Patrick and the People - 1/29/2025 Patrick and the People - Live! w/ Luke Shoemaker

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Guests: Luke Shoemaker, Amanda Parker, &

you you you you you You Know when you see them cuz they're so real already know exactly how you feel See the head not like seeing a steamboat Nobody breaks us nobody made us know what can take this cuz we got their fix we are the people, we are the people, we are the people, don't mess with us. Good morning and welcome to Patrick and the People. It is the Wednesday edition and man we have a great show for you today. Of course everybody knows Amanda Demanda from the break room. How are you this morning? I am good and to my right here a man excited to have him back in the studio. It's our favorite rock star

and theme song singer Luke Shoemaker. What's up, buddy? What's up, y'all? How y'all doing? You may have to squeeze in on that mic a little bit more. How's that sound? Man, that sounds fantastic, man. What's up with you, man? Man, just been busy, dude. But it's been good, though.

Working on some new stuff for Vantage. Been writing for some other cool bands, too. I went to Gibson last week and got to pick up something pretty cool that I think I'll get to tell y'all about real soon. Yeah. And yeah, man, life's been good. Just keeping busy with the music. That's great man. So you've been doing a lot of writing and working with some other artists, helping them get songs written and stuff? Yeah man, yeah. There's some buddies of mine by the name of Viasky and they just signed a new distribution deal with Sony under

AWOL and so they're about to be kind of hitting everything pretty hard and all their new material that's coming out. I've been helping them write and all that kind of stuff so once that starts happening it'll be my first like major label cuts as a writer going out. That's exciting man, that's exciting. I mean you know doing you know performing and everything is great but writing long term that's really how an artist can profit Is that accurate? Oh, yes, definitely one of the ways for sure like it's it's been fun, man You know Kellen was who kind of got me into Kellen Winslow

But no no my buddy Kellen from Memphis he he's the one that got me into writing for the band and all that too in addition to doing my own stuff. It's been real cool, man. It's been real cool. I bet it has. I bet it's exciting, man. So what's the most exciting thing going on right now? I mean, what's the thing you're just like, wow, man.

Well, there's a couple different things. The new stuff that Alex and I are working on for Vantage is pretty cool. Some of those tracks I showed you a little bit ago. Yeah, yeah, they're amazing. Oh, thanks dude. And then there's another thing that I can't spill the beans on just yet, so I'm sorry y'all. But I found out that there's someone who I've been listening to since I got into rock music. Oh. And I found out that I'm going to be writing on a track that they're going to be on. That's amazing. Yeah. That's one of those things, those full circle moments where you go, man, is this my life? No, 100%, dude.

It's weird, man, because it's like you grow up listening to these people and just looking up to them and all that, and then they wind up becoming your friend. You know what I mean? And so it's wild. It is, man. And it's interesting, too, to get to know people on a level that

You know isn't just a fan level. It's a it's a real level Yeah, and you know where you're just talking to somebody whom as you said you've listened to and there you are just having a normal Conversation about whatever pizza and whatnot. Yeah, that's great. That's that's pretty cool man If you were to do just to say that you can do that is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that Yeah that's great that's great well let's let's get into just a little bit of news here and see if anything is worth talking about I'm not sure if it is or not but I'll always tell you guys feel free to chime in and you know comment on anything that we're talking about here but apparently Norfolk Southern and the village of East Palestine Ohio are reaching a settlement about the train

derailment. Y'all remember when that happened back in 23 and had a toxic spill. The derailment of those cars, well, looks like they're going to be provided 22 million from the railway company to use for needs identified connected to that incident. Norfolk Southern agreed to pay $600 million to settle a class action lawsuit with the money going to those impacted. Let's see what else. Aerosmith, more artists are being added to the Steven Tyler six annual jam for Janie Grammy Awards viewing party. Aerosmith reuniting for the event. Lainey Wilson set to join Billy

Idol, Joan Jett, Tom Hamilton, Matt Sorem, Linda Perry and more. Stephen Tyler said having an amazing artist like Wilson stop in and join is going to make this year's jam rock like something I've never dreamed of. Stephen Tyler's jam for Janey Grammy Award viewing party is being held on Sunday at the Hollywood Palladium in LA. I thought that Stephen Tyler had had a voice issue or something. Am I wrong with that? What was? No? And they did retire more or less didn't they? Yeah I thought they did. I thought they did. All right. Let's see. A New Jersey man has apparently found the key to stealing from a grocery store

over and over. Stafford police in Jersey say a man stole $1,800 worth of merchandise from the same shop right in more than 40 different incidents over two months. Dequan Neves is now charged with shoplifting from the store and he is in custody. Christopher Walken reveals in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal that he avoids some modern technology. He's currently starring in the show Severance on Apple but he said I don't have a cell phone I've never emailed or what do you call it Twitter.

Walken apparently only has a satellite dish at home, watches his show Severance on DVDs. Ben Stiller who directs it recently revealed that he has a rule banning phones on the set to limit distractions so I guess he was ahead of the curve. That's kind of funny that he doesn't have any of that stuff, you know, but he is like, I don't know, 80 so I can kind of see that. Do what? He's rich enough to have people email for him do what oh yeah he probably is you're right about that no shock here Fridays are the favorite day of the week for a lot of

people but there's far less love for the first day of the work week Monday's the most dislike week but according to two-thirds of respondents in a new survey people what does this say? Okay it says that overwhelmingly football fans think Monday after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday in large numbers. Well that's not shocking. I mean people have said that for a long time that it should be a national holiday because everybody gets hammered you know. So yeah I get it they stay up late. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo yesterday saying that federal funding would be paused

at 5 p.m. Eastern time while the administration conducts a review to find and eliminate certain initiatives. It looks like a judge froze that due to a lawsuit brought by nonprofit groups to get federal funding. Attorneys General from 22 states and DC filed a lawsuit to block the administration from preventing federal funding. That doesn't involve any kind of funding that people would get and you know benefits things like that. This is just program money that the federal government issues out. By the way, interesting announcement was made yesterday that I watched this morning. And that announcement is that the White House now

is going to have a new open spot for non-traditional media, i.e. podcasters. They're inviting all podcasters, social media influencers to apply to be able to come up to the White House, sit in that chair, and cover the White House. I applied this morning if you need to know. Just because I thought, hey, if I could go to the White House even one time, that would

be cool to broadcast from there. That would be interesting. During our first press briefing yesterday, the White House press secretary gave an update on the drones and basically said that after research they were flying in Jersey, were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. In other words, we know what they are, we're not telling you anymore. Under the leadership of Ryan Walters, the state superintendent of education, the Oklahoma State Board proposed a new regulation yesterday that would require school districts in the state to track the number of students who can't verify their immigration status and

report that number to the State Department. They said Oklahoma spent $474 million to educate children during the Biden administration for undocumented immigrants. It's bad, but the CDC says the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas isn't the worst ever. Well, geez, that's great news. Why do we have tuberculosis at all? Get that vaccine, man man come on. Uh, let's see the current outbreak. Uh, as of last Friday, 67 people were being treated for active tuberculosis. Another 79 latent tuberculosis.

A CDC spokesperson said there have been larger outbreaks fairly recently. Uh, back in Georgia in 2021, there were 170 cases. Oh, this is amazing. A manhunt underway late last night for an inmate in North Carolina who escaped the Craven County jail in New Bern by climbing through the vent system. Yeah, like a movie.

Detention officers realized he was missing Sunday afternoon. Officials say his cellmate helped hide the fact he was gone. Agents with the Bureau of Investigations and Fugitive Task Force are now looking for John Nye, who was being held on attempted murder. But you always root for the guy who gets out in the vent system, don't you? I mean, you kind of got to, right? A privately funded jet accomplished a first yesterday. The XB-1 aircraft manufactured

by a company called Boom Supersonic took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port. The plane named Baby Boom climbed to 35,000 feet before accelerating to over Mach 1, reaching about 750 miles an hour. That was enough to break the sound barrier the first time a privately developed plane has ever done so. The first real test for a company that plans to develop a supersonic airliner that carries 64 to 80 passengers just below 1300 miles an hour. Can you imagine that? That's very fast. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the big hand again yesterday, but not in the right direction.

The group advanced the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it's ever been to the top. The clock represents the group's estimate of how close humanity is to ending, whether it's war, pandemic, nuclear weapons. I would think maybe it's better than it was a few years ago. With the pandemic over, do we feel like that humanity is on the precipice of ending right now? Probably. Yeah, you think so? How will we end if we're going to? Who knows? Probably killing each other. Well, but I mean mean I'm pretty good.

Nobody's trying to kill me. I'm just trying to figure out how it's going to end. Tell me. I'm not smart enough for that. I'm going to buy a ticket. Let's see, Travis, speaking of tickets, this is a good story right here. Hold on one second, let me go back up to where I was. There we go.

Travis Kelsey gave Super Bowl tickets to a KC Teen. Kansas City High School senior headed to New Orleans to watch the Chiefs in Super Bowl 59. Thanks to Travis Kelsey. Javian Mahone met Kelsey years ago through a program funded by Kelsey's foundation. He's built a connection with the Super Bowl champ. Kelsey recognized his leadership and ambition by gifting him tickets to the February 9th game where he plans to attend with his little brother and their mom. And those are not cheap tickets.

Last I knew, the cheapest ones were about five grand. Yeah, and I'm sure the ones Travis Kelsey gives out aren't the nosebleed tickets. So they're probably eight to 10 grand up pop. An 89-year-old Vietnam war veteran in Vegas lost $180,000 to a publishers clearinghouse scam, leaving him unable to afford critical home repairs. After Manny Guerrero's, well, it says, Guerrero, who served in Da Nang and Saigon during the war, often stepped in for younger

soldiers on dangerous missions to make sure they made it home safely. He lost his savings after being told he'd won millions, but needed to pay the taxes up front. That left him unable to afford his home repairs or anything else. After a story made local news, a few Las Vegas business people stepped in to help him. Silver Star plumbing owner, Benny Roche, installed a new water heater donated by the plumbing parts company. Katie Williams construction reinforced the foundation and base that had been damaged by the leak. The company's provided their service free, refused payment from him.

The vet shares that he recently received another scam call but hung up immediately. Yeah probably a real good idea there Chief. Man they are, y'all are gonna have to get just a little closer to the mic over there but no you're right about that. You know they got my younger son with a really good one and luckily the bank gave him his money back but they got three grand and it was a brutal scam too. Oh, check this out, Google Maps is going to comply. Yeah, that's right. How do you change it? Well, Google announced they'll be complying with the order issued by Trump last week,

renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. In addition, Mount Denali will be reverting to its previous identity, Mount McKinley. Oh, so it just identified as Mount Denali. I didn't know that. What's that? Mount Denali is what they named it? After the Cadillac? No. No, it's not named after the Escalade? I thought it was named after the Escalade. No. Okay. Yesterday, a leak from a retailer in Finland said the release of a highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 could be as soon as May 9th, which is much sooner than a lot of people anticipated.

The Nintendo Live event on April 2nd will confirm that, but before, some lucky gamers have discovered in their email a golden ticket to get an early shot at taking the new system for a test drive. That golden ticket is in the form of a special invitation to the Nintendo 2 Switch experience, which will be hitting 15 cities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia in the coming months. Just a little bit of sports here. For the first time ever, MLB The Show will feature three athletes on the cover. The 2025 edition of the game will bear the images of Ellie De La Cruz from the Reds, Gunnar Henderson of the Orioles, and Paul Skeens of the Pirates. With those three, the game puts its focus on embracing a dynamic era of young MLB talent.

That release happens March 18th will be the 20th anniversary of the game. Last week, 5-star basketball recruit Caleb Wilson officially made it known his school of choice was Carolina. While UNC was celebrating, others were stewing, including Kentucky. Now Wilson's mom Sabrina calling out the Wildcat fans who have harassed and threatened her son through direct messages online. She backed up the claim by sharing one or more of them while sharing the screenshot. She said, these are the type of threats my son is getting from Kentucky fans.

Why are you threatening people who don't want to play sports for your school I mean what kind of asshole are you they're kids man what a jerk-off I mean get a light Jesus man that's what you got time to do send emails to kids who don't want to play ball really what a damn Well, it turns out you can make a living as a professional cornholer. That is a country song waiting to happen. Magically, a backyard barbecue and tailgate party game has turned into a legit way to make money professionally. David Rumsey of Front Office Sports reports in 2024, professional cornhole players in the spot's biggest league collectively made $7.7 million in prize money.

Jeremiah Ellis, one of the top pros in the sport, has been able to supplement his UPS gig with the $60,000 he pulled in last year from cornhole tournaments. Currently about one fifth of the touring members of the American Cornhole League are doing it full-time. Founder Stacey Moore believes that percentage will grow to a hundred percent in three to five years. It is a great new world when you can make money playing cornhole. That is just fantastic. And finally today is the celebration of the life and works of Thomas Paine. You may not know him, you didn't study a lot in history, but Thomas Paine was born in 1737 and with the request of Benjamin

Franklin he came to America in 1774, wrote a lot of influential books and pamphlets including The Age of Reason, The Rights of Man, and Common Sense. Each were key issues that shined to the public's attention, helped establish the philosophical foundation of the American Revolution. He inspired people to aim for political, economical, and social advancement. Is known to be one of the first to call for an end to slavery and for universally human rights. Pre-Thrinkers Day as it's called has been celebrated about 25 years to educate people on his work and how important it

is to think on your own and have freedom. Well that is a good thing isn't it? All right let's move on to something, man. We got some good stuff here to talk about. So I think this is a kind of an interesting thing. Yeah. So if you're still waiting for your New Year's resolution to feel like a natural part of your daily routine, it may take longer than you think. Now, how long in life, what have you been told it takes to build a habit in life? 90 days. You've heard 90 days. I've always heard 21 days makes a habit. Neither. That cements it? That cements it. Okay. Well, according to research, the idea that two to four weeks are all you need to build a habit is a myth.

I think that you may be right here, Amanda. Healthy habits like exercising daily, drinking water, flossing, take at least two months before they really stick. Could be even longer for some people. Research analyzed data from 2,500 participants and 20 studies about healthy habits. The results showed the new habits form between 106 and 154 days on average. The median is 59 to 66 days. There are also extremes of just four days on the short side and as long as 335. That seems awfully short, doesn't it? Awfully short. So you say 90 days to

submit a habit. Yeah. What did what is the last change that you cognizantly made and said yeah I'm gonna make this a new habit? Do you have one that you can think of? Yeah like making my bed in the morning and making sure like like I have a routine that I do in the morning where I get up I say my prayers and I meditate and everything let the dogs out I always make my bed and I feed them in a certain way and it took a little bit for that practice to get grooved yeah but that's the most recent thing I did it just makes life life easier. No, that's it. You know, making your bed's a good one. My mom always used to make me make my bed and I didn't. I would always give the same argument every teenage

boy does. Just gonna sleep in it again tonight. Why would I need to make it? It starts the day off. No, it does and I am a bed-making guy. What about you, man? What's the last thing last thing that you you know habits you implemented into your life of change? This is gonna sound funny but going to the grocery store again. Yeah. So like you know the first year living in Nashville I lived in downtown and so was literally like a three-minute walk from the Batman building and so when you're living in kind of an area like that it's really really hard to like, oh yeah, like the big one like the big AT&T tower. Yeah, yeah, no, we all call it Batman. But no, like when you're living in that part of downtown, it's just, it's really tricky to like do the whole grocery thing and bringing it back to an apartment when parking is just a nightmare.

So you wind up eating out literally every meal every day. And it just, you know, it gets crazy expensive to do that. You know what I mean? But like, now I live about 40 minutes outside of downtown. I'm still, you know, I'm South on 65 a little bit. So I'm still close enough to Nashville to like, you know, get there in a moment's notice type deal. But I live enough out in the woods now where I actually have Kroger's and Walmart's and Publix and all that stuff.

Yeah. Okay. So I can actually just, you know, have food like at my apartment. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. No, that's not crazy at all. So in Nashville, you know, you said Parkins kind of crazy downtown.

How does Nashville compare to Little Rock now as far as the driving and just navigating it and space and all that. It's the traffic at LA with the infrastructure at Little Rock. Oh wow. Yeah. So a lot of people have come there but the infrastructure is not caught up. Yeah like I mean once you're off the interstate it's not horrible but right there in the middle of downtown there's like a big interchange where like 40 and 65 and 24 and all that come together You know what I'm talking about? And it just I mean literally rush hours from 3 to 7 every day. Oh my god Is it really oh, yeah that long like yesterday whenever I made the drive from Nashville to here I left town at probably like

3 o'clock and I got caught in traffic and so it put me getting here at 10 o'clock last night you know what I mean Wow because I was having up in Nashville traffic so two hours to get out of town basically a lot of times yeah Wow now I mean the cool thing is the way they design the city once you're off the interstate but in downtown it's literally just a big circle you know what I mean and so like once you know when you're on the local roads in downtown it's not awful parking still a nightmare and you got when you're on the local roads in downtown, it's not awful Parking is still a nightmare and you got to worry about like the break-ins and all that stuff Yeah parking and also it's just stupid expensive like now does everybody park on the street there or do they park? Do they have I mean is it like here where everybody has a driveway? Do they have private parking? How does that work?

Well, it depends like the apartment that I lived at for the longest time, like I had my rent, but then you have to pay an additional however much on top of your rent. Yeah. Like I remember my first year, I had to pay another couple hundred bucks every month. For parking? Yeah. And it was like an exposed,

no, not even. And they broke into it twice. And so I was just like, you know what, FEO. Yeah. Wow. Wow. They charge an additional amount for parking. And what's crazy is that 200 bucks is like the cheap. That's the cheap stuff. Yeah, like I've got some friends that live in a couple of like those like high-rise apartments in Nashville and they literally pay $400 a month. For parking? Yeah. Now are they parking in the building and the parking of the building or whatever the covered area. Yeah, it's like they have like a garage basically. Yeah. It's into the apartment. Do they

valet that or do you have to go to your car and drive out? Oh no, you have to go to your car. Oh, okay. Well for 400 a month you don't even get a valet? Yeah, no, straight up. Jesus Christ. Yeah, it definitely sounds like Little Rock infrastructure and everything. I'm like they live downtown Little Rock. Oh, straight up. Owned by Moses Tucker. Yeah, right, right, right. What's crazy is like there's, I got one buddy who pays six grand a month for his apartment. Six grand for his apartment? I didn't know Nashville was getting that expensive. Oh yeah, there's these new apartments that are like, there's a big shopping center at Fifth and Broad that's right there by the Ryman and Bridgestone and they build some new apartments over there. Yeah, and so that's literally six grand a month. Like it's insane. So is it because Nashville's like

basically the new Hollywood in a lot of ways that that these costs are going up? Is that what's happening? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Because like Nashville's becoming the LA for music where LA is still LA for movies. Yeah. And then New York is becoming its thing for fashion. LA? I'm not even sure. LA is still LA for movies right now. Atlanta's been stealing a lot of their thunder. Atlanta has and there's also I think it's Pinewood Studios that's out in London. And then Cat Williams is building a new movie studio in New Orleans. Oh I forgot about that. Yeah yeah yeah that's that's cool. Let's see what the people are saying here. Mike, say good morning.

I said Luke's a badass. Oh, thanks, man. Yeah. Let's see. Who else is on here? Brandon, good morning, Brandon. Let's see, who else is there? Latasha, good morning, Latasha.

And good morning, Tammy. How you doing welcome thank you for being here glad that you are so Amanda what's going on with you this week what do you got going on right now we've got the breaking for Beckham free open house event tonight at 6 oh really at the break room we will have representatives from all the various organizations that you know help you prepare for those what-ifs in life if you get injured and need long-term care or long-term insurance or if you need you know powers of attorneys financial and estate planning and all that stuff

but we'll have everybody out tonight and then we will be open tomorrow our regular hours in the rest of the weekend. So what's the what happens at the open house? I mean people just come out and talk and hang out and meet people and kind of network and maybe you know get some input or some help with absolutely getting things under control in your life there. Easy breezy just come meet some amazing women that help with all that all that gunk that you don't want to think about all that stuff that we tend to stick our heads in the sand and ignore you know but doesn't change it happening and it's all in honor of a

really good friend of mine who died from Lewy bodies and it was a horrific what is it I'm not really to me it's like the worst form of Alzheimer's, but maybe that's just because it's what I've witnessed and he had really really Horrific Hallucinations. Oh wow. He saw things that you know you would think you know someone in a state of psychosis or possessed. As a result of the the Lewy bodies is that did I say it right yeah okay and I'm just watching him going from this big strong man to you know

just a shell yeah feeble and a shell of himself and and everything and it was just bad and so it's been seven years this month since he passed away and so we just yeah we're just in honor of him ten percent of all sales this month at the break room will be matched we've got at least one match now and we're looking for you know two or three more if people feel so inclined but is going to Alzheimer's Association. That's awesome that's great well thank you for doing that I mean that's you know something so big now that so many people are contending with and I think that you know more and more we're

learning how that Alzheimer's really is like type 3 diabetes. Right. You know is really what it comes down to and you know that's it's amazing that we have so many in the community coming together. That is one thing I do like about our state is is our communities really come together and support, you know initiatives and efforts like that So I hope everybody will get out. What time is it gonna be? It's at 630 at 630 Okay, so yeah, and if you hadn't been at the break room, it's a great opportunity Come see it see what it's about anyway, and you know, I'm even if you're not affected by Alzheimer's You know, I mean we are all going to age and we are all going to die and spoiler alert, but

you know to be prepared for those things or you know one of the greatest gifts my grandmother ever gave me was her love language was you know safety and security and she made sure that we were taken care of financially which I'm forever grateful for. But, you know, that's a privilege and a blessing that I have that not a lot of people have. So, yeah, even if you just want the information, if you want information on getting, you know, if you need a power of attorney or, you know, financial planning, you know, you want to, you're interested in what the stock market's going to be doing, come out and meet Amanda Leha, you know, we got a lot of cool, cool women out. That's awesome, that's awesome man, that sounds like a great thing to be part of, so get out and do that,

get out and do that. So I thought this was interesting, I was looking at this list of colloquial phrases that I found, and I know you're a writer writer so I thought it might be interesting because I'd seen this thought well huh so if you say to someone you're knocking on the wrong door means you're asking the wrong person or source for help right but that's probably not something we would say here I mean I wouldn't say you're knocking on the wrong door that wouldn't be the way I would say that you're barking up the wrong tree that That wouldn't be the way I would say that. I'd say you're barking up the wrong tree. You're barking up the wrong tree.

That's a good one. That's what I would say. Yeah, what about yourself? Probably be like, I'm not the one or something like that. I'm not the one. That works just as well. I'm not the one. Yeah, that works.

All right, how about this? First, yeah. You're looking for something that can't be found. This one says you're fishing in an empty pond. Oh, the. What would. Oh, I don't know, it seems like too much effort. Yeah. Looking for something that can't be found. You're looking for a unicorn. That's what I would probably say. You're chasing a unicorn, chasing a rainbow. Something along that line. Alright. I've never heard this one before in my life, but it's supposed to mean

you're doing something impossible, but it says you're planting corn in a concrete yard. You've heard anybody? I've never heard that phrase in my life. It sounds like a Midwestern. Yeah, it kind of does. It sounds like something you might get out of Nebraska or Iowa over there. Yeah, you're right. So if you were going gonna say you're doing something that can't be done it's impossible what would you say anybody anybody Kim possible all right how about this you're doing something absurd if you're doing something absurd what's a phrase you might use to describe that besides what the F is wrong with you you're trying to milk a rooster that's what it says milk a rooster yeah yeah something that's unachievable it's absurd it's chat GPT

do these they might have I don't know I've heard what is the phrase oh my god why did I draw a blank yeah that's definitely not the phrase damn it these I'm I got one of the drop line right and yes definitely not the phrase dammit up these phrases sound like the like is over family party any cracks jokes thanks for the things I'm really not the other guy who tries to be too much in the and I'm the girl it's like one of the people that show up on these reality ship every reality show you ever watch where they try to bring somebody from the south, they always have these stupid phrases that absolutely nobody ever says.

You know, it's like they've created this lexicon of stupidity to represent the south, you know, and then you're like, what are you talking about? You're yelling at a brick wall. Yeah, my mom would say you're talking to the fence. You're just out there talking to the fence. Let's see what else is on here. You're fishing without a hook. Never heard that one. Chasing rainbows in a desert. Never heard that. Knocking on a tree for Wi-Fi. What? Never heard that. I really don't think these are real. I think they've made these up. I think they made them up just for this. I don't think anybody's

ever said these. The free entry level on chat gbt. You think that's what they did? They just went to chat gbt and fed them in there. You didn't even refresh it and ask for more. Like these were the first ones you asked for. That's funny. You just took the first run and went with it. You just took the first ones for went with it. Yeah. All right, so what are phrases that your parents used that they used to say to you as a kid that not everybody says now, but you still say or think about? Can't get blood from a turnip.

That's a good one, can't get blood from a turnip. Yeah, yeah. You make a better door than a window. That one I still use regularly at the house. Yeah if someone stands in front of the TV that's usually what you say. You're a better better door than a window. Yeah move out of the way bro. Yeah absolutely. Mine would say that too. I forgot about that. Yeah we're not heating the outside. I would hear that a lot if you have the door open. Yeah we're not gonna heat the outside. Yeah, either heating or cooling.

Yeah depending on the season. That's right, that's right, that's right. Now that's absolutely right. What are some of the things that Luke you did as a kid now that you wouldn't let your kid do? That your parents let you do? That's a good question. So like stuff that I used to do as a kid that I wouldn't. Right, right. Like my parents for example, and we've talked about this many times, would send us outside to play all day on Saturday. Like we didn't even come home till the porch light came on and we could be anywhere. You know they didn't know really where we were. Yeah you know I mean you know I don't know I'd have to sit there and think on that. I haven't actually thought about that before.

My parents also would be, you have to eat everything on your plate before you can leave the table. Oh yeah, no that's the one. I wouldn't make, yeah. I hate green beans for that very reason. My mother hates green beans. Oh yeah, they're the most disgusting, yeah. I hate green beans.

Yeah, that's the quickest way. The worst ones are the leathery ones. I hate green beans. Yeah. That's the quickest way. The worst ones are the leathery ones. Oh, just any of them. Yeah, well that's probably true. Well, if we're ever out to eat, then I get your green beans. No, 100%. Yeah, yeah.

It was a bad idea to make you eat everything. Even though you're not hungry anymore, go ahead and keep shoving it in your mouth and over-fulfill yourself. Yeah, it might be what happened to us. My mom wouldn't really like that. I mean, my mother got tired of fighting and arguing with me. So she just would do baked chicken, white rice, and green beans for dinner every night for 10 years. My grandmother on the other hand would be like, you're not getting up until you eat that.

Yeah, that's how it was. Yeah, you know, there are starving kids in Africa, right? Well, send it to them. I don't want it. You know, I'd be glad to send it to them because I don't like round steak, you know? Yeah, what was the one thing that your parents made that you had to eat that you hated? Oh, green beans. Green beans is it for sure. Yeah, like I have such an aversion to them now.

Like you really seem to get, I can see it in your eyes. Like this needs to be a song. No, straight up dude. Yeah, like even if I just smell them, dude, like I'm instantly pissed off. That's funny, man. That's so funny. I hate green beans.

I've never known anyone so passionate about green beans. Cause to me they seem bland as hell. Oh, they just, the texture, I just, mmm. See, I feel that way about lima beans though. They're bitter as hell. Oh they just the texture I just see I feel that way about lima beans though. They're bitter as hell. Yeah no I don't like that at all. All right all right. Well let's move on to something else then. Enough about the food here. So you're kind of going back and forth between Nashville and Little Rock at times because you have friends family here. Is that why you come back pretty

regular? Oh yeah 100%. Like yeah you know I've got my, you know like I live in Nashville, not Nashville, but like right outside of Nashville, Spring Hill and all that. But you know like family's still back here and all that and then you know Alex is here and you know some of my real good friends are out here and all that and so I'm in the position now where the music's doing good enough that I really can just kind of go back and forth. Yeah. You know what I mean? And like me moving to Nashville was never really me saying like goodbye to Arkansas type deal. Like Arkansas is always going to be fun. You were just going where where business was.

Yeah, 100%. I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously it's a bigger market for music than here. And like and you remember how it was. I was flying out there once a month. Yeah, I remember back when that was going on and you were just going out there and doing a session and coming back and working and then going out there and doing another session. So now you've kind of got your life set up pretty good out there, it seems like. It's awesome, and I was joking with Kellen when I went to his to his studio the other day we we just live about eight minutes from each other now. I love that. Just joking with Kellen. No not even.

I made the joke to him how like I'm not having to like fly all day now to come see you I can just drive eight minutes down the road yeah get a pub sub on the way and just come you know what I mean. Now you just showed me a picture of a new bass guitar that you picked up. How did you get that man? Well, so it's one, I gotta be sure I say it in a way that I don't get myself in trouble just yet with Gibson. Don't get yourself in trouble. Yeah, but I'll say Gibson's working on something.

Okay. And they're gonna be announcing it I think in the next couple weeks to a month. And it's one of those that it's a prototype. I'll say it's a prototype or something. There you go. That'll work. It's a prototype or something. I got to take it out a few months ago. And there's some stuff coming up that I'm going to need a base for. And I'm getting to take this out for a spin again and it it's it's awesome. How cool is it to work

directly with someone like Gibson? Oh it's the coolest. To provide your guitars or or whatever that you may need. How does that even work? It's the coolest man it literally kind of just fell into my lap so those those cover shows that I do in Nashville, like the whole purpose of those is just like networking and hanging out and having a good time and all that. Yeah. And one of the guys that plays those shows with me is a guy named Aljan. And Aljan is like the dude for product development at Yoast and Epiphone and all that. Like anything that you see like come out from them, he's the dude that designed it, tested it out, prototyped it, all that stuff from scratch to product.

And there was something coming up last summer that I needed a bass for for a video shoot. And he heard that I didn't have a bass. And he was like, hey man, come by headquarters. I'll show you around. And so like headquarters is just right there. They call it the garage. And it's just right there on 8th and DeMumbrey

in the middle of downtown. And he took me through like just the normal retail side of it but then he took me upstairs to like where they like actually designed the stuff and there was a couple of other things that they're working on too that I got to see for like other people and all that and then it just kind of came up organically in conversation. He was just like hey man do you just want to like hop on the Gibson Epiphone roster and all that? I'm like, absolutely. Oh, yeah, no, geez, I wouldn't want to.

I mean, by any stretch, why would I want to do that? Yeah. You know, and so like it just kind of evolved from there. And so now like anytime stuff comes up, it's, you know, I can reach out and just like there, I can't say enough good things about him because like, you know, yeah, I mean, he didn't really stand to benefit anything from helping me. He just believed in it. And now things are blowing up like it is, you know what I mean?

Yeah. So he made a good gamble. Yeah, a hundred percent. And it's just, it's one of those that, you know, that kind of stuff I don't ever forget. You know what I mean? Right, right. So as you progress or as artists progress in, I guess, success or, you know, mainstream play, whatever it may be, does it get to a place, I would guess, where some of these companies try to compete to get into the industry?