Ep. 42: Brantley Gilbert Talks New Music and How his Wife is the One That Got Away

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I was like, we can't put whiskey back in.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The ball, dude, what's up?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
You're off in God's Country with Reed and dan Is Boy,
also known as The Brother Something, where we take a
weekly drive to the intersection of country music and the
great outdoors, two things that go together like Little League
baseball and sports and rival dads.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Or motorcycles and tattoos. Produced by Meat Eater and iHeart Podcasts.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
We sat down with b G Nation himself, mister Brandley Gilbert,
and that dude is awesome man.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
You know, I met him a long time ago, and
completely different dude today.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
He talks about it, man.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
He talks about the transformation that he went through becoming
a husband and a dad and two things that he
never thought he was he was gonna be.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Getting sober and great singer, man, inspirational dude, great storyteller.
I mean, he's just he was great.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Every It was great.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I love when a guy like that, like when you
look at him and and his tattoos and and and
the roughness of who Brandley Gilbert is to talk about
his faith and to talk about being a husband and
a dad and like.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Being his kids a lot man.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah and yeah, well, I mean you can tell that's
the most important thing in his life now and for
a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Other things were and.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Alcohol and yeah, man, tons of still we get into
some of it pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's a great one.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thank you Brandley for coming on and hanging out with us,
and thank you for listening. Thank you for listening to
God count Smash, Subscribe, follow the follow and follow like
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
We love you all things were hanging out back at it.
We have done had an awesome podcast before the camera's.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Even turned home with my guy dude. We thanks for
coming out hanging with us. We got a big deer
hunting tattooed dadding about to have another one come on.
Racking up more than eight point three billion career streams
with the b B, back to back platinum albums and
seven number one hits, including r I A, a seven

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time platinum certified bottoms up country must be country wide.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
You don't know where like I do. One hell of
a name, man, What Happens in a Small Town with
Lindsay l penned the watershed hit Jason Alden's four time
platinum country rap game Changer, Dirt Road Anthem, We've got
mister b g nation himself out in God's Let's Go.
You might feel like I need a baseball card that

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intro of you gave me your bunks. Yeah, we had
everything but the Stone Coach, the Smashing Beers. Were you
a wrestling guy? Did you? Did you grow up watching
that stuff? When he was done, I was done a
little bit. But you know, the wrest romania not long
ago were saying America the beautiful and it was awful.

(03:08):
It was terrible. We butchered it. Twitter's alive, spit out
the ball. My guy was Goldberg. That was That was
my dude.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know he has a he has a son playing
college football. Dude, he played in the His last name
is I mean the dude guy like Goldberg on this
jersey and I was like, Goldberg played in the league.
I know he's like a fullback.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
And he wore the collar like the Mike allstart. Yeah,
collar man. That call was cool. Must seen the year
award that role played quarterback had man, You were a quarterback.
I had to my senior year with nobody else though
intimidating nast quarterback.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I was a linebacker or a defensive van so it
kind of made sense, but I've never seen the quarterback
wearing that.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
You see the guy run out the tunnel and then
you see the guy with the horse and like, oh,
that's had some bitter things and then he goes over.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
We didn't throw the ball, we didn't have a line bro.
It was like there was no three step dropping offense.
It was like snap, run straight backwards and see if
you can make something happen. Yeah, I feel that we
played both sides ball. I graduated with sixty six people,
so it was tiny. Gotcha.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Do you regret playing football?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Hell? No, I don't know. I'd lace them up one
more time, really, yeah, but that'd be about it. I
wouldn't be again. I wouldn't be able to lace my boots.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't even know if I could bend over the
lace and nothing. At this time, I get somebody.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Else for me.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Let me ask you, because because most guys that played
football don't regret playing football, but some of them are
hesitant to let their boy play football.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, or how do you feel about that? Man? Uh?
With both my kids, I mean, I'm careful about putting
too much pressure on them to do something. I don't
want to push him away from it. If he comes
to me and he says he wants to play football
and he's got to finish the season, you know what
I mean. And as long as we make him away
with that. You know, hey, dude, if you start something,

(05:12):
you're gonna finish it. So you get out there and
you get whipped on a little bit and you ain't
feeling it, you just gonna have to push through. So
he he opted for eight. You baseball, dude. He had
his first scorekeeper game the other day with an umpire
and he went two for three. We had some things

(05:32):
to work on in the field.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Two for three back.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
And he scored both times got on base and they
won twelve eleven. I was the happiest daddy day of play.
If I didn't even know they're keeping score. I just
thought we was gonna watch him herd cats like we
have the last year. And dude, I mean before the
game started, other teams warming up and the parents from
the other side were hollering and screaming. I was ready
to fight everybody.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I keep thinking about how I'm going to be in
that scenario because my my little guys too. So I
got my girls four, but she played t ball and
I was, and I was getting mad at the coaches.
I was like, man, y'all at teaching them, you know,
just kind of like walking them through the thumb like man,
teacher how to get down on the ball, Like, yeah,

(06:18):
what are we doing here? This wast money and time playing? Yeah, dude,
I mean that's how our dad was. He was he
coached all of our teams, man, and and and we
didn't play around, dude.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
There ain't no doubt. Man.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
We was in the I mean Saturday morning, some before
the crack of dawn, we was in that sideyard taking
BP you know with the middle golf ball balls. He'd
be pitching them things and we'd be learning how to
hit those.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, he's try football. And man, there was a boy
from another big old ward from another team that went
to block him a couple of times and knock him down,
and he got right back up and went after him
and knocked out again. I was proud of that. Yeah, dude,
he got knocked down one time in the life aft
and I try my best to hold it. And we

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got about maybe an eighth of a mile up the
road from the field, and I stopped the truck and
pulled it over and we had to come to Jesus.
I was like, hey, they're never in your life. You
don't get down, knocked down and laugh about it, laughing
matter it means you lost and you're vulnerable and bad
things happen on the ground. Sure, get your asked up.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
That's true, man, it's true.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
You gotta get mad when you get and I feel
like that's.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Kind of a parallel for life, you know what I mean,
Like even in in Nashville or pursuing a dream or
trying to chase anything down, Like, bro, you can't be
You got to get back up.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
You gotta know what's going to happen, and it's going
to continue to happen, but you just gotta it's it's
what you do after the fact.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Get up with it, don't just get up. That's that's
a little bit of the battle. Get up with a purpose,
I mean, and that purpose may be, Hey, I ran
into that brick wall four times, and maybe I need
to work around that brick wall. Boy's way.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
You know, why did not expect you to say that.
I thought you're gonna say, yeah, so you might knock
it down on the fifth time.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I said, no, man, you might need a circle, man,
it's just climb that throw a leg over and over.
You know you can get away to get around that
watch or whatever you gotta do. Don't get knocked over
by that wall again. Hit him in the names.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's I'm supposed to play what you're mad at?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's right, I forgot. We had this ge. We do
a little thing called what you're mad at? We may
have a little diddy do how much time you got?
What you mad Just tell us what it is? What
you're mad? Is it? In the lost? Kids? Might be
your boss man, all your neighbors can just tell us

(08:45):
what you mad you know, just a little thing do
we do? If you want to put that on hold,
you can? You know what? I got a couple of
holes on his neck? Okay, okay, well, speaking of cats,
you mad at? Cant no? But what do you sell?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
All that stuff about them eating cats?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I ain't seen it, but I did watch that, bro.
I'll tell you what I saw. I'll tell you what
I saw.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
It was something. Is that real?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'll tell you what I saw. It was not a cat,
but it was a seagull that somebody caught and was
holding it, and the bottom of it said, no bird
soup for you, buddy, And it was a girl when
it's like, what are you doing with that bird?

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Bird soup for I?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Swell, are we talking about like bashalts eating hats? What's
happening here?

Speaker 1 (09:36):
When we're talking about people come across the border and
eating weird, I'm talking about eating our pets, eating our ponducts.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Our conducts.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
You come out from my white tail, bro. No, they started,
why would you if you went into some new country,
would you eat pon ducts or a big fat dough
on the side of the road.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I don want to know how he caught a seagull.
My kids what the woman too, But she said, it's
not your bird. She said, I know how to hold
the bird. And she obviously didn't get to the beach
she's talking about. I know you're probably scared too.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
She's like, pet the bird.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I was like, you know, I don't really talk to
him all that much either. I'm glad she rescued that
the same man.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's how I felt. I was like, good on the
bird man, and that.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Dude was pissed too.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yes, he didn't want to give. He didn't want to
give the bird like he was holding by I mean
that's what I saw.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
And I saw one where they pulled up on this
woman he said, sweating a cat. Yeah, while she was
eating the cat's. Yeah, somebody sent me because I don't
have social media. I don't have none of my passwords love,
I'm a liability and I've never seen a well we'll
get that, but ship me video will opening. Is this

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cop asking this lady's did you eat that cat? I
was like, what I was rolling. There was no shock factors,
that's that's a question. She just looked at me and
said your mouth no, what let me see she did
like that? He said, maybe you have hair in your mouth?

(11:22):
What's happening, brod?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I was rolling, I mean Trump said, he said, did
say it?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh? And they jumped all over him for it. They
jumped all over him for it.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I know, man Trump, there wasn't No, we don't have
They said, we've confirmed, Yeah, we've confirmed with Springfield, Ohio
that there has not been any pet eating. And he
was like, he said, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see,
you know, TikTok.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Apparently I guess we will.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I did see, and I didn't seen any of that
until the next.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Day that cat there.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
He goes and talk quarter.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
He was like, man, she cat, he said, this is
like she ate a cat, cat up.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Eating the car out of all the gas station chicken
and Chinese buffets. And we've eaten in our life. Do
you think there's any chance that we've eaten something we
didn't know what it is?

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, because bro, we've been eating.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
We've eaten chick I've been eating chicken on a stick
my whole lot. I knew. I've been different, different every time. Yeah, yeah,
lab on a stick or something that probably probably happened now.
On one of the times we went on a Mexican
restaurant that there trying to buy our goats. Mm. We
ain't got many left. It didn't do too well this

(12:44):
year in the winter. I'm a new goat form out.
I don't really know what to do with them. It
was so bad that they'll eat everything. Oh god, yeah, okay,
oh gosh. They all got pregnant. And as we guys
there where we're building a house and my builder called
and he said, hey, man, there's a there's a goat

(13:04):
out here laying on the ground hollering. And I had
my son with me, so I was like it's probably
not something he needs to see that. Maybe it is.
We pulled over there, the goat's laying on the ground crying,
just hollered. That's why I get out. And the first
I think is maybe she's breached. So I go in
there trying to put me in glove on there, trying

(13:26):
to reach around, you know, and ended up calling the VET.
If we took the goat to the vet's office, because
I gave my son a choice to listen, man, this
this goat's really sick. I'm sorry that was that. The
VET showed up forth and she tells me that the
goat just got cold and went in the shop. I've
been digging around.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
This coat's like what are you doing? I was like,
I just need a blanket.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Get out mane. Yeah, it was bad. So the VET
was like, she's probably not gonna make it. Like we
can take her and try to but thence she gets
cold again. You know, she's in bad shape. I tell
my son that. I was like, this is gonna be
your first choice. I said, now, you know, we don't
want animals to suffer. True, you know what I mean.
So she's the chances are she's not going to recover,

(14:20):
and we're gonna spend a little money keeping her three
or four nights, I said. Or you know the other
way is, you know, we make sure she doesn't suffer
anymore and and we take do our best take care
of the rest of you, which is a great lesson.
That's a learning thing right there. For for the sun. Yeah,
and you saw my son's a bleeding heart. Like he's
such a sweet kid. He was like, let's take it

(14:42):
to the vet. God. Yeah, exactly exactly, been there, done that.
Got to spend three nights, uh at the I guess
the goat ritz And and then the first day got back,
we had one looked just like it. Everybody, that's the goat.

(15:05):
I say, every goat he sees, he thinks is the
one he saved you. That reminds me of the story
across the bridge on down the road. You know, we
were young, my.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Daddy, we we rabbit hunting. That's kind of like our
introduction to the outdoors was rabbit hunting. And my I
mean big white tailed family and all that stuff. But
we did a ton of rabbit hunts. So we had
rabbit dogs, and uh, when they would get older, we
just kind of take the older ones that were couldn't
keep up with the pack, and we would just like
make them pets. And so we had one called his
name was Bosco, and uh at night he'd run out

(15:35):
into the bottoms and chase rabbits like old times, you know,
and he'd come back in the morning, just sweating and
time of his life. Well, one time he got caught
up in some barb wire down there and we had
to we had to take him to the vet and
he got a leg amputated. So he was a three
legged beagle that just hung out around our house. So
me and my sister and my daddy wouldn't I don't
think Mama was there but me and.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
This is we got.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
There's there's Courtney, who's our older sister, and then Dan
and then me and then Lindsey.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
We're all four years apart.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
So me and my younger sister were at home and
I'm inside and she's outside playing and she just, I
mean she all sudden.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Must through the door, just run, just running right right.
I was like, what what what? What? She was like.
I was outside and I was throwing the tennis ball
with Bosco and somehow he swallowed it and I was
like what I was like, swallowed the tennis. Ball was
like the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Story y'all. Y'allre pretty young.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean yeah, I was probably ten, so she's probably six.
I might have been a little bit older. I was like,
swallowed the tennis.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
She was like, he swallowed the whole thing. I don't
know what to do.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
So I was like, oh my gosh, we gotta make
this dog thrower. That's my first thought. We got to
make this dog throw up.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
So I run. I don't know who I called or
got hold of. Somebody was like, hey, I got to
make this dog throw up because he swallowed. There was
a dude that went to our church that was a vet.
That's right.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
I can't remember his name, that's.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right, Jody. Yeah. So he was like I called That's
why I called mister Jody. And I was like, hey, man,
who's our name?

Speaker 3 (16:55):
How do I get He was like, poor, if you
got some like hydrid peroxide, just get you some py
dron rocks. I'd pour down the dog's throat and he'll
up chuck anything that throw up anything that's in his throat.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
So I was like, all right, what Bostes like?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, So so we I get Bosco. He's out there,
just do He's already and he don't due.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
I go out there, boscles like this, like he's looking
like and I was like, all right, man, I gotta
pour this hydrogen procks. I have done your throat. You
gotta throw this this tennis ball. So I get him
and hold him up, and he's got his mouth over
and I'm pouring hard of your dry right down stairs.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
I'm freaking and he's gonna choke.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
And that's that dogs all over the yard throwing up.
And I'm like, lindsay, where's this where's this tennis ball.
She's like, it's in there, and keep pouring it. So
we keep pouring it down his throat. He keeps throwing.
He throws up everything, and I'm like, lindsay, where where
where are you playing? She was like in the bushes.
She was like, right there is where Oh, there's a
tennis ball, and Bosco's over here, just going from I

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was sitting there, man, for the next two hours. I
sat there, just pat his bagrowing up. I'm like, that's
my bad man, my dog put doctor hell for nothing,
pile through hell. All right, let me tell you what
I'm mad at all right.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh jeez, yeah, I forgot.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
I'm mad at people who talk on the phone in
public really loud, yes, or like or like the one
somebody back here do that?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Did you get? Well, let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
We sat we were flying back from Mexico the day
and sat in front of somebody that was talking madge, and.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
They were and they were like wanted.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
People to hear them talk stand out and it absolutely
flew all over me and Jordan and just like talking
like saying stuff about their sex life and on the plane, dude.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
And then like it's tight.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Quarters, you know, on a plane and just like blatantly
loud so you can hear them and have the shock factory. Yeah,
it drew It drove me crazy. I couldn't stand it.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
So down south of town where we live, there's a
farm called Lucky Lad and they get they got like giants.
You tell your kids pay twenty bucks, your big slides
and all this stuff, a little pet zoo and stuff.
Yeah that's cool. Just take kids there. It's like like
a fall, like a farm. You can kind of hide
out there, honestly, yeah, you can kind of hide out.
So anyway, we take we took our all our whole

(19:35):
plan there and just let them play for a day.
And uh, actually, I'm gonna have to pick you about
that story because I saw Jordan Davis there when a
really funny thing happened. But anyway, so this guy has
got one of those earpieces in but he had long hair,
so I didn't see the earpiece. So everybody's standing around
like watching their kids play, you know, and he's like,
what's up, man? And I was like, what's up, dude?

(19:57):
He's like, good man, how are you? I was like,
I'm fine, man, you just got your kids out.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
He was like, so what do you sell it for?
And I was like, this is what?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Ain't talking to me?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
And he was not. He had an earpieces and I
couldn't even he was just having a conversation.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
He was looking like if you're me, he was looking
like this, like just just like here ish not just
in my eyes. Yeah, So fast forward they got this
huge corn bind right. I don't think Jordan would get
mad at me telling you this. So I saw Jordan
David's there.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
What's up to? Good? See? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Ah man, kids are crazy, holler at me. Let's get together,
Let's go do a hunting ballah. Real fast, yeah, because
we but he has I think he's got three kids.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
We have three kids.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
They were i mean just chunking food at goats and
it's a it's a it's nuts, right, So we didn't
have time to talk. So anyway, both of our kids
simultaneously end up in this giant literally the size of
this room with like a canopy top over it, probably
mid maybe a little bit hiring ankle full of horn.
They're all playing in the corner. They're throwing all these there's.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Like like a cor pit, it's like a sand pit,
but a thirty kids. And they got dump trucks in
there and shovels and stuff like that. So my, it's country.
It's super cool.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, my son and Jordan's son are by the same age,
like he might actually even his little boy might be
a little younger.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
So they're all just like toddling around in there, you know.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Well, I see his son walk from the designated corner
that Jordan had told him to stay in and go
straight to a kid that had a little little like
trumpet truck.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, and so the.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Kids has his hand on it, but he stopped playing
with it. So Jordan's boy just reaches down and gives
the thing. And as soon as he does, dude, this
dad comes out of the back that we didn't even see.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
It was like his son son.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
He was playing with that son. Give that back to him.
You you did nothing wrong with Jonah.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You did nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Super And so as soon as it happened, I'm like,
you know, I'm like the pop corner, like, how's this
gonna be? I know, Jordan, Jordan, He's got his hat
on it, and I can see him like like I
can see the shift happened, you know. So I'm like,
what we gonna do it?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
So he walks over. He's like, hey, you know, he's
talking to his son. I don't want to say his
son's name. He might not want me to be He's like, hey, you.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Know, like he was playing with that. Let's let's treade out.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
And and the dad was like he was playing with
that first. And Jordan's like, I got it.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
And so I saw it get under his skin a
little bit, you know, and this is my favorite thing
to do. Was like provoked stuff, you know. And so
I walk around the corn pit as we're leaving, and
I was like amen. I was like, Pop's a little aggressive,
wasn't he.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
He was like I thought the same thing.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
I was like, hey, let him know we thicker than
any things, with any things you are out here today.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know. He's like, am I do that? Man?

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I was like, that's the greatest That'd be the greatest
headline I.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Ever like Davis Jordan Davis. Whoops, I'm around the National
thirty kids. He was crying.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Here's what I'm trying. I guess the point I'm trying
to make, because I guess I need to wrap that up.
It's like, dude, kids are gonna be kids, but they
don't know what they're doing. Bro, they don't know what
they're doing. Like, you ain't got to be rival dad.
You can be cool that and just be like it's
all good man.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Let him have the thing. Because the kid wasn't even crying,
He wasn't even making a scene. It was just the
rival dad.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
It was really funny. I sent a picture to Jacob
of Jake of Jordan, and I said, man, you need
to come get your boy. He felt a lucky lad.
A lifetime band where you mad at you mad anything?

Speaker 2 (23:46):
I'm mad at everybody.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, man, everything everybody.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm thirty nine, about to turn forty, and I think
I'm just into the crush of the old man face
like beautiful. I feel like I'm a year away from
screaming at kids driving too fast.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm already doing it, you are, because I'm forty in
that and I'm already I'm doing it. I mean, I
live a quarter mile off the road. Every time somebody
flies by there, I'm like.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Hear me back in there.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
You know we're gonna fight like he the straight You
do it again, that's right up there.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
I'm mad at that. And you know what was crazy?
I told you my son had his first eight U
game where they kept scoring and had an umpire and man,
the other team's parents like, while they were warming up,
we're already getting gassed up, chipping and everything. Oh bo,
I'm telling you. At one point, our team hit a
ball that hit third base fair ball times, no matter what,

(24:38):
they got arguing and fussing at the umbire. And this
kid that I went to school with goes to the
umpire and a six to eight year old ball game
and six to eight hell, and I finally walked up
to the fence. I said, hey, buy these kids sixty
eight years old. This, this ain't necessarily putting on a
good example. So how about you don't make me double

(25:00):
down on that because you don't go take your ass
to the dug Yeah, man, I'm gonna d t you
ass on. Amen was referenced. The umpire looked at me
and kind of smile. What he tell you? We can't
do that. You can't say that, loud. I's the problem.
It was funny. I tried to I thought I was
being funny and umpire walked in. I said how much

(25:21):
for the win? And he looked at me like serious
as hell? A six eight year old game? Like, dude,
I had no idea ship was that serious?

Speaker 1 (25:29):
He's like sixty bucks to get it?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, and he was joking around. He finally got to worry.
He jump around with me. But dude, I had no
idea six eight year old ball. It was like that.
It was just gonna sit there and watch him play ball.
You know, it's twenty twenty four, man, them them parents
is them parents? Is wild?

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Now? I guess I guess the consensus of parents that
did he calm down? Calming down down a little bit, dude.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, man, now we're now if they're playing in college
ball and they're going for a national championship or something,
get riled up. Yeah the benches, yeah, and stands and
fight on the picture.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's right, that's where your kids do. They fight each other. Yeah, okay,
min This just started happening in my life because I
got a four year old little girl two year old
little boy through. My boy like, he will pull her
hair and punch her in the mouth, dude, And she's like, daddy.
I'm like, hey, man, knock him out, dude, knock him
out and shot. My wife's like, hey, he's too. I

(26:23):
was like, yeah, great time to learn. And so she
finally the other day, yesterday we were on the porch.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
He snatched something out of her hand. She looked at me.
I was like, she was like, he was like, Liza
di yeah, got mad. Hit her back, I said. She
looked at me. I was like, get it, fire him up.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
One hurt him a little bit, and he was like.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
And he swapped it.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Again, and she was like, I mean, I was like,
is he the younger one, yeah, little pump. The boys
are different, man. I got a one year old boy
and a two year old little girl, and and my
boy is just now to the point where he's trying,
like he's walking a little bit, like he's figuring it out,
and you can see him like, go on, Jordan, I
guess it was yesterday. We we were sitting there and

(27:09):
we have like these glass things on the which is
probably not smartest parents, We should probably move them. But
we got some glass things up on the fireplace, and
he likes to open the door of them and shut it,
and you know he can pull that thing over. So
Jordan kept going no oak, no, sir, no, sir, and
he would he like, reach for it, and she'd say no,

(27:29):
and he'd look at her like this, and I know,
he start reaching again, and then you you tell Griffin
at that age, she would just go do something else,
but he would look at her like what.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
He's like, let's see, and he go reach for it.
She go no, And dude, she did that three or
four times, and he sat back one time ah and
hit her on the leg. And I was like, man,
that's he's like one baby.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
That's the first time we've ever seen like that male
aggression takeover.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
No, I want to do this. It's a different deal. Man.
I don't know where my son got it, but he
is hard on his sleeve, like I know he's my boy,
but really when I say both sides of both sides
of his family are pretty rough, you know what I mean,
like getting on pretty mean. You know, there's much rattlesnakes,

(28:21):
and it used to be. I feel like you were
a meaner when I met you. You were mean. Now
you're like my god, softy dad.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I love him now. Dude, I met you back in
the day. We played kind of the same circuit. I
had a band called Soul Gravy and we were playing
the song Southeastern Circuit down there in Missippi State and
Old miss Athens and all that stuff. Man, I I've
seen you not be nice.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
It was different. It was different things before I quit drinking.
It was and it wasn't just me. It was Yeah,
it was a bad deal. That was a bad deal.
We turned over some leaves. Yeah. Yeah. So he's got it.
He's got it. You know, he does have some grit,
like if he gets mad, and I'm glad he's got
that gear. But it's serve his predominant, like by nature

(29:08):
go to Yeah, you just got to you got to
maintain that gear. You can't let it get out of control.
You want him to have it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
I love that my boys getting mad and has a
fight in him. I just want him to be able
to control it and turn it down when he needs to.
I'm just saying, he's literally the rest of his life.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
That was what I'm absolutely man. I tell you too.
I mean it's early, but you know, the society these
days is telling boys opposite you don't need to do that,
you know, And I get that violence is bad as
that another bit. No, man, the capacity to do violence
at some point in his life is necessary to protect
his wife and his kids. I want to instill that

(29:47):
in him. So I wish she had a little bit
more of it. But my daughter was the younger one.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
She's a g bro.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
She plots on him when dude. I remember one time
I walked into the bonus room and her little you know,
there's a little flight of stairs that goes four or
five stairs goes down of their room, and he's just
sitting there playing, just being sweet as he can be,
minding his own business. And I see her little bobble
head coming up the stairs. So I just stepped back. Yeah,

(30:17):
I just stepped back, And I was like, I won't
see what my kids do in the wall, you know,
just just that little deserve them in the national environment.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
She walked upstairs and when she saw it, she stopped
that on net got stuff like that. And he was
facing this way. She starts walking around behind him, walks
up behind the cock's back and hits him as hard
as she can in the faith okay, out of nowhere,
and he just put his head in his hands like
this started. And I said, bray. And when I did, like,

(30:45):
she looked over at me, and you would think that
she would be like, you know, I no, she pulled
that thing Bernie MaTx was talking about, don't you love me?
Down to my toes up to my head, like what
we're gonna do? What you about? What you better? What
did you do? I'm curious, bro, I mean, I was like, no, ma'am,
we don't do that. And she literally raised her eyebrow

(31:08):
and turned them all off. I do think she was
like two or three when this happens. She's wild. She's
going to start a criminal organization. By middle we're trying
to hire my eye. I need you to do some work.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
They are wild, man, the kids are.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I mean, it's just like, oh, they're the best, man.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
It's the best and the hardest and the worst and
the almost awesome rewarding thing in the world.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
For we're talking about o kids every time on here, man,
just because it's everybody that's got kids in the same
general vicinity of age or older kids that have been
there the same thing. Yeah, we're all like, hey, you
du and especially the people that you know, you're demographics
watching this and think we got to keep each other
in check. Man. There's side of the world that are

(31:54):
raising these kids to be sheep and the victims and
for sure, dude, and we can't be a part of that.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
And it's so easy to fall into that too, to
get to wake up in the morning and go, god, man,
everything's against me.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I'm oh, it's it ain't ever gonna work. I'm never
gonna be able to do it. Blah blah. You know.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
And if you if you convey that onder your kids,
you're you're teaching them to live like.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
That, man.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
And I don't want my kids to feel like that.
I want them to be strong.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, being a good parents hard, like it really is,
he said all the time, Like you have to work
at it and it but but but it ain't just
for it ain't just it ain't just saying no to
Oak for that glass thing right there. That's when he's
eighteen and he's and he's trying to make a decision
about something he should do this or shouldn't do this,
And I want him to think back, not twenty's one,
but do those times.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
To that one time years old and the man. I
want him to know right and wrong, you know. And
I just don't think an.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Cut it off like you have to. And that's why
I think at eight thirty at night, I feel like
I've just been doing two a days back in high school.
I'm I'm worn out because I care right like being
I always we say this with lukehle Lot. It's like, dude,
were parents, this would be so much easier, you know
what I mean, Like you would just you wouldn't feel

(33:06):
like you had to be a good husband or be
a good dad. You could just go do whatever you
wanted to do, which would be fishing and hunting for us.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
No, I say that to Shane all the time. I'm like,
you know, there's a lot of people out there doing
cocaine and chasing horrors. Man, all I do is dear hunt.
That's the only thing you can get mad at. It
could be a lot worse, so true. All right, all right,
enough enough, dad, and we're good.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
We're good.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
On dad, Let's talk about how you got into When
did you decide like music is my thing, it's what
I want to do. I've got something to say. Did
it start at a young age or did you kind
of come into it.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Or from early life was really hazy? So I'm real
careful not to talk out of her, But here my
mama tell it. I used to put on shows for
an audience a woman. I had a little plastic guitar
and the plastic microphone, and she shit was pretty bad,
so I believe her. Yeah, but you know, I started
in church Man around the time of my long story
short fourteen to fifteen. Found this cover band. It played

(34:07):
holding the wall bars and you know, biker joints, biker
club houses, you name it, and uh, when they take
a break, I'd get up and do some of my songs.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
And were you writing your songs?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Because we always well, for whatever reason growing up, the
only reason I'd want to learn somebody else's songs just
get core progression see if I could turn it into
something more. I started at an early age for whatever reason.
I think I had one guitar lesson and came home
and told my mom I was creepy and I didn't
have to go back nice. I don't think he was

(34:38):
real creepy. I just.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Poyeah.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
He had my mom. His eyes looked like you wanted
to touch me and stuff. I was ready to get
out of it. You walked around that corner. If you
get a loss suit, that's terrible. I almost said something
real bad. Okay. So uh after that, I met a

(35:03):
guy around the age of seventeen, nmed Court Smith, and
I'm sure y'all know we're from Saint Hometown.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Oh wow, he was in that same circuit. Oh yeah,
he had just blown up?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Had that? Is he a little bit older? He is?
And to be completely honest, man, he uh it was
the first time I saw Seeah. I was under the
notion that to make the music you had to move
to Nashville and have some of my tea how to
dress and want to say what you could and couldn't do.
And I obviously knew that wasn't ever gonna work for me.

(35:35):
Is I'm just having an issue with authority. Yeah, it's
the problem I can't tell you know, Yeah it was.
It was pretty neat. I was around, and his goal
was to sell out the Georgia Theater and to be
able to do music for a living independently. And I

(35:58):
had never heard that as a possibility. And did he
I remember him being able to quit his teaching job
and do music full time. Wow, Like I remember, it
was a big deal. And then he came back he
super stocked. He was like, man, I was, I was
able to walk away from my job to concentrate on music.
And I told you this seventeen eighteen.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
That's cool to have a have somebody, you know, to
have like somebody kind of especially guy like.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
That, that's like grassroots in it. Like he was doing
it the right way radio.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
He was building, building a fan base the right way,
So playing the circuit and the shows and growing here
that Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
That college moil. Actually then I think he was you know,
he was in his late twenties, but it was you know,
he keyed into that market and they were loving it. Man.
And we kind of piggybacked off him for a minute.
We followed him around to a bunch of College March
Southeast and if you played the same circuit. You know
we're talking about ricks and start. Oh, absolutly man, Yeah,

(36:54):
I know about that. I was probably there. God, I
still get dude, it makes me nervous this day. It
was awful ricks. But I mean, and you know, immediately
in Georgia it was De Laonaga and then we had
Statesboro and you had, uh, you go up to Carrollton
and play the college I think it was off campus.

(37:16):
Born grew up there. And then you know, go to
valdostin him melon mushroom and bounce all the way down
to Jacksonville. And I remember him watching doing that, yeah,
and open him for him and then just kind of
watching what he was doing. So his goal kind of
became out. I was like, man, if I could sell
out Georgia Theater, that's a long shot for me. That
would be awesome. If I ever could get to a
place where I could just play music for a living,

(37:39):
I ain't got to worry about doing nothing illegal, you know,
So that that'd be really cool. And that became my goal.
And in early in my twenties we did that. And
to be completely honest, man, it was never a thing
where I sat down and I was like, man, I
want to be super rich. Don't everybody to know my name?
That just wasn't my thing. I wanted to write songs

(38:02):
and play them, but on you know, under my terms,
and you know, on a smaller scale, sure is what
my ambition was. Not you know where we are. But dude,
God bless me with an incredible group of dudes. Man,
just throughout my whole career, moving people in and out
of my life. That made a huge difference and actually

(38:23):
gave us about what we were doing. And man, twenty
years later, it was just crazy to say, but twenty
years since I released my first album the first time,
and I, man, I'd be honest with you, like, if
you'd have told me then that we'd be sitting here
having this conversation that I told you you're crazy.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Absolutely, where does your like where does that Southern rock
inspiration come from?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
It? So, man, my mom and dad had like a
box of taps right I'm dating myself right now, like Cassette, Absolutely,
and there was everything in there from like praising worse
music to uh like a C d C. And man,
I remember I found a cooling the Gang record one time,
and I beat that tape to death. Had one of

(39:09):
them walkmans that you can hit and it may skip
a little bit, but it come right back, you know,
hit to rewind and pop at some of the skinning
and uh, dude, I think I jumped the pad slap
off a trampolinet that. But listen to a little bit
of everything. So I always, always, it's been so hard
for to answer the influence question my entire career because

(39:32):
it was, like, dude, I feel like I've been influenced
by everything I've ever heard, you know, some good, some bad.
But man, in there I found a Skinner record and
I remember listening to it and thinking about man like
this dude saying things that I understand. Yeah, like at
a young age, really absolutely, you know. And like I said,

(39:52):
my memory is really hazy, but I do remember gravitating
towards that. And then I heard simple Man. It reminded
me of my mama and it just hit home. And
that was when the first times a song outside of
a church song, Yeah, like I spoke to me, man,
it made me feel something in my whole career, dude,
more than more than anything, you know, if if a
song doesn't make me. I've chased songs and tried to

(40:15):
write songs that raise your hair, that makes you want
to do, something that motivates you, that that make you feel.
Sure you know what I mean, because it's it's cool
to be clever and be entertained, but I want you
to feel something. So I never get away with the
release of the song that makes you feel something. That's
That's always been my goal. And uh man, you know,

(40:37):
just when we kept our head down the only time
I ever stopped to smell the roses, so to speak
in my career, when country Wide with number one was
my first number one and we were having.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
A that song took over. Do you remember when that
came out? I was I think I wasn't calls when
that popped, and it was like it.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Was a giant, huge It was not my favorite song
on that album. Yeah, most of the singles I've ever
released have been Matt label hate. So when I say this,
but had been my least favorite songs or projects.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Absolutely, so you can't tell me you didn't like she
Don't you don't know?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I love that one. That was That's my favorite song
of yours. And I went up on Hell of Amen bad.
That's one. We did like six radio tours for that one.
But I remember when Country I went number one, it
was like I was going to go to the back
and kind of smell the roast, give giving myself a
chance to kind of soak in the moment. And instead
I got back there and got my head and ended

(41:31):
out calling my manager and telling him I needed to
go to rehab. The one time I stopped smelling roases
changed up in rehab. We don't be doing that no more,
you know what I mean, No smell of roads, not
going back. I ain't going back. You take me, you
never take me alive. I feel like even songwriters or

(42:00):
artists in their own right, you know, and yeah, and
artists of songwriters and and and all that thing, but
like I feel like in every at every core, if
you break it down, man, all we're trying to do
is make somebody, like you said, like feel something like
like those tunes did for us back in the day.
Like our our end goal is to move somebody with

(42:23):
with our thoughts and and and and putting them to
words and a guitar or whatever, a piano and making
making somebody feel something like those tunes made us. Feel
something back in the day. That's I think about. Man.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
One of the boy one of my moments happened in
college for me, and it was Alison Kraus and Union Station.
They were live at the Kentucky Kentucky Theater and it
was The Boy who Wouldn't Hold Corn and Jerry Douglas
was playing that that dough bro lick in the in
the front of it man and bro. I sat there
and listened to that song for probably three hours straight,
just because I had no clue what was going on

(42:57):
inside me, but something musically was inspiring something inside me
to want to make somebody else feel like that like
I was feeling that night.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
You mentioned Skinner. That was that was a heavy influence
on me too, just just in the in the way
that everything I had listened to up to that point,
like nothing sounded like that, and those guys sounded like
people from my hometown, you know. And I was like, Man,
I even though I was fourteen and never even tasted,

(43:27):
you know, whiskey or any of that stuff. Man, I
felt like, I'm out.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Ooh that smell.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
I don't know, I didn't know what we were smelling,
you know, but I knew I knew what what what
simple man? And Tuesday's Gone Man, and those I know
what they made me feel. And even the last eight
minutes of free Bird, Dude, I was like, I want
to I want to know how to do that. Man,
those and I know that's everybody jokes about that tune,

(43:53):
but I mean when you're young and those songs were
they were new to they were new to me. You
know maybe at that point, probably twenty years, you know,
but there's some of them, I guess something come out
in the eighties, so it's probably ten fifteen years. But man,
it's it's it's it's cool to have those those give
Me three Steps.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Man, that was one of my man. I love that tune.
It was just imperfectly perfect. Yeah right, there's still string
slides in there. It wasn't you know, polished to the
point where there were you know, you don't find mu
big mistakes, but you found little imperfections. And to me,
that's it's imperfectly perfect. Beautiful humanizes them, you know. It
was just dude, I could totally get into it. Felt

(44:32):
like you're in the room with them and you got it. Yeah,
let's talk about what what record is this? What what
record is Tattoos for You seven number seven, number number seven,
Lucky number seven. Let's go. I want to read a
quote from you and I let's say it's you said this.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
People people get them for a lot of reasons, but
for most of us, tattoos talk about our victories and
our losses, our struggles and the whole nine. I was
one of those kids who had to learn the hard way.
But if I would have listened to the advice of others,
I don't know if I'd have ended up where I am.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
What is this record? What does it entail for you?
What do you want?

Speaker 3 (45:10):
What do you want this record to say to to
b G Nation which has been with you this whole time,
and you've built this incredible following, Like, what do you
want them to get out of this thing?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Man? You know, early in my career, once once you know,
we got little label and things started picking up, I
realized that songs I tried to write to be super
commercials were not as relatable as songs that were really
close to the chest. I had a different writing method.
I have a different method in the studio way back

(45:42):
in the day. And you know, you been around for
a lot of the stuff in the beginning, you'll appreciate
this like this. This album is different for several reasons. One,
every album I've ever released, first six had a title
or the title track based on my faith. It was
something them about Christianity, something something about church su and uh,

(46:04):
this was different obviously being called tattoos. But the reason
I'm topless at forty on man Titty Tuesday on the
cover is good. We didn't We didn't photo Tuesday. Yeah,
man titty Tuesday or Monday, whatever day you feel like
you got the more of the tea with the cigaretlleo

(46:29):
and it was, uh, it was call it a cigarette. Yeah,
they tried to. They tried to photoshop a cigarette, you know,
instead of a joint. And I was like, just let
the some bitch be in a world that we can
identify whatever we want to. Just let that one be
what it is.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
You're looking at that back, which one of them you're
looking at.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
I'm just making sure you don't give me any like
I'm running off from the bad waters, you know what
I mean. There's a reason I don't do any of
these things, man, because sometimes I get to talking to
joking around. I will clean it all Jane's got no filter.
I'll just say some dumb kidding yeah, and then people
like he really thinking. I love that you are who

(47:08):
you are, man, and that's that's what we try to be.
I get every time we get done with one of these.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
I immediately get in the truck and I'm like, oh
my god, Yeah what I called Jordan be like, hey,
do we need to cut out?

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Like you know, all those things I said about the
music businesses? Yeah, because I'm still in it last night
because they were laughing at me. Apparently I said something bad.
I had a husband yesterday and I was tught we
were talking about my man.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
He thought that was really funny.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah, they got jack, they got weird, and I was
wondering what I was looking at. I got back and
I was like, and he said, you said at one
point you had a husband, but yeah you did. I was, Hell,
maybe that had a way in new demographic.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
It is twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
I mean, whatever gods would bid anything ever happened in
my marriage, you know. I mean the thought of being
able to come home and be like, hey, what's up,
dare You're gonna go hunting? You'll go fish with bro?

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Give me Donald about a couple of them things.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Man, it wouldn't be a bad deal. Yeah, I don't
imagine to just hanging out. Give us a there's a
couple of things that want to look you know this
record style. This records called tattoos. Give us your best
tattoo story.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Uh best, He's got like five hundred.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
They all kind of turned into one. Yeah, this one
I did, uh and on the title before I forget.
The first six records also detailed You're good, detailed a
chapter of my life. So if you weren't listening to
them chronologically, you have a good idea who I was,
I was feeling, what I was going through life. That's

(48:42):
great with this one. You know, dudes, you get married
and you have kids, and to be honest, we have
always been one to write songs about my life in
that chapter. And as much as I want to do
that on every song, most people, you know, you can't
fill a record one A long started that year's great
great album Radio rented on the ground. I always memember

(49:05):
I was working at a boot store at one point
and if I heard mister mom one more time, one
more kicking the door but lost door short. So you
know this record. We wanted to do a little different
and you know, as opposed to chronologically telling the chatter

(49:27):
of life, you know, with with the rules changing and
stream of being King, I really wanted to have a
format where we could do a little bit of everything.
We've had ten songs. We got to cover a lot
of ground sure stylistically and you know, uh, you know,
just theme wise in ten songs. So we really put
some stuff in there that was nostalgic because some of
our old stuff, my tattoos are you know, some of

(49:50):
them are old, but they do what all my records
before this one did. They tell my story. So the
title track of the album, you know, kind of plays
the role of doing what all the fulfilling the purpose
that all the six records before it did. And we
were able to outside of that, go back and you know,
kind of recapture some of that old style. You know,
we went back to writing with a guitar, and we

(50:13):
got in the studio, did away with a lot of
the digital stuff. Uh. It was it was really cool process, man,
especially for me, and I felt like kind of got
back to through our roots and we still got outside
of the box. Did some new studia. Yeah, you can
hear that too. When you listen to this this record, man,
you can hear like it's like new old Brandley Gilbert.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
You know, like I say, Man, God did in Country
Hot got me.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Dude, that's God. Man, he got me.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Look, we got the record last night, so we haven't
really want to sit and act like I know every
song on it.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
But I got to that one. I was like, well
that was awesome about that is nobody had me and
Gary Levox.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I thought when he popped, no doubt, I'm be honest,
don't tell him I said this. But when I first
heard that, look that thing happened, I was like, damn,
what female he got on this?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
And then Gary came in. I was like, dude, he's
freaking killed. Oh he's a killer. Yeah, nobody's go card,
you know what I mean. Nobody expects me and the
lead singer, Rascal Flats to do nothing together. We've been
friends for years and we always said if we did
a song together, we're both Mama's boys. And uh, my
mom sent me some stuff. I was in some trouble

(51:19):
at one point and my mom sent me some stuff,
and one of the songs on there was my wish
and there were a couple other ones that were there,
and I remember telling that story and and he ended
up calling my mom. And now all together we both
call each other's moms, and which is dangerous because last
time we did it, we were with Kid Rock and
I don't want to know. Just the minute you mentioned

(51:41):
somebody's mom, Like every sentence after that, it's like, yeah, dude,
I'll get on it tomorrow as soon as we leave
your mom's house. Yeah, come on, kid, that of these nuts,
you know jokes, So talents of that truck work. So,
you know, we always said I did a song together,
it'd be one of our moms could be proud of

(52:03):
and could listen to without having to skip over the
cuss words and that kind of thing. So I wrote
this one. Man, it's like, hey, I think I got it. Yeah,
so we got to a banger. Yeah, what did he
put the law? He put the large mouths in the
ponds and the white tail in the woods. Yeah, that's great.
That was written at like four or five in the morning.

(52:23):
We were doing a retreat for a Jelly Roll, a
project Jelly Roll and I were doing together Lee Brice's studio,
and dude, we pretty much called Who's Who in Nashville
and said, hey, if you've got any ideas that you
can't right bring them. You know, there are no rules.
We just we want the nitty gritty, you know. And dude,
they everybody showed up and drove. That's awesome. It's why

(52:45):
at all times of the night. It was probably one
of the funnest that's cool writing weeks of my life?
You did week? Oh yeah, Bud And anyway, anytime you
can get Jaelly Roll tied down for a week, you know,
you take it. I was sick as a dog, bro uh,
getting ivs every day. I had all kinds of stuff
going on. It lasted about five months, but it was

(53:05):
worth it. We got a bunch of good songs. This
current radio single bill one of them nice.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, that's it's kill That song is killing.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
You. Got any you got any you regret? Any tattoos
on you you regret. I'm kind of the opposite on
that end, because I got tattoos later in life that
I wanted earlier and have the money or the time
to get sure. A lot of them I watch not
a fan of like I kind of weaponized Bible verses
to make it you know to be badass like song
one four four one, when got my hands is the Lord,

(53:34):
my God, prepare my hands for battling, my fingers for warfare,
which I thoughts changed, you know, in context, those that
context my verse, my verse.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
It's always gonna say what I wanted to say. The
Bible's personal, and did I have. So my kids have
Guardian Angels, both of them, and uh, the third one
will have you know, another clock, But I have clocks
for them. Mind me. You know my time when I
was limited. Uh, you know, it's just like dude, I
didn't live for longevity. I wasn't planning on being anybody's
dad or anybody's husband. You know, we're trying to make

(54:10):
up for some lost time. But so I got the clocks,
and then they their names, and then Guardian Angels. But
the Guardian Angels were wearing bandanas and carrying a cave.
My wife hate side issues. Angels don't carry his thoughts,
you know, and.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Angels do what they want to do.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Was gonna carry's modern warfare. They're not if there were
swords anymore, no swords to a gunfight.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I't wait tiller than Halo's.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Yeah. The new the new Angel might be shooting the
mining machine gun out riding the tank. Have a bear.
I have a bear of fifty cow out there. You
might be going along right, you might never see that.
Angels burst up heaven sniper angels. Did we just come

(55:02):
up with a brilliant man?

Speaker 3 (55:03):
I've got, I've got, I've got a few tattoos. This
is the best story I've got on this one. So yeah,
this is that's it right there.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
You can't tell.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
But so me and Dan started this brand called The
Brother's Hunt a while back, and our first logo, I
just I just designed it on the computer was the
Brother's Hunt and the E we the th H caught
the E and the brothers and the hunt was coming
down from the H.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
And we get it. We get it. So we went
me and joying with the Colorado and I always wanted
to get something.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
We were changing our logo, but I always wanted to
get something that represented our brothership, you know, and the
closeness of the of us. And we went out to
Colorado and Jordan found this, uh, this guy that did
the poke the poke tattoos and literally just sticking something
on you, drilling with a hammer like this so we
was in Colorado, you know, and uh Colorado in yeah,
Colorado went a little bit uh huh. And so we

(55:56):
were up in this room and yeah, and the guy,
the guy put the he put it on my arm
and I was laying there and he took it off.
He's like, hows that look? I don't even look at it.
I was like, man, looks great, dude, let's go. So
he starts poking on me. So and that hurts that.
That hurts right there. That's that over, just pinching at
that stand right there. And he gets done and he's like,
go check it out, man. I go to the bathroom.
I roll in the bathroom and I'm like, yeah, man,

(56:17):
I got me at touch and I held it up
and I was.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Like, oh no, and I was like, that's the way
it's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
It's upside down. So I just thought, Jesus is right on, got.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Had and that's what that's.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
I'm glad I got the line because if I got
the brother's hunt, it would be upside down.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
So if you was to flip that over, that's the
way it's supposed to be. But thank the good Lord,
you can't tell. But but yeah, I don't regret it,
but I wish it was. I wish I could just Yeah,
I wish i'd just leave it. Yeah, do you have
your back? I do. Took a bunch of heat for it.
I got a I was really tired of answering the question,

(56:59):
you know, about where I stood on the Second Amendment.
So I just tattooed across the entire tired in my
back amendment. And then I have two nineteen eleven kimbers
that I that I have at the house. I got
king baby pandles once. They're the ones from the Bottoms
Up video, so we had them dressed up. I captain

(57:20):
they're tough. That was so funny. The woman that was
on set there and that's I guess. The safety lady
was like, we can't have real guns. I was like,
I'm running these guns in that video. Ye Faith, you
get like I'm running these guns. No, you can't. We
can't do it. They can't be real. So I hired
a gunsmith to come pull the fire and pins out

(57:40):
of them. Yeah, and took them turning. I said, you
know they're real. It was not a real gun. We
used them for the videos. It's awesome. And I kept it,
but I tattooed those on my back under amendment, so
it's amendment too. And then it rights out at the
bottom of what it is, and the explanation for it
ended up being it's a tramp stamp. But you know, yeah,

(58:01):
you know it's part of the bigger picture. You're married,
it doesn't matter anymore. There you go. I mean, so
yeah it uh my back that I've only got a
couple of little places left back there. And I think
for this new baby, you know, it's gonna have to
have a clock and an angel and angel g yeah
machine angel. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
We started the Gangster Angels, so tough next to it.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Great. I know I didn't get the memo to wear black.
I should have.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
I thought today I was like, what's on the way.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
I know, whatever I'm wearing's gonna match. Everything's everything. Why
where's your deer brain at where's where are you att
in that? Because I know you? Now do I know
you killed some big old iur deer. I know you.
I know you chased them big deer man. Well, last
few years, my dear has kind of been been shot,

(58:55):
uh you know, and this year it's gonna happen again.
It looks like this this baby, they slow it down
on thing. And my oldest boy, he goes he loves hunting,
like he'll go with me and do That's that's probably
the funnest thing right now in my life.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Sure, man, Okay, I'm gonna cut you off because I
gotta know because I got one coming.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
That's good, dude, cut our artists.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
I'm sorry, I just got to get this feels more important.
What he's talking about taking his son, what you're talking about.
I know what he's going to talk about when I
ask him the question. So when you look back, I'm
sure you had your non child hunting days where you
were locked in bro like chasing big deer, doing the thing,

(59:39):
the sign, the food plots, the whole all in right. Well,
obviously I know now having three kids, it's like they
pull the emergency brake on all that.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Dude, for sure.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
So do you value I know, I know you going
with your son is probably like it feels better to you.
But do you when you look at those the two
days that going with your son and the and the
chasing big deer, Because it's kind of hard to really
give it your awe on the chasing big deer thing

(01:00:12):
when you're taking your kids, man, right, do you what's
the value? And is it even comparable?

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
To be honest, and uh, there were a few times
last year I went by myself and I felt like
I was kind of screwing him over. You know, we
were chasing this deer to get out of the target buck,
and man, I ended up going I only had like
three more days to get after him before uh the
nickelback to or picked back up. So we were in

(01:00:43):
the woods every day, man, and he got up early,
and he's women to stand in the morning and at
night and grinding. Man, I ain't up. You know. The
wind was bad all three days, and we ended up
pushing him on to the neighbor. And so I went
to the northwest corner of our property trying to catch
him coming off the bad cutting that corner onto the
neighbor's ridge by myself. And Dude, I was just sitting there, like,

(01:01:05):
you know, and I'd made my mind up. If I
see this deer, I'm not gonna shoot him. You had
already made your and it was terrible when I got down. Uh,
I'm a deer, no, no, never heard a gunshot. And
then the neighbor sent me a picture of him on
the ground that was big G. And dude, we had

(01:01:26):
tiktoks going back where I will do TikTok and I'll
do videos that center the marriage, the posting, and we
had tiktoks out to y ain't Barrett, where we going?
We're going hunting? Who were going out? Big g? You
know what I mean? That was our deer and the
neighbor brought his brother and that was his brother's first deer.
And he didn't even mount him. We just go and

(01:01:47):
he was fifty inch northeast Georgia deer, which is hard
to find. Yeah, it's hard to find. See. Yeah, man,
I dude, if I can, if my son can be
with me, you take that over. Absolutely, it is mine.
Yet you know like that they're just too young. I'm
not there yet. That being said, now there's uh, We've
got a bunch of four year olds on our farm.

(01:02:09):
There's one five year old baby two uh and the
one's one eight. He's old man. That's when I'm trying
to get them on this. Your dog, yeah, for his
first And here's the thing. So up until this year,
you know, i'd carry a gun, so a buddy of
mine when we go to the beach in Florida. I'm
not a real big fan of the beach. So I
go about forty five minutes up the road from Dustin

(01:02:30):
and there's a Precision Tactical Oh yeah place up there,
and it's it's all veteran on They're awesome, dude, and
I get stuff. Sarah coated there well. One of the
guys there's really good at long distance stuff. And he
also has kids the same age as mine. And I
saw his daughter shooting and I was like, man, I said,
I really want to get Barrett shooting this year, but
I'm really nervous about pushing him towards something that you know,

(01:02:54):
I don't want him get scope bitch, sure gets carried
off the back. Yeah, he had a twenty he's got
a twenty two. Little pistols shoots good with. He's got
a twenty two, uh you know, single round bolt that
he's got. But I put a reflex sad on that
just so he didn't have to worry about focus, and
he just put the dot on the target and hit it. Well.
I was worried about putting the regular scope on and

(01:03:16):
having him try to get too close and knocking it.
And he had an idea, dude, So Jenius the pulsar
makes a pull sar thermion that most of them are
thermal scopes in there. I mean, I've spent four times
as much money on thermals that I like a lot less.

(01:03:36):
I mean, it's my favorite. But they have one that's
a daytime digital in the night vision. So what's awesome.
You can bluetooth your phone to it so I can
sit in the stand with him. This is what wrong
my buddy Rong did for his daughter, And so we
built the same thing for Barrett. We built a six
or five grendel, so don't knock your shoulder off. And

(01:03:59):
then that that uh pulsar on top. I can keep
my phone up and when he's looking, I can one
make sure he's on the right here. Sure, make sure
his holds right. If it's not, let's don't. Yeah, he's
up when he gets it on the right spot, all right,
go time. But man, that's awesome. And he went and shot,
and dude finding the target hisself. He had his first

(01:04:19):
shot at a hundred two hundred and three hundred yards
and then started plinking. He was really having fun at
three hundred because there was a car out there. So
you know, then he goes, Daddy, yours you want? Of course, absolutely,
you know what I mean on the moon, you should
mean let's go. Yes, dude, I stepped up. The barl
was hot and the can was hot. It was like

(01:04:40):
I got it though, ain't no way I missed three
hundred yard Yeah, whift Brome. I mean we didn't even
see the trail. We don't know where we missed it,
you know, And my son looked confused, like visibly confused.
He's like, Dad, that was a miss Yeah. Yeah, that's
what happens sometimes parallel. Yeah, he doesn't burn the barrel up.

(01:05:03):
But no, it was super cool. So I'm excited about that.
But that being said, so what I bought farm in Alabama.
The first thing we did was went to Auburn in
Troy Universities and saw what kind of data they had
on deer, you know, in their outdoor problem. So I
did the same thing at home. I finally found I've
been looking for fifteen years for a farm, finally found it.
So I went to u G A you know, look

(01:05:23):
through to find out who to contact was to get
some data on you know, EHD numbers, you know that
kind of another history tool content. Absolutely so. Uh. I
see a picture of a dude that I went to
high school with. He's got a doctor and wildlife management.
His name's J. T. Johnson. Wow, And I called him
and do we reconnected? Hadn't spoken since high school? That's awesome?

(01:05:44):
And he I said, Man, I got a farm over here.
If you mineus, come take a look at it, kind
of see what what you think? He said, yea, I
may't stopped by it one day this week. Do he
stop by the next day? And I think, I don't
think here's been a date that he had really loving
place that I did. But his family farm is man,
we hunted it when we were kids, and this Saturday,

(01:06:04):
so as soon as the our album released show is over,
I'm hauling ass back to Georgia. There there's one hundred
and sixty inch six to seven year old giant on
his farm and he wanted me to get on it.
He wants to film it and shoot it. So we're
going after him. We had him sixty days daylight and

(01:06:26):
sixty days, and he disappeared for five and he just
came back there from the whole day gosh, that's all.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
So I feel like there's something going on because because
our deer kind of the same thing, were about to
leave to go on a hunt, and I've been kind
of nervous about it because our deer kind of disappeared.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
But they're all showing back up. They all show back
up a couple of days ago.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
And I don't know if it's this weather system that's
coming through right now or something, but but it feels
like big deer.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Old deer are back on their feet and roaming a
little bit. Well. We noticed that both forms we had
our bachelor groups, and our bachelor groups kind of broke
intos and we still had some that came off and
de bucks running together. What we saw we had like
at our forum, I had a four year old Drop
and that five year old that's on there, he dropped,
you know, he still had velvet before and Drop. He

(01:07:11):
disappeared for a few days, came back hard horn was
pushing everybody around. The only other thing we've seen is
we had one daylighted for several days ago last year
and uh and this happened to JT two years before.
There was a big buck that ran with this one.
When this one was a little younger the one I'm after,
and he disappeared for about two weeks and he came

(01:07:34):
back was tongue out, so I think he got a
x D. He went laid somewhere and got over it
came back in cover. So it was like, you know,
who knows where they go? Yeah, you know it's crazy,
dude on three hundred and sixty five acres, It's one
of things we see new deer all the time. But dude,
I'm telling you, I had a high fence that we

(01:07:54):
built for veterans in kids, you know, in Alabama, four
running thirty three acres. And when I tell you that
we had cameras on every feeder and still saw deer
that we didn't see real camera on that form. Absolutely
and that's wow. These things are. I mean they can hide. Man.
We had one pop out. I love chocolate horn deer.

(01:08:15):
Sam and I had a dude come in. We had
a vet come in and his son was with him,
and that we were aft for a specific buck and
you know he's out in the field. We're just waiting
on him. Get a little closer, and dude out of
the bottom walks about a two hundred and fifty something
minch just chocolate horned giant I've never seen on camera,
never seen in the stand, never ever. The dude, well,

(01:08:37):
these dude walking with his head crooked. Hey, I don't
know what that is. If you won't kill it, you know,
go feed him. Yeah. So there was that one, and
then Michael Lee went when me same year and dude,
a big frame deer came out, but he was old.
You know, we didn't really pay much attention because you're
looking at two fifty you know, tow hundred fifty inch deer. Yeah,

(01:09:02):
one sixty, you know, it's really framing comes out and man,
it's easy to look over him. But she walked in
and out and frame and me and Michael we both
looked at each other and we're like, why did we
pass that? Why did we pass that deer? Yeah, so
he came back on his way back to the bed
and Michael Lee shot him. There's no tag. It was
uh wild deer really in Michae Lee's defence. This was uh,

(01:09:27):
this was right before we fenced it. So we had
two vdis and stuff on the closed fence side. Michael
Lee's not gonna hunt no fence farm. Ye, We're on
the open side, but you could hunt the high fence
on this side faced outside. We had plots planting around
the outside of the property line. Ye, wild deer is

(01:09:48):
nuts for the south buddy in Alabama.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
I'm telling you what y'all aging. How old you through
the deer was?

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
He had to be six, I mean five ship Yeah,
big old gut is back with salt down, shoulders high.
All the rest of the chin and shoulders was all
one thing. You.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Yeah, my guy knows.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Yeah, I know, I know that old knows like he was.
He was one of those where you didn't have to guess,
like you just thought, oh that's old deer. Yeah. Man,
that seems to be more and more.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Uh what I'm after?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Man, I mean there was a time where I we
hunted score, but man, I just like an old man. Now,
do you feel like he's done something? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Yeah, yeah, I guess as you progress as a hunter,
there's we talk about the stages you go through all
the time and and uh, I mean we have friends
that ask us all the time, like, man, how long
has it been since you've killed it here in Tennessee?
And it may be we may go three or four years.
No easy, you know, because we're trying to get to
that age class and there's there may be a four
and a half stud walk across, but man, we don't.

(01:10:46):
We just don't really get into the score anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
I want that old you know, I want that Cat
and Mouse man with the with the dude, you know.
I want to five year jump bro where they just
turned into freaking trash. Yeah, yeah, I want to sometimes
is it six again, you know, maybe Saturday and then
they start down.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Sure, I want to go toe to toe with the
bat of some bitching the woods. And usually I get beat,
you know, be a lunch, but sometimes you don't. And
that's you know, that that feeling is what I chase him.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
I think this is in tune. I tried real hard Brownley.
We do this thing called the One that got Away,
and it could.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Be a I'm sure that blessed part, that thing you
had to say.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
But it's the time of show for the one that
got away. Feeling himself today, the one that got away?
All right, Sorry, I let that dog over here. I
ain't gonna get off the porch with the big ones.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
We did the bulldog. They just said that for sure,
that's of Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
We do.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
We do a segment called the one that Got Away,
and we say it could be a fish, it could
be a deer, it could be a song, it could
be you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
When when the one that got away comes up to you,
what do you what do you think about? Man? My
one that got away came back and it was the
best thing ever happened to me. And and that was
my wife. Wow, you know, I mean, come on, we
had some history of her. I met her. I was
working some community shepherds hours off at a church. What

(01:12:32):
is every story start with either big in jail or
service or in like some dark places in the Chatter chapter,
you know, before the age of twenty six. Man, I
don't think I got to listen to anything but jelly roll.
I feel that, Yeah, yeah, you were, but yeah, So

(01:12:52):
I had my cousin, Well he's a Christian counselor and therapist,
incredible guy. But he was helping out with the youth
group there. They were in between youth pastors and he
was helping so Man, he would help me up and
sign out for some hours and it helped me a lot.
Her family went to that church, and I remember the

(01:13:12):
day she walked in and seeing her for the first
time and just being blown away, and dude, I I
ain't you know it benefited me to lie about this
if it wasn't true. But if I'm lying, I'm dying. Man.
It was one of those things, right. I didn't know
if it was like I saw her like I'm gonna
marry her, that's the one. But I knew it was something. Wow,

(01:13:33):
And very soon after that, I knew I wanted to
marry you. And we had everything, dude, our daughter Brailen.
We came up with her name back then, no wa
then Wow. We got a lot of history, man. But
you know I was involved in some things I shouldn't
have been with, some people that I shouldn't have been around.
And she was always a church girl, man, and I

(01:13:55):
was also raised in church. I want you guys, you know,
I don't ever want to be that guy that says
I came up rough is that and didn't It didn't
come up rough, man. I came up playing ball. You
know that I did that I shouldn't have was just
self destructive and by choice. You for being honest about that,
you know, I mean it was it wasn't my situation.

(01:14:17):
You know, my my parents got divorced, but I had
zero excuse us to do the things I did, and
and man, that was I was kind of living against
my nature for for many, many years, and part of
that was was getting to the point where her where. Man,
my drinking was really bad. I remember I wouldn't drink
when I got to spend time with her, but I

(01:14:38):
dropped her off, and man, by the time I dropped
her off, I was shaking like relief. And before I
got to the end of her driveway, I had a
quarter bottle of Jaeger Drop And by the time I
got to Athens, I was well into it. And then
i'd get to the house and you know, set up shop.
But you know, we got to a point where we
had a conversation one night, I was involved as things

(01:15:00):
and there was a specific situation going down where I
was kind of looking over my shoulder a little bit
and I didn't ever want to, you know, have something
happen where she was with me, and something happened to her,
and I had brought that up, and she said, yeah,
you know, she had made mention to the fact I
guess she was looking around in my truck and she

(01:15:20):
found my whole bag. In that bag had a pistol
and two leaders of liquor. You know, most time it's
vodka and then either jag or bourbon or you know,
guilm but always you know, had two. Yeah, and they
were gone every twenty four hours. A joke, and she said,
you know, she said that it just makes me nervous
to talk about forever with somebody that has that in

(01:15:44):
the console and is doing the things that some people
say you're doing. And I went a lot to her,
like I caught to a lot of it, and a
lot of it. I just stay quiet on you. But
her mom and daddy knew. Hell, her uncle was one
of the ones I was running with. They didn't want
to see each other, you know, so we we split.
We we didn't see each other for seven years, didn't
to speak to each other for seven years. And I

(01:16:07):
got a call on one night from the same my
cousin got. It was the youth passion. This man, Uh
there's somebody you know back in the day that's just
going through things and and uh, you know said she
heard you were sober and mine saying hello, you know,
if you've had the time this week, she'll be around
the house all week, and uh did we We'd both

(01:16:29):
gone our separate way. She had moved on to this dude.
It was kind of supposed to be like a like
a youth pastor type like you know in church all
the time, just solid and ended up being a real
peace Uh. And everybody in my town, dude kept it
secret because they knew. I mean, nobody said her name
around me. They knew if I heard what was going on,

(01:16:51):
bad for him. But you know, and I kind of
thought in the back of my mind that's what they
were calling me for, was to handle that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
City something.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Like that. It was just going at all. It wasn't
that at all. And I remember sitting in the driveway going, man,
no matter what she looks like at this chapter of
my life, dude, really what I wanted this was after
I was sober, what I really wanted I to do
that I was hanging around. I wanted to be one
percenter biker and and I wanted to sing music kind

(01:17:23):
of on the side at this point, you know, I
was really feeling biker culture, man, And uh, no one
planning on being anybody's dad, anybody's husband. And I just
remember sitting in Doug's driveway going single for life, Single
for life, no matter what, no matter what she looks like,
no matter what she's going through, it don't get sucked in.
We're just you know. And dude, she walked around the
corner and all that just like man, was it was.

(01:17:47):
It was done. Dude. I remember like she walked up
and she she she really was going through some a
really tough time in her life. And dude, I remember
seeing her and everyone no handshake or didn't we really
didn't say anything. She just kind of, you know, I
just OpEd my rs and she kind of just fell
in and I kissed her on the forehead. And after

(01:18:08):
seven years of not spec I got you that real stuff.
And dude, we've been inseparable set come on, yeah, it'll
be next June will be ten years Marie. Wow, good
for you. It blows my mind, brother, Dave, I'm telling
you that that wasn't on the Beano card.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Well there's somebody, there's somebody upstairs orchestrating the way beyond
our imagination.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Man. Well you guys have kids. I mean, dude, I
don't know how somebody could ever have a child and
watched that belief.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
I agree it closed. You know, I'll be honest about
this reading. And I went through sometimes where we were
raised Christian. Our dad's Baptist preacher, so we were in
church every I mean all the time, and and honestly,
it just kind of beat us up for a what.
We just got so used to it. It just you know,

(01:19:00):
and you just get used to it, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
We kind of started blocking out whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
Plus it was our dad and we hear him scream
all the time, so it was like, you know, just
going through the motions kind of thing. And man, we
got to a place where we would even have a
conversation of Man, is this is this really really?

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Do we believe? Why don't we believe? Is this all
made up?

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
What about all these other religions that kind of look
like that. I mean, we were doing all the things right. Yeah,
my daughter, my daughter was born and she had the
doctor came in.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
I back up.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
So when the doctor came in and said, hey, we've
been in labor for like nineteen hours. And the doctor
came in and said, hey, this baby is telling something
we hadn't been listening. We're going to start listening right now.
And so we're like, Wow, what's going on? Well, her
Biza's blood our heartbeat was going down every time my
wife would start to push. Well, it turns out she
had a pretzeln in her cord and it was wrapped

(01:19:53):
around her neck.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
So every time my.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Wife would push, it would cut it would cut the
oxygen off to So she didn't really explain that, but
I could tell something was up. Like when the doctor
came in heart so were and that was in the
middle of me and read kind of just being waffully
about all that we believed and said and read I've

(01:20:16):
been straight my whole life.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
One kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
Yeah, right, I'm in I'm about to walk into the
operating room for this emergency se section. Hands to the
lord like in the because I called read while we're
standing out, I was hey. I was like, hey, man,
everything I love, everything I love is about to be
fillayed on this table in here, like we hit your

(01:20:44):
knees right now and send and send it up. This
is I ain't I am not playing dude.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
He's like, I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
I was driving, I was driving to the hospital and
pulled over on the side of the road and got
out the truck and it was just like, man, you know,
because it was it was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
That serious and and and they had the procedure. Thank
thankful for the people at Williamson over there, and uh,
she was everybody's fine, Mom's fine, baby's fine, everybody's fine.
But I the next day I had to go check
on the dogs and the cats and everything, the chickens
at the time, everything at the house. And I called
Read and I was like, hey, bro, I'm done, Like

(01:21:20):
I'm done even having the conversation that that what that
that this isn't real, that God's love isn't real, and
that my salvation, your salvation and.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
What we believe isn't real.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
I don't even want it to come into like I'm
making the decision every single day of my life that
that's what I believe and that's what I'm gonna live.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
And it's and and and when I have and you're right, man,
I was like welcome back and like having a Well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
I'll be honest, dude, I'll be okay if you don't
want to take ownership, and I will take ownership and say,
you know, man, I was mid their late twenties trying
to figure out, you know, what it was that I
actually believed. And man, some of those cornerstone moments like
that when you see, when you see your life come
out on that table and hold your hand. You know,

(01:22:05):
it changes changes everything, absolutely changes everything.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
My wife got me back in church. I feel like
I've been going by a year now. You know. God
got out of it too, for a bunch of different reasons.
It's like, you know, you show up the church and
everybody's more turned about you walking in and what the
preacher said, and dude, I'm not. I walked in one
Sunday morning. It was to a church that Amer and

(01:22:29):
her mama went to. So to be honest with you,
isaare for wrong raising. I was there to be seen
by them, and I rode my motorcycle and parked it
under them the front door, and you know, the thing
walked them on my cut And the minute I sat
down to preach, went from preaching about something completely different.
He's like, Lord, Lord, doesn't put it on my heart.

(01:22:52):
I need to need to talk about something. And he
went into you know, society and how music it was
was a big part and what was leading people astraight.
We got people in this room and he looked dead
at me and then I'm not. You know, this was
in a more troubled time of life. But I stood up.
I shot him two birds and I walked out the

(01:23:15):
double doors, you know, and I go back for literally dud,
just just I'm out and out and everybody I knew.
Mom that was like you're just you're lost. It was
that was absolutely just excuse me. I was like, there
was no extrange.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Kimmy Bend would throw the pastor two birds in double flips.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
You know the park a lot of this day. I'm
in here trying to look good, but my business in
the street. I remember the dude. It was Oh, I
was hot and bothered, but but she she got me going,
and really it was on the premise of man. It
was important for me that my kids see me go

(01:23:58):
to church. And you know, the main part of our
job right is, you know, I watched the thing. There's
a platform called the Worst Post Society, and there's a
thing and they're called the Order of Man and the
guys like dude, we have three jobs as a husband
and the followers to protect, provide, and preside and on
the preside of the preside of things. It's not just

(01:24:19):
about you know, reigning over the kingdom that is your
home or the castle is your home, right. It's like
to be the core of your family's faith, like you know,
And dude, if I tried to take credit for that,
I would be telling a major lie. My my wife
is at in our house like without a doubt, she

(01:24:40):
is the center and the core of our faith. And
thank god she has been. I'm telling you, man, my
wife is is. She is a soldier. She's a soldier
of faith. She's she's just a soldier in general. But
she really pushed for for years and finally, you know,
it is important to me that they see their dad go.

(01:25:02):
But man, almost immediately, you know, when I finally got
over the cynical part. I mean like not wanting to
be in there. And you know, as a musician, the
first thing I'm looking at the music, bro.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
It still messes me up. Yeah, it still messes me up.
If I see some dude up there shredding, I'm like, man,
come on, you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Know what got me over it what I started hanging
out with him, and you know, they were looking for
any years and you know, try to help with that.
They did a thing at the football stadium one day
and I went out there and that was my way
of really trying to kind of you know what I mean.
So hanging out with them, you know, and having a
conversation with him and the guitar player was one and

(01:25:46):
just the way they were speak it was like, you know, man,
I don't you know, kind of stay shy, of stay
in the back. I don't really want anybody to see me.
And you know this, that and the other. And in
the back of my mind, like I appreciated that. It
was the first time I came to terms with the
fact that, hey, dude, like to an extent, they are
entertaining and they have to have to you know what

(01:26:08):
I'm saying. If everybody stands up there in mud, I
don't really want to see that either. Now there's a
balance obviously, but you know what, man, God gave them
that talent, sure, you know, and it have fun in faith, right,
Like if we're walking by faith, right, that's supposed to
be our our lifestyle, right, So if we're not having

(01:26:28):
fun with that, what's the point, you know what I mean?
So everything changed in the moment. I was like, you
know what, like, lose the damn drum screen, correct these
summitches up, run them from smoking. Let's want and I
bring some firow from the truck and want along some
fire in this bit. You know, let's get it on.

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
Get some people saved.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
It really has life changing and I tell you, the
coolest thing I've seen in years. We got in the
truck one Sunday and my son mad to be careful. Dude,
I couldn't tell you the last time I cried until
I had kids right down the road. And my son said,

(01:27:14):
I think I want to be babitized, and you know
me and my wife, you know, and he had said
it a couple of times before. I remember the first
time he said, I missed it, miss everything. But you know,
she had told me about it on the phone. That
was the first time i'd heard him say it. And
I was like, all right, well buddy, you know, let's
let's talk to Pastor Nick and see what's up. Man.

(01:27:37):
I'm really proud of you for wanting that, you know,
wanting Jesus come live in your heart. And sorry I
didn't say that. He said, I want to be babitized.
I won't. I want Jesus to live in my heart,
and dude, it was. It was incredible. So the next
Sunday I reached out to the pastor. I said, hey, man,
my little man's talking about so I used to get baptized,
but I want to make sure it's not just you know,

(01:28:00):
he's absolutely bringing my office. After the sermon, we went
to his office and dude, he asked Barytt some serious questions.
And my son knew what he was talking about, you
know what I mean, And he was like, he told
me an amber. At the end of he said, y'all
and dude, I was tearing up the whole time. And
and he said, uh, guys, he said, he knows what

(01:28:22):
he's talking about. He understands it. And I think this
boy wants to be baptized. Dude, Baptism Sunday. They usually
do a pretty good job of trying to keep us
saved and where we can enjoy church. But when we
got in the line and and you know, they let
him go first, and man, they're just seeing him hopping

(01:28:46):
that there's a little metal tough. Yes. I don't ever
post things like that was online, but dude, it was
so powerful when he got in the water and and
and he started talking and man, just my my heart
just kind of cramped up and I just remember putting
my head mans like this as I'm in front of

(01:29:08):
God and everybody, and this is you know, I still
live in Georgia where I grew up, and you know,
I know a bunch of people in there, and I'm like, God,
I'm in here like a big almighty But dude, I
don't know how to explain it. It fixed every for
a few moments. Man, it fixed everything in me that
was broken. It was just it was a whole I

(01:29:33):
don't I don't know how to explain it. Just the
one moment in my life and I knew I was
you know, I felt like I'd done something right. And
then I came to terms with it. Damn, I realized
I didn't do a whole lot. My wife kind of
led that charge, and you know, it also kind of
showed me that, hey man, I'm I'm I'm busy and

(01:29:56):
I'm providing and I'm damn sure protecting. True, you know,
but in my presided right, when my wife loved that charge,
I need to step my game up, you know. I
mean I cussed like a sailor. Dude. To this day,
I hang with a rough crowd. I will to the
day I died as my people. Yeah, Hey, God knows
your heart. Bro. You know what I'm saying, I do
believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
But you know what, that's that's what he was hanging
out with. That's who Jesus was saying that with.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
We had this conversation with Jelly Roll. He was like,
hell on, his first miracle was turning water into wine.
Jesus was a party and get the party, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
Us, Oh man, that's great. Thanks for sharing that. That's
that's great, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
All right. I could do this forever.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Let's let's do uh, let's do favorite song, greatest slash,
favorite tune for you man for me.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
So there's a lot of old songs that I think,
obviously for you know, reasons that they've they've earned their
strips for the years and they're trying true. But dude,
I really uh, I feel like, well, there's an honorable mention.
We talked about it earlier. The song that Josh Phillips
wrote by hisself one hundred percent Cody Johnson cut Dirt Cheat.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
Very Long Time just went number one last week.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Beautiful absolute was so freaking proud of him, and dude,
you don't get away with songs like that anymore, dude,
I mean, hats off to Kojo too for for not
really taking a chance on that one, but being willing
to go with a song like that. Yeah. Absolutely, he's
a real one man. He changed changed Josh's life with it,

(01:31:35):
and I'm sure to changed his career Rember better. He's
a solid dude, by the way. I didn't know what
to think of at first. Cody Johnson.

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
Oh, yeah, because you don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
We never know, you never know. We went over to
his but we parked next to each other by the
hotel one night and ended up going going over there
to hanging And dude, I'm a fan of that guy,
I really do. He's one of the new guys that
I can I can really with. But that being said,
I feel like the greatest country song our generation. And

(01:32:05):
I'm a fan of this dude too. But I feel
like it's in color by Jamie Johnson.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
Nobody said that one.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Yeah, that's so, that's a new one, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
Is it too early to get a verse course in
or no?

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
I mean that's up to y'all. I mean we run
it and y'all cut it back. I mean, I don't
know if i'd channel my hand or Jamie Johnson this
early zied Grahampa on his picture here it's all black
and white. It ain't really hears that you there, shit, yeah,

(01:32:41):
I was eleven. There's a singer man some times for
two back in thirty five. It's meeting Uncle Joel, just
trying to survive a cotton farm, the Great Depression. It
looks like we was scared and like a couple of

(01:33:05):
kids just trying to save the chure. Shoot a scene
it could. I got up my whole body be shoes
worth a thousands. You can't see those shades of great
keep covered. Shoot a scene it and right now, come on,

(01:33:32):
what a killer? Let's go. What a song? When you
think about what we're trying to what we try to
call country music, right, if you want to tell a
story like that's that's trademark cultures way back definitely tells
the story. We want to paint a picture. There is
no better picture. I remember hearing that song and being
like I did too. You know that's the song. I

(01:33:54):
feel like every songwriter in this town was like, man.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
Shot, why did I right?

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Man opinion?

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
She's worth a thousand words, But you can't see what
those great shade's gray keep cover.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
Man should have seen it. In color. That's killer, bro,
that's a good you know. I don't know either. Looking
he's a killer dude. I mean to this day, he's
got some story to this day.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Vocally, dame.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
They ain't nobody who messed with Jamie Johnson. He's a
dog too. I love James. And what you see is
what you get. I've heard he's got a shout.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
That's right, James.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
That's okay, man, that's a good one that I do
feel like. Man, if I think about all this song
the country Solis, our generation, that one just stands in
the league of its own. Yeah, for sure, dude, you're
cools hell man, you really are. Now you are.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
I wasn't gonna say I didn't say.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
That, man.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
Thanks for hanging out with us today, and god's your
b G. Thanks for coming on man, Thank y'all for
making this happen. Back there be on the camera. Hey,
we love y'all, appreciate you'll hanging out.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Let me just get a real quick thing, man, I
I'm just being I'm being honest with you. I know
I know your walk, and I know your decision to
be sober and and to be a dad and to
be a husband and I've seen it, I've watched it,
and uh man, thank you, thank you for for being
honest about it and even just coming in here and

(01:35:27):
and you know him, hang with that. I mean, we're
not serious cats, and you're not either. But I'm gonna
tell you something, man, you have an inspiring story and
you can. You're an inspirational human. You're gonna change They've
already changed lives. You're gonna continue to change lives. And
thank you for being open about that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
I mean that seriously, y'all too.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
Man. I appreciate y'all having me. This was this was
a lot of fun. Cool man. We do it again.
We love y'all. Thanks man, God's couchry. We'll check it
next time. Peace. Name

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