Ep. 101: Pure Country, Dean Dillon and Jug Fishing with Randall King

This week Reid and Dan host a true texan and country music star, Randall King, out in God's Country. Randall starts the show by exposing a fun hobby about himself most people don't know and the guys have a field day with it. The three of them cover dove hunting tactics and the unorthodox way Randall's family goes about Jug fishing at his family reunions. King struggles to give his Texas Country Music Mount Rushmore and they all dive in on how Pure Country is one of the greatest movies of all time. The episode ends with a gravorite that only could be pulled off by Randall King himself.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Yo, what's up. You're off in God's Country Wi Ship boys.
Yeah Monday, Bro, Yeah, you're taking got you just do it?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Go well you boys read and Dan iswell. Keep going
place where country music in the outdoors run together at
an intersection also known as the Brothers Hunt, where we
take a weekly drive to the country music outdoors where
they meet at an intersection. You're going, that's all I got.

(00:39):
You don't remember your part? Oh, brought to you by
meat Eater and to Covi shsh, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I think we skipped the two things to coops in
the show Now Babe, to COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Show Now Baby. We were able to get a pair
for our guy Ray. So come on out here, cho
tos and dance. It's the course. Ray.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm gonna just start that over, start that over and
get on out here.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Do a little dance for us, right, show everybody your boots, bro,
give us little two step prash.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Everybody want out man, get the punk. Okay, okay, dude,
I didn't really, I didn't know it like you made
a little Irish jig on that dude.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
He didn't sick on an Irish sounding. I don't know
where these are coming. From man.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Ray, you can do it all, Ray, you can do it,
do it all right now, I know you can dance too.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, we're gonna use that. They look good on you. Ray.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Uh man this intro. Two things that go together, like,
uh what I wouldn't even say that? Yeah, sorry, Uh
two things. That's legos and uh the millennial Falcon is
millennium or millennial millennial falcon falcon catfish and cut bait.

(02:21):
Uh dude, Randall King cowboy hat dude Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
He's that's that's that's tough. He's tough, dude. Yeah, you
can tell he's real. Texas sold Texas.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And that's song about Texas is like it does feel
like like every every Texas artist we get through here
is authentic.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know what I forgot or forget about, is how
much how many unbelievable monumental artist Texas produces.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean I feel like somebody, I feel like
a Texas artist says a name that I didn't need,
Like every time they add somebody to that list and it.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Under the fly. I got under fly under the radar
guys that because there's so many Yeah, there's so many
singer songwriters from there. I mean, he even mentioned Tony Lane.
I'm like, that's my that's my guy. That's why I
moved to town. Was Tony Lane and David Lee. Like
I was, I was chasing what they did? You know?
Killers man influential in the culture, influence, influential in the sound. Yeah,

(03:24):
Texas guys, and he is one. He is one man
through and through. Incredible singer, a great songwriter. Uh, just
a just a dude's dude. And I really enjoyed this
morning with him. So I think you will too. A
great storyteller, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
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Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, we'll not. I'm tired of ROAs. I'm the taste is.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, we've had roast. I have to think of something else. Yeah,
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Tell us we're doing a great job. Doing a terrible job.
Helps us out.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, we don't care what you put in there, honestly,
just give us five stars. That's right, Randal Key, thanks
just hanging with us here on the guys country. I
see you later. I'd love to keep going. My wife's
the same way.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
We live on a split level, and so pretty much
when we merged and got married, the house I was
living in just went to the to the basement level,
and then everything she had was way nicer went to
the top and so now like downstairs, at one point
I had eleven deer heads down there, and then.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
She was like, we need to take some of use
to the studio.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
So yeah, yeah, this is kind of like we're going,
we're gonna go l hunting this fall, and when we
you know, hopefully come back with one, it might go
right there.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
We don't have to be a good spot for it. Yeah,
we's gonna take up that whole spot that is right,
we have. I live in a little tiny house right now.
We're building and dude, there's no room for yeah, and
she's just like none of these deer.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Bedroom house and one bedroom has turned into a gym,
the other ones for the baby. And you know, daddy
got no space. No four paces that came around. I
had like like lego sets everywhere.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know. It was ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
It said crap everywhere, and she goes, she goes, nope, yeah,
put it all in the attic.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Just get your garbage in the attic. And I was like, whatever,
it'd be all right. Lego like Lego, what do you worry?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm a leg On ther Bro what Yeah, Deerheads and
Legos like that's if I was a single man in
my house would look like Neon signs, Deerheads, Legos.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Man, we got a text and a new dad.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
As you just heard toured with the likes of Luke
Brown and Cody Johnson fishes a little bit a mask
over five hundred million streams Randall King of Guys kind
of okay, wait, so what's your uh, what's your favorite
Lego set?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
You you've done Lego? I just would not. I kind
of wanted to know how that I was a kid though, man,
like I did Legos when I was a kid. That's
what I mean. You got your first set when you're.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Like I was probably eight something that was probably five
five or six, and I love them?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
And are you like a fall of the thing guy?
Are you just like a random now?

Speaker 4 (06:26):
You follow the thing and the cool sets like I
think the minifigures have been become like such a feature
within the Lego sets. Now they're all way too expensive
because of it. But I mean I still build them.
I enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
What do you what are you building? Crazy cars? You're building?

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, I mean there's Star Wars, there's uh Harry Potter
got to sound like, yeah, this is what I do.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Man. I love it. It's it'll be cool.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
If you were like building it's got the Nightmare before
Christmas set to oh cool, I was like, it's follow dude,
love not member for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Build that thing, put it up there, and so do you?
You just like when when do you have time to
do this? You got a new baby, you're on the
road all the.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Dude, I got Lego set's been sitting there for like
two years, three years. They bring got me like the
Millennium Falcon three years ago. I have yet to put
it together and just don't really have the time.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You have a process the space for it, right. I
can't put my sets anywhere? So why I build them? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
And especially I mean as as you're little and gets older,
you're gonna have to keep putting them high.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
That's out of it too, is like it's major choking hazards.
She started got a point where she can she can
roll over and sit up and reach for things and
everything goes in her mouth right now.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh yeah, man on the side, that's let's just like that. Man. Yeah,
my guy's one, it's like thirteen months or something, dude,
and he's yeah, he loves dog food. He wants to
eat dog food. All eat dog food. Yeah, and I
get like the healthy dog for it. No, it's pretty healthy,

(08:08):
so at least, you know, I mean, if it was
up to me, I would have old Roy. Yeah, but
my wife we do the farmer's dog apparently, like farmers
apparently that farmer's dog, Like you'd be able to if
you were, like if you were a hungry dude that
in the middle of nowhere, you just toss them on
the fire and eat it yourself.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
That's like the kind of keeping the fridge just got
like carrots and peas and all that.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
It comes in.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
It comes in a box where'saw frozen, packaged up. It's
really expensive, but it's good for him.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Before before we had our kids, my wife we've got
to I've got a red bone and a chocolate lab
maybe merle and uh. Before we had kids. My wife
was like, man, you know, I'm gonna get them healthy.
They need to lose weight. So she's like, I'm gonna cook.
I'm just gonna cut the like puree of the carrot.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
She did it for like two months, and it was like,
all right, just go ahead and just buy them the Yeah,
just go back to cost that's too much.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Too much.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
She had this old whiler and I was never in
the rot wallers. I was they just for whatever reason.
I thought of them like pit bulls, samon and just
stayed away away from him. And uh. So she had
this old rot waller when we first started dating, and
he was just like this gentle giant and I could
go lay on the floor, put my head on him,

(09:20):
hang out with him. But he was oldest, like oldest dirt. Yeah,
he was fourteen years old for a rot waller, that's pretty.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Mas's old end dog. Really, I mean that's old. That's
a big day.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
They typically don't last between eight to ten years. It's
like their norm. So he hit fourteen and she was
cooking that dog chicken and rice every day. No way,
she did it every day. And I was like, I'm sorry, buddy,
I don't cooking your very day.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I ain't McDonald's big. I felt bad to the preservative city. Yeah,
because my dog is like science Ariiam's iris and she
hits Science died like a thousand dollars a bag or
some stupid And then our cats, dude, they get the
cheapest I can buy on the shelf. Dude. I mean

(10:08):
they're just like my dog goes the vet for checkups.
My cats once every five years.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh yeah, you just set them outside and let them rugs.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let them rock, dude, they rock, let them, let them,
let them run away. And I don't know what they do.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
That doesn't have to thing about cats, Like you just
set them outside and like they just hang out.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
We try to do that. Litter yeah, uh, what's I
don't even know what it's called anymore. The litter basket,
little bucket, whatever it is. Anyway, it's stunk all the time, dude,
no matter how much you clean, no matter how much
you put stuff, it's stunk all the time. And finally
I was like, hey, shit, I'm done. I'm done. Man.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, And they tried to make them where they like
scent it and and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
But you know what, man, if you're tired of your cat,
you can throw that. You can throw it outside, fine,
don't even care. So it kind of enjoys it more
than me. So now they just live outside. Which I'm
not a cat guy. Me neither me, neither did it.
But I'm not a not a mouse guy. And so
what I see, I'm cats The cat's outside. Whatever, dude,

(11:14):
I don't want a cat inside.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I just don't see who's mad this morning?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Try try singing? I got this throat man? What are
you going? The same one? I might have to go low.
He's still. I might have to go low on this morning?
Are you singing that? You sing this morning? Watsch mad?

(11:42):
Just tell us what it is? Watch you're mad? Is
it you in the Lost kids? Might be a boss man?
Boss man cat there? Just tell us what mad little
diddy for you? Randall?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Pretty good, that's pretty good. It's that's rare thing for
me to get serenaded at nine o'clock.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
You go, picked dog. I'll take it. Appreciate you, gentlemen.
I'll go first because this is about me. A minute ago,
when jumps trying to fix my hat, I took it off.
I looked. It's a little baby peke. Oh what what?
There's a little baby puke on my hat?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
There?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
That why? I I thought, I don't know when that happened. Camera.
It's like there's a lot, it's like a little market.
It's like like targeted. So I guess I'm kind of
mad at my my baby Buck. Dude, his name is Buck.
Throws up. Oh well, he's a baby, so happens the

(12:44):
other ones? Did that? Are you shaking? Yeah? But not
shake shaky? What do you mean shaky? I flip him
on the bed throw loves it.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
You take a coke can and you flip that thing
up on the bed and then you open it to
what happens?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
You drink twenty ounces of mealk a day. You be
throwing up all the time to maybe I don't know.
I don't know what his deal is, dude. They say
he's got a little I think it's called schwinter or something.
Is that what it's called sphincter?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Evidently his adn't closed yet because he's thrown up on
my caps.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
They called that like the ugula or something. I don't
know what the sphincter don't sound.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Sphinker don't doesn't sound like the other end I wish
Jordan here we have ray?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Is that what you call that? Confident? I don't know
what it's called either way, whatever it is that doesn't
close up, it still hasn't closed up yet. That joker
shacking on everything apparently, Okay, Randon, what you med at?
You met anything? DAAs Cowboys man?

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Dallas cows cow hard to be a fan?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah? Are you mad at the uh, Matt Jerry, you've
mad at the performance? You mad at all of it?
The Michael Parsons, you know, I try to let it,
try to not let it all get to me too deep. Uh,
you can't.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
When you paid millions of dollars to catch the ball
and you drop four.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Of them, that's you ain't doing your job. You ain't.
Season's over dog deal. He missed the ball, I didn't
want to drops drops, Still had over one hundred yards,
still had a good game, All the same games on
the line, be clutch. Do you think that? Do you
think that's the guy? No?

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, he played great, but he always plays great earlier
in the season. The back half that you gotta worry about.
The back half belongs to the Chiefs. Yeah, as as
has belongs.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
To the Eagles, right, now, John, last night, did Joe watch?
Did not watch the you're talking about? The late Black game.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Was playoffs Buffalo Buffalow in Baltimore. Yeah, I didn't get
to watch him in.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
That's about six o'clock. We do lights off trying to
get that baby. I feel that, Yeah, I feel I
feel that. You can look at the scores. You don't
pop it on your phone, you know, but pretty much.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
They were Bills were down forty to twenty one.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
They were down fifteen with four minutes left.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, forty to twenty one maybe so forty twenty five
and uh.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
And in the last four minutes they scored twice. The
drove down, scored, forced to fumble from Derrick Henry. Dereck
Henry fumbling on the thirty got.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
It against, got it against, scored, came back, stopped him.
Baltimore punted, and I mean Josh Allen just did his thing.
Two minute, drilled down the field, kicked a field gold
one d literally and there was no time, no timeouts.
Matt Prater wouldn't even own the team, dude. Yeah, Thursday night,
he got the call, comes in and wins, that wins
the game for its almost good for Matt it was crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, he's an old kay like the pills man, because
I like Josh Allen.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
I like Josh Allen, like the organization. Not not a
big Baltimore guy, you're not an Eagle fan. Yeah, but
you know what, they can run an organization pretty well,
no doubt.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Man. Yeah, Sirianni is a great coach. I don't really
like Sirianni.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
But Howie, Howie Roseman, that's one of the better gyms
in football.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Man.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah, talking in here this morning, we can talk. We
can talk football, we can go deep on what about
the legos?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
I got you to, Man, I'm glad that this morning too.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
When we'll wrap with this, I'm just glad that's September, bro,
I got I had a hoodie on this morning.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
You know. I felt good last couple of weeks. Played
down a New Kenny Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Where's that a It's like just north of Houston. It
be in September. It was probably the sweatiest I've been
on stage.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
All year long. I got off stage, I was in
a two shirt, took my T shirt out. I was like,
oh ready for that to be right? When is it?
Does it ever cool down? In Texas?

Speaker 4 (17:12):
In about late September, it'll start chilling like this. October
will really feel like this up here. It's on now
it's cold. It feels good.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, it feels good.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
It's always dope season, dude, It's it's always September one
dove season kind of kicks it off, man, and it
feels like I mean, we shot the other morning and
it was one of the one of the most fun
dove hunts I've ever been on. We went out with Combs.
He just plants it to a little two acre plot
and and usually it's it's a few of us and

(17:44):
we just roll down there and we shot three three
man lemon in two hours.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Damn just got it.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Got out there at uh sunrise.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
It was it was so much fun. Man. He's got
this room. Man that when when they at the place,
apparently a guy had like a I don't know if
it was a hunting room, you know, I'm talking about
in the room in the barn. Yeah, I don't know
how you'd explain it.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
But he's he just puts all this a little man room, dude,
little man hunting.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
He puts his hunting stuff in there and then he
has like a one of those things called like like
a radio player. Radio he just got old. He's got
George Jones and he put alive George Jones and hit
play five thirty in the morning. We're drinking coffee. He
has a little coffee pie in there. We drink coffee's

(18:32):
and go out and I was like, man, I think
I was just sitting here.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
He's super like he's he's OCD so like he's very so.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Everything in that room he walk into.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Everything's hung up perfect, there's like little spots for everything.
Everything's it's like perfectly organized, perfectly clean.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
He's got a camo recliner in there. And uh. He
was like, you know, I didn't spend too much time
in here when we've had babies, He's like, but now
that they're a little older, He's like, I spend a
lot of time just trying to get it there clear.
He's like, I'll sneak got a little plug in the unit,
but that blows cold air in there. Sit every now
and then I'll come in here and just real quick

(19:08):
found the noise out. Dove Hunt's fun. Have you ever
done any dove hunt? Oh?

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah, yeah, my favorite dove hunt. We actually we went Friday,
but like did they want the breathing birds. They actually
turn ended up turning out like six hundred, letting them
loose later on in the evening because people are paying
for hunts. Oh really like, yeah, we plaid the show
where like you buy a ticket or you could buy

(19:36):
a hunt for the day and you got a ticket
for that night to the show, to the show. It
was a really bad concept. But the birds were thin man,
so at the end of the night they had to
turn loose six hundreds. For the rest of the weekend
they had they had bird. My favorite hunt was down
there in Lubbock, though I went it's probably about five

(19:57):
years ago. I was still living in Lubbock five or
six years ago, and a company called Smoking Mount Doors
down there in Texas. Good buddies of mine took me
up there to a field and Lubbock just on the
outskirts and it was sunrise first to the first week
into December.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Cold.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well, you talk about cold like you could fill your hands.
And Lubbock is different when it's cold because when the
wind blows, it's a painful, very painful cold can just
dry and then the.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Wind just hits you.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
It feels like negative fifteen, negative twenty just piercing you.
And so you're standing out there holding your gun and
you can't fit your fingers. But like, do you talk
about just flocks every every time you turned, if it
just flocked. I think we the three of us limited
out somewhere around within that two hour range.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
It goes pretty quick. They were just everywhere. God is fun, man,
when they're everywhere flying.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
When it's fly too right, so there's not like a
load of trees that's flat, like you can see you
can watch the flocks come in from half a mile down.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's one of the most fun thing.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
What we talked about too, is like is being able
to see him and seeing those three and four and
five and six packs come in and holler, you know,
coming over with the right And then did they just
work perfect? And they come in low and you shoot
them here and stuff and they had a you know,
sky bang them and yeah, it's fun. Yeah, I shot
some of my house recently last time. My son loves them.

(21:22):
He wants to go doub hunting so bad. Yesterday he
was on the swing.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Griffin ate the hell out of them.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Last ate the hell out of I almost messed her
up because I gave her a piece that was too spicy.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
First, what you put on Courtney and Jason? The berry
berry dust?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, which is like a bunch of garlsts, a
lot of pepper in there.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
It's pretty spicy.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's I feel like that is almost four Uh, like
big red meat, like big.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Steaks that you're going to burn off, that's right, but
you're going to keep on long and you can't dust that. Barry.
You can't go Barry, that's crazy on doves. No, No,
you can't. So how did you did you tempt them?
Or how did you know they were? I did?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I just I just started the trigger and I just
put it on four hundred to get it, because it
usually if you put it on four hundred's gonna cook
at three twenty three thirty.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
And uh, that's all I put out.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Just did a little little vegetable ol and uh, just
sprinkle berry dust on them and then laid them on
there and they cooked for maybe ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
They cooked so fast. I cooked them. I cooked him
a little.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I got them to like one twenty one thirty and
then just got my cast iron hot and just like
crysted them up on it and crunched them up on
each side. Gave him a crust to it. Yeah, took
them off at once.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Breakfasts, some bird let's go.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
It was funny because we had like I had, like,
you know, ten or twelve breasts and Jordan was like,
you gonna cook those doves tonight? And I was like sure.
I was like, what else we gonna have with it?
She's like, I mean, I'll do vegetables and stuff. I
was like, well, it's not a lot of not a
lot of meat. She was like, no, it'll be plenty.
So I cooked them up and I had them in
a little bowl. I was like, hey, the duck, the
dove was ready, and she came here, she goes, where's
the rest of it?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I was like, I was like, that's it.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I was like the breast, I mean, that's like snacks man. Yeah,
pop them, but god dang, they're good, dude.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
They put them in a halipinia poppers. Oh yeah, I know. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Friend of mine cooked up one time on his trigger
duck poppers and uh and dove poppers and uh.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
The greatest phenomenon.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I know people talk trash about the Super Bowl party
on top of that, Yeah, let's go, dude, I could
eat a million of them.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I could eat a million of them. I always wondered
if you did one of those Argentina things where you
can shoot like a million, if you're like, can I
the back, can I take nine hundred of these back
with me? You know they killed like the thouls. Now
I didn't know that. Yeah, there's a down in Argentina.
They do these guy that hunts.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Where they ruined. They ruined ranches down there by eating
them and the and by what you're saying, the dove
on them. Yeah yeah, birds yeah. Yeah, it's like hogs
in Texas. Literally there's no limit.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
So, like, you've got a guy when you go down there,
You've got a guy sitting beside you.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Two guns.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
There's three, no three, three shotguns. He's handing you a gun.
You're shooting three, he's loading the other one. You hand
him the empty gunny and you want to.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
And they tab on how many, how many shots you've
taken and how many you've hiit really yeah, and you
can see your percentages at the end of the year.
It's pretty cool. It's incredible.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
It is, man, it's a I mean that's you know,
I'm pretty sure they shoot everything that flies though like parakeet.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
They because they're nuisance too. Yeah, they shoot everything. Yeah yeah,
if you eat them, I'm sure you can eat them off.
They're any good. Yeah. Well I love to do that, dude. Awesome.
I don't know how much you cost. It probably costs
a million dollars. Maybe be fun. Just go do that.
I bet it don't.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
I bet it don't cost what you think. Yeah, especially
if they're a nuisance.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Down there, right, coach, you're rid of them. I've been dang,
we can take a rider's tree down there.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Come on, I know for sure, I know some folks.
We can go down to Texas shoot some hogs out
of a helicopter.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Man, I'm weird about Have you done it?

Speaker 4 (24:49):
I've never done it, Honestly, I'm not big on helicopters.
Same as an artist. It's like there's kind of a
rule of thumb of no helicopters and uh, don't fly
private at.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
A love really really not doing it. Don't fly private
out of love it that things happening, man, just like
we just don't do it.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
I know he didn't fly in Lubbock that day, but
as somebody that started out in Loubbock and as an artist.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I just don't do helicopter interesting, you know, I was
with the helicopter. I'd give it a shot. Though. If
I was going to go hunt some hawks, that's on
with you. I'll go with you. He adn't gotta go.
I would helicopters, man, that whole thing. Just did you
see that one at the Fair of the Night.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yes, Griffin was like, let's go ride the helicopters like
never was. Hey, baby, one thing I ain't never doing
is riding helicopters.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
At the first the guy help me, God, what's the
guy that the helicopter crash? No, I'm trying to get
to that. I was writing with an artist. You can't hear.
I was writing with an artist the day that that happened,
the day that, uh, Troy Gentry, is it the day
of the day after, I can't remember. Tell listeners may

(26:03):
not know about that. Tell tell the listeners. Troy Gentry
of Montgomery Gentry don't ride helicopters. Affairs people. This guy
was wearing him out about getting in a helicopter and
going up. Let me let me take you up, man.
I'll show you the town, I'll show you wherever they were.
And he's like, no, man, I'm good. Anyway, he kept
on the killing He's like finally he's like, okay, man,
I'll go with you whatever. He gets on. They go up.

(26:24):
Without getting ridiculously detailed about the story. Basically, something malfunction
happened where it just kept running until it ran out
of gas and then just fell out of the sky,
like brutal. Right, you've heard this right. I didn't know
about all that. I just knew he did add in
the helicopters.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, crash, Yeah, I mean it was brutal supposedly, I
mean yeah, apparently, like I mean that had enough time
to call people and yeah, yeah, all of his office
i'd have been beating the ship.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, you know what, this gonna be my last five minutes.
I'm taking this off. I'm throwing out.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Anyway, what's this guy's not gosh all over the world
corn God, sorry, he's I couldn't remember, no for sake.
So I was riding with him that day. His uncle
called and was like and apparently he was like a
ex helicopter flyer in the military or something, was like, hey, dude,

(27:22):
never get on a plane helicopter that affair, And he
was like, yeah, I know obviously he's like, no, No,
I'm telling you A lot of the a lot of
the equipment they use is like not up to f
f A or not a future farmers may a probably not,
it's not a farmers. They're picky. I would probably trust

(27:44):
it if it wasn't. I'm getting they know they got
that they ain't going right.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
No, man, there was there was a helicopter guy that was, uh,
there's a little place called House Pasture out in Conkan, Texas.
That dude have been there for years and like I'm
talking like at least twenty sixteen seventeen since I've been
going there. He's always set up right out there in
the field next to house. Past year taking who everyoneants

(28:13):
to go up and they go ride right there because
it's like the Frio River right, so there's canyons, it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's apparently a really cool ride.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
All my guys have done it, like almost everybody I
know have done it, and every time they're like you
want to go Nope, absolutely not, I do not want
to get in there. This past year that guy crashed,
no way, and I was like, the rest his soul.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
But that's yeah, yeah, Oh for sure. Yeah, it's not
worth it.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, no worth you never know, man, And they're not
They're not made the land. Where where's home for you?
Where'd you grow up? I grew up in Amarillo. I
grew up so technically. I grew up in Herford for
thirteen years, graduated out of Embrillo, which is where I
was born. And then now, once I graduated high school,

(29:07):
I dipped down to Lubbock, followed high school, sweetheart down there.
I lived in Lubber for twelve years. Texas Tech may
what is it?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
There for a year? Raiders guns up all of it. Uh.
I was down there for a year and a half.
Ern I broke up second semester as it happens. Yeah,
and uh I stayed in my dorm room writing songs
and ended up falling out of Tech. Stop going to class.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeh so I still to this day remember calling my
dad and going, hey, man, I know what you spent
I know with them, I know, I know you've borrowed
before one K. I know all these things. I want
to apologize for wasting your money and your time. I'm
not going back to Tech. You're not going I'm not going.

(29:54):
Just calm down, just listen to I'm not going back
to Tech. I have a plan. Well, I'd like to
hear this plan. I'm going to go to South Plans College,
which is right down the road. It's eighteen hundred semester.
I spent eighteen k at Tech. Yeah, like, yeah, I'm
going for eighteen hundred semester. I'll find a way to

(30:17):
figure out how to pay it and I'll take care
of it, and I'm gonna go actually get into a
field that I know I'm going to use in my career,
not business major, music minor at tech. Like you minoring something,
you might as well major in it, right. I wanted
to play music, and South Plans offered a program where
you could learn science technology. There was a music program

(30:39):
for to be a musician, to be an artist, and
there was a live sound program. So it helped in
all three fields of what I was doing, and learn
how to produce my own records, got a sound tech
degree and hit the road running. So I spent twelve
years down there in Lebwick just figuring it out. Yeah,
figuring it all out, learning the roads the horrible.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
You get your band and start playing. After the we.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Played we played every little Die bar in Lubbock for
for a while, just trying to get our feet wet,
trying to get name out there, at least in Lubbock.
And then we figured out if you play lesson Lubbock,
you get bigger crowns. So we started up hitting the
radius and spending an out one hundred miles, two hundred miles,
three hundred miles. Eventually got to the point where we

(31:25):
played Lubbock once a year. But it's always on the stop,
always got to go back to it.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, where's the place, where's the where's the place to play? Uh?

Speaker 4 (31:33):
My home bar is the Blue Light Live. So there's
a bunch of artists that come out of there. I mean,
Lubby's been home to a ton of artists, especially lately
these days. I mean started with obviously all the way
back in the day with Buddy Holly Whaling, Jennings, Joey Lee,
mac Davis, you can you can go all the way
back there, and then to the like late nineties, early

(31:57):
two thousands with Coreymorrow and Pat Green, and then it
was Wade Bowing, Josh Abbitt, William Clark, Green, Atlant Cavalry myself,
and then uh, now it's you've got Hudson Westbrook, he's
out of Lubbock. He's a Red Raider, Grant Gilbert slid Coulter.

(32:20):
There's a ton of dudes that are crazy. Man, it
just list goes on. But everybody, the samebody has come
up through the blue light and it's been it's been
the home bar, it's been the spot.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
All right, man, I want to put your own spot here,
give me, give me the mount Rushmore of Texas music,
of Texas music. Yeah, I know it hurts. I know
that's tough, man. I know it's tough. You've got four
head there's four. Yeah, it's it's hard because it's you're

(32:49):
not everyone's. You're a mount rushing my Mount Rushmore of
guys out of Texas that you can't put yourself, I
would put your own mind. Well, I appreciate that. I
would not put me on yours, man.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
I would say out of the guys have been just
majorly impactful in country music out of Texas, obviously George
Straight uh Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. I'm gonna throw a fourth.
I'd probably toss in there, probably tossing there. Gary p Nine,

(33:33):
I love Gary Pine. I think I think he's been
super impactful within the entire Texas music industry.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
So that's that's a tough one. You got, you got
a lot of really, there's so Texas man, Yeah, that's insane.
Singer songwriters too, that's just there's contes.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah, and then you look at what's going on these
days out there now, like with Kojo and Parker mccollumn, co.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Edzel, all these guys have Texas that.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Are just enormous now, tom Myers, Hudson Westbrook, all these
guys selling out massive, massive venues.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yes, I think countries once that that style of music.
I think they want to hear it. Commercials, yeah, commercials.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Want absolutely Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
I think authenticity, man, they just come from a real place,
comes from that's right. There's something in that the Texas,
the Texas scene where you're going out, you're carving it.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Out, bar bar bar live show, you're.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Living it, you're writing it, earning, breathing, and you're eating it.
Sometimes you ain't eating it, you're sleeping on the floor
of the van. Right, It's it's the real deal, Like you,
they aren't it the hard way. That's how I built
my my business is going out show to show to
show to show and build it one fan at a time.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, it's Charlie Robinson from down there, from down there,
killer dude. That guys so.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well r I P right yeah man yeah where yeah?
Where did that love come from?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Where? Where? When did you start? When did you realize
you loved music? Wanted to do? Man, I've always wanted
to do it. Uh. I picked up a guitar when
I was seven years old. My dad got me a guitar.
It's like I was.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
I've been singing since I could talk, making up songs.
Just really yeah, this is all I really ever saw
myself do and wanted to do, and so got me
a guitar. And I do like little talent shows and.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Who's your guy? Who is your guy? Back then when
you're little? Oh man, I mean George t Bag grows up.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
George. Yeah, I used to looking mirror and do all
the did you know man.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
He love me?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah? Man, I'd sit there and imitate me. Man, I
love you. So when Peer Country came out, Your Peer
Country came out, that.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Was that was Oh come on yeah yeah, top movies
like your country is up there?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh, I would agree with that.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Your country irving cowboys smoking the bandit like classics.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, I want to get my kids on most Yes,
that was that's something we we didn't really your countries.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
I learned like you could.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
You could be a really talented artist and no acting. Dude,
like nobody care. Nobody cares. Yes, right, like, hey man,
I love you the pieces as an artist, but terrible.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
You're pretty terrible in the dude.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yeah, don't matter, like there was no the most like
mono tone lines, go on.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Get you sad of here. If I ever see you.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
Around country music again, I'll sue you so fast you
won't believe it.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
It's a personality in that meaning you mean it like
scared nobody.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
What were the songs from that sound? I mean, I'll
try to remember. I remember obviously, and promised to.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Add a lot of a lot of us on here,
and then we're side and walking in the road.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Begain Oh dude, I didn't even think he said goodbye.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, there's so many, had a bunch of them on there,
but those are the three that I remember that standing
out the most.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Add a lot of he had that old budd Lot commercial.
You remember that bud Lot commercial from the nineties.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Add a lot of where he's like, uh, he's up
on stage and he's got a six pack sitting on
the stage, and this fine ass girl walks in and
she's staring at him and he's doing this George Straight thing,
working it and she walks up.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
She goes reach for a beer and he just slides
that beer back and goes, h. I don't remember it,
but it's a lot. He's singing add a lot on
the stage. Look it up. What's the one on.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Right?

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Sound a bat that's right? Dang, it's so bad. Yeah, yeah, man,
I wish I could remember the verses of that. I
don't remember. It goes god. I hadn't heard that. I
listened to that soundtrack probably twenty years. Yeah, dude, there
was some jams on.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Oh man, that was like that was a right around
the time too that I think Straight out of the
Box came out, which was like a massive, massive Like
I would say, I would like to say b sides
to me, they were all number one hits, right, they
were all none of them. I don't think any of
those were singles really, I don't think so. There might

(38:40):
have been some, but like it was just like all
the best of straight and my mom was in that
straight out of the box.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, that's not like I I mean, run is my
that's my Yeah, that's my favorite one of all time
from him. But that's somebody I need like being for Tennessee.
I feel like I feel like Garth Brooks was pulled more,
you know, and and Joe Diffy and these guys were
pulled more than like I feel like, if you're from Texas,
George straight is obviously the king, but like that's somebody

(39:08):
that I don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Bob Willis but like according to Texas, Bob Wills will
always that's not George.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Something I just need to Oh yeah, I just need
to listen to George a whole lot.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, I mean everything's good, there's not there's not bad.
There's not much bad. What was the one we used
to do? Uh uh? Won? I can't remember the.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
King's to come on when?

Speaker 4 (39:41):
Oh yeah, that's you know, that's right. Have you ever
heard the story behind that song?

Speaker 2 (39:47):
No? Oh wait? Can you sing it? Yeah? Me about up?
You're very bitch Shong got problem.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
I'm Monna dre golf my chest.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
I don't want to spend the night.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Getting down sorry because adding woman that I hadn't wrapping around.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
My finger just to come on, we gotta do one woman.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
And I hadn't wrapped around my fingers to come on,
will she give me out? I said, tonight I'm whisked by.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Wanna be the drunk is fool in town because that
woman night. I hadn't wrapping around my finger just to
come on wild. That's what. That's what I want to,
That's what that's that's what. That's what I wanted the
whole time. God man, he's just it's just gold.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Oh So the story, Uh, it was good at interviewing.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Didn't didn't have that song, and uh it was on
hold for Johnny Paycheck.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
He wanted he wrote it for Johnny Paycheck. He wanted
Paycheck to cut it.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Well, Johnny Paycheck was in jail, and uh, they had
this new artist over there that they had signed, the
young artist, George Straight. They needed a song on him.
So I think it was a producer. Producer called Dan
up and was like, hey, man, got this young kid,
George Straight. And then the song we want to we
want to have him sing this, We want to put

(41:27):
it out of his first single.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Then he goes, who, I've done the same thing.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
They were like paycheck's in jail man, like he record
at least eight months. He said, yeah, give it to him,
give it to him. And then that was his first single,
but it wasn't a number one, but it was his
first single out there got.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Them, It wasn't that was his first single, number one.
Dang iconic song.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
They always one of the number one ionic that song
was on it straight somebody that. It just feels like
he was always Texas though, like it felt like he didn't.
He doesn't feel like a Nashville country artist. To me,
he never was, you know what I'm saying. He never
he never moved to that, That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
but I mean he's he's still i mean, what sixty
something number one as an.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Artist and he's one than that.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
I think that he's like sixty Yeah, I thought he's seventy.
But I mean it's just always he just always felt like,
you know, like I'm going to bring him up again,
but Garth felt like you could run down here and
talk to him.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Straight, just felt like he was always like a long
as a way, yeah, you know, doing his own thing, playing.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
You know, it's a difference in difference in stars right,
because there's one star that's like big giant energy, puts
on a show and like super personal always and everything.
You always see Garth, that dude is. He'll shake your hand,
sit there, He'll talk to you all day long. Where
Like then you have the star that's like you feel

(42:54):
like you can't touch him. That's right, You're like the
elusiveness is powerful, mister, Yeah, for sure. Like it's two
different kind of two different kind of stars man, both
massively powerful.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Though.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, that's super interesting. Dynamic, the difference in dynamic, it's
so different. I've never really thought about that. But you're
very very true.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
I mean you really never see George doing interviews or
kind of anything. Man.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
You catch him around sometimes, like really incognito ball cap,
just like a regular little jacket hiding off somewhere.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Just never met him or seeing him or anything. I've
seen him around. Never met him. You've seen him? Where
have you seen him around? I've seen him around. I
played his golf course one time. Uh, I don't remember
the name of the golf course. It burned down like
not long after I.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Played it, but it was the first time I met
Dean Dylon. It was me Aaron Copeland and Kyle Park
and we were sitting there doing a song swap and uh,
this was back when George's keys player was managing. Uh,
Kyle and Aaron gotcha and uh, my manager, how He

(44:02):
Edelman called me and was like, Hey, let's come down
here and we'll play this. It's a little little benefit
on the golf course up there. George trades he'll probably
be around.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Kick out du Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
So me and Colin Aaron, we're sitting up there, were
playing on stage and we're singing our songs and Kyle's like, hey,
we only play our favorite Keith Whitley songs. Cool, done
do I'm gonna bust into Mia Miami right. Well, I'm
playing it. I'm singing it. First verse, in singing it,

(44:37):
hit the second chorus, and this old man.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Walks up. That's Kyle on the shoulder.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Kyle just steps back and this dude's like getting ready
about to go in and start singing.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
And I'm like, happening here. Come in the middle of
playing the song acoustic? Is it all acoustic? All acoustics?
And I'm like in the middle of the planet and
watching this dude and I mean he's.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Decked out looks like a star ritch golf. Of course,
play Miami. Who wrote Miami Miami. That's Dean Dillon And
I was like, that's got to be Dean Delon. I've
never seen Dylan, didn't didn't know what he looked like.
And Dan's just slow, swaggy Yes, gets up and I

(45:24):
was just went yep. I stood back and I kept
playing guitar and I looked over and he starts singing
Miami Miami, and I was like, this might be the
coolest thing I've ever seen. And Kyle hands on his
guitar after I get done, and he goes, boys, y'all
want to sing one more? Yes, sir, mister Dylon, come on, and.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
He should we play Let's play? Oh yeah, let's play
Tennessee Whiskey.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
And I said, yeah, let's go. We're sitting there and
he goes, which version, which version should do? There's you know,
I think we should do Chris? Is that one made
me the most money? I was like, yeah, cool, just cool. Yeah,

(46:18):
he's cool man, He's well when I met him, he
was a cigarette smoking son of I mean, I'm talking
about lating them all. Oh yeah, manting on off? Is
he not anymore? I don't know. I hadn't seen him
in ten years, but I always always I probably told
this story on here.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
That's another guy man that just feels he's a ghost,
but he's done everything. It just all Aura.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Mana went down to his ranch in Gunnis and Colorado
in the fall of twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
He brought me up to go right, had like I
had three days with him. Yeah, that's probably full circle
moment for it was like it was, it was really impressive.
It's something that.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
As amazing, like my songwriting Mount Rushmore, Tony Lane and
come on, that's my god, that's you mentioned run earlier
Tony Lane.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Oh he's killing.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
So he were sitting up there and the whole time
I was like, this is Dean Dylan. Oh I got
to bring my a game right for writing when I write,
Like we've we've alreadden together. Like I'm sitting there and
I'm just in my head turning, turning sentences together before
I spit them out. So I'm sitting there thinking, I

(47:39):
don't just like mumble jumble and spit out words. To
spit out words, That's not what I do when I write.
So Dean sitting there looking at me, and I'm trying
to string some sentences together then spit him spit them out,
and he keeps saying some stuff, spitting out some lines,
looking at me, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, like that,
hold on, I was thinking. And then he finally looks

(48:01):
up and he goes, son, if you don't say some
words and spit out some lines, you might as well
writ by yourself.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, I got you. I all started saying, I just
said it's good or bad. It don't matter if it's
good or bad.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
That's how we write together, all right, all right, I
don't want to sound like a.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Crap line. Spit it out. The first time I wrote
with him, I brought this idea. I had this this concept,
and it's a pretty cool story my when my granddad
came home from war, my grandmother was at my aunt's house.
She had a bunch of them dead bolts on her door.
You know, it was a long time she couldn't get
them open, and she said, somebody opened this door. And

(48:49):
I wanted to write a song I had I had.
I'm sorry, I can't say I wanted to write a song.
I had the concept of that door. Seeing my granddad
coming home and saying it's the only customer. The only
customord that door I ever heard was my grandmother saying
open that door to get to my granddad. Right. So
I was telling him I was over explaining it like

(49:10):
a hundred I just overexplained. I could feel myself trying
to kill the idea, right, and he was he has
that long food anchew beard thing and he was like
doing like this and at the end of it, and
I was even second guess. I was like, yeah, but
you know what I keep running into at the end
of the day, it's just a four by Yeah, it's quiet,
and he's quiet.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
He sis here and he quiet, and he's thinking about
the idea, and so you start second guessing yourself.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
It was me and I got more that's what I
was doing. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, you're waiting
for me and Benjie Davis just sitting there and he
he loves the story too. Were I was like, but
you know what, man, at the end of the day,
it's like a four by six piece of wood, Like
it's just a piece of wood. And he was like, yeah,
but I did okay with the chair. And I was like,

(50:00):
ship if there was a guy you're gonna write a
song about a piece of wood with probably the guy
the chair.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Yeah, man, he's though, Man, what's that legendary dude?

Speaker 2 (50:14):
What's the guy he wrote the chair with? Oh? I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
He goes He was telling me about he goes down
there to he'd go down there to the Florida Keys
and they'd get on the boat and they'd.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Write, Oh yeah, yeah. They were only for like, why
is his name slipping? I don't know. He told me
they do a buch of cocaine, smoked cigarettes and wrote
songs for like weeks. Yeah, I can't remember guy's name.
I know you're about what Jordan's here? She would look
at he said.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
The chair was like, I think one of the easier
songs that they ever wrote.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
It just came together. That's cool. Yeah, those are the
ones that you're like, yeah, yeah, that was my chair.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
That's a that's a that's a fan grave grave written
around here. A lot of people do that. Yeah, a
lot of people like that song too. Talk about your
transition from Texas to Nashville a little bit like, uh.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Is it you got it? Ain't Cochrane? Yes? I was like,
why is it sloping? Yeah? Awesome. Uh tradition from from
Texas to Tennessee. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Uh so I've been coming up here to write since
twenty sixteen. My manager, Scott Gunner found me uh in
a little dive bar in San Angelo, Texas called Blaine's Pub.
He went down there and like.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Like the old school days, we've been don't do no way.
We've been to San Angela. Have you been to Blas Pub? No,
we didn't go to man Blaine's cornerstone. There ain't nothing
but a little down.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
The creek now Turkey hunt right now you get out
like a bunch of these California's coming up there, building
these cool businesses. But it's pretty It's they've done up
the town pretty good.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
But Blaine's has been a cornerstone down there for forever.
There's a little college down there called uh Angelo State.
We went down there like it's it was a thursday.
I was playing acoustic with a friend of mine, middle
of the day and it was like old school Nashville,
where like they sent a time, sent the talent.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Scouts out to go recruit get right. Yeah, and that's cool.
He did.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
He looked me up and saw my name and he
went traveled down to San Angelo to see me because
he'd been wanting to see me. So he found me
in the middle of the day just doing this duo
with a friend of mine that worked at Texas Roadhouse
with me. Her name was Laura Markham was set there
and we made decent money back then, and uh, we're.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Just doing acoustic stuff.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
And he reached out through Facebook, of all places, as
a DM through Facebook. Didn't send me an email, didn't
reach out figure out my number and call me.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Like, he sent a Facebook DM like a weirdo.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
And I read it all and it was like, hey,
this has got gooder her manager blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
I went.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
This book slept to the side. Yeah, and my drummer
at the time, it was like, let me see that,
let me see that. I'll just google him, googled him,
looked him up, and he goes, hey, man, you should
probably call this guy back. He's just a legit, real deal.
I was like, all right, So I linked up with Scott.
I drove from Lubbock, drove from Lubbock all the way

(53:23):
here to Nashville January of twenty fifteen to meet him
for the first time, saying to play some songs and
get to know him. And he goes, what else you're
doing up here? You have other meetings and stuff. I said, no, man,
I literally drove all the way out here just to
meet you.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
I will shu.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
I would have known that. I would have set you
up at least some other meetings something.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
I feel bad.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Yeah, and he goes, well, if you're not doing anything
in town, go watch the Rhymen. It's at the operations
at the Rhymen and they only do it for unlimited
amount of time.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
I go see it. It's the first time I got
to see Montgomery gentry. Oh wow, that's cool.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Yeah, experience I'll never forget. And it made me fall
in love with one of the experiences I've made me
fall in love with this town. And so I've been
keeping in touch with him for years at that point,
sending him songs, and summer of sixteen he heard hear
me write a couple of songs and he was like, yeah,

(54:19):
that's it.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
I wrote a song called Another Bullet.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Which is the first DP ever put out, and he goes,
if you can write that song, you can hang in Nashville,
going okay, So he started bringing me up here somewmer
of sixteen, and every month and a half I was
flying up writing.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
That's when we wrote you were doing.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
That, huh yeah, man, the first time we over in
a little building over here, huh yeah, because you hadn't
moved yet.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
So I was coming up here every month and a half,
and then I was coming up here once a month,
and then through the years, as everything got busier, there
was more things going on. I was flying up here
literally three weeks out.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Of the month. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
So March of twenty twenty one, I just started dating
Brittany and she lived up here, and I was like,
you know what, I'm here three weeks out of the month. Anyway,
I'm just gonna move here. There's no point and even.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Trying to mess with having a place somewhere in Texas. Yeah,
I'm just gonna move up here.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
So I moved up here, and transition wouldn't all that hard, man.
It just it's just a matter of flying back and
forth to Texas for bus call, yeah, and uh, dealing
with the potholes in this town.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Yeah, Texas for bus call. I either a fly to
Texas to go hit bus call, or I'll fly to
the show for real. Uh, huh is your band still
down there? Everybody's down there. Yeah, you can't uproot them.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Be got family, ever got kids and all their family
takes care of their kids and helps them out while
they're on the road.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
So there's nobody to up root them. So you make it.
You make it work.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Yeah, so anybody I hire a hire out of Texas
and uh just makes it easy.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Just big, keep them on. So you're working on new music.
Gotta world tour coming up?

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Yeap world to where you going?

Speaker 4 (56:03):
In May, we're doing a it's like twenty four days
straight out there in Europe.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Wow, May first, May twenty fourth, and we're we're.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Working on I think we I think we took it.
I got to reconfirm it, but I think we took it.
There's some John Party dates out there that we're going
to go do direct support on Nice Cool and then
do some of our own stuff up there because we've
been building that.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
For the last three years. That's awesome. Yeah, doing that.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Got a new record working on, just cut. We've got
six songs in. I got five more to go. Oh yeah,
we'll cut October first, Nice and that'll be an eleven
song record coming out in may as well right around.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
The time that we're doing the world tour. Good for
you world tour. If you've been overseas before we played overseas,
this would be our third time to go. I love it.
They love country music, they love real love you.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
You get to experience, experience a new side of culture.
You get to see ancient like buildings that are older
than our country. Right, so, like you see things that
have been that have been to I mean, go to
Paris and you're seeing Notre dime I things that you
wouldn't normally get to see ever.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
And uh, going over there.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
The fact that, like my I have fans out there
and my fans are isn't that crazy?

Speaker 2 (57:18):
They support the tour singing songs back to you.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
I'm able to go travel the world doing what I
love and actually make money doing it.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
And it's I mean, it's incredible. Yeah. I feels like
we're cheating a little bit, right, It's like it's real.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Yeah for sure. Okay, we didn't talk about this. We
kind of got any music. But I want to hear
the story about your dad getting hooked while y'all were
drug fishing.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
What.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Okay, So, first of y'all know drug fishing that you
can't fish. I mean, I'm assuming I don't have to
explain that.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
You know, my dad's probably drug fisher.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Right now, we'll put it in Laman terms for anybody
listening that don't know how to don't know what that is.
I have a family union every year. So we go
out there to lake take soma.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
You jug face, Yeah, that's what I'm talking. That's what.
We run two pontoon.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Boats and set it out there, and it's don't drink,
drink Oh no, there's no alcohol.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
You probably don't fry them after yeah, you don't. You
don't eat what you catch. Probably this is called catch
and release, judge. So you got, uh, you.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Get twenty four twenty four to thirty jugs per boat.
We set them out and spread them out across the
lake and uh typically run through the channels. But the jugs,
you know, you get your weight typically like you know,
take a sonic cup filled with concrete with.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
A little Okay, that's a whole nother thing. We make
our own joke. Okay, okay, so we.

Speaker 4 (58:46):
We we put the my hugs in there and then
it all sets and then that's your concrete weight. Then
you run your line, and uh, you can set five
hooks up and down this line, and then you tie
an empty gallon jug. Whether it's a milk, drug colon, colon, yeah, whatever,
you don't bottle like it's I think it's got to be.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
I think today there was.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
Like a rule that had to be clear. Really there
at one point it had to be clear.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I wonder why that is. I don't I don't know.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
I mean, you see tide jugs and there a bit
the chicken liver we used, we used shad so well
we'll run cast nets and go cut catch her own
in the morning. The family union I'm trying to go
to the first time I met Jake Worthington, I invited
him out to my family re union. Yeah dude, old

(59:36):
buddies playing guitar and whatnot. And he goes, you know,
we never met, right, And I said no, I thought
we've met before. He goes, no, we just been literally
messaging each other on social media and I went, welcome.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
To the family.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
There.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
We got there and.

Speaker 4 (59:56):
Uh, we run these would run these jugs were baiting
our own lines with had that we've caught on cast.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Net and.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
My dad had a My dad had a bass boat
before the pontoon boat. So we were running out of
the bass boat and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Uh, that's how we do it too. I want to
know how you learned about the story too. By the way,
it's on your sheet, is it?

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
It's on the sheet now, that's right, wondering who my
team even knows this story. So we had that, we got,
we got the we got the bass boat. And it's
not easy running drugs out of a basket. No, it's
not a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Yeah. Yeah, a lot of hooks, a lot of lines,
a lot of weight, a lot of boats where it's
at like it's yeah, they're made for it. Some room,
there's some room to move around. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
So we're in this we're in this bass boat and
my nephew is only like maybe eleven twelve years old
at this time, and uh, I'm running the bass boat
because daddy can't drive worth of damn.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
He can't put he can't put you on a jug. Yeah,
I got one too, I know how that we got one.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
So I put him on. He reached over and he
got it and he's pulling pulling it in. We're up
on a sandbar pretty close to the boat dock and uh,
it's like a thirty five pound catfish something like that. Decent,
decent fish. Yeah, right, so his own and it's it's

(01:01:19):
fighting him and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
And he's got a strong arm.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Man, God, get this on the boat puts him in
what it's pretty lively. So it starts flipping around while
he's freaking out because there's hooks and my nephews in
the back, and he's reaches over, grabs the line and
that fish jerked and I heard him go anyway right

(01:01:43):
right through his thumb. He's probably the toughest man I've
ever seen in my life because he sit there with
that that hook right through his thumb and he goes,
cut the line.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Cut the line. Cut the line. I'm sure that fish
is still jerking rolling, cut it, cut it. And he goes,
I just cut the line. Fishes flopping around, and I
looked over and I said, wow, what's happening And he
showed me and that thing was like barb was all
the way out. Yeah, so they went through.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Yeah, So he goes, I need the needle nose. He
took the needle nose flyers and he cuts the off
the hook.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
He know, you don't go back in it's already through.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
So he cuts the barb off and he sits there
and he pulls it all the way through his thumb
and I said, what are we gonna do now? And
he goes, you're gonna hand me that whiskey. So he
takes a whiskey, takes a pull, pours a.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Whiskey on it, wraps it, calls it a day. And
I was like, oh, yeah, that's old man fishing by guy.
He dang right, Yeah, that's tough. I love that man.
I don't know how I've never been. I mean, I've
put little hooks, but I've never been like hook cooked,
have you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Yeah, not like that, not to where you had to
cut it and pushing through the new way to do
it is is wherever it's hooked, tie you know, like
fifty pound braid or so if you got braid in
the boat tied and then just grab that eye and
bring it down to where the hooks kind of leaning
and you tie that and you just I mean pop
it and they don't pop that bar about well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Daddy was.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Daddy was a big bass fisherman and big tournament fisherman
and he is currently a bass fisherman. Yeah, caught a
twelve and to ten this year's. And so he tells
the story of one time he had this co angler
and uh, you know, back in the day, you just
got paired with people you didn't like. You didn't it
wouldn't team, it was just somebody. They threw somebody on
the back of the boat, and you fished the front.

(01:03:37):
They fished the back separate tournaments.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
And so this co.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Angler was on the back and Daddy was throwing this
crank bait and ripping it and he's got big old
you know, like three aut travels on each end, and uh,
he said, this co angler kind of got toward the
boat middle of the boat, and he didn't know it.
So he reached back and went to throw in the
scagles and he looked back and he had hooked him right,
and oh no, I don't know the story.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
And he was standing out.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
I'm pretty sure his dad, dad may have told the
story about somebody else, but I'm gonna tell it from
dad's angle. But this guy was going, oh oh, He's like,
all right, let me look at it. And he turned
around and he was in there. He goes he's like,
oh man, He's like it ain't too bad. He's it's
in there a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
He's like, how we gonna get it out? He's like
just uh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
He was like just hold on right here, and that
dude held on to the side of the boat and
he went and grabbed the flyers kick. He kicked him
off the boat, flying in the butter and he was
sitting with a chunk.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
But he got it out. He got it out. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Well those on top of that, those hooks that we
were using, like they're not them little eagle live.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Yeah, you know fishing ride like yeah catfish dude like yeah, yeah,
probably eight inch.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Yeah, goma gotzus they get they hurt. Boy, they have
to clip the bar. That's fun though. Joe's fishing is fun, man,
getting a big one on there and seeing that thing
take off across the water and knowing you're hooked all.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Jug fishing is one of the best, man, especially when
you like you're rolling up to the jug and you
see it starts.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
We catch a lot. We've caught a lot of guards,
which is you know, they'll tug that. You'll think you
got some big.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
See, we don't have anything like, we don't have gar
like y'all have guard. I mean, y'all have the big
alligator car to.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Dude, text Omas overfilled really and that's all.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
That's a hell of a fishery though, for large mouth
any anything. So it's one of the best.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
For stripper That's what the text is known for the most,
is stripper fish really, and uh, they've got they've got
some big ones, big ones. But and they're fun too.
We go, we take a stripper guy out every now
and then just to go hit it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
And sha use the shad on that too. Yeah, he
used his live shot for that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
And we did large mouth and small mouth fishing out
there one time too, and that was probably my favorite
thing I've done out there on Texoma.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
Takes us up into the arenas and right up there
next to the docks, flipping them in there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Oh dude, huge, huge, that's the best, the biggest.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
I've ever seen in my life. But takes so must
full of it, but it's full of it's full of guar.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Probably big bow fish in place of I'm sure it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Is now because like they're they're guards now considered the
game fish. Really back in the day, they weren't back
in the day. You pull them up, you ain't taking
them off there, You smash their head, throw them on
the bank. So yeah, let them because you don't want
them in there. They're considered a fish now, they're protected
game fish out there, taxoma. So catch one on your
line and it's alive, you got to try to get

(01:06:41):
it off.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Don't kill it. Wa man, I never knew that. I
always but I always thought they were trash fish myself,
you know, or at least up here there. Well, they
they they're not bad.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
Like if you take them out, they make like gator
balls out of them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
I really do that. Yeah, I've seen that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Clean though, super hard to clean because it's a hard
bony fish, like real thick scales, hard to get through,
hard to cut through.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Once you get to the meat, like meat's pretty good. Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
They look wicked, man, when you're when you're bowfishing, you've
got them lights in the water and you see this
big snake looking, you know, a huge six foot seven
foot things when you almost look prehistoric like sturgeon.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
They are, I mean they are prehistoric. Yeah, it's been
around a long time. Man. I could do this all day. Yeah, shoot,
it's been an hour. We kind of started. Yeah, it
was yeah, we kind of standing nuts.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
Good dude, you're awesome. Congrats on everything, man, big fans.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it having me honest, you're a
good dude too, man. I mean, I'd love to see
guys like you win, man, because it's like there's a
lot of not good dudes out there. It's nice one
of good one wins every now and then. I appreciate it, man,
Proud for everything you're doing. Absolutely well. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
We in the show with a little segment we call
our favorite greatest slash favorite song. All Right, I have
a feeling it's gonna be a Keith with a song
for you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Yeah, I wasn't. Keith. Keith's one of my favorites for sure. Man.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Yeah, he's him, haggard and straight like you could. The
fourth could be a toss up between Jones and Randy Travis,
any of those man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Travis, like you said that, I love like he gets
looked over a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
He gets looked over, and that dude change the game
in the eighties. The way is Zach Top's doing now
like Randy Travis did in the eighties?

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
I agree? Is he from Oklahoma? Randy? Pull your mic
in DN if you can't talk. I actually don't know
where he's from Carolina. I think it's from North Carolina.
I know he used to work in the Nashville Palace.
It's a dishwasher for real.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Yeah, bro, they've got like hanging on their wall in there.
They'll tell you this whole story real. That's I didn't
go see that. That's what an act man. Oh dude,
he changed the game songs. That's a sing sing. The
greatest part of it did is like he put these
songs out like these days.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
You hear I Carolina. Yeah, yeah, these days you hear.

Speaker 4 (01:09:08):
A song and for whatever reason, the chorus has to
jump a whole octave from the verse because it's got
to be big and powerful. This dude kept his melodies
riding here and it was so simple, like even even
like I know he didn't write it on the other hand,
but like even on the other hand, I didn't really
did a version two. Yeah it's unreal, but uh, what's

(01:09:30):
the I'm gonna love you forever like that?

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Course, don't go nowhere. Really may think that I'm talking food, Yeah,
hit it, indeed, hit anything. I'm talking food. You heard it.
I'm wild and I'm free.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
You may wonder have I can promise you now there
isn't love that I feel for you always hold You're
not just time and I'm killing I'm no longer one
of those guys. But as short as I live there

(01:10:21):
isn't love, then I get it's gonna be yours.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
And to that I die.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
I'm going on love you forever, forever and love hay
Man as long as man sitn't talk about with as
long as on whym shit talking about old man. If

(01:10:49):
you wonder how long now i'll be face I'll be
to tell you how again.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
See he may bee. I don't love forever, never, for ever,
never a mess.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
But the course never goes nowhere just right there in
the podcast, didn't have to Yeah further than the.

Speaker 7 (01:11:20):
Yeah, dude, river, higher than the pine trees grow on
tall on the you I love is here her than snowflakes,
the fall in.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
Late December, honest day, Robin.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
Sorry, springtime, and no soon longer than the song.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
Of a whipper wood.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Godlady three wooden cross.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
All right, graver, graver, what's an hour? Come? All right?
Which one ready? Travis? Anything? Travis? What was what was
your favorite h equally don't close your eyes.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
Ah, you gotta you're gonna get a play.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
I think I got it all right? What is it?
You play? What do you want? What is it? St
g it goes down down down. See there is whistler
man guy can do it all. It's from Texas. I

(01:12:35):
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
You love him a long time go even when my
home you still want him? But Darling this time, but

(01:13:05):
your man mare's does when you old me to, don't
close your don't close your eyes, let it bleave me,

(01:13:30):
don't intend it's him in some fantasity. Darling just wants
letting you steary go. You'll find Normo then you ever know?
Just hold me tie when you love me too. Now,

(01:13:54):
don't close your eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
God Lee, random King got it's going. Thanks for hanging on.
I'm not the greatest control player around. You did good.
You did good. Hey, you're the man uh to go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Sent you a little present for We got you a
little something for coming on the show today.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Can you wear them? You got some boot deal or
some Texas guys always got illegally. We do have to
give you this. You know, got to the crowd take
us to jail if we don't get something. Oh man,
thank you, Boys on top. Yeah that's right. That's why
we're going for you because we know that gone. Yeah man,

(01:14:35):
there you go. Hmm boys. Check them out. Thank you,
thanks for coming on. You're awesome. Yeah, you're a killer. Bro,
You're great, You're great, Thank you. Proud of your national
sproud of you. We're proud of you. Keep rocking, Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
New Music Coming World Tour twenty six, Caussine. Check them out,
Random King, thanks for hanging out in guys, count you
We Let's see y'll next time.