Ep. 37: Girl Daddin' - Drew Parker on Being a Camouflage Cowboy, Writing Songs for Luke Combs, and Pre-Rut Deer Hunting Techniques - God's Country

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
What's Up?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're outing God's Country.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Reed and Dan is also known as the Brothers.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We take a weekly drive to the intersection of country
music and the outdoors. You forgot great all two things
that go together, like Camo and cowboys or.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
The Atlanta Braves and the nineties. Brought to you by
Meteor and I Heeart podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Got another fan Day. We've known this guy forever. He
literally took his first record deal meeting after a podcast
he did with us in My double Wide trailer.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Five six years ago singing some of the Gun.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I knew from the first time I heard him sing man.
He has been one of my favorite singers in teams.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Country boy sing country Boy, Crooner, country Boy, camouflage, country Krooner, cowboy.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Mister Drew Parkers on the couch Man got a little
baby like Dan. We're we're all kind of doing this
thing together. It feels like in town, just kind of
coming up at the same time, and we share a
lot of similarities with Drew a.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Four week old, I got a week and a half old. Yeah,
He's welcome that I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
He's been on tour with Luke, He's going on on
the road with Cody Johnson this fall, just grinding man.
He's had some hit songs, great stories, great album.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Great album. Just a great dude, cherry dude.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Better on a boat because you know you boy ride man.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We wrote some great songs that didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It didn't make it. You're welcome that I'm here. So
I'm slave to your entertainment because my child is a
week and a half old. But I'm here because I
love you, and I love God's Country, and I love
what you're hanging out with us.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Smash that light button, Smash that follow button.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
We got a way back day. We got a we
got a buddy. Yeah, it's a good buddy on the couch.
We got a cowboy hat wearing look at your intro
right here, DP cowboy hat wearing hit song writing girl
dad dear killing Drew country cow camouflage, country camouflage.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Cowboys him, country dude. I was Parker.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, country camouflage, cowboy Parker. Thanks for thanks for coming
on though, I'm gonna push this mic a little bit. Man.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
You've been tanning.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
I mean I've been outside more than i've Your shins
look tan. My shins look ten.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
How are your legs tan?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Shining?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Have you been like in the so you've been outside,
but what's outside? What's been doing? Well?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Uh, I mean it spen so hot, so like anytime
I can get the girls out at the swimming pool.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh yes, right, new girl, a new baby, brand new baby. Dude,
that's why I look this way.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Don't tell me, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know, I know how Brandon.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Mine's four weeks old. Mine is a week in two days.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, we got Yeah, that is.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Exactly how you think we feel.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Actually, I probably feel worse than I look. Really, I'll
tell you this.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh no, you look pretty Oh you look pretty bad.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
I mean I've gotten good at hiding it. I think,
you know, because you don't want to like look tired
all the time. But you know, well, bro, let's be real.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Once you have a kid, you're pretty much tired on you.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
I think the weird thing is obviously how crazy you
know what we do is, you know, but like I'm
on the road and so like I'm out on the
road and it's like super late nights and then you
get back home and you like he immediately get back
on the schedule, right, and you like it's crazy. I mean,
it's absolutely crazy. I mean I went to bed at

(03:56):
you know, probably three am Saturday night, got back home
yesterday and like I wanted to nap, really couldn't nap
a nap for like forty five minutes, maybe before Harley
was ready to play again.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, she don't know, she has.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
She just knows your work. She also she also don't care.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
She don't, right, And when you get back his place,
it's go tough.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You think Boone care this morning at five y five?
Do he care that? I was like, could have lived
in another three hours? No, sir, he does that. And
then over the wife.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
My wife is.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Good about going like hey, like don't wait, don't go wait,
daddy up or whatever?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh yeah, that's right. She's a trooper, so she I mean, obviously,
by I think it's safe to say by now, all
of our wives kind of understand the insanity. Oh, schedule wise,
we do.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I think I can just see it. I mean, oh yeah, yeah,
you just see like how well.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't think it takes long. I think like how
old you you age for a while though.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
A couple of years. I mean we were dating before
me to Nashville.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I was young.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
And that's what I'm saying you and Shane saw the
whole process is already That's what she told me.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
My wife was already in the problem and she was crying.
She goes one more Christmas, you got one more Christmas.
I was like, okay to live or I was like okay,
I went straight. She would she would kill me. I
mean she would. I think my wife would have no
problem murdering me if I did something to deserve it. Yeah,

(05:34):
and she's actually she's actually told me all that to
say why.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I mean, they'll they figured out pretty fast when you're
in it like we are. Now, how how crazy and
chaotic it is?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Man?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I mean you can make plans for vacation and
then those plans go away quickly at the drop of
a phone.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Call, as the drop of a phone call, at the
drop of a three minute phone call, and then that
week of that.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
That you blocked off, can I also go away?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
And it's so hard to be like so selfish in
those moments and be like, well, dad, gott dude, like
what I was looking forward to this?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Ye, you said dude there, It's almost like you were
referring to someone or something and no, dude's over here.
Keep the mood baby. That's awesome. Little girl, little girl,
another little girl officially a girl. Dad, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean, you're gonna go this is it?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think you're done. Tune through. Yeah, man, I look
at you know, it's not up to you.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, my wife she's it's good.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
It's funny. When we first met, first got married, she
was like she wanted a whole like litter, dude and
a litter.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's great, And I guess I got a litter.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Now technically it's and I was like, no, too and
done and now it's kind of like i'd go one
more huh And she's like, no, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
What that's rare to me? If you said I feel
like it's the wife saying yeah, I go in one
of the dudes like cool, like I'm out there.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
I just don't think she doesn't completely love being pregnant.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, dude, I get that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
They my watch says the same thing that I.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Don't get that, but yeah, she's not. We can't get that,
but I understand yeah for sure, due how wild.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Is it that? Like? Bro, you know what I was
thinking about.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
So we've we've said this before on the podcast, me
and Dan used to we start had this Brother's Hunt podcast,
and you came over to my trailer double wide in
this in this garb and this get up. But you
had a bag with you and we were like, and
you had this big box, your cowboy hat box, and
we were like, I was like, well you and you
were like, I have my first record deal meeting was

(07:44):
it was COVID because it was on zoom. Remember this
and zoom and you had that your record deal meeting.
We had to like clean up the back of my
room and hang a picture so true look so Drew,
look like it's like official. And he was in a
double wide on the top of a hill that.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I remember the quote. I remember hearing when I walked by,
like see what's going on. I put my ear to
the door, which I didn't have to because the walls
in that trailer were like that thing.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I could just hear it.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But I heard somebody say, you know, we feel like
a lot of people are trying to copy what the
nineties were, but Drew, you are what the naughties were.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
It is probably it's probably like you dang right I am,
and you dang go back, like think about that that
was I mean the COVID So four years ago, dude,
and we're literally sitting here on music row. Thank god,
we've all been successful and had enough, you know, go
on that we're sticking around.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
But we got kids, and we got houses and we
got it happened quick, dogs, dude.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's just like it's it's fun, man, It's fun whatever
scenario you are in life, Like, it's fun finding your
crew and and and growing up with them through it.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, yeah, man, through all the thing, dude.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know, I think I heard that very early on.
You know, it's like, well, you'll find your crew and
then you grow up together, and I'm like, okay, really okay,
but dude, man, I mean like I truly have those
friends and I can call on for anything.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Maybe y'all are two of those. Maybe even in the
middle of the night for sure at some show.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
I haven't done that. Oh yeah, I was gonna say
I haven't done that yet, but I definitely have done.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
To me last week.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
You may not remember that you did this.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
It was this, yea.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
It was two weeks ago, so you weren't a new dad,
like you didn't have the baby yet. So now I don't.
I don't feel so bad, dude. You shouldn't feel bad.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I was trying to prepare you for the next week,
right for the next the next six months of my life.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Just like just like a baby crying in the middle
of the night. It was just me crying and calling
in the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
It was what That phone call ended with Luke going,
you're beautiful man. We can't hear anything you're saying. See
you later. I was like, okay, you're like, yes, go
back to that. It wasn't that late. It's probably ten
thirty eleven o'clock.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I think I called you once and you didn't answer,
and I was like, okay, that's good enough for me.
And then I got brought someone else's telephone.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was a wild crew. It was like a wild
crew because it was like Jamo was there, what's what?
And then Ray was there, and then Luke and you
it was Jamie and it was like a it was weird.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
It was a perfect storm for this.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
And then Chris Hughes was there, like Chris money, Yeah,
it's wild anyway. Yeah, you can call us anytime and
we will answer. Well, I appreciate that. On the third
on the third time you call honestly, cannot believe you
woke up to answer this. I was up. I was up.
Oh yeah, it wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, we do.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I just had to go. They were like, are you
in the bathroom with your shirt off? I was like, oh, yeah,
you know what.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
We were on Eastern time, so it was also like
an hour earlier.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it was earlier.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
That kind of hell.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
DoD are you mad anything? Due?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh? I forgot? Are we telling them about this?

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah? What you mad?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Just tell us what it is?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
What you're mad? Is it you in lost kids?

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Mind?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Being your boss man or your neighbor's cat.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Just what your mad? I am mad at poison oat, dude,
Poison Oak got me on the back of the calf.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
You a scratcher too.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
You don't have to, you know what. Here's how I
feel about I gotta start bleeding. Bro.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
You are you one of those that feel like you
can scratch it that a way?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
No? But I'm just I don't. I'm not one of those.
I know you can't. But what I am Before I
spread with the Klaman, It's like I'm gonna get mine,
you know what I mean? So I'm going nuts on it.
It opened it up, then hit it with the calaban
because I'm like it itches, it's philosophy. I'm not gonna
not what am I gonna do? Not scratch it and

(11:52):
spread on there. No, I'm gonna get mine, then I'm
gonna spread.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's like one of those things too, though, like when
you do scratch it, you're like, I think this feels good,
but I know it's like not.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
I know this is this is plus not the right
thing to be doing.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
But it feels some weird psycho part of me. It
feels like if I just open it up and then
shoot it into my shoot the cow mine into my veins,
that the burn make it the stupidest.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
The poison.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
I was like, he's in the house.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Like spraying on the outside before it opened the front
door and spring.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
There's always picks everywhere in my house, wash your dryer,
coin places. There's always pixie where and they make great
scratching poison. I'm not scratching with yours. I'm not scratching
with yours anyway. That's what I'm mad. I poison. It's
just a time of year. It's deer standing time, uh
dude time, So like I get it.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
I usually get one like your face that time no, no, dude,
that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
One heaping case of poisoning on my face.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
But I'm so allergic to it, like if I'm down
wind of it, and like if I'm in the wind.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Blows, dude, I'll get it absolutely and it'll go.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Were you doing what you were doing in Shorts, Yeah
it was a bad move, But here's what here's what
are you doing? Well?

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I help my neighbor put his lawnmower on the his
lawnmower went dead or.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Whether now just turned into it.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Threw a belt and tractor to get it on. The
tractor on the trailer. So when I did, I was
coming back and I was like, I could mow that
real quick. So I I bush hogged and Shorts, don't
do it. Never do that, terrible. I know not to
do that, and I still did.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Its terrible, but you know the thing, you just got
to go.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like the quickest way to get it out, go get
a shot immediately when you feel it, go get a
shot and tell him to give you a Z pack,
just a steroid pack, and just take them.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
I think you take a Z pack on top of
the shot.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I promise you do. That's the fastest way. The shot
only lasts like three days and it doesn't kill it.
Let me tell you they doesn't get it.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'll tell you this if you don't want to do that.
Walgreens does a spray on Calaman. I heard you say,
sprawn came something just kind of and dude, it will
monk it down there.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Still, pinkers are clear.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
I mean it's clear. Look at it's clear. Yeah, And
it's not itching. It's like it's not even there right now.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
It's definitely there.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's definitely there.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
It's like I'm itching.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
This is taking too long ago.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Uh man, that's all right. I'm mad at myself, dude.
I'm mad at myself this morning. Uh my wife's out
of town and I have the kids by myself. So
last night blew the jumper up in our backyard, threw
oak in there.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
He loves it.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Griffin comes down the stairs and she steps onto the yard.
Griffin's too, and she steps onto the yard and you
would have thought she stepped in like lava.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
She was still there going and I was like, hey,
what are you what are you doing? She was like, come,
pat me up, beat me up.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
I was like, what, it's grass she goes, there's too
much shoey and I was like, what, there's no shoey.
She was like, we can't step in dog showy. And
I think I scared her so bad one time because
she almost stepped in.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I was just like, I was like hey, because like
she was looking at it. I think she was like trying.
I was like, hey, Hey, I was like, that's dog shoey.
I was like, it's all over the yard.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's funny. Do you call it shoe What do y'all
call it?

Speaker 4 (15:12):
I love that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
We call it boo boo? Like, what's yeah shuey? But anyway,
dog poop? You can just go straight up dog poop. Okay, Yeah,
well I would like for my kids to have childhood,
so I call it boo boo instead of poop. Man,
Come on, dude, well you think poop just I mean, therefore,
you don't get introduced to the word pooped. You like, really, yeah,
boo boo shoey bad job number two.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Booboo is what you do when you get.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, we do. We did run into that. We do
run into that. You got a boo boo on the
back door. I'm like, do you have a boo boo
or did you boo boo?

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Right, It's true, Griffin's terrified, and dude, it was a
It was a dang thing last night for about an
hour getting her anywhere to walk in my yard because
she just layd mine showy bombs, laying all is there
really shoey everywhere? I mean, I got two dogs, two
big dogs. Not everywhere, but no, it's not everywhere. And
that's what I was trying to tell her. I was like,

(16:08):
you're not, you ruined hes what you're saying it was?
It was I was mad at myself last night for
making it such a big deal. I wish I wish
I just never said anything. She just stepped in and
we wish wipe it off and go on. Yeah, so
now I'm finding the battle of getting her to walk
anywhere in my yard.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
You know what else? You just spread that off? Dude,
Well tell that to a two year old, well after
you scared them. It's a little different deal.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
But yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
It sounds like I need to tell that to a
thirty eight year.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Old or however you are, hmm, what you mad anything?

Speaker 4 (16:36):
I'm slightly getting over what I'm mad at, but I'm
still kind of mad about it. And this has been
like a year long.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Man were getting there, so I've been, uh, don't make
it politics. Oh it's not.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Don't make it about your wife either.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
So I wanted to build this thing at my house,
just like place to write songs, you know, And I
got told that basically my yard wasn't big enough to
like extend my like scepty tank or whatever, and so
I was gonna be able to put like I want Basically,
I want to build a poolhouse with like like a
writing room above it, but I couldn't finish the room

(17:14):
above it. But I wanted a full bathroom in the
poolhouse part right, So poolhouse, garage, writing room. They were
going to allow me to like put the bathroom in
the poolhouse side, but by doing that, I couldn't finish
the writing room upstairs. And I'm so I'm mad at like,
but you common sense that like I'm allowed to have
a bathroom but can't have this room. I can't just

(17:38):
my septic system isn't big enough. What sense does that make?

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Do you have to have a bathroom?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
No, but the bathroom. I want the bath I want a
full bathroom in it. But they okayed, the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Like I'm just I'm just wondering why you can't put
something on top of.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
A bath The bathroom is okay, So what does that
have to do with the sceptic Yeah, if there's no
septic going to exactly.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
We need some comments in the in the in the comments.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Allowed to have a bathroom, but can't finish the writer's
room that I wanted to build.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
And then like the contractor was tunny this the guy
in the builder the.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
That doesn't make permit people codes, guys, codes, guys.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, coach, I'm allowed to have a bathroom all the
I guess by finishing the room upstairs, it then like
looks like somebody might live there, and the bathroom is
going to get used more than if nobody does live there.
I don't know. It makes no sense to me. So
that's what I'm mad out. Yeah a long time, because
I built this whole thing because I wanted to write
songs in it, and I'm getting told Kent.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Is that Davidson County?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
No? Yeah, what county?

Speaker 4 (18:42):
You is Sumner?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Where is that like Hendersonville? Okay, Yeah, that's weird, man.
We're running into that right now too. Some of that
code stuff. It's crazy fun I'm getting over it though
we're working through it doesn't sound like no.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
It sounds like you've been holding gruss for a while.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
I have. It's okay, man, I'll just go ahead and
get this story out the way.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
So hurry up, because we got to talk about dream
Moore the.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Way it's about Drew. The way me and dream meant
was pretty pretty funny. We uh, we're on the bus together.
Got called on this right, had you ever done a
bus ride at that point? I hadn't up with him? Yeah,
fighting with him. I have go ahead, So I meet Drew.
I remember you had like a braves hat on. Wow. Yeah,

(19:29):
I was like love at first slight. You remember what
I was wearing? I kind of do. I kind of did,
I remember, because I remember thinking he must be a
Georgia guy, which was correct. Another one of those yeah, exactly,
here we go Exactly. I was like that. And so
I think Luke was real tired and he just went
straight to the back or something when he walked on,
or maybe he was already a sleeve. Me and you

(19:50):
just hung out all night, and so we immediately became
fast friends. We come in, we start writing, we start writing,
which is now one too many? Right? That was the
he's he walks looke walks on the bus or in
the front front with us. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, that's
just a regular scratch and that's not it. He scratched

(20:11):
and uh he says, hey, man, I've had this chorus.
Correct me if I'm wrong, you're right, And if we
can get the verses right on this song, I will
cut it on my next record. Yea. And we were like,
no pressure, okay, here we go. Press well, we're working
on that the rest of the time, which we did.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
That was what we were gonna finish.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
He said that. We were like, okay, dude, let's go.
So I think over the course of the next three
days we had some fun like we did some I
don't know what all we did. We shot shot guns
or something. We went to like, uh, where was that?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Like Ohio University of Miami, Ohio is where we Oh, we.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Went to the because you got us locked out. Remember
when you let the door slam? That was really funny.
Uh okay, So we work on this song all week
again weekend. I guess it's like a four day run.
It needs a bridge and we can't come up with it,
Like we just can't. I mean literally for a day.
I think we were trying. We just could not get

(21:16):
this bridge lined up to the point it's the last
night of the bus run. We don't have the bridge.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Story.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Stories like this are why, like are what makes these
songs great?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Man? Yeah, this is true.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
This is like straight pressure right here.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
I mean, I love this story so much, and everybody
listening to this is gonna love the story so much.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm so glad you're telling us.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
And at this point, it was like, dude, if we
don't get this bridge, I mean, A, he may not
cut the song and may lose the interest in the song.
B he may bring some other dude on it to cut.
So then it's you know what I mean, it's splitting
it up even more.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Uh so I'm gonna pass the story to you and
let you take because we were working to show literal showtime.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, so this was like Saturday night, so last show
of the weekend. We've been out Thursday, Friday, Saturday night.
So like we're running out of time to like finish
this song.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Pressure's mounting a little bit.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh for sure. We had two great verses, but like
it was just like you know, it needed something, you know,
And so Luke like goes to play the show, and
me and Dan were like, dude, we got to finish this.
So like we're not even gonna go.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Because we knew those show it you're not riding after.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
The show, yeah for sure, Yeah, for sure. So we're like, dude,
we've got to finish this. So like we like go
in and like watch Luke go on stage or whatever,
and then we're like, hey, let's like go work on this.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
So we go back to the bus. We're working on a.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Song, and I'm like, we can't come up with nothing.
I'm like, all right, dude, let's go in. Let's just
watch the show. If we feel inspired or whatever, we
can come back to the bus, or we can me
and you are going to finish the song.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
And no, dude, no, I'm thinking, no, we need to grind.
We got to get it done. He's like, dude, we
need to go see the show. I was like all right.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
So we go in where me and Dan are standing
side stage and this was I mean, I don't even
know what year this would have been.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Twenty twenty nineteen, yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
So it was like that moment when everybody was tweeting
and like whatever, Luke wanting the shotgunna beer with him. Right.
So we're standing side stage and I see like Luke
during I think, like, don't tip me with a good time.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
I want to say he'd only had two hits at
this time, maybe two. I want to say. It was
like rains and her Hurricane that was it. Yeah, yeah,
maybe just hurricane maybe just hurricane. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, So Darren, don't timp me with a good time.
He would like take his drink and he would like
throw it in the crowd and the crowd would go
absolutely berserk. And I was like, man, we need like that,
We need that kind of thing. I'm standing there and
I look it down. I'm like, dude, I got it, man.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
You know, because you know what. I know what it is.
I got it.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I know what it is.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh you got it?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, you either like, oh you got it, or you
like you better?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
You better got it? You better got it.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
So we go to the bus and if you don't
got it, I'm gonna be real mad at you.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
I like to pick up the guitar and like do
the course and then I'll get to this bridge and
I'm like, you know, I start like kind of mumbling
through like what it was gonna somewhat be like?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
And it was like, but you sold the idea harder
than you sold the lyric.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Oh for sure. I like mumble too, saying I was like,
let you say we shot gun one. I was like, dude, imagine.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Dude, he STIPs, he gets off the couch sick.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
I was like, imagine, dude, he has a beer and
he shotguns this beer in front of this crowd, and
the crowd just goes berserk, like we he that moment
was will be.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Iconic, you know.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
And I was like, he could even get a fan
shotgun a beer with him, Like I don't know what
that just he's selling it. And Dan goes no, man
of course, and I'm like, of course, it is like,
what what's wrong that dude?

Speaker 1 (25:01):
I was like, man, he kind of already does that
with he's.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Got that thing. I'm like, he don't shotgun a beer
in the show, and everybody wants to shotgun a beer
with this guy.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was like, yeah, I guess you're kind of right.
He doesn't necessarily shame he had I think you had
shot gun?

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah, I like have like pieces of the whole thing.
And I had the shotgun one remember then he like
shotguns of beer. And then it was just he was like, man,
I just don't know. And so then he like has
me going yeah maybe maybe.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Then maybe maybe I am an idiot, you know.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
And I was like, here's the thing. We don't have
anything else.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
This is just gets across the finish line, like.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
We can mention it to Dad, which we call Luke Dad.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Because he's our father.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yes, and some decisions after the show we're like but
not like, hey, we think we got a bridge for
that song to Luke and he was like, all right,
let me hear it.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
And so wait, before we played it, he sold it again.
He's like, all right, picture this, I can see said this.
So then we played he was like, that's it. That's
absolutely it it. I was like, yeah, I know, I
said that same thing, and now it's like one of
It's a staple, dude. Biggest moments of the live show.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Just literally this weekend. I mean, I've been on tour
with him this year and we had our show last
show Saturday night, and the owner of the Houston Texans
is out there shotguning the beer with him. During that song,
and I'm like, I mean, that don't happen without me
and Dad.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Really, I mean, bro, it's that he just had, he
had the whole cast swipt Twisters come out.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, I've done it with him.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, it's who I've seen do it with him, and
I have seen I could go.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I mean, I could go forever. What's the I'm losing homes? Yeah,
and Holmes.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Did it, but I mean, well that's the thing, Like
he will do that for the rest of his life,
for the rest of for the rest of his touring.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
And shout out Tyler King. Tyler King and Luke had
worked on that song's.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
We wouldn't have even been in the position to be
able to do this.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
That's a killer song. That's a killer moment.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Anyway, that was like does a lot of things because
like I mean, we got to hear Kicks Brooks and
Ronnie Dunn sing on the song.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know, it's really cool. Yeah, I forgot that that. Yeah,
that was nuts. Anyway, That's how me Andrew got to
know each other was over that. Yeah. I was like,
what a terrible idea, what a brilliant idea.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
I'm so glad And dude, I've never let Dan live
this down. But any chance I get to, like, like if.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
We're at a show or something, that moment happens, it'll
be like, okay.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, kind of me.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I make sure he I make sure he knows that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Tell everybody, Tell everybody where you're exactly from in Georgia.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
I grew up in a town called Covington, Georgia, which
is where that's between Atlanta and Athens, Atlanta. Making so
like I'm like forty five minutes from Making forty five
minutes from Athens, forty five minutes from Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'm gonna hit you with some braves. Here's a little
braves trivia. Me and Dan do this all the time.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Gosh, give us, give us.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Let's look at like if we're looking at the field man, Okay,
you've got David Justice.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
In right, Fred mcgiff, Fred McGriffin first, Hobby Lopez at
the behind the behind the plate. Can you fill in
the rest?

Speaker 4 (28:26):
No chance, no chance, no chance, I thought your braves, guy,
I am, There's no chance I'm doing that.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Nineties braves. You can't do it. Just start and see
how far you.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
You even gott to fill it in just just give
us yeay later it's.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Late still in the game.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Andrew jhoneson Center.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yep, well unless Kenny Lofton's there.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
But yeah, god, y'all trying to go way back.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
No, I'm just saying, we just know are Braves. Who's
the second?

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Uh that that's the one that gets there. It's the
one because they flip them.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
This is the test.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
It could either be Blauser or Mark remember Mark Lemkey,
Mark Lemkey, that's way back. Jeff Blauser would in short second.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
I mean obviously I know like Braves history, but like
I was, even like their first World series, I was
too young to like know, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
You're a lot younger, that's true.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
I didn't even think about it.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
I was five. Who's who's I mean, I'm the same
age my daughter is now, and there's no way she
would know it's.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
On the.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
You know what I mean, Hardy, we are the media,
but there's like five and like you are probably like
ten or nine. Ten, Yeah, like I might wouldn't know it. Then.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh then we watched every game because I could go.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Like probably the next like thing like okay, what's the
next gives to my field for call.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah. Oh see, I'm out. You know, I'm out. I
don't even think about Hobby.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
Uh god, he lived in Covington, dude, left fielder? Uh
right field? Oh dude, what in the world. I can't
think of his name.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
See we go Cluscho and let's go. Ryan Klasko was
right or left? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
And then you got I mean our dudes were Glavin
mad Small.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
See I'm in on that lefty.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Uh not John Rocker, though he can can keep John
rock No, you don't, you don't remember, you don't anymore.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
We watched all those games. My granddad watched every.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
He's like a preacher. Now I think I've heard this.
Maybe that's completely wrong. We need someone here to fight
check us.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
But my Paul watched everyone every Braves game on TV.
So we sat there in front of the TV and
watched it with you, and we do the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Andre Samer.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, see that's a good that's good. That's a good
poll right there.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
David Justice was my guy.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yes, my that was my that was my dude, kind
of like Kroger brand King Griffy.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Are they good now? Are they good?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
This year?

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (30:55):
They're having a terrible year are they They were really
really good and they've literally going from as feign first
place as you can be till they are now out
of the wild card right.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Now, Tell them about that one game you went, said,
which was the one I got where they got kid drilled?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, well, I mean I went. It was it was
it was it was game.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Five of the the they're n L right, Yeah, yeah,
N O d S and uh or a ld S
A L d S.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I can't remember, but yeah, we got I went with
Tyler Braden.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
He's a huge Brace fan, and they got him, like
the organization cenim a jersey with his name on the
back and gave him four seats behind home plate. And
it was like me and Randy Montana and Tyler and
his now wife, and we were sitting by like all
the rappers and stuff, and everybody was like right before
the game and they were playing the Cardinals. And it's

(31:50):
a game that the Cardinals put up ten in the
first inning and and it.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Was like literally at that game game. I was at
that game. Yeah, that was a rough I was at
that game.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, we left pretty fourth, yep.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
I was at that game. Man.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I was about to say something about the Braves and
I can't remember what I was going to say.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Pretty influential sports team if I do so so myself, dude,
especially for the South.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Yeah, let's just talk about this. I think the baseball
season is way too long.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
It's too long, way too long.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
I can't like one hundred and eighty games, dude, dude,
eighty games on or one sixty maybe in NBA's eighty games, yes,
well yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Sixty year sh they're playing two times a week.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
For it's just too long. I think this is probably
an unpopular opinion. People love to watch the whole season.
I think one hundred games is plenty.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Absolutely games is plenty. Dude.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Wow, I think the NBA season is too long. What
is it eighty one games or eighty two something?

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Man?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, I mean that's just it's just which I get it.
Like sports fans, they're making a bunch of money. Ever,
they sell out all those games.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
We had the business believe oars that played, and man
for the for the money that they get. They get
paid a lot of money, But dude, they miss like life.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
That's what people don't realize.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Man, No, they definitely don't. You're in this, you're doing it.
Right now.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, to extent. Yeah, that though, right, they play every
night of the week.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
How many plays? E many shows you'll play this year?

Speaker 4 (33:25):
I mean I'll probably play maybe.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
So in NBAI.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
But that's eighty that's eighty shows. But you're stacking on. Yeah,
you're stacking on four days of being gone those eighty.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, but no one looks about those days. They only
think show. You know, that's it? What is it? You
get paid for the drive. You play for free, but
you get paid for the drive for the time, and
that's sitting around in the stadium is tough on the brain.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Dude, Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
I still love it. I'll do, I do.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
I will say I got to a place where I
was like it was tough, you know, like I hadn't
put out no music in a while, and it was
just kind of felt like I didn't know, you know,
what was I doing it for?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Kind of sense?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (34:18):
But man, I mean the last twelve months I've been
like super fired up and just back at it and
actually having a blast.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
What was it that like put the fire onto you.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Good songs, writing good songs again and.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Just people kind of you know, I kind of I
kind of bought into the whole TikTok thing too, and
that's actually been fun. I mean for the longest time,
I feel like I kind of fought that.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Interesting for you know, I'm really interested in this, like
because a lot of people despise it, right, especially like
of our cut from our Yeah for sure, So so
what about it made you go, Okay, man, whatever, I'll
give this a shot. Realizing that there's a brand new
generation that lives.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
So I think the hardest thing is I mean, I
was just hardheaded and like, man, I'm like thirty two
years old, and I'm like, I'm not a TikTok guy. Man,
I need what I do. I just write good songs
and people want to they'll find them, you know. But
kids is what change it for me. My whole, my
whole deal, the whole, my whole goal when I moved

(35:30):
to Nashville to chase this was like, provide for my
family and what at whatever cost.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
That you didn't even necessarily have yet hardly.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
No, I wanted to make music at whatever costs.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
That was an important Yeah, that's an important for sure
right there.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Yeah, I wanted to provide for my family, do what
I loved and so I think, you know, I was
having good success with Why You're Gone back in twenty twenty,
and then I kind of quit putting out music, not
really quit putting out music, but just slowed down a lot.
And I wasn't buying into the TikTok thing that was

(36:09):
what was crushing from like twenty twenty to like now,
you know, and I was just like, man, that is
not who I am. That is not who I am,
and that's not who I'm going to be. I don't
want to do that. And it wasn't like I thought
people that did it were bad.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
I just you just weren't. You weren't dancing, dude.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
It wasn't my thing to get do that thing totally.
And I mean, honestly, man, I was like I just
kind of had this come to Jesus with myself, and
I was like, you said you would do whatever it
took to provide for your family doing it, and so
then I was like, Okay, well, if I've got it.
I think it honestly goes back to like being a

(36:49):
being in high school and I like at the time,
like playing baseball. I was like, man, I'm giving it
everything I got trying to do this baseball thing, you know.
And then I graduated and I had got hurt my
senior year and baseball was over, and I was when
I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go do music. I
want to chase music. And I look back on those

(37:11):
times and I was like, when I thought I was
given a hundred percent, it wasn't even closed to one
hundred percent, right, So I kind of had that whole
realization of like, man, in ten years, I'm going to
say I gave one hundred percent. And when I go
look at my TikTok account and there ain't note on there,
I wasn't, you know what I mean. And so it
was just a culmination of all those kind of thoughts

(37:32):
going through my head. And I don't know, I'm just
I'm in a good place now, Like I'm excited about it.
I don't mind shooting content. I don't mind. I actually
enjoy it, you know, And it's finding a good way
to do it. There's a healthy way to do it.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yeah, sure, so yeah, I mean, I haven't seen you
dance yet.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
No, you probably won't, probably won't.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Less, let's make up. Belove the Leaving.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
I love that song you, Jamo wrote oh, while you're gone,
what do you play that thom.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
With this?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Baby?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
You're gonna come back.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
The meg vot.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
I'll see right here drinking by baby.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Wow, you hold gone.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Dude, the smash dude bro, give him the guitar, give
him the guitar and just can I just get? Can
I just get? Can you do a verse chorus of
level leaving? It's real early due this song.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
I would just warm me up because I said, it's
in the key of D. It's in the shape of
the It's in C shark, so that just like half
step high.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Text you that I was what was I was mowing
the yard or something and listening to Apple playlist or
something and this song came on, dude, and.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
It probably crushed me.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
It's probably in standard. All right, let's see if.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
You can't do it, it's all.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Uh. I'm trying to think of how to play it
in this shape I played on piano when I play.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Uh, let's see that would be the one. Let's see.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Yeah, it's ray.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Too hard, So plea, don't just drive away?

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Where would you go?

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I don't know how to play it?

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Who see?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
I ain't want to bed put baby?

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Please let me good for your heart.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
See ride where it is you can heave me in
the morning, baby to night, let me.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Leaveving. God, dude, that's a killer.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
That is a killer, And that is literally what I
text him. Man, I heard that song. I was like, bro,
this love to Leaving is a dang killer.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Thanks man.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
So that song has a crazy story.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
I wrote that. That was the last song I wrote
for my record.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
My record was actually done and I had the song wrote,
We pitched around, it went on hold like with three
different guys within two hours, and the next day I
had a song meeting with the label just like finalized.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Like who put it on hold? I'm curious Luke Morgan
and Nate Smith. Jeez.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I was in Kansas and with Luke we were turkey
hunting and he was like, He's like, dude, Drew sent
me an absolute hammer, you know, he said, he said,
But I listened to it and he said, and yes,
it is an absolute hit, he said, But I told
him he did. He's like, I told him he better
cut that song.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yeah he did.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
I mean he was so. I mean my record was
like done in the sense and so like.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
But anyway, ultimately we came to the conclusion of like,
the record's not done, we're going to go back in
and cut this. And so I texted Luke back and
I was like, hey man, I know you were kind
of like it because it was like one of those things.
It was like they literally all put it on hold
at the same time. So it was just like, whoever
goes and cuts it first is just gonna cut it first,
you know, we didn't really care.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, those are all three great.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
So I had like texted Luke and I was like,
hey man, I know that you had said like you're
interested or whatever. I was like, but I think I'm
actually going to go in the studio and cut it.
And he was like, dude, I don't know why you
weren't going to cut it to begin with. And I
was like, yeah, man, I don't either. He was like,
I told you that you needed to cut that song.
He was like, he was like the He basically said,

(42:20):
the artist thing is a fleeting thing, and he said,
you have a hit song that you can do it with,
and you have to do it if that's what you
want to do, like and that was I mean, it
was It's tough though, y'all know.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Oh my gosh, how hard is it to go.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Okay, I'm like unproven, never had a hit as an artist,
and I got three guys who have lots of hits.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
But also goes back to what you said, like I'm
going to do whatever I gotta do to provide for
my family exactly.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
And it's like, well, this, I mean, this is like
a guarantee, you know, And.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
So where does this mean? I wonder about like that
with not just you, but with other guys. Man, Like
you have hit songs, You've written, You've written hit songs,
giant mega hits, Like you're good, bro, you could write
songs for the rest of your life. Like what is
it in you that is chasing, that is wanting the

(43:16):
artist thing?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
And honestly, because I quit, bro, like I write, I stopped.
I just wanted to write songs. I don't have it
in me. What is in you that like you're going
to be an artist?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Man?

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Uh, it's literally one thing. I want to hear my
voice on the radio.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
It's always been a dream.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
That's where I fell in love with country music. Was
like writing in Troup my dad listening to the radio,
and it's like I didn't go well as a kid,
I didn't go, Man, I want to write that kind
of song. I love writing songs, don't get me wrong
like that, But that wasn't something I discovered until like
after I got to Nashville. I came to Nashville to
like sing songs. Something, come to Nashville to write songs.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
I hadn't.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
I didn't know what that meant, you know, But I
realized once I hear that God had also given me
the gift to write songs. And so like I was
able to do that. But the kid inside of me
that fell in love with country music, fell in love
with Alan Jackson singing on the radio, fell in love
with Travis Tripp on the radio, you know, and so

(44:16):
I just want I want to be on the radio.
Like that still means a lot to me. It still
matters to me. I respect that, and I think I
respect that, just the chip on your shoulder of like
all the people like and I say all the people
there's I've been a very supportive guy, like from back

(44:36):
home and like my family, but like just the one person,
the one person out there that says good you know,
and they don't know, they don't you know, they don't
even they don't know what success is. Like the fact
that I was I have been able to write songs
for that that's not good enough for me for them,
you know what I mean. So I don't and I

(44:57):
don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
But that's not good enough for me.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I understand what you're talking about, and I agree.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
So like I don't know, I just the next thing.
Just keep knocking those, you know.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
I feel like it's been a pretty steady climb for
you as an artist, like it just continually. It hasn't gone,
but it's like continual steady, which is a nice true
build of fans and of energy and a momentum.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
And I've liked stuck to who I am. I think
it is like the most important part to me. Like
I haven't like tried to other than like going and
doing tiktoks, you know, I haven't.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Like, Yeah, the other day when you were out there
done anything, Ray you felt it.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
I ask you this as an artist, like grinding and
and and how much pressure did it take off of
your shoulders to have that first hit song with Jake
Owen and and kind of know that Okay, man, Like
my foothold is good in this town A lot.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
I mean well, I mean, dude, I was still working
at a hospital when that someone number one.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
I remember you working in a hospital that went too
long ago.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
It's four and a half years ago.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
No, I was small town, holy.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
Everything.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
I love.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
It's home jam.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Yeah, I was working at the hospital when that went
number one, So like it allowed me. That song allowed
me to like obviously quit the I mean I literally
quit the hospital of the day of that songe.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Fact.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
I called my boss.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
I was supposed to now what were you doing? What
were you doing radiology?

Speaker 2 (46:55):
What?

Speaker 1 (46:56):
How did I know this? You didn't.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
I didn't know you were running radiology.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
No. Yeah, like if you broke your leg, I'd take
an X ray of it or whatever. So I quit
the job it was, and then I was able to
like just fully focus on music, which six months later
I put out my EP that had while You're going
on It. Yeah, I mean, twenty twenty was crazy year
for everybody, but it was really good to me. I

(47:20):
had my daughter, Oh my daughter was so I was
telling the story homemade with Number one on a Sunday,
called my boss said, Hey, I had already made a
deal with her that I would work one shift after
if I ever got a number one, I was gonna quit,
but I would work one more shift. So I was
going to go work that Monday, and my wife went
into labor. Wow, you know what that never never worked

(47:41):
that last shift.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Babies bring number ones, man's another one.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
I did.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Babies bring bloods, I know, right, you just hey, I
know I had one the same week that my new
record come out.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
It's a baby, that's how sick?

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Is that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Really good?

Speaker 3 (47:56):
So you move you you write homemade a couple of
years past before Forever for All?

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Yeah, I think so yeah as a mega hit. Yeah,
probably twenty So Home Mae was twenty twenty, so yeah,
twenty It might have been twenty twenty one, right that
Montana reroll.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Know we wrote it Luke Chause. Did you know we
saw him the night that y'all y'all wrote it that
day and then we saw him that night.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
I remember this I for for some reason, I don't
know why.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
I remember for what something. I called you that right
I'm away home you.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Called me or text me. I was like, dude, Luke,
play me that song. I was like, dude, and we
were there.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
I don't know if it was a Friday Sea Fight
or something. Yeah, something Pizza Friday or something having like
a cook cooking something something, Yeah, pizza Friday probably yeah
U but he uh, I was like, dude, remember because
we were like, bro, you need to cut that song. Yeah,
that's a hit. That's a big, big, fat hit, And
it was a.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Big you do.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
We're the reason actually that.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
You actually only five percent.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
I'll take one. Uh yeah, big monster, mega.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Hit which brings us all the way to you going
on tour with Luke and and doing your thing. Kind
of a little rebrand in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah, Hey, how did camouflage Cowboy Coon of Life.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Europe conversation with me and Luke had in Europe.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
He was like, you are the comp you are the camouflage.
But that would be hilarious. That's what.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Bottom Land Kate flying off like.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Go look in the mirror and tell yourself you are
the camouflage. So then I'm on the bus, I'm like,
I am the camouflage.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Before every show, I am the camouflage. Caw when we
walk out, No, man, it was uh.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
We I mean we, I mean we were on the
bus together with each other for a month, so we
like talked about everything and one night we got to
talking about like how the whole black PFG thing, you know,
came to life.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
With him and that Calumbia Sure, yeah, like.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
And how like it's such a staple and like his brand.
He's like, man, you got you gotta get something like that.
So it was really happened by mistake. So we get
back from Europe, and I obviously had those thoughts in
my head, like man, what like I've always worn a
camouf or cowboy hat on stage, like that was even

(50:17):
before I moved to Nashville, Like I want a cowboy
hat anytime I sang since I was a kid, you know.
And so but that wasn't enough. It's like, okay, what
is my thing? Like what do people can recognize me by?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
So you just paired it with a brother's hunt? I did.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
I forgot to. So the we get back from Europe,
I'm on tour. When I get back from Europe in
the States, I'm on tour with Cody Johnson. We played
somewhere up in the Northeast and it was freezing cold.
I mean we got back from Europe late October, I think,
so it was like November. It's freezing cold. All I

(50:56):
had with me. Does Not Freeze to Death was a
brother's hunt bottom Land. That's what I was looking forward
to be seller, you know, And so it is great.
So I put it on, I play the show. After
the show, I go to my merch table and like
meet with fans, and I'm telling you, every single person

(51:18):
that felt like in that line was like, dude, I
love the camouflages. Love the camouflage and the cowboy hat.
Love the camouflage. I'm like, is this the thing? Is
this the thing?

Speaker 1 (51:28):
We talked about it here?

Speaker 4 (51:30):
So the next weekend, I wear camouflage on stage, same
thing at the merch line. Dude, we love the camouflage
and the cowboy hat. And I was like, interesting, has
this not been done yet? So I texted h I
texted Walker and Cappie and Jared and I was like, dude,
I think this camouflage thing is interesting. And I don't

(51:51):
know if it was me that said it in the
group text for one of them said it was like
something about the camera's Probably Walk probably said something about
like he watched Cowboy. Yeah, just a joking way like Cowboy.
It just like popped up and I was like we
had already started talking about like making a record, and
I was like, holy cow that's the name of my record.
I just knew immediately cowboy. But then I got to like,

(52:15):
I was like, man, I got to write a song
called camp Flops Cowboy. I can't just title it that.
So then I started thinking, like what is what does
that mean? And dude, I like, this is the most
vulnerable I've ever been in a song. I wrote it
by myself. It took me a while, but because I
was dude, I'm a guy. Man, I need my co writers.

(52:36):
I trust like you always like wrong, you know, And
so it took me a minute. And every time I
would get to the point where I was like, man,
this ain't no good. I need somebody to help me.
And I would like go to take it to a
co writer, I would just be like, you can't do it.
You can't do that. You got to write this story yourself.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
And so anyway, I don't know that it's the perfect song,
but it's perfect to me. And you know, it's just
so many people have related to the song. It's crazy that, like,
you know, cowboys are tough, man, and we like hide
things to like show how tough we are. But this

(53:18):
song is like, man, I ain't I ain't so tough,
and I ain't trying to look tough. You know, there's
a line in the song it's like I don't wear
this hat to be like John Wayne. It just helps
keep the sun off of the pain. And it's like, man,
I ain't tough no more. It's just like helping me
like facade this, sir like feel it so like feel
like I don't exactly and but because you try to

(53:39):
be tough for your wife and for your kids and
like every show them that you're not like this whole
being on the road and being gone and and people
you can relate like I've had people like text me
and be like, man, I relate to the song, and
they're like business owners that like you can't bring like
your work and like the stress that you're going through
and you know, stuff like you can't bring it home.

(54:01):
And so it's been the song has been really cool
that people have related to it in so many ways
and kind of just talking about how I've kind of
dealt with like those things, and it's kind of a
mental health song and I never thought that that's kind
of what the title track for my debut record to be,
but that's what it turned into.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
God, that's so cool, man, that's great.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
It's really great that it involves us, you know, I
know it is.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
That's my favorite part.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
That's the thing that not.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
That it helps people. Bro, What does something look like
for you these days? What's fishing? What is getting out
into the outdoors look like for you?

Speaker 4 (54:45):
I hope to get to do a lot this year.
My tour schedule was kind of not as crazy as
it has been. And you know the last four years
to when you fire back up, I mean, I got
shows this weekend, You're going out with Kojo, I've got
some dates with them this year, got some more fairs
and festivals, got headline show. So I mean, I don't

(55:08):
really know. You know what it looks like.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
You're still hunting that spot behind your house. I am dude, Dude,
that is a jam up spot.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
It is.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah, that's a jam up spot.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
And they got so they they So I've only lived
there for three years, so I haven't really known them.
They've always planted that field, but now I've like learned
what they do. Sure, so it's gonna be a good
year back there this year because they planted corn. They
planted beans last year and it was not great. Really Yeah,
shock the corn is what has been the corn? Hold

(55:37):
them corn is it's wild. So they planted corn back,
had some decent rain. We had it round, yes, yeah,
we got a lot of rain in there. Yeah, so
it's doing good. The problem is when they cut it.
You know what I mean, I don't really know what's
back there right now. Running cameras yet, yeah, I mean
I got a camera, but like.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
It may ever shoot that big deer this back there,
it did it got shot. That's a big deer. I'll
show you picture of it. Yeah. I hadn't seen the kid.
They always do.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
But a kid that like get the good I like,
I'm like his dad, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Your friends are the kids dad? Yeah even worse. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
No.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
The good thing about when they cut corn is is
that it'll be getting into because when when do they
harvest corn?

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Like me around here, it's like about it's close to
like I mean, it's cutting it close November.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, I'm about saying like getting into because it's October
and yeah, early October up the north.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
So deer gonna be movement and and the thing about
the difference of it with beans and corn is like
most being fills. You can see deer coming through a corn,
you can't.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
You have no I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
What's back there because they haven't quite well, you know,
they'll live in it exactly if they can get a
little rain, dude, then they they've got water, food, the
thing that out. And I'm not like a hunting fishionado
like you guys, but like I've got to figure out
how to get these deer. I love the boat hunt,
That's what I like. My dream is to kill like
a deer back.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
There with my boat.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
That's I don't really care to kill one back there
with my gun.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Yeah, you know what't you know?

Speaker 4 (57:11):
I don't know how.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Here's what you should do. Here's what you.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Should do, especially when it's getting into that pre rut.
Go ahead, even right now you can do this. Go
ahead and make a mock scrape and get a get
a buck or whatever buck back there. Because if you
make a mock scrape and put a little you know,
deer piss in it or whatever, like, you're going to
draw whatever deers in that field, they're gonna come check
it out, just because their awareness and their brain is

(57:34):
not gonna let them not.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
So.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
I think if you're hunting a big field edge like
you are that and there's a huge field edge everywhere
you look, go ahead and get you a mock scrape
going to where you're patterning those deer to that scrape,
and then do it. Do a couple, do a few
down that line to where they'll start making their you know,
getting get used to coming this way, hitting that whole

(57:56):
thing down that line and going up there.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Yeah, and once they out that corn, it's gonna push
them into your woods you already know, right, So as
long as that's a normal travel corridor, it is. And
and I'm with read on, uh monitor kind of monitoring
what's happening back there, because uh, they may use it
more towards the beginning of December than they do in October.

(58:21):
So I mean it's kind of being like when you
have these small small parcels. Uh, Timing to me is everything.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Yeah, time is everything. But the quicker you can get
them in a pattern and not even like recognize you're
not gonna hit it every day, but if you can
get them coming to one spot, and if they start
coming to that spot more than one time, you're gonna
have a chance pre rut, rut, post rut, they're gonna
come check that back out, especially if you're freshening it
up every now and then.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
I'll tell you personally, I think the greatest time to
hunt scrapes or mock scrapes right after a rain. I mean,
when it's after a rain, you feel like those bucks
want to get it there to freshen.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
The stuff and see what else has been set.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
If you can set a pattern, We're we're getting deep
in the in the deer theory here, but if you
can set a pattern where you know, corns cut, this
is in my brain, this is how you kill that buck.
Corns cut. You've already got them walk in the woodline
either on your monk scrape, and what they'll usually end
up doing is taking over that scrape right and kind.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Of make there. They'll make ten of them down that.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
So then all of a sudden, because they think there's
competition that you go back out there. And so after
a rain, after they've already been hitting it, they'll go, oh,
I got it. I know, I gotta go freshen that up.
So and a lot of scrape stuff around here, especially
in Tennessee, happens at night, but after a rain and
it's still kind of dark to pull them in late afternoon.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
And here's another thing, is like early season's here, here's
a here's a little tip like dose are not going
to go make that scrape. So bucks early season are
gonna gonna make that scrape. And what they're gonna do
is they're gonna pall the ground. They're gonna get up
in the trees, put their pheromones in the trees, and
they're gonna piss in it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
So little buck lure make it like a like mock
your own scrape.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Find you a looking like, find a liking branch, put
a little buck piss on it. And then as those
as those you see dose and you see other like
doughs start coming into heat, switch to dough urine and
then put dough urine in there, and then that will
so that buck will come to check out what other
bucks are in the area. But as rut kicks in
and they start coming into heat, he's gonna think of

(01:00:32):
doze high.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Dos in that area. And this might be the first podcast.
So I'm gonna go back and listen to myself so
that I can remember what you are healing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
It's like you're not You're not able to plant food
plots back there. You're not able to use that as
a killing plot. You gotta work with what you got,
and that's that's the best way to get in any condition, man.
And and you can even if you can even put
what I've done, is if there ain't no trees back
there to do it, which I know there are, But
like drill a post in, screw a couple of branches

(01:01:01):
in it, and and make your own mark, scrape out
of that, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
And so like these ropes, I like the rope theory.
It's a new deal. But like people are hanging real thick,
yeah thick ropes and doing the same things.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
I think it's a good idea, man, I just don't
feel it just feels unnatural to me, which deer deer
will get used to anything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
But it was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Actually about to say exactly what I think you're about
to say. It Essentially, what you want to do is
create an environment, or create an environment, but maybe help
alter an environment to the place to where deer want
to be. They want to feel comfortable, they want to
be able to make marks and leave leave their marks

(01:01:44):
on stuff without it feeling like intrusive and unnatural.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Right, Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
So I kind of just ship the my own theory.
But but I think they work for me. What I
think if you don't have if you don't have a
branch hanging out over a scrape, you know, naturally.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
They even make them hemp ropes now where the deer
are eating.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Them, like really like they're they're literally licking them, and
that's legal.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Here it feels a little you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Yeah, I don't know about that either, actually a little batish.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Mineral you can't hunt over well, you can't hunt over
mineral here.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
It's percentage, isn't it something I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Probably it's a certain that's right. No, you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
So it's like x amount percent of mineral. Then it's okay,
that's right. You just can't trophy rock. So beat the podcast.
Maybe we should create a mineral.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
Rope, Josh Ray, we could do this forever. Yeah, we
could do this forever. Hey, we do two things?

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Oh yeah, you gotta.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
I'm sure that was but that thing you had say,
but it's simpart.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Of So for the one that got away.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
What's the one that got away for you?

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
Drew By I mean I could go to that could
go anywhere. I mean get away from a lot of
fish have gotten away from it, lots of oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Kidding me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Give fish story.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
What's the one.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
I went fishing with?

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
This guy?

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
I can't I'm not gonna say where. But it was
on well, it was on the Cumberland River. I'll say
that a.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Great fishermen don't give up their spots, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Yeah, but it was on the Cumberland River.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
That's a big river.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Probably probably a log jam.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Up there something, and we were catching the smallies. We're
catching smallies and uh, we.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Know where it's that we were wearing.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
We were catching a bunch, dude. But the biggest one
of the day. Literally just seen it right there and.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Saw it how big? Like football like four plus? Oh yeah, smally.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
Yeah, I mean it was it was massive.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Fishermen out there. If you've never caught a small.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Mouth bass, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Go catch a small mouth bass, dude, Go go like,
oh my goodness, it is now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I can rip large mouth out of the lake all
day long, but you want to get into some fun fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
There go small mouth fishing man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
That's crazy. What were you throwing you remember.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
I was slow in a spinner bake. I'm kind of
spinner bake guy. I know that's kind of like it's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Like, bro a lot of money childish?

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
It's traditional a lot of It'saerbates the new flash spinner.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Baby, he just tied up and just throw it, and
really you don't like okay? Okay, right, yeah, okay, So
I think that's why.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Read the fishing girl. I'm the hunts.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
You're the music guy, I'm the fishing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Did I say?

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
What was this?

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
What did I say to you up a long time ago?

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Guys? What was it? Help me? I was like, some
some of the two things though, Oh some of us
are good at sports and some of us are good
at music. And I was like, bitch, I'm good about them.
So I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe that's
for years.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Is like when Dan got his first guitar and he
was ripping, but I was still beating him in driveway
basketball every day?

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Not sure?

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
That necessarily allot the home videos? What was talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
All the ones that got away.

Speaker 7 (01:05:31):
From dam that was my first one?

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Yeah, sorry, I got another one that got away.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
Uh, so I got that this one's kind of crazy.
So I bought a brand new deer stand last year,
M hunt back there or and I had set it up.
Me and my dad spent.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
All day sating this year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Ladder stand, Yes, ladders stand. Yeah, it was way to go.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
I'm in on ladder stands by the way. I love them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
Oh me too. This was a nice one too, Like
I was like, get me a nice one and it
was a Hawks yeah something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
It probably was. I'm kind of mad at that. I'm
not mad at that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Good for her, but I'm just saying I probably probably
one and a half man big yeah, big stand big
those like twenty one and a half see like both
both both Hunter's dream stands.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
Yes, yeah, So I bought this stand me and my dad.
My dad came up, helped me put it up, and
I was like, this is gonna be awesome stand to
hunt from. So we put it up on a weekend.
I go on the road the next week to play
like my last run of shows for the year, and
I was like, man, we'll come back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Thinking about that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Yeah, huh dude, I get back the November Tornado. What
I never said in the Deer Stand, Gone Gone, completely
ripped through our like where I live. Oh my god,
ripped that out of the tree, ripped the tree.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
I never said in the stand.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Did you ever find it?

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Yeah, it's still yeah, because I had it strapped to
the tree. So the tree fell, the stand was twisted,
but the limb like or the tree like fell.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Road somebody got to reach out the hawk like.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
The tree in half, and so like the stand was
still attached to the tree. Me and my dad did
a good job keeping it to the tree. But it's
it was a twisted, mangled mess. I mean it's like
I mean, it was a legit tornado.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Yeah, yeah, I remember it again close.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
It was the one that went through like Henderson Mill
and dang. I mean it's a legit tornado that like
ripped it out of there. But yeah, I never set
in the deer stand. It's actually still in my backyard,
twisted mangled mess, just because I haven't gotten rid of
it yet.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
You got you another one up there, Give me a
picture of that stand.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Dan, We got to get you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:11):
And I don't have another one up, but I'm going to.
I just had that time. Yeah, new Baby on the Road.
Writing songs in material yeah, so I'm going to get
a new one up and that you know, I literally
thought about it this morning. I was like, man, I
got to get a new stand because like, now that
the Luke Tour's over, Yeah, you got.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Down a little bit some time, I got a lot to.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Ketch up on. And so that was one and uh,
the last one that got away was.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I never had a three peek. But I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
I love it. Take time, man, get in there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Luke took me turkey hunt for the first time last
year and me him and Ray and.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Where'd y'all go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
At Luke's This might have been Luke's that won.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
The getaway part of his Yeah, I love to hear
your perspective though, because he's a liar.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
Well, he took me, he told me. He was like, man,
he knew that I had. I've never killed a turkey.
I've been turkey hunting many times, I've never killed one.
But he was like, man, I want to I want
to be the guy that gets.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
You your first turkey.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
And I was like, all right, cool. So I go
out there with him and Ray and they're like, gonna
help me get my first turkey. I don't know nothing
about it. You know, calling or anything, and so they
take me out there and we're literally debating like do
we sit here or do we sit here? And ultimately
we decide we're gonna sit over here. You know, So

(01:09:33):
which is the thing which we call we hear the turkey,
it's like over here, that's a that's a that's a
that is a Yeah, that's a moment that every turkey
hunter goes through.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Yeah, like we do it just about every time, unless
you roost a burden. You know, he's there and you've
got it picked out a tree. Like if you go
in blind and hear a turkey, the all you're always
gonna have the conversation with, whether it's with yourself or
whether you're hunting buddies.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Usually should we set up on that point or back
here in the wood?

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
It's usually like closer to him or farther way? What's so,
what's he gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
We're gonna which one we're gonna it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
And the joke has always been that Ray told us
Ray picked that we're gonna sit over here. Of course,
so we gotta sit over here. I mean, this turkey
is like hammering dude. And so finally here he comes
he's flying. I mean, dude, I mean it feels a duck.
He would have been dead because I mean I could
have just.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
He literally flies over the top.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
Oh right, I mean right over. I mean we're just
sitting there like this and he's just like flies Instead
of flying right in front us, he flies right overhead
and sits down right behind us. So now we're like,
oh my god, we gotta turn completely, turn around and
go to where we thought about sitting at. So we
go and we're calling through that creek bed, that right
creek bed, and we're like, dude, I imagine if you

(01:10:45):
had a camera out there on the other side and
you could have just seen like our eyes peek up
over like all three of us.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
We know, like we're just picking up fact. I know
the birds you're talking about it, I can see it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
So we're like working our way over there. And by
this point, the bird is like moved towards that tree line,
you know, And so I still don't see the turkey
at this point, like I haven't seen it yet because
just how we were like sitting there. And finally we
get situated and I I mean this is over the
course of like a good minute, like we're trying to

(01:11:18):
get this bird come closer to us. And dude, I'm
not kidding you. There was like one spot that we
all three agreed, if the turkey gets.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Right there, let it eat.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Yes, I'm not kidding you. This turkey is going up
this tree line right We're sitting across this little open area.
He's going up the tree line and he's like almost
to the place, and I've got gun up. Dude, he
gets right here, he goes up the hill away from.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Us, just makes the circumference where you can't shoot him.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
And then where he comes back down the hill outside
of the side. Like I'm not kidding you that that
sounds crazy, but that is exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Don't sound crazy?

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
Bird that like I was gonna shoot here.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Well, I can't go back in that circumference shoot me
right there.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
I mean he was like exactly, I mean, that's literally
what happened. And then like we kind of chase him
down the property for a little ways and just never
could But.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
Yeah, once he's past that point in the haller, he's
headed headed north.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
I mean, Ray and Luke say that maybe I could
have made the shot, but I would I mean it
was it was seventy.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Yeah, that's good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
That Turkey Hunt is about like.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
Somebody that may have been a little more confident maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
But Turkey's like bow hunting man, So she like you, like,
you're not going to shoot a deer. It's you're not
going to try to shoot it in seventy yards. You
could possibly hit that deer and fatally hit that deer,
but the odds of you doing that are really smary. Yeah, man,
like you want them in the same thing with Turkey Hunt. Man,
you want them. You want them where you know that
you can put an ethical shot on that bird. It's

(01:12:58):
good for you. And honestly, if we're being legit is
thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, some people are going to argue now to.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Look again, but.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
We had that's what. Yeah, I had one of those chokes,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Yeah, I'm not I'm just not.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
I I'm not saying that like Ray and Luke probably
could have done it, I was not confident in myself
enough to like do it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
You know what I've seen. I've seen both of them
not take that shot before though, Oh for sure, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
So it's not the Oh they were like they were
super like big changes man.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
They yeah, but they were like after the fact, they
were like, dude, good on you for not They were
like obviously good friends about it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
Yeah. Yeah. And you know, the older I get, the
more I realized that that hunting hunting like that is
more about what what do you want out of the experience,
you know what I mean, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
And the fact that we're talking about it, like, I mean,
it was the best time. And Luke and Ray like
I don't know this, but they both told me like
it was the most excess unsuccessful success hunt ever.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
I remember him saying that, like it was. I think
that's the first time he's ever called one somebody about it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Everything about it, what's perfect except we didn't get a bird.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
I mean, to me, that kind of is perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
And dude, it was all I mean, I'm telling you, like,
it gave me like an itch that needs to be scratched.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Every year now saying that's exactly what's going on my calf.
It needs to be scratched. Actually, my whole body's kind
of itching this entire episode, So maybe I'm messed up,
but uh well, dude, hey man, what'll happ youat that turkey? Yeah?
If we can all three quit having kids.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Know, yeah, come with us, But okay, graver, let's do it.
Gravorite song.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
And look, it could be anything. It doesn't have to
be like the best song ever. It's just to you,
you know, yeah it is. It needs to be explained
to you, like, what's a jam you like?

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Travis? Try maybe like I got my t R O
U B L E.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
Oh, I mean I can't play it's a good one. Yeah,
I'd like to see you play, though, what about like?
What about like anymore? I can't I can't hide the
way hippy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
About you sing it boy anymore. It's a crooner man,
no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
I can't hold and heard inside keep the pain out
of mynd.

Speaker 6 (01:15:35):
Anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
This is the right.

Speaker 6 (01:15:45):
My tears no longer. Wad my resistance saint that strong.
I'm mon key free creating. I've with you, prett I

(01:16:14):
don't you anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Amen?

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
Cameraufly came.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
We love the hell Man.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Thanks, Hey go check out camouflage Cowboy. Thanks for the
swag bag, I got some I got some hey dudes
coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
Oh yeah, yeah thanks for that man, d What did
you want?

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, Drew Park.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Everybody hanging out God's country.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Thanks, go get them.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Hope you enjoyed it. We'll see you'll next time.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Peace,

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