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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting from the fifty eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Then you will cmaat Warks.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
It's a Bobby Ball.
Speaker 4 (00:06):
Morgan here with Riley Green. Riley, how are you?
Speaker 5 (00:08):
I'm great? How are you doing?
Speaker 6 (00:09):
I just overheard you talking about Christmas? And I was
so controversial because I put all my Christmas decorations up
on November.
Speaker 5 (00:15):
First, and that's too early, people.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Think, apparently, do you think that's true?
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Nope, I don't. So I left my Christmas tree up
all year.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Was that intentional or because you were busy a little bit?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Well, the first few months as an accident, because you're busy,
you know. And I was in a new house and
I like, I think maybe my mom put it up
for me, like there's like a housewarming gift. And then
I didn't really know where to put it when I
took it down, so I was left it up. And
then about July it just started to feel nice. It
was hot outside and it's like summer, and then it
now you turn treeon, sit down, it just feels like
(00:45):
it's winter, you know, and it does just so cozy.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Something about Christmas lights to me is so cozy. It
makes me feel just happy.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Oh, no doubt. I'll tell you, I'll listen to Christmas
treesic all the time.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Okay, let me tell you this and maybe you can
give me a recommendation. I just newly bought a record
player that I'm upset.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
With Bing Crosby's Christmas specially.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I found it at the record.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
I listened to Bing Crosby all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Did you know the record looks like a candy cane.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
No, I don't have a record. I don't have to
get that.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Yeah, I found that one at the record store. I'd
even just buy it. That was the one that I screund.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Christmas music is a good record type of music you
listen to.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What is your favorite Christmas song? Like of all time?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Christmas and Dixie Alabama.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's a good one.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
What about movie?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
That's tough? You know, the classic like Christmas stories were
hard to beat. But then there's like Elf and all
these like funny newer Christmas. What about the one with
the guy from tool Time, Tim Allen, Oh, Christa Claus.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That's a good one, one two and three or one one, because.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You know the Elf that was like one hundred and
fifty years old. But she was like, look that girl.
I had to be crushed on her.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That wait, the elf that was hold on Riley, the.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Elk Santa Claus is a dude, na, Not that that's Bernard.
First off, there's more than one ELF.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You're right, But the one that.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You remember, the one that showed him to his room
when he got to the North Pole and she gives
him the silk pajamas. Bad elf. Just to go back
and watch it. There's a girl elf, I promise you.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I had to clarify because Bernard is so heavily in
that series, and I was a.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Little yeah, but Bernard's like the head elf. This was
like a she was down the list a.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Little, so it was just like one little elf and
you caught a glimpse and that was your crush.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah. I was at whatever agent was that she was
at the time, and she was a really cute elf.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know. Riley, listen, everybody thinks you're so attractive. You're
like that.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
We did a whole thing on the show that you're
the hottest man in country music. Really, but I feel
like what just made you even more attractive to me
is that you love Christmas as much.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
As I do.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And I like that. But nobody has a chance because
I'm hung up on this Elf girl exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
We gotta find the Elf.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I need to find my helf.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Yeah, you know it's funny too. Is all throughout the
year when people get mad or stuff, I always address
him as you're an angry Elf.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I call people angry else I say that.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Yeah, that's a really fun movie quote.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, where's that?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I said about a lot of my ex girlfriends. She
was an angry Elf? Why didn't it work? She was
such an angry.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Hellth what movie is that from?
Speaker 8 (03:01):
From?
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Elf?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Remember the he fights the little, you know, short person
that stresses Elf at the store.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
You're so right?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
It fights him and he said, no, it was it
was the boss.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It was a short person and he yells at him,
but it's still Elf and he calls him an angry Yeah, dang,
I've been I've been saying that for years and I
didn't realize it was from that.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I can listen, I can connect movie quotes for you all.
Got a lot of useless knowledge about movie quotes?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well I could. I could talk to you about movies
all day, but I'm being told to wrap up. But
I have to ask you a question first.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Outside of music, what is something that you hope to
accomplish before you die?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Wow? Uh, I'd say he probably find my elf what
everybody should.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Find their else, right, I mean that would be really cool.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, that's it's an accomplishment.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It is.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's not as easy as people think it is.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Do you want to get married and the whole thing?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah? I think so. I don't really care what colord
defence is.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But offense a fence in the house. Okay, all right,
Rather forgot again to say your song, we have to
add this that you.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Know you run the interview.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm just but we talked the.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Whole thing about all these.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Persons that used to do a basting. Be sore from
carrying these interviews today, man, Okay, listen.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
At least I remembered it.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Hey, you know what I want to talk to you
about like that?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Okay, But speaking of Christmas, there we go.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Before we go, I would like to ask you about
your Christmas song coming out, because how do you know
about that?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Well, somebody mentioned it was.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Waving us to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, I've got a Christmas song coming out on Friday?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Is it an og? Are you covering a song?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
No, it's I wrote it, and it's it's like how
Christmas was where I grew up. So I like it.
My played from my sister and she cried.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So it's an emotional one. It's not like a boppy.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Happy No, it's not like that. A lot of Christmas
songs are a little cheesy.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Can this isn't cheesy, very emotional.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
It's a country Christmas song. I like it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Does it have a name? Are you allowed to say
the name?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Called Christmas to me.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Oh that's so cute.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Isn't it. Yeah? I know I felt cute when I
said it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You did. Okay, now we're now we're doing that's a
Now we can leave.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The Cmas are live tomorrow night at eight seventh Central
on ABC.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And Action.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We're all standing so close together, right. This is Parmally,
Lunchbox and myself hanging out.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
We're very close quarters.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You told me you were going to do something I.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Am so I want you guys to do like what
you do.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
You know when you were in school and they're like,
say your name and the coolest fun fact about you.
I want you guys to do that rapid fire about yourselves.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Fun fun fact.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
My name is Matt and uh and a collector and
I love old jeeps.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
My name is Barry Knox and I am an amateur juggler.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Okay, my name is Josh and I play the guitar.
My name is Scott, and I used to be a lumberjack.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
And that's all we got time for guys, because literally
they said three minutes. I'm like, guys, what can we
ask them in three minutes? Like you say hi bye,
and that's it?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, hi by? Do you guys tell them you
only have three minutes? So they tell you know, they
tell us, they make it all slaty over here.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Now you just wasted one minute talking about the three minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So I'm just so annoying.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
It's like, oh my god, three minutes, Like what the
hell are you gonna talking about three minutes?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Well, I need to ask you a question because I donutes.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But he was getting in depth interview.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
You can still here reflecting jeeps.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yeah, and I'm known on the show for having a
bunch of ducks on my jeep?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Do you have ducks on your jeeps?
Speaker 8 (06:44):
I don't have a duck on my jeep.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Have you never been ducks? No, guys have them. It's
not just a girlfriend. Guys have them too. What years
your jeep twenty fifteen, it's it's it's new. I'm in
like you're in the old school.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Old school, like eighties.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Why can't you then still have ducks?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I remember was a thing.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, I know what it's about, and I you know,
totally for that.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
I've just never was in that community of the duck.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And here's the problem with She've never been over the ducks.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
She's so short. The ducks block her. Dang view, guys,
but that's a duck that was two feet tall.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
She can't duck.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I've never been dun I need to should duck me?
I'm not sure? And you get dunked on the radio,
I'll send you the address of my jeep.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Hey he dunutesh my god. All right, ladies, gentlemen, thank
you for probably for coming by. We learned about dunking,
and I don't know what else.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
What would you guys like to promote? Is there anything
you guys want to talk about that you're so passionate about.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We just dropped, he dropped.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We just announced our tour that fell in Love with
a Cowgirl tour that's happening like in February everywhere dropped.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
The d with some cowgirls.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
On this tour, we are already are just a new single.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
It's called Cowgirl.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, Cowgirl? Who inspired that? Was there a particular cowgirl
that inspired this?
Speaker 8 (07:59):
I mean all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You can't say it. I think there he is.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh, the eyes looking at each other.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
The tea will be spilled later, Morgan, you know what
I mean. But this three minutes is up.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
They can't spell. They ran out of time.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right, so frustrating.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Lunch you.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Don't miss the fifty eighth annual seem As Live on
ABC tomorrow night at eight seven Central.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Right, Morgan, a lunchbox here with the Oakridge Boy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know what's kind of cool. I've heard of these
guys before, have you.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Okay, guys, I need to tell you something. Lunchbox is
not musically well at all. But what's something funny that
we like to do is make him sing songs that
he should know.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So can you sing an Oakridge Boy song?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Oh not a chance in the world.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
I've just heard the name and everybody talks about how
amazing they are.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, we give it a shot. Just any song.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No Now I'm gonna do it, but I'm just yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Like, guys, I saw the Doobie Brothers one time, right,
I thought they were literally like a local band, like
a cover band, and they were like, no, no, that's a
big band, no idea.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
I'm sorry, that's okay. They're great group, good friends of ours.
And when we first met them, our buses broke down
up in the north western part of the United States.
They came by and introduced themselves as the Doobie Brothers
and we formed a friendship. We actually did a bunch
(09:25):
of dates with them later on and they're out touring again. Man,
it's good to see them out out doing it again.
What a great group of guys.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
What do you think you're like? Longevity, What was the
key to you guys? Longevity? Like, why are you guys
so amazing? And people still love you to this day.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
We love to sing, love each other, we love the
music that we make, and we love the people it's.
People have always told us they get a lot out
of our music where we have a family show, very
positive music, and some people have come to us and
say that our music has helped them get through rough
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times in their life, and needless to say, we've had
a pretty rough year this year. Ourselves and our music
has helped us get through a very rough year, and
we're getting through it and we're planning our year for
next year. We've extended our farewell tour and we're going
to make it out to the West Coast and up
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to the Pacific Northwest, probably through Canada, and maybe a
bunch of dates up in the East that we've not
been to. We want to get to as many places
we can to say thank you for a long, long,
long career.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I would love to know you mentioned that you guys
have had a really rough year. You guys lost one
of your dear friends. For you guys, maybe you want
to share a memory that you guys love recalling of him,
of your guys' time together. Or maybe it's you know
how you guys are keeping his memory alive when you
guys are on the road, or whichever you guys feel
comfortable with.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Well, we had several losses. We lost Joe, our tenor singer,
who had Luke Gerrig's disease and he's been dealing with it.
He dealt with it for five years and he didn't
want anybody to know about it. But when he got
to where he had to sing on stool for the
last year, most people knew that he had a serious
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muscle disease. And when we carried him off to put
him in his wheelchair on the last Christmas date, he said, boys,
I'm done. I've got to go home and take care
of my illness. But the next morning, we had been
talking to a young guy that we had met, and
he picked up the phone and called Ben James the
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next morning and said, Ben, I'm done. Get on your
singing breeches. So Joe Bonzel hired the next guy to
fill his shoes sing his part. Ben we met a
few months before when he was singing with a bluegrass
group called Daily and Vincent. And when we sing with
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other groups we usually invite them out on Elvira to
sing with us, and we have a just big old
gang bay on stage. Well, Joe handed Ben the microphone
on stage and Ben just started singing the second verse. Well,
we looked at each other, well could this be the guy?
Well it was a guy, and it was just a
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natural because Ben looked at Joe as his hero, and
he knew every song that Joe ever sang all the
harmony parts, every lead, everything that he's ever recorded. Ben
knows it. We've never had a rehearsal session with Ben
yet he's been singing with us all year. We just
call a song. He knows it. He's twenty eight years old.
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We only tell him what Tony Brown said about.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Tony Brown heard him sing about a year ago and
after hearing him sing, he said, man, he said, I've
not heard a voice like that in over thirty five years.
But one voice, He said, You've got a voice that high,
lonesome sound like Vince Gill. And Tony has worked in
the studio with Vince Gill a lot, so he produced
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all last twenty albums with George Straight. He's producers Rebel McIntyre,
so he knows. He knows his cucher music. He's recorded
more hit records than anyone in Nashville. But his words
was it that Ben James has a Vince Gill voice.
But your brand new generation with a Vince Gill voice
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is what he told him.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
That's the highest of compliments that you can be paid.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, why Morgan, I do know that song though, elv.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I know it.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
We gotcle back, you know I'm proud of myself a
pretty good one.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Out.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I do want to know you said he's twenty eight
years old, Like, what is that like for you guys
having somebody who's twenty eight coming in You guys are
at very different stages of life, Like, has there been
challenges with that or is it just this cool experience.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
It's a very cool experience. So I've got grandkids older
than him. But yet he brings an energy to the
group that we're desperately needed right now. And he's bouncing
all over the stage and singing that high, lonesome sound
man and the people love him, and some of Joe's
most avid fans are latching on to Ben James as
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their favorite singer.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Now, wow, he's not trying to be Joe, He's just
being Ben James. And we told him, look, Joel never
sing these hit songs again. But they're great songs. So
when you sing them, own them as Ben James, because
he will never sing them again. They're already hits, so
own them as Ben James. But when you sing with us,
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he has the ability to position his tone so that
he still knows the Oak Bereach Boys sound people have
sent messages on Internet. Did Joe come in and sing
the harmony parts on this new album? No, that's been James.
He knows how to position his voice, and he knows
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our songs and our sound.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That's so impressive.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's like sitting with legends. You know, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
We really are.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
These are legends, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
And you just sing to them one of their songs.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I sang one line or two words.
Speaker 11 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
The meter was good too.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I don't know what that means. I don't know what
meter means, or beat or rhythm, but all of that.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Let me tell you, guys, I can't even clap on
beat like you can clamp something.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I just am tone deaf. Like it's so amazing how
tone deaf I am.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
He is nothing like Ben James put it that way.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Well, there's gotta be somebody doing the DJ work.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
If we didn't have good DJs, we wouldn't have hit records.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No, I mean I think your songs would speak for themselves.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yeah, you guys are pretty iconic.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Yeah, the Ochredge Boys, thank you for stopping by. We
appreciate it. And hey, guys, the farewell tour. You better
go get tickets. They're going everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The CMA's are live tomorrow night at eight seventh Central
on ABC, broadcasting from the fifty eighth Annual CNA.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
At wards, it's the Bobby Ball.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I mean it's Morgan here with another namesake, Morgan, but
John Morgan's.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Right, Morgan Morgan and Morgan of the law firm.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I was looking at your rap sheheet.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
You got a lot going on right now, But what
are you most excited about?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Uh, you know what. Currently, we got five shows left
on the Nate Smith tour. It's been one of my
favorite tours so far. Just a great, incredible guy, incredible camp.
They've been super awesome to us. But I think in
the immediate future, I'm really excited to get this album out.
We've been working on an album for the last couple
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of months and we got twelve songs. We're gonna be
dropping I think February sixth. Don't quote me on that,
I know it's in February, but yeah, we're gonna be
doing that and getting a bunch of new music outs.
So that's always exciting.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Do you have because you did a collaboration with Jason Audan,
which I do want to hear about. But do you
have any collabs coming up on this album? Are you
going all solo?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I don't know if you can say, If you can't say,
that's okay, Well.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
I'm still there's still there's still something that works.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Okay, but possibility.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Yeah, you're looking around like trying to pick you. I
want to collab with. No, I'm trying to get Zach
topp Man. I just I'm like bro so Zach and
I we grew up touring the bluegrass circuit together. So
the first time I met him, he was playing mandolin
in his family band and I was playing in my
family band. So it's a full circle for us. But
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I would love to love to do something with him.
And uh, I don't know. It's there's nothing solidified right now.
But I can always add a song, you know what I.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Mean exactly if the right thing comes along, that's right?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Do you need to you need a feature?
Speaker 11 (18:10):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I would come Morgan, Come on now?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I could I could?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Could?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I could I rap a little bit?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Could you?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
We would have time?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
We need to put a little trap.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Beat on and let you give you a mic.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You should know that I'm a horrible singer.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Once upon a time I tried to try out for
American Idol, and even my mother would not let me.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Because that's when you know, right, that.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Is when I know I had I had other plans
for my future. I do want to hear about this
family band though, tell me about it.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Oh Man, could you leave them?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
He said, no more?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Well, yeah, it kind of it was we actually we
actually did well. So I went. I was on the
road for like ten years, started traveling. I was like twelve.
We were on the road until I was graduated high school.
Every weekend we were out doing doing shows, and I
just got burn out. I was just like, man, I
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love music. Playing guitar was what made me fall in
love with music, and I was getting to do that.
But it was just the road. I mean again, I
was in high school going up through middle school, Like
all my weekends were traveling playing music, and so I
was just like, man, I kind of want to try
something else. And I thought college was that, and it
turns out it was not for me.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I mean, you didn't like college.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
I liked college. I just didn't know what the hell
I was doing or what I wanted to do. So
it was just kind of I was spending a lot
of money I didn't have and wasting a lot of
time where I should have been in classrooms learning stuff,
and I was instead at the beach because I went
to Pensacola for for college.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So yeah, I had a.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Hell of three semesters. It was awesome, but I made
a lot of good friends down there, and yeah, I
just I got burnt out and I was like kind
of done with it. And then once I got I
moved back home after my three semesters, and I.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Feel like that's a song that needs to be written.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Three semesters, three semesters too long, Maybe that's the title.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Now.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I moved back home, and that's when I fell in
love with songwriting. I got into that because I was like, man,
I missed music being in my life. But you know,
traditional bluegrass is kind of just burnt on it. You know,
you play, you're playing the same song as everybody else
is playing a different a different way. And so I
was just like, I want to start writing my own stuff.
And I grew up listening to My dad listened to
(20:31):
like Al Green and uh motown and classic rock, like
he listened to everything, and my mom listened to southern
gospel and you know, old school country. So I don't know.
I just I started writing stuff. I had a friend
who's actually my drummer. He's from back home, and we
we would get together and write and just try to,
you know, write stuff that we could go out and perform.
(20:54):
And uh. He moved to town about a year before
I did and taught me into moving down here, and
ain't god I did because you know, I think that's
one of the things I learned is like, you can
you can say you're gonna write and you know, have
all the success back home, but you've got to be
in Nashville if you want to do it, and you
want to do it right, you got to be able
to network. You got to show your face around town.
(21:15):
Because you can write all the songs you want to,
but if nobody's hearing them, it doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So yeah, a big lesson for somebody heard something. Yeah,
I mean, Jason Dean, how did that happen?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Man, that's another story.
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Now, I was short version when I first started making
trips down to Nashville. My drummer was like, hey, man,
I'd never been to I've never seen the city. He's
like let's go see the city. I'll show you around.
So we get an uber ride downtown and this guy
picks us up starts chatting with us. He's like, yeah,
I wrote some songs for Jason al Dean back in
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the early two thousands, and I'm like, cool, you know,
take it with a grain of salt. In Nashville, everybody's
done something, but yeah, they're probably stretching out a little
bit further than it needs to be. But yeah, I
was like, oh cool man, Uh but no he long
story short, we ended up becoming friends and we started
(22:12):
writing some songs together, and he sent a couple of
those songs to guys who were in Jason's camp and
they helped us finish a couple of them. Anyway, Jason
heard that and he heard me singing the demo on it,
and he was just like, man, I need he got me.
He got my phone number literally from one of those
guys called me up out of the blue, cold called
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me and was just like, hey, man, it's Jason Aldane.
I heard some stuff you were doing. I was literally
working at Lucky Brand Jeans at the time. I don't
know how I got that job either, by the way,
but I was just kind of like cruising a law
trying to pay rent, you know, and mixing demos in
my bedroom and just for him to call me, I
think and have that confidence of like, I mean, he'd
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never seen me perform. He'd literally was basing everything off
two demos and a video of me singing one of
them acoustically, and I think just having him show that
vote of confidence was huge for me as a young guy,
super green in town trying to write and trying to
do all that because that's what I wanted to do originally,
(23:17):
was just be a songwriter and produce and end goal
was always being an artist. But yeah, it was just
kind of a crazy turn of events how I got
into that camp.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
You know, what I'm learning, what I learned from the
story is that you better talk to your uber drivers,
drinking coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
No no, no, no, no no no, make friends, and also
just be open to opportunities.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, there's so many opportunities that that.
That's what I love about Nashville. You know, I have
friends who are in the LA scene and nothing against it,
but it's just not the same. There's there's a lot
more that goes on into that and Nashville. You can
literally meet a freaking label head at red Door. You
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
It's true.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
If you're a good hang, you're a good person, and
you have some talent, that's the deadly combination. I think.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
So, so you got the deadly coming.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Yeah, yes, maybe not deadly, but that's a good start,
right it is?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Well, John was really good to see you.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Yeah you too, Thanks for hanging.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Out, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Don't miss the fifty eighth annual See AMA Live on
ABC tomorrow night at eight seventh Central.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Do Rami fossil Lati? Are you rolling? Gosh?
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Did you hear?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Did you hear? How good? Chase Beckham sounded that was amazing? Man, Like,
how did you get so good?
Speaker 14 (24:33):
I don't know, you know, I just I went on
American Idol and yeah, they're.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Like, that's it. I mean, that is so that's what
we're looking for.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
How long did you have to practice that? Do you
do that in the shower?
Speaker 11 (24:43):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Where do you like? Where do you warm up?
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Lifelong in preparation?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's life.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Chase, I got a question. You got the sunglasses on
the in the indoors?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
So I got bright lights?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Is it bright lights or did it? Was it a
long night?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Maybe I have long mornings. Who knows, you know?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
So uh no, just well sometimes once I get I
just got back yesterday. I only slept for a few hours.
So yeah, I've just been I've been running around. I'm
at the end of my end of my road this year.
So this is where I'm usually about ten fifteen pounds overweight,
my hair's too long, and.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I got to get my life back together in about
three weeks.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
So hey, partly, Johnny, get your life together when Thanksgiving, Christmas,
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
When all the only free time I got.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I know, the sweets and you know the homemade cookies
and pies.
Speaker 14 (25:25):
I got through Thanksgiving and I eat whatever I want,
and then once next week's over, it's like I got
to get back on the wagon, and you know, towards
the end of the year, I jump off of it.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
So when you say get back on the wagon, do
you have someone that prepares meals for you that you
know are healthy or do you have to like kind
of do that research.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
And my fiance is a very good cook, and she's
good at making me eat stuff that I wouldn't ever
want to eat. Normally, but she makes it in a
way that I all eat it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, does she do it?
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Like because our kids I have three kids, are three boys,
and so we follow some lady on Instagram. My wife
does and it's like, if you put a lot of
colors on the plate, even though it's healthy, they'll eat it.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Get so excited.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yes, and so does your fiance put a bunch of
different colors? You're like, oh the rainbow?
Speaker 7 (26:05):
She just does.
Speaker 14 (26:06):
She'll take some of my favorite recipes and then she'll
tweak them without telling me. So I think I'm eating
whatever I really love and then she'll like be looking
at me like what do you think.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I'm like, do you do something different? Now?
Speaker 14 (26:16):
I know immediately I'm like, because you know, most of
my mom's recipes and whatnot, so she'll make them a.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Little bit healthier.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
But I appreciate it because I still get to eat
what I love and have a healthier version too.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
So, speaking of a fiance, you know you had to propose,
you know, get down on ther knee, say oh you
marry me? And you know you're kind of a musician
now that has money? Did that mean the ring had
to cost a lot more money? Because they say the
rule online is like it's like three months paycheck is
what you're supposed to pay on the ring.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I mean, god, did you live up to.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
That, Chase?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I mean, I can't get her a million dollar ring?
Speaker 11 (26:53):
Dag.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
I didn't know Chase rolling like that, you guys, breaking news,
breaking news, Chase Bagham is rolling in the cab.
Speaker 14 (27:00):
Yeah, man, No, I mean this year I had a
solo right number one, So you know, if those if
I'd have bought a ring with those three checks, I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Uh, I mean, how amazing is it the checks like
difference wise when you have a solo number one, Like
is it just like holy crap?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Well it's my only number one, so it's the only
way I know it.
Speaker 14 (27:16):
And uh, you know, I'm sure, uh if I get
another one, you know, it's gonna be with some other folks.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
I might be I might be missing that feeling a
little bit. But no, it's it's never been about that
for me.
Speaker 14 (27:27):
It's just getting to get the songs out and still
have a career, you know, And I'm just grateful for
being able to get this far.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Man, he made it a long way you went.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
I mean, I mean, did you like when you're when
you're a kid, did you dream like, Okay, I'm gonna
go TV?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Like is that what your inspiration was?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Like you saw idols like that's my ticket.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
No, I never, not in a million years. And I
think i'd be doing it, you know. And that was.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Probably my last my last stab at it, you know,
and shot in the dark. So it's crazy that it
all kind of panned out the way it did because
if that didn't, I probably would have quit, you know,
singing and playing music.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
And what would you have done? What would Chase Beckham
be doing? Like if he wasn't music.
Speaker 14 (28:02):
Would have went back to Oklahoma and built houses, just
in construction. And I'm happy out there too, you know,
so I would have Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Man, I don't know. Man, I used to let me
tell you that, I don't know. You can say you're
happy out there. I mean hard Work's hard work.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Because like when I used to work at Sam's Club
and I had to get the carts out of the
parking lot, I was like, man, I'm gonna tell you
what I'm gonna do this rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I thought for a minute there, yeah, and then I heard.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
And then I got laid off you had the machine
that pushed him at the end of my career.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Right here, Yeah, yeah, I did. I had the smart
cart two thousand.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
It's like when I got my first nail gun. To
get rid of my hammer, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Had to have a rope and I would clip it
on there.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
And the crabby part about my Sam's was on the
top of a hill, so he will part down the hill.
So for eight hours in that Texas heat, I'd be
pushing carts up the hill.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Gee man.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And towards the end of my career, when they brought
that smart card out there, I was like, oh my god,
what a life changer. Then they laid me off.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah right.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
And then I went to Jason's Deli and I was
a delivery driver and I was making straight cash and
I was like, I.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Am d dude, that's where it's at.
Speaker 14 (29:03):
You get that straight cash job, that little little nice hustle.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It was so great.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
And then I got got on the Bibybone Show and
then I was like, I'm really famous.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I'm not don't need Jason's Dellly anymore.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yeah, now you're rolling in it.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Huh well, I mean I could get better. I was
the lottery every day. Man, you know what I'm saying, Chase, good,
Hey do that do that thing that you did when
we started what the Dora MEI fossil d Wow?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Chase, great job started it. And with that.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
That's that's how you get on the radio, folks.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The Cmas are live tomorrow night at eight seventh Central
on ABC.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Morgan here with Josh Ross, who I know for so
many red Flags.
Speaker 13 (29:39):
Red Flags Let's go, which is not.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Actually you being the red flags, but you have red
flag songs.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
This is this is true the coaching of the red Flags.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
You really do. It's good to see you. But not
only that, you were on tour with Nickelback.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
Yeah, last year we did fifty two shows with them. Incredible,
so great.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
What was that like? Like you're a a newer country,
new two people who are learning.
Speaker 13 (30:02):
To Yeah, I like it. I like being new I
love it.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
But you were newer on the circuit and then you
were opening for Nickelback, Like I did it that incredible
come to be and you're like, okay, this is rock music,
but what.
Speaker 13 (30:13):
Yeah, it all it all worked out really well. I
think you know we I had met Chad and Nickelback
year previous at a festival actually up in Canada, and
then they had signed the same management group that I'm
with and it just kind of made sense at the time.
And yeah, I learned so much on that tour.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
It was great.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
It I mean we were gone. It was a true
rock tour. We were gone four months straight. It was
one hundred and twenty days. I remember being on a bus.
We had brandtly as it was the direct support on that,
which was incredible, and uh yeah, learned a lot which
carried me to this year. Then we did the Bailey's
Dimmer and stuff. We went to the UK this year, Australia, Canada.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You really have been so so busy.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
We did one hundred and.
Speaker 13 (30:53):
Seventy shows almost this year, which is incredible.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Do you need an app?
Speaker 13 (30:57):
I'll probably eventually. It's definitely taken nap, But no, it's
been It's been so good. I'm excited to be home now,
get to write record and kind of get back to
the more creative side of it. The performing side has
been incredible. Definitely my happy place. But looking forward to
the to bet And I.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Need to know because you were hanging out with Chad
and Brantley, which they've come into the show and they
are wild.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yes, they have wild stories to share. Yes, what's the
craziest thing that happened on tour?
Speaker 13 (31:21):
Oh yeah, Yeah, that's the problem is the sharing side.
I had some really really incredible nights with Chad, whether
that be you know, just staying up and having a
couple of beverages. And he's he's really the true definition
of somebody that can kind of burn it at both
ends and like really do a good job doing it.
Like he'll be he'll be out, he'll stay out late,
he'll be with everybody's showface. And then he's like the
(31:44):
first person up and he's working hard and he's got
to sing the show and all that so really great.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (31:49):
And then Brantley, I, you know, he's just he's just
a rowdy time and a lot of fun, but but
such a family man And I really learned, you know,
how to build a family on the road with him.
He spend more time with the people on the road
and you do your actual family. And yeah, Brandley's a
lot of fun, but but I would say he is
incredible in regards to just how he cares for his people.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about like family life,
on the road. His wife had the baby on the bus.
So that's just crazy.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
It's just yeah, that was wild.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I mean good.
Speaker 13 (32:18):
I mean, I guess you know, they've had a couple,
so they've I just feel like i'd be so stressed,
this is true.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (32:24):
If i'd be, I'd be like messing lyrics up on stage.
It'd be like, how am I going to do this?
Not definitely not baby number one?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
No no, But let's get back to you.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I want to hear about something you This is all
your music stuff, but outside of music, what's something that
you hope to accomplish before you die?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Music related?
Speaker 13 (32:39):
Yeah, just helping people. I mean, I'm still trying to
figure out what that means to me. I feel like
I was inspired by not even music, people growing up,
like actors and people, whether they were like marine biologists.
I'm really I love oceans and fish, and I love
fishing and all that kind of stuff. So I think
some sort of avenue in that, whether that be through
benefit things or maybe acting and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Did you what was like the thing you wanted to
be when you grow up?
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Because now that you say that, like one of the
things that I wanted to be was not just ice
skater and famous.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I did too, really, yeah, yeah, I was at one
point I thought I was going to go to school
to do that. I realized that I get super like
claustrophobic diving really deep. Oh yeah, so I was like,
this is not going to work. But yeah, I wanted
to I wanted to do that. And I wanted to
be Paul Walker from Fast in the Furious.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Yeah, that is oddly specific act.
Speaker 13 (33:30):
He was like my child idol.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
You do have a resemblance of him.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
Yeah, I feel like, yeah, he's always been interesting, you know,
obviously before in passing, but and he actually was invested,
like he has a marine that had like a benefit
that he does too for that, so.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
He could have kind of reincarnated a little bit is
in you There we go.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
That's I'll take this.
Speaker 13 (33:53):
Is that weird, I don't know, but but I'll take it.
I just I feel I just feel like his mannerism
is the way he talked to people. My family's in
La So I was kind of always infatuated by the
acting and modeling side of the world, and you know,
just great dude.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
So no, that's so awesome.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Well, Josh, thanks for hanging out with us, and can't
wait to see what else you go do, especially.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
If you're going any more rock stars. You might totally
go rock on us.
Speaker 13 (34:16):
Who knows, Yeah maybe, I mean you never know. I
think I like rock. I probably I like to put
out all different kinds of stuff, So I feel like
the lane is very open nowadays to this is true.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I mean, we have Jelly who's done all the different genres,
so you could be doing that too.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Don't miss the fifty eighth. Than you will CEMAS Live
on ABC tomorrow night at eight seventh Central broadcasting from
the fifty eighth.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Then you will CMA Awards the Bobby Ball.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
We've got Dylan Scott Morgan here at pre CMA Awards. Dylan,
you may be a country artist, but I actually think
you're more of an influencer.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Now, oh my.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
God, is the interview over. I was walking those Oh
my gosh, like.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Look at you on social media. You're crushing it. That's
a good thing.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
Just got to make some waves, you know, and got
to do the thing.
Speaker 12 (35:06):
But I was walking out of slim chickens the other
day and this girl stopped me and she goes, you're
the TikToker. I was like, no, I'm not a TikToker.
I just kept walking, didn't say anything else. I was like, no,
I'm not you so offended.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Dang, I really did offend at begin.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
I'm saying nothing against the TikTokers or influencers. That's just
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Well, you're like, I've worked on this whole career as
an artist, and this is now what I'm known for.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Hey, here's the way I look at it. Take it
how you can get it right?
Speaker 6 (35:31):
So true, but on the street, so there was a reason. Yeah,
you didn't like that feeling.
Speaker 12 (35:35):
No, it's all good. It's part of it, right. You
got to dive into the socials and everybody wants They
don't want to know just the music, they want to
know your life too, right, and so it's part of it.
So I've tried to really dive in on showing people
who I am is a daddy and what I do
every day and is.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
What it is.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
I don't think there'll be a single video that will
ever make me smile, like your son writing the Fake Bowl.
Oh yeah, that was the funniest video like series that
you guys did for Hot Minute.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I loved That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I got some good kids.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
But I do want to know, like a day in
the life of you, and you're not on the road,
not doing music, what does a day in the life look.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Like for you? Maybe it's a perfect day or whatever.
Speaker 12 (36:11):
Yeah, it's all different. I mean, I'm a type of person.
I can't sit still, so I gotta do something. So
I'm either I'm either bush hogging on my land with
the tractor, I'm taking some trees down, I'm hunting if
it's hunting season, or baseball practice, baseball games, picking kids
up from school, all the regular stuff.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
I feel like, were you.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Gonna try and be a baseball coach for your kids?
Speaker 11 (36:33):
No?
Speaker 7 (36:33):
I didn't play baseball growing up?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
What didn't you play?
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Played basketball? My dad?
Speaker 12 (36:38):
I'm gonna blame my dad for this one. He's like, son,
are you sure you want to waste your whole summer
playing baseball?
Speaker 7 (36:42):
And I'm like, nah, I don't want to.
Speaker 12 (36:44):
I don't want to do that when I should have
done it, should have played baseball, because like I'm literally
living it through my son right now.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
I love baseball, but you've never you played a little
bit and you just stopped basketball baseball.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
You never ever played it? No, never played it. I'm
an idiot, you do.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I have the baseball persona too.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
I get Bryce Happer all the time.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Oh yeah, that tracks that's your doppelganger. Have you guys
met before?
Speaker 6 (37:08):
No, do you feel like it'd be weird if you
meet now that you know you're doppelgangers?
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Probably? Probably not.
Speaker 12 (37:14):
He probably doesn't see that though, because he was like, oh,
you look like such and such, not like I get.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
I'll take offense to it, like, no, I.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Don't exactly who's the one that you're.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Who did I get?
Speaker 12 (37:24):
Sometimes it's like just those on social media, like the
girls are like, you look just like my husband.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Like, I look nothing like your husband. I'm sorry. You
may want me like your husband, but I do not
like your usband.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
And you kind of let them dream a little bit,
you know, some day. Some lives are tough.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
So I'm an influencer, so you are.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
It's not a bad thing, but I do know there's
this connotation to it. Yeah, okay, I want to know
besides that life. Now I'm like thinking about you as
an and I can't.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I can't understand.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I'm an influencer. What are you talking about.
Speaker 12 (37:56):
I'm an influencer that likes to sing country music.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
When is the last time your kids humbled?
Speaker 7 (38:01):
You humbled me?
Speaker 10 (38:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Because we know kids are really good about it.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Yeah, I don't know my humbled me?
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Were you like?
Speaker 7 (38:11):
Dang?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
That one kind of hurt?
Speaker 14 (38:12):
You know?
Speaker 4 (38:13):
They say think kids say the darkness thing.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
They do say the darness things.
Speaker 12 (38:15):
That's why I'm saying when I go, I got some
good kids, Like my kids talked me up really like
they were. But I do have one. I just I
got one, my son. And he was joking, by the way,
and put this out there. He was joking. But I
took him out on the road with me a couple
of weeks ago, and he said, he said, I don't want.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
To go hear all these slow songs. I said, do what.
Speaker 12 (38:38):
I don't, Dad, I just I don't want to go
here all these slow So he's seven, right, I don't
want to hear all these slow songs.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
And so I'm on the bus talking to my guys
like is our set?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Slow?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Is our show?
Speaker 10 (38:50):
Slow?
Speaker 7 (38:50):
Do we sing nothing but slow? Songs like no, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 12 (38:53):
And so at the end of the weekend, he's joking
with me, right, He's like, I was just messing with you, dad.
That was a rocking shows all the whole weekend, the
whole weekend. I'm the type you say something and it
gets in my head. It's in my head, it's in there. So, yeah,
my seven year old did that.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Now I'm a little girl. She wouldn't do that to me.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
She hypes you up.
Speaker 7 (39:12):
Oh, she hypes me up. I'm the best daddy.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Does she have a favorite song of yours? Or does
she even know that you're a singer? She just knows
your dad.
Speaker 12 (39:18):
I think I think she knows I'm a singer, but
she doesn't know any different. Neither one of them do.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Really.
Speaker 12 (39:24):
They call it my job. Like when I leave to
go to the bus on Wednesday night, they're like, Dad,
are you going to work tonight? It's like, I'm going
to work tonight. Like I don't think they understand it.
But she's still like on the older stuff, like she
still wants to hear my girl and new truck and
stuff like that. I'm like, baby, I got I got
a bunch of new songs out right now, you know,
like what about like.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
This Town's been too good to us and What'll never have?
You know, like but whatever, as long as you're listening
to it.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
They are listening to it.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
And that's good because I have had people come in
who they've had their kids listening to other artists too.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Got home from school Luke Holmb's why do all the
kids looke? They love Luke.
Speaker 12 (40:01):
Got home esday from school, takes his backpack off in
the kitchen and goes, Alexa play beer Never Broke My
Heart and just rocking out to it in which I
like that because I mean, look, they're listening to the
right kind of music, you know.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
But yeah, they love it.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
That's funny. You're not the first one who's had Luke Combs.
Speaker 7 (40:18):
They love Luke Holmes. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 12 (40:19):
I'm trying to dive into that, like, all right, what
is it about these kids likeing Luke Holmes?
Speaker 7 (40:23):
Like what do I need to be looking for? You know?
Speaker 6 (40:25):
But I guess that means you have to do a
collaboration with Luke Holmbs.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah, then they will listen to.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
Or write or sing more music about beer.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Beer would work to But also, they're seven seven.
Speaker 12 (40:36):
And that's what they want, seven and five one years old.
Speaker 7 (40:40):
He's not there yet though, so we're going out.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Well, it's always good to see you. Thanks for hanging out. Sorry,
I offen you with the influencer.
Speaker 11 (40:48):
Favor.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
This is your favorite influencer.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Everybody, don't run away from me on the street. Okay,
I want to promise, all right, see you later.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
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Speaker 2 (41:02):
What are we singing there? Sam?
Speaker 7 (41:03):
I hear song I'll settle for the Ghost, do you?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
I don't know who sings that.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
You're asking the wrong person anything about music. I ain't
got to answer for anything.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
I think it's so.
Speaker 15 (41:14):
It was like a folks folksy singer who did a
cover of it. It was on my Watchhouse Spotify playlist anyway.
I think it's originally a Justin Bieber song.
Speaker 9 (41:23):
Oh, get off Spotify and check out iHeartRadio. You can
listen to music anywhere you go podcast on demand.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
Man.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Well, if you can't tell, we're sitting here with Sam
Hunt and lunch Box.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
County.
Speaker 9 (41:37):
Man, that's not funny. That's not funny, scool, that's not funny.
All right, Sam, dude, how is life out in the country?
Speaker 7 (41:50):
Man?
Speaker 15 (41:50):
It's great, better, better than ever with those kids running
around and and uh, just getting back to you know,
like I went camp in the past few days, which
I haven't done in probably ten years.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Like when you go camping, do you go tent or
you go cabin tent?
Speaker 15 (42:07):
Well, now, if a cabin was available and I had
my brothers, I might go cabin, but on this particular
trip that wasn't an option.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
How is Dad life going?
Speaker 6 (42:19):
Like give me a day and Dad life of Sam
Hunt not touring, not on the road like Dad life, Sam.
Speaker 15 (42:24):
It's well this year it has consisted of a lot
of tour buses and backstages, which is we've made the most.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Up Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad Dad.
Speaker 15 (42:34):
I think I might have the only two and a
half year old who knows what a green room is.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
She wants to go the green room. That's wait.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Does she put stuff on your rider? Like do you
allow your kids to put stuff on your rider?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
No?
Speaker 15 (42:46):
No, but she like one of the venues like left
us a little. It's like a rocking horse, but it's
like almost the size of a Shetland pony.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And so She's wants.
Speaker 15 (42:58):
To ride all the back back like corridors of the
venues on this little pony, and they ended up giving
it to us so under the bus and so every
day for like a month, she had to have that
pony out.
Speaker 9 (43:08):
That is awesome. Do you ask for diapers like that?
Way you get free diapers everywhere you go? That is
so save so much money because diapers are so dang expensive.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Are you a cloth diaper?
Speaker 15 (43:17):
And they disappear like in no time? Oh my gosh,
it's crazy. But you're right they are expensive. Because I've
made about four target runs this year to get diapers
and I get the wrong side and.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
You get the wrong ones.
Speaker 9 (43:29):
It's like you're supposed to get the strap over here
and you get the pull ups and it's not supposed
to be a pull up.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
It's like it's a disaster.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
That's exactly right. I mean, that's I should put that
on the on the right.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Should I'm surprised you haven't been putting some for your
kids on the right.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
I guess I never thought about that, especially if they're
with you hanging out vackstage.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 9 (43:44):
Point, and hello pamps, like what are we doing here?
Are you not sponsoring Sam Hunt? Like what are we doing?
I mean, he's like the most famous guy in the world.
He's got kids, they use diapers, Like, hello, what are
we waiting on?
Speaker 7 (43:55):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Do you ever get tired of free stuff?
Speaker 7 (43:58):
Well?
Speaker 15 (43:58):
I feel, you know, like because you can't keep like
you know, you grow up in the South. It's like,
you know, nothing's free. You gotta work for it. And
it's like so I do feel a little bad excepting
free things sometimes, but but nah, I don't feel too bad.
Speaker 9 (44:13):
Yeah, because did you stop did you stop by the
Crocs place over here and get free crocs?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
No, you need to do that or Crocs. I'll take
us oize of nine.
Speaker 9 (44:19):
And then Luke Bryan's got a little set up for
jockey over here and they got a bag full of clothes.
And I keep going over there and they have not
offered me a bag yet, and I keep trying.
Speaker 15 (44:27):
All the kids got set up up in Canada with
like five pairs of birking Stocks each, So we got
all stocked up on birking Stocks this year.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
That's legit. I have to check out the Crocs.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
I do want to know Sam, like outside of music,
what is something in your life that you hope to
accomplish before you die, before I die Bucketler's moment, anything,
but it just not related to music.
Speaker 7 (44:48):
Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Let's see.
Speaker 15 (44:54):
I'd like to start. I've got this idea for a
uh it's kind of like a hunting club. It's more
of like a social club where like invite men to
come out. It's more like it's almost like a men's retreat.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
But it's spiritually.
Speaker 15 (45:07):
Oriented or at least, you know, leadership orient where we
spend time talking and and kind of trying to become
better people while we spend time in the outdoors. I'd
love to establish something like that at some point somewhere,
maybe in the South. So that's something that's been on
my mind for a long time. We'll see if I
can make it happen.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
That would be really cool. And please, if you do it,
please invite lunchbox really you know anyway.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Would that be for profit or for nonprofit?
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Nonprofit?
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Oh? Interesting? You know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (45:34):
I was thinking sort of like a country club, you
know how you know the ritz and glamour, but it's
actually a country club out in the country, like you.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Know what I mean. Now, this would be like like
a hunting lodge where you go and you have some
whiskey and hey, I.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Take that doesn't sound like a bad idea either.
Speaker 9 (45:47):
But oppositely, you only have it for the you know
white the golf course, the you know, rich and famous
in the pools, in.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
The test membership.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
That's the wrong clientele.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Yeah, I know where you were going for there. I'm
thinking the only things rich fame in lights is all
he ever thinks about.
Speaker 9 (46:06):
I got a question for you, Sam, even though you're rich,
do you still play the lottery? No?
Speaker 15 (46:10):
I never have played the lottery. I don't gamble in
Vegas or play the lottery. But the past few years
my mom has to put like a few little scratch
off tickets and our stockings.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
We still do stockings.
Speaker 15 (46:20):
See that's beautiful, and so yeah, I'll do a couple
of little penie scratch offs.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Okay, I still haven't wor have you continued that tradition
with your kids, like passed down the tradition of the
stockings with yours?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
No, not yet. I need to. I need to find
somebody who can.
Speaker 15 (46:32):
Like my grandmother used to knit, and so she had
these awesome stockings that she knit so, but my mom doesn't.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
I don't think my mom knit. So I'd like to find.
Speaker 15 (46:41):
Like some authentic stockings that somebody may has made for
them because we had that growing up.
Speaker 9 (46:45):
Okay, so, if you're listening to this and you know
how to stitch, give Sam on my son, give them
a call.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Give them a call.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
What's your kids initials?
Speaker 2 (46:52):
What's your number?
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (46:55):
I want to make Lunchbox feel uncomfortable because he always
makes me feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
He's good at that.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
I need.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Do you happen to remember once upon a time when
you ran into Lunchbox in a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
That was awesome one to do. Yeah, all right, Sam's
gotta go there. Give them to wrap up.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
No, give us a.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Up, no hold on.
Speaker 6 (47:14):
I would like to tell you Sam, that Lunchbox planned
that he knew he was going to run into you,
and he perfectly.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Came down to you predicted to know that he saw
you walking there one day He's like, I'm gonna go
walk the gains. He doesn't live over.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
There, Oh wow, And it's great.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
He got the kids involved and everything.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
He often gets.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Well, we were driving through the like, that's where the
doctor is.
Speaker 9 (47:34):
And so I was like, man, I'm gonna drive back
by there and see if I say, Sam walking and
you were walking, I was like, everybody had a car
out of a car.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
I don't buy that. He sees me enough out here
at work.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
He confessed and there's there's nothing weird about that.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Is that sound like a bit? He would come up
with it.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
I just wanted to make sure you're new.
Speaker 9 (47:51):
Yeah, if it was right, he'd be worried. But Me's like,
that's cool. Me and lunch of boys.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (47:55):
Right, Sam, We're boys, Sam, lunchbox boys.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
We gotta go.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Sam never got hang all does again.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
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