Brent Michael

Speaker 1 00:00:13 What is up? Welcome back to the In the Round podcast. You got Matt Tyler. What up Poda Bear. And we have got ourselves a great guys and looking forward to talking to this guy. We met him last weekend or two weeks ago, up in Clarks Boats. Our good buddy, Brent. Michael. Brent, how you doing, brother? What's Speaker 2 00:00:29 Up boys? How y'all Speaker 1 00:00:30 Doing? Dude, it's a, uh, it's a Tuesday. We usually record on a Monday and everybody's kind of recovering from the weekend. But Tuesday I feel like it's kind of the same thing, you know, like, it's still early in the week. Speaker 3 00:00:39 It's, I mean, Sunday Speaker 2 00:00:40 In this town it is because, I mean, you gotta think about the, uh, the industry itself. There's always something. There's an excuse to, to do something. So, yeah. Speaker 1 00:00:47 Oh, Speaker 2 00:00:48 Absolutely. There's Whiskey Jam on Monday. Yes, Speaker 1 00:00:50 Actually, yeah. This, yeah, I didn't, we didn't end up making it out there last night. We used, I had to Speaker 3 00:00:55 Work last night, Speaker 2 00:00:56 So neither did I. I I sat down, I read Harry Potter <laugh>. Speaker 1 00:00:59 You read Harry Potter? What? Which Speaker 2 00:01:00 One? The third one. Third one? Yeah. Prisoner of as Man. Oh shit. Nice. I got, I got a secret side. To me that's a little intellectual <laugh>. Speaker 1 00:01:07 Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. That's, Hey, you're reading more books than I've read and I've read since I've read in years. I don't, I don't even read books. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:01:14 I think I just have a bookshelf at home. Like it's full of books, but I haven't read a single one. They're all, most of 'em were textbooks from college <laugh>. Speaker 2 00:01:20 It's for whenever you bring a girl home, but you look at this guy, he's got Speaker 3 00:01:25 Himself Speaker 2 00:01:25 Together, Speaker 3 00:01:25 You're smart. But like, I made it through five years of college without reading a textbook. So, Speaker 1 00:01:31 I mean, you did major in guitar, so there you go. But like, it's more of an, Speaker 3 00:01:34 But I went in business, like I had marketing and like all that kind of stuff. I still didn't use textbooks. Then there was actually a class, the guy was like, yo, here's an extra credit project. If you get it, you get like 15 points added to your grade, but if you don't, you get 15 points subtracted from your grade. And he's like, read the book. And I just like, kind of skimmed through the night before. And I was like, ah, I think I got it. And went in and took the test and made a hundred on it and got the 15 points. And later he was like, how many of y'all didn't read the book? And I like, raised my hand and he's like, you did the best in the class. Speaker 2 00:02:05 <laugh>. Speaker 1 00:02:06 Oh man. Sometimes it works out that way. So, Mr. Brent, do you, um, so you live here in Nashville now, but originally Mr. Speaker 2 00:02:13 Brent. I Speaker 1 00:02:14 Brent, why not? You know, you want me to say Mrs. Brent? I mean, it's 2019. Captain should happened. Captain, captain sergeant Major. Yeah. But, but so, so you're originally from down, you said Louisiana and Texas, sir. So you're background a little bit. Yes, sir. You got some Cajun in you, so you know what the term kunas means? Speaker 2 00:02:30 Absolutely. All right. Sweet. Yeah. So, um, yeah, no, so I was, uh, I was born in Louisiana and then I, shortly after I, I, uh, was like, whenever I was young, I moved to Houston and just basically grew up in the, uh, the stereotypical Friday night lights type of atmosphere down in Texas. Speaker 3 00:02:47 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:48 Yes. And so, I mean, like six a high school football graduated with like 1200 in my class, almost <laugh>. And, uh, yeah. And it was, um, it, it kind of, it kind of shaped, honestly, honestly, if I didn't grow up in that environment, um, with the, uh, with the, like, the amount of, um, like, I guess com like competition, I probably would've never pursued music the way that I, I have like diving into it because there's just so much, like you're, you're literally going against hundreds of kids for whatever you're doing, whether you're in band or, or football, baseball, doesn't matter what it is. If you're in any extra extracurricular activity, you gotta like, compete with tons of people. And so whenever I moved out to Nashville, or I made that decision after I graduated high school, I was like, yeah, but I've done this stuff before. Like, I, I know what competition's like. And so Speaker 1 00:03:33 What position were you playing on the field? Uh, Speaker 2 00:03:35 As linebacker. Speaker 1 00:03:36 Oh, shit. Nice. You were, you were hitting people and you were popping face. Were you got, were you, were you guys the three, four or fourth grade? Speaker 2 00:03:41 Well, so we, um, we kind of had like, I was almost like a, a Von Miller type of position where I was like a standup dn linebacker position. Okay. Uh, edge rusher and, um, but yeah, no, I was, it was like a, I guess you can call it like, like a three four, but, um, I was like the nickel defensive end. Yeah. And yeah, so I, I played Speaker 3 00:04:01 Defensive end and nose guard <laugh>. Well, Speaker 1 00:04:05 No shit. Look at you. Yeah. Nose guard. Speaker 3 00:04:07 I was, I was a little bit slim then. So Speaker 1 00:04:08 Just, just the big, just the big, I I was a center in high school. I did not wanna have Speaker 3 00:04:13 To, my senior year of football, we had 19 kids on the team, <laugh>, eighth through 12th grade. Speaker 2 00:04:18 Dude, we had kids that had, so we had so many kids on our team that some kids on the varsity had to wear JV jerseys cuz we ran outta numbers <laugh>. So like the varsity jerseys went all the way up to 99. Yeah. We had kids that, that couldn't, like, there's too many kids and we didn't have, we in baseball we cut, but in football we didn't. Yeah. Yeah. And so those kids that were like the, they were a subpar <laugh>. Yeah. And they, um, they had to wear some JV jerseys. You're Speaker 3 00:04:43 Blue five. Yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:44 Exactly. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:45 So you guys must have looked like an army out there on the sideline. Cause I remember going against schools like that up in New York, dude. Speaker 2 00:04:50 We had a, like a, so our district had like a 60 million complex that they built just for football. Jesus. And the whole district would play there. Wow. Every, and they would just like substitute like times and games. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:02 Wow. That, that is crazy. So, so coming from Texas, the Texas music scene obviously huge in country music. Yeah. What factored into your decision to come to Nashville? Because there's a lot of guys and girls that are out in Texas that stay out there and, and work that scene. Cause you can, you can make an honest living and really grow as an artist, just Yeah. Torn around Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana. Well, Speaker 2 00:05:22 You know what, um, I like to consider, like, I consider myself a very honest artist, uh, yeah. An honest, uh, musician. And, um, so to me, whenever you talk about the, the Texas, uh, music scene, it's very, um, it's, it's, it's a lot more southern than what I was raised in. Okay. So I was, I was raised in s like suburbia. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:05:44 <laugh>, Speaker 2 00:05:45 Like just literally this most suburban area of, um, Houston that you could think of. Was it Speaker 3 00:05:51 The Woodlands? Speaker 2 00:05:52 So we play the Woodlands, like we, yeah. Speaker 3 00:05:56 One of my best friends Speaker 1 00:05:56 In college is from the Woodlands. So Speaker 2 00:05:59 Yeah. So, so we basically, we grew up in like that type of, it's just Yeah. You have Houston, you have the greater Houston areas. Yeah. And so Woodlands is one of them. Cypress is where I grew up in, that's one of them as well. Okay. Saying that, um, down in Houston, it's, it's southern, but it's almost like urban southern. Yeah. And so my, whenever I grew up, I was listening to a, to a lot of Southern music, um, whenever it comes to country, but also like hip hop as well. Yeah. You know, like Mike Jones and like Paul Wall, you know? Yeah. You know, like, so I'm listening, like I'm, I'm, I was influenced by that type of music. And, um, whenever I started playing the guitar and I started growing up a little bit more and like becoming, uh, more of a musician, I was, I didn't wanna plagiarize what Texas country is because Texas co Texas country is a culture. Yeah. And where I grew up, it wasn't necessarily a part of that culture. Um, don't get me wrong. I can go play in any venue in Texas and, and, and be a, a Texas country artist. Do what Speaker 1 00:06:50 You gotta do. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:06:51 Yeah. But my style fit more of the mainstream Nashville country scene. Okay. And so there are these guys, like from like West Texas or from Midland, like Midland for example. Like the band. Like they're from those areas and that's, I mean, they have like two stoplights in their town. Yeah. You know, I didn't grow up like that. Yeah. And so I'm not gonna plagiarize. I could have easily done that. I could have easily plagiarized and put on the accent and gone and done the Texas country scene and that would've been easier. But I wanted to kind of push the limits and say, you know what, if I think I'm the shit, then I'm gonna go and and go after Nashville. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:22 And be in an environment Yeah. Where, where people are doing, cuz such a, a big part of this town that I've noticed, and I don't do any writing myself. I just get to hang out with people that are bad asses and do the music thing for a living and stuff. But co-writing is huge. Yeah. And for you, Cori, I've heard like co-writing, it's such a big thing of having a vibe with somebody, like having a similar background or having a similar kind of style mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And if your style's more that modern style, like, like today's country of what's coming outta Nashville, it's gonna do so it's gonna help you so much being in that <crosstalk>. Speaker 2 00:07:52 Yeah, absolutely. And, and you got, Nashville nowadays is starting to turn into a town. It's almost like the, uh, it's like the prehistoric LA where like, now that you got so many people from so many different industries coming in here, whether it's like modeling or like different types of music, you have like EDM music people out here now. Speaker 1 00:08:07 Yeah. Yeah. Oh Speaker 2 00:08:08 Yeah. And so for me, I have like, my, my best friend, his name's Matt McVay, he, he produces, um, he, he's produced a lot of big records, but he's a young guy. And, um, we kind of sat down, we, knowing that I was ready last year and said, and he knew I was going through like a, a certain time in my life, like a breakup and stuff. Okay. He's like, let's just write some music. So we did that. But he has that, that pop side like to him and like that, um, that more urban southern side, that's why we consider myself is is an urban country. Like, I wouldn't say pop country cuz my stuff is, it almost sounds a little more, bit more track. Like, it, it has a little, little bit more, um, depth to it. Like a little bit more, um, I guess substance. It's more grounded and it is a little bit more muddy. Okay. It's not as, um, not as upbeat and poppy and Yeah. Speaker 1 00:08:55 It's got like that, that vibe to it where, where the lyrics and stuff it can be, it can have like a darker feel to it. Yeah, exactly. Like you're getting in your feelings kind of thing. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:03 Exactly. And I, and I could still, I could still obviously make an upbeat song, but I'm very true to myself as an artist. I've been here for four years and I've been able to kind of figure myself out and, uh, and I know I know who I am now. And it is, I would say moving here at 19 was huge for me because it allowed me to kind of figure myself out. You know? It was, it was more, yeah. Yeah. I Speaker 1 00:09:22 Gotta ask, well what, as a guy that works on Broadway and stuff, and, and I know how, how big it is to be 21 in this, what was it like moving here at 19? Speaker 2 00:09:30 Um, well, like one of the big things for me was I, I was, I had a fake, okay. So I had a fake id and, and the, one of my best friends in the world, he's like, him and I still work together. We lived together for a while. Um, his name's Alan Geiger. He actually does the Artist Noise podcast. Okay. Yeah. That's like one of his, um, his side projects. But, um, he's like one of the first guys that I met in town and we lived in the same apartment complex and he, he could tell I was young as hell. Yeah. He was young as hell, man. He was like 26. Yeah. And I was able to come, go out and hang out with him and, um, because I had this fake ID and I got to meet a lot of people. So I've, I've rooted, um, friendships out here. Speaker 2 00:10:08 And that's the cool thing about right now, I'm 24 and I have these relationships with guys that are now, they have families now they're, they're adults and they, they've been able to like, do big things in this town and I'm still able to like, at least be around them and be around their lifestyle because they're doing big things in this town. And it helps me. It's like an advantage. And so being 19 or Yeah, under 21 was great, but I had to have that fake. Yeah. Oh, if I didn't have that fake dude, I was, I, what, what was I gonna do? Being in coffee shops? Like, like, Hey, what's up man? Speaker 1 00:10:37 <laugh>. Yeah. No, a absolutely. And what was your first impression of Nashville coming out here from Houston? Cuz Houston, huge city and you're in the, the outskirts of it. So you grew up going into that street, Speaker 2 00:10:46 You know, like, uh, Houston is just so spread out cause there's so many different, there's like three different skylines over there. Really? So there's so many. Yeah. There's so many different areas to Houston. Like, there's a Galleria area, there's Midtown, there's a high, it's like, it's, there's so many different areas of Houston, Nashville. You just have Nashville and literally you squeeze, squeeze it in and make it one condensed area. And it's one big small town. And so you got, you got like a pro football team, a pro hockey team, and then you got the music scene itself. It's all right in like a four square mile radius. Yeah. Yeah. And like the Houston's sound like, so for me, I was like, wow, this is all right here. Yeah. Like in this one spot. Speaker 1 00:11:23 Yeah. Like even the way, the way that the river is like East Nashville's not far, no. From downtown. You can, that's why I love the scooters. R i p to the scooters by the way. They're still Speaker 2 00:11:32 Here for how long though? The scooter. Speaker 1 00:11:34 I freaking love those things. I could get from one end of town to the other for a dollar. I think you'd Speaker 2 00:11:38 Pop by a semi. Speaker 1 00:11:40 Hey, you gotta be smart on 'em. We've had our moments. Cody bear knows about those moments. We've had, uh, scooter adventures. Yeah. That's put little bear about his, uh, knee over at Nissan Stadium. His knee at Nissan Stadium or the, or the stair or the staircases at the, Speaker 3 00:11:53 Yeah, he tried to jump up a staircase and like, he Speaker 1 00:11:56 Tried to jump up one I've been with you Speaker 3 00:11:57 When you jumped down him. He, he, he successfully did it twice, but both times he banged his knee on the pole, Jesus of the scooter. And then the last time he's like, dude, I think like I really like hurt myself. Like he was hurt that day. It was his birthday. We were going around drinking and riding scooters. We were already buzzing though. Oh yeah. Like we were Speaker 1 00:12:14 Oh, that was earlier in the, that was before, that was before the Wild Beaver. Speaker 3 00:12:17 Oh yeah. This was whenever y'all were still at work. This was like four o'clock in the afternoon. Speaker 1 00:12:21 Oh Christ. Oh man. But yeah, the Scoot having like, the scooters and stuff, like, it's the, like midtown to downtown is so close and stuff. Yeah. Well, Speaker 2 00:12:28 And that's why it's convenient. Like in a city, like again, like Houston, it would feel weird to have those scooters. Cause you're gonna be, you're gonna be riding those things for a while. Speaker 1 00:12:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:37 You're not going anywhere soon. Speaker 3 00:12:39 So the other day I actually took a scooter from Midtown to my house over on my old house over on Charlotte Pike. You know where county? I, Speaker 2 00:12:48 I live over on Charlotte Park. So Speaker 3 00:12:49 I live like right next to Climb Nashville. Speaker 2 00:12:51 Okay. I'm, I'm like right by the, uh, the target in the, uh Speaker 3 00:12:54 Oh, so you're, you're out there a little bit. You're out in West Nashville? Yeah, I'm a little bit out there. Yeah. But still, like, that was a, that was a pretty good thing. I couldn't imagine like, you know, how you're talking like spread out and all like having to do that so much. Yeah. Cause Speaker 2 00:13:07 Well, and it's, it's literally, it's, it's weird because the amount of density they have in each spot of Houston, so like each area, like the Galleria area or like the Heights area, it's so much compact in one spot and it feels like just two separate cities. But they're so close at the same time. They're within like two miles from each other. Like those areas. So they, that's why Houston's so big that like, the, the space. It's almost like, man, just move that out like another 15 miles. And that's another city. Yeah. Yeah. But it's not because it's, it's, they're relatively close and so they just consider Oh, that's Houston as well. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's weird. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:13:43 So now being from Houston, big Astro fan. Speaker 2 00:13:46 Huge Astro fan. Huge. Speaker 1 00:13:48 We'll see, we'll see you in October, buddy. We'll see, Speaker 2 00:13:50 You'll see. I know you're a Yankees guy, but we'll Speaker 3 00:13:53 See. We'll, you October I'm a brave fan, but you know, I'd cheer for Houston. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:13:55 Well you know what? Cuz we used to play y'all, um, in the nl. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, and so I, I like the bras I support. I was the brave Speaker 3 00:14:02 Big like, uh, Biggio Bagwell fan. Speaker 2 00:14:04 The, the Killer Bees. Biggio. Bagwell Berkman. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:14:09 Do you play like mlb? Like I'd always trade for those three. Speaker 2 00:14:11 Yeah. Dude, there's, that's, and you know, um, GIOS Kid is now playing, he's playing left for, uh, Toronto. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:14:17 Him and Vlad. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:19 Guro is playing third. Speaker 1 00:14:21 Ceci just went against him and he said in his postgame press conference, they asked what's it like facing Vlad Jr. He is like, well, when I'm playing, um, he played Speaker 2 00:14:29 Senior. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:14:30 Yeah. He's he played both of them. Yeah. Like for a long time in his career. He is like, that means it's time for me to, because he's, this is his last year's retire. He's like, you know, it's time for me to go away, hang Speaker 2 00:14:38 It up. When Speaker 1 00:14:38 Vio and Vlad Jr. Are, are playing in the mlb, you know, when he is basic, those guys, Speaker 3 00:14:43 Blue Jays have like a couple other guys that are juniors that, like their dad's played, uh, in mlb, like had career shit. If Speaker 2 00:14:50 I was the gm, I'd be doing the same Speaker 1 00:14:52 Up on those guys. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:54 I'd be taking Junior Jeter Jr Rodriguez Jr. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:14:58 Griff. I mean the Braves have a Kya Jr. That's that's a great one. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:01 He's, he's gonna be like the next dude. He's a stud dude. He is a that old, Speaker 3 00:15:06 The young guys that we have coming up. Like what Speaker 2 00:15:08 Do you think about Dansby? Speaker 3 00:15:10 Dansby is good. Um, he's really turned it around this year, man. Speaker 2 00:15:12 Yeah, I was about to say, cuz he, he was kind of rock. He, he was, he lit on fire whenever he came out, but Speaker 3 00:15:17 He was, so he, uh, kinda in the, the all season he contacted Chipper and was like, yo, dude, I gotta like fix my batting stuff. And Chipper's like, oh, I can give you stuff, but you gotta work on it yourself. Like, I can't fix you. Like you gotta fix yourself. And he spent all off season, like really, like with Chipper and honing in on like a lot of stuff. And he's like turning around. He's actually having a good, I mean, he's bating good. Yeah. He's batting second in lineup right now and doing pretty good. I think he's batting like 2 86. Speaker 1 00:15:42 That's, that's a tough lineup to bat. Second in, there's a lot of guys that could hit number two in that order. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:47 Yeah. No, I mean, so because I'm looking, I'm looking at you right now. I'm looking at Matt thinking about the, the Stross and Astros rivalry, but yeah, I mean not, sorry, the Stro in, um, and bras rivalry and I'm just, uh, Yankees, I keep seeing Braves Yankees. I'm, Speaker 1 00:16:02 Is it, is it weird to still see him in the American League? Speaker 2 00:16:05 Yes, absolutely. Because you gotta think we, I'm, I wanna see us play Poh holes in the Cardinals. Yeah. That's our thing anymore. Yeah. And, but thinking about the Yankees now, them being a rival to us because it's a postseason rivalry. I mean, y'all, the year that we won, y'all had us like Yeah, Speaker 1 00:16:22 I was at, I was at, I believe it was game five or game six or game four. I was at one of 'em and I was sitting in left field at Yankee Stadium and it was the one where Chase Hedley, who I hit one of my least favorite Yankees all the time. I fucking hate Chase Hedley. Yeah. It was awful in the field. And he didn't hit for shit, but he had like two big heads to that game. Yeah. That's my boy. And Brett Gardner. And I was like, fuck. And we were chirping, who was the guy? We were chirping? Marlin, Marlin, za Mar, Speaker 2 00:16:44 Marlin Speaker 1 00:16:45 Gonzalez. We were chirping Marlin Mar Marlin. What kind of name is Marvin? We were, we were giving him, giving him shit out in left field. But that was a good series. I will say the Astros are a very fun team to watch. It's just a rotation we're so fucking tough to go against. Speaker 2 00:16:57 We're, um, the, the good thing about it is that we're very young. Yes. You know, and, and we have that Core four. We got Altuve, Cara, Bregman Springer. Yes. And those, as long as we keep those four, we're always gonna be a contentious Speaker 1 00:17:09 Take. Take a note outta our book from 20 years ago. We have, we had, and we had Jeter Pasada, uh, Petit Rivera. You can throw Berg Williams in there. Yeah. Now with us and, and the Braves Speaker 3 00:17:17 Freeman. Okya Speaker 1 00:17:19 Freeman. And a young guy though, Freeman's League Speaker 3 00:17:21 Freeman's still in his twenties. Is he really? Yeah. He's like 26, 27. No way. Speaker 1 00:17:26 I didn't know Speaker 2 00:17:26 That. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:17:27 I'm gonna look that up cuz there is no, I I feel like Speaker 3 00:17:31 Julio's 26. Speaker 1 00:17:32 When, when were these guys starting for, they were like 16. Like what the hell? Speaker 3 00:17:36 No, Speaker 1 00:17:36 Dude, I feel like Freddie Freeman's been in baseball forever. Speaker 3 00:17:39 Yeah. He's only been here. Speaker 2 00:17:40 I feel like the name just sounds like it's a baseball name. Him and Speaker 1 00:17:44 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:17:45 Feels like Speaker 3 00:17:45 Came up same year. Jesus. Yeah. And he, he, I think he was a little bit younger than Hayward, but Yeah, no, he Freeman we still got him for a while. And then you got Ozzy and you got, uh, una and then you've got like the other guys. Like you've got, uh, Speaker 1 00:18:00 Riley, Speaker 3 00:18:01 Riley coming on strong right now. That dude, he has his Benny Homers right now. I like Speaker 2 00:18:05 A Speaker 3 00:18:06 Man, Speaker 2 00:18:06 Dude. Speaker 1 00:18:07 I like Okya a lot. I'm, I'm, I'm happy he of the National league. We won't have to see him until end October. Speaker 3 00:18:11 There's, there's a couple guys in the minors. One's, uh, Christian Patchy and he's coming up probably next year and he's gonna be right there at that same level. Speaker 1 00:18:20 Yeah. I'm hoping it's a Yankees Braves world series. Cuz I already get enough shit for being a Yankees fan. I get enough shit for being a New Yorker down here. But to see the, Speaker 2 00:18:27 At least you're from, honestly I'll say this because it is so easy to, to be a Red Sox or Yankees fan. Yeah. From, from outta state. Yeah. Or like outta area. And at least you're from Jersey area. And, and Yeah. And so I I can respect that. Speaker 1 00:18:41 I I appreciate that. I could, I Speaker 2 00:18:43 Could talk shit to you like confidently knowing that it's gonna hit you in the soul <laugh>. Oh Speaker 1 00:18:46 Dude. And it does, because the Astros are just such a pain in ass team. Like, I'd much rather face clean. Well, you got, you got, Speaker 2 00:18:52 We're going through Speaker 3 00:18:54 Stan, by the way. Speaker 2 00:18:55 Oh, I, yeah, we did give you all kale. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:18:59 Thinks Speaker 2 00:18:59 Gonna be. Yeah, I know. Dude. I thought he was gonna go to the Yankees. He's gonna have to shave his beer. Speaker 1 00:19:03 Oh, dude. Yeah. That was gonna be a big deal. Speaker 3 00:19:05 I, I think that was, Speaker 2 00:19:06 That might have been like the deal for Speaker 1 00:19:07 Real. Speaker 2 00:19:08 He might be like, fuck this. This is my trademark. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:19:10 Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the things also they said the Yankees didn't offer him as much money as the Braves did. Speaker 2 00:19:15 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:19:15 No. Once in the, once Speaker 1 00:19:17 Once in the, Speaker 2 00:19:17 I will say this, I'm not like, not Kai cool. If you're listening to this, I'm not talking shit <laugh>, but dude, since it's s young year, man, he just hasn't been putting him up. Yeah. And like, whenever Verlander came through, I mean, it, it, it kind of not, I wouldn't say exposed, but it definitely showed like a class difference where Yes. Speaker 1 00:19:33 Where Speaker 2 00:19:34 Verlander came in and you go, oh shit. He's, he's Speaker 1 00:19:37 A, he's a once in a generation kind of Speaker 2 00:19:39 Picture. Yeah. And, and he kind of made that, but Kiel is still an, an a, like, he, he's an a pitcher. Like he, he's an A plus guy. Like star Speaker 3 00:19:46 Mean star Our ace before this, I mean, you could argue faulty is Ty's a great picture, but he's just been having a bad year. We sent him back to Triple A, but like, it was Julio Terron and no offense to Julio, but like, yo Yeah, that's Speaker 2 00:20:00 Fine. But you know, you know who Kial is almost like, I, I feel like, and obviously you can relate to this, but I think that it's who K's trying to be is not trying to be, or who he, um, resembles is almost like a Maddox where he like his, his Yeah. He just has really nasty off speeded late movement. He can move the ball different ways. We've got a outside Speaker 3 00:20:19 Right now, uh, Sroka, he actually made All Star team and he's a lot like Maddox, where like, I've been watching him a lot, dude, Speaker 2 00:20:26 Greg Maddox. Speaker 1 00:20:27 Holy, he Greg Maddox in his crime. Holy. That's what, that's when somebody's in the batter box and watching him come in and warm up and they're just like, fuck this. What am I gonna do? Yeah. Yeah. Like, like this one's going this way, this one's going that way. How am I gonna hit this guy? Speaker 3 00:20:38 This dude, like, I watched him the other day and uh, he's just like painting the corners like a pro and you know, know all the, he probably got like five or six strikeouts in a row where guys are just like looking and all of a sudden like a two steamer, like breaks across the plane. Speaker 2 00:20:54 Where's he at right now? Speaker 3 00:20:56 He's in Atlanta. He's pro. Speaker 2 00:20:58 Oh, he, no, so he's, he's playing Is he coming Speaker 1 00:20:59 Outta the bullpen or is he Speaker 3 00:21:01 No, he's Star. Hes got like a 2.6 rra. Is Speaker 2 00:21:03 He a he a rookie this year? Or Speaker 3 00:21:05 What is, uh, he was a rookie last year. He made like five or six starts, but he, uh, he uh, like had shoulder soreness so they kind of shut him down for the year last year. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:16 Yeah. You know who's gonna be big? And I know because Matt, you know who he is because we, he shuts y'all down at the end. But, um, oh, I'm telling you. Give him, give him one more year after this year. But, uh, McCull, Speaker 1 00:21:28 Yes. I hate that guy. Dude. Speaker 2 00:21:30 His curve ball, like Speaker 1 00:21:31 Straight curve ball. Lance Mc. Lance Speaker 2 00:21:32 Mc, Lance Mc. Yes. Yes. He, he's a stud. Um, you know what's Speaker 1 00:21:38 Yeah. The, the one thing that I will, that I will like, that I will say is, um, the, um, whatchamacallit, um, the something that talks shit on the Braves real quick. Speaker 2 00:21:48 <laugh> Oh Speaker 1 00:21:48 God. Is you guys don't, there's, there's money that you lack and it's an international money. He's are the top target of the Martian right now. The 16 year old, I forget exactly what his name is. We, Speaker 3 00:21:58 We only Speaker 2 00:21:59 I've heard about him i's Speaker 1 00:22:00 16 year old. Six foot six. Speaker 3 00:22:02 Yeah. Unfortunately Speaker 1 00:22:03 Outfield or something. Especially Speaker 2 00:22:04 Mike saying the next Aaron last Mike Speaker 1 00:22:07 Trout. Yeah. They're saying like Mike Trout and the Yankees. It's between like the Yankee, the Red Sox and like the angels for Speaker 3 00:22:12 Him. Yeah. Unfortunately the Braves don't have international money. Cause we had a shitty GM that screwed us over hard. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:22:18 That's the thing. That's the thing. But we Speaker 3 00:22:19 Got keep una we gotta keep patchy. We gotta keep waters. Like, we gotta keep all these great prospects. But like, there was some that we lost. And honestly, the guys that we lost, uh, a lot of 'em went to the Angels and they aren't doing shit. So I was like, oh, the Speaker 2 00:22:32 Angels. Well, you know that, that's what I love about the Astros is that we're, we're homegrown. Yeah. Our, our, we have Cara Altuve, Bregman all those Speaker 1 00:22:41 Years. Speaker 2 00:22:41 All those guys sucking, all those years of sucking the draft pigs you want to talk about like a turnaround? They may make a documentary about that. Yeah. Because like, we literally like home grew all these guys. Yeah. And they wanna stay here because they've been here so long. Yep. And we don't have any, we really don't have any free, Speaker 3 00:22:56 You wanna talk about Legacy Chipper Jones, Speaker 2 00:22:58 Chipper Joseph, the absolute guy, Speaker 3 00:23:01 But what he's done to Freddie Freeman. Cuz Freddy's like, I don't care how much I get paid, I wanna play for the Braves. And now he's teaching that to the guys like Una and Oi that's like, just signed these bonuses for honestly for what they're worth. Stupid cheap. Speaker 2 00:23:16 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:23:17 And you know, like Cheap Speaker 1 00:23:19 Was like, was like that too. Which he was like a pay cut. Speaker 3 00:23:22 He like five years, like 30 million. Like that's stupid. Cheap for the production that he puts up. Yeah. And I think uni was like six years, a hundred million. Like for the stuff that they're doing to do, like in that time, like that's stupid cheap for them. Yeah. But it's like that legacy of like chipper's, like, I'm gonna be a career guy here now. Freddy's like, I'm gonna be a career guy. And he's kind of like even teaching that. So like, just the legacy of Speaker 2 00:23:42 Chipper man. Yeah. Well, I mean it's, it's almost like the legacy of like the shortstop position. Yeah. In, in, in New York. You know what I mean? And that Speaker 1 00:23:49 Right now it's little, it's it's good, but it's a bit a Speaker 2 00:23:51 Cluster. I, no, I will say this though, whenever it comes to, I, I felt so bad for Deedee whenever he came in and played shortstop after Jeter. I'm like, dude that, like, you can't do that. That Speaker 1 00:24:02 First year was rough. Speaker 2 00:24:04 Yes. But he has been able to, Speaker 1 00:24:05 Oh, he's been awesome. Like, Speaker 2 00:24:06 Dude, he has completely shown up. Yankees Speaker 1 00:24:09 Have too many infielders that know what to do with. Yeah. You can't, Speaker 2 00:24:11 You Speaker 3 00:24:11 Can't. That's how at the same time, Speaker 2 00:24:13 Like that's, I respect the shit out of Deedee Gregoria. Cause I'm, Speaker 1 00:24:16 That's a tough joke. Cause he came in and dude Speaker 2 00:24:17 Right. He replaced Jeter and it's like, you can't replace Jeter. But now, like people love the legacy of Jeter and they will always love Jeter, but they now allow Deedee to be the shortstop. Yeah. Like he is the guy. Now. Speaker 1 00:24:29 Labor Torres can play a good short stuff too. It's like Speaker 3 00:24:31 I'm, I know you were talking about this earlier. I'm a big Alabama fan. Speaker 2 00:24:34 Yeah. I'm a big Lssu guy. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:36 I'm an ACC guy, so I stay neutral. I'm a Virginia Tech guy. So both Speaker 2 00:24:41 Guys, let's go into football. How about, are you a Falcons fan? Yep. Oh, I'm a Big Saints dude. <laugh>. Aw dude, Speaker 3 00:24:47 Here we go. Speaker 1 00:24:48 Let's go. I love this. Speaker 3 00:24:50 But yeah, no. Uh, but yeah, whoever walks in after Saban, dude, I'm sorry, Speaker 2 00:24:54 It's not, who's not Saban? It's dude, there never be Saban. Speaker 3 00:24:58 You know who's probably gonna be though? It's probably gonna be Dabo. Speaker 2 00:25:01 I don't think so. Man To Dabo. Speaker 1 00:25:03 Leave Clemon. Speaker 2 00:25:03 I think Dabo has almost like, I think he almost has like a, um, loyalty to not like joining the Powerhouse where he wants to create a program from his, like from the ground up. How he did with Clemson. Clemson. Like he literally Yeah. Brought them back. He revived that, that Speaker 3 00:25:18 Program. Yeah. But, but a Speaker 2 00:25:19 Don't think he would Speaker 3 00:25:19 Do that. A lot of the rumors I've been hearing is like, he's like the clear favorite. Uh, Speaker 2 00:25:24 I could see, um, like, uh, what's his name? I could see like Urban Meyer maybe trying to get over there. No, Speaker 1 00:25:29 Dude. It would be somebody from the Saban tree. Speaker 3 00:25:31 Yeah. Yeah. If anything we go out and, uh, get Kirby Smart again. Like just Speaker 1 00:25:36 Five, Speaker 2 00:25:37 Bring him back. Like, alright. Right. Dude. Like you're out of timeout. Speaker 1 00:25:40 Sorry. Sorry. Bulldog. Listen, sorry. We taking Torch. We gotta Speaker 3 00:25:43 To deal with those fans. Speaker 2 00:25:44 Dude. Honestly, we, we would've had at least a few games on y'all if we didn't have Les Miles. And I love Les Miles. I do. But Les Miles time management, like dude, he is the Oh yeah. He's Speaker 1 00:25:53 Like Andy Reed. Like Andy Reed was in Philly with timeouts and stuff. Speaker 2 00:25:56 Yes. And, and, Speaker 3 00:25:57 And he was the Mad Hatter. And he won y'all some games from just doing stupid stuff. Speaker 2 00:26:00 Yes. Yes. He did a lot of stupid trick plays. <laugh>. Yes. Speaker 3 00:26:04 Like he won you all, some of those games. When Speaker 2 00:26:06 You think about like, guys that we've had come through lsu. Oh, dude. Patrick Peterson, Tyra, Matthew, ed Reed. Oh yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:11 It's D B U. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:12 Or Jarvis Landry Receivers. Yep. Oh, beco. Speaker 3 00:26:15 Oh, even your running backs? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:16 Oh, Speaker 1 00:26:17 For Speaker 2 00:26:17 Net. Yeah. No. Um, who's, who's the, uh, you got Leonard Fornet. You got, um, oh, shit. What's his name? Either way. You know what? I'm, Speaker 1 00:26:26 We won't talk about quarterbacks today. Yeah. The biggest, Speaker 2 00:26:29 We don't have any. That's the only y Speaker 3 00:26:31 Who's the one guy? Oh dude. He's a big guy. And he just always looked like he was stoned out of his mind. Wait, Speaker 2 00:26:38 What position? Speaker 3 00:26:39 Quarterback, was it JaMarcus Russell? Was it? No, no, no, no. Um, he went on and played. Speaker 2 00:26:43 Was he water? Speaker 3 00:26:44 Black, white, Matt Flynn? No, it wasn't. Speaker 2 00:26:47 So we, so we had Flynn, we had Berger Speaker 3 00:26:50 Meerberg. He Speaker 4 00:26:51 Played here. He played for Tennessee. Played Tennessee. Meerberg is a shit dude. Speaker 2 00:26:55 Met Berger was a frat boy. Like Speaker 4 00:26:57 Just his, he just Speaker 3 00:26:58 Sounds, he Speaker 1 00:26:59 Sounds like an LSU quarterback. Oh, look at that. There's Zach Berger. Oh Speaker 4 00:27:02 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:27:03 I mean, o are on now. Like, Speaker 4 00:27:06 Love Speaker 1 00:27:07 Coach o Dude. Speaker 4 00:27:08 The players champion. Speaker 2 00:27:11 The guys love him and like they absolutely love him. Yeah. He's, he's just one of those guys that use one play for, because he is fired up. He's born, his dream job as an entire career was to be l SU's head coach. Yeah. And he hits it and he's just eating it up. Yeah. He ain't Speaker 3 00:27:26 Like, good luck understanding a postgame interview. Speaker 2 00:27:28 <laugh> Speaker 4 00:27:29 Dude. You don't guy. Speaker 2 00:27:30 No, he's literally the guy from the water boy. Speaker 4 00:27:33 The assistant coach. It's like former friend. Yeah, former friend. Speaker 3 00:27:37 Yeah. No, uh, yeah. Uh, talking about that, like growing up in Louisiana and all, do you know any, like the Creole stuff down there or? Speaker 2 00:27:45 100%? Dude. Oh yeah, dude. So like, I'm going, um, I'm going home, not the fourth but the fifth. So I'll be here for the fourth. I have no idea what I'm doing, but, um, but I, I wake up early on the fifth, but all my aunts are coming down to Texas. Aunts and uncles are coming down to Texas from Louisiana. <laugh>, like I said, just my intermediate family moved to, um, to Houston when I was younger. Yeah. So they're coming here this, this 4th of July. And, uh, I got an aunt, her name's Aunt Shell, she's gonna be making all of her stuff. Her, her, literally it. I can, if I can name which her gumbo, her jambalaya, her crawfish. H f a, her crawfish, uh, fettuccini, like all of it. Her, her, Speaker 1 00:28:25 There's a th there's a thing rising up in, uh, in Tyler's Speaker 3 00:28:28 Lower section hearing about all this. I Speaker 2 00:28:29 Mean, my stomach, last time I was home, last time I was home in April, I, I, we made, had a big crawfish bowl being my brother made a bunch of crawfish for our family. Oh yeah. It's just part of like the, uh, the culture. So I, I can always do that, but it's just not, um, it's not readily available to make here. Like, dude, the ingredients, you know, Speaker 3 00:28:46 We'll get together. I'll make a means of all, dude, let's, let's Speaker 2 00:28:48 Go down. Well, we can do jumble eye here, but I'm saying let's go back home. Oh yeah. It's either South Alabama or like a bore, Speaker 4 00:28:55 A Speaker 2 00:28:55 Boreux trip or back down to Houston. Y'all are more than welcome. Oh, my parents love it, dude. Let's make some crawfish or let's make some fettuccini, whatever it is. Oh, yeah, man. But yeah, I absolutely am exposed to that side. Speaker 1 00:29:05 Did I hear, did I hear Fettuccini? Yeah, that's what I'm used to in New York. So what do you put? Speaker 3 00:29:08 It's, it's not the, Speaker 2 00:29:10 It's not the same. It's, it's, it's a lot more, um, it's a lot more cheesy yellow cheesier. Okay. And, um, it's, it's a lot of crawfish in it. Okay. And, Speaker 1 00:29:18 Uh, I still have yet to have crawfish. I've been living in Dixie for seven months. Eight months. I don't have craw. Never had crawfish. Speaker 2 00:29:24 Oh yeah. You're so north. Like Speaker 4 00:29:26 Literally Speaker 3 00:29:28 From New York Speaker 1 00:29:30 That y'all have heard about your whole Speaker 4 00:29:31 Wives. Speaker 3 00:29:32 Now I'm here like, dude, like, there's like a little crick like next to my house. And like, there's even crawfish in that. Like, they're so readily available from where we're at. Like, just Yeah. Speaker 1 00:29:42 Exactly. Pulling that out and just grab him. Speaker 2 00:29:43 Dude, you know what's weird? No. I, I can't, like, whenever you say that, that you're like the damn Yankee from the north. I'm thinking about this where it's like, dude, we're hanging out in the, in this living room right now. Just chilling. Having a good time. You're my boy. Yeah. I saw you last week. Like, we're we're dudes, right? Yeah. Dude. If it was like 1861, we'd be shooting at each other, dude. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:30:04 Dude, trust me. I, right now I live in Spring Hill. I drive by, I think it's three historic battlefields, six or seven historic plantations. And the huge goddamn Speaker 3 00:30:15 Day, the huge statue up here on 65. Speaker 1 00:30:17 That is so weird. Bedford. Yeah. And then there's Nathan Bedford Forest. That's so weird. I'm not, I'm not used to any, uh, any of that stuff. Speaker 2 00:30:23 Yeah. So, yeah. It, it's almost like we, we lost, so we held onto that shit. Like <laugh>. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:30:28 Yeah. No, and there's the, um, the rev, the, uh, and then back home, I'm, it's weird because down here there's all that stuff. But where I'm from back home, that's all revolutionary war. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:30:35 Like, well, exactly. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:30:37 Had George Washington camps like right next to my high school, like where he supposedly camped and like revolutionary more Speaker 3 00:30:43 Hospitals. It's cool. I, uh, I gotta spend a lot of time in Connecticut. Um, I got sent up there for some stuff and the house we were staying in was pre Civil War. The house, there's two girls in our band. They were staying in a house this pre-revolutionary war. And the field, like in front of the house was where the minute men that fired the first shots of the battle. Bo Concord. Yeah. Trained at. And like, it was really cool cause like there was nights, like you'd hear like guys out there or you'd hear like Cannon fire or something. And there was one like night that I remember I was sitting on the couch watching Friday night lights actually <laugh>, there Speaker 2 00:31:17 We go. Speaker 3 00:31:17 Um, trying to like soak in some southern Yeah. And uh, like it was snowing. And I look out and like, you can kind of see like the outline of like men, like in the field. Like it was really cool. Really. Like, like that area like was so soaked with history. That's, Speaker 2 00:31:31 That's real historic. Speaker 3 00:31:32 Oh yeah. And it was haunted for sure, man. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:31:34 Dude, dude. I got friends. I got friends that went to Gettysburg College and their dorm rooms were haunted. Speaker 2 00:31:41 Thousands of people died. Speaker 1 00:31:42 Man, dude. And there's buildings that they still use that were, at the time they were old hospitals. Yeah. During the war. And, and that's, that's part of where people go there to be to that history. I'm like, fuck that. Like, my one friend, she was there, um, going to school and she literally sent me a video and it was like, of a desk moving. Like just random. Speaker 2 00:31:59 No random. No. Speaker 1 00:32:00 I'm like, get me the hell outta there. Speaker 3 00:32:03 Yeah. No. Uh, that's Speaker 2 00:32:03 Not for me, man. No, it was, it Speaker 1 00:32:04 Was cool from Louisiana. Cause I feel like Louisiana, you guys have real, like Oh, especially New Orleans. Bayou Voodoo. Speaker 2 00:32:09 There there's, there's, there's a lot of, but that's the thing. It's more part of the culture. It is. Um, it, it's like I'm okay with like, um, spiritual stuff whenever it comes to anything like, um, like ghost activity. I'm cool with that, but I've never seen anything happen. Yeah. And so until I see that, I don't know, I'm kind of skeptical. But the culture itself is very, um, yeah. It's, it's, um, like the, the voodoo culture is almost like a stereotype, but it is a darker culture. It's it's a grungier culture. Yeah. And, but it is, it is very bright as well. It's just like the kind of like a mixture of both. Yeah. But yes. <laugh>, whenever it comes to, if I saw a desk move, no. Get the hell Speaker 3 00:32:50 Outta there. Yeah. Yeah. Like, Speaker 2 00:32:52 Because if you could move that, then you could move me. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:32:55 Yeah. Um, Speaker 2 00:32:57 That's crazy dude. Speaker 1 00:32:58 Yeah, dude. It, it, there is all, all right. All right. Alright. You got a story? Speaker 2 00:33:01 No, I want, I want to, I want to hear, I want to hear about what y'all think about Drew Brees. Speaker 3 00:33:07 Drew Brees. Drew Brees. Speaker 1 00:33:09 I mean, I think he's Speaker 2 00:33:09 Coming from a Falcons fan. F Speaker 1 00:33:11 He's gonna have a great, he's gonna a long explanation. It's one of the greatest quarterbacks of our generation, most Speaker 2 00:33:16 Underrated player to ever play. That's Speaker 1 00:33:18 What I was about to say. I, I wish he had more guys around him for longer in his career. Speaker 3 00:33:21 What he does year in, year out. And the beating that he takes Sears, like at New Orleans. Cause he hasn't always had the greatest of lines. Like I've seen him get pummeled. He has won to me. He's up there with like Brett Fve as far as like grit. Speaker 2 00:33:37 He, I agree. Very Speaker 1 00:33:38 Similar to Brett Fve too. And is building his style. He's just a gunslinger. Speaker 3 00:33:41 You know, somebody that was from day one counted out because of his size. And he has, he has made up for it. Um, what he's done for the town of New Orleans. We're winning that championship after Katrina. Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:33:53 Dude. Do y'all know the story about that? So he, he tears his shoulder and uh, so the year that that they drafted Phillip Rivers, uh, breeze was in his third year and he was, um, killing, I mean he was killing, he was killing. He was a pro bowler and everything. Yeah. And they drafted Phillip Rivers in his third year in his kind. Speaker 3 00:34:09 Didn't they almost go to the superb bowl of breeze? Because they had Tom, Speaker 2 00:34:12 They had Thomas and they, they went to like the, um, the, the, it was like, I think it was probably the AFC Championship. Speaker 3 00:34:17 Yeah, they did. They got really close. Speaker 1 00:34:19 Cause they kept getting Speaker 2 00:34:20 It. It might have been the game before Speaker 1 00:34:21 That. Yeah. And they kept getting knocked down by Peyton Manning and his prime in Indianapolis and Tom Brady and his prime. Speaker 2 00:34:26 Yeah. So either way. Um, so he was doing really well. Yeah. And this was before the, the era of like, now we accept like Russell Wilson comes in and like really like solidifies that a smaller quarterback can play. Yeah. Well he comes in, um, Phillip Rivers comes in, um, and gets drafted by the, the Chargers. And Jabre looked at it as, there's a whole documentary that of Jabre talking about that came out last year. But he is like, I looked at it as competition. It's gonna make me better. He's like, I know I'm gonna win the job. And he did win the job and he played in the very last game of the season, he completely destroyed his labrum, like rotator cuff everything. The, his, his surgeon said it looked like a grenade blew up in his arm. And it was the last game of the season. Speaker 2 00:35:08 And there's like a, there's like that, um, picture of him or that video of him walking up with his, his elbow up to his chest. And he, he said that he wasn't holding it like that could cuz it hurt if he was holding it like that. Cuz his, he was stuck like that. Well after, after that the charges let him go, they didn't resign him off of his rookie contract. He ends up being a free agent, gets his shoulder done, um, completely reconstructed. And his doctor said like, I could have done this a hundred times and I would've never done this. Well, well, long story short, the only two teams won him the Dolphins and the Saints. And you gotta think at that time, Katrina just hit it's mayhem. The super dom's not even refinished. Like the panels on the roof were torn off. Yeah. And then you got think South Beach and Miami like, where am I gonna go with legacy Speaker 3 00:35:51 Saving? Yeah. With that legacy Speaker 2 00:35:53 That time. It was Saban at that time. And with the legacy of like, quarterbacks have Dave. Yeah, exactly. And, and, and even like the Super Bowls themselves and Well, so basically Sean Peyton was hired that year in 2006, our head coach in New Orleans and DRIs flew down with his wife to go see the, the city basically kind of go check out the complex and everything. And they went to go drive to see like neighborhoods and houses like potentially for them to live in. And Sean Peyton said he took a wrong turn and went down to like the third ward area where it was just devastation. Yeah. Everywhere. And Sean Peyton was like driving like they got lost, he said for like an hour. And he goes, because he was new. Yeah. He goes, uh, he's like, shit. He's like, I literally just lost this. Speaker 2 00:36:37 Like I lost this guy. But like, he didn't know. Little did he know whenever Drew and his wife got back to the hotel as the story goes, um, and it's on the documentary, you can watch it, but Drew and his wife were like, this is the city that we need to go to. Like, they need us just like we need them. Like, nobody believes in us and nobody believes in the city. And that first year that he went, he signed that first year that he went, they went to the AFC or NFC Championship and they lost the Bears. But then two years later they would go to the Super Bowl and they win. And I'm telling you, there will be as statue. Oh, I saw this guy is Saints. He he's a, he is like the, the epitome of a saint. Yeah. Like he to this city. Speaker 2 00:37:15 And so you go down there, this guy can't do any wrong. He, he builds like, like playgrounds and schools and, and he has like so many foundations that he's like put forth towards community where this guy is solidified forever. Like he will be a saint. Yeah. There's no doubt. And so I like personally, like am so passionate about him. Not only that, you gotta think the guy is so underrated. He has the highest completion percentage ever on career wise. Yep. Highest completion percentage ever. Whenever it comes to a single season. Most passion yards of all time, 5,000 yards has been thrown for 10 times ever in the nfl. Five of those times has has been Drew Brees. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been like Mahomes, Tom Brady, Matt Stafford, and I think maybe Dan Marino and then his breeze. But Ryan Speaker 3 00:37:59 Got there Speaker 2 00:37:59 One or Matt maybe. Yeah, maybe one of those years. But then Bre bre Speaker 3 00:38:02 The league one of year Matt Ryan led a league. It might have been like, it might have been like 4,800 or something. I thought he got to five. Speaker 2 00:38:09 He's gonna end with the most touchdowns. You gotta think. Oh, he will not play Brady. I'm sorry. He will. Oh yeah. Like he will like, he just, how, Speaker 3 00:38:15 How old is Brady right Speaker 2 00:38:16 Now? He, he turned 40 last year and so Brady, but I know, like I'm, I act like I know the guy. Speaker 3 00:38:21 Hey dude, Speaker 2 00:38:22 That's my dream is to play catch. I wanna get a record deal and have a huge song on the radio so I can say, Hey Drew, can I go play catch with you in this facility? That'd Speaker 3 00:38:29 Be awesome. Speaker 2 00:38:29 That's my Speaker 3 00:38:31 Do the uh, Wrangler commercial like, uh, play. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:38:35 I I'll be the guy laying out in the mud Speaker 1 00:38:37 Long. Speaker 2 00:38:38 Yeah, no, I, I I love, I love sports man. I love football. Yeah. I love baseball. Speaker 3 00:38:43 And you know, even being a Falcons fan, like Speaker 2 00:38:46 I can respect the Falcons that's Speaker 3 00:38:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like dude Dre is like one of those guys. Like you, you know, as much as you might not like the, as much as mine, like my, the might not like the Saints, like Drew Brees has always been one of those guys. He's a standout guy. Yeah, absolutely. Speaker 2 00:39:01 Well, yeah. Think, absolutely think, think about like his, like the tenacity of the game. The first time we played last year when he did that spin move on the, uh, when he wasup he should have gotten clocked <laugh>. Yeah. And then he dove in and then we um, we went for like, uh, the extra point and got it. But I, I don't know, it's just the guy himself whenever it comes to athletes, he's the, he's like the uh, Luke Gehrig of, of our sports race where it's like this is the guy, like he, he's just such a good dude as well. Speaker 1 00:39:29 Yep. Yeah. No, and he reminds me of, of growing up as a Yankees fan. Derek Jeter. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:39:33 I love Derek Speaker 1 00:39:34 Jeter and Jeter has his foundations and stuff. I think Bre is definitely more of a vocal guy, which is cool cuz then you've really kept behind. How many more years do you think he's got left? Speaker 2 00:39:41 If I had to take Speaker 1 00:39:42 I know it's, I know it's a tough Speaker 2 00:39:43 Question. You know, realistically, if I was gonna be honest, I would say three. I think he's got three. Speaker 3 00:39:49 I think two. Speaker 1 00:39:51 You're hoping two. Cause you, you don't have Speaker 3 00:39:54 Anymore. Speaker 2 00:39:55 No, I think he'll, I think, well I think the contract, what will end up happening, I think cuz he signed a two year 50 mil million dollar year, uh, deal two years ago. So like, this is his last year. Yeah. I think he'll resign that same type of contract and do another two year deal. Yeah. So I think he'll go through like 2021. Yeah. And then probably if he wins the Superbowl, could, you gotta think, think about it like this man that Minneapolis Miracle happened where we could have easily gone to the superb Bowl and won whenever, like the last play of the game. They won and then the past interference call happened right. Last year with the Rams. So that, that could have been two Super Bowls that he could have had. Let's just like split it in half and say, cause I do think he would've beaten Brady last year. Speaker 1 00:40:32 No, I do too. Speaker 2 00:40:33 Let's split it in half and say, all right. He, he takes one of those wins. That's another Super Bowl for his legacy. Then he holds all the records. I think he just needs one more ring. So you give him another two years and you got Camara and Thomas at his disposal like he has Speaker 1 00:40:46 Yeah. How much fun is Camaro to watch? Speaker 2 00:40:48 He's dude, he's a stud. Speaker 1 00:40:49 Like how, like, how, how do people make moves like that? It's just insane. He's Speaker 2 00:40:53 A stud man. And you, you also don't realize how big the guy is. The guy's big. Yeah. He's like two, he's like 225 pounds. He's Speaker 3 00:40:59 Still running you over. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:41:01 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:41:01 He's what Mark Ingram could have been for y'all. Speaker 2 00:41:04 Yeah. Well now I exactly. I think Mark Ingram was almost like he was the disposable back without even realizing it. He was, and, but he was exceeding his role. Mark Ingram was, cuz whenever RA came in, he just lit it on fire and he didn't, we didn't really know what to do with Camara cuz Mark Ingram's the guy. Yeah. But then, um, Camaro became like the premier guy where you're putting him in slot and you're, and you're moving him around a lot. Then he's also, he's also can get a lot of yards on the ground game itself behind the, behind the, um, backfield. And then Ingram came in on third downs and was kind of doing better than he should have. So it's almost like, what do we do with this situation? Yeah, they're both good. And Kamara's definitely the guy. Yeah. But what do we do with Ingram? And so that we obviously we had to trade him away because his value is higher than what we were giving him. Yeah. So now he'll be with Lamar Jackson. Speaker 1 00:41:51 Yeah. That's be, that's gonna be interesting to see how, how that Speaker 3 00:41:55 Will be interesting. Speaker 1 00:41:56 Yeah. So now I'm go back. Yeah. So now what, what'd Speaker 3 00:41:58 You got? I was gonna say, I'm gonna, it's gonna be interesting seeing this year the games with uh, our wide receiver corps. Dude, Speaker 2 00:42:05 Y'all Oh my, what's his name is Ace Ridley. Calvin Ridley is a stud dude. Speaker 3 00:42:10 Did you see the guy we picked up? Like, I think it was like third or fourth round in the raft? Speaker 2 00:42:14 No. Speaker 3 00:42:15 Ah, dude. He, he runs like a four. Four Speaker 2 00:42:20 Okay. Speaker 3 00:42:21 And is just like six two. So just another like Ridley like Jones type. Speaker 2 00:42:27 Well it's just that, that's what's messed up. Is that like <laugh> Dude, if Matt Ryan cannot win a Superbowl with those Oh Speaker 1 00:42:33 Then he, he's Speaker 2 00:42:33 Fucking with Cal Ridley with Speaker 1 00:42:35 Julio Speaker 2 00:42:35 Did. Julio Jones is the most physical freak specimen in the NFL right now. Speaker 3 00:42:39 Here's the thing. Last year what screwed us so hard, a man, when we lost our offensive coordinator and this new guy came in, he screwed us. Like our offense has not been what it was when we gotta the Super Bowl and it's the new OC and we got rid of him finally and we got a new guy in. And this new guy I hope is gonna do great things. But, uh, thing that screwed us last year is all four of our starting secondary were injured by the end of the year. Our two safeties, two tar, uh, starting safeties were gone in the first two games of the year. Speaker 2 00:43:13 That's true because I remember whenever we played y'all the first game of the season Yeah. Or the second game. Yeah. It was one, it was one of those two where it was y'all were completely depleted. Speaker 3 00:43:21 Yeah, it was. Yeah. Like that was the thing. Like we were, we were signing unsigned rookies to start for us. Speaker 2 00:43:29 Yeah. That's crazy <laugh>. Speaker 1 00:43:30 Like, you're not gonna win many games in the nfc, especially the NFC South. When you're going against the quarterbacks that you're going against, Speaker 3 00:43:36 At least we can agree on one thing. The Panthers are the worst. Speaker 2 00:43:39 Fuck the Panthers. I can curse 'em this. Right. Speaker 1 00:43:43 Making say whatever you Speaker 2 00:43:45 Want's. Making Sir Buck Speaker 3 00:43:46 Camp scam Newton. Speaker 2 00:43:48 Yeah, Speaker 1 00:43:48 Dude. Well you're an Alabama fan so you have extra Speaker 2 00:43:51 Well, I'm an LSU fan, so you, well lsu you gotta think like he had his breakout game against lsu. Yeah. And there's like, he was like running over Patrick Peterson and stuff like, yeah. But, um, Speaker 3 00:44:02 I gotta see him play that year in Auburn. Uh, our football coach was, Speaker 2 00:44:06 What was it like, it's like a kid playing in like a ninth grader playing in seventh grade Speaker 3 00:44:10 They played Ryan Mallet in Arkansas. Speaker 2 00:44:13 Oh, okay. So I gotta see Ryan Mal played in Speaker 1 00:44:16 Houston. He had some good years there and had they, Speaker 2 00:44:18 He a Cannon dude. Speaker 3 00:44:19 They, uh, Arkansas was down like, I think like three touchdowns and came back and got a head by two. And then, uh, they targeted Ryan Mallet before targeting was a thing and knocked him outta the game. Gave him a concussion and the backup just couldn't keep it like the backup couldn't move the ball. Speaker 2 00:44:39 Dude, you're playing against Cam Newton. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:44:41 <laugh>. Yeah. The, the backup couldn't move the ball down the field and they kept giving it over to Auburn and their defense got depleted and Auburn came back and won like on the last second thing. But no, like, that was a great game Speaker 1 00:44:51 And that was one of the best Auburn teams all the time. When you got guys like Nick Farley lining up that D line. That's true. Speaker 2 00:44:56 And Speaker 1 00:44:56 Was very, it just ridiculous. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:44:58 Ridiculous. That's very trues Speaker 3 00:44:59 True. It's also one of the dirtiest teams ever. Yeah. Yeah. With Farley and Scam and like some of the other guys on there, like Yeah. They were dirty. Yeah. No, Speaker 2 00:45:07 You, no, you're absolutely Speaker 1 00:45:09 <laugh>. What is going to an s c football game? Like, cause I haven't done that yet. Speaker 2 00:45:12 Oh man. Speaker 3 00:45:13 Dude. And LSU is like a different atmosphere cause they always do Speaker 1 00:45:16 Night. I remember watching, um, watching you guys, uh, play. I grew up big Virginia Tech fan, so I think it was Tie Rodd Taylor's, one of his first games was when him and Sean Glennon were playing. This Speaker 2 00:45:26 Is like, like 2008 or something like Speaker 1 00:45:27 That. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm like 13 watching this shit. I loved Virginia Tech back then. I still do. But I remember being all excited cuz Tech was having a, there was, there was all these expectations, but it's like, oh, can they win at lsu? And I'm like, oh shit. Well I've never seen them play a game at LSU and you guys beat us like 40 seconds. Speaker 2 00:45:42 Yeah. It's um, great. Um, so basically I, in Lssu games, like in my home, my, both my parents, all my siblings, they all went to lsu. Um, it's one of those things that it's, it's a, it's a, an experience to just be in the atmosphere itself. Speaker 1 00:45:58 I wanna Death Valley, I wanna go Speaker 2 00:46:00 Don going down in Death Valley. And it especially, man, it doesn't get bigger than whenever Alabama comes in town. No, but but you will see, you will see some like, literally like, you're walking up and down and the tailgates are crazy. Like, and they're also very friendly. So I mean like, there's one time that me and my um, me and my stepdad, we went to an LSU game on a Saturday and Saints game on a Sunday. And on the Saturday we're walking up and down, like we didn't have a tailgate to go to. And we're like walking into tailgates and just picking up beers from people and, and like drinking 'em while we're walking and dropping that beer and then going to the next tailgate and picking up a beer. And they're like, oh yeah, I have like, whatever you want. But then you'll see people, like girls like passed out on like the sidewalk. Like Yeah. Literally like, like by the bushes. Cuz they're just completely hammered. Like Yeah. College kids. Speaker 1 00:46:43 Cause that's, they're all night games. That's a lot of day Speaker 2 00:46:46 Draping. And they start and that's on purpose. Yeah. And you start at like 10:00 AM Yeah. That, Speaker 1 00:46:50 That's Speaker 2 00:46:50 On purpose. Dudes. You get to the game and you're literally just trying to sober up and they don't allow you to bring anything inside the stadium. Yeah. But at the same time, it's kind of like, they know that everybody's just like, on like this constant like, all right, like let's last this game out and you're, that's why it's so rowdy in the stadium. Yeah. Cause it's like you said, it's only night games. Yeah. But is Yeah. Oh man. Speaker 3 00:47:08 Get all the occasion people drunk and let 'em have fun. Speaker 1 00:47:11 Oh yeah. And then, and then what was the, then the band was playing some playing this song. Oh, they, they, they, Speaker 2 00:47:15 They say, they go No, they say Speaker 1 00:47:17 They called it that tiger. Yeah. Barstool did a, barstool made a shirt that said let the band play neck with like Coach O's face on. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they asked, they asked Coach o about it. No, Speaker 2 00:47:26 They still play, but the whole crowd, it's like, it, they literally go, they go, oh, they go suck that tiger Speaker 1 00:47:32 Dick. Yeah. They're wild. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:47:34 And the whole stadium's doing that. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:47:36 And that's a big state. Speaker 2 00:47:37 And you can, you can hear it on like national tv, <laugh>. Oh yeah, that's Speaker 1 00:47:41 What I'm saying. That's why it was such a controversy. Cause then all the, all the boosters and all the, all the alumni that are like the, those older alumni from like the sixties, they're hearing that being like, this ain't the college I went Speaker 3 00:47:51 To this university too with the Alabama. They do, uh, Dixie and a Life. Oh yeah. Yep. And like the last three, like in the breaks they have things and the last three is fuck Auburn. Uh, Speaker 1 00:48:04 LSU and Tennessee too. Speaker 3 00:48:05 Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Speaker 1 00:48:07 I hear, I hear it working on Broadway. People do Speaker 3 00:48:09 That. Yeah. Yeah. <laugh>. But like, I think it was Tennessee, we played one year and instead of like doing like the different ones in between everything and they were just like, fuck Tennessee. Fuck Tennessee. Fuck Tennessee. I can't Speaker 1 00:48:21 Wait for Tennessee to be good one day just to beat you guys. Cause I wanna be living in, Speaker 3 00:48:25 It's gonna be a long, long Speaker 1 00:48:26 Time. It's gonna happen at some point. Are you Speaker 2 00:48:28 Y'all going home for fourth? Speaker 3 00:48:30 No, I got Speaker 1 00:48:31 A, I I actually am, I got a wedding this weekend up in New Jersey. I gotta drive 13 Speaker 3 00:48:35 Hours. I'm leaving the fifth like you are, uh, to go back home. No. Well, yeah, but, uh, yeah. Cause I, Speaker 2 00:48:40 I went, when, when I said the fourth, I meant like, oh, you're on the road. I'm Speaker 3 00:48:43 On the road with a group and we're playing Montgomery the Fifth and then Orange Beach, which is an hour from where I grew up on the sixth. So like, it's So you'll Speaker 2 00:48:52 See your fam Speaker 3 00:48:52 Yeah. We're my mom's coming to the Montgomery Show, so Oh, there we go. Yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 00:48:57 Yeah. I finally getting to go home on the fifth. I get to see my family. Speaker 3 00:49:01 Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:49:03 I get, I get to see this girl too. Speaker 1 00:49:05 You get see this girl? Speaker 2 00:49:06 Yeah. Man. There's this girl man, Speaker 1 00:49:07 There's this girl Is there song about girl yet? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:49:10 Dude, this is like you, you must be, Hey, you better believe that y'all are my boys. <laugh>. Yeah. If Speaker 1 00:49:15 I'm saying this and we're, we're on the podcast right now. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:49:18 No. Um, you know, there's this girl that I've been talking to, um, she's from back home. She's like to somebody that, you know, I mean, whenever you, whenever you grow up and you're talking to people, you get to talk to them for like second face to face and you're, you're kind of not like, you're not really getting to know each other. Yeah. You know, it takes a while for you to really get to know each other. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:49:36 Develop a relationship connection. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:49:38 Yeah. This, but this has been some like notebook shit. Speaker 1 00:49:40 <laugh>. Oh no way. Speaker 2 00:49:42 We've been, we we've known of each other for a long time. She's from back home and I've gotten to talk to her a lot and I'm like, I've never met anybody that's like, had I've had a connection like this with, you know. And so we've been talking on the phone for like hours at a time. Like Oh, Speaker 1 00:49:58 It's one of those feel, Speaker 2 00:49:59 Feel. Yes. Yes. And Speaker 3 00:50:00 So one of those know you hang up first, know you hang up first things Speaker 2 00:50:03 <laugh>. Yeah. Almost. Speaker 1 00:50:04 And you look at like, oh shit, it's 4:00 AM one Speaker 2 00:50:06 Of us has almost, almost <laugh> almost. And so it's, it's kind of cool. Cause I'm getting to go home. I'm gonna get to see my family, but I'm gonna get to see this girl too. And she's, she's so sweet. She's like just really sweet. Um, and I'm looking forward to that. So I was wondering if y'all are going home, see Speaker 1 00:50:20 What y'all Yeah. I mean, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be at a Irish Catholic wedding in New Jersey. The Kelly, the McLean's are marrying into the Kelly family. So that's the queens, that's the, the McQueens. Yeah. Oh dude. They are, they they are. Shout out to my friends Brian and Corrine. They used to let me crash on their couch for like days and weeks at time. That's, that's amazing. When I was working down in Jersey and living in New York. But, um, but no, real quick getting back to the music stuff. That's cause um, yeah, Speaker 2 00:50:45 We went, we Speaker 1 00:50:45 Went a little bit on the, you think Speaker 2 00:50:47 There's a sports podcast, Speaker 1 00:50:49 Dude, this whole this, this whole thing's just about hanging with badass people that happen to write songs for a living. And you're one of those guys. So we greatly appreciate Absolutely. Coming on and stuff. So co-writing for you in Nashville, what was that experience like coming from Texas? Speaker 2 00:51:03 Um, so like whenever I moved here I was only writing by myself. Okay. Um, and I think that that is something like, um, that is huge whenever it comes to any songwriter or artist themselves. Like you gotta be able to write by yourself. Um, whether it's just writing shitty songs or writing great songs. You just gotta be able to understand the concept of like a song itself, saying that I got to know my personality, like as an artist. And whenever I first got into song writes, I was, I don't know, I mean like you, it was kind of, it kind of felt forced. Cause I felt like I needed to write songs with other people. Cause that was like what you were told. Yeah. And so I was trying to figure myself out and I was writing with people and I was writing songs that I liked, but they were, they weren't like what I thought they should be. Speaker 2 00:51:50 And then, but through the process of just growing up in this town, you meet people that you feel comfortable with. Yeah. And that, that's what I 110% think is, um, is like the special sauce into the whole pot of whatever this is. Being a Nashville artist or a songwriter is being comfortable with who you write with. And I think that a lot of people get thrown into rights with people that they don't know or people that they've, that they have nothing really in common with. But I truly believe that you need to have a core group of people that you feel that is not necessarily your team, but that you are all part of the same movement. Speaker 1 00:52:23 Yeah. So who, for you, who for you, who are some of those? Speaker 2 00:52:25 Some of those? Um, my, my best, one of my best friends, his name's Matt McAneney. Okay. He, uh, so he, he wrote like used to Love You Sober by Kane. No, shit. He's wrote like a lot. He's just one of my best friends. And we've, um, and I'm not the type of guy to name Drop. No, Speaker 1 00:52:38 No, I'm just asking like the to vi like, but he the people that you vibe with, you Speaker 2 00:52:41 Know. Yeah. So, but he's my boy and we both went through breakups at the same time, um, like a little bit over a year ago. And we spent all summer together and we just wrote for my project and we got a lot of great stuff coming from it. And it was a lot of it had to do with us literally just getting drunk, drinking some whiskey, sitting in the studio and just getting in our feelings. Cause we're both feeling feelings. Yeah. And just writing songs. And he's a great ridiculously good rider. Great singer, great producer. And, um, that allowed me to realize kind of a little bit more of my like being a little bit more vulnerable. Yes. And then after that I realized that I need to only write with people that I'm comfortable with. Like, whenever it comes to just people in general, people that I know I can shoot the shit with. Yeah. You know, so if if if either of y'all play the guitar and wrote, I'd be like, fuck. Yeah. That's, I'm saying Speaker 1 00:53:26 That's Boudro over there. He can Speaker 2 00:53:28 Do that. Boudro, if you want to fucking play and you want to write, I'm 110% down because like, I want to be able to be comfortable with you. Yeah. You have to be, I don't wanna see you on social media and we set up a right. Or like my management set up a right with you and then coming into the room and, and then be like, so like, how are you feeling today knowing that I'm the artist? Yeah. That just feels weird. Like I'm feeling all right. I guess Speaker 1 00:53:46 It's, it's almost like, it seems like a personal experience. Like we've, like we, we will just be hanging out and we got a lot of buddies that are writers here in town and we'll be playing Xbox and dicking around or whatever and then all of a sudden the guitars will come out and a right will start happening. Exactly. Yeah. But like, it just needs to be like that organic. Speaker 2 00:54:00 It needs Yeah, it Speaker 1 00:54:01 Needs to Exactly. It needs to feel natural and be organic. You, anytime you force something, it's not gonna be the way you want it to. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:54:07 I hate, uh, I hate whenever you get in a room with somebody and just like right off the bat they're just like, alright, so what's this song about? And you're like, dude, like yeah, I, I'm still waiting for the Red Bull to kick in like <laugh>. I woke up 30 minutes ago. Like Speaker 2 00:54:21 Yeah. And you'll see a lot of songwriters that are, that are predominantly songwriters. They, um, they're just, they like literally are prying at you and they don't know you, but they're like wanting like, what can I get from you? Cause they know that needs to be organic. Yeah. So they need, they, and that's the thing, you could write the most commercial song of the world, but it, it needs to start somewhere. Yes. You know, it, it does need to start somewhere. It could be as like flat lined and like, not particular at all, but it needs to have some substance and some foundation. And so these songwriters, a lot of the times will be like, so like, what's going on? Like, how, how's life? And they're, it's almost like, are you my therapist or are you my like co-write <laugh>? Speaker 1 00:54:59 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's, it's one on that line Now. Something that we, we tend to do every episode we ask people What do you listen to on like your, on like your streaming apps? What are some people that you've been jabbing to lately? Speaker 2 00:55:09 I listen to Speaker 1 00:55:09 All, all styles of music. Cuz you were saying you Speaker 2 00:55:11 Yeah. Man, I, I listen to everything and, and I, I, uh, I pride myself in that I listen to everything. So whether it's, um, like nineties country, I, I love Drake. Um, when it comes to country itself, if you wanna talk about a genre, um, I truly, truly, truly love Sam Hunt. I do like, I just as, as like a, a, an artist. Um, whether you like his music or not is up to you. But I just appreciate him as an artist, what he's done. But I mean, I also love Cody Johnson. Yeah. Like from Texas. I mean, like, I, I can really, I can really expand myself when it comes to that. But I also like a lot of nineties rock. I love Nirvana. I was raised in Nirvana. Love the Chili Peppers. Um, huge, huge, huge m and m guy. Okay. Like huge M&m guy. Speaker 1 00:55:54 So lyrically you're all those, all those names that you, that you just mentioned right there, all those acts very lyrical. Whether it's Kojo writing a, a Texas Red Dirt song, or it's Drake really getting in, really getting into feelings dark or it's Eminem slim, shady goofing off. Yes. But then getting serious at the same time. And then Sam hunt lyrical too. So lyrics for you. Those gotta be important, Speaker 2 00:56:13 Huh? Yeah, I think, I think it's a cons. It's like, it's like a, a constant lyrical melody battle. I think that, um, every song needs to have that balance. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:56:22 I <laugh> I just, I just like, he, I like being able to interpret what people are saying. Okay. So like, I feel like I know who Drake is by listening to him. Like he's, he's the dude. Yeah. He's the guy. You see, I feel like I would, if I saw Drake somewhere, I feel like I would already know who he is just by listening to his music so much. I don't wanna listen to somebody that I feel is unauthentic to their music where I feel like, yeah, you sing this, but I really don't, like I still don't know what you're about necessarily. Yeah. Almost. And it's not even like you telling your story, it's almost personality wise, Eminem's a perfect example where you can kind of tell his personality like, he's quirky, he's a little zany. He's he kind of is out there. Yeah. But, and you can interpret like, who, you know, like, you're not gonna step up to this guy if you see him out. No. Like, I'm not gonna ask you for an autograph or a picture if I see you out. Cause I, dude, you might smoke me. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:57:08 Especially now that he like bulked up and all Yeah. <laugh> like, dude, Speaker 1 00:57:12 Yeah, no, Speaker 3 00:57:12 That's, he disappeared for a while and was still like, kind of like the scrawny little white dude and like all of a sudden you see him back and you're like, good night. Oh yeah. Did you go live in the gym for a little bit there bud? Speaker 2 00:57:23 Like, yeah. No, he's, he's one of the guys. But I then again, like, I love, uh, I love John Mayer, Eric Clapton. Um, Eric Clapton is my favorite guitar player, but I, I say John Mayer and Eric Clapton are my favorite guitar players of all time. Um, like sonically, they both have the, uh, whenever people talk about just guitar players themselves, I know Boudro, you love guitars. So whenever people talk about guitar players, I look at it like, almost as like a spectrum where you gotta think, you gotta have phonetically you gotta be good sonically, you gotta be good melodically. Like you gotta be good. So your sound's gotta be good. You gotta be able to play technically well, and then you gotta be able to be creative. Eric Clapton and John Mayer are the two guys, and they also both play acoustic extremely well. Yeah. So they're not, they're not just, um, like a one trick pony. They both play acoustic extremely well. So you, like, for Eric Clapton, you got Tears in Heaven where he plays acoustic pheno. It's like, how do you come up with that then? Like, neon by John Mayer on Acoustic is, it's like, dude, you're a different animal. Speaker 3 00:58:20 Yeah. One of my, uh, one of my favorite guys growing up was always BB King. Speaker 2 00:58:24 Oh hell yeah. Hell yeah. And both those guys, both Eric Cotta and John Mayer loved BB King. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:58:29 And like, you know, for me, like growing up, like that's like that, I mean, I grew up in Bluegrass, but like, once I started playing electric and like learning that side of stuff, like BB King kind of for me, like, just like being able to make people feel like what you're feeling through guitar without saying a word. Yeah. Like, you know, just being able to possess that power to like play like simple stuff. Like he would, and just people go, yeah, I know, I know what you're feeling right now. Speaker 2 00:58:57 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like just being able to like, almost like interpret what somebody's playing because I mean, I could play guitar and I can play guitar, but you're not gonna cry whenever I play guitar. <laugh>. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:59:07 Yeah. No, that, that's freaking awesome, dude. Now you got the song that's out right now, you said it's a little, little Speaker 2 00:59:13 Ongoing. Oh yeah, yeah. So we got, yeah, we got Texas out. That's, that has been out for over a year now. And that was kind of just testing the waters. Yeah. And, um, we, we really love that song. Um, I personally love that song and, but for the past year I've, like I was saying earlier with my, my best friend, we've been writing, we, we have like seven masters now that are ready to go. And we're just waiting right now we're, it's gonna be in July. It's probably gonna be, um, second week of July. So I think that's like the 15th that we're releasing. Don't Wake me up. Speaker 1 00:59:46 Congratulations. That's awesome. Speaker 2 00:59:47 Yeah. Appreciate you. Awesome. Yeah, we're gonna be officially releasing the music, um, the, the first single. And then after that we're, we're literally just gonna ride the wave and we're gonna be playing shows. I just got bus call, um, working on Whiskey Jam and just kind of like wanting to travel. I'm gonna go down to Houston and play some shows down there, but really pushing the movement itself of like, this is Brent Michael. Yeah. This is this, we're ready to go. Let, let's start making it happen. Getting on some ice tour and whether it's my bigger small, but just traveling and, you know, like, um, growing the fan base. Speaker 1 01:00:18 Yeah. So Texas obviously that that's the song about, about a Girl and about Texas, this next single coming up. What's, what, what went into that one? Speaker 2 01:00:25 Um, I actually wrote this a while back, you know, I, I released it on SoundCloud and, and it did really, really well for me, like on SoundCloud and it, but it was like a super small production. Like, it, it wasn't anything special, but the song itself was, um, it was very lyrical and it was, it's just kind of like rappy, but it's still a country vibe. And it had a great response. And I still had, I had people like, for, for years now asking like, when are you gonna put that out? When are you gonna put that out? When are you gonna put that out? And I decided whenever I was getting these songs done, um, and my buddy who produces me was, was saying like, this is a hit. Like, if I did this, I could do it and make it a hit. So I said, all right, like, I believe in you, I believe in this song. So we did this and this is probably like three years old. Wow. And so we, we decided this should be the lead off. Okay. Because the people that are, are already, um, supporters are in my fan base. They know this song. Yeah. So it's almost like a tribute to them first before anybody else comes on board of what we're doing. Speaker 1 01:01:23 But you've been waiting for this, let's give it to you. Let's take, Speaker 2 01:01:25 So, so it's, it's like we're gonna get, I'm gonna give y'all this because y'all have been here. Yeah. And I love this song as well, but it's kinda like the kickoff, you know, this is the, and anybody else that comes on board afterwards, like you're, y'all will be exposed to the new stuff just like my old fan bases as well. So I don't wanna release something and have it be, uh, new then have people listen to my music and then all of a sudden I release this old song. I want the old song that, that has not really been exposed to be the first song. Speaker 1 01:01:50 Okay. That's awesome, man. Yeah. That's cool. Congratulations on that. Oh, I appreciate it, man. That's some exciting stuff. And you said Whiskey jam and bus call. That's, yeah, that's huge to, to be setting stuff up and can't wait to see you playing out live more, dude, now you saw me. Yeah. Playing out live more. Yeah. Playing out live Speaker 2 01:02:05 More. Oh Speaker 1 01:02:06 Yeah. Yeah. I stepped like on the regular, like where I, where I can go down to Midtown and or go, go out somewhere and I, and I happen to bump in and walk in into a room and, and see you light it up on stage. Dude, I'm, I'm very excited for you and excited to see where, where the fraud goes and stuff. Now where can people go on to find you? On the socials? Speaker 2 01:02:22 Yeah, no, on any socials. You just type in Brent Michael. B r n t m i c h a e l i Speaker 1 01:02:27 You's a pretty good Instagram following. I gotta say you're, you're growing on that. Speaker 2 01:02:30 Yeah. I, I am, I'm, I'm doing my best, uh, to just kind of be, that's my biggest thing is that anybody that anybody that follows me, you're gonna get me. Yeah. You're gonna get the real me. It's the way it should be. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not gonna sugarcoat anything. I'm not gonna be cookie cutter about it. Like right now I'm just pumped out a 32 ounce Miller light, Speaker 1 01:02:46 Which by the way, that's impressive that you found a 32 ounce cann of Miller Light. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:02:50 Well, <laugh> Speaker 1 01:02:51 Miller highlight. Speaker 2 01:02:53 Yeah. No, no, it's, it's by, it's Charlotte Pike. So it's, uh, it's, it's on, uh, it's closest to that target in that Dick's Sporting Goods. Okay. It's like a BP right there or something like that, or something like that. Speaker 3 01:03:03 Yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 01:03:03 Yeah. But I'm just myself, man. Like, I'm just an easygoing, like, I, I want to be able to have fun and, uh, but at the same time, I take my career very seriously. You know, I'm mature, but mature enough. Yes. You know? Yeah. So, so I'm, I'm, uh, I'm pretty much just any, anything that sounds like a good time is a good time to me. Speaker 1 01:03:20 Awesome. Now you got this beautiful guitar next to you. Tell us about that guitar real quick. Uh, because Tyler's a big guitar nut. Speaker 2 01:03:26 Yes. This, this is, uh, this is my baby. This is my, my Gibsons 2015, um, hummingbird Vintage. And it has this thermal curing on it. So the, if you can't see it, obviously y'all can't see it. Speaker 3 01:03:39 <laugh> We'll, we'll take a picture and burst. Yeah, we'll take Speaker 2 01:03:41 A picture. I'll see it whenever you play. Yeah. Yeah. But it, it has, it has a, um, like a nice like auburn cherry burst where it's very dark around the alley and it, um, it comes up to like a nice orange, but it's, uh, has this thermal curing done to it, this process basically to try to make it sound older whenever they did it. And it makes it extremely light. But, um, it sounds amazing, is my baby. I played every day. Speaker 3 01:04:03 I love that. Like Gibson and Martin are really starting to do that, where they're trying to like, be like, all right, like, these guitars were really like, they were really the shit, you know, like Yeah. Yeah. Like what we're making now is like good, but like these guitars, like the way the wood aged and all like this is, and they're trying to Yeah. They're trying to like recreate that. Um, I know one of my favorite companies is Blue Ridge. They kind of Yeah. Doing the same thing. And uh, yeah. I love the sound of anything that's doing that. Uh, Martin has the ones, they have the series now that's like all the pre-war, so pre like Civil War guitars. Oh, I didn't know that. And they, they like age, Speaker 1 01:04:40 Like, wow, that's really going. Speaker 3 01:04:42 They like, use like, uh, chemicals and all to like, kind of age the wood and open it up like some of the pre-war Martins Okay. Have aged over that time. They're expensive. They're like tens of thousands. Oh, I Speaker 2 01:04:55 Bet. Speaker 3 01:04:55 I bet. But like, man, it's a luxury guitar, right? I, I got to play one and <laugh>, I've played the hundred thousand dollars Martin before. Have you? Speaker 2 01:05:02 Yeah. The one that has like all like the Speaker 3 01:05:04 Pros 100. Yeah. Yeah. I was in Indiana and like, this dude was like, yeah, I got a Martin in here, you wanna play it? And I was like, yeah. And so like, I started playing, I was like, oh, this is really pretty guitar. And I started playing it like, how much this one run you? He goes, I think after tax and all it was like $107,000. And I was like, what? All right. Like, Speaker 2 01:05:25 What are you inuring me right Speaker 3 01:05:26 Now? Honestly though, like, just being real, like the way probably wasn't as good as the way it played. Like at the time, like my 600 Alvarez played just as well as that guitar. Like it was all the Pearl and all that stuff. Speaker 2 01:05:40 I think it's like, yeah. The bells and whistles Speaker 3 01:05:41 On. Yeah. It's all the bells and whistle. Speaker 1 01:05:44 Yeah. No, absolutely. So what song would you like to play for us today? Because we always end this thing with a little ditty of you guys play. I'll Speaker 2 01:05:51 Play. Um, I'll play. Don't Wake me up. It's, it's gonna be the first single. Speaker 1 01:05:55 Okay. The new single. And do you have a, do you have an exact date Speaker 2 01:05:58 Right now is, we don't have an exact date, but it will definitely be July, so. Okay. Speaker 1 01:06:02 Awesome. It'll be out this month. Speaker 2 01:06:03 Yeah, this month. Speaker 1 01:06:04 Yeah. That's fantastic. Well, well Brent's getting that guitar ready, Brent, thank you so much dude. Appreciate your brother. This was awesome cuz we gotta talk about Sports <laugh> and I got about the Yankees and the Astros and we talked to s e c football and we talked all kinds of cool stuff. So thank you for hanging man. Absolutely, bro. Taking time outta your busy schedule. Oh hell yeah. Or Speaker 2 01:06:20 We just knocked Speaker 1 01:06:20 Tyler <inaudible>. We did just have some knocks. Tyler, uh, episode 18, Speaker 3 01:06:26 I believe That's right. Episode Speaker 1 01:06:27 18, I believe that's right. Uh, but guys, thank you for listening. As always, make sure you follow Brent along at Brent Michael, look him up on all the socials. Get ready for that new single coming out. Do it. You Hi. And uh, oh dude. That's what I do. That's what I get paid to do <laugh>. Um, and um, and make sure you follow us along too at, in the Round podcast at just a wandering Tyler at Coda Rocks. Thank you for taking the photos, the videos, getting Coto Speaker 3 01:06:52 With a c like you're, uh, you're going back to play something in a piece of music. Speaker 1 01:06:56 Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got Coda with a c Um, don't, don't understand that. Thank you for doing the pictures and videos. Uh, and Speaker 3 01:07:02 Hey, how's that hand holding up, Speaker 1 01:07:03 Koda? Yeah, no, we won't even talk about that. We, we'll leave that one out there, but, uh, shout out to Koda for getting outta bed this morning and, uh, coming and uh, Speaker 3 01:07:11 Yeah. It's a miracle to get cut outta bed. Speaker 1 01:07:13 Yeah, it, it, it is a pain in the ass to get Dakota better, Speaker 3 01:07:15 Especially with his hand and like all that kind of stuff right now. But, Speaker 1 01:07:18 But what I'm looking forward to starting not this next, this episode we were recording at Dave and Jake's shout out to Dave Hangley and Jake Arch for letting us use the living room. But coming up in the next couple weeks, we will have our own studio and our own damn house. Tyler's gonna be there, Coda's gonna be there. We have some other buddies living with us and we're gonna be able to do it at our own place. We're gonna be bringing the live sessions back. We got a lot of cool things coming. We'll have Speaker 3 01:07:42 Cooper, which will be the biggest thing. We'll Speaker 1 01:07:44 Have a dog there. Uh, sometimes we may or may not, we won't even get into that part, but, um, Speaker 3 01:07:49 Might bring the Huskies over you. Speaker 1 01:07:50 You, we got a big backyard, so whatever you wanna do. But, uh, we're gonna have our own studio and uh, we're also gonna be doing, bringing back a lot of the live video features on the socials and getting back to what we had said we were gonna do way back in episode one, cigars and Guitars, the website's coming along. Shout out to Brandon for that. But now without further ado, the new single coming in July. What was it called? He said Don't wake me up. Speaker 2 01:08:13 Don't wake me up. Yes sir. Don't Speaker 1 01:08:15 Wake me up. Here's Brent Michael. Y'all have been listening to the In the Round podcast. Have a great day. Speaker 0 01:08:28 The Speaker 5 01:08:28 Bass pounding in Speaker 6 01:08:29 My chest. Speaker 5 01:08:30 I've been lucky it ain't before. The star play. The hard is at my door, moving her body a little closer to me. Supposedly I'm supposed to believe Speaker 6 01:08:39 That she's mine throwing her hair back, playing her games, hair in front of her face. I brush it back, my fingers on her neck. Just want to thing the last. Don't wake me up. I must be dreaming. I can believe that. I've got you. This ain't love. I dunno what is under my skin just like a tattoo. I'm falling. Falling free. Falling steady back. Love down to some petty. Don't, don't wake up. Don't wake me up. Speaker 5 01:09:27 Better than the rest. Better than my wildest dreams. Being with yous got me questioning reality, sleep, walking and talking around your apartment. I he staring at you and you're Speaker 6 01:09:38 Telling me to stop it. Got my eyes on your body and ain't gonna leave it Looking like you'll keeping Victoria Secret. I keep waiting. Alarm this off. Don't wake me up. I must be, can believe I've got under skin falling, falling down to petty. Don't pinch me cause sleeping. Don't wake up. Don't wake me up. Well I guess I just have to keep hitting cause there ain't no way. The real world has got a girl like you who don't wake me up. I must be dreaming. I can't believe that I've got you. If this ain't love, I dunno. What is you skin? You're under skin. Wake up. I must ain't love. I'm falling. Falling free. Falling steady down. Don't pinch.