Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:13 What's going on everybody? Welcome back to this week's edition of the In The Round podcast, doing an early morning session. Tyler, how you feeling buddy? Feeling good, man. I'm feeling good too. I got like two cups of coffee in me, so we're good. We're taking a break from the Bang energy drinks. We've been drinking a lot of those lately, but with us this morning, we've got a, a great friend of ours. We've got an awesome guest and she played one of our writers round recently. It's Miss Allie. Colleen. Allie, how you doing? Good
Speaker 2 00:00:37 Morning. I am good. Yeah, if I wouldn't have showered, it would've been out still. I still would be asleep.
Speaker 1 00:00:42 <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. I feel you. I feel you. Mornings are tough when you, when you're working in this town, especially with you as a writer, like you're doing writing sessions all the time and you got one after this and stuff, and it, it's, it's busy and Monday, every, every day of the week, there's something,
Speaker 2 00:00:55 You know, every day of the week. Yeah, you betcha.
Speaker 1 00:00:57 Betcha. So, so how was your weekend?
Speaker 2 00:00:59 My weekend was awesome. Um, really awesome. We didn't do anything. My husband likes to watch football, which means I nap. So that's kind of what I did all.
Speaker 1 00:01:07 Yeah. Is he a big s e c? Is he more of like a college? So what's, what's team? Is it all of
Speaker 2 00:01:11 It? Honestly, honestly, I mean, he's like the biggest balls fan ever. Okay. He's born and raised here. Okay. He's a huge ball fan, but really he just wanted to watch the Titans game last night. Yeah. And I swear it lasted like five hours.
Speaker 1 00:01:21 Yeah, it was a long one.
Speaker 2 00:01:23 It was so long. <laugh>. Yeah, it was so long. Still
Speaker 1 00:01:26 Oakland.
Speaker 2 00:01:26 Yeah. No, he loves it. He actually has to get an A, he has to get an As hat. He just lost his fantasy league.
Speaker 1 00:01:31 Oh. Oh. He's in one of those, one of the hardcore fantasy leaks. Oh boy.
Speaker 2 00:01:35 Yeah. So he is, he's picking out his ass hat right now.
Speaker 1 00:01:37 Are you giving any suggestions for that? I
Speaker 2 00:01:39 Have no suggestions.
Speaker 1 00:01:40 So you're just trying, sitting back, you're like, you do your thing, babe. Like
Speaker 2 00:01:43 I have not, I don't know if you guys fell a stagecoach on Instagram. Yeah. But they posted that picture last week of that guy who didn't have his back pocket on his wranglers and he had like the Wrangler tattoo. Yeah, right there. I was like, it's a pretty good one. That's, yeah. And he is, he's really sticking to Made America. So
Speaker 1 00:01:56 That's a, Hey, hey. That's a good
Speaker 2 00:01:59 One. That's what he is going for.
Speaker 1 00:02:00 We should have done that for our fantasy league. We should have next year. Next year we're gonna do one for sure with some punishments in there. Poor Tribeca
Speaker 2 00:02:06 Kids though. They
Speaker 1 00:02:07 Would've, oh yeah. So we're in a group. So Tyler went to Trevecca. Okay. And we went, so we're new. So I got out into this fantasy league last minute. So it's a lot of kids from Tribe, Rebecca, and I'm from New York, so we, we were doing the drafting stuff. I was talking a lot of smack in there and I was cussing a lot and doing this, and Tyler had to tell me like, yo, so Ask Ley, be very interested with that group. How, how long have you and your husband been together?
Speaker 2 00:02:29 Um, have, we've been together just over five years. We just had our, our year of marriage on. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:02:33 Congratulations. That's awesome. How'd y'all meet?
Speaker 2 00:02:34 Thank you. We met on Tinder. Hey. Hey. Yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:02:39 No, honestly, though, there's a lot of, that's How did you, how did you and Morgan meet? We
Speaker 2 00:02:44 Met through
Speaker 1 00:02:45 Instagram. We met through Instagram. Again, it's similar. A lot of people meeting, well,
Speaker 2 00:02:48 Sometimes people will see your Tinder profile and they'll just go find you on Instagram. Like, it's almost like they don't wanna do it through Tinder, you know, but I'm just like, but as far as online goes, that's just, there's, there's so many ways.
Speaker 1 00:02:58 Yeah. Oh, absolutely. So that, that's badass. That's awesome. Yeah. So how long have you been doing this music thing for?
Speaker 2 00:03:04 Forever? Um, I don't remember a time when I didn't do it. Um, I was raised in Oklahoma and, um, played at a barbecue shop there. So from when I was 18 until I graduated high school and just played every Saturday night by the saddles, I had no amplification, nothing. I just played by myself with my guitar and um, that was my gig and that's what I did. And then I moved here to go to Belmont. So I did four years at Belmont.
Speaker 1 00:03:23 Awesome. Yeah, I would say it's working out for you. <laugh>. It's
Speaker 2 00:03:26 Working out. I have a degree in songwriting, whatever that means.
Speaker 1 00:03:29 That's pretty cool. But like, how cool is that, that you could go to college and get a degree in songwriting? Right. Or guitar playing or like use a compos. Like you can't do that anywhere else. I'm been being worship ministry, whatever that's for, you know, <laugh>. So. Yeah. It's neat though, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's badass. That's what's so cool about, about Belmont especially. Yeah. Cuz there's a lot of talented guys and girls coming out of there.
Speaker 2 00:03:48 Really, really cool kids. Yeah. I feel like I just kind of kept my head down the whole time I was there and now that I'm out I'm like, I should have met more people in Belmont that would really
Speaker 1 00:03:54 Help. But, but the thing is, you're still here to Nashville. Yeah. So you still can meet lots of people at Belmont. Cause a lot of people stay right around here and stuff. So being born in Oklahoma, so you have the family pedigree and stuff, you're I do. You come, what was, so being Garth Brooks' daughter, how, how did that factor into doing music stuff for you? Like, cuz you grew up around it. Like,
Speaker 2 00:04:13 I don't think I did. Um, my dad stepped away from all of it, you know, once that, once career happened. Oh, that's, that's right. And then that was it. Like, my dad and I never talked about music ever. Not once. Um, the only reason I went to college was because I think he was hoping that I was gonna pick something else to do. And he was like, really? He was like, listen, if you wanna, if you wanna do music, you have to get a degree. And I think he thought that that would deter me, but I don't think he thought of schools like Belmont where you can get a degree in songwriting, like you said. He goes, that's what you're going to school for. I go, yeah, I am. And he goes, oh shit, okay, cool. <laugh>. So I just kind of stuck with it and I just loved it. Um, but he's, he's as far as dads go, he's super, um, super encouraging and super awesome and all those things. But everything with dad comes down to sports. He just tells you to just keep running. Yeah. He's, you know, like, that's kind of him. That's
Speaker 1 00:04:54 Big, big, uh, big, big sports guy, big baseball guy, big football guy. Big and all that stuff. Yeah. That's freaking awesome. So for you, are you a big sports fan at all or do you kind of just sit back and I
Speaker 2 00:05:04 Freaking appreciate athleticism, like no one else, but like, I don't keep up with teams. Yeah. Like I'll watch sports all day and we love to play 'em, we're in like a kickball league and a volleyball league and we do all these things, but like, um, an indoor soccer league. But we just, but I don't like keep up with teams very
Speaker 1 00:05:18 Well kick. Kickball league. Sounds awesome. Kickball is dope. I haven't played kickball, kickball, forever's. Awesome. I would love to do that. We should do that dude. A local dude at kickball league would be freaking badass.
Speaker 2 00:05:27 Yeah, we love it. We're so competitive too. It's us and this other team that go at it like every year. And we have stupid names and we get so mad about it. And there's an indoor league and an outdoor league. So you play year round and it's,
Speaker 1 00:05:37 Is there like a fence at the outdoor league or does the balls
Speaker 2 00:05:40 Just, you play on a, you play it on a baseball field. Yeah. So if you pass the fence, that's your home run.
Speaker 1 00:05:44 Have people kicked home runs? Oh yeah. Have you kicked
Speaker 2 00:05:47 The home run? No, I haven't. No, I haven't. We have, and then there's a money ball, so like one, and like once in an ending you can use the money ball, which is like really aired up. So it goes really far. And we just, our our, our friend Arnold always kicks in. He always gets the Arnold
Speaker 1 00:05:59 Like schwar today. He just literally, literally <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:06:04 No, we have
Speaker 1 00:06:04 Fun. That's awesome. Yeah, no, I would totally be down kickball league. Sounds badass. It's awesome. That does sound like a dang good time. It's so now with you, so 2019 you've been putting out some music?
Speaker 2 00:06:14 We did. It was our first year. We had our first release in July and then we had a single come out in, um, I think it was October. Could have been September. But, um, yeah, we've had two releases this year and it's been really, really awesome. And we just did a whole project that we're hoping to put out in 2020. And honestly just figuring it out, you know, how cool
Speaker 1 00:06:29 Does it feel to put out your own music finally, like, so cool to cool get to get to do that. Like people can go and find you on, on all the streaming apps, Pete, like you can say like, this song's available now. Like, have you
Speaker 2 00:06:40 Ever watched published? It seems like that you've made it moment for like, people outside of music. They're like, are you on Spotify? And I'm like, yeah. They're like, no way. And I'm like, yeah, I, I paid a fee and I'm on Spotify bitch. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1 00:06:50 Yeah. How have the song, how have the song been doing? And I,
Speaker 2 00:06:52 They've been really, really good. We have one that's called Work in Progress, which I felt was just kind of a really personal one for me that no one was gonna connect with. And it's like everyone on the planet's been so kind about it. And so like it's been really cool to see kids that are like 12 to, you know, 27 to 86 to like all these age ranges be like, yeah dude, like I'm a work in progress too. Yeah. Like, so that was really cool. And then, um, along the way my niece is like, it's her favorite song, so that makes me feel really cool. So
Speaker 1 00:07:18 Yeah, there you go. Answered the year right there.
Speaker 2 00:07:19 Literally
Speaker 1 00:07:20 <laugh>. No, that, that's badass. So, so for you, was songwriting always kind of in the plan of wanting to do it? Like you wanted to create your own stuff as opposed to being a singer going out? Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 00:07:30 And other stuff I love, um, I love songwriting and I'm totally not against, um, you know, cutting other people's songs. Yeah. But no one's sending me their shit right now. Like, no one sent me anything. Yeah. So, um, so I write all my stuff right now and really love it and just, I think that's really where you meet the people in this town that become your family and that kind of thing. You know, it's like your co-writers are just cuz people that write it with you and they, and, and they do all that stuff and they care about it with you. And it's, it's really cool. And that's kind of, um, the only networking I really do is my songwriters cuz I don't, I don't know how to do anything else
Speaker 1 00:07:58 Now. I would say knowing some of the pe some of the girls and guys that you write with, like some of our mutual friends mm-hmm. <affirmative> like you, you, you doing
Speaker 2 00:08:04 They're good people. They
Speaker 1 00:08:06 Are good people in particular are good friend Carly Rogers. They're good people. How did you and Carly Rogers meet?
Speaker 2 00:08:11 Okay, so Carly's hysterical. I had a, a random roommate my freshman year. Carly went to Belmont. Yes. Yeah. Um, and it's so funny. I'll tell people, I'll tell people that who've known her for years and they're like, Carly, Carly went to Belmont. Like yeah, she did.
Speaker 1 00:08:23 Carly went to Belmont.
Speaker 2 00:08:23 Yeah. <laugh>. And so we met and my roommate came back one night and my roommate was crazy. She was awesome. She, we were just so different and she was crazy and she, um, anyway, she, she came back in the room one day and she goes, Hey, I met this girl today. She was so funny. And I think she was mean, but I couldn't tell. And I think you guys would be best friends. And it was Carly and that's how we met. So Lauren just introduced us and I was like, man, you're right. I can't tell if this girl's mean or if she's funny. And then once you get to know Carly, she's just a ball of love and she's like hysterical. And so that's how Carly and I met and I'm pretty sure I sold her Adderall once. And then we've been best friends since <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:08:58 Literally
Speaker 2 00:08:58 To this day, she still has that little blue pill emoji next to my name on her phone. Oh, that's, I'm like, we've known each other for like seven years, Carly. And she's like, no, still have it in my phone. Is that,
Speaker 1 00:09:06 I like, okay, that's awesome. Yeah, I actually met. So, so how we got introduced to Carly Rogers? So I met Carly and I, I had known her from, from her music that she had put out, and particularly with Upchurch and all those guys. Yeah. And, but I, I had just moved to town last November and I bumped into, I, we were at doghouse after clothes, just hanging out and there's this girl and this guy sitting there and this girl's got this pizza and I could tell she's very much into this pizza. Oh yeah. She doesn't want anybody go near her. And I went up and introduced myself and she told me that Carly told me that she was a nurse and that her friend Shelton was a songwriter. And like, I was like, oh, it's cool, my grandma's a nurse, blah, blah, blah. And then she came back from the bathroom and was like, listen, I'm a songwriter. My name is Carly Rogers. I'm like, oh shit, you're Carly Rogers. And then she gave me a slice of pizza, which was really cool.
Speaker 2 00:09:49 You got a piece of pizza. Carly Rogers.
Speaker 1 00:09:51 I know that didn't, I still
Speaker 2 00:09:52 Haven't gotten, gotten a piece of pizza from Carly Rogers <laugh> the
Speaker 1 00:09:54 First time I met her. That's why I was like, whoa. And then I, I didn't realize how big of a deal it was until like months later where I'm like, this girl, she that's hard to get a sliced pizza
Speaker 2 00:10:02 Outta, I can't believe you got a piece of pizza.
Speaker 3 00:10:03 When we uh, when we had her on the podcast, we ordered Domino's for her. So
Speaker 2 00:10:07 That's my other thing. Domino's. That's what she picks. Yeah. Of all the pizzas
Speaker 1 00:10:13 Of, and I'm from New York. I'm a pizza, I'm a, I'm a pizza aficionado. All the pizzas. Isn't Tyler's a big pizza aficionado guy, but we're like, Carly Rogers is coming. We gotta hook her up with the dominoes. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3 00:10:22 Lie. Last night I had Domino's, I had the Brooklyn Pie, like you said to get for the first time was good. They're doing that half off thing right now. Yeah. And it was amazing. There you go. I didn't know that was a thing. There
Speaker 2 00:10:30 You go. I mean, I'll never down pizza, but there's, there's, there's a couple better options.
Speaker 1 00:10:35 What do you, where where's your go-to spot dad?
Speaker 2 00:10:37 Well, everyone gets annoyed cuz mine's Papa John's. Like, it's not anything better, you know, but like I love Papa John's. That's my favorite. Okay. Favorite.
Speaker 1 00:10:44 There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Well in the, in the, in that like quick pizza game, you do have a lot of options
Speaker 2 00:10:48 Down here. Yeah. The place right next to Tin Roof, the little Chicago or whatever that's called. Oh, that. Which I feel like is your number one thing to like name your pizza place. Yeah. They're amazing
Speaker 1 00:10:56 That, that place you
Speaker 2 00:10:57 Might have to wait an hour, but they're amazing. See we're,
Speaker 3 00:11:00 Well see that, uh, that's the thing is I had like, I uh, knew somebody in that building that's like right there at the end of the memory and I'd go hang out with them all the time and I knew the guy's number and I would text him, be like, Hey, put me a pie in <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:11:14 You would like that's what, that's the hook of my knee is the number. And you text
Speaker 3 00:11:17 Back and he'd be like, Hey dude, your pie's ready. And I would just like stumble down there and like, get it and bring it back home. What a
Speaker 2 00:11:22 Dream
Speaker 3 00:11:23 It was
Speaker 1 00:11:23 Great. Yeah. In little Chicago. We're in there so late cuz we're so the crowd that we're rolling with, it's so good. There was like a month straight. We were just having late nights like wild Beaver closing down Wild Beaver 3:00 AM on a Sunday night kind of nights. And little Chicago would always find its way in our night. I
Speaker 2 00:11:38 Love little That's that's a
Speaker 3 00:11:39 Good one. When I lived in town, I used to live literally like half a mile from uh, five Points West.
Speaker 2 00:11:46 I've heard really good thing about Five Points
Speaker 1 00:11:48 Is really good. If you, amazing. I recommend that you, you and the husband got a try. You do get a pie from Five Points.
Speaker 2 00:11:53 It's good. I love, I'll try any
Speaker 1 00:11:54 Pizza. It's, it's, it's really freaking good. So now, so with it, so with it being the end of the year now, what are you thinking for 2020?
Speaker 2 00:12:01 So we just signed, um, with a booking agency for the first
Speaker 1 00:12:04 Time. Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 2 00:12:05 Thank you. We signed with Kincaid and they've been amazing. So we've already got some really, really cool stuff lined up for 2020, um, which we're excited about. And we've been doing the travel shows for, um, about two years now. I think March through September we were gone every weekend. Um, cuz Nashville's amazing, but it's just not, you know,
Speaker 1 00:12:21 You wanna go out and play your music for people. That's how you grow. Where's where's your, where's your favorite place that you've gotten to go and play
Speaker 2 00:12:27 So many places. One that really sticks out was this little place in Indiana called Bryant's. And you show up and you're like, this has to be a mistake. Right? Like, this can't be where we're playing tonight. Like terror, like slightly terrified. Dunno where you are. Probably one of the best nights we've had that place. Couldn't have fit, you know, couldn't have fit 500 people. But it was just a blast. And that, that's all people in the middle of Indiana that haven't heard live music in months, you know? Yeah. It's like, it's not like Nashville. It's, it's where they're just like, this is a damn treat for them. And they loved it and they spent all night with us. Yeah. And we stayed there, you know, three or four hours after the set and just had such a good time. It's like it's places like those that always stand out to me. We've played some really cool theaters. We've, and all those things. We did the fair and festival circuit and had some really great openers, but the places that always stick out to me are just those tiny little, there's
Speaker 1 00:13:11 An appreciation. Buy them and that's how you get your ride or dies. Like that's how you get, like Allie Coleen took the time, she came to our tiny ass little town and and showed up here and they, they really appreciate that. They don't forget that. Right. And then when you go back, say there were like 50 people or a hundred people there, then next time there's 150, 200 people there. Right. Like, you just keep growing. So that's awesome. So
Speaker 2 00:13:32 Yeah, so we, we loved that. And really just focusing on shows for 2020. Definitely music. We just paid and, and recorded this whole seven song project and um, seven
Speaker 1 00:13:40 Songs. That's a big project. It
Speaker 2 00:13:42 Was a huge project to we're gonna, we're gonna do it over again. Oh wow. So it was a really huge project. Project. A really big learning experience. Yeah. All those things. So really focusing on music for 2020 and, and really getting it perfect and getting it, um, something that we're proud of and all those things. But really just traveling as much as we can. Like always
Speaker 1 00:13:59 Doing the, doing the artist thing.
Speaker 2 00:14:00 Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. We start off the year in Steamboat. We're playing a steamboat festival for the first time in
Speaker 1 00:14:04 Colorado, which is dope. Hey, that's awesome. Colorado's gonna be fun. Yeah, we have, I haven't been out there yet, so me and Tyler get to go out with a band every weekend. I'm the merch guy, so I got cool. I got no musical ability. I'm just a really good talker and I'm really, it's my husband. Yeah. So how's it? I'm really good at getting guys to spend money on their girlfriends. That's what I say. You go, I'll be like, is she really that girl for like, she wants this. I'm like, oh buddy, happy wife, happy life. Like come on <laugh>. And then Tyler does the, the Tyler's the production manager. So we're always out on the road. And road life's something like when you're out every weekend, it's a lot. So, so is it you and your husband just kind of going out, you're doing acoustic thing?
Speaker 2 00:14:37 Yeah, just and my husband, I, I play all my, I play all my shows with myself, which you can tell my poor guitar has been through the,
Speaker 1 00:14:42 It's got a story to tell. It's
Speaker 2 00:14:44 Got a lot. Yeah. That's for sure. Betsy's got some secrets she could wrap me out on real quick. But <laugh> it's just, it's awesome. And so we do mainly acoustic shows and that's a big thing for 2020 is implementing the band stuff, which is something we've never done before. Before. Oh yeah. Yeah. So we've been looking for players for the last couple months and just really got like, some relationships going with some really great guys, um, and that kind of thing. But almost all the musicians in Nashville are also artists. So it's like, you never know like what to pull 'em away from or what to, you know, but yeah. Um, so that's been something really interesting that we've learned this year. But really just focusing, like we said on shows and the road life and Yeah. Um, trying to keep a healthy diet on the road. Oh
Speaker 1 00:15:17 That is good. God dude. So freaking difficult. There's
Speaker 3 00:15:20 Nothing like walking into a loves at 2:00 AM to get gas and you're just like, well, oh God, here goes real quick.
Speaker 1 00:15:26 And I, I'm, I'm a And
Speaker 2 00:15:28 You're still gonna be hungry cuz it's crap. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:15:30 <laugh>. Yeah. I'm a I'm a big late night munchies guy and yeah, we'll roll in and one of my first runs out with these guys. So me being from New York, the guys that we're out with are from um, they're from Mobile, Alabama, a band called, um, Musca on Bloodline. That's who we Such a fan dude. Yeah, that's who, that's who we're out with. And um, we went through, I think it was Arkansas was the, that, that Arkansas and the Texas run. Yeah. And I had never been to, I had never had a Love's Pizza or like a Hump Brothers or any of that stuff. I'm from New York, we don't have gas station pizza, quick trips. And they were like quick trips. Pizzas were like, bro, they were like, bro, yeah, you gotta try this, you gotta try now. I'm hooked every time we roll. And then we go into Casey's. If you're in Indiana, have you been to Casey's
Speaker 2 00:16:05 Yet? We just got 'em in Oklahoma. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:16:07 That's a big deal. Casey's,
Speaker 2 00:16:08 They're now, they're now a big competitor with, with Quick Tripp in Oklahoma. Yeah. Yeah. And their breakfast pizzas are dude, baby. Yes,
Speaker 1 00:16:15 Yes. Yeah. Oh, Casey's is Yeah. Is big. And then with those, we're stopping at Chick-fil-A all the time. Except, unless it's a Sunday. Of course. Totally.
Speaker 3 00:16:22 That's the only
Speaker 2 00:16:23 Time I try and go to Chick-fil-A's on Sundays. I never have Chick-fil-A. Cause it's always a Sunday when I show up. I know
Speaker 1 00:16:28 What it's, yeah. Cause that's, cuz that's, that's like your food, that's why it fits in. And then Chipotle's another big, my mom actually sends me Chipotle gift cards.
Speaker 2 00:16:34 I love, I kind of eat myself sick at Chipotle. At Belmont. I haven't been there in a while, but it was so good.
Speaker 3 00:16:37 Well she like, I didn't like Chipotle until I went on the road cuz I like didn't know what to order. Yeah, that's a big deal. It's like, like the burritos, like, you know, like not big at all for me. And so like, I finally learned what to order and ever since then I've just been on a kick.
Speaker 2 00:16:50 Mm. It's good. Yeah. Some good stuff. I knew
Speaker 3 00:16:53 There was a week where I just literally ate Chipotle for every meal. Yeah. It's pretty bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:16:57 No, yeah. So, so, so being healthy on the road, that, that is a tough thing. And then with us too, the guys are like sponsored by those bang energy drinks. I so we, there was a point, I can't hang with those dude Ally. There was a point I was drinking three of them a day. Uhuh, it was bad cause I'm at the merch.
Speaker 2 00:17:12 That makes sense. Cause as soon as you said that, I thought of Musco on anyway cause it's all it told, all their videos were about anyway, so that made total sense.
Speaker 1 00:17:17 Yeah. The branding that
Speaker 2 00:17:19 Made total. Yeah. The branding's pretty hardcore on that one.
Speaker 1 00:17:21 <laugh>. Yeah, we have, they they were given these, um, these bang hats. Somebody a fan brought, um, these like tie dye bang energy hats. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:17:28 Like tie-dye and the brim like has a l e D light around it. Like
Speaker 1 00:17:31 Somebody showed up with the, like the meet and greets get interesting. Pretty dope. Like the after show at the merch table, somebody brought their, um, their pet raccoon. One time we did a show in Opelika, Alabama <laugh>. And it was a rodeo show and there was a people from Mississippi and there's literally like, there was a raccoon that like Gary and Charlie were like holding up like a, like, um, like at the Lion King when like they're holding up the, the little baby and it's ah, they're holding up this fucking raccoon at like two in the morning.
Speaker 3 00:17:54 Like all of a sudden just like fans will bring us bangs now. So like, we'll just like show up backstage and there's just like 20 of 'em and you're like, well gotta get drink sometimes. <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:18:04 Dude. No, I, I like the raspberry, the blue raspberry line.
Speaker 1 00:18:07 Blue RAs is a good flavor. Glass
Speaker 2 00:18:09 Hot. Can anyone messes me up though? I don't
Speaker 1 00:18:11 Like that. There's some that are really sugary. Yeah. That are like they say sugar
Speaker 3 00:18:15 Out in the car right now. The Miami Cola. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 00:18:17 I haven't had, I haven't tried, I kind of stuck to my one. I tried one that I liked and like
Speaker 1 00:18:21 I get it now. That blue, blue
Speaker 3 00:18:22 Blue is my favorite by far.
Speaker 1 00:18:23 Yeah. Star blast is like a red, it's like a fruit punch, like strawberry kind of thing. Say what
Speaker 2 00:18:27 Does smart blast taste like? What is that? I
Speaker 1 00:18:29 Have no idea. It's a cool looking can, it's like they're generic. It's red,
Speaker 3 00:18:32 White and blue. I bought it. It was good. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:18:33 America. Yes. Yeah. Um, absolutely. So how, so you say, um, out in Oklahoma, so how often do you go back out there?
Speaker 2 00:18:42 Well, I've got two nieces now, so we try and go home as often as we can. They're kind of my lifeline. Um, my sister's back there two, um, and my mama's there. So, so we go home. So we'll go home for Christmas. We went back, we played a show there in November. Um, definitely hit there during summer. Um, way more than I used to.
Speaker 1 00:18:57 How hot is it in the summer in Oklahoma? Cause I haven't done the summer out there. It's
Speaker 2 00:19:00 Hot. It's hot. It's hot. We're, um, I will say though, for anyone in Oklahoma who hears it, they're always, they're always gonna be like, she basically lives in Kansas cuz like, we live in Tulsa. So it's like,
Speaker 1 00:19:08 Okay. So you
Speaker 2 00:19:09 It's it's it's very, it's like total northern Oklahoma. But I mean Yeah. It gets, and even there it gets hot, you know? I mean Yeah. The heat index is usually about one 15 anyway. But I mean the but nothing like South Oklahoma. Like, nothing like that. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 00:19:23 Yeah. And and out there too, I've, I was we, we had a run out there. We did, um, Omaha, we did Stillwater, we did Manhattan, Kansas. Yeah. And driving through Kansas and driving through like certain parts of Nebraska and certain parts of Oklahoma. There ain't a whole lot out there. Oh no. If you get out there, there's no, there's nothing, there's just nothing.
Speaker 3 00:19:38 Kansas is literally 88% farmland.
Speaker 2 00:19:41 Yeah. Kansas is the same way. It is exactly the same way. Yeah. As Oklahoma like you just said. And it's, it's ridiculous. But I'll tell you what, it's, it's beneficial in a couple ways. You know, you get lost. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:19:49 I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:19:50 You climb a ladder, you can find yourself three states away. You know, it's like you can see literally any anything. Like,
Speaker 3 00:19:55 I, I think whenever, when, see when I was out there, I was like, no wonder the deer is so big in Kansas. Literally the bitches can see it three days away. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 00:20:02 Yeah. Oh yeah. Your deer are those deer
Speaker 2 00:20:04 Are, yeah. You can find Bethlehem from anywhere in Oklahoma. Yeah. Like it's so flat. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 00:20:10 Yeah. No, but, but it's, it's gotta be, it's cool growing up out there, I'm sure. Like it was
Speaker 2 00:20:14 Really cool. It was really my, my town's awaso, which means trails ends, this is where the Trail of Tears ended. Um, and we had a Cherokee blessing for like, ever that a tornado couldn't touch down on our county lines. And then just recently we had a housing development called Stone Canyon, built a bunch of houses, um, over an Indian barrel ground. And um, they finished the houses and a tornado came down for the first time since the trail of ended and leveled all of them. Wow. But no one was living in them yet. So like, it didn't touch a house that anyone was living in yet. And I was like,
Speaker 3 00:20:41 There's almost a bunch of money you guys messed up. You. That's
Speaker 1 00:20:43 Great. Wait, they told you don't build on this land. And look what it was your one
Speaker 2 00:20:47 Rule. It was your one rule. <laugh>. But I, I love Oklahoma. I love all the history about it. I love everything about it. Um, did you guys play tumbleweed?
Speaker 1 00:20:55 Yeah, we did. Gosh,
Speaker 2 00:20:56 Yeah. Dream. I've never been, um, in Stillwater and old enough to go to Tumbleweeds. We used to go a lot when we were kids. My sister went to college there and so I'd always go up there. But once I was, I moved here when I was 17 and, and never really came back too often. Definitely not to Stillwater ever since I was 21. So I've never got, I've never been to Temple Boys. It's, I've just stood outside it a bunch and just kind of stared at it.
Speaker 1 00:21:17 It was so freaking cool. Yeah. When we rolled up on that. And again, for me being from the Northeast, like you don't experience things like that. It's such even just rolling up in just the side like and the, the, the, the vibe that's going on in there. Yeah. So
Speaker 2 00:21:29 That Marques that I don't even know if they use or not, but it's always lit up. Oh
Speaker 1 00:21:32 Yeah. No, they use it still use it. They still use it. Love. They still use it. So you'll, that's so, so that's a venue you wanna play. Is there, what's another like that?
Speaker 2 00:21:39 That's a venue I dream of. I wanna play calf fry the festival in Stillwater. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:21:43 So bad. Don't wanna do that. We heard, we've heard a lot about that. Yeah. And, and, um, our guys are good buddies with like Co Wezel and Parker, MCC Coleman, a lot of those Texas Red Dirt guys. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and the Red Dirt out there, like the, the style of music. Yeah. So being from Oklahoma and living in Nashville, like, how do you feel with like, the different styles that, that are out there? Like how would you describe like your
Speaker 2 00:22:02 Style? I mean, for me, like as far as my story goes is I'm a hundred percent a storyteller. Like that's my style. Yeah. I don't, production wise, I couldn't tell you. I don't have a clue. That's a big thing we're dealing with right now is I've lived with my songs so long acoustically, especially not playing band shows that I still don't know how they produce into a full thing, you know? Right. But as far as like, what I learned from Oklahoma is just storytellers. Like, I used to go to Kane's every weekend I could and see Cody Johnson all through high school, um, and all these things. And I just loved all those boys and all those things. And Casey Donahue was there all the time. And we have, um, cavalcade in the summer, which is like the biggest rodeo in Oklahoma. And um, Donahue would come up and play it and Cody would come up and play it and Ton Lee would come up and play it and all those things.
Speaker 2 00:22:38 And it was so cool. Um, so Cavalcades definitely a bucket list one for me. Yeah. I wanna play so bad they don't have a lot of females, but I would love to do it. Um, but really just, and then as far as like today's country music goes like, ah, I won't get in a fit about what's going on and all those things. Yeah. As long as there's still story there. Exactly. And I feel like we're really lacking some substance, but Yes. Yeah. You know, I think if the stories are there, I don't care if you've got beats in your song, I give
Speaker 1 00:23:00 Sure. But, but I, but I think there's the story stuff is coming back. Yes. Like, I think as with a lot of the guys and a lot of the girls, like say somebody like it's Neil Towns for example. Yeah. She tells the story. Riley Green in a lot of his songs is starting to tell more stories. Yeah. Like combs, like there's a lot of people like it's coming back. Yeah. And you're putting music out, you're gonna be part of that. Yeah. Which is so cool. We're trying No, seriously like seeing like you're like, you're coming in right now at 23 doing this stuff. Yeah. Like it's, you're coming in at an interesting time to come into music. Right. And it and it's cool and you're, if you're a big storyteller that's it's coming back. Yeah. Like that that, that, I don't wanna say traditional style, but like that nineties style of country Right, right. Is starting to come back and people are like, have been craving it because it's been the other way for so long.
Speaker 2 00:23:40 They really do. I think that's the big thing too, is like what's on the market now. There's no doubt. People like it and love it. Yeah. But I do think it's almost like they don't know. It's kinda like when you're dehydrated and you don't know that's what it is, you know, it's like, yeah, these people need some damn water. And like it's coming and I'm, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 00:23:54 Yeah. I like that damn wa
Speaker 2 00:23:56 <laugh> Me too.
Speaker 1 00:23:57 That Yeah, there you go. You do. No, no, no. That's, that's a, that's a killer way to look at it. So learn. So watching Kojo in high school, what was he like? Watch? What was, what was he like as a performer?
Speaker 2 00:24:08 He opened, uh, the first time I ever saw him, he opened for Aaron Watson and God bless Aaron. But as soon as that man got on stage, everybody left. There was just such a, a quality that wasn't there as far as the performance goes. Cuz Aaron's great, but Aaron's kind of George Rady, you know, he'll stand there and he'll yep. He'll he'll sing for you think it
Speaker 1 00:24:23 All around a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:24:24 Yeah, yeah. And Cody's just there, you know, Cody's so into it and you can tell that he's honored every moment to do it, you know, and everything like that. Um, I had a buddy at Belmont who was in like the production side and like the, the interview side. And she got to do all these interviews for Belmont and she asked me who was one person that I would like her to bring in just so I could like be around him. And it was Cody Johnson. And I had to fake being a camera guy, that man, or that day. And my friend totally forgot. And she's like, all right, go set up the stuff. And I just look at her and I go, you know, I don't know how to do this. Like, I'm just, I'm just lying here. Like, I'm just here to meet Cody.
Speaker 2 00:24:54 Like, you know, when she goes, well I can't just so set it up for you. Like, this is our deal. And I was like, no, I'm just here to meet Cody. I'm like, I don't, I'm not here. I'm not part of this interview. Like, I just such a fan of him and just getting to watch him play. And, um, then I, I got to, I was honored to play Kane's, um, last year as just an opener and just to know that like Cody played there and I got to play. There was like the coolest thing on the planet. We got to open for Pat Green. And um, that was really interesting and just really cool stuff coming through Oklahoma. So I thought it was a really great place to grow up and to get to have those
Speaker 1 00:25:24 Yeah, no, to have those musical influences of, of growing up and coming to Nashville, but also having that red dirt. And our guys call it Red Clay. That's what Musk and I star call. Really? Red Clay. They call, well they call Red Clay country because they're a hybrid of Nashville and Texas. They do so well in Texas. Cause they're not, they're not Texas Red. They're, they're not, they're not
Speaker 2 00:25:42 From
Speaker 1 00:25:42 Texas, but they say Red Clay because like they're from Alabama. Yeah. And there's not a whole lot of Nashville acts that get love in Texas just because the styles are so different. And again, the storytelling, people wanna hear stories. Stories out
Speaker 2 00:25:53 There. Texas has that thing, you know, Texas is like,
Speaker 1 00:25:55 We're Texas. We're
Speaker 2 00:25:56 Texas. Yeah. Like we don't, we don't care about Nashville. We don't care about what you guys do. And God help any other artists that make it up to Nashville, you're gonna turn.
Speaker 1 00:26:03 Yeah. Like they don't, they don't let just anybody play Billy Bob's. They don't let just anybody play these venues. But our guys have developed a relationship there, so they call themselves Red Play cuz it's like a hybrid also.
Speaker 3 00:26:13 So I'm from also that part of Alabama too. I live like an hour north where they're from. But we now have a Bucky's and we have Whataburger there. So we have Whataburger.
Speaker 1 00:26:21 Yeah. Whataburger is in Alabama Burger.
Speaker 3 00:26:23 Yeah. And it's great. Yeah. I miss it.
Speaker 2 00:26:25 We had Whataburgers in Tulsa and I never appreciate 'em until I moved here. And then I was like, what have I been doing? Like they're so good.
Speaker 1 00:26:30 Yeah, there was talk, they were gonna be doing one here, but I don't know if it's coming or not. It's
Speaker 2 00:26:34 Uh, my family's trying to get stocks in it right now. Really? Like, we're trying, we're trying to get it here. We want it so bad, but I'll tell you what, there's nothing better than Brahms. Brahms is really the best. I don't know what's Brams. Brahms is like a, it's like a local country store that has burgers, but they also make their own ice cream. And it's like everything you could ever want on the planet. And that's my only thing on this planet. I'd put above What
Speaker 1 00:26:52 Burger? We're gonna have to go check out Brams
Speaker 2 00:26:54 Damn Brams. I think they're in Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma. And in
Speaker 3 00:26:57 Texas. Texas. We got lot of dates out there next year.
Speaker 1 00:26:58 Yeah. We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have to check that out the moment that we check that out. We're gonna, we're gonna tag you and approach and be like, this ice cream, it's fire.
Speaker 2 00:27:06 You'll love it. I promise.
Speaker 1 00:27:07 Oh, I'm, I'm so down. I'm so excited and, and stoked. So something we like to do with guests here, we like to play Tyler, we like to play various games with people. And one of the games we like to play is, would you rather you're down to place? Would you rather Yeah, yeah, yeah. And anything too crazy. But, but Tyler, Tyler drafts literal
Speaker 3 00:27:22 The app. So so would you rather relive the 10 saddest minutes of your life or relive one hour of the most embarrassing moments?
Speaker 2 00:27:31 Oh, easily. The saddest easily
Speaker 1 00:27:34 You can
Speaker 3 00:27:34 44%.
Speaker 1 00:27:35 You can get a song. You can, you can, you can get a song from the saddest. It's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:27:40 So where like that's where all my paychecks come from. Right there is just sad shit. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 00:27:44 <affirmative> would you rather uh, be rich or be famous?
Speaker 2 00:27:48 Be rich.
Speaker 3 00:27:49 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:27:49 Yeah. You could do a lot with money
Speaker 2 00:27:51 And help way more people. Oh, exactly. Than you can just being on a pedestal somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:27:54 Yeah. Absolutely. For sure.
Speaker 3 00:27:57 Would you, okay, this is a good one. Would you rather get up right now and start running a mile or wait until tomorrow and run three miles?
Speaker 2 00:28:05 I'd rather road a mile now just get
Speaker 1 00:28:06 It over with. So you're not so you're not a procrastinator. Get it over with. You just wanna get it over with.
Speaker 2 00:28:11 Oh, I am, but I don't wanna run three tomorrow. I'd rather run one right now.
Speaker 1 00:28:15 Three miles is long. Just a mile long. A mile long distance. Yeah. Mile was a long distance, let alone three.
Speaker 2 00:28:20 Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 00:28:21 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:28:21 You still gotta get up and do it. Yeah. Yeah. Screw that. I'm
Speaker 3 00:28:25 With you. All right. Well this is a good one for Matt too because we both just watched the Irishman. Have you watched that yet? Uhuh It's really good movie Buckle in. Cause it's like three and a half hours
Speaker 2 00:28:35 Long. Quite good. I can buckle in for a movie. Everyone's trying to get me to start these series and I'm like, I don't have that time in my life. Yeah, yeah. And I'll start not doing stuff just to watch Netflix, so I don't need that in my life. I
Speaker 3 00:28:45 Can watch it. Yeah, it's a Netflix movie. It's uh, it's about like a famous like mobster and all
Speaker 1 00:28:50 Mafia movie. I'm gonna start <crosstalk>.
Speaker 3 00:28:52 It's really good. But would you be rather be a famous rapper or a notorious mobster?
Speaker 2 00:29:00 Probably a rapper. I feel like I got too big of a heart to be a mobster to be honest.
Speaker 1 00:29:03 I, I'd be in New York, I'll flash the chain, I do the mobster thing.
Speaker 2 00:29:06 <laugh>. No,
Speaker 1 00:29:08 I would do it. I would do it. I know, I know. Garbage been back home that don't like all that stuff. It's just, it's just, and I'm not good with wrapping. I'm not good at being like,
Speaker 2 00:29:16 Oh. I mean, I wouldn't be good
Speaker 1 00:29:17 At either. I can't come up with rhymes. I can't. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:29:21 All right, last one. Would you rather have a personal chef or have a personal so far?
Speaker 2 00:29:29 That's actually a really tough one. I have narcolepsy so I can't drive. So someone has to drive me places most of the time. So. And my husband's a really good cook, so I feel like I already have both. But probably his show first. So Jonathan didn't have to drive everywhere
Speaker 1 00:29:41 So then he could just focus on cooking. Literally.
Speaker 2 00:29:43 Yeah. <laugh> pretty much pretty anyways. <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:29:47 There you go. That that's, that's a good, that's that's the right answer right there. You already have one. Why not? Why not? And what is, what do, what do you, what's his favorite thing? What's your favorite thing that he cooks?
Speaker 2 00:29:57 Dude, he's just been trying some stuff lately and it always makes me nervous. Like for Thanksgiving he was gonna cage and fry Turkey and I kind of low key told our guests to maybe also bring a Turkey. I was really worried about it. <laugh> best Turkey I've ever had in my life. It was so good. And then he like fried chicken wings the other night and they were so good. So he is really good on the grill. That's kinda where I keep him. Yeah. Okay. He's really good. I lowkey really good.
Speaker 1 00:30:18 Yeah, yeah. No that's, yeah, good. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 2 00:30:21 We had to run through Louisiana and I guarantee I gained like 12 pounds in like five days. Oh yeah. So it was so good. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:30:26 Yeah. I haven't been to Louisiana yet. I'm excited to check it out.
Speaker 3 00:30:29 He's in for a treat. It was fun. So the other day on the road we uh, talked him in try and chicken gizzards. We made it seem like a delicacy.
Speaker 1 00:30:36 We were in Mississippi. Yeah. I never thought I'd be in Mississippi
Speaker 3 00:30:39 At a gas
Speaker 1 00:30:39 Station. Yeah. Was a gas, it was a gas station in a town with literally nothing.
Speaker 2 00:30:42 Not only chicken gizzards but gas station chicken.
Speaker 1 00:30:44 The lady was like, are you sure? And I'm like, yeah, my guys are telling me to try. We,
Speaker 3 00:30:48 We were always sitting behind.
Speaker 2 00:30:49 I never even had that. So
Speaker 3 00:30:50 We let him go first and we let him order and then we're all sitting there and we're like, yeah, we're gonna order it. We're gonna order it. And then he orders it and we're like, yeah, let's get chicken tenders, <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:30:59 How was it?
Speaker 1 00:31:00 How do I preferred the corn nuggets? The lady threw in some corn nuggets for me know. Cause she's like, that's yeah. She's like, she's like Yankee boy you ain't gonna like the chicken giz <laugh>. I can already tell here's some corn nuggets to help him go down. Oh my. It was something.
Speaker 2 00:31:15 I get it. I mean I tried the calaf fry at Calaf fry. They weren't bad but they weren't great.
Speaker 1 00:31:19 Yeah. It's just something different. Like, and then I found out what was in 'em and I was like, whoa. Yeah. <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:31:24 Calaf fry is just, just fried calf balls and they're not bad, but if you don't know what they are and you try it, it's way better than knowing what it is. And trying it. Just having
Speaker 1 00:31:32 That, it's like the Rocky Mountain. It's like the Rocky Mountain oysters. Yeah. It's the same kind of thing. Yeah. I have <laugh>. Yeah. No, stick
Speaker 2 00:31:39 To Brahms guys. Stick to
Speaker 1 00:31:40 Brahms. Oh, Brahms. Yeah. No. How late is it open? Is it a 24 hour thing?
Speaker 2 00:31:44 No, they're, they're not like Chick-fil-A but they are kind of like, uh, based off of the faith. So I think they close kind of early. Like I need to close like 10.
Speaker 1 00:31:51 Okay, well that's cool. That's not bad. That's, we're gonna have to, we're gonna have to find one and stuff. So now for you, so you talked about loving Kojo and loving, there's a lot of artists that you like. Who are some of the who, if you were like pull for Spotify, who are some of the people that you really jammed to? Country. Not
Speaker 2 00:32:04 Country's my bride fan. She's like my girl.
Speaker 1 00:32:07 That makes a whole lot of sense. Being a story teller.
Speaker 2 00:32:09 She's my girl. Yeah. She's my girl. I, Ashley wrote a duet for her and Cody, um, that they kind of turned down and now I've Ashley been saving it for me in Muscadine. But they've heard it. They're not, they're not gonna do anything with it. It's fine. Okay. And um, but I love Ashley. I think she's like the coolest thing on the planet. Um, I'm also a really, really big fan of Elle. I think Elle's the coolest thing on the planet. Yeah. She's got that jersey on the wall song that just
Speaker 1 00:32:28 Murder Oh Times. Oh dude. That's one of my favorite, just
Speaker 2 00:32:30 Rips me to piece <laugh> and
Speaker 1 00:32:31 Also what I like, I prefer her acoustic. Oh yeah. Album.
Speaker 2 00:32:35 Her work tapes are
Speaker 1 00:32:36 So much over, over what the label's putting out. Yeah. With that stuff cuz I'm like, it still sounds good. A good voice is a good voice and good music's good music. But the acoustic stuff stripped down.
Speaker 2 00:32:44 I've always wondered how much of her production side comes from her on the new stuff. Cuz she is from, you know, she is from Canada so like maybe that is her country music there. Yeah. Is kind of the popier stuff that she's been putting out with the, but her work tapes were the coolest thing. Yeah, definitely the coolest thing. Um, so you trained them um, huge fan of Kayleigh Hammock right now. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:33:02 Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:33:02 She's, and she's really cool.
Speaker 1 00:33:03 And she's starting to go to radio too. Yeah. Cause I still get all those radio emails from working for what I used to do. And she's a name that's popping up. Yeah. A lot.
Speaker 2 00:33:11 And she, she self-produced a lot of her stuff, which blew my mind because the production of it's so crazy. Um, it's definitely not, it's not that it's not country cause I don't know what country is anymore, but it's, it wasn't what I thought it was gonna be. That was really cool. Um, just, just a big fan of the, the, the women that are coming out and killing it right now. Also a really big Randall King fan. Oh dude.
Speaker 1 00:33:29 I think he's Randall
Speaker 2 00:33:29 King. I think he's like butter dude. He's good.
Speaker 1 00:33:31 Have you had a chance to meet him yet?
Speaker 2 00:33:33 I, I did. I met him very briefly at a Codys at a Cody show. Carly and I actually drove to Ohio one night just to see Cody and, and Randall play. Um, and it was a blast.
Speaker 1 00:33:41 He's he's a good dude. Great. He's a good dudes. His crew. We've, we've gotta do some shows with him. We did, uh, Fayetteville, Arkansas with him and he puts on that cowboy show. Yeah. Like he's, he's a showman and off stage. He's such a cool dude. Yeah. And, and he's got that deal now with, I think it's Warner in town or somebody where he,
Speaker 2 00:33:57 That makes sense. That's who
Speaker 1 00:33:58 Cody's with and that's, and Parker's with, with university. There's a lot of that Texas crossover and I'm excited to see what happens with Randall. And you know what, he's, I think he's actually got a show coming up around here. I think he's playing in Lebanon. I
Speaker 2 00:34:08 He really excited. Haven't kept up with
Speaker 1 00:34:10 A lot of people, but I need to, I want to go. I want to, yeah. Like I want to go and watch his show where I'm not stuck at the merch table in the other room. Like I want to go and just watch him freaking
Speaker 2 00:34:18 Fly. I know every time I go to his shows too, his merch is out of the one thing that I want so bad and I always go to Bite online, but I'm like, no, I'm just gonna go to another show and I'm gonna get it. And I haven't got yet.
Speaker 1 00:34:25 Yeah, no. There's something special. And being a merch guy like hearing that cause I make of what goes at the, what goes at the show. So, um, so yeah, he, he does have some cool shit. I love it. He does have some cool, all the Texas guys do and Texas people and Oklahoma folks buy the most merchandise. They do. I can say that. That's accurate. They support because they know how, they know how it all works with, especially
Speaker 2 00:34:45 If, if you've got a damn Ozzy, holy crap. I don't know why we freak out about those
Speaker 1 00:34:48 Things. So you, she, so you call it a Cozi, not a huggy.
Speaker 2 00:34:50 I don't know what a huggy is. That's
Speaker 1 00:34:52 What I say.
Speaker 2 00:34:53 But it's definitely an a Cozi <laugh>. I had
Speaker 1 00:34:55 A lady, I had a lady. I think it was, it was Tuscaloosa wasn't it? Might have been Tuscaloosa. Are you sure
Speaker 2 00:35:00 She's talking about a Cozzi? Cause she could have been asking you for a huggie. Yeah, that might be something totally different.
Speaker 1 00:35:05 My man. Well I was, she was like, Hey I'll take two Huggies. And I was like, what do you mean huggie? I'm not even one huggie. I think like little kids drink, you know, I think of a diaper. I don't
Speaker 2 00:35:15 Know what I think of think I don't think it's
Speaker 1 00:35:16 Appropriate though. I think of a diaper. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:35:18 Yeah. I
Speaker 1 00:35:18 Like, I'm like, what do you mean huggy? You want me to give you a hug? You want a diaper? And she's like, no, I a huggie. Then she pointed at the Kie. I'm like, that's a Kie.
Speaker 2 00:35:24 Yeah, that's aie. I don't know what that is. I don't know what a huggie is. That's
Speaker 1 00:35:27 Weird. But but some people call it huggie. I was very confused
Speaker 2 00:35:29 Cause Oh if that was in Oklahoma, I don't take responsibility for that. That's weird.
Speaker 1 00:35:33 Alabama It was. That makes sense. It was, it was the deep south. It was the south It was definitely, it
Speaker 3 00:35:37 Was like Tuscaloosa, which with being a college town she could have been from anywhere. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 00:35:42 Yeah. So, so as far as like shows and stuff, have you done like the college circuit yet with going around and doing some of those shows in?
Speaker 2 00:35:48 We haven't really got to do the college circuit yet. We've done all the fair, um, and festival circuits and things like that. Um, especially up northern, um, parts of like, um, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and um, all those kind of things we made as far as South Jersey and did the festival Fair circuit thing. Really?
Speaker 1 00:36:02 Where in South Jersey?
Speaker 2 00:36:04 We actually got to play, we did the Lycoming County Fair in Pennsylvania and then we ran over to South Jersey the next day, um, to play, um, in Atlantic City. No shit. Um, and we did this whole a show for just this huge like sea turtle recovery. Um, that's awesome. And it was so sweet. And we're gonna go back and do it again this July cause wasn't
Speaker 1 00:36:19 So much fun. What'd you think of Atlantic City? It's an interesting place.
Speaker 2 00:36:22 We, we were there for less than 24 hours. Oh shit. You know how it is. So it was like, didn't get to go see it. Wanted to go and do the boardwalk thing so freaking bad. But like the storm came in Rider Storm as the, like as soon as the show ended, the storm came in and like we weren't just gonna go walk around in it. Every
Speaker 1 00:36:35 Time, every time I've been to an outdoor show in, in um, Atlantic City, a storms come in and it's had to end early every time. And I've been to like five of them.
Speaker 2 00:36:42 We were lucky. Ours was inside. We played Caesar's Palace, but oh dope. We, that's awesome. We get to go and like play the um, whatever. And that was, that's also one the shows that sticks out. Cause it wasn't a huge ticket sales thing, nothing like that was in the audience, but just the theater that you got to play in and like on the production side, you get it. Like getting to go and sing somewhere where you're gonna sound good. Holy crap. It was so special.
Speaker 1 00:37:01 And, and, and a girl from, from from Oklahoma going and playing in South Jersey and having that experience. It was so cool getting to see The country's pretty cool, isn't
Speaker 2 00:37:08 It? Yeah, it was beautiful. Especially coming from that side, coming from Pennsylvania. It was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 00:37:12 Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:37:12 Those mountains are gorgeous. I lived up there.
Speaker 2 00:37:14 Those blow my mind, especially from Oklahoma. Cause I never realized how flat Oklahoma was. I was like, I'd drive to school and it goes like this. Like it's not that flat
Speaker 1 00:37:21 <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:37:22 Like I really didn't think. I was like, guys, we have elevation. Like it's not a big deal, but like no, it, it's totally weird. I mean I remember driving through the Smokies for the first time and I just cried and I was like, this is three hours from where I live now. And like, yeah,
Speaker 3 00:37:33 That's scary.
Speaker 1 00:37:33 Oh, it's so cool. And those and those declines and inclines and you're watching those trucks go down this
Speaker 2 00:37:38 Crazy, I mean it so long. Crazy. Someone had to explain to me so long what those, those truck ramps are like the runoff ones, like the runaway trucks. I couldn't figure out, oh, I can't figure out why. The truck lanes on the outside and the, the runaway truck lanes on the inside, like they're gonna have to cross on that
Speaker 1 00:37:51 Traffic in front, in front of somebody. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:37:52 Literally to go up on it. But other than that, you know, it seems like a good idea. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:37:55 And you and, and North Carolina's the real crazy one. Those, I haven't been through those mountains yet. We're probably, I think we're going through 'em this weekend. Uh, no, but um, no, not actually. Okay. Well, well anyway, Tyler's told me about those, what do you, the app, like they're mountains.
Speaker 2 00:38:07 I've heard about that and I've, my
Speaker 3 00:38:08 Favorite place is like Black Mountain, North Carolina. I don't know if you've been out there. I
Speaker 2 00:38:12 Haven't been out there, but I've heard about it and I can't
Speaker 3 00:38:13 Imagine. So it's like on the other side of Asheville. I have a crazy story about how I discovered it, but that's for another time. But, uh, <laugh>, but my favorite place, I used to seriously go out there for like a week or two every fall. That's you. So cool. And just like chill out there and write and stuff like that. So cool. That's so cool. If I ever get a retirement home, that's where it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 00:38:35 <laugh>. Yes. Host a riders retreat. It'll be a blast. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:38:38 Yeah. Have you got on any of those?
Speaker 2 00:38:40 I hosted my first one last year. Um, and we're doing it again in January and it was a blast. It was the funnest time I've ever had. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:38:46 I hear
Speaker 2 00:38:47 The those on, we got just cabins and, and Blue Ridge and Georgia and um, it was all provided. It was just by this cabin company that like loves live music and they're like, Hey, will you just come stay awake in our cabins? Whatever you want. It was like a $506 or $600 a night cabin that we got for free for a week. And it was amazing. And it was a blast and we got to write stuff and just hang out with my friends and it was really cool. Yeah. Riders retreats are sweet.
Speaker 3 00:39:10 Blues mountains are really nice too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:39:12 Was they're wonder cool. It it was really cool.
Speaker 3 00:39:14 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:39:15 Yeah. No, that, that sounds awesome. And George is a cool spot too. Have you gotten the gig out there at all?
Speaker 2 00:39:19 We played at a winery through the thing, um, and then we play, um, in uh, Woodstock next week actually. Oh no shit. The Mad Life Theater, which we're stoked. Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 00:39:29 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:39:29 There you go. Stoked about, that's our last travel show of the year and we're really excited about it.
Speaker 1 00:39:33 So you're playing into into December, which not a lot of people do.
Speaker 2 00:39:36 Oh yeah. No, I chose my last, my last day was December 8th and we just continued that shows Ma <laugh>. It actually didn't work, which is a blessing no doubt. But,
Speaker 1 00:39:44 But, but no, but but that's cool that you've got that incentive to want to go out there and gig. Cause a lot of people are like by like November or even even October, they're like, we're done for the year, but the fact that you're going out,
Speaker 2 00:39:55 I don't dunno how much those people save up for Christmas, but I gotta pay for some Christmas gifts, so
Speaker 1 00:39:59 I'm might keep doing this and, and, and I was making our money on the road. We're grateful. Our last show of the year in is actually in, um, we're in Art War Oklahoma and we're in Dallas. We're doing some shows with Co Wezel and
Speaker 3 00:40:10 That's the 27th and the 28th of the seventh
Speaker 2 00:40:12 Freely. Yeah. We're, we're going down to Dallas the 30th for the Winter Classic. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:40:17 The
Speaker 3 00:40:17 Fred Game. See, I was supposed to go to that. Yeah, I was supposed to go to that, but kind of figured that you can get really drunk at a bar for the price of a ticket for really far away.
Speaker 2 00:40:27 Easily. Easily. Yeah. No, I, I bought my jersey actually last week off of a Blues fan. Someone bought her a winter classic jersey. I don't know why. And she was like, someone just take
Speaker 1 00:40:35 This bucks. Here you
Speaker 2 00:40:36 Go. I've one I from China, I want one. China's
Speaker 1 00:40:39 Good. He's a China jersey. I have
Speaker 2 00:40:41 A couple jerseys
Speaker 1 00:40:41 From China. Get
Speaker 3 00:40:42 That bucks. It's 18 bucks.
Speaker 1 00:40:43 I've ordered, I've, I've ordered jerseys from China and they've come out horribly.
Speaker 2 00:40:47 Mine turned out great, but I have seen some bad, Matt's
Speaker 3 00:40:49 Like the guy that's like, what's the cheapest one? I'm like the one that I'll sit there for hours and read reviews and I'm just like, dude, I like look at all the photos. I'm like, all right. Yeah. That's, that's the closest one. So
Speaker 1 00:40:59 I'm, so I'm a big Yankees Giants guy and my Yankees jersey looks decent. Yeah, it looks okay. It'll get by the average, the average person. But the Giants one is like a Carolina Panthers Blue <laugh>. And the Giants Blue is just not that colored blue and like the collar's all messed up. Yeah. And it's a safe one. Like I want to get a Barclay jersey, like he's awesome, but I paid like five bucks. I'll bucks you. I feel like five bucks.
Speaker 2 00:41:20 I dunno how it happened, but my sister's like the biggest Giants fan. Oh hell. And I, hell yeah. Just dunno. Hell, I don't know. Not that I don't like Giants, I just don't dunno how it happened. But she, she's a huge Giants and me fan. I don't know why. Really?
Speaker 1 00:41:30 Well, the, well the meds, I, I could kind of get it like again. And your dad's had a history in New York. Yeah. Like I remember like, like seeing the video clips of Central Park and Yeah. Playing at Chase Stadium with Billy Joel. Like that's freaking, it was dope to play anything with Billy Joel. Literally. Yeah. Is freaking, it's freaking legendary and stuff, so I maybe, maybe that could be the Mets thing, but
Speaker 2 00:41:49 Could be Totally. Could be
Speaker 1 00:41:50 Giants. I have no idea though. Cause Yeah, I
Speaker 2 00:41:52 Don't knows. I
Speaker 1 00:41:52 Giants, giants all over the place and stuff, so, so for you, so you got the music on Spotify, you got the music on Apple Music. Uh, where can people find you on like the social media and stuff?
Speaker 2 00:42:01 Um, my handles are all Ally Coleen music. Um, so Instagram, Facebook, all that stuff. YouTube, ally, Coleen music, um, Twitters underscore Ally Coleen. I'm convinced that I own the Ally Coleen one that I made, you know, like in college or something and forgot to log in. But that one's the only one that's different. It's underscore Ally Coleen. Um, but yeah, you can find me anywhere. My website's, Allie Coleen music, you can always find where we're gonna be at on our tour tab there, all those kind of things. Nice.
Speaker 1 00:42:23 Awesome. Badass. Oh yeah. So we always wrap this thing up with, uh, with our guest playing the song for us. Absolutely. What's what song would you like to play for us?
Speaker 2 00:42:32 So I'm gonna play you guys one of my favorites. Um, I'm gonna play Playing House. Um, it's about one of my best friends. I don't think she'll ever know it though. Kind of puts words in their mouth that aren't a little fair. But playing House. Just a good old story song for you guys.
Speaker 1 00:42:43 Oh, badass. How long did you write this one?
Speaker 2 00:42:46 We wrote this one. I wrote it with Billy Dawson and Jason Matthews probably four or five months ago. Okay. Just been playing it up since.
Speaker 1 00:42:54 Just love it. And now is this one that would be on, on the Future Project? Yes. Yeah. Oh, badass. Okay. Sweet. Yeah. Awesome. Love hearing that, that, um, this one will be coming out and stuff. So, um, so anyway, you guys, thank you for listening. Make sure you follow along with Ellie. Colleen, thank you so much for coming out. Thank you guys. Especially with, with how busy people are, especially songwriters in this town. Like, anytime they say that it's dead season in town, everybody, it's the winter, so things kind of slow down, but they really don't. Yeah, they really don't.
Speaker 2 00:43:18 They really don't. This is actually, I think my last week to write. I have a write every day this week and then I think I'm done for us.
Speaker 1 00:43:22 Hell, that's awesome. So
Speaker 3 00:43:24 I'll make sure I, I forgot to tell you this before we started on the air. This will be our last episode of the year. Oh
Speaker 1 00:43:30 Really? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:43:31 So last episode of 2019 before we started into 2020. Oh
Speaker 1 00:43:35 Damn. Look at that. Ending the year in a super high note when we pick all Coleen here. Yeah. Well thank you guys. This is, we started this thing back in March, so this is,
Speaker 3 00:43:44 Yeah, thank y'all for the first year. Yeah. Also, uh, tonight we'll have a writer's round. Yeah. November 30th. Yeah. At Live Oak. 7:00 PM
Speaker 1 00:43:50 November, December 30th.
Speaker 3 00:43:51 December 30th,
Speaker 1 00:43:52 Whatever. December 30th. We're gonna have a writer's round tonight recording things in, you know, how the future stuff Love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta love it. So, um, so thank you guys for listening all year long. Make sure you follow us along, um, at, in The Round podcast. We should have a website hopefully soon. We have been working on that since episode one and Jacob
Speaker 3 00:44:07 Wasn't the hibernation. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:44:08 Yeah, yeah. Jacob, Jacob the redneck. Our, our, um, our hillbilly, uh, website guy that was gonna help us <laugh>. We kinda lost him. He, he went off in his truck somewhere and we, we we're still searching for him.
Speaker 3 00:44:18 Think it broke down out in the woods somewhere. We don't know. He's fixing it.
Speaker 1 00:44:21 We're trying to find out. But um, and, and YouTube and all that stuff we're hoping to do better with in 2020. But thank you guys for
Speaker 3 00:44:27 Lot of big things planned for 2020 guys. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 00:44:29 Absolutely. Now without further ado, here's Miss Ali. Colleen, y'all been listening to the In the Round podcast.
Speaker 4 00:44:45 The Hourglass is correct and sand Down doing the same damn thing. Tell so tell wind, are we just playing? Loved me. He loved but enough wind for something more. What? Tell me, we've been doing this for so long, so long. Can you tell, I can tell Wind.
