This Past Weekend - #606 - Lainey Wilson

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Starting point is 00:00:59 responsibly. Today's guest is a country singer and songwriter. She's my Louisiana Sista. She just released the deluxe version of her latest album, Whirlwind. She's on tour now. She always is up to something. I'm so grateful to spend time again with Miss Laney Wilson. Dang, girl, you got that deluxe coming out, huh? Deluxe. God. How many songs are on it? I mean, it's five.

Starting point is 00:01:46 But I'm already working on that next record. I'm already working on the record before the record's out. You know what I'm saying? Like the next one. Oh, yeah. I feel like you're just working in the past and the future. That's it. What about this?

Starting point is 00:02:02 Hey. Oye. Why does that sound... It's like telling a ghost story. Yeah, that was the best, that kid that got under there and told that ghost story. With the flashlight. Yeah. And then there was always the one kid he couldn't control the flashlight.

Starting point is 00:02:19 It was just like, he'd put it straight into your eyes and you were like, God, it's a dang exorcism. I just was thinking about it. Did you ever hear any story? from the Myrtle's in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Like the plantation? The plantation. I mean, my mama took her gifted students down there. She did.

Starting point is 00:02:39 And she got some weird stuff in her pictures. I just thought about Louisiana. Oh, yeah. No, that's some of the kind of stuff. I mean, they, I mean, first of all, being gifted in Louisiana, I was in some of those courses. Were you? Yeah, I mean, you just got the full alphabet they gave you.

Starting point is 00:02:57 I remember, like, regular ed, they were cut. kids off at like m i'm like what you'd meet kids they could only smet new words that had the first half of the alphabet in them i was like god you got a that's some louisiana stuff but then you get in that gifted class and they had dang uh-huh 13 more letters in there dude i was never in a gifted program really no i'm too a-h-d oh you did have it i mean i'm like i never really got like diagnosed knows with it, but I absolutely know that I'm like, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, you know, I was thinking about, I wasn't thinking about spelling and reading. No, you had 4-H-D-H-D, I think. You know what I'm saying? I like that. That's a real, kind of rural version. That's it. That's what I'm going to call it.

Starting point is 00:03:43 Yeah, you can't pay attention, but you'll pet something if it shows up. Uh-huh. Yeah. Me and my sister, we did show horses. I bet there's a, what would you do? What is that? This is like, you're holding, like, right there at the, you know, at the, at a bit. Uh-huh. And then so you walk out like this, and then you have to, like, get all four of their feet lined up. And my horse half the time was a pain in the ass. But I think I got, like, first runner up, something like that. God.

Starting point is 00:04:13 Yeah, they didn't have that. Were you in 4-H? No, I was not. You weren't. I was not in it. I think they, something happened in our area got discontinued for a year or something. I think the barn sunk or wherever they were running it out of. They had a dang infestation over there or something.

Starting point is 00:04:28 Or termites. I mean, a bad batch of termites came. That's some Covington stuff, huh? Oh, they took that thing down in a night, that barn. They left town. See ya. Yeah, those things were full. I was like, how'd you not see them leaving?

Starting point is 00:04:43 They ate all that wood. They ate all that wood and just took off, you know? Oh, gosh. It was that kind of thing. Show horses. I bet there's a because a lot of women put in extra hair. Do you ever have to do it or no?

Starting point is 00:04:56 Put in extra hair on me? Yeah. Yes. You think this is mine? I can never tell. Is that all yours? It is. That's it.

Starting point is 00:05:07 You got that good hair. Well, it's coming and going. You still got all your hair. It's coming and going, honey. Something will happen. I'm sure. I'll probably lose mine for you, lose yours.

Starting point is 00:05:16 You know, that's just how it goes. That is not true. I bet there's a horse out there that is so happy. you are wearing its hair. I hope so. I hope so. I bet there is just a... I have a horse who's turning 31 this year.

Starting point is 00:05:31 No, you don't. 31, Tex. And how is he? He's good, but I think I just got the last ride on him. Oh. Yeah. Was he in your 4x4 video or no? No, that wasn't him.

Starting point is 00:05:44 No, he's in Louisiana. Okay. I don't know if any of these pictures right here are texts. The one that looks the closest to him, is that one right there the God, he's beautiful, huh? Yes, he is. I got him when I was nine years old

Starting point is 00:05:58 and taught me a lot. Did he? Taught me a lot. He did. I mean, how to stay in a saddle, you know? I mean, he was not broke. That's him right there. Oh.

Starting point is 00:06:12 That's in 2020 back in Louisiana. He's 31? 31. And he... My God, he's got to be getting a pension now, huh? He better be. he better be if not we better talk about it um oh that's awesome yeah oh tex and did your sister have a horse too or no yep she did um hollywood and their best buddies and he's i think he might

Starting point is 00:06:37 be like a year or two younger than tex but they hang out in the pasture i mean they are like you can't separate them god maybe they met online or whatever they probably did yeah i i think I think I would like to get a horse as soon as I get a family or something, I'm going to give me a little horse. Okay. Okay. Where are you going to put it? That's what I'm going to do? Probably in the yard, I guess. In the front yard?

Starting point is 00:07:01 No. That's also some Louisiana shit. Fence in the whole house. Yeah, dude. You have a horse in the front yard. You live on a quarter acre and you got a horse. At least you got a horse. Oh, gosh.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Yeah, I do miss being in Louisiana a lot of times. It gets interesting as your life changes when you get outside of there. You know, do you notice it feels slower when you go back now? Oh, yes, 100%. Even just calling mama and daddy back at home, that's why I do call and FaceTime my family so much. I just kind of, you know, you think about the fast pace of all of this. I mean, it is like life is constantly changing every single day. It's probably the same way for you.

Starting point is 00:07:48 but it's important for me to just call back and kind of that's that's what kind of plants my feet on the ground yeah face time of my nephews who don't think I am cool at all yeah I'm talking about the the oldest one he's six years old and the teacher asked the other day they were talking about like the farm and way of life and the country living life and all that stuff and somehow country music got brought up and she was like does anybody in here like country music music. And Knox, he's in the back of class, and he's just like, you know, not raising his hand. And she's like, Knox, you don't like country music? And he goes, not really. And then she goes, if you had to choose a favorite, who would it be? And he said, well, I guess my Aunt Laney. Why are you little asshole? Forced to do it. Forced. There's nothing I could do that would make them think that I'm cool. A couple more number ones. I mean, I don't know what it takes for these kids, you know? I know.

Starting point is 00:08:47 I don't know what it takes. They're almost like the damn CMA voters or whatever. That's exactly how it feels. I'm like, what else can I do? Please vote for me. Kids are funny. My little nephews won't even answer my calls anymore. I'm like, dude, what are you mean?

Starting point is 00:09:03 Leaving you on red? Yeah, it's different. I think they're locked in their own universe, you know. Have you guys, you're just getting married? Are you married yet or not? I ain't married yet. Okay. I'm making him wait.

Starting point is 00:09:17 making him wait he made me wait yeah yeah is that your wedding ring on yeah let me see that thing yeah when he opened on that box I was like yeah I guess I do I guess I do I'd have been dang I'd have considered it and I prefer women you know I know I know God where did he get that out of a he well he designed it did he really yeah no uh yeah yeah You see that thing of you. Yeah, you see that? Uh-huh. That would make Superman sit down for a half hour.

Starting point is 00:09:52 That's it. That's it. We got engaged at George Jones' old house. I remember seeing the video, seeing something of it. Oh, there you go. There he is. Mr. Hodges right there. Good guy.

Starting point is 00:10:06 He is a good boy. He just lets me do my thing, and he does. He is, and it's just, it just works. Does it? My best buddy. wonder what errors people make in that type of thing I guess I mean it's so hard because like people's schedules get just get so hector well for sure does he come on the road with you if you're out or does he kind of pop in and out every now and then like he he's busy doing his own stuff and that's great you know like I've always said like I have to have somebody that has their own dreams and goals and motivations and you know then we can we have things to talk about and come together and dream and I just didn't want to be the only one dream and screaming kind of thing. But yeah, he's

Starting point is 00:10:48 awesome. He's killing it. Yeah. I got to check in with Mr. Hodges and see what's going on. You need to come out to the house. We had a crawfish bowl. Oh, wait. Y'all must have you. Y'all invited me to something. I did. We were having a crawfish bowl. I think it was actually Duck's birthday. Do you get crawfish a good bit?

Starting point is 00:11:08 I don't do it in Nashville very much. We got it sent up. Was it good? It was from South Mississippi. And it was, it was good. I've heard it's good. It was good. God, I've heard it's good. Yeah, I've got to come and have some.

Starting point is 00:11:22 I've got to get some this year. I can't even believe I haven't done it that much. We have some during the season at our bar downtown, Bell Bottoms up. They got a truck out there, a crawfish truck. Oh, really? Hell yeah. Kind of sounds dangerous, but good, you know. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:39 I mean, I'm surprised they don't get hijacked more about criminals and stuff, but I think that's just us from Louisiana, prefer it. Look at that. God, that's it right there. That's it. Oh, that'll definitely. Get in my belly. Get that salt intake.

Starting point is 00:11:51 Look at the beautiful color on those. Sometimes you get the dark red one, the one that's been like to hell and back or whatever. Is that the one that died before? They say sometimes that died and got brought back to life. I'm like, nobody's resuscitating these things. I heard the one with like real flat tail. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:06 Is the one that was like dead before they cooked it. Yeah, I heard that one got around a lot in college too. I heard. There's definitely, yeah. I mean, you hear a lot of. myths about those but there is always like the crawfish that's like way too dark it's like it just like at the colored way you're like what is going on and you just got to go around it yeah you just got to sit it to the side yeah yeah yeah I feel you and there's one sometimes

Starting point is 00:12:27 they're still blinking at you a little bit you know one of them still's got that left turn signal going when you pull them out that pot I'm like some of these you should people should not be eating you know um congratulations on everything you're doing everything's going so great thanks how burnt out did you get last year were you really burnt out? Because I'm not joking. Every time I would talk to somebody, I'd be like, is Laney okay? Because it seemed like you were just as busy as possible. It was wild. I'll be honest with you. It was wild. But like, you know, I've been at this for a long time. I've been in Nashville now for 14 years. Oh, yeah. I remember last time you were

Starting point is 00:13:06 when we talked about, you know, when you got there and living in your camper and, you know, the shower breaking and you standing in there just doing a prayer circle by yourself. And I feel like the last two years at least, I felt like all my dreams were really just coming true. Like honestly, tenfold more than I could have ever even imagined. Like I knew I wanted to write songs. I knew I wanted to tell stories. I knew I wanted to play shows, but it was a lot. And it was a lot of opportunity coming at once.

Starting point is 00:13:38 And I wanted to say yes because for so long I didn't have opportunity, you know? Oh, yeah. And then, and then I said, yes, and I was like, all right, I'm going to do it. I was tired mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, all of it. But I tell you what, Theo, I'm all right. And I am in a healthy, healthy place right now. I feel like I've had a lot of balance this year. And I've just, I've learned a lot.

Starting point is 00:14:05 You know, I've learned, like, what you say yes to now might not even come into effect until like a year down the road. and so it's important to like protect your peace and um but also like you know roll your sleeves up and get her done too yeah it's kind of tough because you feel like i got it you know you want to take advantage of stuff but at the same time you're like i don't even like how do i even show up for this well that's the thing too is what i'm realizing is like how important it is to i mean your cup's got to be full in order to keep pouring out you know and then if you're just pouring out from a half empty cup over and over and over and

Starting point is 00:14:42 over again at some point in time the dang thing is going to run dry oh you turn into a damn methadone clinic at that point exactly and you don't want that no you don't want that that that sounds terrible yeah it's not preferred it's not preferred and uh yeah but i'm i've learned a lot like i feel like and especially we put out a record last year called whirlwind and i think it's just funny how even though like music was the is the thing that like how can I say it is the thing that like um was about to make me lose my mind you know like all of these opportunities um it's still the thing that I ran back to it was a thing that like helped me kind of navigate that time of my life was writing more music and just like putting pen to paper and picking up my guitar that's like that's what

Starting point is 00:15:32 I do when I was nine years old coming home from school and I didn't know how to you know talk about what I wanted to talk about. Yeah, because you're burning gifted courses. That's why you only had half the damn alphabet. I mean, I was writing songs about tekeel and cigarettes, you know? Really? Yes. As a child?

Starting point is 00:15:50 As a child. Are you worried? Look, that was a concerned look on your face. I mean, I think I'm worried. I'm also kind of impressed. I'm like, hey, dude. I have one that went like, my cigarette pack at 10 years old. My cigarette pack is empty.

Starting point is 00:16:05 My tequila bottle is gone. Thinking how you do-da-da-da and you're gone I keep looking for the future But it comes to the past I don't have to think about you no more Freedom at last No way Hell yeah

Starting point is 00:16:23 People would pull up in the yard Like coming to buy a horse from Daddy And he'd be like Hey sing that song you just wrote last week I'd get on the trampoline That'd be my stage I was like My cigarette pack is empty

Starting point is 00:16:35 Just your big tail just popping up out of the back every now and then Wait till you're at that like crescendo of your joke to hit the high notes That's right. You do your toe touch. Freedom at last. Freedom at last. That's the best thing, man. That's the most American thing ever.

Starting point is 00:16:55 That's the best song. Look at that. Is that a picture of you in that red and white and top left? Yes. And I don't know why, but during this one phase of my life, I was doing like this underbite. that's you were you a missing person it looks like I need to be on a milk garden yeah oh my god yeah that's me wow that was our rodeo shirt dude those road the rodeo stuff's so great isn't it i love the rodeo i love the rodeo too i feel at home with the rodeo it's my favorite i was

Starting point is 00:17:23 just watching now i seem like a real creep but i was just watching videos there's some little girl see if you can find it on my ticot i think i shared yesterday or maybe i'd have saved it It's just little girl who just, man, she gets out there in bail races. She must weigh in 40 pounds out there and looks like she has two jobs. Stop. She's just a savage. She knows how to do it. Yeah, I really love that.

Starting point is 00:17:45 Pretty impressive stuff. Yeah, I love the rodeo. I wish I could, if I had like a, that would be one thing I would like to invest in a rodeo team. If I could get enough money and then invest in like a rodeo team, you know. I like that. You let me know when you need some more investors. Yeah, that'd be cool, wouldn't it? Dude, I love the freaking rodeo team.

Starting point is 00:18:02 You really love it or not? No, I do. I grew up doing it. My daddy is still the president of the rodeo committee back at home. Oh, yeah. And so it's like, it's just, there's something about it even when you just roll up and you just smell it, you know? It's like, I love it. We used to barrel race and we were PRCA flag girls and all that.

Starting point is 00:18:25 So I'd ride in with the flag and sing the national anthem and screw the lyrics up every single time. every time. Really? Yes, there was a text message you know, back when there used to be like forward this to 10 people if you don't, you're going to die

Starting point is 00:18:40 kind of thing. Yeah. There was a text message going around the arena that ended up making its way to my sister somehow that said did you hear Lainey Wilson

Starting point is 00:18:50 mess up the national anthem send this to 10 people? Yes! Yes! So I'm like, guess what? You can't hurt me. You know what I'm saying? You can't hurt me.

Starting point is 00:19:00 hurt me. Yeah. We've been there. Dude, that's the dang gossip super highway. That's when gossip just hit the dang H-O-V lane. Yes. I can't believe that that's how it got. Uh-huh.

Starting point is 00:19:13 Oh, this is her right here. Let's go, girl. Look, she said, get the hat off of me. She's not even playing, bro. Look at her. That's crazy. And she should do DoorDash. How does she not work for them?

Starting point is 00:19:32 Dude, if she worked for DoorDash, we'd be getting our stuff quick. Bro, it'd be warm when it got there. It would be warm. Even if it was a cold item, it would be warm. Look at her, boy. That is incredible. Who is that? I love that.

Starting point is 00:19:47 I know. Little cowgirl. Look at her. Stop. Pretty cool. That's great. Yeah, I love, I mean, I just met, like, even just growing up in Louisiana, like, do y'all ever have a parade in y'all's town or not?

Starting point is 00:20:00 We did, our rodeo parade. Yeah. And we'd ride through the town and everybody come out and we'd throw candy and... That was good. It was. Remember those days? I mean, those were like the good old days. Picking the candy up off the street, you know?

Starting point is 00:20:15 Did you do a lot of like Mardi Gras parades and stuff like that? Oh yeah, we did Mardi Gras parades. But the parade in our town, they had like, even the people in it was like, tallest guy in town or whatever, you know? Stop. Yeah, it would be like, kid who can walk backwards. Like, the shit was like really... You are lying. That's some South Louisiana stuff

Starting point is 00:20:33 We don't do that kind of stuff in North Louisiana First of all They're not that different than each other Okay Well I mean they are But these are like our heroes In the community or whatever

Starting point is 00:20:44 You know Stop No we had I'm trying to think of who else we had And they would just walk through the parade Or like be in a car And wave They'd be in a car

Starting point is 00:20:51 And stay on the side of it Newly single or whatever Sometimes if you had a little bit of cash You'd get your daughter out there I like that And that was kind of a good That was a neat thing I thought because it was kind of showcasing the goods of the area, you know?

Starting point is 00:21:04 It's really not a bad idea. Got to shine a light on it. I mean, that was kind of the original only fans. A little bit was just driving some drive. Stop. I mean, like, you know, kind of more of a Christian only fans version, but driving a decent woman buying an open convertible. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:19 Sitting up on the back of it? Yeah. With the signs down the side. That was it. Decorated with the Christmas lights. Yeah. Miss rabies or whatever. They always had the credit.

Starting point is 00:21:28 I'm like, that shouldn't be. You guys should have picked it Something else That was always a little bit different Well there is So there are so many Like different festivals In Louisiana

Starting point is 00:21:39 What I've realized And I got to hang out with them some It was like the duck queen The duck festival queen It was like the strawberry festival queen The watermelon festival queen It was like any kind of queen You could think of any kind of animal

Starting point is 00:21:52 Or fruit? The frog, yeah It exists In rain they had the frog princess Or whatever Yeah they have like the um mosquito queen or whatever the armadillo queen the possum queen just some nervous this thin girl just standing on all four just shaking yeah they had but yeah there was all that in louisiana

Starting point is 00:22:14 that was a lot of it what um do you notice like as your career got gets busier that like you have to spend so much more time doing the career part yes um and it changes like like is there stuff that you miss from like the earlier parts like is even like little moments for sure i mean there things are different you know i don't miss going to the grocery store i'll tell you that i don't i don't i ain't never like going to the grocery store well the one area gets so cold or whatever you got to go in there to get the cold goods or whatever that's right and you got to run over to the other side just to warm up yeah god i'd be in there looking at something i'm like i'll be right back and i'll have to go over there and just go like this by the cereal boxes and then head back over there or i'd open up that

Starting point is 00:22:56 that little chicken warmer thing they got that I was standing in the rotissory thing. Sometimes they don't lock it. You get up in there. Oh, I wouldn't get in, but I put my hands in, like, you know. Oh, I do remember doing that too. I cracked it just kind of, you know. In Walmart? Oh, yeah, dude.

Starting point is 00:23:12 I'm the guy, I'm always cold. I feel like I'll be the guy, like, at a Circle K who have both of his hands in that, like, a little hot dog spinner. You are lying. And that's why that right there is why nobody needs to be eating the hot dogs from the convenience store is because of people like you. I'm not touching the frank. It don't matter.

Starting point is 00:23:32 I'm just keeping my hands warm. Well, they should have a little warming section right above that for people that are cold. They should. They should. But yeah. Life has changed. Life has changed. And, I mean, of course, there's things that I miss, but I also know, like, on a serious note, that, like, this is my calling.

Starting point is 00:23:51 Right. You know, and I knew that at a very early age. And so I just think like with anything in life, there are times when there are things you just kind of have to like give up. And so I'm okay with that because this is this is what I feel like I was like born to do and made to do. And so it changes. Things change. Yeah, they do. I know. It's kind of tough sometimes because you want to be that you want to be the same person but also who you are changes and you grow up and things are different. That's right. And you know, like I didn't really like sign up.

Starting point is 00:24:23 to be a business woman or whatever but you kind of have to be you have to like rise to the occasion and other opportunities have have come my way and i'd be silly not to you know to hear what it's about and and take that step so yeah so i thought when growing up you know when i was on the trampoline and singing freedom at last i thought that i was just going to be writing music and playing shows and bouncing around and that's not it at all. It's like 80% business and 20% music, but I'm willing to do the 80% business

Starting point is 00:24:59 so I can do the 20% music. Amen, yeah. It really is it changes because in the beginning it's mostly all the music, I guess. Or actually, I don't know if now maybe it hasn't merged more like you have to make your own flyers. I remember having to make my own flyers at home

Starting point is 00:25:13 and like trying to figure them out on the computer and stuff. Yes. My granny used to make these little, like CD covers and little stickers and my granny. She would make, oh, make, like bring them off on the computer.

Starting point is 00:25:26 Like we'd burn the CDs where I'd recorded some songs. Oh, yeah, that CD burner? Uh-huh. Dude, I found a triple deck or CD burner one time. That thing had three rows in it. And I was like, God, baby, we're doing it. Look, my daddy found a burnt CD of ours

Starting point is 00:25:43 that had Colt 45 on it. He popped in the CD player and listened to it. You remember that song? Coat 45 2 zigzag Baby that's all we need We can go to the park After dark

Starting point is 00:25:55 Smoke at tongue for weed Yeah then I have heard this dude Unless somebody stole that beat from them As a marijuana bar We can take our turn Singing them dirty rap songs Stop to hit the bong Like Chechen John

Starting point is 00:26:07 Sill tastes from here to Hong Kong Let's go Roll, roll Anyway, daddy put that into the I have to have heard this song CD player And he about had a heart attack It's Afroman?

Starting point is 00:26:18 It's Afro-Man. Oh. Next time I see you, you better have learned every lyric to this song. Okay, that's fair. I promise you will. We need to play it at a show. You need to come up at a show and we do Colt 45. Okay.

Starting point is 00:26:33 I'll do it. Oh, my gosh. As long as your dad will dang two-step over there on the side. Oh, my gosh. He's going to have a hard attack. We'll get the trampoline out there, too, I think. You know, I'll jump on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:45 Dude, I love this. I saw Afferman at a frat party one time. And at University of Mississippi, he was, like, so high, whatever, on stage, he hit, he hit a note that just shook him a little. And he, uh, had just vomited in his own hat and just threw it. And some, like, uh, some freshman kid just was like excited. I think he thought it was just a hat, not that a hat that had vomit in it. Stop. And he put it on?

Starting point is 00:27:09 No, he just caught it. Okay, okay, okay. If he put it on, the guys down, he's just waterboarding himself out there. But yeah, Afro, man, that's, that guy's. played everywhere, huh? I guess so. He's played everywhere. Colt 45, I don't remember it, but I believe that it happened.

Starting point is 00:27:25 Because I got high. I remember, that was like his big hit. Uh-huh. La-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, I remember that. I was going to go to work. Till I got a hot. And those are the jams.

Starting point is 00:27:39 Oh, that's where the jams. That was it. But my daddy, like, he, like, tore up the CD and, you know, he's like, you ain't going to be singing stuff like this. stage. But it was okay for me to write about tekeel and cigarettes, you know, and be like, hey, play that song. I guess as long as you were like the person right and then it made everything okay, you know.

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Starting point is 00:31:59 That's H-E-L-I-X-Sleep.com slash Theo. And make sure to enter our show name at checkout so they know we sent you. So it's Whirlwind Deluxe. Whirlwind deluxe. And it's out right now. And it's out right now. And there's new songs on it. There's new songs on it.

Starting point is 00:32:15 There is several new songs on it. So when I was writing Whirlwind, like I was saying earlier, it was like during that time of my life, that was chaotic when you were asking if that was okay. Oh, yeah. And then I felt like after the dust kind of settled after I put that record out, I had a minute to really just kind of like, just get my stuff. stuff together and these were the songs that I wrote but I still felt like it was kind of connected to the tail end of the whirlwind so felt like they were still in that family and so I just wanted to you know add a little bit to the story and so they're out I'm so proud of them one of my favorite songs I've ever written is on there it's called peace love and

Starting point is 00:33:00 cowboys and it's a bop how do what made you feel like it was your favorite kind of like did you just know I don't know it's just that that that feeling it's like when you're writing the song everybody in the room has that feeling it's like the holy spirit it's like you just feel it and you just kind of feel like the song's going to be around for a long time even if that just means that like you're going to sing it 30 50 years from now and so that's how I felt about it I was like

Starting point is 00:33:30 I'd be okay with singing this song for the rest of forever yeah you kind of have to I guess and you have some truck songs already do you feel like you can't do any more vehicle songs I got a vehicle song Don't you even play I'm doing what I said I'd never do Shotgun One called

Starting point is 00:33:50 I'm riding with you girl King James King what King Ranch King George King James All right God I want some of that That's it Yeah I got a hard like a damn

Starting point is 00:34:01 F150 hybrid I think A hybrid Breaks down a lot Pinn bitches will break down dude And they will actually Oh my gosh Heart like a Prius Oh that's a song

Starting point is 00:34:13 Yours hot like a Prius Heart like a Prius? Oh heart like a priest Oh yeah What about Look up some Laney Wilson's songs That she'd

Starting point is 00:34:21 The titles of songs She's never done Oh shit Use perplexity And see what they got Pick up Whiskey on a Wednesday Look at twanging my bones

Starting point is 00:34:32 Twang in my bones That's good I got that twang My bones I think you need an MRI, bro, if you have a swagger with bones. Dixie Moonlight Daydreams. Is this what people think of me? Mason jar miracles.

Starting point is 00:34:51 Hey, those are some good peaches. Oh, my gosh. Kiss by cudzoo, just sounds like you need some damn calamine lotion. That's all that is. Kissed by your cousin. Yeah, kiss by your cudsin. It's just some guy who has a cudzu rash on. He's so, um, in full.

Starting point is 00:35:09 blame from the cudgy, you can't even tell if you're related or not. Kissed by my cousin. That's a good one. See if they're make them sillier. If you look up goofier ones. There you go. Honky-tonk hiccups. Honky-tonk hiccups.

Starting point is 00:35:25 That is hilarious. Yeah. But it'd have to be honky-tonk hiccups. Sand in boots. That would be the best. They should have. Dude, there has been a time where I'll I thought I was about to have hiccups on stage.

Starting point is 00:35:41 Uh-uh. Oh, yeah. And what do you have to do? Oh, I think you're supposed to eat a bunch of sugar or something, right? I do that anyway. Oh, yeah. All right. So I ought to be clear, but no.

Starting point is 00:35:52 And then there was one time where I was like, I don't know what's happening, but I feel like I'm about to burp. I'm feeling, I don't know. And it's just like you have to just get it off your, like somehow get it off your mind. Right. Just like start staring at somebody or you're about to sneeze. Oh, the craziest. Oh, that feeling. one guy came to get like I was it somebody who's introduced me to their to their friend the other day and the guy just kind of came in for and as he's coming in for like a close like can't shake thing I was just going into a sneeze I didn't know what you did not I'd sneeze right into him sneeze right into the guy yeah and I think that's like a mating call in some cultures or whatever I didn't mean it to be but I but I it just was like I don't know what did he do he just kind of went like that I don't know what would he do he was he wasn't stoked he wasn't upset he was he was he was understanding he was

Starting point is 00:36:39 standing, but it was, you know, just say, I'm sorry or just like, thank you. I was like, well, what do you expect, you know? So then that's what I think about the government. That's what I said. Oh, my gosh. What are some of the goofier titles bringing back up? Oh, my gosh. Lassow my latte.

Starting point is 00:37:01 Ooh, that's a good one. That's what you doing over there right there. God, I need that. Bootscooting Wi-Fi is pretty good. Stop. I hold up gravy on my guitar. It just reminds me. Hardy took me and some of my crew to a strip club in Huntsville.

Starting point is 00:37:20 Mm-mm. And they have biscuits and gravy night. Uh-uh. Yes. Oh, that's great, huh? On Thursday nights. And how much is it? Is it price you over there?

Starting point is 00:37:31 Well, he gave me 100 ones, and it was like, have fun. It was like my end of tour gift. It was. And you're over there just buying it. Biscuits and Gravy. Well, wasn't biscuits and gravy night that night. We had just missed it. This was like a Friday night or something.

Starting point is 00:37:44 Oh, got it. But. Huh. I've seen them do bingo night at a strip club too, which is kind of cool. Because everybody will get right up there and be using their blotters and stuff. And some of the Christian women will even blot out their eyes so they don't see all the sexual stuff. Uncle Bucks Bucy Bungalow. That's it right there.

Starting point is 00:38:03 Is that what it's called? That's it. Uncle Bucks Bouges Bouged Bungalow and they got Biscuits and Gravy, what night is that on? Yeah. going to have to ride on down there. Oh. Right on down there. Load up.

Starting point is 00:38:13 Load up. I'll take text for one last ride down there to Hansville. God, I'm trying to think of what food goes good with a good tit or whatever kind of. I should even say, but, you know. Anything. Yeah. Well, supposedly, I don't know if this is true or not, but they were like, y'all, Y'all got to come back for biscuits and gravy night, blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 00:38:42 And I thought, oh, that's nice, you know, sit around and eat some biscuits and gravy. No, they're rolling around in the gravy and people are throwing the biscuits. No. Yes. Oh, yeah, I don't want that. My mother loves biscuits and gravy. If I took her and you didn't get to eat it, she would be upset. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 00:38:59 Oh, this is Uncle Buck's third annual biscuits and gravy rassling. Rassling. Oh. Mm. I love how they spelled rassling. Well, the recipe better. be good because I'll tell you this. If I'm even that close to biscuits and gravy,

Starting point is 00:39:12 I'm going to eat it. Yeah, I'm going to have a little. I'm going to have me a bite. You telling me somebody ain't going to whip something around fast enough or just something's going to land in my mouth, honey. You dang right. God, I just hope it's sausage gravy too. I really like that.

Starting point is 00:39:31 What about Halloween? What was y'all's Halloween like growing up? Do you remember that over there? I mean, could you even trick or treat or was it? Was there not enough folks? We'd have to go to Monroe to trick-or-try because that was like the biggest town. We'd just go to like random subdivisions and, you know, you know. Go to the rich subdivisions?

Starting point is 00:39:46 Yeah. People that had lights out in front of their house. Oh, yeah. I was like, oh, these people got money. Oh, dude. When I got a pumpkin too. We had electricity inside our house. Yeah, like normal people.

Starting point is 00:39:57 That's right. But some people had a light right outside of their front door. And I was like, you got to be effing. I know. I was like, must be nice. Must be nice to open your front door and see what's happening in the wall. world at night. Uh-huh.

Starting point is 00:40:11 That kind of shit pissed me off, dude. I know, I know. But we would, like, some years, like I lived on this one road, we just had a few neighbors. And so we'd go, like, see my granny, and we'd go see, you know, the Olivo's, and we'd go down the road and see the Grayson's. And would everybody dress up or no? Me and my sister would. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:40:31 Yeah. Did you dress up for Halloween? Yeah, I dressed up. I had some kind of alternative, you're not, like, like, our mom was always working, so, we'd have to get dressed up like our dad was like in charge of getting us dressed up or whatever and he was like 75 years old or whatever so he didn't know what was going on um what was I oh I remember one year I was a ghost but I was like too scared to stand to the sheet or whatever you know you were you were like claustrophobic yeah I was just like I'd be like ooh but then I'd lift it up and be like it's you know I'm under here it's me like I would scare myself you know oh I definitely remember that dude I was like I cannot be a ghost anymore um what else I'm I was a wheelchair. One year I had a little chair, like a kid's chair that we put, like, around a rope on my neck, and I carried two bike tires with me.

Starting point is 00:41:14 It was pretty cute. You are a lot. I swear. You needed to be in that parade. I was like, dude, what you're talking about? That parade that went through your town? That's the parade you needed to be in. Tallest kid, best list.

Starting point is 00:41:27 He always got his own car in that parade. Dang it. He's over there just trying to whistle at people. We might have been from the same town. I, dude, yeah, there was something nice. about that or somebody that had too many freckles they'd put them in the parade sometimes you know there'd always be some girl named Abigail or something had too many dang freckles that's right dude I'll tell you something that was

Starting point is 00:41:49 amazing was I was in I had a show in Winnipeg Canada after the show they said there's some people here that are actors in town that were doing a show here and they wanted to come and say hello and I got to meet the people from Little House on the Prairie they're redoing it remember that show that's cool yeah That's cool So when's that happening? It's coming out And I got to go to set the next day too

Starting point is 00:42:14 And see it Awesome Was it just like even the Like the clothes and everything Just seeing it like from a different time Everything period pieces There they are That's going to be incredible

Starting point is 00:42:27 And yeah The reboot You think you'd ever want to be in something like that? I don't know I met the man who's doing Charles Ingalls And he's I would have to be his brother that was in an accident or something because he's really got the looks all locked up you know

Starting point is 00:42:43 you ever meet something like that they're so good they keep all the good looks to themselves yeah yeah they're over there just there's a lot of people like that yeah they're over there looking at photos of themselves and shit and I'm just hiding from mirrors you know exactly I just turn a light out yeah yeah I'm over there just buying five watt bulbs from my house you know just trying to keep my own reflection away from me amen Were you in pageants growing up? You were in pageants, yeah. I was in one pageant, and it was a farm bureau pageant.

Starting point is 00:43:17 My mama back in the day was the Farm Bureau Clean. And so she was like, you know, I love for you to be in the Farm Bureau pageant. And so the on-stage question was, what does agriculture mean to you? And I think I had one line, and I think it was what really sealed the deal. and I said agriculture is the backbone of America and then I think they just said give it to her give it to her give it to her

Starting point is 00:43:45 yeah that's pretty much what I was right there oh my God you won it I won the Franklin Parish one that's big though that's big boy but my sister she went through a little phase where she was doing some pageants and this is hilarious

Starting point is 00:44:03 but she was doing the watermel and pageant. I think that's in Rustin, Louisiana. And she gets up to the microphone, and she goes, I'm Jana Wilson, conkeskin, Kent, number three. And then in the microphone, she goes, shit. And then walks off, she definitely didn't win. Yeah. But she won a lot of people's hearts today. Conkestka, Kent. Oh, if you said that in Kankaskikent, we had, oh, that's beautiful. She was in another one, and it was a junior miss pageant, and they asked her, they said, what does going green mean to you?

Starting point is 00:44:40 And she goes, don't pollute. She's off. Didn't win that one either. Dang, dude. Y'all needed what y'all needed was like a kind of a question-answer groom or something. I know. Y'all didn't practice. We needed a coach.

Starting point is 00:44:56 Yeah, y'all need a damn coach. We just, like, had the bullet points, you know what I'm saying? Just one bullet point. Yep. That's awesome. Just get to the point. Yeah, that's it, honey. We don't not waste anybody's time up here.

Starting point is 00:45:09 Don't balloon. Yeah, we got to get these crops out of the ground. That's it. We do not have time to waste. Yeah. Did you ever, did you tune in with a lot of that John Bonnet stuff? Do you ever tune in with it? You know what?

Starting point is 00:45:21 Like, being a kid, I remember a little something about all that. But is there a new, like, show or something that's out about it right now? No, I don't think so. There was one that came out like last year. Was it? And I watched it. Yeah. And I mean, I think it's one of those weird things because like a little kid was like this, you know, like.

Starting point is 00:45:40 And so I started thinking about it. I think, and I know he's not going to be happy to hear me say this. And I'd love to have him come on the podcast and talk about it sometime. The dad did it. Really? I shouldn't have said that or he might have come on. Really? So did they did find her?

Starting point is 00:45:57 I don't think you did it, sir. Did they find her? Yeah, they found her. They found her She wasn't alive when they found her Some people think she's still alive But yeah Anyway

Starting point is 00:46:09 Sorry to bring the buzz down I just didn't know if That was so What year was that? I was like early 90s? 96 Ooh 96 baby Dang

Starting point is 00:46:19 That is so strange I know Strange But did you get caught up like that Was there people in there out there We were like oh this kid You know Like were you guys that deep

Starting point is 00:46:29 In the trenches of it Oh no no no no no we like went to the consignment shop and bought up you know bought the dress they had and that's the one I wore you know what I'm saying yeah you guys were just kind of last minute pageant we're just like or double up like if for the Farm Bureau pageant I was like I'm gonna wear my prom dress for like I'm gonna we gotta get her money's worth you know yeah so that's what I did I like that that's what I did I like that were you ever pageants? No, we didn't have that. They did have a good, but I didn't have any direction as a child,

Starting point is 00:47:06 and I did get to dress myself for photo days and stuff like that. Did you? Like, what would you put on? I do a tank top sometimes. I would do. Taintop. Yeah, I did one year. I did a costume, like kind of thing. Like a, um. The wheelchair costume? No, skeleton. And then one year, one year I did do a nice outfit. It was kind of like a bow tie and stuff like that. Maybe see if you can search that up real quick so you can find me in a little boat time you're like I'm gonna dress nice today yeah well I'd seen somebody else dress nice and I was like oh I see what they're doing uh-huh I see what these bastards are doing uh-huh oh there's one that's when I lived in Russia for a little while different times yeah there let's go boy look at that ear pierce too boy that hair I had glasses too

Starting point is 00:47:56 I was blind as I was actually me that's me what did that picture for you and I look the same we brother and sister man god those are the days that it was fun look at that being a lie piercing your own ear did you do that did you pierce your own ear yeah I do would you pierce it with I'm a man I did not I went to clairs in the mall y'all did God I was just a little baby my mama got my ears pierced when I was like a few months old. Uh-uh, really? Brought me home, and my daddy was mad. Yeah, Nang, you got it looking like, it is kind of crazy.

Starting point is 00:48:35 Your kid can't even see that good, and you got, dang, you know, you got. Earrings. Yeah. Like feather earrings. You got some big hoops coming off or something. Hey. What's the youngest you can get a child's ears pierced in America? There's got to be a two-week.

Starting point is 00:48:53 I don't know. There's got to be like a catch-and-release. type of thing or something with the youngest age of Pierce a child here it's safe how what is it around two to four after that vaccine it says because I guess they they put in that metal or semi-precious metal through year uh-huh you can't be allergic to things that are semi-precious so that's it when when you're torn you choosing places to go now or like what's that like Well, it's kind of like mapped out to the point where it's like, I don't know how it is for you. It's like we want to try to make sure that, you know, we're letting the demand build back up in that city and things like that.

Starting point is 00:49:35 And then trying to make sure that we are going to different places, you know, kind of like popping in some of these little corners that we hadn't really got to hit just yet. So, yeah, it's like it's a team effort of just figuring out where we're going. We're about to go back to Australia. Yeah. You've been to Australia? So good. Did you go to Bondi Beach? I have not been to Bondi.

Starting point is 00:49:55 Bring it up real quick. Just so you don't forget to go. It's worth going. It's like 18 minutes outside of Sydney. Okay. And you just take a ferry? No, you can drive right there. Oh, really?

Starting point is 00:50:05 It's the most beautiful beach I've seen that's not like a super tropical place, if that makes any sense. Got it. So it's kind of like a city on the beach. Yeah. Wow. It's a pretty... Man, I'd love to do that. If you have a family and stuff, do you think you'll raise them over there in Nashville or not, do you know?

Starting point is 00:50:21 I will. you will i will i think nashville's just a good spot like even if you know music wasn't a thing i think it's just i think they got like good schools and um and i feel like you can go far out right now you can go far out enough on any side and still feel like you're in the country you know i want to i want to raise my kids like i did like playing in the dirt and um i don't know i just want them to, like, be outside and do the things that we grew up doing. You know what I'm saying? And, like, just enjoy those things, too. Because, you see these kids at these supper tables on their iPads and on cell phones. I'm like, oh, gosh. Gilling, like,

Starting point is 00:51:04 digital meats and stuff on there. Yeah. We, me and Duck, took some kids that he coached last year to eat Mexican food not too long ago, and these two little boys across from us. Sorry, that's like, it's kind of like, that's the Louisiana way of kind of saying we're having a United Nations meeting. Exactly. That's what was happening. Look, look, honey, look. Yeah, but these two boys sitting across from us, they were twins, and they were just like for 17 years old, like carrying on great conversation, making eye contact. Like, it was, you could just tell that they were. like raised right. And then I realized they said they had never had social media. And I was like

Starting point is 00:51:54 that's why you can carry a on a conversation. Dang. Dang. Dang. Well, a lot of people are homeschooling their kids now too. And keeping everything away from them, you know. Which I'm not trying to like, you know, keep everything away from them because I think then you kind of mess up, you know. Well, they said there's pedophiles in the roadblocks now. That's what I heard. yesterday you know that's um and i yeah i've heard it uh-huh they're everywhere well yeah but i didn't think they were in the roblox honey you know i know they were out in these streets roblocks facing mounting lawsuits as parents across us lest company enables child predators stop so i just want you to think i'm making that up stop that's how i feel too i

Starting point is 00:52:40 discontinue my account i just only had it for two weeks you have to be protecting and watching like That's what I'm saying. You could do homeschooling. I want you to homeschool my kids. I'd love for you. Uncle Theo. All right. Dude, that would be so great.

Starting point is 00:53:04 That would be terrible. What are you talking about, man? You would teach them. You would educate them. Oh, hell yeah. You would educate them. I teach them how to do CPR. Uh-huh.

Starting point is 00:53:17 With a unique style that a lot of people don't do. Which is what? A lot of people breathe straight into the lungs. I kind of take a roundabout pattern. What are you like? People's elbow on or something? I'm just saying, I do different stuff. Okay, okay.

Starting point is 00:53:29 But are you really certified? Decent success rate. Yeah, I'm certified in CPR, honey. Are you really? I need to see like a badge or something. I don't believe it. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I'm deputized.

Starting point is 00:53:43 Did you know that? I can believe that. Look. I'm deputized. Are you? Yes. Just by somebody in town that was a sheriff, gave you one? In Richland Parish.

Starting point is 00:53:52 They asked my daddy to be a deputy. You better quit. And then Daddy was like, I'll do it if Laney can do it. Yeah, I love that. Someone up there and got sworn to in. Did you? I love that, dude. I was at a Vols game like probably a year and a half ago, and some guy out there,

Starting point is 00:54:09 and I will say he was an alcoholic, but he had drunk a lot, and he probably drunk most of his life. And you could tell because some of his kids, He doesn't even talk to him or whatever. But anyway, what I was saying was, he was getting drunk. And I said, I'm going to go downstairs and say to somebody. And he goes, well, look, man, if you have any trouble down there, he goes, I'm a sheriff just flashed my badge, you know?

Starting point is 00:54:32 So this guy gave me a sheriff's badge, right? Stop. I swear. So I didn't know how they work or whatever. So I'm down there talking. And then something happened in this area where, like, some people started, like, we're kind of talking shit to each other and stuff. So I just break this thing out, right?

Starting point is 00:54:49 I swear. You had the right for moon silent. No, I didn't do that, dude. I'm not a cop. I'm a sheriff, dude. I'm just, sheriff just raised the badge. That's right. That's right.

Starting point is 00:55:01 That's right. Yeah, and then they go get something to eat. You know what I'm saying? Yes. But I flashed that thing. And then a real cop of a female, a police officer, kind of like pushed me up against the wall. And she's like, what's going on here?

Starting point is 00:55:15 and they she like uh was like reprimanding me for having a fake identification or whatever and i was like the guy gave it to me you know but it was spooky for a minute i thought they were going to take me you thought you were really about to get in trouble yeah it was like when was that probably two years ago or maybe a year and a half i think they were playing georgia or something and they got their they got their tails kick uh tennessee did but yeah but i remember like god that guy's the worst sheriff Whatever like he didn't even He didn't give me any

Starting point is 00:55:46 He's just like Yeah like he could have told you Yeah If you got to piss somewhere Or just whatever That shit gets heavy You flash this bitch And I flash that bitch

Starting point is 00:55:56 And I just Right up against the wall That lady had me I was pretty nervous But I respect her She's doing her job That's right That's right

Starting point is 00:56:05 Um Oh that doesn't look like me That looks like a First of all That looks like a pretty decent looking woman In the town I'm from I will say that

Starting point is 00:56:14 Oh, I remember them haircuts, yes Oh God, yeah We had our bus driver We cut everybody's hair Your bus driver cut people's hair Mr. Ray, yeah He cut his he He had a barber shop

Starting point is 00:56:24 I don't know if he had a barbershop I thought you meant as y'all Walking off the bus He just He would pull over probably Six times a year He had those clippers going He just get everybody in there

Starting point is 00:56:35 Cut up You are lying 40 minutes he cut everybody on that thing That is hilarious You walk right off that thing Everybody be looking slick walking off there. Pretty slick enough. With their ears lowered.

Starting point is 00:56:46 And the best thing is, if everybody looks the same, nobody looks better or worse. You ever had like a real bad haircut? I mean, like a real, real bad haircut. Yeah, I've had almost all of them. I think if you just look through pictures of me online, you'll see them. You're right, you're right. I've had one, yeah, I went to that Roberts Beauty College or something that was in our town. And they were running a special.

Starting point is 00:57:09 It was like 75 cents to get your haircut. And I was like, well, at that price, I got to go over there. 100%. You got to see what it's about. It must just be a great deal. And so I got in there, I got in there, dude. And they were letting people that were just like, I don't even know if they were hair cutters, some of them were just like recovering mechanics and stuff.

Starting point is 00:57:29 They were letting anybody who could keep their hands stable enough in that bitch. They put a pair of scissors in them. And yeah, they did stuff to me, man. I can't. I still will never be the same. I walked out of there. And I had to walk home. it was about two and a half miles and the whole time I was so depressed and I kept trying

Starting point is 00:57:45 to get a good reflection of my head and different things I was walking by do a bad haircut like a real bad haircut can it can be painful well especially as a man because it's like you don't have as a man you're not going to grow breasts or you can't wear lipstick so like you were down 02 in your chances of that's right and then you just got to wait for it to grow back yeah so you have one item going on you know maybe you can do eye drops but otherwise it is a haircut it is a haircut duck dyed his hair bleach blonde no for what just like as a joke just like a joke was it well i don't know but i'm gonna tell you right now i didn't think it was funny i didn't think it's funny i said you better sleep with a ball cap on until that thing grows out now it's starting to look like frosted tips

Starting point is 00:58:32 uh-uh really we'll take him down a damn panama city and let him make a little bit of money that's where he did it As a joke, we were playing Panama City, and my mama and his mama, and he, like, had this bright idea. They all got it done? No, they just did his. They just did his. And they videoed my reaction to seeing it. They did? And it was like.

Starting point is 00:58:56 Let me say. If you can find it, pull that up, I want to see that. My mouth is wide open. I was like, uh-uh, no, the wedding's off. Weddons off, bro. Weddens off, bro. Who's going to play at your wedding? Do you have to play at your own wedding

Starting point is 00:59:10 If you're like a really good musician? No No I don't want it to be about I want it to be about what it's supposed to be about that day You know what I'm saying? Oh yeah The love, the nuptials

Starting point is 00:59:21 Now I might like writing a song or something And like Like share it later on or whatever before But like I don't know I'm just like Yeah I just didn't know If you have to play at your own

Starting point is 00:59:33 I never thought about that I'm not I want to have some kind of like jazz band or something like that. Ooh, Big X the plug. Big X the plug. He could do it. Which I loved y'all's interview. Yeah, he's great.

Starting point is 00:59:45 He is great. We went and watched a show in Nashville when he was there. It was fun. It was. Yeah. The whole, yeah, it's just like, it's great energy, you know? Where was he playing? He was playing over at, um...

Starting point is 00:59:56 Not Brooklyn Bowl. You're not, you're talking about Brooklyn Bowl. Yep. He was playing at Brooklyn Bowl. Got it. Yeah. It was good. I saw Red Clay Strays.

Starting point is 01:00:04 Where'd I see them at? They are so good. I saw a video of you guys singing, right? You and Brandon. Yep. In Canada. Yeah, he's the real deal. Oh.

Starting point is 01:00:14 I mean, they put on a hell of a show. I'm just a fan. Yeah. I think that it's just like timeless. It's like they stepped out of another, like, time, and they're just doing something so different. I don't know. I'm just a big old fan. And their audience is a lot of men, too, are their fans, I realized.

Starting point is 01:00:34 Yes. Yeah, let me see a little bit of that. That's cool. Peace cool. My goodness gracious, let me tell you the news. My head's been ready from me not do. Ooh.

Starting point is 01:00:53 To the man from God of me. He spoke to me when a boy so sweet. I thought I heard a shuncle of a hand to speed. Oh, past the hat. I'll put some money in that. I'll put my second born in that hat. Uh-huh. That's special, huh? Yeah, he's cool. Have you guys done a song together? No, do you like to do a lot of collaborations like that or do you not like it?

Starting point is 01:01:27 Well, no. It seems to be really hot right now, too. I love collaborations, but I was doing a bunch of collaborations there for a minute. Oh, that's right. You did it. I know the one with Hardy that I loved. waiting a truck Oh, I forgot that was doing a truck too Truck, truck Look, sorry to say that

Starting point is 01:01:41 I didn't, I look, I don't care if you stay in it God, I don't care if I just I don't care if you Every one of your songs talks about it and CarMax I'm still gonna listen to them Well, I ain't gonna do that

Starting point is 01:01:53 Okay, okay I ain't gonna do that, I ain't gonna do that I forgot about waiting the truck too Mm-hmm Waiting the truck Four by four by you Heart like a truck Mm-hmm

Starting point is 01:02:03 Truck truck And we got one like I said coming King Ranch, King George, King James. Yeah, I got a damn heart like a dang little 50-c-c motorcycle, honey. Yeah, I got a heart, got an outboard motor on it. But, yeah, I got a heart. Oh, my gosh. I got a heart that's got damn training wheels on it.

Starting point is 01:02:28 My nephew just FaceTime another day. Did he? Knox? No, training with ledger. That's the four-year-old. He was like, oh, why ain't he? So right when I think they don't love me, he says stuff like that to my sister. They tap in?

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Starting point is 01:07:08 a kid something cool you know if i had me a little kid i think i would do homeschooling if my wife wants to do homeschooling i would be for it but i don't want the homeschool kid that stays at home and never meets any kids even on the weekend or whatever i'm gonna set your ass up let me let me think of who i can set you up you are i'm gonna set you up oh yeah Thanks. What's your type? Woman. Just a full grown woman.

Starting point is 01:07:35 Yeah, I mean, yeah, obviously. But yeah, adult woman. Adult woman. Positive attitude. Warm eyes. Wants to be a mom. Okay. What else?

Starting point is 01:07:46 Hard worker. Okay. Right? So a nurse, I think I would like. But I think I may just say that because of hard worker. Yeah. But. Okay.

Starting point is 01:07:57 I got to pray a little bit more. about it too and just help get my kind of sights lined up, you know, let the Lord kind of I'm going to tell you right now. He can. Yeah. He can. I'll be praying for it too. Yeah, thanks. Because I, you can meet people, but you've got to like, you know, you just got to meet the right one. That's right. That's right. And he'll make it clear. He always does. And I always heard that want, want, wah, want about, you know, when you know, and all this stuff. But like I, I do believe it now. Did you make like a little list?

Starting point is 01:08:35 List or altar or whatever? An altar. Or like a... Yeah, yeah. I made a list of like, I went through some doozies. I'm talking about like stuff I'm embarrassed about now. You know what I'm saying? I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:08:48 God bless you. But embarrassed to think that I let somebody do me that way. Yeah. And then in the Mets. somebody who just would never in a million years. But I did, like, I took a few years to myself, didn't even go on a date, like, but also nobody asked me out either. Like, wouldn't nobody ask me out.

Starting point is 01:09:12 And, but those years were, like, really important for me. And I figured out, I'm like, okay, like, no more playing around. Like, I'm the next person I'm dating, like, it's got to be, I'm not going to spend a few years of my life with this person if it's not, like, going in the direction. that it's supposed to. And so I was like, okay, yes, I want somebody who is, like you just said, like hardworking. And I hate to say that this is even a quality on my list, but loyal, you know, that should just be, it should just be. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:09:45 You know, it shouldn't be equality. It is kind of true. I know. We've gotten to a sad place. I know. That I'm going to be their only spouse. Yeah, I would love to be their only spouse. But, yeah, I think, like, write it down.

Starting point is 01:10:01 Yeah, I just have to be more intentional about it, you know? I've been, I've done some of that, but I want to do even more of it. Because I want to see how fine-tuned could you get that arrow, you know, if you really locked in with some intention. But I do notice myself not spending time, like a lot of times, like, wasting it in areas, you know, or trying not to spend my time wasting in certain areas, you know? Yes. It's just kind of like cutting the crap. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:10:26 Yeah, and I think that's a big step right there. Right, as you deciding, yeah. It's just being like, just no more. I want something. And then only the real thing can find you at that point. Yeah. You're going to find somebody. She's going to be bad ass.

Starting point is 01:10:43 She better be. I'll tell you, I'm already pissed at her a little. Are you? Yeah. Yeah, I'm mad at her too. Thank you. I've got a couple notes in my phone. I'm texting her right whenever I get her number.

Starting point is 01:10:54 That's it. Because I'm definitely going to have to be, I'm just trying to like envision what this chick is going to be like. She better work out of town sometimes. I'm telling you that. Okay. Because I don't want her mess in my house. That's it. That's it.

Starting point is 01:11:14 That's it. I think the big thing I realize I want kids, I want to be able to have kids that have like a nice, like a emotionally well upbringing. So that's what I need, like an emotionally well woman. Just a good girl, like just well-rounded. Yeah, we'll find it. Maybe she has a couple animals or something. Or we could get some animals. Because sometimes you meet a woman, they already got too many animals.

Starting point is 01:11:37 You could see they're trying to do their own little zoo or something. Yeah, put that horse in the front yard on a front porch, you know. That's how. That's how you're going to live. Well, that's how I, that was my old way to meet a woman, just put that horse in the front yard, you know. But I'm not doing that anymore. Now the horse needs going to back. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:11:54 But I can't live like that anymore. What else? You have a movie that's coming up? Is that true? Yeah. Reminders of him. Reminders of him. Reminders of him.

Starting point is 01:12:07 Colleen Hoover. And I will say I'm very excited about it. It was an opportunity for me to kind of dip my toes a little bit into being something other than a musician. Which was fun. Well, I know you've done some Yellowstone, right? Yeah. Yeah. was this more like extensive than that or like what was different about it um this i you know

Starting point is 01:12:31 it probably took me three or four days to like film my part um and i feel like with yellowstone because i was in like several different episodes it was probably like a little bit more filming um but i had fun i had fun like i feel like i kind of like found myself within the character you know like I realize that okay maybe like I don't have to be playing music to feel like I can play the character um dang which is cool like I might who knows who knows I want to do a comedy do you god that would be good you'd be so good at it we should make one then let's do it me and david spade wrote a movie it's almost done I can't talk about it anymore on the podcast because we've talked about it on too many episodes but we're editing it right now but um is that so fun

Starting point is 01:13:21 The editing itself's a nightmare, but it's fun. Got it. It's like a puzzle. You're like figuring out, okay, we got to move this here. How do we move this? What do we do? So it's probably like putting a record together. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:13:29 Yeah. It's been a big learning experience. It's been good, I think. But yeah, you definitely start to see like, oh, I could do more of these or figure out how to do it or create different ones. Like funny ideas. Yep. Are you going to start, like, a festival back at home or anything? Do you think you thought about that?

Starting point is 01:13:44 We've talked about it. I mean, we've... Like, do you feel like you have to? I guess it becomes like a thing. I definitely, like, would love to be able to do something specifically, like, for my community, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, just, you know, just to, like, bring in some more people, some more fans, and, like, just even last year we played a couple shows in Monroe back to back, and I heard, you know, that a lot of people had lots of business that week, and that's important. I want people to flourish and do well.

Starting point is 01:14:17 Like, this is the community that believed in me before anybody did, you know? Yeah. So I would love to do something like that at some point, but it takes a lot of, like, I want to do it right, you know. Oh, yeah. It's got to be right. Yeah. You want to definitely have some crawfish trucks out front. Crawfish trucks.

Starting point is 01:14:38 That'd be it. I wonder what your festival would be called if you had a festival over there. I don't know. What would it be called? I don't know. You got to think, I mean. It's got to be like a neat critter that's from the area, I guess, kind of. I mean, it could be the Lainty Wilson Festival.

Starting point is 01:14:53 Now, there's something cooler. Well, there's something probably has a little more critter in it. Yeah, we definitely need a critter. Yeah, I mean, you have a decent amount of critter, it seems like. I'm not trying to uncritory or whatever. You kind of uncruder, right? Yeah, I didn't think I could. Dude, did you ever go on, like, I remember you told me that you went on this horrible date one time?

Starting point is 01:15:11 It was like a Valentine's date. Remember we made a little cartoon about it? Oh, Reds or Ray of Valets or Black? Watch your chest as flat as your back But dude It reminded me So one time when I was a kid I stole my mom's car

Starting point is 01:15:24 I bartered whatever you did You know you're like 13 And this girl down the street Dude had She was just Looking pretty good You know And she was like

Starting point is 01:15:35 Willing to sneak out of her house At night right So I was like Was she the same age? Yeah same age So I was like I'm gonna go pick her up And we're gonna go out to this Like boat launch area

Starting point is 01:15:44 You can park the car out there and dance a little bit and put on some country music put on some top 40 or whatever you know they play some

Starting point is 01:15:52 strawberry wine or maybe some I'm trying to think of whatever else maybe some John Michael Montgomery let's go you know

Starting point is 01:16:00 something that'll just just keep my eyes open you know so anyway pick her up and this girl always wore like a two piece bathing suit

Starting point is 01:16:07 like she was on the swim team at school right so anyway but I don't even why I said that but anyway well I needed the visual

Starting point is 01:16:14 yeah anyway picked her up We go out there, we listen to some music. A car comes across the parking lot, goes into the water and starts to sink. Right, we're the only people. You are lying. Swear.

Starting point is 01:16:25 We're the only people out there. It goes right off the boat, lawns, and then starts to sink. And the headlights are up towards the top of the water. The car sinks. You are line. No. And it's me and her, and I'm like, oh, my God. I'm out here.

Starting point is 01:16:37 We still want, I can't call the lake. What do I even do? I'm going to get in trouble, right? Did you jump in the water? We run right over there to the thing. And I was like, we got to get, we got to do something. You know, what if somebody's in there? Like, we're the only people out there.

Starting point is 01:16:51 And she's like, okay, on the count of three, we'll jump in. And I'm like, dude, you don't do the count of three, dude. If somebody is drowning in a car, you know what I'm saying? Like, that is the worst. One, two. Yeah, you don't waste people's time that are drowning if you can just jump in, right? So anyway, she goes, I was like, all right. She's like, no, we have to do it.

Starting point is 01:17:11 I was like, all right. She goes one, two, three, I jump. She doesn't even jump. You are lying. And she's a swimmer. She's a swimmer. And I'm not that great of a swimmer. Man, that's a life lesson right there.

Starting point is 01:17:21 Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's why you need to pick a woman who is willing to go that extra mile. That's it. Because there's a lot of these fake-ass swim team bitches out there. But anyway, moving on. Anyway, I reach down on the car. I get underwater.

Starting point is 01:17:36 I reach down in the car. And I feel like the car seat and stuff. And they had like one of those like covers on. the car seat that was like that fur you know you know they had the white fur seat cover sometimes it was like i don't know it wasn't like dalmatian it was something nice you know or light something it was fake probably yeah but anyway yeah something like oh yeah wolf or something and uh so i touch it and that scared me so i don't know if it was somebody it just like so i start kind of vomit like underwater i'm like getting sick stop get back up above the water now i can't hold my breath to go down right

Starting point is 01:18:12 Like the car's completely underwater. So get out. We run back to the car, drive to this bar that was close by, and we started just like, we ran inside and we're like, this car went off into the water. There's like six people in this bar. They all clear out of there. And then they all run down to, they'll drive down or run down to this, to the dock. And people are jumping in the water, saying some lady's name or something. Got in my mom's car.

Starting point is 01:18:38 Left. So you don't know what happened? Mm-mm. left one going to stay around there was somebody in there wasn't it i don't know but how did the like news not come out in the town or anything i mean we were kids i don't think we would have heard it probably because it was like it was more adult stuff so did your mama ever know that you took the car she does now she does sorry mama almost save that woman mama and if you'd let me borrow your freaking car went out of freaking ass i probably would have been able to save her i wouldn't have to sneak back home

Starting point is 01:19:10 But yeah, I think that was something just about being... I'm still thinking about the girl not jumping with you. Oh, it's unbelievable. You can't say on the count of three and then not go. And who has time to do count of three? Somebody's drowning. You're like, all right, one, two, you don't do that. I don't know whatever happened to her.

Starting point is 01:19:25 Dude, there was a beautiful girl in my town that kissed me one time by a fire, and then I never, ever, ever saw her again. That's how it goes. God. Uh-huh. I wonder where she's at. You remember her? I don't know.

Starting point is 01:19:36 Yes, I remember her. We need to get in touch with her. And she let me brush her hair for almost 15 minutes out. hair you literally just had a brush and you were just combing her hair she brought it i'm not i'm not that creepy yeah but i would yeah i helped her out that was my 4-h that was your 4-h it was what is this oh do you see justin beber showed up this fake one what's you talking about they had a fake justin beber showed up the other night to where in las Vegas and everybody thought that it was him i'm like

Starting point is 01:20:10 This doesn't not even seem like him. No. It seems like Chet Hanks just had a long weekend, kind of. What in the world? But there were literally, I guess, like thousands of people following this guy. Watching everyone get scammed is wild. So many people get scammed nowadays. I just saw the other day that we're one of the biggest scamming times.

Starting point is 01:20:33 What are some of the biggest online scams? Have they had any Lainey Wilson Impostinators? Oh, my God. I mean, I don't know about, like, dressing up like that and whatever, but I'm just talking about, like, online in general, like, the amount of messages I get about, um... Oh, ticket scamming, all that stuff? Well, just, like, people who think that they are, like, actually in a relationship with me and stuff because, like, somebody's pretending to be me.

Starting point is 01:20:58 And so it's, it's really bad. I've ruined a couple marriages on accident. Didn't even mean to. You didn't? Yes, I sure did. Leamy. Yeah. They're like, my husband of 30 years believes he's talking.

Starting point is 01:21:10 to you and this and that and whatever yes and I'm like oh no and what do you have to do then you can't call there's literally nothing like there's there's nothing I can do um I'm just besides like telling you all about it you know yeah if you are not married to Lenny Wilson you are not married to Lenny Wilson so that's well you think it ought to be that simple but I mean I've heard all kind of stuff. I was, I mean, one woman got scammed by a buddy of mine and she showed up to the show, had her bag packed and everything and was just waiting there. Like, I'm going, I'm going with him. And they were like, no, ma'am, like, but she had been communicating with somebody online. And thought it was him. And thought it was him.

Starting point is 01:21:55 It's getting that real. But I guess I would be shocked. How could you think it would go that real online, you know? It's like a certain, what I've noticed is, it's like a certain age group of uh it's probably like lonely lonely people right um whether they're married or not they're lonely right and um and i don't know it's just like they just find like the right person they must try it to a million people to find the right person to actually convince you know and they're asking for money and they they just uh give them lots of money lots of money and it's sad it is sad I just, I guess I mean, like, I guess I'm trying to give somebody email me and said, I am. I'm trying to think of somebody that would really have me just fired up, probably.

Starting point is 01:22:48 Can't even think of anybody off, off top my head. Probably like a night nurse or whatever, like a ICU nurse. Uh-huh. No, that's not it. It'd have to be somebody fan, like you know publicly probably. Huh. Somebody that you'd be like, I can't believe. leave their message of me.

Starting point is 01:23:06 God, yeah. Who could that be? Like Pamela Anderson. Yeah, one of the Spice Girls or somebody. One of the Spice Girls for sure. Ginger or Baby Spice. Yeah, or Marjoram or whatever, isn't that one? Sporty Spice.

Starting point is 01:23:19 Oh, Scarlett Jonathan. Who else? Johnny Depp? That's a man. I don't know. None of these people are doing it for me. Maybe Tom Hanks. Yeah, if Tom sent you an email.

Starting point is 01:23:33 Yeah, Tom. Look, Tom, one of the best actors in the world. But if he said, Theo, I'm in a bind. Yeah. And I need $200,000. Because that's some of the, that's the crazy amount. It's not just like, hey, I need $100. Right. People are getting screwed, glued, and tattooed.

Starting point is 01:23:53 I would not say that. I would send him maybe $1,200. I am not sending. Say, God bless you, Tom. Yeah. I'm not sending somebody. That much money's crazy. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:24:03 know what goes into the psychology of that we should talk with somebody and learn about that what is one of the biggest scams that's happened online with somebody but i mean that one with justin beber's crazy people thinking that's him like i remember like kip more got scammed and there was like a dr feel episode about it i'm not kit more but um somebody was getting scammed by somebody pretending to be kipmore and it was just like the girl really thought she was you know in a relationship like for real for real all i have friends that'll send me stuff it's like oh is this you and it's like a fake email or something it's like that would be insane if that was me like if you read through this you know it had like recipes for things I like for dinner and something like who you think

Starting point is 01:24:42 I'm going to send something like that but I guess yeah people get caught up I mean I've fallen for stuff when I was growing up Ponzi sheem stuff like that so I guess you've all fallen for something I was trying to buy a French bulldog you were bit by French bulldog no I was trying to buy I was trying to buy one he's got good taste oh yeah yeah yeah it's an old French bulldog and I got scammed. This is probably about six years ago. God, now that is not cool, because they're really cute. And you see them and you just wanted them.

Starting point is 01:25:15 And do you see pictures or they also had videos of him? It was just pictures. I mean, I'm a dumb ass for thinking that, like, I've learned a lot. That was definitely my thought. Really thought it was jelly roll. Ohio man says he was scammed by AI video of the singer. A.Springfield, Ohio man said he lost money. I really thought it was Jelly Roll

Starting point is 01:25:34 Appeared to be from a celebrity that happens to be a fan of The message said he won $50,000 on a brand new car I want to see it Then the account sent a video of the man who appears to be singer-songwriter Jelly Roll asking him to cover shipping to get his prizes They're not linking to the video But this is the image from the AI generated video

Starting point is 01:25:55 That is insane That's the thing Theo Like used to you had to be like I gotta see it to believe it But now, you just got to figure out yourself. You've got to have that wisdom and discernment whether or not you believe it or not. I mean, there's been stuff in the past month going on about, like, me and Duck having a baby getting married. They gave me six fingers on one hand.

Starting point is 01:26:18 Uh-uh. Yeah. Oh, and you say you're cheating when you're doing your songs or whatever. Yeah. And then, like, they put my daddy in a hospital bed picking his guitar. And I was in a wedding dress in the hospital room because I had to go to him to get married. and then I showed my daddy the picture and he's like

Starting point is 01:26:38 not pissed about just AI making that rumor up he's like I got more hair than that I'm like really that's what you gotta say I got more hair than that hey look if you got it you gotta keep it that's right that's it dang yeah I guess everything's getting weird out there yeah but have you met any actually impersonators of you there is um there's a girl in london that actually puts on um she teams up with this guy who i believe

Starting point is 01:27:08 does luke combs so it's like her and her name is georgie i believe uh they just like put on these like co-headlining shows together which is really cool it's like a um there she is right there that's pretty cool the lany wilson experience um she's awesome and she's got the dance moves and everything down like she does laney wilson better than me she does that's got to be pretty flattering. I'm, like, learning some stuff from her, you know what I'm saying? She's got the whole outfit and everything. Wow.

Starting point is 01:27:45 Yeah, it's pretty cool. Oh, that's awesome. Pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Look, she does a cowgirl of a night. She's like, she's just got it going on. I'm proud for her that she's like, you know, making a job out of it. like it seems like a fun job oh that's pretty special right there yep yeah my niece's

Starting point is 01:28:05 first show that we went to together was your show over there in baton ruse i think it's probably two years ago we're about to be back in baden route y'all are yeah well and i'm about to have to come yeah come on i'd love it we're gonna be there in september tell your family come on god i want that my mom's down there now she would come yeah yeah that'd be a great idea i'll bring her come on thank you all have to Oh, I saw that they just opened up your exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Yes. Did you go see it yet?

Starting point is 01:28:36 I did go see it. It was wild. My mama kept everything. She kept my baby blanket. She kept this little, like, plastic star that went, like, on the wreath the day I was born, and it said a star was born today. You're lying. No. So they were betting on you.

Starting point is 01:28:51 They were like, you got to do it, Lord help us. God, honey. Yes, it's so cool. because I really got to like kind of zoom out and, you know, it looked like a bunch of tiny little steps like everything I've done since I was just young and then like me impersonate Hannah Montana, all that stuff. That's my journals.

Starting point is 01:29:11 I wrote Tim McGraw a letter when I was 18 and was like, all I need is a shot and I can do the rest. You did? And I still have never met Tim McGrawl. I think I need to send him the letter now. Well, I think you guys will probably make a movie sometime soon. I'd like that. But yeah.

Starting point is 01:29:30 Is that you right there? That's me. My God. That's me on a good day. I thought that was your stunt double from England again. Uh-huh. That's Georgie. Yeah, that'd be so good.

Starting point is 01:29:39 You start sending her to spend time with your family. I mean, honestly. They might like her better than me. Lamy, that's so cool. It's cool. And that's in the country music hall of fame? Yes. It's like everything I've like ever done for me, like being able to look at it with my parents.

Starting point is 01:29:57 And, I mean, because they worked their butt off so I could do what I was doing. And they, when I tell you, Theo, they believed in me. They, they're the kind of people who are, they're real, realistic. You know what I'm saying? Right. Like, people don't, those kind of things, like, don't happen in our area. But for some crazy reason, they're like, no, this is what's you going to do? Like, this is like, we know it.

Starting point is 01:30:22 And they helped me do whatever. I mean, whether it was, like, helping me buy my camper trailer or, um, if there was like a singing competition somewhere in another state or whatever I was like wanting to sign up for it and like mama would take me and um betty would pay for the gas you know like it was just like a team effort so it's cool just to see everything come from it and it's just awesome yeah well parents just want to be proud of their children right and so I think yeah you know and parents get proud of their children or if they see them do something small or big I think you know and so I'm sure even just to have a like to have something like that where so much your child is kind of like

Starting point is 01:31:00 that's right recorded and and has some you know in a museum that's damn i know i said i ain't never been more proud that my mama was a hoarder yeah but she kept it oh it's beautiful they were trying to send this tractor tire swing that we like used to swing on we were i'm talking about this tractor tire swing was like this big around they're like no we don't we don't need that my He's like, no, y'all take it on up there. They're just trying to clean out the house, you know? Yeah. There's this stack of your dad's old pants.

Starting point is 01:31:33 You're like, what the hell is in? No, don't take them up there to Nashville. The exhibit just morphs into a garage sale. What, I know your bell bottom pants. I remember being at your show and seeing all these, like, girls and some men wearing different kind of laney bottom style pants, right? Do you have a brand that's pants now? Like, did that become like a thing?

Starting point is 01:31:56 So I actually have a partnership with Wrangler, which is so much fun because we get to do like, we have like our fall collections and then we'll have some stuff for the winter and then we do spring and summer. It's just fun. It's like another way for me to be creative, but we actually just launched a boot line too called Golden West and really was inspired from really just like when I think of songwriting and how I've kind of learned how to write. a song I feel like I've been given the opportunity to write with

Starting point is 01:32:28 such incredible writers they've kind of taught me how to step into other people's shoes and like tell a story from their perspective yeah oh there we go

Starting point is 01:32:37 there they are there's the somewhere over Laredo boots those top two right there are best sellers right now really? Yep it's fun

Starting point is 01:32:45 people are wearing these little boots now what is that called that little boot a shorty that's a shorty shoddy oh yeah

Starting point is 01:32:54 I've been seeing those. We're going to find you a nurse and we're going to get her a pair of boots. Yeah. We're going to hook her up. A couple Appaloosa's right there. Uh-huh. Heck yeah. And tell her she can take them boots on out of town if she won't keep it together.

Starting point is 01:33:07 I'll quit. Never mind. She can come back at least once. Okay. That's what I'm saying. At least once. Golden West. Oh, I like those.

Starting point is 01:33:17 Yeah. They got some different styles. We're excited. And it's doing really well already. And I'm just. excited to like continue are they only online or people can get them in some stores too um only online right now so okay yep and then we're just going to continue like dropping you know dropping some and and see what happens but it's going in a great direction how do you start to feel about your that

Starting point is 01:33:44 you have the possibility to think that your best songs are still ahead of you know i know with comedians you start to think like man i'll never have a bit that's as good as that you know um how Does that affect an artist? Like, what's that like for you in your world? I mean, because you've had some, you know, you have a lot of great music. You've had some that have been bigger hits than others. That's just the way it goes.

Starting point is 01:34:02 But does that, like, what is that like? Do you have fears like that ever? You know, I mean, it's absolutely, like, cross my mind because I think just, like, being human in general, that probably crosses everybody's mind, you know? Even, like, getting out of a relationship, like, I'll never love anybody else as much as, you know. But I think I keep, like, shocking myself.

Starting point is 01:34:23 or like surprising myself and being like, well, he ain't done. I really do feel like we're really just getting started. Like even the songs that I've been writing in the past six months for the next record, I feel like we keep leveling up. And I don't really know how that happens, but a grace of God.

Starting point is 01:34:43 So he's delivering. Amen. Yeah, I believe it. I think, yeah, it's those moments, because there's days where you'll feel like, okay everything is being perfect or I'll feel this way everything's on the right path and there's days where I feel like man I'm on a detour right now you know and I think just trying to like

Starting point is 01:35:02 tune like almost like you're using a tuner for a radio doubt I'm trying to tune my heart in you know that's right it's like positioning yourself I'm learning that yeah it's like positioning yourself so you can be and also like getting rid of the things in your mind that are like stopping you or preventing you from finding whatever that next, like, great joke is or great song. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 01:35:26 Like, you've got to get rid of those roadblocks in order to find them. Yeah. And sometimes the roadblocks are people. Sometimes it's just like a... Sometimes it's, yeah, a damn roadblock. It's an actual roadblock. Literally, and you're just sitting there waiting for them to turn the sign around. You know, you just...

Starting point is 01:35:44 But no, you're right. Sometimes it's people. Sometimes it's a habit. A habit, dude. A habit. How many people have not had made certain amazing things happen because of a bad habit probably? God. I know it's, that's, that's, oh.

Starting point is 01:36:04 I just want to get tuned in and just the Lord FM, honey. That's what I need. That's it, the Lord FM. God, just reset my. You let me know when that's a station because I'm on, I'm going to tune in too. Reset my dial. Tell Mr. Hodges, we said hello. I will.

Starting point is 01:36:18 Yeah, I appreciate it. Come see us. Yeah, I'm going to try to come see you down there in Baton Rouge again. be great and yeah thanks for all the beautiful music congratulations and thanks for coming and just chat with me about Louisiana thank you yeah it's just fun oh yeah congratulations lany wilson best of love yeho now i'm just floating on the breeze and i feel i'm falling like these leaves i must be cornerstone oh but when i reach that ground i'll share this piece of mind i found I can feel it in my bones, but it's gonna take it.

This Past Weekend - #606 - Lainey Wilson

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