Ep. 29: Dillon Carmichael on His Musical Upbringing, Bass Fishing, and George Jones

This week out in God's Country Reid and Dan host one of their favorite vocalists and people in Nashville, Dillon Carmichael! Dillon dives in on what it was like growing up with his uncles John Michael Montgomery and Eddie Montgomery (Montgomery Gentry) in the spotlight and what other artists inspired him to chase the neon rainbow to Nashville. He also explains that his first gig in Nashville was working security in downtown Nashville and some rowdy stories that accompanied the gig. The guys all bond on the therapy that is bass fishing and how there's no better feeling in the world than a bass on the end of a line. Dillon ends the episode with a Gravorite performance that shows off why he has one of the BEST voices in Nashville! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yo, what's up? You're off in God's Country with Reed,
also known as The Brother's Home, where we take a
weekly drive to the intersection of country music and the
good old outdoors, two things that go together, like green
pumpkin colored lizards or plastic fishing baits and a big fish.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Or the hot setting on your dryer and shrunken up
T shirts produced by Meat Eater. In Our Heart podcast,
Dylan Carmichael's a killer dude, just a vocal destroyer.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's a good dude. He's an incredible talent man. Country
is corn bread like you. I mean, I don't know.
I don't think you look I'm your brother, so I've
seen you my whole life. I know the differences, but
I do can see a similarity in town. If somebody like,
if you were walking away and somebody was like, Dylan, I've.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Had someone literally say, dude, good to see your new single.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Sounds awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're so proud of what's going on with you, and
me be like, well, I do I have a single
lot and then leave and then somebody else in the
room go, she thought you were dealing car uh.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Meghan Patrick jumped on Jason Nix's back one time before
they had ever met, and kissed him on the cheek
and was like, I didn't seen you forever, thinking it
was me, and he was like, what.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's funny with Deli. Carmon kind of looks like me,
sings way better than me.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Man, he's great, he's got new music coming out. He's
working his tail off man at making his dream come true.
Comes from a family of Carmichael.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
R Montgomery's I'm sorry that that have have been in
the game. Michael Edie as my mom cut a record. Yeah,
he's a great dude, great time hanging out with him.
Y'all are gonna love this one.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
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Speaker 5 (01:56):
Know y'all are listening and not follow us on something.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
That's right. That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
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doing crazy stuff all the time. Appreciate y'all. Thank you
for hanging out in God's Country.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Stick with us, back.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
At it being a mini We're out in Nashville, Tennessee.
We got our boy Dylan Carmichael on the couch. Dude.
Let's just let me just read what you got going
on that sheet?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Do us that sheet?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Most recently's toured with John Party. Cody Johnson in the
studio working on your next record with the JP John Party.
We're gonna dive in on all things DC here in
a minute, but we're gonna start this one out a
little bit different with a segment we like to call.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
W mad.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Dang, Dude, what.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Mad at?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just tell us what it is? What you're mad at?
Is it you in lost kids? Might be your boss
man or your neighbors cat. Just tell us what you're
mad at? You know what's you know? What's egging me
this bro? You tell you what's egging me this morning?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Dan.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
You're happy to jump in if you like to. You
don't have to.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I bought it.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I bought this. I bought this coffee probably an hour
and a half ago, still got some in the cup.
And you know why, because when the moment I bought it.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
It was so hot gosh that it drives me crazy
that I couldn't drink it for thirty minutes, dude, and
I spilled some on my.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Hand walking out of the store because I had the
top off because it was so hot, and I even
got more mad walking out. Listen, I appreciate, yeah, I
appreciate that there is coffee that people make for me
that I can buy at places I do.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I really strictly for you.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I really appreciate that my wife is going to see
this and laugh. I wish, I wish. When you walked
into a store where you could buy coffee, there was
two coffee makers and one said normal calling wait, Sun hot,
call Hell hot cos Yeah, drinking an hour coffee. And
then there was drink right now coffee face of the sun,

(04:24):
surface of the sun coffee, summer, Indian summer, in surface
of Hell coffee and in the.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Gates of Hell. I told my wife the day, I said,
when I die and I go to heaven and I
see God, I see Jesus, I will go God, answer
me this one question.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I've written a song about that.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Why does coffee have to be so hot that you
can't drink it?

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I still got some later, and even I'm still like,
you know, what'sking me?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
What's taking you? Bro?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
So we went on VAK who went to thirty eight
right at the beach.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Love it awesome. We love to stay down there and
everything down there's five million dollars. I mean, you get
a pizza. You cannot spend under one hundred fifty dollars
a minute. It's impossible, impossible unless you go to goat
feathers every time. So I'm not gonna say the name.
I'm gonna mention that name. It doesn't matter because they
all do this every time. They be like, hey, Dan,

(05:18):
can you go pick up food? We like to go
pick up food and come back, just not get drink.
I mean, you know, we go out a couple up anyway.
So I go, I'm spending one hundred and eighty dollars
on some dang barbecue nachos and a couple of curly fries.
And they asked for a tip. Dude, what I go
to check out, it's like, would you like to tip?
And it suggests on a pickup it's like decent tip

(05:42):
at eighteen percent, thank you, tip twenty five percent? Oh
my goodness, tip thirty five and I'm.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Of two hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's a second. I'm not when I go get me
a sausage J McMuffin, I'm not tipping at McDonald's worker
for handing it out the window.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
What am I?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Why are we tipping these places? Why does everybody want
to tip these days?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, that's agging me, man.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I love to tip people that like at a restaurant that, Yes.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's why it's bothering you.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I never thought twice about it until I went to Europe,
and you don't tip anyone, that's true, and they all
just get paid more.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Exactly, I'm already overpaying for this product, That's what I'm saying.
If it was, I wouldn't even feel better about giving
the McDonald's god dollar than this million dollars.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Why don't That's something I've always wondered. Why don't food
like waitresses and waiters get paid a normal rate?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Because they get paid like three dollars.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Probably some loophole thing because.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
With tips they'd make too much money if they were
a waiter waitresses, I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
That's what's Dylan what's ting you, dude?

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Man shirts that shrink in the drift.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
And it's my.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Favorite identify with that so hard man, I listen, I
tell my wife, hey, look new shippment the T shirts.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Put them in the dryer and put them in the dryer.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Don't put them you can't do it well. I wear
three X like if it's new, A three X fits
me just fresh, perfect, And uh so I gotta buy
like a damn five X and a few times just
to get it because once it, you know, but then
you're dealing.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Then you're dealing with like once it shrinks like it
is like out the out the box, out the store,
you put it on, it looks like it was made
for you. But you put it in the dryer and
it's almost like it doesn't shrink this way, but it
just shrinks this way, like constantly, like the little like
this thing like and then so I'm to a point
now where Jordan got she just bought me a brand like.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
This T shirt?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Actually than she do y'all? Do y'all shop or do
your wife shop for you? You probably're an artist, so you
got other people shop.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know? I shot because because if my wife buys
me something. It won't it won't fit on my foot
much less my body.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Jordan was like, I got it's two X, and it's like,
it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's not the same. They're not all the same. There's
a lot of two X stuff that fits me perfect,
but then there's a lot of three X stuff I
have to get just because I know it's gonna crank down.
It's it's it's the big big dude shopping his n
You can't understand to.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
The point now where when Jordan gets me a shirt,
she's like, try it on. I think it's great. I
think it'll look great on you. I'll I'll like get
it out. I'll look at it. I'll be like, yeah, dude,
I'll get it out. And she just spent you know what,
the money and I'll get it out and I'll put
my arms in and go. She's like stop, like, I
just I just bought you that shirt and you're just
stretching it.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Ay, I'll do it in the dressing room.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
When I go in there, I'm.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Like, yeah, events for two weeks. So I walk outside and.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Then sorry, that's a new savement called what's your What's mad?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's great?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
That was great, just to break it up a little bit.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Man, Yeah, breaking up.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
But I was mowing yesterday and I got mad about
just nothing. I was happy because I was mowing. But
then my kids want to ride on the it's a
it's a it's tough to ride them on the riding
it's pretty easy, but it was zero turned off. Had
to fashion in a seat and then they have to
and then my daughter has to stand behind the seat.
I strap them in with uh ratchet straps. Your kids,

(09:29):
your kids, Yeah, I have to, man, because I'm like,
I don't Yeah, I don't go to they ride with it.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's probably about getting one of the little wagons ride
in the back.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
That's why he used to ride in.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
See. I like to be able to.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Not on a lawn ower. Though you can't be riding.
You ride along while your daddy was mowing the yard.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
That's my dog.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
He didn't kick a rockout like it shoots it like
that way.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know. My dad used to. He used to when
I was a kid.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
I still am just a big dummy, but and gullibulls
all get out. But when I was a kid, my
dad convinced me that ar lawnmower had a tennis ball
shooter attachment on it. All he was doing was running
over tennis.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Because he didn't want to pick him up.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Absolutely genius. You know I did that. You do you
hit a tennis, that's a dad. But listen, that's a
dad's slide of hand thing that I understand. We did
it last night with Eliza. So my I got I
got a little boy, little girl, and my little boy
eats I mean, he's a trash supposed to can't feel it.
My little girl eat one shell of macaroni. So last

(10:39):
night her macaroni had gotten cold. Well, he'd already eaten
on his, and so I said, hey, let Boone have
your macaroni or sorry, Shane said, and I'm gonna give
I'm gonna give Boot your macaroni. She wouldn't, and yeah,
give Boot, give it to Boom. Make sure Liza gets
fresh macaroni. She was like, yeah, I want fresh macaroni.
And I looked at I looked at you. I was like,

(11:00):
I did that just a little little sweepy swat thing.
She was like, yeah, okay, big deal. I just saved
you a fight. She was about was about to get
mad at it from taking it. But because I reframed it.
It said, no, only the best from her, princess.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
She was like, all right, so he manipulates his kids minds.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Tennis shooter, that's what we do.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
You have to, you have to.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's otherwise your kids are smart. Yeah, they're all right.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Sorry, intro go.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, we're hanging out there. What you've been up to?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Where you been?

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Give me that I asked you that when you walked in.
Give me that. Give me the run you just did?
You did?

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Okay, tell me how long.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Like from how long it's been since you did that?
Like the time with within what would you do?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
The duration?

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, the duration?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Really, I don't know. I think it's been like a
week and a half or some like that. But I
went to Colorado, Colorado, flew into Denver, went to Colorado Springs,
came back to Denver, flew from Denver to Well. I
went from Nashville to Denver, then Denver to South Carolina,
South Carolina to New Hampshire, then Connecticut, and then back

(12:19):
out to Omaha. Went to North Platte, Nebraska. After Omaha,
flew back home. Well, then we rode down to Kansas
City and then flew back home. Oh my gosh, got
in last night, flying out tonight to go back to
Denver to start to start a.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Whole like five day step thing.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, but are you.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Doing radio stuff?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
What are you doing during those like what are you
doing in each of those cities?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, all of it, just all the different stuff, you know,
radio shows, And this week I'll do it's like a
guest host for a radio station thing in San Diego.
But it's mainly shows US Tour season, warm weather and
all that good stuff. So we're just playing shows. Had
some good shows.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Who you're out with right now?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
This this stint here has been headlining shows. Spent the
January through March opening for Cody Johnson, and then I
went to Europe opening for john Party. So now I'm
just kind of in the headline and fetched his face. Yeah, yeah,
it's I didn't like London as much, just lost all
the London people on the list.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
The largest markets hunting country play.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, but they would understand because I'm not a city boy.
Cities making me claustrophobic. So we went up in this
big glass shards beautiful. It was beautiful. Shard is what
it's called, does of glass like that's what it looks
like nice, but you go the whole point of the
building is it's a basically an overlook of the whole city.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
I think I saw it. You see Big Ben and
all that.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, And so we went up in it, and I'm like,
this is gonna be cool. We'll get to see the
whole city. Now you see like one third of the city.
But your way up there, the city is so huge.
There's like one hundred and fifty Nashville's really and it's
that freaking big.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Man we took. When I was there, I figured train
system out and yeah, it was actually pretty pretty fun,
pretty like I'll have to say London to me. But
we stayed a week there and my wife came over
and i'd been my myself for two months. Was well,
I had fun there, but it was just because like
they kind of got the transit down a little. Yeah,

(14:39):
the train pop it around, so it's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
I really liked the old buildings that are like the
castle and we went to all that stuff and solid. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I do feel like once you've been in England a while,
you're like, okay, another cathedral.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
It looks exactly like the last twelve cathedrals.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
I saw. But that's what they all.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
You go to that city and that's what they say
you need to see is like the cathedrals.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
It rains. But I liked all the you know, well
that's the other thing. I have to have sunshine, I
have to But like the you know, all the beautiful
countryside and everything was awesome. And Ireland, Scotland, and then
all the other towns or whatever you call them, states
or towns.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Countries whatever, Bristol and.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Birmingham and Manchester, the different places we did was was
really cool.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Did y'all do like Switzerland, Norway and all that stuff?

Speaker 3 (15:31):
We did Norway and Sweden and Amsterdam, all those were
really cool. I enjoyed all those places. And I enjoyed London.
I'm not saying but it was. Once I went up
in the shard and I saw how huge the city was.
I came back down.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I was just like, oh, it is it is.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
I can't escape.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
You can't did you do any Is there any like?
Can you do any outdoor? You fish?

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Can?

Speaker 3 (15:57):
You know? Just like New York City, it's like New
York City times one hundred.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah, it's you can't escape.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Plus, man, when you're on the road, like that. Like,
and I've said this as our lives have gotten busier
as we've gotten older, Like back in the day when
we didn't have wives and kids and real jobs, like
we could afford to go somewhere and like spend a
couple of weeks because you could fit the first five
or six days. You could just kind of figure out

(16:27):
way the deer hunt I'm talking about hunting, right, So
we would go, we would kind of figure out and
then oh, they're they're moving over here. Oh we've got time,
and we would that's how we would hunt. We would well,
now we can't do that anymore. Like you got three days,
you better get that done or you ain't getting it done.
And it's the same way with those cities. Even if
you're in for three or four days, you don't have
enough time to like meet the guy that knows, the

(16:50):
guy that intros you to the guy that has the
farm or has the boat or has it's just.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
You could just pay for it. But then is good,
you know, yeah, very true.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's a uh it's nice over there though nice.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
I love it. I do.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
I loved everything we did over there's fun. Amsterdam was fun.
We got on a boat and rolled down the river
and stuff, and we three weeks, yeah, Amsterdam, but the
whole trip was three You find yourself like, like.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
I had anxiety about getting home because I'm like, I'm
so far, there's nothing I can like if my house
gets so far, there's nothing I can do. Yeah, did
you catch yourself like, man, I'm ready to get back
or were you like I could stand.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
In the week. I wasn't worried about like. I don't
think it was that particularly. I just was a little
bit homesick because I'm excited to get home and and
I mean I could have kissed the ground when I
landed back in the States. But I wasn't anxious or
anything like that. But but yeah, I was ready to
get home for sure. Mainly it was the stuff, the

(17:52):
small things that was driving me nuts. Just after three weeks,
Like we turned a door handle this way to open
the door.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
There you got to do it the opposite.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Way, and then the lock is weird, and then the
coffee maker's upside down.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
And driving along side of the road and yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Wrong side of the road, and then there's a little
like the light switch is weird, and it's like, wait,
we're traveling all over here.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
That can make you miss America.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Oh yeah. And then the if you want to use
a hair dryer, which my wife went with me. Her
hair dryer about exploded because she didn't know the plug
system and all that, and.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
I nearly caught mine on fire.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I had I flipped the prong up and stick the
two prongs in, and my charge would be like buzzing
the whole time. And so finally I was like, I'm
so sick of these chargers in my buddy Zeus was like, dude,
you're doing it wrong, but you have to flip this thing,
you know, the adaptable thing. Oh, I was running it
wrong the entire charged my phone.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Though.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
How much time do you get off? When you got back?

Speaker 3 (18:49):
I immediately went back out.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I got need to quit working, give me my guy break.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
I asked for it. I said, I want to work
harder and body. So they say, all right, awesome.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Heck yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'll tell you this, though I've heard it said a
lot of times. It feels like getting a record deal.
It's like you work your whole life up to okay,
time to start. It's like you just got to the
starry arms. It's not like you like you can't.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Slide dreams to move to Nashville and get a record deal.
That's when when it starts, and.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
That's hard to even get there. Yeah, how did that
progress for you? Were you already playing shows out? Did
you just move to Nashville with a dream? How did that?
How did this come to be?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I I moved to Nashville twenty thirteen and wrote songs
at a publishing company for three years. Kinda was on
the line about whether or not I wanted to be
an artist. Not really, that's not true, whether I could,
whether or not I had the chops, I didn't know.
I definitely wanted to be an artist from day one,
but crazy, I was like, are.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
You doubt yourself vocally?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Well, back then you had to be skinny and have
a certain little hook and certain sound, and I wasn't
about to sound I couldn't sound like that if I
wanted to.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Just I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I was like, I had a publishing deal. I got
a publishing deal, so I was like, all right, I'm
just gonna folks on writing and I was. I signed
it when I was eighteen, so I'm basically a stupid kid.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
At this point.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Uh So I just wrote songs for three years. I
didn't think about much else, and then my publishing deal ended.
I got dropped from my publishing company and tried to
get another one and failed miserably. Couldn't didn't have any shows.
I was kind of trying to get some shows. Was
anything to make money playing music, and just epically failed.

(20:41):
So I went and got my security license, and I
worked security for a while. And it's like a bouncer, bouncer.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, where did you work security.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
At honky Tonk Central?

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Tell me your wild?

Speaker 5 (20:56):
I know you got one wild?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, give me a wild.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
I've got a bunch of while.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Give me ye get us.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
It was a couple of them, man.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
So I had a while.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, I had the I had this guy come up
and he was wearing this apron and said Merchants, which
is still a restaurant down there. He walked up and
he goes, hey, man, I work at Merchant Merchants in
the kitchen and the bathroom is closed down for cleaning
or something, and he said, I thought I'd just come
over here and use your AU's bathroom.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
Wait, were talking one or two?

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Man?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Just quick? Yeah, He's like just to quick.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
And I and but I noticed instantly that he smelled
like you're in, which is number one sign of possibly
a homeless personally, which I want to take care of
the homeless. It's a problem I say anything bad about homeless,
but when you're running a business, you know. I told him,
I said, hey, man, normally we only let paying customers

(21:57):
use our facilities. He was, man, just real quick, you know,
just real quick. And I'm like, okay, all right, just
make it quick, man. So he comes in, and so
we're trained or taught when you start security that there's
no reason anyone should be running in or out of
the bar because that they're not up to any good

(22:17):
if they're doing that, so stop them. Uh literally, Yeah,
if they're running out of the bar, they're probably stealing something.
If they're running into it, don't need to.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Be running in.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, they really are going to get tackled if you
run into a bar. O.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
So note for the people, don't be running out of bars.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
So, like this guy comes in like a thirty seconds later,
he's running out the door with the tip jar, the
band's tip jar, like five hundred bucks just football tackle.
I'm rolling around with this dude. There's money going everywhere,
flying anywhere. The rest of the security people show up,

(23:03):
and finally, but I noticed, and we're also taught this,
and law enforcement are taught this the first while you're
in an altercation with somebody, got to watch their hands
and if they start reaching, your number one thing is
prevent their hands from reaching for whatever the hell they're
reaching for.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Knock them out.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, and so this dude's we're rolling around here and
I'm like, so I'm grabbing his arms like this, trying
to keep him from reaching. Finally, they the rest of
the security team come. We we have we detain people.
We can't arrest people, but we can cuff people.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
You have cuffs on your zip ties cuffs.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
So we cuff him.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Then we call the police and then the police come
and uh so my boss is like, all right, go
back to checking id's. And so they take this dude
out front and the police do what they normally do.
They've pat him down and pulled out a nine milimeter
no way, And I was like, I called my dad

(24:05):
after I got off work. I was like, I just
got killed. Man. He's like, you got to get out
of that job. I'm like, I don't know what else
I'm gonna do literally and uh and so yeah, stuff
like that all the time. I had a guy waving
a box cutter at me one time. Uh. And the
only reason why, I say, why are they Why could
it be so mad at a security I know, it's
just it's people that I take out of their mind.

(24:27):
They're yeah, they're missing screws. But but you know, it's
a guy who probably I don't know if he got
picked on or buy a big dude.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Or whatever handsome.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
You might have reminded him of me.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
You're I get a car. We got to talk about that. Uh.
But anyway, I kicked him out for being too drunk.
He was just like swaying back and forth in the bar,
and that's that's never good.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
You go ahead and nip that in the butt.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
I don't sway, don't run it out, don't be gone,
because if you do, if you're doing this, then that
means you're probably gonna pass out somewhere, throw up somewhere,
end up in a fight. Nothing, nothing good comes out
of somebody that's swaying back and forth. So I kicked

(25:26):
him out, and it made him mad. He walked away
for a second, and then he came back and I'm like, dude,
don't even think about it. So he'd walk away again
and he'd come back. I'm like, dude, you're not coming
in the bar. So next time he came back, he
had had his box cut or pulled out. Doing this
just staring at me. Went on for like thirty minutes,
and I'm like frozen. I don't know what to do
because I have I have no way to defend myself.

(25:48):
I kill you. Oh yeah, and we're not allowed to
carry a knife or any or a gun. We were
unarmed and everything. I'm like, I don't know what to do.
So I called the uh, the red it's the security team.
So there's like five of us standing out there and
he's just like trying to pick which one he's gonna cut.
And I'm like I'm sitting there going like, please don't
be me, Please don't be me this guy. But anyway,

(26:13):
police got down there and they then it was a
stand off with them, and we're all just standing around.
This dude's got this box cutter, and finally he's like
I'm not winning this one, so he just like dropped
the box cutter and police arrested him and walked off,
and it's like, thirty minutes later, I'm over here, like
my heart's on.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I feel like they should just beat the dog piss
out of that guy, because like that guy, there's got
to be a lesson learned there. Man, you can't just
like I was thinking back to the first the first
story you're telling, Like that guy, he got that merchant's
thing somewhere, he dressed up.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
He was homeless.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, uh, he was probably digging through the trash. He
saw april old torn up apron and somebody threw away,
but at the back of merchants took it out and said,
I'm gonna use this and I can employee so I
can go in and get a I don't even know
if he planned on stealing the tip jars. He just
wanted to get in. Yeah, He's like, I'll go use

(27:07):
the bathroom. I'll steal some booze or something. I'm I
just if I can get in there, I can I
can do something. I don't know what it is, but
I want to do it, and so that would happen
to be what I'm security.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Man. That's that's a nice little thing to drop back to.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Man, I got asked to be a lead, which is
pretty cool. Basically, it's they have three floors there. They
have a lead for each floor, and a lead kind
of advises all the other security people on that floor.
And I accepted the job, got an upgrade and pay

(27:43):
to do this and literally that he offered it to me.
And I knew that I got a record deal, but
I hadn't told him yet, so I was like At
the same time, I also hadn't signed the deal either,
so I'm like, I don't want to turn it down.
I need the money. But but but but when I
signed the deal, He's like, I just I've just promoted you.

(28:05):
And I'm like, well, I got to take this record deal. Sorry,
but but uh but but it was cool because then
I was like able to get creative with my team
and because there's a real problem down there with the
security people.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Really yeah, they just don't they don't know how to
do it.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Really. Yeah. I never punched anyone, not one time in
the three years.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
You're I feel like you're smarter than your average security
no offense security guys.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
That was it. No offense.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Tyler Carlson's the one that.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
I know.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
You're not smart than Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
But that's no excuse, you know, when you got that
much response. When you when there's like elderly people that
are trying to have a good time on Broadway and
they get beat to you know what I mean, it's
like that maybe they're not as very smart, but like
we we're gonna have to are smarter people in that
because that's just not acceptable.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
Did you any people dropping stuff in drinks?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Oh? Yeah, yes, absolutely, it happened all the time.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, that's why I hear that it's and that's not
something that gets talked I mean, it's getting talked about
more and more now, but that it happens, especially in
Nashville where yeah, it's like what the number one or
two bachelorette city in the world or whatever.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Happened all the time.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
And what we did was what we didn't ask them
to leave. We didn't kick them out on the street
and say get out of here. We we grabbed them
because we had cameras everywhere in this place. We grabbed
them so.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
That would they radio you and be like hey guy
with the.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Rest I saw it, I would radio or if they
saw it, they'd radio us. But we came in as
a team, surrounded the person. That sounds fun and custom
and then we called the police and waited for the
police to get there. We did not put up with it.
If they were going to jail for that and we
had evidence. They had cameras everywhere. But yeah, I would
watch the drinks and I would see it happen, you know,

(30:03):
and dust them and the act crazy.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
There you go, there's your PSA man, what's your.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, and I haven't been down there forever, but somebody
was right with the other. They tell me that that
like they were they're selling or like some of the
drinks come with a lid.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Now that's great.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, that you can't you literally can't drop anything in?

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Do they do it up? Charge of thirty dollars?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Probably?

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Could you tip for this lid?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
A nice tip would be eighty three dollars.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
I mean, if somebody drugged me, I'd be mad at that.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Anybody drugging us brouh.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
So you said you got a record deal while you
were you took another job, or you walk us through that.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I accepted a promotion, yeah, and then uh, yeah, I've
been talking to the label I'm with now. I've been
with them for eight years. I've been in talks with them,
and we had came to a negotiation and all that
stuff and we just had to sign. But like I said,
you know, things fall out and things happened. So I
wasn't about to quit prematurely because I was living paycheck

(31:15):
to paycheck on a good day, you know. But yeah,
I put in my two weeks and signed my deal,
immediately got to work writing and being an artist and
working on a record and all that good stuff. Yeah,
figuring it out. It was kind of cool because I

(31:35):
got to I got to pick my first producer that
came to mind, anybody that wanted to work with. And
I'd really enjoyed the uh Chris Stapleton stuff and the
Sturgel Simpson and all that stuff is going on at
that time, and I was like, that guy, Dave Cobb,
That's what I want to work with. So I did
my first record with Dave Cobb. Then I went on

(31:56):
radio tour, and uh, you know, country radio wasn't quite
ready for a traditional boy traditional you know. The song
was six minutes and it was a it was a
waltz and it's just such you know.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
But uh, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
It was cool. The radio tour people people were like, oh,
you're gonna hate that, man. You just wait, you just
wait to what was the first song. It's called Dancing
Away with My Heart. Yeah, And uh, everybody warned me,
They're like, you're gonna hate radio tour. And I loved it.
I'm on like my third one now and I still
enjoy it. I enjoy the I became really good friends

(32:36):
with a lot of the radio folks. Now after you know,
all these six or seven years I've been doing it,
and it's an ever changing business. But but I love
the radio. I grew up hearing my my uncle's on
the radio.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
My uncle, Yeah, it's in your I mean, if there's
anybody that, if there's anybody that it's in it's in
their blood, literally in their blood. Bro, it's you. You're mom.
Your mom did it. She sang around the country. Man, yep,
your uncle's yeah that.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
My mom had a music career in early two thousands.
Becky Montgomery is her name, and you know, she was
busy raising us Heathens and so she, uh, she spent
some time in Nashville, but ultimately she came back home
and she did one album. Her brothers went on in

(33:26):
the nineties to have success in country music, which my
uncle's John Michael Montgomery and then a lot of people
actually don't know. John Michael's brother is Eddie Montgomery, half
of Montgomery Gentry Little Success. So those are my uncle
so heard them on the radio. So I've always had
appreciation for country radio. Was a.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
When I was thirteen, I'm falling fast.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
For the blue girl and that's rights. Try to get
the girls to ask her out? Was like trying kid
all from was.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
There?

Speaker 8 (34:07):
You give it a word, Life of dance, life dance
you learn as you go, sometimes you leave, sometimes you follow.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Don't matter, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Life s dance you learn as you go.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Jam sham, yeah, sham.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
I love that stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Was it normal, like like did you know that you
were or was it just your uncles up there? Or
like did you know you're watching hit? What songs?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Hit?

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I was young, Dude, I was young.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I was born in ninety three and his first hit
was ninety four, so he was like predominantly through the
when I was a child, a young.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Which were we talk about Jr?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Marc Michael?

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Yeah, what's your favorite drum mark?

Speaker 4 (35:03):
So probably I swear.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
I see the quest that's too high. Let's go, let's
go a on it.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I'll see the questions in yours. I know what's wet
him on your mind. But you can be sure I know,
my paw, because I stand beside you through the years.

(35:45):
I'll only cry, You'll only cry those happy tears. Yeah,
when time turns the page our lophone.

Speaker 9 (35:58):
Jane, I swim, come on, ma bath and the stars
in the sky.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
I'll be there. I could go forever.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
That's a jam where you go?

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Was was your mom traveling at all? Like watching him
play shows? Are y'all going? Or just like local stuff
when you come around town.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I was pretty young. I remember it. I remember it vaguely,
bits and pieces of it, but I remember more Montgomery
Gentry doing their things. Well, yeah, let's see Montgomery Gentry.
I don't know why this is my favorite song because

(36:50):
it's kind of random, but they had a song called
she Don't Tell Me To.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
I remember, I vaguely remember that that was a hit, though,
wasn't it was a hit?

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Yeah it was, it was. It was a hit.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
She don't tell Me She Don't tell Me Too. I
just love that song. It just it just struck a
chord of me, even as a young man. But even
now when I listen back, it's like it's so weird.
Out of all the songs I could have liked, I
like this one and it still relates to me so much.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
My town was was my cham yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
One the other day? Hell yeah, you know that one
I do? And I was cracking up and I asked
my wife, I said, do you think because the whole
thing is Troy. The whole thing is Troy singing, except
there's one little part where Eddie goes, hell yeah, turn
it up right on, right on, like did he come

(37:45):
all the way to Nashville from to say those three
words that day?

Speaker 2 (37:49):
A little part Yeah that's the only party.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah, that's crazy because Eddie can sing his ass off.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. But on that song you.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Just go hell yeah, oh yeah, right on.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Man.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
So I mean, you were surrounded by mega vocalists, just
it was in your blood.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Well I did. The only thing I knew was something
was weird because like none of the other kids in school,
Well you gotta think from the moment I was born,
this is a thing. But when I got in school,
I was like none of the other kids, uncles or
you know or mom, family does this kind of stuff.
So that's when I was like, Okay. Once I started

(38:37):
to understanding, I was like, this is a different situation
than most. But I remember being in elementary school I
don't know what grade, and there was like I guess
the parents had to have a talk about it. But
parents were sending their kids to school with pictures of
John and Eddie and like in the morning asking me

(39:00):
to like write my name on it.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Really, what may My mom asked if you could get
this to your bring it back next Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Exactly, sure, Yeah, I'm sure, which is totally inappropriate. Yeah,
don't do that.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I mean, if you have famous people to go to
your kids school, don't do that.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Don't send pictures.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
When did you? When was the first time you were
like I want or was it from the jump you
were like this is what I want to do. This
is what I'm going to do. Is moving Nashville and Chase.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
You sing specials at church? Coming with no, Oh you
didn't know.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
You wasn't a church.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
You got no, I'm a believer and I love church.
Did grow up and going to church, but we didn't
sing in church for some reason. But uh, I was
I got into rock like I grew up with country
music family. I rebelled against it pretty hard when I
was a teenager for whatever, because that's what teenagers.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
Yes, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
I didn't, and so I was like, I'm a rock guy, man,
you know, and uh.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
I'm gonna make no money, gonna be pissed off at
the world.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
And I loved uh seeither yeah, like uh, three Days Grace.
I was big, which is kind of a different era,
but I was big into Stone Temple Pilots. Well the
reason was velvet revolver around them. Uh.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
And I loved Slash.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
I loved guns and roses and all that stuff, and
Stained was one of my favorite bands. I was big
into the grunge scene in like the nineties rock and
that's late late nineties rock stuff and uh and so
I had a band and I was like we were
kind of like a little bit emo or something and
kind of we were trying to play.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
I've only known you as hard as now. I can't
see you all emoed out.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I didn't fit very good.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
I was short.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
It was now butcher. Yeah, man, you're mad. I was
like emo country, you know. And so but anyway, me
and this band.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
We it's hard to be em when you talk like that.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I know, well that's kind of the story. And uh
and so I rebelled against country so hard, and everybody
wanted me to do country. Obviously, my uncles and my
mom and everybody did country.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
So they're like, when are.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
You gonna make like sing country songs?

Speaker 4 (41:26):
They hated my rock thing and they did.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
They're like, this is stupid.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I mean, I'm pretty sure I probably would have hated it.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah, I promise it was.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
This is stupid. Come on, man, it's stupid.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
But at the same time, I'm like fourteen years old,
ye fifteen years old or something. And then Aaron Lewis
from Stained went country.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
And you're like, okay, maybe.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
I was like, oh, and it was real cool. His
first song he put out country Boy. Just I was like,
this is me man, heck yeah. And uh so I
as I'm learning the guitar and all this stuff and
singing country songs, that's that's my go to tune right there.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
I love that song talking about the flags flying in
the yard and all this stuff. I'm like, yeah, buddy.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
So you're still patriotic.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
You're just you were just getting back to your roots. Yeah,
who you're right, Yeah, I know I feel.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
And then which I knew Haggard and and Jones and
all that stuff. I mean, one of our sayings in
the family is, I can't wait. I don't say this.
I can't go back now. But I love George Strait.

(42:39):
I'm a huge fan of George Strait. This with that, Yeah,
I'm a disclaimer. Love George Strake, respect the crap out
of George straight.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'm still going.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
One of our sayings is, like King George is George
Jones to me, I don't think I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (42:59):
But I of the bars or all closed it's for
in the morning, dude, you do George shut on, all.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Down shape, come on like that was the kind of
So I agree upon all that stuff, and so I
knew that I've.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Seen that argument that George Jones is the greatest country
voice of all time.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
I mean, it's it is.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
I mean it's.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
George stra was sitting right here right now, he'd be like,
I agree with you. I mean, I would think, but
there's two kingdoms.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
There's just literal okay, it's there's just a a feeling
that comes with George Jones that you could almost hear
that he lived that. If that makes it, I don't
know if I'm putting that right. But it's like the
pain is in the notes, bro, I don't know how

(43:56):
you do that exactly.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Unless you've lived it, and you don't get that from
anybody like like he's he's not getting some people do well.
I'm just saying from you don't get that George Jones
feeling from anybody else like George Jones.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
George.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
The only vocal that you're gonna hear like his is his.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
It's clean too, man, is so good the middle voice.
But you know, I think I don't think that's even taboo. Honestly,
I think that's a that's a legit.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
I don't know, George Straight, there's probably yeah, there's probably
there's probably a whole bunch of Right, there's a whole
bunch of them.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
I mean, for me, the voice.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
If it's not George Jones Haggard for me, I mean,
I love George Straight songs, right, but when you're talking
about like the voice.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Haggard, Yeah, man, it's hagged for me.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
It just isn't anyway man throwing sh dude is.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
I'd have it?

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Oh yeah? Oh man? Good anyway.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Sorry, I can go fore but let's okay, we we've
we've had I mean Hanks in there too.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, all right, sorry.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Let's go uh let's let's revert back to uh some
outdoor stuff.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Yeah, like growing up.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
If you've got it doesn't sound like you have many
days off. But if if you had your perfect day
off on a Saturday, you get back home Friday, you've
got nothing on the docket for Saturday. It's a good
weather outside, large mouth bass.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Really that's your go to.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
It's a little spring fishing.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
It's my favorite thing above hunting. I love fishing.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
And that's saying a lot because I freaking live and
breathe hunting.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
See that so does read I'm hunting. He's the fishing guy.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Sure. But if there's nothing like a tug online for me,
I mean, it's the best drug in the whole world.
I eat it up. I get obsessed with it. There's
nothing else in the world happening. If there was a
someone like trying to rob me at gunpoint, and I
had a scutter port and yeah, and I just I
just you know, set the hook on a on They're

(46:05):
gonna kill me. Because I'm not even gonna pay any
time not letting. I mean, I'm I'm like zoned in
when I'm fishing so hard that there's nothing else in
the world.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
What's what's your what's your real like, what's your set up?

Speaker 3 (46:19):
If you could choose? No, I'm not like a gear.
Are you bake cast or cast or that's what I
grew up bass fishing with, which is super fancy.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
I don't know why that's what I grew up on,
but I.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Feel like you're really But if you can, if you can,
if you know how to work a bake caster, like
you know what you're doing, you know you know how
to catch fish, if if you know how to throw.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
I forget that until I give my bait cast or somebody.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Done this thing pulling, That's what I always say, this
thing keeps rolling or something wrong with.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
I don't know. I've tried other stuff, like I've tried
the straight up and down one.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
What's what's those cast? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
And those are too. I like those with like crappie
and and brim or whatever, the little kind of easy
light stuff.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
The zeb COO thirty three was round for sure in
my life when I was younger, But that's like that
reminds me more of h sitting on a bucket throwing
out four or five of the suckers and catching catfish
or whatever with some night crawlers, but fishing plastics, large
mouth bass bait cast.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Any this spring because we're in the middle of it
right now. My dad, I've got to we'll get a
lake behind our house. And my dad's out there every
day and he's sending me pictures of seven's eight so
and he is cracking on it right now.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah, I bet we whooped him last week.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Cilcadas, I think it's really helped a lot.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Of the day. Man, we were smacking them.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Cicadas are a thing too. Somebody told me the other
day that the last time the cicadas came their granddad.
They walked over. They were going to go fishing. Their
granddad had a zip lock picking them off trees.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
You know what I thought about that on the way
in this morning.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Frozen and dud swear, I rush fish.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
It's so smart if you just got a bunch frozen
and then just use them over the next months where
they're like kind of not around. Yeah, I thought about that.
That's crazy to.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
Burn them up.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
And the good thing too about this whole cicada thing
is next year there's gonna be some hogs because they're
getting plenty of New trents their protein.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yeah, my neighbors said, man, come down there and get
some eggs. I was like, why he's like, is there
eating all cadies laying to today's laying to a day
from these protein from these.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Cicadas that ain't country?

Speaker 3 (48:36):
I like that. I like that.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Keep talking, then, what's up?

Speaker 3 (48:41):
David Allen Cole? Is that a song that ain't country?
Kiss You're I ain't country? The version of that. Let's
leave that. I agree with you all. By the way,
what God's country? Oh yeah, I like he's pretty country.
I'd say his country. That's what y'all meant by that.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
He's definitely a city.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
But I think of Heaven. I don't think of London,
you know what I'm saying, Like that's a song I
think I think of I think of man gold streets
and big lakes and just just till tops.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
You asked if I got to go yet, I have not,
and I am itching. I mean, as soon as I
get an opportunity, I'm ready to rock. But but I
did this.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
One thing the other day.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
I had like we were at a restaurant that we
were walking in and there was just a good little
spot for me to run up and throw one cast
at the restaurant. And I said, Babe, you're gonna hate
me for this, but I'm gonna go get my pole
and I'm gonna cast one time and if I don't
catch anything, we're done. So you're at the restaurant, walking

(49:55):
into the restaurant on the water to the back of
my truck. That's my god, dude, it's been in the
back of my.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Truck like five years old.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Hiccers.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I got there's one spot, my my, my things in
the truck. I'm gonna grab it already.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
What you got on? I had a a one them
a missile what they called little missile, little creatures, little
creature bait, little creature baits.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
It's like a green pumpkin.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, solid undefeated.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Yeah, oh god yeah, get get get him with a
little watermelon red flakes in them. Yeah, it's over.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
That's what. I don't even have bad days with those things.
I mean I literally I throw it up on the bank,
like say, the edge of the bank. Throw it up
on the bank. I've got it down to where I can.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
I could just right land it right where.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I wanted one one little pool. He's in the water,
the water every time, that's eating it up. Man, turn
keep talking, daddy. I don't need anything else. That's only
I used, I swear and this is I'm not sponsored
by this.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
I'm agreed.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
I wish I was, because I spent a lot of
money on Yeah, But anyway I saw it, it was
already on there from last year. I went and grabbed it,
and I'm like, babe, what if I caught my first
fish of the year on one cast? That'd be crazy.
So I assumed that maybe they were out there a
little bit, so I threw it pretty far. And also

(51:22):
I was going to get more covered, so I'm like,
I'll cover more dedicated your first bass on this one
first year. And I'm pulling it, pulling it and pulling it,
and I get it up to the bank and I'm
about th rell in it. I'm at this point, like
two feet from the bank, from the edge of the bank,
and I was into you. I'm like, it's over right

(51:43):
doing it. So You're like, you know what, I'm just
gonna pull it right up there on the edge because
last summer when it was hot, they were pretty much
on the land. Like on the land, they were so
far up onto the bank that you could reach down
and grab. That's how shallow they were. So I just
kind of pulled it up just I could see it
in the water. And you can't see a bass. You

(52:04):
can't see it unless maybe if you have your special
glasses or whatever polarized. And I pulled it up in
there and he just rolled. Wow, come on, come on,
he grabbed it and rolled. I saw the water move.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
I'm like, oh ship.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
And I mean just as soon as I set the hook,
he came out of the water and I'm like, yeah,
first cash of the year. That feod And then she goes,
I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
What does it do for you mentally? Because like I mean,
you know it's and and we all know's creative A songwriters,
artists like you can't turn it off. It is a
constantly the mind is going all the time. Man, What
does getting out on the water catching some fish do
for you?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
I mean, like I said, there ain't nothing, There ain't
nothing that can phase me when I'm fishing. I mean,
there ain't a worry in the world. But it's it
might be a little bit of it because no obsession
is probably healthy. Yeah, I'm a little bit too obsessed
with it. I'm like, my wife's like, do you ever
think about maybe getting me some flowers or something and

(53:21):
like making me smile? And if it's fishing season, so
I gotta I love My wife loves fishing too, and
so I'm trying to figure out how to how to
get the because she knows how much I love it,
and I love her so much. I'm like, we gotta
get her kaiak so at least if she don't want
to fishing, lay there and get a sun tann or something.

(53:43):
But she knows how much I love it, and and
uh it does it. It's it's really if I could
just hang out with my wife and just go fishing
whenever I want, that'd be the life right there, buddy, Yeah, that.

Speaker 5 (53:57):
Would It wouldn't until September got here, would.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Well? Oh?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yeah, yeah for sure. No, I'm We're me and Reader
both lucky. We have wives who understand it and came
into it. No, the trouble is when you go, oh no,
I don't do any of that, get married, and then.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
You want to do it right, you got to be
up from you gotta be.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Up front from the jump and go, hey, this is
what I told you. I am legit, instaid, I do music,
and I'm out of here September. Well, at the time,
it was September to December. Now it's more like August
to January because there's other things you can hunt in
those months. I didn't know about it at the time,
but she was like, hey, I get it, Like that's

(54:41):
what if, that's what keeps you saying and you know,
and I'm not gone, And especially when you start having kids,
you slim that down even more. But I feel like
if you're just upfront with it, it's an easier fault
battle than trying to act like you don't like the
outdoors when you really do.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Yeah, you know, absolutely honest.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
He's the best policy, dude.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
Yeah, no doubt, especially in marriage.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
All Right, So you're on you're on tour. You were
you were on tour, Cody, You're on tour with Party.
What do you got going you, Luke Brian in this fall?

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Dude, Yes, all summer actually starting this month. Oh, that's
a good question. I have to uh, I have to me.
Let me ask my people.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Bus call whenever they say the.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Plane. I'm excited. Uh, I'm a I love Luke Bryan.
I love you know watch I've seen him live like five.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Or six times.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Was a huge, huge fan when he first came out
with we roding trucks and I remember hearing rain is
a good thing for the first time ever, and I
was like, dang, this is a banger. All my friends
say and all that stuff made me a fan of him.
And then uh, you know he we watch him on

(56:02):
TV and stuff and he's just he's just countries all
get out. And then his manager saw me at the
ACMs at Top Golf and she's like, you ever met
Luke And I was like, no, I've never met him.
I'd love to, though, and she goes, well, come here,
and so I follow her and then he's like surrounded

(56:23):
by all these people and but you know how he
sees his manager, he's locked on him, and she goes,
come here, and so Luke came over and she introduced
us and we got to talking and he had all
these people like moved. It's people are anyway, they move
around him.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
A little like ecosis. It's like following.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Yeah, it's like a little like bees buzzing around him
or something like if he moves over here, they follow him,
just like all these people and they're tapping him on
the shoulder, tapping him on the shoulder, just bugging. Oh yeah,
just bugging into death. So I'm like, well, man, I
talked to him for a minute and I'm like, well man,
you got you know, you've got people want to talk
to you. And he's like, he's like, no, you're good.

(57:08):
And we keep talking a little bit more and talking
a little bit more, talk about hunting fish and whatever.
I'm like, well, buddy, you got a lot of people
want to talk to you. And he's like, no, no,
you're good. Stay don't you don't. We keep talking a
little bit more and talk about music and talk about this.
Like ten minutes go by, and I'm feel I'm feel
so awkward. I'm like, all these people want to want

(57:28):
his attention, but he's talking to me. And then it
hit me, he wants to talk to me. He don't
want to talk to those other people.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Yeah, he wants to talk about yeah, talk about that.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
But so but about by the time we were done,
I was like that dude, was super cool man, super
nice guy, and he just wanted to know about me,
and he didn't want to talk about himself. I was
asking him questions about himself and he would divert it
back to asking me questions about me. And normally, you know,
you get somebody that wants, you know, you ask some

(58:00):
questions about themselves. Now you don't open the can of worms.
They gonna talk about themselves and themselves and themselves. I
like Toby, he said, I want to talk, you know,
but uh uh, but he was super cool, super nice guy.
So I'm excited to get to know him a little
bit better on the road. Yeah you will, that'll be fun.
He's good dude.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
In the studio working on some new music.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
John Party, yeah right, and Jared Conrad. Now, so John
and Ryan Gore we're gonna go back in I think
in the fall and do some more stuff. But earlier
this year we recorded some stuff and uh and John is,
as y'all know, is busy, very busy guy. Uh, So
we had I wanted to continue recording music, so we

(58:43):
started working with a guy named Jared Conrad, who's fantastic too.
Like I said, we'll go back in with John party
and we're gonna have a big old, big old record
for everybody. So I had a lot of stuff on it.
I'm oh, gosh, I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
For a minute since you pulling out right.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Oh man, it's I'm I'm beyond excited. Good stuff, buddy.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
So single climbing singles doing good sir. We're sitting around now.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Eighteen twenty twenty three. Yeah, last I heard, so it'll
be sniffing up there real soon. That's awesome, man, It's
crazy all right, Uh, get it, get us into it.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
I'm waiting for you.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Oh my god, spend an hour on they bang?

Speaker 3 (59:27):
All right?

Speaker 4 (59:28):
What?

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Oh yep, yep, I forgot I do it every time.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Sure that was important what you trying to say, But
this is that part of the show for the.

Speaker 7 (59:42):
One that Got It.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
We like jingles, daling, we like jingles.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
There.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
Man female out there wants to pass the right jingles.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Make sure's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Holler and our manager. We do something called the One
that Got Away, And uh, it could be a fish,
could be a big old twelve pound or that you
knocked off your dad's hook like I did. It could
be a deer. Don't say a girl you got a wife,
it could be you could be, it could be. Could
a gift card? Yeah, you have a one that got away.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Last year, Uh it was still still both season and
a little Yeah it feels good. Yeah it was good. Ready,
I'm ready. It was both season. And I was in
this in this stand. It was kind of a spot
on the farm that everybody that hunts there on the lease,
they were like, well, you know, nobody's really been seeing

(01:00:42):
anything down there, and uh, I was I just tried
it out.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Was being risky.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Is this Kentucky or Tennessee or see?

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Yeah? And uh and so I get up in the
stand and I'm sitting there. I'm there all day and
all night, and finally evening time rolls around starting to
you know, get towards.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
All day that respect, that's that's been rut, right, was it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Well it's two hours away. So when I go down there,
I got it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
I love it. I got it. Yeah, it was it
was rut. It was rut. But he he.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Came walking down and I've never taken a big buck,
like a big big buck like over one forty.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
I've never taken.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
One with a bow too. Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my
just a little backstory. My my dad was always from
a young age. I was in a tree stand at
three years old and he so he literally ingrained, do
not shoot a buck. That's not a bit, you know,

(01:01:47):
And so it actually did the opposite for me. I
let so many bucks walk even I was I was
probably should have taken one, you know, you know, like
when you're twelve years old and you let a one
twenty or you shoot a one twenty, you know what
I mean. But I you know, and so I still

(01:02:07):
to this day have been waiting for the right first
big buck. And this one fifty to one sixty. I'm
not real good at judging based on It's like monster, big, old,
bleached looking white, right, And he walks down real slow

(01:02:31):
and he comes and I'm hunting over this water hole,
which is why I was confused. I was like, man,
if there's a water source there, I want to be
over it. And so he comes down to this water
hole and forty yards in front of me, has no
idea you're there, no idea, and I'm like, how does
he not? And it just everything worked out perfect, and

(01:02:53):
he I remember, I could see it right now, his
head dropping down into that water hole and just like
moving air coming back up, just.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Like a majestic.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
I'm like, oh, ship to worry you drawing back this time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
At this time, I'm I'm you know, you know how
you do. I wait for him to go down, and
I make the move a little bit of a movement,
and I'm just kind of slowly getting my movement where
I want to be set up, move my foot a
little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
Here, get my boat ready here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
And then he drops his head one more time, and
I pulled back. And now I'm standing there waiting and
waiting for a broadside shot forty yards and and I
was sitting there already thinking, and this is where I
screwed up. I have not been shooting.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Enough this year.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
Oh no, you do that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
I have not been shooting.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
We got blocked out. You gotta out the door.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
I'm the thoughts of you holding him in from I know,
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
And because I'm already sitting there going like my like
my back muscles like or not trained, hey dog, trying
to let this go, buddy. And so he finally turns
brass side and I'm like, and I knew instantly that
I missed this is her instantly, And he he jumped,

(01:04:21):
took off. I went down there, I found my arrow.

Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
No, it was basically it wasn't no man's land. It
was brisket shot just barely like I bet it just
a little.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
It was low. It was that low forward. Oh yeah, yeah,
and it was just it's just I can't even talk
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
So he's still.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Around, said, you get pictures of him after.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
He's still around.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
They've caught him on camera a few times, so maybe
a picture, i'd have to probably, yeah, that's what they
got away, dude, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
For sure, but maybe not. Maybe maybe he's the one
that got away that up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
Because yeah, yeah, get away absolutely will buddy. Yes, I'm
going to go this year and try to get him.
You know, some of Elstoe was a good thing. That
farm is big and it's I think that Buck, just
based on his behavior, is not a traveler, you know,
heything and clothes so.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
I can feel the I can see your paint. I
can still fish because I've been there. This is like
a thing. It's yeah, deer.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
Especially, it's tough, man, it's bow hunting. It's is really
tough and and I have a it's probably about time
I should listen to my friends and retire my Matthew's
outback that I've had for a long time. But when
I'm when I'm when i'm shooting the target, you know,
three D target, I'm dead on and I can it
doesn't matter, or that bow is just comfortable and I'm

(01:06:02):
dead on.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
I've killed a lot of deer with that bow. But
for whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Reason that that time, I just was I was way
too confident in that bow and and it let me down.
Which I let me down, I didn't. Yeah we got
a guy, we got it. Yeah, I've got one. I've
got a newer. I'm trying to think what the brand is,
but brand new, just freshly strung. I just have I

(01:06:31):
just I pack up the Matthews. I'm just like a habit.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Gravorite.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Yeah we do a gravorite tune. So greatest slash favorite
equals gavorite song, country song.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
There we go.

Speaker 11 (01:06:50):
Again. I'm just a singer, born gear ringer, kind of
a claner.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
A shad old song. I'm naughty, walked behind her. I'm
a new note finer, utting my nature reminder of a
blues man that's already gone. So I started drinking took

(01:07:33):
some things and messed up my thinking. I was sure
sinking when you came along. I was alone in the spotlight,
not too much left in side us. She came and

(01:07:54):
took looked it up again. What did the course? Baby?

Speaker 12 (01:08:00):
I love you, head, baby, I need you, head, baby.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Way God to proven me some kind of marshal man.
You wished so much of your life.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Running through the dark nights.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Let me shine on a little love light down on the
booze man.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
I love this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
First, I got cuffed on dirt roll, I got sued
over no shoulder, But she came in, took all that
old lord down off his blue man. Head Baby, I
love you too, and d baby, I need you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
And yet baby, I do get tired.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Well, I'm just traveling by.

Speaker 12 (01:09:05):
I'm thirty years old now, and knights would be cold
now if you hadn't stuck it out with this blues man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
I'm thirty years old now, night so will be cold
now if you hadn't hung around this blue.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
May you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
I love about that?

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
That song?

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Paink Junior wrote it by himself, and it's the first
verse is from the perspective of her talking to him,
and the first chorus is her talking to him, but
the second verse changes perspective and it's him talking to her.

(01:10:05):
Which if you did that as a writer in Nashville today,
everybody would be like, I can't do that, man, why'd
you do that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Yeah, the listener doesn't know that you changed right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Would be too complicated for for the listener. But but
in my opinion, I think that song relates to a
lot of people and they understand what it's saying.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
It Is it crazy that then when he was putting
out he's going, I'm thirty years old. I know, thirty
ten years ago for me. Yeah, I'm I'm ten years
older than he was when he's saying that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
Yeah, that is crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
At one time time you're in your while you're right,
And I was. I was feeling it, and I looked
up at at Ray, our producer, and he was like this,
he's going, like in it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Yeah, vibing dog.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
That was That was.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
My wife about stank face. She has. She loves it.
She's like.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
She just like watches all the guitar players and stuff.
Now when we go to concerts, she's like, baby, he's
doing stank face.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
You can't help especially when yeah, dude, let me tell
you so do you You're And I've always I've known this,
but Reid talks about it all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
We have people on and there's like, I guess we're learning.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
That with some of these people that we have on,
there's like a presence that follows It's in their voice.
It's kind of like sewed into their voice. And you
have that presence and it's so powerful. I've always known
that you're a great singer. We've we've always known you're
a great singer. But man, it's always shocking to me
every time that, like you really like put the pedal

(01:11:51):
a little bit, you know, you feather that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
You're really great, dude. Well thanks, but really great.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
I'm glad you finally getting the recognition that your songs
and your voice deserve.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
And thanks. We're proud to be here recorder. Oh man,
I love writing songs.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
You guys.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
We gotta do it again too, uh And I never
I've remembered this from last time we wrote, and I
haven't cut it yet, but I'm gonna tell you it's
real special to me, and it's I'm I don't want
to I'm going to at your point and I don't
know what how that's gonna manifest. But the song we
just wrote my old friend yeah a few months a
couple of months ago, y'all said, when I recorded y'all

(01:12:30):
sing background, you let us hell, Yeah, it's done. We
just got to record it. So far we haven't, but
no pressure in some way, shape or form.

Speaker 4 (01:12:39):
I want to record that because it's really special to me.
That song is really special.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Dude. We we love you man for real.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Thanks yah, hang out with We appreciate.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Your great, incredible talent. Dylan Carmichael got new music coming out.
He'll be on the road this summer. Luke Bryant go
check him out.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Thanks for coming by, hey man, thanks for having me.
I've been looking forward to this a blast. Yeah, and
I'm a fan.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Appreciate you being God's country though.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yes, don't dry you don't draw you man, shirts, don't
dry your shirts, don't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Drive your shirts. Don't be running into bars.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
No, don't run in or out of bars.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
And when you're in a fight, don't go reaching. Don't
don't go reaching. Thank y'all for hanging out with this.
Dalan Carmichael, see all, thanks for having We'll see all later,
See you later.