Jelly Roll & Ernest | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #473

I want to let you know that I have some. new tour dates to announce. Charlottesville VA on February. one uh Raleigh North Carolina February 2. Colombia South Carolina February 3 and. Knoxville Tennessee Go Big Orange on. February 4 at the Knoxville Coliseum as. well State College PA on February 7th. Syracuse New York February 8 and.

Amhurst Massachusetts on February 9th. all tickets available at theo. comom u r um don't buy through secondary. sites if the prices are jacked up just. wait we'll come on back through town but. uh looking forward to bringing the tour. near you thank you for the support. today's guests are two hit makers in the. uh country music Universe um one of them. is just named the best new artist at the.

CMAs um one of them is one of the most. talented songwriters uh that there is um. they're Nashville guys and uh they are. friends of mine and they bring a lot of. joy to a lot of people I'm grateful to. have them both return to the podcast. today's guests are jelly roll and. [Music]. Ernest that. [Music]. on I and tell you my.

stories. sh on. me and I will find a song I will. [Applause]. sing I don't know why I just feel more. like yeah I put those on I think I'm. supposed to sing oh really does that. make sense it's like as soon as they go. on it's like check check can I get a.

little Reverb yeah yeah I feel like when. I put them on I feel like I'm like I was. supposed to be do cold weather dude. because we. had oh in our neighborhood you'd have a. dude out there wearing uh yeah you. sometime you see like a ear muffs yeah. you'd have a dude wearing knees at. Christmas or something yeah that was the. um you're going to shoot your eye out. [ __ ] why I'm so high camera mov story. yes they always wore those too yeah now. how high are you guys if you guys like. how high can you guys get well first of. all this is well we were just.

the highest we've ever been is and we. did it with the same person but. separately yeah but I was sitting with. you gave us just enough time to get. stoned you know what I'm saying you were. like yo 10 minutes boys and me and. artist were like to the car look and I. was I was going to be 5 minutes the. Batmobile yeah I was going to be 5. minutes early but then you know we. pushed it so sorry so we might have. showed up sober for. the hey if somebody's like hey man we. gonna need five extra medicine here. that's when that's when the we sneaks.

100% sitting here with jelly rolling. Ernest man thank you guys bro thank you. first of all thank you guys uh if you. don't mind while you're thinking us I. just want to start and I'm sure Ernest. wants to do this too is that as guys. that have been friends with you for a. while and my first podcast I ever did. was with you on Thanksgiving week by the. way as we sit here on Thanksgiving week. so I want to thank you for everything. you've done for me being early being a. Believer a supporter every time you've. ever said something nice about me but. more [ __ ] importantly theovon.

we want to give you your flowers you're. on [ __ ] fire I don't know if you even. see it because you're such a humble iny. own head dude I know that is you as your. friend but you are [ __ ] scorching it. has been so fun to watch Dude I mean it. is look at him blushing it was [ __ ]. beautiful dog thanks so happy for you. man it was I was so glad to get the call. one just to get to hang out but two to. tell you in front of you and your. audience that. man I have never laughed as I've never I. mean I could just bore you with how. happy I am in every podcast I've watched.

and just [ __ ] how genius and. Brilliant you are but the Danel white. one most recently yeah dude I've watched. every Danel white scrum my whole career. right I got to where I don't even watch. the fights sometimes I just go Google. Dan White and see what the postcript. what did he say about the fights or they. [ __ ] worth watching he'll tell the. truth there's a Chinese live feed you. can get of just him watching the fights. too really yeah but I uh dude i' never. heard him like that it was really cool. but I'm sorry I just I wanted to start. this and let you know we love you we're. happy for you we're here with the writer.

of flower shops anyway so I think it's. they got to do it around dude what if. you did a you did a show where people. got their flowers from somebody like as. a g like as a you know thank you bro. that's really sweet retweet everything. he just said Thank you br well thank you. guys for making me laugh dude for making. me feel welcome in a new city you know I. will say that um you guys have been very. uh you showed up like the first time. that we had a show in um in Nashville at. zany man you came out and um and Ernest.

you've been somebody that just you know. always you know checks in or cheers me. up or keeps me in the know what's going. on with a lot of these guys because so. many artists are on the road now and. stuff out of here you know um but thank. you bro very sweet of you man and happy. uh happy holidays boys happy holiday. Bubba praise God I was throwing Nu your. way for a second there my you got me. high man I got you and you guys wrote. tell me this cuz I didn't know this I. was at a uh riters round I think you.

were performing that yep and you wrote. son of a center together yes sir wow. yeah that's crazy bro it is crazy it's. really crazy because him I believe son. of a sinner but then I get over here I'm. like hold on yeah well my my birth. father was definitely a sinner I was. adopted into a less of a sinning man oh. yeah then you're de yeah that's you're. like an aftermarket CER right I was I. was actually son of a deacon yeah son of. a deacon in the Church of Christ so we.

actually have a song on his new album. that talks all about that actually oh my. goodness dude yeah so can I tell the. story yeah please dude so me and Luke. bran were playing golf out at trador and. we're listening to some rap and we. started talking about jelly roll he was. like y'all known each other for a while. a you I was like yeah we go back don't. act like you're not fighting your best. not to do your Luke Bryan impression. right. now hear it man I hear like uh you've. been known jelly roll ain't you that's. kind of bad it's kind of bad but but I.

got a good one coming up here cuz I was. like yeah I I was like I used to uh I. used to go by his house and acquire some. things and we'd uh freestyle rap and. this is like back in 2010 I was like. then I went to college and he went to. jail and then we came back around all. these years later and Luke was like hold. up [ __ ] you better write that. [ __ ] song right now and so we start I. start kind of freestyling uh in the golf. cart it's like I went to college he went. to jail one was a dorm room one was a. cell who came out on top hell it's hard.

to tell I went to college he went to. jail so we're going to tra that's the. only thing here so imagine this I'm. getting a FaceTime or a phone call like. every 16 minutes from a drunk Ernest and. a drunk Luke bran they drunk too Sun. beating on them they're sweating and. they're just like check this one out and. I'm like giving a little input here and. there and by about the fourth FaceTime I. was like these [ __ ] are writing a. song on the golf course right now for. sure over FaceTime with no guitars wow.

yeah that's crazy man I just have yeah I. guess inspiration can just kind of roll. up whenever huh is it is it as easy to. just go in a place and do inspiration. like that and get inspiration like if. you're sitting in a room with people or. is it is that a lot easier to find a way. to write a song or is it easier just if. you're Milling around with your boys it. can come both ways for sure I mean uh in. the right room inspiration is going to. be there um and just because you're out. you know having fun and living doesn't. mean that the inspiration is going to. hit you in that moment but I think I.

think living breeds inspiration no. matter where you're at I'd like your. perspective from a comedian because as a. songwriter we're always writing songs. yeah right like whether we know it or. not subconsciously you might say. something here today that one of us will. grab and hit the other one with in a. text later like yo when Bubba said duh d. du there's a song There throw that in. the notes you know what I mean it's like. is it like that for y'all as well like. just in day-to-day life you're just. there's always there's there's always. you're always kind of writing a joke.

whether you know it or not yeah I think. like if you're around your buddies. sometimes you get them to laugh you'll. write that down you know Rodney. Dangerfield was uh pretty famous he. would like um if he was on a shoot or. something he would in his off moments he. would get a uh get in a robe and and and. just hang out like when he wasn't. shooting like literally in a robe in. slippers I think cuz he felt real free. in it like his body felt free and he. would uh he would just write down he. would hang out by people and if. something was funny he would write it. down on a notepad and just keep it in.

his pocket that's kind of like a famous. story that I heard I find if I'm like a. about say like the funniest times I ever. am is if like say if I if I was like. hanging out with a girl right and she. stayed over in the morning and I think. it's kind of the same thing if you drank. all night and you wake up in the morning. you're laughing like with your spouse or. something or with your spouse yeah and. you're kind of like having just that. that funny time right there that's my. fun I think that's when I feel like. that's your golden hour of Comedy it. really is yeah cuz if there's a if it's. a lady you're trying to impress there's.

part of you that's always like lytically. trying to impress a lady I don't know if. it's limic or whatever but just damn. like Mediterranean or whatever that. Mediterranean part of your head is and. uh you're always just trying to impress. a lady so Mediterranean part of your. head whatever it is you know six extra. seconds for that to hit me but hey it. landed it. landed just moving but yeah I think. that's when I feel like I'm maybe my. most engaging or whatever it is with. because I think I as as as a a lot of. comedians are just trying to get a girl. to laugh really you don't have any way.

to impress a woman that's what you. realize when you're young so you're like. I got to make somebody laugh or one of. these dudes is probably GNA [ __ ] me you. know so it uh I gotta get funny quick I. relate as a fat person I always said. that uh you got to be a little humorous. and smell good you can't be fat stinky. and an [ __ ] you can't be fat an. [ __ ] and stin yeah you know what I'm. saying I just got to be fat you know. what I'm saying like that's it I got to. at least smell decent when I can and. better at least make somebody chuckle.

every now and then you know yes yeah so. good dude and and I'll say to that too. um not even just girl but like an. audience like freestyling when we're. freestyling bro like if it's a car full. of people or a studio full of people and. the energy is room like that's that's. when I'm going to black out and be able. to Freestyle you know think and just. basically be channeling something. because I know I can see in real time. like what it's pulling out of people. like what do you mean oh so like if. you're doing like just in front of of. like a group or something yeah like you.

can you can get a real real read on site. about whether this is cool or not. whereas like if it's just me by myself. with music or me and one other guy who's. you know so locked into his thing at the. time yeah then you can get in you can. get in your head and get in your own way. I feel like so I know it sounds weird. but if I had a choice to do it every. time I'd like treat it like a party and. us three would be writing a song but. we'd have the homies over there chilling. yeah you know what I'm saying like some. of our buddies cuz you can feel that. like just the energy of a room but yeah.

it's always like it's also what you're. getting into a room writing's so fun. because there's I'm sure it's like this. for y'all but there's so many ways to do. it I've done it so many different ways. the now the most crazy way I've ever. seen it done and I sure you don't mind. me saying. this I had a session with Whiz Khalifa. the other night did you really listen. man whiz I don't get mad at me I don't. know what I'm supposed to tell this but. you [ __ ] did it in front of me so. it's a fair game I think yeah he. recorded his verse.

in. Reverse so I'm trying to figure out. what's happening cuz like I know it's. going to be hard to even explain and. keep in mind I've been smoking whiz for. like four hours at this point I'm cooked. I'm like what the [ __ ] am I even doing I. feel like I'm taking shrooms or. something my Skin's crawling the room. you can't see through. it [ __ ] like yo when your own skin. turns into a maze yeah the [ __ ] you got. you can't even call the cops you need. literally need to call like the uh like. who Poison.

Control call him poison control for sure. I I'll let you finish then I have a. poison control. story he would take the last bar and go. backwards so like he would be like and. I'm already gone and then he would go. back a measure and loop the beat a. measure into that and then figure out. what the line going into that was it was. the wildest [ __ ] I've ever seen I'm not. bullshitting Earnest he did four bars. before I looked up and publicly said. loud is he recording this back backwards. like I had missed the whole he done it.

for 15 minutes today it was crazy he. might be dyslexic there's not. a he's. verlex I mean you just describe dyslexia. and we're all like wonder what he's. doing you know like [ __ ] hey that's. funny bro you don't see a lot of black. dyslexia either black dyslexia yeah yeah. you don't see it every day that's for. sure hey that's. funny that's great tell us about your. poison.

let's go take a ride and get some QB bar. you know what I'm. saying bar you don't see a lot of black. down there at the way sub right now baby. I'll be home in a minute that's. hilarious we need more black dyslexia. out there huh dude's rapping like Yoda. it's insane dude I've never seen nothing. like it I was like and it was sick yeah. that's awesome dude if aliens show up. they better show up with some [ __ ]. bars or the hoods going to be like [ __ ]. these. [ __ ] know what I'm saying D yes. yeah tough day to be a Square alien D.

yeah yeah yeah cuz a lot of black people. have issues with aliens anyway bro a lot. of my dudes have told me that have. you've been hearing that a lot I've. heard stre not recently but I heard you. know I'm sure it hasn't changed from. since when I heard it yeah yeah probably. not if anything's probably gotten worse. yeah I don't think it was a me you know. I don't think it was a [ __ ] meeting. oh my God but uh what was your story. Poison Control okay poison control this. are drugs involved in this not bad ones. okay honestly just Caff it's kind of. insane um so before one of these shows I.

think we were at Marathon like two years. ago Maron is marathon music venue okay I. I probably weighed 50 pounds more than I. do right now just keep that in mind for. context I um was tired as hell I wasn't. drinking at the time so I went to the. gas station and got some caffeine pills. and it's like four pills in a thing and. I get back to the Green Room I take the. four pills and then and then read the. package. it was.

like it's like you're supposed to just. take one of these you know you got four. deals that's a recommendation yeah well. so I I immed this is like 10 minutes. later I finally read the package I go. back in the bathroom make myself throw. up and like one empty capsule came out. in my puke and I was like oh boy and I'm. starting to get antsy and obviously. anxious about the whole scenario I don't. have the coolest heart on Earth and then. um I called Poison Control I was like no. brainer I'm must to see what I got to. say guy was like I was like hey man I.

took four of these caffeine pills I feel. pretty uncomfortable right now I'm. sweating um it kind of hurts and he's. like oh man he's like yeah that's a lot. of caffeine he goes um but he was like. if you're in pretty good shape you. should be all right and I was like oh. all right thank you I hung up and I was. like [ __ ] I'm not in that good of shape. now he's just he's [ __ ] passive. aggressive if you're in pretty good. shape I think you should be all right. and I'm like what is pretty good shame.

I'm definitely obese to an extent let me. draw a picture of myself I'll text it. over to you yeah so uh ended up being. totally uncomfortable and stayed up all. night and sweat but I survived Poison. Control dude yeah any and anytime you're. just casually calling Poison Control. dude that's a [ __ ] weird yeah I'm. standing outside the venue kicking it. somebody probably just assumes I'm. talking to my mom or something I'm over. there am I going to die here in a minute. your PC what's good homie you know and. that's how I know you went to college. cuz I have never even thought to call. Poison Control at this moment I didn't I.

didn't realize I thought that's. something you call when like you had. rats at the house yeah that's you would. just take two volumes and be like okay. exactly like this is it we'll take a. Xanax we'll defeat this We'll Fight Fire. with. Fire yeah dude me and my buddy went on a. date we were going to pick some girls up. for a date one time and we had just. taken these like no do pills remember. those o those are the first like drugs. for kids that came out like at a gas was. that like an over-the-counter. amphetamine basically yeah it was like. no do it said you could be a trucker you.

know that's what it said on it right and. like. [ __ ] I took a 5 Hour Energy drink one. time in my life and you still been up he. Ain and I took it I got off a plane this. was 10 years ago in Vegas and I rented a. car in Vegas to drive to LA because I. was so broke it was cheaper to fly into. Vegas and rent a car from there than fly. into La so I took and like I stopped at. one of them truck stops in the desert. yeah for sure one figure it. out one of them y we've all done those.

in figs dud I'll get there 11 hours. later and I'll be on somebody's. shoulders and I took it dude and I'm. driving down the side of that you know. that old desert it's all Desert from. Vegas to LA and man it hit me dude and I. took the most squalling [ __ ] on the side. of the road it was the most brutal. painful thing I've ever dealt with I. didn't sleep for a day yeah I'll never. take one again those things are po I. should have called Poison Control those.

things are [ __ ] evil we can't help. you what we call Poison Control and now. like what's up poison control we just. want to check in with you guys let you. know we're doing good yeah hey how how. are y'all how are you. doing nobody's ever calling a check on. y'all are y'all good over there you know. they have overdoses probably all the. time at you're definitely if you have to. work at a call center dude in India. you're definitely using a lot of pills. probably to stay up oh yeah Indian dudes. they got well they got a lot in their. system though man a lot of Indian dudes. we had an Indian dude a lot of Indian.

they they have like a lot more spices. you know [ __ ] that's the B oh they a lot. of Indian dudes you'll smell you know if. they was by the house you'll know they. was by the house you know yeah hell yeah. the dog will come right up on them you. know hone do you hear that no but I. smell that I think the Indians just got. yeah dude cuz Indian people eat a lot of. spicy food and just comes out their. pores you know it's like being around an. alcoholic but yes it's like yeah a lot. of Indian dudes their their arteries are. it's just like a halfway house for like. a spice rack you.

know a lot of [ __ ] got that. coriander in them you know yes yeah dude. um Steph Curry oh dude Steph Curry what. if he made a restaurant called Steph. Curry it would do well I'm sure it would. do well they had 30 different things on. the menu yeah I a great idea D already. open it though San. Francisco Steph's Steph's Curry Steph's. curry curry sounds like a uh or Steph. Curry's Steph Curry's Steph Curry sounds.

like a steakouse a little bit Steph's. Curry sounds like a kind of a like a. girl's uh STD yeah you know what I'm. saying yeah it sound like some it sound. like some like like almost like vaginal. witchcraft you know vaginal witchcraft. yes you got to get a hit of Steph Curry. like I'm. good it sounds like a dude in prison. that tries to pretend like his butt is a. vagina you know like oh I'm going get. some of this Steph's Curry you know.

sobach b sobach b throwing out that that. Steph's Curry all afternoon oh they. sering warm Stu's Curry over there in. that buy did you get high with us before. we got. it oh I live VI cariously through High. people I wish all had smoked in here. dude would have I can't smoke but I can. do but I can I don't think there's. anything says you can second second yeah. you can smell it dude I wanted to open. up a shoe store by um walking Phoenix. called These Boots Were Made for Walking.

like. near that's like one of the dumbest. ideas his only shoes that he could fit. in too like if you fit in these we got. the boot for you yeah he'd have to stop. if you're driving out of your house and. you see the shop near you like [ __ ] got. to go These boots are made for walking. is I got to stop how was. um how was the CMAs man you guys got to. go dude congratulations too man and did. you yeah congratulations than Best New. Artist was it huh yes sir it was crazy.

man it was it was really interesting cuz. I didn't think I had a chance to win it. really yeah man I mean that true you. didn't think get all I did not at all. who you up against I was up against Zack. Bryan and Parker McCullum right and I. felt like no all pun intended to my boy. I felt like Parker had a hell of a year. and I feel like Zach Bryan is the second. most streamed artist in country music. right now behind Morgan so it's like it. to me it was a no-brainer and I'm such a. Zach Bryan fan like so the fact that I. got to sit next to him the whole night. like it's so funny we glad to too yeah. that was cool for me and him to get that.

moment cuz he was awesome dud I there. was a moment where I literally felt like. me and him were like tailgating and. watching a concert outside of an arena. yeah you know like he's over there. drinking I'm ripping a weed pin you know. what I'm saying he's cracking beers. there's empty shot. glasses there's empty shot glasses under. my seat he's got four or five half. drinking drinks under his every keeps. bringing him drinks and we're just there. talking about the music all night and I. just thought for sure he would win you. know the last thing right before they.

announced the name was I think I tapped. him on a shoulder and said say something. nice about me or something funny you. know oh that's cool and then whenever I. uh uh I hugged him going up there I was. like man you you you deserve this you. know what I mean and then you looked at. him like don't worry I'll say something. ni I can do it now don't worry but it. was so it was really cool and I had. you've had this a lot in your career but. I was blessed for the first time in my. career to have a real viral moment like. I thought I'd went viral before but it. was like just building to a real viral. moment like for whatever reason and I.

didn't touch my phone for like 36 hours. after the award show because it was just. such a big moment I was just letting it. sit you know and I didn't want to have. my phone on me that night and everybody. kept telling me man you're going viral. and I was like I'm you know I'm like oh. cool I'm thinking check your bracelet to. see if your doctor's letting you. know I'm more concerned with [ __ ]. ain't a. whoop that's a that's a what that a a. whoop on that boy. I wor whoop this whole tour Believe It.

or Not l 50 PBS on tour yeah in I marked. my sleep every night I checked my show. my show was like a work you have been. living well dude tell I've never live. dude it was awesome but i i d I wore my. whoop forever you got to be careful yeah. you don't want to have to get yeah. because I guess also if you're a bigger. guy you just have to be careful like. yeah like uh stavos uh hus um was just. in here I love stavy oh y he's so. [ __ ] funny he is so funny dude and he. uh but he was talking about what it's. like being bigger he's like it's fun to.

be big you just have to also manage it. you can't get over big yeah so you just. gotta make you you just have to enjoy. your big but you can't [ __ ] you know. you can't be like I'm gonna you know get. just extra big cuz I can yeah yeah for. sure no what there's the point where it. starts [ __ ] yeah let me let I had. that recently like let me pull the rains. back dial this back get a surgery best. new. artery too much. best sorry man that. uh but so that was so wild and then they.

was it really like you were just shocked. I was really shocked I really didn't. have a uh I didn't have a plan walking. up there I was just walking up there. like man I didn't you know I was I was. getting more excited as I was getting up. there adrenaline's pumping I'm in the. [ __ ] brid Stone Arena I'm on National. Television dude I'm still a white trash. kid from Antioch all this is like what. the [ __ ] is going on you know what I'm. saying like it I'm not I'm not jaded to. this there's I'm not used to this at. this point in my career I'm still like. this is wow. you know and I'm standing up there and. I'm how many steps is it up there like.

how high is that how how is the St it's. like a dude I didn't walk it but I bet. it's like 10 steps I tell you I didn't. feel them wow I was on the cloud Bubba. you know at that moment you're just like. man this is you know that would be the. scariest step because then you know once. you get up there you have to turn around. and say something that would be what was. so scary no no I was just more like you. murdered that speech yeah I was just. walking up there like thinking of my I. was I don't know what I was thinking I. was thinking like I tell you when I. started thinking was when I looked up. and this is inside baseball I like I.

have the award I raise it up and I look. straight up and there's a teleprompter. that's going I'm not [ __ ] you Theo. 59 58 57 and I think to myself I got a. lot to say and a little time to do it I. didn't realized till I watched the. speech afterwards that I actually said. that out loud in that moment I was like. I got a lot of things to say and I'm gon. to say it really quick huh but that was. me thinking out loud because I remember. thinking that that's the first time I. remember really thinking in that moment. was like oh [ __ ] this is real got 58. seconds where they're going to start. playing the music on me and they're.

going to send a Sandman from Apollo and. pull me I was like I better make this. count you know what I'm saying I knew in. that moment too I was like I'm. definitely not winning another award. tonight for. sure I'm G say it all right now I. definitely didn't think I was going to. win this one yeah you know yeah I just. [ __ ] fired dude it was the coolest. thing AR that's so cool you're on a. rocket ship bro dude it was it's funny I. wouldn't think of any y as new artists. though in a weird way but that that. doesn't matter it's just it's like a. Accolade they do it doesn't really. matter what it is it's like saying hey.

man uh people recognize you and they see. exactly right it doesn't matter it. doesn't matter how long people people. have been winning that award that have. been around for a while but it is like. you on the map we recognize you see you. it's your time yeah and it is so I mean. I was giving you flowers out there but. it is true I mean everybody sees it that. it's just the lights are turned on for. you right now all the lights are on for. you right now and I'm so stoked because. you do um and I've told you this before. you do such a good job with your Podium.

that you're on and giving back to this. city and U and and the things that built. you and it's just I love knowing you as. a fellow nashvillian it's just Nashville. is very well represented thank you for. no it means a lot to me coming from. y'all especially but you guys are really. the you know some of the roots I know. there's a lot of guys around this area. you know yeah but you guys are uh people. that if I mention like to people I'm. like at the gym with or something. there's always somebody that knows one. of you guys you know some of the guys. that knew you weren't usually doing too.

well I'll say that but uh but they're. good guys you know good. guys hey that's funny true [ __ ]. methodin let's go boy if you came out. with a [ __ ] suboxin or a methadone. that would be jelly jelly donut flavored. suboxin for sure a fourth will get you. by yeah Subway sub box. in.

subbox yeah just the subway branding but. subbox in somebody make that shirt bro. that is got to be a at least a painting. to put in this room. sub I just I walked in here thinking I'm. having the biggest week of my career and. they're going to get me in trouble and I. was right knew it dude I knew it if. you're low on time you can make the. hours you've got a hold lot happier with. dash pass from door dash dash pass is.

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yeah thinking about that kind of stuff. do you start to feel more like you have. to be um wait did and did you get any. songwriting Awards this year I know you. got did you win any CMAs or no uh no. CMAs no okay sorry is that weird to say. I know you want I know you want a ton of. hell no I went it was like a date night. and I got to sit and cheer my friends on. yeah Ernest got drunk let me tell you. what happened time er every time Ernest. walked by me at the CMAs he was I was. bringing Zack a drink each time I came. back too well who was the other three.

for Ernest me my me and me and Delaney. he would he would look like a bartender. he would have two drinks in each hand. well they ought to have somebody doing. that for us so Parker McCullum was like. at every time I seen him one he'd have. him and his wife one and every time he's. just walking by it's for safety measures. though CU you don't know how long you're. going to have to sit like it might be. the last chance you ever get to get a. drink you're waiting for a commercial. break like a drug addict I swear bro. you're waiting for it like Chow in. prison you're sitting there and you're. just waiting I don't know what that's.

like Chow it's a new Chinese. inmate who's getting this. cutie and you're just sitting there and. they're like commercial break and you're. just like you just watch everybody stand. up yeah and just immediately start. shuffling really is it like it's like. when school it's like recess at school. it's like it's like when the bell rings. and you got five minutes to get between. classes yeah it's funny how I went to a. jail reference before I thought of. school [ __ ] well that's it you went to. you went to jail I went to college oh.

it's the song again it's exactly the. song that's so funny man I think but. back to the Nashville thing Theo I think. that's what made it so beautiful that my. first number one was written with Ernest. and keep in mind that we're already like. Ernest is on his seventh or eighth. number one at that point in his career. and I'm calling him now we're looking at. a decade plus of real friendship so I'm. calling Earnest and I'm like saying it. you know how I talk I'm people y'all. know how y'all see me on here is how I. am my friends are test I'm a very. straightforward like hey I need help can.

you I call Ernest like uh the first time. I got on Theo and Brennan's podcast I. hit him like yo I really need this this. is a good look for me they were like. come on but same thing with busting with. the boys but I call Ernest I'm like. Bubba I'm treading new water here come. over here and drop some of that sauce. off wow you know what I was saying I was. like [ __ ] with your boy man you know. what I mean I'm like it's just me and my. dude me and my dude that wrote save me. we're friends of 20 something years yeah. he's from a trailer park Nashville grew. up piss poor never neither one of us. dreamed of being songwriters we just.

dreamed of not being drug dealers yeah. you know and um so we're just in there. pilling around and we're like we don't. really we can't even read yeah sure I'm. like we're not qualified to try offense. D don't know the guy exactly I'm like. middle I'm like we're not qualified to. write a radio song by ourselves you know. what I'm saying I was like I only know. one person we going to write this song. we can't even read there's only one hit. writer in town that'll take my call let. me call him yo er do me a favor pull up.

he's like I got you are you there all. week I'm like I'm here all week and. we've told the story but he was going to. get ribs and next door at the barbecue. pit he really just came. to so Earnest that's Earnest is that. good he's like you know what I got to. pick up some ribs in about an hour but. I'll stop while they were smoking he. came in he was like I got like 30. minutes to kill or something Fu exactly. whated he wrote a piece of the song he. he just like poured out an idea I was. like love y'all let me know how goes I I. looked at our text thread after it went. number one because that night I texted.

Ernest at like 4 in the morning cuz I. was up you sent back a demo a demo at 4. in the morning I was like we might we. might actually have something here yeah. and then then so good when I left like. is we had the son longest son of a c and. like that [ __ ] was just tattooed in my. brain from the second I left until till. now and then I had to double back with. the favor Theo because then when we get. the song done I'm like well [ __ ] we. don't know nobody to produce a radio. song neither right so I call Ernest I'm.

like you gotta produce called him back. hey I'm I'm one for one on producing. country songs and then going to the top. baby that your first produced one yeah. it's the only thing I produced the best. part was I I had to gas him up the yo he. was like the Rudy rud. girlally One play one sack that's me I. had to gas him up bro I had to be like. yo man you can do this he was like I've. never done it I was like I definitely. can't do it if we have to pick right now. who's the most qualified to do it it's. [ __ ] you man you got to figure it out.

he was like all right man [ __ ] I'll. figure it out I was like all right cool. wow crazy that is crazy hearing it out. loud again though cuz you know I almost. had to bully him into it the I was like. you got this I I felt impostor syndrome. being around you know the producer all. the time but uh singing that song it's. in my set every night and I I love it. like one of mine like because uh and I. say every night I give a brief overcap. of knowing him and then how special it. is that one's that's all the time when.

people ask me what my favorite number. one is it's that one because of that. reason because it's homegrown 100%. homegrown three Nashville dudes three. Nashville dudes that 10 years before you. could have never told us we would be hit. song writers any of us you know what I. mean so and we put real real real stuff. in a song vulnerable that country radio. accepted yeah and like that's cool like. pills and you know addiction and weird. lingo that most country songs don't have.

yeah well nowadays that's your dog in. your truck dude if you don't you know. what I'm saying if you if you dog the. dog Chucks on blocks Chu on blocking. we're moved on we're moving on to. obus the genre has evolved no man I. remember cuz I was at I went to the. Opera and I saw you and um performing. and then you played that song I was like. I just didn't know I didn't know the. that's where it was that was that was. when it was and I was like wow cuz I. just love listening to that song man you. know what you did me a solid Theo the.

holler it's a big country themed um. YouTube social media site and they did. like one of them 30- second things with. you and they said what's a country song. you can listen to Non-Stop and you said. Son of a sinner by jelly roll and you. said no never mind Save Me by jelly roll. oh nice thank. you you threw me a big alley cuz that. [ __ ] cuz you did it it went Boll. everybody s that to me I like I love. where you at right now where you at with. Laney on that we're number two we're. number two yeah we should be pushing.

next week Sav me should be the number. one song on country radio whenever this. comes by the time this comes out it. should I should be able to say this. number I'm a Jessie Mur I I'm a Jesse. murf fan too I've been a Jessie Mur fan. for so good feels scary even saying it. cuz she's like a young girl you know but. it's like you can f I am a I know all of. her songs dude which is really alarming. to say and I might even I don't want to. hear this I'm glad I'm not I can't hear. that good if it makes you feel better. you if you were like me I heard the. voice before I seen her and nothing.

about her voice says she's a 19-year-old. girl right like her voice says she's a. 37 year old woman that's been through a. lifetime of pain and anger you know what. I'm saying it's like when you hear just. the voice cuz I just heard the music. like and then I found out who it was. yeah and then I was like oh this is dope. but she's You' love her man she's like a. little sister man she's like I got to. meet up with her one night her and this. guy Shay know uh he's like a. light-skinned dude dude he writes music. Shai sh sh Carter yeah sorry sorry yeah.

yeah Shai Carter yeah dude it was. awesome I got to meet up with them and. uh in in Los Angeles and just I was a Hu. I was a huge fan of hers and then her. manager I think Ben knew about it and. he's like oh uh Jesse's in town if you. want to stop by and get to say hey and. so I got to stop by and meet them sick. God awesome and this and like she played. some of her new music and stuff it's so. good man yeah she don't miss baby while. you're at it yeah why don't you rap I. need to tap in I I only know like bro. once you get on it though dude her Tik.

Tok [ __ ] is so V like once you get on it. it's like you're it's like you it'll be. weird because you'll just be like at the. CVS or something and you're just. standing there by yourself singing. Jessie murf and these kids start looking. at you like this guy's a pervert get. this guy out of here but he's a pervert. that listens to good music isn't he. pervert true good taste absolutely that. was the funny part when they sent me. wild ones I was. like somebody suggested like you should. do a verse on Wild Ones and I was like. yeah yeah I'm going to sing about my.

wife though like I'm not getting on any. song with a young woman and not talk. about the most important woman in my. life they were like cool I was like. whatever as long as the label don't trip. on my verse cuz I sent a verse in just. like not think I thought they were. rejected cuz I'm talking like [ __ ] a. little bit right you know what I'm. saying I was like they're not going to. let me flat and they were like this is. it I was like [ __ ] let's go so far. yeah it was so good bunny is my what's. that line Bunny's my Harley Quin yeah. you know what I'm saying fun getting. back to getting to the freedom of having.

a getting a rap verse oh dude it's like. it feels so I've been in a situation. lately where I've got to go write a. bunch of stuff by myself or like in two. ways again like save me or you know what. I mean like that style and it's been a. ball which we should do I've pulled up. to a lot of places and just been thrown. into like a feature category again when. they're just like well just write. something for this and I'm just like. hell yeah good stuff yeah it's normally. like we write in like twos or threes cuz. it's easier to bounce ideas off each. other that way and uh but like when you.

go do a feature for somebody especially. in the hip-hop world they just you just. got a beat and you're just like writing. something and you're like by yourself. again it's the coolest most dangerous. thing ever because you go back to what. you think's cool y you know what I mean. it's like I don't give a [ __ ] what. nobody thinks I'm wigging out about this. I think this is sick I'm in my little. I'm I'm on my kitchen T I still write. the kitchen table like I did when I was. a kid I got my little headphones all my. wife's out there and then finally I'll. be like come check this out you're pined. the pad too right yeah I'm still pin the. pad I'm still old school I love that I. can't well because [ __ ] I also don't. know how to play the music and go to my.

notes at the same time on my phone my. hand don't work fast enough like if when. I try writing a it's either illegible. because is that how you pronounce that. yeah or something illegible yeah yeah my. handwriting so bad because I'm trying to. write so fast cuz my thoughts and like. I'm afraid I'll forget it by the time I. get done I've never seen you write. anyways though you've never I've never. seen you be the scbe in the room nobody. believes you write anything and people. just believe you just show up yeah. literally i' I've never. WR falls out of you dude name one time.

you've been the guy with the laptop type. in the [ __ ] lyrics arest never the. guy with the laptop but I sometimes I I. do write complete ideas in my notes on. my phone and then bring it with and put. a guitar to it but often It Is Just Like. Music somebody get a voice note going. blah somebody type that out yeah yeah I. need to scribes what's that line I. remember seeing you get so excited about. it's like uh map dot oh a oh Hardy said. that ain't that a map. shame he said in. more than my hometown ain't that a map.

do shame and think that yeah I mean I. added nothing to that song that night. other than the room we wrote it in and. then when he said that I about ran. through a glass wall I was so I remember. you saying one time fired up how so. excited you were about that lyric I. don't know I mean it caught me off guard. ain't that a map dot ain't that a map. dot Shan ain't that a map dot Shan yeah. so good that's such a cool way I like. that's that lyric uh well I got I took. some pills she took the dogs all it's.

all that's a hell of a she's gone to her. mom god dude and I took up drinking. since she took the time to tell me I. took the best years of her life God sad. it is sad man sad songs make me happy. yeah I wonder if uh if people relate. more now to sad is do you think the. overall that music's sadder or different. than it was when we were like growing up. and you and I are probably more closer.

to age in nnest but like I just wonder. sometimes you know I think so I think is. there more s music think there's more. real auth more vulnerability okay there. you go it was so curated so music used. to be curated there was it was the. labels were in the power and they would. curate songwriters they would pick the. songs they would make the artists record. the songs this like it was a big deal. when artists got to start picking their. own songs in this town there was time. where like label was were like this is. your song I called it I get in trouble. every time I do this by the way but [ __ ].

it I called it the Build-A-Bear system. right like Nashville was like build a. bear like they would find a bear they. would put cowboy hat on bear cowboy. boots on bear they would give bear a. song Give bear a guitar make bear have a. band of bears behind bear put bear on. tour put bear on radio and it was. completely like they were these dudes. were like [ __ ] robots they were. Muppets right you know what I mean for. the the system and the power and what. we've seen in light of the internet and. I always compare stuff to like other.

things for connectivity and comedy we've. seen it as well right in podcasting and. and the the ability to y'all to go. direct to Consumer right like like the. idea that a guy like Zack Bryan can be. writing songs in the military and sets. up his phone and just sweating just. singing his ass off and can connect with. people with with no in between right Y. and that's why sometimes establishment. don't like him because they had. absolutely nothing to do with his.

success but we've gotten to a place. where like we're back this the last time. this really happened and somebody's. going to argue with me but [ __ ] them was. in the 60s and the 70s the singer. songwriter movement yeah right where you. would see guys that were like writing. their own songs and singing their own. songs Willie Nelson whan Dylan James. Taylor The Outlaws but I mean it it went. over like I was playing a you know. Jackson Free have you wrote with him yet. oh yeah he's a I love that kid I think I.

think he's gonna be he's 23 in the next. 10 15 years remember we said this name. Theo this kid's going to have 30 40. number one Jackson freeon Jackson free. spells it with an X but he didn't. realize how deep Dylan's catalog was. because like if you're like I don't know. if do you ever get into Dylan Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan yeah no so the was it the. nasal thing that threw you off I don't. remember I just don't know if I I I just. don't remember him that good but it's. like you've heard some of his songs. without knowing right heart is that him.

uh sounds like. Tom yeah. like man I don't know if that did in the. basement mixing up the medicine I'm on. the P about the government yeah I think. wow Bob Dyan was kind of rapping but he. also wrote Along the Watchtower yes. right like he like and Jackson didn't. realize his and I'm playing them all. these big records I'm like you know 10. Bob Dylan songs I could do it for you. right now where you're like no I don't.

I'm like I play them you're like oh [ __ ]. I do know 10 Bob Dylan songs I just know. didn't know Bob Dylan wrote them yeah. because but it was a different era these. guys were like writing their own songs. and singing them and then we went. through the 20 30y year curated space. uhuh and now it's like there's a lot of. guys that are singing their own stories. again and that's why I think the. connectivity is different and I think. the vulnerability shows because it's. just men being honest in their music so. it might seem a little sadder but I. think it's just more more authentic yeah.

that's a good that's a great answer yeah. I agree with that for sure Jesus Christ. that's a good answer thank you bro same. to say with the music too more like not. even just the lyrics. like I don't know pop was so synthesized. it feels like synthetic would be the. word but like now real instruments and. like not being so on the grid when I say. on the grid like a protool session. literally locked in on the grid guys. like Zach playing how it feels more so. than just everything's got to be perfect.

yes and like that just opens up a yard. for people that are willing to do it you. know kind of break the mold and go play. in that yard and that's like yeah sad. songs are going to happen in there I. love steel guitar steel guitar is all. over my record and there's not a sadder. sounding instrument than steel guitar so. I consciously write a lot of times to. cater to steel guitar like I you know I. think that to give you your flowers. though outside of the genius you are as. a songwriter as the artist Earnest.

that's what makes you special though. Bubba is like you focus not only on the. top line and the lyric there's a sound. that you want you're bringing like. you're years ahead of your time with. bringing that sound back around just. like Hardy was years ahead of his time. with bringing in the really rock heavy. metal country it's like guys like that. is when you think about the guys who. really went on to win it's because their. sound was so different as well not just. the [ __ ] that were singing about like. the like when I see an Earnest show it's.

like nostalgic it's like this but with. new Concepts written over the top of. this super old nostalgic sound you know. what I mean it's just really sick to me. and it's the same thing I hear when I. hear Hardy like listen I bang truck bed. like me and Bunny are beefing and me and. her we don't argue at all that's my best. friend you know what I mean I love my. wife we don't have any problems but I. still wake up bang truck bed like I'm. [ __ ] ready to get divorced you know. what I'm saying like that song Just. [ __ ] in every way and it's because it. breaks every rule in Nashville oh yeah.

not just Nashville but every rule in. like he said there's a system in music. Theo that's like okay and he knows the. number system better than me he'll. explain this I the. number yeah it's like so okay I did. here's the one I got to go to the four. cuz that's what supposed to happen next. it's like can't you go to the five it's. like nope got to go to the four like. [ __ ] you go to the five you know what. I'm saying it's like you know yeah well. yeah I think there's an overall system. in the world like that that that that. kind of like you know the powers of be. kind of feel like they they've got. everything down to an algorithm but I.

think it's it's again proof that uh that. originality and hu that there's. something inside of us that wants to be. original not just individually but even. as a species where it's like we don't. you know don't confine everything into. that space you can't lock us into an. algorithm as humans you know like we're. going to find a way out of it you know. and I think that's one thing that's. great about a lot of the music right now. say like yeah even some of the artists. when you're saying who is even up for. Best New Artist At I don't even know if.

I would say half those people are. country you know I wouldn't put them. just as a country music you know like. it's good that's a great term yeah yeah. but it's like Zack Bryant I'm to me it's. like he's a some people could say he's. their Bob Dylan you know like yeah he is. yeah genres are totally scared right now. yeah like Jesse Murphy's she's in seven. genres yeah for sure you know it's like. um jelly it's like most people if You'. have said 10 years is he is he a a. country it's like he's a country. [ __ ] you know in the sense that. you know like he definit all things are.

true for him in when he's rapping when. he's singing country songs or rock songs. the story never story the story is the. same it's just a matter what furniture. you're dressing a room with and the. story needed stop it Ernest yeah clip. that got clip that for me somebody say. again I was saying the story stays the. same to matter the genre the furniture. changes in which you're decorating your. room with damn bro that's [ __ ] hard I. needed thank you brother yeah I needed. that but but I'm country I want out. first of all I love country music like.

as a fan like I'm obsessed with country. music have been my whole life and. because being from this town I was. always fascinated with when I was a kid. there was no other job in this town like. you were either you know like a a Layman. or a bartender or you worked in country. music somehow right yeah for sure yeah. 100% it's like you know and my mother. was a bartender so she took like great. pride in like this like the country. music scene being in this town and. coming to the bars and like it was like. I remember CMA week would come uh fanf.

fair is what they called it back then. and it would be like an economic shift. like our families would plan vacations. around it like all right well we can't. go to July cuz fanf fair is in June and. we gonna have the money then they put. back Christmas money because it was such. this town only had 300,000 people in it. there so you got to think we're bringing. an extra 50,000 people to town for. Fanfare it was like a six of our. population a fifth of our population was. just showing up to spend money in one. week the bartenders celebr they called.

it hell week they were like this is. going to suck but we're all going to get. b rolls you know what I'm saying like. don't worry we're eating steak on Friday. baby you know what I'm saying we're. going to afford that divorce next. Monday that's got to be the worst you. can't get wor because you can't afford. it it's like a Fu you IM just waking up. every day like I would leave you if I I. financially if I had $640 I'd Le your. ass. foul right now bu a dollar for every. time I've heard you say it I'd leave you.

yeah I'm surprised I haven't seen more. gofundmes about divorces like just. looking for $1,000 to foul that's. hilarious that'd be a great reality. Marketplace they want three grand to get. a. new that's so dude the crazy thing about. touring is you to you're like uh you. meet people like oh we're from dipp and. Dot Alabama and you're like where the. [ __ ] is that where is that oh I'm from. uh mix breed Arkansas you're like what.

where did you see that video about the. most racist town in America being in. Arkansas and the guy from I can't. remember I shouldn't I'm too high to. talk about this might have been Eric. Andre maybe who went to no no no it was. it's a you it's a famous YouTuber I. follow his channel I'm just [ __ ]. can't remember his name right now the. black dude went into it was trying to. interview the guy yeah he. was no it was somebody else I can't. remember dude's name but I've seen can't. remember his name he's got he's got. dreads and he he went to like Alaska he. always goes to weird places but it was. [ __ ] super cool too super cool he.

went he wore like a trump shirt or. something yeah and he went to the most. racist town in the you would Theo you. would piss yourself I know your person. to for the most part people were trying. to be pretty nice and like be like hey. do you know kind of you know where. you're at you know he'd be knocking on. the door or something and you know an. older white couple would come out and be. like oh hey like you shouldn't you. probably shouldn't be in this town likey. like fair warning not like we're going. to do anything but I can't speak for my. neighbors they're like oh you should you.

shouldn't be out after dark I mean you. shouldn't be out. dark yeah either both yeah yeah but no. dude handled it like a champ and he was. obviously knew he was going into the. fire but it's like it's good content. yeah he he he talked to one old. toothless man boy and I cry I pissed. myself it was so funny yeah one of my. favorite videos I've ever seen in my. life yeah I think you should have if you. want to be racist I think you should at. least have to have all your teeth I feel. like like right cuz otherwise you're not. even taking care of your end of the you. know it's like you should at least have.

to fix yourself. up who are you there should be a. criteria there should be a criteria for. RAC for a guy who doesn't like blacks. you have a black space in your smile. okay which is really interesting that. you'd let a nice white tooth expire okay. kind of hypocritical talk you and your. interracial Grand over there oh my God. that's crazy dude if you got hair you.

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also is an evolution of what men like. it's not just the dog and the truck you. know some of those old like um what are. those things called eupan isms. e that's killing it all euthanization. isms oh. yeah yeah analogies met tropes something. like that but I think those are even. evolving it's like a man is a what you. know it's like now a guy is sitting on. Horseback but he's playing Nintendo. switch you know yeah the furniture's.

changed right the furniture Chang Chang. but but it is cool it it like I was. saying about there being a fresh yard to. play in as a writer um it is way more. freeing to write songs now than it was. when I first started writing songs and I. think part of that is with some success. comes more freedom to get to do it but. like yeah like you know the options of. guys that will cut songs now are is. different like you know you got he's.

willing to say way more [ __ ] than so and. so is willing to say or like um you know. if post is coming wants to make country. songs like there's an option for like. you really got some more freedom to say. stuff that you know so and so over here. would never say or never even be able to. say that has a little more swag or a. little more sauce on it right and that. for guys like me I love that because. then then I really get to exercise. the fun muscle in my brain that's true. when artists start to like collab and. stuff it's like anything could kind of.

be H could kind of happen and then you. still have guys like John party that's. kind of like fun Tre you know like yeah. and writing for a guy like that is so. much fun too because then you get to. step into like a honky tonk world and. you know you oh this sounds like a party. thing that's the greatest compliment you. can play pay an artist in life is when. you're thinking of something and you're. thinking of a song in your head and. you're like man that's a that's a more. of a party record like that shows how. much of a brand he's built with the spec.

like spec how do you say spec specific. don't hurt yourself sorry [ __ ] I'm. blowing it like speciic yeah like he's. so specific and what how why did it take. me that long to get just you. Theo need some Naran over. here only you have to hit jelly with. some Naran get a word out of. him dude that'd be crazy imagine if and. this this is seph you're just trying to. get a word out but what.

if what if there was somebody your town. they were so kind of like illiterate. that if they couldn't get a word you. [ __ ] hit him. with a little popper. yeah. extra. extracurricular wide away anyways but. he's so specific it's like a I think. about it with when we were kids we would. go on a what was it what was it called. was it called sound click SoundCloud no. no the the Beats oh sound click I think. I don't know what was it so there was a. there was a website called. soundclick.com to get instr it would.

have Beats and it would be like. producers would make these beats and. they would lease them to you but they. would title the Beats like and this I I. I dreamed of the day this would happen. for me Drake Type Beat yes yes yes. Eminem type beat and it was like that. spoke so that goes back to the sound we. were talking about earlier in this pod. is like great artists build sounds not. just great songs as well they great. sounds behind them so like the greatest. dream is be like oh that's a John party. sounding song that's a Kid Rock sounding.

song that's a jelly roll sounding song. It's a like that is the greatest. compliment because there's a lot of. artists in music on pop and country. that's like there's four artists that. could cut the same song because their. sound is just that sound you know what I. mean it's just a big it's a big like. yeah it's just kind of like down. the-middle. sound yeah people are going to like it. but it's not polarizing which you know. there's an artist you you know what I'm. talking about and then you have the. other artist it's like oh that sounds. like J Cole should be rapping on that.

yeah that sounds like jelly roll would. be singing a song like that like that's. what you go for as an art and any Young. artist watching this that's what I. challenge you to do I challenge you to. write a thousand songs and I challenge. you to make production around it in a. way that it's your thing yeah so what. he's saying is you're going to need to. go to. prison do a stin you either go to. college yeah you're going to want to go. to college just for long enough to drop. out of it uh or prison yeah cuz. otherwise nobody will buy your music at. least if you're not a college if you're.

not a Dropout you know you got to have a. story with yeah you can't be singing. about pills and dogs and have a degree. in business like pick your life pick. your life yeah and also dude Shout Out. The Producers like Joey specifically. Joey Moy uh just one producer of the. year I mean he's been he's the goat he's. been crushing let me see a picture of. him can we bring a picture of him up. please Alex so Joey's all our producer. me Morgan Hardy he he's a I've met him. before yeah you've met Joey so he's. like Joey my no dude took that picture.

but um he's the goat goat though he has. done such a good job of for years even. since Nickelback he's been able to build. several different brands within the same. genre and make each of them unique like. how different me Morgan and Hardy are. within the same exact format is he also. Florida Georgia Line. Georg big stuff yeah it's like awesome. Joey Joey built all of this and I mean.

I'll give Hardy credit too on he's very. Hands-On on his sound and um and what he. wants to sound like they're very what's. the word collaborative uh Hardy and Joey. are but yeah yeah Kudos Tim that's. amazing you know to have to be able to. have that those AB you know that ability. to to be able to organize not only like. put something together but then find. different places for things that are. really great that can be close to each. other and stuff it's yeah it's insane is. it true that on the Nickelback record.

that what the hell is on Joey's head. that's Joey about Joey that's Joey so. yeah I think he had like a fake Stanley. Cup on his head in this photo and they. were like stoned and um I think Joey's. on the cover of High Times or something. like that with Chad at one point but uh. yeah that the yeah look at this. Photograph every time and what the hell. is on Joey's head oh that was it Joey MO. W so but think about this while we're. giving him his flowers. is Joey think about this Joey did.

Nickelback and the like created the. sound that made Nickelback the icons. they are yeah then went on to do it with. Florida Georgia Line yeah Hardy Ernest. and then Morgan yeah so it's like his. spectrum of decades worth of just rein. like that's a genius dude like it's. outside of him inventing artist sounds. he's Reinventing himself like he's like. there's something different happening. with that dude man you I mean yeah to be. able to change yeah I I can't it's hard. enough for somebody to do something well.

once yeah for sure to to produce a song. like Animals you know or something in. your mouth by Nickelback and then also. have like seven Summers yeah and how. different they are I think about last. night like. just shout out Charlie hansome too yeah. crazy yeah Charlie. H he's so [ __ ] good I got to have I. got I got to have a talk with Charlie. yeah Charlie's a cool cat yeah what are. you going to tell him man let's get it. out just how much I love him okay D how.

much I love him I thought it was going. to be about his use or something I love. too I was like yo is this where we're. going I was like when when I met Charlie. it was. 200 18 we were at the Universal Studios. uh the recording studios not the Disney. World and he's a songwriter just so. people know Charlie hansome producer. srer bring a picture of him up and truly. one of the greatest yeah truly he. started out. uh like a hip-hop producer but like he's. one of the greatest musicians like he. plays all instruments he kind of was the.

first producer to do that acoustic trap. stuff like the early on post Malone. stuff glex stuff like that that's his. gut string guitar and. he he does all these crazy vocal effects. so anyways I met Charlie in 2018 when I. was like kind of rapping. that's that's uh one guy is Charlie hand. the guy on the left yeah that's Charlie. those are handsome Charlies dude for. sure I [ __ ] with that dude with four. cigarettes in his mouth though but that. dude is [ __ ] IC shout out that guy.

too yeah that's Charlie but Charley's a. man and so we met doing some rap stuff. and we talked that day uh about he was. like yo I got to come to Nashville he's. like I want to get into country and I. was at that time had a foot in both. doors and I was kind of ready to go the. country route foot in what door raping. in country yeah like that's why I was. out in La just like making rap beats and. doing Hooks and stuff know I was I was. just making the rounds out there and. then coming back here and doing country. and like I already was boys with Morgan. for a couple years at that time and Sam.

Hunt and FGL so like Charlie came into. town and we started doing tag team in. all these sessions together and that's. when like if I know me for Morgan came. heartless for Morgan more than my. hometown with them and like it all. started happening and my first number. one ever was a song called I love my. country with Florida George ofine Me and. Charlie did um and we just we kind of. sat there and accidentally manifested. the whole thing is what we talked about. that day was like y I feel like we could. go really and organically blend these.

two sounds in Nashville uh and and it's. happened I mean putting it's not like. we're the first to ever put 808s with a. country song because Joey was doing it. with Cruz back when FGL was doing it but. I think I think it's happened I got to. give my boys flowers too Zack Crow did. it with break up Z break up in a small. town he might have been the first to do. it probably so yeah but straight up so. the way it's evolved organically though. to where it's like it doesn't sound like. such a mes it just sounds like one brand.

and then it's the voice that's pulling. it home well it's probably getting into. people's systems too after it gets in. their system a little bit they're kind. of used to hearing it without frog in. warm water so speak Char Charlie. Charlie's Charlie's really one of those. special ones man shout out shout outow. too shout out to Ernest by the way erest. Ernest it's funny how Ernest always. finds himself you know and he's so. humble about he's like yo this guy and. this guy and this guy was like you. always be in the room too [ __ ] I. know you I've been with you you're. [ __ ] He's something special I sneak. into a lot room yeah Ernest is er don't.

sneak I always love Ernest that he's uh. always makes me laugh he's one of the. funniest guys to be around he's [ __ ]. hilarious he's my favorite face time if. I look down at my phone and it's a. FaceTime and it's Earnest I'm like I. don't every time you're like I don't. know what this is but it's going to be. [ __ ] awesome you what I'm. saying it could be a hit song idea he. could be up [ __ ] partying on his bus. at 4 morning he could just have a bit. call with a joke like yo check this out. just [ __ ] like like just like I know.

if Co wetzel's on with him on the same. FaceTime then I'm going to need to call. my. SP yeah I'm going to merge calls with my. sponsor the idea of Co wetel makes my. liver and nose hurt hearing his name I. just got PTSD we got to get Co on here. man [ __ ] D he's people everybody. loves him so much I'd probably do an. afternoon one with him he's not awake. there's no unless he if he's awake he's. hunting right now yeah he's he has been. him I just seen a picture of Gary Dale. posted that him and his dad have been. out killing [ __ ] he's an AF yeah he can.

hunt I mean I love Co man he's such a. good dude he's one of he's uh his whole. crew is cool he's also man shout out Dre. Dre is the dude Dre Roa yeah [ __ ] the. dude man but I tell you something else. about Co that I think gets overlooked. because he's he's so fun and the party. and just who he is is just also man he's. incredible dude like if you see him with. just a guitar I mean I've seen him. blowed out of his mind pick up a guitar. and just kill it's like so second nature.

to what he does he's so ingrained in the. music side of it you know like we were. in a writing room one day and he was. trying to he was like no here here he's. like just just hand it to me Brantley. Gilbert's like that too and brandley. will throw that guitar on and just man I. mean I always you're a great guitar. player in a room you know what I mean. it's like you notice the ones that are. like different you're like and I think. maybe Co CAU off guard cuz I didn't. expect it cuz we partied all night the. night before like all night till like 9. in the morning or something it was like.

[ __ ] got dark it was [ __ ] deep and. I was just like we got to the studio. like 4 the next afternoon we're both. like shaking you know what I mean we're. both in really bad shape you've been. there and it's like and I'm watching. this dude just pour a song out of him. I'm like this is crazy y I brought no. value I had to leave I was like yo I'm. out I feel so bad I'm trying to have sex. on cocaine that's me bu I'm going to. bring nothing to the table yeah let me. uh yeah I can't even bring the. table getting this up the stairs I've.

already sold the table you were talking. about somebody um like Joey getting to. live there few people get to do it once. and we were talking about Tyler hubber. for a second yeah Tyler I'll tell you a. great story about Tyler so I went to I. this actually isn't a great story but it. is a story and um I just realized it. wasn't that great okay but we went to. see uh we saw Hardy and Morgan in Ernest. at um fway park right and it was. beautiful like beautiful day great set. wa place to see a show cuz you're inside.

fway Park where you've seen baseball but. youve never seen a show in there and. like Hardy's up there with the American. flag and like ernest's kid runs out on. the stage with him oh ryen twinkle. twinkle yeah second he heard a song. though he's like I'm out of here he. really came got me he's like dude this. guy's [ __ ] bunk right it's his. dad I was like dude that's your father. we have to little respect I need a. cigarette he'll be there yeah I think he. really liked the music he just wanted. some nicotine yeah um but anyway.

afterwards I'm leaving and I'm like [ __ ]. I stayed a little too late to be able to. beat like like we had to just walk back. to my hotel so and it was a w it was. probably a half a mile so I'm like so I. get out there and I'm kind of start to. argue with this cab driver a little bit. he does we don't we nether one of us. speak the other guy's language right so. we're trying to figure out how far I. need to go uh and Tyler pulls right up. dude with his family oh incredible like. you want to get in yes dude and I was.

like thank you man Cruz bro Cruz Cruz I. think I think he's going to be one of. the few that got to live his dream twice. wow it looks like it with the songs he's. putting out he's a sweet guy yeah the. hits he's getting on country radio good. to me yeah he been great and uh I think. I told him that one night I was like man. very few men in life get to live their. dream once and I think you're fixing to. get to do it twice wow technically three. times cuz then you and BK will get back. together later and go do huge blowout. reunion thing and it'll be [ __ ] big. again you I'm saying yeah what'll happen.

with them yeah can that happen that. Florida Georgine can get back together. you think I don't you know he knows them. better than me I just met BK the other. day who I'm who I think waset chess pie. they have both always been so they've. both always been so good to me like I. said bro when I was when I was still. snow they had me come that was your. rapper name yeah I was just like and. nickname it was just that era I marked. that era like 200 14 201 2011 through. 2014 was the snow days and and those. were like Brian and Tyler had I had no.

business being in a room writing songs. with them and and they and big loud and. them took a way early chance on me years. before I needed it well that's another. another nod to like people changing. genres and thinking of something. different because who would think I'm. going to get a white rapper yeah you. know or who would think you know a lot. of guys probably weren't thinking hey. I'm going to get this rapper in here to. try with me you know right yeah it's. cool I mean and then you. know having having the rapper mentality.

and then having also signed a country. writing publishing deal kind of forced. my. hand to just start doing a weird hybrid. where I was like I was really rapping. like I would be like doing 16 Bar verses. like a rap would but I was adding. Melodies and doing it over acoustic and. stuff like that and then you know that. was just like I said putting the frog in. war water I was the frog in warm water. as far as finally fully committing the. brand and craft to like country song.

writing and like I think I Shi away from. it for so long CU I thought you had to. be redneck to be country and I'm not the. most redneck guy I've done redneck [ __ ]. with my friends I got redneck friends. for sure but I'm country and I'm and it. took me a while to even realize that cuz. you know I didn't grow up on a farm we. moved to 13 Acres my senior year which. was not because of poverty you know it's. like I had a pretty decent um so I like.

Shi away from the country thing I don't. want to be fake but I see but some of my. favorite songs ever written ain't got. nothing to do with big trucks and muds. like love or heartbreak and pain and. it's like oh being a country artist can. just be telling your story and the music. is my favorite music anyway so like once. I wrap my head around that wasn't a. shame to be country and realize I am. country then I was like yeah let's let's. go I'm not redneck dude I'll never.

forget the first time my mama played uh. looking for trouble and I found a son. right down a barrel of a long man gun. ain't living long like this ain't living. long like this on my baby and I was like. yo this [ __ ] country huh who's saying. that way Jen that sounds like you that's. what's crazy doesn't it I mean it sounds. like that's the sh that's the sh that's. what inspired me though right that was. the stuff that I was like yo this is. awesome you know it's like that was to.

me um Willie Nelson's Blue Eyes Crying. in the Rain these like Classic record. Angel Flying Too Close to the ground. dude man and Lucas doing it at the. birthday party was insane too oh that's. one of my favorite songs Just he his the. whole catalog of Willie was Willie. inspired me to understand that the. person out the the pain like I used to. think because I was like a bubbly big. dude that I couldn't sing sad songs but. all I wrote was sad songs you know what.

I mean and then you look at guys like. Willie you know the braids the guitar. the headband and then he goes he's like. famous Stoner like who Willie is outside. of the music yeah and then he would get. on stage and sing the saddest song ever. you know what I mean it was like that. inspired me so so much but and just high. enough to come back around round I think. they'll get back together Florida. Georgia Line I think their impact was. too big I don't know if it's in the next. 5 years or 10 but it's just like I'm.

still holding on to hope I just listened. to Andre 3000's flute album yeah I was. just high enough to really dig it to be. honest but I was thinking to myself. there's no way even if we don't see an. outcast album ever again that there's. not going to be a day where something's. going to come along that we're going to. see outcast on the stage again I hope so. thing out unless you plan the V yeah you. know what I mean I just don't think I. think their their cultural impact was. too big oh dirt is a song I'll play a. lot of times man yeah for sure dirt.

confession anything goes yeah hey I'll. show Chris Tomkins demo of anything goes. it's just him and a keyboard I'll show. you I'll show all y'all one day I'm. trying to think of uh what else is. something I was going to think about. asking you boys let me try let me show. this new hat I got you like this hat I. got yeah tell me. Lane it's a. uh this Lane this Lane. Frost he is a um his daddy was a uh will. you bring him up do you mind if you get.

a chance Alex I gotta make a phone call. really quick No Sweat I'll talk to jelly. I love that Ernest is so Earnest he's. like I gotta make a phone call like he's. like I'm just high enough to remember I. was supposed to call my doctor 12 he's. like [ __ ] he's like dude I'm doing. obviously I don't need to be in here uh. Lane Frost right there celebrating a. bull riding Legend one of the best bull. riders of all time um yeah can we get on. his Wikipedia at least it might help us. some yeah oh he died in 1989 yeah why he.

died. young his parents lived in La Point. Utah his father was on the rodeo. circuit um yo hold on hold on this is. crazy he sustained severe injuries at. the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo I. played that before it's a huge deal dude. me and coow wetel played that really. dude I'm headlining sh frontier days. this year Theo if you're off that day. you should come out and see it it is the. wildest [ __ ] [ __ ] you it's so.

legendary it's it is like seeing that. just gave me goosebumps you know think. about George Straits I can still make. Cheyenne uh think about uh think about G. Brook's beaches. a drew a bull in Wyoming no man could. ride I'm getting Goosebumps bro this is. crazy all this was about this guy then. look at that big Goosebumps bro wow. that's true huh it must have been about. him look oh damn oh those are real right. there some [ __ ] buzzards you got. going baby damn that's the power of.

music and stuff you hatching buzzards. right there go back to uh to Lane Frost. real quick and go down a little bit more. on him early life on January 5th Frost. married Kelly Kyle a barrel racer and. then how did he pass. away on July 30th at Cheyenne Frontier. Days in Chey Wyoming after completing a. successful 85po ride on a Brahma bull. named taking care of business uh Frost. dismounted and landed in the mud the. bull then turned and pressed his right. horn on Frost's back and pushed him.

against the muddy floor uh he was rushed. to he fell to the ground causing his. heart and lungs to be punctured by his. ribs oh he died on the way to the. hospital was 25 years old man you got to. come with me this year if I do it that's. crazy. dude um I will that's amazing man I. appreciate you saying that I'll have to. this sounds really really cool oh. there's movie 8. Seconds where Luke Perry uh rip played. the roll of frost and he has a son.

though Lane Frost I think is maybe is. this maybe or this maybe this uh hat. line might just be named after him yeah. Frost. parents say oh they play tribute to him. with the dance video that g Brooks put. out this is crazy wow country music star. Zack Bryan's middle name is Lane after. Frost wow what are the odds bro what are. the odd somebody. gave me this hat the other day I see it. across the room I go put it on and we're. back down to Zack Frost I want one now.

and it's 2022 song open the gate as a. tribute to his Nam sake wow man that's. awesome gosh dude there's something. about storytelling man there's something. about that people get you know you want. people to relate to things and feel. something yeah you know have you CU what. is music look like do you think moving. forward for you you know do you think. like more about it I mean do you think. like. about staying more in a certain Lane you. all good Earnest I'm great okay cool no. worries we'll just go a little bit. longer Man U do you think about staying.

in a different lane or doing it do you. have any thoughts like or is there new. stuff you working on or what's yeah man. I'm actually I'm actually proud to say. this I've got more Demos in my phone. right now than I've ever had like I've. wrote more this year than I've wrote in. a year in a long time I just wrote on. the tour this year I've been gone all. year I've only slept in my bed 36 days I. don't think we I don't know we got that. on the early part of this but I've been. gone like that much this year so it's. like I've just been writing wherever I. can whenever I can and it's really. ignited a flame in me again about the.

writer side I've been writing a lot of. songs just by myself again just with. folks or just oh by yourself by with. folks too but I've been doing a lot of. just like me falling back you've been so. busy too you bet I bet you ain't slep in. your bed 90 days this year no it it has. been crazy but your touring so unor. you're on tour this week you got show. two days but see we tour different. you're doing like the pop. I'm G yeah rock and roll I'm gone for. four months and not home at all and we. go out every weekend you know we're back. Monday I hat that though let's talk.

about that you do the stuff too I'm kind. of sporadic yeah I'll do like four days. in a week and then I'll take off a week. or I'll do two weeks four four days five. days and then take off for two weeks see. what they're doing that I don't like is. that's cool that's actually the way to. do it probably the way they do it and I. don't like this respectfully everybody. does their own way but it's not my way. they do probably no [ __ ] arnest you're. doing 47 weekends this year if I had to. guess out of 52 weeks Jesus that's a lot. yeah no 45 at least I'd say we.

started um we started the first week of. March and. then pretty much every weekend until. this with the exception of when Morgan. had to cancel a few shows I got a couple. extra weekends off and like we got. picked up some gigs during that though. but yeah we filled that up I played a. lot of shows so probably 38 weekends. it's like for me I would never get in. the Rhythm Theo it's like when I'm gone. that much by the time I came home Sunday. and slept Monday I'd get rid of The. Hangover Monday I'd be like all right.

I'm feeling better Tuesday I'd start. rotating in the world but Wednesday. night at midnight the bus left again. yeah you know what I mean so it's like I. prefer to rock and roll style tour where. like I just went out and did 11 weeks. and did five shows a week and did 55. shows in 11. weeks I never tried another option I've. never tried that I don't know if I could. hand I personally I don't know I think I. just get we just get two burnt out. probably how many buses you got now four. no we did uh I guess eight or eight or.

nine maybe 10 on your tour buses yeah. you got you got your own Bunny's got her. own yeah and then we did seven so it was. nine Jesus Christ you have one bus I. don't know I think we did 10 tractor. trailers too yeah bro big tour man I. mean you got think we did Arenas it was. a big de your production's insane yeah. that's true yeah we did and I want I. wanted to make sure that like I want I'm. very a stickler about doing it right. like if I have to take a haircut and. lose a little money but I know that the. show is going to look that much better. like I bought content for my show nobody.

buys content for their shows everybody. uses stock content because it cost a. million dollars you know what I mean and. I was like I'm buying content though. like I want to create my own it's insane. yeah I want I want I know it's a one-of. aind show because they're so hard to do. one-of a kind shows right nothing news. Under the Sun everybody's done it twice. you know what I'm saying it's like we. all got the same video walls to some. degree we only got so much room to play. with you know what I mean and I was like. at least if I create content it took. nine months to build the content for the. tour yeah we're building an animation. right now to play we just got some.

screens and some of these venues I may. go back though to just not doing like we. just started doing some Arenas this week. like some smaller kind of a I mean the. word Arenas is kind of loosely used but. like a lot of them are like uh college. basketball places like we call them. hockey arenas yeah are you doing Arizona. State we might I don't know we did uh. Pikeville that was a tough that was. actually a tough room some of the audio. in the rooms is not we we're bringing. our own our speakers and stuff but it's.

some of it's not built for what's. Verizon is that the Verizon Center. whatever it is right there in Pik field. it's that little arena in the middle of. downtown Pik I mean and Pikeville is. beautiful it's beautiful I mean it's. like nestled in the mountains it's sexy. unreal it's like this perfect little. place did you drive up there we busted. in yeah we I drove up there cuz the. drive when we played Pikeville that day. I was like I had to dude it was [ __ ]. you drive through that little because. pikeville's up there in like the corner. of Kentucky and.

um West Virginia right it's like right. there in that little like mountainous. area right there beautiful it's [ __ ]. aw for a nice hike before but that audio. was that I felt like sometime I just. kind of felt like that venue the audio. was kind of tough at it you ever have. some of those where some of them you're. just like man this just yes and you feel. disappointed cuz you're like it it does. it's not helping me as much you know but. um here here's the deal though I knew. that you were going to have to start. picking up Arenas when I was seeing the. two or three theater shows in a day pop. and you're in a weird spot man where. it's like how do you feel about this.

because the problem you're going to run. into if you don't start playing big. Arenas is your people everybody who. wants to come ain't going to be able to. come there's still people not getting a. ticket to see you and you're playing. 8,000 cap Arenas there's still people in. that market like damn wish I could have. went to go see Theo Friday without a. ticket you know yeah I don't know I. think I I think part of it is I'll just. keep doing the tour and I'll just come. back instead of trying to do it that's. one nice thing it's like okay we realize. this area we could more people want to. come see it then we'll come back it.

again I'd rather do the same like not. the same material but you know let it. evolve over time but do that for five. years and by the end of it it's a whole. new show or you know might be a a new. show and a half by then yeah but it's. like yeah I don't think feeling like I. need to hurry and then get an hour out. and then it's. like you know we'll come back I tell. people all the time if if tickets are. too expens if it's if it's aftermarket. we'll come back might be a year and a. half you know you might not be alive you. might not even be alive you might die. before I get back here but I'll that's.

your issue I'll be back how do you um. some that's on them if you don't mind. talking about it where are you at with. your hour um I'm good yeah we're doing. like I'm doing like an hour and 20. minutes on stage right now you feel like. you got a new hour yeah when are you. thinking about filming I don't know if I. will I think I'm just gonna tour for a. while and not hurry myself into that. next space you know me and David Spade. wrote like a movie we might want to try. to get made so we talked about maybe. getting you to would get you as a. anything you need yo I'll do something. too.

man in God we're package deal now we. just hired you you're hired yeah um. freaking Fred over here but yeah I was I. was going to present at the CMAs. actually they asked but I had a show. that night in. uh South car Greenville South Carolina. and it was I just got back from. Greenville it's beautiful where did you. go where were you uh on col no okay we. just did the Blind Horse saloons Hy that. place is awesome love that place did you. play Coyote Joe's the night before Char. no we didn't do the two that way from.

rocking greenville's beautiful dud. there's so many cool plac Arena down. there on this tour was yo we did our. tour party in Greenville oh I got a. story this is a story I don't know if. it's a good one but it's a. story I love I love the honestly but we. played Greenville and we had the night. off before so what they did was they let. us load in the arena the day before MH. and then we rented this place God. they're going to be so mad I can't. remember their name but it was the. coolest thing ever it was like a it was. an adult playground kind of like they.

served booze and they had pizza and they. had a yeah they had a putt putt golf. Center in it you could throw axes they. had like beer pong games they had. pingpong like it was like it was like. one of those like adults yeah but it was. like adult like we were all in there we. rented the whole place and get out drunk. and most of the crew did Whip itss and. blow and it was just crazy I mean it got. really crazy dude it was it was and it. was all 75 people from the tour because.

it was like a 75 person crew all the. drivers came because we parked the day. before so the truck drivers and the bus. drivers got to get drunk it was like. watching the bus drivers get drunk. nothing tickled me more you know what. I'm saying because they live a real kind. of like regimented sober you know what I. mean it's like the one night where it's. like y'all don't have to drive for 40. hours like just the buses were already. parked at the venue the venue been. loaded in I hired IVs for everybody the. next day so I had like a 10p person.

nursing staff backstage so when. everybody got to The Venue like truck. drivers are getting IVs it was the night. we gave away the bonuses for the tour. what a night dude it was special no that. social no no no this place is way cooler. that place sucks when you find this. place dude you're going to be blown away. that's like a got like a stinks yeah. it's like a mini it's got like Mini Putt. Putt golf um they got ax throwing inside. of there oh they got damn baby burp in. there they had karaoke we were getting.

drunk doing karaoke We Are karaoke. struggle songs it was awesome oh that's. so good it was really cool man it was. awesome what uh what else did we have in. the news what was in the news in there. how did uh did y'all think Morgan was. upset about not getting that award you. think he. cared H I mean I don't know they didn't. even let him go there last year right. I'm not sure I don't I don't know if he. was there or not last year I think he. performed I think I remember performing. I think I remember performing I think he. did you proove look but it was really.

cool that boy's pockets are fine yeah. he's fine I he's he's got some of the. best fans he's the he's the most um him. getting 11 Billboard Music Awards were. deserved I mean he's the most cuz that. one is not up to anybody except it's uh. is that just stats I think billboard is. stats it's your stats but him truth it's. the yeah him Taylor and Zach are. the juggernauts of streaming like it. doesn't even it doesn't even get. close Morgan Zack and Luke comes are the.

three biggest streamed artists in. country music Zack and Morgan and Luke. Luke to some degree in the world of all. artists but Morgan and Taylor are by far. the two juggernauts in the music I mean. it don't it don't get no bigger than. Morgan Wallen on Earth on earth like. he's bigger than Bad Bunny he sold more. records than Bad Bunny mean it's like. all that [ __ ] you think was doing great. Morgan just came in and was like hold my. beer so it's like he's he's so you know. what I mean it's he's in such a. Stratosphere of his own I tell people.

this the way I tell them you have Luke. streaming wise Morgan Zack and Luke in. that order of the three biggest. streamers in country music and on. Spotify alone the gap between them and. the next biggest streamed artist in. country music which would probably be. bayy Kane or maybe me weirdly. enough the gap between us three and them. and us three and those three is probably. a billion streams this year crazy on. Spotify alone it's crazy does that make.

sense like that's how far four five and. six a billion lower than one two and. three it's crazy it's crazy it's like. it's like well if like imagine if I do. end up being the fourth most streamed. artist in country music somebody said. how far away from the third where you I. go 1.3 billion you know I'm saying light. on Spotify alone you know what I'm. saying it's like we're never going to. get there you know what I'm saying it's. to some degree these award shows have to. be a little different cuz there'd be no. sense of nobody else showing up you know. what I'm saying it's like if we were.

like really grading it on that it's like. just give them all the [ __ ] Mor. Taylor you know what I'm saying a great. point you have to make it yeah that's a. good point the the show itself has to. make things kind of exciting and there's. other there's other award shows there's. like the Billboards that it's based on. the stat so there's no like yeah rig. them roll was there an Afterparty or. anything you guys get to go to I had to. go that boy had an after party we parted. me and Lany had our own party shout out. Lany. Wilson l Wilson dude and I don't know if. anybody's worked harder this she we saw.

her I got to take my niece to her first. concert right and it was uh Laney we. took her to her and Lany and Hardy in. Baton Rouge and it was cool man you know. she's great and it was just so much fun. she got to meet her and it was just but. man she was you could tell that she was. getting burnt out she' worked no hard. she slept in her bed last year 17 days. yeah 17 days of all of 2022 is how many. days she slept in her bed it's in like. wow this is what I say I'm willing to do.

the stuff nobody else in this town's. willing to do as far as like work like. media go spend three weeks in New York. or what like I go do that that's just. what I do I'm into it she's willing to. do the stuff I won't do like Laney I've. never seen nobody work genuinely harder. than her her schedule gives me anxiety m. you know what I mean and my schedule. would give the average human anxiety and. her schedule gives me anxiety like she. has she is utterly Fearless no dude I.

think I think she stood on stage 160. something times this year yeah 170 times. this year that's just for it's 45 minute. being the smallest set 90 being the. biggest all year it's insane you know. what I me yeah yeah that's wild man cuz. all the things radio all the streaming. things oh the Yellow Stone obligation. she she's she is make a gumbo babysit. your cat she'll have everything on her. schedule yeah well we talked about this. the other day like I think she's.

obviously and you two are going to be. able to say no a lot more yeah than you. were able to in the last year or two and. saying yes is like you got to for for a. lot of those things and obviously it's. like paid off and people are recognizing. it the work and I I would I would be. remiss not to say that you know dude I. when I called lip thank you I called. Laney for save me I said Lany I'm going. to be honest man I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm. I've said this a thousand times but I'm. hitching my trailer to your train here.

I've took this song as far as it can go. wow this song was a double Platinum song. that's kind of true in in an interesting. way huh because that song I'd heard it. I'd listen to it a bunch and it still. had its place in my heart in moments. where I was by myself and I like to. listen to it but it kind of that was you. got to hear a different perspective a. different voice a woman's perspective I. was like and and as hot as she is at. country radio I was like this is all you. even when we got to the last chorus when. she did all the ad libs and extra stuff. she's like you want to come in here and. sing back and forth I was like not at. all as far as I'm concerned this is now.

your song you know what I'm saying this. I was a double platinum record when I. gave it to her I was like yo this I've. done all I can do with this song but I. think this song could still help so many. people if you would just be a part of it. and she was like yeah I'm totally in and. there's no way that this was my a number. one in 16 weeks by myself or 20 weeks or. whatever it ended up being you know what. I mean so she she definitely. she definitely came in and put her sauce. on it yeah she really I mean we got to. have her come in and she's from. Louisiana she's from bastri I think will.

you look that up please for me sounds. right you're bum [ __ ] [ __ ] Bas Robins. Louisiana like yeah she's from dipping. dot. Louis Basin sorry Basin Basin Carol. Baskin yeah huh [ __ ] [ __ ] killed her. hus remember. that remember when. no reason America somebody wrote online. yeah Carol Baskin killed her husband and. everybody for two years like that [ __ ].

K Joe Dirt still wants her dead from. prison and now she's doing not Joe Dirt. Joe Exotic same difference dude. literally the same. guy same guy Joe Joe. Exotic Joe Exotic that dude's always. dming me all the time man Joe Exotic is. in your D whoever in his Instagram. account is [ __ ] ridiculous I used to. know I used to know the person that ran. I used to know the person that ran it. yeah really [ __ ] ridiculous there's. no way he's running it was it a male it.

was a female it was okay felt female. energy is yeah he did. too oh yeah he was a Bo he he's probably. the most gangster gay dude that ever. lived though gangster spelled g a y n. g he's a gangster yeah dude that's. [ __ ] crazy oh if so you dude to be. real scared if you're scared somebody's. going to shoot you and then make love to. you and you're not into it it's going to. really spook you it gets interesting out. yeah what other cool things have you.

turned down this year besides presenting. at the. CMAs yeah and Joe Exotic Jo. ex sorry to repeat your joke man I just. want I repeated it too I wanted to make. sure it got hurt um I don't know that. was probably about the ne maybe one of. the neatest things that came along kind. of where they were like do you want to. do this but i' already we already had a. soldout show and I just felt bad yeah. and I'm glad I did the show the show was. awesome you know there were some moments.

where I felt bad about it it would have. been fun you know I know pton Manning. was there you guys were there um so I. all your friends this town loves you. dude I still want you to do the opery. Bro do it one of the nights I'm doing it. let's do the opery together let's all. three do the opery we got all three to. the oper one we we'll support I'll call. Jordan about that right now when I leave. well you know you know they want you. there you can't make mind maybe if my I. think I would my mom would probably like. to go so maybe if she's going to be yeah. I would have her maybe come in for that. we should do like the grand old opera. and do a night of it for real I'm not if.

y'all are cool I'll call Jordan about it. right now some clean material over there. you just got to keep it pretty clean. yeah yeah but I mean you just can't cuss. they don't mind if it's risky they just. mind RIS they mind about the cuss words. cuz it's on the radio it's still the. actual I as I finally asked him I was. like yo what's what's the real story. here about the cussing he was like it's. on the radio yeah he's like the FCC he's. like it's live radio show steal to this. day so what's the actual deal here I was. like well that's no all those all those. the people that are the Opry fans would.

love a little risque I mean dude think. about it heha we were talking about. it has a history of you know iffy comedy. yeah for sure yeah heaw man did you know. so I was I went to see the Arizona. Diamondbacks play a game one time and. they had um the manager his dad larusa I. think his name is. no way Tony larusa no it's not him okay. it's a Diamondbacks. manager he uh yeah Tor lavulo his father.

produced. hehw really this dude comes up to me. goes hey man we're said I live that gave. you the Diamond Back Jersey yeah he gave. me a cool one it says Rat King on the. back um but anyway just kind of an. interesting piece that his father Sam. lavulo there you go was a producer for. hehw that was a great show they still. Hew stage there I was um I played the. opy last night I did the oery last night. yeah uh me Chris Janson Riley green and. Nelly did the for the big friends giving.

for the big 98 here wow perfect y dude. you you you work hard bro you do so much. stuff jelly man I'm just so blessed to. be here though Theo man you like I feel. you there it's so different when I get. to hang out with you in Earnest because. y'all would like remember when it wasn't. like this for me and it's like this is. all I wanted it to be though so like now. that I'm in it like I just feel like I. don't even want to disrespect God like. that kind of like I prayed for this for. so many years and so many dude I I um.

I'm filming a special for a television. show uh CBS Sunday Morning what they. call it it's big big deal and I'm they. took me back to my old jail yesterday no. wow the jail that I found out I had my. daughter in like the jail I was in when. she was incarcerated they took me back. to my old cell what was that like for. you one I walked in there certain I. wasn't going to be emotional cuz I. walked in so happy and in such a good. mood and I and dude I walked in the unit. still happy we're chatting I'm telling. them Stories We Walk upstairs and as. soon as I walked in that cell I cried. like a Baby Dude I mean like I lost it.

completely because it was like every. memory I'm getting choked up now it's. like every memory from that jail cell. like every song I I spent like a year. and a half in that cell dog like the. hearing I had a daughter every song I. wrote everything I went through and. you're just sitting there like man this. is unreal dude thank you brother sad it. makes me sad I mean it makes doesn't. make me sad but it makes me yeah it's. powerful to think of somebody being. caged up and then being as free as you. are no it's unreal and I walk out of. there I'm getting choked up too and I'm.

like I leave there and go back to my old. halfway house at the men of valor I go. see them boys and it's like such a like. humbling thing for me and then I go do a. show with Nelly and Riley green and I'm. on [ __ ] the biggest podcast on Earth. the next day like it's you and Rogan. dude you know it you know what I'm. saying it's like you know I'm just like. man this is just such a just I'm so like. blessed dog and that's why I do all the. give back stuff it's like how could God. bless me so much and me not want to. bless somebody you know what I mean yeah. and I know you have a toy drive that's.

going on right now that people can hit. yeah any Walmart Middle Tennessee okay. they got a box right there that you. could just drop off toys at the Box uh. I'm going to put a couple hundred grand. up myself we're going to do over 100,000. toys it'll be the biggest one in. Nashville I mean just look who got. behind us dude it's crazy the Predators. cocacola Hasbro uh the Nashville fire. department Walmart has been a partner in. this I mean man that's so my dream is in. the next 5 years for this to be a. national thing that I do with Walmart. and we raise millions and millions of. toys for uh underprivileged kids I love.

so what do I go in there and buy toys. and put them in a box yeah yeah just. drop them right in the box man yeah just. drop them right in the box and it's cool. because it's convenient we're all in and. out of Walmart All Season you know what. I mean so it's like all you got to do is. just buy an extra toy and dude going in. Walmart that used to be fun dude I'll. tell you a story you don't mind me. getting yeah you're right huh sometimes. there's nothing else to do on the road. but go to my wanted to do this oh yeah. and she started this five six years ago. at a local bar in White House Tennessee. with her aunt where they would just pick. them up from the bar staff and people.

and she'd go give away 20 30 toys she. was doing this at 9 years old this was. her thought and I looked back at it and. when I got out of. jail give me a. second I came home like December. of. 2009 I didn't have any money for toys. you know in the halfway house the men of.

valor did a toy drive for the for the. guys that just came home and I remember. dropping off a. truck of toys I couldn't afford for her. Christmas and um I didn't even get to. meet her at that time I wasn't CT by. Court I wasn't even allowed to see her. wow I just got home. wow so her heart to want to do this toy. driveing and then me to be able to be in. a situation to amplifi is like it's.

really cool that is. amazing [ __ ] I said I was going to cry. today I was like I'm not going to be. [ __ ] emotional today I've had. emotional week I got nominated for a. Grammy having a [ __ ] weird couple. weeks damn dude you the only dude I know. who's been nominated for a Graham an a. Grammy to be honest I love you that's so. good that's so good and split split one. of them with you yeah split one of them. with. me oh yeah that's incredible bro but.

it's crazy so it's like to see this. thing come to life as like I think. that's why I'm so passionate about. giving back to juvenile and I'm so. passionate about going to jails and. rehabs and singing for people and. investing in rehab facilities and like. like a meeting with our mayor and our. governor about the fitting all epidemic. and a plan and you know what I mean it's. like cuz these are the things that. affected my life you know what I mean. like the [ __ ] that touches you the. closest to home yeah you know what I. mean so yeah we want to build a center. that's one of our goals next year is to. try to find some land to build like a.

halfway house like I don't know if it'. be a halfway house or a detox probably a. place where you could also have meetings. at you know where would you do it at I. don't know somewhere close enough like. somewhere here let me tell you this and. I'll say this on your show publicly. whatever I can do like whatever you want. to do like I don't care if we maybe we. do like a string of [ __ ] shows or. something that I'll put together and. just donate the money or what like I'm. into that in a way you'll never. understand thanks like if you like if. nobody else like and this is what I say.

off camera too I'll say it to you but. like not even just on some like raise. money [ __ ] like I'll cut a [ __ ] check. yeah same like I [ __ ] I hate people. that go step just raise money you know. what I mean like if you're not that's. why I tell everybody don't worry I'm. putting money into this toy drive like. I'm going to write a big check because. I'm not just going to be a face of one. my face can help bring more attention to. us that's the only reason I even talk. about this stuff we did philanthropy for. years and never spoke about it but I. realized that our platform's so big that. we can help bring attention and money to. the cuse but it's still important to me.

my daddy raised me man shut the [ __ ] up. and cut a check you know what I mean. that's just something I learned from a. kid you know yeah no it's I appreciate. that man and we're going to do the same. thing we want to make yeah we just want. to do something a place I can go to. meetings you know where other guys can. go that'd be neat where people maybe we. could do a songwriter night where. songwriters come by and play play some. songs with the guys or we do something. but yeah it's a big goal of mine man. it's just so important I just so many. friends of mine and myself so many. people in my own family just so many. people struggling that's why I think I.

can feel when you talk about that kind. of stuff you know I know what it's like. to not be caged up like by walls but to. be caged up by even just somebody's own. their own life caged up by their own. feelings you know man when you're just. locked inside of yourself you know can't. get outside of your own head that's the. worst prison I've been to a lot of jails. and the worst one on earth is between. the ears man yeah you. know. um let's let's check a news thing or two. and then we'll get you guys out here. we've that's the funny thing about.

podcast you just never know where it's. going to get you don't really know. what's going to happen you know it's I. love that's why I love them yeah because. it is just like yeah we have microphones. on but this is just conversation we'd be. having at Coffee we might not even get. this deep over coffee that's what I like. about at the mo have enough time we'd be. rushing to our next thing right that's. what I think is the beauty of being. friends now with homies like having. homies like Theo and you that like we. have crazy years where Theo's rocketed. into Arenas I did my first Arena tour. you came off a stadium tour into your. first big theater tour two nights at the.

ryen you know what I mean like all these. things you're still writing it's like we. don't get to talk the way we want to so. we get to sit down for homies for two. hours with a microphone in front of us. and it's almost like catching up yeah. Tru you know what I'm saying it's really. cool it's like it's deeper than just. like what's going on in your life it's. like the [ __ ] we'd do on the phone if we. had time to Y you know what I mean yeah. I realized that one time I left out of. Joe Rogan's podcast and and he's so B. he's a super busy guy you know and he. just is just his life he's Build A busy. life and he has a busy life he's not too.

busy for you he just has a busy life and. he has a lot of friends and I was like. man I wish I'd have spent more of that. time when I was talking with him like. cuz sometimes you think oh I'm on a. podcast but then sometimes you're just. like catching up with the buddy you know. right I was like I need to make sure. that I spend that time like catching up. with a buddy because sometimes your life. is busy and that's all the time you get. especially you also get older you have. both you guys have children it's like. there's [ __ ] going on you know it's like. so yeah the time you get with people. this is important you know and even. though it is on a podcast it's like it's.

still that's the time oh for sure that. you have I was I had cam Haynes flew. down here to the show last night oh did. he really yeah cam haes we were talking. about you last night he's cam Haynes the. not the Cameron Haynes uh hammeron keep. hammering oh Cameron Haynes yeah yeah. damn uh I love that he was like the. underwear guy. [ __ ] yeah CER keep Hammer yeah yeah. keep hammering oh that's right he said. you guys were going to see each other. yeah for sure he came out here and we we. we spent all night together last night.

man at least I'm not surprised when I'm. an idiot anymore he's like the underwear. guy I used to feel bad when I and I got. confused cuz I was like maybe cam has an. underwear deal I didn't know about he's. on fire he wrote a book I was like [ __ ]. maybe he did do an underwear deal if he. could write a. book goddamn pair of underwear make some. drawers listen I don't think there's. anything on Earth cam hands can't do uh. here's a guy that would be working on. one of your uh there's this could be. working at one of your deals Tennessee.

man arrested for DUI meth while driving. a lawn mower Santa's Train full of kids. whoa so was the DUI for meth or he get. caught with meth and a DUI I mean see. this is what's wrong with cuz listen if. he was drunk and had meth on him I kind. of understand that's the balance of an. equation feel like You' been pretty. dialed at driving dude yeah for sure. it's like I definitely not falling. asleep behind the wheel we've done two. different kind of meths that's for sure. yeah dude I think first of all this is.

what's wrong with the US Postal System I. want I say that this is it that this is. how they deliver acting erratically what. did it say uh Henry me was driving. Santa's train a motorized lawn mower. pulling carts of. children which first of all seems like a. bad idea oh they found meth. first narcotics and a. Ser I wonder what the narcotics are I. hope they took pills probably pills they. took them hope they took the blade off. that thing that's all I'm hoping.

officials noted that me was not a town. employee that's what the okay yeah I can. guarantee mayor what to make that. definitely clear tazwell Police. Department responded swiftly to the. incident ensuring the safety of the. attendees in the event 14 police Jesus. it was a parade a parade he went to a. parade a parade bunch of. kids it out. on pocket hey that's one way to do it. dude oh my goodness what else we got. anything else.

popping that's that's so Tennessee for a. couple terms with felony after public. sex it was always a dream of mine that. shouldn't be a crime look why does she. look so sad if you just fulfilled a. dream I'm confused me and Bunny would. look the polar opposite right now we'd. be on that [ __ ] chees Che me and. Bunny would be you guys do seem like a. public sex type of. public sex listen bunny is a wild woman. y' man what are you getting money for. Christmas do you know jelly huh you know. what you'll get her for Christmas you I.

get my I got something cooking for her. man so we quit doing the gifts okay a. couple years ago because we realized. that it was just getting stupid like as. far as like you know yeah what are you. yeah what are we you know like whatever. so like now we do trips like we'll like. put our money together and be like all. right this is what we would about each. other let's go to so we're going to go. somewhere and just spend some time. together man like she is. still my favorite human to be around. like we've been married almost eight. years I'm sure you feel like that about.

Delaney but it's like when I have a free. moment to hang out with somebody that's. the first person I think of I'm like I. wonder what my wife's doing you know. what I'm saying like she's like there's. nobody in life I want to be alone with. more the homie than the homie you know. what I'm saying like I just want to. spend like every minute I can like she's. like my favorite hang she's funny she's. goofy she's a [ __ ] wild [ __ ] you. know what I'm saying she's [ __ ] wild. she's like she's she's she's the perfect. woman man she's like for me so for like. short we'll probably take a trip.

somewhere I am going to get her a little. something just because I got it's like a. real personal thing but she's uh we're. gonna probably just go out and do. something like just me and. her what about you and Delaney brother. we're going our first we're going to. Mexico oh damn brother going to Mexico. I've never been to Mexico other than off. the FGL crew is um Delan yeah as far as. gifts go it's like she wants I think new. um new forks and knives and like a dope. espresso machine yeah but that's what we.

call that the house gift cuz we'll do. that too we'll be like all right what do. we need you know like we had bought a. fridge last year you know that's how old. and married we are you know it's like we. need a new fridge yeah appliances I'm. getting her countertops and like I think. we're getting 20 15ot tall trees in the. backyard like that there Merry Christmas. it's a Christmas trees yeah she buddy. doesn't want roses she wants a rose bush. you know what I'm saying it's different. you know yeah what are you doing for. Thanksgiving I'm going to go what am I. doing I'm going down to uh Dustin por.

does a fundraiser thing every year they. hand out hams down there in Louisiana. called the good fight Foundation yeah um. and so I'm GNA go down there and do that. and then we got a show the day after. Thanksgiving at the lake uh UNL where I. saw my first concert at you like front. really God that's a oh that are you. excited about that one yeah I'm pretty I. am excited I know that other people I. know that a lot of my friends are. excited so I think I'm almost more. excited for them I think in a weird way. like just cuz I know they're excited is. it nerve-wracking having a bunch of. people you know in the audience I think.

my fear is that they're going to uh like. yell out and stuff the whole time which. for music is fine but like with comedy. you don't want the you know you want. people kind of just being more silent. and stuff you think they just aren't. going to know how to act is that kind of. where you're at well we had a show I I. shot my first like I shot a a comedy. special in Louisiana one time and people. had never been to a comedy show before. they don't even have a com comedy club. like in New Orleans so people didn't. know what to do people were like there. were people in the crowd I remember this. one lady just yelling defense the whole. time. like yeah a football like a bunch of LSU.

F yeah like people had like one of those. that's the most rattling that's got to. be how do you crowd work with that. unreal and I think she even had one of. those fence cut out like man do you know. where you are right now oh I thought my. career was over after I shot that I was. like this is. they one of the dud with that helmet. with like the two beer cans Andover I. was like what the [ __ ] are we doing [ __ ]. the. Packers what so that was kind of wild um.

what about thankful man what are some. things baby you guys are thankful for. and you know sometimes I make gratitude. lists like in the morning you know yeah. so I'm trying to think of something this. that I'm thankful for you know I'm. thankful that. um I'm thankful that I don't give up on. myself you know I think if that's. something that I had to be thankful for. you know I'm thankful that I don't give. up on myself when uh or I give up on. myself less than I used to right y you. know that's a good one I um each day I'm.

more thankful for my son Ryman and. Delaney being the badass she is like as. much as I'm. gone and not able to be there I I'm. thankful that I have a peace of mind. knowing that everything is good and. Ryman is getting the most love and. attention and I get at home and he's. growing and like acquiring such a cool. little sense of humor and personality. and it's like I owe that to Delaney. because she's in there making sure that. every little want and need is taken care.

of and she's on her hands and knees. playing trains with them and stuff and. paying all kinds of attention to them so. I'm thankful for that yeah amen and. trains are damn dangerous DN track. always train track [ __ ] playing chicken. with the train he's playing train. Mama yeah and a guy just got arrested. for driving a kids's train smoking me Fu. it's a lot different than when we got a. train where a kid I was wondering why he. didn't call me back yesterday.

too his phone died I'm thankful for my. uh I'm thankful for my relationship with. God and my higher power it's really. anchored me this year to be present CU. like having such a successful year it's. really like I've never been more present. in where I am you know what I mean like. even in this conversation like I'm more. relaxed and laid back now and just more. like just being more present like I. thought I lost my phone yesterday and I. realize I think I lose my phone every. day now because I'll just set it down.

and wherever I'm at in that moment is. just where I am and then I'll go look. for the phone at the end of the day you. know what I mean it's kind of where I've. been at of my life and I'm just really. thankful for that I'm thankful for my. family my wife of course my children but. I'm thankful for my presence because. like I've been present around them but. not present man you know what I mean. I've to that point I'm so bad about. being present. I'm I live in the future and in the past. in my head so much and Delaney is so. good about being in the presence it's.

like I notice how bad I am at it when. I'm seeing when I'm with somebody that's. so good at it yeah that's why I thank my. higher power that's why I thank God. because like I truly like that's my. anchor that's my meditation it's like my. prayer and my ability to just be like. today I'm just going to like I just want. to be wherever I'm at today I just want. to be there yeah you know what I mean. like that's all that really matters is. like right then I'm just thankful that I. haven't achieved it completely yet but. I'm getting [ __ ] so close and it's. awesome dude it's a really cool feeling.

how do you keep that going how do you. kind of nurture that relationship with. God kind of uh for just more praying and. just more trying to clear my mind just. more meditation and grounding myself. like when you pray kind of what's it. like like what do you uh well you know I. pray an old traditional Southern Baptist. prayer it's just my praying ways of of. course. um you know I I'll I'll always say the. Serenity Prayer every day just cuz. that's like just so anchoring too but. you know I'm an old school guy that's. just like God I just want to thank you.

and I just want to ask you for the. ability to just care and love and I just. want to be I want you to help me be. conscious today of the way I am in this. room you know what I mean and I want to. be a prepared and I want to be a like. man I heard the coolest thing the other. day Theo that said uh if we're searching. if we think our purpose in life is to be. happy how much more narcissistic can we. be our purpose in life is to be useful. and so now it's just more like man I'm a. tool dude yeah you know what I mean like. what can I be a man you know where I'm. getting this from you know what I mean.

we'll talk but it's like how can I be of. service like what can I do to actually. be useful to somebody today you know. what I mean like and in every little. scenario like is there something can I. do something cool here can I like that I. I believe firmly that that Spirit the. day of the CM not to get weird and hokey. but I walked out of my front yard in my. boxers and a t-shirt no shoes no socks. boxers now neighbors driving by waving. and I put my bare feet in my front yard. grass and I just looked up at that son. and I just said a little prayer and I. just thought like you know what God I.

won being here like I don't care if I. win an award just like help me to open. the show let me do it right let it be a. moment you know what I mean just like. and let me enjoy tonight like regardless. man I set my phone down at the house. when I walked out I didn't have my phone. with me I didn't check my phone till the. next night you know what I mean like I. was present in every situation and. because of that I think when I got on. that stage and scene. 5857 something inside of me was like you. thank God you thank your wife you thank.

your label and you say something that. [ __ ] matters is what was going. through my mind you know what I mean. because that was that presence of like I. was just so grounded in the present of. that moment I knew then that moment I. wanted to thank Parker McCullum I knew I. wanted to tell Zack Bryan I thought he. was the goat and I knew I wanted to tell. my wife I loved her and I knew that I. wanted to say something that would at. least make a [ __ ] go man he. blessed me with that you know what I. mean and I didn't think it would do what. it did I was up out of my seat I saw a. silhouette of me just.

like as you as you elevated I was like. [ __ ] [ __ ] I had tears in my eyes bro I. was I mean the the faces on the audience. all around me some were like oh my God. some were like somewhere in tears I was. literally you would have thought Derrick. Henry just took off for a 98 yard. touchdown run I was losing my mind and. you a vessel that's that's you know be. being a tour whatever being a vessel. like I think when you are that present. and that in tune nobody's more of a.

vessel than I think than you jelly you. know I think you really do I think you. inspire so many of us man you know there. just yeah you just have a gift I don't. even know if it's a gift but you be it's. like it's not a gift that you have but. it's just it's a gift that you are right. you know feel like a gift I think to so. many people you know and you know what I. love about you the same dude that could. say something that eloquently just. thought Cameron Haynes was the underwar. guy you know what I'm saying like that's. what makes Theo Theo you know well we're.

[ __ ] man a little bit I got a little. bit of. it we all got a little bit of it I I. just um I'm thankful I'm thankful for. both of y'all thank you for letting me. come on this with you guys I'm thank. know both of y'all been great getting to. know you over the last C thanks for. always being somebody that can make. laugh dude and uh you call me too you. check in on me every now and then well. you know why because you make me laugh I. was like [ __ ] I don't feel good I need. to call somebody to make me laugh that's. awesome you were so damn good at it I. had have a choice perfect that was I was.

like you did not you were so good at it. I didn't have a choice but like godam. have I let you. down once or tce thankful for your Art. Theo yeah like outside of our friendship. like I'm thankful for your art dude like. I watch the Pod like I'm a fan like I. have been that's what drew me to you is. being I'm one thing I've learned in life. is never be too cool to be a fan you. know what I mean like never be too cool. to be a fan and it's like I'm a fan like. I can tell you like as a brother like I. think you're [ __ ] brilliant and my. cousins man my cousins Addison prope all.

the prop my prope family side they love. you they were like girl and her daughter. I saw them breakfast yesterday yeah you. just you did just see them the other day. just seen Ernest and Ryman and Delany at. breakfast I was like that's crazy but uh. no they told me they told me they loved. you and they was like I said I'm going. to see Ernest tomorrow like that's what. he said I was like yeah and they were. like we can't believe you're going with. Theo and like you know my wife I mean we. all just find a lot of lot of you bring. a lot of uh a lot of smiles to people. man and it's like man in a world where. Smiles are so rare where there's no.

compassion in America right now there's. no middle ground nobody finds any common. there's so much tension in so many ways. yeah you have found a unique way to. constantly break that and make people. smile and feel really good and man that. is you a gift brother and you need to. know that too if you ain't heard it. recently I'm sure you hear it every day. but I want you to hear it from me. brother you're special man thanks dude I. appreciate it yeah I have sometimes I. have a a tough time feeling proud of. myself you know um and that's okay some. of that's okay because you don't want. your ego to get crazy you know but.

sometimes I do have a tough time feeling. proud of myself but um well we're proud. for you for what it's worth I appreciate. that anyone you lack in it we're proud. for you we we were like hype thanks I. got to get you and a wife together it's. like a must yeah I know I know I been. people are always asking me if money's. going to come on or if I'm going to go. on bunnies people ask me a lot so we'll. make it happen this year yeah she had a. she had a clip go viral they kept that. and the meme was the female Theo Von. because she said it was so funny she. said that's garbage she said you know. what that is French for trash it was.

like such a g you know and it was like. but yeah y'all would y'all would it. would be cool I got to get y'all. together I'd love for y'all to do the. Podge together Bute to meet yeah I think. it would be fun man um we'll have to do. I'll I'll make sure that I do it with. her in the new year yeah that we'll do. y' y'all will be a lot of fun um and. yeah I think you know even us just. sharing about some of our thoughts and. stuff about each other I think it's just. like and how music is changing I think. it's like there is some evolution in the. way that men communicate and feel and. like you know and need you know need to.

be supportive of each other you know I. think I don't know why we're in that. space in a so as a society where it's. like I don't know if it's like that we. used to be all like around the fire in. the woods and we were like right there. for each other like in tribes and small. groups and then now it's there's but. we're there's element some that's. missing you know and so yeah man today. was awesome man just to be able to sit. and kind of you know share and and uh. reflect on the year and uh and yeah and. say something nice about each other you. know it's important because um people.

because people need to hear that stuff. you know because sometimes there's. something wrong with us that we can't. say it to ourselves right you know it. just won't the Cy the the the the culde. saac is [ __ ] broken or something you. know for sure so um congratulations man. on great years dude and just on creating. cool stuff and uh to everybody man. praise God man Big Ups Merry Christmas. dude Merry Christmas Happy Holidays. happy holidays yeah happy holidays y'all.

get y levels tested huh yeah now I'm. just floating on the breeze and I feel. I'm falling like these leaves I must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that. ground I'll share this piece of my life. found I can feel it in my. bones but it's going to. take.