. So any other runway at Titoboro New Jersey Airport was not running because of the wind. So we had to wait online. We had the taxi all the way. There was only one way that you could have flown out because the wind was going to allow you to do that. And that's why it was extreme, extreme

turbulence. Not only that. And then there's something to do with Newark Airport where you have to stay at a certain level because you don't want to affect their airspace. So you can't just go straight up. You have to live in this sort of mid-area and that's where all the turbulence and the wind is. And that little area feels like you're trying to get higher, but you can't

the whole time. Like it feels like your plane is failing to get higher in the sky and any time your plane is failing to do anything, that is horrific. Holy shit. And this is when I had, you know, one of the worst experiences of my life. The takeoff is incredibly scary

in a private jet and when it's windy. It's hard to explain, but it just kind of feels like you're fish tailing a little bit. It feels like you're fish tailing. It feels slippery. That was the word I kept using to describe it. The back whips, it's like shaking your ass. Yeah, and we have video of it,

but I almost passed out. My palms were extremely. Extremely sweaty. These weak arms are heavy. I was gripping the armrest as hard as I could. I kind of, I blacked out a little bit, but like I said, we have it on video. But I just, eight mile. No, we get it.

It was just, these guys can probably speak to it more because it was a bit of an out-abody experience for me. You know, your face was, I mean, all of the blood vessels left your face. You had nothing left in there. You were just white, not the normal cheeky self. Yeah. And it looked like you were legitimately going to pass out. I'm actually surprised you didn't. We could see the sweat stains on your pants.

You had created sweat stains from how badly you were sweating. I started getting the needily feeling. The need like my face started feeling needly. My body started to be in needly right before it right before the lights go out. And you actually, you made it way easier for the rest of us because you kind of became the center focus, comedic focus in such a trying, terrifying, scary time. We were bouncing. We were going up and down. We were all flying around and like we were all laughing when we should have been crying and screaming.

Yeah, I took. I took all of the stress. Jake is now showing us the clip that I'm reliving. Jake is told it out. We got time that I don't want to. He is clinging to his armrest on both sides. I kept touching the wood paneling. That seemed to be some sort of comfort for me.

Riggs is laughing to my face. Are you guys not scared right now? Yeah, it was a, you know what? It was an experience. Flying a Vira was an experience. After that, it was fine. Once we got, we take off again. It was maybe five, ten minutes of, like he said, extreme turbulence.

And we were all pretty cool with it because Trent was so not cool with it, that looking at him and laughing altogether was sort of a, you know, it built camaraderie among the rest of us being able to laugh collectively at you, Trent Daddy. I'm okay with that. But that type of turbulence after the joking that went on for the days of head was like it, it was scary for everyone, I think. Yeah, the parts that you're talking about too, where you're decelerating because you have to stay the certain altitude and it's

the first decel when I forgot because I was having a pretty much a panic attack when I forgot that we have to stay in the certain airspace I was like this is it it's over we're going down we're going to be on the news all the clips all the segments that we've done for the past 48 hours are now going to go down and in me you took a picture

you even put it in black and white for people you tweeted it out it was just but we made it picture organized this is I put it in black and white for you guys just to save you some time just throw in loving memory on it Once you get up there, once you're cruising, it's all good. No, it was fine, man.

Once we got up there, and I knew the whole time that we would be fun, I think that's mainly why that I was so outlandishly, like, dark about it. I was nervous. I was more nervous this time than any other time. I actually counted how many private planes I was on. This is going to come off, like, super douchebag to say that. But I wanted to realize, I wanted to, like, say that when we were doing the podcast, like how many times I've done it.

I think it was up to 15 flights that I had taken, like round trip on a private plane, never once even thought about it. This one, the more we talked about it, the more we joked about it, I couldn't even sleep the night before. So it's all mental. It was almost like we spoke. Yeah, we spoke it into existence. That we, our blame was going to go down. And oh, my, what a, what an insane story.

This is going to capture the nation in a very tragic way that we perished. Then we made it to Viro Beach. We just made it. And we were up there. We had beers. We had a little champagne. It was delightful up there. So flat tire.

Unlucky. You got calls from Jake Owen. Jake Owen's like, man, he was like apologizing being like, I'm sorry. I'm the one that got this fear. Like, Jake, you did. Literally. And you know what? No one did anything wrong.

It's just the way things happened. Like you don't, no one like, the pilots didn't go out there and just smack the tires a little bit and put a, put a needle in the tire and like we're not going to veer. Like they wanted to go home. Like these guys were from like Wichita. Like they're like we want like they don't want to sit in an airport all day on us on a, what day was that a Friday? Yeah. Friday morning. I mean, no one was doing anything wrong.

Jake apologizing is like one of the craziest things I've ever heard. He felt bad. I was like, Jake. Oh, and are you kidding me, man? Like go to your golf event. Have a great time. Don't worry about us. We're going to.

We got a PJ coming. We're going to be fine. We were fine. It was unlucky. Nobody did anything wrong. I will say that our pilots, our original pilots, we were chatting with them and they were telling us stories. And one of the stories they told us was, well, one of the crazier landings that they had was, like, the plane obviously has to, has to temperature dramatically affects the plane. If it gets too hot, it's a problem.

Something can, like, melt. And if one little thing like melts, then it throws everything off and you can crash. He's legit said that to our face. He's like, so you've got to do all these different calculations, temperature calculations, all that stuff. And he was like the one time we were supposed to be going into Vegas and he said it was like 108 degrees in Vegas and that on like the asphalt of a runway is too hot. So we couldn't land in Vegas because it was too hot. We had to land in Phoenix instead. I was like, well, how hot was it there?

He goes, it was three degrees cooler. Oh my goodness. And they were allowed to land there because the calculations are so like precise that they were able to land in Phoenix fine. And he was telling us all these different stories to like basically. you know like give us confidence in how knowledgeable they are about like how everything works because we were talking about this is the same exact time we're having the talks about the luggage and the heaviness and how come like why are we going to have to stop is it a problem that we packed all these extra bags in like what's the deal and I think there's another little interesting tidbit

was he was saying that the calculation that they do is for the plane has um the right amount of weight that if one engine went out like three-fourths of the way through your takeoff after the critical point where you can't stop like you're going too fast the runway will run out you have to go into the air otherwise it's going to be a problem

that the weight is calculated that you could take off still in the worst case scenario if one of your engines goes out so if you have two engines are fine your weight is absolutely no problem they calculate it all the way down to like if one engine goes out you'll still be able to fly after the critical

point of losing it. That's crazy. So it was like, he's like, you're good. Yeah, yeah, we're good. Yeah. So that stuff made us feel better. And they were great. I mean, nobody did anything wrong.

It was just unlucky. We got a flat tire happened like the second time that guy's ever seen that long of a wait in what, four years. Yep. Is that what he said? Yep. It's just unlucky. But we got there.

We had a great time. We roll into Vero Beach. Boy, do we get there. We played, what, seven or eight holes that night? Yeah, we rolled right into Quail Valley Golf Club? Quail Valley. We got up to this. So we actually saw it when we were.

flying in. And just so we saw we were about to land, we looked out to the left, there's this huge body of water with just a little bit of golf course in the middle. We're like, yep, that's the place. That's Quill Valley. It's got crazy island greens and island fairways and stuff on some of the holes. So we actually drove straight from the private airports to the golf course, and we get up to this gate and like, we're four hours late, three and a half hours, four hours late.

Yeah. We go up to this gate and we press this button and this guy's like, hello? And we're like, yeah, we're here. like the Jake Owen event and, you know, we're a little late. And the guy's like, wow, okay. And he just opens this thing up. He must have been like, who the fuck shows four hours late to a golf event? But not to our knowledge that we didn't know this, like, right when we got in, the whole

place was waiting for us. I mean, you had two guys on golf carts come down. They were huge four play fans, huge barcelo fans. They gave us the carts. They're like, put your bags on here. Go into the locker room. The locker room's absurd. We'll get into that.

Going to the locker at Quail Valley, get yourself situated, and then just go out and play as much golf as you want. Don't even worry about the tournament that's going on. Just go out, just go out on number seven. He's like, I got some guys on one, two, or three, whatever. He's like, just go out and seven, just play until it gets dark. Do whatever the hell you want. Yep.

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Full disclosure, I had never had never had. a hard seltzer in my life before we signed our deal with truly i'm sure it's been around for a while but it's sort of like this is like uh the hard seltzer gold rush yes everyone's like hard selter this is hard seltzer era and i just wasn't on it i wasn't on that i hadn't gotten on it yet i said truly's gonna come on i said okay great i don't know a ton about it it was a i am now addicted to truly i don't have beers in my apartment i have truelys i don't make mixed drinks in my apartment i make truly you truly enjoy it i truly enjoy it very nice frankie well done they're They use that in all their advertising.

It's truly a great drink. You know, I don't know if they do. I don't see them really doing that. We've got to have a conversation. You think so? You know, throw some puns in there. Yeah. I mean, we're a big pun guys.

Yeah. Truly. Like when we went to the Barstow classic event at Whiskey Creek and there, you and I were doing the putting contest, Frankie, and you filmed one of mine and I think I just missed it. You put up on the story and you said he truly wanted this to go in. Correct. It's pretty good.

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Okay, we get to Quail Valley. The locker room, and you guys noticed this before I did. I was out front. I don't know what I was doing. I was chit-chat and yakking, whatever the hell I was doing. Frankie came back with this look on his face. I was like, why does a ghost? More than usual.

Wait. Well, not right now. You're red. Well, right now I forgot to put on sunscreen. I said we're at, we're at Tobacco Row. we just played 18 holes. I felt like I went to battle. I was in war.

And then not any disrespect to the military. But what I said was when we were inside this cabin at Stewart's Cabin, at Tobacco Road in North Carolina where the sun is pretty freaking strong, I said, can you believe me with my skin complexion that I, like me being a milky white little baby boy that I didn't put on sunscreen today? Can you believe that? I mean, we were talking out here about like the video we're going to make and all this stuff. And I was like, and while we were talking, I'm like, my face is starting to burn up.

I was like, am I getting, like, heated right now, or is my face, like, did I eat like a bad strawberry? You said, I can't smile. I couldn't smile. I'm just so sombered. It's like, it's crazy. How did I not think I was going to get somber? But anyway, I was, I was paler than I usually am walking out of this place because I couldn't believe the animals they had in this men's locker room. Like, I thought I saw, like, ghosts.

I'm not, it's crazy. It's actually crazy what they have at Quail Valley. Yeah. Like, they have mounted animals. There's an elephant? Polar bear. Lion. Jaguar.

Maybe a tiger. It's definitely a lion. And speaking of the lion, there was a guy in the locker room who went through and just told everything about the lion and how it was killed. Yeah, he, we're walking around this place. And this guy is just standing there, like, oh, like, he's behind the bar and he's, like, kind of cleaning a glass, watching us. look at all these things. I must have taken videos 10 times. I was taking Snapchat's videos.

I was taking selfies in front of these things. It was 15. It was a 25 foot polar bear. How long? I didn't see the polar. 25 foot. How tall are polar bears? What do you mean?

That's a... Eight and a half feet? That's a... Bus. Bullshit was eight and a half feet is a... How big's a blue whale? A lot. No, you won't believe.

Hey, they have a blue whale at the Natural History Museum in New York. I've seen it. the most staggering moment of my life Seeing this blue whale It's in this room trend, Daddy We gotta go see it sometime I'd love to

You, I'm not gonna use the you were But you would not believe it If you saw it in real life Type in blue whale Blue whale 82 feet Oh my God Polar bears are 7 and a half to 9

and a half feet Dude Honestly it'd been a while Since you had fucked up Like height or distance Or something Up on a pedestal You had to look all the way up

Anyway, so this guy tells this. This guy's basically cleaning glass is watching us, look around. He goes, you guys want to know about that line over there? And we said, yeah, and he says this. Well, I know the lion it was from a country in Africa. I'm not sure which one. But it killed 26 people in a village in Africa, a small village. And Mr. Moli, the late owner of Boe Valley, he went over there.

And he, like, they wanted someone to catch the lion, to kill the lion. and he like paid a lot of money for the for the tag for the line and he went over there he shot it wounded it they got away from them they eventually tracked it down and it was hiding in some ghost or something like that and it came out and charged at that charge at them I don't know how I would have shit my pants if it became charged again but he shot it in the head killed it then just dead when he's talking about this lion killing people and how the

was it the owner the founder the founder of this golf club how many people they say a lion killed 25 26 yeah that was it in the world 26 people that lion tread down you saw in the flesh in front of your face 26 human beings so the guy that like owned or created

or founded this golf club quail valley yeah went out and shot and killed and preserved and stuffed all the animals in that room there was a lion's head there was a There was a lion that killed 26 people. They said when he shot him, it's in the audio we just played. When he shot him, he had to go find it because the lion, like, survived the shot and, like, made it down, like, to another area.

And, yeah, I mean, he's shown, dude, that thing looks 25 feet in here because it's on a fucking, dude. So Jake showing us this video, that thing does not look eight and a half feet. You're telling me that thing's eight feet tall, like Yao Ming, like Yao Ming was seven foot six or whatever. You're telling me that that thing's at the top of a grand ceiling. But you can very clearly see that he's standing. He's on like a two or three foot like... All right, so that's why I thought it was 25 feet. Anyway, in the video that he's showing me, I don't have a hat on, which was crazy.

Because it was one of the places you had to take your hat off in the clubhouse. Yeah. Very respectful. Good job, Frank. Yeah, it was a good job. So this guy's telling us this, and I'm walking around. You look up there's an elephant head. And I just like, I don't know.

I thought it was awesome, but I also thought it was massively cruel. Like, the fact that these things were killed. I don't like the fact that you kill fucking animals just to hang them in your... Trophy, honey? I don't. I don't like that either. I don't like that either. I don't like that either.

I think it's disgusting. If you kill something for food, sure, whatever. That's just the way the world was created, right? Do you feel better because that lion killed 26 people? A little bit. Not really, though. That's a fucking problem. That's, you don't, but.

Don't go to the lions. Don't, right, literally. You know? Where was it killing people? He wasn't, he wasn't living in New York City just like, killing people. Right. But like, that area that the lion was in is probably like, that's where people. live too. Don't build houses there.

When I saw that elephant head, I mean, the elephant is massive. I'm like, this guy... I stand with a line. This fucking guy chopped this elephant's head off and stuck it in top of his lodge. Now, I love the golf course. I love everyone that works there. Love the guy that created it. Love the guy that did everything. I think I just disagree with trophy hunting. I don't think that you should go

out and seek these animals who are just living their lives and not only shoot them, but then like put them up and be like, look at what I did. I think it's crazy. There was a cheetah, like, in a position like, like, ready to pound You know, you have a nat in your face, man. You have a gnat in trench face.

I'm about to kill that. In your mouth. You know, that may come off soft, my stance on it, and there may be some manly men that love to kill things and chop their heads off and stuff them with newspapers. I don't love doing that, man. Like, you know, I love animals. I'm with you.

You know, like that fucking poor. No, whatever. Okay. Imagine how quickly we're getting kicked out of that place if you were said that in that longer. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. I mean, we can't go back.

No. That's all right. I mean, it has nothing to do with the, like, I just don't agree with it. Oh, fantastic golf course. And every single person that works there was top notch. Yeah. Top notch. Don or Dom?

I wish I remembered his name. He was the guy who gave us the card. He's one of the head, you know, I don't know if he was a professional or he was like one of the guys running the inside. Couldn't have been a nice guy. I literally said to us when we were at this event, Jacobo event, we showed up there late. He said, you can golf every much you want until it gets dark, do whatever you want and then tomorrow come back and play however much you want which we do place is yours i mean like to welcome us when jake owin had like other country music stars at this event he had um uh rick an

and keel there like he had other athletes rick and keel was there uh yeah he was just at our car when we were getting dressed yeah rick and keel was like yeah and lurch said something to him like oh i love how you played all the positions it's like lurch the guy like couldn't throw at one point i feel like he'd rather they moved into the outfit yeah yeah i didn't know rick and keel was there that's something Oh, yeah. He played all the position. No, no, I had to do that.

I love how he was so versatile and played all those positions. Like, yeah, it's true. It's like a really great story. But, like, he's also one of, like, the biggest, like, downfalls of a pitcher of all time. That's why he had to go. Yeah. That's why he was a center fielder. He's like, he's a centerfielder.

He's a guy who should be getting the ball in the mound at the beginning of game and instead he's in outfield. Turns out he was a sick hitter in outfield. I always liked Rick Ankeel, yeah. I didn't really shocked you. He was right next to you. I think he said hi to him. I did? Yeah.

You said how to him. He's like, hey, I'm Rick. Yeah, you said hi to him. Right when we got out of the car, we got to Quail Valley, two guys. Mike Piazza, the guy's name was. He wasn't the Met. He's a, he's a... What a confusing story.

That's going to turn people for a loop, man. So we're talking about one baseball player, and then we're talking about a guy named Mike Piazza, who is in fact not the baseball player. But he is a baseball player. This guy pitches for, like, saying... He pitched for, like, the angels and someone else. Was he a catcher for? for the Mets? No.

At one point, he knelt behind the plate for the Mets. Yeah. But it's not... It may not have been... It may not have been... I can't believe I met Rick and Keelan and realized it. Uh-oh, I may have got this...

Yeah, Mike Piazza. All right. His name's Mike Piazza. He plays for the Modesto Nuts. He actually has been released. So, I guess, uh, yeah, whatever. That's something. But yeah, he played for, uh, all around the world.

So we're at, we finish up the golf. We played as many holes as we could. We go, Jake Owen is just doing like a private acoustic show on the back, on the back, like, sidewalk behind this golf club. You know what he did? He debuted a song. He debuts a song. And it is, it's going to be a hit. He took, he goes, I'm going to do a little something for y'all.

And like the way he was saying it into the mic as, you know what the best thing a musician can do, especially when you just do the slow strum on the guitar and then you speak to the. crowd. Dave girl is one of the best at this where he'll like slow the crowd down. He just played like just the best song of all time ever long, my favorite song of all time. And instead of finishing it, he's talking to the crowd while playing a little bit of it. That's what Jake Oman was doing. He just finished the song and he's just drumming. He goes, I'm going to play a little something for you all. And then he stops, goes into his fucking, his phone, puts the phone on the guitar in a place where I thought I was just going to fall down. He's just reading this song that he wrote the night before.

Yeah. He said my note sap says I wrote it at 10.06 a.m. yesterday. Yeah. He's like, all right, I'm going to play it. Put it on the guitar. And it was a, I think Jake, who is our producer, who is a huge country music fan, said that that is a future number one son that we just heard on his phone that he wrote last night. That was one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed.

Yeah. And he did that for like, what, 200 people. Yeah. They were all sitting on this back patio at Quail Valley, having just finished around a golf, grabbing a little bit of food and just hanging out, and there's a microphone, microphone stand, and Jake Owen standing there with his guitar and his iPhone out, playing the song for the first time in front of us, and it was magical, like we said. Then he did, like, uh, there's a couple different auctions going on.

They had this auctioneer guy who was a professionally. He's like a three-time world champion auctioneer. I don't understand the auctioneer stuff. I said to Lurch, uh, the only reason I think they'd do that is because there's something that they've figured out that that's what gets our brain to like raise our hand and say, yeah like there's no like hypnosis there's no other reason why you would do that right like there has to be a reason

like eh butabababababababababababababababababababababababab it's just nonsense like babbababababababababababab it's like what the fuck I think you're just like go let's go let's keep going like it has to be it does it hypnotize you throw your hand in the air yeah there's got to be someone that listens to this podcast that knows the reason right like there has to be a reason

it's the only it's the guy sounds ridiculous he sounds outrageous like there's no reason why He can't just be like, all right, we're at $5,000. Anybody want to bid more? Oh, six, great. 65, yeah? Oh, 65 right there. He's got to go, brab-da-b-b-b-da-bob-da-bba-bba-bba-bba-b-b-ha-ma.

It's like what he's talking about, dude. You're trying to put auctioneers out of business. I think, I think people just say yes. You're woke on the auctione? I think people say I want to bid $80,000 just to shut them up. I think that I think that's what the strategy is. Like, like, if you stop doing that, I'll pay you $100,000. It works.

Yeah, it works, man. It works really well. Jake Owen raised a ton of money. Tons. So they raised, like, hundreds of thousands of dollars for awesome stuff. It was like to play a round of golf. You got to, it was you and three buddies. So it was a foursome with Dustin Johnson and Brooks Kepka.

And Jake Owen. Yeah. How great of a deal is that? Another one was with Jordan Spee. Another one was with Jordan Spee. I mean, this guy was auctioning off phenomenal prizes. Yeah. So, I mean, if you're, like, a wealthy person and, like, you want to give back and you're a golfer.

I mean, why not? It's a no-brainer. Yeah. I mean, you split it four ways. People bid on the stupidest stuff sometimes, right? It's like your name on the side of a building or a boat. Like, why don't you go play golf with Dustin? That's going to be the greatest round of golf ever.

With DJ and Brooks? Oh, that's so sick. Yeah, just to watch them that close. Yeah, they said like, no, he just plays a six-them. It's already taken care of. What? With DJ and Brooks Kebka? So cool.

Raise a ton of money. A lot of money that thing went for. So that was after. And then we went, and then he's like, you know, Jake O'N again, who told a little story about how he comes in. But then he kept pulling over to us on the side being like, yo, what are we doing after? We're like, you know, like, we're in your hometown. You're the rock star. Right.

We're doing wherever fuck you want to do it. He also says it in a way where he makes pure eye contact with you. He's got luscious hair. He is a rock star. He's got like the whole rock star look. And he says it to you so nicely and so just like soft and sweet and earnest. Ernest. Good call.

Trey. Thanks. Is earnest? I don't know the definition of earnest. Is Ernest go along? Okay, good. Because I thought that I may have contradicted myself when I said yes, when I said soft, sweet, you said earnest. They can be all those things.

Okay. And he says this to you where, like, if he was like Frankie, my name's Jayne Owen and I want to go jump off a bridge right now. I'd be like, let's go do it, man, because I think, I think that's the right move. Ernest. He will make you do anything. Ernest, resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction. That's exactly what he was. That's what Jake Owen.

He looks at you like you're his best friend in the world, which I think at this point we are. We are. We're very good friends for them. Jay Goen's going to play at my wedding. Yeah, I think that's true. He's going to sing at my wedding. Riggs says, I don't know if he's involved with anyone right now, but he's already planning that one. I'm not.

I'm single. That's going to be one of my pitches. How are you tonight? Jay Goen's going to sing in my wedding. Yeah. At our wedding. If you're interested in that. That's your future.

Here's the only downfall of Jake Owen being the singer at your wedding is that he's going to be doing all, like, he's going to be taking all the eyes that night. Right? Like he is the star. Like all the girls, he's taking them all. And even yours, he's taking them all. They're all just going with him. He's gone. Jake Owen does, he sings a song.

He puts it down and everyone leaves with him. And then you're just alone doing, you know, the son mother dance and your wife has left you because Jake Owen just serenaded her earlobes at your wedding. I was watching him on Saturday night. This is the next night, which we'll get to in detail on Saturday night. When he was playing up there at the end, he was playing. and he was playing his like barefoot blue jeet night like acoustic version. I was watching.

Women were literally leaving their husbands. Yes. At their table. They were leaving their husbands walking up to the front of that stage and just dancing in front of Jake Owen. You know. Leaving any guy that came in with. That guy was gone. He was in the dust.

They were walking up. He could walk up there faster. Dude, I say this 100%. What's the word that he used? Ernest? Earnestly. Genuinely? I use this word.

Yeah. I'm about to say this completely earnestly. Is that right? I'm going to say, say sincerely. I don't think you're doing it. I'm going to say, please, sincerely. I wasn't the biggest country music fan like in the world before this weekend. You know, I like Chris Stapleton.

There's a couple guys I like. The new guy who came out with that album that we were talking about yesterday. Sturgle Simpson. Sturgeon. I'll listen to different type of stuff, Johnny Cash type stuff. I like that. But like something about hearing it a lot. this weekend, seeing it live, watching

the way that these guys, like, write the songs, and the way that they sing them and play perfect guitar, and, and their pitch, the way that they can sing. They're so fucking talented. There's so many people in music that can't sing for shit. Yeah. Like, you, like, all these R&B and, like, pop stars that, like, put out these number one singles,

and, like, they go out and play a live event, and they're a joke. Like, they stink. Even, like, some rock bands, like, when you hear him live, it's just like, oh, it doesn't, like, hit it. Every time you hear Jake Owen sing, he sings it like he's on the fucking radio. It's easier listening. It's easier singing. But the way his pitches, it's nuts.

I can't stop listening to Jake Owen music. Yeah, no, I'm a huge fan. Yeah, I'm not a country music either. And I told him that when I first met him. I grew up listening to just like hip hop, which is strange. But I never really listened to country music. And now that we know Jake Owen, we've been listening to him pretty much all weekend. When we're driving place to place, like throwing a little Jake Owen, we'll listen to that.

And everything I've heard is it's fantastic. So yeah, and I was going to get to the second night as well. We don't want to move too far ahead. Larry Fleet. Yeah, we'll get him. We're going to later. Our first night wraps up by Jake Owen is like, hey, we're all going to my favorite restaurants right next to our hotel. We got a little room in the back.

I'd love to get dinner with you guys. And we're like, yeah, dude, that'd be sweet. Roll over there. And we roll in with fucking Jay Cohen, and it's the four-played crew. He sits at our table, like his family's at one big table, all of his best friends. Shout to Ryan Parsons, our boy who will get to him. Are we going to get to Ryan Parsons right now? I don't.

Let's do Parsons. Ryan Parsons is, is he in charge of the Jake Owen Foundation? Is that what he does? I got no clue. He's got something to do with the Jake Owen Foundation. He's his best butt, I assume, right? One of his best friends, man. He's been with him.

He's been with him. He caddied for him at the pro-Ans, this whole thing. He was there for the Wayne Gratzky story. When Wayne Gratz, he was signing like the bibs and he told, Jake Owen told that story on the show, and Parsons actually hit me up separately and was sending me pictures. I was there for the Wayne Gretzky story. It's totally true. So there's a guy named Ryan Parsons, and he's a great dude. He's something that, uh,

sitcom writer would would would dream to write up right he's he's he's got this like pizzazz and these he's got these like he's got these like this lingo that like just catches you by like surprise and you you expect them to be like a data guy who had who's just like an old dad that like doesn't understand like the world and all of a sudden he's like this vibrant young what is it what would you say he is 35 years old yeah somewhere around there he's like he's got like the brain of a 15 year old like he's just such a, I don't know how to explain this guy. I'm going in circles in my own head. When he speaks, you got to listen.

He's like, everything he says is funny. Dude, you fucking kidding me? Like, let's go fucking play TPC Sawgrass. You fucking serious, bro? Like, let's go. I'm like, let's go. You just get you going. Like, Frankie, you're the fucking man. And, like, he'll hit you in the chest. Like, you are the fucking man. You're like, I am the man. I'm Parsons. And my wife's a fucking rocket.

Right? And he'll keep saying it. He'll say, like, you'll wait until you see my fucking wife. And we're like, are you kidding me, Parsons? Like, what does that mean? You're a bald dude with shitty facial hair. And you're like, you're like, you know, like he's like an ugly dude. And he said, he said, don't kill me on the podcast. You know what, Parsons? You're not an ugly dude.

I'll take that back. You're actually a good looking 35 year old guy who's bald, right? Like, you happen to be bald. Yeah, he is. He's bald. And he's like, he's like, everyone's like waiting to see Parsons wife. We're like, what are you talking about? This dude's like nothing.

And boy, oh boy, does Parsons? Does Parsons have a hot wife? I mean, he does. And we called her a missile. We told him that. We go, here comes to your missile. I went out to Parsons. I'm like, your wife's a rocket.

He's like, he's like, I fucking know, man. He's like, I fucking know. Can you fucking believe that shit? I'm like, no, man, I can't believe it. At one point I'm like, where's your wife right now? I want to go to talk to her. I want to talk to her. She's so nice.

She was so, she was so, everyone just knew that that was the Parsons couple. Like, he's like, I have three kids with her, man. He's like, we have family. He got three sons. That's what he kept saying. I don't have three kids. I got three sons. He's like, I'm sorry.

such a man I got three sons. He's like, yeah, you want to know why I'm bald? He's like, I birth three sons. Three sons have my names. I was like, Parsons, you're a fucking legend. We said to him, we go, man, I swear to God, when we saw that girl hanging around your crew, we thought that was Jake Owen's girl. Oh my God, 100%. We're like, oh, man, Jake Owens got the life, man. And all of a sudden, like, is Parsons? When we were at the restaurant, we were talking so much about Parsons's wife that, like, with Parsons. With Parsons, that we knew, so Parsons was talking so much about his wife that we knew that it was going to have to be a grand entrance. Like, where's your wife?

How can anyone talk about someone being this good looking? And we saw this woman who was like, she had blonde hair. She was talking to someone. So all you saw was hair. Right. So while we're talking about how hot his wife is talking about how hot his wife, he's like, wait until you see her face. We're like, what?

Like, what are you talking about? This is awkward. Stop. And her hair is down. And then all of a sudden he goes, babe. And she opens up her air. And it was like a movie scene. Yes, it was.

we're like holy dude i looked at him i said holy shit man holy shit like right right in front of her i'm like holy shit yeah no it was like a movie she was talking to somebody at the table she was standing the person was sitting she looked up and we were like parsons was right yeah and then he goes right he like looks at it's like right i told you that shit he's like my three sons dude i had i had three sons yeah no he and and she was she was so nice and she like got all the jokes and she knew she like very much knew what was going on you can tell that she deals with parsons i mean I'm sure he does that everywhere he goes where he just walks around, parading around how great

his life is. He did it so quickly to us. He has to do that everywhere. It was the first thing he said to us. He was, I mean, he's Parsons have a rocket wife. We're like,

what? Hey, man, nice to meet you. Parsons is great. So we hung out. Going back to Bobby's, we sit down. It's Jake going to the head of the table.

Us boys, like, all surrounding him. We put out that picture. We're all ordering. He's like telling us what to order all the waitresses and, like, the staff are coming up, like, hugging him. They're like, Jake, it's so good to see us.

So you can tell that he's like, he's beloved there. He's not like some big dime, some like big dick, like country like star who's too big for that. No, he was legit like homegrown at his spot, at Bobby's. Everybody loved him. He knew everybody's name. He's legit, tell us what to get to the point where Frankie came a little late. Frankie, he's told everybody you've got to get the French tip. You got to get the French tip.

It's great. You got to get the French tip. We did. It's great. Frankie came late. Didn't hear that didn't get the memo. He's watching the island of game. Orders the cassidia.

the cassidia arrives we all laugh in frankie's face it arrives to just laugh to an entire table of laughter moment i knew everyone was going to be a laughter moment i knew everyone was going to laugh and me make fun of me to the point where when i so the waitress kept i wasn't that hungry we had already eaten at jay goin's event we had like i mean it was probably something the guy killed or something like the guy owned it was it was like fresh meat and pigs and stuff it was crazy yeah and and i was so so full and we get to this place bobby's i was there to have a couple beers and maybe some pick, like, finger-picking food. And I saw everyone's ordering this food,

and you guys had all been talking about how great the French dip was. And I was like, boy, I don't know if I want all that. But, like, I don't know. Like, I'm just going to order a chicken gazadilla. And then as I ordered the chicken gazadia, all the French dips started to come out, and you're all like, ooh. And like, and Trent's dipping it in the ajou sauce. And I'm like, oh, man, I know that this cassidia is coming out.

And I know it's going to be a problem because everyone's ooh-in-on-on. And they're, like, coming themselves that this stuff is coming out. and I saw that waitress walking over to me which she bullied me to order something that's what I was trying to get to I didn't even know if I wanted to eat and she's like do you want anything I'm like you know what not right now 10 seconds later you sure you don't want anything

I'm like you know what I actually don't know if I didn't want anything she goes you got to pick right now because I got to take that many away I'm like all right she starts walking out this case dia I almost flagged her and go go back and go go go back don't bring that thing here I'll pay for it don't bring her head like no no she puts it down Jake Owen looks at me is like Frankie are you fucking kidding me You got a fucking, you got a

Casidia? I'm like, yeah, man. He's like, are you, he announced it the whole place. Frankie got a Cacadia. Everyone was like, boo. What happened here? His family's standing up across the room, boom. Here's a fun fact. I didn't take one bite of the Cacadia. Everyone, yeah, I gave it to Jake. I was like, hey, Jake, you want to try this?

And he ate one. I'm like, no backsies. Producer Jake. Yeah, producer Jake. Not Jake Owen. Jake Owen was so, like, flabbergasted that you order the cassidia. He gave you half of his french did. He goes, try this. And it was delicious.

It was so good, man. Bobby's was legit. So Bobby was great. We had a bunch of beers. We ended up going. We go back. We're walking by the bus. It's his tour bus.

We're like, oh, is that your tour bus? We'll pop on there get a beer. We're sitting there for like an hour having beers on Jake Owens' tour bus. Really cool. With Jake Owen. He's telling us about like writing songs and telling us about his life. We end up going over to this other place, Riverside.

We have a beer there. Go to bed. Get up the next day. Very relaxing day. We went and played a couple holes of golf. You guys just kind of hung around because we got a bunch of golf to play this week. And then the Jake Owen Foundation concert started. The concert was one of the more surreal experiences of my entire life.

It was at a hangar at the private airport, literally a giant hanger that they just outfitted for a concert. They built this sick bat, badass stage, a couple green rooms behind it, all these VIP tables filling up the hangar. Think about how big a fucking airplane hanger is filling it up and then just outside the hangar where all these like, taco stands and bars and then just to the side of the hangar where like three or four different massive buses that were like tour buses like Chase Rice where we did the interview that's coming up in a couple minutes

Jake Owens tour bus was there so it was an absolute scene and then Frankie and I were asked by Jake he's like you know I just kind of have like this plan that I just kind of riffed off of but you know how at some places they'll do like this cool thing where they sit down and like laugh with a couple of their buddies on stage and it shows some personality

and you can tell a couple stories like you guys are cool to do that right we're like yeah dude absolutely well turns out that happened way earlier in the night that we thought which is like right because we went backstage when we got there was a surreal experience like you're saying and um right after we had gotten done interviewing chase rice we walked straight to like find our table and we were table number one that was like there was 180 tables and our our reservation said table number one we're like where's you got to think that's up front close and um it was up we were we were jacked up we knew like jimmy buffett was coming we heard all these rumblins about how amazing it was

going to be all these musicians are going to be playing we're raising the time money we're table number one, which is surreal in itself. We go backstage, there's food back there, Jake's back there, wearing, I don't know, to me it was like, how would you describe his shirt and suit? I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. Almost like if you were to, like, I don't know, like SpongeBob Squarepants Cours, right? It was like orange and like a baby blue and it was turquoise and like pink.

It was flamingo colors. It was something only Jake Oman could wear. He looked awesome on that. He looked fantastic, is what I was trying to say. He looked phenomenal. And like Rick said, he asked us to go out there. It was, you know, we were behind the stage and, like, people were looking at us. Like, you guys were ready to go? We're like, right now or like in an hour and a half? They're like, no, no. Like, we're going to play this video and you guys can go out on stage in front of all these people who, like are huge, like supporters and, like, founders of companies and stuff that are here to see Jake going and all these people. And you guys are going to go out there on the stage and you guys are going to entertain them. Now go, boy, go. I was like, oh shit. Let's go. It was fucking nuts, man. It was nuts. So we did. We rolled out there. We sat down on these couch. On these huge chairs.

They had these giant chairs that they brought out. I couldn't believe how big the chairs were. We had no idea with the chair situation. We even know they were going to be chairs. We thought we were just going to stand. Maybe like maybe walk around each other and kind of do that fucking scene. No, no. There's like chairs.

They were situated like three of them. The one in the middle was like a double-seater. A two-seater. And I didn't know where Jake Owen was going to sit. And like if he sat in the middle, it would have been weird if we were like on each side of them. Like you don't want to do that. in an interview because then he's got to like pivot both sides of he's talking so I kind of was like going to feel him out then he sits in the far left chair if you're looking from stage out to

crowd he sits in the far left chair so I'm like I see frank you go for the far right chair I'm like I think I'm in the middle you know I think I'm like up on the stage and I'm sitting this two-seater and I'm just in the middle by myself you know which I was I saw very early Jake olin went one leg crossed he went I think left leg crossed so good doing it and at that moment I kind of looked over, Frankie hadn't done anything yet. He was sitting like a fucking weirdo and never sat down before. And I was like, man, I'm not comfortable. Like out of my arms, I'm going to go leg crossed too. Because you can cross

the leg and then with your spare arm that's not holding the microphone, you can grab a hold of that leg. Right. And you can really, you can pat your toes, you can do whatever you want. You can still do hand gestures. And then it goes right back to that. It's a great sitting position. It's a good, safe place to live in when you're up on that stage. So they both were doing that. And I was consciously thinking we can't have three leg crossers up here on one stage you can't because then it looks like i don't know i don't know what that looks like it looks like we're a silicon valley startup company that's trying to like persuade everyone into

the right move was to be like okay we're at two out of three we can't go to three you know we're up there we're just the reason we're up there was to have like a laid back experience so i thought maybe like all right i'll cross my legs so i put my legs out and i put one foot across the other at one point frankly i looked over you were seated like you just jump out of a plane of the safety instructions down those inflatable slides. That's how you were sitting. You read like your legs crossed fully in front of it.

Then I forgot that you can lean back and use the back of the huge throne of a chair that they gave us. I forgot that I could lean back. So at one point there's all these pictures coming out where I'm just on the edge of this seat and I have perfect posture because I didn't want to be slouch. And I just look like a prairie dog. It's like when a dog is like alert.

Like what? Like what was that? Squirrel? Squirrel? like that's exactly what I looked like it was it was bad man I felt so uncomfortable I didn't know what to do with my legs I didn't know what do with my hands and that was going through my head the whole time

there was times where I didn't even hear what you guys were saying because I'm like how am I sitting right now and I was looking in the corner of my eye like there was huge screens and they had like it was like a live fucking production oh yeah we were up on the screen oh yeah I was like oh man I look so bad right now like what am I going to do with my hands like I actually thought the way

we spoke was really good you guys did great yeah I thought so too I actually had when we were when we had to make trips to the pisser after I go by random people were just like Hey great job up there I was like thanks because I blacked out I don't know what that was yeah so it was so refreshing to see someone that like was able to make fun of themselves or something like that she said something along those lines I was like because I think I called myself pasty up there I think so I said I call myself thin You said your arms were thin yeah he was like oh you he goes frankie's wearing our shirt or jake o'an which anyone listening we do have jake o'an

shirts it says um can drinkle day can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning It's from one of his songs. And we now give all the proceeds or proceeds to the Jake Owen Foundation. And I think we've given them like $50,000 from these shirts. Which he's super pumped about that. Those are just T-shirts. That was right. Now we do the long sleeves.

We have hoodie. We have crew necks. So I was wearing the long sleeve. He's like, Frankie's wearing the long sleeve. Like the new one. And I was like, well, yeah, it's because my arms are very thin and pasty and I don't like to wear a sweatshirt. And he like like that. He talked about how young I looked.

He kept saying that. He's like, man, I went back and talked to my girl about how about your skin. last night. I was like, damn. You liked your skin. Damn. Parsons life liked my skin? So we did that. Yeah, dude. Fucking right. We did that. It went great.

And then after that, we just kind of sat down and got the drink and really soak in the show, which the show was phenomenal. Phenomenal. Larry Flank. It sounded like you copied me the way you said that. I kind of incented you to say that. You changed the way. I almost did it. Phenomenal.

And you're like, it was phenomenal. I'm literally. As it was coming out. changed because the way you said I just said I had to it's like you went inside my person yeah it's weird uh Larry Flint fleet fleet Larry Flint is um he's huh uh huh uh he's yeah yes yeah is that right Larry Flint is our new favorite uh musician Larry fleet is an up and coming country star again I don't listen to much country music and I have not listen to much country music

but I know good music when I hear it and Larry Fleet is going to be a star he was there were three guys on the stage and he was one and they were kind of going down the line each one would do a song. So it was Matt Stel, Chase Rice, and Larry Fleet. Chase Rice and Matt Selle are bona fide superstars. Right. So they're all three sitting on stage and basically they go down the line. One does a song. One does a song. One does a song. It goes back to the first person. They did that three or four times. And it was unique. I'm sorry to cut you off. Because a lot of people that were behind stage, I actually mentioned this to one of like, Jake Owens like tour managers where I was like, man, that was one of the most unique, like,

music experiences that I've seen. It's almost like when you watch your favorite musician like unplugged where before each song they told a story about how that song got written like written and like where they were in their life like how they came up with that song so like chase rice was like man i was like down with florida georgia line we're sitting around took us 45 minutes to come with this song and like it was cruise right like like not many times do you like get to watch your favorite musician which a lot of the people that were there that was their favorite musicians in the world um like sit there and talk about how they came out with the song that they're about to sing So it was really cool.

And Larry Fleet had none of that, like, behind the scene stuff. He was just a guy that was, like, they gave a shot to. Like, it was like their guy that, like, like, Larry Fleet's their guy. He's not, like, famous at all yet. He's a thousand streams on Spotify right now. He's a relative. He's very unknown. Like, he will be big.

Yeah. Oh, my God. He'll be huge. It is our goal to make Larry Fleet huge. Well, Trent, you fucking love the guy. I do. I love the guy. And we met him backstage before they went on.

It was right before you guys went on. And we're shaking hands with everybody back there. I shook Larry Fleet's hand. I thought he was a security guard. Yep. I didn't know he was, you know, going to be one of my favorite musicians in the world now. He just had a Bush hat on. So he has like a Chris Stapleton slash like Action Bronson.

He does. He looks and like he looks and talks like a Southern Action Bronson. Dude, at one point when they were to all do in the songs, he did one of his songs. It wasn't a song anybody knew. It was one of his original songs. He got standing ovation. Yeah. Everybody just stood up and was like, we cannot believe that just happened.

So this, the other funny part too is that he kicked it off. So, like, he's the first one to sing. Yeah. So Chase Rice was sitting in the middle. I think he was probably the biggest one on the stage, unless, I'm just not the biggest. It was. Producer Jake said, yes. He looked right.

He goes, all right, Larry, want to kick us off. And, like, when he got done singing his first song, which I think was a cover, he, Chase Rice was like, holy shit, man. Like, he said that on the mic. He's like, holy shit. Like, you're going to make us look bad. Like, that was crazy. Like, are you kidding me?

Larry Fleet had this, like, way of singing that was so easy and effort. and effortless and he hit these notes and it was so Chris Stapleton-esque where he like didn't have to play the guitar that loud and he would just hit these notes where you're like oh wow we talked to him afterwards we're like dude you're incredible like the what you do is incredible he goes it's actually comes pretty

easy to me I just sing from down here in my stomach and people seem to like it and we're like dude you are going to be a super star the guy has like a thousand followers on Twitter his his songs have like 20,000 streams on them on Spotify which is like I mean to put that in perspective like pop punk

has like, I think one of our songs has like 100,000 streams on it. Like, Larry Fleet just hasn't gotten people to listen to his music yet. And he's coming out with like a new album on Friday. He's dropping all these new songs. Yep. And this guy just blew everyone away. Like you said, he got a standing ovation when he was the third. No one even knew who he was.

You had Chase Rice, another guy who everyone's there to see. And then Larry Fleet got the only standing ovation of the night. People couldn't believe it. People could not believe that what was happening. He's wearing a bush hat. Action Bronson is such a funny and accurate comparison to him. He's a Southern Action Bronson, and he's just got it. When you see it, you know it.

And Larry Fleet, I think the story was that Jake Owen had seen him somewhere, and Jake Owen was like, people in Nashville need to hear you. Like, your voice needs to be in Nashville. Larry Fleet, I think, has moved to Nashville, and now I think it's just going to be. He's under Jake Owen's wing. He's in good shape. He's going to be a rocket ship. If you go into a bar and Larry Fleet was playing, you'd, like, walk out mesmerize. Gives you chills.

He wouldn't walk out. He'd just be like, I gotta stay here all night until this guy goes on. He was such a cool and nice guy too. Yeah. Before and after. He was such just a down-dress.

He's like, you guys like my hat? And it was just a bush hat. He was stunned that we like liked his music. Yeah. Like, man, you were awesome up there. He's like, wow. Thank you. We're like, no, like, how do you not know that?

You're just amazing. Crazy. And the fact that like the night started with us interviewing Chase Rice, then we were on stage with Jake Owen, laughing it up, introducing him for his foundation. Then Larry Fleet tore the house down.

And we weren't. even at the part where Jimmy Buffett came out and literally lit fire to Vero Beach? So Jimmy Buffett shows up and it was a very funny moment where Jake Owen's people earlier in the night were like, all right, you guys are at, you're at Table 1, you're all situated. Just so you guys know, if you want to go backstage, totally cool. You go backstage anytime you want. There are two green rooms, okay? There's a green room on the right closer to the tour buses.

You guys are more than welcome there. And then there's another green room on the other side of the backstage. That's Jimmy Buffett's only. can't go anywhere near there. You can't even look at it. Stay as far away from that as possible. We're like, no, we get that. That's very understandable.

Jimmy Buffett comes in. And he obviously, he takes the stage. Jake Owen did like a big introduction. And you could tell even Jake was like, this is the fact that we have this going on at the first like officially inaugural Jake Owen Foundation concert and event. Jimmy Buffett comes on and is just everything that you could possibly imagine Jimmy Buffett is in the flesh. Our favorite part was that he.

came he maybe did like 40 minutes or whatever he did 45 minutes and they had we were on a fucking we were at an airport so he just landed at that airport they kept the jet running yep he was there for a cool 45 minutes to an hour i feel like like jimmy buffett was in his home got on a plane landed on the tarmac tore the house down at jay goins charity foundation got back on the plane he was asleep by 930 yes i think there's no doubt about that and he was Great. And he was fantastic. He had no shoes on.

He had Jimmy Buffett vibes. Played Margaritaville. He was playing all the hits. Accusically. He had Mac, Maca Lennan. Macanally? Maconnelly, who is, I think he writes a ton of songs. I think he was written a bunch of Kenny Chesney's songs.

He's a bunch of songs. I think he's like a letter. Like, if you know music country music, I think people are like, oh, I know who the fuck that. Yeah. And fantastic guitars and a hell of a head of hair. Oh, yeah. just a bees nest on his head you know just

so good so that was probably the biggest highlight Jimmy Buffett dude Jimmy fucking Buffett like I took a video of him singing fucking Margaritaville while we're front row we're right there underneath Jimmy Buffett

and I thought back to like my uncle and my aunt are huge parrotheads like they they go to every show I remember when they were living on Long Island it was always a huge thing to go to the Jimmy Buffett concert and you tailgate and you got all the stuff and you dress like Dave Port and I dressed his car up like a shark because he's the biggest

Jimmy Buffett fans is one of his inspirations for starting barstool that and Rob Deerdeck because they're both lifestyle brand people and like we're sitting here listening to him I was like taking videos and sending it to people and they were like people were getting the chills that were in front of Jimmy Buffett the guys were $600 million he's an icon

when he started playing Margaritaville you know how people say when they meet a president or like when a president walks in the room like the air changes and people start acting like a little stranger you can kind of see the room like rumenate it's just when he started playing Margaritaville the place, everything was different. Everything was different.

Everything changed. He even said it. He was listening to the, Jake. I just had to say this real quick. He says, because he, like Frankie said, he was telling the story about every song. And he just goes, oh, this next song, me and my friend, we were drinking tequila. And we wrote this in 45 minutes and well, I'll say it's turned out pretty well. And then he just played.

I think he said five minutes. Like five minutes. I think he said, we wrote this song in five minutes in our car on the way while drinking tequila. and like hung over. He goes, it was turned out to be like the best five minutes of my life, thank God.

Margueriteville. And we didn't know what song we were talking about yet. And it was like, dun, dun, we were like, holy shit.

Crazy. Him playing Margaritaville, right, and put on our faces like that. It felt like we were the only people in the room. And he, during,

in the lyrics, he mixed in like, Jake Owen. He mixed in the Jake Owen foundation words. He was, he was one for the, he was one for the theatrics.

He's a pro. He's a pro, man. He's a performer. Yeah. And then Jake, Jake Owen came back out and played with Jimmy Buffett for like a song or two. And then it kind of turned into the Jake Owen show where he obviously played a bunch of his stuff. So it was, it was as memorable, everything that we're describing, like being there.

And it was really hard to try, like, there was one of those where I was just trying to do as much as possible put my phone down. Yeah. And just like, soak it up. Yeah. And just like, grab a drink and just sit back or go stand up by the stage and just like watch it. There's a video that I retweeted that Lurch tweeted out. He pulled out his phone because he saw me swaying during Margaritaville. And in the video, you see me.

I'm like, listen to Jimmy Buffet. I'm like, holy shit. I think I like say something under my breath. I look at Jake, our producer. And I'm like, I hit him on those arm. I'm like, can you fucking believe this? And then it's at the perfect moment. I just go, salt.

So then I turn to Lurch to sing salt with him. And he's recording. Obviously, he catches it. But like, everyone was in that moment where it was just like, we didn't need to pull out our phone at that moment where we just like, it was just like, how many people we think we're in that room? A thousand. Maybe even less. 500?

Yeah. I said 500. Okay. A private, and they were all at dinner tables. Like, what in a unique experience. It wasn't a concert at all. And then Jimmy Buffett's playing. Right.

Like 95% of people were just sitting back in there at their dinner table. Yeah. And there were maybe 5% or 10% of people ran up front. Like I said, the screaming women earlier who were just leaving all their men behind. Right. And what's such, like, when you're at a dinner table and you hear music, it's just like, that's a normal feeling, right? You're eating dinner.

you're listening to music and then like you look up and Jimmy Buffett's playing it live like that's such a weird feeling Shoalish Jimmy Buffett Yeah no he was awesome Fucking awesome So then after that again

We went out Jake Owen Came up to us again We went to the backstage after He comes over to us Like boys where we going tonight Like wherever you want man And yet again we went out We got some drinks with Jake Owen

I ended up back on his tour bus Pretty late was just me and Andrew Went to where Riverside Went to Riverside That's where he like That's where he started That's where Jake Owen first starts Like that was like the first place

In Vera Beach that gave him like an open mic and he started making his name for himself. Yeah. So we go back to Riverside. We had a bunch of drinks there with him yet again. Me and Andrew ended up making our way back onto his tour bus. I ended up playing him in Bino. Is that what it's called?

I think Bino. Bino. It's like he's a little like soccer, like stupid like table game, soccer game that you play where you just flick like a ball and there's. Yeah. And it was and I played him one-on-one. He challenged me for a hundred bucks to play on one-on-one in his tour bus with like five other people there like better is that are his crew hanging out and uh and that'll all be in

the video that we'll recap and whatnot but you're like all right and hit the hay got up traveled all day yesterday and now we're at tobacco rough so it's been a hell of a run for us hell of a run chase rice is up next it was um it's a really cool interview we get more into some of the music stuff there's some golf stories in there we got a lot of headlines and whatnot to still get to so next show on thursday we'll get to that you can follow along all the four play pod stuff we're going to put up social from our experiences, Tobacco Road today. We got Pinehurst the next three days. We got the Kevin Kisner Foundation event.

The following two days after that, which are Friday, Saturday. So there's a lot coming up. I mean, before we end, it just shout out, I mean, we'll talk about it. Rory Macaroy. Got another win over the weekend. What a fucking year this guy's having. He said, right now the game's pretty simple. That's such an outrageous thing to say.

But he's won four times a one year. He's like, it's pretty simple. Oh, fuck you, Rory. He's right, though. I just like a war out here in Tobacco Road. You think the game's simple. Nothing about that was simple. Nothing about what I did today was simple.

His body is so packed with talent that he's just like, yeah, this golf thing, that's incredibly hard for other people. It's pretty simple for me. Do you think if he didn't even go to the range before any of his rounds, he would have still, like, won this tournament? I think his swing is just like. Yeah, I think he's just locked and loaded. That's just where he is.

Like, he's hitting more balls really doing anything for him right now? That's just what he is. He's just going to keep hitting good shots. Right. That's just where he's at. Yeah. Like, if he just goes and picks up a golf club and then swings it, that's what the ball is. does.

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We are down to Viro Beach, Florida. We're joined by a very special guest, Mr. Chase Rice. We're on your bus right now. And I got to say, the vibe on here, you know, it seems like a good time,

although you did say you guys are pretty hungover. Well, first question then is, who's busty like better? Mine are Jake's. Immediately. That's bullshit, man.

I don't know. What a way to start? I mean, he asked me. We just got to be honest with you. I'm out. you know what it is jakes is like is his real white inside it's that one yeah yeah so so we actually have this argument about clubhouses and golf Trent and I where it's like I like the modern look and

Trent likes like the rustic old school yep like that's what this this I don't know what this is yeah I mean this was Zach Brown's bus oh I like Zach Brown a lot and then he got richer than me and bought a new one so I got I got his his ami down so rumor is Zach Brown's uh they're fans of the podcast we've heard golfers oh really they like love golf so and he didn't get him on here. I mean, I agree. I prefer this bus. I like the, this feels like a more traditional clubhouse. We're doing the golf analogy. Yeah. I think Jake's bus is stupid personally.

I love it. Let's do it. Let's do war. What's the word? You know what's stupid about it? He's got those red fucking buttons. And he said like he's got a bright one in his room. And he's like, you know what I'm sleeping in my room. Oh, yeah. It's bright. Yeah. Bright as shit. I don't trust a word this guy's saying. If he was on Jake's bus, he'd be like, I love, you'd be like, you love those buttons last night. Yeah. You like Jake's

I thought they were cool in the moment, but I imagine when you're sleeping there, they're not that sweet. So you golf, you play any golf? Yeah, man. So my dad, I grew up in Daytona. And this is actually my golfing outfit. That's why I'm wearing this. Well, Eric Church used to wear his hat in the glasses, so I originally started wearing this because I thought it was basically the same look. You got that hat from a homeless guy, right?

I don't know if he's homeless. Oh. He's a guy. I don't know what he does, to be honest. But Jake took me to a bar here earlier. And his was brown that he had on. And this one, it's a topless hat. So anyone that's not seeing this or listening to it, he's wearing, what is that bamboo?

It's a palm tree, palm something. Someone just created a hat like out of there. And it's got a leaf on it and everything. And a lizard made out of can. I don't know, man. It's a beach hat. But only someone like you could rock that. If I walk around that hat, I'll probably get tackled.

We gave it to Jake. and Jake's got like 50, so Jake gave it to me. It looked better on him, I thought. But anyway, golf, sorry. My dad moved from Daytona to North Carolina. Moved our family up there because he built a golf course and cashiers in North Carolina. So the only reason it's never been on the tour,

I mean, it's a legit golf course is because it's in the mountains, so you couldn't walk it. Gotcha. But yeah, so I grew up every summer going there and playing there. I'm more of a... I can literally hit some shots that you're like, man. So I played the waste management open. Oh, the pro?

years ago yeah the problem um and first hole i mean i'm just i've never hit a golf ball in front of people so i'm nerd i mean it could literally be the best drive you ever seen or i could top it and it could go 10 yards oh yeah no or it's slice into a fans and kill them so bad um i don't know and i smoked one it was awesome it was like perfect shot and then i um chipped on the green two putted for for par it was like oh man you're off and you're off and running yeah next one good drive hit it in the sand my second shot and I'm like oh here we go out of the sand I hit it like two inches from the hole and put in for per par which you probably don't do that all ever I've never never done it and these guys are like man how yeah we're gonna win today and then I just said wait

just wait and it happened the next hole from that that hole on it just a meltdown it was a meltdown so 16 which it was a gallery all jammed in on 16 yeah yeah it was full and I should have got the crowd going um I feel like you're a get the crowd going kind of guy Yeah, I just didn't know if I was, I didn't know that there was a thing until the next day when I saw, and some golfers would get them up. It was pretty sweet. But yeah, man, it was so we, I did 16 and I hit, my clubs were too short, first of all, so it looked ridiculous. But I hit it, I hit it in the air, and that's all I cared about. I was like, I just want to hit it in the air.

I don't want to do that whole top it thing. Nope. I mean, it could have easily happened. I got it in the air. Hit the top of the green on the left and rolled off in the boot, but I was happy that I got it up. I mean, in that situation, you make contact, you're happy. Exactly. I didn't duff it, you know, 10 yards.

So you got a bottle here, what is this, Belvedere vodka? It says it's got John Daly's signature on it. John Daly, so we played in Virginia, Richmond, Virginia a couple weeks ago. I never met John, but he wanted to come on. I heard he plays, you know, plays guitar and sings a little bit. One of his songs, hit it hard. Hit it hard is our theme song. Hit it hard, that's right.

Yeah, it was on the highway as well. Knocking on Heaven's Door is also a big one of his. Every time a video comes out of him playing somewhere, I think that's the only song he plays. He played that. Yeah, I knew it. I knew it. He played Knoggin on Heaven's the first.

That's the one that always comes out. He loves that song. He gets up there, plays that. But before the show, he gets on the bus. I met him on one of the holes. I mean, we're on the T-box. And he's just like, he comes over to me, and he's talking about music.

He's like, man, we'll hang out tonight, man. We'll have a good time. So, cool, come on the bus before the show. Sorry, Jimmy Buffett's coming in soon, so I'm trying to figure out, like, if any of these are Jimmy Buffett? No, where are Jimmy Bucket radar is up, too? Yeah, man. Have you met Jimmy Buffett? Never have.

I'm nervous. Are you interviewing him? No, but he's going to be around. Jimmy Buffet is like an inspiration for you, or? I think he's kind of an inspiration to anybody that likes to breathe. I mean, that guy's the man. I was going to say drink. Yeah, he was, I loved him.

I didn't know where you were going to go with that. Breathe is very broad. Well, that's kind of it. I mean, that's Jimmy Buffett. If you're a person, he's so. Yeah, then you're Jimmy Buffett. But anyway, back to John Daly. He comes on the bus.

He's got his loud pants on. And comes on and he said he just wanted, I have the text still a screenshot. I was like, that's the most legendary text ever. He was like, I just want an entire bottle Belvedere. It's all he said. And I was just like, this guy's. awesome. But I didn't think he comes

on the bus. We have the Belvedere for him. And this clear cup, it was a solo cup, but it was bigger, and it was clear. He just dumps the entire, you know, whatever will fit in that cup all the way to the top. No ice, no water, no nothing, and just puts the bottle down and starts drinking his belvedere.

Leukwarm Belvedere straight. It's like, I don't even like to think. No, the more you said, the more my face started cringing. So he drinks the whole whole cup while I'm playing, I guess. And then before I'm playing and everything, gets up there, plays knocking on Heaven's door.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We get off and get off stage and he's, uh, I said, well, what are you doing now, man? He said, well, I still got some of that Belvedere on the bus. Let's go pull us that thing off. So we come on the bus. He finishes the Belvedere, and that was like, that was the pre thing. Like, we went to the bar after that, the Clubhouse bar.

Yeah. People hanging out, and he gets up again at the Clubhouse. There's a band, and he plays knocking on Heaven's door again. Hell yeah. And I'm just standing there on stage with him just like, because it's almost like he wouldn't let me leave. He's just like, oh, come up, man. Come on, it'll be sweet.

And then he turns to me. He's like, well, what are you playing now? And I'm like, I didn't know what I didn't do with that. I just wanted to go to the clubhouse. And I actually just wanted to go sleep. Yeah. But he takes me out. We're rocking.

I end up playing friends in low places. And, yeah, then he probably, I don't know. I probably finished a whole other bottle of belvidier at the clubhouse. man he's he's an awesome guy I'll say that he was he is such a nice guy so we interviewed him we went down to Houston me and Trent daddy in like May yeah something like that went down there in May and interviewed him Jake was with us and we uh you know like we've been we've been John daily guys forever he's almost kind of like our little white whale we almost like didn't want to interview him because it's cool to like chase him all the time yeah and he's our inspiration and he's kind

of you know he's like a total beauty who happens to want a couple majors all that stuff and uh and we get there and legit like 30 seconds into the interview he like rips he had a huge McDonald cup of what like coke probably yep huge McDonald's cup he like rips the lid like in half and just lights up a cigarette and then just starts ashen his cigarette right in his McDonald's cup right in the middle of the interview yeah the only place we could interview him was in like a wait room at the at the place we were at the place we're at the place we're at the place we're probably can't smoke in here but we're not to smoke in a wait all in closed weight room he has a he doesn't have a thing about him where you're like you don't want to disappoint him you don't

you're just like he's like come on we're going to the bar said all right we guess we're going to the bar it's like if yeah if he's like hey we're going to go jump off this bridge it's like let's do it that's great john daly's jumping off i gotta go exactly no that's how he he does have that energy that's absolutely right yeah he's a fuzzy zeller and they were drinking like fuzzy zellers vodka and they were just ripping the vodka i mean they were just drinking the vodka like straight right in front of us so i think that's probably one drink i can't drink straight i do not like vodka straight you know how you have that experience when you're a kid where you have like that one certain type of alcohol where you get totally mangled and it's like

negatively affected you for me it's vodka i had this asshole was playing We didn't have any, we had a New Year's party, New Year's Eve party. And this guy, we were, I was like, fucking 19 or something, whatever, before you're supposed to be drinking, obviously. And we didn't have any beer waiting for beer to come to the party. The guy's like, no, let's play vodka. We didn't have any mixtures. He's like, well, was poor vodka in the cups. I was like, great, no big deal.

We're getting killed in beer pong. So they're, like, making the first four or five cups. We're just drinking cups of vodka. And I'm trying to be the cool young coming. Yeah, this isn't that bad. It tastes kind of like water, and it's not even hit me at all. I didn't even make it to like 10 o'clock that night on New Year's Eve. I was puking at all.

So to this day, give me the smell of vodka. I just want to vomit. Saki's a weird one, by the way. I didn't want that to go overshadowed. That your first one that you got mangled on was, dude,

we did, uh, Sochi. Really? Dude, we were like 18, you get it mixed up or something. The room didn't react appropriately,

so I wanted to bring it back. We were like 18 years old. We went to this like unlimited, all you can eat sushi, all you can drink sake place. And like, it was the biggest thing in the world. We went to New York City,

like, had 20 of us, all big table. They're bringing over sake. We start drinking the sake straight up, and, like, you're not eating any meat. You're just having rice and salmon and sushi. And I, and I remember I, uh, these little stands in the middle of Times Square where they sell pocketbooks and all this. Oh, yeah.

We took a cab and we're trying to go to like a show, like a show or something in the middle of Times Square after we do this. And I just puked all over someone's pocketbook stand. And I had to sprint and run like they were going to murder me. That makes sense now. I honestly wanted the worst time. Yeah, we wake up and we do it again the next day. Oh, yeah. That's crazy.

Run it again. What a word. Can ask you guys a question? Do I look ridiculous in this chair? Yeah, I feel ridiculous. When Chase said that he was using little clubs, I was like, that can't be as ridiculous as Riggs looks in his little miniature. It looks pretty stupid.

I'll say that. I mean, here, let me, y'all keep talking, but I'll pull a picture of me on 16. Okay. If I can find. At waste management? At waste management. I like that. Yeah, Riggs is sitting in a chair that, like, you know, when we're conducting this interview,

we're like, oh, we should like, how's it going to look? He's like, yeah, that could be funny, like me sitting in a little chair, like, next to Chase Rice. Now it's just like awkward and weird. I feel like a five-year-old. You're making do. You're at the kids' table. Yeah, no, I feel like a five-year-old little boy. Yeah, holidays are approaching, and you may be thinking about how you're going to save some extra money.

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to like a country star? Well, I... Yeah, I played at University of North Carolina. Shout out Caleb, Presley. Yeah, you're friends with our boy, Caleb. That's right. We went to same high school, same college. You guys have the same vibe, too.

What is it about, like, University of North Carolina? Like, you and Caleb are like... Identical. I've actually never met someone that's the same vibes. If you meet most people from the University of North Carolina, and I don't like me and Caleb. Caleb and I are like the bums that barely made it through. Really?

Yeah, 100%. You just have such a like Nothing Matters vibe. I've never met anybody like Caleb until now. It's just happening right now. I also don't normally wear his hat with these glasses. Yeah. But I'm trying to be like the vibe that I'm getting is like anything I say isn't cool enough for him to like even listen to, right?

Like anything about, right, but he will. Like Caleb's like that too. Yeah. Whenever I talk to Caleb, I'm like, he doesn't care what I'm going to say. And then he's like, oh, man, like, tell me more about it. Your life matters, man. Yeah. You're a life matters guy.

Yeah, there is. Caleb would say that. I didn't understand that. Caleb and I have had some fun over the years, man. I can imagine. But I played at UNC. I, uh, and then I got hurt my junior year. A position.

Linebacker. I was bigger then. Um, but I got hurt my junior year. and Busted my ankle up really good And that was I mean that was Looking pretty promising for me to have a

Shot at not only the NFL but being drafted I was having a good career And then I got hurt Didn't play snap my junior year Tried to come back in my senior year My dad passed away actually So that's that's tough when you're 22 years All that happens

And the injury I was just all messed up So that year though I learned to play guitar Because I was bored basically I was like I mean I'm not part of the team team. Yeah, so learn to play guitar. Dad passed away. I wrote a song about him. I grew up with Brian from Florida, Georgia Line. Okay. You're up here in Daytona. And by that time, he was in Nashville. He went to transfer from Florida State, actually, to Belmont. And he was playing baseball there, and God, I think he got hurt, too. So transferred to Belmont. And he told me about meeting this guy named Tyler, and they were starting this band called Florida, Georgia Line, the first time I visited him. I actually got in a fight. So I, I saw post-colde.

I go work at NASCAR. I don't make the NFL. You're a pit crew member, right? Yeah, so I'm working the pits at Hendrick Motorsports. What a roller coaster this. It's crazy, absolutely. And I wanted to leave because it was a cool job, amazing job. Awesome.

I'm like the biggest NASCAR guy now because we've infiltrated NASCAR bars. His name was on a car. My name was on a car last week. I said, all right, Frankie across. Natadega. On the, like, what are they, Monster? Matt, no, it was a stock car. It was in the Talladega.

The Sunday, right? like the big boys. Yeah, Matthew Beneteta. I think it's called Monster now. Is it monster? It used to be Winston Cup, the Sprint Cup, Nextel. Yeah, but the pickers are awesome. The guys are wearing the cool outfits and they're all jacked.

You got the headset? You got the headset. Hell yeah. They hit those things. Zuzz-Zo-Zoo! We guys saying that headset. What goes on in that headset? A lot.

Yeah, I mean, it's the crew chief talking to you telling you. All right, cars coming in, cars coming in. Four tires, four tires, four tires, four tires, fuel, fuel, fuel, fuel, whatever. Or just right side, right side, right side. You're going to fuck, go, go, fuck, go, go. There's got to be, I mean, there's been times where you're on the wall ready to go. And they'll say, like, if they say left side, left side only, you're not running around the car. You're waiting the car to come in.

You're only going to the left side. So as the car's coming in and he'll switch it. He'll just yell at you. Four tires, four tires, four tires. And you've got to switch your mindset to run around the car and start the right side. It's pretty nuts. And you've got to do all that within like 12 seconds. Is it loud as fuck down there?

It's so loud. Yeah, it's screaming loud. But we have molds that like we can hear. hear really well. Gotcha. What were we talking about? Kind of the same thing that I wear on stage, actually, same ear pieces. So I run over the – I'm doing that, running over the wall, doing, you know, Jimmy Johnson.

We're winning championships. It's awesome. But I was miserable. I was living in a hotel half the time because they brought us in, and they didn't pass well our first year because they didn't know if it would work. And it did work. A lot of the guys are still in the team. But – and I was still writing songs. Like, man, I really just want to go to Nashville.

So I got in a fight at Martinsville. with one of our teammates, which is physical fire. Apparently frowned upon. Yeah, I hit him in the face. Did he deserve it? Yeah, well, we didn't have a good day that day. He absolutely deserved it.

And he actually came to the L.A. show last week, randomly out of nowhere. I saw the first time you see him? Holy hell. Call him on stage and, like, talk about that. And then I kicked his ass on stage. No, no. I mean, I was just so pumped to see. We were fine.

We figured it out of that. So you called him on stage and said, I punched this guy? I was like, yeah, we got in a fight. I told the whole story. What a moment for him. Here's the reason I'm on stage right now. I'm able to do music. Because what happened was I go,

I got suspended for two weeks, and so I went to Nashville, and, you know, hanging out with Brian and Tyler, and we're playing a couple of acoustic deals. I think this is, like, right when they formed Florida Georgia Line. Okay. And then I got a random text

during those two weeks, also from a girl I went to college with at Carolina that said, hey, would you want to do Survivor? And I was just like, sure, why not? Like, I'd never watched the show, and that's a weird text to get. Very. Not many people get that text. Right.

Or usually it's like you want to do Survivor, like, in the backyard, like we're going to have like Survivor night or something. But she knew that some lady that they were looking for the country guy or whatever. And so I actually ended up making that. I hate reality TV. I really, really hate it. And I didn't know I hated it until I did the show. It's just, it's a bunch of stuff that is just, it's just drama.

People just try to create drama. Right. So I go on the show, it's still a cool experience. I did have a time where you look back and you're like, that's crazy that I did that. Yeah. Did that and when I moved back, I was 40 pounds lighter. Right. And so I couldn't physically do the NASCAR job anymore.

So I end up going to visit Brian and those same guys. you know, in Nashville. And they, one of their guys actually got real depressed in their house that they were living. It was a shit hole house. It was just, you know, right there in Green Hills. And so that night we went to the bar and it was like, you got a room available. Why don't I just move in, man? I can't do my job right now.

Why don't I just do this? Come to Nashville and do it for real. And we were, I think Tyler already had somebody moving in. But by that night in the bar, we were, we exed that plan. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm moving in the next day. I'm moving in. This is what's happening. So I moved in.

I went and got my stuff the next day. It was literally that simple. It started writing songs with them. So that's how my music career started. So one of their biggest jams, Cruz, you were, what did you like, co-wrote that? You wrote that? So Cruz, we wrote like a year and a half after I moved to town. So we were writing one day.

We were writing a song called When God Runs Out of Rain. It was a slow song. And out of night. know where Brian just hits the first quarter cruise and starts humming that melody. He's like, maybe you'll like a song. Maybe I'm a woman Roma. And Jesse and I, the two guys, you know, there's me, Brian and Jesse in the room and just kind of look at each other like, what is that? He's like, I don't know, man, but this sounds awesome.

And we ended up writing the song in like at 45 minutes. 45 minutes. And went back and finished the other one. And but Brian was freaking out, man. He was like, man, this could be huge for FGL, man. This would be awesome, and he was not wrong. That's crazy. Yeah, because that's...

I just went 11 times platinum. He was not wrong. So how does that work with you? Like, where do you, how do you, how do you factor in it? How do you get, as a writer you're paid? Right. A lot of times you have a publisher who basically takes half your money. The good thing is people didn't care about us enough.

Like, I mean, we were those guys that were writing ourselves because nobody else. would write with us, which is normal. You moved to town, you're new guys, nobody's just going to start writing with you. So we just started writing with ourselves and had our own little crew. But the cool part about that was I didn't have a publishing deal because nobody wanted to have anything to do with us because we were the new guys and we still figuring it out. So I owned it all. I still own all my rights to crews and I still get paid on it.

Hell yeah. I'll say keep going, keep going. That thing needs to keep going. Well, so a number one song will typically pay writers about a million. So if you write it by yourself, you usually make about a million bucks. It's $700 to a grand to a million. Okay. I mean, Cruz played like five number one songs.

That's crazy. Granted, we split it three ways, but still. Still. Do a little math. Yeah. Pretty good. It's a good thing. It's a good five minutes of work. You know?

We made it. Yeah, we made a good. I bought a farm that day. So it's just, is writing songs one of those things where you guys just all sit around and then like someone hears something in the corner? You're like, wait, expand on that, keep going. Yeah, like I just wrote. Do you all remember a guy named Josh Thompson, who was a great artist?

Real, Real Country, dude. Yeah, I know that name. I wrote with him last week. I never even met him. And a guy named Zach Kale, who I write with all the time. And so like that one, for example, I had an idea for it called a crowded room. Basically, in a crowded room, you're all I see. It's been written a thousand times.

But I was like, man, I just want to write crowded room, kind of paint that picture of, you're in this room, but you're the girls all you see kind of thing. and I want to write it in 6-8, which is the timing. It's like a walty type. Frankie's a drummer, so he can. Okay, so you get it. He's in a band. We have a parody band called Metallica.

It's called Pup Punk. It's called Puck Punk. It's called Punk Punk Punk. Pup punk? Puck punk? Like a puppy. It's amazing. We go to a little colleges.

We play like Simple Plan, Blank 182. It's fun. We play Blank 182 at our show sometimes. Hell yeah. I love punk rock, man. But yeah. That's how that one worked. Let's collaborate one time.

I had to do that. Not everyone pays like Cruz. He's expecting to make all that way. I want to buy a farm, God damn. Let's give me that far. But yeah, we wrote that one that day. It turned out to be a badass song. But that's how that one worked.

I mean, sometimes we'll be sitting here on the bus. That guitar I wrote, I write every song that I write on that guitar on the actual guitar as well. Oh, that's awesome. That is. So lonely, if you are, that. That's my single right now. Yeah. I wrote that on their guitar.

So, yeah, it's just, I mean, it happens all different ways. Some days you've got a track guy in the room that's building a track as you're writing it. Some days you just have a guitar. Some days you just think of it and sing it to your phone so you can get to a... So it's never like, all right, I need to write a song today. It's just like whenever it hits you. Yeah, I mean, like last week I had Tuesday, Wednesday, writes. So you had a schedule.

Gotcha. That's so interesting. Sometimes that's awesome. You fall into something great. And then sometimes it sucks. Yeah. Because you're just, I mean, you don't want her. If you don't want it, right, you still got to do it.

Right, right. Right. And I feel like the best stuff's kind of come from inspiration and, like, the real. But that's why I get, I find that on the bus or wherever, and I'll sing it into my phone and then I'll take it to those rooms that day. Really? That's amazing. We were saying this. We were saying this last night with Jake.

Like, we were sitting at dinner. Voice memos. And you can feel it with you, too, like, the way you tell about, talk about stories and just like, your, the way, your vibe of, like, speaking. It's got to be something with, like, artists and, and, and, and, and, you're, you're, something with, guys who end up making it big where like there's something a part of your brain that like can allow you to write or or speak a certain way right like like like Jake last time I was just telling stories like a different way he was like describing them differently using it's like painting it yeah Jake's a good Jake's good about that stuff yeah it's I still get the feel with you

like you know even talking about John daily it's like it's an easy listen to hear you guys talk so I almost think like that is the skill it's like in it's it's the same type of thing you go to the same place in your head right when you're telling stories or remembering or still on Jimmy Buffett alert him. Yeah, he's not here yet, huh? He's going to, like, flying on the job. You're a guy like Jimmy Buffett. If he's playing at, like, 7.30, he probably shows him at 7.15.

He won't be here. He probably gets here around 7. Yeah. He'll literally fly around 7. Hell yeah. Jimmy Buffett, our founder, Dave Portnoy, he says he has two inspirations or two guys that he looked up to when he was starting Barstile Sports. It was Rob Deer Deck and Jimmy Buffet.

Two very different guys. Because they both started lifestyle brands. Like, you know, they did their thing. You know, Rob was whatever. Buffett was the guy. he started that whole thing. Right. The beach and all that.

Yeah. You said Buffett was going to fly in. Does that mean he's literally going to fly down on the runway and get off the plane? Oh, do you land right here? Yeah. He's going to land right here, get off his plane and go on. Do we have even? He's going to walk from his plane into the passenger.

Yeah. That's amazing. I don't even know if we've, like, announced, like, where, I know we said we're doing this on Chase Races Bus, but we're on an airport. We're in an airport. We're on the tarmac. We're on the tarmac. Yeah.

The private tarmac. Yeah. That jet's mine right there on the left. Oh. What do you mean mine? What does that mean? I'm completely making it up. Oh, damn.

You bought it. I was like, I fly Southwest, man. I was like, Cruz is a good song, but I was, I was A-33 on Southwest this month. You know what? God bless it because, you know, we've had, we don't have to get into it, but, you know, sometimes the other flights are a little too much. Dude. Yeah, I mean, I, yeah, we've flown private a few times. God, it would be so nice.

833 is nice, though. You get to pick your seat. Exactly. So that's pretty much private on a Southwest. Totally. And my aisle, whatever you want. I had the last two days ago I flew on Southwest and the lady and I have the middle seat open and nobody else is on. I'm like, yes, we just locked out because I said the flight's full.

And then the classic, someone comes from the back. I couldn't find a seat that's like, I got to sit there. And this lady was like, it was like it was inconvenient that me and this other guy were in our seats. I was in the window. He was in the aisle because I wanted to sleep. And she's like, guys, I got to get there. I got to get to my seat right there. and I just kind of look at her

I'm just like okay he gets up and she sits down she like grabs my water bottle which I didn't know was there

and she's like and just hands it to me like that like I'm just the biggest inconvenience ever to her this lady immediately puts both of her arms on the rest

I don't know what was wrong with her but I wanted to punch her so hard I don't get women so I couldn't but God I wanted to and she made herself at home

and then the final last straw for me was she, I mean, you can clearly tell where you're supposed to put your feet on these flights. She crossed that line and put her feet right over into my thing and just puts it right there and I'm just like, what? Lady, what is wrong with you? So I did not, that's A33 for you.

I've never heard of that. It was the weirdest. Dude, it was wild. She put her leg in your foot space. Yeah, in my little thing. What? Yeah, I just looked at her. I was just like, I thought I was being punked or something. Those things are very clearly defined. It's almost like there's a bin for your feet. It's barely

enough space to be getting it. So instead of like being a grown-up and be like, ma'am, could you please move your foot over to your space? I like, I did the other, I start like slowly put my foot against her. She finally moved it over, but, yeah. I couldn't believe she did that. This is how you travel, man. It's not that jet on the left. That Jimmy Buffett.

Sure, I don't. So how do you go, you know, like you move out to, let's go through your little storyline. You move out to Nashville. You post it, is it just like it sound like you just start kind of playing and getting any gigs that you can around town and then you blow up or we didn't play around town like a lot of people play down on broadway and tried to do that whole thing we didn't do that we when i say we me and fgill we just started touring together we just started going on the road getting and they had some you know shows lined up how big were they at the time not existent people didn't know um

i don't know what gave us the nerve to think we could just go out and start playing but we did and i don't know why it worked but it did um and it was i said worked a year He's that loosely because, I mean, we'd play in Athens, Georgia, or these college towns, or Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and John, my tour manager over here, actually, he was booking for me, because I couldn't get an agency to touch what I was doing. So, yeah, we played Myrtle Beach, played a couple towns, and we'd just go do shows, and there'd be 10 people there. The next time there'd be 150.

The next time there was, like, 500, 600, and the next time we sold it out. So it was like, I don't know, that gives you a lot of confidence of love, oh, shit, whatever we're doing is right. So let's keep doing it. Right. And so that took, you know, two or three years to establish this small underground fan base. And then, you know, once that starts happening, Nashville catches on pretty quick. So after that, I got a booking agent. I got a lawyer first to make sure I was screwed.

I mean, there's so much of that shit and music in general. So you just got to, you know, I lawyered up and took care of that. I took my time. That's the smartest thing that I've done in my career was I didn't just, oh, a manager wants to sign me. A label wants to sign me. I'm going to sign this deal and go. Right. Took my time with everything, built it myself and made them all come to me and want me instead of the other way around.

Right. So, yeah, we just kept touring and then eventually it turned into, okay, now I have a label, or now I have an agency, a manager, a label, and publishing, and writing more and more. Success is happening. and that was all probably in 2012. It's been seven years now that we've been touring, and it's brutal, but it's awesome. That's crazy how even in this day and age,

that sounds so like old school, right? It's almost sounds like old school rock and roll stories, or it's like, oh, we went from place to place and we were playing in college towns. Like, you'd think in the years 2012, 2013, everything would be on the internet, right? You'd catch, like, you'd be writing like SoundCloud songs. Yeah, then it was like, I think Facebook was a big way

that I got in Twitter. Oh, yeah, because it was in the asses that, do you think that that attributed to it? Oh, yeah. I mean, that allowed me to get Instagram, wasn't a thing yet. Now Instagram, hell, I'm putting half my record out on Instagram right now. Like, just showing people what I'm writing. Yeah. So, that's a difference between.

Then I was like, if I put a record out, I would only want it to be, I didn't want anybody hear it at all until the day it came out. And then, boom, dropped an album. Here it is. Now it's like, people don't care about albums as much anymore. So I'm putting previews on Instagram. I'm probably going to drop a song in the next couple of days on SoundCloud. Yeah.

And just not even get it to Spotify yet because I think in January I'm going to put out about half my record. Because the full thing's not ready yet. So is that just like getting a taste for how people like perceive it? Yeah, if you put too much out at one time, it's like people don't, it's too much for people to think about. Yeah. It's so crazy how much things have changed. It's crazy. All within seven years.

Yeah, we got a team around. of the label and management, we're all figuring it out. But they seem to kind of make everything more complicated sometimes. Sometimes you're probably just like, no, I'll just dump this at this time. I think that's what I'm going to do like tomorrow or Monday. I'm going to put out one song and they were like, well, it takes two weeks through the label system. I was like, well, then let's not use the label system. Yeah, no, like, we don't have a song on my phone.

I'm just going to like, I'm just going to hit upload. Simple. SoundCloud, you can do that. People are just going to listen to it. So I think I'm going to do that on Monday. No, I know we had this big meeting, but like, I'm just going to hit. going to upload it. No, you can't do that.

It goes to the system. I don't want to use the system. I think Sarah from my label, if she listens to this podcast, she's going to be real pissed about it. Sarah, it's already out there. The song's already out there. By the time this goes out, we're listening to the song. Yeah, I'm going to pretend like, oh, not bad.

I thought that I could just do it. Like, I'm on the subway on the way to work, and I'm just listening to it. Sarah, this, like, AirDrop thing came on, and someone stole my phone and put it up, and then they had my SoundCloud passer. I don't know. That was it. So I think it's that easy. Sorry, Sarah.

I'm going to try to do that. So we're at Jake Cohen's event, foundation event. How did you get to know Jake? I got to know Jake, actually, again, through FGL. They went on tour with him when Cruz and stuff that started happening. He was a huge supporter of them. He was bigger than they were. And huge supporter, and I was living with them still.

And they were, I mean, it was a big deal for all of us because it was like, holy shit. Jake Owen just tweeted you, man. He just jumped on cruise Took them out on the road He jumped on cruise He's on it He's cruising

I mean Dude he ended up doing a couple songs with him I mean he was a huge supporter of them In their early days Yeah how huge is that Like having somebody like that? It was massive for them Yeah

So that was the first experience I had with Jake You know just being from the side He wasn't messing with me He didn't care about me He just liked FGL I don't think I didn't I was just had a like an EP out or something.

Oh, you wrote their songs. Yeah, yeah, and I had a little respect from that, which was cool. But, and a farm. So that was awesome. But, or I didn't have the farm yet. That was on its way. And, yeah, so, yeah, he was just supporting those guys. And I was hanging around, you know, just, what's up, dude?

He just kind of, for a few years, even, it was just like, hey, I don't even know if he knew my name, to be honest. I think I was just a weird guy hanging out with that jail. And then, yeah, we just became buddies through. through the years we kept you know biggest thing probably was the Chesney tour in 2015 we did that together so that's cool so we did that together and that that's when we

really became real good buddies how's Kenny Jesse good dude, man he's a piece of shit man Kenny go on Kenny is the greatest dude on the planet he really is he's he's for me it was cool because I grew up on him yeah

and so becoming buddies with him was at first was like this is crazy but then you get to know him and you're like oh he's literally just he's one of the coolest guys around that's fucking great yeah I remember we just go to the country fest up in uh up in Boston

up in mass all the time and Kenny was obviously highlighted it for highlight forever yeah I mean that's the Gillette right oh yeah yeah so I never played Gillette with him but I played a bunch of stadiums with him and he's awesome man after the tour

I went down to his house down in the islands and it was like he's got a slide going into his pool on the top of a mountain him and I ended up going to some small bar we were actually rolling up to the bar to josephiney in his yacht and all this and mark sanchoze weird enough starts like swimming up to the yacht like kennie what's up and i'm just looking at him we're we're feeling pretty good and he's like kenny what's going on

man and kenny just turns to the ben his boat driver he's just like nope and he wasn't he wasn't dissing mark yeah it wasn't person towards mark it was more of there was so many people on the beach that jenny didn't want to deal with that so we go around the corner to the place called little yost which i didn't even know existed and uh the bees something bees honey bees or something is the bar there and um we just went to this little bar it was me kenny these local bartenders and a couple of his buddies and i was in my girlfriend at the time so it was like that's that's crazy to me when i was a kid i just wanted to go to a kennie ches and concert you I don't think you could have pulled a more random name than Mark Sanchez.

Guess who's swimming up to the boat? And we would have sat here for days. And we would have finally got to Mark Sanchez. Mark Sanchez is like a week from now. Mark Sanchez is still in that water. That just happened by the way. Yeah. Touchdown bulldole.

Kenny, you come back? You know, I've been, I'm treading water here for years. But yeah, he comes. And then it was a couple days later on the, I was watching the SPAN. It was college football kind of first weekend. that it was getting going and there was I don't know why it was on ESPN but they were talking about some of the Eagles

were down in Yosven-Dike partying. You're not wrong. They were partying down at Yost. There's certainly there. Man, we would have been here all week and then eventually I would like, I don't want to say it, but like, was it Mark Sanchez? Yeah.

What? That's who it was. All right, man. Well, hey, this was really cool. I like hanging out on your bus. I like your bus more than Jakes, But if Jake were here, I'd probably... It's grown on me.

You'd lie. I mean, you should lie. Yeah, I know. Because that's just, that's kind of what I do. It's grown on me for sure. It's gotten the Clinton's far. Clearly. I mean, the presidents.

Almost. President Solo. You got to be... If you're a politician, you got to lie. 100%. You just have to. That's just part of the deal. Man, unless you're Trump.

I'm not sure he does lie. I think that guy just says what happens. That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. I think he just tells the truth. What's that one dollar bill as his boner on it? it's just a dollar bill that says boner on it I love that yeah I don't

I saw it at a bar you're like this this dollar should boner and I gotta have that and it's yeah it's kind of legendary now I mean I don't know why I didn't think of that it's pretty awesome I mean it says one and then you just put a B on one side

and it's framed so it's like it's genius yeah everyone that walks on this bus must think it's like the most important dollar in the world but it's just about the first dollar I ever made we did it we did it We did it, John. That's the story.

That's the story. All right. Chase Rice. Thanks, man. By the time, hey, people can go check out your new songs. Yeah, definitely just uploaded from your iPhone. Sorry, Sarah. Yeah, I'm going to have a new song out by this Monday, Sunday.

I'm probably, and my label's going to give me the boot, but whatever. Sorry, Sarah. Sorry, Sarah. Still have a farm. Never our intentions, Sarah. Thanks, man. This is fun. Thank you.

Thanks, man. Yep. See.