Ep. 91: Duck Season Prep, Dad Life, and Learn the Hard Way with Jordan Davis

This week Reid and Dan are running it back with multi-platinum artist, Jordan Davis. The boys dive in on duck season and the preparation that happens now, for a season that doesn't kick off until December. Jordan shares his favoriting hunting memory with his brother, Jacob, and why it is a day he will never forget. They discuss his new record and what it meant to him to have Marcus King join him on the track "Louisiana Stick". The three of them play a game of "Next Thing You Know" that leads into some hysterical stories of instances gone way wrong and end the episode with a country classic!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Y'all, what is up your offense?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
God's Country with your boys? Read? And then also is
that like a radio.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
More like a monster truck voice also known as the
Brothers Hunt where we take a weekly drive. It got
me a good intersection of country music out doors, two
things that go together, like betting your brother in a
game of golf for high high dollar stakes game of
golf and getting beat and not paying him.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I can't remember mine, We'll say.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Or Louisiana and Crawfish brought to you Bye bye bye
bye bye meat Eater and t A A E A
C making it up, making it up, the aka.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Sponsorman Show.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Sponsor Man shown baby, I got the covis.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
On my feeding. It's great, great day.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
That was.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
It took a little long, kind of freaking lame because
the covers A Sponsor Man the show remix.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Just be quietless this tractud.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
We got boots, we got boots, we got boots, we
got on the feet, we got boots, we got a foots,
we got boots.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
On our feet. Man, we shouldn't have riffed that. That
was tough, especial.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I was kind of trying to listen to the new
track and triffs jamming and riff at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're better than that guy. Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, remix though, is do we stay hide in their remix? Shop,
stay hide.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
In their remix? I don't do that remix. You just
cooled off.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Uh man, We got we got our boy h Jordan
Davis on UH today. He he came on a while
back with his brother Jacob. We kind of did like
a brother pod, but Jordan's got a new record coming out.
Wanted to come back on and talk shop and we
talked duck hunting a lot of duck we do.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
We do some inside ball and some things.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I know his managers are there or his pr people
are back there, like talk about the record record, Yeah
we do.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
We talk about the record at the end of the podcast.
Sticking around for that you love it. But yeah, man,
he's just such a great guy, such a good buddy
of ours.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
And it's so easy.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Man, that'll be the fastest hour of your life that
flies by listening.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
It ain't no doubt you're gonna love Jordan Davis. You're
gonna love this new record. Great songs on there.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Check it out, Be sure and check it out coming
out this Friday.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Real Life Singer, Real live uh songwriter, real live duck hunter,
real live dad, Yeah, real life good dude, got some
good got some good stories about his kids.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Stick around? Are we not getting rong? We getting rusted today?
Oh shoot, I forgot smell something? Ray forgot to do?
You have it now? I'm pulling up. Keep you going
for a while. There's a million on there.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
This is this is the rest that's been sitting in
the fridge for a few It's yeah, kind of like
the fat has coagulated around it and you gotta you
gotta leave it in the microwave long enough to let
that go to God's country. Go to reviews as fast
as you can. Okay, the roast is the first one.
I'm just reading it. We go, I don't know, just
started listening to this podcast. Save yourself some time, and.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Don't that is it's about as good as Luke comes.
Three point shot already dropped Luke minus one strike mine one.
If you don't know what I mean, roll the tape.
Bad part is for once Luke strike too. Luke didn't
have to struggle with these guys riding his coattails while
he did. It must be nice to live on a
boat and buy a big white tip and buy big
white tails and act like you did something. Keep praising

(03:41):
Jesus and we'll see you boys at the gates. PS.
We all know you stole this roast thing from the
crab fest Feast. Crab feast, mm hmm five stars?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
What is.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Alright?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
The plumber one? Who's what's crap feast?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
I've never heard of a crab because I wish I had.
I wish I was going to one right now. Same
I wish, but I actually have to go to co
write right now.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, I should have reviewed him once again. This You
know what, man, this entire thing, it's just kind of off.
This intro is bad, dude, This is kind of what
we do. Sorry for the bad intro, but it makes
up for it for the great interview play that to
covid song. Sorry that we were disorganized on this one.

(04:35):
Hey champo, Hey it sounds like y'all allow.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Next time on The Guy's Country Podcast, be sure and
listen to Jordan Davis, you Rick.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Mars Melody.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Put them on your feet because feeling good and you
wear them right, just like a ship to con.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
The skin got the python hope of coming in. Yeah,
we were still rocking.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
To con you're off today, you get together for this ride?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Peaceful? Did you look good to that man? Fix my years? Now?
You got somebody does that for it.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
I was actually pretty upset when they told me I
couldn't wear a hat today.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh I'm sorry, But just like you know, who's they?
Who's they? They are the people that control my life?

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yeah, or photos videos.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
I feel like there's a lot of people that control
your life, including your wife.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well the wife, that's that's the top. It's not you
have a choice. No, yeah, you don't have a choice.
I don't have a choice either.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yeah, we're just I'm just I'm just there to provide
for four or five other people.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's pretty much what and and probably forty or fifty
more people.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
And then then you have the touring. Then you have the.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Torn fan your brother of course, and yeah, god for Jacob,
I mean he's a grown man.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I've been dragging that dude since twenty twelve. Bro bro life, man,
bro life. We know that got to do. We're all
getting the call after I think we just got uninvited.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Sure we wouldn't get the calls before due When he
sees this, Oh yeah, he knows he knows.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
I think we're probably all uninvited to the dove hunt. Yeah,
I meant, well we didn't. We ain't gonna miss work. Honestly,
I love you, you know, let's love you. Jake. Yeah,
that was a maybe. That was a blessed good disguised right. Think.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
My favorite thing about that is we got uh dying
and the neighbors came over. Remember we were all sitting
that was that ball game, and he said, uh, hey, man,
had y'all do? And Jacob, not wanting to say we
didn't kill anything, we didn't, she said, we.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Did about what I thought we were gonna do. And
I was like, what you thought we were going to
kill any? Give heads up? He definitely, he definitely knew.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Uh, he was walking us into a until a rough day.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I think he did. It was a fun day. It
was fun. You got you got, you gotta start somewhere.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
You figured out explained so Jordan's brother, Jacob will Yeah,
a long time listener to the podcast.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
You've heard we've had them on one just Introy, just interest.
Do you want to go? Yeah, just we get it
over with. We got a we got a dad of four.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Next one's a little weird because my wife wrote this
intro A tall drink of water?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh how tall?

Speaker 5 (07:34):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah? But drink of dudes call each other.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
A multi platinum award winning artist bro eight career number
one duck hunting fool Louisianian, also known known as Shades Davis.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, that's my that's my gambling. We'll get into that. Yeah.
Uh oh was his brother some money for some golf
last week? Oh? I do?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
We got Jordan Davis back on the I actually do,
he went, I saw his brain go.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, I don't wait. Did he text you and tell
you to tell me that? I mean maybe maybe he did,
Maybe he didn't.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
How much money are we talking? It's a it's a
decent little chum, substantial amount. Yeah, that's a good little chum.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well tell me how the match went. First of so
you know, what's wait, say his name? What did you say?
Did you ever get to Jordan Davis?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Or yeah? Did we clapped?

Speaker 1 (08:24):
And the thanks very sorry? It was I was actually
up where were you playing through?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
This is in Florida. We had our family vacation. So
he played Camp Creek.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Oh yeah, and uh I was up through sixteen and
I was up to throat two strokes through sixteen seventeen.
It wasn't seventeen seventeen. I pard, and eighteen had an
absolute collapse, no absolute collapse. And I think Jacob, Jacob,
I got to give it to him. He actually played
really well. It played the whole well. I think he

(08:57):
either either birdied or pard and I think I tripled
and I lost.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It by a stroke by stroke. It's tough.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yeah, I think it's like it's uh, yeah, it's up there.
Last time I was the most we've ever played for.
That's like the one day where I was like, hey, dude,
let's go out. It's vacation, let's go Hey.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Let's spend some money, let's get mad at each other.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
It was just us too, like nobody was on the
course and I was like, dude, let's let's place it.
We always say it's like, let's play for something makes
you nervous. I was like, all right, and I came
up on the short side of it.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
The short end of the Louisa stick ya.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, yeah he knows and he's holding over you. I've
been last time I played golf with Jacob, we uh
And we have been playing golf on and off for
you know, probably a year now, and so watching his
swing and watching him, you know what he what he
used to do with this driver. Hopefully he's still not
doing it, but he would forward press his drive. Yeah,

(10:00):
but and he still does it every Hopefully he doesn't,
because last time I was playing golf with him, on
the first tea box, he ford pressed that driver hit
one straight right, and I just kind of roll. I
was like, hey, man, I was like, listen, we're close
enough friends now that I feel like I can.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'm like, this has got to go. Yeah, you can't.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
We ain't putting our hands in front of the driver
head anymore. He's like, what do you mean? I was like,
do it with your your Your irons are great, man.
You want to compress the ball down to the ground.
I was like, but get your hands behind the ball
and the driver pull it back, and son, he pulled
it back.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Then. I was like, yeah, he pulled right down the middle.
He's like, bro, did you just changed my dude and
the reason why I lost a bunch of money.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
You're actually yeah, yeah, yeah, uh.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, okay, maybe maybe he did do that, dude. That's fun.
That's fun for playing for like big money. Yeah, that's fun.
And I know like that. I know a lot of
people that played for way more than that.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
But it was like, you know, no, dude, we just
we just played with a major championship winner.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Last week in Utah.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
We played with Jimmy Walker, no what and been on
a Ryder Cup and dude, we won. We were playing
match play me Dan our buddy, Josh, Jimmy and Ernie
were with us three v two kind of victory.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's right, shadow v R. That was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
But it was we were playing like match play front nine,
like three points total, front nine, back nine total, and
uh we won the front nine.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Dude, could he almost birdies everything? First of all? Yeah,
but he could he didn't make a putt on the
front on the front line. All right, don't go nuts
on this. Wrap up the golf.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Talk thirteen fourteen fifteen went birdie, birdie, birdie, sixteen eagle shot,
thirty one on the back, get three flag sticks.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was next thing. It was. And we didn't pay
not hell, yeah, you don't pay pro golf.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, but I think we were playing for like forty
bucks too, like so there was it wasn't like we
never got nervous.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
You know we never had to like focus, I will.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Say to to rap, if I would have beat Jacob,
I would have never asked for the money. But obviously
he beats me and he texts you for me to
pay him. So that checks out. That checks out.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
That's a good intro into what you're mad at.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yeah, that is what I'm mad at.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Perfect, we can go about it again. No, I don't
want to talk about it anymore.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
What you mad at? Just tell us what it is?
What you mad at?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Is it your in lost kids might be a bass man, well,
your neighbor's cat.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Just tell us what you man.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Just absolutely beautiful, just velvet, right right there, velvet.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'll tell you what I'm mad at. Tell me, tell
me what you're mad at.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Man.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
So the great nice you don't gun or kennels, you know,
great people. So they hooked me up. Man, They're like,
come see the facility. We got a gift for you.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I do. It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's a giant, bazillion dollar kennel with all the things.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
They're just great people over there, man, Now, billion dollars.
They're not too bad.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'm sorry, well it should be, but they are. They're
great kennels.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
They're great kenels. I mean, no, I didn't mean the
kennels were, but they gave me some stuff. I felt
like I should have paid them a lot of money,
but they were very sweet about it. And I mean
there's like a fan that attaches to the thing, all
weather wrapped and the dog balls there.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Anyway, they're great people.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well, they give me this bed that's like therapeutic and
all this.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
No, it's not therapeutic. That's not the word. I'm looking for.
What goes with it? What's the is it? Yeah? Like
the therapeutic Yeah, like.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
The memory phone thing. Temper repeated, temp repeede it therapeutic,
therapeutic all wrong? Yeah, I think, thank you, thank you though,
thank you for trying to just do therapeutic for real.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
It makes it.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's I sleep real good. But it's temperpeated. It's timppeated,
all right. So, Bro, we're reading the eat.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Lost it.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
I don't know why anybody listens us. Uh, Bro, my
dog just tears up the mattresses.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Choose it up. What's up with that? Yeah, they don't
shoodn't you anything else? Really? Really? But Bro shes in
there too long. Well I went to Utah.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, Well, she had somebody watching her, but still I
don't know what to do about it. You got it
you had a dog that eats mattresses or eats things.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
No, I've never had one chewing up, but I've seen
a ton of. I feel like, through all the years
of duck hunting, I don't think your dog is the
only one. I feel like anytime somebody's like, hey, kendle up,
they open the door, it's it's chewed up pretty good.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is. She's really
great about going to it.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
But is that where she sleeps every night? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, and she does, and she's fine, Like if she
gets like out and has gets her energy out during
the day, she's not chewing.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
See, that might be the thing. I feel like she
if she I don't know, if you throw in there,
you take her off. She knows she's going to play,
but she's just fired up.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Maybe I should just pull it. She's a puppy. I
mean she how old is she?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
She's not even a year old yet, ten eleve months? Yeah,
d I mean that's yeah, it's gonna happen anyway.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I'm mad at having to replace because then you don't
want to hit the guy. I'm like, hey, dude, thanks
for giving all this free stuff. Can get another free.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
This therapeutic bead that you gave me. My dog ate it.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Up and the therapeutic Like, yeah, I should probably just
go buy one and not tell them.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
You're gonna text him this podcast. Text about three weeks ago.
I text about three weeks agoing on, Uh, they're awesome anyway,
go check out done and they're awesome.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'm mad at my lips getting some burned. Gosh, mine
are hurting, right, How do your lips get some burned?
Liza's are hurting too, dude. I'm just I'm a chapstick
fiend right now. They're just just slopping it on there
because the gross because the sun burned them up last
week golf, I mean yeah, just utah, I guess just
being out there in the sun all day at the

(15:39):
pool playing golf, doing the thing. But yeah, it was
just I don't know, man, it sucks, It super sucks.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
What do you mean how do they that's a normal thing?
What getting at first? Off?

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Stop doing I know now he's thinking about his lips and.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
They've never got dude, I've never They've never gotten burned.
I've never put anything on them to keep them from
getting burned, really like at the beach in your life ever,
Oh dude, I'm every time, really every time, it feels
like they like, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's a that's a that's one of the worst, you know.
I would rank that up there with.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Let's do it, top three, the top get burned besides
that one place.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Okay, I would put lips at three if my feet, oh, dude,
your knees, because as I always forget about my knees do.
I hate getting some burned and it's like the movement
is to wake up you get them like, So that's

(16:36):
my what's.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Your top three lips? I mean, yeah, lips might be
number one after after this.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Really I really burnt because it hangs on so long
and you have to you know, when the back of
your shoulders get just absolute smoked and you can't like
move like this like that thing.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
But I had one bad burn to where I was like,
all right, never again, never again, same load eye, load up,
load up.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
But every now and then, yeah, he's some little sunburnt
nips that's pretty sensitive to.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's little sunburn dots. Sunburn. Button's probably number two for me.
That's what we call him my house. That's take a duck,
take to them and ripping them off. Say, man, that
is a that's a road I've never walked down. Don't
want to either.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh man, uh, hey, dude, what does uh?

Speaker 2 (17:32):
What does prepping? Are y'all prepping for duck season? Yeah?
What does that look like? Man?

Speaker 5 (17:37):
We've got an awesome guy that because I mean I
haven't seen my farm in like probably four months. I mean,
just been sick, dude, wide open, but uh, we've got
a guy over there that that's been helping us out.
So I mean, right now it's just planting. What are
you planning?

Speaker 3 (17:53):
You know, we got corn, it's already it's probably already
up by now.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Huh. Yeah. Hopefully we got it in kind of late.
So when did you get in July? Early July, late July.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
Yeah, so it might not it may not take. We're
already ready for it not to take.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
What you need a new farm guy? No, it was
our fault. It was our fault.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Uh and just like it like our biggest problem is
like water, like you know, getting water off. We've had
a ton of rain and we really kind of need
to redo our levy systems anyway, So we had more
water than we expected, so getting that off in time
to get corn in was kind of trouble.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh yeah, and then that makes sense it has to
be drying up to plant. Yeah. Yeah, so uh that
was that's been the biggest problem.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
And but we're kind of already ready to get to
If we have to, we'll go out there, disc it
up and throw mill it out.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh really yeah, so mill it'll that'll do kind of
do the same thing as corn.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Doing the same And to be honest, we had corn
last year and it didn't do great. Uh you know,
they used it in the afternoons, but we try not
to hunt our spots in the afternoons. We just hunt mornings. Yeah,
so they'd come and use it in the afternoon. But
I think this year it's a lot cheaper, it's easier.
We'll probably just go mill it because I doubt this

(19:07):
doubt the corn is going to take interesting.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah. Yeah. They usually say how about you.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
What has been the biggest pros and cons of being
like a landowner ducks duck spot owner that you didn't
think about before you bought play?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Because me and Reid want to do it, but we
can't make ourselves do it.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, I want I want to spot, like you know,
I think perfect case scenario is I find eventually a
spot in West Tennessee that you can duck hunt, deer hunt,
turkey hunt all three. Yeah, and again I don't want to.
You ain't got to kill giant deer or shoot you
know whatever.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
I just want to.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I want my boy to and my kids to experience
all of them, you know.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
And that's what that's really kind of what we did
with this one. It's like, man, you can you can
do all three, turkey, deer, duck you know.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
The end goal was to put a pond.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Out there that we could fish a little bit of
have you know, and just make it a year round thing.
So it's like every weekend, no matter when it is,
get kids out there.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
You know.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
I think the the the downside of it, or the
thing that we even knew it going into it, it's
like every every week something happens. You're constantly going to
be fighting beavers, you know, as y'all know from Jacob,
you know, not big fans of beavers in the David's household.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
But that is the that's the problem. It's like, you know,
you can't. Why do you Why do duck hate hunters
hate beavers so much? Well, I mean a lot of
it's just the water control. You know, you as a
duck hunter are trying to control the water and nature.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
And they're they're the best engineers of all time. So
like being able to keep water on spots like this,
like this year with the corn, it's like, we can't
get it off in time because you know, I can't
be down there, the guy on it with can't be
down there every day.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
So if you're not every.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Day getting water off side by side checking it, being
like hey, every day, they're starting to build up here,
you know, because if you give them five days five days,
the don't have a damn. It's fade a damn either
built up or you'll spend two days, you know, busting
it down and then you know, mother nature comes in
rain some more. So it's like, you know, it's just
tough to really controlled.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
I've literally never thought about Yeah, I mean they move
quick man. It is like, well, that's not an issue
with turkey or dere it's literally only yeah, with with
keeping keeping water off.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Of and that's that's just the biggest thing. And then
you know, even when you you do get crops in,
you know, you're you're looking at and a lot of
our property is is kind of gravity flooded, so we
don't have a ton of we don't have a ton
of well so we rely on run off or rain
water to fill a lot of our duckholes. So last
year was super dry, so two of our holes never

(21:41):
even filled.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
But this year it's it's.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Fingers crossed, and you just you're just playing with a
lot of elements that you have no control over. Yeah,
I mean, I guess you could control you know. The
beavers are one thing that you can kind of get.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Away if you have time, But if you don't have
time to yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
And uh, and then come season, maybe you had a
great you know, you're able to keep water off of
you get crops in, and then with us not being
able to pump, you know, or drill wells, we're kind
of now just like I hope the Good Lord sends
some rain interesting we're gonna be in a tight spot.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I feel that or we will have wasted an entire year,
a whole year of like you know, yeah, waste a
bunch of money.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
See, that's terrifying to me, Like I'm too cheap redneck
to do that.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
I feel like like.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
I would because I would do I would do what
you're doing and go, well, geez, we just spent so
and so so and so.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
You would be it don't be a nightmare for you
to be going through.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
That's what I'm saying. It'd be a night Yeah, I'm too.
Like with dere In Turkey, it's you boys.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
You boys are bad on some. I guarantee you boys
spent some money on some. I ain't no doubt, but
we ain't got worried about beavers. You know.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's kind of like, I guess what I'm trying to
say is I feel like the elements are not necessarily dictating. Yeah,
if you can hunt, like for you guys, if it
doesn't rain, I'm I'm assuming if it doesn't rain, there's
no holes, which means there's no ducks, which means that.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Farm is sitting there. Yeah, it feels like it feels
like you got y'all rely on mother and Nat. You're
way more than we do.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, you know, but at the same time, there was
like a five year stint where I didn't even kill
a deer. So it's like I'm still spending that money. Yeah,
I mean it's it's that, but I'm getting to go hunting.
You guys like aren't even getting to go.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Well, I mean we'll still like you know, I mean
even this year, like you know again knock on wood
that you know, we get a rainy start to the
winter and we can catch a bunch of water. But uh,
I mean, I think that's the other thing with duck
hunt is like, you know, you gotta have you know,
there's always public land you can go do.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
That's true, but I think you probably got some spots.
You probably got Yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
Meet buddies along the way that you can always be like,
but we got to kill it.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
We got a killer spot. We've almost had you at
like about four times. I know, please, what this is
gonna be the I can make it. It's pretty nuts.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
But dude, I told you yeah, oh he said it
was one of the best hunts he's ever been.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Thirty four shadow Yeah yeah, rusty bye.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
And you know places like that that are able to
either which they're right on the river right literally in
the middle of it, So like that's core.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, it's a reservoir.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Yeah, and then other you know places that you know,
we kick off. A buddy of ours is on a
spot in Missouri that like, I mean, it is managed
to a t, like they have done a fantastic job
with it. But they're able to control, you know, a
lot of things that they they don't rely.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
On other nature as much as we do.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
But they're also way better duck managers than I am.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
So yeah, well they also do it for a living. Yeah,
I mean they're there every day. Yeah, I feel the difference.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I feel like duck hunts one of those things like
you kind of have to like be there all the time. Yeah,
as opposed to deer hunters, where it's like you're kind
of trying to stay out of that as much as
you possibly can until the time's right, and then you
go into it. You know, you want to plant food plots,
put cameras, get out. Yeah, you wanna hunt November, get out,
you want to come back late season. You know where

(25:09):
ducks I feel like you kind of got to be
on the because the land and what's happening is I mean,
it is dictating it. But at the same time, like
they're flying. Yeah, you know where it's where deer around
here anyway, you're usually specifically hunting one or two and.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
You're trying to let them be as much as you can. Yeah,
it's interesting. What's best duck hunt you've ever been on?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (25:33):
And my best he means most memorable.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Me and Jake last year went. We may even talk.
I probably talked about you. I don't if we talked
about it on the podcast night. But Jake called me
one night. He was like, hey, man, I've got six
hundred mallards in this hole on the farm. You need
to get here tomorrow. I'm going on them. So me
and him go out there.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Is that how that works? You just pack up and leave?

Speaker 5 (25:56):
Well, I was, actually I was at my I was
at my spot, okay, and we're only an hour and
a half away from you, and he caused me out
of breath. He's like, dude, dude, I just went up.
I just went and scouted. There's six hundred dollars out there.
I saw him, I took out, I took off. I'm
hunting him in the morning, if you want to go
with me and get here. So I left, drove over
to his spot. We get up the next morning. You know,

(26:19):
the whole time. He's just like, dude, I promise you
they were there last night.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I promise you. I don't know whether morning, but they
were there.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
Like the dove hunt, but anyway, something and uh he uh.
We wake up that morning, we get in there like
super early.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
We're sitting there drinking coffee and we're probably ten minutes
till shooting time, and they just start piling in, I
mean hitting the blind like landing right in front of us.
Geez and and lost story short. His dog gets so excited.
I mean, the dude's got two hundred ducks right in
front of We've plenty times of that dog. Yeah, and
he's we got four minutes to we can't and he's

(26:56):
just and finally he brays and every single one of
those ducks just like it takes off. It's memorable for
me because my my brother is such a spas in
those moments. What's the dog's name, rip Rips my buddies,
Jacob's is Marsh Marsh.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, Marsh.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
He goes to light him up, Marsh Marsh Marsh. And
I'm calling I'm like calling Jacob down. I'm like Jake, Chill, Chill, children.
He's like dude, he ruined it and I was like,
let him come back.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Every single one of those ducks came back and we
wore them out. First duck, uh, first duck we shot
was Bandon Mallard. It was Marsh's first band uh and
it was just me and Jake.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Come on, man, that's it.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
And that was probably one of the most memorable ones.
That's so it was a it was a special one.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
God, that's it. We're you all in that same blind
that we were in.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
We were in the it was that field that we
went in the back tried to go shoot dub in
Is that because there was no dub where we were at?

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah? Isn't that bad? Isn't that same spot? Yeah? Yeah,
that that was one of the most memorable.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, we've been to Island thirty four to the
whole thing, but like that morning, I think we killed
like eleven Mallards and.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
But we scrapped and it was so fun.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
He was I remember Jacob sitting over there, Hey, I
ain't trying to jinxus, but this looks like we want
this might be this might be special.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I mean, there were so fun. There were ducks flying
right over.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
That was our first and that was our first ever
like hunting experience with Jacob, so like, he's never seen
a shooting gun, he's never been like anything in a
blind and he was like, all right, let's get them,
and so we started shooting.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
He's like, oh, I got some boys.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Don't don't let him act like he's a he's a
dead eye. He's a pretty good shot. But no, he uh,
he's he's pretty excited. But man, that morning that was
really the like is the hunt was amazing, but that
little pre shooting like oh yeah scene where he's he
dropped his shotgun, like reaching for his whistle and his

(28:57):
and his good chaos and dude rips out. I mean,
marsh is out there just tearing it up and he's
like he's grabbing and stuff like.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah. But yeah, well look we can, uh we can
say this because he's not here. We'll we'll bag on
him a little bit.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
But that dude, I mean, I feel like you have
one of the finest brothers in the world.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Hey, right back at you boys. I love that guy.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
You know, we love you too, man, But he's not here,
so we can rag on him a little bit. He's uh,
he's good for this town. He's good for this community.
He's just a good human. I love I love that guy.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
I love you too, man, but love I love him And.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Dude right back at you boys. Me and Jacob talk
about it all the time. We're so so blessed to
get to meet you know, I look at you guys,
the Jenkins brothers. Oh, totally like the sets of brothers
that are chasing this that make it really special.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Sure and yeah, and you kind of like foundationally know
what each other's going through and and you're able to
share it with each other and talk about it and
and the ups and downs and the struggles and the
you know, the successes and all of it. Man, It's
it's a really special thing to do with your brother
who you know, you've done everything with your whole life.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah. No, man, I look up to him.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
He's a you know, if Jacob would have never moved here,
I don't think I have moved here the same. It's
kind of like we look up to the big bros.
And man, it's like, but yeah, that's been the big
thing too, is like, you know, being able to kind
of navigate.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
The low points.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Oh, the low points are those are way more important
than being able to celebrate the highs and uh and man,
it's been having Jacob here. And I think he would
say the same probably much like you would read. It's like, man, like,
you know, there were some Jacob had a tough go
of it for a little bit too.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, we were tough to We were having tough ghosts together. Yeah,
I mean me and that dude, I told the story
one thousand times. Well, he he called that ride off
that day with that girl. That girl we were right,
and he was like, yeah, I'm be honest and it's
not really feeling this. I could tell And I was like,
oh shoot. He was like yeah, and I'm not either,
So why don't we just bust on out of here?
I was like yeah, I mean I was, but you know,
we were both just starting that day.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
But dude, here's the thing. And me and Jake talked
about this on when we were playing golf. It's like, man,
I feel like you two guys did it a little
bit earlier than Jacob. And maybe he took this from y'all,
but it's like that kind of like instead of every
day grind, grind grind, Jacob was like, man, I just
took a step back and was like really started to

(31:30):
just try to write great songs and do what I
really moved to town to do. And man, that's when
he started writing great songs. Yeah, that's when he kind
of started having, you know, the success that he's that
I feel like he's having now. And I think he
got a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
From you boys.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
It's such a balance, man, well, and it's so yeah,
it is a balance, but it's it's so I mean,
that's what the town tells you you got to do right.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
It's like, you get to town, it's like if you're
not writing two a days, if you're not writing at
ten o'clock in the morning, then at two o'clock in
the morning, you don't want to and busting your ass,
you're not Yeah, you're not going to get there.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
You don't want it enough. Somebody else is doing it,
so why aren't you?

Speaker 1 (32:03):
And and and and it's almost like this facade that
the town gets you in is like, hey, man, the
more you work, the better the better chances of success
you are, which I mean, yeah, I think that's I
think there's a difference. And the more you work and
the harder you work, like because like, yeah, man, you
can you can work hard and not work all the time.

(32:24):
You can just work smart and and and and and
and we've you know, and we're but we're at different
places in our career. I mean, I feel like when
you first get here, you almost have to have those
two to eight, depending on what level you're at, years
of just pile pile pile pow power in order to
refine that thing.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
And maybe did that, and I mean like and and
I mean I feel like me and Jake did too.
But yeah, it's you know, and then you start to
bring in kids, and you do get blessed and you
have some success, you're able to kind and be like
all right, you know, it doesn't mean you take the
foot off the gas, but you can at least be like,
all right, I'm gonna maybe craft an idea more than

(33:07):
just walking into a room and being like, hey, an
idea for a song, yes, or you know, an idea
for a song.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
For this guy? Sure, and.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Yeah that's just been a but you add the family
to it. It's like the balance. That's been one thing
that I've really been trying to work on. Like even
like I said, like I've been to my farm in
four months, like that makes me sick, you know, because
like it is something that I love to do, and
you really like peel it back. It's like, you know,
we this is a job and it's supposed to provide

(33:39):
for your family and allow you to do the things
you are passionate about. And when I kind of start
to put the job in front of that, it, I
don't know, it wears on me. So balance is something
that I'm really still working out, probably will be working
at finding the work life balance in music for as
long as I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Brother, I mean, yes, you will be. I mean, and
I'm older than you, and I'm still trying to to
do that because there's so many plates spending, right. It's like, okay,
music is what allows me to do all these things, right,
so I have to give that energy. But the things

(34:18):
start requiring more energy, especially with the more kids that
you have. Yeah, it's like they need your time. Okay,
So you got that going, Then you got your side projects,
little hustles. Then you got your passions, you know, like
hunting and stuff like that. So you're trying to find
how much energy you can give to everything. And it's
a constant balance and it's not that you don't love
or don't like one thing more than the other. It's

(34:39):
just trying to make the time. Me and Luke say
this all the times, like, Hey, wouldn't it be easy
if we were dad's, Like you could just you could
just have them.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
And go hunting.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Sure, but if you're trying to be like a good
human and a good dad and a good husband and
hunt a little bit, and a good musician and a
good podcaster, and I mean all that and that's just mine.
I know you got a minis oh and plate spinning.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
But that that's it. It's like, you know, you have
to give the the for me. It's like the ego
check of like all right, man, Like you need to
spend time with your family. I know you want to
go fish. I get it, Like you're young, too young family.
We all three have young kids, and it's like, you know,
but but it's been great, like even that this summer,

(35:22):
like you know, a couple of days we've had off. Yes,
I would love to leave my two year old at
the house three year.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Old, especially if he's scream crying.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
Yeah, and be like I don't want to go catch
blue gills. I'd rather go chase crappy, but I have
to blend those two. So I know he's gonna go
crazy if I take him to a brush pile and
I fish around it for an hour and as opposed
to stopping and getting the thing of worms and going
to a brim hole and letting him nail them, just

(35:52):
me hooking him real man, and be like all right,
he loves it. And then eventually he's gonna turn around
and be like I want to.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Go home, and you're gonna go home, and you go home.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
But it's like those the thing of like all right, yeah,
I'd love to go do this, but I'll settle for this,
but I've got yeah, or like you know, the priority
of like all right, I need to be a dad
right now.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
And then when you get there, you're like, man, I'm
really glad I did this instead of.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
That one hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
It's like, dude, it could have been the best day ever,
but I'll settle for three blue gills.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
With him any day. Yeah. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
I think too, Like going back to what you're saying
about like taking a step back and kind of prioritizing
your life. I think God rewards it, man, I really
do I feel like the more people I've met that
I've seen do that that that have like you know,
Jim Beavers is one that that the Beavers bros.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Are great, man, And that's another set.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
And Brett's Brett's line of like I would rather grow
old in a fishing boat than in a writing room
is ingrained in me, man, because like, oh god, I
feel the same way.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
That's a word right there, man, I know. But once again,
so we're not teaching young writers to not I'm not.
I'm not saying that. And there's a different about where
he was.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
When I think all three of us have our foot
on the gas, I'm not saying that any of and
including Jacob like taking a step back.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
I don't feel like you're taking your foot off the gas.
I know, but none of us are babies anymore. I'm
talking about when you first get to town. I feel
like you got to put that work in and you
can't just say when you first moved to town, I'd
rather grow old on a fish.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Boat then and writeing room when you first move here.
I know, I know that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
There's like a little bit of a thing like you
have to get to the point to where you can
say that and I agree, stop.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
Doing the list thing crushing me, bro, this is I'm
watching me a Jacob.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You know what I'm saying, Yes, yes I do, and
I'm just cleaning. I was saying the the there are
young riders that listen to us. I'm not saying the
opposite of that. Yeah if you ain't dude, if you
if yeah, man, say that grind your thing exactly. But
when it comes to a point where you have a
family and you have kids, and it's like you would

(38:03):
you're writing songs instead of spinning them with your family,
like your prioritizing your job and trying to write a
song over your family. I feel like like I've seen
more guys in this town, our age, in the same
boat that we're in. Sure, no pun intended to take
a step back and go you know what, I've tried
it for years.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
I've got to.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Where I am because yeah, I busted my own and
I've grinded here. But I've tried that way and it
doesn't work. And now now that I've like, I write
quality over quantity, Like I really focus in on my targets,
my buddies, the guys that I know that I can
write the great songs with not just trying to throw
stuff at the wall and see if it sticks. I've
seen more of those guys have success after, like when

(38:44):
they make that decision to just start writing, you know,
two or three days a week, bringing great ideas in solid,
meaty ideas into a writing room and getting it done.
And that's what all that to say. I feel like,
and they're prioritizing their family over that, Like they don't.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
They wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
They don't want to write a song. They want to
be They want to play, be throwing bother and be
catching brim. They want to be hunting in a tree
stand with their boy. Like I feel like all that
to say, I feel like God rewards that I feel.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I feel like that.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
I agree, you know, that's that's what That's what I
feel like I'm supposed to If I was writing five
days a week right now and showing and getting home
at six o'clock every night and leaving at nine o'clock
in the morning, I would feel like that's not what
I was supposed to be doing. I feel like right
now in my life, I'm doing what I'm being called
to do, which is be a husband first, be a dad.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
First, be a songwriter. Second.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yea, that's the it's and I you know, it's this
is our job. And it's a little different for you,
probably because you have I mean.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
But kind of the same. I mean, it's still the
same of like, you know, it's work. It's something that
I like ingrained to my kids, like, hey, I'm not
leaving to go play shows.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I'm going to.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Work, you know, like it's what you do, it's not
who you are. Yeah, dadad, what are you doing this weekend?
I gotta go to work. Uh, And and showing them
like you know, I'm you know, I said that. It's like
it's it's a god, a husband, a father. Yeah, and
then I writing sing songs.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, dang right. But yeah, it's a it's a balance, man.
It's tricky dance. It is a tricky dance, especially when
you got a new born. Dude.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
I saw your wife at Elsie's boy's birthday. Yeah, and
she was so pregnant, dude, and you were somewhere and
all three kids were in the bounce house and they
were throwing balls and I was like, hey, let me get.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Let me get those balls for it, you know, like
because she was trying to go pick a brother. She was.
It was actually shot. She was going out to that
went all with the bunch.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
It was so hot. It was like a thousand degrees
over there place.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
But man, she's here now, Sadie, Sadie Cecilia. Dude, everybody's healthy.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Wow, that's all he got? Four now? Four now? Yeah?
Two the three girls, one boy?

Speaker 3 (40:52):
What to the uh the the posts of you out
there when you said you're having the fourth kid and
you're just they're drinking that beer.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Oh dude, that's exactly how it felt. You want to
know how this is how?

Speaker 2 (41:05):
All right?

Speaker 5 (41:06):
So we were good at three, all right, we'd kind
of like four was always the number. But then we
got to three and like we were getting close to
getting out of diapers with my youngest, and I was like, babe,
this is pretty good, Like, you know, the same boath
I've got my two boys, like and I just remembered
like and not to bring it back to this, but
like I just remembered like the hunting trips that me

(41:27):
and Jacob and my dad were going when it was
just two of us, and so I at least saw that,
and like, you know, I could recreate that, and then
Christen comes in. She's like, before she leaves to go
to Arizona for something, she wakes me up at four am.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I got in the night before, man.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Get to that, get to the house, like late, off
the road, crash out. She wakes me up at four
before like a wine trip with their friends and Arizona.
She was like, I just wanted to be safe and
make you know, it felt kind of weird. And then
wakes me up. She's like, I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant. That's
how it went.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I just I woke up to you.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant. Oh my god, I'm pregnant. Not
at normal hours at four in the morning. In the morning,
you're rim four and to pregnant.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
And I'm like, what are you talking about? The singing?
She says that, and you get over the shot that
you're pregnant.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
What's your first move besides just pacing around my house? Okay,
so there was a pace. Oh dude, I didn't even
she got I got out of bed and next thing
I know, I'm at my front door, just like, how
did this happen?

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Like what you know?

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I would be the same way, right now and told
me I would I mean she on our third, but
she told me we were having our third.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
I had just had him for three days, the two
for three days by myself, and I handed her moon
and I said, I'm just gonna can I say it.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Side for second? And I just stepped on the porch
and was just like, okay, man, like.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I just see that.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Michael Scott means no, yeah, nobody said that.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Nobody says He's like, god, no, when nobody said and.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Say that now, she said for but I would definitely pace.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
So and then she leaves. She just leaves and goes, yeah,
so just drops the bomb and then just like it's
like out uh and I just like I couldn't go
back to sleep. So our babysitter gets there at like
seven thirty and she walks in the house.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
I'm never up by then when I come off the
road and she walks in and she's like, what are
you doing up? I was like, and you know, the
last thing Kristen says is like, don't say anything.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
This is early and yeah, yeah, dude. The babysitter walks in.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
I was like, we're pregnant, and she's like what I
was like, yeah, number four, And and then this adds
to it.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
She's like, oh, we need a bigger house. I was like,
you don't even live here? Are we going to pay
for it? I was paying.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
That's awesome. That's awesome. Man, it's been. It's been amazing, dude.
It's there's nothing nothing better than the world being a dad.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
No no, you know.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
It's kind of like that trip that you know is
coming six months out that you're kind of excited about,
kind of like, oh, man, I have.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
To all this.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Why did I commit to that? The same thing with
the kid. Once you get there on the trip, you're like, oh,
so glad I did this. Same way with the kid.
Once they get there, you're like, oh, I'm so glad
we did this. I'll never imagine my life without them.
But the anxiety of knowing you got another one to
provide for for another eighteen minimum, jeez, Dan, Wait, wait.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
We were doing great? What is it?

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Is?

Speaker 2 (44:42):
The top ten? I think? So?

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Yeah, that's yes, they're not back there, so we're all good, baby,
We're all go for five.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah. Yeah, Okay, that's it.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
It's over done, Davis, Davis or you're try yeah, hey,
let's do the Yeah, let's do the bit, and then
we got to talk about the record.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
They're gonna kill us. All right, what's the next how
do you know? What's that first? What's that first lyric? Again?
This is not that far? Isn't that that part?

Speaker 5 (45:14):
This is our podcast. We have the process.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
What do you think is in? Is that a good key?
What do you play? Next? Next thing?

Speaker 5 (45:24):
You know?

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Yeah, that's right. So we came up with a game
called next thing. You know, We're gonna present a scenario
and then you have to explain next what The next thing?

Speaker 2 (45:35):
You know is like this, I'll go first. First, you
have to sing the lyric next thing, you know? Could go?
I tell Jordan's should we present the thing first? And
I'm gonna do it. Let's all sing the next thing,
you know? Right, next thing? You know? Okay, so the
next thing? You know? Wait, the first thing is I

(45:56):
can't remember yours? What was yours? Going to playing a foodply?
All right?

Speaker 3 (46:00):
So I would say to read go into plant a
food plot. Then we sing next thing. You know, this happens.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I tell Jordan that I'm going to plant a food plot.
I'll be back by the time or Nanny has to
go home. I'll be back by five o'clock. Next thing,
you know, Next thing, you know, I flip the tractor
on the way down to plant the food plot with
the bush hog running behind me. There's nobody there with me.
It takes half a day to get the tractor flip

(46:29):
back over. I gotta walk up and get the truck
come back down on the way. Then on the way
down in there, I go to get the food plot
the seed, drop it out of the bucket on the
way down.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
It goes all over the place. I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
I gotta get a five gallon bucket, scoo it back
in there, get down there.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Somehow can't get.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
The cutter, all of the things. Man on the way home,
tractor tire blows out. Call down and dad, Dad and
my nephew, they have to come down rescue. Next thing,
you know, it's next thing, you know. It's twelve thirty
at night when I'm pulling into the driveway.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
This is a real story. That was well, that was
a real one. It's supposed to be scenarious. That's a
true story.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
A right, now, you do one for me, and then
we'll do Jake Jordan, whatever your freaking name is. That Josh, Josh,
what was your say the thing whatever you want?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
No, what was your big one?

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Oh okay, on the way you got. We're leaving for
Utah four.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Days ago, and and you gotta you gotta get ready
for the airport.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Next thing, you know?

Speaker 3 (47:36):
All right, I load in my entire group up, We've
I've gonna We're all packed.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
We're ready to go.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
We're gonna make it to the airport on time. Fifty
minute drive, keep it quick, Shine goes. You got our passports,
I'm like, your job, Oh, nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Oh so we're like, okay, I know you ain't got
the real life. I got pre check. I got pre check. Nah.
Heck no, I wouldn't have real idy. I got pre checked.
So I'm straight. He's on her on good luck. Hope
you make it to Utah. Dan before we stay, start
the car, Iris pooped on her bed. I come back in.
My dog has never.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
The therapeutic that my dog has never. My dog is
never doodooed inside. We're mega late, can't find passports, stuff,
throwing stuff everywhere. Kids, all three kids screaming in the car,
all three at the same time. Our's doodoo on the
I just throw it in the yard. Literally opened the door,

(48:29):
threw the car was cramped, car was crank.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
We drive kids screaming kids, what's it?

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Sounds like a country song, but for real, that's the
next thing I know is weird.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
We I'm talking about skin of our teeth.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Do We literally walked up to the gate and they
were like, okay, family and Preacheck come on in.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
We're like, thank god.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
I mean, George kind is like the play because if
you've got to get to the gate like an hour
early and you got your kids, what are you gonna.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Get to disaster to do out there? Right?

Speaker 3 (49:01):
That's exactly what we did. Because Jordan turned around was like,
oh there's Dan. Y'all made it. And I couldn't even
I was so whacked. I couldn't even say hi to them.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
I was just put it on.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
I mean, where's okay, let's do's Jordan's okay? I'm Kristen,
all right, hey, Jordans, I'm gonna have a night with
the girls.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Could you care to put the kids? You care to
do bath care? Do bathtime? Put the kids?

Speaker 5 (49:34):
Next thing, you know, I walk upstairs. This was this
was two weeks ago. This is two weeks ago, I
love it all right. I walked upstairs and uh, my
son had told me that he had to go to
the bathroom. So I was like, all right, holler at
me if you need me. You know you're big enough
you can figure this. He's four, So.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
I'm like hey, pretty early I'm telling her. I'm like, hey,
if you need me, call me. I'll come in and
help out.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
But if you don't say anything, I'm gonna take it
that you haven't under control. So because I'm managing these
other three, yeah, because I've got these these other ones
that I'm I'm trying to wrangle in keep alive. My
youngest is fairly easy at at bedtime, like you know,
he he'll almost put himself to bed.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
So you say, the youngest there's a baby though, well
not the not the new one, my my two year old.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
So the youngest boy, he walks in his room, He's like, hey,
points at his crib. I'm like, all right, this is easy.
You know, I got this sleepsack. Throw them in there. Meanwhile,
my other boy is still in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Uh, let's be appropriate buying time for yeah. Next thing,
you know, okay, I walk into my daughter's room.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
She wants a book, so I start reading a book
to her and she wants another book. In the back
of my head, I'm thinking, man, haven't heard from I
haven't heard from my.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Oldest guys A second, okay, hear you.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
The next thing, you know, get done with the books.
I walk into my oldest boy's room. He's still in
the bathroom. Open the door.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Next thing you know, it's all over the wall. It's
all over the walls. How is it on the walls?

Speaker 5 (51:15):
I'm guessing what happened when it was time. I think, oh, man,
I think he tried to clean himself up.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Sure didn't go great.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
Stumble, so it's on his hands, the stools out of
the room so he can't get to the sink.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
So I think it was just first thing.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
It's like, maybe I should just wipe this all over
these white walls.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
I'll show you the video. I got video evidence of this.
And I literally walk in. It's amazing. I walk in
and I'm just like, you know, it's this is one
of those moments where you can't help but just like
laugh and I'm just.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
Like I'm like, buddy, what's old all bad? And you
know it's the because he's just like, I don't know
what are you talking?

Speaker 2 (52:05):
I did my thing. What's up? You're good? Now, I'm good,
go to bed.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
What's with you? You've been going forty five minutes. You
took care the rest of you. I figured it out myself.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Like that's what I've been doing. What you've been doing?

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Told Christen. I was like, babe, our our oldest boy,
something's up. She was like, what are you talking about?
I was like, they just all over, like all the wall,
the walls, manub the walls.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
It was. It was. It was quite impressive. Yeah, that's amazing.
Hey man, his own little Mona Lisa right there. That's
a that's a great I love that game. That's a
great game. That's fine.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Hey dude, we got to we got a little sneak
peek at the record. It's freaking great. Thank you man,
it's so good.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Thank you. Uh Jesus doesn't do crush me, so man,
freaking great special one dude. Uh you uh.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
You were quote it saying like like living life, hearing
other people's stories, meeting new friends and see more places,
boost your creativity, Like how what was your process through?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
This is what record? What for you? The third third
full length album.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
How how is it the same process for you every
like record cycle or is it different?

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Do you? Man?

Speaker 5 (53:25):
This one was a little different just because you know,
the last one we I wrote a lot about. You know,
It's like I say, you know, the first record, You've
got your whole life to make it.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
We've all heard it.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
The second record is like you're like, hey, here here's.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Who I am. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Uh so I got pretty personal on some of the
songs with the With the second album, wrote really hard
for it, and this one, man, I wanted to go
back to having fun making music, writing songs, recording songs,
and I wanted to have fun playing these songs live
and so and then I wanted to do something that
was like take a swing, you know, and man, I've

(54:02):
I know you are superclused, but like talking to Luke
about that stuff, man, where it's like you kind of
got to get out of your comfort box. There was
a spot that I was in where I felt like
I was writing a lot of good songs that would
have been fine, and like that's the worst place to
be when you're going to make a record.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
So, you know, I think I wanted to do something
that may be a fan that's been listening to me
for a while will be like, man, I wouldn't expect that.
I feel like that's what we try to do with
Louisiana Stick. A couple other ones on the on the
record that I feel like are different than.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Is that an homage to your high school nickname? Yeah?
Oh that's where it started stick figure over here.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
So yeah, when I was a freshman in high school,
I was I was, you know, on the baseball team,
and as a freshman, like I wasn't playing much. Was
There's only two freshmen on varsity at that time, and
so my job was pretty much to like run the
bases while they were doing infield. And our short style
of the time, who's a stud? He was like, who's

(55:06):
who's that kid? And somebody was like, I don't know
his freshman? He dude looks like a stick figure because
I was as tall as I am now, but I
was about one hundred and forty pounds.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
And it stuck and stuck.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
Yeah, And so that's where that that's where that title
came from.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
That's awesome. Did it really come from that?

Speaker 5 (55:23):
Well, I mean like I'd always been like, you know,
I'd always wanted to write something. You know, I just
always seen Louisiana stick that being my nickname. I was like, man,
what can I do with you?

Speaker 1 (55:33):
That's crazy? That's a good turn of the phrase on that. Yeah,
and that's the one with Marcus King, right yeah, yeah, bro?
He what is today? Tuesday? His episode dropped today? We
had him on last week? Is that not the coolest?

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (55:46):
He's filthy, unbelievable talent day Like it's stupid, it's insane,
and you know, I how did that come about?

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Had that happen?

Speaker 5 (55:55):
I mean, I've been a fan of Marcus for a
long time and his Goodbye Carolina is like crack, dude,
I can't stop listening to that song. So I go
down with mcguil and Ashley and Paul their spot in Florida,
and I walk in and say that, dude, I want
to write this like swampy New Orleans vibe like Marcus

(56:18):
King era song, and I guarantee you all of them were.
The comman was like, does this dude think he's Marcus King?
Because like, we're never going to get a cut of
this record. But that was like where we started writing
it as like a song that like would kind of
feel like a Marcus King vibe. And then when we
finished it, I just talked to some buddies and got
in contact with him and was like, man, will you

(56:41):
send it to him and see if he would be
willing to play on it?

Speaker 7 (56:44):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (56:44):
And he said yes, man, and has done it with
me a couple of times live. And that's cool. Just
a just a great dude, man, awesome dude. Yeah, he
talked to me about turn this truck around.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Man, I have there's a thing for me that's like
when when my ear get on a record, I'll digest
a lot of stuff, but I like the candy too, man.
And to me, that song has got texture to it
as far as meat meat goes. But there's that that
melody is can't I can't get it out.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Of my brain. That's Devin Dawson. Manly, he's awesome. I
love he is the man and Jake Mitchell and Josh
Thompson killers all those guys are awesome.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
But man, it was cool that I mean, And this
even circles back to what we were talking about, like
writing harder and being more focused on an idea. Dude,
Devin was so he was so dead set before we
even had an idea the title of the song. Devin
comes in and goes, hey, guys, whatever we write today,
it's going to have a halftime bridge and I've never
had anybody to do that, and uh.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
It is time. It's time for one. I mean it's
been a while since I've heard one. When when it.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Set in, I was like, I just feel good, man.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
That's one of my favorite ones off the record, and
like you know, it's uh yeah, it was just fun
to write him. I hadn't ripen with Thompson and forever. Uh,
but yeah, to have have Devin on that was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
That's cool man.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
That song is thank you man, that's a big one.
We got to get one. Boys have forever.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
We will. Yeah, we will, man, no problem. We got
we got things, Yeah, we got things. We're just busy. Yeah,
that's like Luke right there, just busy. Man's busy, dude
kind of stuff going on. I mean, even in your downtime,
you're just like, I had a song today.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
I know it kind of takes like but like that's
what I keep telling Jacob. I'm like, dude, why don't
we get these boys out?

Speaker 2 (58:38):
And Jacob, he's the one he's like, no them.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
I'm like, dude, let's go to the farm and write
some songs. Because he's got all these ideas that he'll
like send me and be like, bro, me and Danny
read need to get on this one. I'm like, let's
do it. Like you have more time here than I do.
It's Jacob, he did.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
I thought we had you one. I honestly thought we
had you one last time. He Dan and Jacob got
so I got together, Yeah, and we wrote We wrote
it right at you dog.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
I think I've heard it, and I don't think I
recorded it either. I think I heard who recorded it,
though I don't think you have the chance.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
It's pretty good. I knew that was gonna happen. Jacob
said that.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
He was like, dude, I've got there's a killer song.
And then two days later he's like, man, it's it
got taken. I was like, you have to tell me
who took it.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I know.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
I played by That was a That was a uh.
I had reached the green and won on a par
for because he walked in here and just striped it.
Because he said, hey, man, I got this idea, and
I was like, it's funny that we have to talk
about it in this context, see how it goes right here?

Speaker 2 (59:45):
And he's like, I had this.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Thing and he said the title, and I just had
a guitar, and I was like, man, you know what
we haven't done lately is this thing which is the
thing that we all You do it, Me and Red
do it.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Jacob does it? There? People?

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
I guess I did to explain it. So there's certain
people in this town who do certain things. And one
of the things I feel like that the four of
us naturally do because of where we're from is R
and B yep. And so because of that, it naturally
went into an R and B land and never graced
your ears.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
Not until not until, not until after I saw it
on Instagram being sung by Luke Colmbs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
I guess if he's already put it out. Yeah, okay,
all right anyway, but dude, that's a hammer. We'll get
you next. That's a great song. We got you all right,
We got two minutes. We got to wrap it up,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Uh, we do a thing called gravett. I know you've
done it before. We kind of talked about it. Uh
we do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Did we do a tracy song? Last time met meet?
When it was me and Jake. Yeah we did. Uh
oh man, that the world so good man, so good?

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
What you today we're talking about where the green grass grows,
tim grow like that was like that's like a that's
classic classic learning guitar, but like just a great do
say learning guitar.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
I don't know, I'm play no.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
I mean when you also have you you also somehow
pull off every song, by the way, it's great, Thank
you manam he just.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Plays everything out of g That's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
Explain tell I red ants marching into the night, disappeared
to the left and right, another supper from a sack
ninety nine cent heart attack, got a pound and head
and and ache and back and the camels Man big stars.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
I'm going down wearing the green grass course. Watch my
col pou Rose every night, be tucked in close to.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Raise our kids wearing the gun launch past point already
to us playing on the Jordan Davis, everybody's got your podcast, man,

(01:02:18):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
I love minor in that song is I'm sure there
made and I'm pretty sure that I probably didn't get
all those lyrics right, we guess you did.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I think you'd be great.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
I think Ray even throw a little uh just did
you throw a little uh something on there? Ray little
get a little little verb on there was a little
fade in, fade out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
What a guy. I wish he's pro there it is.
I wish we could do this three hours. Man. We
love that so much.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
Yeah, family, we had to get Jacob back here so
we can make fun of him to his face.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
We love it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
I love you, man, Yeah, appreciate y'all. Will check you
out next time. Check out this new record coming out
this Friday. What's the name of it, Learn the Hard Way?
Learn the Hard Way out Jordan Davis. Check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Let's go check it next time. God's Country

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
M HM.