February 19, 2026 • 29 mins
It wasn't Trace Adkins' best day. Crook & Chase invited him to their Music Row studios to celebrate his 30-year milestone as a hitmaker in music, movies, and philanthropy. But an "incident" that Trace experienced the night before spawned a hilarious conversation! Listen, and laugh til you cry like we did!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in, everybody. Laurien and Charlie here, Crook and Chase
Nashville chats. Where do we begin with Trace Atkins?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
May I tell you this Charlie James. The first time
I met him, I think it was on a red
carpet decades ago, and he wouldn't look me in the eye.
He had no expression on his face. I thought, this
guy doesn't even know me, and he hates me. Later on,
after we became really good friends. Of course, he was
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on our show so many times and still is today.
I told him about that incident and I said, why
did you treat me so bad? And he said, I
was shy, He says, back then I had a crush
on you.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh really.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, you have to understand he's a very imposing figure.
He's like what six twelve something like that, big dude,
big muscular guy. But he's a real softie. Yeah, he's
a lot of fun when you get to know him. Okay,
And I knew we were in for it on this
PODCA cast because he walked in with a grin on
his face. And there is a name for that grin
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which we can't use here, but it is. You're about
to find out.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yes, indeed.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So the whole reason.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We invited Trace for this particular moment is that he
is celebrating thirty years since his first album.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's rare. It's pretty cool, yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So we wanted to talk all about his life and
his career, and as you will hear, we found out
way more than we expected. Charlie is in a weird mood.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But oh, Tray, Okay, so your wife says you're in
a weird mood? What's going on with you?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Are we going to have to ask her?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Do you want to switch places? Victoria?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It started at about three o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't know. Whatever she fed me last night?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh, so excuse me? Do we need to open the
window or something.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, I'll excuse myself if I have to. Oh, I'll
excuse myself before you. So that's what. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is very important. Is it something that Victoria made.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Or I made it? But it was it was it
was from stuff she bought, So I'm blaming her. So okay,
what was the dish? So I know I just had
a sandwich, but the meat had she bought? It, you know,
before the freeze happened, she stocked up like it was
the end of the world. And so some of this
stuff's two weeks old, and I didn't pay much attention
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to it and just ate it anyway, you know. I
mean it was some old prepper meat, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So okay, well you will love this then, because fairly
recently we had a little chat with Luke Bryan, who
had decided that he would like to make his own
home brew homemade beer. Well, he didn't do it properly,
and some kind of bacteria got in there and did
the same thing to him. So we named it Luke
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Bryan's Colon Colon Blow.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, don't figure it'll be a big seller.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But okay, we're done with that, are we, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
No, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Let me just give credit where credit is due. Okay,
are you serious or I'm very serious?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I want to thank you for making badoka doc a
household word.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I heard that. I've heard it a few times. I
saw it on Jeopardy the other day, you know, are
you serious?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Jeopardy? Now listen, it's not in the dictionary. It should be.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I bet it's in the Urban Diction is diction, sure,
but it may be badunca dunk no badunkadunt in the
urban dictionary.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What's the difference between badonka donc and dunk?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uh? Uh? What was her name? The the girl that
started it actually, when it first started out, Missy Elliott,
I think, was the first one to say badunca dunk.
And then when Jamie and Dallas and uh no who
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else wrote Randy Howse or when they wrote that song,
they changed it to dunk dount around the honky dunkin
so Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Anyway, I was going to say the official uh definition
referring to large, voluptuous or cravaceous buttocks much junk in
the trump.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's what I said, I say, That's what I just said.
I've mine is a little bit more official than.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You guys have more Webster.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
We have been here five minutes and the whole thing
has been about darriers.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Riam. We'll get aay you in a minute here, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Victory kind of comes it with you.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
No, Hey, we're having a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
But you know it's great that you're sitting here, my friend,
because thirty years is what you're celebrating.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You're going on tour to do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Can we have applause for this thirty years?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Because listen, you know as well as I do, a
thirty year career is something to brag about. It doesn't
happen that often. What do you think has been the
key components to keep you around thirty years? Keep you
want to be around thirty years? Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Just not? A lot of people told me.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, you know WHOA wait a minute, is that a
joke because everybody hears no constantly.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't know. I just I didn't hear it a
lot in the music business. I hear it quite often
and in the acting world, but I didn't hear it
that much in the music business.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Why do you think not?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Hmmm, I don't know. I got lucky. I got really lucky,
you know, just and there have been a lot of
people along the way that you know, I mean, I
didn't do this by myself. I mean I've had help
on every step of the way. And you know, the
people that I could list off, I mean, that would
be a long list of people that have kept me
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around here for thirty years. But yeah, somebody told me
one time that the average life span of a country
artist is five years if you average out the ones
that had a couple of hits and then went away
with the ones that had a fifty year career, it
averages out by five years.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Okay, So to me this relates to I'm jumping track
here to the sequel coming out. I can only imagine
too because in the trailer, reach and I'm going to
botch your line, your character's line, but me has success.
You're telling they're experiencing more hardship and are kind of
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ticked off about it, and you're saying to them these
very smart words, you know, what did you think was
gonna happen? You're gonna write off into the sunset, no
more pay, no more struggles. But it sounds like that's
what you did. You got your success and wrote off
and everything's been pretty grand.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah. You know, I just I just kept going. I
just kept going, and you had a lot of people
that kept kept me on the road, kept me working,
and I just kept making records. Over the years, every
time I wanted to make a record, I made one.
You know, They've had to take me into the studio
kicking and screaming a few times. It's not always something
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that I'm champing at the bit to do, you know,
go in the studio and make another record.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But really, nah, okay, you're shocking me. It seems like
that's the love.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm gonna make one more. I'm gonna make one more.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Uh what is it that is not attractive to you
about it?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Uh? Yeah, I just think I don't want to get
all off into the weeds about it. But it's like,
I don't like to waste good songs. And I had
a songwriter friend of mine the other day come to
me with a just a bonafide hit, and I said,
why are you pitching that to me? Why don't you
take that to Luke Colmb's or Cody Johnson or somebody,
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you know what I mean, Pitch it to somebody that'll
make you some money.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You know, after all your success and all these years,
why don't you believe in yourself more?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh? I know, I believe in my That's That's one
of the frustrating things. I mean, I feel like I'm
at the top of my game. I can. I've gotten
as good at my craft as I think I'm ever
gonna be. My voice is still I can still sing
every song and the key that I recorded it in
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my chops are better. My range is just as good,
if not better, than it was when I started, because
the bottom's gotten better and the top is still there.
So I just I'm as good as I've ever been,
if not better. But I'm just old news now you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wait no, because you and I have had sort of
fringe conversations about this over the years. But this is
my theory, my theory, and you laughed at me the
first time I told you this, but it's so true.
I think part of your magic is that you are
a mystery that we don't really know what you're thinking,
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and then all of a sudden you're funny as heck.
And then you turn around and do movies like I
can only imagine, and you go, WHOA, where's this guy
coming from? We never know?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Do you greet with me?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah? I do agree with you. It's hard for people
to know what I'm thinking when I don't know what
I'm thinking half the times. You know what I mean.
It's so Charlie.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
The secret to trey' Hadkins' success is that he's confused.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There you go, that should be the next album.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's last confused. Yeah, I spent thirty years trying to
figure this out. I never did. I never did. You're welcome,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, see what we're talking about. Okay, there's one thing
that Trace, though, is not confused about his most embarrassing
gig ever, that gripping story or should we say ripping
story coming right up.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You've got dates that are already selling out. That's great,
that's good support, you know that. So tell us about
the show you plan. You've got a suitcase full of
hits you can take with you. What do you what
kind of show you're going to do?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well? I sow. I'm tenerary the day that that we
have rehearsals coming up here in a couple of weeks,
and I was like, why, you know, got it down
doing the same songs that I You know, it's like,
why are we having rehearsals?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You know, But you know got an answer for that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, every year, you know, you get a couple of
new guys. You may have a new lighting guy, and
you know, so it's more for them than it is.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
For me even show up.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, We're going to pull out a couple of songs
this year that I haven't done in a long time,
just because you know, if this is if this is
the tour, you know, then I want to make sure
I get a couple of things in there that I
that that I think define who I am. And that's
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the same way with some of the venues I want
to go back to. I cherry picked a few of
the venues that I want to go back here and
I want to go back there.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And all that said, is there one okay, And all
the years you've been touring, do you remember a nightmare stop?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh yeah, let's hear it. Oh my god. One time
I asked Eddie. Eddie Montgomery and I were sitting and trouble.
We were having at least half an intelligent conversation. My
half was intelligent, you know, Eddie was just but whatever.
So I asked Eddie, I said, what is the worst
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place that you can remember ever playing? And we both
had the same answer. Yeah, And I don't want to
say it because you don't it's a rodeo.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, okay, leave it at that, But what was what
was the nightmare thing about it?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It was just the worst gig ever. It was just
the where it was and did.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You step in stuff?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And no, it was just it was just not a
good gig and just not a good gig. There's a
couple of other ones, you know, but uh, that was
the one that always stuck out, that rodeo. It was
in Missouri office. Would you like to lie down and
tell us about her? You know, it is something that
I wish I could get out just forget about it.
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But and I don't like going to Canada at all.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So you know, and this is one of the greatest
answers you've given. But there's no answer to it, no
answer in there anywhere, you know what Canada. No, I'm
talking about the just the worst gig we got it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
He doesn't want he doesn't know that disparage any particular.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
My britches boasted one time and uh what uh Johnson City, Okay, Yeah,
I had on a real tight pair of wranglers and
old lady had made some kind of little bunch of
pictures of me, like on a calendar or something. She
was right down in front of the stage and she
held it up for me to get it, and I
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bent over and the entire so those wranglers blew out
right down the scene.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
So is there a plaque at that venue? Forget?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I don't know. And so Luckily this thing was on
a piece of poster board about that big and I
just because it busted down this scene too, so I
just held it right in front of me and then
just backed off the stage.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You remember that, oh show, showtime.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I didn't have no drawers on.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh boy, all right, the things the band sees from behind? Okay, Well,
the big guy, Trace Adkinns, has a sense of humor
to match. But more importantly, Trace has a big heart
that really rises above just about anything.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He's ever done.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
That and the only place he keeps falling again and again.
Coming up next, I want to talk about Wounded Warrior Project, Okay,
because that's.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Something I know.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
The reason I want to bring that up is a
lot of people when they see these campaigns on TV,
they like them. They're skeptical about donating. But you what
I gather, you've seen firsthand how this how your support helps.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah. Yeah, I see those guys all the time. I
mean they come to no matter what city we're in,
you know, somebody's going to show up, And yeah, I
hear those stories all the time. Howard changed their life
and really helped them out in some really dark times
and I'm just honored and humbled to have been some
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small part in that whole organization. And it's it is
just it's a noble endeavor and it's run by really
good people, and I wouldn't have anything to do with
it if it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
So that's why I ask you. I wanted to hear
that from you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And the thing is, I mean, you've done so much
that and beyond. You have way more humanitarian and philanthropic
awards that and I even knew about because you don't
talk about them that much. You don't really you know,
you don't brag about them, obviously, But why do you
do those things more quietly than others might?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I don't want ever to anybody to think that I'm
taking an advantage or patronizing or any of that. I
just don't. You know, you got to be doing that
stuff for the right reasons, and some people make a
career out of it. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Just what they say, quietly do good?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Right? I guess you know, I don't. I don't really
worry about it. I just do what I do, and
I don't really think that much about it. I just,
you know, I said in the very beginning of my
career that the charities and the things that I would
want to contribute to or or lend my time to
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would be anything that helped kids and anything that helped veterans,
you know, because neither of the people in those groups
deserved what happened to them, and they didn't. It was
no fault of their own that they were, you know,
stricken with, whether it be cancer and a child or
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wounds suffered on a battlefield. They were obeying orders and
kids and don't deserve anything bad that happens to them.
So you know the rest of us, I mean, you know,
I deserve every scar I've got.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So you know, how's your latest one?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
By the way, Yeah, my leg it's never going to
be good again. The nerves are all gone, so I
can't really pick up my toe when I walk, and
so I have to kind of compensate for that. But
you know, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Last time I was on that farm with you, you
had just flipped something over on top of yourself. How
did you do this one?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I fell off of a scaffold about twelve feet. Yeah, yeah,
landed all my weight, landed on my right leg. It
was bad.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Okay, are you getting smarter now?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
No, no, we're back to theirs again. Yeah, no, no,
I still. I was doing something yesterday on my back
ho that I was like, this is dangerous.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Ecuse.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Let me let me give you a number of angies
list here. Hey, have you ever been the subject of
mistaken identity? And the reason I bring that up I
saw you one time. We were down Stony River a
steakhouse and you came in and I saw you. You
came up and you set out over there, two or
three tables from me, and the waiter comes by and
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he's waiting on us, and he says, hey, wrestler over there.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I used to get that when I was in better
shape and I was kind of jacked up. You know, well,
you're still in the poss I used to get Kevin
Nash a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
People, which I don't see it, but I used people
used to holler at me in the in the airport.
How do you handle that?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, as me, I'll signed autograph?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Well why not?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You know? Yeah, okay, Oh my gosh, he's a bigger
star than I am.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'll take Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So since we're just a little bit silly, as we
always do. So, so, what's like your stupidest story with
Blake Blake Shelton.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
God, I can't even tell it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I wish it should be a book. You should write
another book.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I don't know. Yeah, I can't tell. Oh my gosh,
yeah I heard.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That right there says a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
He's funnier than people even realize. Oh I know, you know, yeah,
you get off with it. That's all he does. That's
all he does. He's always trying to make you laugh.
That's all he goes for. The laugh, always all the time.
You know, even when he's not trying to be funny,
he makes me laugh because he's just ridiculous. You know,
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he's just he's just an old country boy like me,
and neither one of us can figure out how we
got here. And you know, it's just he's a funny dude.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well you can hold your own with him, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, we have a good time, have good time,
all right.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I know that's the next book you ought to write,
and I would buy about ten copies? Could it probably
be ten volumes?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Where do you see yourself after the tour? I don't know.
I'm just kind of taking in a year at a time. Now,
I'm not really looking too far ahead. I don't I'm
going to do a pretty full run this year, but
I don't see myself hitting it that hard next year.
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I mean, I'm gonna start cherry picking and cut back anyway,
even you know, I'm just not going to do as
many shows. How about more acting, you're good, you know,
if those things come along, I'm not gonna I'm not
going to move to LA and start auditioning for everything
that comes along. That's not I'm not. I'm never going
to do that. I've never gotten a part anyway from
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an audition, so I've been told to know every time
I ever auditioned for a part. The only parts I've
ever done are people just call me up and they
know what I do, and they that's what they wanted,
and they call me, you know, because they know what
I do well, and I'm pretty much I can. I
can do a cowboy and a biker. That's about it.
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You know you want to you want a sullen, sorrow
old cowboy, I'm your guy, you know, or you know
used up old biker as me. Yeah, I'm not going
to play a lawyer and none of that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know, you know, but it seems I mean again,
I think that's probably part of your success, because it
seems like you have known who you are, no nonsense
since the very beginning, and maybe that's why you haven't
had as many stumbles as some other people have had.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Maybe I don't know. Yeah, we're all going for yours,
Confused as I what makes.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
You say that?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
See, I think my answer just said that I was embarrassing.
But there's more coming up next. You have to hear this.
Trace admits to his most agonizing live performance and it
happened on our television show. We had no idea, but
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Trace will describe it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
All in detail, and you have to hear this one too.
As we wrap the interview, Trace is going to admit
to his most embarrassing and agonizing moment behind the scenes
at his own house. Let's just say, coming up, Trace
and his colonoscopy calamity. That was hard to say the
funny story we've heard in years thanks to Trace Atkins.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Next, Don Crook and Chase Field chats, I was on.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Y'all's show when I did some one of the most
embarrassing things I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Was it our fault.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
No, it was absolutely totally my fault. I was on
with Ronnie miil Sap, and Ronney miil Sap and I
were singing together and we didn't rehearse it. And Stranger
in My House, yes, and so I sing Stranger in
My House in my show sometimes anyway, but I don't
do it in the key that Ronnie does it. Then,
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so he wanted me to sing with him. So we
get out there and he sings a verse, of course,
and then I sang the second verse, and then Ronnie,
I guess, thought I was going to keep singing the
chorus on out but I knew there's no way I
can't sing that chorus in that key, and so I
pointed at him to sing the chorus.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
You pointed it led at a blind man. You know,
we've got that on tape. Probably you take it, you know.
It's like I pointed at.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You covered it well, because I don't remember it being
a disaster, so there.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Was just one little space in there. And then Ronnie
realizing and he started singing.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
See you guys are pro So you covered it so
quick that we didn't notice that well.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I noticed it. I almost threw up. I was oh,
my god, I just pointed at a blind man on TV.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You have not been agonizing blind man? Well please tell
me you have not agonized over that for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh, I'm singing Stranger in my house on the Oprey
next week you are.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, we get it right. This time.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I hope to almost singing in my key. See okay, okay,
that's the key if you will, all.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Right, this is this has been a very interesting session.
We can make you lie down next time.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Be a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
As we close. As we close, because because you know,
we just we love you and all the people around you.
So are you a content man with life?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yes? Absolutely, absolutely yes, I hit that perfect spot. I
think I hit that sweet spot of celebrity where you know,
like Blake and you know Gwenny, they can't go anywhere.
(25:19):
I mean, you know, I hit that perfect sweet spot
where I don't get mobbed by anybody, but I can
still get a good table in a restaurant, you know
what I mean. So just that perfect level of celebrity,
I'm right where I want to be.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Kind of good combination between country star and wrestler.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Absolutely, it doesn't get much better than that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's right, okay, well go get some pepto bismol.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh, thank you, yeah, can we can? We trust you
to get up out of the chair with an.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh my god. That's one of the funniest stories. Victoria
died of colonoscopy two or three years ago. Oh boy,
here we go, here we go. So you can't use this,
but you want to go. Oh my god. So I
did the stuff, you know, I drank all the stuff
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and everything, and so, you know, that morning I was like, well,
you know, I think I can still go work and stuff.
And so I had a little ore, just a little
old ten foot john boat right on the edge of
my pond, and I was going to just drag it
up onto the onto the bank and flip it over.
And I reached down and grabbed that boat and I
went and it just went boom. So I went to
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the house and I was like, oh my god, you know,
and she got the biggest kick out of it, and
you got the garden hose out or in. Well, it was.
It was pretty bad. So then I thought, well that's it,
you know. So I got dressed and went back and
I was up under my one of my side by
sides because I jacked it up and put a tire
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on it because one of my daughters ran over something
busted the tires. So anyway, I got up on there
and I just took the jack out and I grabbed
the top of the tailgate of the thing to pull
myself up to get up and did it again.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Nothing like an encore, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Then I went to the house and she was crying
because she loved me so much and this has brought
us so much closer together, you know. And I didn't
realize that that would do that, you know, but she
was like so in love with me right at that
moment that she started crying, you know. And I was like, well,
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this is easy. I can do that again, you know. Anyway,
I thought, well that's it. I'm just going to lay
on the couch the rest of the day. And so
I went out to the couch and she stacked about
four towels on the couch.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I hate to run the furniture.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
God, you know, she loved your It had have been
one towel, that's right, but she hurt.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
My feelings by stacking them up about four.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
D Well, I mean, look what you've done to the boat.
And God knows everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
She was oppressed.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
She was impressed to hire somebody who come clean that up.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay, if you have ever seen the movie The Other
Woman where all the other women find out about each
other and they're gonna get this guy back, and so,
in his smoothie in the morning, the wife gives him
some kind of laxident, but he doesn't know it. He
has this problem out when he gets home, he's a
mess at all. She said, what, oh honey, what's wrong
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with you? He goes, nothing, I had a fecal incident.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Two things we need to do.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
We need to give him Angie's list number and serve pro.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It never even happened.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We all need the power pray.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I honestly do not know what to say after hearing
his conversation with Tracey.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's just hilarious, I.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Think, Charlie. There's nothing left to say, not much except that, Okay, everybody,
you must go see the new movie that Trace Atkins
co stars in. It's the sequel to I can only Imagine.
I can only imagine too. Once again, he reprises his
role as the manager of the just super star Christian
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band Mercy Me.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
He's a good actor, he really is. I mean, as
he admits he's only good for bicker rolls and you know,
like wrestlers and stuff like that, but actually he's very
good in this particular role. So you can't shut trace Atkins.
He's one of our buddies, our longtime buddies, thirty year career.
He needs to brag about that, and we're going to
brag about him.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
All right. We have your country covered as always. Listen
to our Crook and Chase Countdown every weekend on hundreds
of radio stations across America and also streaming on iHeartRadio
Speaker 4 (29:52):
And follow us on Facebook, x and Instagram at Crook
and Chase
Welcome in, everybody. Laurien and Charlie here, Crook and Chase
Nashville chats. Where do we begin with Trace Atkins?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
May I tell you this Charlie James. The first time
I met him, I think it was on a red
carpet decades ago, and he wouldn't look me in the eye.
He had no expression on his face. I thought, this
guy doesn't even know me, and he hates me. Later on,
after we became really good friends. Of course, he was
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on our show so many times and still is today.
I told him about that incident and I said, why
did you treat me so bad? And he said, I
was shy, He says, back then I had a crush
on you.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh really.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, you have to understand he's a very imposing figure.
He's like what six twelve something like that, big dude,
big muscular guy. But he's a real softie. Yeah, he's
a lot of fun when you get to know him. Okay,
And I knew we were in for it on this
PODCA cast because he walked in with a grin on
his face. And there is a name for that grin
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which we can't use here, but it is. You're about
to find out.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yes, indeed.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So the whole reason.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We invited Trace for this particular moment is that he
is celebrating thirty years since his first album.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's rare. It's pretty cool, yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So we wanted to talk all about his life and
his career, and as you will hear, we found out
way more than we expected. Charlie is in a weird mood.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But oh, Tray, Okay, so your wife says you're in
a weird mood? What's going on with you?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Are we going to have to ask her?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Do you want to switch places? Victoria?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It started at about three o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't know. Whatever she fed me last night?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh, so excuse me? Do we need to open the
window or something.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, I'll excuse myself if I have to. Oh, I'll
excuse myself before you. So that's what. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is very important. Is it something that Victoria made.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Or I made it? But it was it was it
was from stuff she bought, So I'm blaming her. So okay,
what was the dish? So I know I just had
a sandwich, but the meat had she bought? It, you know,
before the freeze happened, she stocked up like it was
the end of the world. And so some of this
stuff's two weeks old, and I didn't pay much attention
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to it and just ate it anyway, you know. I
mean it was some old prepper meat, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So okay, well you will love this then, because fairly
recently we had a little chat with Luke Bryan, who
had decided that he would like to make his own
home brew homemade beer. Well, he didn't do it properly,
and some kind of bacteria got in there and did
the same thing to him. So we named it Luke
(03:15):
Bryan's Colon Colon Blow.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, don't figure it'll be a big seller.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But okay, we're done with that, are we, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
No, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Let me just give credit where credit is due. Okay,
are you serious or I'm very serious?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I want to thank you for making badoka doc a
household word.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I heard that. I've heard it a few times. I
saw it on Jeopardy the other day, you know, are
you serious?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Jeopardy? Now listen, it's not in the dictionary. It should be.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I bet it's in the Urban Diction is diction, sure,
but it may be badunca dunk no badunkadunt in the
urban dictionary.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What's the difference between badonka donc and dunk?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uh? Uh? What was her name? The the girl that
started it actually, when it first started out, Missy Elliott,
I think, was the first one to say badunca dunk.
And then when Jamie and Dallas and uh no who
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else wrote Randy Howse or when they wrote that song,
they changed it to dunk dount around the honky dunkin
so Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Anyway, I was going to say the official uh definition
referring to large, voluptuous or cravaceous buttocks much junk in
the trump.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's what I said, I say, That's what I just said.
I've mine is a little bit more official than.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You guys have more Webster.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
We have been here five minutes and the whole thing
has been about darriers.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Riam. We'll get aay you in a minute here, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Victory kind of comes it with you.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
No, Hey, we're having a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
But you know it's great that you're sitting here, my friend,
because thirty years is what you're celebrating.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You're going on tour to do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Can we have applause for this thirty years?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Because listen, you know as well as I do, a
thirty year career is something to brag about. It doesn't
happen that often. What do you think has been the
key components to keep you around thirty years? Keep you
want to be around thirty years? Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Just not? A lot of people told me.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, you know WHOA wait a minute, is that a
joke because everybody hears no constantly.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't know. I just I didn't hear it a
lot in the music business. I hear it quite often
and in the acting world, but I didn't hear it
that much in the music business.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Why do you think not?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Hmmm, I don't know. I got lucky. I got really lucky,
you know, just and there have been a lot of
people along the way that you know, I mean, I
didn't do this by myself. I mean I've had help
on every step of the way. And you know, the
people that I could list off, I mean, that would
be a long list of people that have kept me
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around here for thirty years. But yeah, somebody told me
one time that the average life span of a country
artist is five years if you average out the ones
that had a couple of hits and then went away
with the ones that had a fifty year career, it
averages out by five years.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Okay, So to me this relates to I'm jumping track
here to the sequel coming out. I can only imagine
too because in the trailer, reach and I'm going to
botch your line, your character's line, but me has success.
You're telling they're experiencing more hardship and are kind of
(07:07):
ticked off about it, and you're saying to them these
very smart words, you know, what did you think was
gonna happen? You're gonna write off into the sunset, no
more pay, no more struggles. But it sounds like that's
what you did. You got your success and wrote off
and everything's been pretty grand.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah. You know, I just I just kept going. I
just kept going, and you had a lot of people
that kept kept me on the road, kept me working,
and I just kept making records. Over the years, every
time I wanted to make a record, I made one.
You know, They've had to take me into the studio
kicking and screaming a few times. It's not always something
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that I'm champing at the bit to do, you know,
go in the studio and make another record.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But really, nah, okay, you're shocking me. It seems like
that's the love.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm gonna make one more. I'm gonna make one more.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Uh what is it that is not attractive to you
about it?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Uh? Yeah, I just think I don't want to get
all off into the weeds about it. But it's like,
I don't like to waste good songs. And I had
a songwriter friend of mine the other day come to
me with a just a bonafide hit, and I said,
why are you pitching that to me? Why don't you
take that to Luke Colmb's or Cody Johnson or somebody,
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you know what I mean, Pitch it to somebody that'll
make you some money.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You know, after all your success and all these years,
why don't you believe in yourself more?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh? I know, I believe in my That's That's one
of the frustrating things. I mean, I feel like I'm
at the top of my game. I can. I've gotten
as good at my craft as I think I'm ever
gonna be. My voice is still I can still sing
every song and the key that I recorded it in
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my chops are better. My range is just as good,
if not better, than it was when I started, because
the bottom's gotten better and the top is still there.
So I just I'm as good as I've ever been,
if not better. But I'm just old news now you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wait no, because you and I have had sort of
fringe conversations about this over the years. But this is
my theory, my theory, and you laughed at me the
first time I told you this, but it's so true.
I think part of your magic is that you are
a mystery that we don't really know what you're thinking,
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and then all of a sudden you're funny as heck.
And then you turn around and do movies like I
can only imagine, and you go, WHOA, where's this guy
coming from? We never know?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Do you greet with me?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah? I do agree with you. It's hard for people
to know what I'm thinking when I don't know what
I'm thinking half the times. You know what I mean.
It's so Charlie.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
The secret to trey' Hadkins' success is that he's confused.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There you go, that should be the next album.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's last confused. Yeah, I spent thirty years trying to
figure this out. I never did. I never did. You're welcome,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, see what we're talking about. Okay, there's one thing
that Trace, though, is not confused about his most embarrassing
gig ever, that gripping story or should we say ripping
story coming right up.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You've got dates that are already selling out. That's great,
that's good support, you know that. So tell us about
the show you plan. You've got a suitcase full of
hits you can take with you. What do you what
kind of show you're going to do?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well? I sow. I'm tenerary the day that that we
have rehearsals coming up here in a couple of weeks,
and I was like, why, you know, got it down
doing the same songs that I You know, it's like,
why are we having rehearsals?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You know, But you know got an answer for that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, every year, you know, you get a couple of
new guys. You may have a new lighting guy, and
you know, so it's more for them than it is.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
For me even show up.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, We're going to pull out a couple of songs
this year that I haven't done in a long time,
just because you know, if this is if this is
the tour, you know, then I want to make sure
I get a couple of things in there that I
that that I think define who I am. And that's
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the same way with some of the venues I want
to go back to. I cherry picked a few of
the venues that I want to go back here and
I want to go back there.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And all that said, is there one okay, And all
the years you've been touring, do you remember a nightmare stop?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh yeah, let's hear it. Oh my god. One time
I asked Eddie. Eddie Montgomery and I were sitting and trouble.
We were having at least half an intelligent conversation. My
half was intelligent, you know, Eddie was just but whatever.
So I asked Eddie, I said, what is the worst
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place that you can remember ever playing? And we both
had the same answer. Yeah, And I don't want to
say it because you don't it's a rodeo.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, okay, leave it at that, But what was what
was the nightmare thing about it?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It was just the worst gig ever. It was just
the where it was and did.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You step in stuff?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And no, it was just it was just not a
good gig and just not a good gig. There's a
couple of other ones, you know, but uh, that was
the one that always stuck out, that rodeo. It was
in Missouri office. Would you like to lie down and
tell us about her? You know, it is something that
I wish I could get out just forget about it.
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But and I don't like going to Canada at all.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So you know, and this is one of the greatest
answers you've given. But there's no answer to it, no
answer in there anywhere, you know what Canada. No, I'm
talking about the just the worst gig we got it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
He doesn't want he doesn't know that disparage any particular.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
My britches boasted one time and uh what uh Johnson City, Okay, Yeah,
I had on a real tight pair of wranglers and
old lady had made some kind of little bunch of
pictures of me, like on a calendar or something. She
was right down in front of the stage and she
held it up for me to get it, and I
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bent over and the entire so those wranglers blew out
right down the scene.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
So is there a plaque at that venue? Forget?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I don't know. And so Luckily this thing was on
a piece of poster board about that big and I
just because it busted down this scene too, so I
just held it right in front of me and then
just backed off the stage.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You remember that, oh show, showtime.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I didn't have no drawers on.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh boy, all right, the things the band sees from behind? Okay, Well,
the big guy, Trace Adkinns, has a sense of humor
to match. But more importantly, Trace has a big heart
that really rises above just about anything.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He's ever done.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
That and the only place he keeps falling again and again.
Coming up next, I want to talk about Wounded Warrior Project, Okay,
because that's.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Something I know.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
The reason I want to bring that up is a
lot of people when they see these campaigns on TV,
they like them. They're skeptical about donating. But you what
I gather, you've seen firsthand how this how your support helps.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah. Yeah, I see those guys all the time. I
mean they come to no matter what city we're in,
you know, somebody's going to show up, And yeah, I
hear those stories all the time. Howard changed their life
and really helped them out in some really dark times
and I'm just honored and humbled to have been some
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small part in that whole organization. And it's it is
just it's a noble endeavor and it's run by really
good people, and I wouldn't have anything to do with
it if it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
So that's why I ask you. I wanted to hear
that from you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And the thing is, I mean, you've done so much
that and beyond. You have way more humanitarian and philanthropic
awards that and I even knew about because you don't
talk about them that much. You don't really you know,
you don't brag about them, obviously, But why do you
do those things more quietly than others might?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I don't want ever to anybody to think that I'm
taking an advantage or patronizing or any of that. I
just don't. You know, you got to be doing that
stuff for the right reasons, and some people make a
career out of it. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Just what they say, quietly do good?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Right? I guess you know, I don't. I don't really
worry about it. I just do what I do, and
I don't really think that much about it. I just,
you know, I said in the very beginning of my
career that the charities and the things that I would
want to contribute to or or lend my time to
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would be anything that helped kids and anything that helped veterans,
you know, because neither of the people in those groups
deserved what happened to them, and they didn't. It was
no fault of their own that they were, you know,
stricken with, whether it be cancer and a child or
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wounds suffered on a battlefield. They were obeying orders and
kids and don't deserve anything bad that happens to them.
So you know the rest of us, I mean, you know,
I deserve every scar I've got.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So you know, how's your latest one?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
By the way, Yeah, my leg it's never going to
be good again. The nerves are all gone, so I
can't really pick up my toe when I walk, and
so I have to kind of compensate for that. But
you know, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Last time I was on that farm with you, you
had just flipped something over on top of yourself. How
did you do this one?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I fell off of a scaffold about twelve feet. Yeah, yeah,
landed all my weight, landed on my right leg. It
was bad.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Okay, are you getting smarter now?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
No, no, we're back to theirs again. Yeah, no, no,
I still. I was doing something yesterday on my back
ho that I was like, this is dangerous.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Ecuse.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Let me let me give you a number of angies
list here. Hey, have you ever been the subject of
mistaken identity? And the reason I bring that up I
saw you one time. We were down Stony River a
steakhouse and you came in and I saw you. You
came up and you set out over there, two or
three tables from me, and the waiter comes by and
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he's waiting on us, and he says, hey, wrestler over there.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I used to get that when I was in better
shape and I was kind of jacked up. You know, well,
you're still in the poss I used to get Kevin
Nash a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
People, which I don't see it, but I used people
used to holler at me in the in the airport.
How do you handle that?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, as me, I'll signed autograph?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Well why not?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You know? Yeah, okay, Oh my gosh, he's a bigger
star than I am.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'll take Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So since we're just a little bit silly, as we
always do. So, so, what's like your stupidest story with
Blake Blake Shelton.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
God, I can't even tell it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I wish it should be a book. You should write
another book.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I don't know. Yeah, I can't tell. Oh my gosh,
yeah I heard.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That right there says a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
He's funnier than people even realize. Oh I know, you know, yeah,
you get off with it. That's all he does. That's
all he does. He's always trying to make you laugh.
That's all he goes for. The laugh, always all the time.
You know, even when he's not trying to be funny,
he makes me laugh because he's just ridiculous. You know,
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he's just he's just an old country boy like me,
and neither one of us can figure out how we
got here. And you know, it's just he's a funny dude.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well you can hold your own with him, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, we have a good time, have good time,
all right.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I know that's the next book you ought to write,
and I would buy about ten copies? Could it probably
be ten volumes?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Where do you see yourself after the tour? I don't know.
I'm just kind of taking in a year at a time. Now,
I'm not really looking too far ahead. I don't I'm
going to do a pretty full run this year, but
I don't see myself hitting it that hard next year.
(20:50):
I mean, I'm gonna start cherry picking and cut back anyway,
even you know, I'm just not going to do as
many shows. How about more acting, you're good, you know,
if those things come along, I'm not gonna I'm not
going to move to LA and start auditioning for everything
that comes along. That's not I'm not. I'm never going
to do that. I've never gotten a part anyway from
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an audition, so I've been told to know every time
I ever auditioned for a part. The only parts I've
ever done are people just call me up and they
know what I do, and they that's what they wanted,
and they call me, you know, because they know what
I do well, and I'm pretty much I can. I
can do a cowboy and a biker. That's about it.
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You know you want to you want a sullen, sorrow
old cowboy, I'm your guy, you know, or you know
used up old biker as me. Yeah, I'm not going
to play a lawyer and none of that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know, you know, but it seems I mean again,
I think that's probably part of your success, because it
seems like you have known who you are, no nonsense
since the very beginning, and maybe that's why you haven't
had as many stumbles as some other people have had.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Maybe I don't know. Yeah, we're all going for yours,
Confused as I what makes.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
You say that?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
See, I think my answer just said that I was embarrassing.
But there's more coming up next. You have to hear this.
Trace admits to his most agonizing live performance and it
happened on our television show. We had no idea, but
(22:36):
Trace will describe it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
All in detail, and you have to hear this one too.
As we wrap the interview, Trace is going to admit
to his most embarrassing and agonizing moment behind the scenes
at his own house. Let's just say, coming up, Trace
and his colonoscopy calamity. That was hard to say the
funny story we've heard in years thanks to Trace Atkins.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Next, Don Crook and Chase Field chats, I was on.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Y'all's show when I did some one of the most
embarrassing things I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Was it our fault.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
No, it was absolutely totally my fault. I was on
with Ronnie miil Sap, and Ronney miil Sap and I
were singing together and we didn't rehearse it. And Stranger
in My House, yes, and so I sing Stranger in
My House in my show sometimes anyway, but I don't
do it in the key that Ronnie does it. Then,
(23:30):
so he wanted me to sing with him. So we
get out there and he sings a verse, of course,
and then I sang the second verse, and then Ronnie,
I guess, thought I was going to keep singing the
chorus on out but I knew there's no way I
can't sing that chorus in that key, and so I
pointed at him to sing the chorus.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
You pointed it led at a blind man. You know,
we've got that on tape. Probably you take it, you know.
It's like I pointed at.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You covered it well, because I don't remember it being
a disaster, so there.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Was just one little space in there. And then Ronnie
realizing and he started singing.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
See you guys are pro So you covered it so
quick that we didn't notice that well.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I noticed it. I almost threw up. I was oh,
my god, I just pointed at a blind man on TV.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You have not been agonizing blind man? Well please tell
me you have not agonized over that for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh, I'm singing Stranger in my house on the Oprey
next week you are.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, we get it right. This time.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I hope to almost singing in my key. See okay, okay,
that's the key if you will, all.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Right, this is this has been a very interesting session.
We can make you lie down next time.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Be a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
As we close. As we close, because because you know,
we just we love you and all the people around you.
So are you a content man with life?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yes? Absolutely, absolutely yes, I hit that perfect spot. I
think I hit that sweet spot of celebrity where you know,
like Blake and you know Gwenny, they can't go anywhere.
(25:19):
I mean, you know, I hit that perfect sweet spot
where I don't get mobbed by anybody, but I can
still get a good table in a restaurant, you know
what I mean. So just that perfect level of celebrity,
I'm right where I want to be.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Kind of good combination between country star and wrestler.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Absolutely, it doesn't get much better than that.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's right, okay, well go get some pepto bismol.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh, thank you, yeah, can we can? We trust you
to get up out of the chair with an.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh my god. That's one of the funniest stories. Victoria
died of colonoscopy two or three years ago. Oh boy,
here we go, here we go. So you can't use this,
but you want to go. Oh my god. So I
did the stuff, you know, I drank all the stuff
(26:10):
and everything, and so, you know, that morning I was like, well,
you know, I think I can still go work and stuff.
And so I had a little ore, just a little
old ten foot john boat right on the edge of
my pond, and I was going to just drag it
up onto the onto the bank and flip it over.
And I reached down and grabbed that boat and I
went and it just went boom. So I went to
(26:33):
the house and I was like, oh my god, you know,
and she got the biggest kick out of it, and
you got the garden hose out or in. Well, it was.
It was pretty bad. So then I thought, well that's it,
you know. So I got dressed and went back and
I was up under my one of my side by
sides because I jacked it up and put a tire
(26:55):
on it because one of my daughters ran over something
busted the tires. So anyway, I got up on there
and I just took the jack out and I grabbed
the top of the tailgate of the thing to pull
myself up to get up and did it again.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Nothing like an encore, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Then I went to the house and she was crying
because she loved me so much and this has brought
us so much closer together, you know. And I didn't
realize that that would do that, you know, but she
was like so in love with me right at that
moment that she started crying, you know. And I was like, well,
(27:32):
this is easy. I can do that again, you know. Anyway,
I thought, well that's it. I'm just going to lay
on the couch the rest of the day. And so
I went out to the couch and she stacked about
four towels on the couch.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I hate to run the furniture.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
God, you know, she loved your It had have been
one towel, that's right, but she hurt.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
My feelings by stacking them up about four.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
D Well, I mean, look what you've done to the boat.
And God knows everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
She was oppressed.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
She was impressed to hire somebody who come clean that up.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay, if you have ever seen the movie The Other
Woman where all the other women find out about each
other and they're gonna get this guy back, and so,
in his smoothie in the morning, the wife gives him
some kind of laxident, but he doesn't know it. He
has this problem out when he gets home, he's a
mess at all. She said, what, oh honey, what's wrong
(28:33):
with you? He goes, nothing, I had a fecal incident.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Two things we need to do.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
We need to give him Angie's list number and serve pro.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It never even happened.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We all need the power pray.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I honestly do not know what to say after hearing
his conversation with Tracey.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's just hilarious, I.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Think, Charlie. There's nothing left to say, not much except that, Okay, everybody,
you must go see the new movie that Trace Atkins
co stars in. It's the sequel to I can only Imagine.
I can only imagine too. Once again, he reprises his
role as the manager of the just super star Christian
(29:22):
band Mercy Me.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
He's a good actor, he really is. I mean, as
he admits he's only good for bicker rolls and you know,
like wrestlers and stuff like that, but actually he's very
good in this particular role. So you can't shut trace Atkins.
He's one of our buddies, our longtime buddies, thirty year career.
He needs to brag about that, and we're going to
brag about him.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
All right. We have your country covered as always. Listen
to our Crook and Chase Countdown every weekend on hundreds
of radio stations across America and also streaming on iHeartRadio
Speaker 4 (29:52):
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