Unfiltered Truth: Chad Prather on Faith, Comedy, and Cultural Battles :: Ep 74 Try That in a Small Town Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've often said I've been called everything racist,
homophobe, transphobe.
I mean I had a gay agent forseven years for crying out loud.
It was, it was gay as could be.
And and I'm like I'm in theentertainment business how can
you call me a homophobe?
Like my daughter's aprofessional dancer, she tours
with Disney on ice and I'll meether somewhere in this some city

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in America.
I'll take her to dinner orlunch or whatever, and take,
take her back to the hotel andI'll say, hey, let me go in and
meet some of your friends.
She's like absolutelyAbsolutely not.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
There's so many duels I want to organize.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I know the first one, the Music City duel.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I want to line them up.
I got so many people.
I want to enter these duels.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
The first one should be Zach Bryan and Gavin Adcock.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
What a bunch of pusses, these guys.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I don't take either of them seriously, though I
don't take either of themseriously as a matter of fact,
I'm tired of the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I think that's the first time you've named names.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You've got to set the bar higher for the initial duel
.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
They tend to not want the equality they talk about.
They want control.
They really want an agenda tobe pushed.
And that's where it getsdangerous on that, because now
we isolate people out of thegroup and if you're not part of
the group, then you're going toget a label.
If you get a label now, you'regoing to be classified.
If you get classified, you getput on the shelf.

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We don't have to deal with youanymore.
And if we can label you, if wereally want to want to
dehumanize you, and now you getto a situation like the tragedy
we had with Charlie.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
The Try that in a Small Town podcast begins now.
Try that in a.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
Small Town.
All right, welcome back to theTry that in a Small Town podcast
.
We are loose, we are fun, wegot thrashash, we got.
Introduce yourselves halo orkelly tk.
Indeed and I'm kurt, this isthe try that a small town
podcast coming to you from thepatriot mobile studios.

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I like getting my swerve onpower by these faces can be a
fun night y'all oh yeah, greatnight we got chad prather.
I don't know if you guys knowchad prather, but if you don't,
you're going to and then you'renot going to.
Uh, regret listening.
This guy is awesome.
He's got a lot to say.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, sometimes he says it quick, got to keep up,
but he's pretty, he's prettycool the string they pull out at
the back of him, off out of hisback.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
It goes in slow, he goes in slow, he is full of
information and I allocated twohours to get ready, you know,
just to do some research on him,because I didn't.
I didn't know him and I wish Iwould have taken eight hours.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
I mean the content he has it's a lot it's a lot it's
like gotta ask him about this,because it's not like you can
describe him as this.
Oh, he is a lot of things.
He's done a lot of things.
Makes me feel bad about myselfI know it, we have one of those
guys

Speaker 4 (03:01):
he's one of those guys it's like god, dog, I don't
read enough.
Yeah, I don't read enough, geez, yeah, I don't read enough, I
started thinking about taking aclass or something.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
I know it I know it, but where do you start?
Because he's pretty good athistory and theology.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I know it.
I see a Praetor University.
He's a singer, a songwriter.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
On the horizon.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
P-u pray, they're you .
Oh my gosh.
Let's not waste any time.
Let's get right to chad.
I think chad is like the mostinteresting man in the world,
because if you look him up likehere's what it says okay, that.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Or somebody else say no, no.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, here's what google says.
So you know, it's true.
Comedian actor, christianconservative philosopher,
podcaster, musician, preacheryeah like where are you reading
that?
That's cool, I know I just mademost of them up the old wide
world web.
Even tell me this if you're ona plane and you're sitting,
unfortunately, next to somebodyyou don't know, they say what do

(04:00):
you do?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
that's a hard one, um , and I've always said I should
just lie, right, because I justsay I'm in the entertainment
business, I do comedy, so I dothat, and then people want to go
.
So do you do the comedy, andthen they'll qualify it like
stand-up, or are you like aproducer or a manager of
something?
I was like no, I do the comedy,I go on the stage and do it.
I just am in the entertainmentbusiness music and comedy.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
We kind of lie right, I don't want to say it, because
then you know the conversation,you know where that's going to
go.
We lie yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then the other thing is, if I say I podcast,
everybody's got a podcast, yeah,and that just sounds like you
just have a hobby.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
So I, I, that's, a preacher coming out of you right
now.
Aye, aye, that's a preachercoming out in here right now.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
A lot of times I will joke and say that it used to be
when people would introduce meif I'd go to an event or
something, speak at these deals,like I just did, a Folds of
Honor event Saturday night, anda lot of times they'll introduce
you as an internet sensationand I just say that's a 21st
century way of saying you'reunemployed but popular.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Because people look at you like.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, you're an influencer or you're a creator.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
People say that.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I try to never say that.
Right, Like I hate that phrase.
It sounds so nothing.
Yeah, Because anybody can tryto do that.
I mean there's college classesnow for that.
Yeah, which is strange to me.
I went viral.
I was doing a television show.
I was doing television andradio.
I went viral back in 2015 witha video that I was sitting in
the truck and I was comparingWalmart to Target and I was just

(05:31):
talking about how bougie Targetis versus how redneck Walmart
is and I called it the blue logostore versus the red logo store
, because I was like I don'twant to get sued by and, plus,
our television network had justgotten a huge donation from
Alice Walton.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Sam Walton's daughter .

Speaker 1 (05:47):
And I didn't want to piss her off.
So the thing went viral and mymother called me on the phone.
She said are you sick?
And I go no.
She said.
Somebody at church said youwent viral and my mother's quick
.
I said no, mom, she was reallyasking if I was sick and I said
they're talking about Facebookand Twitter.
And she goes you're too old tobe touching your Twitter.

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So I joke like that.
But that stuff really went down.
I did three seasons of thattelevision show and then ended
up doing social media.
I mean, social media went crazy.
And then at the end of 2015, acomedian friend of mine he said
why don't you do comedy?
And I go well, I'm really not acomedian.
He goes who gives a shit?
They buy tickets.
Go do whatever you want to do,like anything on stage.

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And so I tried to figure outhow can I honor the craft of
comedy?
And so I developed that overthe years, did a lot of shows
and then the shtick was alwaysthe fast-talking thing that I
did in the truck but was alwaysthe fast talking thing that I
did in the truck.
But then also I figured why I'ma jack-legged guitar player.
So I said if I could tell ajoke, I should be able to sing a
joke.
And so I started doing parodysongs and writing funny songs

(06:54):
and doing things like that, andso I remind people.
I grew up in Georgia, down inthe woods, and I grew up in a
family full of cowboys, but Iwas the least cowboy of all of
them.
And I grew up in a family ofmusicians, and I was the least
musician of all of them, but I'mthe only person in my family
that was ever able to take thosetwo things and make any money.
So I say they can kiss my ass.
Yeah, I've done enough things.

(07:16):
You listed those things.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
I have done enough stuff with mediocrity that I
found that if I put them alltogether it's a pretty solid
package.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's entertaining Because people are like, before
they start deciding if I canplay the guitar or if I can sing
, then I'm off to talking aboutmy adventures around the world
and they're like, oh wow, thisguy's interesting, it's just
jack-leg stuff.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Were you an actor?
I saw you were on TV at two orwhat was that about?
I don't know why they put thatstuff in there jack leg stuff.
Were you an actor, like I sawyou were on tv at two or what
was that about?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
yeah, I don't know why they put that stuff in there
.
I did television, I was, I was,I had a travel television show,
and so then I had a, anequestrian show.
Um, because they wanted a funnyguy that understood new horses
and so they sent me around thecountry to these equestrian
events trying to see if theycould kill me.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
So I'd play polo I would.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I went to walt scott, you ever see, remember, um, you
remember back to the futurewhen marty mcflagg grabs onto
the back of the jeep and the guylooks back and he's on a
skateboard.
That's walt scott.
He was john wayne's stuntmanand he's been in hollywood for a
million years.
So they'd send me out to hisranch to get shot off of horses
and and just whatever they coulddo to kill me, and so then

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mounted shooting and stagecoachraces, and so we did that all
over the country and, uh yeah,it was just wild to.
So they I guess there was someelements of that but then I
wound up getting managed out ofla.
I was with gersh, with myagency, and then I was with
paradigm, which paradigms alwaysbeen.
But they started a comedydivision and so my agent moved
over there and we ended uppitching sitcoms too.

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I was writing for sitcoms.
I was with Lionsgate and so Iwas pitching to all the networks
.
Everybody, all the networks,would listen to me.
Eric Tannenbaum was theexecutive producer on all my
projects.
He had two and a half men for11 seasons and had two and a
half men for 11 and 11 seasons.
And so he was.
He was dumbfounded because Igot told no a lot.
And the reason I got told no alot is because I'm unabashedly,

(09:11):
unashamedly and unapologeticallya conservative guy, a
conservative voice, and so Iwould go in there and I'd sit
down with these guys and youcould kind of see where this was
going to go real quick and whencbs was telling eric tannenbaum
no.
He was like you know what thewhy you can't tell me no?
And they were like, well, withhim we can because we know who
he is.
So that was an adventure.

(09:32):
But we had some success doingthat and then I would write with
some pretty big writers.
Yeah, so that was an adventure.
That was something that youknow how you guys are in the
entertainment industry on alevel where you can understand
this.
When you first found yourselfin certain rooms, you couldn't
believe you were in.
Oh yeah.
You know when you're on stagesor you're at a place where

(09:52):
you're, like man, think aboutall the people who have sat here
or stood here or been in thiselement, and sometimes you can
go long enough that you forgethow special that is.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
But you know, hopefully you can always
remember that feeling of going.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Man, I'm sitting in a chair where Mel Gibson probably
was rolling on Molly.
I wish I was rolling on Mollydoing these executives at ABC.
So yeah, it was a cool thing,it was an adventure.
My redneck euphemism is I sayI'm like a goose.
I wake up in a new world everyday.
I just wait to see what's goingto come and happen and I get
connected with great people likeyourselves and you know.
We were just talking aboutJustin Danger Nunley.

(10:32):
I was with him yesterday and hewas with you guys and I mean I
say great people.
There's Justin.
I know, but it's been reallycool, you know it's.
It's been really cool, you knowit's, it's awesome.
I got a text message from uh uh, you know you never know who,
who you know you go through 10bottles in one day of redneck
Riviera with John Rich and hisupstairs deal and then you're
like man, I don't like Johnafter that many bottles.

(10:53):
I didn't like John after thefirst bottle.
Most people don't need bottles.
I mean we love John.
You know, I always say he's anasshole, but he's ours.
And so no, I love John and youknow, John sang on one of my
songs.
He was, you know, great.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I saw that he did Water Down with me and I just
got Neil McCoy texting meyesterday and so it's weird Like
that's weird to me still thatyou have these guys that
consider you friends.
Tracy lawrence I ran into himin december at the out in vegas
for the finals rodeo and youknow he walks up and hugs you
and that's weird to me becauseI'm like I sat in my truck

(11:32):
running my mouth, yeah, for aminute at a time, so it's just
been cool that's good, butyou're good at it.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Are you ever lost for words?
No, I should be.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah it's got me in a lot of trouble.
I've got the foot shaped-shapedmouth.
It fits right in there.
And so I get up every morningand I do.
I've started.
I think we just did the 30.
Tomorrow will be the 33rdepisode of this.
Every morning, monday throughFriday, I get up and at 8, 7
central, I do this littledevotional thing.
Before the election I reallyfelt impressed.
I was like politicians aren'tgoing to save us.

(12:00):
We need to really come back toGod.
We really need to get ourpriorities right, and so I
started.
30 days ago I started doing thislittle devotional in the
morning.
It lasts about 10 minutes, justlike this.
I'm reading the Bible.
This is what I think about itand then I'll do my show Monday
through Thursday, which is alittle more cultural.
People blame it, they say it'spolitical.
I really think it's morecultural than anything, and so I

(12:20):
do that for an hour and thenI'm inevitably on Newsmax or Fox
or whoever else.
I just did Charlie Kirk's showtonight.
I don't want to timestamp thistoo much because I don't want to
come out, but I filled in forCharlie Kirk on his TBN show,
which is Charlie Kirk Today,which was a humbling honor to do
that.
So yesterday I started talkingat 7 in the morning and I

(12:40):
finally finished talking after adinner meeting at midnight last
night and I go, this is toomuch.
Men aren't designed to talkthis much.
They say what men are onlyusing like what?
1500 words a day?
I mean, we're a short term paperyou know and we just use our
stuff up by and musicians areworse Sound and audio guys are
the worst.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
They're like computer nerds.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
They've been sitting there.
They don't know how to interactwith people anyway.
They've been pushing buttonstheir entire life.
They've never interacted withhumans.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Is it true or is it not?
Except for Jim, though he's anold radio guy.
It's true.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
He doesn't know what to say right now.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
He's multifaceted.
That's because we took away hismic.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Musicians are that way.
You've interacted with aninstrument you know.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Hours and hours and hours and hours on end.
But I'm a people person.
I grew up down in the woods.
We were white trash.
My family still is.
I got out.
But my joke is that we were socountry that I got a cousin that
got arrested for sellingchicken salad sandwiches in a
cockfight.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Oh jeez.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because she didn't have a food permit and that's
actually a true story.
And when I went to theUniversity of Georgia I said I
was so naive that they wouldtalk about the fraternity houses
being haunted and I didn't knowwhat that meant.
They told me it was a ghost,and I didn't know what that
meant.
When they finally explained it,I said where I grew up, if you
died in that mobile home, youweren't coming back.

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You weren't spending eternityhaunting that Our houses weren't
possessed.
They were repossessed, but wegrew up in the woods.
But I was an extrovert.
I was the youngest brother oftwo other brothers and being an
extrovert, that could onlyrelate to the horses, the dogs
in the trees and the snakes thatwe'd catch in the creek.
I wanted to get out.

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So when I turned 18, I hit theroad.
I packed up my little PontiacGrand Am went off to the
University of Georgia.
I had baseball scholarshipoffers to places like Clemson
and I said I'm not going to goto school in a cow pasture, I
need to be around people.
And so I went to the Universityof Georgia and kind of never
looked back.
Did you play ball there?
I played some baseball thereand had a good time, and try to

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remember it from time to time.
University of.
Georgia.
Back then it was Rolling StoneMagazine had it the number two
party school in the nation and Iwas there for it, Russell Hall,
which I lived on the 10th floorof Russell Hall, which was the
top.
We called it the penthouse upthere.
That was the number one partydormitory in the nation by
Rolling Stone magazine and Ialways say the grace of God

(15:12):
abounds to the chief of sinnerson the 10th floor of Russell.
Hall because it was bad.
I mean we did everything wecould to kill ourselves and so I
went over there.
And then when I got out ofschool I I pursued ministry
stuff, I went to seminary, uh,did a lot of animal stuff,
worked with a lot of animals andand end up getting recruited,

(15:34):
did some little projects for thefbi undercover.
I was like uh, uh, you know the, what's the character?
The?
uh, donnie, donnie brasco, oryeah, it was basically that, but
not with, except I was with thecartels.
I had to go hang out with thecartels in tijuana and arkansas
and san diego and upstate newyork dealing with horses, and

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that's back before anybody knewwhat the cartels were.
Yeah, but I, you know, here Iam and, and you know, fifty
dollar pair of dickies, bootsand these guys are wearing
wearing $4,000 Gucci loafers andI was like these guys are doing
.
Well, I had no clue who.
I was hanging around with.
But then I started going aroundthe world.
I'd count my money, literally,I would count my money.

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I would keep change all yearlong in a bucket, in a
five-gallon water bucket, andthen Christmas break I'd dump
all that change out on the floorof my bedroom and I'd count it
up and see where I could buy aplane ticket to.
And I'd go to Africa and I'dstay for a couple of weeks or
might stay a month.
The mother of my children I mether in Africa.
I went all the way to WestAfrica to meet a white girl from
Alabama, roll.

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Tide.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
She roll, tide roll.
And she is, she does, she doesthat she rolls.
Hey, didn't you, didn't youlock up, uh, somehow like a
gorilla or something like that.
And oh yeah, that's a goodstory.
I was in nigeria, okay yankari.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Uh, there was a that's cool man that you know
that story.
That was the freakiest deal thatwas one of those, uh, core
memories that you're like.
I almost didn't get out of that.
It was a baboon and, oh my god,we were in, were in a, I was
traveling with some medicalmissionaries and we were in the
middle of nowhere.
This was January 1996, becauseI left New Year's Eve 95 and

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spent New Year's Eve on anairplane brought in the New Year
, landed in Lagos, nigeria.
About a week later we were inYonkari and you can go into
these beautiful natural springsthat come out from under the
rock, you can swim in them andyou can look up and see the
baboons and the trees digging intheir butt and pooping in the
water and it's beautiful.
And so the next morning we comeout and we got these two Toyota

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vans.
So I'm loading their stuff upand putting all the packs in and
in the gear and I uh, but kindof simultaneously pull the hatch
on the back down and reacharound with my foot and kick the
sliding door shut on the sideand I go who's in the van?
And I look and it's one ofthose baboons, because it was a
bench front seat and then abench second seat and one of the

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baboons had crawled in withoutme knowing it it will rip your
face off everything offeverything.
They grab your face is comingoff man.
Well, I'm going, okay, I'm in abad situation because these
missionaries stuff is in thesevans.
Like he can start tearingwindshields out.
He could go crazy, he could ripthe seats out, he could

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demolish everything.
So I'm like I gotta did this.
I've got to get this baboon outof this van.
And so I'm like I've got tocome face-to-face with a monkey.
That's my only choice.
I've got to man up and comeface-to-face, so I reach around
and just real quick I snatch thething open and pull it back and
I jump back out of the way andhe comes right to the edge and I

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get to his and the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh my God, what did that look like?
The teeth?
Oh, they're there.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I mean, it's just like you.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
It's National Geographic in 3D.
They're fangs, they will eatyour face.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
They'll get you Right off.
What are you doing?
So I back off and he scootsforward and it's like we lock
eyes and we share a moment.
And the missionaries my friendDr Andy Norman.
He's an OBGYN, he was alifetime missionary in Nigeria
and he kept a little bag of hardcandy.
It would be like you guys havethis right here, but he kept it

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on the front seat in a Ziplocbag and that monkey backs back
up and reaches over and grabsthat thing and just kind of hops
down and takes off.
He starts making monkey friendsLike he opens the.
Ziploc bag like he knew what wasup and he starts serving treats
like the old man at church.
Here's butterscotch and one ofthe doctors.
He just runs over there.
He's like I, I, I, I.
I was like what are you doing?

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He goes, I want my candy back.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
I want my arm back.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
That's a funny story.
That was face-to-face withdeath.
That's funny, Wow.
Then it was funny now and thenand then the following day,
actually that night, that nightI got really sick with dysentery
.
So that's the simple deal.
I lost like 20 pounds in fourdays, no joke.
In a place called a little Gombeand I was in a mud hut, mud
brick hut, two rooms with thesemissionary couple from older

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missionary couple from NewZealand.
We're a million miles fromanything.
You know those places where youcan just look up and it's like
I can grab the stars.
It's just dark.
But then they had like a snailshell shaped outhouse that was
100 yards behind the house andso every five I mean I'd come
back and I'm like I'm trying tonot die, but you're kind of
wanting to die, You're so sickand I'd not die, but you're kind

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of wanting to die, you're sosick and I'd have to keep
walking out there.
It was horrible and theyfinally got me some medicine the
next morning and I slept forthree straight days and nights
but I did.
I lost like 20 pounds in fourdays.
Pictures of me from that.
I was like you might not haveshould have survived on that.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Is that like from some weird water chicken, it was
chicken uh, I had some chickengotcha and some chicken salad.
I.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Chicken.
It was chicken.
I had some chicken.
The chicken got you.
I had some chicken Chickensalad.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I don't know if I would have had the chicken.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
The chicken will get you that yard bird man.
I don't know if I in hindsightknowing what you know now, I
would have left that chickenalone.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, and I can't eat curry to this day because the
last meal I ate with those NewZealand missionaries was curry,
and that is what I spent theevening enjoying again, over and
over.
So to this day, I just reallycan't get near curry, and I'm
okay with it, I'm not missing it.
What about baboons?
You know baboons?

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That was the last encounterthat I know of.
Yeah, I think that was the lastone.
That's why I have people all thetime, who you know.
They're like, well, you'regoing to get a pet monkey.
And I was like, no, I wouldn't,I really really wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
God dang man, I see a movie in your future, Dude,
I've done so much stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
And then we were joking like Matt Lida, who is
Justin Nunley's podcast co-hostwith Nine Line Apparel.
He's known me forever and hegoes you've lived in 52 years,
you've lived like three fulllifetimes.
You've done so many differentthings.
Because, again, I wake up in anew world every day.
Like what can we do?
I hate the repetition of doingthe same stuff.
Like people keep saying youcan't keep touring for the rest

(21:57):
of your life and I'm like whycan't I?
I enjoy it, I like going to newplaces.
I just I'm.
I'm at a point in life where Ican be specific about where I go
, how I go, what I do when I'mthere.
Uh, you know, when I got intocomedy we'd gotten so big.
I say we, like I'mschizophrenic and the voices in
my head count as personalitiesbut, uh, I would go to these
places and we would do Wednesdaynight.

(22:17):
You guys know how it goes I doWednesday night, thursday night,
friday night, saturday night,sometimes Sunday, different city
.
And this was jumping on, thiswasn't tour busing back then,
this was jumping on an airplaneand having to go.
And I've got a guy, partyfileSteve, who's traveled with me
all these years, and, man, wesaw the world, we saw the
country, which I mean I'd seenall of the world, but up until
that point I'd really never seenthe country.

(22:38):
Oh, interesting.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
And now I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
yeah, you know what I mean you guys can appreciate
this.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
People say what's your favorite town to go?

Speaker 3 (22:45):
to.
There's not one.
Every day.
We wake up everybody, I'mtelling you, every day we get in
a ride to go somewhere duringthe day and the runner will be
like where's your favorite place?
You know, like man, you wake up.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
You don't even know where you are.
It looks the same.
Yeah, it looks the same for us.
Yeah, you're.
I don't know it's an arena.
They all kind of look the same.
It looks the same.
I don't know it's an arena.
They all kind of look the same.
I'm not being an idiot, but wedon't see the city.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
You don't see it, you don't have time to, and then we
got to a point where we wereusing a bus, because I do have
people that travel with me.
I've got an opener that's beenwith Jesse Payton.
He's been with me for six years.
He huge, massive comic, he'sdoing it, doing an incredible
job.
Um, he spent nine years inprison and then decided he was
funny and that's.
That is actually a funny story.
He graduated from high schoolon a thursday, went to prison on

(23:31):
monday so that, and then hespent the next eight and a half
years in prison.
What?
did he do, uh, he beat the hellout of a guy, almost killed him,
uh, in defending his brother,and they, yeah, country that
kind of deal.
But we, you know, tour.
And then I've got the musicguys and I'll tell you that
story in a second that travelwith me.
I've got some really greatTexas musicians that go all over
the country with me.
But I'd say, if you get off thebus or you get off the airplane

(23:57):
, you get off the airplane, yougo from the airport, you go to
the hotel, maybe you go to thegreen room, you go to the stage,
you sound check you hotel,maybe you go to the green room,
you go to the stage, you soundcheck, you go back to the green
room, you go out, you do theshow, then you go back to the
green room and then you go backto the hotel, you go back to the
airport and you go, yes, to thenext place.
I mean, that's it, you're nothanging out, no, you know.
So I don't know.
I'm taking the time now, lord,willing in these days to go

(24:20):
places that I can actually enjoya little bit and and, like I
said, I'm being a lot morestrategic with where I go.
Covid changed everything foreverybody in the way live
entertainment was being done.
What were you?

Speaker 6 (24:32):
doing during?
Oh, I know what you were doing.
What Running for governor?
I did do that, yeah, because ofit, because of it.
Which is why.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, because I was in South Dakota, we were getting
ready, for Trump was going tospeak the next night.
Well, it was July 2nd of 20.
Trump was going to speak thenext night out at Mount Rushmore
.
That was going to be the firsttime they shot fireworks off in
17 years, and so I was there forthat.
So I was having dinner with DonJr Kim Guilfoyle and my phone

(25:07):
lights up and says that GregAbbott, the governor of Texas,
is about to well, he's going toincrease the mask mandates, he's
going to reinforce that.
More stuff's going to get shutdown.
And so I always say jokingly,but I think it's true, I don't
know if it was the wine orbecause I was sitting with a
Trump, but I got on Twitter andI said I'm going to run for
governor in Texas in 2022.

(25:27):
And it blew up.
There was no looking back.
People thought it was a stunt.
They thought I was going to.
They thought it was a way toincrease my popularity.
I was like I didn't need thatkind of popularity.
I really didn't need that kindof popularity.
It was, it was.
It was ruination.
In a lot of ways, depending onhow you look at it.
It was a blessing, because Ithink we did some good with it.
I mean, I didn't have the money.
There was no way to compete inthat.

(25:48):
I think I spent like a millionbucks on that deal and there's
254 counties in Texas.
If you ever run for statewideoffice, don't do it in Texas.
Go to Connecticut.
I mean 1,221 miles alone withthe border of Mexico.
It's a stretch miles alone withthe, you know the border of
mexico.
It's a stretch, I mean it's astretch you think you think
about where longview texas ormarshall texas is to el paso.

(26:09):
I mean, that's the distancefrom there to freaking atlanta
you know it's insane but I didit.
That was 18 months, 19 months ofhell.
Um put some of my peoplethrough some really hard stuff.
We had some tough go of it.
But hey, you know, I came infourth out of four, you're in

(26:31):
for governor.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
I came in fourth out of nine.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Honestly, I came in fourth out of nine but for what
I did I was taken seriously bythe end of it.
I was legitimately takenseriously as a candidate.
A lot of people still want meto run again.
I ran then because there was apurpose to it.
Not A lot of people still wantme to run again.
I ran then because there was apurpose to it, not because I
wanted to be in politics.
I can do far more good doing thepodcast, the Chad Prather Show,

(26:53):
my reach doing that.
I can do far more good likethis, having influence over
politicians and with politiciansand being friends with people
in the statehouse than I couldactually being in that situation
.
Greg Abbott's powerful.
He's about to do his fourthterm and he will, and I always
have said that the three mostpowerful people in the universe
are God, the President of theUnited States and the Governor

(27:14):
of Texas, and that's arguablytrue.
Greg Abbott hasn't been myfavorite guy.
He's kind of waffled around onsome things over and over and I
don't like that.
But the perception of how texasis is not how texas really is.
If you're inside texas, peoplethink of it kind of like they
think of florida, like oh, it'sa conservative bastion, it's a
stronghold, it's everybody'swell, it's not the.

(27:35):
The fortunate thing with texasfor them to be conservative and
remain red uh is they've got alot of big small towns.
So whether it's your Abilene'sor Longview's or Waco's or Tyler
, amarillo, lubbock, those kindof places, but then you've got
the blueberries in the Chili's,so you've got Dallas and Fort
Worth and you've got Austin, ofcourse, and San Antonio and El

(27:57):
Paso and Houston.
Those are, arguably, they pullconsistently blue in regards to
that.
So there's a struggle that's inthere.
And then we've kind of got amamby-pamby statehouse in terms
of GOP representation.
So I've been pretty involved init.
You know, like right now, withthe thing that happened with
Charlie Kirk, I was friends withCharlie, friends with TPUSA.
We're working real hard to tryto get some memorials done and

(28:19):
built and maybe some statues putin some places.
We're trying to move quick onthat and try to ride that wave
while it's high.
So I'm pretty involved in that.
And then, you know, I've gotback during COVID.
When that was going on, Ifinished an album, a comedy
album.
I finished a book called Am ICrazy?
Yes, spoiler alert yes.

(28:40):
Yeah, but I had a bunch ofmusician friends who couldn't go
to work At the time.
I was riding a big wave of hugecrowds wherever I went, 3,000
or 4,000 for comedy.
That's a big crowd.
3,000 or 4,000 people, 1,200 ona comedy night a small night
for me.
At that time I was living inthis downtown brownstone house

(29:06):
in downtown Fort Worth.
It had 20-foot ceilings.
The acoustics were fantastic inthere.
I called a couple of my buddiesSteve Helms, who's a guitar
player and songwriter, and BenMcPherson, who's an incredible
fiddle player there in Texas.
I called him and said come overhere, I've got an idea.
I said let's do this thingcalled Songs from the so, where
we just sing harmonies we don'tyou know, just do it on an

(29:28):
iPhone and put it out there andsee what we can do.
Well, then hit me.
I was like you know, if youboys want to go on the road like
I can do comedy stuff, then wecome out and do harmony music
stuff and we can throw jokes inthe middle and banter.
And I said because I can go toplaces where they've never heard
of COVID, Like we can go toCheyenne Wyoming.
You know we can go to Casper.
Like they'll still show up outthere, they're not scared.

(29:49):
And so that's what we did, andnow, however, many years later,
I can't get rid of those guys.
They discovered a good gig.
They don't have to worry aboutbooking, they just come with me.
So yeah, it's an interestingshow, it's a good variety show.
I've always looked at thepattern of what I wanted to do,
like the old Will Rogers typedoing the follies with his humor

(30:10):
, which was a variety show.
And Will Rogers family actuallyreached out to me years ago and
they said we do see youcarrying that mantle of a modern
Will Rogers which.
I always, which is an honor.
I always look at more likeMikeowe being that type of humor
voice, being that deal, and hegets told that a lot too, but
it's been.
I'm like I couldn't carry.
I don't know if Will Rogerswore a jockstrap, but I don't

(30:33):
think I could carry it if he did.
So yeah, and now and then I wason the Blaze Network doing the
show for five or six years theChad Prather Show, and that
network doing the show for fiveor six years the chad prather
show and that's of course glennbeck's historic network that
he's done there and then I wentindependent a couple years ago.
Everything I'm doing now justindependent after you no more
representation out of la no more.

(30:55):
You know, we some friends ofmine, uh, chris wallen, who you
know, songwriter um, who wrotethings like don't blink little
little tiny song you know chriscalled couple of years ago and
he said Chris talks so slow youget him on the phone.
It's like this is going to takea minute, but they wanted to
start a record label calledBased Records.

(31:16):
That was going to be a non-woke, uncancellable record label and
they are all those things.
Putting out songs has beentheir challenge.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
What makes your hurdle?

Speaker 1 (31:29):
unbeaten I mean dude, you've got the cultural and
political side down but the songthing it takes a little.
It's a labor of love.
But yeah, I mean I had somegreat guys.
We came out here we wrote apile of songs and me and Chris

(31:50):
and Ira Dean jumped in on someof that, and I want to say
Jeffrey Steele jumped in alittle bit on some of it.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
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That's the one.
That's the one.

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Speaker 1 (33:32):
I'm starting to remember how to start this off.
Turn this down a little bitright here, guys.
That one went crazy viral, andthis was back when William
Thomas, who started to identifyas Leah Thomas, decided to start
beating the hell out of girlsin women's sports or in swimming
.
And so I was listening to thenews and I thought, man, this

(33:58):
guy just went to sleep withShania Twain on repeat and woke
up and man.
He felt like a woman, and so Iwas like I'm going to write a
song and I was coming out ofGalveston going up 45 to Houston
and by the time I got toHouston I was like I got this
song down.
So I sat down in the kitchenand I said I want to be a woman
and compete.
I may have two balls and bigfeet.

(34:20):
Don't you question why I can'tkeep up with the guys.
I want to be a woman andcompete.
I'm going to get a scholarship,win myself a championship.
I'll swim and I will paddle.
Just don't mind my Adam's apple.
I'm going to get a scholarship.

(34:41):
They'll change the rules for me.
Even though I stand to pee, mylegs still get hairy and my
boobs give no dairy.
That don't bother me.
That's a brilliant one.
I may be tall and lanky andstill have a little spanky, but

(35:02):
I want to be a one-hander.
I'll tuck my little guido inthe pocket of my speedo Things
you just can't unsee.
Then it goes on, but I like it.
It says I may still have oldFrankie wrapped up like pigs in
blankies.
I don't want to be a woman andcompete.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
I don't want to be your woman, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
As you're singing that I'm saying to myself.
We used to sit around the busand have a coffee in the morning
10 years ago and be, like youknow, what would be crazy Is if
a dude, like Pretended he was agirl and went and like Played
Sirius Williams, and then seewhat that would be like we
should do that.
We should find a guy and wentand like played siri williams,
yeah, and then see what thatwould be like.
We should do that, like weshould find a guy, and we're

(35:48):
laughing about it.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
We want to manage this guy, we want to marry that.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
We're ahead of our time and we're sitting here
unbelievable still that that'seven happened yeah it's
happening still, unfortunately,but it was really happening, you
know, a while ago.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
It was like it was insane, it's crazy and here's
the thing I don't know if youguys ever in your travels, did
you ever like come upon or bearound like a me too rally?
You know, when the girls werewearing the pink hats?
Did y'all ever see?
that out in the streets.
You know you get a big try toavoid.
Yeah, I tried to avoid it tooand so I went to one.
I did not mean to go to one, Iwas having breakfast.

(36:23):
We'd done a show in GrandJunction, Colorado, having
breakfast that morning.
Walk out on main street we'rein a parade and I didn't know
what it was all about, but Iliked their hats.
And so I go, let's see whatthis is about.
I discovered fellas in the spaceof three minutes.
They didn't like me and theydidn't like my penis, which I
thought was unfair becausethey'd never met either one of
them and I don't have anaggressive penis.
And it's certainly not a threatto the Me Too deal but.

(36:45):
I'm like where were these girlsLike?
Where are these girls now?
Because they're out therewalking and they're dressed up
like vaginas.
You know, their men are dressedup like Like.
Where do you get a vagina?
Costume.
First of all.

(37:05):
I don't know.
I mean, you was weird Arby'sand you're sitting there going.
But the weirdest thing, theironic thing, was they're
walking their dogs on a leash.
Their dogs have vagina hats onand the irony of walking a
wiener dog Out of me too, RileyWell done.
But I'm like where are thosegirls now?
Because this is where they oughtto be pissed off when girls are
getting their butts kicked bymen or going into their spaces,

(37:28):
locker rooms, and then they'regoing to say that if we say
these things, we're the onesthat's filled with hate.
No, I mean, actually we're theones filled with compassion.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
They really don't know what they stand for they
don't have a clue, they justwaffle back and forth, they do
whatever they feel is movingthem at that moment, and they
don't know why.
They're just very, veryconfused.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, and any movement that's out there and I
don't want to take you guys intoa political thing Again I think
this is a cultural deal butthis is just, historically and
philosophically, where thisstuff ends up is anytime you
have a movement, whether it'sBLM, the LG, whatever the
alphabet thing or the feminist,all these different deals if you

(38:09):
look closely at any of thesemovements and it's not just the
ones that you're against, it'sall of them, even the ones that
sometimes we're approved of,that we approve of they tend to
not want the equality they talkabout, they want control.
They really want an agenda tobe pushed.
And that's where it getsdangerous on that, because now
we isolate people out of thegroup and if you're not part of

(38:33):
the group, then you're going toget a label.
If you get a label now, you'regoing to be classified.
If you get classified, you getput on the shelf.
We don't have to deal with youanymore.
And if we can label you, if wereally want to dehumanize you,
and now you get to a situationlike the tragedy we had with
Charlie.
So now you, my friend ChadRobichaud.
He posted something the otherday and I thought it was just so

(38:53):
profound.
I've been saying it every daysince he said it.
He said they don't kill youbecause you're a Nazi.
They call you a Nazi, so theycan kill you, and that's that's,
that's's human nature, and soif they can label you, then they
can do whatever they want toand they can justify it because
you're subhuman.
What happened during covid wasthe same deal.
You know, if you weren't and Idon't like saying the word, the

(39:14):
v word, because we still if youput this on youtube, you never
know they're gonna- say oh, hesaid that word I called it the
blah blah, that medicalprocedure, you know.
So you go get the medicalprocedure and if, if you didn't
get it, well then you know we'regoing to have a winter of
darkness and death.
That's what the president said,and so it was the haves and the
have-nots.
And if you weren't wearing ahazmat suit and rubbed up with
antibacterial goop in theairport and you didn't have on a

(39:38):
mask, you know, in your car,while you were driving along
listening to Linus Morissette,then you were one of those
people that's filled with hate.
I just didn't want to go to theback of the Walgreens and have
somebody jab some untested goopinto my arm that's going to
cause me to have blood worms.

(39:58):
And I was like this doesn'tmake sense.
I was sitting there going howin the hell are we justifying
this?
You want me to have a medicalSalina Kansas, of all places,
salina Kansas.
I had a show scheduled there,sold out, deal a month out.
And they said got to have apassport to come in, you got to
be able to prove your status.
And I said we're not havingthat show.
Not having that show.

(40:21):
My most supportive statehistorically is California.
I can go out there and do 16,17 shows a year, and I'm talking
about, yeah, the Bakersfield,the Redding, the Visalia, the
Chico.
But we can go to San Jose, wecan go to Thousand Oaks, anaheim
, we could do San Diego, ramona,la Jolla, I can do all those
places.
They're packed.

(40:41):
I can do multiple nights there,they're packed.
But once all that hit, it wasdone, and now it's rare and the
reason it was so successful isbecause there's good people in
california.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Oh, you know this we love playing california, it gets
it.
It's like I'm from way upstatenew york and and the mountains
of around adirondacks and it's,it's beautiful, it's it's low
income but they're good,hard-working people.
Yeah, um, california, new york,it's a bad rap as a whole state
because, agree, city california.
The same thing happenscalifornia.
They're great people.

(41:11):
It's just they get a bad rap.
It's not all like becausethey're big blue cities.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
Right, exactly that's the way they're known we used
to fly into buffalo.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
And uh, we'd fly into buffalo.
Do that in buffalo rochester,syracuse, albany.
So we'd go across upstate.
We'd count into Buffalo.
Do that in Buffalo Rochester,syracuse, albany so we'd go
across upstate.
We'd count the barns, and youwouldn't think about being in
New York.
We were just at the Trump inWestchester, above White Plains
Gorgeous up there.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
You've got to remind yourself you're in New York
because, again, people don'tthink about that.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Well, you just think it's New York City, which isn't
even attached to the state.
So you get in the state andit's farm country, it's
mountains, that's beautiful upthere.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
It's gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
I love it up there it's really it just gets a bad
rap and unfortunately, thepeople like where I'm from.
They pay the heavy price forthe politics.
Yeah, especially during COVIDthey got destroyed Small
businesses and it's crazyleadership Well and now folks
are getting taxed if they try tomove out of California.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I mean, we're seeing a lot of people come into Texas,
which is good and bad.
It's a huge boost for theeconomy.
But we've got people comingfrom Silicon Valley not by
choice but because Elon andthose guys are moving businesses
there.
So you've got these wokeprogressives that are coming
into Texas and they really arechanging things, because now
they're running for schoolboards and they're doing all
these different things.
But a lot of people they can'tget out of California.

(42:26):
There's really good people overthere.
I was just out there, I don'tknow.
A couple of weeks ago.
I was in Downey, california,where my wife grew up.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
No kidding, yeah In.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Downey yeah, wow, she got out, but no, there's good
people out there and they'restuck, they, they're, they're
getting screwed by thebureaucracy that's out there.
So I love you know I I'm kindof an outspoken guy and
obviously I am, but on thethings that I have convictions
about I back in 2015 I said I'mnot going to do political humor

(42:56):
or comedy.
But then I'm watching thedebates with the primaries and
like 23 people running on therepublican side and hillary and
her crew are all running againsteach other on the Democrat side
and back then I knew we didn'twant, I didn't want Hillary and
I didn't understand Trump.
He made no sense to mewhatsoever.
My mother just loved him and Iwas like, are you serious?

(43:17):
Like what do you love aboutthis guy?
You're the church piano player.

Speaker 7 (43:21):
And you're telling me the real estate mogul playboy
twice, three times divorced, youknow billionaire, that's the
guy.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
The mogul, that's the guy the host of the apprentice,
that's the guy you're pullingfor.
Because I was like I like tedcruz or whatever, I like ben
carson.
I didn't know what I'd like,but I know.
I did a video where I saidtrying to figure out which
candidate to vote for is liketrying to figure out which
venereal disease you're mostokay living with for the next
four to eight years.
And so I went into the votingbooth and there was hillary
clinton and then the box next toit that said non-hillary

(43:48):
clinton and I voted for that oneand we got trump.
And I had no clue.
The uh roller coaster ride, godknows, y'all have lived it I
mean put out the wrong song orthe wrong video and it ain't the
wrong freaking video I mean thesong had been out.
I'd love to.
Y'all are here to talk about me, but I'd love to talk about
that.
But anyway, that's whatever.

Speaker 6 (44:10):
Now, believe me, we like getting other people's
point of view at that time,because there were a few people
that kind of stood up for us and, believe me, we know that.
But we hadn't experiencedsomething like that.
We've seen how the media canmanipulate stuff.
We hadn't experienced somethinglike that.
We've seen how the media canmanipulate stuff, but when you
are a part of it, it wasdifferent.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Yeah, it was like oh shit, we stay under the radar
out here.
I mean, we just write songs andgo to the house, we don't go
out there.
You know, and that was thefirst time- and we're not on the
news.
Yeah, we made the news.
That was the first time thatyou know we were called racist
by Whoopi Goldberg and we werelike, oh man, this is different.
This is a different deal.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Well, I can remember going to the Music Row our bass
records office is.
You've got to walk between thetwo offices, which was Jason's,
I guess, publicist and then theother office across the hall and
it was like, well, now thepublicist has parted ways after
17 years, but they've got to goto the office and see the people
that are still repping Jasonover here on the other side and
I was like, fine day at theoffice.

(45:09):
That's a fun, water coolerconversation.
That's awkward.
But I mean that right thereyou're going to take a decade
and a half relationship thatyou've got.
You know this person, you knowwho he is, you know how he
conducts business and how hedoes things.
You know this person.
I've often said I've been calledeverything racist, homophobe,
transphobe.

(45:29):
I mean I had a gay agent forseven years For crying out loud.
It was gay as could be.
And I'm like I'm in theentertainment business.
How can you call me a homophobe?
My daughter's a professionaldancer.
She tours with Disney on iceand I'll meet her somewhere in
some city in America.
I'll take her to dinner orlunch or whatever, take her back
to the hotel and I'll say, hey,let me go and meet some of your

(45:52):
friends.
She's like absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Absolutely, not Absolutely not, I go.

Speaker 6 (45:57):
what do you think I'm going to?

Speaker 1 (45:58):
do she goes.
They know who you are, there'sjust no you don't have to do
anything absolutely not.
And so you know, you get calledeverything and I go.
You got to look at it like ifit was somebody that was close
to me, like one of my friendscalled me that I'd sit down and

(46:19):
take an analysis of my life.
What am I doing, saying beingthat's not right.
But when strangers are doing it, and they do it to the point
because again we, you gotboycott culture, you got cancel
culture.
Boycott is is bottom up, cancelis top down.
And that's what happened withyou guys, with that is.
It was the powers that be uphere that said nope, we're gonna

(46:41):
squash their voice.
They're filled with hate.
Whatever you read it, you sawthe headlines, all the crap.
And then when Bud Light doeswhat they do, or Tractor Supply
did what they did, or even JohnDeere did what they did, or who
was the recent Cracker Barrel.
Cracker Barrel did what they didNow it's the people at the
bottom, the organic, grassrootspeople, that says, eh, we're
with that.
So that's a boycott culture,which I don't like either of

(47:03):
them, to be honest with you.
But I also don't like spendingmoney with people I don't share
their values with.
And when you've got a corporatevalue that is very plain and
written, then I go.
I'm not going to curse you, I'mnot going to burn your
buildings down, but I'm notgoing to go eat your crappy
chicken fried steak either,because it really became crappy.
I quit cracker barrel longbefore they went woke.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Oh yeah, yeah I just needed a reason it wasn't the
streamlined decor the biscuitsucked, so they've got.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
They've got decent bathrooms.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
You know, the opinions of this program are not
necessarily so I don't know,scratch them off for a potential
sponsor.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yeah, they're out.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
You mentioned Texas.
Texas I've got to be honestwith you has been so good to us
since the very beginning, likeyou know, for a Nashville-based
act, like we'd go down to BillyBob's and 05, and we'd play two
nights there.
Oh, it was amazing right theyalways took to us.
We played Texas everywhere inTexas a bunch Love it.
We were back in Austin.

(48:10):
We played Austin a bunch backin the day, always had a good
time in Austin.
It's different now.
We started noticing it a coupleyears ago.
We went back, we played theMoody Center.
What two months ago Austin'sway different?
It just is Walk into and it'swe austin's way different.
It's it just.
It just says walk into ourdressing room and we're sitting
there and starting to do somework and we look over and there

(48:30):
it is the gender-neutralbathroom right britain is
playing as like kim yeah yeahwhy do they gotta do?

Speaker 1 (48:37):
why can't they just say restroom restroom is the
bathroom it is come on.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
What are we doing?
But?

Speaker 1 (48:42):
then everybody will start.
You will you have gender youhave gender neutral bathrooms in
your house?
I'm like, yeah, but I'm theonly person in there.
I'm like I'm not peeing next toyou.
Know, it's just thejustification for that.
Stuff is crazy.
You want to have that?
Okay, have these.
And some restaurants do it.
Okay, here's a single bathroomnext to a single bathroom next
to a single bathroom and if itsays vacant you go in there

(49:04):
right.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
Here's the thing no woman that I know of wants to
share a bathroom with a man I'venever got a woman to agree to
pee with me?

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I've never unless I'm out in the woods somewhere.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
I mean it's okay to have our separate bathrooms.
Yeah, I don't know the womenwant that.
Yeah, I know they do.
They don't want to be during aman in the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
It's okay to have spaces.
It's okay to have places, it'sokay to have roles.
These days, they want to tellyou you can't have that.
Everything's got to be thishomogenized, androgynized deal
where we're just some primordialgoop, that's not any difference
in terms of.
I mean, you say, well, sex isbiological, but gender is a
cultural expression, nothistorically.

(49:47):
It's not, it never has been.
That's just something you guyscame up with, a political
invention.
Just like Pam Bondi came out,and I don't like that.
She said it.
She said we're going to goafter people for hate speech.
Well, there's no such thing ashate speech.
There's free speech.
Now, if you want to talk aboutdefamation or threats of
violence, we already have lawsagainst that.
When you start sayingeverything that you don't like
is hate speech, that's aslippery slope.

(50:08):
Now you're in the uk and you'regoing to prison for putting up
a meme.
That's not good.
So you know, I I call thosethings out, I, I try to, and I
catch a lot of crap for doing it, but I don't have anything to
lose no, I think you have tocall those things out.
You have to yeah you have to um,I got three daughters.
Um, you know, I I got.
I told you I mean my daughterthat's the professional dancer.

(50:31):
Um, not on a pole.
She's not like aunt shirley,did it?
Not like aunt?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
shirley did it I don't know if you've ever seen a
stripper with gout.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
You're better off just saying yeah.
I don't know if you ever seen aone-armed stripper with gout.
She's saving for college.
You're better off just savingfor college.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
I don't know if you've ever seen a one-armed
stripper with gout but AuntShirley she got the job done.
She was busy.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Yeah, she had that icy hot patch on her back.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
She put that prosthetic on that pole and
locked down channel lock pliersand kicked that swollen foot out
there and swing she's verystrong.
Strong lady she came out.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
She came out the deaf leopards pour some sugar on me,
which we knew that that's everywhite girl's fantasy stripper
song, if they got to get nakedin public.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
It'll be, and and we know that because we learned
when we were 16, 17 years oldthey'd send me and my cousins
down with a covered plate onholidays so she could eat
because she used to let theother dancers go home so they
could be with the illegitimatekids.
So every now and then we'd peekthrough the curtains and see,
and you didn't want to come outthere with Aunt Shirley and the
boa constrictor.
We honestly wish Def Leppardhad written a song called Pour

(51:36):
Some Clothing on Aunt Shirley.
Wild Makes me miss home.
But people, you know, theydon't.
You know we, we've just livedin this weird world where it's
just contextually, it's.
We've built this constructwhere everybody I say you a slip
of the lip get you hung by thetongue.

(51:57):
You know, if you, if you saythe wrong thing on twitter 10
years ago and they dig that backup, happened to joe ro, joe
Rogan.
I don't know what y'all'sexperience has been on this.
I'm sure you've seen it, but itseems to me like every time
cancel culture comes after you,you just get bigger.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
They're never going to learn.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
You just get bigger and bigger.
You kill Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's voice amplifiesby the millions.
You can't shut that up.
You tried to do it with JoeRogan, didn't work.
They tried to do it with KevinHart Didn't work.
You name your person, they getbigger.
You're just giving them abigger voice.
There are people out there whoare going to churches on Sunday.
Now they're getting involvedwith campus chapters of TPUSA.

(52:34):
People who 10 days ago hadnever thought about who Charlie
Kirk was are now going.
What happened?
Who's this guy?
Oh, I actually like what he'sgot to say, because they're
taking him and they're listeningto him in his context without
these out of you know, pulledout of context lines or whatever
well, even if you don't likewhat he had to say, though, you,
you gotta like what he wasdoing what he was doing, because

(52:56):
that that's what it's all about.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Right, he would.
He would have these openconversations which, for some
reason over the last few years,people don't like, and he was
doing it right.
No matter what side you're on,what he was doing is healthy for
everybody, because that's howit used to be Maybe the
disagreements and theconversations.

(53:18):
That's healthy.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
You can hear the effect he had, though, when you
see clips of a Morgan Wallenconcert, a Jason Aldean concert,
and the eruption when they talkabout Charlie Cox.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Yeah, and he shares the gospel every time.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
I know, and the roars are just getting louder.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
And the crazy thing was, if you notice, we talked
about it on my show yesterday.
Coldplay did it.
Chris sticks his hands up.
We're going to send love, we'regoing to whatever weird stuff
that was, but if it works, itworks.
I've been sending love with you, I've never sent love like this
.
I've tried to send love a lotof ways.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
You look like a baboon.
When you do that, don't saybaboon.
Thank God I still got two arms.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Two arms to raise, but you can hear where he's like
send sin love to sadan, sinlove to whatever.
I don't know why I'm giving himthat accent, but um the uh I'm
not gonna say what I'm about tosay but uh, then he.
Then he says you know charliekirk's family and you can hear
the crowd get louder at aco-play concert.
They're probably just happythat they didn't get caught

(54:18):
cheating but, they uh, peopleare waking up to it.
And you know charlie and I.
We knew each other for a longtime.
Obviously I'm a good bit olderthan Charlie.
I've known Charlie since he was18, 19 years old.
I've done a lot of events withCharlie.
Charlie endorsed one of mybooks.
He's been on my show numeroustimes.
We did a lot of stuff.
I used to speak at his eventsand he's a good dude and he and

(54:42):
I didn't agree on everything,but I good dude and and he and I
didn't agree on everything, andbut I don't agree with
everybody on anything.
There's no way.
Nor should yeah, you shouldn't.
I mean that if you're a freethinker, if you're a critical
thinker and you have commonsense, you're not going to agree
.
Because, even something,because I don't think pam bondy
meant what she said about hatespeech, but she, she again.
She said it wrong.
She tried.
She needs to walk it back.
Probably won't, but I think pambondy's under a quota to say

(55:03):
one wrong thing at least once amonth.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
And so she's been good at that so.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
But you know, our country was founded on this idea
.
We're unique, right?
We're not like mostcivilizations of the world.
Everybody always had a king ora czar or an emperor or a big
boss.
They told you what to eat, whento eat, when to grow your
plants.
They told you who you couldhave sex with, who you could
marry.
They told you all thesedifferent things.
You were in a caste system andwe pulled out our powdered wigs

(55:34):
and our little hats made out ofsquirrel skin and we said, no,
we're not going to do it thatway we gave the middle finger to
the biggest superpower of theday in 1776.
And then we engaged in guerrillawarfare for the next four or
five years and said we're goingto build a whole thing that's
different.
And so that freedom was goingto be built on ideas.
And so we have the idea ofAmerica.
And so they built this republicand Benjamin Franklin.

(55:55):
Of course you know what hashappened.
The lady says in the streetwhat have we done?
And Benjamin Franklin says well, what do we have?
You guys are a republic, if youcan keep it.
De Tocqueville said that Americawill cease to be anything if it
ever ceases to be good.
John Adams said that America'sfoundation has to be dependent
on a moral society, a moralpeople.

(56:15):
When you lose that, you got aproblem because the standard is
being taken away.
To me, the standard has got tobe God.
I do believe that our countrywas founded on that.
Because people say, well, theConstitution doesn't mention
anything about God.
Well, they didn't, because allof the states' constitutions
already had that nailed down.
If you read the first 13colonies and states, their
constitutions were God, god, god, god, god.

(56:37):
So when they wrote theConstitution of the United
States, they said all right,states' rights are what's more
important.
They got that covered.
So let's talk about theunalienable rights, now that the
providential hand of God hasgiven us life, liberty, the
pursuit of happiness, so on andso forth, and then the holiest
truths to be self-evident withthe Declaration of Independence
and the preamble of theConstitution.
So we had these ideas and I sayGod is the standard, because if

(57:01):
you don't have God as astandard, then you don't have a
standard for good.
Now more relativism takes over,humanism becomes the religion of
the day and we've got our feetplanted firmly in midair and
we're worshiping at the altar ofme myself and I right.
So I make the rules, Idetermine what's good, I
determine what's bad, what'sright, what's wrong, what's evil
.
I got to have another standardbesides just me, because that's

(57:23):
too arbitrary and our foundingfathers knew that.
So they said, okay, let'sdiscuss this.
Well, john Adams and ThomasJefferson hated each other.
John Adams' last words on hisdeathbed, which they died the
same day, just hours apart, onJuly 4th, by the way, john
Adams' last words were Jeffersonoutlives me.
They hated him, hated him, andso they didn't like each other.

(57:49):
But they still got along Intheir old age.
They still were able to comeback together and found these
founding principles, like theConstitution, like the
Declaration that said we candisagree, we can debate, we can
dialogue, we can duel if we haveto, but at the end of the day I
kind of miss those days.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
We need a good meeting for our duels.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Let me tell you how badass those dudes were back in
the day.
Talk about duels.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
I just love the idea of a duel Not with me personally
.
I want to host some duels.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
And I think those guys it was all about saving
face.
I mean, obviously Aaron Burr andAlexander Hamilton was one of
the biggest duels and Hamiltonlost his life because of that,
because Aaron Burr wasn'tmessing around, he was there to
kill him.
And I think a lot of timesthose guys they did it and they
missed but they were able to saywe did it and they were like,
well, I wasn't trying to hit youand I'll tell you that.

(58:41):
So y'all's former governor here, a guy by the name of Andrew
Jackson, by the time he becamepresident, when you had a duel
back then you had what wascalled a second.
That was your fill-in, that wasyour understudy.
So a lot of times Sam Houston,of course, who went to Texas,
sam Houston was best buddieswith Andrew Jackson.

(59:02):
He would fill in for AndrewJackson if he ever needed to.
Andrew Jackson, by the time hewon the presidency, had been a
second, not just the duels he'dbeen in, had been a second in a
hundred duels, oh my God.
Can you imagine how bad you got?
I mean, I'm going to go fightsomebody else's fight and get
shot at for that at 15 paces?
Hell, no, that was a differentbreed.

(59:24):
But I'm like why don't we bringsome of that back where you
take off that cotton glove andslap somebody in the face and
say let's get this shit on?

Speaker 3 (59:30):
I want duels, but I want it in the original guns, I
know.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
They shoot those balls.
You're not sure if it's goingto come out with zero ballistics
.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
It's crazy, I think if we do that, there's so many
duels I want to organize.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
I know the first one, city duel and it's like I want
to line them up.
I got so many people.
I want the first one should beuh zach bryan and gavin adcock.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
What a bunch of pussies seriously though, I know
, but I don't take either ofthem seriously as a matter of
fact, I'm I'm tired of the wholething I think that's the first
time you've named names on thepodcast I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
No, it's a current story.

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
It is, and I love that you named them.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
He climbed the fence, he was ready to go.
Those guys couldn't shoot.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Oh my, they can't shoot.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
It's just.
I'm going to tell you thisWe've got to set the bar higher
for the initial duel.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
You know to my country boys who sometimes ain't
too country.
You're going to try to playthat game.
If you climb over a barbed wirefence, a razor fence, to get to
me, I'm whipping your assbefore your feet ever touch the
ground.
I'm catching you while you'retangled.
We're going uh-uh, and Adcockwas like I don't know, I've got
to go to the stage.
Oops, and Zach's doing whathe's doing.

(01:00:41):
But I remember I was fishingwith my buddies Randall King and
Josh Ward in Texas.
We were fishing out on afriend's golf course at Eonson
and Randall King kept.
He was fishing with a spinningreel and he kept tangling out.
You don't tangle up a spinningreel.
How do you do that?

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Yeah, that's backlash .
If you put the string on wrong,it will.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
And then I got to go over there and fix it for him.
And finally, I'm like Randalllisten buddy, mr Mirror, mirror
on the wall.
If you do this again, I'mtelling everybody.
We're taking your country cardaway boy.
You got to quit with this.
Now I'm getting your own bird,Now I'm fixing your mess over
here.
So I laugh about those guyswith Adcock and that's a good

(01:01:24):
call right there.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
They don't have enough in the bank yet to make
that a legit duel.
I mean I need deeper.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
Yeah, that won't make paper I could care less about
either of those two guys, butthey've got some good hate.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
I've heard Adcock on stage and he goes out there and
just swears at the audience andsays a lot of bullshit.
And it's like that's fine, butI guess I'm old school about
music.
But there's many duels I'd liketo see yeah maybe try to
organize some like do you haveanything like on your mind?
I've been thinking about itsince we've been talking about
it and I've got john rich wouldbe, one.
Oh, john rich, yeah, john wouldbe a great a duel for our side,

(01:02:04):
I think I'm taking john.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Well, no, I am.
I'd rather see john and garth,john and somebody you need
people that don't like eachother maren morris maren morris,
let's do that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
That's a good if you can't have john versus maren
morris yeah, let them play.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
They can play in that men's sport I mean maren.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
I knew maren when she was in fort worth, coming up
and doing her thing and then shecame out of national, lost her
freaking mind and I was likewhat is going on with this girl?
Because I know she had somebeef with britney and a whole.
They're just like what is yourdeal?

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
now britney and marin .
That's the duel britney andmarin that would be.
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Britney, britney, britney's gonna take marin down
instantly close I think you gotpeople who think about why they
believe the way they believe,and I respect that.
Like a bill maher gets on hispodcast and I'm not going to
agree with most of the stuffBill Maher says, but it's
fair-minded, it's criticallythought out.
I think so too.
Now it also gets kind of stupidsometimes because somebody will

(01:02:59):
put him in his place prettyquick because they're not
logical thinkers all the timewith that.
But again they're in Hollywood,they've lived in an echo
chamber, they've lived in abubble for so long they don't
know any different.
They've never been challengedon any of that stuff.
So but then you got theprogressive rereads out there.
You got the people out therewhose brains fell out, never had
one, their prefrontal cortexjust never developed.

(01:03:21):
I mean, they're just not withit and they're.
They are the feelings overfacts.
I said 30 years ago we're aboutto to enter into a postmodern
society where how you feel aboutsomething is going to take
precedence over what you canlogically deduce from it.
And so we got into that and nowpeople can't even define what
postmodernism is.
But it is.
As I said earlier, as thephilosophers used to say about

(01:03:42):
humanism, you got both feetfirmly planted in midair.
They don't have any leg tostand on.
Their history has becomerevisionist.
Planted in midair, they don'thave any leg to stand on.
Their history has becomerevisionist.
Their talking points come fromheadlines or bullet points on
the internet.
We've got this greatsociological experiment called
social media, which is neithersocial or media.
And now you have AI, which isreally effing up the mix,
because people are in that andthey don't know what's real.

(01:04:05):
That drives me crazy.
These older people on Facebookthat share this.
Did you see?
George Strait went down toKerrville and he hugged that man
in that lunch line after thatflood of the Guadalupe Look
George.
It's AI.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Don't even look like.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
George.

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
George ain't that tall.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
No, he's definitely not that tall George doesn't
touch other humans.
Oh gosh Back when Irv Wolsleywas alive.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
he's a great story, irv was awesome man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
We used to do this event over at Tapatio Springs
where George has got that bigmansion on the hill and George I
guess he finally sold it.
The HOA wouldn't let him flyhis helicopter in there and that
pissed him off.
So he's trying to sell thatdeal.
Beautiful golf course downthere.
We do this thing.
And george insisted on, uh,coming down drinking tequila
with us at least one night andwe'd get that.
Cody go out there and and he,but he insisted on driving back

(01:04:56):
up through the canyons to hishouse so a cop would be in front
, cop would be in back, be like10 miles an hour up through the
deal.
Erv's out there.
And we had a guy who wastraveling with us, music guy,
and he said you think georgewill come, as he's usually we
have this event.
He'll show up one night andhe's like I can't believe I'm
gonna meet george.
I get to meet george.
I mean I'm gonna get meetgeorge and herb goes.
You know, let me tell yousomething, buddy.
He said I'm pretty sure georgeis met.

(01:05:17):
Just about everybody wants tomeet.
I miss that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
He was so good to us back in the day when he didn't
have to be.
We were idiots and young and ontour with George and not
behaving.
Yeah, and he comes up and goesboys, you're going to have to
settle down.
We just walked back to George'sroom and we were just talking

(01:05:48):
to George and he was like boysthat's funny, yeah, he was, but
he was great, he was great, hewas great.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
People are, people are dying, man, it's, it's, it's
insane.
Um, we, we're seeing ageneration go away at this point
.
I mean, well, you know thatit's like every day you don't
wake up.
I mean, robert redford died.
I, he's 89 years old.
It was time.
I mean, god bless him.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
He was always older than I thought he was.
He always was I never.
Every year he'd it was the hair.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Great God bless you, boys, if you can keep it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I think y'all have done good so far, I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
I wear a hat on purpose, me too.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
I'm telling you, I can't grow it in the back, I
can't even grow a mullet.
Mine grows up this back of myhead.
That's another thing of therapy, um, uh, but yeah, I mean, yeah
, the Aussie thing like I caughthell over the Aussie thing,
just because I'm like, well, Ihope he was right with God.
I mean, you know, the guycalled himself the prince of
darkness and he did all thesekind of things.
People like how dare you?

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
and I was like I really wish him well for
eternity, like that's kind ofwhere my mind and heart was and
people like how dare you sayanything about it?

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
and I was like god, I didn't mean to get into this
controversy, I wasn't an aussiefan.
I wasn't not an aussie fan hey,aussie was smart, aussie knew
his brand.
He knew his brand.
I mean, he knew how to do whathe did, and I think the guy you
know.
You don't get to that level anddo the things that they do.
You don't become an icon and alegend without knowing who you
are.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
Yeah, ozzy, what's he going to do?
Clean his act up.
That's boring.
It's Ozzy Osbourne.
I remember we opened for him inSturges, like 10 years ago.
We opened for him and Icouldn't wait to go out there
and watch him and there he wasolder and still singing.
But he was Ozzy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
And it's like, oh, I'm kind of scared, but this is
great.
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
am I scared?

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
of ozzy.
He can barely move, but I'mpetrified.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Right now I can take him swear to god I could take
him he probably has some powersand principalities surrounding
him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
But yeah, you want to take that.
I don't want to duel withswords.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
You know I'm afraid of swords I would never want, I
don't ever want to thinkeverybody would be afraid of
swords I'd rather get shot withthe the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
I don't dig it out of me just don't get shot in the
ball.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
No, no, I think I think ozzy did have uh, read
somewhere that he had hadconversations with god and
everything and he felt like hewas.
There were those yeah and theand the whole thing about the
prince of darkness.
That that was like you.
You said that was his characterhe created a persona and he
would just say, hey, it's rockand roll.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
I need to do something, you know, and I look
at that and I'm like man, I hopehe did.
I mean, you know, alice Cooperdid that.
Same thing, yeah, aliceCooper's been very outspoken
about his faith.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Yeah, Alice Cooper.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
I mean, he was terrifying, but take alice
cooper seriously, because hehe's like terrifying, but then
he's like you know playing 18.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Yeah, you know, he's out there in golf shorts.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
His face looks like he's melting with mascara and
he's wearing peter millar I'mnot gonna be scared of you when
you're getting your shin wedgeout you know, I mean I got alice
cooper in the bunker on 17.
It lost all weight for like aFlirting with the cart girl.
Yeah, I mean he's got his shoeson and pitching a wedge.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
I'm not intimidated anymore he still sounds good and
he does a lot for St Jude.
Like he does a lot of thosethings, which is golf-related
too, you know, but he's alwaysbeen real nice to me and
everything.
He's nice to everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Again, it's his brand .
It's like these guys are smart.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
It's like nobody can judge people like that.
That.
You can't.
Nobody can.
I mean people.
You get accused of judgingpeople like that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
But I'll always go back to the thief on the cross,
man that's true, and you gotpeople out there who are very
passionate about you know,somebody influenced my life in
this way and that was began.
It was a core memory and I'llalways protect that memory and
you associate that memorybecause I said this about
Charlie when he passed.
I said I said grief is notabout proximity, it's about

(01:09:39):
meaning Uh, you can, you canreally care about somebody and
not even know them, and that'swhere the grief comes from.
And that's true with all theseguys, I mean musicians.
There's nothing, in my opinion,that unites people more than
music and humor.
Humor is under a lot of attack.
Music is too.

(01:10:00):
In a lot of ways, it depends onwhat the message of the music
is.
Obviously, people are catchinga lot of flack.
You put the wrong song out.
I mean ask and dancing.
You know lap dancing with thedevil or whatever he caught,
whatever it's his brand, right,I don't know.
Gay it up with satan, I don'tknow.
And then I'm like you know what?

(01:10:20):
It doesn't make sense to me.
But okay, uh, it's art.
And then, but humor, now, peopleare so thin-skinned, they're
offended by everything.
And with comedy, you'resupposed to be challenged,
you're supposed to be offended.
They, they hold the.
I always say, the two mostoffensive places that you should
walk into with the expectationof being stretched and
challenged is the church houseand the comedy house, because

(01:10:41):
both of them are supposed tohold a mirror up in front of you
and say this is you, are you,you laugh at it, change this,
but we're going to make fun ofit or we're going to challenge
you to change it, and both havebeen watered down.
So you know, in comedy they'relooking for applause instead of
laughter, and then in the churchhouse they're doing more TED
Talks and inspiration andmotivation rather than they are

(01:11:02):
preaching the gospel, becausethey don't want to offend
anybody.
They want to make sure thecoffee is the right flavor and
the right temperature out in thelobby and the fountains are
working in the parking lot andthe music sounds great and the
thermostat's set right.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
Don't get me started.
Yeah, it's frustrating.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
And, having grown up in the church, having been a
part of the church and beingfrustrated by the church and
being in big ministry from timeto time myself, it's a
frustrating thing, becausethat's I feel like that's my
people you know and uh, yeah,it's a crazy thing, but that's
what we're living in, and if youtry to make sense of it or you
try to bring people along, youreally do catch a lot of

(01:11:38):
persecution for speaking upabout it, and I just miss the
days when you could justeverybody could say what they
wanted to say, and it's okay todisagree and, yeah, it's okay to
be offended now and then yeahit's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:11:54):
So you know it's like okay, they shot president trump
last year and it's like okay,they shot the president.
You can't relate to thatbecause he is the president and
a well soon to be president andpolarizing figure.
They shot charlie kirk yeah,who is any of us?
And you know you're theretalking every day about your

(01:12:17):
beliefs.
Like, what does that do to you?
How does it make you feel it?

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
doesn't change anything for me, like it didn't
cause my phone blew up.
I it was.
That was a grievous day, okay.
So the 10th of september, theday charlie got shot.
My sister-in-law called me thatmorning uh, from augusta,
georgia, where I grew up, and uh, my niece unexpectedly passed
away at 38 so that was a hardday and I was already dealing

(01:12:44):
with that and and weeping onphone with her my sister-in-law
and then I go in there and Ishoot my show, which is live,
and as soon as I get off, one ofmy sales guys that sells
advertising for me saysCharlie's been shot.
And immediately I jump onTwitter or X, whatever, and I'm
running upstairs and I'm lookingat the TV and I'm trying to
text people that are on theinside, people that are close.

(01:13:05):
What's going on?
What happened?
I'm like there's no way hesurvives this shot.
I mean, if this is what I'mseeing, if this is real,
especially the closeup, I waslike, yeah, there's no way and I
know his security guys, I'veknown them forever and I'm like
there's nothing to do.
They're in this situation.
So I was waiting on the news.

(01:13:26):
I probably were like there's apulse, but it's touch and go or
they're stabilizing.
I was like there's no way,there's no way.
And I walked outside that dayand I just looked up at the sky,
man, and it was just in thatmoment that I just looking at
the sun and just kind of praying, saying a prayer for Charlie,
saying a prayer for Erica, and Ifelt in at my phone and my road

(01:13:46):
manager texted he's dead and Iwent in there and, sure enough,
they'd confirmed it on the news.
It was a weird, eerie thing andI go, okay.
So what are we going to do now?
Because we can back off.
I can go back to being thefunny guy or I can keep
challenging people and trying todisciple people and help people
understand these thingscritically.
And I said there's no fear inme blowing up because I mean
listen, you guys, you guys werethere in vegas.

(01:14:07):
I mean you know what it's likewhen bullets are raining down on
the stage and and you know, andliterally you know, your
mortality is right there.
You see your life flash beforeyour eyes.
Um, but my phone was blowing up.
People going hey, I'll.
I mean some cia guys, dod guys,navy seals, uh, army special
forces guys.
I mean a bunch of guys.

(01:14:27):
I know they guys Navy SEALs,army Special Forces guys.
I mean a bunch of guys.
I know they're like we'll comedo security for you for free.
I'm like, hey, take it easy,take it easy, we're not going to
walk in fear.
We'll analyze the situation aswe come.
Then everybody's like I wantyou to stop doing what you do.
I don't want you to be outthere.
I want you to be out there, Iwant you to, and I'm like I'm
not going to do that Because youcan't shut me up.

(01:14:49):
I firmly believe that our handsare in the.
Our time is in the hands of God.
So if God's done with metonight I could walk out there
in the parking lot and a treelimb fall out and hit me in the
head and that's it.
I can't prolong my days.
I get on an airplane tomorrowmorning.
I think it'd go down, could godown.
I can't prolong my days beyondwhat his times are allotted for

(01:15:09):
me.
He knows that, like he knowsthe hairs on my head.
So that's going to embolden me,that's going to strengthen me
and that's going to give me thecourage to go out there and do
what I feel like he's calling meto do with conviction and not
walking in fear, because whenhe's done with me, he's done
with me, and when he's done withme I can go hide in a bunker
somewhere.
He can find me there too.
So what's done is done, and ifyou do kill me, it just
amplifies the voice, because nowyou made me famous.

(01:15:30):
I ain't famous now, my lawyertold me.
He said you're the only dudethat got famous by pretending to
be famous.
But I was good at pretending,but you just amplified my voice
if you do that.
But you're right to your pointa little while ago.
They never learn on the cancelculture.

(01:15:50):
But these are dangerous timeswe're living in and it's sad
that we're there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
God's got it, though.
You nailed it.
I remember watching Charlie andwe were texting back and forth
all day about this and we hadleft the road that night.
I remember we were talking tome and Kurt and we were like you
know God knows what he's doingSince.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Charlie got assassinated.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
It's changed a lot of people.
I think it made people wake upto realize that a lot of messed
up stuff has been going on andto get to this point where
Charlie, like Kurt said, wasn'tan elected official, he wasn't
making policy, he was just a guyout there having conversation.
If that happens, then I thinkwe've bottomed out and I think a
lot of people on that side tooare like well, this is crazy,

(01:16:42):
which is that you see a lot ofpeople now who said really
terrible stuff after losingtheir jobs, and I think people
are really waking up to it, andGod used Charlie in that way, I
think, to help.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
To me that's what it feels like.
Oh God damn, you got short.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
He told you, we got some of these things.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
Just take it right off the stage.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
God heard of getting a hook hook, but now we're
getting famous but telly likelike you're saying, he's not a
politician, wasn't a politician,but to me he was more dangerous
than that to to other people,because he was changing young
minds you know somebody said toyour point, somebody said it
wasn't, they didn't kill himbecause he was talking, they

(01:17:29):
killed him.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
because he was talking, they killed him because
he was making a difference hewas getting through to people.
And I mean I've been at theTurning Point events with 5,000
people out there and I've hadthe honor of talking to that
group and they're passionate.
In fact I told them years ago,charlie and I.
I joked with him about it.
I said you know he goes.
I didn't care that you said it.
I said I told his group, I saiddon't become a cult.

(01:17:50):
I said you guys are sopassionate about this, don't
lose the mission of what it'sabout, of elevating guys like
Charlie to the point whereyou're thinking this guy can do
no wrong.
Because he can do wrong andthat's why it was actually what
makes him great, because Charliewas humble enough to know that
he could do wrong, but he wasopen to having those dialogues
and debates and that was thebeauty of Charlie.

(01:18:10):
So, yeah, it amplifies thevoice in a big way.
Our churches were filled onSunday.
People were coming out.
I mean the messages of mensaying I'm going to go give my
life to Christ or I want to getbaptized again.
There were people.
They were so cool to watchthese people on X making posts.
It says so, if I want to go tochurch, what do I do, like when

(01:18:33):
I get in the building, what do Ido when I get in there?
It was like charming in a way.
That was so simple of these,like becoming like a child, of
saying, do I just go in and sit?
Do I need to check in withsomebody?
What do I do?
And then somebody's like, yeah,you need to go in there, you
need to get saved.
And they're like what the hellare you talking about saved?
You know they were like, yeah,right, what the hell?

(01:18:54):
You're on to it right there.
So that was, it was endearingwith that.
And then I think it's also.
I think it's also exposing whois out there in those churches,
who's going to preach the truthand who's not, who's watered it
down to a point of consumerismand they're scared of being

(01:19:14):
canceled themselves and theywant to make sure that they keep
putting the spoon-fed pablumout there.
So pabloff's dogs keep showingup.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
I've noticed that's happening a lot right now,
exposing the churches thataren't Scripture-based.
It's happening A lot.
It's happening, a lot, it'shappening.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
And I heard people say how do I know which church
to go to they're like, not onewith a rainbow flag yeah.
Wrong mission, but it's fun towatch that and I've been
encouraging people on my show ofsaying don't go once and quit,
keep going.
Some of my friends musicianfriends they reached out and

(01:19:50):
they said, man, I haven't beento a church in 15 years.
But I went Sunday and I said goagain, keep going, and if you
don't like that, I'm findinganother one to go to.
If you need me to help you, doit.
I don't know, but I know peoplewho can help you.
I go to church on Monday nights.
I watch church on YouTubebecause I'm traveling on Sundays
.
Usually, if I'm in town on homeon Mondays, I'll do that, but

(01:20:12):
on Sunday mornings I'll watch iton YouTube and try to
participate and things like that.
But immerse yourself in sometruth man, some stuff that's
uplifting.
Turn Lizzo off for a littlewhile and just read the book of
John, which is what we've beendoing.
Like I said on my Before theNoise thing in the mornings.
Just read the book of John andlet's see what that's about.
Because people say well, Iliked you before, you were

(01:20:33):
getting all preachy.
I'm like, I don't think I'mpreachy now because I'm talking
to myself and I'm just lettingyou guys go on the ride with me.
Because here's what happened tome, guys, and I'll just tell
you this is something throughthat wild phase of life too,
where I was looking for realityin a bag of drugs or bottom of a
bottle and I realized there wasno reality down there and I
went through destroyedrelationships and and I would

(01:20:56):
wake up in a back alleysomewhere after closing the bar
down because I didn't know howto get back home or back to the
hotel and and I was like renocollier uh, reno collier, we
were on the road one time and inyou know, reno's opened for
larry the cable guy forever andand done comedy with blue collar
and reno used to weigh 400pounds.
He said I'd get up on the tourbus in the morning and open up a

(01:21:17):
bottle of jack daniels andthrow that cap in the corner and
say let's get this day startedat 7 am.
And he said I'd go through fourbottles that day and and he
goes.
He looked at me because he'sbeen sober for California, sober
at least for a lot of years now, down to like I don't know 175
pounds.
He was in the back seat of thecar that day.
We were going to the venue andhe goes Chad.

(01:21:38):
I got a little bag of cocaineout.
He goes Chad, you got to stop,you're going to be dead.
Because the doctor told him hesaid you got five years to live.
He goes if you don't quitdrinking.
He said can I quit in four?
You know?
And so he's looking at me.

(01:21:58):
I never forget.
You know, we're in a green roomin Dallas and we're sitting
there with some comedians orsitting there with some
comedians, orny Adams came in.
He wasn't with us that nightbut he came in to visit.
I said, orny, you want somecocaine?
He's like no, don't do it,don't do anything.
I said, you mind if I do it, hegoes.
I'd be upset if you didn't Goahead and knock yourself out.
Those guys would say listen,you're killing yourself, you're

(01:22:18):
looking for reality in a place,because the church guy was the.
You know what?
I don't have the courage toshoot myself, but I'm going to
kill myself as slowly as I can.
And then it got to a point whereI said no, this is not who you
are, this is not how you weredesigned to be.
You know, this is not youridentity.

(01:22:38):
Because I believe that if youknow where you came from and you
know who you are, you knowwhere you're going and you know
what you leave behind.
So history, identity, destiny,legacy those four elements make
a man a man, everybody but a man, a man.
And I said this is not youridentity and you're messing up a
whole lot of stuff.
And so I started turning somethings around a few years back
and just really getting back tomy priorities.

(01:22:59):
And about a year and a half agoI was at home alone in that big
old house and I was just bymyself and I had this just grief
and regret come over me ofthings I'd done in my life and I
broke man, I wept, I was likemaybe I got too much estrogen
going through me.
I don't know, I need morepellets in my ass.
I'm crying, I'm confessing allthe things you know.
My kids, four kids.

(01:23:20):
I'm like so much of their lifeI missed, for the things that
are being gone, and not just outmaking a living but just being
stupid too, and just the waysthat I just dishonored God.
And and I felt like the Lordspoke to me in that time and it
was like somebody.
It was like if you stood up andput your hands on my shoulder
and started pressing down and Isaid God, what is going on?

(01:23:41):
And the Lord said I got a planfor you, you, you, you know this
was at a point where I had comeback to the Lord.
I mean, I was walking with theLord and trying to hear God and
all this kind of stuff.
But at this moment God saidyou've been doing good on your
own, but now you need to takesome people with you.
It's one thing for you to havethe message, you've got to take

(01:24:01):
some people with you.
I said what do you want me todo?
And he goes.
I've made a lot.
It's hard to be a comedian runwith some of the people that you
do, and because people aregoing to go, because you got
some people out there, they cometo a show.
They don't know if they'regoing to a motivational TED talk
or a church service or a comedyshow, and you go out there and
some people think humor in andof itself is offensive, and so I

(01:24:24):
said, okay, let's see what thatlooks like.
I'm on this journey of justsaying, okay, I'm going to take
people along with me and seewhat's going on.
God hadn't quite fullysanctified my vocabulary
completely, I'm not sure he everwill and I can defend that.
I can defend that I'm a prettypassionate person.
I'm getting better about it.

(01:24:47):
Honestly, I feel a little bitof conviction and I'm like okay,
but we're working on somethings.
Brad Stein, of course, is aChristian comedian in various
skies.
We're talking about puttingtogether some stuff.
Nate Bregassi's dad, stevewe're talking about doing some
stuff with him as well next year.
He's a comedian and just goingout there and saying, look, we

(01:25:09):
want you guys to laugh, but wewant to make some points along
the way that make that identitycome become real for you as well
.

Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
So you know, that's awesome the goose that wakes up
every day when you were goingthrough that, like with the
drugs, alcohol and things likethat was it.
Did you start that becauseyou're depressed or you're yeah,
you know something that startsit.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
Usually I had a friend who sat me down in a room
about like this, with aconference table in 2009 and
said you're depressed.
And I said no, I'm just, I'mtired.
And they go no, you'redepressed, you're clinically
depressed, like.
I guarantee you go to thedoctor.
You are chemically depressedand I was, and I drink to, like
everybody does, you know, andI'll have a bourbon with you
right now.
Thanks a lot, fellas.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
We got your back buddy, we're whiskey.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
We didn't know.
I love my bourbons, I love mytequilas and I said yeah.
I said I could drown my sorrowsand try to use it as an
escapism to numb yourself, anddo that.
I got into stuff like cocaine.
I was never a weed guy becauseweed made me lazy and I don't
want to be lazy because I'mpretty hyper and I've always

(01:26:17):
said the drug of choice that youlike is usually the one that
fits your personality.
So if you're hyper, there's areason why people take Adderall,
because that actually levelsyou out.
I read a book on it about howcocaine, if you're hyper, will
actually bring you down.
I'd have all these people to belike you're doing cocaine at
noon and I was like you wantsome and they were like no.

Speaker 6 (01:26:35):
And they were like we go crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
And I was like I've never gone crazy.
I've never been high on cocaine, I've just been normal.
I'm high without it, so you knowwhat I'm saying so you have
that thing where it's like no, Ijust I never experienced things
like but it was depression 100and it was, and it was, it was
wanting to feel something thatyou, you weren't feeling.

(01:26:56):
I I think the biggest thingthat I've wrestled with it's the
people who.
There's a psychological thingabout having an imposter
syndrome.
You know I joked about beingmediocre in so many things and
there's a large element of truthto that.
But you're like if somebodyever really pulls back the
curtain and exposes the wizard,it's going to be a humiliating
thing, because we're kind ofbouncing this puppet show on

(01:27:20):
some thin strings and you feelthat way, whether it's true or
not.
And then you also you know howthat feeling when you come home
and it's quiet, after you'vebeen in front of 10 000 people
and now you're like shit,there's no applause here.
Now you get to a point whereyou're like I welcome that, I
want to be home, some peoplewant to be alone, but then
there's some people who don'tknow how to find an identity
without the applause when itstops.

(01:27:42):
That's why you got these guys.
I mean I was there at um, um,uh, you'll see these guys who do
these final shows.
I mean Ronnie Millsap was doinga deal out at Bridgestone.
I mean he can barely getanywhere.
But these guys are still comingout there and trying to do
stuff because they don't knowhow to do anything else.
They don't know how to be awayfrom the audience, be away from

(01:28:05):
the crowds, the applause, theadoration, and there's a
psychological thing to that.
And so I found with me I'd gonethrough phases where I wasn't
getting that outlet of beingable creatively to put things
there, and so it led me to somedepression, it destroyed
marriages, it destroyedrelationships.
And yeah, and I realized, youfinally realize you're like okay

(01:28:28):
, that's not the way to goBecause, as I said, the best way
I know to put it, there's noreality down there.
You can go as deep as you wantto go, there's no reality in
that.
So that's why I say I encouragepeople find some truth and read
it, listen to it, hear it,expose yourself to it.
It's far more uplifting.

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
Yeah, just a lot of people want to know that.
Thanks for answering that.
Just a lot of listeners andeven us, you know just kind of
want to know, especially inentertainment and even being a
comedian.
You know, like Robin Williams,right?
I mean, it was Depress.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
It was all get out and the funniest guy in the
world.
You know, robin's deathimpacted me because you know my
brand of humor GeorgeCarlin-style rants.
Bill Cosby for the storytelling.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
And it stops right there, big influence.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
Huh, we're not putting any Bill in the pudding.
Either we doing it or I'm doingit.
But his storytelling.
I used to listen to his recordsabout Fat Albert and stuff.
You know, when I was five, six,seven years old I had a
turntable listening to FatAlbert or Bill Cosby's comedy,
and then Bill Hicks for his waythat he would approach politics,

(01:29:39):
Robin for his spontaneity.
And you think here's a guy ontop of the world that killed
himself who dealt with theDepression.
And how do you navigate throughthat?
And you get to a certain point,I think with some guys like
robin, because when robin died Imade another career altering
decision right then because I'dalways said I'm gonna go make a

(01:30:02):
living just being myself.
I don't like working foranybody else, I like being my
own person.
And again, because I like doingsomething new every day.
And back in the day I said I'mgoing to go make a living just
being myself.
And somebody close to me saidwhat's the street value on your
personality?
And I was like, well, we'regoing to find out.
And so when Robin died, thatwas a big deal.

(01:30:23):
I can remember being at the gym.
I was at the gym, not at thegym, not in the gym.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
There's a huge difference you were there though
, yeah, I was there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
I was sitting in the parking lot, sitting in the
truck, and I was thinking aboutrobin and I go man, this is,
this is heavy, because I knew Iwas dealing with the depression
and even at times the suicidalstuff would pop in.
You'd be like, well, you know,you could do it this way, you
could do it that way, you know,maybe you, maybe you know.
And I was like I don't want tomess this up.

Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
This is too pretty so too, too vain to shoot myself.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
So I was like, well, I could drink myself to death.
I mean, honestly, that's whatyou.
You get to that point and yougo.
I just want to stay in thatplace and that's been.
That's been comes around everynow and then.
I have often told people andit's frustrating to the people
close to me in my life Sundaysare very hard for me.
Every Sunday is very hard forme because shows are over.

(01:31:15):
I used to say goodbye to mykids on Sunday and get on the
road to Sunday night to go, andI can still remember when they
were little and they're at thedoor waving and those Sundays
were just it still.
It brings up that kind of thatemotion inside of me and I go
boy, I got to be careful onsundays, you know it's way

(01:31:36):
better than it used to be, butthat demon still knocks.
Yeah, it's crazy and there's alot of men out there dealing
with it.
Men don't want to deal withthat.
They don't want to talk aboutthat, especially in the western
world.
They do cowboys?
Don't want to talk about it atall and they deal with it worse
than um than a lot of anybody.
That men definitely don't wantto admit it.
But if you had cancer you'dadmit it.
If you had sickle cell you'dadmit it.

(01:31:57):
I mean, I mean, but if you gotsomething, where you got a
chemical thing going on.
Why are you not talking aboutthat?
And I've done, I've been veryoutspoken about it over the
years.
My mother's like I hate whenyou talk about that stuff to the
public and I go mom, here's thedeal.
There are people out theredealing with, there's men
dealing with it and I say talkto god, talk to your doctor,
talk to your therapist, whateverorder that needs to be in.

(01:32:18):
But you need to have thoseconversations and get the help
that you can get and and it's a,it's a thing it's a thing for a
lot of people.

Speaker 4 (01:32:24):
I could only step forward and move forward the day
I realized it's not about me.
That's when it all began, yeah,and I still have to be reminded
.
I still have to remind myselfwait a minute, it ain't about me
.
That's a great point.
This whole thing, this wholewhat's going on, it ain't about
me.
It never has been.

Speaker 1 (01:32:42):
Right, that's a good point and whether you realize
that there's a sphere around youthat's way bigger than just you
as an individual.
It ain't about me.
I mean, I got kids, I gotanother generation, I've got
people that would be devastatedand hurt if I hurt myself and
these things.
And I wrestled with all ofthose things.
I've always been verytransparent about it.

(01:33:03):
I have zero shame in it, noreason to have any.

Speaker 6 (01:33:08):
Yeah no reason to have any.
That's right.
No reason to have any, that'sright.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
It never even crossed my mind to be ashamed of it.

Speaker 6 (01:33:13):
Well, like you said, it's just probably for a lot of
our age too.
It's like men just aren't usedto talking about it.
They don't like to talk aboutit.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
I have a small penis, I don't mind telling that.
I forgot you were there, Ithink we all might have looked
up.
She's blushing, but she knew.
And then as guys get older,that's another thing.
That's another thing as guysget older because, since I've
already let that, little cat outof the bag, you got a Manscaped

(01:33:42):
5000?
No, I don't.
Sometimes I forget that we'resupposed to do that these days.
I got one.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
It's in the drawer.
I don't know where the chargeris.
I don't know where the chargeris, that's normal.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
At this point I'm at the age where it's just hunkered
down like a button in a furcoat.
You know, you just let it go.
And then we couldn't helpmyself.
He opened the door, we can talkabout it.
I don't mind.
This is good therapy for me too, because I keep reminding
myself as we get older, ourtestosterone drops.
My ass is sore Not prison sore,but I got pellets in my butt

(01:34:13):
three days ago, and I mean myass on the right cheek is as
bark as this cowhide right here.
And it's just bruised up.
And I'm like why do we do thesethings trying to get the
testosterone?
Because you get to a point inlife where, the older you get, I
think it's that estrogen hitsand you just want to nest and
cry.
And you know your wife wants togo join the gym or she wakes up

(01:34:33):
horny and you've got a headache.
And so it flips, it jumps offin the middle of the night.
Two years ago, three years ago,I woke up with night sweats,
and you get night sweats.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
We get the flashes.
We talked about this last night.
I said I'm having hot flashes.
Guys, I'm 60.
I just turned 60.

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
I had a hot flash the other day.
Well, the way Chad said it,night sweats sounds better.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
You got to play night sweats.
With an 18-team staff, we getthem.

Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
We get them.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
But I woke up laying in a puddle of water.
Thought I'd pissed.
The bed couldn't remember myname, didn't know where I was.
I thought this is how Joe Bidenfeels every day.
But I'm too young for lifealert, but I still take my phone
with me to the bathroom in themiddle of the night, in case I
have a heart attack.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
You never know.
You're just pre-dialing out.
We are in the drop-dead years.
That's what Bill Burr saysdropping dead, dropped dead
years.

Speaker 1 (01:35:24):
I don't want to be found like Elvis.
You got 9-1 on the speed dial.
I got 9-1 pre-dialed.
I just hit the extra one andsinned and they could come find
me laying on a cold porcelaintile.
And now we got our phone inthere.
And at our age we don't standto pee in the middle of the
night.
We sit down.
We've already risked our waddlein there, butt naked, I sit

(01:35:49):
down to pee and I'm like allright.
Let's go ahead and geteverything done while we're here
so we don't have to do thattreacherous jaunt again.
Dangerous midnight walk.
And then we dress it up and saywell, I got a dad bod You're
fat okay, let's just be honest.
And if you want to know theproof on that, you, because
we're honest.
And if you want to know theproof on that, you get around
somebody that claims to love youand say the words I'm fat.
And if they don't respond,you're fat.

(01:36:11):
Okay, and dad, bods aren't sexy.
No woman's ever laid thererunning her fingers through the
hair on a man's back and beenlike, oh God, yeah.
I don't know if this is aborder collie or Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 6 (01:36:22):
But roll into me, daddy.

Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
And we're popping blue pills.
I say we just keep treating ourpenises like Muhammad Ali, like
he's laying there like a littlethree-inch fireman on a sack of
balls, looking comfortable, andwe got to get him out there so
somebody else can beat on himbrand new.
Like why Quit bringing him outof retirement?
It's like Muhammad Ali man, lethim die already.
He's put in the work.
He's put in the work.

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
Oh, my God Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Sorry kid.

Speaker 1 (01:36:51):
I don't know how you followed that, I don't know.
I mean, we went from Jesus todepression, to fire.

Speaker 5 (01:36:56):
Yeah, I know we cover it all here on the Travel at a
Small Town podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
This is why I had to take drugs, oh my God.

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
He wrote I'm still a guy for Paisley, he can relate
guy from paisley.
He can relate, that's the samedeal.

Speaker 6 (01:37:12):
Chad, you are a good man and you, uh, thank you,
buddy.
This thing could go up a lotlonger.
Obviously, we appreciate.
First of all, we appreciate whoyou are thank you, appreciate
what you do.

Speaker 4 (01:37:17):
I appreciate your inspiration, man respect your
talent?
I do not scroll past you.

Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
I appreciate that and I gotta get better about doing
some funny things on there againbut people tell people where
they find you at Watch Chadright.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
Watch Chad Sounds like an OnlyFans.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
I am my.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
OnlyFans.
It could be WikiFeet,watchchadcom.
You go to ChadPraetorcom andit's kind of a one-stop shop.
We got everything you canactually go like my morning
deals that I'm doing before thenoise.
We'll add that to the site.
My bless his heart, my buddyBrent, he's got cancer and he
works, does all my tech stuffand he's bless his heart.
He's suffering but he's.

(01:37:54):
We'll have thatbeforethenoisecom on there
pretty soon where people can gowatch all the videos and things
like that and the Chad Prathershow's everywhere.
We're on Monday throughThursday and stirring it up for
an hour.

Speaker 6 (01:38:06):
Live at 11,.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
We challenge and uh get people to watch because must
follow absolutely super muchwell, you guys have taken a
stand and, um, I've often saidyou know the band guys, they
kind of have to go where thehead guy's going sometimes and
you get lumped in to the stuff.
But you guys have made a bigstand.

(01:38:27):
I love not only the group butyou guys as individuals have
done a phenomenal job of justbeing real.
I appreciate you saying thatAuthenticity is the biggest
compliment I think you can giveanother man.

Speaker 6 (01:38:40):
I appreciate you saying that You're an
inspiration.
Thank you for being here, myfriend.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
That was awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:38:47):
How do you guys feel after that?

Speaker 5 (01:38:49):
I feel smarter a little bit I feel, I feel dumber
, yeah, I do, yeah, no, no Ilearned something one of my
favorites um, I mean the guy, hedoes talk a lot.
You have to keep up, uh, or getleft behind I know, yeah, he
he's a, like I said I told, toldyou guys, but I didn't know
anything about him until today.
And I started researching himand I think I know he mentioned,

(01:39:11):
like the Walmart and Targetvideo, but the video that blew
up also in 2015 was called,Unapologetically, Southern right
so and he was irritated becausepeople were, you know,
commenting saying you're notintelligent.
You know, with that draw andthe way you talk and everything,
You're not an intelligent guy.

(01:39:31):
And he strung together, youknow, and it looked like he was
freewheeling it and I waslistening to him and he was so
fast and the big words.
I understood him.
I just don't use them, but heput them all together and I
thought, man, that dude is sharp.

Speaker 6 (01:39:49):
Yeah, he is super sharp Things he's done.
Man is like unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:39:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:39:54):
He sounds like he's just getting started.
I know he doesn't even.
He acts like he's.
Like you know, it went by likethat.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
I'm thinking about retirement, I know.

Speaker 6 (01:40:05):
That guy has just started.
That's unbelievable, oh my gosh, it's crazy.
It was so much fun and we're soappreciative of Chad.
We're appreciative of you guys.
If you're on YouTube, leave usa comment, leave us a review,
download the episode.
We've got to thank PatriotMobile.
We've got to thank eSpaces.
This is so amazing.

(01:40:25):
Chad commented on our studio.
I loved it yeah uh, we got tothink original glory drink it up
, we gotta bring some.
I don't know why I drink itduring the week.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
I gotta bring in here no, I'm gonna drink it all I am
well, it's after hours, I'mgonna drink it in here it was at
the other studio.

Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
We got to get it back in here, don't we?

Speaker 6 (01:40:43):
yep, absolutely, uh, anything else we good.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Great night god it was a great night.
You guys be careful out on theroad with jason aldean.

Speaker 5 (01:40:52):
Thank you, yeah, for sure oh, and congrats on uh
having the most added song thisweek oh yeah, goodbye go.
We gotta mention that okay, Ican't wait to check it.
I haven't heard it yet.
I just saw it on the strip it'sa good song.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
I heard it.
It's a good song.
Good song guys.
It's great.
Thank you, good song, love you.
Heard it.
It's a good song.
Good song guys.
I'm sure it's great.
Thank you, boys.
Good song, love you guys.

Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
And we love everybody for watching.
Yeah, see you all next week.
Yeah, yeah, come on, this is aTry that in a Small Town podcast
.
Okay.

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