March 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Skip Ewing has quite a country music resume. He has written 11 No. 1 top songs for artists, including Randy Travis, Clint Black and Keith Urban. And, the man is an accomplished singer himself. His newest album, Road to California, includes a great song called, "Road Dog." Join us for this lively Oh Behave show episode between host Arden Moore and Skip Ewing.
EPISODE NOTES: Country Singer/Songwriter Skip Ewing Goes to the Dogs
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EPISODE NOTES: Country Singer/Songwriter Skip Ewing Goes to the Dogs
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Welcome to the Old Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.
I'm your host, Arden Moore. Nothing is better than to
take a road trip with your fun, love and dog.
You know that, and so does our very special guest.
He is one of country music's finest and he just
unleashed a new song. It is called road Dog. Please
(01:14):
join me in welcoming the very multi talented Skip Ewing welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Welcome, skip, Thank you Arden, You're so kind.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, strap yourselves in. We're gonna have a great episode.
So you know the drill. We're gonna take a quick break. Sit, stay,
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America's pet ed You, Jayaner Ardenmore.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Welcome back to the old Behave show on pet Life Radio.
I'm your host Ardenmore. I say, giddy up, gide up,
giddy up. Gidda up because our guest today you know him,
is Skip Ewing. He's the kind of guy I love
because he not only sings country songs, he writes country
(03:01):
songs for some of the headliners where I don't know,
somebody like Keith Urban or maybe Randy Travis, you know
names we kind of know. But he also his heart
beats dog. So Skip, so happy to have you on
our show.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, I'm delighted. I'm delighted. I love your show, so
I'm happy to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, I listened, and everybody after the show, you've got
to check out road Dog the song on Petlife Radio.
My producer Mark Winter is going to be playing it,
so you can check it out. But I saw the
animated version with you and a bunch of dogs flopping
into the view. It is three minutes and thirty eight
(03:41):
seconds of joy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You know, we sort of put it together accidentally. I
you know, Linda and I. Linda and I live in
northwestern Wyoming. It's beautiful, wide open country, and I opened
the truck door and out there, I mean, you know,
everybody has a white truck and you can't tell it
because there's two fight on it, you know, and when
I did, I looked in my truck and I realized that, well,
(04:05):
first of all, at our house, pet hair is a
condiment and a fashion statement. I'm a huge white dog
named Shotgun for the seat he likes to ride in,
and another dog named Holly. We got this Christmas before last.
And anyway, I looked at my truck and I'm like,
there's hair everywhere, and there's like I can barely see
out of the windows because noses have been up against it,
(04:26):
and there's operats, and I suddenly realized that I love this.
I mean, not that I have to have a dirty truck,
but it's just part of.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What it's been dog eysed exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But for me, there's a joy in I get to,
you know, take my one hundred and fifteen pound dog
in the truck with me. And anyway, I was driving
home after I looked at that truck, and I started
messing around with this song idea we were coming up
for this Road to California album, and I said, Linda,
am I crazy? Or are there a zillion other people
like us who are dog crazy? And she said, oh no,
(04:56):
So I played it for She made me play it
three times in a row. So we put it out
to our whole fan base and I said, send me
pictures of your dogs, like especially if you're traveling with them.
And I mean, we got dogs on boats, We got
dogs on planes, we got dogs and cars, We got
dogs and trucks, we got dogs on flatbeds in four
wheel you know. And uh, Linda is a wonderful videographer.
(05:19):
And so she took the song.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh I didn't know she did this good.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
She took the song to make that video. And there
are I think very close to one hundred and fifty
different dogs that were all sent to us by fans.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh that is nice.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It was delightful because all of them, all of them
were precious. We loved that. We God, we used as
absolutely as many as we as we possibly could. But
that's how the video came about.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's a brilliant video. And I'm no singer, dude, but
I love some of the lines. I'm mud on backseat,
hair on your good clothes, love me a drive through.
Come on, you're channeling the voices of dogs when you
say you never have to finish this end? Hey, shotgun,
do you wanna They're gone?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That is it? Then I get two dogs at the
same time. It doesn't matter do you want to and
they're both there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So oh my gosh, I hope we're going to see
this when Mega Mega Awards because it's so relatable, it's
got high energy, it's amazing, and you tapped into something.
Many millions of people have dogs who need to ride
with them in the cars, right in trucks.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, I think, you know, for many, many many certainly
I would bet the people who are listening to your
to your podcast and to us talk this morning, our
dogs are part of our family. I mean we have
two leggers and four leggers, so we don't have the
horses in the house, but there's certainly there's certainly part
of the family. They're always in our consciousness, you know.
(06:53):
And when we don't have to, we don't leave them.
We don't leave them alone, you know, and we'll we'll,
you know, get both dogs in the back of that
truck sometimes. And like I said, shockedun loves to ride
in the passenger seat. He's so big he can barely
do it. You know, we live way off the road.
I mean we live on a you know, on a
gravel dirt road.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Driveways on you're not going to give your address to
our millions of listeners.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Our address. Our address is northwestern Northwestern Wyoling Heaven, that's
where that is, Okay. But you know, so on on
the dirt roads and on our you know, private drives
and stuff, He'll get up in the four drive with
me and just you know, go off and look and
love and it's just something that nourishes my spirit. I
(07:35):
can tell you that it is nourishing. That's the best
way I can. And there's a reciprocity to our animals anyway.
We Yeah, they're just integral. So yeah, going on the
road with us, being in the truck, with us, doing everything.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
With It's about dang time that you got road Dog
as a song. It's it's been in your fiber.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I guess it is. I guess I'll have to agree
with you.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, what I want to talk to you about too,
is talk about this tour coming up Road to California.
What is that all about?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, I mean, we just put out an album. Why
I shouldn't say just we put it out, you know,
a while ago, and started releasing songs from the newest
album called Road to California. And my road has been
quite interesting. Arden, I would have to say, I think
it was unusual. So I'll be quick to tell you.
I don't know how soon do you have to go
to a break? But you know, I wrote songs in
Nashville for close to twenty years, maybe a little longer
(08:24):
than that, and I was a huge list of super
successful artists, big artists to cut songs about many number ones,
and I loved it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Women. I think I'm an ex sportswriter. I think my stats,
So you have eleven number one country hits that you
have written, is that right?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Eleven number ones and twenty something top twenties, And yeah,
it's really I'm very fortunate. I work hard, but unfortunate,
and it got to a place though where I couldn't
make the music I wanted to make because I really
wanted to be an artist, and I was a bit
artistically unfulfilled in the meantime because I like to write
certain songs that connect road dogs exactly like road dogs.
(09:02):
And so I had been going to Wyoming Force since
nineteen ninety nine or two thousand. I took my daughter
there when she was little bitty, and I fell in
love with the country. And then I began falling in
love with horses. My grandfather was a thoroughbred ranger, so
I'd been around horses. Wow, I hadn't gotten to ride,
you know. I knew some things about taking care of them,
(09:23):
but not much. And I began going every year. The
longer I did that, the more deeply I understood I
didn't know anything about horses, and that even if I
wasn't aware, that they were actually teaching me things about myself.
But this opened my eyes and I went, wow, I
really got to open my eyes. The more I did that,
finally I said, wait a second, I have so much
(09:44):
to learn that I if I don't make the step
to do so as much as possible, I don't think
I will sort of, I don't know, MA sure as
a person grow to be the man I really want
to be. In my relationships, all relationship with four Leggers,
two Leggers and myself. I sold everything. I sold my house,
I sold my furniture. I just wow. I took my
(10:05):
guitars in my art and I put it in the
storage unit and for about eight beers something like that.
So it's twenty twelve that I was really out. I
left and I only worked with horsemanship. I worked on
a lot of ranches, I worked with and for horse clinicians.
I then began to help redesign riding programs for people
(10:27):
and work with I don't know, hundreds of horses, rode
thousands of miles, met the most amazing spirit, married her.
Not a horse, that's Linda. Okay, that's that's Linda, although
there are a lot of amazing spirits besides, she is
my amazing spirit. And we moved to Wyoming, and when
we did, she began shooting a television show off the
(10:49):
property we were on, and I picked up my guitar
and went, I really feel like I have a lot
of things to say, and I'd like to say them
the way I would like to say them, without the
confines of other artists or radio or anything that good
for you. And Linda said, I think you need to
put the journeys together. Well. That journey then led to
making an album called Wyoming, which got us on the
(11:11):
Oh Yeah national television And then now we've made Road
to California and that seems to be blossoming for the
first time since we started this. It looks like we
have now radio promotions, so road Dog will be out
in the world and at radio, and we're about to
cut some new music and do some more touring with
my band Horsepower three oh seven.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We're gonna tease our loyal listeners by saying we're going
to dive into that in a second. So we're gonna
take a quick break, So hold your horses. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Time war a walk, come on the red car.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
But of course all Behave We'll be backing up last
right after these messages.
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and then woke up and now all of a sudden,
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my name is? The name that you call me, Chipper Keeper?
Now that the name hit for an explorer, it's perfect.
Speaking of perfect, what's something you've always wanted to tell me?
(13:14):
Now that I can talk?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How come you are such a talented escape artist?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Chipper Ah, escape artist three is an adventure in itself.
I prefer to think of it as exploring new horizon.
Speaking of adventures, do you think we could take a
run together soon? The wind in my fur away?
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Let's go run on the beach, A dog friendly beach. Okay, Chipper,
A dog friendly beach. Now that sounds like the perfect escapade.
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did I catch a whiff of snacks. Maybe we could
bring some tasty treat for a beach picnic. How about
a chunk of cheddar cheese.
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Chipper chatdar cheese.
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Now that's a snack worthy of an explorer. Just imagining
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Cheese, absolutely, Chipper, And then we can take a dog nap, A.
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(14:22):
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that is now back to Oh Behave.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Here's Allard, Welcome back to the old Behave show on
pet Life Radio. I'm your host, Arden Moore. I got
to tell you I got a great guy here as
our guest. He is award winning singer, musician, writer, Horseman,
dog Lover, good family man. We're talking skip viewing of
the country scene. And we got him on because we
(15:35):
were intrigued by his song that's out called road Dog,
and we explained how you know his muses are our
four leggers named Shotgun and Polly. But all his fans
submitted photos of their dogs to be in the video
music video that you really got to watch. If you
need me a pick me up, you don't need a
(15:55):
cup of Joe. You need to tune on and play
road Don't you think it's kind of like, yeah, you
get done here in it? What do you think I feel?
Like I'm bouncing.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Well, it's a Nashville pickfest, is really what it is.
That's a good phrase, it really is. I invited some
of the best Nashville musicians that I know, truly the best,
some people like Jenny Fleener and Ashby Frank and Seth
Taylor and Josh Matheeney, and these are all award winning
musicians who came in. And the record morphs from just
(16:25):
a guitar and a little bluegrass groove all the way
up to well Brent Mason is playing all this electric guitar.
It's just we just have fun in the studio and
it translates.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
All right, So we've been teasing you all. We got
to name drop more, Okay, So people need to know
Randy Travis, what an institution, what a country singer icon?
You wrote his song called.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
If I Didn't Have You. That's the number one I
had with him. I had several other cuts with him. Yeah,
what was it like to work with him? Well, you
know when he cut the films. The only time I
ever worked with Randy in the studio is that particular song.
His producer, Kyle Lenning called me. I've played guitar since
I was four years old, and I have a bit
(17:10):
of a different style than this typical What.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Does that mean? Don't be teasing that?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Okay, Well, truth be told. When I was a kid, Okay,
the reason I say that, when I was a kid,
I didn't have a lot of time to play out.
We had chores and things we had to do. So
at night I figured out a way to practice guitar
without being heard. You know those pink curlers, the women's
curlers that.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Are pink, Well, wait, man, my hair is so long. Okay,
but yeah, I'll try. I'll try to well, I think there.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You lick with this in a way. Everybody's seen them somehow,
nobody wants to be caught wearing them. I took one
of those pink curves and I put it up underneath
my strings on the guitar. So what would mute all
the strings?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's genius.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I would just play and I didn't know what I
was doing. I didn't get a lot of lessons. I
had a few, but I didn't get a lot. And
I made stuff up. And then as I made stuff up,
and I didn't know what I was doing, I just
did whatever sound good, and I used my hand to make,
you know, percussive things against the strings. And I played
with a thumb pick, not a flat pick. So I
began making up stuff to go with it, which is
(18:09):
how I kind of started writing songs. I just made
everything up. And so at any rate, this song, if
I didn't have you has a classical guitar. I played
a classical guitar was a certain way that's kind of funky,
you know. And Kyle heard that on a recording I
had made that was just me and a guitar, and
I don't know, I don't even know where they got it,
(18:30):
but he said, I'm in the studio. All I have
is this little recording of you playing a classical guitar,
and we want to cut this on Randy. So I
went down to the studio and I played guitar on
this record, and it was the first record I've ever played.
And Randy was first of all, in the headphones. His
voice is amazing, you know, he just bills up this.
Oh yeah, he's really talented. But he was also I
(18:51):
wish I had more time to spend with him. He
was genuine. He just he was just Randy. And Randy
was kind and I think big hearted appreciate it, even
though it was a small amount of time. That's really
Then later I actually was on some tours with him
and I opened for him and play. You know, he
always treated me well his whole crew.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So did you ever tell him about your pink curler story?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But I don't think we ever talked, So this is
an old Behave exclusive anyway, So if you go and
listen to that record, though it's on his Greatest Hits album,
Ran These Greatest Hits out called If I Didn't You, Interestingly,
the whole first verse is just drums, Randy singing, and
then I come in and play the only record I've
kind of heard where it's just drums for a whole verse,
(19:35):
just him and drums. Then you'll hear my classical guitar
come in, which is kind of an unusual instrument to
put in a country record like that, and it worked well.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I want to ask you one of my favorite country
singers is Keith Urban. So you worked with him too?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
And Keith another really good guitar player. Oh yeah, he
really is. I've been a fan of Keith's for a
long time. He cut We wrote a song together called
I Thought You Knew I can't tell you the name
of the album. Yeah. I got to write with Keith
a couple of times. And what a talented guy, you know.
And he's had an interesting journey as well and done.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Super what's it like because he's an Aussie and he's
in Nashville and everybody is cool.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know that anybody you know thinks anything different
if you're Aussie or you're I.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Think it's cool that OSSI's like country.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I like that. Yeah, And you know, there's a lot
I mean, there's a lot in Australia's a lot of
appreciation for country. There are a lot of artists who
are in Australia. In fact, in my opinion, one of
the greatest guitar players in the world is from Australia's
name is Tommy Emmanuel. If you don't know, you haven't
ever heard of Tommy Emmanuel, just go check him out,
go and listen to. Even another incredible acoustic guitar player
(20:44):
is Billy Strings. And you can even go and find
so if you take people like Billy Strings and Trey
Hensley and tell Emmy Emmanuel and put him around. And
I haven't gotten to work with Billy or Tommy. I
know Trey pretty well. They're all kind of guitar you know,
guitar heroes mine, but Tommy's from Tommy's from Australia. Just
a genius acoustic guitar player.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, we need to get back to you because you're
a genius too, and you're a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I like to celebrate successes of others. It's just heart.
I just do all right.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Your album that's just out and now help me. This
is Road to California, that road dog is in right, yes, okay.
You also kind of flip it to the song not
Afraid to Love, right, Yeah, I wanna tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, Not Afraid that Love is the only song on
the record that I didn't write by myself, and it
is a song that I wrote with Wayne Kirkpatrick. You'll
know Wayne Kirkpatrick because he wrote To Save the World
for Eric Clapton, and he is a really talented writer.
And we wrote a few songs, but that particular song
Linda had heard and she fell in love with it.
(21:51):
And it's really about resiliency and the belief, belief in
your heart. And I think as humans we are put together,
we are supposed to love and we get hurt, you know,
loving and that can make us hesitant or you know,
reticent to give of ourselves and trust. And yet somehow
we try again. We will say up. All right, Okay,
(22:13):
I believe, I believe if I may.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I used to be a newspaper reporter, so I'm trying
to make sure I quoted you write. I was doing
my homework on you get viewing. You said that when
you write a song, it's writing poetry. It's three dimensional,
not two dimensional. It's like painting.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, my approach to writing the really important element that
I've grown I think into more and more as I
went along, because it's what I even if I was
told something else, it became. I don't know if I
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This is what kind of like the curlers under the
strings of a guitar.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Okay, this has resonance for me, is where we are
similarly human. So I approach songs with trying to have
more awareness of the listener than the writer writing it
as part of it. It's something that I learned more
powerfully working with horses, because if I am endeavoring to
(23:08):
help a horse understand or to accomplish something together, I
feel like I really have to work to understand. Try
I'll never do it, but to try to go, Okay,
how is he seeing things? How is he hearing things?
How is he movings?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Got four?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He doesn't look the same way I do. He only
sees one side of his body. On each side, he
feels pressured differently. Got to keep my awareness on that
and what am I asking of it? So it's the
same thing for me when I'm working with music as
a listener. He asked me about what I think of
it as painting, And the reason I say it's three
dimensional is because we might think that I would write
(23:45):
a poem and it's just you know, the rhymes and
aligns and maybe some story. But if you can imagine
the characters and the situations and songs, I will endeavor
to explore that to a degree that's maybe a little
more than I have had co writers who did so.
The majority of the people that I've written with may
(24:05):
not do that same quite the same way, and I
will take a long time sometimes to write a song,
but in doing so, I'm able to look more deeply
at what characters are affected by, how they're really loving
one another, what that feels, what the alone ness of
something feels like and what also what the shift is
(24:27):
from the beginning of the song to the end of
the song. And when I've tried to describe it, I'm like, basically,
as a songwriter, I sit down to a blank canvas
and then if I have something that I want to
write paint inside someone's imagination, I'm going to do it
the same way as an artist. I've got to look
deeply at what I'm writing about and then decide, am
I going to just paint the one flower? Am I
(24:49):
going to paint this vase? Or am I going to
paint the entire landscape? Which one is it? And importantly
I invite or try I say, space is love. Space
is love. What I say a not distance but space.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
No, I'm I'm digging you, man, I just need somebody
to paint my newly furbished bathroom. But I think you're
above my pay grade right now for that. But you
know what, I really appreciate you doing that deep dive
because I as a writer too, and you know, you
really do have to think outside the litter box and
get into it. And the fact that you're really paying
(25:24):
attention to who's going to be tuning in. That makes
a big difference everyone. We're speaking with country star Skip Ewing,
and I feel like I know you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You're a good.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Guy, and you love dogs, and you've got horses, and
you've been through life, and I have a feeling that
songs are going to keep on coming.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Well your mouth to the year of the Universe.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So we know how horses have made an impact on
your life. How I have dogs made an impact on
your life.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I don't remember a time I didn't have a dog. Well, no,
I take that back. There is some time where I
couldn't have a dog, But most of the time I
just wanted a dog and I loved being around dogs.
When I was in Nashville, we finally the dog that
I had her for sixteen seventeen years, and her name
was Lovey, named by my daughter. We got her here
(26:12):
at an adoption center. And it's been so long since
we got it, I don't know that I don't even
know if it's still together. We went into the place,
it was really well done.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, they always they bring shelter animals to places to
help increase adoption.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, because my daughter likes to go in there, and
she saw this dog and she goes, Dad, she needs
to go home with us, and I said, honey. We
talked about it, and she got back in the car
and then she said Lovey. I said Lovey. I said,
how do you spell that? She said luv I I said, okay.
I said what is that? She said, that's the name
of our dog. Oh sweet, I said, oh my gosh, okay.
(26:48):
So the next day she literally said, Dad, are we
going to go pick up Lovey? And there was something
about it that I went, if it really does last
that long and we go back, I said, she may
not be there. We got Lovey and she was part
just of our lives, but then my life. She went
everywhere when truly when I was traveling, when I would
go to Wyoming, she would be in the car.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
What kind of dog do you think she is?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Was? She was an awesome mix, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
He wasn't part Keith Urban.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
No, it wasn't part Keith Urban. And its actually doesn't
play the She didn't play the guitar. I tried to
get her to play the guitar like you just wouldn't.
And she traveled with me everywhere Wyoming back Wyoming for
all that time. And she was the kind of dog
who was so aware that no matter what horse I
was riding. In fact, I could take a group of
people and switch horses in the middle of the ride
and she would still stay with me. She was one
(27:36):
to run ahead, lay down in the water and watch
us the direction we were going to come from, so
that she would be cool when it was like and
then and then go running. It enriched my life more
than dogs ever had, because of the because of the
full interaction that we that I was experiencing with her.
And and when Linda and I got together, she had
a little Jack Russell named Jack. Okay, well, I think
(27:59):
he came with that name from.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This Oh that's what they always say, scap.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think he did, but maybe not. I don't. I'm
not sure about that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's okay, Linda seems.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It seems every dog we've ever had has come from
a shelter, which I you know, which I love. It's
not the only place to get a dog, but it's
a good place to do it. I just think there's
so many yeah, deserving so so anyway, and then we
got Shotgun, then we got Holly, and it's a daily
part of our lives and facts it helped structure our life.
(28:29):
I mean, you can't have those kinds of animals and
not have all these things that.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You oh, horses and dogs and other things. Yeah. I
live with Kna and Emma, my dogs and three cats,
and they keep my spouse an eye, happy, in line
and everything. And so I just celebrated twenty five years
in the pet industry and I got a tattoo with
a dog, a cat and a heart. Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I know. Yeah, and everybody's like, where is it on
the last place my body will have cellulite, which is
on my upper thigh. It's a very important decision.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
That's hilarious. Yeah, So every day they keep I think
they keep us grounded. I think there's something very grounding.
There's something that keeps us, that reminds us that we're human.
And I think if you are, if you are someone
who cares for your animals and endeavors to get better
about that and literally offer them as good a life
as you can, it's a constant practice and compassion. It's
(29:26):
a constant practice in awareness, and I love that. You know,
it is nothing like beginning to understand the subtleties that
you know. Why can you see a look on a
dog's face and know that it's water. How can you
hear a certain sound and know that is But Shotgun
has a way. He'll just look at me and make
(29:49):
a he's kind of a speaker, any kind of a
talker anyway, and he'll make a certain sense, not exactly
the time every time, but I know what it is
because the way he's standing, and you know his butt
has about that's the right. I mean, it's like you know,
And so I'll just go like this, and I could
tell he knows exactly what happens in the mud scratch
after he makes that sound, and he will run over
(30:10):
and put his poset on top of the bed and
I'll I'll just rub him in two things like that.
I love our life where we are and with our
four family members.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, oh my gosh, I got to tell you this
has been one of my favorite episodes ever. And I've
been on the air a long time. We have had
as our special guest award winning country star Skip Ewing.
You got to check out his new album, road to California.
It's got a song we all need to hear. It
is called road Dogs. So happy you've stopped by and
(30:42):
chatted with us Skip.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And I am too. You have a great personality and
you're also providing a lot of information and have for
a long time. So I'm super glad to now be
part of that.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Of that you're with Betty White now she's been on
our show.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I know Betty White, Jennifer Aniston, I saw it Milan?
Is it Sezer Milan? And also the guy from was
it the voice so many? I think it was forget
his name all right? Anyway, Yes, of course, that's an
awesome group to be in.
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Welcome to the Old Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.
I'm your host, Arden Moore. Nothing is better than to
take a road trip with your fun, love and dog.
You know that, and so does our very special guest.
He is one of country music's finest and he just
unleashed a new song. It is called road Dog. Please
(01:14):
join me in welcoming the very multi talented Skip Ewing welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Welcome, skip, Thank you Arden, You're so kind.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, strap yourselves in. We're gonna have a great episode.
So you know the drill. We're gonna take a quick break. Sit, stay,
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Let's talk pets on Petlife Radio dot com. All behaviors
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a household with your pets. Now back to your fetching host,
America's pet ed You, Jayaner Ardenmore.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Welcome back to the old Behave show on pet Life Radio.
I'm your host Ardenmore. I say, giddy up, gide up,
giddy up. Gidda up because our guest today you know him,
is Skip Ewing. He's the kind of guy I love
because he not only sings country songs, he writes country
(03:01):
songs for some of the headliners where I don't know,
somebody like Keith Urban or maybe Randy Travis, you know
names we kind of know. But he also his heart
beats dog. So Skip, so happy to have you on
our show.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, I'm delighted. I'm delighted. I love your show, so
I'm happy to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, I listened, and everybody after the show, you've got
to check out road Dog the song on Petlife Radio.
My producer Mark Winter is going to be playing it,
so you can check it out. But I saw the
animated version with you and a bunch of dogs flopping
into the view. It is three minutes and thirty eight
(03:41):
seconds of joy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You know, we sort of put it together accidentally. I
you know, Linda and I. Linda and I live in
northwestern Wyoming. It's beautiful, wide open country, and I opened
the truck door and out there, I mean, you know,
everybody has a white truck and you can't tell it
because there's two fight on it, you know, and when
I did, I looked in my truck and I realized that, well,
(04:05):
first of all, at our house, pet hair is a
condiment and a fashion statement. I'm a huge white dog
named Shotgun for the seat he likes to ride in,
and another dog named Holly. We got this Christmas before last.
And anyway, I looked at my truck and I'm like,
there's hair everywhere, and there's like I can barely see
out of the windows because noses have been up against it,
(04:26):
and there's operats, and I suddenly realized that I love this.
I mean, not that I have to have a dirty truck,
but it's just part of.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What it's been dog eysed exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But for me, there's a joy in I get to,
you know, take my one hundred and fifteen pound dog
in the truck with me. And anyway, I was driving
home after I looked at that truck, and I started
messing around with this song idea we were coming up
for this Road to California album, and I said, Linda,
am I crazy? Or are there a zillion other people
like us who are dog crazy? And she said, oh no,
(04:56):
So I played it for She made me play it
three times in a row. So we put it out
to our whole fan base and I said, send me
pictures of your dogs, like especially if you're traveling with them.
And I mean, we got dogs on boats, We got
dogs on planes, we got dogs and cars, We got
dogs and trucks, we got dogs on flatbeds in four
wheel you know. And uh, Linda is a wonderful videographer.
(05:19):
And so she took the song.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh I didn't know she did this good.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
She took the song to make that video. And there
are I think very close to one hundred and fifty
different dogs that were all sent to us by fans.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh that is nice.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It was delightful because all of them, all of them
were precious. We loved that. We God, we used as
absolutely as many as we as we possibly could. But
that's how the video came about.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's a brilliant video. And I'm no singer, dude, but
I love some of the lines. I'm mud on backseat,
hair on your good clothes, love me a drive through.
Come on, you're channeling the voices of dogs when you
say you never have to finish this end? Hey, shotgun,
do you wanna They're gone?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That is it? Then I get two dogs at the
same time. It doesn't matter do you want to and
they're both there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So oh my gosh, I hope we're going to see
this when Mega Mega Awards because it's so relatable, it's
got high energy, it's amazing, and you tapped into something.
Many millions of people have dogs who need to ride
with them in the cars, right in trucks.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, I think, you know, for many, many many certainly
I would bet the people who are listening to your
to your podcast and to us talk this morning, our
dogs are part of our family. I mean we have
two leggers and four leggers, so we don't have the
horses in the house, but there's certainly there's certainly part
of the family. They're always in our consciousness, you know.
(06:53):
And when we don't have to, we don't leave them.
We don't leave them alone, you know, and we'll we'll,
you know, get both dogs in the back of that
truck sometimes. And like I said, shockedun loves to ride
in the passenger seat. He's so big he can barely
do it. You know, we live way off the road.
I mean we live on a you know, on a
gravel dirt road.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Driveways on you're not going to give your address to
our millions of listeners.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Our address. Our address is northwestern Northwestern Wyoling Heaven, that's
where that is, Okay. But you know, so on on
the dirt roads and on our you know, private drives
and stuff, He'll get up in the four drive with
me and just you know, go off and look and
love and it's just something that nourishes my spirit. I
(07:35):
can tell you that it is nourishing. That's the best
way I can. And there's a reciprocity to our animals anyway.
We Yeah, they're just integral. So yeah, going on the
road with us, being in the truck, with us, doing everything.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
With It's about dang time that you got road Dog
as a song. It's it's been in your fiber.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I guess it is. I guess I'll have to agree
with you.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, what I want to talk to you about too,
is talk about this tour coming up Road to California.
What is that all about?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, I mean, we just put out an album. Why
I shouldn't say just we put it out, you know,
a while ago, and started releasing songs from the newest
album called Road to California. And my road has been
quite interesting. Arden, I would have to say, I think
it was unusual. So I'll be quick to tell you.
I don't know how soon do you have to go
to a break? But you know, I wrote songs in
Nashville for close to twenty years, maybe a little longer
(08:24):
than that, and I was a huge list of super
successful artists, big artists to cut songs about many number ones,
and I loved it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Women. I think I'm an ex sportswriter. I think my stats,
So you have eleven number one country hits that you
have written, is that right?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Eleven number ones and twenty something top twenties, And yeah,
it's really I'm very fortunate. I work hard, but unfortunate,
and it got to a place though where I couldn't
make the music I wanted to make because I really
wanted to be an artist, and I was a bit
artistically unfulfilled in the meantime because I like to write
certain songs that connect road dogs exactly like road dogs.
(09:02):
And so I had been going to Wyoming Force since
nineteen ninety nine or two thousand. I took my daughter
there when she was little bitty, and I fell in
love with the country. And then I began falling in
love with horses. My grandfather was a thoroughbred ranger, so
I'd been around horses. Wow, I hadn't gotten to ride,
you know. I knew some things about taking care of them,
(09:23):
but not much. And I began going every year. The
longer I did that, the more deeply I understood I
didn't know anything about horses, and that even if I
wasn't aware, that they were actually teaching me things about myself.
But this opened my eyes and I went, wow, I
really got to open my eyes. The more I did that,
finally I said, wait a second, I have so much
(09:44):
to learn that I if I don't make the step
to do so as much as possible, I don't think
I will sort of, I don't know, MA sure as
a person grow to be the man I really want
to be. In my relationships, all relationship with four Leggers,
two Leggers and myself. I sold everything. I sold my house,
I sold my furniture. I just wow. I took my
(10:05):
guitars in my art and I put it in the
storage unit and for about eight beers something like that.
So it's twenty twelve that I was really out. I
left and I only worked with horsemanship. I worked on
a lot of ranches, I worked with and for horse clinicians.
I then began to help redesign riding programs for people
(10:27):
and work with I don't know, hundreds of horses, rode
thousands of miles, met the most amazing spirit, married her.
Not a horse, that's Linda. Okay, that's that's Linda, although
there are a lot of amazing spirits besides, she is
my amazing spirit. And we moved to Wyoming, and when
we did, she began shooting a television show off the
(10:49):
property we were on, and I picked up my guitar
and went, I really feel like I have a lot
of things to say, and I'd like to say them
the way I would like to say them, without the
confines of other artists or radio or anything that good
for you. And Linda said, I think you need to
put the journeys together. Well. That journey then led to
making an album called Wyoming, which got us on the
(11:11):
Oh Yeah national television And then now we've made Road
to California and that seems to be blossoming for the
first time since we started this. It looks like we
have now radio promotions, so road Dog will be out
in the world and at radio, and we're about to
cut some new music and do some more touring with
my band Horsepower three oh seven.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We're gonna tease our loyal listeners by saying we're going
to dive into that in a second. So we're gonna
take a quick break, So hold your horses. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Time war a walk, come on the red car.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
But of course all Behave We'll be backing up last
right after these messages.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Buzz up, pet pals Ard and more. Here yep, the
host of the old Behave show on pet Life Radio,
and I have some great news. Whose are pals at
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(12:13):
So this is how it works. You're gonna actually get
to chat with a dog. Now you get to pick
one of the fifteen breeds they've got on their site.
You go to Regal dot Ai slash Dog and of
course I'm gonna pick the Siberian Husky because I'm gonna
do it in honor of my dog, Chipper. And how
it works is you go on to the website, and
(12:34):
you dial the number, and here it is eight four
five two seven three three one nine seven. Stay tuned.
I'm about to chat with a Siberian husky.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Let's do it.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
There and your Siberian husky. I'm so excited to be
speaking human. I can't believe it. I took a nap
and then woke up and now all of a sudden,
I'm speaking to you. It's so crazy. It must be
crazy for you too. Anyway, can you tell me what
my name is? The name that you call me, Chipper Keeper?
Now that the name hit for an explorer, it's perfect.
Speaking of perfect, what's something you've always wanted to tell me?
(13:14):
Now that I can talk?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How come you are such a talented escape artist?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Chipper Ah, escape artist three is an adventure in itself.
I prefer to think of it as exploring new horizon.
Speaking of adventures, do you think we could take a
run together soon? The wind in my fur away?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Let's go run on the beach, A dog friendly beach. Okay, Chipper,
A dog friendly beach. Now that sounds like the perfect escapade.
The sand beneath my paws and the waves that CHA sees. Oh,
did I catch a whiff of snacks. Maybe we could
bring some tasty treat for a beach picnic. How about
a chunk of cheddar cheese.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Chipper chatdar cheese.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Now that's a snack worthy of an explorer. Just imagining
the melting goodness makes my tail wags. Can we munch
on that together after our beach run? Life better with.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Cheese, absolutely, Chipper, And then we can take a dog nap, A.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Post adventure nap. Now that's just the cherry on top
of our amazing day. Adventures and cheese followed by snuggle
sounds like a perfect plan. All right, I've been talking
up a storm, but the wild called me. Time to
dream of snowcapped mountains and adventures with you. Call me
back anytime. Can't wait to chat again soon. Love you, Chipper,
Love you too. You and me, we're the ultimate team.
(14:22):
Now off to the wild dreams until next time.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
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We're back from the lot. Just check the paper and
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that is now back to Oh Behave.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Here's Allard, Welcome back to the old Behave show on
pet Life Radio. I'm your host, Arden Moore. I got
to tell you I got a great guy here as
our guest. He is award winning singer, musician, writer, Horseman,
dog Lover, good family man. We're talking skip viewing of
the country scene. And we got him on because we
(15:35):
were intrigued by his song that's out called road Dog,
and we explained how you know his muses are our
four leggers named Shotgun and Polly. But all his fans
submitted photos of their dogs to be in the video
music video that you really got to watch. If you
need me a pick me up, you don't need a
(15:55):
cup of Joe. You need to tune on and play
road Don't you think it's kind of like, yeah, you
get done here in it? What do you think I feel?
Like I'm bouncing.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Well, it's a Nashville pickfest, is really what it is.
That's a good phrase, it really is. I invited some
of the best Nashville musicians that I know, truly the best,
some people like Jenny Fleener and Ashby Frank and Seth
Taylor and Josh Matheeney, and these are all award winning
musicians who came in. And the record morphs from just
(16:25):
a guitar and a little bluegrass groove all the way
up to well Brent Mason is playing all this electric guitar.
It's just we just have fun in the studio and
it translates.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
All right, So we've been teasing you all. We got
to name drop more, Okay, So people need to know
Randy Travis, what an institution, what a country singer icon?
You wrote his song called.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
If I Didn't Have You. That's the number one I
had with him. I had several other cuts with him. Yeah,
what was it like to work with him? Well, you
know when he cut the films. The only time I
ever worked with Randy in the studio is that particular song.
His producer, Kyle Lenning called me. I've played guitar since
I was four years old, and I have a bit
(17:10):
of a different style than this typical What.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Does that mean? Don't be teasing that?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Okay, Well, truth be told. When I was a kid, Okay,
the reason I say that, when I was a kid,
I didn't have a lot of time to play out.
We had chores and things we had to do. So
at night I figured out a way to practice guitar
without being heard. You know those pink curlers, the women's
curlers that.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Are pink, Well, wait, man, my hair is so long. Okay,
but yeah, I'll try. I'll try to well, I think there.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You lick with this in a way. Everybody's seen them somehow,
nobody wants to be caught wearing them. I took one
of those pink curves and I put it up underneath
my strings on the guitar. So what would mute all
the strings?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's genius.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I would just play and I didn't know what I
was doing. I didn't get a lot of lessons. I
had a few, but I didn't get a lot. And
I made stuff up. And then as I made stuff up,
and I didn't know what I was doing, I just
did whatever sound good, and I used my hand to make,
you know, percussive things against the strings. And I played
with a thumb pick, not a flat pick. So I
began making up stuff to go with it, which is
(18:09):
how I kind of started writing songs. I just made
everything up. And so at any rate, this song, if
I didn't have you has a classical guitar. I played
a classical guitar was a certain way that's kind of funky,
you know. And Kyle heard that on a recording I
had made that was just me and a guitar, and
I don't know, I don't even know where they got it,
(18:30):
but he said, I'm in the studio. All I have
is this little recording of you playing a classical guitar,
and we want to cut this on Randy. So I
went down to the studio and I played guitar on
this record, and it was the first record I've ever played.
And Randy was first of all, in the headphones. His
voice is amazing, you know, he just bills up this.
Oh yeah, he's really talented. But he was also I
(18:51):
wish I had more time to spend with him. He
was genuine. He just he was just Randy. And Randy
was kind and I think big hearted appreciate it, even
though it was a small amount of time. That's really
Then later I actually was on some tours with him
and I opened for him and play. You know, he
always treated me well his whole crew.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So did you ever tell him about your pink curler story?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But I don't think we ever talked, So this is
an old Behave exclusive anyway, So if you go and
listen to that record, though it's on his Greatest Hits album,
Ran These Greatest Hits out called If I Didn't You, Interestingly,
the whole first verse is just drums, Randy singing, and
then I come in and play the only record I've
kind of heard where it's just drums for a whole verse,
(19:35):
just him and drums. Then you'll hear my classical guitar
come in, which is kind of an unusual instrument to
put in a country record like that, and it worked well.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I want to ask you one of my favorite country
singers is Keith Urban. So you worked with him too?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
And Keith another really good guitar player. Oh yeah, he
really is. I've been a fan of Keith's for a
long time. He cut We wrote a song together called
I Thought You Knew I can't tell you the name
of the album. Yeah. I got to write with Keith
a couple of times. And what a talented guy, you know.
And he's had an interesting journey as well and done.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Super what's it like because he's an Aussie and he's
in Nashville and everybody is cool.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know that anybody you know thinks anything different
if you're Aussie or you're I.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Think it's cool that OSSI's like country.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I like that. Yeah, And you know, there's a lot
I mean, there's a lot in Australia's a lot of
appreciation for country. There are a lot of artists who
are in Australia. In fact, in my opinion, one of
the greatest guitar players in the world is from Australia's
name is Tommy Emmanuel. If you don't know, you haven't
ever heard of Tommy Emmanuel, just go check him out,
go and listen to. Even another incredible acoustic guitar player
(20:44):
is Billy Strings. And you can even go and find
so if you take people like Billy Strings and Trey
Hensley and tell Emmy Emmanuel and put him around. And
I haven't gotten to work with Billy or Tommy. I
know Trey pretty well. They're all kind of guitar you know,
guitar heroes mine, but Tommy's from Tommy's from Australia. Just
a genius acoustic guitar player.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, we need to get back to you because you're
a genius too, and you're a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I like to celebrate successes of others. It's just heart.
I just do all right.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Your album that's just out and now help me. This
is Road to California, that road dog is in right, yes, okay.
You also kind of flip it to the song not
Afraid to Love, right, Yeah, I wanna tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, Not Afraid that Love is the only song on
the record that I didn't write by myself, and it
is a song that I wrote with Wayne Kirkpatrick. You'll
know Wayne Kirkpatrick because he wrote To Save the World
for Eric Clapton, and he is a really talented writer.
And we wrote a few songs, but that particular song
Linda had heard and she fell in love with it.
(21:51):
And it's really about resiliency and the belief, belief in
your heart. And I think as humans we are put together,
we are supposed to love and we get hurt, you know,
loving and that can make us hesitant or you know,
reticent to give of ourselves and trust. And yet somehow
we try again. We will say up. All right, Okay,
(22:13):
I believe, I believe if I may.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I used to be a newspaper reporter, so I'm trying
to make sure I quoted you write. I was doing
my homework on you get viewing. You said that when
you write a song, it's writing poetry. It's three dimensional,
not two dimensional. It's like painting.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, my approach to writing the really important element that
I've grown I think into more and more as I
went along, because it's what I even if I was
told something else, it became. I don't know if I
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This is what kind of like the curlers under the
strings of a guitar.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Okay, this has resonance for me, is where we are
similarly human. So I approach songs with trying to have
more awareness of the listener than the writer writing it
as part of it. It's something that I learned more
powerfully working with horses, because if I am endeavoring to
(23:08):
help a horse understand or to accomplish something together, I
feel like I really have to work to understand. Try
I'll never do it, but to try to go, Okay,
how is he seeing things? How is he hearing things?
How is he movings?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Got four?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He doesn't look the same way I do. He only
sees one side of his body. On each side, he
feels pressured differently. Got to keep my awareness on that
and what am I asking of it? So it's the
same thing for me when I'm working with music as
a listener. He asked me about what I think of
it as painting, And the reason I say it's three
dimensional is because we might think that I would write
(23:45):
a poem and it's just you know, the rhymes and
aligns and maybe some story. But if you can imagine
the characters and the situations and songs, I will endeavor
to explore that to a degree that's maybe a little
more than I have had co writers who did so.
The majority of the people that I've written with may
(24:05):
not do that same quite the same way, and I
will take a long time sometimes to write a song,
but in doing so, I'm able to look more deeply
at what characters are affected by, how they're really loving
one another, what that feels, what the alone ness of
something feels like and what also what the shift is
(24:27):
from the beginning of the song to the end of
the song. And when I've tried to describe it, I'm like, basically,
as a songwriter, I sit down to a blank canvas
and then if I have something that I want to
write paint inside someone's imagination, I'm going to do it
the same way as an artist. I've got to look
deeply at what I'm writing about and then decide, am
I going to just paint the one flower? Am I
(24:49):
going to paint this vase? Or am I going to
paint the entire landscape? Which one is it? And importantly
I invite or try I say, space is love. Space
is love. What I say a not distance but space.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
No, I'm I'm digging you, man, I just need somebody
to paint my newly furbished bathroom. But I think you're
above my pay grade right now for that. But you
know what, I really appreciate you doing that deep dive
because I as a writer too, and you know, you
really do have to think outside the litter box and
get into it. And the fact that you're really paying
(25:24):
attention to who's going to be tuning in. That makes
a big difference everyone. We're speaking with country star Skip Ewing,
and I feel like I know you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You're a good.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Guy, and you love dogs, and you've got horses, and
you've been through life, and I have a feeling that
songs are going to keep on coming.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Well your mouth to the year of the Universe.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So we know how horses have made an impact on
your life. How I have dogs made an impact on
your life.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I don't remember a time I didn't have a dog. Well, no,
I take that back. There is some time where I
couldn't have a dog, But most of the time I
just wanted a dog and I loved being around dogs.
When I was in Nashville, we finally the dog that
I had her for sixteen seventeen years, and her name
was Lovey, named by my daughter. We got her here
(26:12):
at an adoption center. And it's been so long since
we got it, I don't know that I don't even
know if it's still together. We went into the place,
it was really well done.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, they always they bring shelter animals to places to
help increase adoption.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, because my daughter likes to go in there, and
she saw this dog and she goes, Dad, she needs
to go home with us, and I said, honey. We
talked about it, and she got back in the car
and then she said Lovey. I said Lovey. I said,
how do you spell that? She said luv I I said, okay.
I said what is that? She said, that's the name
of our dog. Oh sweet, I said, oh my gosh, okay.
(26:48):
So the next day she literally said, Dad, are we
going to go pick up Lovey? And there was something
about it that I went, if it really does last
that long and we go back, I said, she may
not be there. We got Lovey and she was part
just of our lives, but then my life. She went
everywhere when truly when I was traveling, when I would
go to Wyoming, she would be in the car.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
What kind of dog do you think she is?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Was? She was an awesome mix, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
He wasn't part Keith Urban.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
No, it wasn't part Keith Urban. And its actually doesn't
play the She didn't play the guitar. I tried to
get her to play the guitar like you just wouldn't.
And she traveled with me everywhere Wyoming back Wyoming for
all that time. And she was the kind of dog
who was so aware that no matter what horse I
was riding. In fact, I could take a group of
people and switch horses in the middle of the ride
and she would still stay with me. She was one
(27:36):
to run ahead, lay down in the water and watch
us the direction we were going to come from, so
that she would be cool when it was like and
then and then go running. It enriched my life more
than dogs ever had, because of the because of the
full interaction that we that I was experiencing with her.
And and when Linda and I got together, she had
a little Jack Russell named Jack. Okay, well, I think
(27:59):
he came with that name from.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This Oh that's what they always say, scap.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think he did, but maybe not. I don't. I'm
not sure about that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's okay, Linda seems.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It seems every dog we've ever had has come from
a shelter, which I you know, which I love. It's
not the only place to get a dog, but it's
a good place to do it. I just think there's
so many yeah, deserving so so anyway, and then we
got Shotgun, then we got Holly, and it's a daily
part of our lives and facts it helped structure our life.
(28:29):
I mean, you can't have those kinds of animals and
not have all these things that.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You oh, horses and dogs and other things. Yeah. I
live with Kna and Emma, my dogs and three cats,
and they keep my spouse an eye, happy, in line
and everything. And so I just celebrated twenty five years
in the pet industry and I got a tattoo with
a dog, a cat and a heart. Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I know. Yeah, and everybody's like, where is it on
the last place my body will have cellulite, which is
on my upper thigh. It's a very important decision.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
That's hilarious. Yeah, So every day they keep I think
they keep us grounded. I think there's something very grounding.
There's something that keeps us, that reminds us that we're human.
And I think if you are, if you are someone
who cares for your animals and endeavors to get better
about that and literally offer them as good a life
as you can, it's a constant practice and compassion. It's
(29:26):
a constant practice in awareness, and I love that. You know,
it is nothing like beginning to understand the subtleties that
you know. Why can you see a look on a
dog's face and know that it's water. How can you
hear a certain sound and know that is But Shotgun
has a way. He'll just look at me and make
(29:49):
a he's kind of a speaker, any kind of a
talker anyway, and he'll make a certain sense, not exactly
the time every time, but I know what it is
because the way he's standing, and you know his butt
has about that's the right. I mean, it's like you know,
And so I'll just go like this, and I could
tell he knows exactly what happens in the mud scratch
after he makes that sound, and he will run over
(30:10):
and put his poset on top of the bed and
I'll I'll just rub him in two things like that.
I love our life where we are and with our
four family members.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, oh my gosh, I got to tell you this
has been one of my favorite episodes ever. And I've
been on the air a long time. We have had
as our special guest award winning country star Skip Ewing.
You got to check out his new album, road to California.
It's got a song we all need to hear. It
is called road Dogs. So happy you've stopped by and
(30:42):
chatted with us Skip.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And I am too. You have a great personality and
you're also providing a lot of information and have for
a long time. So I'm super glad to now be
part of that.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Of that you're with Betty White now she's been on
our show.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I know Betty White, Jennifer Aniston, I saw it Milan?
Is it Sezer Milan? And also the guy from was
it the voice so many? I think it was forget
his name all right? Anyway, Yes, of course, that's an
awesome group to be in.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Hey, everybody, at this time, I also want to give
a shout out to my producer, Mark Winter is the
executive producer of Pet Life Radio, the largest radio network
about pets on the planet. Please check out the other
shows on our network. You want to follow me easy,
My mom gave me a weird name. It's Ardenmore dot com.
(31:30):
Get my newsletter It's we get prizes and good tips
in it. And one of my passions is teaching you
how to save your pet slide. And I'm a master
instructor in pet First Aid. I team up with my
dog Kona and yeah, a confident orange tabby named Casey,
and we teach veterinary approved classes in a very fun way.
(31:52):
So go to pet First Aid for you dot com.
So until next time, this is your flea free host
are and more, delivering just two words to all you
two three four lakers out there.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I'll behave coast to coast and around the world. It's
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and dogs do the things they do and get the
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