September 9, 2025 • 44 mins
Nashville recording artist Bigg Vinny joined us on the show to chat about his latest single, and he talked about his next upcoming projects!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, I'm Big Vinnie and you're listening to a
grand slim of music, entertainment and sports on the award
nominated Backstage Past Podcast on KYBM ninety eight point one,
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Podcast, and welcome inside the Backstage Past.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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later on our friends at the Morell Law Firm, and
of course Casey Beck Chandler Marie Music out there too.
Ann Barkley Music and Media. He's got a brand new
song out there called Walmart Drip. I love that title,
and he's welcome back here on the show too. You
know him for the Great Day as a trailer choir.
He and I've done some work over the past couple
(01:06):
of years in this thing called the Backstage Past, Big
venning to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What's up on man, Hollow Hollow?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
What's up? Walmart? Drip? Walmart? Drip? From my head to
my toe?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I got to nothing fancy had on one day.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Maybe there'll be in Walmart two.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Man, what's been up with you? Brother? Talking about all
these projects? You've been busy, right, do that?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I mean, you know, I go NonStop. I've been. Actually,
just last week I had a big old thing in
French Lick, Indiana. I had Eddie Montgomery from Montgomery Gentry
there and Taylor Holder played it and saving ables. It
was like a two day kind of little festival deal.
Ended up selling like eighteen hundred tickets and just went awesome.
Was super proud to be back with Eddie, you know,
just because me and him have history. When we're all
the Toby Keith tore together. I started DJing. That's been
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a cool new development. This all happened. I was literally
in Vegas. I was playing for the fourth of July
in Vegas, and then crazy enough, I sit there I
ended up talking to the DJ and found out that
he made twenty five hundred more dollars than I made
to come play the same show. And I'm like, okay,
well this has got to change. I have five musicians
to play and tickets to buy and food to buy
and hotel and he just had him in his little box.
(02:08):
So I was like, I'm gonna learn how to DJ.
So I went. I got home. My wife said, why
are you spending five thousand dollars on DJ Gure. I said, Babe,
I'm not to be the best DJ in all the
country music. Next to DJ Sober, he'll be the best.
But she's like, she goes, it's a lot to spend
on something that you're not sure if it's gonna work.
I was like, Oh, it's gonna work. I promise you
it's gonna work. I said, I don't go into anything
not believing that it's gonna work. She goes, yeah, she goes,
you can believe it, but what if it don't? I said,
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what if it does? And within literally within a month
after I got in the box, and within a month
after getting that box, I took a couple of lessons
from a good buddy of mine and the next thing,
you know, Bam, I got about twenty shows booked as
a DJ, making pretty good money each night and enjoying it.
So excited to have DJ Big Vinnie in the mix.
Now on top of that, you know, I own my
Buffalo River Resort down there in Perry County. We're doing
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We do canoe and camping, kayaking all through the summer
from momorrow of day to labor day. But now we're
getting ready for our first ever Haunted Woods, which is
gonna be a really cool attraction by an hour western Nashville.
So we're just going NonStop trying to do stuff and
most importantly, you know, waking up every day trying to
be the best dad I can be, the best husband
I could be. I usually fall short on the husband stuff,
but the dad stuff I'm knocking out of the park.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So you gotta make time for those little ones too.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
At the same time, I know, for me, it's like
my wife called me today, she said, the daughter wanted
to go to the I guess the garden center what
have you and go get some plants and things like that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, sometimes it's like you step back from all this.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We work so much you and I do yeah, doing
this this podcast and DJ and all this kind of stuff,
and it's like, man, and enjoy the simple things in life.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I like to do that, don't you.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know what's crazy for me is like if honestly,
I've talked to my wife about this, Like, if I
didn't have so much love for entertainment and putting on
the show, I would literally live in the middle of
the woods with nothing else. Like I love riding full wheelers,
I love being in the w I gut sit on
the front porch in the woods all day long and
not have any regrets about it. So but I do
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love people, and I love to I love to communicate
with people. I hate living in the city. Uh, like
my whole life. I grew up in the country. So
living in the city with a house five feet on
either out of you and all that kind of stuff.
Great neighbors, I got great neighbors. I'm blessed to have
great neighbors. But if I had my drathers, I'd have
twenty thirty acres in the middle of nowhere, living on
top of the hill with you know, rainwater, collecting rainwater,
(04:13):
didn't drink.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Hey, give me kind of state of the health in
the music industry right now. There's so many great females
doing their thing and of course males too at the
same time. One of them is we're going to talk
to you next week here on the show. One of
my favorite guys. You mentioned his name there too at
the beginning of the show, Taylor Holder, blowing it up
out there across everything. He's doing so many great like
I mean, guys, ladies, give me kind of that. You've
been doing this thing a long time, well over twenty years,
(04:35):
mentioned show Dog Records, Trailer Choir.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know, you and I had the big thing last year.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's benefit Toby Keith out there in Nashville at the
Wild Beaver talk about just how much it's changed and
it's ever changing now and kind of give me a
health update.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What you think about the industry.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You know, I think for the independent artist right now,
it's the healthiest it's ever been because you actually have
a chance, you have a chance to be heard. You
got to make great content. What makes it hard for
you is you got to pay for everything. You got
to pay for the or, you got to learn to
be a video editor, and you got to learn how
to create scripts and con and all that kind of stuff.
You got to use ai where you can use it.
I mean, all those things are there, and so what
(05:08):
the the advantage that a big label has is they
have a lot more money to spend on people that
are a lot better at doing that than you.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But you still have a chance to do it. You
just got to work twice as hard.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You got to go out there and make the stuff yourself,
create the songs, record the songs, all that kind of stuff.
The good thing is it doesn't cost near as much
to record as it you assume. And you used to
to go in and record a record, you had to have,
you know, all the proper band guys and studio times,
studio a room, B five whatever. I mean, you had
to have all this stuff. You had to pay cartage fees,
all this other stuff. Now, I mean, honestly, if you're
a decent musician, you can sit in your bedroom and
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make a great little record that's good enough to put out.
You can get your distributors. There's so many different distributors
now and you don't have to like win them over.
They just have to be like cool, Okay, you're gonna
put your music out through distro Kid or Symphonic or
any of them. I don't know how many. There's like
eight million of them now, so it's like you have
a chance, but you still got to go out there
and you got to build the product. The hard thing
(05:59):
about it is is now everybody's got a chance. So
now as much as it's up to you to create
the great content and the great song, you also have
hundreds of thousands of millions of other people that are
out there trying to create their great song and their
best stuff. And people can only watch so much. People's
interest really goes quick. A guy like Taylor Holder, I
think has set up to be a superstar in country
music because he already knows how to get the attention
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of people on the internet. He already knows how to
make people stop. He's built what twenty million people just
on TikTok alone that are on there checking him out
every single day. So once he figures out how to
convert those people over to monthly listeners on Spotify, I mean,
if you have two or three million monthly listeners on average,
and you got five or six songs, even if you
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just have that, you can make you know, twenty thirty
forty grand a month and never have to leave the house.
So if he can figure out how to convert you know,
fifty percent of that, If he can get ten million
monthly listeners, he's going to be just crushing the game.
But he's already out there doing great. I just had
him up my show last week. His show has gotten
you know, when he first started, you know, he was
still learning how to put on a show. He was
a guy that was on TikTok for thirty seconds. Now
(07:03):
all of a sudden, it's like, okay, you got to
put on an hour and a half headline and set. Dude,
he crushed it. I mean he was great. He had
a little Z with him. He's you know, Little Z's
up there doing backflips. He's got Andrew seven or who
was on the voice, plays guitar for him. He's up
there ripping some leads, singing some big old songs. He's
a great singer. And Taylor is just, you know, even
as big as he's already gotten, he's very humbling down
to earth, and I think you got to have all
(07:24):
those facets to me. He's a good looking kid. He's
got some good songs, but he's also humble enough to realize, like, hey,
I gotta still do a lot of work even though
I have this big following. At one point in time,
I think the numbers I heard was he was doing
somewhere around five hundred thousand dollars a month just in
sponsorships whenever he was, you know, during twenty twenty, and
when TikTok was first blowing up, it was kind of
unbridled before you know, they kind of put their cane
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on the second. We're gonna get a piece of that
on there like Facebook and everything else. But I think
the state of the business is it's definitely in an
odd spot because you got to figure it out. But
at least you have a chance.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, no doubt, Well said there too, Like I said,
you got to You gotta bust your every day too.
Like I said, nothing's given to you in this industry,
whether it be radio, podcasting or like I said, even
as an artist to as well.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well. Time to play it. You guys have been waiting
for it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Walmart Drip, it's Big Vinnie, Big Vinnie Official dot com
for more information there too, and of course DJ Service
out there in the backstage bass coming right back playing
at Walmart drip here the backstage pass, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
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Speaker 5 (08:21):
Ball.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Drips so strong you can call it a flip.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Sit, ain't no roading on my brisk baby. It's a time.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
It's ten dollar gom shirt.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Made by me boy Bell book a crunk, tough team
and come the collar bot forty years old. But I'm
looking attire. This Walmart drip got me looking straight.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
By it, and my girl saying at least a sixteen
Call me.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Walker Hayes because I'm feeling so fancy like.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Walmart drip, Walmart drip from the heads, and my coat's got.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
That Walmart drip, Walmart drip, WMA drill.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He can't get it nothing. That Walmart drill is.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Sixty five looking fine.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It's Walmart drill. You know we just stopped buy for
that Walmart strip.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
He's got the grandkids for the weekend. Time to spin
spin Little twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Twelve, talking charcoal, hot dogs, water.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Holes, kitty pool.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Never buy his name brand, only great value. It's this
favorite spot. The one stops shopping cash. She is calling
them box and say.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
What Walmart of trip, Walmart drill.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
From the heads and my toes got that walmarted trip,
walmarted drill, Walmart drill.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
He can't get it nothing.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
That Walmart drill.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
One kid buckled.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
In, one kid on her hip.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
She's putting miles on this doggie on this Walmart trip.
She hits a toy eye for that birthday gifts. Now
she's ta being on that iPhone grocery list. She's a
superhero when it comes to save.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
It's got them bowl GOLQW ponds and eggs and bacon drip.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Every more lips perfectly kissing the butterfly sun dress just
in a Simpson.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
That wal My drill, Walmart drill from the heads and
my toes. Got that Walmart drilled, Walmlet drill, Walmlet drill.
You can't get it enough of that wallet drill, Walby drill, Walmart.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Drill from my head and my toes.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Got that Bombard drill, Walmart drill, Walmart drill.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You can't get it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Nothing of that Balmar drill. A bomb part.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Got the Jake Paul w u Snoop dog.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Double smooth Walmart drill.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Even Mother Steward looking good in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Wall Walmart drill, while I drill Walmart drill.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Over Brosburg doing straight blue collars, Read until you need
and it's all the old dollar.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
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Speaker 10 (10:54):
You need a television, if you're hunting a fishing man,
you can be a ball of flowers for the missus
Nash's did and me kisses and think you need to
take a Listen to this Walmart trip You'll be living
in love it wrapping a hook it.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
You just can't get enough.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Of that waldrip My trip.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
From the hands and my tolst that bought my trip
wall my trip trip.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
We can't get.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Enough of that.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Why I trip trip from my hands and my toes
got the wal my trip wa my trip waldrip.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
We can't get enough of that Walmart drip.
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Big Vinnie and Walmart drips. So I got to get
I love first of all, the title of this and
it was kind of cool. You put some great lyrics
in it, no doubt it was awesome to come up with.
How did this one originate? And just the idea. I'm
interested to hear this very story for this one.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
You know, it's cool. Is like I had probably the
most fun writing this song since the early trailer Quirre
days of writing all those kind of fun songs. You know,
I love writing serious songs. I love writing songs that
are gonna rip your heart out or it's gonna make
you flash back to a time in your life that
you enjoyed, or miss your grandma or whatever. I love
writing those songs, and I believe that's what people consider
real country music. But I also think that people forget
(15:43):
about heh and how fun. You know. Country music has
always been fun, you know, when you really look back.
I mean I think back to Hank Williams with Hey
good Looking you know, which I don't know if he
was the first one to cut it, but that's when
I heard. But anyways, but this song was kind of funny.
My wife and me had talked for probably two months
about this big eclipse that was coming up. Now I'm
personally a flat earther, so you can you can quote
me on that. So I don't I don't know what
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we're seeing when we're seeing eclipse, but I know it's
not it's not the shadow of the earth. But eitherway,
we'll get into that another time. That's a whole nother
podcast episode. But we wanted to watch this eclipse and
we didn't have any glasses. So my wife says, Hey,
we're gonna have to go to Walmart. Today's the day
of the eclipse. And I said, Okay, let's go to Walmart. Well,
I didn't realize I was getting tricked into going to Walmart.
We get there and I look at her and say, hey, listen,
when we get in here, we are only buying these
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glasses and nothing else. And she says, I just got
to get a few things. So when your wife tells
you I just got to get a few things for
all you guys that ain't married yet, just know that
means five hundred dollars just coming out of your bank
account immediately. So I was kind of pouting. I was
kind of going there pouting a little bit now. And
luckily I looked over that had this new Snoop Dogg
line of swim of swimsuits for men. And I look
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over and it's got a per it's got a net jersey,
you know, so you can kind of see my nipples
through it. It's kind of excited about that. Then I
had those, uh, the john stalkins. If you're if you're
if you're our age, you'll know what the John Stalkings are.
But we have these old kind of chubby shorts, the
shorty shorts come about halfway down your thigh. And I
was like, man, I'm gonna look great in that. But
it had like a picture of like Miami sunset with
the sun going down behind it and the palm tree
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swam and it was like turquoise and green and red
and yellow, and I'm like, dude, I gotta get this thing.
So I get it. I take it over my wife
and she goes, I thought you said we weren't get anything.
I was like, you've got like five thousand things, and
she says, yeah, but mine's food. I was like, yeah,
we'll keep keep shopping because I like that stuff. Anyways,
we get home and I do whatever guy does, immediately
put on this swim suit and I'm super excited about
it and like to start going, dang, girl, you get
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all this drip. And she goes, what you got? I
was like, no, my drip, my fit girl, you get
all this drip and she goes, I have no clue
what that means. I was like all the kids on
TikTok they're calling their their outfits is called their drip.
Now it's what they're they're dripping, you know, like Bruno
Mars was dripping in Finesse. I'm dripping in Walmart. And
she was like okay. She's like, well you're forty and
I said yeah. I said, but I feel like I'm
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retired though, baby, And she's like, okay, I start going
Walmart drip, Walmart drip from my head to my toes,
got that Walmart drip stop. And I was like, yeah, yeah,
probably right. She goes, no, no, no, she goes stop. Go
inside and write that song. I'll let you know when
the eclipse can hear you. So that's the dumbest thing
you ever come up with, probably be a big old hit.
So I was like, okay, it's like so I go
in there, ride ou converse in chorus and it was
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like the original was like Walmart drip, Walmart drip from
my head to my toes, got that Walmart drip. I'm
talking socks and crocks, but not the real ones though
they're called rugged sharks and there on discount yo. And
it was just funny. I made this little video and
I snapped a Pooper Scooper like wearing my dad stuff
and snapped a Pooper Scooper and the thing and got
twenty five thirty thousand US. So it was like a
kind of a little mini for me, almost mini viral
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not for Taylor because the everyone gets like five hundred million.
But either way, I was kind of excited about it. Now,
you know, I don't think that much of it now,
you know, I kind of put the song to the side. Well.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I go to a.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
School up in Salona, Kansas, and I was speaking at
this school because they do a lot of school, you know,
speaking a lot of schools around the country just about
anti bullying and childhood obesity and things like that that
I went through. So I go there and I speak,
and all of a sudden, my buddy Jared Blake, who
also will speak with me sometimes, he goes, hey, man,
you ought to sing Walmart Drip. And I was like,
I don't even have that. Whole song is just a
(19:00):
version of Chorse. He goes, yeah, I think the kids
like it, you should sing it. I was like, okay, whatever.
So I sing Walmart Drip and you know, I'll get
through it, and then sing the chorus, and all of
a sudden, the kids are singing along to every single
word of the chorus and they're like Walmart Dritt and
they're screaming it at me, and I get done. Dude,
can we go download that song right now? Where can
we go listen to it? Can we stream it? Where?
Where's it d what's your socials? I'm like, they ain't
(19:21):
do Maybe I need to record this song.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And so I went home. Literally after that week, I
went home. I finished up the song and I was
pretty cool because my wife was a songwriter on it,
because you know, she was there talking about She was, well,
I always have to go get the birthday gifts for
all the birthday parties I go to. I do half
of our grocery shopping there shows every now and then
I pick up a little sun dress.
Speaker 19 (19:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
She's like, yeah, she goes, I get everything from there.
So I was like, okay, well that's that's a great incentive.
I'll put all that in there. And then she's a writer.
My wife's a phenomenal talent. Anyway, she moved here and
went to Belmont and graduated with honors and performing arts.
So she's way better than me. And then my songwriting mentor,
Ken Harroll, I called him because I was like, man,
I said, I just feel like I want this thing
to be, you know, kind of eclectic. I wanted to
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kind of hit with everybody. And I said, what do
you go to Walmart for He goes, oh, well, I
got to go there and get my prescriptions field. He's
about sixty five. I gonna go there and get my
prescriptions filled every week.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
He goes.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I got six daughters, so I've got a bunch of grandkids.
Now show us. So half the time I'm in there buying,
you know, hot dogs and macaroni and cheese and charcoal
to do a cookout and a kiddie pool here and there.
I'm like, all that's going in there, you know? He goes,
And he literally said to me, he goes, you know,
but if you're gonna put that in there, he goes,
I always buy the great value. Bring it's way cheaper.
And I was like, dude, I gotta put great value
in there. So anyway, so I had them to come
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in as songwriters with me on the song because they
gave me so many great ideas for it. But I
just had the most fun just coming up with Okay,
what does a mom experience inside of Walmart? What does
a forty year old dude experience? You know, when he
goes in there and starts looking for his golf shirt
to go out with his buddies next week. What does
a granddad or what does a blue collar worker? Like
I heard them about all those different things, and how
could I include everybody in it but also kind of
(20:55):
give it like the life that I've lived for me,
you know. I know there's like these things or the
people of Walmart or whatever it's supposed to be like
this negative website. But I always have so many great
memories of Walmart. I have all these memories when I
was a kid of hiding in the clothes wreck and
scaring my mom, or you know, or going and picking
out a ninja turtle for your birthday, And like I
we always had these great memories. Now, we didn't have
anything in my town, so going to Walmart was forty
(21:16):
five minutes away where I grew up, So forty five
minutes to get to the Walmart. So when you went
to Walmart, it was like a treat, like you got
to go for your birthday to Walmart. So anyway, so
I just had all these great memories of Walmart. And
I said, you know, because when I first started kind
of writing, and I was like, oh, I can make
it funny about the you know, the craziness that happens.
And I was like you know what, I don't feel
that way about Walmart. I feel like Walmart is this
(21:36):
great place that you really can go get most all
your stuff done in one stop, you know, and with
the way busy, how busy life is now. And I'm
the kind of person I can order some stuff online,
but I got to try and clothes. If I order
something online, it never fits right. I mean, my chest
is sixty inches around. I mean, there's nothing that fits
me right. And even when I get a shirt that's
big enough to fit around my chest and shoulders, then
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it's a box around my belly, you know, just like
you know, so I gotta, you know, I have to
find certain shirts, certain fits, all that kind of stuff.
So I'm still the kind of person that wants to
be physically in a store and try it on. Maybe
it's because I'm old, I don't know, but either way,
I just wanted to be this crazy, fun thing that
was just true to my life, and I thought other
people what I would identify with as well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I love that story too, And he said so descriptive
in there too about you mentioned going to Walmart trial
on clothes, Because you're right, we're in there two or
three times a week sometimes and all the grocery bill
you're gonna have at least three hundred to five hundred
dollars come out of your pocket. And every week she goes,
I go, whatever it is. I spent another two hundred
and something on a vacation. We took down to Corpus
Christy a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, don't go in there not knowing what you need,
because you're gonna go in there and be like, well,
you know what, maybe I do need a new blender.
We have a perfectly fine blender TuS. Yeah, but look
how cool this box. Look what if this one blends
it better than my blender?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I got one now. She told me last night, she says, uh, honey,
go get me a bread maker. I was like, well,
I know you can make the good bread when she
does it. I'm like, okay, you just want it easier now.
So we go to Walmart to look for a breadmaker tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
That's fine, you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Know, yeah, I always make that bread. Baby. It's what
you shits over, baby, I've been making the bread it
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I got to get her that expression nex staf because
they all they all want to no doubt about it,
whether you're doing podcasting radio or you have a day
gig too.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
What's our specialty branch. You're doing the sour dough thing.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, I think it's like the sour dough, but it's
like the also the less sugar, you know, because you
get older, you gotta watch your sugar intake and you
got to eat a little bit more kind of healthy
and stuff like that too.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So it's, uh, has she made you a pepperoni loaf yet?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
See, I'm watching the the weight I'm losing to, Like
I sit back in the gym for special times cheat meal,
I'll tell you what she what she did and not
a man a barbacoa the tongue in cheek, you know that.
I love that stuff. I had to watch that much
of put on there too, but I was like, let
me put a lot of avocado with that, and well, on,
(23:45):
that's great, man, that's cool. I love that chicken fish
leaner now too, on the watching it a lot more protein.
But of course chicken fish, watching the red meat intake,
all that kind of stuff, you know, because it's the
older we get, man, we don't get any younger.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's just part of that's.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know. I get better look, but not younger.
That's the weird thing. I just keep getting prettier every day.
I go, I'm glowing. You're going, hey, listen, my wife
got me actual face cleaner. She goes, what do you
clean your face with? I'm like, the same soap I
washing my body with. And she's like, you need some
face cleaner. I'm like, for what, and she just shes,
It's just it's it's less harsh than your face. I'm
maybe I've been cleaning my face with Irish spring sport
(24:20):
from my entire live uh huh. And she's like yeah,
she goes, and now look she got me all.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Smooth looking, smooth looking man like that.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It's got some kind of banana peel in it and
avocado and coconut ale. I don't know what it's something,
but it smells good.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
So we come back and talk about that soap. And
once you cleaned your face with two, we got to
play some more of that Big Vinnie music here. One
that's not released yet, but we get to play here
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Buy your name here. It is from Big Vinnie, till
you'll get the just of this. Love this one to
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a tribute. So all those great great grandma's out there
too at the same time, and just any female for
that matter.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We love them so much. Coming back more with Big Vinie.
It is the back stage patch. So stay two.
Speaker 20 (25:09):
Gifts in room two War three. Perry County's in uh
seen nothing but have been in no TV. They used
to stop by every day, but after three years some
things change. Nothing only visit her on holidays.
Speaker 21 (25:37):
I would ever Saturday morning. I've got time to spare.
I never know who I'll be till I give it.
Speaker 22 (25:51):
Sometimes time and brother, sometime time for best for him,
sometimes just another gold fast from way back.
Speaker 20 (26:04):
When he better than.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
He better son.
Speaker 20 (26:13):
It changes week to week.
Speaker 23 (26:16):
You know, how could be anyone, but I listen to
every word.
Speaker 24 (26:23):
She has the same, even though she never calls me
by my name.
Speaker 25 (26:39):
Last week it was sixty three, she said, somebody shot
cannedy and watch the tears roll down her face.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
She moved on to.
Speaker 23 (26:55):
Vidnam, where they said her only son.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
She look me in the eyes and said, thing, God,
you saved screen, and then she offered me a piece
of perse sweet becompound.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Said it j has come from the oven.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I just smiled.
Speaker 22 (27:21):
Sometimes time husband.
Speaker 20 (27:25):
Sometimes I'm just a child. Sometimes she's back in high school,
passing nods across the eye.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Then I've been the preacher.
Speaker 26 (27:40):
I been her balls, helping her through live to work,
every time she gets lost, hid the sun everywhere.
Speaker 24 (27:52):
She has the same, even though she never calls me
by my name. Well, lead all just depends what is
she wakes been.
Speaker 27 (28:14):
I been her brother, I been her best friend, and
I been just another boat flash from way back when.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
How been the preaching?
Speaker 24 (28:32):
How bet her bone.
Speaker 23 (28:35):
Helping her true life for work? Every time she gets lost?
How li sign everywhere she has to say.
Speaker 24 (28:49):
Be niney letter bet dn helpenda, even though.
Speaker 23 (28:57):
She never calls me by.
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Head back here, Big Vinnie on the Backstage Pass. Yeah,
a little jingle, man, you gotta have a little fun
with that too. I was not feeling good at there, man.
That's good on Yeah.
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but I loved it because it was that tribute. And
(33:23):
it's amazing where songs come from and you get those ideas,
but you see somebody sometime it is a personal connection.
And this one was for me too.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, this song right here.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You know, I wrote this probably eighteen nineteen years ago.
It was one of the one of my first It
was my favorite song I've ever written. And I sat
down to write a song about my dad. My dad
had passed away just a few months before I wrote
this song back in two thousand and seven. It was
shortly after we had got the record deal with Toby,
so I got to tell my dad about the record deal,
(33:54):
and so I said down to write a song about
my dad. And it was funny enough. I had this
guitar and only had the top two strings on it,
and it was a guitar. It was an old Washburn
that my dad had given me, one of the first
ones I kind of had started playing with, and you know,
all that kind of stuff. But it actually came from
my mammy. So as I was sitting there kind of
playing just on those top two stringers, just kind of
just thumbing along, you know, on the notes across the top,
(34:14):
and I just kind of come out of this thing.
It was like, even though never call me by name,
and I was like, well, this is about my dad.
It's not about my dad, it's about my mammy. You know,
I'll go to see her. Whenever she was in the
nurse home. She was one hundred and one year old.
So she was born in nintheen on five died in
two thousand and six, was one hundred one years old
(34:36):
whenever she passed away. And what a life, you know,
what an amazing, crazy amount of time to get to
be on the planet. I thought about all the things
that she saw. But the last about ten years or
so she had Alzheimer's maybe even I mean probably had
it for fifteen or so years. The last ten got
pretty you know, pretty bad. And I remember going to
see her and she would, you know, when I'm ten, eleven,
twelve years old, and she'd be like Ricky, and I'm like, no,
(34:58):
I'm Vinnie, okay, Jason, No, I'm Vinnie. She called me
Andy Griffith one time. I mean, this never knew who
I was going to be, So I kind of got
in there and I get a little frustrated, you know,
because I'm like, why does my mammy know who I am?
Because you don't understand when you're ten, eleven, twelve years old,
you know. But as I got a little bit older,
you know, we had moved her into the nursing home,
which my family owned, the nursing home in our town,
so it's kind of like she was still a family,
(35:20):
but we had moved her into the nursing home so
make sure she could be taken care of, because she
got to where she would walk out in the middle
of the traffic and not know where she was at
and all this kind of stuff. So we had to
have her taken care of. But I'd go see her
and she'd never call me Vinnie. She'd always call me
something else, and I'd spend the whole entire time correcting her.
The whole time, I just sat didn't argue with her
(35:41):
about who I was. And one day I was like,
you know what, I'm just gonna be whoever she needs
me to be that day. And they would always tell you,
like the nurses and stuff back then. I think it's
different now, but back then, they'd always tell you no, no, Now,
you gotta let her know who you are, that she's
gonna get better if you don't tell her, you know,
And I'm like, okay, And then I just noticed she
never was getting any better. So finally I was like,
you know what, I'm not going to argue with her
(36:02):
the whole time. And she wants me to be Ricky,
I'll be Ricky. If she wants me to be Jason,
I'll be Jason, which was my uncle and my dad
my uncle Ricky, my dad was Jason. And so I
just go in there and play the role whoever she
needed that day, and then we had some great conversations.
I have no clue what she was talking about, but
I just went with her, and I think it made
her feel so much better, just not to be corrected
the whole time, you know. And eventually it got to
the point where she couldn't even talk at all, and
(36:23):
she was nonverbal and all that. And I just remember
every year everybody being like, well, it's gonna be Mammy's
last year. Now you better be at Christmas. It's going
to be Mammy's last year, and every year we'd have
another going to be the last year. And that went
on for like ten years, you know, and finally, you know,
she had passed away. I think it was I remember
the date in six, but she passed away in O six.
And then my dad ended up passing away just right it,
(36:45):
almost exactly a year later, and so it was a
couple of big losses right there, back to back. But
it's so weird because for her, when she passed away,
it was almost like I felt happy for her. I mean,
I was sad I was losing her, but like knowing
that she wasn't gonna feel that pain anymore, was going
to get to go to heaven and all of our
memories would be back and all the all the great things,
and how she would live. Where's my dad? He was
(37:06):
only forty three. He was a preacher, and he was
you know, he preached a sermon on Sunday and Sunday
night was called the Angel of Death, and it was
about being ready to go at your time. He says
in there, he says, Now, look, he said, you could
dine in a car wreck on the way home tonight.
You just never know. So you got to always be ready.
He said, I know if I leave today, I know
exactly where I'm going, and I'm ready to go. And
sure enough, he died in the car wreck on the
(37:27):
way home that night. But we ended up finding out
what caused the car wreck because it was only about
five hundred yards from my front door where the wreck happened.
And what had happened was he had a blood clot.
He had went up putting up his place for turkey hunting,
and he would climbed up over a tree and it
kind of fell through with him. His nero hard. But
like most dudes, he stood up. He could walk, so
I don't think much of it. Well, ended up getting
(37:49):
a blood clot in there and it went through his
system and that's what actually killed him, which made him
wreck because it hit his heart while he was driving.
So and here's that. People asked me, how do you
know God? My brother was grounded because he got all
smoking in the boys room and he was grounded. And
if my dad grounded you, you were grounded. There was no
getting out of it, there was no talking your way
(38:09):
out of it. I'd never seen anybody do it successfully.
And that night after church, he had, you know, all
this stuff from the day to get all those because
you know, churches at the end of the day. I mean,
it's a church, but there's a ton of money coming
in and out of there, and stuff you got to
make sure reports are none and all these other things.
So he's in there, he's getting all that stuff done.
And my brother wanted to ride home with a girlfriend,
and my dad said, no, you ride home with a girlfriend.
You grounded. You're not You're not going to So they
(38:30):
kind of just sit around a little longer, a little longer.
He goes back as he has son. He goes, I
done told you you're grounded. He goes, well, look, could
you just add like a couple of days on the
end of my sentence here, you know, He's like, I
just want to get home. He goes, I don't want
to sit in here all night. I got to go
to school tomorrow or whatever, you know. And finally my
dad said, all right, you can ride home. You can
ride home with her. But I said, when I added
a whole week, you know, he goes, you make your decision.
My brother decided to ride home with her. Now, most
(38:52):
of the time my brother probably got man a whole
week just to be able to ride home, you know,
but he decided to go with her. But had he
had not been with her the way he hit the
t have my brother been the passenger seat, it would
have killed him on impact. So it's wild enough to know, Like,
you know, when people ask me if I think God's real,
I'm like, yeah, because my dad would have never gave in,
and my brother would have never chose a whole other
week of being grounded just to ride home, you know,
(39:14):
on a Sunday night. But that night he did. And
that night he did too. And if my brother had
been in that car, he'd have been killed on impact.
The whole where he was sitting would have been completely
caved all the way back to the back of the seat.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Had no doubt, I mean, you know, God has real,
no doubt. He works in mysterious ways. And you're right.
When it's our time, it's our time. We've we've given
this play earth. We can give it now.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Time to go to a higher power and commit to
him and become that spirit he wants us to be.
I want to ask, you know, with as we close
out here, got to remember, of course, all the victims
in the tragedy nine to eleven was you know back
in the day. This is coming up on the anniversary
of it too this week. What goes through your mind
when you see the footage and they show it on
the news and things like that too, and kind of
(39:54):
give me the whereabouts where you were and kind of
what you remember during that tragic day.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
So oddly enough, I was sitting in Miss Bates's history
class when history was made, and I just remember the
TV clip, you know, clicking on. You know, we had
the TV's in each rooman it played Channel one, which
I don't really know what the channel was, but it
was called Channel one in my school, and it clicked
on and all of a sudden it said breaking news.
You know, a plane is hit. You know, because we're
sitting there, we think, just some idiot flew the plane
into the tower. Like what idiot flew this plane into
(40:22):
the tower? I was like, how could you not see
the tower? You know, we thought, well it's a malfunction
of this that well, while we were watching the second
plane hits, you know, and my buddy Josh, who from
I mean, he he already knew he was going to
the military before that, but he said bro, this is
an attack. And I was like, what do you mean
it's an attacks? He said, somebody's attack. He goes the
second he goes, there's no way that two planes are
gonna get malfunctioned, you know, and hit is He said,
(40:44):
something is going on here. And of course I'm sitting there.
I'm a hopeful dude. I'm like, no, I said, this
is just an accident. You know, We're not under any
kind of fire this or that. But I just remember
sitting in there and I remember once, you know, it
kind of came to life that something was going on,
a lot of people getting scared, a lot of people
being worried, and me sitting there going, guys, I just
want you all to know that their target is not
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Perry County, Tennessee. I promise you there ain't nothing they're
going to attack here. They're gonna get a bunch of
fields and trees is all they're gonna get. But I
just remember, you know, trying to calm people down. That
was the big thing for me, is like we had,
you know, a lot of the girls in our class
were you know, worried. You had moms calling the school
at you know, alarming rate and everything. But I've been
on my own since I was fourteen years old, so
(41:25):
since my freshman year, you know, so I just didn't
have the same kind of upbringing their childhood. So my
my instant goal or instant instinct was to try and
calm everybody else down and kind of be like, hey,
everything's gonna be okay, guys, Everything's gonna be okay. But
in my mind, I was like, dude, I don't know
if everything's gonna be okay, you know. But that's just
kind of the who I was. The same way when
my dad passed away, I was trying to make everybody
(41:46):
else in the family feel okay about it. But you know, now,
it's like it's kind of hard when you watch now
because there's all the different conspiracy theories and some of it,
you know, some of it seems pretty convincing, you know,
and it's hard to watch that and to think, I
never want to think that there's ever any anybody doing
bad that's supposed to be doing good, you know what
I mean. And I think that's the thing we get
(42:07):
showed now is like all these conspiracies come out. Now
it's kind of like you're guilty into a proven innocent
with anything that happens. And I think for me now,
you know, I just try to look at it and say, hey,
no matter what happened on that day, all the firefighters
and cops and what rushing in were there to help
all those people that lost their families, really lost their families.
And so to me, I don't ever want to look
at anything like that and diminish what the parts of
(42:30):
it that it was that, you know, I think it
united America the most united I've ever seen our country
in my you know, forty two years of living. You know,
I've never seen the country more united than it was
in the next you know, year or so after that
had happened. And so I try to look at the
positives and all that and just remember that, man, people
really died, people really lost their loved ones. And you know,
(42:51):
I do a lot for tunnels of towers, and there's
people that you know, police officers, firefighters, military, you know,
vets and stuff that are still suffering today from those
actions and those things that happened that day. So no
matter what, my goal is to go out there and
put good into the world and put good into those
people that risk their lives for us and put their
you know, lives on the line for us every single day, so.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
That no doubt we salute our military and our first
responders here on the backstage pass. He's one of a
kind out there too. The music shows and you go
download the music out there, Walmart drip across all the DSPs.
My brother, We appreciate the time here on the backstage pass.
Looking forward to connecting next time we're in Nashville. And Man,
always a pleasure to work with you man too.
Speaker 19 (43:29):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
Everything you've created here, Man, you just went at it,
and I just I've watched you just grow it and
grow it and grow it, and I think that's just
an awesome thing.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Man.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
You just you continue to go out there and do
great stuff, and you do great things for us artists,
great things for all this all the sports folks and
all that kind of thing. So giving people a platform
to be heard. I mean, at the end of the day,
you know, none of us can be successful unless somebody
hears what we're doing. So I appreciate you letting me
come on here and be in front of your crowd
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of course Casey Beck Chandler Marie Music out there too.
Ann Barkley Music and Media. He's got a brand new
song out there called Walmart Drip. I love that title,
and he's welcome back here on the show too. You
know him for the Great Day as a trailer choir.
He and I've done some work over the past couple
(01:06):
of years in this thing called the Backstage Past, Big
venning to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What's up on man, Hollow Hollow?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
What's up? Walmart? Drip? Walmart? Drip? From my head to
my toe?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I got to nothing fancy had on one day.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Maybe there'll be in Walmart two.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Man, what's been up with you? Brother? Talking about all
these projects? You've been busy, right, do that?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I mean, you know, I go NonStop. I've been. Actually,
just last week I had a big old thing in
French Lick, Indiana. I had Eddie Montgomery from Montgomery Gentry
there and Taylor Holder played it and saving ables. It
was like a two day kind of little festival deal.
Ended up selling like eighteen hundred tickets and just went awesome.
Was super proud to be back with Eddie, you know,
just because me and him have history. When we're all
the Toby Keith tore together. I started DJing. That's been
(01:45):
a cool new development. This all happened. I was literally
in Vegas. I was playing for the fourth of July
in Vegas, and then crazy enough, I sit there I
ended up talking to the DJ and found out that
he made twenty five hundred more dollars than I made
to come play the same show. And I'm like, okay,
well this has got to change. I have five musicians
to play and tickets to buy and food to buy
and hotel and he just had him in his little box.
(02:08):
So I was like, I'm gonna learn how to DJ.
So I went. I got home. My wife said, why
are you spending five thousand dollars on DJ Gure. I said, Babe,
I'm not to be the best DJ in all the
country music. Next to DJ Sober, he'll be the best.
But she's like, she goes, it's a lot to spend
on something that you're not sure if it's gonna work.
I was like, Oh, it's gonna work. I promise you
it's gonna work. I said, I don't go into anything
not believing that it's gonna work. She goes, yeah, she goes,
you can believe it, but what if it don't? I said,
(02:29):
what if it does? And within literally within a month
after I got in the box, and within a month
after getting that box, I took a couple of lessons
from a good buddy of mine and the next thing,
you know, Bam, I got about twenty shows booked as
a DJ, making pretty good money each night and enjoying it.
So excited to have DJ Big Vinnie in the mix.
Now on top of that, you know, I own my
Buffalo River Resort down there in Perry County. We're doing
(02:52):
We do canoe and camping, kayaking all through the summer
from momorrow of day to labor day. But now we're
getting ready for our first ever Haunted Woods, which is
gonna be a really cool attraction by an hour western Nashville.
So we're just going NonStop trying to do stuff and
most importantly, you know, waking up every day trying to
be the best dad I can be, the best husband
I could be. I usually fall short on the husband stuff,
but the dad stuff I'm knocking out of the park.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So you gotta make time for those little ones too.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
At the same time, I know, for me, it's like
my wife called me today, she said, the daughter wanted
to go to the I guess the garden center what
have you and go get some plants and things like that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, sometimes it's like you step back from all this.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We work so much you and I do yeah, doing
this this podcast and DJ and all this kind of stuff,
and it's like, man, and enjoy the simple things in life.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I like to do that, don't you.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know what's crazy for me is like if honestly,
I've talked to my wife about this, Like, if I
didn't have so much love for entertainment and putting on
the show, I would literally live in the middle of
the woods with nothing else. Like I love riding full wheelers,
I love being in the w I gut sit on
the front porch in the woods all day long and
not have any regrets about it. So but I do
(03:51):
love people, and I love to I love to communicate
with people. I hate living in the city. Uh, like
my whole life. I grew up in the country. So
living in the city with a house five feet on
either out of you and all that kind of stuff.
Great neighbors, I got great neighbors. I'm blessed to have
great neighbors. But if I had my drathers, I'd have
twenty thirty acres in the middle of nowhere, living on
top of the hill with you know, rainwater, collecting rainwater,
(04:13):
didn't drink.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Hey, give me kind of state of the health in
the music industry right now. There's so many great females
doing their thing and of course males too at the
same time. One of them is we're going to talk
to you next week here on the show. One of
my favorite guys. You mentioned his name there too at
the beginning of the show, Taylor Holder, blowing it up
out there across everything. He's doing so many great like
I mean, guys, ladies, give me kind of that. You've
been doing this thing a long time, well over twenty years,
(04:35):
mentioned show Dog Records, Trailer Choir.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know, you and I had the big thing last year.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's benefit Toby Keith out there in Nashville at the
Wild Beaver talk about just how much it's changed and
it's ever changing now and kind of give me a
health update.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What you think about the industry.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You know, I think for the independent artist right now,
it's the healthiest it's ever been because you actually have
a chance, you have a chance to be heard. You
got to make great content. What makes it hard for
you is you got to pay for everything. You got
to pay for the or, you got to learn to
be a video editor, and you got to learn how
to create scripts and con and all that kind of stuff.
You got to use ai where you can use it.
I mean, all those things are there, and so what
(05:08):
the the advantage that a big label has is they
have a lot more money to spend on people that
are a lot better at doing that than you.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But you still have a chance to do it. You
just got to work twice as hard.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You got to go out there and make the stuff yourself,
create the songs, record the songs, all that kind of stuff.
The good thing is it doesn't cost near as much
to record as it you assume. And you used to
to go in and record a record, you had to have,
you know, all the proper band guys and studio times,
studio a room, B five whatever. I mean, you had
to have all this stuff. You had to pay cartage fees,
all this other stuff. Now, I mean, honestly, if you're
a decent musician, you can sit in your bedroom and
(05:38):
make a great little record that's good enough to put out.
You can get your distributors. There's so many different distributors
now and you don't have to like win them over.
They just have to be like cool, Okay, you're gonna
put your music out through distro Kid or Symphonic or
any of them. I don't know how many. There's like
eight million of them now, so it's like you have
a chance, but you still got to go out there
and you got to build the product. The hard thing
(05:59):
about it is is now everybody's got a chance. So
now as much as it's up to you to create
the great content and the great song, you also have
hundreds of thousands of millions of other people that are
out there trying to create their great song and their
best stuff. And people can only watch so much. People's
interest really goes quick. A guy like Taylor Holder, I
think has set up to be a superstar in country
music because he already knows how to get the attention
(06:21):
of people on the internet. He already knows how to
make people stop. He's built what twenty million people just
on TikTok alone that are on there checking him out
every single day. So once he figures out how to
convert those people over to monthly listeners on Spotify, I mean,
if you have two or three million monthly listeners on average,
and you got five or six songs, even if you
(06:41):
just have that, you can make you know, twenty thirty
forty grand a month and never have to leave the house.
So if he can figure out how to convert you know,
fifty percent of that, If he can get ten million
monthly listeners, he's going to be just crushing the game.
But he's already out there doing great. I just had
him up my show last week. His show has gotten
you know, when he first started, you know, he was
still learning how to put on a show. He was
a guy that was on TikTok for thirty seconds. Now
(07:03):
all of a sudden, it's like, okay, you got to
put on an hour and a half headline and set. Dude,
he crushed it. I mean he was great. He had
a little Z with him. He's you know, Little Z's
up there doing backflips. He's got Andrew seven or who
was on the voice, plays guitar for him. He's up
there ripping some leads, singing some big old songs. He's
a great singer. And Taylor is just, you know, even
as big as he's already gotten, he's very humbling down
to earth, and I think you got to have all
(07:24):
those facets to me. He's a good looking kid. He's
got some good songs, but he's also humble enough to realize, like, hey,
I gotta still do a lot of work even though
I have this big following. At one point in time,
I think the numbers I heard was he was doing
somewhere around five hundred thousand dollars a month just in
sponsorships whenever he was, you know, during twenty twenty, and
when TikTok was first blowing up, it was kind of
unbridled before you know, they kind of put their cane
(07:46):
on the second. We're gonna get a piece of that
on there like Facebook and everything else. But I think
the state of the business is it's definitely in an
odd spot because you got to figure it out. But
at least you have a chance.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, no doubt, Well said there too, Like I said,
you got to You gotta bust your every day too.
Like I said, nothing's given to you in this industry,
whether it be radio, podcasting or like I said, even
as an artist to as well.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well. Time to play it. You guys have been waiting
for it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Walmart Drip, it's Big Vinnie, Big Vinnie Official dot com
for more information there too, and of course DJ Service
out there in the backstage bass coming right back playing
at Walmart drip here the backstage pass, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
After a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
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Speaker 6 (08:32):
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Speaker 7 (08:34):
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Speaker 6 (08:37):
It's ten dollar gom shirt.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Made by me boy Bell book a crunk, tough team
and come the collar bot forty years old. But I'm
looking attire. This Walmart drip got me looking straight.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
By it, and my girl saying at least a sixteen
Call me.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Walker Hayes because I'm feeling so fancy like.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Walmart drip, Walmart drip from the heads, and my coat's got.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
That Walmart drip, Walmart drip, WMA drill.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He can't get it nothing. That Walmart drill is.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Sixty five looking fine.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It's Walmart drill. You know we just stopped buy for
that Walmart strip.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
He's got the grandkids for the weekend. Time to spin
spin Little twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Twelve, talking charcoal, hot dogs, water.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Holes, kitty pool.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Never buy his name brand, only great value. It's this
favorite spot. The one stops shopping cash. She is calling
them box and say.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
What Walmart of trip, Walmart drill.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
From the heads and my toes got that walmarted trip,
walmarted drill, Walmart drill.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
He can't get it nothing.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
That Walmart drill.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
One kid buckled.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
In, one kid on her hip.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
She's putting miles on this doggie on this Walmart trip.
She hits a toy eye for that birthday gifts. Now
she's ta being on that iPhone grocery list. She's a
superhero when it comes to save.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
It's got them bowl GOLQW ponds and eggs and bacon drip.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Every more lips perfectly kissing the butterfly sun dress just
in a Simpson.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
That wal My drill, Walmart drill from the heads and
my toes. Got that Walmart drilled, Walmlet drill, Walmlet drill.
You can't get it enough of that wallet drill, Walby drill, Walmart.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Drill from my head and my toes.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Got that Bombard drill, Walmart drill, Walmart drill.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You can't get it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Nothing of that Balmar drill. A bomb part.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Got the Jake Paul w u Snoop dog.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Double smooth Walmart drill.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Even Mother Steward looking good in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
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Speaker 4 (11:06):
You just can't get enough.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Of that waldrip My trip.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
From the hands and my tolst that bought my trip
wall my trip trip.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
We can't get.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Enough of that.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Why I trip trip from my hands and my toes
got the wal my trip wa my trip waldrip.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
We can't get enough of that Walmart drip.
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Big Vinnie and Walmart drips. So I got to get
I love first of all, the title of this and
it was kind of cool. You put some great lyrics
in it, no doubt it was awesome to come up with.
How did this one originate? And just the idea. I'm
interested to hear this very story for this one.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
You know, it's cool. Is like I had probably the
most fun writing this song since the early trailer Quirre
days of writing all those kind of fun songs. You know,
I love writing serious songs. I love writing songs that
are gonna rip your heart out or it's gonna make
you flash back to a time in your life that
you enjoyed, or miss your grandma or whatever. I love
writing those songs, and I believe that's what people consider
real country music. But I also think that people forget
(15:43):
about heh and how fun. You know. Country music has
always been fun, you know, when you really look back.
I mean I think back to Hank Williams with Hey
good Looking you know, which I don't know if he
was the first one to cut it, but that's when
I heard. But anyways, but this song was kind of funny.
My wife and me had talked for probably two months
about this big eclipse that was coming up. Now I'm
personally a flat earther, so you can you can quote
me on that. So I don't I don't know what
(16:03):
we're seeing when we're seeing eclipse, but I know it's
not it's not the shadow of the earth. But eitherway,
we'll get into that another time. That's a whole nother
podcast episode. But we wanted to watch this eclipse and
we didn't have any glasses. So my wife says, Hey,
we're gonna have to go to Walmart. Today's the day
of the eclipse. And I said, Okay, let's go to Walmart. Well,
I didn't realize I was getting tricked into going to Walmart.
We get there and I look at her and say, hey, listen,
when we get in here, we are only buying these
(16:24):
glasses and nothing else. And she says, I just got
to get a few things. So when your wife tells
you I just got to get a few things for
all you guys that ain't married yet, just know that
means five hundred dollars just coming out of your bank
account immediately. So I was kind of pouting. I was
kind of going there pouting a little bit now. And
luckily I looked over that had this new Snoop Dogg
line of swim of swimsuits for men. And I look
(16:47):
over and it's got a per it's got a net jersey,
you know, so you can kind of see my nipples
through it. It's kind of excited about that. Then I
had those, uh, the john stalkins. If you're if you're
if you're our age, you'll know what the John Stalkings are.
But we have these old kind of chubby shorts, the
shorty shorts come about halfway down your thigh. And I
was like, man, I'm gonna look great in that. But
it had like a picture of like Miami sunset with
the sun going down behind it and the palm tree
(17:07):
swam and it was like turquoise and green and red
and yellow, and I'm like, dude, I gotta get this thing.
So I get it. I take it over my wife
and she goes, I thought you said we weren't get anything.
I was like, you've got like five thousand things, and
she says, yeah, but mine's food. I was like, yeah,
we'll keep keep shopping because I like that stuff. Anyways,
we get home and I do whatever guy does, immediately
put on this swim suit and I'm super excited about
it and like to start going, dang, girl, you get
(17:28):
all this drip. And she goes, what you got? I
was like, no, my drip, my fit girl, you get
all this drip and she goes, I have no clue
what that means. I was like all the kids on
TikTok they're calling their their outfits is called their drip.
Now it's what they're they're dripping, you know, like Bruno
Mars was dripping in Finesse. I'm dripping in Walmart. And
she was like okay. She's like, well you're forty and
I said yeah. I said, but I feel like I'm
(17:49):
retired though, baby, And she's like, okay, I start going
Walmart drip, Walmart drip from my head to my toes,
got that Walmart drip stop. And I was like, yeah, yeah,
probably right. She goes, no, no, no, she goes stop. Go
inside and write that song. I'll let you know when
the eclipse can hear you. So that's the dumbest thing
you ever come up with, probably be a big old hit.
So I was like, okay, it's like so I go
in there, ride ou converse in chorus and it was
(18:10):
like the original was like Walmart drip, Walmart drip from
my head to my toes, got that Walmart drip. I'm
talking socks and crocks, but not the real ones though
they're called rugged sharks and there on discount yo. And
it was just funny. I made this little video and
I snapped a Pooper Scooper like wearing my dad stuff
and snapped a Pooper Scooper and the thing and got
twenty five thirty thousand US. So it was like a
kind of a little mini for me, almost mini viral
(18:31):
not for Taylor because the everyone gets like five hundred million.
But either way, I was kind of excited about it. Now,
you know, I don't think that much of it now,
you know, I kind of put the song to the side. Well.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I go to a.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
School up in Salona, Kansas, and I was speaking at
this school because they do a lot of school, you know,
speaking a lot of schools around the country just about
anti bullying and childhood obesity and things like that that
I went through. So I go there and I speak,
and all of a sudden, my buddy Jared Blake, who
also will speak with me sometimes, he goes, hey, man,
you ought to sing Walmart Drip. And I was like,
I don't even have that. Whole song is just a
(19:00):
version of Chorse. He goes, yeah, I think the kids
like it, you should sing it. I was like, okay, whatever.
So I sing Walmart Drip and you know, I'll get
through it, and then sing the chorus, and all of
a sudden, the kids are singing along to every single
word of the chorus and they're like Walmart Dritt and
they're screaming it at me, and I get done. Dude,
can we go download that song right now? Where can
we go listen to it? Can we stream it? Where?
Where's it d what's your socials? I'm like, they ain't
(19:21):
do Maybe I need to record this song.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And so I went home. Literally after that week, I
went home. I finished up the song and I was
pretty cool because my wife was a songwriter on it,
because you know, she was there talking about She was, well,
I always have to go get the birthday gifts for
all the birthday parties I go to. I do half
of our grocery shopping there shows every now and then
I pick up a little sun dress.
Speaker 19 (19:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
She's like, yeah, she goes, I get everything from there.
So I was like, okay, well that's that's a great incentive.
I'll put all that in there. And then she's a writer.
My wife's a phenomenal talent. Anyway, she moved here and
went to Belmont and graduated with honors and performing arts.
So she's way better than me. And then my songwriting mentor,
Ken Harroll, I called him because I was like, man,
I said, I just feel like I want this thing
to be, you know, kind of eclectic. I wanted to
(20:02):
kind of hit with everybody. And I said, what do
you go to Walmart for He goes, oh, well, I
got to go there and get my prescriptions field. He's
about sixty five. I gonna go there and get my
prescriptions filled every week.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
He goes.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I got six daughters, so I've got a bunch of grandkids.
Now show us. So half the time I'm in there buying,
you know, hot dogs and macaroni and cheese and charcoal
to do a cookout and a kiddie pool here and there.
I'm like, all that's going in there, you know? He goes,
And he literally said to me, he goes, you know,
but if you're gonna put that in there, he goes,
I always buy the great value. Bring it's way cheaper.
And I was like, dude, I gotta put great value
in there. So anyway, so I had them to come
(20:32):
in as songwriters with me on the song because they
gave me so many great ideas for it. But I
just had the most fun just coming up with Okay,
what does a mom experience inside of Walmart? What does
a forty year old dude experience? You know, when he
goes in there and starts looking for his golf shirt
to go out with his buddies next week. What does
a granddad or what does a blue collar worker? Like
I heard them about all those different things, and how
could I include everybody in it but also kind of
(20:55):
give it like the life that I've lived for me,
you know. I know there's like these things or the
people of Walmart or whatever it's supposed to be like
this negative website. But I always have so many great
memories of Walmart. I have all these memories when I
was a kid of hiding in the clothes wreck and
scaring my mom, or you know, or going and picking
out a ninja turtle for your birthday, And like I
we always had these great memories. Now, we didn't have
anything in my town, so going to Walmart was forty
(21:16):
five minutes away where I grew up, So forty five
minutes to get to the Walmart. So when you went
to Walmart, it was like a treat, like you got
to go for your birthday to Walmart. So anyway, so
I just had all these great memories of Walmart. And
I said, you know, because when I first started kind
of writing, and I was like, oh, I can make
it funny about the you know, the craziness that happens.
And I was like you know what, I don't feel
that way about Walmart. I feel like Walmart is this
(21:36):
great place that you really can go get most all
your stuff done in one stop, you know, and with
the way busy, how busy life is now. And I'm
the kind of person I can order some stuff online,
but I got to try and clothes. If I order
something online, it never fits right. I mean, my chest
is sixty inches around. I mean, there's nothing that fits
me right. And even when I get a shirt that's
big enough to fit around my chest and shoulders, then
(21:57):
it's a box around my belly, you know, just like
you know, so I gotta, you know, I have to
find certain shirts, certain fits, all that kind of stuff.
So I'm still the kind of person that wants to
be physically in a store and try it on. Maybe
it's because I'm old, I don't know, but either way,
I just wanted to be this crazy, fun thing that
was just true to my life, and I thought other
people what I would identify with as well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I love that story too, And he said so descriptive
in there too about you mentioned going to Walmart trial
on clothes, Because you're right, we're in there two or
three times a week sometimes and all the grocery bill
you're gonna have at least three hundred to five hundred
dollars come out of your pocket. And every week she goes,
I go, whatever it is. I spent another two hundred
and something on a vacation. We took down to Corpus
Christy a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, don't go in there not knowing what you need,
because you're gonna go in there and be like, well,
you know what, maybe I do need a new blender.
We have a perfectly fine blender TuS. Yeah, but look
how cool this box. Look what if this one blends
it better than my blender?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I got one now. She told me last night, she says, uh, honey,
go get me a bread maker. I was like, well,
I know you can make the good bread when she
does it. I'm like, okay, you just want it easier now.
So we go to Walmart to look for a breadmaker tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
That's fine, you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Know, yeah, I always make that bread. Baby. It's what
you shits over, baby, I've been making the bread it
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I got to get her that expression nex staf because
they all they all want to no doubt about it,
whether you're doing podcasting radio or you have a day
gig too.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
What's our specialty branch. You're doing the sour dough thing.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, I think it's like the sour dough, but it's
like the also the less sugar, you know, because you
get older, you gotta watch your sugar intake and you
got to eat a little bit more kind of healthy
and stuff like that too.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So it's, uh, has she made you a pepperoni loaf yet?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
See, I'm watching the the weight I'm losing to, Like
I sit back in the gym for special times cheat meal,
I'll tell you what she what she did and not
a man a barbacoa the tongue in cheek, you know that.
I love that stuff. I had to watch that much
of put on there too, but I was like, let
me put a lot of avocado with that, and well, on,
(23:45):
that's great, man, that's cool. I love that chicken fish
leaner now too, on the watching it a lot more protein.
But of course chicken fish, watching the red meat intake,
all that kind of stuff, you know, because it's the
older we get, man, we don't get any younger.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's just part of that's.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know. I get better look, but not younger.
That's the weird thing. I just keep getting prettier every day.
I go, I'm glowing. You're going, hey, listen, my wife
got me actual face cleaner. She goes, what do you
clean your face with? I'm like, the same soap I
washing my body with. And she's like, you need some
face cleaner. I'm like, for what, and she just shes,
It's just it's it's less harsh than your face. I'm
maybe I've been cleaning my face with Irish spring sport
(24:20):
from my entire live uh huh. And she's like yeah,
she goes, and now look she got me all.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Smooth looking, smooth looking man like that.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It's got some kind of banana peel in it and
avocado and coconut ale. I don't know what it's something,
but it smells good.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
So we come back and talk about that soap. And
once you cleaned your face with two, we got to
play some more of that Big Vinnie music here. One
that's not released yet, but we get to play here
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Buy your name here. It is from Big Vinnie, till
you'll get the just of this. Love this one to
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a tribute. So all those great great grandma's out there
too at the same time, and just any female for
that matter.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We love them so much. Coming back more with Big Vinie.
It is the back stage patch. So stay two.
Speaker 20 (25:09):
Gifts in room two War three. Perry County's in uh
seen nothing but have been in no TV. They used
to stop by every day, but after three years some
things change. Nothing only visit her on holidays.
Speaker 21 (25:37):
I would ever Saturday morning. I've got time to spare.
I never know who I'll be till I give it.
Speaker 22 (25:51):
Sometimes time and brother, sometime time for best for him,
sometimes just another gold fast from way back.
Speaker 20 (26:04):
When he better than.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
He better son.
Speaker 20 (26:13):
It changes week to week.
Speaker 23 (26:16):
You know, how could be anyone, but I listen to
every word.
Speaker 24 (26:23):
She has the same, even though she never calls me
by my name.
Speaker 25 (26:39):
Last week it was sixty three, she said, somebody shot
cannedy and watch the tears roll down her face.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
She moved on to.
Speaker 23 (26:55):
Vidnam, where they said her only son.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
She look me in the eyes and said, thing, God,
you saved screen, and then she offered me a piece
of perse sweet becompound.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Said it j has come from the oven.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I just smiled.
Speaker 22 (27:21):
Sometimes time husband.
Speaker 20 (27:25):
Sometimes I'm just a child. Sometimes she's back in high school,
passing nods across the eye.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Then I've been the preacher.
Speaker 26 (27:40):
I been her balls, helping her through live to work,
every time she gets lost, hid the sun everywhere.
Speaker 24 (27:52):
She has the same, even though she never calls me
by my name. Well, lead all just depends what is
she wakes been.
Speaker 27 (28:14):
I been her brother, I been her best friend, and
I been just another boat flash from way back when.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
How been the preaching?
Speaker 24 (28:32):
How bet her bone.
Speaker 23 (28:35):
Helping her true life for work? Every time she gets lost?
How li sign everywhere she has to say.
Speaker 24 (28:49):
Be niney letter bet dn helpenda, even though.
Speaker 23 (28:57):
She never calls me by.
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Head back here, Big Vinnie on the Backstage Pass. Yeah,
a little jingle, man, you gotta have a little fun
with that too. I was not feeling good at there, man.
That's good on Yeah.
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but I loved it because it was that tribute. And
(33:23):
it's amazing where songs come from and you get those ideas,
but you see somebody sometime it is a personal connection.
And this one was for me too.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, this song right here.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You know, I wrote this probably eighteen nineteen years ago.
It was one of the one of my first It
was my favorite song I've ever written. And I sat
down to write a song about my dad. My dad
had passed away just a few months before I wrote
this song back in two thousand and seven. It was
shortly after we had got the record deal with Toby,
so I got to tell my dad about the record deal,
(33:54):
and so I said down to write a song about
my dad. And it was funny enough. I had this
guitar and only had the top two strings on it,
and it was a guitar. It was an old Washburn
that my dad had given me, one of the first
ones I kind of had started playing with, and you know,
all that kind of stuff. But it actually came from
my mammy. So as I was sitting there kind of
playing just on those top two stringers, just kind of
just thumbing along, you know, on the notes across the top,
(34:14):
and I just kind of come out of this thing.
It was like, even though never call me by name,
and I was like, well, this is about my dad.
It's not about my dad, it's about my mammy. You know,
I'll go to see her. Whenever she was in the
nurse home. She was one hundred and one year old.
So she was born in nintheen on five died in
two thousand and six, was one hundred one years old
(34:36):
whenever she passed away. And what a life, you know,
what an amazing, crazy amount of time to get to
be on the planet. I thought about all the things
that she saw. But the last about ten years or
so she had Alzheimer's maybe even I mean probably had
it for fifteen or so years. The last ten got
pretty you know, pretty bad. And I remember going to
see her and she would, you know, when I'm ten, eleven,
twelve years old, and she'd be like Ricky, and I'm like, no,
(34:58):
I'm Vinnie, okay, Jason, No, I'm Vinnie. She called me
Andy Griffith one time. I mean, this never knew who
I was going to be, So I kind of got
in there and I get a little frustrated, you know,
because I'm like, why does my mammy know who I am?
Because you don't understand when you're ten, eleven, twelve years old,
you know. But as I got a little bit older,
you know, we had moved her into the nursing home,
which my family owned, the nursing home in our town,
so it's kind of like she was still a family,
(35:20):
but we had moved her into the nursing home so
make sure she could be taken care of, because she
got to where she would walk out in the middle
of the traffic and not know where she was at
and all this kind of stuff. So we had to
have her taken care of. But I'd go see her
and she'd never call me Vinnie. She'd always call me
something else, and I'd spend the whole entire time correcting her.
The whole time, I just sat didn't argue with her
(35:41):
about who I was. And one day I was like,
you know what, I'm just gonna be whoever she needs
me to be that day. And they would always tell you,
like the nurses and stuff back then. I think it's
different now, but back then, they'd always tell you no, no, Now,
you gotta let her know who you are, that she's
gonna get better if you don't tell her, you know,
And I'm like, okay, And then I just noticed she
never was getting any better. So finally I was like,
you know what, I'm not going to argue with her
(36:02):
the whole time. And she wants me to be Ricky,
I'll be Ricky. If she wants me to be Jason,
I'll be Jason, which was my uncle and my dad
my uncle Ricky, my dad was Jason. And so I
just go in there and play the role whoever she
needed that day, and then we had some great conversations.
I have no clue what she was talking about, but
I just went with her, and I think it made
her feel so much better, just not to be corrected
the whole time, you know. And eventually it got to
the point where she couldn't even talk at all, and
(36:23):
she was nonverbal and all that. And I just remember
every year everybody being like, well, it's gonna be Mammy's
last year. Now you better be at Christmas. It's going
to be Mammy's last year, and every year we'd have
another going to be the last year. And that went
on for like ten years, you know, and finally, you know,
she had passed away. I think it was I remember
the date in six, but she passed away in O six.
And then my dad ended up passing away just right it,
(36:45):
almost exactly a year later, and so it was a
couple of big losses right there, back to back. But
it's so weird because for her, when she passed away,
it was almost like I felt happy for her. I mean,
I was sad I was losing her, but like knowing
that she wasn't gonna feel that pain anymore, was going
to get to go to heaven and all of our
memories would be back and all the all the great things,
and how she would live. Where's my dad? He was
(37:06):
only forty three. He was a preacher, and he was
you know, he preached a sermon on Sunday and Sunday
night was called the Angel of Death, and it was
about being ready to go at your time. He says
in there, he says, Now, look, he said, you could
dine in a car wreck on the way home tonight.
You just never know. So you got to always be ready.
He said, I know if I leave today, I know
exactly where I'm going, and I'm ready to go. And
sure enough, he died in the car wreck on the
(37:27):
way home that night. But we ended up finding out
what caused the car wreck because it was only about
five hundred yards from my front door where the wreck happened.
And what had happened was he had a blood clot.
He had went up putting up his place for turkey hunting,
and he would climbed up over a tree and it
kind of fell through with him. His nero hard. But
like most dudes, he stood up. He could walk, so
I don't think much of it. Well, ended up getting
(37:49):
a blood clot in there and it went through his
system and that's what actually killed him, which made him
wreck because it hit his heart while he was driving.
So and here's that. People asked me, how do you
know God? My brother was grounded because he got all
smoking in the boys room and he was grounded. And
if my dad grounded you, you were grounded. There was no
getting out of it, there was no talking your way
(38:09):
out of it. I'd never seen anybody do it successfully.
And that night after church, he had, you know, all
this stuff from the day to get all those because
you know, churches at the end of the day. I mean,
it's a church, but there's a ton of money coming
in and out of there, and stuff you got to
make sure reports are none and all these other things.
So he's in there, he's getting all that stuff done.
And my brother wanted to ride home with a girlfriend,
and my dad said, no, you ride home with a girlfriend.
You grounded. You're not You're not going to So they
(38:30):
kind of just sit around a little longer, a little longer.
He goes back as he has son. He goes, I
done told you you're grounded. He goes, well, look, could
you just add like a couple of days on the
end of my sentence here, you know, He's like, I
just want to get home. He goes, I don't want
to sit in here all night. I got to go
to school tomorrow or whatever, you know. And finally my
dad said, all right, you can ride home. You can
ride home with her. But I said, when I added
a whole week, you know, he goes, you make your decision.
My brother decided to ride home with her. Now, most
(38:52):
of the time my brother probably got man a whole
week just to be able to ride home, you know,
but he decided to go with her. But had he
had not been with her the way he hit the
t have my brother been the passenger seat, it would
have killed him on impact. So it's wild enough to know, Like,
you know, when people ask me if I think God's real,
I'm like, yeah, because my dad would have never gave in,
and my brother would have never chose a whole other
week of being grounded just to ride home, you know,
(39:14):
on a Sunday night. But that night he did. And
that night he did too. And if my brother had
been in that car, he'd have been killed on impact.
The whole where he was sitting would have been completely
caved all the way back to the back of the seat.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Had no doubt, I mean, you know, God has real,
no doubt. He works in mysterious ways. And you're right.
When it's our time, it's our time. We've we've given
this play earth. We can give it now.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Time to go to a higher power and commit to
him and become that spirit he wants us to be.
I want to ask, you know, with as we close
out here, got to remember, of course, all the victims
in the tragedy nine to eleven was you know back
in the day. This is coming up on the anniversary
of it too this week. What goes through your mind
when you see the footage and they show it on
the news and things like that too, and kind of
(39:54):
give me the whereabouts where you were and kind of
what you remember during that tragic day.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
So oddly enough, I was sitting in Miss Bates's history
class when history was made, and I just remember the
TV clip, you know, clicking on. You know, we had
the TV's in each rooman it played Channel one, which
I don't really know what the channel was, but it
was called Channel one in my school, and it clicked
on and all of a sudden it said breaking news.
You know, a plane is hit. You know, because we're
sitting there, we think, just some idiot flew the plane
into the tower. Like what idiot flew this plane into
(40:22):
the tower? I was like, how could you not see
the tower? You know, we thought, well it's a malfunction
of this that well, while we were watching the second
plane hits, you know, and my buddy Josh, who from
I mean, he he already knew he was going to
the military before that, but he said bro, this is
an attack. And I was like, what do you mean
it's an attacks? He said, somebody's attack. He goes the
second he goes, there's no way that two planes are
gonna get malfunctioned, you know, and hit is He said,
(40:44):
something is going on here. And of course I'm sitting there.
I'm a hopeful dude. I'm like, no, I said, this
is just an accident. You know, We're not under any
kind of fire this or that. But I just remember
sitting in there and I remember once, you know, it
kind of came to life that something was going on,
a lot of people getting scared, a lot of people
being worried, and me sitting there going, guys, I just
want you all to know that their target is not
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Perry County, Tennessee. I promise you there ain't nothing they're
going to attack here. They're gonna get a bunch of
fields and trees is all they're gonna get. But I
just remember, you know, trying to calm people down. That
was the big thing for me, is like we had,
you know, a lot of the girls in our class
were you know, worried. You had moms calling the school
at you know, alarming rate and everything. But I've been
on my own since I was fourteen years old, so
(41:25):
since my freshman year, you know, so I just didn't
have the same kind of upbringing their childhood. So my
my instant goal or instant instinct was to try and
calm everybody else down and kind of be like, hey,
everything's gonna be okay, guys, Everything's gonna be okay. But
in my mind, I was like, dude, I don't know
if everything's gonna be okay, you know. But that's just
kind of the who I was. The same way when
my dad passed away, I was trying to make everybody
(41:46):
else in the family feel okay about it. But you know, now,
it's like it's kind of hard when you watch now
because there's all the different conspiracy theories and some of it,
you know, some of it seems pretty convincing, you know,
and it's hard to watch that and to think, I
never want to think that there's ever any anybody doing
bad that's supposed to be doing good, you know what
I mean. And I think that's the thing we get
(42:07):
showed now is like all these conspiracies come out. Now
it's kind of like you're guilty into a proven innocent
with anything that happens. And I think for me now,
you know, I just try to look at it and say, hey,
no matter what happened on that day, all the firefighters
and cops and what rushing in were there to help
all those people that lost their families, really lost their families.
And so to me, I don't ever want to look
at anything like that and diminish what the parts of
(42:30):
it that it was that, you know, I think it
united America the most united I've ever seen our country
in my you know, forty two years of living. You know,
I've never seen the country more united than it was
in the next you know, year or so after that
had happened. And so I try to look at the
positives and all that and just remember that, man, people
really died, people really lost their loved ones. And you know,
(42:51):
I do a lot for tunnels of towers, and there's
people that you know, police officers, firefighters, military, you know,
vets and stuff that are still suffering today from those
actions and those things that happened that day. So no
matter what, my goal is to go out there and
put good into the world and put good into those
people that risk their lives for us and put their
you know, lives on the line for us every single day, so.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
That no doubt we salute our military and our first
responders here on the backstage pass. He's one of a
kind out there too. The music shows and you go
download the music out there, Walmart drip across all the DSPs.
My brother, We appreciate the time here on the backstage pass.
Looking forward to connecting next time we're in Nashville. And Man,
always a pleasure to work with you man too.
Speaker 19 (43:29):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
Everything you've created here, Man, you just went at it,
and I just I've watched you just grow it and
grow it and grow it, and I think that's just
an awesome thing.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Man.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
You just you continue to go out there and do
great stuff, and you do great things for us artists,
great things for all this all the sports folks and
all that kind of thing. So giving people a platform
to be heard. I mean, at the end of the day,
you know, none of us can be successful unless somebody
hears what we're doing. So I appreciate you letting me
come on here and be in front of your crowd
that you've created, and you know, hopefully I add to
that crowd.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
So I love it too big Vinnie Official dot and
go download Walmart Drip across all the DSPs.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
We'll talk to you guys on the flip side.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
More football coming up this week too, and like I said,
fantasy football going on right now. Our teams did pretty
good this weekend. Hope you did two the same out there.
We'll see you guys on flipside and thanks to all
the sponsors. Take care godless, We'll see you sir.
Speaker 28 (44:16):
Hey, guys and gals, this is Megan Lindsay and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYBN ninety
eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting network and on
iHeartRadio podcast. Stream the show anytime on THWN dot org
and at the Sports Guys podcast dot com
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