July 14, 2026 • 24 mins
Country superstar HARDY joins Wayne D for a candid conversation about what's next in his career, the stories behind his latest music, and the creative collaborations that continue to shape his sound. HARDY opens up about working with legends like Tim McGraw and Eric Church, shares what inspires him in the studio, and reveals what fans can expect from his new music. Plus, he talks about his longtime friendship with Morgan Wallen, how they've supported each other's journeys through country music, and whether awards and industry recognition really matter to him at this stage of his career. It's an honest, entertaining look inside the mind of one of country music's most outspoken and successful artists. Don't miss this conversation with HARDY on The Wayne D Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A bit a minute since you caught up with this guy,
and if you follow him on.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Social media, he's busy, uh, writing massive hit songs, doing
massive shows, Uh, being a dad, Uh, creating content, getting
on the TikTok a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I haven't paid attention. I don't know about that last one.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I tried.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I tried myself, dude. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you for making time, dude. I know you're busy,
and of course, man, and when you're home you get
to be a dad. So yeah, I'm a bit of
time from that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Of course, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We were just talking about AI a second ago and
as AI started popping off, uh and you know, becoming
like almost its own language.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I remember specifically.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Your manager Tracker was like, you got hey, I said
something AI goes. Oh you should bring up AI because
obviously as a song.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Right, we talked about that last time, right, Yeah, as.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A songwriter, that's something you're going to be super passionate about.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
AI has grown even more since you and I talked
last to the point where like there's people I got
a friend who is sending me his AI songs to
tell you that I tell you about that, Dan and
he's making AI songs, and so I'm like, I'm like,
don't don't send that to me because I don't like, Bro,
you're killing if you can't sing, don't let the computer sing.
F So, knowing how much AI has even changed just
(01:12):
from the songwriting aspect and now it's it's recording music,
how do you stand on the whole like it's a
tool versus like it's use I think.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's a It's a great tool that's.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Being used the wrong way. It's just like drugs or
anything else, not actual drugs. Sorry, we came in here
talking about drugs medicine.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You know, I don't know I feel about that anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But Kelly.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Kelly's mystery drug that she's trying to describe.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, So I Charlie Pooth, I'm borrowing this from Charlie Pooth.
But he said I saw him say that he thinks
that AI is a great tool, but we need to
use AI to make music that has never been made before,
as opposed to basically making like convenient music or to
like replicate music that's already been done and stuff like that. Yeah,
(02:02):
as a songwriter, I'm very aware that it is killing
musicians jobs. People that like tracking studios, jobs and stuff
like that. I completely and totally am aware of that,
and that's sad and that sucks.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But I truly believe and I will.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Stand on this that like there is when you like
a songwriter, somebody that sits down and writes the lyrics
and the melody and all that stuff, a lyric and
melody songwriter, there's something that comes from like the soul
or God or whatever you want to believe in.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There is something otherworldly about these people.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
That can write a lyric and a melody that makes
people cry, that makes people do this that the other
that feel a certain way that I truly do not
believe for a very long time will be able to
be replicated by Aire's. That's my saving grace is that, Yeah,
just that the ones that really the people that really
get the song writer and they just have that that
(03:02):
gift and that talent that's a god given thing and
it's just something that a robot or you know, AI
in general just can't replicate.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's I've heard I've heard every AI.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Song and there's not been one that has moved me
or that has made me scared for my job as
a songwriter.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They can rhyme words and they can write melodies, but
there's songwriting is way, way, way more.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Than that as as somebody who is and I mean
I'm throwing a compliment in here because you're not just
a songwriter. I mean you've written some of the biggest
songs that country radio has played in the last ten years. Right,
Have you played with it at all to see what
it would do with something you've written versus what AI.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Would would do?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
What do you like?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
How give me a so like up down right?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Sure? As a big old hit, it was already done,
It was done your way, with some outside influence whatever.
Have you put something like that into AI to see
what AI, how AI would have would have affected the
outcome of the song?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like have I like, have I like a song that's
already a hit?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, one that you've already had, like a.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hit that's already happened. No, I never have. I've definitely
like recorded acoustic demos and random through AI just to
see what it sounds like with a.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Band, But I've never will it do that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Can it do that?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So you can't, Okay, So as far as I know,
you can't say make and make this song sound like Hardy,
make this song sound.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Like Morgan Wiland.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But I could I could play up down acoustic and
say make it a reggae song, and it could do that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
All right, I'll go home tonight and I'll try that.
I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's funny, okay man, and it's and it's I would
be foolish to not bring this up because one of
the biggest stories so far of twenty twenty six happened
at CMA Fest just a couple of days ago, and
you were a big part of you know, some of
these guys songs Florida Georgia line, what was that? What
was the reunion like for you? And and if they
(04:56):
got back together? Like country music has advanced a lot
since FGL in those few years, where is their spot now?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
First of all, I'm I'm excited. I think the whole
world is excited. I selfishly, I want them to go
back to day one and just not start over, because
because they they've done such a good job evolving, you know,
which is great. And I think every great band in
the world changes slowly, changes their sound, and that opens
(05:28):
up another door for them to do what they want
in the future. But I think that what the people
want is here's to the good times and anything goes FGL.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's like that's the that's what that's the stuff that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
People fell in love with, and that's the songwriting style.
This this video went viral and like has been stitched
or whatever you call it, like a bunch. But I
saw Lauren Watkins like a few months ago be like
I want to be called hot and I want to
be on a tailgate sitting next to a dude playing guitar,
and I like that's that was like a lot of
gave perspective to me because it's like, man, there's a
(06:03):
reason that they were so.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Big, and it's because not only girls, but it's like
some of these girls, like.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They enjoyed being called hot and being described like a
country beauty queen and all that kind of stuff. And
FGL was so good at doing that and and and
also they aside from like the girl thing, they were
very very good at just creating a party scene or
like creating a moment in the country nightlife lifestyle that
(06:34):
that made people want to play that music at the thing.
It's like it's like inception, where like the people wanted
to be doing the thing and playing the song about
the thing that they're doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And FGL was just good at that, and that.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
The writing, the color that those guys were writing in
the way that they they wrote it, like with those
Rodney Claus so a lot of those songwriters that they
were writing all that early stuff with.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Is just it's awesome and.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
We're far enough away from it now for it to
feel nostalgic again, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So I'm here for And it's funny because obviously we're
into June now, which is wild because I feel like
it was just like, oh, every New Year, everybody, But
it's uh, there we're waiting for like a summer jam,
a summer anthem, a big summer party song.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You don't have to confirm or deny, but has there
been a text thread.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That Hardy, Brian and Tyler getting together for a summer anthem?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No? Such a that almost sounds like you know something
I don't know, Bro, that was so specific. Well, I
want kidding, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
And look, when it comes to like my involvement with them,
like if they come, like I said this earlier, I'm
sure that everybody and their mom is sending them every
bro country song they've ever written right now.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm sure it's driving them crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
If I get the call to maybe help them come
write some stuff, I'll be more than happy to.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
But I would be just as happy to.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Just watch the resurgence happen, you know. I mean, I
that that's that will give me just as much fulfillment
as being a part of it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So are you to that point where like, and I
don't want to say like you're well established and like
something like that, which you are, right, But are you
to the point where like, hey, people know what I
offer if they can come to me if they have something.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I mean, like I just don't want to bug them
and be like, yo, let me get in on this
new project, but like I don't you know, no way,
Like I mean, they're like I text people all the
time and be like, you know, hey, what you got
going on next week? Like I'm never like if you
want something to come to me, And I think people
do that and that's awesome, and I'm very thankful to
(08:37):
be at a spot where maybe somebody will say, hey,
send me some songs, or like hey, I really need
this for my next record. Do you want to write,
help try to write it, but no, I'm still beating
people's doors.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Down all the time. It's just this songwriter grinding me
that will just never go away.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I just don't want to bug those guys because I
know everybody in the world that's ever had their phone
number is like, yo, bro, we wrote this one a
few years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know whatever?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He remember when I to your truck on the side
of the road, I've been working on something. Yeah, Literally,
the last thing I'll ask.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
About those boys getting back together and and any potential
reunion with you as a writer as well. If you
got a call from one of them today, do you
already know what song that you'd give them now you're
sitting on right now. I won't ask details because I
know that's tough, but do you if you got a
call right now and they're like, hey, we need something,
you know you got anything in the in the tank?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I mean, if they gave me a specific thing, I
would go dig and see what I had, But like,
not even I think more than anything, I would just
like to get in a room and be like, what
do y'all what are y'all trying to do?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Like, what's the vibe? And then just kind of start there.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Be's so wild.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, but look that that stuff, like all that broke
country stuff that was like five years, six years before
I had any success, So like that was not my
I came along like later in the FGL career and
I helped like with the Can't Say Ain't Country record
more than anything, and so like I you know, and
people argue like up down and like some of these
(10:03):
songs were, and they were, like they're definitely bro country
songs that I've written and been a part of.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But like that was an old school crew of guys.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Like that's why I'm like, man, you don't have to
don't feel like you got to call me. I was
a part of the the newer stuff. Like if y'all
are trying to do the old thing, like I would
love to do it. But like I said, I just
I just want to see them get back to the
og thing and see what they come up with.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's just that's what gets me the most excited.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I will tell you that speaking to come up with
I have been a fan of yours as a human,
a fan of yours as a musician, as a writer.
What you have done with MacArthur is wild. Thank you
because not only is it such a good song. And
we talked to Tim McGraw just a couple of weeks ago.
(10:46):
Stories like that aren't told.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
In country music anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Not that the music isn't great, and there's some there's
good there's good story songs, but this literally gives you.
This is this is almost a story before it's a song,
right and where? And Tim McGraw, I couldn't. I mean,
I'll have to pull it up at some point, but
he gushed about your ability to put this song together
and and how humble he felt that that he fit
(11:14):
into into your idea.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's such a ridiculous Yeah, like he's he's texted me
that before.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm like, what are you talking about? You know who
you are?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I don't think he does. And that's okay, No.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That was It's super cool. First of all, thank you
for that, man.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, I just it's still kind of a little surreal, uh.
I mean, Tim, obviously Morgan is like one of the
biggest artists on the planet, and Eric is Eric, and
but Tim is just one of those like he's like
a he's a legend already. And it's still very like
capable of having more hits and you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So like it's just mind blowing to me that that
he is like, I'm.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Just happy to be here, and I'm like, bro, I'm
just happy, But I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You know. You're like, that's what the janitor says, you're
Tim mcgrawl.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, that's that's a crazy text.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's some that's like that those moment moments like those
are like it doesn't matter how long I've been in
town and who I know, Like.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Those are just hard to process texts, you know, in
a good way.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And even I was kind of like when he was like,
I'm like, dude, you're like you're Tim mcgrawl.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But it's such a great it's such a great song,
and it literally gives you, beginning to the end on
a on a family and their lineage and and and
their land and it's you. And it's funny because if
you asked me to write a story about the MacArthur's,
I could off of your song. Right. It's and it's
it's it's just so unique, but it's also a lot
different than anything you've done. So for you to not
(12:43):
only do that, but then it becomes a radio single.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Mh.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That takes a little bit of balls right to step
out or were you like, hey here it is like
it or not? I dig it?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I mean I definitely I loved I loved the song,
and uh there was like this is inside Bay. There
was like bottom Land was was at the time the
confirmed single, and we had to have a conversation and
be like, hey, this is a.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Really big moment. I think we should move with MacArthur.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And uh, I might have I might have butted heads
for like half a day and then I is that
not how it happened? Yeah, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Being so great? So I do I do believe there's
probably some bad budd.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
But when you know, like Tracker called me and and
uh Seth England called me and and they were you
know when when people will call me and they're like, hey,
this is a really good idea, let's let's make a pivot.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I'm never very rarely let me just say am I
like hell no? You know? Uh? Because I I would.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I have always said I will single any song off
of any record of anybody of music. That's how confident
I am in every song that I put on my record,
so like the second that they were like, hey, let's
let's swap to MacArthur, I was all all for it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It did, you know, as it comes together because collabs
aren't forced, and especially by by somebody who puts music
the way together the way you do.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's not like you're like, hey, here's a collab in here,
who needs to be on it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Was it always Tim Morgan and Eric are were there
and that's those are the names that fit immediately.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, other names got thrown around, but the asks were
in order, Eric Morgan, Tim, and it was a yes,
and it was it was done.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
At Did you have standing relationships with Tim and Eric?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Already?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Eric more than Tim? I barely.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I barely knew Tim, so I was like and I
knew Eric fairly well, but had not like after around
the MacArthur times. The most I've ever like spoken on
the phone with him and like texted and stuff like
that with him. But uh, he and I had like
been in rooms and circles and stuff a little bit
more than Tim, and I had only met Tim maybe
like one time, but I had sent Tim a batch
(15:00):
of songs. I met him, and I was like and
actually earned connected Tim and I like. Tim and I
met at an award show. It was kind of busy,
didn't get to it. He was like, we need to
get together and I was like, yes, sir, and then
didn't exchange numbers.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So Earn connected us the next day.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
After that, I texted Tim, this was like a year ago,
and I was like, can I sing you some songs?
Sending five songs. He didn't respond for like two weeks,
and then I said do they suck that bad? And
so he wrote back and he was like, sorry, man,
I'm little slow getting back to people sometimes.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I was like, totally get it anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
All that being said, that is like the only report
that he and I had ever had until I sent
him MacArthur So, but I just I had a stiff
whiskey drink one night at the deer camp and I
was just like a screw it, and just I sent
it to him and I just got lucky and he he.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Immediately responded back and just said love it. You know,
rest is history kind.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And it's so good? Is it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Does it play off of anything in your life or
anything you experienced?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Like how were you able to put this?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Because the song idea is one thing, right, but to
physically like tell a full family story is another thing
I feel.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, I've told this, I've talked about this.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
So my dad was a chicken farmer, not the same
thing as like a family farm. It's very like I'm
not going to go into detail, but it's for football
field length houses and it's you know, that's not like
when you think of a family farm.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It's not that.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So I don't I technically like came from a farm family.
But where my like, where my heart is attached to
the song is that my great grandfather bought a track
of land that I like had deer hunting my whole life,
and that my grandfather deer hunted, and that my dad
is deer hunted.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
His whole life.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And I've actually been able to expand on that and
buy like land around it, which I think is super cool,
and like keep adding to that because because deer hunting
is such a big part of our family and uh yeah,
and just to think like I'm I'm adding on this
like in four or five generations, Like I hope there's
not some shithead that's like, damn, this is worth a
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lot of money, you know what I mean, like in
the importance of keeping that in our family and why
it's and all of that. And so that's my resonation
with the song, is that more than anything else.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's I don't know what side of town you're on,
but like we're down in spring Hill and I've been
here for six years now, and that's it's like a
song about spring Hill. Same damn near because when.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I first got there, it was like, oh, you get
off the highway.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And it's farms and farms and farms, and they get
to a little, you know, tiny piece of the city
and there's my house. Now it's like neighborhoods, here's a
little bit of farm, and then it's like ten neighborhoods,
five new stoplights. So literally, like I mean, I've never
owned a farmer land, but like I felt that song
just by seeing it happen, which is normal like across
the country.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Now, well, you know, I mean there's a lot I
was talking about somebody about this other day, but like
there's a lot of reasons that a farm would get sold,
and like one is like the sad one is that
like that's not necessarily sad, Like money talks, you know,
and like, you got a big developer that can come
up to a farmer that's never seen six seven million
(17:58):
dollars in their life and they get that all for
and they're like, Okay, this is probably best for our family.
That's one way, or or you know, the farmers whoever,
you know, whoever it's passed down to whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But then there's also people that that are.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Like, can't afford to keep their their farm going, whatever
the farm may be. I mean, there's a lot of
reasons that a farm can go under. And we definitely
left that well we we technically did do the neighborhood thing,
but we left like the reason why, you know, kind
of out there as a why would it would hunter
you know, technically be selling it or whatever. I guess
we kind of gave it away that he just wants
the money, But I don't know. There's a lot of
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reasons how and why a farm can go under. So
I hope that anybody that's in any of those situations
can take this song and like, you know, relate it
to whatever situation they're going through.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It needs to be like a part two from the
from the brother in law. I'm married in the family,
I'm gonna kick. Yeah, well that's.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Part of We talked about doing like a family tree,
like actually drawing out a family tree and like why
was it passed down through these sons.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And like not a daughter or like maybe there was
a you know what I mean, like that kind of thing.
But it's just it's hard to get everybody in the
same room the same time again.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
But you know, I mean it's like I would not
even be a poet like Eric and I through around
some MacArthur like song ideas and stuff a decent bit,
like like outside of the song, like you know, a
different character and like creating a family tree, but that's
never I don't think it's ever out of the question,
you know, to expand on that idea.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I wouldn't table that just yet.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's just getting everybody in this in the same room
again to sing parts and want to be involved with
it and all that is a little difficult.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Did you guys get it all at the same time?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, it was a cool day.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And it's funny because when we first started playing, I'm like,
I'm like, if country music had an all star team,
like a like a baseball team, I'm like, that's what
this record feels like. Does it change knowing how great
this song came together and it and it being such
an awesome story, does it change what you're thinking next,
Like as far as like what's the song after this
to radio?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
What's the next project? And sound?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
How does already know that? I just can't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, I love I love getting to topics like that
because that's when the label sits up, like yeah, yeah,
we're done. That's when they put the red bull down
or the Alani or whatever the hell they got over.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
There's a sponsored.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
But I'm always a step ahead, dude, Like I I
when I finish a project or like release something for me,
that's like that's the end of that thing, and like
whatever these guys can do with it from there is great,
And whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I could do to help help move it along is
is great.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
But from a creative standpoint, like the song going to
radio or the song coming out is the end of
that song's like.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Thing for me? And then so I'm immediately like, Okay,
it's out into the world. What can I do next?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
And I've I've you know, well, there's usually a month
of like panic and I'm like what the hell am
I gotta do now? And then I just kind of,
you know, me and my buddies get together and we
sort of figure it out and then the next thing starts.
But so, yeah, I've got I've got stuff, I got
ideas and things.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Can't talk about it.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But is it tough to enjoy what MacArthur's doing then.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
If you're already like no, no, no, no very much enjoy Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's two different. You know, it's fun to
watch and playing it live and seeing it react and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
That's all still like all fun.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
But I guess like from a creative standpoint, it's just
like I've done what I can do. It is now
belongs to the world, so that I can wash my
hands of of anything that had to do with the
creation of that song or the creativity of the song,
because it now just exists in the world. So now
I need to move on to to try to create
something else. That's how my brain works.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So knowing how it came together, which feels seamlessly right,
like it felt like this this song made itself right
with everybody being available and recording whatever, does that make
it more special?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
If it was officially a number one single for you.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Hell yeah, it'll be cool as hell, dude. I mean
it'd be cool.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
It's I hear that it would it would be if
it goes it would be Tim McGraw's fiftieth number one.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Look Tim taking all the shine off of your penny.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That's right, he can take it all. I don't care.
Let's get it to number one.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Please, fiftieth, Morgan's forty eight.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real, Tim's over a thirty year span,
Morgan's ever a three pretty much.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Morgan's like I've been here three weeks? Am I doing okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, it would mean a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It would mean the world to me. Uh for it
to be a hit, truly, Like it's just a moment
in country music. I think that again.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I just I am like.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
How did high an eye on this song? And and
uh just it's a song I would can definitely like
hang my hat on. I feel like it's a moment
that will live for a very long time in country music,
and I'm just really happy to be a part of that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, that was the last question. Here's the real last one.
And Tate rolls her eyes because I always go here's
the last question, and then I have five more minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
But this is the last one because you said moment,
and that's such a great title because it does feel
like a moment versus versus any other song you've had.
There's something special about this one and how it stands,
and I'm sure you feel the same way. So knowing that,
what would on top of it being a number one,
what would a nomination for musical moment at an award
(23:22):
show mean for you on this one, knowing who's on
it with you?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Not as much as the number one? I don't think.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I mean, it would be cool. Uh, it depends on
it depends on which award show, Okay, and who and
who the people are that are voting and agree that it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Should be a moment that will vote for it.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I appreciate that we do, and I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And I'll say this on recording anytime Hardy shows up,
our Morgan Wallance shows up on the ballot, tay, and
I checked the box.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It would be. It would be cool. It would be cool.
For sure.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Someone's gonna talk shit on me for that, but I
don't care. You check the boxes that deserve to be
I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You and my big out team might be the only one,
but I still appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
We'll tell them to hire more people.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's your fault, Hardy.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I gotta tell you, man, and I say it every
time we catch up. I'd love you as a human being.
I think you're widely talented, and I appreciate any time
that you can come hang out with us.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Brother.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I love you, brother. I appreciate that
A bit a minute since you caught up with this guy,
and if you follow him on.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Social media, he's busy, uh, writing massive hit songs, doing
massive shows, Uh, being a dad, Uh, creating content, getting
on the TikTok a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I haven't paid attention. I don't know about that last one.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I tried.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I tried myself, dude. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you for making time, dude. I know you're busy,
and of course, man, and when you're home you get
to be a dad. So yeah, I'm a bit of
time from that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Of course, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We were just talking about AI a second ago and
as AI started popping off, uh and you know, becoming
like almost its own language.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I remember specifically.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Your manager Tracker was like, you got hey, I said
something AI goes. Oh you should bring up AI because
obviously as a song.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Right, we talked about that last time, right, Yeah, as.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A songwriter, that's something you're going to be super passionate about.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
AI has grown even more since you and I talked
last to the point where like there's people I got
a friend who is sending me his AI songs to
tell you that I tell you about that, Dan and
he's making AI songs, and so I'm like, I'm like,
don't don't send that to me because I don't like, Bro,
you're killing if you can't sing, don't let the computer sing.
F So, knowing how much AI has even changed just
(01:12):
from the songwriting aspect and now it's it's recording music,
how do you stand on the whole like it's a
tool versus like it's use I think.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's a It's a great tool that's.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Being used the wrong way. It's just like drugs or
anything else, not actual drugs. Sorry, we came in here
talking about drugs medicine.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You know, I don't know I feel about that anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But Kelly.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Kelly's mystery drug that she's trying to describe.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, So I Charlie Pooth, I'm borrowing this from Charlie Pooth.
But he said I saw him say that he thinks
that AI is a great tool, but we need to
use AI to make music that has never been made before,
as opposed to basically making like convenient music or to
like replicate music that's already been done and stuff like that. Yeah,
(02:02):
as a songwriter, I'm very aware that it is killing
musicians jobs. People that like tracking studios, jobs and stuff
like that. I completely and totally am aware of that,
and that's sad and that sucks.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But I truly believe and I will.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Stand on this that like there is when you like
a songwriter, somebody that sits down and writes the lyrics
and the melody and all that stuff, a lyric and
melody songwriter, there's something that comes from like the soul
or God or whatever you want to believe in.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There is something otherworldly about these people.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
That can write a lyric and a melody that makes
people cry, that makes people do this that the other
that feel a certain way that I truly do not
believe for a very long time will be able to
be replicated by Aire's. That's my saving grace is that, Yeah,
just that the ones that really the people that really
get the song writer and they just have that that
(03:02):
gift and that talent that's a god given thing and
it's just something that a robot or you know, AI
in general just can't replicate.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's I've heard I've heard every AI.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Song and there's not been one that has moved me
or that has made me scared for my job as
a songwriter.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
They can rhyme words and they can write melodies, but
there's songwriting is way, way, way more.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Than that as as somebody who is and I mean
I'm throwing a compliment in here because you're not just
a songwriter. I mean you've written some of the biggest
songs that country radio has played in the last ten years. Right,
Have you played with it at all to see what
it would do with something you've written versus what AI.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Would would do?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
What do you like?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
How give me a so like up down right?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Sure? As a big old hit, it was already done,
It was done your way, with some outside influence whatever.
Have you put something like that into AI to see
what AI, how AI would have would have affected the
outcome of the song?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like have I like, have I like a song that's
already a hit?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, one that you've already had, like a.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hit that's already happened. No, I never have. I've definitely
like recorded acoustic demos and random through AI just to
see what it sounds like with a.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Band, But I've never will it do that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Can it do that?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So you can't, Okay, So as far as I know,
you can't say make and make this song sound like Hardy,
make this song sound.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Like Morgan Wiland.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But I could I could play up down acoustic and
say make it a reggae song, and it could do that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
All right, I'll go home tonight and I'll try that.
I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's funny, okay man, and it's and it's I would
be foolish to not bring this up because one of
the biggest stories so far of twenty twenty six happened
at CMA Fest just a couple of days ago, and
you were a big part of you know, some of
these guys songs Florida Georgia line, what was that? What
was the reunion like for you? And and if they
(04:56):
got back together? Like country music has advanced a lot
since FGL in those few years, where is their spot now?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
First of all, I'm I'm excited. I think the whole
world is excited. I selfishly, I want them to go
back to day one and just not start over, because
because they they've done such a good job evolving, you know,
which is great. And I think every great band in
the world changes slowly, changes their sound, and that opens
(05:28):
up another door for them to do what they want
in the future. But I think that what the people
want is here's to the good times and anything goes FGL.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's like that's the that's what that's the stuff that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
People fell in love with, and that's the songwriting style.
This this video went viral and like has been stitched
or whatever you call it, like a bunch. But I
saw Lauren Watkins like a few months ago be like
I want to be called hot and I want to
be on a tailgate sitting next to a dude playing guitar,
and I like that's that was like a lot of
gave perspective to me because it's like, man, there's a
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reason that they were so.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Big, and it's because not only girls, but it's like
some of these girls, like.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They enjoyed being called hot and being described like a
country beauty queen and all that kind of stuff. And
FGL was so good at doing that and and and
also they aside from like the girl thing, they were
very very good at just creating a party scene or
like creating a moment in the country nightlife lifestyle that
(06:34):
that made people want to play that music at the thing.
It's like it's like inception, where like the people wanted
to be doing the thing and playing the song about
the thing that they're doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And FGL was just good at that, and that.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
The writing, the color that those guys were writing in
the way that they they wrote it, like with those
Rodney Claus so a lot of those songwriters that they
were writing all that early stuff with.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Is just it's awesome and.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
We're far enough away from it now for it to
feel nostalgic again, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So I'm here for And it's funny because obviously we're
into June now, which is wild because I feel like
it was just like, oh, every New Year, everybody, But
it's uh, there we're waiting for like a summer jam,
a summer anthem, a big summer party song.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You don't have to confirm or deny, but has there
been a text thread.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That Hardy, Brian and Tyler getting together for a summer anthem?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No? Such a that almost sounds like you know something
I don't know, Bro, that was so specific. Well, I
want kidding, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
And look, when it comes to like my involvement with them,
like if they come, like I said this earlier, I'm
sure that everybody and their mom is sending them every
bro country song they've ever written right now.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm sure it's driving them crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
If I get the call to maybe help them come
write some stuff, I'll be more than happy to.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
But I would be just as happy to.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Just watch the resurgence happen, you know. I mean, I
that that's that will give me just as much fulfillment
as being a part of it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So are you to that point where like, and I
don't want to say like you're well established and like
something like that, which you are, right, But are you
to the point where like, hey, people know what I
offer if they can come to me if they have something.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I mean, like I just don't want to bug them
and be like, yo, let me get in on this
new project, but like I don't you know, no way,
Like I mean, they're like I text people all the
time and be like, you know, hey, what you got
going on next week? Like I'm never like if you
want something to come to me, And I think people
do that and that's awesome, and I'm very thankful to
(08:37):
be at a spot where maybe somebody will say, hey,
send me some songs, or like hey, I really need
this for my next record. Do you want to write,
help try to write it, but no, I'm still beating
people's doors.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Down all the time. It's just this songwriter grinding me
that will just never go away.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I just don't want to bug those guys because I
know everybody in the world that's ever had their phone
number is like, yo, bro, we wrote this one a
few years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know whatever?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He remember when I to your truck on the side
of the road, I've been working on something. Yeah, Literally,
the last thing I'll ask.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
About those boys getting back together and and any potential
reunion with you as a writer as well. If you
got a call from one of them today, do you
already know what song that you'd give them now you're
sitting on right now. I won't ask details because I
know that's tough, but do you if you got a
call right now and they're like, hey, we need something,
you know you got anything in the in the tank?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I mean, if they gave me a specific thing, I
would go dig and see what I had, But like,
not even I think more than anything, I would just
like to get in a room and be like, what
do y'all what are y'all trying to do?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Like, what's the vibe? And then just kind of start there.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Be's so wild.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, but look that that stuff, like all that broke
country stuff that was like five years, six years before
I had any success, So like that was not my
I came along like later in the FGL career and
I helped like with the Can't Say Ain't Country record
more than anything, and so like I you know, and
people argue like up down and like some of these
(10:03):
songs were, and they were, like they're definitely bro country
songs that I've written and been a part of.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But like that was an old school crew of guys.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Like that's why I'm like, man, you don't have to
don't feel like you got to call me. I was
a part of the the newer stuff. Like if y'all
are trying to do the old thing, like I would
love to do it. But like I said, I just
I just want to see them get back to the
og thing and see what they come up with.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's just that's what gets me the most excited.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I will tell you that speaking to come up with
I have been a fan of yours as a human,
a fan of yours as a musician, as a writer.
What you have done with MacArthur is wild. Thank you
because not only is it such a good song. And
we talked to Tim McGraw just a couple of weeks ago.
(10:46):
Stories like that aren't told.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
In country music anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Not that the music isn't great, and there's some there's
good there's good story songs, but this literally gives you.
This is this is almost a story before it's a song,
right and where? And Tim McGraw, I couldn't. I mean,
I'll have to pull it up at some point, but
he gushed about your ability to put this song together
and and how humble he felt that that he fit
(11:14):
into into your idea.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's such a ridiculous Yeah, like he's he's texted me
that before.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm like, what are you talking about? You know who
you are?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I don't think he does. And that's okay, No.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That was It's super cool. First of all, thank you
for that, man.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, I just it's still kind of a little surreal, uh.
I mean, Tim, obviously Morgan is like one of the
biggest artists on the planet, and Eric is Eric, and
but Tim is just one of those like he's like
a he's a legend already. And it's still very like
capable of having more hits and you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So like it's just mind blowing to me that that
he is like, I'm.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Just happy to be here, and I'm like, bro, I'm
just happy, But I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You know. You're like, that's what the janitor says, you're
Tim mcgrawl.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, that's that's a crazy text.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's some that's like that those moment moments like those
are like it doesn't matter how long I've been in
town and who I know, Like.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Those are just hard to process texts, you know, in
a good way.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And even I was kind of like when he was like,
I'm like, dude, you're like you're Tim mcgrawl.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But it's such a great it's such a great song,
and it literally gives you, beginning to the end on
a on a family and their lineage and and and
their land and it's you. And it's funny because if
you asked me to write a story about the MacArthur's,
I could off of your song. Right. It's and it's
it's it's just so unique, but it's also a lot
different than anything you've done. So for you to not
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only do that, but then it becomes a radio single.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Mh.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That takes a little bit of balls right to step
out or were you like, hey here it is like
it or not? I dig it?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I mean I definitely I loved I loved the song,
and uh there was like this is inside Bay. There
was like bottom Land was was at the time the
confirmed single, and we had to have a conversation and
be like, hey, this is a.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Really big moment. I think we should move with MacArthur.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And uh, I might have I might have butted heads
for like half a day and then I is that
not how it happened? Yeah, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Being so great? So I do I do believe there's
probably some bad budd.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
But when you know, like Tracker called me and and
uh Seth England called me and and they were you
know when when people will call me and they're like, hey,
this is a really good idea, let's let's make a pivot.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I'm never very rarely let me just say am I
like hell no? You know? Uh? Because I I would.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I have always said I will single any song off
of any record of anybody of music. That's how confident
I am in every song that I put on my record,
so like the second that they were like, hey, let's
let's swap to MacArthur, I was all all for it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It did, you know, as it comes together because collabs
aren't forced, and especially by by somebody who puts music
the way together the way you do.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's not like you're like, hey, here's a collab in here,
who needs to be on it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Was it always Tim Morgan and Eric are were there
and that's those are the names that fit immediately.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, other names got thrown around, but the asks were
in order, Eric Morgan, Tim, and it was a yes,
and it was it was done.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
At Did you have standing relationships with Tim and Eric?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Already?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Eric more than Tim? I barely.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I barely knew Tim, so I was like and I
knew Eric fairly well, but had not like after around
the MacArthur times. The most I've ever like spoken on
the phone with him and like texted and stuff like
that with him. But uh, he and I had like
been in rooms and circles and stuff a little bit
more than Tim, and I had only met Tim maybe
like one time, but I had sent Tim a batch
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of songs. I met him, and I was like and
actually earned connected Tim and I like. Tim and I
met at an award show. It was kind of busy,
didn't get to it. He was like, we need to
get together and I was like, yes, sir, and then
didn't exchange numbers.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So Earn connected us the next day.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
After that, I texted Tim, this was like a year ago,
and I was like, can I sing you some songs?
Sending five songs. He didn't respond for like two weeks,
and then I said do they suck that bad? And
so he wrote back and he was like, sorry, man,
I'm little slow getting back to people sometimes.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I was like, totally get it anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
All that being said, that is like the only report
that he and I had ever had until I sent
him MacArthur So, but I just I had a stiff
whiskey drink one night at the deer camp and I
was just like a screw it, and just I sent
it to him and I just got lucky and he he.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Immediately responded back and just said love it. You know,
rest is history kind.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And it's so good? Is it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Does it play off of anything in your life or
anything you experienced?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Like how were you able to put this?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Because the song idea is one thing, right, but to
physically like tell a full family story is another thing
I feel.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, I've told this, I've talked about this.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
So my dad was a chicken farmer, not the same
thing as like a family farm. It's very like I'm
not going to go into detail, but it's for football
field length houses and it's you know, that's not like
when you think of a family farm.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It's not that.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So I don't I technically like came from a farm family.
But where my like, where my heart is attached to
the song is that my great grandfather bought a track
of land that I like had deer hunting my whole life,
and that my grandfather deer hunted, and that my dad
is deer hunted.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
His whole life.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And I've actually been able to expand on that and
buy like land around it, which I think is super cool,
and like keep adding to that because because deer hunting
is such a big part of our family and uh yeah,
and just to think like I'm I'm adding on this
like in four or five generations, Like I hope there's
not some shithead that's like, damn, this is worth a
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lot of money, you know what I mean, like in
the importance of keeping that in our family and why
it's and all of that. And so that's my resonation
with the song, is that more than anything else.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's I don't know what side of town you're on,
but like we're down in spring Hill and I've been
here for six years now, and that's it's like a
song about spring Hill. Same damn near because when.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I first got there, it was like, oh, you get
off the highway.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And it's farms and farms and farms, and they get
to a little, you know, tiny piece of the city
and there's my house. Now it's like neighborhoods, here's a
little bit of farm, and then it's like ten neighborhoods,
five new stoplights. So literally, like I mean, I've never
owned a farmer land, but like I felt that song
just by seeing it happen, which is normal like across
the country.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Now, well, you know, I mean there's a lot I
was talking about somebody about this other day, but like
there's a lot of reasons that a farm would get sold,
and like one is like the sad one is that
like that's not necessarily sad, Like money talks, you know,
and like, you got a big developer that can come
up to a farmer that's never seen six seven million
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dollars in their life and they get that all for
and they're like, Okay, this is probably best for our family.
That's one way, or or you know, the farmers whoever,
you know, whoever it's passed down to whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But then there's also people that that are.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Like, can't afford to keep their their farm going, whatever
the farm may be. I mean, there's a lot of
reasons that a farm can go under. And we definitely
left that well we we technically did do the neighborhood thing,
but we left like the reason why, you know, kind
of out there as a why would it would hunter
you know, technically be selling it or whatever. I guess
we kind of gave it away that he just wants
the money, But I don't know. There's a lot of
(18:36):
reasons how and why a farm can go under. So
I hope that anybody that's in any of those situations
can take this song and like, you know, relate it
to whatever situation they're going through.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It needs to be like a part two from the
from the brother in law. I'm married in the family,
I'm gonna kick. Yeah, well that's.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Part of We talked about doing like a family tree,
like actually drawing out a family tree and like why
was it passed down through these sons.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And like not a daughter or like maybe there was
a you know what I mean, like that kind of thing.
But it's just it's hard to get everybody in the
same room the same time again.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
But you know, I mean it's like I would not
even be a poet like Eric and I through around
some MacArthur like song ideas and stuff a decent bit,
like like outside of the song, like you know, a
different character and like creating a family tree, but that's
never I don't think it's ever out of the question,
you know, to expand on that idea.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I wouldn't table that just yet.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's just getting everybody in this in the same room
again to sing parts and want to be involved with
it and all that is a little difficult.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Did you guys get it all at the same time?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, it was a cool day.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And it's funny because when we first started playing, I'm like,
I'm like, if country music had an all star team,
like a like a baseball team, I'm like, that's what
this record feels like. Does it change knowing how great
this song came together and it and it being such
an awesome story, does it change what you're thinking next,
Like as far as like what's the song after this
to radio?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
What's the next project? And sound?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
How does already know that? I just can't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, I love I love getting to topics like that
because that's when the label sits up, like yeah, yeah,
we're done. That's when they put the red bull down
or the Alani or whatever the hell they got over.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
There's a sponsored.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
But I'm always a step ahead, dude, Like I I
when I finish a project or like release something for me,
that's like that's the end of that thing, and like
whatever these guys can do with it from there is great,
And whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I could do to help help move it along is
is great.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
But from a creative standpoint, like the song going to
radio or the song coming out is the end of
that song's like.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Thing for me? And then so I'm immediately like, Okay,
it's out into the world. What can I do next?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
And I've I've you know, well, there's usually a month
of like panic and I'm like what the hell am
I gotta do now? And then I just kind of,
you know, me and my buddies get together and we
sort of figure it out and then the next thing starts.
But so, yeah, I've got I've got stuff, I got
ideas and things.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Can't talk about it.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But is it tough to enjoy what MacArthur's doing then.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
If you're already like no, no, no, no very much enjoy Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's two different. You know, it's fun to
watch and playing it live and seeing it react and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
That's all still like all fun.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
But I guess like from a creative standpoint, it's just
like I've done what I can do. It is now
belongs to the world, so that I can wash my
hands of of anything that had to do with the
creation of that song or the creativity of the song,
because it now just exists in the world. So now
I need to move on to to try to create
something else. That's how my brain works.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So knowing how it came together, which feels seamlessly right,
like it felt like this this song made itself right
with everybody being available and recording whatever, does that make
it more special?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
If it was officially a number one single for you.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Hell yeah, it'll be cool as hell, dude. I mean
it'd be cool.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
It's I hear that it would it would be if
it goes it would be Tim McGraw's fiftieth number one.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Look Tim taking all the shine off of your penny.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That's right, he can take it all. I don't care.
Let's get it to number one.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Please, fiftieth, Morgan's forty eight.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real, Tim's over a thirty year span,
Morgan's ever a three pretty much.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Morgan's like I've been here three weeks? Am I doing okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, it would mean a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It would mean the world to me. Uh for it
to be a hit, truly, Like it's just a moment
in country music. I think that again.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I just I am like.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
How did high an eye on this song? And and
uh just it's a song I would can definitely like
hang my hat on. I feel like it's a moment
that will live for a very long time in country music,
and I'm just really happy to be a part of that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, that was the last question. Here's the real last one.
And Tate rolls her eyes because I always go here's
the last question, and then I have five more minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
But this is the last one because you said moment,
and that's such a great title because it does feel
like a moment versus versus any other song you've had.
There's something special about this one and how it stands,
and I'm sure you feel the same way. So knowing that,
what would on top of it being a number one,
what would a nomination for musical moment at an award
(23:22):
show mean for you on this one, knowing who's on
it with you?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Not as much as the number one? I don't think.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I mean, it would be cool. Uh, it depends on
it depends on which award show, Okay, and who and
who the people are that are voting and agree that it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Should be a moment that will vote for it.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I appreciate that we do, and I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And I'll say this on recording anytime Hardy shows up,
our Morgan Wallance shows up on the ballot, tay, and
I checked the box.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It would be. It would be cool. It would be cool.
For sure.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Someone's gonna talk shit on me for that, but I
don't care. You check the boxes that deserve to be
I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You and my big out team might be the only one,
but I still appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
We'll tell them to hire more people.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's your fault, Hardy.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I gotta tell you, man, and I say it every
time we catch up. I'd love you as a human being.
I think you're widely talented, and I appreciate any time
that you can come hang out with us.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Brother.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I love you, brother. I appreciate that
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