00:00:05 Speaker 1: Yo, what's up at your boys? 00:00:07 Speaker 2: Read and then for the last time in twenty twenty five, also known as the Brothers Hunt, where we take a weekly drive to the intersection and the g R E A T outdoors say country music, country music brought to you by me either and. 00:00:32 Speaker 1: You know uh oh cold spots? 00:00:40 Speaker 3: Who should the spots the show call? This is the last time you hear this song in twenty five. 00:00:50 Speaker 1: But we're back in twenty six. 00:00:53 Speaker 2: Is falling from your last because God spots a man a shop baby tours how Yeah, guitars hot? Damn that's cynthy bo bound cynthy Jesus, will you of your sins hot track or your zens of your zens sless? 00:01:20 Speaker 1: Exclusive? 00:01:21 Speaker 2: Exclusive Exclusive, We have the winner of CBS's The Role Roll, mister Adam Sanders out in God's Country. 00:01:32 Speaker 4: I heard an. 00:01:37 Speaker 2: Yeah we got this guy got him here, nobody else got nobody else. Is the first This is be the first time anybody hears about the winner. 00:01:45 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:01:46 Speaker 2: Exclusive, dude, that's what the God's Country brings you. Exclusiveness, exclusive, podcast interviews, content information. It is what we do and it's what we're going to continue to do. Maybe even way points maybe Ben on ex drop point. Maybe we'll even say a city that we hunt in that we shouldn't say and gobble it out later, right ray Man Adam Sanders is he's he's a dog dude. 00:02:13 Speaker 1: He's also a salt dude. 00:02:15 Speaker 2: He was born, he was born to be an entertainer in the country music. Three years old, singing I like it, I love it, he said. He was like in his room, three years old, five years old, write and acceptance speeches for Entertainer of the Year and stuff. 00:02:27 Speaker 1: D that's so awesome, man. 00:02:29 Speaker 5: I remember telling uh Paul that I was going to sing Garth Brooks song when I was a little kid. He's like, what do you think you're gonna do. I was like, I'm gonna sing these songs Garth Brooks sings. I mean, when you're that young, you don't even know. 00:02:40 Speaker 1: Dude. You stand from a mirror and you are Garth. 00:02:43 Speaker 2: Brooks standing outside the fire. 00:02:46 Speaker 1: Maybe that song. 00:02:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, life has been trying just merely survived in you're standing outside the five don't don't don't, dun't, dun'n't don't. That's great some call this week, Sorry, man, Adam Sanders. We sing a bunch high energy he's a storyteller. 00:03:09 Speaker 1: Big deer killer. Yep, that's a great, great story. 00:03:13 Speaker 2: I remember him killing that deer, and that's because I think he killed that deer and then met we all went to Illinois and hunt Southern Illinois always got right after he killed that deer. Yeah, awesome interview, man, awesome dude. Thanks for coming out, Adam. Congrats on on winning CBS's The Road. I think twenty twenty six is going to be a big, big year for him. 00:03:38 Speaker 5: I love seeing guys that deserve it get their flowers, and I feel like this show kind of did it. 00:03:44 Speaker 1: Does it for him. 00:03:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, Man had a lot of success early in his career, kind of hit a plateau and was question if that was going to be it for him and boom, here we go. Yeah, that's enough about the interview. If you want the rest of it, you can go listen to it. That's right, so we don't tell you how it ends. Hey, thank y'all for sticking around. Man two years of this crazy nonsense. If you've listened to all the episodes, drop us a DM man. 00:04:08 Speaker 5: I'm curious. I want to say, I want to know your name. If you've listened to all the episodes. Yeah, that's right, that's right. 00:04:14 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm seeing you a shed or something. A shed. 00:04:18 Speaker 2: You got to pay the ship and if we do that, I may a little shit, not like a like a backyard shed, I mean like the shadow of it. 00:04:24 Speaker 1: Dear. 00:04:24 Speaker 2: Hey again, if you've killed some deer and you listen to the show, send us pictures. We want to see him, Yeah, I do, We really genuinely want. We'll post them or something. 00:04:31 Speaker 1: Maybe not, but he definitely want to see him. Or just tell us where you killed him. 00:04:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, just drop a pindo. Yeah, and who you leased the property from. We won't post that and what you pay for it so we can out beat you. 00:04:42 Speaker 1: Hey. We love y'all. Thank you, We love this show. 00:04:45 Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks new guy Ray, Thanks Jordan, Thanks everybody who's been a part of it for for the last two years. This thing's rocking. It's gonna it's gonna maybe look a little different in twenty six. We've got we got details coming for you later. But uh, we're excited about it. We're we're pumped abut it, and uh yeah we're rolling, dude. Yeah, We're gonna be around God's Country, staying around, sticking around, staying alive. Enjoy Adam Sanders, He's a man. Marry Christmas, Merry Christmas, New Year's since Man, we got a floor Ridian Florida man, a big deer killing. 00:05:23 Speaker 1: True. That is true. I was very very true. 00:05:26 Speaker 2: Oh God, so you like doing it with your bow too, guy, we'll get into that written multiple number ones. 00:05:32 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like you ain't worth the whiskey. 00:05:34 Speaker 2: In hell of a Night you were toured with Eric Church, Thomas Rhet, Luke Bryan, Justin Moore, Colsman, de Dustin lynch Man. The list goes on with handpicked of one of just twelve artists to open for Keith Urban on CBS and Paramounts the Road. 00:05:49 Speaker 1: And by the way, he won the whole thing, the whole thing he's doing appear. I don't know. We got Adam Sanders out God's Coutry podcast. It's been a long time coming. 00:06:03 Speaker 7: Man, it has, you know, the cool thing that I looked forward to most today. I know we're going to get into so much stuff. We will, but I know with you guys, we're gonna talk about hunting at some point. 00:06:14 Speaker 1: It's the first thing we're talking about. 00:06:16 Speaker 2: We tell this literally like almost every week, like people get mad at us because we don't talk about music as much as we should. Yeah, because we talked about Hardy was our first podcast ever and it was an hour and forty seven minutes long, and we talked about music for seven minutes and they were like, guys, you were good, but we get this whole thing's got. My favorite one was when we had lou go on our way early. 00:06:38 Speaker 1: We didn't know what we were doing. I'm just trying everything, you know. 00:06:41 Speaker 2: The producer stopped the show and goes, guys, I gotta be honest with You've been talking about sausage for thirty two minutes. 00:06:50 Speaker 7: She's like, we got it, we got it, get it going well, so we'll bounce all right, we'll be all over the place, you know, we all Hey. 00:06:58 Speaker 2: First thing we like to do, Adam was a little segment we call what You're mad at? Okay, you can be glad at too. We wrote a little diddy for it. 00:07:04 Speaker 1: Man, I don't know songwriter, a songwriter. I'm a little nervous about what you mad at. Just tell us what it is. What you mad at? 00:07:15 Speaker 2: Is it you're in the Lost kids, my b boss man or your neighbor's cat. 00:07:21 Speaker 1: Just tell us what you mad dude? 00:07:29 Speaker 2: That sounds so much better than the Nylon or the Martin. 00:07:33 Speaker 1: I can tell you exactly what I'm mad at. 00:07:35 Speaker 7: I don't know if you saw my truck in the parking lot, the blue one smoke gray, yep, smoke gray, if you happen to look at the front corner of the grill. I got a little fender bender a couple of days ago on the way home, and I'm mad at the semi that put me in the position to be in a fender bender. Man, I'm on the way home. I'm trying to get home to watch an episode of the Road. 00:08:01 Speaker 1: Where are you coming home from? 00:08:03 Speaker 7: So I had to run up to Portland. My bus is up there and my driver got back this weekend. He was like, man, hey, I forgot to turn the switch off, Like which is the master switch that if the switch isn't turned off, it to drain the batteries down. So I was like, I'll run up there, you know, and you know, you guys know how cold it was last a couple of days, and so it's like fifteen degrees outside. 00:08:22 Speaker 1: I run up there. 00:08:22 Speaker 7: Well, the lock is frozen on the bay door to be able to get it open. So I go up there for nothing because I can't even get the side door open. So I'm on the way home and up where I live up in Goillittsfield. There's tons of construction going on right now, and so I'm trying to get off on my exit and as I'm next to the semi he will not let me over. And I'm playing this game of you know, traffics, bumper to bumpers, slowing down, feed down, just do something, yes, So I'm trying to like look into my side mirror and get over and clear him. But there's this car in front of me, and I'm looking over clearing and the lamb on breaks in front of me. And when I saw it, son, I just swerved as hard as I could and I almost missed him fit another six inches, but I hit this little cr I hit this little CRV and it busted the back glass out of their car because my truck set up so high and they said so low. So when I hit them, it hit the back glass and man shattered it. And I felt so awful because it was this old couple from Chicago. They're on the way to Florida and there on the way vacation. This guy was like German. He was like, he was like, what does this We're trying to go to Florida for me? Yes, so he was French German Man. 00:09:40 Speaker 1: I felt so terrible. I offered I ran home. 00:09:43 Speaker 7: I was like, hey, if you'll sit here at this gas station for five minutes, I said, I live five minutes down the road. I'll get some plastic and some duct tape and I'll try to at least get this back glass like squared away. So I did. Man, I went back and literally I'm bleeding because I'm trying to get all the glass out the side of it, and my fingers are bleed, and I'm trying to ductate freeing up and you know, degrees outside and the tape paints sticking and lord, and I was like, Lord, g just help me git home and get to an other day. 00:10:16 Speaker 2: So did you put it on the outside of the on the outside? 00:10:20 Speaker 7: So, but yeah, man, it was it was unfortunate. I made it home just in time to tune in the road. I think I was about five minutes late, but I was able to get home. 00:10:27 Speaker 2: So did I'm all, I always do the same thing, but like at the end of it, dude, thank god, nobody's hurt. Yep, nobody got nobody got injured. I hit oh man. I was in high school and I remember this my first ever, like fender bender and same thing, like. 00:10:39 Speaker 1: This is like on the day, like put this in the papers. I had just uh, I had just. 00:10:44 Speaker 2: Got my license and somebody was driving past me and like, you know why when you first get your license, joys looking for you, buddies and stuff like that. I was coming from school. You're smoking a cigarette too, I think, Mom, hear that, Mom didn't smoking high school. 00:10:54 Speaker 1: You spent in high school. 00:10:55 Speaker 2: Mom. The only reason I ever started smoking cigarettes, by the first thing, it's because he gave me one when I was in eighth grade by way on the way to a high school basketball game, and I had to get a lollipop just to get the smell out of my mouth. 00:11:04 Speaker 1: Truth. 00:11:05 Speaker 2: So the bad influence. But I say, my buddy drove by this way. I was like raid, and I was like, what's up? Smashed smashed the car and she was pregnant. And when I yeah, I got out and ran up there and her kids were going she was pregnant. She was like slammed up against the steering wheel. 00:11:22 Speaker 1: The kids. 00:11:22 Speaker 2: There were kids in the back going, what did you just do this? They took her away on a stretcher. Like everything I was it was over. 00:11:32 Speaker 1: My life was over, dude. Gosh man she did. 00:11:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, baby's great, baby's fine, everybodys's fine. 00:11:41 Speaker 1: I'm glad this morning. Dude. We have been me and my wife Jordan right here. I have been through a Did you know that? I did not know. If we'd have walked in and kiss, you'd be like, dang. 00:11:58 Speaker 2: As soon as walking kissed right, that's all you kissed him on the No, I didn't kiss right because I got I'm getting off a strip. I think I'm good now. 00:12:04 Speaker 1: Oh but you can kiss right next week. 00:12:06 Speaker 2: But uh, we've been going through this like mattress debacle, like trying to figure. 00:12:11 Speaker 1: Out I just went through the same thing. You have to hold on when you're almost forty. 00:12:15 Speaker 2: You have to Well, I have been hearing about this freaking mattress situation. Yeah, at least tell me how it worked out, because I'll tell you mine too. So we got we went, My back started hurting, her back, her back was started hurting. We started like and this is a nice mattress that you have have we talked about this on here? 00:12:33 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah it was. 00:12:34 Speaker 2: It was a nice mattress that we had. But when we went to the store to pick out another mattress, she was like, yes, that's a great mattress and we get them from a spot in Franklin, like a great spot. She was like, that's a really nice mattress for the person that works, the woman that works. O, stop talking about Jordan, you're not clarifying. So so the woman at the mattress store was she was like, this is a The mattress you have is great, but it's a young person mattress. It's like it's a person's mattress who don't have or not picking up kids all the time. 00:13:01 Speaker 1: I'd be insulted that they would even say that, like you're not young. 00:13:06 Speaker 7: I was. 00:13:07 Speaker 2: I was fine with it as long as she put me in something that was going to help my back and it's lower lumbar like the thing. And so what happened was we went to Kansas. I got a mattress in Kansas at deer Camp that I slept on for a week and my back felt amazing. So I was like, okay, camp. Then I was like, whatever is yo? 00:13:25 Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, whatever, whatever we got to do to the bogies. 00:13:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just sleep on it. I just slept on it again for a week last week. And so it's a king size too, just so you know. But uh so we went to the thing. 00:13:38 Speaker 1: We got it. 00:13:39 Speaker 2: We went to Hespins with depot and Franklin got a new mattress that was supposed to help our back. They do one hundred day sleep test whatever hundred days long, a weekend backe of times for your kid to pee in it. Back is still crushing. My back is still crushing after like two weeks. And I was like, Jordan, this is not working. 00:13:55 Speaker 1: So call them. 00:13:55 Speaker 2: They're like, all right, we're going to send somebody out there. They're going to get your mattress. 00:13:58 Speaker 1: Come in. 00:13:58 Speaker 2: And so I took a sleep test on another mattress of theirs. It's the most firm. It's got all the bells and whistle with the lower lumbar support. 00:14:06 Speaker 1: Did you take the sleep test? 00:14:08 Speaker 2: And that I didn't like sleep on a mattress. I like did an online test? 00:14:12 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, like are you aside sleep y? 00:14:17 Speaker 2: So we've got the mattress that's like primo for backing stomach sleepers, whatever you got going on firm lower back lumbar support. It didn't work for the first week, and I was I was real mad about it. Yeah, Bro, I told my buddy and he was like, hey, may give us some time. I promise you give it some time. Those He's like, I got the same mattress. Those couch in Kansas. He has the same mattress he has. He has a lower lumbar support mattress. He was like, I didn't like mine first for two A couple of weeks, he's like, but then he's like, now I wouldn't if somebody offered me ten grand four, I wouldn't take it. Two weeks into this mattress, Bro, spring chicken back doesn't hurt anymore. 00:14:51 Speaker 1: All Right. 00:14:51 Speaker 7: My question is did you get like a memory foam top or a nan pillow top. 00:14:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you did, but it's it's super that's old school. It's extra firm. 00:15:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, because I think I think that like the pillow top is like that technology or whatever's been around forever. I think what I've been told everything is kind of shifting to the nano foam and memory foam, Like you know, the temper pedis and. 00:15:15 Speaker 1: All that kind of stuff, and it might be that. It might be I got the I don't love those. I got the cooling. 00:15:20 Speaker 2: I can't do the memory phone because it feels like I'm sleeping on this floor and I can't do it. Okay, and I can't do that. Uh you got a firm well, I got super ferm. Okay, like extra stuff. I mean it's it's you're a back and stomach sleeper. I'm a stomach sleeper. She's a backsleeper. 00:15:32 Speaker 7: See, I'm a stomach sleeper your stomach, yes, but in a terrible habit of sleeping on my stomach head to the side. 00:15:41 Speaker 1: Yes. 00:15:42 Speaker 2: And I think that's the worst position for your for your long percent. So what I do now is I go pillow I okay, it's not a value, dude, Like this is fro eighteen minutes. The podcast is going to be four hours. If you don't quit interrupted me, this. 00:15:54 Speaker 1: Would be four hours. You talk about your lower lumbaugh. So my guest is, are you brother the guy yet? 00:16:02 Speaker 2: So now I go cuddle pillow side and it's working, man, it's working. 00:16:08 Speaker 1: I feel great good for you. 00:16:09 Speaker 7: Man. 00:16:10 Speaker 1: We did the same thing. 00:16:11 Speaker 7: Uh. 00:16:11 Speaker 1: So I lived by myself for six seven years, and I had like, yeah, oh gosh, you two now it was too perfect being on the q TA now. 00:16:26 Speaker 7: So I would sleep in the middle of my mattress, and I thought I had a pretty good mattress, but I realized that it's got like a dip in it. And so my girlfriend moved in with me earlier this year and so thank you. And we noticed, uh, we noticed, I don't know, maybe a month or so ago that like we just weren't sleeping well and we were both kind of waking up with neck pain and back pain. And we started thinking about getting mattress where there was an American signature store about where I live that's going out of business, and. 00:16:55 Speaker 1: So we were like we was just going there and going out of business. Yeah, I think it's a scammer. On the holiday. 00:17:00 Speaker 2: It's like it's money. 00:17:03 Speaker 7: Like they'll take a mattress that's really eight hundred dollars and they'll mark it up to like three thousand and then pull it back down to like twelve years to make you feel like you're getting a deal, but you're really not. 00:17:12 Speaker 1: And it's like everything must go, you know, percent off, you know, like all these things. 00:17:17 Speaker 7: So we started looking and we couldn't really land on anything, and I went four or five different stores and finally I was like, we have to get some sort of mattress. And I had this guy talk me into you know, salesman of all salesmen, you know deal. He was like, well, he was like, we got last year's modeling here and this one over here is new year's model. Now that mattress there's about three grand, he said, but last year's models the same thing. All they did was just changed the outside the color of it. Yep, he said, this is not here is eleven hundred. And I was like, he said, but all we got is the display left and he was like, you know, we just put it out here, you know sort of thing. And so he said, I might can make a call, you know, to the owner and see if I can get it down to you know, about nine ninety nine for you. 00:18:02 Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, we we That's how you get me, by any body's listening that sells to anything, that's how you get me. 00:18:09 Speaker 8: Yeah. 00:18:09 Speaker 1: So we last year's model. 00:18:10 Speaker 7: We did it and uh and went through with it, but same thing like the first night we I literally it looked at my girlfriend. I was like I was like, I just want to sleep, is all I want to do. 00:18:19 Speaker 1: And so we you know, I was almost two years Yes, I know exactly what you mean. 00:18:24 Speaker 7: So we also went and got new pillows and new bedding and you know, spend another six seven hundred dollars on all that stuff, and yep, there it is again. I am just fine. Fine, the kids are gonna love this pot. They are going to love kids love our But you're right. The first couple of days I looked at her. I was like, we're seven hundred dollars or seventeen hundred dollars into this and I'm not getting any rest. 00:18:50 Speaker 1: And she was like me either. 00:18:52 Speaker 7: I think three or four days later, though, we started getting rest, and now I think we're good. 00:18:56 Speaker 1: We're in the clear. 00:18:57 Speaker 7: We did have to change the pillows though, because the pillows we bought weren't right. But yeah, sleeping on your stomach is a tricky thing. 00:19:02 Speaker 8: Man. 00:19:03 Speaker 1: She sleeps on her side. 00:19:04 Speaker 7: I start sleeping on my side, but when I really fall asleep, it's my stomach and I just feel like my neck gets all jacked up because the pill is too high, and so it just yeah, when you start getting it's like I'm thirty seven, and it's crazy to think about now. 00:19:16 Speaker 1: Before I used to sleep on a futon and like, yeah, like it was fol bro. 00:19:21 Speaker 7: But you know you're getting old when you got to start thinking about your sleep and beds and you know, comfortability and. 00:19:26 Speaker 2: So yeah, I turned thirty eight December and the same thing, man, And like, dude, you're a fit cat like I try to be. And yeah, I was going there, uh and uh and like that's what everybody I talked to. Thomas Archer is another songwriter, but in mine, like dude, like like fit works out everything. But it's it's it's mattress man. It is how your spine is aligned when you go to sleep and when you lay down is just what's so like the way you're supposed to sleep side on your back and they say your back is absolute for it just flat backing. Yeah, yeah, because your spine just stays aligned all the way down and if you go side, your spine seems to but if you go stomach, it's your you know, it's like this and your lower lumbar is what's taking the pressure. 00:20:08 Speaker 1: It's crazy anyway. Yeah, I'm real tired. I'm real tired of talking about that. 00:20:14 Speaker 5: Nodding off of y'all are making me go to sleep talking about Hey, y'all can't sleep well if you do, go. 00:20:18 Speaker 1: On your back. 00:20:22 Speaker 2: Let's talk about Let's talk about your uh, your upbringing, where you where are you from? And and and so Lakeland, Florida, Lake City, Florida, My bad, bad, sorry, yeah we So. I grew up in a little small town in north central Florida called Lake City. It's right over the Georgia line, uh like forty five minutes from Valdosta. 00:20:40 Speaker 7: Yeah. Man, I grew up like any Southern kid. A lot of people think I'm from Georgia because my accent, and when I moved to Nashville, I kind of got grouped in with a bunch of Georgia guys, and so everybody. 00:20:49 Speaker 1: Just just I can't tell you how many times people. 00:20:52 Speaker 7: Like, here's another Georgia boy, and I'm like, I'm like, the I'm the redheaded step child of the Georgia boys. 00:20:58 Speaker 1: Are you a step child? Diuse? You actually are kind of redhead? Yes, I am. 00:21:02 Speaker 4: I am. 00:21:05 Speaker 2: I think I was grouped me into the guys who because when I moved to town, you were you were doing your thing, and one of the guys kind of kind of popping off at the time, and and like Cole Taylor and those kids, and and yeah, and so I I think I thought you were from Georgia. 00:21:20 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:21:20 Speaker 7: Man, that's kind of like the crew that I found myself into. But I grew up just like every southern small town kid, you know, loving sports, going to church. Music was a one from day one for me. I literally started singing when I was like three or four years old. It's all I've ever wanted to do. And I played, you know, I wrestled for you know a few years in school and ran cross country, but nothing replaced music for me. And so I grew up just singing in church. And then I do these talent shows, and what you do in. 00:21:49 Speaker 5: The talent shows, I gotta know what song? Think about songs you would sing? 00:21:52 Speaker 7: Well, the very first one I ever did, I was six years old and I did Tim McGraw. I like it, I love it, and placed like third, I think, I. 00:21:58 Speaker 1: Think, so just crank that up right now. Hey, what did you do? 00:22:02 Speaker 7: Did you spend forty eight dollars there last night at the County Fair, which was crazy because it was a County Fair Challenge show. 00:22:09 Speaker 1: Where God, you can't make it a did we do it here? Strike me down? 00:22:12 Speaker 7: Yeah? 00:22:13 Speaker 1: We did that there, pick it up a little bit. You did out a D. 00:22:17 Speaker 8: Spin, yeah, d that's what you did out of Yeah, I missed you, Ben forty eight No. 00:22:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was a day okay one two D spent forty. 00:22:36 Speaker 7: Eight dollars last night at the County Fair. I threw out my shoulder, but I want her that teaty bag. She's got his tea sugar pie, honey, darling and beer. I ain't seen the breaths playing game all year. I'm gonna get fired if I don't get some sleep on my long lost buddy Slim. 00:23:07 Speaker 1: I'm getting it too deep, Bud. 00:23:09 Speaker 4: I like it. 00:23:10 Speaker 1: I love it. 00:23:11 Speaker 2: I want some lore of it. 00:23:14 Speaker 1: I tried so hard I can't right love it. Don't know what it is by that little gals. 00:23:22 Speaker 8: I like it. 00:23:23 Speaker 2: I love it. 00:23:24 Speaker 1: I want sore. I don't come on now. 00:23:27 Speaker 2: That's a jam, dude, that's a jam, dude, that's a jam all time. 00:23:32 Speaker 1: Did you win that County Fair? 00:23:33 Speaker 7: Two? I won the like, I think, taking third overall, you know, like in that but it was like a thousand dollars we had a radio station in my hometown called one O two point one and the Pro one O two point one. 00:23:51 Speaker 2: Do there you go? 00:23:53 Speaker 1: You went on a little cash Well I got third because I was like six years old. 00:23:57 Speaker 2: Man. 00:23:57 Speaker 7: I think they just was like I was cute, I guess, But I kept entering it year after year until I finally did win nice and uh yeah, I bought sound equipment. When I won a thousand dollars, I reinvested. I was like twelve, thirteen years old, sing a song that I wrote with my grandpa, like to win that sort of thing, and I was like, all right, well, like I guess I'll invest in like some sound equipment and karaoke tracks like to keep keep right on rolling, you know, bro? I did, and uh yeah so but yeah, man, music was a one from day one. Graduated high school and seven moved to n Ashville in two thousand and nine. I've got family that lives here. My uncle's in the music industry. Yeah he's a session player. Yeah he's choot. 00:24:42 Speaker 1: He's played on a lot of calm stuff name Scottie Sanders. 00:24:45 Speaker 7: Yeah. But yeah, man, the fate of how I got my start in music was when I was twelve years old. He called one day and he was like, hey, have you ever thought about writing songs? He being scotty, Yes, my uncle call me in and you know, at twelve, like I didn't. 00:24:59 Speaker 1: That didn't compute to me. 00:25:00 Speaker 7: I just knew that like Alan Jackson was my childhood idol and I loved you know, ninety country. And he was like, you should start writing songs. Are looking to writing songs? He said that could be your way into the music industry. 00:25:11 Speaker 2: One day, so I was like, okay, so I knew the business problem, I mean, yeah, and uh it's a great way to get. 00:25:17 Speaker 7: In the next day, my dad helped me write my first song was terrible, and then started writing in high school. Realized that, like I enjoyed the process. I'd go to these field parties, you know in high school and we'd set around a truck, you know, with a you know case of beer and you know, a fire, and you know, I'd break out the guitar at the end of the night and playing the song that I wrote and people be like, oh man, that's awesome. So uh, so I moved to Nashville, worked in construction. Uh started going to like whiskey jam and you know, ten Roof and Losers and all these places that we all you know, years two thousand and nine. This would have been two thousand and nine when I first moved here. And this is back in the MySpace days. 00:25:55 Speaker 1: I remember my Space. 00:25:56 Speaker 7: So I had a little music MySpace page and I did whatever he young songwriter does, was you know, find somebody that's you know, got a music page and you know, email them or message them and hey we should write sometime, you know, did that whole thing. And man, just found my crew through a culmination of going out networking and my Space. 00:26:14 Speaker 1: Your crew. 00:26:15 Speaker 7: Man's like the early days something like it's crazy to think about that I landed in like this group of guys, but guys like Cole Swindell, Chase Rice, Tyler Farr, John Party, Blaine, Rhoades, you know who's in publishing, Dustin Iken, who's. 00:26:34 Speaker 2: You know been am I back then, he didn't have a job, None of us did. 00:26:39 Speaker 7: Like yeah, we all were just kind of like young and you know, dumb and hungry and wanted to you know, get in the business. And uh yeah, man, we used to get together and do this thing called Saturday Song Day over at Cole Blaine and Dustin Ikeen's house and we would watch college football on Saturdays, and at the end of the night, we would all play a song that we had written that week, and it was kind of like this fun, friendly competition to like go in and show your buddies, like, hey, I got a banger, and so like we would write all week to like prep for like Saturday song Day, and you know, like iron sharpens iron. You know, Cole's getting a publishing deal with Sony and Blaine starting to get, you know, a job in the actual business side of things, and you know, all these people start popping up Florida Georgia lines created, and they start blowing up and doing their thing, and so, man, I really feel like we all just kind of like rose together. But I was kind of I feel like I was always looked at as like the little brother of the group because those guys had been here a little bit longer than me, they were a little bit older. But I somehow got lumped into that group. It was like I was the freshman hanging out with like, you know, the juniors. I was to take over, you know, like me, Yeah, and man, it just was like just an awesome time in my life for sure. 00:27:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun. 00:27:54 Speaker 2: It's a common it's a common theme. And I would tell anybody moving to town or wanting to do the music thing, like when you get here, go find your people, man, Like, go find your group, because like we've had so many people on this podcast that we were asking about their story and they're telling us about their storymen in Nashville, and and they go to these song right round same type of thing. They go to these song writ in rounds. They go out, they make themselves, you know, vulnerable in this town, and go go find their people, man, and you start writing together. You start, like you said, Iron Shopper and Iron and those people that they know. The connections that your buddies make are connections that you're gonna make and and you just kind of see each other kind of start doing this and until you get to a point where you're all at now where John Party, Chase, Rice, you, you know, Cole, Everybody's clicking, and you're still like, like you're probably. 00:28:45 Speaker 1: Can afford a eleven mattress. You probably can. 00:28:48 Speaker 5: You imagine fifteen year ago you trying to spend trying to buy a mattress. 00:28:54 Speaker 1: I would have never spent that much money even if I had it important, I'd have been on craigslist free to find one. How to put money in rims on my truck? 00:29:05 Speaker 2: Your truck was always clean, though it was you had clean trucks that you got. 00:29:09 Speaker 1: To this town. Yeah, that's the coma you bought that. 00:29:11 Speaker 2: The coma wasn't asking about the black I loved that truck, well, the black Ford I had for sorry, that was my favorite truck I think I've ever owned. 00:29:21 Speaker 7: And I traded it in uh to get a diesel because I spent a ton of time in my truck and I lived thirty minutes north of town, and I was trying a lot to like go hunting and stuff. And I realized I was like, man, I probably needed a diesel to withstand the mileage I'm putting on this thing. So like, you know, it holds value because I was I had that truck, man, I and like for two or three years, and heck, I racked up like thousands of miles on it, and it just kind of depreciated the value of it, even though it looked, you know good, and so I kind of switched and went to the diesels. 00:29:50 Speaker 2: I can remember a picture of Adam like kind of with a guitar. Maybe you were leaned up against the truck and I was. 00:29:56 Speaker 1: Like, guys, hey, fake it till you make it. Amen, We've been doing that since. 00:30:06 Speaker 2: My all right, we'll come back to music later. Let's talk about what did the outdoors look like before you growing up. 00:30:15 Speaker 7: Yeah, so I was a kid that grew up enjoying the outdoors, but it wasn't like this major passion of mine until I got to Nashville. So really, yeah, my parents got a divorce when I was about six years old, and my dad moved to Nashville when I was about ten. So my stepdad growing up, I don't know if you guys knew this, but was was a quadriplegic. And so my whole childhood, my mom worked a lot and my stepdad was, you know, paralyzed from the waist down, and so me and my brothers, you know, kind of was taking care of it, you know a lot of times. And so I've got an older half brother, a younger real brother. He's my only true sibling, and I got two half sisters. But me and my older brother and my true brother lived together in the same house growing up, and so I didn't really have this like father figure that could do outdoorsy things. So it was my uncle that sort of like took the place of that. And he was a big like outdoorsman still is today. 00:31:24 Speaker 1: We were y all hunting down there alligators. Well, we was hunting deer and turkeys and fishing. 00:31:30 Speaker 7: But where I'm from in North Florida, you grew up like holding deer looking like pencils, you know, like if you killed, like you was fired up, you know sort of thing. So you know that we like he was a dog hunter, you know, and dog hunted in the edge of Georgia and Florida. And then, like I said, you know, and I remember growing growing up and going with him, you know a lot of times. And I didn't kill my first deer till I was in high school. This is how of a novice I was at hunting. I remember taking I got this deer camera, and you remember how like big the deer cameras were, like twenty years ago. I remember stealing my mom's kitchen table chair and took it out in the woods and mounted this to the back of a chair. 00:32:26 Speaker 1: Because you need it. In that spot. There wasn't no trade, and there wasn't it. 00:32:30 Speaker 7: Was it was in this row of pines, and why I didn't compute, Hey dummy put it on the pine tree. But I stole this chairs stuck it out there. 00:32:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she's like, where's my kitchen? 00:32:41 Speaker 2: I can I can see that doing really like really well, holding a trail camera at the back of the college with the you could just it's probably not it up where it would hang. 00:32:52 Speaker 7: Yeah, well that but then also like looking back on it, and you guys know how you know Leary, you know big bucks are just deer in general, Like can you imagine a deer coming through there? 00:33:03 Speaker 1: And I was like, what is this? 00:33:08 Speaker 7: But I remember I shot a deer. I thought it was a dough and it ended up being a three point and I got to him and I was so fired up because I thought it was a dough. So that was my first year I ever killed in high school. And then I didn't kill another deer until. 00:33:26 Speaker 1: I moved to Nashville. 00:33:27 Speaker 7: And when I moved to Nashville, my dad had bought seventy two acres into like a foreclosure deal, and so it was like this, you know, Pretty's property, but you know he got it foreclosure, and you know, was gonna make something out of it. 00:33:44 Speaker 1: And I remember. 00:33:47 Speaker 7: Thinking to myself, I need a ying to the yang with like the music industry stuff. Like either I thought, man, I almost spent a lot of time trying to get good at golf, or I'm going to invest all my time in the outdoors. And the reason I picked the outdoors was my thought was, and you guys know this, when you are in the music industry, a lot of your time is around camaraderie and you got to be on and you're going to social events and you're drinking and you're you're like you're you're all the time, like in any situations where you have to kind of be in like yeah. 00:34:26 Speaker 1: Look look at me, and everything's great. Yes. 00:34:30 Speaker 7: And the outdoors to me, I was like, that's the complete opposite, because I could go set in a deer stand by myself, not speak, just be in my thoughts like therapeutic and golf to me was a little bit of like both. You're probably not going to golf by yourself. You're still going to call your buddies and there's a pretty good chance by whole four you're probably going to crack a breau. So you kind of fall back in that thing without without really knowing you're doing that. 00:34:56 Speaker 1: And so I was like, man, I'm going the outdoor rout that. 00:34:59 Speaker 7: And so that that was why I really got into the outdoors, just to like have something that kept me out of the bars at night, because I knew I didn't want to be a guy that was just sucked up in that whole thing that can't get out of there. We all know those people that you go to winters and losers right now and you're gonna see the same face. It's been there for five years, and they're. 00:35:20 Speaker 2: Literally it's ten o'clock and they're probably and. 00:35:22 Speaker 7: They're going to talk about what they're about to do, not what they are doing. And I looked at it as like, when I started seeing guys disappear from those environments, it's because they were out doing the thing that you talked about doing. I wanted to be that same way. But yeah, I got really into bow hunting. What sealed it for me was on my dad's property. 00:35:47 Speaker 1: I shot. 00:35:51 Speaker 7: One year two one fifty class deer in the same year, and that just lit the fire thing like, man, it was like I am so into this, and man, I you know, it's been a part of my life, and uh yeah, if I'm not playing shows, writing songs, recording, doing something with music, social media, I'm doing something in the outdoors without. 00:36:13 Speaker 1: A doubt rifle hunter at all. 00:36:15 Speaker 7: Uh yeah, man, I mean I'll definitely get to get the rifle. And I go to Texas sometimes and uh, you know, late season and on air one out, you know, but my main passion is archery. 00:36:25 Speaker 2: Give us your best something about it, Give us your best, your best bohun story mm hmm or favorite. 00:36:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got one for you. 00:36:34 Speaker 2: The house I live at now, is you got the saddle buck? Yes, yeah, dude, I love this. Deer was awesome, bro. 00:36:43 Speaker 1: I think the same story cause deer well. 00:36:48 Speaker 7: I had bought this piece of property and my whole goal when I moved to town was like, man, I want to own some some land one day. And my whole goal was I had in my mind, I want two hundred acres, don't And obviously you guys know what that cost. But back in the day, when I was getting my number ones and started getting some royalty chicks, land was still affordable. But it was about the time that it really started to like ramp up, and so I found a piece of property that I really wanted to buy. And the reason I didn't buy it was because it didn't have power in on it yet and it didn't have septic and water, and that was going to cost a whole nother load of cash to be able to get all that play. 00:37:28 Speaker 1: I'm just curious how much ground was it once? 00:37:30 Speaker 7: It was two hundred acres and crazy story John Party owns that piece of par. 00:37:36 Speaker 1: It's awesome. 00:37:37 Speaker 7: So I saw this place is like, man, just like a haven. I was like, I'll live in a single wide trailer on this thing if I could just get it. I had this whole plan how to make it work. Anyways, it didn't work out. So I start looking at other, you know, opportunities in places, and it's when the market starts really creeping up, and I realized that I was getting priced out of two hundred acres really fast. 00:37:57 Speaker 1: So I had to start. 00:37:58 Speaker 7: Looking at ten acre tracks and fifteen acre tracks and twenty acre tracks, and I just could never find anything that my heart was set on. 00:38:06 Speaker 1: And I'll never forget. 00:38:07 Speaker 7: A realtor sent me one day the place that I'm at now, and it was this cool situation where it was part of this hoa where there's eight houses. They individually have ten acre lots, but we share one hundred and fifty acres of common area. So when you add the eight parcels and you add the one fifty, it's two hundred acres, but you're buying in at the value of a eight to ten acre lot. 00:38:33 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:38:34 Speaker 7: So I was intrigued by that. I put an offer in that was about forty grand less than the asking price, and I'll never forget. She called me and was like, Hey, they're never going to accept this offer. This is way too low. They're going to get the asking price, if not over the asking price. And I told her on the phone, and I was being just a smart I said, if the lord wants me to. 00:38:58 Speaker 1: Have it, I'll get it. This is true, what's true. 00:39:02 Speaker 7: But I also was nervous because I had never truly put it in an offer of property, and I was like, Oh, I don't know if I want to spend that much money. And I was just trying to low ball and get something for sure. They didn't accept the offer. So a whole month goes by. I'm on the way back from Colorado on an ELK hunt, and I'm looking at realture Dot com and I see this house and it still shows as pending. A month this went by, I reached back out to her and I was like, hey, something falls through with that other offer, will you please let me know? 00:39:29 Speaker 1: And she said yeah. 00:39:30 Speaker 7: She said, well, the people that own the house, they really need to get out. She was like, I think they'll accept another offer, but you obviously would have to come up on your offer because they accepted a home contingency loan, so this other people couldn't sell their house. 00:39:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, to get the house. 00:39:45 Speaker 7: So I countered back at like, I don't know, five grand under the asking price. They counted me back like two grand under the asking price and gave the zero turnlnemower And I was. 00:39:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, well one other way, another way to get a comfortable What was the lawnmower? 00:40:02 Speaker 1: You remember? It was a feririst. Oh yeah, gotta do it. I still got it. So I say all that to say. 00:40:10 Speaker 7: The day I closed on the property, I walk this two hundred acres and I'm like, man, I think I'm in a gold mine here, you know, like this is awesome. I jump a deer up on the saddle that was probably one hundred and thirty inches a year and I found like some good rubs, and I was like, all right, I'm gonna hunt here, but I'm gonna wait for the wind to get right so i can access this and I'm gonna come back in. I closed November third, So November twelve is when I set out to hunt this property for the first time ever. Take my climber in this saddle, and I'm sitting there in the morning, and I'm watching the woods come alive and watching the sun come up. 00:40:45 Speaker 2: You hadn't ran a camera or nothing. 00:40:47 Speaker 1: I hadn't run not a thing. 00:40:48 Speaker 7: I literally went in blind and just found a rubline and jumped a deer up off the saddle on the fun How fun is that? 00:40:55 Speaker 1: Yes, So I'm sitting here watching the sun come up. 00:40:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna close my eyes. 00:40:58 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, and I'm pray and I'm asking the Lord. 00:41:03 Speaker 7: I said, Lord, I hope I did not get myself in a bad situation here by this house because because my dad actually tried to talk to me out of buying this house. You know, I didn't come from like much money, Like I grew up in a double white trailer my whole life, and this house and peace of property was pretty expensive for a guy like me and where I came from. 00:41:24 Speaker 1: And he was like, you don't need this. He was like, this is your single. What are you doing buying? You know, this size of. 00:41:30 Speaker 2: Behind of your money puts your money back. 00:41:32 Speaker 7: Yeah, And he was like, he was like, well, what happens if you don't write another hit or you know, like your career doesn't work out, then you got this big mortgage. And I looked at it from the standpoint of like, man, this is going to keep me hungry and keep me focused on like chasing my dream and like trying to create income. So I'm having these thoughts where I'm praying. I'm like, Lord, I hope you got. 00:41:49 Speaker 1: Me where you want me. 00:41:50 Speaker 7: And I didn't make a bad decision. And it ain't no more than five minutes after I said that, I just look over and I see this dear standing here broadside of eighteen yards. It's like God just dropped him out of the sky. I never heard him like walk there, nothing, And I realized I was like, he's fixed on this hill. 00:42:11 Speaker 1: He's looking up at this hill. 00:42:13 Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, I'm in the right spot. Yeah, God's got me the right The confromation got well, God, if I'm really in the right spot, could you help me get drowned out shoulder. 00:42:22 Speaker 7: The crazy thing is is, by the time I can move and do anything, because he's eighteen yards t I can't do anything. 00:42:29 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:42:29 Speaker 7: He starts walking up this hill and he runs another little buck off and he gets to the top and I'm kind of down in the saddle, and he starts rubbing on a tree. 00:42:39 Speaker 1: So I. 00:42:41 Speaker 7: Take a grunt and I grunt behind me, and as soon as I did, it's it looked like he turned into your Hogan son. He's he freaking spun around and he's looking down and he's got you know, he's dripping out of his nose, you know, and it's like it's still foggy in the morning. He starts trotting down the hill and I'm like, oh, here we go. I grabbed the bow and I went ahead and spun and I drew because I knew he was like he's coming to the base of the tree. And for whatever reason, I still to this day, I've tried to figure out what caused this dear to do this, and I still cannot. 00:43:20 Speaker 1: It does not compute to me. 00:43:22 Speaker 7: He comes down the hill and he turns and he just keeps trotting and he falls off the other side of the saddle headed down the hill. His tail never goes up, like he was spookeed. He just like he's coming and just goes out of my life. And I'm like, what just happened? I literally grunted to him, and he just like he never stopped, He never winded me nothing. 00:43:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm selling the house from selling that, yeah, conversation. 00:43:51 Speaker 1: So I climbed down. H it's mid morning. 00:43:55 Speaker 7: I realized that where he was standing I couldn't have gotten a shot anyways, because there was this old fence that was but we me and him and I would have probably shot through this square fence, which, yeah, which would have could have been bad. So I moved my stand over ten yards just to be able to if if this little saddle section, if they're running again, I'm above the you know, the fence, and I can shoot over it in a climber, Yes, in a climber. So go back, get lunch, get back up in the stand. 00:44:24 Speaker 1: Same thing. 00:44:25 Speaker 7: Lord, This is pretty awesome. I saw a really nice buck and just hope I'm in the right spot. 00:44:33 Speaker 1: Feeling good about it, though, feeling good at this. 00:44:34 Speaker 7: Yes, an hour or four dark, a doe comes off the hill with a spike behind her. I'm talking, just stretching her out. And it was in the same vicinity where that big bucket went. And I thought, if she's that hot, he's somewhere close and he's going to get on her. 00:44:52 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. 00:44:53 Speaker 7: Five minutes later, nose to the ground. Here he comes, same thing. Grab the bow, spun in the same exact spot I saw him on the saddle man shot him, he runs down. Didn't see him fall. That night, Me and my dad, my brother and a friend of mine go get him. Sixty inch deer. The first time ever is that that nine point he's a ten point. He's got fifteen inch g two's. I mean he doesn't have a ton of mass. If he had any mass to him one hundred and seventy inches, but just times for days, not real wide, just tall, mature buck The first time I ever hunted it, and without a doubt, that was God in my mind saying, don't worry, I got you, rut where I want you, because all of that was one hundred percent of luck. 00:45:39 Speaker 1: Yes, I live there still to this day. Yep. That's awesome. 00:45:42 Speaker 2: That's awesome, dude, that's a great story. I knew it was gonna be great. 00:45:46 Speaker 7: Crazy and like I said, yeah, like no no history with this deer. Luck to even see him, and to see him twice in the same thing. You guys know how hard it is to see Yeah, like that man without a doubt. It's like it's like God plays that dear my life. 00:46:00 Speaker 2: Well, he probably ain't never I mean there probably ain't never been hunted. I mean, like who knows, you know, there might have been nobody else. Does anybody else in that that little community hunt There's one other. 00:46:08 Speaker 7: Guy that does some landscaping for you know, like the common area there that hunts a little bit, you know, But that's that's it. 00:46:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, that's that's great news. That's all so much too. Man, mean too had a good season, haven't you. I mean had a good season. 00:46:24 Speaker 8: Man. 00:46:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had a good one. 00:46:25 Speaker 2: We've been traveling a lot, we've been We went out to New Mexico, shot a couple of elk went up to Kansas and Dan Field of tag Elsie Field a tag. 00:46:34 Speaker 1: Yeah. Awesome. 00:46:36 Speaker 7: You know, coming from where we all, you know, come from, to be able to travel and get opportunities like that. 00:46:41 Speaker 1: That is my favorite thing in the. 00:46:42 Speaker 2: World because of this, dude, Because because we played guitar and write lyrics and sing songs, and and the doors that that has opened and the dreams that that has fulfilled. I mean obviously for you, but but us too. Man is like, Dude, I'll be driving around Kansas and be like, Man, what God? What is this? 00:46:59 Speaker 1: Du Like, Like what what? How do I deserve any of this? Man? It's it's it's an unreal it's an unreal experience. 00:47:05 Speaker 2: You know, Ryan heard man he said something one time. I'll never forget he uh. 00:47:10 Speaker 5: And we'ren't even really like close or write that much. I don't know what what we were talking about that. I mean, I like the guy a lot. We just he's not a guy hang out with and I don't have time to hang with anybody anymore. But basically he said we were talking about something. I think we had done some peev stuff, maybe gone on there and hunted and came back and he was like, oh, yeah, I just got some guy wanted me to complete this thing. Gave me five hundred bucks, but I got to drink wine and ride on a boat for six. 00:47:35 Speaker 1: Days or whatever. 00:47:35 Speaker 5: And I was like, yeah, it kind of doesn't doesn't feel fair like we get to do that. He was like, man, I think that that's part of your payment in this journey. Like, because we don't make up. We were broke, you're probably broke when this was happened. I mean we were broke, dude, we were. We say at the time, we're the Ridges broke people. We know because guitar and writing songs, it takes you places, man. 00:47:57 Speaker 1: And you wake up one day and. 00:47:59 Speaker 2: You're like, how did I get Wow, I don't I have eleven dollars in my bank account, but I got a pocket full of songs. And that's worth something, dude. And and and I'll never forget that. 00:48:09 Speaker 5: And he's right, man, you see some of these songwriters or whether it's like the bm MY thing in Key West where they get to take you down there and do that or or whatever it is. Man, it's like I encourage my encourage my nephew. The other day, I said, look, man, just just play guitar, dude, just play guitar. It can take you places that you would never. 00:48:29 Speaker 7: Money. 00:48:30 Speaker 1: God's favor. It's pretty cool, man, pretty cool. 00:48:33 Speaker 5: We're the same way we we we run that through our heads all the time, like how do we even get to do this stuff? 00:48:38 Speaker 2: Because at the and we all know this at the beginning of it. Bro When when when God puts something on your heart, like like a dream like this, you're a million miles away from it and there is no way you're looking at it, and there is no way you're ever going to get to the mountaintop, bro, Like, no way. But but you just start taking one step of faith at a time. Just start climbing, man, and and and don't look back. Man if if if God puts it on your heart and you're supposed to be doing it, man, just just put your head down and keep going. 00:49:04 Speaker 7: It's so crazy you say that, because I've analyzed my path, because I was a guy that grew up singing when I was three years old, and this is all I've ever thought about, Like I was the kid that sat in my bedroom and wrote acceptance speeches for Entertainer of the Year, you know. One day, you know, like so when people get on stage and they win these awards and they say, man, I never thought you know that I'd ever do this, Like that does not relate to me because I'm like, this is all I've ever thought about. Like I'm going to get in there and say, man, we did it, you know, like this is all I've ever wanted. But you're so right in the fact that three year old starts singing. I moved to Nashville naive that like I'm going to do this, and I had you know, we've all had great success. But I feel like twelve years later, I am just now coming into my own and like now is when my true starting line hits. And it's so crazy to think that if if God would have set me down at three years old and said here's the length of time it's going to take to reach there, it's almost too intimidating and would you ever even do it? 00:50:24 Speaker 1: Because that in me either. 00:50:29 Speaker 7: But the naiveness of like I'm just doing what I love, the hunger of it, the hunger, and then you're naive when you move here, of like oh, hecky, I'm gonna do this. 00:50:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're you're the Awards. 00:50:41 Speaker 7: You're just walking one step in front of you and you look up and then you think, well, dang, this is kind of taking a little longer than I thought. But you look back of how far you came here, You're like, hey, I didn't come this far just to come this far. So here, I just keep walking a few more steps instead of knowing where it ends, because if you knew the full length, you're. 00:50:59 Speaker 2: Looking at the mountaintop the whole time and you're like, I can't ever make it there. That's too such a good so man, that's uh. 00:51:07 Speaker 1: I relate a lot to that. 00:51:08 Speaker 5: That's encouraging, I think for for songwriters period. Man, it's like you just you never know always. I feel like I say this a whole lot, but I really did see this, and it sticks in my brain. It's it's like I have to draw it out in my hands. 00:51:21 Speaker 2: So there's imagine just like a picture of dirt and there's two tunnels right and right here there's this giant diamond and there's these two dudes in there, like one swing away with their pick axes to popping into that diamond and they've been doing it forever. 00:51:36 Speaker 1: And it's like a long two. 00:51:37 Speaker 2: Tunnels and one dude's turned walking the other way quit and the other guy's got his pick axe. 00:51:43 Speaker 5: It is it is that it is that legit dude in this business. You feel like you're just swinging it nothing, just dig how much more dirt? 00:51:55 Speaker 1: I I got a pull, And I. 00:51:57 Speaker 2: Know some people that hit the diamond six months after being here, but then they got a lot of dirt to dig back through to get out. It's like the same deal, Like you got to work towards the diamond, dude. 00:52:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, I've always said too that, like it's like playing poker. You're never out of it if you don't fold, like lay the cards you're dealt. And if you can just sit there and just keep blinding in. 00:52:22 Speaker 1: That's not that's not wrong at all. 00:52:24 Speaker 2: Just keep keeping your head a float and. 00:52:28 Speaker 7: Eventually you're gonna look at that card and it's gonna hit and you're gonna say, got a chance here thing? And so man uh yeah, I couldn't relate to that more because I feel like, man, I'm I'm a true testament to that of like just never was the best singer, you know, the best guitar player, the best writer, you know, the best at anything. But just like sure, determination and the love of it has gotten me to where I am now, and it's prepared me for you know what's what's coming. 00:52:55 Speaker 2: You know, you got some respect, you got some respect on your name. 00:52:59 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. 00:53:00 Speaker 7: Man. I just look at you know, I mean, there's so many guys in this business that are so talented, and you know, just to just to be here is amongst those people is mind blowing. But I also look at it like, Man, I've put in the work, so I deserve to be here. You know. It's like, yeah, I've just been the third string receiver, you know, waiting to get on the field. 00:53:24 Speaker 1: So so you moved, you moved to town. 00:53:26 Speaker 2: Uh, you have some success, have a couple of hits, yeah, and then and then it feels like maybe slows down a little bit. So what was your first Like, what was your first What goes through your mind when you get the call from from CBS or whoever you got the call from to go to do the road the show. 00:53:43 Speaker 1: Well, you know, it was crazy because. 00:53:46 Speaker 7: It was so unexpected and out of the blue, and I had just gotten to a spot in my career for the first time ever where I took my hands off the wheel. Huh. I had reports a prayer, probably sitting in a deer stand that I said, I said God, I said, I can spend every day working circles around people, but at some point you have to open doors for me that I can't open myself, because I was kind of getting in my in my head and the fact that I was starting to feel selfish that the success I had had up to that point of having two hundred million streams as an independent artist and you know, owning a bus and you know for all these people was all through hard work and me manifesting it. And I looked at it like, well, if I wouldn't have worked this hard, I wouldn't have what I do have. And the only way I'm going to continue to get is just keep working hard. But I was kind of getting weary of that. 00:54:53 Speaker 1: Man. 00:54:53 Speaker 7: I finally said, you know what, like I'm looking at this wrong. He's given me the strength to be able to work this hard and stay in it, and the love and the passion to endure these like gritty and grindy years instead of well I'm doing it all. 00:55:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I just said, you know what, if this is it and all I have is a. 00:55:14 Speaker 7: Claim to fame is I've written two number ones and I've gotten to open for some of the biggest accident our format had songs on you know, Serah six in the highway. 00:55:21 Speaker 1: I'm a blessed man. I'm good with it. 00:55:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred and fifty year, yep, pretty regularly. 00:55:26 Speaker 7: Hey, this is that's great. Absolutely, I said, but you know my heart and you know my dreams and aspirations, but you have to open doors for me that I can't open for my or shut them. Correct And you showed me the door, and I'll walk through it and put the work in sure. And so man, I just kind of like took my foot off the gas a little bit, and all of a sudden I got a call out of the blue one day from Chris Alderman, who's Blake Shelton's production manager, and he was like hey, He was like, can I pitch you for a show? 00:56:01 Speaker 1: And I was like sure, I had no idea what it is. Yeah, why not? Yeah, knock yourself out. Yeah. 00:56:07 Speaker 7: Six months later rolls around completely forgot about it. I started getting reached out by casting for The Road. I would love, you know, for you to be a part of the show called The Road. Uh, here's the concept. You're gonna go open for a major touring act. You're gonna play original music, full band, and you're going to compete to stay on and the audience is gonna give their opinions on who should stay and who should go. And I looked at it like, I want to tour anyway. 00:56:37 Speaker 1: Hell, I'm doing that anyway. Yeah. 00:56:38 Speaker 7: And if I can play my original music to new fans and be on a bus and travel the country, sign me up, you know, like. 00:56:45 Speaker 1: And I ain't got paid for it? Yeah? Top good? 00:56:47 Speaker 7: So man started, you know, the casting process went out to la I think they took twenty four of us out there and wanted it down to twelve. 00:56:56 Speaker 1: And man, I want a journey. 00:56:58 Speaker 7: And what a ride it's been. But all came from out of the blue. Again, think doors that I could not open for myself and I just started walking through. 00:57:06 Speaker 1: That's awesome. Man, What did it? 00:57:08 Speaker 2: What did it feel like hearing Blake and Keith you know, judge you on your performance and on your tunes and and all of that, Like, was that a whirlwind? Where unfamiliar to you? I mean, yeah, you're in the business with them. 00:57:23 Speaker 7: Well, the crazy thing is is, until we got to see the episodes, we didn't have a clue. Like we're watching the episodes live time as everyone else for real. Yes, So I didn't have a clue what Blake or Keith was saying while I'm performing. 00:57:39 Speaker 1: You know, like we didn't get to know any of that. I didn't know if they'd say this this guy sucks. Yeah. So like I you know, I didn't have a clue what was going on. 00:57:49 Speaker 7: You know, I just knew how it happened in my mind, and then watching it back to say, all right, I wonder if it's going to be edited differently or if it's the same or what you know, whatever shit you. 00:57:58 Speaker 1: Walk out thinking. 00:57:59 Speaker 2: They were like Okay, they felt good, they liked that one. Could you tell you know, how to read a crowd? 00:58:04 Speaker 1: Yeah? 00:58:04 Speaker 7: I feel like I was more worried about the crowd because I knew that they had my fate in their hands. Yes, because how this, how this would go down? Is so Keith Urban announced eight pop up shows and was like, Hey, I'm coming to your city, these cities, I'm doing these eight pop up shows, y'all come hang out. Well, they would be in these fifteen hundred you know, seat two thousand seed cap rooms, you know, clubs, and so these people would sign up for a free show and sign an NBA. When they get to the venue, they would lock their phones in a lock box. I could go to a comedy show, no way. So they show up thinking I'm going to a Keith Urban show for free or free. They've been standing outside for five or six hours to get in because it's first come, first serve, right, and when they when they fill this room, upside's it. So these people were lining up, you know, five six hours, seven hours or so, and they get in this room and h Then the producers of the show comes out and say, okay, you guys are here to see Keith Urban show, and you're going to see Keith Urban, but you're also here to be a part of a new series called The Road. And when you walked in this door, one in every ten of you got a voting device. 00:59:18 Speaker 1: You're about to see. 00:59:20 Speaker 7: How many ever opening acts, and you're gonna rate them one to ten on their performance. They're gonna see two songs for you. They're gonna perform. You've got two minutes to lock in one to ten. After that, it's closed and we're gonna go to the next person enjoy the show. 00:59:36 Speaker 1: God, pretty cool, that's cool. 00:59:39 Speaker 7: So what would happen is is at the end of the night, the producers would see the you know the results, and they would take an average of the score. Yeah, okay, so one person in there may have thought you were ten and one person may I thought you were two. Well, they would average this all out and whoever got the lowest average would go home, and whoever got the highest average keep right on rolling until you to the finale of all this. So each week you're playing to a different crowd in a different city. So I found very quickly song choice was King and how do you cater to a Keith urban crowd? Because you got to think of that, No doubt, they're here to hear his music music correct, So what can you play that might speak to them? Or do you have such a compelling story about a song that could hook them? Because the other thing is is you've got two songs which are mind you cut downs. 01:00:36 Speaker 1: They're not the full length, Okay, you've got to cover in. 01:00:40 Speaker 7: An original, so you've essentially got about three minutes to capture an audience. 01:00:46 Speaker 1: Wow. So once I kind of got into strategy, I realized it's. 01:00:50 Speaker 7: Like, Okay, I see where this is going. I got real strategic with what I played, when and where how I played it. I would rehearse saying what I wanted to say on age, So I knew everything was seamless and it was fast and it cut and yeah, man, it just do. 01:01:06 Speaker 1: You feel like everybody else was doing that? Not at first? 01:01:09 Speaker 2: Do you feel like you had an advantage coming into this, Yes, even so much as this, because when I saw the first clip and it was showing all the people, I was like, Oh, it's Adam or Channing, mean to the same Adam doing it for fifty years. 01:01:23 Speaker 1: That's the thing. It's like, seat time really helped us. What do you mean seat time like just playing shows in those environments, knowing how to do it. And then also, and. 01:01:36 Speaker 2: I don't I'm not knocking on any of the other people, it's just those You were the two I well, we already knew you were a pro. 01:01:43 Speaker 1: I mean I know, yeah, I know that. 01:01:45 Speaker 7: Well yeah, also too, I will say what helped me? And again, just had no control over this. The fact that Keith Urban was picked for the headliner and my music probably translates to his fans a little bit better than some of the other contests that were picked. So, for an example, if they would have picked Zach Bryan, I don't know if what I do really leans the sure someone that's more of an Americana is gonna gonna gonna play in that crowd a little bit more. 01:02:21 Speaker 1: And so I got lucky with that. 01:02:23 Speaker 2: But yeah, man, you just sign up and go. 01:02:27 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this. The first show, we are in uh Fort Worth, Texas. 01:02:33 Speaker 7: We are in Tannehills Venue, and I'm in my rehearsal and I walk out in rehearsal Tannehills. 01:02:43 Speaker 1: How we feeling on a Friday night? Da da da dah. 01:02:45 Speaker 7: I'm hitting all the talking points. The producers come to us after the show and they say, hey, I just want to make sure you guys are all making sure that you are speaking to the crowd and your rehearsals like you're gonna to be you know there that night that way that when you get on stage, you know you're you're hitting all your talking points. 01:03:04 Speaker 1: And I realized right then. 01:03:07 Speaker 7: I got to hold my cards close to my chest, no doubt that advantage was just taken away, because now they're all going to do it. 01:03:14 Speaker 2: Do you think because do you think they saw you do it? And we're one hundred percent without a doubt, this guy's good. This is gonna make great TV. 01:03:25 Speaker 7: Because also to Taylor Sheridan said the first night, he was like, he come to us after the show. 01:03:30 Speaker 1: He was he was producing it. 01:03:31 Speaker 7: Taylor Sheridan is a is a co producer of this with Blake Shelton and Lee Metzker, which is Blake and Lee, I think is who created the actual concept and formula for the show. But Taylor Sheridan walks in the room and he first night and he looks at all twelve of us and he says, some of you guys were intimidated by the night. The moment was too big for you. And he looked at me and he was like, you have a lot of experience, and that's all he ever said to me. And he was like, seize your moment. Don't let this moment be too big for you, meaning like you have to grab this thing and be so confident in this from day one, or you were born to do it correct or you can the crowd can already tell that you're not in it. And he was one thousand percent right. So I leaned into that mentality. Man, I kept my head down. I wasn't a guy that would go out, you know and party, you know, after shows or on off nights, I stayed in my room and watched March Madness, you know, and went to the gym and did my thing. And I was laser focused on the thing all the way through it, you know, And so like when it was all said and done, it felt like I could kind of be a little bit more free again, because you know, I was supportive of everyone else, but I was very selfish also, sure, but it took that it had had to be that way. And also I learned that I was over performing a lot of times and doing things that I wouldn't necessarily do, but environment called for that in order to win it. 01:05:02 Speaker 2: Wow, man, well, I guarantee, I guarantee Keith and Blake and the judges or whatever, and the crowds saw what what we've been seeing for ten plus years, man, is like I do feel like there are a group of people in this town that you can watch or hear or just be around this in a music environment, whether it's a show, whether it's a right and room that you can look at and go, Man, this guy was born for this, like this is his calling. And Bro, you're in it, man, you are in that group. And I've always thought that, man, I've always been an Adam Sanders fan. Just your passion for the industry, the passion for a song, the passion for a great song, the passion for country music, what you do on stage, how you hold yourself off stage, has always been an inspiration for me, man. And and I'm glad, I really am. I love seeing dudes get their shot to the world and just absolutely knocking it out of the park. 01:05:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what you know, man, It's like this business. 01:06:02 Speaker 7: We all know several writers, like for an example that doesn't have number ones, that you look at them. 01:06:09 Speaker 1: And say, this guy is so good. How does he not? Yeah? Same thing with artists. 01:06:15 Speaker 7: It's like, man, this guy is incredible, Like how has he not done this or done that? And for whatever reason there is no rhyme or reason you know to it. But but you're right, man, it's like everyone's paths are so different. And you've got the guys that come out of the gate and they've been here six months and they're just like the golden ticket, you know, like they just walked in and like everything was just so easy for them, you know. But then that's a whole other basket of eggs of like Okay, well, if you start out lightning hot, now, can you sustain it? You know, like, are you going to be a two hit wonder? And then disappear off the face of the mountain, you know, and like and. 01:06:48 Speaker 1: Then you're done. 01:06:49 Speaker 7: And my thing has always been this steady just like getting a little bit better, a little bit better, a little bit better. And I wouldn't trade it for the world to be where I'm at now because I have such an appreciation of where I'm because again, you know, a year or so ago, I was like, man, for the first time, I thought it just may not be in the cards for me. Yeah, you know, like I never gave up, but I started to have those realizations of like, it is what it is. I've done, I've done everything I can do. And I think that's when things started to really like happen for me, is when I didn't squeeze it so tight and want it's so bad. Yeah, I had the work ethic and so now, man, I'm just so beyon grateful to be even setting doing this. Like I watch you guys on you know, Instagram all the time, and we're buddies. But the fact that you guys would say, hey, we had someone drop out. You want to come do this, and I'm like, it was pretty good thing. 01:07:42 Speaker 2: It was a good thing, man, because when you texted, I can't remember what I was doing and I was like, oh, hitting back, it's at him. And then I read the text and I was like, oh, well, Jordan does that anyway, I just need to get in touch with Jordan. 01:07:52 Speaker 1: Let her do it. 01:07:53 Speaker 2: And then she reaches out to us. It's like, hey, somebody reached out and the I'm like, well, wait a second. He text us like a week ago. 01:08:01 Speaker 1: I went through it. 01:08:02 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, he's sitting right here. I got a guy read of you, like, and I love Jameson Rodgers. You'll hear from him eventually. But he got sick. He's been sick and he had to pop off. They had to bounce. Yeah, it was like two do it wasn't too dudes, Yeah. 01:08:16 Speaker 1: Kind of okay. Yeah. 01:08:19 Speaker 7: The truth is y'all talked to all of nashell and they couldn't traveling. They're like, well, I guess I had him. 01:08:24 Speaker 1: We had him book. It wasn't perfect. 01:08:28 Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, it's awesome you're here. I'm so glad that that it worked out. I'm so glad you won the damn show, and of course you deserve it. Of course you've worked your entire basically life now that I know, to this moment, and I hope that it I hope that it pays dividends. Man, You're You're a great dude. You're one of the good guys in this town. The town loves you, the town needs you. We thank you for being around and for and for putting your music out and staying the course on this on this uh long hard journey. 01:08:57 Speaker 1: What's next? Man? 01:08:58 Speaker 2: What does twenty twenty six look. 01:08:59 Speaker 1: Like for man? Again? 01:09:01 Speaker 7: You know, I'm just kind of going where the good Lord leaves me literally, you know, like it would be very easy now to think, oh I've accomplished this, sure, now let me take back, let. 01:09:11 Speaker 1: Me go do that. Are you just getting started back? 01:09:13 Speaker 7: Man? I just honestly, like, I know what I want to do. I want to continue to record music. I've recorded seven songs over the last year that I feel really good about. I want to go record seven more. I want to get back out and play and tour and you know, do that whole thing. I know that I am playing stage Coach, main stage and in April which is going to be on last So you know, there's a few things that I know that are in place, but whatever's next, I don't know. 01:09:40 Speaker 1: Man. 01:09:40 Speaker 7: Like, if we're sitting here a year from now and my career skyrockets, yeah, awesome. If we're sitting here a year from now and I want a TV show and nothing changed, awesome too, TV show, you know, But like like I am literally, U man, I'm just literally, I'm just like, hey, leave me, I'll follow, and you know, the rest will take care of yourself. I'm just grateful to do what I do. 01:10:05 Speaker 2: And love and uh, do you feel like Nashville got behind you on this thing? 01:10:09 Speaker 1: Man? I think so. Like I it's been really cool. 01:10:13 Speaker 7: I went to a uh Dustin Lynch Christmas party a couple of nights ago, and the amount of people that I saw there that walked in, they were like, hey, bro, been watching it on TV man, been watching you and been following. I'm like, dang, you care, Like yeah, like we're we're invested. 01:10:28 Speaker 1: That's how we feel about this podcast. 01:10:30 Speaker 7: It's a good feeling, you know too, for people to see the work ethic and see the grind and again, man, like all I've ever asked for and wanted is a shot and an opportunity. Because again, man, like that three year old kid, you know that that's just set out and wanted to do this, Like that's. 01:10:46 Speaker 1: All I want to do. Yeah, so you're new. 01:10:50 Speaker 2: Your single right now is Canton of Hat. 01:10:52 Speaker 1: Yes, get a little bit of it. Play, let's play you got a carpo Canta hat? So y'all? I wrote this with Jordan Walker. Oh god, probably took all day. Jordan Talkers would like to call it, no doubt. I don't call him. We're breakfast. 01:11:09 Speaker 7: One morning he was like, he was like, hey, I got this title for Cat and a Hat And I'm like, what in the he is a cat and a hat? 01:11:16 Speaker 1: Yeah? Like doctor suit. He's like, no, man, he explained to me the hook and I immediately got it. 01:11:22 Speaker 7: And he wanted to write it about his grandfather that like hey, when he when he passes away, bury him bury that cat and the hat. And I was like, that's really cool. I said, but what if we make it like a prop me up beside the jukebox two point oh, like a barn burner of a like tempo thing. And so like I told him, I was like, you have to write this with me, and it all worked out. And the reason I was thinking this is because, man, like I grew up wearing a cowboy hat my whole life performing. I moved to Nashville wearing a cowboy hat and then I ditched it for a ball cap, and you guys know, like you see me, I'm in a probably a ball cap twenty four seven. And about a year ago, I was like, man, I want to just go back to my roots and I want to like just like sing songs and do things that like is in my spirit and not what the rest of the industry is doing sort of thing. And like late nineties early two thousand has always been like my bread and butter jam. 01:12:12 Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm putting the cowboy hat back on. I don't care what anybody says. 01:12:15 Speaker 7: And so when he had this titicle cat and the hat, it like was the perfect marriage, and I was like, this is the perfect song to introduce me as wearing a hat. 01:12:22 Speaker 1: Played on the show. 01:12:23 Speaker 7: I did take a tone here we go, and you can give it a long black cat lag. I don't even know one line of cars. Well, my headstone says win them graveyard dead. Hell. 01:12:36 Speaker 1: I really ain't thought that far. 01:12:38 Speaker 7: But on the day, I mean my miker and I go stret glory back, just do them and want sild for you. Throw me in the ground, very. 01:12:49 Speaker 1: His caddy, and I yeah, let me. 01:12:52 Speaker 7: Down in my room, Shine the gun on the bugle, lead the ring round another one, and. 01:12:57 Speaker 1: Bottle show on these little boots, me on up to heaven, rising on the country. So y'all Bury, this cat is a pat when the good door cows behold you go, why. 01:13:16 Speaker 7: I'll put the sower boy in a pine box, starts to ease den blues and tell my pretty little honey to save a little money door by the brand new suit when the sin runs out, and he picked by crown magging forty. 01:13:31 Speaker 3: X me and not blad. 01:13:34 Speaker 7: Even if he gotta cut the brown blub off the back. 01:13:37 Speaker 2: Bury. 01:13:38 Speaker 1: This cat and I have leming down. 01:13:41 Speaker 7: In my rooms, shouting, cone on the bugle, leading the ring, raming up an a bottles. 01:13:46 Speaker 1: On these old boots. You sending me on up to heaven, rising on the country. So y'all Bury, this cat is a half when to get dor coff and I said, y'all, very cad in a half winding, good Lord, Colby. 01:14:11 Speaker 4: Y'all yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 01:14:23 Speaker 2: I can't believe show shoer Winner of the Road CBS. 01:14:29 Speaker 7: Man, that's awesome, thank you. Hey, I got a little money from from winning that thing too. And so there's there's gonna be a deer hunter too in my in my near future somewhere. 01:14:37 Speaker 1: So if you boys want to go on a trip somewhere, let's I know, y'all, pocket money probably burn the whole. Let's do kill us one fifty something somewhere. So let's do it. 01:14:51 Speaker 2: Let's see on them hunts all the time down there in Texas. 01:14:55 Speaker 1: Man, I love it. It's uh, it's fun, dude. You're a freaking killer. 01:14:58 Speaker 2: Man, you're a dear deiler, but you're a you're a you're a you're a country music killer too. And I'm glad the world got to see it, bro, thank you, glad the world got to see it. 01:15:07 Speaker 1: Let's do it. 01:15:08 Speaker 2: We do. We do one last thing before we leave. I don't want it to be over, man, I had a blast. We do one last thing called Graverite. We do a little little gravorite secsion in this. We we started with favorite country song. Play your favorite country song. Everybody was intimidated by that. Okay, play the greatest country song, or was intimidated by that. So we just merged them together and came up with gravery. So uh yeah, let's stick with graver. 01:15:37 Speaker 1: Oh shoot, what should we do? We don't like? I love it? What did cat and hat something else was talking about? 01:15:46 Speaker 7: Uh? 01:15:47 Speaker 1: Do we want a temple or a slow thing? Yeah, let's let's do. 01:15:50 Speaker 2: Let's just do a nineties tempo, no matter what it is. 01:15:52 Speaker 1: Oh, let's do dust. Yeah, let's get in the dust. But let's come give him the Let me put your bat head. 01:16:05 Speaker 7: Crile. Williams lived down the dirt room, made homemade wine like nobody I know. Drop buy one Friday night, sid can you help me? 01:16:19 Speaker 1: Crew? Got a little girl it and no man want a tree to ride? He said, I. 01:16:26 Speaker 7: Gotta watching the son as you step down in the cellar and reach. 01:16:32 Speaker 1: To the cobwall. 01:16:33 Speaker 3: And it turned on the light and said to my bee, a little dust on the bottle. 01:16:42 Speaker 1: Don't let a fool you bow? What's inside? They're my bee? 01:16:49 Speaker 7: A little dust on the bottle, but it's one of us. 01:16:53 Speaker 1: Face, get sweeter inside. 01:16:59 Speaker 2: We got doing more cords. Oh yeah, I had aam freaking Santa Joas. Let's love down course here, Hey and my baby. A little dust on a bottle, but don't let a fool you. But what's inside. 01:17:18 Speaker 1: My baby? A little dust on a bottle. But it's one of those things the get sweet of. 01:17:26 Speaker 4: It, Adam, Sandy, Dad guys. 01:17:37 Speaker 2: Hey, man, uh, do we Tacoba sent you a little present for coming on the show. 01:17:42 Speaker 7: No way, dude, I love Tacoba's Joba's man, go bro, let me get there's some boots, brother, Yes. 01:17:48 Speaker 1: Sir, Hey, can we do a podcast tomorrow? Heck yeah, man, we war boots. Dude. I've been wanting a brown pur like this. 01:17:57 Speaker 7: Uh. I got these sneak skins and I was like, man, I'll just come. I want like a good right down the middle every day wearing boot and one that I can wear on stage like you know, like night after night and just kind of like just beat the fire out of the up and cod this is the way to go. Where a favorite boot out there. 01:18:16 Speaker 2: To keep going talking about I just got let them say it. Boom, thank you so much, thank you so much. Congrats of course you want the sky is the limit, brother Hanks Man and I am so excited for for the journey you're on, for that you've been on, that you're on now that you're about to. Man, we love to see good guys win. Man, thank you and we're glad you're winning. 01:18:43 Speaker 1: You have for a while. I want you to continue to win. 01:18:45 Speaker 2: Bro. 01:18:45 Speaker 7: Well, let's write some songs. Let's just go and uh, big fan of you guys. Thanks again for having man, Man, this is this is awesome. 01:18:54 Speaker 2: Hey man, check out Adam Sanders Cat and the Hat out now. Oh, Bible in the house Fire. That's a great song. Check that one out, man. Yeah, thanks for hanging out God's Country with us. We'll see you next time. 01:19:06 Speaker 1: Peacem