August 18, 2024 • 17 mins
Chris Young continues to dominate country radio with his latest hit, "Young Love & Saturday Nights," but that isn;t the only gsme he's killing these days! He's also two time Fantasy Football Champ!!! Chris shares his secrets to dominating your league, whch country artist just sucks at it & we eventually get to music too.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
First of all, I want to thank this guy for
coming in, because I feel like anytime we've tried to
catch up with him over the last few years, it's
like zoom call in, but he has made time to
come hang with us.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Chris Young is in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
What's up. I'm happy to be back in the studio. Man,
it's weird. No, it's awesome. I just tipped the band
that's playing out. Yeah. The guy was very confused. He
thought I was lost because I went to This is
probably not how you wanted to start the interview, but
I went to the bathroom that's out this way and
there's a couple of guys up on stage playing, and
(00:34):
so I just walked over and kept them and he
was like, oh, He's like, I didn't know what you
were doing. I was like, yeah, man, I've done that
a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Did he even realize that you were Chris Young?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He was he's with the security friend house. Oh yeah.
So I think he just thought I was confused because
I was like, no, it's this way. You're a musician,
you're up early. You don't know where you are? Yeah, no,
what is early for you? That's that's a good question.
This year has been so all over the place in
the best way possible, but like launching Young Love and
(01:07):
Saturday Nights like the album, not just the single. We
were in Australia while I was doing that, and then
I came back. I was in California. This is gonna
make me sound like an old man, but I threw
my back out for the first time in my life.
I had to sit down for three shows. Then I
was in Nashville, then New York, then Nashville and Texas,
then Nashville. It's like we've been everywhere in different time zones.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh, you're gonna blame the time. So I'm going to
bed before nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Go ahead, Oh dude, I have thousand Dude. Last night,
I one thousand percent went to bed at nine thirty
as you should, and got up at six and let
my dog out because he was staring at me like
this one hundred and fifteen pounds German shepherd stares at you.
He's that close to your face, he's got that much teeth.
You're like, okay, you can go out to you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, take about what's that been like? Because that I
don't want to say it's new for you in your
career to be you know, over here, over here, over here.
But at the same time, you are at a level
in your career where like you can can't just promote
an album in Nashville anymore, you don't just do shows,
you know, from New York to la like you literally
have become I feel like, more so over the last
(02:11):
like five years, you've become I don't want to say
bigger than that, but for the lack of a better phrase,
like your career has hit a whole new level in
the last five years.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, man, I'm incredibly grateful for that. I'm grateful for
the opportunity. And you know, people might think I'm just
full of it when I'm on stage because I say
thank you as much as I can throughout the show.
But they don't want to listen to my music anymore,
they don't want to come see the show. Then it
doesn't matter. So I can sit in my studio and
(02:41):
make music as much as I want. But you know,
all the tools in the world and the guitars in
the world aren't going to make a difference when people
don't want to hear it. So it's it's awesome. I'll
take the good with the bad because there's always everybody
always goes, no, this is I'm living my dream, and
I am. There's still stuff that you don't want to do. Yeah. Yeah,
(03:07):
there are times when they're like, hey, you got to
get up at four in the morning after you flew
in at eleven, And I'm like, that doesn't sound fun
at all. But you know, I've also done HVAC before,
and I would rather not be in a hot addict.
So shout out to all the HVAC people out there,
We love you.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That would that be the plan if music didn't work out,
you just be.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's what I was doing before. I was doing construction
and climbing up in people's attics, putting you know, going
now that your condenser?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Could you still do it today? Like would you do
you fix your own HS?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Back?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I can fix a certain amount, I would say, And
my boss would say the same thing from back then
because I still know him and keep in touch with him.
But he would he would probably tell you, uh, I'm
you know, a big dude, like he's like he can
pick everything up. I don't know about the intricacies of
(04:05):
some of the parts of it. Uh. So let me
put it this way. It's a good thing. I'm putting
music into people's houses and not HVAC units. Got it
all right, So he wouldn't rehire you. What you're saying,
probably not?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Probably you are and you wear it on your sleeve.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Man. You are a big sports guy, obviously specifically Texas sports.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Uh you.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's funny because your team is similar to mine where
they haven't done much in a while, but you still like,
I'm a Minnesota Vikings guy and this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Let me ask you a question. It just hypothetically is
a Minnesota Vikings fan? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
J J McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So where did where did you guys?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Did you win your division?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is that what we're doing?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Did you win your division last year? No? Weird, we did?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Is this what we're gonna do?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You started, But in ninety one the Minnesota Twins won
the World Series.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, and we're still hanging on to that one.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, and the last year the EXUS Rangers one the
World Series and I've got a ring on.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Uh you are?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You are a big sports guy, and this is an
exciting time of year, especially for somebody who loves football.
I'm the first question I'm gonna ask before I dive
into more, is are you're a fantasy football guy?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So we have multiple fantasy football leagues. I did win
one of my leagues last year. So the belt is
getting passed to me. On my podcast that I do
where we talk about sports. It's called The Quad with
Chris Young if anybody wants to check it out. But
it uh, it is a big deal for us because
(05:39):
we all like act like we're not really invested, but
we're really invested. And like Nate Smith played with us
last year. He was in in the league and he
had no clue what he was doing awesome, and he's
just like, dude, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like,
this is not the point. We just we want you
to join and see if you like it, because I
(05:59):
didn't know what I was doing the first year I played.
And it was Blake Shelton that made me play my
first year and he was like, here's a piece of
this is like still on paper with a pen, like
writing out everybody who drafted who, And so I love it.
I love that aspect of it. And you know, I've
been lucky enough to get to know you know, Dak
(06:21):
Prescott and hang out with him, go fishing with him
down in Louisiana and that's not his brother. Tad is amazing,
and yeah, it's it's a wild thing to grow up here.
And everybody's like, whyren't you a Titans fan? I was like,
you have to understand, I'm thirty nine years old, Like,
(06:42):
we didn't have the Titans when I was a kid.
That was the team that I watched, and that was
when they were win in all the Super Bowls. So
I'm not going to say I cursed them, but they
they haven't been great. This is in the postseason since then.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Fine, this year turns it around, I hope. So I'm
telling you, this is gonna be a good year for Dallas.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know what, God willing In the next couple of years,
there's a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl win and Minnesota Vikings
Super Bowl, and then we can sit here and.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look about it, right, and then I'll bring you in
and we'll do the podcast from here.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
How many leagues do you play in for Fantasy?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I limit myself to three.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh see, I at one point I tried to do
like everybody asking, I'm like, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in,
and It's just it was a horrible mistake and I
botched every one I was in.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So there's a there's a Sony League allegedly, uh, there's
my podcast league. And then I've got one more that
I'm involved in that's like a whole bunch of artists
that we just see who wants to play that year. Basically,
(07:58):
Mitchell Tinpenny, I'm your I'm still on. I can't say
the words that I want to say, You're You're on
my list about people that needs to play in the
league because he's always like, oh, I'm already in like four,
and I'm like, there's no way you're already in four.
If I'm texting you before preseason started, ye, like it's no.
(08:20):
So yeah, Mitchell and me got minor beef. Last thing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I'm gonna ask you about that and then we'll talk
music because I hear you're an artist as well.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, that's crazy. He's a singer.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Guys, who is And you don't have to answer if
you don't want who is the biggest name that is
the worst at fantasy football?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It might be Nate. I'm sorry, buddy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm sorry, sorry, Sorry, Nate Smith.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Please continue to sing with me when we play shows together.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Watch him no show the next one.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, that was one time he was I was like,
you do famous friends and come out at the end
of my show. I know it's after years. I don't
know if you're leaving. He goes, oh, yeah, I'll do it.
He goes, can I get the lyrics? I'm like, yeah,
of course. I was like, I'm asking you right before
you go on stage, Like, yeah, it's not a big deal.
But he is such an incredible singer, such a nice dude,
(09:18):
and like all of the success he's had, he's somebody
I just really root for. I mean, there's so many
artists that I've gotten a chance to know, and yeah,
we all compete against each other, right, But at the
same time, it's like, I mean, even Drew Baldridge yep,
(09:38):
having this massive success that he's having, you know, doing
it on his own is just so cool and you
got to you gotta root for everybody else too.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well, we're rooting for you because you were on the
version of doing something pretty special. You have had nominations,
you have had you like, hang on, don't say I'm
not gonna don't you it, don't me what does at
this point in your career you are far past the
word established. But a number one song still means what
to you as an artist and a songwriter.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It means the world. Man. I grew up as a
kid listening to records with my grandfather and listening to
the radio with my mom in the car in the
back seat as a kid and hearing you know, countdowns say,
(10:32):
all right, this week at number one in the country
is blank and if you ever get tired of that,
you should probably quit. That is still a pinnacle to me,
even after you've had one, even after you've had ten whatever.
(10:57):
I mean, George strait is the wrated every single one,
he said. And I think there's something intrinsically special about
that as an artist, as a songwriter, as a producer,
when you get to go there's nothing above me but letterhead. Hey,
that's big, and you know, hopefully we can do it
(11:20):
this one because David Bowie is a songwriter on this obviously.
The one really funny thing was when we put it out,
a lot of people were like, oh my god, that's
so cool that you used the lick from Rebel Rebel
and create a new song. And you know, people don't
dig as much as they used to, Like, you don't
(11:41):
see liner notes anymore as much as you used to.
You don't know what's going on. And there were some
people that were like the majority of people were like,
this is so cool. Then there were some people that
were like, oh my god, you stole David Bowie's song,
and I was like, I didn't write it. Also, he's
(12:01):
listed as a songwriter because they bought the catalog and
that was intentional, Like that was the whole point. And
then there was one comment that made me laugh so
hard because somebody was like, oh, I love the Rolling Stones,
and I was just like swinging a miss. That was yeah,
top on Google.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I learned something Young Love and Saturday Nights.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
When you listen to the album obviously self titled single
off of that album, it feels special, not more special
than the rest of the record, but like it definitely
as a country music fan, it raised its hand.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Was that the same for you?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Like, was this easy to pick not only the title
of the album but the first single, so.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's the second single technically, but Young Love and Saturday
Nights was something that I listened to sitting in a
room probably the size of this and we'd already had
Looking for You out on the radio. And the minute
that I recorded this and produced it and turned it in,
(13:06):
everybody was like okay, and I think you put it perfectly.
It raised its hand, it was like this is special,
and I was like, man, I gotta I gotta get
this out. I gotta put this out. I wanted to
be the summer song for the record, and it's been
so cool watching it climb the chart and hearing from
(13:29):
everybody about how much they love it. And now, especially
in the past like two and a half three months,
you can see it in the crowd. Yeah, the lick starts,
everybody loses their minds. It's it's perfect. I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's gotta be the best feeling, too, like working a song,
putting your heart into it, you know, watching it grow
up country radio and streaming, and then once that crowd
reacts to it, though, that's got to be like the
seal to the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I can tell you the difference between now and when
we first put it out. So when we first put
it out had this really cool video concept. I love
the video. It's probably one of my favorite videos I've
ever made. So if you haven't seen that, go check
the video out. But I was playing a show with Lee,
(14:19):
Brice and Houser for a radio station, and we were
all just like trying out sing out because we all
know each other, and we're like cracking jokes behind the
other person that's singing while they're playing whatever song they're doing.
We're like, I almost step it up on this next one,
Like we're just like goofing off with each other. And
(14:42):
I played Young Love and Saturday Nights and it was
before anyone knew it, and I was like, Man, I
hate that more people haven't heard this because I feel
like I'm like pushing on that one. Like all the
other songs that I played are songs that people have
known and put on the radio. And so seeing the
difference in that reaction at the beginning of that song
to now when I'm standing in an arena full of
(15:04):
people and everyone is singing the words to it is magic.
It's the only way to describe it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Last thing I want to ask you so I can
clip this for social You are a champion now when
it comes to fantasy football, so I'm going to ask
you for It's the second time I've wont it sorry.
Two time Fantasy football team time, one hundred teams, two championships.
It's fine, We're not counting teams.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Two time Fantasy football champion Chris Young, who is a
sleeper pick for somebody to look for in a fantasy
football draft this year.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I think bo Nicks is going to be Offensive player
of the Year. Really, I'm telling you, I know all
the attention is on the Bears and having that pick.
I just think unfortunately for Russell Wilson, he experienced his
(16:03):
decline going to a new team. I think Bo Nicks
with the way that he plays, even even though it
was preseason, there's like a couple of things that he did.
He's very accurate, even when it was down to the
short plays. There's a play he did if people weren't
watching that game, where he like literally lobs it over
(16:23):
the line to the running back who like leaks out.
I think it was running back. It might have been
a tight end, but forgive me on that part. But
he literally just does this almost Brett Farv esque trick
play where he just like threw it over like clime. Yeah,
and I think he sees the field the way Peyton
(16:46):
wants someone to see it. YEP. I think bo Nicks
is going to be the sleeper.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Pick him up, y'all.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Now you know Curtis and I mean, don't go early,
early rounds on him, but you get late rounds, you're
looking for another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Hid this clip from your friends. Your sleeper pick. Courtesy
of Chris Young. Thanks Man, Thanks Maun
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
First of all, I want to thank this guy for
coming in, because I feel like anytime we've tried to
catch up with him over the last few years, it's
like zoom call in, but he has made time to
come hang with us.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Chris Young is in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
What's up. I'm happy to be back in the studio. Man,
it's weird. No, it's awesome. I just tipped the band
that's playing out. Yeah. The guy was very confused. He
thought I was lost because I went to This is
probably not how you wanted to start the interview, but
I went to the bathroom that's out this way and
there's a couple of guys up on stage playing, and
(00:34):
so I just walked over and kept them and he
was like, oh, He's like, I didn't know what you
were doing. I was like, yeah, man, I've done that
a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Did he even realize that you were Chris Young?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He was he's with the security friend house. Oh yeah.
So I think he just thought I was confused because
I was like, no, it's this way. You're a musician,
you're up early. You don't know where you are? Yeah, no,
what is early for you? That's that's a good question.
This year has been so all over the place in
the best way possible, but like launching Young Love and
(01:07):
Saturday Nights like the album, not just the single. We
were in Australia while I was doing that, and then
I came back. I was in California. This is gonna
make me sound like an old man, but I threw
my back out for the first time in my life.
I had to sit down for three shows. Then I
was in Nashville, then New York, then Nashville and Texas,
then Nashville. It's like we've been everywhere in different time zones.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh, you're gonna blame the time. So I'm going to
bed before nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Go ahead, Oh dude, I have thousand Dude. Last night,
I one thousand percent went to bed at nine thirty
as you should, and got up at six and let
my dog out because he was staring at me like
this one hundred and fifteen pounds German shepherd stares at you.
He's that close to your face, he's got that much teeth.
You're like, okay, you can go out to you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, take about what's that been like? Because that I
don't want to say it's new for you in your
career to be you know, over here, over here, over here.
But at the same time, you are at a level
in your career where like you can can't just promote
an album in Nashville anymore, you don't just do shows,
you know, from New York to la like you literally
have become I feel like, more so over the last
(02:11):
like five years, you've become I don't want to say
bigger than that, but for the lack of a better phrase,
like your career has hit a whole new level in
the last five years.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, man, I'm incredibly grateful for that. I'm grateful for
the opportunity. And you know, people might think I'm just
full of it when I'm on stage because I say
thank you as much as I can throughout the show.
But they don't want to listen to my music anymore,
they don't want to come see the show. Then it
doesn't matter. So I can sit in my studio and
(02:41):
make music as much as I want. But you know,
all the tools in the world and the guitars in
the world aren't going to make a difference when people
don't want to hear it. So it's it's awesome. I'll
take the good with the bad because there's always everybody
always goes, no, this is I'm living my dream, and
I am. There's still stuff that you don't want to do. Yeah. Yeah,
(03:07):
there are times when they're like, hey, you got to
get up at four in the morning after you flew
in at eleven, And I'm like, that doesn't sound fun
at all. But you know, I've also done HVAC before,
and I would rather not be in a hot addict.
So shout out to all the HVAC people out there,
We love you.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That would that be the plan if music didn't work out,
you just be.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's what I was doing before. I was doing construction
and climbing up in people's attics, putting you know, going
now that your condenser?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Could you still do it today? Like would you do
you fix your own HS?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Back?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I can fix a certain amount, I would say, And
my boss would say the same thing from back then
because I still know him and keep in touch with him.
But he would he would probably tell you, uh, I'm
you know, a big dude, like he's like he can
pick everything up. I don't know about the intricacies of
(04:05):
some of the parts of it. Uh. So let me
put it this way. It's a good thing. I'm putting
music into people's houses and not HVAC units. Got it
all right, So he wouldn't rehire you. What you're saying,
probably not?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Probably you are and you wear it on your sleeve.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Man. You are a big sports guy, obviously specifically Texas sports.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Uh you.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's funny because your team is similar to mine where
they haven't done much in a while, but you still like,
I'm a Minnesota Vikings guy and this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Let me ask you a question. It just hypothetically is
a Minnesota Vikings fan? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
J J McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So where did where did you guys?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Did you win your division?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is that what we're doing?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Did you win your division last year? No? Weird, we did?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Is this what we're gonna do?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You started, But in ninety one the Minnesota Twins won
the World Series.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, and we're still hanging on to that one.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, and the last year the EXUS Rangers one the
World Series and I've got a ring on.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Uh you are?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You are a big sports guy, and this is an
exciting time of year, especially for somebody who loves football.
I'm the first question I'm gonna ask before I dive
into more, is are you're a fantasy football guy?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So we have multiple fantasy football leagues. I did win
one of my leagues last year. So the belt is
getting passed to me. On my podcast that I do
where we talk about sports. It's called The Quad with
Chris Young if anybody wants to check it out. But
it uh, it is a big deal for us because
(05:39):
we all like act like we're not really invested, but
we're really invested. And like Nate Smith played with us
last year. He was in in the league and he
had no clue what he was doing awesome, and he's
just like, dude, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like,
this is not the point. We just we want you
to join and see if you like it, because I
(05:59):
didn't know what I was doing the first year I played.
And it was Blake Shelton that made me play my
first year and he was like, here's a piece of
this is like still on paper with a pen, like
writing out everybody who drafted who, And so I love it.
I love that aspect of it. And you know, I've
been lucky enough to get to know you know, Dak
(06:21):
Prescott and hang out with him, go fishing with him
down in Louisiana and that's not his brother. Tad is amazing,
and yeah, it's it's a wild thing to grow up here.
And everybody's like, whyren't you a Titans fan? I was like,
you have to understand, I'm thirty nine years old, Like,
(06:42):
we didn't have the Titans when I was a kid.
That was the team that I watched, and that was
when they were win in all the Super Bowls. So
I'm not going to say I cursed them, but they
they haven't been great. This is in the postseason since then.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Fine, this year turns it around, I hope. So I'm
telling you, this is gonna be a good year for Dallas.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know what, God willing In the next couple of years,
there's a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl win and Minnesota Vikings
Super Bowl, and then we can sit here and.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look about it, right, and then I'll bring you in
and we'll do the podcast from here.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
How many leagues do you play in for Fantasy?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I limit myself to three.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh see, I at one point I tried to do
like everybody asking, I'm like, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in,
and It's just it was a horrible mistake and I
botched every one I was in.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So there's a there's a Sony League allegedly, uh, there's
my podcast league. And then I've got one more that
I'm involved in that's like a whole bunch of artists
that we just see who wants to play that year. Basically,
(07:58):
Mitchell Tinpenny, I'm your I'm still on. I can't say
the words that I want to say, You're You're on
my list about people that needs to play in the
league because he's always like, oh, I'm already in like four,
and I'm like, there's no way you're already in four.
If I'm texting you before preseason started, ye, like it's no.
(08:20):
So yeah, Mitchell and me got minor beef. Last thing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I'm gonna ask you about that and then we'll talk
music because I hear you're an artist as well.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, that's crazy. He's a singer.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Guys, who is And you don't have to answer if
you don't want who is the biggest name that is
the worst at fantasy football?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It might be Nate. I'm sorry, buddy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm sorry, sorry, Sorry, Nate Smith.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Please continue to sing with me when we play shows together.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Watch him no show the next one.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, that was one time he was I was like,
you do famous friends and come out at the end
of my show. I know it's after years. I don't
know if you're leaving. He goes, oh, yeah, I'll do it.
He goes, can I get the lyrics? I'm like, yeah,
of course. I was like, I'm asking you right before
you go on stage, Like, yeah, it's not a big deal.
But he is such an incredible singer, such a nice dude,
(09:18):
and like all of the success he's had, he's somebody
I just really root for. I mean, there's so many
artists that I've gotten a chance to know, and yeah,
we all compete against each other, right, But at the
same time, it's like, I mean, even Drew Baldridge yep,
(09:38):
having this massive success that he's having, you know, doing
it on his own is just so cool and you
got to you gotta root for everybody else too.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well, we're rooting for you because you were on the
version of doing something pretty special. You have had nominations,
you have had you like, hang on, don't say I'm
not gonna don't you it, don't me what does at
this point in your career you are far past the
word established. But a number one song still means what
to you as an artist and a songwriter.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It means the world. Man. I grew up as a
kid listening to records with my grandfather and listening to
the radio with my mom in the car in the
back seat as a kid and hearing you know, countdowns say,
(10:32):
all right, this week at number one in the country
is blank and if you ever get tired of that,
you should probably quit. That is still a pinnacle to me,
even after you've had one, even after you've had ten whatever.
(10:57):
I mean, George strait is the wrated every single one,
he said. And I think there's something intrinsically special about
that as an artist, as a songwriter, as a producer,
when you get to go there's nothing above me but letterhead. Hey,
that's big, and you know, hopefully we can do it
(11:20):
this one because David Bowie is a songwriter on this obviously.
The one really funny thing was when we put it out,
a lot of people were like, oh my god, that's
so cool that you used the lick from Rebel Rebel
and create a new song. And you know, people don't
dig as much as they used to, Like, you don't
(11:41):
see liner notes anymore as much as you used to.
You don't know what's going on. And there were some
people that were like the majority of people were like,
this is so cool. Then there were some people that
were like, oh my god, you stole David Bowie's song,
and I was like, I didn't write it. Also, he's
(12:01):
listed as a songwriter because they bought the catalog and
that was intentional, Like that was the whole point. And
then there was one comment that made me laugh so
hard because somebody was like, oh, I love the Rolling Stones,
and I was just like swinging a miss. That was yeah,
top on Google.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I learned something Young Love and Saturday Nights.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
When you listen to the album obviously self titled single
off of that album, it feels special, not more special
than the rest of the record, but like it definitely
as a country music fan, it raised its hand.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Was that the same for you?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Like, was this easy to pick not only the title
of the album but the first single, so.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's the second single technically, but Young Love and Saturday
Nights was something that I listened to sitting in a
room probably the size of this and we'd already had
Looking for You out on the radio. And the minute
that I recorded this and produced it and turned it in,
(13:06):
everybody was like okay, and I think you put it perfectly.
It raised its hand, it was like this is special,
and I was like, man, I gotta I gotta get
this out. I gotta put this out. I wanted to
be the summer song for the record, and it's been
so cool watching it climb the chart and hearing from
(13:29):
everybody about how much they love it. And now, especially
in the past like two and a half three months,
you can see it in the crowd. Yeah, the lick starts,
everybody loses their minds. It's it's perfect. I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's gotta be the best feeling, too, like working a song,
putting your heart into it, you know, watching it grow
up country radio and streaming, and then once that crowd
reacts to it, though, that's got to be like the
seal to the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I can tell you the difference between now and when
we first put it out. So when we first put
it out had this really cool video concept. I love
the video. It's probably one of my favorite videos I've
ever made. So if you haven't seen that, go check
the video out. But I was playing a show with Lee,
(14:19):
Brice and Houser for a radio station, and we were
all just like trying out sing out because we all
know each other, and we're like cracking jokes behind the
other person that's singing while they're playing whatever song they're doing.
We're like, I almost step it up on this next one,
Like we're just like goofing off with each other. And
(14:42):
I played Young Love and Saturday Nights and it was
before anyone knew it, and I was like, Man, I
hate that more people haven't heard this because I feel
like I'm like pushing on that one. Like all the
other songs that I played are songs that people have
known and put on the radio. And so seeing the
difference in that reaction at the beginning of that song
to now when I'm standing in an arena full of
(15:04):
people and everyone is singing the words to it is magic.
It's the only way to describe it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Last thing I want to ask you so I can
clip this for social You are a champion now when
it comes to fantasy football, so I'm going to ask
you for It's the second time I've wont it sorry.
Two time Fantasy football team time, one hundred teams, two championships.
It's fine, We're not counting teams.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Two time Fantasy football champion Chris Young, who is a
sleeper pick for somebody to look for in a fantasy
football draft this year.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I think bo Nicks is going to be Offensive player
of the Year. Really, I'm telling you, I know all
the attention is on the Bears and having that pick.
I just think unfortunately for Russell Wilson, he experienced his
(16:03):
decline going to a new team. I think Bo Nicks
with the way that he plays, even even though it
was preseason, there's like a couple of things that he did.
He's very accurate, even when it was down to the
short plays. There's a play he did if people weren't
watching that game, where he like literally lobs it over
(16:23):
the line to the running back who like leaks out.
I think it was running back. It might have been
a tight end, but forgive me on that part. But
he literally just does this almost Brett Farv esque trick
play where he just like threw it over like clime. Yeah,
and I think he sees the field the way Peyton
(16:46):
wants someone to see it. YEP. I think bo Nicks
is going to be the sleeper.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Pick him up, y'all.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Now you know Curtis and I mean, don't go early,
early rounds on him, but you get late rounds, you're
looking for another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Hid this clip from your friends. Your sleeper pick. Courtesy
of Chris Young. Thanks Man, Thanks Maun
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