#11 The Mile High Club

Jake, his manager Ando, Chase Rice and his manager John talk it up at 30.000 feet in the sky-

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Jake Owen and this is Good Company Company.
Welcome to Good Company, a podcast where we talk about
everything under the sun, friends, good times, and company. Now,
here's your host. What's up? What's up? What's up? It's

(00:25):
Jake coming to you with the Good Company Podcast from
a completely different place than I've ever come to you
guys with a podcast before. We are thirty thousand feet
in the air on our way back from Las Vegas,
Nevada to uh Nashville, Tennessee. And I have my good
buddy Chase Rice here to my left. Chase Rice, what's up?

(00:49):
What's going on? Jake? What time is it right now?
Nashville's up? So, yeah, it depends where we are right now.
We're we cool. Part about this podcast is going to
be that we have zero agenda. I don't know what
we're gonna talk about, but I'm sure this will lead
us to some interesting conversation. Across from me diagonally in

(01:09):
the in the seat, here is our good friend John Andlina,
my man of many talents on the management side of things.
John Andlina, how are you doing this evening? Really happy
to be back on this Yeah, well, uh, we're gonna
let Chase introduce his his man of many talents. Yeah,
I'm a man of many talents, John too hard Lessar?

(01:34):
How did you got? How did how did you get?
The too hard Lessard nickname? That's his rapper name. Actually
too hard less sides a rapper name. We we we
we've written a couple of tracks, haven't we ed written
a couple of tracks for for too hard Lessard. We're
in our court at some point. That's actually a really
good name. What's your biggest hit? Uh? A wolf? But

(01:56):
no popping water bottles? And what was the other one?
A wolf? What smokes? Floating? Can't so too hard? Lasar
actually came from were golf And I'm thinking like and
I was just like, there he goes again, there goes
too hard Lessard, like going over. It's just like your kids,
always too hard to talk a little bit more about
um about your the wolf song, the wolf bit, my

(02:20):
dick off song. No no, no, no, Well you can
talk about it if you want to. Hey, these mikes too,
by the way, they you don't even have I've learned
you don't have to get up on him like you
just do this. I don't work, but so too hard Lessard,
do you think you could spit us some rhymes? Not
off the top of I have to get into the iPhone,

(02:40):
you know. I mean, can you just give us a
freestyle about we were in Las Vegas, we're on our
way to Nashville. I mean, I think anybody who calls
themselves too hard can quite possibly give us some sort
of freestyle too hards just had too hard of a
weekend this weekend. Let's say that it's brains. He's in
mush brain right now. He's got so John Lazard, what

(03:03):
if you could explain, because it's rare that I have
more than one person in on the podcast, So could
you tell me what you do for Chase? Like what
what does day to day look like? Much like and
much much like your boy? And oh yeah, it's just
like I'll always taken care of of your guy. Man.
I've been with Chase for seven years now and still

(03:26):
tour managing him right now and doing help him out anyway.
Can I'll run on the road. So that's interesting you
say that because we were having dinner tonight, UH and
O and I at a Mexican restaurant that we haven't
been in quite some time, and the last time we
were there, the tequila was flowing rather heavily, and John

(03:47):
reminded me tonight and O over here, not we'll call
you and O because we have another John in the house,
but uh, and O reminded me, He's like, hey man,
this is like the only time in the last time
that you and I like had some words and we
got into it because we were on that tequila from
those margarita's and it and I was like, oh my gosh,
it really was one of those moments. And I can't
really remember the time I've ever gotten into it with

(04:10):
and O, which is one of the cool things. When
you work with somebody you're close to, it's hard to
not do that. So where this leads is I need
to know, in the seven years that you guys have
worked together, have you had those moments where you've either
almost gotten to that point, or you've got to that point,
or you went to the point and then you had
to call each other next day and apologize. We literally

(04:33):
one time we I can say we we took it
there one time, and it was more of a building up,
building up thing. I would say, I just well, first
of all, we were out of the bar, all night
before that. So we get home. I tackle the mailbox.
He tackled the mailbox. Why would you tackle the bailbox?
That's where his aggression linebacker skills were. I needed to
release my linebacker skills. Do you want any state of

(04:55):
mind where it chases tackle backlebox? And we get in
and don't know what happened? John and I. John gets mouthy.
What did you say? See? Sometimes? Yeah? Most places? Is
that an Aviator Nation sweatshirt? By the way, No, it's

(05:18):
super dry out and we got this out in London,
I think, all right, um, But now so we get home.
We get home, obviously, and Chase and I have a
pent up living in a tiny actually Dallas Davidson's house
out in Brewer Drive. That was me. I lived there
with John and Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly living Brian Kelly

(05:40):
of Florida, Georgia line for those of you guys listening.
We'll get to that here in a little bit. So
we get back to the house and else did you
hear that? The house? It's the house, can't We packed
the cart and then we got into the house and
we just kind of just I just started kind of
messing around with Chase thinking, you know, not really knowing
where his headspace, why is I had just talk and

(06:03):
maybe just started pissing him off a little too much.
And then it almost like like three years of like
living in a small house together and like everything just
came to a head and it was just on and
and he actually tackled me and we broke it. We
broke your guitar, Yeah, my dad's guitar. The guitar my
dad bought me. I got a hole in it and
that put me in another bad place. And then I

(06:25):
had I had him going down the stairs. He's holding
on the doorway to go down the stairs as I'm
like grabbing him like much. Well, I mean, and I'm
only coming out this from just perception purposes, but Chase
is a pretty big dude, I mean bigger than you.
So how did that go down? Well? Wait, so in
all honestly, did he put up a good fight? Chase? Absolutely,

(06:45):
they played hockey. I mean it was too hard. It's
too hard, showed up. It's both scrapping and where I
would like to see. I wish I could see a
video of it. Actually had some videos of it, and uh,
we were probably a lot sloppier than we thought because
I were there throwing punch as we can't We couldn't
even gotten a full on brawl in Lubbock, Texas one night. Uh,

(07:08):
and I was not there. But soon enough, I'll have
my main man, Zeke Hunter, who has been with me
for years. You guys know, I'm out on the road.
He's a character. He'll be great addition to the Good
Company podcast. But Zeke and I got into it and
we were like best buddies and have been for years.
But we had one of those nights and uh, he

(07:29):
quit the next day. He woke up the next morning
to go tell oh, I'm sorry and what and he
was already back in Nashville. He'd already been on a
plane in Lubbock, Texas, flown home to Nashville. We had
our camera guy was there, Cody Cannon, and he's we
have a video of him like holding me back on
top of John as I'm just trying to kill John.

(07:49):
And then Cody's yelling at us that we're acting like
children or whatever. Then Cody like an idiot, and he'd
been drinking a lot. He ends up getting in the
car driving all the way to Indiana home because he
was so mad at us and just a one and
he texted us the next day. So, you guys are
gonna push everyone everybody in your lives if you keep
this maddness up. So is that what that's what makes
you get your ship together? No? I still don't have

(08:10):
my ship together. Well you know it's it is tough, man,
and then being ninety like spending nine of your life
with that person and I and that Okay, So that's
where this will lead to. And that's what I love
about this show and being able to talk to guys
like you because this just happened to work out where
we where we're together on a flight home to Nashville
from Las Vegas. And the funny thing about that whole

(08:33):
fight wasn't what however long it lasted. We're in the
we're in up in my bedroom growing out basically like crying,
like I've been there for you for the beginning. We're like,
we're getting all emotional. So it's almost like you never
took the time to tell each other that, so you
figured you'd fight and then tell each other give yourselves
a reason. That's what people do when they make love

(08:55):
feel like takeing eye weren't quite as emotional about that.
It was like we got into it and then right
afterwards they goes, hey, man, you want to go play cards?
And I was like, okay, cool, So he wouldn't play cards.
People don't realize that, and that's one of the things
that we talked about. I don't think I want any
money when you're if you're asking, and when we went
out that night. But uh, that's one of the things

(09:16):
we talked about in this show that I think is
pretty cool is the behind the scenes things that folks
out there don't get from listening to our music and
don't realize that a guy like John Lessard over here
is pretty too hard. Let's sock is with you more
than you're with your own family and friends, and so

(09:37):
in a way, you have to be you. It has
to be your friend. You have to have the business
side of things there because you have to respect John
enough at points when he tells you, Chase, it's signed
for meet and greet or it's showtime, and you might
not feel like it at that moment, or you might
not have gotten the shower yet, or you might so
it's what's chase? Uh? Is he pretty good on time

(09:58):
or is he a late guy or early guy or chase?
For the most part is going with a football background.
Has been pretty good to be on time now like
getting him going, it's waiting for the last minute he
usually does. But he's usually on time every time, so
I can't say that he's got that structured background. For
the most part, I was always I had to be

(10:19):
ten minutes early for football, so I do shower. I
cut it close every day. Then why were you late
for the flight tonight? Y'all were? Y'all were behind us.
Let's keep the question for the record, can I for
the record, Let's talk about where this uh, this high
dollar tequila came from. Michael Levine. He's a program from

(10:41):
L A l A. He's awesome. Yeah, I was actually
speaking of Michael Levine. Shout out Michael Levine, thank you
for the uh John here he heard. So Michael heard
that I was a big Don Julio fan, and and
Michael gave us the Don Julo today. He gave John
two floor tickets for this. The c is with her
seven hundred bucks of pop. Last time I was with him,

(11:02):
he took me to Nobu, so he Hey, he loves
some some Asian cuisine. Michael is Well. Shout out to
Michael and sorbe Michael's partners orbe Um. We were standing.
I was standing having a conversation with sorbe Um on
October one on the stage watching Jason Aldeen play when

(11:27):
all that went down, and uh, that kind of brings
us back to the Vegas thing, and it was weird
going back there after all that happened in October. And
it's so random that you brought up that this tequila
happened to be from Michael Levine, who I was standing
next to on that stage. You can't really make this
or script this sort of stuff up. I did. I
thought it was crazy. When we're taking off, you like

(11:51):
you kind of seeing your face so you're a little
you know, emotional, I kind of seeing and seeing you
know that at the same angle that you were standing
at where you're staying, and you know that wasn't last night.
We were at the mandelaid bay U Foundation room looking down.
The last time I was up there, I was up
there with Brian O'Connell and he was like, see that
parking lot, that's where we do were out on anyone
And so this was two years ago and then that

(12:12):
was the last time I was up there, and then
since then, obviously that parking lot has seen a pretty
bad day. Yeah, it's weird to uh everybody obviously has
been talking about that all weekend. But it's weird to
see that. But I think it's in a way for
all of us healing wise. I mean, we see it,
We're moving on, we're making music. I know there's those
out there that are have family members or friends affected

(12:33):
by it. And uh, I know I speak because I'm
talking right now on behalf of a lot of us
that are constantly thinking about y'all. And we're going out
every night and we're playing songs to make people feel
good and and and that's what we've done all along,
even up until this happened, and we're gonna continue to
do that. But uh, well, yeah, man, And anyway, I'll

(12:54):
see a lot of Yeah, I see a lot of
the flags are out on any one survivors. Like in
Virginia last we have there were two people holding the
flag force They're all over the plush. Well that yeah,
and that's what It was an interesting thing about the
Root ninety one Harvest festivals that people from all over.
They've come to Las Vegas because it's a destination city,
and there was people from all over the country that
we're here that came specifically to listen to country music.

(13:15):
And they do the same thing for the a c
MS this weekend, and you could see all those people
out there, and I don't think anybody's been deterred by
the evil guy they did that. I honestly, I think
it's the other way around. Like just seeing everybody in
the atmosphere around the a c MS this weekend, like
the tight knit community that this, you know, the country

(13:35):
music world is, and especially after this tragedy is it's
pretty crazy to see everybody together back at it again.
Well what about carry underwood? What about carry on which?
You look good? It looks great. I don't I don't
know what. I don't even see the Scar Carey. You
look good. People talking you look good. They everybody's talking
about how good you look. So shout out from uh

(13:58):
Chase Rise JCO and too Hardless Tard and and oh
we thought you look good. And he getting back on
on a positive light note. To wrap this thing up
here in a second, I've got some questions. We have
two tour managers here slash managers. We have the artists
on the other side of the table. You guys have
your mic, we have ours. How about we do like
a five question, so let's make it three. We'll make

(14:19):
this simple. We have we can ask you guys anything,
you can ask us anything. I'm gonna start this with,
uh too hard Lessard, What as a tour manager is
the craziest or most odd thing that you've had to
do for Chase that most people would never believe you
did in order to either help him out or do

(14:42):
so let me come on. What something you can share
with Oh man, I'm trying to think here. I mean
the amount of sharing, the amount of sharing you have
to do and Chase forgetting I'm trying to thank Chase.
What have you ever loaned him a pair of like
boxer reefs or oh my, actually my best actually ruined
my bet jeans? Ever used your deodor? Yes, he's trying

(15:05):
to use my deodor and it's that way. I don't
use this. I don't want to use a guy's deodor.
I don't like it. But if you're if you're like
on a bus and somebody forgets their deodor, and I
mean you got I mean, I'm okay with this ship.
I had to have I mean, they'll be leaving armpit
hairs on there. And I had to have a speech
one time to the band about not taking my shamboo

(15:26):
out of my shower and my but I told the
band when we were all right on one bus, I
walked in one night and I was like, guys, we're
having to talk from now on. Anytime anyone of you
guys is going to the bathroom, you will sit down
when you pee. Sketch, I'm like, you will sit down
when you pee on this bus. Try try standing up
and peeing. You guys know how it is riding down

(15:46):
the bus right down the road at seventy miles an
hour while it's bouncing. So from now on, boys, you
sit when you pee. I will say. We used to
drive through the night in a van or sprinter van
and John would have to drive through. Have you ever
sat and just speed for no reason? Absolutely not. Would
be really weird, though I bet it feel weird. Water

(16:07):
is cold sometimes. All right, back to the questions, All right,
what about waits the weird things that I guess it's
not me, it's it's every day. The weird thing is
every day. It's you just never know what it could be.
It's like the possibilities are literally endless, and sometimes you
get put in these situations where you're not in in
areas where everything's accessible, you don't have a ride to

(16:30):
get to some place. Maybe you're in a fair festival
and he forgot his belt and he can't go on
the stage and his belt, Now, how do I find
a how do you? What do you do? Like? You
can't borrow my belt? Didn't fit? Whatever? I you know?
You you you find uh, you find a guy that's
gonna make a belt in the at the fair forum
custom some stuff like that, just random randomness, something of

(16:52):
your day. Really, what do you think? And what's the
weirdest thing that you you gotta get? Jake uh Man,
there's a couple of them, some of them I can't say.
I'm gonna go with probably the duct tape and the
pants Yeah North North Charles did Colosseum. I ripped my
pants open and my uh big of my uh how

(17:14):
do you what? What? Which I mean? What's the proper
way to say that? My um Genitalia nether regions. Yeah,
my Genitalia came out of my jeans. It did popped out.
Bad day to go commando. It was a bad day,
but uh, funny enough though, I did run in the
only other person I've seen where it publicly happened was

(17:37):
Lenny Kravitz that one so uh. I always stay at
a wonderful place in l A called the Sunset Marquis
off of All Talma, and it's really random the people
you run into at the outside bar there at the
Sunset Marquis. And one night I was out there and
I looked to my right and it was Lenny Kravitz
standing there and I looked at him, and what do

(17:58):
you say to was someone that not only I mean
Lenny Kravitz is a rock star, but how do you
start a conversation with someone well other than hey, man,
I'm a big fan. So I I just I said, hey, uh,
I want you to know you and I have something
in common. He's like really, I said, yeah, yeah. My
Genitalia came out at a concert in front of a
lot of in front of a lot of people, and

(18:19):
we started laughing. He said, man, that happened to you too.
Its supposed to happen to him in England or something
like that. But your junks ever come out on stage.
Never come out on stage, not on accident. All jeans.
You know, you gotta keep it in well. On that note,
I'm currently down on this three and a half hour flight.

(18:41):
We're gonna get back to our card game. Thank you
Chase Rice over here for hanging out on the Good
Company podcast. Do you like how that that the questions
were supposed to go back and you got you guys can?
First off, though, have you noticed how pointy his beard hairs?
What likes chin hairry goes straight, it grows straight out.
We'll see what happens. That's impressive. I have very straight hair.

(19:04):
If I were to grow my hair, it would be
like mad into my head, very female like. Yeah, I
have a question, Jake, do you have anybody I was
talking to Brantley Gilbert about this earlier. He had he
had somebody coming to his name. Drop had to he um.
He had somebody come to his house thinking that they
were gonna be meant to be together, like with their

(19:25):
car was packed with all their stuff, thinking they were
about to move in with him. I had a girl
outside of my bus one time. I think that we
were in like an eight month relationship. Um, because she's
been messaging me on Instagram or Facebook or something and
it wasn't even me. It was a fake one. Do
you any people that think they're like, they think that
you're all in love? You got you got any with you?

(19:48):
How do you? Yeah, I don't know anything about that.
I mean, I mean, I don't know. I love everybody
though I like baked goods. You know, there's a lot
of fans out there that seriously will bring baked goodies
and uh or he is why because I tweeted about

(20:10):
it one time? Yeah. Well, Uh, I'm currently down two
two dollars. Chase Rice is up a hundred and forty
one dollars and does down a whopping ten dollars. It's
somehow John too hard less hard is up dollars. Uh.
We are coming to you, um live, not so live,

(20:33):
because you'll hear this probably next week when it comes
out from thirty thousand from thirty House and Feet. It's
an old John Andrewson's song. You can tell the difference.
What do you got planned for the podcast going forward? Uh? Well, man,
you I really I used this podcast to talk to
interesting people about random conversation, and um, I think if

(20:55):
I had an agenda or an idea of what I
wanted to talk about each time I started these, they
probably wouldn't be as randomly entertaining. And I enjoy going
back and listen to these, and also too, I enjoy
the conversation of the uh. I wouldn't call it an interview,
but I like, like, we haven't really caught up like
this in a while, So this is cool. So I
don't know where we're going from here. I mean, how

(21:16):
do you top too hard? Lessard? It shapes right? Where
do you think we should go from here? I don't
know we got what do we got? Any? Uh? Any
wild Vegas stories over the weekend? Not that crazy? No,
I meant like further guests. I mean, how do I
top you guys? Oh? Yeah, you can't do that. You
can't top that you're saying in this podcast. Yeah, this

(21:36):
is it. This is the last podcast for what we
were just talking about, Brandley Gilbert. What was the what
was the result on that? I was asking if you
had any stalkers? Oh? We did resolve that story? Yeah, yeah,
I was No. I think it's I think this this
is a great format because then everyone can listen to
an interview. If no one gets to hear the conversations

(21:57):
you get to have with your buddies, and you have
a lot of cool buddies. So yeah, and uh, we
get to live a pretty cool life. I've known Chase
and John for a long time. We opened for you
in the uh at that Orange Field in Nashville. Yeah,
that's the first time I remember really kind of hanging
with you guys. You want to wrap it around to
the brew House, so we got in that fight. I
remember at first it was just me and Brian that

(22:18):
lived there. Um, Brian Kelly again of f g L.
As you guys know, I know you tell people this
at your shows and they know a lot of people
might not know this, but Chase was a writer on
the song Cruise with the f g L guys. But
back to this story, well, yeah, I mean Brian we
all lived together when we first went to down and uh.
But then Brian and I lived together at the brew House,

(22:39):
and so I remember the day that like Brian came
into the room, he was like, dude, Jake Owen just
tweeted us, man, like you got because you got behind
them big time when they first started. So I remember
thinking like holy shi it man, Like Jake Owen's tweeting
you guys, that wasn't that's awesome. That was a huge deal.
And you gave Brian a PRS it's guitar. I Uh,

(23:02):
I actually remember taking Brian and Tyler out on my boat,
um because I told him if they'd have to jump
in the river or something if I got him it
was freezing cold, and I said, we're gonna videotape them
having to jump in the river if I could get
them to five thousand Twitter followers. Five thousand and Uh,
that wasn't that long ago, man, I mean, I don't

(23:23):
think that was more than seven or eight years ago.
Last Yeah, the last four years. I'd say even four
or five. It's pretty wild man. But uh, congrats you guys,
congrats on everything he got going. Your song is crucing
up the chart chase. It's going up. We got our
first top twenty five and in two years so and

(23:44):
then we got Eyes on You to follow it, which
is a big song. We got a big song coming
with us. That is a that is a good song. Well, uh, dude,
we appreciate you, John Angelina, thanks for always chiming in
with your John was already a featured guest on the
Good Company podcast, Feeling will be on much pretty more times. Right,
all right, y'all, we'll see It's Jake, Good Company Podcast.

(24:06):
We are out of here. Whoa see