Ep. 74: Northern Cali Hunting, Supporting Nashville Songwriters, and Girl Dad Life with Jon Pardi

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John party Man is a party He is a wild man,
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Man, he's so he's funny but yet like dry yeah dry,
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Speaker 1 (01:55):
I've seen you cry way more than I have ever cried. Man,
we uh a lot of things, talked about a lot
of things. He's got a new record out honky Tonk Hollywood.
Gives a little gives a little snippet of it for
us for that's his favorite. But man, what a cool dude,
what a great interview. It flew by it. We could
have done it for hours.

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Takes a hard stance on cutting outside songs, and I
appreciate that, no day, no doubt. Not a bow guy,
not a bow guy, but kind of a boy, but
has a bow thing. Grew up in northern Hollywood, Uh,
I mean sorry, northern California.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Fishing out there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
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Well, thank you you like how I had to tag
my own song in there, dude, I just had to Yeah,
and I had to put miss Saturday Night.

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To it, that's all I Yeah, you're already spending it.
Already spent it. Hey, thanks for hanging out with us.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, glad to be here. Yeah yeah, rocking the cowboy hat.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
The got the actual cowboy I always sound like you gotta.
If you're gonna wear a cowboy hat, you have to
do like cowboy stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I feel like I feel like you do that, right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I've done a lot more than I have now. But
I've been I've been a girl dad. But man, I've
got cows of the cows, That's what I'm saying, anybody you.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Have cows of the house, they're for sale for real.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, they're just pasture ornaments. And I don't have time
for nothing. I barely have time to do this. Fluffy cows.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Sorry, fluffy cow man, I'm a fluffy cat. Fluffy cow. Yeah, man,
those things are expensive. Those things are expensive to look at.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
And they've got the mini ones now and they're like
freaking eight thousands of calf.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
He's a calf, yeah, or like the little baby that
comes out and the girls go crazy and.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Then with the bottle.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, mine aren't that. They're like the summer won't even
go into pasture.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
They're so big. Oh, I got you. They're like miniature
wooly manos.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Do y'all sell like like do y'all do like ticket
like like gate charges to get in and pedal and stuff?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
You should? Hell no they spring hill or do you
gotta deal with Amazon? Enough? Down in Thoms, the station
where we're at, they got some uh are they highlands?
Is that what they They've got some?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Uh they got some damn highland farms down there that
that like they'll bring school buses a kids.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
They're real gentle.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's why I got them, Like they're they're real, like
easy going.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
They just like to be fed.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
You have to shavel yep, like in the summery tough,
but I was impressed with them. They've been through the
brutal heat and the brutal cold. Yeah, and they're just
still hungry. Them still just moaning, moaning machines.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Never have to bush all the pasture.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Never When I got the goats man, the goats clear
defense line, so fence works easy. And they're they're good.
The goats get out. I saw them this morning. They're
out in the neighbors, but they come back in.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
So how do you, uh, what do you?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
I said this yesterday Actually we were we were talking
about the difference between being country boy and farm boy,
Like we're we're country guys, but we're not farm guys.
That's two totally different things, you know, So how do
you like, what's the point of a goat? Honestly, like,
why do people have goats?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well?

Speaker 4 (08:17):
You can milk them, which I don't you everybody's like
milk the.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Goat cheese. I guess do you have to milk? Do
they have to be milked or is it just kind
of like.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
They can I mean you could do.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
This is where I'm not a goat mastery okay, okay,
but I know you can milk them and you know,
and for the most part, like they're for they're for munching,
they're for clearing land.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I feel like.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Some cultures like to eat them. They love goat, little
goat chop little yeah, I mean I little goat chop,
poor goat goat loin.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
I will say the goats have been great for for
clearing fences. They are fabulous at that. I mean, if
you got an ivy growing around your fence and it's
a pain, like especially if it's like this, how get goats.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
As far as they can reach?

Speaker 4 (09:10):
I think they stand up on their back legs and
then I mean it's they're cool animals. I mean they
if you want to be all natural and never mow
your glass grass and you want to save the world,
to get you some goats.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Was it always a did you always want like farm animals?
Did you always does that always been a dreamy yours?

Speaker 4 (09:28):
I mean, I really want to get horses and it's
just a full time job, and like I don't have
anybody to you know, tend to the horses, Like, what
am I going to do?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Just be a horse guy? Yeah? Like that you kind
of look like you could.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah I could do it. But you know, anybody that
I know it's got horses and stuff, just come ride
in mind, don't you know? Don't go down that path
like yeah, it's it's yeah. I wouldn't be able to
do it. Yeah, I'd just be waste the money. I'm
going to Australia in like five days, and what are
the horses gonna do?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then? What are they gonna do for twelve days? Who's
gonna talk to the goats them? I know?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Man, my wife wants every animal in the world, dude,
And like we've got a spot where we could have
some horses or cows or whatever. She's like, why don't
we just get a few? And I'm like, man, because
I know what that turns into. I know what it does.
I mean, we had chickens, I got a dog. I
mean even having a dog, it's like somebody's gotta fad it,
somebody's got to water, somebody's gotta take it down, somebody's

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got to run it.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Somebody's got it.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
And like you do that times thirty, you know, and
just like you said your goats are out, well, well.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
They come back.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
The goats in the Highland though, that's why I got them.
They're chill like they don't easy to take care of
the once say easy, but like they're pretty like mellow
like cows get out every now and then.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
But it's kind of fun. It's like but you know,
that's always exciting.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
But year it's just like cows are like, okay, well.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
They're not like they got big ass horns. Man, that
the old god they they you didn't put test balls
on any and them they will go right to your
back if you want.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
How many heads of highland you got?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Oh? Man, the big old number five? I tell you, well,
the guys are pre for He's got a bunch of
cows on He said, how many cows you got? John
said five?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
He goes, boy, that's my dream number. Just have five
cows on this. But but could you imagine only have
five cows somewhere? Yeah? Und you sit there for sale?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Though, like right now you sell them, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
I'd like to sell all of them for five. I'd
like to get all of them together. See they're hurt animals,
and they that they've been they've been like, yeah, they're gang,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Gang.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah, I mean you can split them up, but I
guess they've just gone full Disney since that girls, And be.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Like, for sure, I definitely did. When I had my girl.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
It changed a lot of stuff for me, dude, a lot.
I got a five months five, you got yours is younger.
Yours are younger, both of them.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, mons two and seven months, Yes, right, I knew,
I gotta. I gotta my little girls about to turn three.
And my little boil turned two.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
And Pressley and she loves feeding the goats. And the
goats we like anything you cook, salad and all that
vegety veggies and stuff, all the stuff like the tops
of strawberries, tops of carrots, you know, all that moldy
like they'll eat it. Throw it in there. Man, I mean,
they're they're tanks, so it's cool press.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
To go feeding.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
They feed the animals and that that's the best part
of no doubt, you know that.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I mean, got no.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Cattle organization from around here, working cattle ranch.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
I gotta go to her man.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, there's no time for anything else, No, especially if
you want to be like a halfway decent dad, or
a halfway decent husband that paired with what you do?

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I mean, I said all the time. Meanwhile, yet an
entertainer going to Australia. I don't think y'all get paid enough.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
And I know y'all get paid, but like I mean,
after watching Luke going with Luke for a year at
the end of it, I was like, man, you're missing
like a lot of stuff back home.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Man, Like, I don't know that y'all get paid enough.
Do you think you do?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I think we pay people too much artists. I think
that's the biggest problem is the touring percentages.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
So you'd like to get paid less. I'd like to
pay people less. How are you paying people though?

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Let's start with bus companies. Let's start Let's start with yes,
I get the rental gear. Let's start with Pyro. Let's
start with you know, the screens, and then yeah, basically,
you know, you look at your percentage at the end
of the year and you're pulling in eleven percent, Holy show,

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twelve percent, and then you got to save that you
got banned on salary. Yeah, you're talking about the people
you have to pay.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I get that. No, that's that. I get that.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
You know I'd like to be around thirty percent. And
that's sure not even feasible right now.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Damn, that's crazy. Wow, that's uhs.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
But it's I mean, I make a good living, but
it's not like you know, I you know, I don't
got jet or anything. Yeah, but you know, but the
tax right off, we can get we can get a
PJA every now and then it's all the time. Yeah,
but you just got to be smart. And but it's
you know, and then hell, the government takes half. I mean,

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whatever net you get, just chopping in shot, that's right,
that's right, and just put half.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Right, just start there and then you'll see it go
so quick.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think that's that's that's good to talk about because
that I mean, even as a I mean, we're in
the industry, right and I didn't even I didn't think
it was that low. I mean I knew it was
low because there's so much overhead truck buses.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Paid people, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
And the bigger it's it's honestly like the bigger you get,
the more people you gotta pay, so you never really
unless you just get to make a superstar.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, I mean I don't.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Know that I there's ways around it in the Nashville way.
And then but my boy Cody Johnson, Man, I see
him and he's still got like a banner. He says,
two Knights of Bridstone, just a banner behind him. Yeah,
and people still say it's like best comfter ever saw.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
We got like Pyro life and stuff. Cody's out there
just a Kojo banner killing it. I was like, dad,
dude saving money right there. Wait, so no, he don't
does he do a screen or anything.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
He had a screen, but it wasn't it wasn't like
a huge production. Yeah, and I mean he's such a
I mean he's such a talker and like commanding and yeah,
so I always but that's what I think of, Like,
you know, I see artists and you'll see you know,
all the production. Like then you go see Morgan. He's
got like twenty five foot flames coming out to the

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audience and like fifty semi trucks and then like that's
a lot a bunch of but he's like, you know,
undertail swift is the top to uh entertain their grosses,
you know as a big number. So there's there. I
study everybody. That's that's what I want to say when
you get the percentage up.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, we do need to get the percentage of that.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
That's you know, I just want I don't ever want,
you know, to be I'm not complaining and everything. I
love what I do and and I don't want, you know,
when I talk about it, you just try to get
the people.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Down that you're paying all the time, like all this.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Rental stuff, the rental stuff, and you know, and I
don't have a lot of high ticket prices, but damn
you even some of the scalp whers you.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
See them, like just yeah, you know I'm getting scalped
all right, look at what you're.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Hey, sorry, Ray, I don't know if I ever checked this,
but you gotta sounded good already.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
What you're mad at? Just tell us what it is.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
What you're mad at is that you're in the lost kids,
might be a boss man.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Or your neighbor's cat. Just tell us what you mad
A little diddy for you.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Pretty good, good one today, Pretty good one today. Uh,
we know what John's mad at. John's mad at not
from that, Matt.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm just you know, it's just the goal. I like it.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
I like I would be mad at that for sure.
If it was only eleven percent. I'd be real.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Mad at that. If you get any more artists, you
should ask him. I will. Yeah, that's interesting, and we
might have got up to it.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Might have been eighteen percent last year, which is good.
But eleven was working to thirty, working at thirty, working
at thirty. It's a good goal. Everybody's for any company. Yeah,
for any company. Everybody's trying to get in the pocket. Dude,
everybody's trying to get the part.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
I get mad about that too, even Taco Bells trying
to get in the pocket.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Uh yeah, let me go first, talk about gone up.
I know we talked about it yesterday.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Du that yesterday and he was like, what, I don't
really know that it happened.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I still pain. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
If a Gordia crunch with fifteen dollars, I'd probably steal
buy two of them.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
They're that good. What's your Taco bel What what you
go to at Taco Bell?

Speaker 4 (18:13):
I like their little being cheese Britos, this little extra
red sauce.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's more like just light but like protein solid. It's
a solid and not the most expensive thing on the
menu either.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
You know, let me go first, one mad I go,
this is a weird one. Yeah, mine's weird too. It's weird.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Do y'all like enjoy sneezing? Yeah, I haven't sneezed. And
I've had this gunk for about four days now, and
I haven't sneezed one time. And I feel like, if
I could just sneeze one, it's almost happened to bunch
where you're right there and it doesn't happen. I feel
like if I could just sneeze one time, it would clear.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
It all out. So you're mad at not sneeze.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yep, Okay, I'm mad that I haven't sneezed. I'm mad
weird one. I'm mad at the time. How fast the
time goes between seven o five am and seven thirty
five am. Okay, from six thirty to seven o five
it feels like thirty five minutes, you know. But from
six o five, but from seven to five when I'm
cooking eggs for Eliza, and I'm like, we gotta we

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have to leave our house at seven thirty five to
get to school on time. Dude, that goes by in
like thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I looked at it. No, it goes by in thirty minutes.
But it just fine. I looked at the freaking clock
on the oven today and I was like, oh, seven twenty,
I got fifteen minutes, flift an egg, look back seven
thirty five.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, kids' kids, it's just kids, kids, man, kids are crazy, dude.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Two girls, that is probably a lot. Yeah no, but
they're due to cute, cute little girls. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Pay It helps when they're cute, for sure. Yeah, No,
it's I was hanging out with Cena this morning to
twenty am to twenty poopy, dapper and summer sick right now.
She's got the flu, real bad man. And I slept
in the different room and I was in charge of
the monitors, so I got up.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I was wondering why she's rolling around. Then I smelled
it and I knew going in. I'll second that I was.
I slept in the separate room last night as well.
I was up all night, but it was just me coughing.
I will.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I think a tour of like I don't know if
we can say this, but a very uh something that
would work in a torture chamber is taking my son's
dirty bag of like dip propelled dippers and just making
somebody smell that that'd get some information out real fast.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
That is the worst.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
I almost throw up even walking by his room, even
when the thing is closed and working.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
It is the worst smell on the face.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
They call it genies called I never works. Mine was
like I don't maybe I should do it or something.
You got one of those where you step on the
thing and it opens up and you throw the doppers
and your close and it sucks it down.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh yeah, don't work. No, here's working. Yeah, it works.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm always reconstructed mon all the time, probably because we got.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
A marketplace or something.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I love marketplace. Same, so we keep we keep buying
new ones. Yeah, like there's they're always like every year
like this model, this model, is this model better than
the last year model?

Speaker 2 (21:23):
It take the smell away.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, and there's one networks real good. So we got
new ones and it's it's been You just gotta you
gotta got a maintenance maintenance any like a pit crew
on those things.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
We just hire somebody, bro.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
That's exactly what I mean, especially with two in doppers.
I mean it's just like that's something I can be
mad at too. You throw one dipper in there, and
then the second you throw another one in there, and
there's forty in there. There's never like three in there.
It's either it's empty or there's five hundred in there.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
And no doubt northern California. Yeah, where what part outside Sacramento?
All right?

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Pretty country up there, though, isn't it? Backside of Napa?
Real close to Napa about like our fifteen minutes from Napa.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
You missed it or no?

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, I missed the weather, especially right now when it's
cold and and a lot of my family missed my
family out there, I missed my friends.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, no, I miss I meant it.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's a it's a beautiful place that not a lot
of people know about. They think La, they think problems
when they hear California, you know, and it's it's really
not like that where I'm from, and it's California in general,
really not like what the public thinks really of California.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, it's only place I've ever been out there in LA.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, and you can't judge La, you can't. There's so
much more to California than La.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
It mean's it's it's like a huge, huge.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Agriculture state, like number one. Yeah, I know the stats
are this year or last year. But it's like worldwide agriculture.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
We went up to uh we went out to Monterey
Peninsula and I got to play Pebble Beach and that
stuff at that. And we went to Maui on our honeymoon,
and I feel like Maloi is one of the most
beautiful places I've ever been. But I felt like northern
California around that area that we were was the closest
thing to Maui I've seen. It was gorgeous due Yeah,
pebl Beach, like Carmel and all that, and man, it's gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
That's like two or three hours from from south. Yeah,
the three hour radius of California. It's so crazy how
fast it can change. Like you go three hours or
four hours where I'm from, you be in the big
ass Redwoods, like just keep going up noise.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Which is almost like unfathomable how big those trees are. Yeah. No,
California is a magical.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Environmental state, like the just the landscaping from the desert
down south to like Elk way up north.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Like on the Washington border.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah, Oregon border. Sorry, yeah, I know my geology really
will we don't, but yeah, Oregon and it's it's it's pretty.
It's pretty cool. I say, you always got to go
at least see Napa and you'll see the mountains around there,
and you'll that's where I grew up. That's what it
looked like growing up in farms, farms everywhere.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Just when I see you elkhom are you elkhot in California?
Or is it always one no ilka.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
I don't know the elk California, but they are there.
But I like go to Montana, went to New Mexico, Colorado,
like all the western look, there's still West coast states.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I love this stuff. Yeah, did you did you grow
up hunting like northern California.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
You grew up on eight thousand acres. We had a
lease since I was twelve that we.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Still yeah, no, it's it's it's still we got a back.
We lost it. We got a back.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
It's on Lake Berryessa Gun Ranch. Shout out to Gun
Ranch up there, a beautiful place.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
You're getting into mule deer, blacktails. They got black tail
and it's still scarce.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I mean, if you see a nice buck on the
gun ranch, it's not gonna last all, especially deer in
deer season. Oh yeah, about a lot of mountain lions,
A lot of mountain lions. Lot, there's mountain lions, coyotes,
there's a lot of predators out there and you can't
do nothing about it.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Then they don't have a mountain season or anything.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Hell no, they got human beings going to jail. Really
if you kill mountain lions, and they're very protected and
they're I meant and everything, they're killing everything that'll smash.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I heard so fast. They're killing all a lot of lions.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
But I mean they're they're beautiful cats, and I get it,
but damn.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
There needs to be some maintenance, you know. I feel like,
you know, it's.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
A good way to describe California state. They could use
little maintenance.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
The south to the north. How does do you do anything?
Do you do any hunting around here? You hunt on
your place?

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah, I haven't shot anything. I just like to feed them.
I just put the feeders up. I don't care feed
the whatever the chronic wasting is EC it's not really
around here. So yeah, it's that's a good thing because
their feeders are like, they're like.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Don't do that.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, But I checked the map and I just like
to see him. I mean, I've seen one nice one,
but every time it's time to go hunting, here I'm
on the road.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, you don't have no time. It's always fall, yeah, September.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
And I don't really bow hunt. I'm just straight to
the point, knock them down, put him.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
In the freezer, businessman. Man.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
But I did hear a funny joke. I was at
the Turkey thing, it was just last week, and some guys,
you know you bow hunt. I was like, nah, I
don't bow hunt still at the time, and I've seen too.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Many elk and deer with an arrow in their shoulder.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
And I get it. I get the bow hunt. I
got the thrill of it. Twenty yards drawing back, hearts pounding,
like you know.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
All natural. Me and party are connecting right now. This
is me. This is exactly how it is. Gor way
down with a bow.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Yeah, the recovery for sure, And yeah, I get it.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Totally get it.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
That's cool, man. You want to sit in a tree
all day, It's awesome. I'd rather be hiking see him
from my weight. Let's go five hundred yards the tur
it up, knock him down, Yeah, three hundred wind mag
all day.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
The vortext On top.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
No, I got Ararski sports from one that's got a
quick dial, so you can set to like a red yellow,
green like a boat, you know, or a green, yellow,
red red's going hot. But uh, back to this joke,
He's like, man, I got this bow hunter. He s like, man,
I had a b I got a buddy. He don't
bowhunt either, And when somebody asked him if he's got

(27:42):
a bow, he goes, yeah, I got a.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Bow a wym And I thought that was the best.
That was shoulder riding. Damn shoulder. So all my my
rifle hunters out there, they go that one, you take it?
I got. I thought that was pretty damn good. Good doing.

(28:09):
At n w t F. I was my hunting break guys.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
I've been going to hunting break down Louisiana for ten years.
And Drew and they had a little after party at
Riley's place. I went to say hi to everybody and
just hung out and some guy told me that joke.
And I'll never forget that one.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's what are you doing, honeybreak you duck hunting everything, everything, everything.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
I've heard a lot. I've heard a lot of good
things about that place.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Man, yeah, No, duck huntings phenomenal, and they so I
think they're kind of they're they're branching down the other hunt.
We I've been going down there and just buddy, we
go anything right around shot pigs. I mean, there's never
ending varments Louisiana, right, yeah, Louisian everything. I mean, everybody's
what's your favorite place hunt? Louisiana got everything.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Even fishing, right, fish, Yeah, you got great, you got great, larger,
you got great bass fishing, you got great like fresh water,
brackish fishing, salt the red fish, and yeah, specle trout
and all that.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Man and alligators.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Don We've been down there at alligate hunting and that's
a lot of fun on the john boats.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
And give me a sketchy alligator.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
I got on eleven foot and that was big, and
they're like that was a medium plus kind of getter,
Like thirteen feet was one of the biggest ones they got.
And you're down there with I just had a seventeen horning.
I just reach out and just kind of popping in
between the eyes. But let me tell you, when they're

(29:43):
baited and that big eleven foot, they spin so their tails.
I mean it's like a tornado thrower barrel and like
you're pulling up on a it ain't that big a boat,
like it's a john boat, like standing up Washington, don't ye,
don't let him get away, just spinning. But they just

(30:04):
gotta you gotta let he knows you're coming. He just
let him calm down. You gotta wait, let him do
his thing, and then it.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Just start floating really and then that's when you the good.
They're good eating man. I love eating.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Well down Louisiana. They uh.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Uh, there's a lot of alligators there.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
There have to forget what I don't know what the
specific term is when they have eggs and stuff. There's
like fifteen gaters and a baby bunchats, so it's it's
a it's a great place to to go duck hunting
and and just kind of experienced Louisiana. They called the
Honey Break Experience. Drew paid me to come talk about

(30:51):
and wear this. I'm just playing, you know, Drew. Yeah, Yeah,
they made me an honorary guide one day and still
made me pay for this best businessman.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
For the pro shot. Yeah, you're a percentage to that.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
I got to drop people off. Their kids came in.
It was like a dream hunt deal and got to
drop them off the deer stand.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
All right, that's all just fun.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
They killed some big deer. I've seen all the monsters.
B they just got the record this year. Last year
it was Tyler Jordan from That's right.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
How big was that?

Speaker 4 (31:26):
The two o three I think? And it was like
all natural.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
With a bow. It was a wham boat. Yeah, I
got a bowl, I got a bow. That's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
You're gonna just wait, You're gonna wait your turn to
tell a joke. You just taking me talking to give
it to them fast talking about all the bow hunting
and all this stuff. I'm monster bow hunter and I
will say bow hunters do they they do get the
prime pick of the seasons, like especially elk cutting, and
they'll come and drop some monsters.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah yeah out Wes for sure. Yeah. But them drop
dropped from a long way away. I asked.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I asked this on this podcast sometimes, Like I know
you're a big construction guy.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
You love machinery guy, I love working on your farm.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
If you had one more day day to do anything
to elk cunt, to work on your farm, to to
play a show, you just had one more day to
do one thing.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
What would it be?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
That's like some Aladdin stuff? Man, what you mean Aladdin stuff?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Three wishes and stuff? Yeah, but one wish?

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Well, I know that's what I'm said the gene for
I watch. I just watched The Laddin with Presley Mine.
Don't get into it, really, I can't. We tried, like
I tried to get them. We're watching Lamb Before Time
right now.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
They love yeah, and I try to get them to
watch those movies that Lamb Before Time.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Got some scary stuff in it. I didn't know when
the bro the t recently got one eye.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Know it's red too, no I know, but the other
eye is gone and they even black it out like
in real life.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Dude, one more day.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
I you know, if I had one more day, I'd
like to to bring my grandmother back right now and
just bring her to a show like she She.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Died when I was.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Eighteen, and you know, she never got to see this,
and she really got me into country music.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
So wow, man, uh.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
See the grand a Opry and see all stuff I'm doing.
It would just blow her mind and she would love it.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Where does she live? And she grew up?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
She was born in Newfoundland, Canada, and then met I shoot.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
My mom's mom.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
I never really knew him that well, but he was
on an air Force base in Canada and they met there,
and then they moved in northern California.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
And that's where yours go from.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, Grandma is bro. You can't. I can't talk about
them her all. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
She was a smoker. She died it I think she
was six and she died.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
But she had the.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Poles Paul, Oh yeah, I mean, but that's this way
it was back in the day. I mean, smoking was
good for you back in nineteen fifty one.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Smoked inside, man, she was smoking side ouse, not when
we were there.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
No, she wouldn't when we were She was to daddy.
She wasn't Marbo lights and the coca cola. Yeah, I
feel that she'd be out on the portion.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
So it's funny. It's like, you know, guys from the
South and stuff. It's the same thing out west.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
You know.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
All Grandma smoked cigarettes, drained coc cola, and cooked the
main batch of gravy.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
She wasn't much of a cooker, but she buttered toast.
I remember she loved her white toast.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
But how does she get you into country music?

Speaker 4 (34:52):
We had been singing. She was a love country music.
I mean, that's just how it was we grew up.
I couldn't remember a day growing up we didn't have
a country music on the radio, and she loved to sing.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Were you listening were you listening to start to catch up?
Were you listening to like mainstream country? You listened to
like Bakersfield.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
No, we're listening to mainstream country.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
That mainstream mainstream country in nineteen eighty seven was pretty
damn good. That was Randy Travis Jr. Dwight was just
coming out of course, George Straight and you get in
to the nineties. She loved Brooks and she loved all
the good stuff Brooks and I still got her cassette
tapes and there was like Joe Diffy Brooks and Dune Jackson,
Travis Tripp.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I mean, all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
If you grew up a nineties kid listening to a
country music radio, yeah, and then I think that's why
there's a lot of artists and our generations that are
really great songwriters.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I mean that was not saying the eighties. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
I feel like the songwriting craft of the nineties were
a little It was different than the eighties. There were
great grade and there was great songs written in the eighties,
but the nineties just stepped it up and.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
It almost like two songwriting wise lyrically wise like idea wise,
but but as well as like sonically like. They took
it to a place like Vince Gill and those cats
took it to a place that country music hasn't been yet.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Percentages were high in the nineties.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
You know what I'm saying, Triple Masters, Nobody record record,
Triple Master.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
What is that? Triple Masters.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I'm not gonna say limen depressing my favorite favorite ninety song?

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Oh, you know, it bounces around. I don't have a
favorite song. I feel like it's a songwriter. You got
a favorite song, you're in the wrong business.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I like that answer. You know, there's just too many. Yeah,
but you know, I don't know. I think uh and not.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Let's talk a nineties monsters that you know, especially somebody
who I thinks are are Merle Haggard.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
The nineties. Merle Haggard.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
He's in the Hall of Fame Songwriting, right next to
the Beatles or Paul McCartney, Chadahoochie, Alan Jackson. I mean
he's monster songwriter monsters. And I told I told Alan
to his face, I said, I think you're the Merle
Haggard of my generation. I would agree with that with
the you know, you listen, you go back to his catalyags.

(37:21):
Remember when you can go on and off about Alan
Jackson's songwriting.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Somebody wrote by himself a lot.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
He wrote by himself, chasing that Neon rainbow, like like
it's like he's the he's theodist songwriter that that Merle
was to him. And I think Merle is. I mean,
he's top, he's mount. He's on my Mount Rushmore. You know,
Alan mal might be right next to him, you know.

(37:48):
And it's just like I feel like Chatahoochie is one
of them songs that, like even Alan said on recent
and he's like, hell, we didn't think anybody was gonna
like it, you know, put it out. Change changes the
music video business.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, I can see it right now and see the
whole video.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
And it was just like, yep, he heard that, he
heard that coming on on the radio in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
It's like it's gone gone, yeah, remix, stand up, start dancing.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
So it's like that was a monster ninety song and
it still is a monster song.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
I'm gonna be honest with you, that is the song
that I introduced my son to country music with.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Because I'm trying to I'm trying to think he's two
and a half. He's in the back seat where we've
played all the damn blippy songs that you can play
if he loves. He loves construction and all this, so
he always don't want to hear songs about tractors all
that stuff. And I was like, all right, I'm tired
of listening and it's time to get something where I
can listen to and he can listen to.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I was like, what can I play? Him? Started thinking
is that's a big thing?

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Man?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
You start thinking about it like I don't want to
introduce my son to country to music, you know. And
I was like, man, what's catchy? What's what's fun to
listen to? And what's rememberable? Chahoochee? That's the first song
if you tell him right now he wants to hear. Yeah,
Ours is Dolly parton nine of five?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Same thing, like same same catchy quick movie, Yeah, nine
to five, Monster Monsters. I saw Allan was selling his
estate down in Franklin and it's just like twenty seven million,
and it said like the home of Alan Jackson on
the list in the first comment said it's.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
All right to be Edie Beatty.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
It just like four thousand acres, six houses hellipads.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, I mean, but Alan, I mean it's this song
right inside of the having both yea in the nineties. Yeah,
I mean, I got some buddies who were nineties artists
and they they they did well, and we're smart, but
like they went from cassette tapes to CDs and vinyl

(39:56):
and like everything back when music had a solid like
a physical problem, and you know, I remember going to
Tower and like you know, listening headphones and like it's
things that our our kids will never ever I don't
know what the hell.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Is going to be in eighteen years, sixteen years, but.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Like they'll never go to Walmart and and and and
try to be the first one to get there when
the record come.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Well, they can, but it's like a more of you're
gonna take him there and show them how to for sure,
which is still I didn't give it up for Walmart
and like targeting those guys.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
We're still having a CD SEC.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
We're still on this new record April eleven, Hong Kong,
Call of Wood. We're we're still making vinyl on CD
just for those stores and because there's people now that
still like the CDs. I still like CDs. It's it's
the best quality you can listen to. It's better than streaming.
It is it really is. It's not even close, honestly.
I mean if you pop CD in your truck and

(40:52):
if your truck's got a CD player and then stream something,
it does it really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
It don't touch it.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, And and it's it's just something that's it's like
a luxury listening now.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, is it? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
It sounds like I said that April eleventh, coming out.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
That's already he.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Already you know, pick it up stories, go get it
right out, damn it, go get it right out?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (41:19):
March March sixth right now for everybody listening.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Do you think our generation as parents, like we're going
to be the last ones.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
To do that?

Speaker 1 (41:30):
To have we've got I try to get vinyls, especially
every every project that I've got a song on, I
get the vinyl and Jordan gets the violent orders it
and then anything we like like we try to steal
and we play them right, we try to let our
let our daughter put the vinyl on the player and
and do the whole thing. Like do you think that
goes away after us? It feels like because because I'm
a CD baby, like that's what the booklet. Yeah, absolutely,

(41:53):
and had the fifty in your car. You flip back
and forth, scratch and you lick it. You rub peanut
butter on your favorite ones, trying to work done the
peanut butter.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Well that was a trick.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
If it's too scratch, you get pinted better roller and
then you clean off the peanut butter.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
And you're making you just hungry. Man, check it out.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I am hungry, but uh but yeah, man, CD baby,
like that's I love that. And and yeah, I'm sad
like you're saying, I'm sad that my kids aren't gonna
be able to to to grow up like that. But
it does feel like it goes away after us to me,
I don't know, I did.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
I think.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
I think I'd like to think that humans naturally love
vintage stuff. They love vintage, and I see so many
homesteader people now, and like, true, there's always going to
be uh, some sort of like, well, this is how
history did it, and we got to learn no matter

(42:46):
what generations or what we go through as a country
or in a whole world, we have to pay attention
to history because now we don't want to live in it,
but everything has been done already and we just got to.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Learn from it to know where you came from and
know where you're going.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
And and that's a part of like us like oh,
they said CDs sound better, we should try that pop
it in.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Wow, it does sound better like people, we're not just
saying that act.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
And there's just like oh I want to learn in
the garden. Oh this is how this there does a
lot of that, and social media is the devil, but
also there's a lot of people learning from Yeah A good.
I feel like I feel like I feel like people
will always study how it used to be and ben
just things and and uh, let's just hope for that

(43:37):
because I feel like there's gonna come a point where hopefully,
I like to think blah blah blah. I like to
think people just get too lazy or just like you
know what, we're just getting too dumb when you put
the phone down and start learning something, because now we're
just getting forced fed everything you know, and it's like

(43:59):
so and there's nothing wrong. We're learning something at YouTube University.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Nothing wrong.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
There's nothing wrong with that as long as you learn it.
I just every time, I always try to do stuff
and learn stuff no matter what, especially for my dad.
He kind of knows everything. And that's the one that
we do. Construction, welding or something I got.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I learned all.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
Stuff from him, and I try to take time to
learn that stuff because he didn't have to learn it.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
He just had to do it.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
That's just what he did. He learned, then he went
to work, He went to work, He went to work,
went to work already out everywhere, he went to work.
But it's just something I like to learn. And I
feel like that's never gonna go away in the future generation.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah, that's a positive outlook. I like it. We could
sit around here and just ruin it for everybody.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
What damn years ship somebody do something about it. Do
you feel like your dad because we say this and
then we go to music. I know you know your
relationship with your dad. I've heard you talked about him
to me about certain things. I think y'all last time

(45:11):
we wrote, you were digging a pond with him, and
you were like, I got to get this done because
I got to get back to my dad.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah. Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Do you feel like your dad genuinely knows how to
a little bit about everything or do you think it's
like a fake it till you make a situation in
some summer spects.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (45:27):
No, he definitely knows everything about it. I think our
dad does too, but not computers.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Not hell. I remember when he was bitching about.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
An email damn email wenna. He took, can't get a
job because I don't have an email count.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
That was a I was like, well, it's really easy.
This was before cell phones. But I remember you.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I remember, like, got to have an email count camp.
It's just why he won't hire me email sit in
the mill.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
I remember him bitched about that.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
But no, I mean he's he's he He ran on
the land leveling company and then he works whip de
vice president. He started out as the well he grew
up with a farming family and he was a framer.
He did driveways at sixteen. He lost his dad when
he was fourteen, so he just went straight into construction

(46:21):
with like World War money, you know, and just straight
to work. And he does know a little bit about everything.
And I've seen him call out people, and I've seen
people get fired because of what They wouldn't listen to
him or like anything he told me. I'm like, naw
old man on them, come back bit me and ass

(46:42):
and it's like so I try to pay attention and
sometimes he's just like broken record, but he's right though
most time. Right man, it's pretty It's I And he
has his John Wayne moments. I remember we were shooting
guns and this kid had this gun and he's been
working on it, just working on it, blah blah blah,

(47:07):
couldn't get the feed and blah blah. And seniors just
watching him. Give me your gun, took his gun, said John,
give me your magazine and he popped that magazine on.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
And just let it fly.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
And that gun worked perfect, and it was just like, damn,
my buddy, let me goes have some John Wayne shit.
But it's like little simple things, you know, And he's
real quiet. He just kind of watches but uh no,
he and he always partners up with people like working
on ac It's how the hell are you allowed to

(47:42):
work on damn ac in it. It's like ship, we
give it. We don't even want to mess with. We
just call somebody.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
He's I'm gonna take it apart, but no, he really does.
I know quite a bit stuff.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
But you don't know. I always say this, but you
don't know how to put a bridge in a song,
do you? Hell no, you got to learn how to
do that right now. But you can't put a bridge
in the song. Might be able to build a bridge.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Can't put on a song. That's why I got you.
You can't even open YouTube to learn how to put
a bridge.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Hey man, Honky Tom Hollywood out now what your I
don't want to think you don't have a favorite song.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
I think I like, uh, keep it that way, keep
it that way.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
That's such a groove man. Yeah, it's a cool song
to me, Like there's the John Party sound right, And
you've had it in every it's part of every record
you've done and you can pick it out. And it
felt to me like this record still had that. But
it also felt to me like you went some places

(48:50):
and maybe it's it's it's the partnership with Jay Joyce
and doing that thing to kind of push you to
new boundaries. But Keep It that Way kind of felt
like that to me, like it's something I haven't heard
you do yet. Yeah, sonically, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Yeah, No, this whole record is a new a new
exploration for me in a fun way. Keep It that
Way is just kind of gritty, It's got you know,
it's got it. That really showcases a lot of Jay's
like the J Lab, That's what I call it. And
it's just like he's very He's very groovy without being

(49:25):
like here, you know, but it's it's proven hard, it's
it's a cool thing.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
And we learned quite a bit from Jay. Uh.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
When I say we my band, we were on the
record together.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
We all played and Rob mcnelley was on it and
Jeff Hyde and Jeff Hyde.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Actually wrote Keep It that Way with Bryce Long and
Marv Green.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I don't know all the writers.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
When I listen to outside music, I try not to
pay attention to who wrote it, just because.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I'm there for the song and I appreciate that instead
of who wrote this.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
You know a lot of people get into like who
was the writer that it's like who cares? Like that's
the wind after when it's all done.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
It doesn't It doesn't matter, but it.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Matters when you have your parties and you want to
make sure all your writers and because I love making
sure the songwriters invited are invited in a part of
all the records. But when I'm listening, I know songwriters
appreciate it because I'm not like, oh, it's like a
name brand, Well I gotta get that song because this
name brand wrote it.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
It's like, that's not why I do.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
But it feel like it helps because there's there's writers
on this record that haven't got cuts or haven't got
cuts in a while. Yeah, just because I'm I'm doing
the different. This is a this is a step and
another direction for me. But it's the same. It's not
a big step, right, you know, it's the same lane

(50:57):
I've been doing. I think it's more of an elevation
at it. And I had a friend Falcon you probably
I seen him a record and he goes, this is
I thought a great because he's listening to all my records.
We grew up on music Row and I moved here.
I was twenty two long hair writing song. Yeah, I'm

(51:20):
califun this is great. It would like to drink drink
and write songs. I'm in never move it. But we
grew up together and he's listening to all my records,
and to me, I thought this was a great compliment
from a friend and a person in the music business.
He said, I love when an artist sets himself up

(51:41):
for the next ten years by making a switch, showing
he's still progressing.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
You know, you're not.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
You're not taking anything accolades or something as as like,
because I don't whatever, I there ain't much, but like
it's any goals that I get, I got more goals.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
And but you got it. You can't.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
I can't do the same thing over and over again.
And I've been wanting to do a j. Joyce record
since I heard Eric Church and and it's just it's
just I feel like there's a little a little bit
of you know that Eric stuff in it, but it's
a whole lot of fiddle and still and country it
feels you man, and the honky talk stuff is.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Just it's got more. It's got that like it's got
like you hear it. It's not it's not too polished.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
It's it's not a polished record, and it's it's every
gritty thing that you'd want and like a kind of
real country, real rock, kind of groovy stuff that I
feel like it's got all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
And that's all from Jay.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
I mean, and I didn't produce this record, and I'm
I considered myself a guy who likes to be working
and you know, get some kind of producer credit. But
it was nice to give the keys to Jay and
Black later. But he's he's the man.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
What got me this morning was because I just needed
I think my brain is so like.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Just tired that I just needed some candy this morning,
and love candy. Boots Off was candy for me, dude.
I was like, it was easy to listen to. It
felt good. It was like it just fair.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
I just I like that one. I like that one.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
That's that's one of my favorite I think that's megahead.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
That's talk of the maybe next single.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Somebody just got excited out there. Yeah, hopefully that listened, suast.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Or, I mean, she drives away talk to me in
that beautiful song. I only listened to the first version
chorus of that.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
It got me.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Yeah, No, I mean you get the last you get
the last verse didn't really get you. That's the I'm
mona cry you know like, but that's I picked songs
that I thought were, you know, the their top tier.
What I thought songwriting was, yeah, make you feel something.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Yeah. And I remember, I remember blah, remember.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
When we had the Sony meeting and it was like
on Zoom one hundred and fifty writers last year in January,
and I told all the writer I was like, don't
just send me hits, send me something that means something.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
To send me something that like, this is.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
My story and I want you to hear it because
that generates like realism and it's universal and everybody can
relate to.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Somebody that went through something.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
And I feel like songwriters are going to hear this
record and it's going to pump up there, like I
might be able to write a different idea today instead
of chasing the radio or chasing you know, everybody wants
to the mailbox money. But if you make a record
that doesn't chase mailbox money, by god, you don't get

(55:04):
mailbox money exactly.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
And that's I really feel like that.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
And it's I'm an album artist and I take pride
in that, and I'm with a list of album artists.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
That I feel like, we still love our records.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
We want to put seventeen want to put fourteen songs
on there, and we also want to respect the crap
the songwriters, And like I got eight songs on this record,
and I celebrate like I'm a songwriter.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
I got eight song record. I got hit on this script.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
I'm happy about that. I don't have everyone. I don't
want everyone. I want the best song to win. And
I've done that on every record. I mean, mister Saturday Night,
I think I only got like.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Four songs on it.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
But it's just not it's it's not about that. It's
about making.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
That makes me feel good. It makes me feel good.
I'm mister saying that my too. Yeah, No, I know.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
And Benji, I think Benji's on Honky tongk Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
I think, yeah he is, he is.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Yeah, So I I'm went down the list and there's
a lot of great writers and there's a lot of
a lot of guys that names it haven't been in
the hat in a while, and.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Like that makes me happy.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
It is like you make a record that songwriters love
and it's commercial and it's got jay and it's like
it's it becomes something that's like we can do that,
and I feel.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Ud come on.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
I feel like that's why I've always tried to make
records like that up.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Just just know as lunch Pelt songris that me and
ried are, which I feel like that classifies. I don't
mean that as a derogatory tournament. It just means we're
not trying to go get deals like as singers, we don't.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
We don't do that. We appreciate your stance on that.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Because it seems lately there's been this huge sway to
that that some of these cats think that they have
to write or you know, be on every single thing.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Man.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
And to have a guy like you that's established, has
a sound, still listening to outside song, still wanting best
song to win. I mean honestly, that gives hopes to
guys like us, So we appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Yeah, I mean it.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Songwriters need to hear it. They need to hear that
there's there's avenues for just a stone cold country song,
a nice place to visit on this record.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
So it's just it's it's.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
So country and some I remember I played I played
the song and a publisher laughed at the title. It's
like a nice place to visit, huh, And then she
was like, holy shit, what a song, you know, and
it just had that George Jones kind of style of
writing and it was very.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
You know, and uh, Parker, what's what's the guy prior Bird?
He was he was at the show.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
We just played the stage at CRS and he was
video and everything, singing, crying, and it was just like
it was just that's why I record outside songs because
it changes the songwriter's year. It changes life absolutely, and
it may be the breaking point that gets them resigned.

(58:06):
And it's like so many artists want to write everything
and that's totally cool, Yeah, but you got to record
some outside song because I feel that change and just
it picks the town. It picks this whole music row up,
and like it's just a great thing.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Absolutely could I could not with that. It absolutely picks
the town up. It and like I said, I don't
even have anything on there, and it makes me feel
great just to know that there's because there's a songwriter.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
You get in your own head, right and you're.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Like, okay, so if if fifty percent of the of
the people recording are cutting only their songs, okay, so
that immediately limits you to half the thing. Then if
you cut that and a fourth and they go, well,
a fourth of this has to be on every single song,
and you're not going to You can't get on the
record unless you're write with this guy or you're right
with him and his producer here, you know what I mean. Well,

(58:57):
that cuts it down to a quarter. Then out of
the court, there's only four or five of those casts
that you can even get songs too.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
It feels impossible. It feels impossible.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
And and I know artists aren't like you know that
right by himself.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
They're not.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
It's not they're not open. They're not like not open
to writing with other people. We just don't have the
time for sure. Like as a songwriter, that's just you know,
like you should showing up trying to get a cut.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
You may never write with that artist, you know, like
the who you're not going babe, you get it.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
But like it's and it's not because they don't want to.
It's because we're busy. That's why I record outside song.
I'm gota. I thought lazy, but like I like to think, like, well,
I don't have to write the daughter song because that
she drives Away is amazing. I'm just gonna sing that one. Yeah,
I'm gonna write to be your song.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
You know, probably want some fun, but it's uh, it's
just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
I love I love songs and listening to the outside songs,
it reminds.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
You of how good people are in this town, and
it reminds.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
You what you want when you sit down and write,
you don't You're going to try to write something better
than that and just to have that goal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
And it may never get it, but just trying.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
It's just like day after day, day after Yeah, and
it's this record is is really it all came together
so well and it's just such a cool record and
so many great songs.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
Damn, that was awesome, man, that was that's great. Great,
It's a great I feel like I could listen to
you talk about that forever. I might call you before
every co ride. Just let me fire me up. Coach, party,
there's a party. Coach saying there's a chance, saying there's
a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Get out there. Man, So are you are you doing
a headline tour for this thing?

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Where are you going on the road? He don't know.
Where is he going on the road? Yeah, Rachel going
to Australia, going to Australia to Texas. Okay, what's all over?
How about this? We're going everywhere it didn't go last year?

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
We go. Do you like playing Texas? I love playing Texas.
We're playing Houston Rodeo like next week. We just played
Santurna Rodeo and it was great. I love Billy Bob's
love playing Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
I love playing it everywhere. Everywhere there was a good crowd.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
I always say that, like where's your favorite Everybody asked
what's your favorite place to play?

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
I hate that question. It's kind of like asking what's
your favorite favorite song. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
I mean if I had a favorite place to play,
I guess that's just where I would be playing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Yeah, Like I always.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Say, wherever it was a good crowd, that's my favorite
place to play. And we we went to Europe and
the UK last year and we had a blast. Oh yeah,
sold out every show in clubs, just little thousand, two
thousand seat rooms. I brought the whole band. We had
a blast. It was like it was it was such

(01:01:52):
an experience. And then we're about to go to Australia
and they were rowdy. In twenty nineteen, they're going to
be even more rowdier. Now they got Honky Tong Hollywood.
It's you know, it's top five over there. Friden a heartbreaker.
They already got done with that there they it moves
so quick over there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
It's like the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Dream of being played on the radio. Here, you know,
I mean we get forty five years, we got one
single on the radio. It feels like yeah, and and
it's it's a struggle. But over there, you know, like
here they keep playing all my songs. We might go
and trade them on to be looking for those zillo
It's like, I mean, it's nice to go somewhere and

(01:02:31):
everybody knows this Honky Tong Hollywood, or keep it that
way or something somewhere they could just play in it
listen to a mass audience. But so yeah, no, there's
and I feel like because of streaming, it's it's more
worldwide now, mister worldwide, mister country is you can go
out and get some shows and you know, and and

(01:02:55):
and play the.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Crowds, you know, and they are singing songs back to you,
everyone of them.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Yeah, hopefully hopefully bring the percentage.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
How much money make it's.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
About bringing a percentage of bringing up baby. Everybody wins
we got where.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Our team, got a lot of team people.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
We got a lot of people we support, we got
we gotta bring the buildings.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
That all day. You got to get it up. Got
goes everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
The interesting thing about Australia to me is hearing people
saying because they'll sing the words back.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
And with their like Australian thing. They don't keith urban
and like sing American, but Australia it is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
It will sound Australian like the guy on the shrimp
on the barbie, like that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
It sounds like that, but it's your It's.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Give me an example. Oh real bad, I know you.
That's why we're doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Go bad together. It would be like that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
Okay, I think that was English, but you I apologize
people in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I think we just got games. I apologize you made
me do it. No, that's not you can do that right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
No. The best way to describe as tract. You can
do it is you just say say rise up lights.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Say what rise up lights?

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
Razor blood, that's the best way to describe it. That's zah,
rise up lights.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Lights that they might you got to rise up bla
all right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
Yeah, but that's like a thick Australian act. That's what
somebody told me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
That's a good one. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Anyway they sing that, they'll sing like your hit in
Australian's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
It's cool, man, it's weird.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
The craziest is even crazier is the Germany went to
Germany and they don't speaking English English, but they're saying
every word that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
It was crazy. It was.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
It's wild and I feel like countries, country, countries, country wide, country.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Country must be country. Baby pulled up to the gas station.
The guys wearing a cowboy I thought it was Chris
Sala dude.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
That song says it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
It was that. Let's see what was I gonna say?
We're talking about German.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
I was just talking about the world, the world thing
and it I just did interviews. It was Australia and
I was saying that, you know, since social and media,
the devil and an angel in some parts rarely yeah,
but mainly the devil, Yeah, mainly the devil.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
The devil was an angel for still killing. Destroy your Mind's.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
All right, Well, as of right now, we're gonna be
positive here. Percentage of percentage that's gonna be a bubber
sticker for ar. But uh, I feel like now that
social media's made country music so personal, like it's more
attainable to be like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
We are like this, we are like what these people are.
We are, we are ab outdoors.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
We love we love all this stuff that they're saying
because it's so more. You could see it, you can
hear it, you can feel it. And I feel like
since we got phones and everything's we're kind of giving
all this information. I feel like that's why country music is.
It's why we love it. It's happening worldwide because people
feel it more. Wow, it's not just you got a

(01:06:22):
lot of sense. You know, guys just go get a
vinyl players right, And that's wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Man. We love going to like but worldwide.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Now I feel like it's it's culture and they can really.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Feel like they're a part of it. It's not just
an American thing. It's a culture thing. That's right. Even
we're open to that. I'm welcome. I mean, South America.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
It's jumping up there because they're like rodeo in a
big horse country and so that's that's a you know,
I'm I want to go down there. One one time
for a show. I think Dustin went down there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
I thought so Dustin's like a DJ now on the side.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Yeah we know, remember he's like cut, he's like doing
like electronicals. He told us about it. Yeah, he's talking
about that M ship d J d L dude.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Yeah, he's got like a track suit with the cowboy
hat and like and blingout.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Yeah, after midnight Dustin, that should be his name.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
But you're listening.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
But like to point even we're talking about worldwide. He's
doing country music E d M. In Vegas at the
Sapphire at the wind It's right. I think it's the Sapphire.
Is that strip club?

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
I don't know, definitely don't sounds never been, never good enough,
But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
It's just like it's moving into all these different categories.
So honky talk, honk available.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
John Party man dropping, Will you run for office? The
mayor or something? Mayor of Losers, mayor of Music City.
It's pretty nice, pretty nice title to it, you know, dude,
Will you give us a little bit of honkey talk?
Give us something? Play something? What's this? Yeah? Have stuff?
You play anything you want? I don't give a ship estiment.

(01:08:07):
You're good, you're good. Give us anything, anything you want.
She's a little on eye.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
She's a little name, a little high here, red wine
bud riding in her hand.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
She's a little an eye.

Speaker 7 (01:08:25):
She's a little dream on. Fell in love with the
same and a band. She's my blue eye, bloot jean baby,
kind of kind of bone, you're crazy dance little dime
shine like stars on body or kind of country, kind

(01:08:47):
of city. She's west coast, down home, pretty, got no
business and looking now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Dam good, honky tal collarood shot.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
Card bro, you're the man man. Thanks for coming on,
Thanks for having me, Thanks hanging out, come back, come back.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Oh yeah, we've done, keep going. I got time. She
got time to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Don't talk about Nephelin real quick. Oh my gosh, Reed's
been on this netli and check it out. Giant people
before the flood. No, give it to him, go ahead,
see ahead time for real.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
I mean, just the condensed version of what you think
Nephilin is and why they matter. Okay, man, sons of God,
I'm giving you two minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
The sons of.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
God, who were the actually the people that talk about
him call them like California hunks. They say, angels that
were of a higher of the elder race. This is
going This is going in there, dude, this is going
in there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
Go we go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
It's called the follow Follow the Watchers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
They look down on on the earth and saw the
the offspring of Eve, the daughters of Eve, and the
angels wanted to They lusted after him and wanted a family.
So they came down here, made it, made a little
deal and uh, and they had they they made love

(01:10:19):
with these daughters of Eve, and the offspring were giants.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Some people even think they still exist. M just a
certain race of hybrid human angel that happens to be.
And it was all to get it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
And the Watchers like plan was to get the birthright
of Adam, which is to rule on this planet.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
And this is not like some j. R. Tolkien book.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
He's he's actually saying, it's in the Bible, Jesus and uh.
But then it got to a point where it was
so got so crazy that God didn't like it. He's like,
can't have this going on. Boom noz Ark flood took
him out restarted fresh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
You asked, you had to ask. He's really excited about
this interesting. It's it's just crazy. It's crazy a little.
Are you glad you asked now?

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Glad we kept on talking? Guys, are you hungry? Get
the percentage of y'all funny?

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
I get a meaning, John Party. I know, I know
we want to finish this this second verse, but I
got a meaning.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
That just came up.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
It just popped up and got to go right now,
you know, man, got to get the percentage up. Thanks
for hanging out on God's Country with us, John Party.
Everybody check out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Monkey Talk Hollywood out now everywhere. By the vinyl, bitch, Yeah,
by the vinyl. Please Peace

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