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What's up?

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You're off in God's Country with Breed and also

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known as The Brothers Hunt, where we take a weekly drive

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to the intersection of country music and the outdoors,

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two things that go together like Mexico and

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or two things.

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That go together like Carbos.

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Produced by Meat Eater and iHeart podcast.

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So hop on up Rod Shotgun with us as we take

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the back roads with some of today's biggest stars and

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creators of the songs you know and love.

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We're gonna sit down with Dustin Lynch

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today, a fellow Tennesseean YEP told.

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Gold platinum and multi platinum

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certified singles.

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Yeah, had nine number one something

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like that. Land manager.

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He's got a farm. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about

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him as an outdoors and he loves to hunt, loves to fish.

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I was literally gonna say that.

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That's that's what we're gonna talk That's what.

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We're gonna talk about. So, how y'all hang with us?

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Thanks for hanging out with us in God's Country.

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Do it feel like we're all feeling good this morning?

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Feeling great? Yeah?

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With coffee? Do you guys?

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Is this your podcast? I'm with it?

1:13

Go for it. No, well, you're just messing coffee. And

1:16

Dan grabbed his and it was just it was just

1:18

like, do you have to throttle your coffee

1:20

intake every morning? Like me, Yeah,

1:23

I feel like I feel like I don't know, I'm

1:25

right. I switch up bags of beans so

1:27

they react differently, and so

1:30

every now and again you're like, man, I've had too much. I've had

1:32

too I feel like I'm dialed in. Though I was

1:34

worried about being stripping a podcast,

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Okay, go ahead, Sorry, I'm just saying I was worried about

1:38

being too jittery for a podcast, and

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I think I'm I think I know my mixed

1:43

What cup is that?

1:44

This is?

1:44

Uh two?

1:46

Okay? And how do you do it? Are you a pour over guy? Are

1:48

you like a what are those things

1:50

called the.

1:53

Yeah, I've just got a regular coffee pot.

1:55

Okay.

1:55

Yeah, I liked that about you too. Yeah,

1:59

I'm with that house. I

2:02

got jittery yesterday because because we,

2:04

I mean we got back at like one o'clock from that duck

2:07

hunt. I had a cup of coffee

2:09

at the house and then got

2:11

here out smash smashed a couple of coffees here.

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I got to Sony.

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Jumps feels like this.

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This is I can't even

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I appreciate the juice.

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I got plenty, man, I got plenty.

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Yeah, don't move that too fast. I

2:26

got to Sony yesterday before our co write drink

2:29

another one, and dude, I got in the I got in

2:31

the room sitting there and Dan and him are talking and

2:33

like, I don't like I don't drink enough coffee

2:35

to do that. But I got weird, got weird. I

2:37

was like, bro, what this like? I had to sit down,

2:40

like take a couple of deep breath and you

2:42

know, walk outside like drink. Yeah, I was,

2:44

I was.

2:45

I think it's a sign of getting old. Is

2:47

uh? You enjoy like coffee

2:50

is my favorite with the time of day, with

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that straight is it straight?

2:53

Favorite time I don't have.

2:54

I mean you guys have kids running around. I'm sure in the morning.

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I don't. So I'm just like a peaceful yeah

2:59

black straight black, just a piece, will like get

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catch up on emails.

3:02

Zero piece, there's zero pit. You got

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to have peace at our house. We have peace.

3:06

We put our kids down at seven. We don't even talk

3:09

for this is my wife.

3:09

By way.

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I don't know if you knew that I didn't know that. Uh,

3:12

you know, just not my roommates. But

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we don't talk for about an hour and a half. We just kind

3:18

of chill and then you know, we

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start conversing after an hour and a half of silence.

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But you got to get up at five o'clock if you're going to

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have any piece at all. At seven, it's

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Mama, Dad dad booey booeye.

3:30

Wait, let's go back to the coffee beans thing. You said

3:32

you mix them up, Yeah, like like

3:34

flavor wise from different different.

3:36

Yeah, as much as I travel, like come

3:38

across the coffee shop and you're like, oh, let's try these from

3:41

wherever?

3:41

What's your favorite? What's your favorite?

3:43

Because I want, like I will say honestly what I'm

3:45

ha And right now. I had a buddy that went on a mission trip.

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He does it every year down at Guatemala. It's awesome and

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they're like super small batch coffee

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farms down there, and he gifted me, just

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surprised me with a package and

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it had a bag of the beans

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from the farm he was there helping out, and

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uh, his favorite cigar that

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he came across down and then

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a bottle of wine and he was like three of my favorite

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things. This goes good with you know whatever

4:12

in the morning. This goes good with uh friend

4:15

cool

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and yeah, so that's what I'm drinking right now. It's

4:20

dang good. That's off the line.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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Fahome from tell them at Tennessee. Yeah,

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and that ain't far, No, it's not. It's not

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far at all. I mean, but growing up, we wouldn't

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really ever get up here. We'd come up here for Christmas

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shopping.

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Yeah. Sometimes we did the same thing you come to

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Opera Lamb.

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Yeah, we used to do its working West, Like

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you know, the mom would come up here and get a mammogram

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or whatever right with her.

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Yeah.

4:44

The big doctor appointments were always in Nashville. Yeah,

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the kids you make a day.

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Yeah.

4:49

But I remember when Opery Lamb was where

4:52

the mall is, like the theme park theme

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park.

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Yeah, actually went by there yesterday. I got to him all right,

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and I'm like, I'm gonna go bast right and mind a while. And it

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hit me. I'm like wow, because I hated

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it when they whenever they shut down the theme

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park. Yeah, for a mall, Like, we've

5:05

got plenty of malls.

5:06

What do you all do?

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But yesterday at you know, three pm, there's

5:09

a thousand cars in the parking lot shops.

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Somebody knew what they were doing.

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So people are still going to malls.

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Oh man, that places passed.

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I figured it was Amazon Central, Man, I figured

5:18

that all those guys were hurting.

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But it's not Can you do that? Can you rock

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around town and not get like too

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bothered?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, I think in a beauty of like the cowboy hat.

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Yeah, yeah, you know, I still uh

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you on social media. I think you're around. You know, I'm

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seeing them walk out most of the time on social

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media. But yeah, I still think,

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you know, just from years of people thinking I'm

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always in a cowboy hat, I can, man.

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I'm in that that dynamic

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because because I was I'm

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not even talking about that, I'm

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saying I was kind of hoping you were going

5:49

to be in a cowboy hat today because I'm the first cowboy hat

5:51

in here. Really, yeah, we hadn't had a cowboy hat. It's

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all good, like.

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You would just rake like occasionally be like

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I thow it on today and wear a cowboy hat do in

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the day.

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Not usually, No, it just doesn't

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like for what I do, it doesn't make sense. Like if

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I'm home usually and I have the day off, I'm working

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on the farm.

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See wait a second.

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I personally think if you have a farm,

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it qualifies you to occasionally,

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you know, maybe wear cowboy hat during

6:18

I don't think that's fake, right, Like I think we

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need to come up with a definition of

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who can wear cowboy hats during the day

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and who can't. You have a farm, I think you're in

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I don't think we look out of place at all.

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But it's just like we'd

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all be like I got I've got a cowboy

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hat, and when I put it on, it look like rip, except

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like the version of

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rip from Yellow Stuff. I wear it

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one time in Jackson Holt

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Rodeo and felt legit as hell.

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But I'm not.

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I'm not a cowboy bro.

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It's amazing. What how a cowboy hat makes you feel?

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It always like when I put it on, I don't know.

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And boots, like the cowboy hat

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and boots, you're yeah, I.

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Just always you know, for

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me, I put it on and it's like it's time to go. But

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only that's like have fun, you know, get man,

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I think it's great. Yeah, I mean when I come home though,

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like I'm working on the tractor. My

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hat's I got a pretty big lid, so like

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it gets in the way. Man, Like, what's your number?

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Seven and three eights?

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That's not that I'm seven five days, bro, already mellon

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basketball.

7:17

You got a little bigger than mine.

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Jordan got me a new tobogg and she was like, hey, I'm thinking about

7:20

just like I just we'll just put it on it cause I put it on his way

7:22

too tight. And she was like, just put it on a basketball for

7:24

a couple of days. And then to

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get smart, bro, I have done like

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a baseball glove. You

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used to do that. All it up and yeah, what was it?

7:33

Put in the all it up?

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Put two tennis balls in it, two baseballs,

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belts around it?

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Yeah, strapping down? Stick it under your bed for a few

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months.

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You got to be under the bed.

7:41

Yeah did you put yours on the bed? Why

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does it have to.

7:44

Be on the passed down

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from the granddad?

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So that's crazy.

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I mean that's exactly where we put our. We always

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sensed it down, stuck it under the bed.

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I was when I was doing my research, which probably Dan

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didn't do. I was looking at your instagram and

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uh, I saw a thing that said my

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kind of sunset. And I watched this video

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of you working on the farm, songs, going

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down, playing with your dog, throwing

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the thing, grilling some burgers. Is that,

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like, is that what you do when your time

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off?

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Oh?

8:10

Yeah? Is that?

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Is that?

8:11

Is that?

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Is that plugging in and recharging for you?

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It is? And and you know, I searched. It

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took me a while to like search around and figure out

8:17

how to find balance

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because you

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jump into to roaming around. I know, you got

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to spend a lot of time on the road, you know, writing songs too.

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But that's not normal, right, It's

8:30

it's overloaded, sensory overload. And

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as many people as we get to meet, it's

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awesome, but it's it's not normal.

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And so you come home and have this few days.

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And I was living for a few years. I

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was living at a condo downtown

8:44

in Nashville before it became Nashville. It

8:46

was like the only condo you could have down there. We'd

8:49

have a grocery store or nothing. And it was terrible. After

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a few years, I'm like, I don't feel right,

8:53

and it just felt like I was in another hotel. I never

8:55

got to turn off, and so I moved out outside

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of town and I finally found peace, you

9:00

know, getting back into the country and and just having

9:03

something to grasp onto and and recharge

9:05

with and and now you know, fast forward

9:07

to have the farm out out there outside of town about an

9:09

hour and it's the best.

9:11

I was telling Pat in the in the parking lot.

9:13

We uh, when we moved to town, my

9:15

dad moved his house book from where we grew up

9:18

to Percy priest Elm hill Marena

9:20

and that's where we lived for four years. And that's

9:22

awesome.

9:23

And dude, I know that. Yeah, it's catching.

9:25

We talk about it all the time.

9:26

I know people guests, Yeah,

9:29

that is we were catching dinner and I

9:31

mean, you know, doing that whole thing.

9:33

And Dan got a publishing deal with a

9:36

little startup and had a lot of money. They're

9:38

like, man, we got to sit flat downtown

9:40

in the Bristol it's right above Losers And we were like,

9:42

yeah, dude, let's do it.

9:43

Oh my gosh, working plumbing, Like we're

9:45

in.

9:47

A washing machine for our clothes as from Virginia's.

9:49

We can buy sandwiches and ceareheads

9:51

all.

9:52

Yeah, So we moved in for six

9:54

months and after six months we were like, man,

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I think we're going we kick it back at the back.

10:00

Well, it's just it was so

10:02

sireny century overload.

10:04

And I mean, it's what you're talking about. It. It

10:06

was just.

10:08

It's like your brain never turns off.

10:10

But when you're used to, like if you're

10:12

from Tellahoma, you're from West Tennessee

10:14

where we're from, Like this ain't normal

10:17

for us, you know, And as much as you try to fit yourself

10:19

into that thing, it's like, man,

10:21

I need some crickets, you know. And

10:24

I mean that's what I fall asleep to, not not drunk

10:26

people trying to get home from losers.

10:28

And like you said, sirens, Yeah, every

10:31

minutes.

10:31

Every five seconds felt and

10:34

hell that was what eight

10:37

years ago, like a ten years

10:39

ago maybe. I mean, it's I'm sure it's way.

10:42

And I've always wondered what it's like living arena.

10:45

It's awesome. It's awesome till it's

10:47

not awesome. It's awesome until.

10:48

You're until it's just like the

10:51

worst.

10:51

But we had like we had wife. They got WiFi

10:53

out there, but you.

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Can't technically live so we didn't

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live a rena, right. We just visited

11:00

three hundred and sixty three days here, you got

11:03

it.

11:03

We couldn't afford anywhere else.

11:05

It seems like I think I spent

11:07

a lot of time on the water. I love

11:09

it. And that was the first one I

11:11

moved out of downtown. I didn't mention I moved to Old

11:13

Hickory Lake. Come on, I got a house out

11:15

there and had a dock and everything. And

11:19

I don't know, there's just as it seems like a different walk

11:21

of people that are attracted to that

11:23

lake life, and for you guys, obviously

11:26

Marina life even more so. You

11:28

know, when I'm in Marina's on a whole deckree, it feels

11:32

a little bit like the Keys. Yeah, there's

11:34

a little sense of pirate Yeah, for sure,

11:36

all of those people. I know exactly where it's

11:38

ak and I know for a fact there's people on Old Hickory Lake

11:40

that are living there full time. Yeah, I mean you can just

11:42

tell.

11:43

Oh, dude, there were there were visit visiting,

11:45

visiting. We would step out on the back and

11:47

you know, pee off the back porch and or

11:50

about the back of the boat. I said, the back porch as

11:52

we call it the back porch. But I mean, dudes,

11:54

there would be like four or five dudes doing the same thing on

11:57

Like those cats live there too, Yeah.

11:59

Sure, Like he's like, couldn't get enough Christmas

12:01

lights? Yeah, yeah, you know they've got it all decked

12:03

out, music playing.

12:05

I mean it's a flooding trailer park, that's really

12:07

all it is. Yeah, you just get expensive

12:09

though.

12:10

Well we're proud of them now. Yeah.

12:12

I've looked at getting a slip and I'm like, might

12:15

just stay in the driveway, dude.

12:16

For us, it was like three hundred a month. We split

12:18

it.

12:18

That's not mad at all.

12:19

Yeah, so we just that was cheaper than rent, you

12:21

know, and boat was paid off. Yes, we just kind

12:23

of just kind of hung out.

12:25

Do you guys still house boat the

12:27

enjoyed?

12:27

Is that? Are you over it? Yeah?

12:30

We just I mean full up, full up

12:32

to Yeah. But I mean we don't have enough

12:34

time, you know, with kids and stuff. But

12:36

did every chance I get to get on the water.

12:39

I mean I'm on the water. You know. I

12:41

love bass fishing. And I was going to ask you,

12:43

did you do a lot of old like fishing and old heckory

12:46

I did.

12:46

Yeah.

12:47

I was obsessed with you know until I got my farm and

12:49

then that just became crazy to

12:51

do list a lot of chores. I was avid, like

12:54

so much, so I would get you know, get on the bus and I would

12:56

nerd out on NAVI ONYX.

12:58

Come on, so I don't even have to look at a depth finder because

13:00

I know I know that lakes so well. Some

13:03

studying those maps constantly, I

13:05

can kind of tell you where everything is.

13:06

I fished a I fished as a co angler

13:09

in one of those like bass Master series

13:11

or whatever it was, and it was like one of the first terms I ever

13:13

fished, and it was on Old Hickory and we grew up

13:15

close to Pickwick and kind of the same style

13:18

like boat docks, secondary points,

13:20

you know, in the summer you fish ledges, and

13:22

so this is like June, and I

13:24

called the angler of the boat I was gonna

13:26

be riding in and I was like, hey, man, what do you want me to bring

13:28

you and bring some you know, drop shots Carolina

13:30

riggs. We're gonna be doing them. And he was like, no, man, He's

13:33

like, just bring a flipping bowl. And I was like, it's middle

13:35

of summer. He's like, just just bring a couple

13:37

of you know, flipping flipping rods. I was like, all right,

13:39

So we get in that morning, and did we run twenty

13:42

miles up the combery and back there into those

13:44

some of those a's and those log jams

13:46

yep? And bro he homemade made his jigs

13:48

and gave me a few of them, and did we pulled

13:51

them out of them logs all day? He won the tournament.

13:53

I boated an eight and like eight three for him

13:55

out of the river, and dude, it was It's the only

13:57

time I fished old hickory like that. But gosh,

14:00

it was awesome.

14:00

I've done the same thing. I got in with the

14:02

guy and we ran way up there. Yeah, and

14:06

hell, I think it took us an hour and a half or so.

14:07

Yeah, it was about a forty five minute ride for us.

14:09

Yeah, and we got way up in it

14:11

and we missed

14:14

a couple that could have got us up up in the money.

14:16

But yeah, he was throwing a frog too up

14:18

in there. Really Yeah, top water Yep. There

14:20

ain't no better buiting than that, right, I know, it was really

14:22

cool, But yeah, there's something about those guys

14:24

that can custom this is this

14:26

is an old cat like he was. He was traditional

14:29

like the fish. Haven't ever seen it? Yeah, their

14:31

own colored and uh.

14:33

The hook sets not unbelievable.

14:35

He's not ripping, he's just he's like,

14:38

hey, grabbing that and I'm like okay, And then there's an eight

14:40

pound and that's it. There.

14:41

God, what's the biggest match you've ever caught?

14:44

I mean in open water around seven

14:47

in Pickwick, but in a pond, you

14:49

know, eight I've got

14:51

We've got where we live. We've got a twenty acre lake

14:54

behind our house in the community and

14:56

literally there's there's a bunch of houses back there and

14:58

it's a private lake to the communit and me, my

15:01

dad and dad are the only one that fishing.

15:03

We when we moved in the day

15:06

we were moving in the next day the next you have.

15:07

To live there in order to fish, ye, which is really convenient

15:10

for us.

15:10

Yeah, that is awesome. The day we

15:12

moved in, we were exhausted from moving

15:15

furniture all day. And that next morning, like six thirty,

15:17

my dad calls me and wakes me up, and I rolled over.

15:19

I grabbed my phone and I'm like, well, He's

15:21

like, hey, it's wide awake. And I was like what he

15:24

what? I was this six thirty that I'm exhausted.

15:26

He was like I'm here. I was like, bro, we ain't getting

15:28

started till like ten. He was like, no, no, no, I want

15:31

to go check out. And I looked out the window and he had his

15:33

bass photo and he stopped

15:35

voting and he yeah, well, yeah, not

15:37

a big motor. You can just troll the motor. But dude,

15:40

he's been ripping brim and crappy and BASSI

15:42

that thing ever since. And so it's it's

15:44

super convenient. He's caught a seven and a half out of there.

15:47

I know of some eights that have been caught out of there, and

15:49

it's big enough and deep enough to grow

15:51

and hold a you know, ten twelve, a big one.

15:53

So it's not when you can go back there

15:55

and catch fifty fish a day, like you got to go look for him,

15:58

and I just find the pattern and stuff. So it's it's

16:00

fun.

16:09

I want to everybody, farm man, tell me what you what

16:11

you got where you're at.

16:13

I'm northeast of Nashville, got about

16:15

an hour from downtown, and it

16:17

was one of those I grew up always

16:20

looking for permission to hunt same and

16:22

then moved up here to Nashville out

16:25

of high school and just

16:27

the permission farms kind of went away.

16:29

Yeah, it's weird that that's been happening.

16:31

Yeah.

16:31

We kind of talked to Ronelle about it the other day, like

16:35

I did. I did the same thing. I bought a

16:37

farm and we were talking

16:39

about allowing people to hunt, and he was like, you know,

16:41

you let people hunt.

16:42

I was like, oh dude, yeah, what are you talking about.

16:44

It kind of blew him away and he was like what And I get

16:46

that Western thing too.

16:47

I was like, man, like I worked.

16:50

I want to secure a place for my kids and my brother

16:52

and his kids and my dad. Like, ain't

16:55

nobody else coming on, you know, because I'm letting deer go and

16:57

trying to suw.

16:58

Deer and you

17:00

know, you can't do anything. It's like, what

17:02

about like wounded veterans?

17:04

And I was like yeah,

17:06

he was like what about kids?

17:07

He was wounded?

17:09

You know, I

17:12

think that is you know, we we do have you

17:14

guys obviously, especially right now.

17:16

I mean, have a platform to make

17:18

a lot of good happen with yeah, our dirt, you.

17:20

Know, sure, sure, that's the reason

17:22

we got it right.

17:23

Yeah. But I started, you know, I got to Nashville and I

17:25

started looking, Okay, well let's hunt public. So I started

17:27

hunting out in Pegram Yeah, Land

17:29

between the Lakes.

17:30

Yeah, South you ever

17:32

hear you?

17:33

No, I never did.

17:34

That's where that was our public ground for a while.

17:35

I've got buddies that still hunt it really oh

17:38

yeah. But there's something about those

17:40

big public tracks, man, they're just stilled

17:42

to me today. I mean, I get to hunt some of the best dirt in

17:44

the world, and I still have this

17:47

drawl to Land between the Lakes.

17:49

I feel that it's it's so.

17:51

Hard to get on deer there, but if you

17:53

get on them, man, there's some I mean still

17:55

the biggest year I think I've ever seen on hoof was it Land

17:57

between the Lakes when I was scout.

18:00

Yeah.

18:00

Is that bow hunt only or is that they

18:02

do it?

18:02

They do a couple of quote hunts a year, put

18:05

in for that, put in for it, and then you have your zones

18:08

you have to stay in. But we would

18:10

always come in on the on the north side of in Kentucky. We'd

18:12

always hunt Kentucky and uh,

18:14

there was this one year where it was like a drought year

18:17

and nobody could find deer. Like this group

18:19

that we went with, they're always on good deer, So I always

18:21

killed, couldn't find him, coudn't find him, and Dad and I

18:23

came across the sky with a big deer

18:26

in the back and he's like, man, just because I'm

18:28

done, I'm gonna tell you all what to do. Come on, get down

18:30

by the water and these drawls

18:32

for whatever reason, you know, acrons are

18:34

down there this year. Yeah, and we did that,

18:36

man, and got on them, got

18:38

in them.

18:39

Yeah. Never.

18:39

I never never got a shot on one. Had one

18:41

come in, A giant come in that was too dark.

18:44

But so I've never killed

18:46

up there, So it's like one of those things.

18:47

Yeah.

18:47

I got closed several years and I

18:49

never got it done. So it still eats at me.

18:52

That's the box that had been checked.

18:53

Yeah.

18:54

But but years go on, and just because I

18:56

always had to ask for permission, you never had

18:59

a place to go hunt. I was like, man, a dream

19:01

of mine is to have my own dirt

19:03

eyes. And I finally got I

19:06

finally got to a place where I could start looking. And

19:09

I was looking, you know, looking for about a year year and a half,

19:11

and came across a few options

19:14

northeast of town. At the time, I was hunting

19:16

on a lease south of Nashville, but

19:18

I was having to drive through downtown

19:20

Nashville to go hunting.

19:21

Yeah.

19:22

Ye, and with all your gear.

19:23

It was just like it's unpredictable too.

19:25

I mean, you try to catch you out at two o'clock,

19:27

yeah, you may. You may get caught in two hours

19:29

worth the trailer.

19:30

You're trying to be in a headspace of let's go hunt,

19:32

and now you're stuck in a traffic jam. It wasn't right.

19:34

So I started looking north of town. So I have to go through downtown.

19:36

Yeah.

19:37

The first three farms I thought were gonna be the ones, yeah,

19:39

just fell flat. It

19:42

wasn't what I was looking for. And like the last farm

19:44

on it, it didn't show well online. It

19:46

was because they had logged it and it was like dead

19:48

of winter, muddy logging road pictures

19:50

beautiful.

19:51

Oh that's the forum, I won't baby.

19:53

And so we get there and within you know,

19:55

a quarter of mile riding on the on the four

19:58

wheeler, I'm like, holy crowd, this is it.

20:01

And not only is this it, it was dirt cheap,

20:03

like this logy company try to unloaded.

20:05

Yeah.

20:05

So I was able to afford a pretty good chunk

20:08

and I just got lucky, like it was probably

20:10

gonna be a flip farm.

20:11

Yeah.

20:11

Yeah. I had buddies at the time that were getting farms and

20:14

kind of hunting them for a year or two and then you

20:16

know, putting food pots in and flipping them, and

20:19

I'm like, it'll probably be that. And then my neighbor to the

20:21

east the next

20:23

turkey season came around, and the turkeys

20:26

would always stay on the perimeter of this farm because

20:28

it was so thick from where they had logged it.

20:30

Yeah, tough to get turkeys on it.

20:31

And I'm like, comet, you know. And

20:33

I was like, I'm just gonna cold call this guy to the east

20:35

of me and see if he'll let me hunt. And

20:39

he's like he answers, and I was like, I was just calling

20:41

about your phone.

20:42

I want to know exactly how you said, because

20:44

do you go, hey, I'm dust No,

20:46

no.

20:48

Like country music, keep

20:51

that card, keep that card.

20:52

The podcasts possible.

20:54

But I know I called him, It's like, hey, I

20:56

was calling about your farm, you

20:58

know at this address. He goes, how do you know

21:00

I wanted to sell? And I'm like, oh

21:04

great.

21:05

And just fell from the heavens right.

21:07

So got to talk to him and his sister got

21:10

involved. He was older, and his sister got involved

21:12

and screwed the whole thing up. She wanted to like triple the

21:14

price of So I just

21:16

passed and sat on sat for about a year,

21:18

and then she came back and actually

21:21

wanted to make sense of it. So I ended

21:23

up getting that piece to the east of me, and then.

21:26

That connect that joined you joined me.

21:28

And then the neighbor to my north had

21:30

this cow pasture and you'd always see birds out in it

21:32

from my from my original piece and.

21:35

Had this is.

21:39

It wasn't sure exactly where

21:41

you were on the scale, but

21:43

now it's like our good.

21:47

That went through me, and

21:50

and it got to the point where I'm like, okay, I want to build like

21:52

I'm going to be here. It's not I want to build

21:54

a little something and have

21:57

a little cabin or put an r V in

21:59

or something. And how it cut.

22:01

I'm like, man if I could get that farm, I would build on

22:03

that farm.

22:04

You always think that though, yeah, man if

22:06

I can get that hement

22:08

through my original piece to

22:11

come in on the south side, because all of this, come

22:13

to find out, used to be.

22:14

His all like

22:16

an actual gravel road.

22:18

Actual gravel road. Yeah, And

22:21

so he's like, yeah, I'm not ready to sell yet. He's

22:23

just summer and cows on it. And

22:26

I'm okay, well, if you ever get ready to sell,

22:28

please let me have first shot at it, because you run right

22:30

through me. And he's like, I'll do it.

22:32

So I get We go another couple of

22:34

years and I get concrete poured

22:37

and trust is delivered, and this sucker stops

22:39

me in the road. No way, Yes,

22:42

a pad you pour it's a forty eight

22:44

by ninety six.

22:45

Oh gosh. Yeah.

22:47

So I'm like, I'm putting, I'm putting, you know, boats

22:50

in there in the off, the whole thing. And

22:52

he's like, my wife wants me to get rid of it. I'm of

22:54

course he does now that I've put a pad.

22:56

Down where I don't want right

22:59

where I try not to put a pad down for years.

23:02

Yeah, and just put casters on it who could

23:04

track it to it, just pull.

23:05

It up to the movie. He knew he had me, man, He

23:07

worked me over. He would not budge on the price. I

23:09

finally got him to throw in he had

23:12

because I wanted to, you know, another dream of minds to get

23:14

back into cows. That was my first job ever. Was

23:16

was helping on a farm down the street from where

23:19

I was living.

23:20

Another check on the you can wear a cowboy

23:22

hat list.

23:22

If you actually worked dollars

23:25

an hour road.

23:28

Farm, you worked with cash, you can wear a caboy

23:30

as much as.

23:31

You all the time.

23:32

Legit. Yeah, I was sleeping.

23:34

Nobody's saying nothing about that.

23:35

Nope.

23:36

Yeah, And so I

23:38

got it. I convinced him to let me keep a corral

23:41

he had made in these trees. He's

23:43

like, fine, I'll do that. And then he had this old

23:45

junker disc in, this old junker

23:47

like eight foot deck bush hog and

23:50

he's like, now you got to buy those from me. I'm like, dude,

23:52

you haven't used you haven't moved these in four

23:55

years. They've been sitting on our property line

23:57

and a bush in a bush hog. And

24:00

he's like, now you got to pay me for those. And I'm like, okay,

24:02

here's what I was like, come on, man, you

24:04

haven't budged on this price. Finally he gave me those

24:07

and I was like, we got a deal.

24:09

You had to get to the point where I ended up

24:11

with.

24:11

This original farm that was, you know, just a logging

24:14

dump, but ended up having

24:16

a giant on it. I ran cameras

24:18

like, of course the first month, dumping out corn and

24:20

see what's on it. And there weren't many

24:22

deer trails. There weren't many deer on the farm, but there was

24:24

an absolute monster on this thing.

24:27

And I'm like, okay, I'm

24:29

at least gonna hunt him for a little bit. But I started out

24:31

with that original track, and then I wound up

24:33

with three farms that joined

24:37

the years. Like you come across your neighbors and

24:39

are they cool people? Are they idiots?

24:43

And most of them around me are cool and

24:45

and I would like to say most like

24:47

to grow big deer. They don't, you

24:50

know, But.

24:50

We run in the same problem.

24:51

But I think if I do, I still got

24:53

a lot of work to do to get my habitat where I want it.

24:55

But that's what I'm obsessed with right now. But I

24:59

think I think I'll be there pretty pretty much long

25:01

term.

25:01

Now, where where do turkey? If turkey and deer

25:03

right here, which one do you prefer?

25:05

Like, Oh, it's pretty even for me. Yeah, I

25:07

think that what I obsess about the most, and

25:09

spend way more money on it than I should

25:12

it is probably you know, bow hunting, white

25:14

tail come home, man, I just I

25:16

love it

25:19

is crazy and you get to chase the same

25:22

animal for years, and uh

25:24

most of the time they win.

25:26

And you know, literally said that same statement.

25:28

That's why I'm obsessed with bo hunt too.

25:29

I Mean, we love it when we win, but I almost

25:32

equally as much love it when they win because

25:34

it just keeps the challenge of And

25:37

that's what to me bow hunting is. It's just like,

25:39

man, if you're going to fool an old buck

25:41

bow hunting, you gotta be you gotta

25:44

have it.

25:44

All on that way.

25:45

Yeah, and still get lucky.

25:47

Yeah, there ain't still get real lucky.

25:49

Yeah, And he's got to be. He's got to make her own move

25:51

for sure.

25:51

What happened to your big buck that you were seeing on

25:53

the farm?

25:54

Man, I got to watch. I chased him for a couple of years.

25:56

You know, I don't get to hunt as much as I would

25:58

love to. And now with the opportun he did a hunt

26:00

with Drury Outdoors. I've been

26:02

hunt with those guys for a handful of years, and

26:05

you know, so that takes a couple of you

26:08

know, weeks of hunting away from what I could

26:10

be hunting. Tennessee, I don't get to chase

26:12

him full time, but I

26:15

hunted him for a couple of years. In November, I had

26:17

a video of him chasing a dough

26:19

down the slogging road, like November twenty

26:22

second, I think this year or no, this

26:24

would have been three four years ago now, and

26:27

then I never saw him again, so I don't know. I

26:30

think he was so big. I think if somebody would

26:32

have got him, we'd have seen it or heard about.

26:33

It, you know what. Score wise, what were we talking about?

26:36

Man?

26:36

He was one sixties for sure, I mean an absolute

26:39

like I always showed him to Mark Drury and

26:41

his team and they were like, holy

26:43

crap, like we didn't know you had deer like that, Tennessee.

26:45

I mean he was a dagumshooter.

26:48

If you can lad and seem more like that sense, yeah, yeah,

26:50

if you.

26:50

Can just let him, if you can just let him age man,

26:52

if you can let him get out there to six.

26:56

I had a one that was like finally showed

26:59

some awesome potential

27:01

this year, and he was for sure a four year old because I had

27:03

him last year as a three on camera and

27:05

I'm like, all right, let's let's see, let's roll the dice

27:07

five and.

27:10

Uh, you got some killers

27:12

around you? Huh.

27:13

My neighbor, yeah, he and his brother hunt. They

27:16

usual only hunt a week of muzzle utter, which is as

27:18

we know in Tennessee.

27:19

That's that's the jam.

27:22

And I don't know if you got him then or

27:24

later, but my neighbor ended up getting them. And

27:27

of course you hear about it. He's like, man, biggest year I've ever

27:29

shot. And I'm like, I bet it's the four year

27:31

old. Like, do you'll get a picture of him? I

27:33

had. The other neighbor's like, yeah, I think he posted on Facebook.

27:36

Pull it up for me.

27:38

We're all living the same.

27:41

Guming yeah, but you know we always

27:43

have there, you know. There, I don't have anything

27:45

that's I'm super

27:47

pumped up, sure, but there I've got a bunch of

27:49

old deer. Still, there's all They're always going to get through.

27:51

Yeah, you know, there's always gonna be something to get through. You just hope like

27:54

the the pretty boys making.

27:55

The ones with potential for sure.

27:57

Man, I'll tell you what I started doing, and this might

27:59

be a good alternative if you if

28:02

you're not able to buy a lot

28:04

of land around you, not you specifically, I'm just

28:06

talking to the listener as I went.

28:08

And so I bought my farm and there

28:10

was a couple of hundred acres over

28:12

here that the guy just let

28:15

kids hunt it like crazy,

28:18

and bro, every three year old I have

28:20

was just getting capped every it'd

28:22

be opening day arrival. I checked

28:26

Facebook two hours later. Man,

28:29

I've been passing them for two years.

28:30

Yeah.

28:31

And so I actually went

28:33

to the guy and was like, hey, man, he

28:36

was talking to me.

28:37

He had ran over a

28:40

shed and it pierced his tractor.

28:42

He's like, man, I had my kids at the green.

28:44

He was like, man, I had to put a damn

28:47

tire on that tractor. There's three hundred and eighty

28:49

bucks for a front tire. You know they're expensive.

28:52

I was like, hey, man, why

28:54

don't you let me lease that ground for you and

28:57

I'll pay you X amount. Then

28:59

you can you know, you can buy tractor tires ever. You

29:01

know you can be able to In that moment, he was like,

29:04

all right, let's do it. And I don't even hunt that.

29:07

Just what you're saying, you took kids hunting

29:09

rights away from you

29:16

just thought about one.

29:16

Of the kids. There's no

29:19

way.

29:21

Out here without taking

29:23

somebody's rights away.

29:28

I'm just saying, yes, I

29:30

took it to some kids from the kids, yeah, from

29:33

the good job man.

29:33

And then because of that, I've been killing bigger. So

29:39

if you can lock up that ground around you, just

29:41

by like.

29:42

Maybe leasing it,

29:44

you can acquire enough to actually

29:46

grow some deer. And I think that's what what I've

29:48

been able to do over there, Thank goodness. It's

29:51

just kind of have enough, or you can

29:53

hold them tight, you know, and hold them and

29:55

keep them in there with food, with cover.

29:58

Honestly, the thing that's worked best for me

30:01

is not pressuring those areas

30:03

and just letting them know

30:05

that they can walk in there and the refuge man

30:07

hang out and Chase does getting shot

30:09

at it.

30:10

I've learned so much from Mark. He

30:14

is like absolutely

30:16

and like I grew up watching those guys

30:18

and and now getting to be buds with them and talk

30:21

to him on a regular basis. It's just amazing. You

30:23

know. The strategy that goes into, yeah,

30:25

you've got to you've got a farm, But what's

30:27

the best way you can you

30:29

can hunt the farm. What's the best way you can design it

30:32

to where you're giving the deer the

30:34

best chance at survival? You know, not only from

30:36

hunters, but from everything else. And

30:39

you know, and and and I don't think what a lot of

30:41

people realize is is we're the least

30:43

of a deer's worries. Like we're

30:45

their best option, seriously,

30:47

because if if the hunters not

30:49

you know, harvesting a deer, it's going to

30:52

get eaten alive, sure, which

30:54

is not fun. Or or they're going to disease

30:56

out, you know, and get weak. So just

30:59

learning how you design farms and like the access

31:01

of you know, designing

31:04

you know, to and from the food plotter or the deer

31:06

cent however you're going to hunt them.

31:09

Has passed my mega legit.

31:13

Dude, I'm he's I'm every day.

31:15

Yeah, just like.

31:18

And it kind of takes it kind of takes like because

31:20

I heard you say earlier with your dad growing up and

31:22

all that stuff, and that's a lot of like hunting

31:25

back then, it's just getting in the truck with a gun,

31:27

going and sitting in a bon and waiting.

31:30

When you start prepping a farm and start learning

31:32

about that stuff and and and really

31:35

looking at it from the deer's eyes instead of your own, like

31:37

that takes it to another level and

31:40

of obsession.

31:40

To exactly because

31:42

I'm sitting here right now talking to you guys and listening

31:45

to y'all talk, and I'm thinking about, Man, I've

31:47

got to you know, I need to create some more cover

31:49

on that real side. Like

31:51

that's what I'll do on my off time. Like I'm gonna be in

31:54

the woods creating cover for deer

31:56

on my off day. It

31:58

sounds so silly. I

32:00

love it that much.

32:02

You have to.

32:03

I literally get injuries from yea,

32:06

I just.

32:06

Took I just took a stitch out of that one right there from

32:08

Browton's rattling because I didn't cut my brow Tons

32:11

smacked it. Yeah, I had to get stitching it. So yeah, I'm

32:13

with you.

32:13

Bro. Let me ask you this, what do you feel like?

32:15

Are some things you've done or implemented

32:17

on your farm that is that has either

32:19

helped your population or has helped helped

32:22

give your bucks and and those some

32:24

some of that cut What do you feel like? Okay, I did this

32:27

to my farm and this made a difference in the outcome

32:29

of mind.

32:29

I'll tell you what, you know. I got a new

32:31

You get a new piece of land, and you

32:33

want it to look good and you have fun keeping

32:36

it up, you know, and manicuring

32:38

it. Ye, and then you realize,

32:41

wait a second, I've taken I've

32:43

taken all of my cover, all of my edges, all of my

32:45

soft edges out, and so like,

32:48

for me, it's the discipline of letting weeds

32:50

grow, letting it fields grow up quick.

32:54

You're like, man, this looks so good and

32:57

you're really manicuring everything, and it's

32:59

like, yeah, stop bushogging

33:01

because the turkeys are getting picked off,

33:04

nowhere to go. Like you feel good about yourself

33:06

because it looks awesome and it's pretty, but you're

33:09

actually doing damage. And I would say that like really

33:11

trying to make sure I'm throttling how

33:13

much I'm on the farm. It's to like,

33:15

I definitely need some help out there, but it's tough

33:17

for me because I don't want I don't want to

33:19

get you know, somebody involved that feels like

33:21

they've got to go.

33:22

Every day do something.

33:24

Yeah, man, yep, And yeah,

33:26

I think just letting it rest and let it be more natural.

33:28

I completely agreeze your question.

33:30

Yeah, we took I would

33:32

say probably thirty acres of my

33:34

farm and that we used to bush

33:37

hog. I mean three

33:39

or four times a year, honestly, and

33:42

just let it grow and cut

33:44

fibrakes around the outside, and we're gonna

33:46

start burning it every every four years. We hadn't

33:48

made it four years yet since we started doing it, but I've already

33:51

seen pictures

33:54

of more turkeys, more poles.

33:56

More falls.

33:57

And I mean it's kind of a dual deal

34:00

because you're given once that natural

34:02

growth comes up, you're giving protection to the to

34:05

the poles and a place to feed.

34:07

But that's also really great deer brows.

34:10

Yeah, and we've and we've seen a lot of We

34:12

didn't kill a lot because we're just letting the deer grow,

34:15

but the buck I took off there spend

34:17

a ton of time in that natural

34:19

browse. And then I don't even really even

34:22

I mean, my wife's like, let's take a ride on the subside,

34:24

and I'm.

34:25

Like, no, yeah, no, no. Some

34:27

of my friends are like, let's go outside.

34:29

Say it's like only you

34:32

know, only in January.

34:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly late

34:35

January.

34:36

And once you start, you know, once you start riding

34:38

around your life crap, you know, keeping

34:40

up logging roads is a lot of work.

34:42

Man, Yeah, and they start rutting up a road.

34:43

It's not fun when you own when

34:46

somebody else is You're like, yeah,

34:48

but I think you know to to piggyback

34:51

onto that. Probably my next biggest project is going

34:53

back in, you know, because I've had

34:55

this the original farm for five six years, seven

34:57

years now, and all of that logged early

35:00

sessional growth is now getting shaded out by like

35:02

some mid story stuff. So I've got to go back in and like

35:05

create a lot more openings than that

35:07

that used to be there and get that browse back

35:09

up. But my favorite project

35:11

each year is control burns. I had the state

35:13

come out and do it the first year.

35:15

I find that's a common thing people that control

35:17

burned.

35:17

That's their favorite adult

35:21

fire.

35:21

I think I would burn all of West Tennessee if I tried

35:23

to control burn our place.

35:25

I love it and like now watching

35:27

watching pros do it and you can like one

35:30

of my favorite Like I obsess every day on you

35:32

especially certain times of years. Growing Dear TV with.

35:35

Grant and Great Information.

35:36

Man, it's incredible and they're they're big

35:39

advocates on control burns and rotating

35:41

all that. But that's really kind of how I've learned

35:44

how to safely do it. I was watching

35:46

the guys doing on my place. They

35:48

kind of forced it. They shouldn't have burned. It was just like they

35:51

knew they were getting paid and it was still wet and like

35:53

not even half of it went. But I initially

35:55

started out with with my tour manager,

35:58

a bus driver and their buddy,

36:00

Hey.

36:00

What you got going on? I need you have a place,

36:03

and.

36:04

We we burnt like the first

36:06

year we burnt h this hillside that was eight

36:08

acres and last year we burned eighty acres.

36:10

Nice man, and dude, you talk

36:13

you like eighty acres on fires? The coolest

36:15

thing. It looks like the end of the world.

36:16

Is there any Is there any freak out?

36:18

Oh, there's always streak out. Yeah, keeps fun

36:20

though.

36:21

Me and Dan we had this on

36:23

our place in West Tennessee, this one spot that was super

36:25

overground.

36:26

First off 's say this, take Dustin's

36:28

advice and like.

36:30

Do your research before you just go. Don't

36:32

just go throw gasolina.

36:33

That's what we did. Yeah.

36:35

I was like, man, I think we like we could burn

36:37

this. Dan was like how I was like, dude, I don't know. I

36:39

think we just dumped some gasoline out here and lining

36:41

on fire and Dude, before we know it,

36:43

Man, there's this group of we dude,

36:47

there was like helicopters flying over hiding

36:49

in the trees. We had

36:52

town.

36:53

Yeah, we lift the woods on fire man. But there was a big

36:55

grove of dead trees. And so when it

36:57

got I was like, maybe I'll just skip around.

36:59

All of a sudden it was and it was

37:01

going and we just had this giant

37:04

like inferno having

37:07

it in front of us and and neighbors.

37:10

We gotta stump that out over there. We go. Yeah,

37:12

buddy comes like y'all burn or something. No,

37:15

man, just a little campfire put it out.

37:17

Right, and we were running through the woods like

37:19

I mean, luckily it didn't get out of control.

37:22

He could have.

37:23

But easy talking about freak out mode. Bro, we

37:25

were we were there.

37:27

We need to win the switch, We need to win this ship.

37:29

I think God had a little grace on us and just

37:31

maybe dropped.

37:32

It's crazy how how quickly dead

37:34

grass goes and it gets to

37:36

a point you're like, oh, I'll just you know, they'll get in front

37:38

of it. It gets so hot you can't yeah and leave,

37:40

you can't even get close.

37:41

That leaves burn it in an instant.

37:43

Yeah, and one thing

37:45

almost my neighbors saved me for this. I

37:48

just called him like, hey, just so you know, I'm about to burn

37:50

this hillside is the first one

37:52

I was going to tempt on my own. He goes, did you

37:54

call the state? I was like, I didn't

37:56

realize I had to. He's like, yeah,

37:58

you better get you a burn from they're gon hanger

38:02

and.

38:03

There's certain times of years you don't have to have one, and there's

38:06

a majority time.

38:07

Of the year stay wide or is that county wide.

38:09

I'm not sure. So anyway, I call the state

38:11

and then I call the county

38:13

you know, fire department, and you'll still have

38:15

people driving down the road thinking it's the end of the world.

38:18

Yeah.

38:18

Sure, you can let all your neighbors know. There's still gonna

38:20

be somebody driving around. All the cops Andy, this farm's on

38:22

fire. If they know about it, they're

38:24

like, yeah, we know, control burn whatever

38:26

whatever for habitat. So that's important.

38:36

Was it your dad, like got you that got you

38:38

into this?

38:39

Dad?

38:39

Did your dad hunt?

38:40

It was dad?

38:40

Yeah, And I started bow hunting when I was thirteen, So

38:43

I think my entry, my entry to hunting

38:46

was tough hunting. Yeah, which I think is a lot of

38:48

people.

38:48

Dude, you're the dog, like when your dad's going

38:50

and he's like, he's like, yeah, you can go. If you go pick up the dove.

38:53

That's it.

38:53

And so that's where it started. And I

38:56

loved it, and he could tell that I loved it. And you know,

38:58

he grew up in Florida,

39:01

so he was chasing deer. Wasn't

39:03

huge, you know, but he was. He was still

39:05

out chasing hogs and trapping raccoons

39:07

and stuff. So it was it was in his blood. We did a lot of

39:09

fishing growing up, but for

39:11

whatever reason, took an interest in and uh and

39:14

honey, he went and he I remember, I think the first

39:17

thing I remember of us doing with deer Honting he

39:19

went, uh and built a buddy

39:21

a deer stand. I

39:23

think it was. I think we just built it out of wood. And

39:26

I was like, man, I want to do I want a deer hunt.

39:28

So I think we just started doing it. I loved it. And

39:31

then he got uh, I believe it or

39:33

not. Right down the street from us was a guy that did

39:35

had a little archery shop and I was garage. It's

39:38

part time archery shop.

39:39

You were in there?

39:40

Yeah, he and I got bows. I was thirteen,

39:42

and we started shooting and I started hunting, man, and it was

39:44

game on. Yeah, you feel that you

39:46

feel out of drilling when you're on the ground with a deer. I was

39:48

hunting on the ground at first, come on thirteen

39:50

with a bow.

39:51

And then you then you actually like harvest one. You

39:53

shoot one and it just sets it on fire.

39:55

Yeah, And it was all that was just that was it. And

39:58

and and still like just the the end anticipation

40:00

of watching the Outdoor

40:02

channel. Yeah, on the weekends. You know, you're

40:05

looking for the weekend because you're not in school. But then you've got

40:07

you know, Jury Outdoors coming

40:10

on, and you know, this is when they we still

40:13

had video cameras. This big me

40:15

and my buddy started videotaping each other when

40:18

we were fifteen bow hunting. We had camo

40:20

duct tape on these giants, these

40:23

giants. And

40:26

that's what I was going to do for a living, for life.

40:28

I was going to be outdoor TV.

40:30

Yeah, bro host and cameraman.

40:33

Even before you started like playing music and singing,

40:35

that was the driver.

40:36

That was it, man. I was obsessed really. Yeah.

40:39

The guitar.

40:41

I picked it up originally when I was eight and

40:43

then gave it up and then I picked it up again when I

40:45

was fourteen.

40:46

Did you always kind of write and sing or were

40:48

you just kind of yeah?

40:49

I immediately, like as soon as I could kind

40:51

of get through playing and singing, I had this infinity

40:54

to like really try to write a song.

40:58

Man. Getting to record something on

41:01

my mom's like cassette deck, go

41:03

play it in her car was the coolest

41:05

thing ever. I remember like it was

41:07

yesterday, and it was like so addicting. Yeah, and

41:09

that that became hunting and fishing always

41:11

stayed.

41:12

But that was like, Okay, So when did you

41:14

just saw going, I'm going, I'm gonna

41:16

I'm gonna chase this thing down.

41:18

I will say probably fifteen, fifteen

41:21

or sixteen we started a band. I know I

41:23

was fifteen because my mom was taking me over to

41:25

my buddy's house so we could even drive.

41:27

I can't even drive yet.

41:28

Was it the Dustin Lynch band? You have some names?

41:30

It was?

41:31

It was back in the day. We uh, it took

41:33

forever to find a name, but we finally came across

41:35

this This name called fifteen Rain was

41:38

our band.

41:38

Name by.

41:45

Matchbox two. Fifteen

41:47

Rain, and it

41:49

took us forever to figure out can have a bunch of names.

41:51

And my mom was fresh than fifteen,

41:54

so mine was the thing in a number ten.

41:55

Yes, my drummer was taking a was cheating

41:58

on a quiz in English class on

42:00

uh, I forget what it was great

42:02

gas beer or something, and the answer to number fifteen

42:05

was rain and somebody shouted like he

42:07

was like, hey, what's you know? And somebody's

42:09

like fifteen rain and he's like, and

42:13

so that's what we know ourselves, and we did uh.

42:15

But we were straight into like trying

42:18

to do originals. It was like like kind of pop

42:20

rocky immediately immediately, No,

42:23

we were doing covers too, but like we

42:25

mean started trying to write because I was obsessed with writing.

42:28

Yeah, were you writing with your little band? Like

42:30

fifteen Rain was writing fifteen rains?

42:32

Yeah, sham, it's still it's still wild.

42:34

It's still how I love to like make our shows just there.

42:37

I don't have like somebody that helps me out and

42:39

like, hey, what we were thinking about this is the soundtrack

42:41

to this tour or anything like that. I know some people have like

42:44

a musical director that kind of maps

42:46

out their songs and whatever. Like I still

42:48

get with my band and we'll huddle up and

42:51

just jam until we find it. And that's how

42:53

we how we still do our shows.

42:55

That's awesome.

42:55

And that's how we were doing. We would just sit around and like

42:58

jam and find it and then I'll go home and lyrics.

43:00

And we came up to Nashville and recorded

43:02

in Antiok, Tennessee, and this dude's basement, went

43:05

home on our you know parents

43:08

printer printed off the CD cover and burned

43:10

them on our burned CDs.

43:12

On the you know, our family computers.

43:14

And and started handing those out and

43:16

selling them.

43:17

And playing shows

43:19

and and yeah, we would play.

43:20

We would play you know, walk a Thons and car

43:23

dealerships, and on the trailer they pull

43:25

up, yeah are uh We We had

43:27

this guy that that approached us and was like, man, I

43:29

can get you all into Manchester, Tennessee at this this

43:31

club. And we're like, you know, sweet

43:34

big times, yeah, our first club. And

43:36

he was hanging exit in over our heads

43:38

too. I'll get you in there too.

43:40

It's just you know, whoever.

43:43

He grind trying to make.

43:45

I signed contracts with like eighty of those.

43:46

Yeah right, and uh so we

43:49

go and we go, we we

43:51

play this thing. We play this building and

43:53

uh, I'm like, man, is this

43:56

a Mexican restaurant a tire shop.

44:00

Combined?

44:00

Yeah? Why is there a stripper pole? But

44:02

at sixteen you're like, hell yeah,

44:06

Well, come to find out, it's like a rotational

44:09

venue. So on Thursdays they have strippers

44:12

and I forget what day we played one is. My

44:14

dad at the time had a insulation

44:18

company, like a little side gig insulation company,

44:20

and a couple of his workers. I

44:25

was telling Dad. I was like, it's sound like Hispanic

44:28

restaurant. I can't figure out what it is.

44:29

Yeah.

44:30

Yeah, Dad's like, wow, massa workers and

44:33

they're like they tell them like, no, it's

44:35

a strip club on whatever. That

44:39

didn't go over well with mom.

44:41

That's they couldn't come.

44:42

So we got to play that place twice and then that

44:44

that plug got full. Yeah,

44:47

but yeah, we we just beat around in the college

44:50

comes and everybody kind of had different aspirations.

44:53

My drummer was a huge Alabama fan,

44:55

so you wanted to go to bambas he went there. I

44:58

was headed to MTSU with the guitar player. We're

45:00

going to keep the music thing going. The

45:03

bass player super talent. He wanted to go to UT

45:06

Knoxville and do architecture. So we kind of split up

45:08

out of high school. And what year

45:11

was this two thousand and three?

45:13

Gotcha?

45:14

And uh then at last minute, I

45:16

got a call from Lipscomb University to get

45:19

a scholarship to play golf. Wow, and

45:21

really, so I did that. It got me to Nashville.

45:23

It was like that golf got me to Nashville, so I

45:25

could actually really jump into learning how that

45:28

man, it's funny how and uh,

45:31

that's that's what got me here, man. And the

45:33

first night I moved in, my parents

45:35

left, and before they got to the end

45:37

of the road, I was at the Bluebird man.

45:39

Wow.

45:40

And uh, scared of death. I thought it was in the

45:42

ghetto. Yeah, yeah, I mean I did. It was

45:44

like I was scared to death. To go anywhere in

45:46

Nashville is like I'm going to get killed everywhere I go.

45:49

Do you remember who you saw? Who was playing? I

45:51

don't.

45:52

I don't remember that. I didn't.

45:54

I was playing yesterday.

45:57

This was playing.

45:57

Every time we asked me who they saw, Yeah,

46:01

dance nine o'clock.

46:03

I didn't get in. I got you know that. It was capacity.

46:06

I just watched through the windows. But I was like the

46:08

most epic moment of life

46:11

right there, first night in Nashville and get to watch the Blueberd

46:13

Cafe.

46:14

That's awesome. Yeah, that's that's that's

46:16

a great story.

46:17

We had come up in high school, me and the band and played

46:19

an open mic at Bluebird though cool, so like

46:21

I knew, Yeah, I was obviously,

46:23

Well they're actually still airing back then, they're airing

46:26

like Tuesdays at the Bluebird on TNN.

46:28

Yeah, yeah, I remember channel thirty three for

46:30

me. I don't know what it was for y'all. We used to watch

46:32

TNN all the time, yep.

46:34

And it's just it's

46:36

cool. Like moving to Nashville.

46:39

It was the Grand Old Opry, it was Bluebird Cafe and

46:41

Lower Broadway and like just trying to you

46:43

know, my goals were to play all three of those things, and that's

46:45

kind of where I was, man, And of course those goals

46:48

have changed at this point, but so did.

46:50

You Just got to Nashville, started connecting

46:52

networking, writing as much as you could.

46:55

Yeah, you know, it took a while. I had a lot of

46:57

my plate trying to continue on my

46:59

gos call ship was the reason I

47:01

could be in Nashville. Sure, it couldn't afford

47:03

to be here anywhere other way. So like that was a huge

47:06

focus a lot of time, like trying to play my butt

47:08

off and keep that thing

47:10

that's awesome, you know, and I did and

47:13

and then you know, at Lipscom University,

47:15

I think it's got a lot more relaxed now, but back

47:17

then, it was super strict. Like if

47:20

you've left campus after seven

47:22

pm, you had to check out, tell them where you're going.

47:24

Really.

47:25

Then you come back and they're like, where'd you go? You know, at

47:27

the Sounds game? Okay, do this breathalyzer.

47:30

I didn't even know college could do that. Yeah.

47:33

If you're twenty one and even showed

47:35

up anything on a breath lizer, you're out

47:37

of college.

47:37

Anything.

47:38

Yeah, golf colarship gone, Yeah, super

47:41

strict.

47:42

So we would go to Vanderbilt.

47:44

You know, we'd go see our parents, but we'd go to Vanderbilt

47:47

and go to their frat parties. And that's

47:50

where I was like, wait a second, you're

47:53

hiring these bands for how much money to play these

47:55

cover songs. I can do this. So I started

47:57

chopping away at getting my cover list up and

47:59

uh and and taking notes at

48:02

these parties on like where I was working and

48:04

research.

48:05

I mean, we did this eut of the band that did

48:08

basically the same thing you're saying you did in

48:10

Mississippi.

48:11

And like I'm a MISSISPI steaked.

48:12

I'm a bulldog guy and I can't even be mad

48:15

at Ole miss because of how much money

48:17

we made off those I mean, they.

48:19

Would shell it out.

48:20

Yeah, and it really sets a great

48:23

foundation, uh for for for

48:25

knowing what the listener

48:27

wants to.

48:28

Hear without a doubt whether you like it or

48:30

not.

48:30

That's it. I still I still use a lot

48:32

of those skills from those days. Frat houses

48:36

on Lower Broadway, play Lower Broadway for years

48:38

two like that never

48:40

changes. We were just in Mexico for our

48:42

ninth crash my apply with Luke and

48:45

we've created this monster down there.

48:50

Let's get give us, give us the give us

48:52

your the Dustin Lance story on what

48:54

happened last year.

48:56

That's drunk.

48:57

I know, no doubt tind

49:00

of release of an apology, didn't he he did?

49:02

Yeah? There's no context, right, so you see in

49:05

writing in these articles on what

49:09

right, but but there's no context of like how

49:11

it was said. You just read it and it's like, wow, that's terrible.

49:14

Oh he's snow dust and Liz, Yeah.

49:15

So's he's like trying to crack jokes, and you

49:18

know he's because I've been down there with them every year, Like we

49:20

kind of I have done that every year

49:22

together down there and multiple nights together.

49:24

It isn't just like I play and he plays like we've

49:27

collabed every year on stuff. So

49:29

the crowd down there, everybody's been seven

49:32

times or like, they've all get it, and they

49:34

all understand what it is and how loose it

49:36

is, and that's why they go back like you're getting a

49:39

once in a lifetime show. Absolutely a

49:41

circus that.

49:42

You can only get there.

49:43

And he's never able to say any of

49:45

that in the States on tour because Live

49:47

Nation will pull his contract exactly, so we

49:50

know what we're getting down there, and he's trying to be funny and introduce

49:52

me. Well, he starts going down this road of just

49:54

bashing me, and to the point to

49:56

where I'm looking at his.

49:57

Manager like that

50:00

you care, just that, like it might get him in

50:02

trouble.

50:02

And so yeah, we hit the stage and it anyways,

50:05

it catches fire. We get back home, he's duck hunting

50:07

and I'm deer hunting or whatever. We're

50:09

looking at all these articles pop up like oh crap,

50:12

and so he has to apologize, you

50:15

know, especially with you know, now he's

50:17

worried obviously American idol. Yeah,

50:19

who cares about the country music thing. It's an American idol,

50:21

no doubt. You know, you got to watch out for, no doubt.

50:24

And so he does that.

50:26

So he like he can't.

50:28

He gets to worry. He can't sleep at night because he's worried about

50:30

what my parents think, oh man, which

50:32

is just shows you what kind of guy Luke is. So he

50:35

like calls me, He's like, what's their email? I want to apologize

50:37

to him, and he goes, you know what, next

50:40

year you get to introduce me. You have a year to figure out how

50:42

to do it. So I'm like, oh crap. You

50:44

know, I can't like go in I don't want to go in hard

50:46

on him like he did me. What can I do? So

50:49

I'm like, you know what, We're going to do an official roast?

50:52

And uh, the best

50:54

roaster of all time is Jeff Ross.

50:56

And so did you get him down there?

50:57

Got a hold of him and

51:00

we wore him out.

51:04

Out.

51:06

It was one of those things where like please connect, please

51:08

connect, you know, and the first

51:11

like one of the first singers that was

51:13

I knew was not yeah I want

51:15

to hear some of some of them, just just yeah.

51:18

One of the first singers. Like the crowd reacted pretty

51:21

good too, and I'm like, oh, we got them. What's

51:23

coming now? You know his I think

51:25

his new single Southern and Slow, so like he

51:27

cracked him on that. He's like, finally you're writing

51:29

something autobiographic. But

51:32

it was more of that stuff. There's some stuff we had to edit

51:34

out about Caroline and Ryan

51:37

Seacrest and uh, but

51:41

uh, we kept it pretty family friendly. But

51:43

it was great, man, it was good Jeff. Jeff

51:45

did a great job and he went like above and beyond. Yeah,

51:48

he was really into it. So it turned

51:50

out great. And and it come to find out

51:52

they you know, you're always going at what point

51:54

there is enough crash my

51:56

applians and uh confirmed

51:59

the last night of the festival, the guy's

52:02

backstage. Luke was on stage and I went back to get another

52:04

beer or something, and they're like, we're thousand

52:06

percent do in year ten start playing for it? So

52:08

that's all what we started out doing. They asked

52:10

me to do a couple of songs by the pool the first year ever.

52:13

They were just making it up and I'm

52:16

like, a couple of songs. Screw y'all. I've never been to Mexico.

52:19

Like, so, me and my band I had it

52:21

was me and my guitar player and my drummer had a cahone.

52:24

We stopped by the liquor store on the way there in the resort

52:26

and we just grab a bunch of bottles of liquor and

52:29

we take them out to the pool and we sit on the edge of the pool

52:31

and we start playing songs and

52:34

they wanted two songs. We played for an hour and a half

52:36

and people going crazy. The

52:39

promoters came to me, They're like, dude, we got to do

52:41

this next year. I was like, well, give me some speakers next

52:43

year. Yeah, And so

52:45

we looked, did a little stage. It went off great, and then

52:48

it just They're like, Okay, this is your thing. Let's

52:50

start growing it. And it's grown into this just

52:54

circus of like we do a big parade walk in and

52:56

this year we did a theme and

52:59

we're bringing it.

53:00

It sounds like we brought fun.

53:02

Absolutely.

53:02

Yeah, we we branded it the Pool Situation.

53:05

We brought up to Las Vegas and

53:07

sold out three of their night clubs with the Pool

53:09

Situation, and we'll bring it

53:11

back to Vegas. We did it at c Mayfest, so it's kind

53:13

of like it's come back to the States and become one

53:15

of our staple events.

53:16

Now, how many nights do you do y'all do down there?

53:19

It's it's a four night festival. Cool and then

53:21

the hot pool parties every day. Yeah, it's

53:25

a lot of fun. I always encourage anybody that, especially

53:27

you know, songwriters, anybody that's in the creative community

53:30

go down there. There's there's plenty of room and

53:32

you know, to to get everybody in and just see

53:34

it. You know, it's it's it's always crappy weather

53:37

here anyways. Yeah, and man, it's great to get down

53:39

there and just mingled. There were so many artists, you were sixteen

53:41

artists, Like, yeah, why would you not be down

53:43

there mingling? Right?

53:44

For sure? Yeah.

53:46

So you're on what six studio album

53:48

with Killed the Think So yeah, well I think it's six. Yeah,

53:50

when when did that come? When did Kill the Cable come

53:52

out?

53:52

It came out September this this past year twenty

53:55

three, and I'm

53:58

still loving it. You know, I'm still getting better at the process.

54:00

That's what I think I'm having so much fun doing.

54:03

Is like you start out and as

54:05

all of us do, you're like, you've recorded

54:07

songs, but then you get into you know how we

54:09

used to do it, you know, you you

54:12

know, we're cut with eight guys and you've got his producer, and you

54:14

feel like you're running from the cops trying to make what's

54:16

going to be you know, what's your life and career

54:19

hang on your first album?

54:21

No pressure?

54:21

Yeah, you don't know how to communicate to these guys, right,

54:25

you know, I mean all these guys, like I've

54:28

read their names on track lists, your you know, a whole

54:30

life, and they're played all my favorite records. And now

54:32

he's sitting there like, Okay, I don't like what he's

54:34

playing, but I'm not going to tell him.

54:35

Right, you know?

54:37

Yeah, no, I know exactly, But now I am going to

54:39

tell them, you know, like we have like the

54:41

confidence in the rapport now with with musicians

54:43

and worked with them so long that I

54:47

feel comfortable in the studio now and it's it's a lot more fun

54:49

and I've I've learned how I like to make music

54:52

and and how I'm loving it right now. We cut with a

54:55

smaller band, you get the bare bones

54:57

of it, and then we'll just take it back to the studio and and

55:02

slowly chip away at it and try to make each song

55:04

unique. And been

55:06

around doing it long enough to see that, you know,

55:09

the pendulum of country music is constantly

55:12

swinging. Luckily,

55:15

I've been able to hang on to it and not

55:17

get bucked off. And we've

55:19

got to you know, make a lot of cool music and

55:22

and and get to make some very

55:24

traditional music and very you

55:26

know, kind of genre pushing forward thinking

55:29

music too. And and I've had fun doing all that, you know,

55:31

growing up being a rock

55:34

fan and getting to make some more rocking countries cool

55:36

and growing up and being a George Strait's

55:38

my hero. So getting to do all of that I

55:40

think been George. Thank

55:42

you, Yeah, thank you. That was just a fun tip

55:45

of the hat of like how can I how

55:47

can I get my my hero on an album? And that

55:49

way, you know, I went to George show and

55:53

no it was in November of last year.

55:55

That was stable too, was that the thing?

55:57

You know, this was a two night only at at

55:59

Dick. He's in fort Worth, and I

56:02

was like, man, I to get to see Straight fort

56:04

Worth, Like yeah, get me straight

56:06

and then like go down the street and two step billy

56:08

bobs. That sounds like a great night. So I flew down there and

56:10

did that. And I

56:12

was sitting there and before Straight

56:15

comes on, they played, you know, thirty

56:17

or forty minutes of house music, but it was

56:19

all songs, all country songs that had mentioned

56:22

George Straight. Dang in the lyrics.

56:24

Dang, it was really cool.

56:26

How long was it?

56:27

It was like thirty or forty minute Every

56:30

song had mentioned George Straight and the lyric.

56:32

That's awesome. And you could probably do thirty

56:34

forty minutes out of my catalog with every Straight,

56:38

no doubt.

56:39

It was pretty cool though, Like, as you know, I'm sitting there

56:41

as a songwriter like wow, and

56:43

they're all most of them are like

56:46

hits for sure. Yeah. It just shows you the

56:49

magnitude of his success and his brand.

56:51

So you're hitting the road on Kill the Cowboy Tour.

56:54

When that when's that starting?

56:55

Yeah?

56:56

That kicks off Actually the Ryman, it'll be our first time to

56:59

headline the Rhyman April second, and

57:02

uh with you, I've got I'm taking out of a

57:04

buddy. His name Skis. I don't know if y'all heard of him.

57:06

Yeah, I want to know this guy.

57:08

Yeah, he's he's a lot of fun. He's like a chameleon man. He

57:10

does he's Uh, I don't know, he's got

57:12

like this arm. I guess pretty much

57:14

R and B based, but he's a big

57:16

country fan. And he also does collapse

57:19

with like top forty artists

57:21

and you know,

57:23

like in the rap scene a little bit. And he's

57:26

just like we met honestly

57:29

just hanging out at a bar and

57:31

uh. I started coming across his name and

57:34

liking what he was doing, and I'm like, man, what can we do? That's

57:37

a little different, you know. And as

57:40

artists, like if you're gonna do a tour or somebody,

57:42

you want to love their music and who they are. And I

57:44

love him as a person and I love his music. I'm like, hell,

57:47

let's see if he no way he's going to say

57:49

yes to this. And he's like, dude, I'm a thousand

57:51

percent in let's go. I'm like, okay, wow,

57:54

is it him and the guitars? And he got to he's

57:56

gonna yeah, so I think, you know, and like he

57:59

has it to a whole lot yea. And

58:01

in the past he's just kind of in that world

58:03

you just throw the throw the DJ or

58:06

whatever. But he's bringing a band

58:08

out with us so to be cool to you know, see those

58:10

songs, but you know, and that

58:12

interpretation. So we'll see how it goes. It's kind

58:14

of a big unknown, you know, it's

58:16

not like it's the country orders of the band. Yeah,

58:18

I don't know what he's gonna do, which is kind of fun.

58:29

You've got to collaborate with Jelly Row on this

58:31

latest thing, Chevrolet.

58:33

How's that?

58:34

How's that? Working with him?

58:35

Man? Oh, it's really cool. Man, He's you know, he's a great

58:37

energy. I don't think you guys have got to spend a lot of time

58:39

with Jelly.

58:39

Yeah.

58:40

I don't know him personally, but I've dude, what just

58:42

just the fact that he went up to Washington

58:45

and and so

58:47

I got hi chill bumps right now thinking about that man and

58:49

and him fighting for you know, for

58:52

for that and it was just really cool

58:54

to watch.

58:54

And really he's got a lot more in the pipeline

58:56

of good that he's doing. I know, actually

58:59

on the drive end today, I was talking to Buddy

59:01

that that's you know, in on it,

59:03

working with it, and and Joey's just you know, with

59:05

his background and I think he has

59:08

I know, he has a lot more experience than I do.

59:11

I go to the Bluebird Cafe and think I'm in danger

59:14

when I moved to Nashville. That dude's an

59:16

Antioch running the streets. So

59:18

like he knows, he knows what's out there.

59:20

And and a lot.

59:24

Just a demographic that I'm not aware of

59:28

in country music. And that's what I got asked the other

59:30

day, like what's he bring to country music?

59:33

He brings that to country music. So he brings that walk

59:35

of life and like the street

59:37

smarts and knowing how that works and what

59:39

they need to hear. That's what he brings to country music.

59:41

A voice for those people man that haven't

59:44

really that voice hasn't been.

59:45

Around, not not at this yeah, not at a scale

59:48

like this.

59:48

Yeah.

59:49

And and that's what I think he's bringing. And that's

59:51

why it's a rocket ship ride. This

59:53

this whole collab started before the rock

59:56

ship Ride happened. It started before he knew

59:58

he wanted to even try to make a country or if

1:00:00

that's what we want to call it, right, And

1:00:03

it started with my producers at Krall and

1:00:06

Jelly worked forever ago. Zach grew

1:00:08

up in Nashville and he was making

1:00:11

like all the street beats for all the rappers cool,

1:00:14

and he and Jelly

1:00:16

had worked together and known each other through that for years

1:00:18

and twenty one when

1:00:20

when you know, we were just stuck in

1:00:23

Nashville, Jelly and Zach reconnected

1:00:25

and we had noticed Zach and I had noticed,

1:00:27

like, man, Jelly's like he's got a connection with

1:00:29

his fans. If you look at his back then if

1:00:31

you were looking at his post, like the interactions

1:00:34

were through the room really just having a conversation

1:00:36

with him man where like yeah, just

1:00:39

his reach and like just

1:00:41

his fan base. If he would post something, we're

1:00:43

like boom and all involved and where

1:00:45

like anybody else was posting, because

1:00:48

that's all we were doing, was like hey, come

1:00:50

hang on a basement tonight, you know, like we're

1:00:52

doing a thing. But Jelly was like Craig

1:00:54

going crazy and we noticed it. And

1:00:56

so Zach's like, man, let me reach out to see what you

1:00:59

know, see what he see if you and you know, enlighten

1:01:01

us or whatever. They got to talk

1:01:03

and like, man, let's start making music together. Let's

1:01:06

screw around and see what happens. And so Zach

1:01:08

and I are working and he starts working with Jelly, and like

1:01:10

we start talking about collapse and

1:01:12

Chevrolet came across, and it's like, man,

1:01:15

this thing is you know, it's a melody

1:01:17

that's been around for decades and it's been

1:01:19

performed by multiple artists already. We

1:01:21

have an opportunity to continue this legacy on

1:01:24

with a new country lyric on it, and

1:01:27

Jelly has one of the most soulful voices

1:01:29

in the genre at this point. Let's

1:01:31

see if he'll do it. He was all in, so yeah,

1:01:34

just you know, one of those lucky timing things.

1:01:36

Me and Jordan were I don't know if it was Halloween or

1:01:38

Christmas or something, but there's this little farm that has

1:01:40

like a pet and zoo close to our house and you can take

1:01:42

the kids. And we were leaving and

1:01:44

there was like a group of kids over here playing with sticks

1:01:47

and hitting the tree. And we walked by him and they were going

1:01:49

only talk to God. And

1:01:52

I was like, Okay, man, this is gonna work.

1:01:54

This guy's gonna work there's like seven kids

1:01:56

singing the whole course of that beating

1:01:59

that tree, stabbing with those swordsticks.

1:02:01

For me, man, I just love how grateful he

1:02:04

seems, you know, and and he's you know, he's well

1:02:06

spoken and and it just seems

1:02:08

like he's he's really enjoying his moment,

1:02:10

man. And I love to see that, especially

1:02:13

in using that platform in that moment

1:02:16

to help you know the people that

1:02:18

he cares about and where.

1:02:19

He comes from. I just I don't know, I like,

1:02:22

I like his stance.

1:02:23

He doesn't have to do it right right, They just not

1:02:25

have to do. Artists that are that are global

1:02:27

superstars that you know, stay in the shadows,

1:02:30

and that's great. Some people don't don't

1:02:32

want to spend their off days talking

1:02:34

to politicians and Dan

1:02:38

and we're glad ye does.

1:02:39

Yeah you can see his heart through that.

1:02:40

Ye.

1:02:40

Yeah, you can see where he's at. I'm

1:02:43

sure that was important what

1:02:46

you were trying to say. But

1:02:48

it's that time of the show for

1:02:51

the one that got.

1:03:00

God.

1:03:01

It catches the.

1:03:03

Usually I try to interrupt you, but it's kind

1:03:05

of hard when it's so quiet, and I'm like.

1:03:08

You know, I just freaked out, Like, am I gonna have to put

1:03:10

a line.

1:03:12

I mean, you can't. Once we can co write it.

1:03:13

Back to coffee, I think, like, I'm down to here on this cup.

1:03:15

And start working on that next record.

1:03:17

If you want to, dude, I'm ready seriously.

1:03:20

So yeah, we do.

1:03:21

Uh.

1:03:21

We do this thing called the One that Got Away and

1:03:24

uh, and we ask every guest that we have in

1:03:26

your life if it could be a deer, it could be a fish,

1:03:28

it could be a song, be a girl. What what's

1:03:31

the first thing? What's the story that comes to your mind when

1:03:33

we say, man, d l I'm gonna start calling you

1:03:35

deal if as.

1:03:36

Please do everybody?

1:03:37

Yeah, what's the uh? What's the one that

1:03:39

got away? For you?

1:03:42

I mean, I don't think girls the right answer.

1:03:44

There's a bunch of those.

1:03:45

But have you ever had deer season

1:03:48

interrupt a relationship?

1:03:50

Oh?

1:03:50

Man?

1:03:50

I mean how many girlfriends have you broken up with it or have

1:03:52

broken up with you because of deer season?

1:03:55

Well, just at this point, I don't. I don't allow

1:03:57

that to happen.

1:03:58

I can't.

1:03:59

I'm smart, man, I just I can't imagine having

1:04:01

to say no to hunting opportunity

1:04:03

right now because I need to go home and entertain

1:04:06

something.

1:04:07

It's tough.

1:04:08

It seems so shallow, but that's where I'm

1:04:10

at.

1:04:10

Tough, It's not so shallow,

1:04:12

right jumps, I.

1:04:13

Would you know, there's okay. I will

1:04:15

try to make this quick. I don't want to like drown

1:04:18

everybody in a long hunt story, but go for it. What

1:04:21

for?

1:04:22

Please?

1:04:22

So I have this and this is still a heartbreaker,

1:04:25

we can This is just another layer to

1:04:27

it. So this is a turkey that got away

1:04:29

and now a farm that got away. There's

1:04:32

this farm in Normandy, Tennessee,

1:04:34

which is right outside of Tullahoma there where I grew

1:04:36

up, and it was a permission farm.

1:04:39

And it was a permission farm.

1:04:43

Yeah.

1:04:43

I was like, dude, you gotta have that.

1:04:46

So just through my dad like this,

1:04:48

this uh gentleman

1:04:50

had you know, this farm and it was a beautiful farm

1:04:53

and overlooked Normandy Lake. And

1:04:55

I had a bunch of turkeys on it. And so me

1:04:57

and my high school buddy that we used to have the

1:04:59

cam camp quarter. You know, we're

1:05:03

hunting this farm year after year and had some

1:05:05

incredible hunts. Well we start,

1:05:08

we get this gobbler that we've been after for a long

1:05:10

time and we can't ever get him. Off of uh

1:05:13

this TVA hill. He always hangs up over

1:05:15

there, so we're like, hey, today, let's

1:05:17

just get aggressive on him.

1:05:18

So like it was to get aggressive.

1:05:21

Yeah, we uh we had something hang

1:05:23

up on the west side of the farm. We come back

1:05:25

to this guy. Well, let's go try him because he always hung out

1:05:28

over here, and like, let's just get aggressive.

1:05:30

And I don't know if you'll remember this slate calls old yeller.

1:05:33

Yeah.

1:05:33

Absolutely.

1:05:34

At the time, it was like what all the turkeys were reacting

1:05:36

to. And so I had that. I forget what he

1:05:38

had. He had another slate and

1:05:42

he starts hitting, and so we're like, all right, let's just have

1:05:44

a like a big cut and fight, you know, and

1:05:46

we just went hard hard hearted. Well, he starts

1:05:48

coming and so how

1:05:51

we're sitting. We're across this creek and uh,

1:05:54

just trip of pasture. It's probably thirty

1:05:56

yards. It's not far, but there's a there's

1:05:58

an old fence.

1:06:00

And a creek. So he's got to come down the hill, across the creek,

1:06:02

cross the.

1:06:03

Creek, across a fence, and then another creek. But

1:06:05

if he gets to the fence, he's within thirty

1:06:07

Okay, So I'm like shoot, we'll popping through this

1:06:09

fence.

1:06:10

Money yeah, money time.

1:06:11

And uh so we get him down and

1:06:14

this sucker pops out of this creek bottom and he has

1:06:16

two ropes. I'm talking big. You

1:06:18

see him, and this is the first time

1:06:20

we had seen him, not knowing he had two giant

1:06:23

double beers, you know. Gosh, boom,

1:06:25

I smoke him, drop him. We start celebrating.

1:06:29

No man look back, and this joker pops

1:06:32

up and start run. He's boom

1:06:36

and cut my buddy Cody

1:06:38

at the time.

1:06:39

Boo boo boo.

1:06:40

Yeah, fired at anything.

1:06:43

Nothing. So we jumped the fence, take off running.

1:06:45

He's had to back up his hill and there's like

1:06:47

cuts through this field in this brush and

1:06:50

he's like popping it out trying to reload. Gets

1:06:52

away. Never find look for days for him, never

1:06:55

really so that would be the one that got

1:06:57

away. And then years later the farm gets away

1:06:59

from us, and it's like that's

1:07:01

a now, you know, every time I go home, I

1:07:03

pass it. I'm like, God, I've

1:07:05

never killed another double beard.

1:07:07

Yeah, we killed double beards.

1:07:09

I don't know that I've killed a

1:07:11

triple bearded goblin jake one time.

1:07:14

Yeah that I couldn't see, but yeah.

1:07:16

I'm seeing like you know, you get a beard in like a couple

1:07:18

of little minis. Yeah, this sucker had like two

1:07:21

ponytails.

1:07:21

Two tens, two tens.

1:07:23

Yeah, and of course that's the one that falls over

1:07:25

and then decides that he's wild beau.

1:07:28

I've heard of deer. I mean, I've shot a deer.

1:07:30

Plenty of deer that have five watched

1:07:33

fall, get up, take off, never found them. I've

1:07:35

never heard of somebody dropping a turkey. The

1:07:37

turkey jump back up, running off and.

1:07:38

They'll find them.

1:07:39

That's why it definitely happens.

1:07:41

We killed double beards last year, now that I remember

1:07:43

it. But they were the little sprigs like you're talking

1:07:46

rutting off the.

1:07:46

Big well, the ones we killing your place.

1:07:48

Yeah, I was able to get, uh, let's

1:07:50

talk some turkeys real quick. Yeah, I was able to get.

1:07:53

You know, in twenty twenty one, we weren't touring. I

1:07:56

was I was like, you know, what, if I'm ever going to get a chance to do the

1:07:58

Grand Slam, let's go and uh

1:08:01

it about killed me. Even not touring, it

1:08:03

about killed us.

1:08:04

You're going Grand Slam within a year,

1:08:06

within a year.

1:08:06

So within the season, Yes, Osceola is where

1:08:09

we started a course in Florida, and

1:08:11

man, that was tough hunting down there.

1:08:12

I have thought only that

1:08:15

that might be the only thing in a merit like continental

1:08:18

Ola. We haven't it. We haven't hunted

1:08:20

Ostiola's.

1:08:21

Take your mosquitoes, prey and thermoicels

1:08:24

and everything you can think of. It opens early, but it's

1:08:26

think about Florida, like, they're right on the Everglades

1:08:29

where as birds are, you know, because you get easterns once

1:08:31

you get north of that. So we're down there in

1:08:33

the Everglades. It's hot, but like, no,

1:08:35

only mosquitoes will kill you down there. You've got snakes,

1:08:39

gators, panthers. Our

1:08:42

last morning we got there and there's a bear. There's

1:08:45

a bear track.

1:08:46

There's definitely there's a lot of bears about

1:08:49

that.

1:08:50

They're all eating turkeys. So you're calling.

1:08:52

You've got decoys beside you, and you're calling like a turkey,

1:08:55

and it's just so dumb to be down there doing that. It's

1:08:58

so dumb.

1:08:58

I've seen a video of somebody sitting

1:09:00

I don't know, it might have been somebody we knew, sitting there calling

1:09:02

a turkey and just on the road bed it's two

1:09:04

tracks and this panthers, a black panther.

1:09:07

It's like, what is crazy?

1:09:09

Man, Florida?

1:09:10

Have you got wild?

1:09:12

Have y'all Have y'all seen the python?

1:09:15

Yeah?

1:09:16

Yeah, I've seen you check him

1:09:18

out.

1:09:18

I've got to go.

1:09:19

I think I might have to go on a hunt with it.

1:09:20

It gets wild, Python cowboy.

1:09:22

You can like, I don't want to do the python thing.

1:09:24

I'm good on that. I'm gonna

1:09:26

let him do that. I want to do that. The air

1:09:29

rifle best

1:09:31

control.

1:09:31

Yeah, man, whether they' shooting iguanas or something

1:09:33

out.

1:09:34

There, all the invasive iguanas and then make

1:09:36

some boots out of them.

1:09:37

Yeah, they eat me.

1:09:40

You wouldn't.

1:09:41

I try it, but I'm not going to.

1:09:43

Like, I

1:09:45

think it's just probably frog. It's just a beefed

1:09:47

up frog. Probably.

1:09:49

Yeah, I missed that, man. I haven't frog gigged in a long

1:09:51

time, y'all frog gig man.

1:09:53

We don't have time.

1:09:55

The only time, the only time we got a story about

1:09:57

that. Only time I've ever been frogging was we were down and West

1:10:00

Tennessee story.

1:10:02

I was in the boat. I was in

1:10:04

the boat.

1:10:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the only time I've ever been frog again,

1:10:08

and we went down there and this dude's red Man,

1:10:10

He's super red and he comes up strap he's got a

1:10:12

twenty two.

1:10:13

Red is not even a good description. I

1:10:15

mean, he is beyond the most wacko

1:10:18

human in the world. But you know that, and

1:10:21

you're not. He wouldn't mind.

1:10:22

He would love for me to say, you

1:10:25

got that guy in high school that like drives

1:10:27

the giant truck and wears

1:10:29

like the Pooka necklace and like

1:10:32

the flip philosophies just

1:10:34

this that he's this guy, right, But he's

1:10:37

he's a great he's

1:10:39

a great fisherman. He loves the hunt, and he's

1:10:42

just a completely out

1:10:44

of the box human. Like there's no

1:10:46

way I could have him on this

1:10:48

podcast because it would just turn into like

1:10:51

aliens and insanity

1:10:54

before we ever got out of here.

1:10:55

And he but he's

1:10:57

sneakily like a.

1:10:59

Very good shot, pretty good woodsman

1:11:01

too, just all just for sure.

1:11:03

Yeah, he lives and literally lives

1:11:06

in it. And so he asked

1:11:08

us to go frog gig and so we piling

1:11:10

there and.

1:11:12

Are all using a gig or he's shooting.

1:11:13

Them both mostly gigging,

1:11:16

but he has like a pistol on his hip

1:11:18

right.

1:11:19

It's like a six shoot or twenty two.

1:11:20

I can't make this up, dude. I can't make this up.

1:11:22

And I'm not one for like animals

1:11:24

come after you, because they generally don't.

1:11:27

Man Like, even if you think one's coming after you, it's

1:11:29

probably not.

1:11:30

But that night, on that

1:11:32

wake, a snake

1:11:35

comes out of.

1:11:36

I was gonna ask you guys, this actually, dude.

1:11:38

It comes out of the bank and

1:11:41

it's coming towards us, and he's like, man, you shoe that snake Oarders

1:11:43

And I was like, yeah, I do.

1:11:44

I think maybe we need to back up. And God

1:11:48

is my witness.

1:11:48

Hey wait, if we're sitting there, this snake's coming towards

1:11:50

I'm like, hey man, I'm sitting in the front of the boat. I'm like, hey man, you need

1:11:52

you need to back up.

1:11:53

Bro.

1:11:53

This thing's getting and I mean it's out, mouth

1:11:56

open, coming at it.

1:11:56

Now.

1:11:57

It sees us and literally goes

1:11:59

mouth open and it's and I think

1:12:01

it was probably just trying to intimidate, but it goes

1:12:03

mouth open and comes at the boat like this, and we.

1:12:05

Were like oh, And then I

1:12:08

mean a split second, dude, you just feel the

1:12:10

back of the boat rock crots, grabs

1:12:13

a gig, takes the gig over

1:12:15

us left handed, get

1:12:17

into snake here, holds it up into the

1:12:19

thing. This snake is doing this gig.

1:12:21

He's hit him aout halfway down,

1:12:24

so he's still got a foot down like this flashed

1:12:26

like a from the snake's

1:12:29

head goes front.

1:12:31

From the head goes, God, we're

1:12:33

not on level ground. This is a canoe.

1:12:37

Canoe.

1:12:37

He's like, sou God,

1:12:40

and the thing goes. We were like, dude,

1:12:44

I mean something, best

1:12:49

have you'all ever heard? So?

1:12:50

I had a roommate in Nashville from

1:12:53

Paris. Paris, he said, obviously

1:12:56

big duck hunting a lot of swamps out there, right right.

1:12:58

Yeah.

1:12:58

He said that you can go out and

1:13:00

they would do this and they would take a bunch of you know,

1:13:02

shot you know, shells, and

1:13:05

you'd get a couple of guys in each boat and

1:13:07

you would shoot a snake and

1:13:09

then for whatever reason, the vibration

1:13:12

from that more snakes would come at the boat, and

1:13:14

it was like zombie apocalypse? Is that? Is

1:13:17

there any truth of this?

1:13:18

That kind of happened that night? Honestly, we ended

1:13:20

up killing like six or seven snakes. I don't

1:13:22

think it's vibration. It may be.

1:13:25

I what I've understood to be is a the

1:13:28

motor Yeah, older that a

1:13:31

snake under some anxiety.

1:13:32

Whatever you call got it and more

1:13:35

come at it and more come.

1:13:36

Yeah, because I've definitely heard of people, especially

1:13:39

cotton mouse. Now, look, this is not one hundred

1:13:41

percent certain this could be complete. That sounds

1:13:43

so horseshit.

1:13:44

Well you've heard it, he's told me.

1:13:46

But but probably there's a likelihood

1:13:48

that.

1:13:48

Yeah, but we also all thought that what

1:13:51

was sindbad was a was he remember

1:13:54

the shazam? Then? Yeah?

1:13:59

We also Marylyn Manson pulled out

1:14:01

two ribs. Remember. Sure, nobody knows if that's

1:14:03

true or not either. I'm

1:14:06

just saying I think it's

1:14:08

true, but I cannot.

1:14:10

Be certain they do

1:14:13

amit an odor?

1:14:13

Wait, says who Google?

1:14:15

This is according to in distress,

1:14:18

the snakes do emit an odor, especially

1:14:21

foul odor that's easy to trace.

1:14:24

Does it attract.

1:14:27

And lead you to it?

1:14:29

There you go?

1:14:30

That sounds pretty tried

1:14:33

to that's smart on that.

1:14:35

Yeah, sorry anybody.

1:14:37

I mean I think that would be like the scarier cousin

1:14:40

of you know, shooting silver carp or something

1:14:42

done in order to.

1:14:43

Do that though you have to be in a highly snake

1:14:46

invested area.

1:14:47

Yeah, it's not snakes to get me though, spiders

1:14:50

get me to snakes man.

1:14:53

Spiders, snake. I feel like I'm going

1:14:55

to die either by a rattlesnake

1:14:57

or a grizzly attack. That's how I felt, which

1:15:00

be sick, but that's how I kind of feel.

1:15:01

Like grizzly would suck, but it'd be kind of cool.

1:15:03

To Yeah, it wou'd be a cool story that was out

1:15:05

there. You know what, do you nothing

1:15:08

about?

1:15:09

How much rather like grizzly than a shark, because

1:15:13

like, at least you get halfway appreciate

1:15:15

it happening, because you.

1:15:16

Like, yeah, in a moment, you're like, this is

1:15:18

in the ocean.

1:15:19

You can't see it, and you're just what,

1:15:23

it's all possibility.

1:15:25

We're all going to go one day.

1:15:27

The better Here's what's crazy. The better possibility was think

1:15:29

about this in Mexico last week. I'm sitting there,

1:15:31

I'm chilling out, drinking

1:15:33

and I'm like sketchy all

1:15:36

the time, and it's windy, and

1:15:38

I'm like, I get to thinking about sharks

1:15:40

because I'm like, I ain't getting an ocean today. That's so dumb,

1:15:43

and then I start running the stats. I'm like, wait a second,

1:15:46

coconuts kill more people than anything

1:15:48

any animal. I think every year I

1:15:51

look up and I'm like, I gotta get out of

1:15:53

it. So I just start scouting all the coconut

1:15:55

trees.

1:15:56

We get back to my room.

1:15:57

Man, we've been jumping the ocean.

1:15:59

Yeah, We've been there so many years. We have like this. We

1:16:02

stay down the beach aways and it's this compound

1:16:04

of four homes. It's incredible spot. But then

1:16:06

you know, in between all the houses or coconut trees, and I'm

1:16:08

like trying to map out how I'll walk out

1:16:10

to the van to get because I'm like,

1:16:13

you know, there's a better chance of

1:16:15

dying for one of these.

1:16:17

I mean, I say this, this

1:16:20

happened for a fact, and it was I think

1:16:22

last year they were saying that we're

1:16:24

we vacationing in Florida. Thirty

1:16:27

A beach was the deadliest beach

1:16:29

in the world at last year, like with

1:16:32

waves coming and pulling people out. There's this insane

1:16:35

undertow thing that was happenings

1:16:37

and there were shark attacks.

1:16:38

Right, So I'm down there with

1:16:40

my wife's family. You know, kids

1:16:43

are screaming.

1:16:44

It's like, dude, give me five minutes myself right

1:16:47

before I know it, Like, I'm pretty far.

1:16:49

I mean, it's like chess high water,

1:16:52

you know. So I'm like, I'm better get

1:16:54

back in this a little sketch. So I start coming back and I meet

1:16:56

my other a brother law of

1:16:58

mine, and we're we're probably the belly

1:17:01

button, you know, so we're looking

1:17:03

at we're sitting out there and I

1:17:06

hear like a commotion to

1:17:09

down the beach. I was close with the beach to hear like, you

1:17:12

know, didn't think anything about it. Simultaneously,

1:17:16

I see. The only way

1:17:18

I know to describe it. I can see it in my brain right now

1:17:20

is like a lateral

1:17:23

laying refrigerator, except

1:17:25

silver coming right

1:17:28

here and it goes it

1:17:30

does the thing like this thing. And

1:17:33

I'm like, hey, Adam, do you and He's

1:17:35

like back up, back up, back up, And I was

1:17:37

like, so we just start kind of like squeegeeing

1:17:40

back, and as we do,

1:17:42

I was like, hey, man, like I'm

1:17:46

like you saw what I and and

1:17:48

he was like, yes, get back, we got to get that.

1:17:50

We start, we start going back and the people

1:17:52

down the beach are like, did you see it. Did you see

1:17:55

it? Did you see it?

1:17:55

And I couldn't even talk to I mean

1:17:58

it was I mean I see

1:18:00

it right now in my brain and and and

1:18:02

everybody's like, oh, it wasn't. And I'm like, dude, it

1:18:04

might have been like some weird giant to

1:18:07

ray tarping things. But people from

1:18:09

the beach were seeing it and screaming

1:18:12

down the beach like, hey man.

1:18:13

Probably the big hammerhead or something.

1:18:15

I'm telling you, dude, I was. I ain't

1:18:17

even dipping my toe in that. I didn't even

1:18:19

take a bath for two weeks.

1:18:21

That's one of those Like and now

1:18:23

I think about I used to love getting in the ocean

1:18:25

and surfing and man, now

1:18:28

just man, it's

1:18:30

weird. That's probably one of those. Like, if

1:18:32

I've developed any sort of phobia

1:18:35

through the years, it's got to be the ocean now, which

1:18:37

is so weird.

1:18:38

It's you know, what's out

1:18:40

there like that Rogan calls.

1:18:41

It monster soup. It's like spot on,

1:18:44

you know, it's so weird, pretty great,

1:18:47

crazy, Like we have no idea what's

1:18:49

going on.

1:18:51

Absolutely, I don't know what the stat is.

1:18:52

Man. They taste good, yeah, sharks

1:18:55

no, Well, I don't know about sharks. I've

1:18:59

probably had a shark, yeah, you know, yeah,

1:19:01

hey this is a yeah, it's probably shark.

1:19:03

But ocean fish.

1:19:06

Fresh water, Yeah, I don't know, man, what's your

1:19:08

favorite fresh water fish to eat?

1:19:10

I mean, we have a we have a fish

1:19:12

which is a cousin to a walle

1:19:15

I called a man.

1:19:17

I've got a couple of those.

1:19:18

I can't. I mean, that's that's

1:19:20

number one for me. Right under that though, it

1:19:23

is brim.

1:19:23

I actually posted to our thing

1:19:25

the other day like, hey, guess what this

1:19:27

fish is, and it took forever.

1:19:29

For somebody to guess. Brim was like catfish,

1:19:33

that's cross.

1:19:33

Which I found interesting.

1:19:34

Yeah, I was like, no, dude, that's breas obviously

1:19:37

golden brim. But the thing is, most people

1:19:39

don't fill at their brim. They just spoon

1:19:42

them down and cook them whole

1:19:44

like this. So I guess that's that's where it came from. My

1:19:51

kids love them, everybody loves these.

1:19:53

Can't beat the good old fish for I just catfished

1:19:55

out, dude.

1:19:55

I've had so, me too, I mean like a

1:19:58

couple of times a year. But yeah, I would rather crop.

1:20:00

Your crappy as a crappy

1:20:02

your face.

1:20:02

Yeah, but I'll tell you, like shockingly enough,

1:20:04

you know old Hickory that July

1:20:07

August, the striple little striple getting

1:20:09

jumps. You can catch them every cast.

1:20:10

Yeah, that's the white fun

1:20:13

fish. And they're not terrible fish, dude.

1:20:15

If you soak them over now, they're not bad.

1:20:16

Yeah. I was gonna say I did that, you

1:20:19

know. I mean you got to you

1:20:21

gotta be careful with the bones and all. But yeah, if you soak

1:20:23

them, and then like I'll tell you, I cooked mine

1:20:25

in a cooking oil and

1:20:28

its sweetened it up a little bit, really phenomenal.

1:20:31

Do you live it in salt water over now? And had you do it? Yeah?

1:20:33

Yep, Yeah, it was actually really good

1:20:35

and it shocked me.

1:20:36

But we used see them all the time back home because they're

1:20:38

on the Tennessee River. It's like you're talking about, dude.

1:20:40

We would they pile up in there and we go catch crawfish

1:20:43

out of a creek and throw and rip them

1:20:45

in half, put tails on, put heads on, and do every

1:20:47

castro.

1:20:50

So you can catch a hundred in afternoon, fill

1:20:53

five gallon buckets so much.

1:20:54

That's what we did.

1:20:55

We would literally feel just fill five gallon

1:20:57

buckets up and early, I mean gets pretty

1:20:59

big.

1:21:00

I mean there'll be two and a half two

1:21:02

bounds.

1:21:03

Yeah, we would. We would leave Nashville when they would

1:21:05

start running. We'd leave Nashville and go down there and spend

1:21:07

a day doing it. Man, it's just so much fun.

1:21:09

Yeah, that's fun. We also eat bass.

1:21:12

I know, we're not supposed to be weave bass.

1:21:13

I really love basket too, I know too.

1:21:16

Yeah.

1:21:16

And the thing about like having that lake behind the house

1:21:19

that he said, one thing about management is if you're

1:21:21

trying to grow a trophy bass lake, every

1:21:23

bass you catch under fourteen inches, rip.

1:21:25

It out of there. Yea.

1:21:26

So we're we're frowing them up all time. They're

1:21:28

great, as

1:21:31

you should, no at all, you gotta

1:21:33

do it.

1:21:33

It was it was cool, you know. Following Yeah,

1:21:36

we know Luke Bryan's avid fisherman, but following

1:21:39

him trying to get his first double

1:21:41

digit you know, out of his out of his leg. He finally

1:21:43

got I think it was last year.

1:21:44

Yeah, he did. Do you remember that post he was holding that giant,

1:21:47

the big one.

1:21:48

Yeah, that's a.

1:21:48

Giant he fished down there. No

1:21:51

I haven't. Yeah, I've been down there. I haven't fished it yet.

1:21:53

He's kind of close to us. That's kind

1:21:55

of where we're in that neck of the woods down

1:21:57

south.

1:21:58

We missed anything song?

1:22:00

Yeah, what's your what's your favorite country

1:22:02

song? What's your what's your if you've got one, if

1:22:05

you could listen to one song for the rest of your.

1:22:06

Life, name something that have been named. So

1:22:08

he knows kind of the uh

1:22:14

boys like me. I don't know, there's

1:22:16

been just like the ones.

1:22:18

You know, I would say, man, and

1:22:20

we actually I had a

1:22:22

little bit of a selfish playlist last week and

1:22:25

put yourself all over in Mexico. Now I

1:22:30

want to play some songs that are my favorites and and I

1:22:32

all said, answer that question of what made the set

1:22:34

list? Is time marches on t L

1:22:36

Dude, I

1:22:39

don't know.

1:22:39

It's just uh.

1:22:41

And I'm still like I've heard it

1:22:43

a thousand times, I've sung it a thousand times, and

1:22:45

like it still makes me feel something and

1:22:47

it's forever will ring true on at

1:22:50

least America. Yeah about

1:22:53

everything Like that scenario.

1:22:55

Is I feel like in

1:22:57

the in the nineties Prime tal

1:23:01

was hard to touch. Dude, he had some shame.

1:23:04

You know.

1:23:04

What's sneaky about him is like he had eighteen

1:23:07

number one.

1:23:09

Like, that's a lot.

1:23:11

It's one of those concerts you go to and

1:23:14

you were like, oh that one, yeah, oh that

1:23:17

one.

1:23:17

Yeah, these are that one. Yeah, dude, I

1:23:22

love him. Man, that's

1:23:25

great. That's dude. You're

1:23:27

legiti hell Man.

1:23:28

Thank you guys. Come back man, please,

1:23:32

I'll promise you I'll have a lot more stories once

1:23:35

we get through Turkey.

1:23:36

You're great, man.

1:23:37

I think I'm just saying there's gonna be more to the pot.

1:23:40

That's why we love around

1:23:42

and tell the story.

1:23:43

Let's kills part of it.

1:23:47

I would venture to say this is going to be the best

1:23:49

podcast voice from something

1:23:51

from a guest that we have this.

1:23:53

Pro voice, best podcast teeth.

1:23:56

You got some good teach, no doubt what

1:23:58

you dude.

1:23:59

Your voice is just like it

1:24:01

was made to be in front of a microphone.

1:24:03

Man, he didn't ask what about what do you mean?

1:24:05

Teeth you got?

1:24:09

I give him some giant teeth.

1:24:10

No, I gianna look great, dude.

1:24:12

You can God bless you with pain. Real, dude,

1:24:14

it's a pain to eat at these things.

1:24:16

It isn't.

1:24:17

I ended up more steak in my teeth than I did going

1:24:19

down my hat.

1:24:20

They look good, They look just

1:24:22

a little appetite.

1:24:24

Always have floss in my pocket everywhere

1:24:28

y'all.

1:24:29

Dustin lynch Man, thanks for coming hanging out

1:24:31

with us, and thanks for hanging

1:24:33

out in God's country. We'll see all next time.