Fox N' Vead: Playing The Game

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. Come on. This is Outside the Round with Matt [00:00:17] Speaker B: Burrill for Rage Rowdy podcast. [00:00:20] Speaker A: What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of Outside the Round with me, Matt Brill. Today, the most bodies that I've had on an episode. We've got the entire band, Fox and Bead and hanging out with us fellas. It is an honor to have you boys on Outside the Round. [00:00:34] Speaker B: I got excited to finally be on. [00:00:36] Speaker C: I know, man. [00:00:37] Speaker D: We appreciate it. [00:00:38] Speaker E: Yeah, like two years too. [00:00:39] Speaker D: Too long. Two years too long. [00:00:41] Speaker C: Long time coming. For sure. [00:00:42] Speaker A: It is, man. And I'm so excited for this project. The fact that we get to do an album release show with you boys, the most full circle. But I want to ask you guys, what have you been up to lately? Because it seems like it's just been record promo and then going and going on the road, huh? [00:00:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like a whole lot of nothing and then a whole lot of whole lotta, you know, like we went from doing nothing for a while and just kind of writing and keeping to ourselves. Yeah, we just like I've just been going non stop lately. Feels like at least you know, but getting ready for this record because this is our favorite thing that we've put out I think for sure. Just feels like a project that we really took time on because, because we were so patient with it, you know. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it feels like an evolution. Like I've. Like you can see, you can see going back to, to your, your previous projects and just seeing how the sound has evolved over time. And I think you guys are in a spot where you're like, yeah, this is Fox indeed. [00:01:40] Speaker C: Yeah, dude, we're. We're really lucky that we've got a, a dope team around us and like we appreciate y' all putting us on from like the first time we came to Nashville. And we just, we're lucky we got a good group around us and we're definitely like, we, we feel like this project is going to be like, it's going to tell a lot of people like kind of who we are and like what we're all about. So it's dope for sure. [00:02:00] Speaker A: That's awesome. So how you guys are all still out in Carolina or if some of you moved out here, moved out to Texas or. Everybody's in Carolina. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Still in Carolina. [00:02:07] Speaker D: Pretty loyal to the Carolinas. We, we love our coastline states. [00:02:12] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Probably stay there. [00:02:13] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:02:13] Speaker A: And something that I remember you guys telling me early on was that people thought that you were from Texas to this day. [00:02:19] Speaker D: Still do this day. [00:02:20] Speaker B: This is probably the number one thing that we hear. You guys from Texas, right? We're like, no, actually pretty far. [00:02:28] Speaker D: 20 hours far. [00:02:29] Speaker C: I mean, it's dope because I know, like, it. The Texas scene, like, to be accepted into that culture, like, it's not the easiest thing. So the fact that people, like, they've taken us in with open arms, we're like, dude, I mean, we take it. I can't be mad about it at all. [00:02:42] Speaker B: You know, we're not mad about it [00:02:43] Speaker C: in any way, but like, go Cowboys. [00:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, he's a cowboys. [00:02:47] Speaker A: That works out well for you. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Yeah, like, yeah, we're fully grateful for it, but, you know, we're. [00:02:53] Speaker D: We're. [00:02:53] Speaker B: We weren't trying to get into the Texas scene necessarily. Just kind of like, we just made our own thing and kind of fell in there. [00:03:00] Speaker C: Shoe fits, bro. [00:03:01] Speaker B: But we weren't like, well, let's. We can't wait to get into the Texas scene because we were just doing our thing and then it just worked, you know? [00:03:08] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:03:08] Speaker A: Who were the acts out of Texas that really inspired you guys? Like, where do you think that Texas rock, that new wave of grunge that gets lumped into, like, this country Roc, red dirt thing? Like, who were some of the early acts where you guys were like, we want to sound a little bit like this, or you guys were jamming that as you guys were forming and whatnot. [00:03:26] Speaker C: I would say, honestly, a lot of like, we grew up on was like. A lot of like, alternative rock and stuff. Like, that is what we grew up on. Of course, like, we looked up to co. Like, you just had him on and you were wearing the Fox and Beach shirt. Appreciate that. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Dude, I had. I had to run the boys, man. [00:03:40] Speaker C: Of course, co. I mean, of course Treaty Oak has come along and really done their thing. And I mean, it's. I wouldn't say we necessarily were like, trying to. To go after their sound or stuff, because when we were a cover band, we played. I mean, we played anything and everything. Like, it wasn't necessarily just Texas rock. It was classic rock. It was hard rock, country. Like, it was everything. [00:04:01] Speaker E: We were the worst cover band because we played what we wanted to play. We didn't care what anyone else wanted. [00:04:05] Speaker B: That's the thing. We didn't. I wouldn't say that we had like, a ton of, like, Texas inspiration. I mean, obviously we really liked co, but like, we kind of just. [00:04:15] Speaker E: We just appreciated. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Yeah, we just liked everything and anything. And then we all had our. Our own, like, upbringings and we just kind of morphed it together. But like, yeah, I don't know, we just. We just created something that we felt fit all of us and I guess it just fell into that Texas scene a little bit. [00:04:32] Speaker A: Yeah, man. And I want to ask kind of the forming. So I love that you guys have the COVID band background because my, my upbringing into this Nashville music scene was through Muscadine Bloodline, who cut their teeth doing covers. I know you know those. [00:04:44] Speaker C: Shout Out, Shout Out. [00:04:45] Speaker A: Gary and Chuck. We love you, Gary and Chuck. If you're watching, listening, we appreciate you tuning in. But they came up doing covers at Moe's Barbecue, Tin Roof, Sky Bar, wherever they would be able to play. And then Trey Lewis did covers for seven, eight years before DDID came out. So there's something to be said for grinding as a cover band and then having your moment doing your original thing. And I think that speaks to why you guys are so good on stage and so in sync with each other. So take me back to the early days of Fox and Beat. Like how did this whole thing get going and how did you guys all find each other? [00:05:17] Speaker B: I mean, we were, we were in another cover band. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Oh. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Back home. Which was, you know, we were just hanging out and I met Cheese. [00:05:25] Speaker C: Well, getting really drunk. [00:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I met, I met them. I met Logan through them and then I ended up leaving and so did the other guitar player. And then Christian took the other guitar player's place and then they kind of just started writing their own thing and. And then they got into the studio and then they called me and Landon because Landon knew Logan from high school. But they just called us up and was like, hey, we got this song. And like Logan tried to play drums on it and terrible song. And he was like, but it wasn't that good, so we need you. And I was like, okay, I'll come play. And yeah, off RIP I was like, well, maybe I'll keep playing with these guys. We're going to have to. Going to have to really change this sound. Cuz the first songs didn't really sound like us at all. [00:06:15] Speaker E: What. [00:06:15] Speaker A: What kind of sound? Like in that archive that's somewhere deep in a. In a demo folder or whatever. What were the early sounding? They were very country, very country, very [00:06:25] Speaker C: country, very bluesy blues, Funk country. [00:06:29] Speaker B: They got a good combination. [00:06:30] Speaker C: Yeah, not like cool, not like Cadillac 3 like country fuzz. Not good like that. Like that, but awful. [00:06:37] Speaker D: Just burger. [00:06:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they were not good. And the, the guy that was like, he was like, I, I want to record with you guys. And I can't wait to do some really country stuff. And we came in with this, like, bluesy crazy. And he was like, what the happened? [00:06:54] Speaker E: That was like the very first song me and BE had ever wrote together. So I was trying to be, like, on the country because he was very country at the beginning, and I guess I was very bluesy. And we hadn't found the sound yet. [00:07:06] Speaker B: Yeah. But because we all have like, the different upbringings, like. Like Logan's very bluesy, Landon's alt rock. He was really country, and I was like punk rock. Yeah. So we all just like, when we all came together at first, I think all four of us were like, how the fuck are we going to do this? This is not going to work out. [00:07:24] Speaker E: How to put our egos aside. Yeah. Really just focus on all of our best qualities. [00:07:29] Speaker A: The power of collaboration, man. Bands are. Bands are tough to be in, you know, and you guys have a brotherhood that is very special. And you talk about, like, Treaty Oak or Muscadine or our brothers from old 60, you know, like, it takes a special group of guys or girls to be together and spend. You spend more time with each other than you do your own families. When you guys are on the road and stuff. I got asked to. Speaking of family, how is Papa Cheese doing? I heard that he. I heard that. I heard that he. I heard that he hurt himself. [00:07:56] Speaker E: No, that was a Christian's brother. [00:07:58] Speaker A: Oh, it was your brother. [00:07:59] Speaker C: Yeah. He is our merch guy towards Achilles. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Telling me that the merch guy. God got hurt. I'm thinking in my head, last time I saw one of your shows, it was your dad selling merch. I'm like, oh, I hope he's all right. [00:08:10] Speaker C: He came in clutch. So me and my brother were. Were out playing basketball, and he just came down the wrong way and tore his Achilles right before our first headline tour, like a week before. So Chad came in, Big Cheese came in and. And clutched up for the run and really saved our asses, honestly. [00:08:26] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Shout out to Big Cheese, because he is. [00:08:30] Speaker E: He hasn't been on the road much because, I mean, he's my mom [00:08:35] Speaker A: now. [00:08:35] Speaker E: He has, like, grandkids. [00:08:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:38] Speaker B: But also in the. Like, throughout the last two years, has been the most clutch MVP driving with you, boy. [00:08:45] Speaker D: He took us. He took us to California and back, so. And, you know, minimal sleep because he wanted to watch the shows, you know, and we were like, dude, you got to go get sleep. He's like, no. [00:08:54] Speaker B: And we would be like, you know, we can drive today, buddy, if you want. Nope. [00:08:59] Speaker E: And he would ride in the van, dead silent, like, not a word, two [00:09:04] Speaker B: hands on the wheel. [00:09:05] Speaker A: And I was like, I was like, [00:09:06] Speaker E: why do you not listen to music? He's like, I like to think, oh, [00:09:09] Speaker A: and he's just chilling up there. [00:09:11] Speaker D: He had like a. We were on tour with Gavin whenever we went to California and back, sat out Gavin. That was one of the most fun tours we've ever had. [00:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:18] Speaker D: And you know, he, the whole time he's just sitting there, like, eyes forward, not making a peep. And I'm like, he probably did two months of thinking in that drive, like, straight up. [00:09:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And you guys have gotten to come up and, and gotten to. You've gotten to go out and do your own headlining thing, but gotten to open up on in clubs and in places like, like the Caverns and in like wild spots with, with folks like Old 60, Dexter and the Moon Rocks. So many great acts. What's it been like learning from some of those folks and some of those guys around your same age as your peers, you know, like, they're like your friends. [00:09:58] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:09:59] Speaker B: I think in a way, like, obviously it's like, it's beautiful because you get to go play these awesome spots that you never really thought that you could get to back in the day, especially playing little cover gigs. We were like four hours straight. We would kill to get there. And then you get there and then you realize, like, man, I want to be the band that's headlining here. And you know, you play and half the people don't really know who you are out there. And you know, you're just hoping that you make a couple fans. But then now, recently we've been doing a lot of headliners and you know, you can play the 5,000 people, but then when you get in a, in a club with a couple hundred people who really, that's the thing is we came up playing to people who didn't know us, to tons of them. And now we're going back down to like this club of a couple hundred people who know us and it's like, it's great, it's great, it's awesome. [00:10:47] Speaker D: Like, this is what it's like. Yeah. [00:10:49] Speaker B: But then it fires you up to be like, okay, now let's get back to those same venues that we were opening for. But then this time, like, I can't wait to get there and it be all our fans. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we do got a shout out like Gavin060, Cameron, Marlo, Dexter, trying to think, then there's more Austin Snell, like, they. [00:11:08] Speaker A: That's a great pairing, too. [00:11:09] Speaker C: Yeah, they. They really did, like, help us out a lot. Like, a lot. We'll go to the merch booth at our headline shows or even just when we're opening, and we go to. And we're like, where'd you see us from? And a lot of them are like, we saw y' all opening up for gavin or for, oh, 60. And I'm like, hey, bro, that's, like, that's sick for us, you know, that's great. [00:11:25] Speaker B: It was fun. [00:11:26] Speaker C: Gavin will put us on game all the time. Like, that's one thing. [00:11:30] Speaker D: It's interesting to see, like, how everyone does their marketing and everything, because nothing works the same for each individual person or band. Like, you know, they can give us advice, and, you know, some of it works, but you just really have to find your own thing. And I feel like that's. That's what a lot of Tor has taught us is, like, everyone does stuff differently, and everything works differently for different people. And so there's no, like, set in stone way to do things. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Because the old 60 crowd and the Gavin crowd are very different. And those are going to be different. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Very hilarious. [00:11:59] Speaker A: And those are going to be different from the Cameron Marlo crowd and Snow crowd. And the Dexter crowd's probably a combo of a few of those different things, but more rock. [00:12:07] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:12:07] Speaker B: The Dexter crowd is great. [00:12:08] Speaker C: They. They received us very, very well. [00:12:11] Speaker A: You guys are a perfect fit on that because they rock out. And you boys put on one of the best shows that I've seen in recent memory. I mean, that, like, whether it's. Whether it's early day opening at tailgates and Tall boys last year. And again, that was a big stage with a lot of room out there because it was early in the day, but y' all got up there and killed it. [00:12:29] Speaker B: Such a funny show. I got kicked out of that on our own show. [00:12:36] Speaker A: Oh, that was that. When you were, like, trying to go backstage, Were you climbing something? [00:12:40] Speaker B: No. The guys were up on the side stage watching Hardy. They somehow got there, and when it was pouring rain. It's pouring rain. I'm standing at the front of house. I've had a couple beers, and I'm like, I gotta get back there to go get with the guys, because they're sitting on the side stage, and I'm like, how did I get separated? It's dumping rain. [00:13:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Nowhere to go. We had no green room, no nothing. And I'm like, well, how do I get backstage? The Only the way I got out here was I ran right through the middle. Yeah, like by, you know, [00:13:13] Speaker A: front of house security. [00:13:15] Speaker B: So in the middle of Hardy show, I ran right through the. In the middle. And I went to go up on the side stage. And the guy was like, you can't go up there. And I was like, my guys are right there. My band is. I can see them. They're waving at me like, I can see them. And he's like, you can't go up there. And I'm like, okay. Well then I was like, there's another staircase. I'll go to that staircase and see if they'll let me in on that side. Dude, they. Nope, they stopped me and they're like, you got to get the hell out of here. And I was like, I played today. And they were like, get the hell out of here. [00:13:43] Speaker C: And I was like, all right, you played at 3:00'. Clock, dude, get the hell out of here. [00:13:47] Speaker A: I remember that night because that was. There's a few times where Nikki T. Still like, we call it setting it off, [00:13:56] Speaker D: dude. Oh my God. [00:13:57] Speaker A: That was the night it used to happen. Well, Nick and I first became buddies. It was. I was the OGDD and I'd be California sober and I'd smoke and then he would drink all the beers, you know, and tailgates and tall boys is one of those events where if you want to party with vintage, where you want to see Nick Tressler become Nikki T. And that Hardy night, Ike, I'm sure remembers this, we had a. We put a. He had a trash bag, like a black trash bag over him. And he was just like a wet rat out there. He was front row rocking out like I was. He could have been side stage watching under the COVID but he was in the rain. Then he came over the merch booth because I was under the merch tent watching from afar, smoking a cigar. It was awesome. And then Nick came over and he was just drenched and drunk as. And it was awesome. Set it off, set it off. Set this off. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he like pulled us off to the side and made us all shotgun a beer. [00:14:47] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:14:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:14:48] Speaker B: And we were right outside of this camper that we weren't supposed to be standing outside of drinking pouring down rain. It's pouring rain, cuz there's no shelter. That's the only place we could go. And he's shotgun and versus. And then he just set it all. And they come out and they're like, can you guys get away from our camper, please? [00:15:03] Speaker A: Like, where, where, where would you like us to go. [00:15:06] Speaker E: I remember we were going to go out to the merch booth and then by the time we got out there, all the merch booths have been like zip tied up. So we were all just in the mud in the rain. [00:15:16] Speaker A: Well, ne. Well, next time we're at a festival together when it rains, because it inevitably rains at festivals. I think we got some coming up too. You guys are on one of the rock the countries, right? [00:15:23] Speaker B: Y. Yeah. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Is that the one down in Florida? [00:15:26] Speaker C: Ocala. How. How are the rock the countries? [00:15:30] Speaker A: They're fun. And I mean, the crowd, it's some of my favorite people watching. Because you're going to such small towns, man. Like, I'll show you some photos. But the people love the music. And honestly, the early day mainstage slots, people have been coming in early. And our raise rowdy stage on the side stage like the one we were just. That was in Georgia. And we had John Langston headline the first day on our stage, which he's a Georgia. Georgia music legend. So he had probably like 2500 over there. And then Jay Webb headline the next night. He had about 3,000 at our. our side stage. You know, so they're camping, they're coming in early, they're partying. We'll get you guys plenty of real American beer. [00:16:08] Speaker C: Right on. [00:16:09] Speaker A: We're in with them and they're there. So you will have unlimited beer and [00:16:12] Speaker B: we'll have the Hulk Hogan beer. [00:16:13] Speaker A: It was Hulk used to be on the can. Yeah. [00:16:15] Speaker C: Rip brother. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Legend, man. But you love wrestling. So I got to tell you a little bit. We're going to talk all about playing the game. I promise. [00:16:27] Speaker C: We're here to shoot the boys. [00:16:29] Speaker A: It's like we're sitting at the Rusty Nail. Right up. Like we're just sitting having beers and surfsides and waters and whatever. But I was just back home, like I said. And do you know the thing about the Knicks with Danhausen? Have you seen that? [00:16:42] Speaker B: No. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Bits. You know, Danhausen is. Yeah, so. Oh, yeah, you are cussed. [00:16:46] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Yeah. So back when they were playing the Atlanta hawks in round one, the Knicks were down 2:1 and Danhausen cussed. He. He said, you are cursed to the Hawks. And then the Knicks had won 13 games in a row. So everybody in New York is embracing Danhausen. So my boy Joe. Shout out Joe. I don't know. Probably not. But my boy Joe Griffin, who lives in Manhattan, one of the most New York degenerate dudes that him and I grew up in high school together. All that but him and his buddies all ordered Danhausen masks. And we were out in the bars in New York City last night. They were rocking their dance. He called himself Joehausen. We had Joe Housen. And we had. It was Jordan, and it was our Jacob or something. Yeah, it was Jake. Jacob. So it was Jacob Hown and Joe Howen. And they were just screaming. Every time the spurs missed a shot last night, they were screaming. The whole bar was screaming. You are cursed. They were, like, leading chance. But the wrestling culture is a lot of fun, man. [00:17:39] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:17:39] Speaker A: And it lines up with country music and what you guys do, like the rock stuff and everything. And you guys put on a show where it's like you guys are. Are chill individuals when we're kicking it like this. But you guys get on that stage, it's like a switch flips. And you guys are freaking. You're jumping around at the kit. You're flying around the base. You two are doing your thing like it's wild, man. [00:17:58] Speaker C: I want to play the Royal Rumble, man. Come on. [00:18:03] Speaker B: Please, God. Somebody walked to the ring. [00:18:05] Speaker A: I mean, the songs are very fitting because they amp you up. Like, especially, like the songs that started out a little bit slower, like there could have been somethings. And then, like, you guys mix and breakdown so well, which is what I think separates you guys from a lot of folks in the space. And I think that might come from the punk. From the punk stuff, that might come from, like, the bluesy stuff. And there's the country lyric and storytelling in all your songs, too. Like how you guys were talking about kind of how you all grew up and have your own backgrounds. It's all blended so freaking well. [00:18:34] Speaker B: I think it took a while. It really took. [00:18:36] Speaker D: I feel like. [00:18:37] Speaker A: When did you see it start coming together? Because this is your third album, which is what's Wild. Like, y' all put out three records. [00:18:42] Speaker B: I think this album. Well, I feel like the albums were kind of like. Well, we. We were always, like, kind of thinking old school. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Like, we all. [00:18:50] Speaker B: We gotta put an album out. Like, I know it's a singles game nowadays, but we just love the thought of a project. But the first one, it felt like we had it kind of figuring out. Then the second one, you know, we kind of rushed into it. We rushed it a little bit. [00:19:03] Speaker C: You know what they say. You have your whole life to write your first album, and then you got a year to write your second one. You know, that's what they always say. [00:19:10] Speaker B: And we were like, let's do it in, like, six Months. But anyways, this one, we were like, really were like, let's just stop and take a break. And, like, really. We recorded a bunch, and then we kind of narrowed it down. They're the ones that felt like a good project. But on this one, this next. This new album feels like we really properly, like, kind of touched all of everyone's favorite type of things, and we put them in an. In a. In a project where it feels like if you listen to it from top to bottom, if it moves fluidly, and. [00:19:42] Speaker E: I don't know. [00:19:42] Speaker B: I love it. I think. Yeah, it was like, with the last. The last record, I felt like when it was time to put it out, I kind of looked at it and was like, okay, how are we gonna do this? Like, what's the visuals gonna look like? What's this? What's the merch? Like, what's. What's this? This, this. But with this one, when we got it all done, we put the track list together immediately. I was like, I know what the COVID is gonna look like. I know what the visuals are gonna look like. I have a great idea. Deal. Like, I think we all were kind of just, like, we could see it because it felt so put together. [00:20:15] Speaker A: It's a clean cover art with. I'm looking at it right now. It's El Camino on there, right? [00:20:20] Speaker B: That's Big Cheeses. [00:20:21] Speaker A: That's your dad's. [00:20:22] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:20:23] Speaker A: It's so sick. [00:20:24] Speaker C: It's sweet. [00:20:24] Speaker A: And I want to. I want to talk about the names of the records, too, because it does tell a story. Like, it's. Now you guys are playing the game. You're going out there, you're headlining, you're doing your thing. Barely getting by. That's that struggle of going from the covers to the originals and opening and Big Cheese driving you all cross country. And then it could have been something is where you start out. [00:20:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:43] Speaker B: I've actually never. [00:20:44] Speaker D: I've never thought about it. [00:20:45] Speaker A: You're just looking at them in. In a list, but it. Like, they're different chapters within the book or within the documentary. That is you guys. That is Fox and Beat God's timing right there. [00:20:55] Speaker D: That is God's timing. [00:20:56] Speaker E: What? [00:20:56] Speaker C: We've been chapters of our lives, man. [00:20:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Because I. I definitely feel like they're. They are very fitting for what we're doing. I mean, we felt like we could. We could be something with that first one. Then the second one. It was like we were. We. [00:21:11] Speaker D: We hardcore struggling. [00:21:12] Speaker A: We were struggling getting by. [00:21:14] Speaker B: Like, I feel like we got thrown into, like, the music business and then [00:21:18] Speaker E: had to learn a lot. [00:21:19] Speaker C: Didn't know what the hell we were doing. [00:21:20] Speaker D: We. We were just. We were just getting out of a pickup truck whenever we like. We're finishing up all the. [00:21:26] Speaker C: Barely getting our first quick story right quick. Our first tour with Pecos. This was our first tour we ever did, like, after coming from COVID gigs. We're in Big Cheese's pickup truck, and we have like a cooler attachment that goes in, like, the hitch in the back. And it's just a big cooler. That's where our merch went. And all our gear went into the back of the pickup truck. [00:21:45] Speaker B: I didn't advance a single. We literally showed up and they were like, who the hell are you? And I was like, hey, man, we're playing. They're like, okay, what do you got? [00:21:55] Speaker C: Pecos is like, you guys don't have a van? He's like, you guys can't tour in a pickup truck. And we're like, yeah, we can. [00:22:02] Speaker D: We had a separate cooler where we kept, like, snacks and stuff. So we had like. So we had like 30 sandwiches wrapped up in tin foil with ice. And we were like, oh, this will last us like a week. This will be great. Two days later, the ice is melted, the sandwiches are soaked, and we ate about half of them. We were like. We're like, okay. [00:22:21] Speaker B: We were like, tin foil will be waterproof. [00:22:24] Speaker D: It'll work. [00:22:25] Speaker B: The soggy sandwiches together. [00:22:27] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:22:28] Speaker D: Christian ate one. He's like, it's not that bad. [00:22:32] Speaker C: I'm not very picky, man. I can. I can get down with about anything. [00:22:35] Speaker D: PD Bar. Dude, [00:22:38] Speaker A: you're built for the road, man. [00:22:39] Speaker C: Come on. [00:22:40] Speaker A: You ain't. You ain't scared of a rolling. Of a rolling hot dog out of loves. [00:22:43] Speaker C: This guy right here. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I wanted to get into what you guys eat on the road because I spend a lot of time. Ike and I are doing like 15 festivals this year, so it's like we're on tour. But I used to do. I think my. My year with Musk, and I probably did like 75 or 80, and then I probably did like three or 400 shows with Trey Lewis over like a four or five year period. So I'm used to going in the loves and flying J and pilot on the good days, going in the BUC EE's, but. So you're getting roller dogs? [00:23:10] Speaker B: I. Yeah, I think we all have adjusted our appetites a little bit on this last run because we were eating so much crazy. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Well, you can't. You can't eat like a gang banger all the time and get up there and play like, yeah, they're trying to sing like, oh, there's that heartburn. And you're like, I'm too young to be having this. [00:23:26] Speaker E: I live on tums, you know? [00:23:27] Speaker A: Yeah, me too, Mane. [00:23:30] Speaker D: Well, that's. That's him. Not. [00:23:32] Speaker A: So when you guys were at. So you were roller dogs, what was your. I mean, guilty pleasure? [00:23:37] Speaker E: I'm honestly, I've been on the protein bars. Like, the barbells. [00:23:41] Speaker B: No, what it was, was Logan and Big Cheese would open up. I'm talking. [00:23:49] Speaker D: It smells like fart. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Exactly. We were exhausted, and we're driving for 20 hours, and it would just. [00:23:56] Speaker E: You know what? I get bullied too much. I'm just gonna not get this. [00:24:01] Speaker B: We would obvious leave, and then they'd open that bag and we'd be like, [00:24:06] Speaker A: you can smell it so much. You can actually taste it, literally. Jerky's potent, man. [00:24:09] Speaker D: Literally. Yeah. Oh, for me, though, everybody already knows the answer. But Snickers bars. [00:24:15] Speaker A: But you're a candy bar guy. Makes a lot of sense. [00:24:17] Speaker D: Got peanuts. It's protein. [00:24:19] Speaker B: The best part was he would get like, three and then eat half of one, and then the other two would just be on the ground somewhere, like, melting. [00:24:28] Speaker D: I'm the king of leaving one bite, like, left. I don't know if it's a disorder in my brain, but I just. I just, for some reason, can't eat the last bite of it. [00:24:37] Speaker A: What do you think Christians is? [00:24:38] Speaker B: Oh, tell them what you're on right now. [00:24:39] Speaker D: Go ahead. [00:24:40] Speaker C: Right now? Yeah, I've been on the barbell protein bars. What am I on? [00:24:45] Speaker B: Christian's on the tuna hard. [00:24:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, well, that's not from the gas station. I bring that on the road with me. [00:24:51] Speaker A: You're bringing tuna in a van? [00:24:53] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, dude. Ben's rice and tuna eat that out the packet. [00:24:58] Speaker B: We hit the eggs sometimes. [00:25:00] Speaker C: I put these dudes through hell. Hey, gotta get the protein in, baby. [00:25:04] Speaker B: I dropped all my money on coffee. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. [00:25:08] Speaker A: Yeah. I used to be. When I was with Muscadine, they had, like, a weird. [00:25:11] Speaker D: They weren't. [00:25:12] Speaker A: It wasn't like a paid deal, but bang was really big back then. It was like 2019, and they were. They were sending them, like, pallets of bang. We were bringing it on the road. So I was at the merch table, and I drink, like, two or three bangs twitching out. I drink like, nine. I take like 600 to 900 milligrams of caffeine. To the face at the merch table. And you know, at the merch table, from watching Big Cheese, you're not moving around much. And some of we were. That was when we were playing, like the Stigs inside places. And I was smoking two packs of Marlboro Lights a day. So I would have an ashtray, a bang, a spare, a spare can of Copenhagen. [00:25:41] Speaker C: He's ready to clock in for a production job. [00:25:45] Speaker A: They would musk, and I would be like, you were moving around over there. You look like you enjoy the show. I'm like, bro, I can't sit still. [00:25:49] Speaker D: I'm having a panic attack right now. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Like, buy this porch swing angel T shirt, please. [00:25:54] Speaker C: What's crazy is that's where I first met you, before we were even in a band, when I went to a Muscadine show. Y' all played in Charlotte, Coyote Joe's at the Underground, at the Fillmore Underground. And you were selling merch for them. Because I've always been a fan of Muscat. [00:26:07] Speaker E: That was. [00:26:08] Speaker A: That was a fill in gig for me. So Brad, their merch guy now, was getting married that weekend. And I didn't have a run of shows with Trey or I just left the Trey gig. So I just. Me and Nikki, Tia just teamed up to do Raise Rowdy full time. [00:26:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:22] Speaker A: And they needed somebody to fill in. So I went in and my merch numbers from what I used to sell to what it was at that time, it was like 10x, bro. [00:26:31] Speaker C: Damn. [00:26:31] Speaker A: The film was a cool venue. It is a really cool room. [00:26:34] Speaker C: I hope we can get in there. At some point. [00:26:36] Speaker A: You guys would crush in there. [00:26:37] Speaker C: Yeah, it'd be good. It's our hometown room. [00:26:39] Speaker A: Yeah. That is a rocking room. And that was the first show that Charlie did the cowbell and For a Devil went down Dixie when the. With the. Gary's singing the song about his granddad. [00:26:49] Speaker C: Dude, the Muscadine boys are good, dude. Live. They are nuts. And they're a guitar player. I don't. [00:26:54] Speaker A: Oh, Weston. [00:26:54] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Dude, he is an animal. [00:26:56] Speaker A: I remember when Weston was 19 years old with long hair and he was a vegan and post Covid, he started eating meat. Gary said he shaved his head. Started. Started doing a little bit more of the California sober stuff. And he is a prodigy, dude. [00:27:11] Speaker C: He's an animal, dude. No, no. You know, he's nasty. [00:27:13] Speaker A: His dad, like, is a. Is a musician. [00:27:16] Speaker C: Like a bluegrass guy. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Played with Reba, played with Brooks and Dunn, played a bunch of people. So he learned guitar from his dad, who was a Beast and his Uncle Chris, which is Chris Stapleton. So no wonder the kid's good at guitar. [00:27:28] Speaker C: All right. [00:27:29] Speaker D: That's all I need to know. [00:27:30] Speaker A: Weston grew up on. Weston grew up. Like I grew up. [00:27:33] Speaker C: Marty Music on YouTube. No wonder he's better than me. He's just like the guy that teaches everybody how to play guitar. [00:27:39] Speaker B: If you look up how to play Sweet Home Alabama, number one video is Marty, and he's like, hey, guys, Marty [00:27:44] Speaker D: with Marty music here. [00:27:46] Speaker B: And that was like, basically our dad. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that was like, you get home from school, you're watching that. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Yeah, not me. I'm. I just watch videos of Tommy Lee. Not that video. [00:27:58] Speaker E: But now you're watching the Woodstock 99 of flea. Yeah. [00:28:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, we. Me and Nick back. Back in a couple years ago, would just. We'd get, like. We'd get stoned after our work was done, and we'd come. We'd have our creative time, or we'd just get high on Nick's back porch at the Amber Sound, where Muscadine Records all their stuff. [00:28:19] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Nick used to live in the. Above the studio in one of the bedrooms there. [00:28:23] Speaker E: Dam. [00:28:23] Speaker A: That was the original razor. Audi hq, where Ryan Newman's and all that studio is. And we would just get stoned and then watch all the Woodstock 99 sets. Like, watch. Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers. We'd even watch dmx. Like, we'd watch jamiroquay. We'd watch. We'd watch all of. All of that stuff. And of course, the Limp Bizkits, which. I had the rip. I had the rip. [00:28:43] Speaker C: Let's go. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Thank God. [00:28:45] Speaker A: Keep on rolling. And the Kid Rock. Have you guys seen a Kid Rock show before? [00:28:48] Speaker B: Have I seen one in person. Yeah, it was back in, like, 2013. It was really great. [00:28:53] Speaker C: That dude, he don't mess around. [00:28:54] Speaker A: I'm wondering what day you guys are on Rock the country, because I don't. I don't know if Bob's down there. I think it actually is Blake Shelton and, like, Brooks and Dunn headlining. So that's one of the few that Bob's not on. But he still runs around like. We were just with him in Texas and Georgia, and he still. It's like the part of the closing out song. He comes out the ball with the ball and it's the. And he comes out in the pimp outfit, just like he did in Woodstock 99. [00:29:14] Speaker C: He's like, the fur coat. [00:29:15] Speaker A: Yeah, the fur coat. How to shit. He's sweating. He like. It's. He still flies around like it still looks like probably similar show to what you saw in 2013. Just. Just 13 years later. It's crazy. [00:29:26] Speaker B: The reason we love the Chili Peppers one so much is because I was in high school and I. I was actually in iss, like, in detention. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Oh, dude. I was an iss. I had iss. [00:29:36] Speaker B: I was like. But I was cool with the lady in there, and she let me get a laptop, do my homework or whatever. And I was like, let me listen to some music in the background. And I turned it on, and it was Woodstock 99. And the first thing that pops up on that chili pepper set is Flea butt naked. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Jumping, Bouncing around. I'm in the middle of high school, like, oh, this will be great. And it's Flea butt naked on my screen. [00:30:00] Speaker A: And that was what. That was when they. People started burning. Because that was the. That was later in the day. And then they were like, can we do it? Should we do it? And then they just started playing Fire, Shout Out Jimi Hendrix. And they were playing. They were just ripping. They were ripping fire. And then the camera pans to the. To the fires out in the fields. My uncle was at that. My uncle was at Woodstock 99, and he said it was the best and worst weekend of his. [00:30:21] Speaker C: Was he on lsd? [00:30:22] Speaker A: No, he was drinking a lot of beers. Drinking a lot of beers. Probably ripping a lot of cigs. Oh, yeah, that was. That was on an airstrip. [00:30:30] Speaker C: Was it? [00:30:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a horrible design, so. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Well, the reason they moved it was they did woodstock 94 in a field and it poured rain the whole time, so it was just muddy. So they were like, how do we prevent the mudslides? Let's put it on asphalt. So they put it at, like, an air. Like a Air Force base. It was 100 degrees, and you're on the asphalt and that. This is back in 99, so you don't have, like, the resources that we have today. [00:30:55] Speaker D: Modern ac. [00:30:56] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, they were just spraying people down with the hoses. [00:30:59] Speaker D: Smell. The smell. [00:31:01] Speaker A: Oh, it had to be terrible. And people are out, intense. And. Yeah, dude, it's just greasy. It's wild. Have you got. Have you guys. Yeah. Oh, we love Trailer Park Boys. We talk about greasy and then letter Kenny. Pitter patter. Let's get at her, you know? Have you guys gone overseas or gone to Canada or anything like that yet? [00:31:16] Speaker D: Yeah, we've been to Canada. We've been to Ottawa, Toronto and Toronto. Is it not Ottawa? I'm tripping. It's Toronto. [00:31:23] Speaker A: But it's in the same. The same province or Ontario, but we [00:31:27] Speaker D: went there with Austin Snow and Dexter in the Moon Rocks on separate occasions. But they have been some of the best shows we have ever played. Like, the energy there. They were moshing. [00:31:37] Speaker A: Just going crazy. [00:31:38] Speaker D: Moshing in Canada when we were with Dexter. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Yeah, this. This is no insult to them at all, but, like, Dexter came up to us after us, all the guys, and they were like, dam. This felt like y' all show, man. Like, there was a lot of people out here for y'. [00:31:48] Speaker D: All. [00:31:48] Speaker B: And I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't. Dude, we're not. We don't know why, but all I know is that the Canadian border, then they suck Customs. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I've heard it's a pain in the ass. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Customs is so bad twice now that we went as. They just gave us the hardest, hardest time. But it's also because I don't really. [00:32:09] Speaker A: There's a lot going on. [00:32:10] Speaker B: We don't really know what we're doing. [00:32:12] Speaker A: There's that. There's that too. But I see you guys eventually going, like, out to Europe and, like, playing those vakan festivals and playing Download and Rockham Ring, because we've gotten to see Lakeview do that over the past. Jesse and Luke and. And their whole team are guys that we've known kind of from their inception because they started in Pittsburgh, so Nick's known them. [00:32:32] Speaker C: Okay. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Forever. And they always. They sell more tickets in Germany than they do here in the States. [00:32:37] Speaker C: Really? [00:32:38] Speaker A: Yes. [00:32:38] Speaker E: Wow. I've heard that a lot of the bigger, like, rock people, when they go overseas, they just sell. [00:32:43] Speaker C: It's killer, dude. [00:32:45] Speaker A: They sell more like Gideon, who's down in Alabama, and he's a little bit more on the heavier side. He sells more out there than he does in the Southeast. [00:32:50] Speaker B: I always remember Blackstone Cherry. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Blackstone Cherry. [00:32:53] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:32:53] Speaker A: They still live from Birmingham, but it wasn't Alabama. Birmingham, England. They put out a lot. The OG Bird. [00:32:59] Speaker B: I remember when they did whatever that Shined down tour was. It was like the carnival one. [00:33:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:05] Speaker B: But it was like. It was. The lineup was like, Shined down and like, somebody. I think it was Hailstorm maybe and Blackstone Cherry. And it was in that order, top to bottom. And then when they went and did the same tour overseas, Blackstone Cherry went to the headline from the first of three, like, to the headline. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Like, it was. It was a weird flip or so. It was something like that. But it was in. I remember being like, damn, they got movement over in the uk. [00:33:30] Speaker A: They. They love music that has energy. And makes them really feel something. And not saying that Shinedown doesn't have energy to make them feel somewhere. Hailstorm. They'll. They'll do a great job at Blackstone Cherry. And that, to me, is a good, like, comparison. Like, you guys can probably identify with the Blackstone Cherry story as well. [00:33:44] Speaker B: That's what I was gonna say. [00:33:45] Speaker A: They're Kentucky boys. [00:33:46] Speaker B: You were talking, like, what Texas bands have inspired you? I would say that Blackstone Cherry was probably my biggest Southern rock inspiration because I loved that band when I was younger, man. I still love that band. Still one of my favorite drummers of all time. Like, if you're asking for a good, like, Southern rock inspiration. Oh, yeah. Love. Love Blackstone Cherry. [00:34:05] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:34:05] Speaker A: What I also love is the amount of noise that you guys can make is just a four piece. Like, it feels like. It feels like there's extra. There's other guys, like, hiding behind the curtain or off to the side stage when you guys are playing. Like, how are you able to mix so much into just the four of you guys rocking out real amp? [00:34:23] Speaker C: So, no, no disrespect to anybody else, but two vamps are loud. This son of a. Is the loudest drummer I've ever heard in my life. [00:34:31] Speaker A: Yeah, man. You, I always get. I always think, like, oh, man, he's gonna. He's gonna be the guy that's gonna break the house kit at one of our nationals. It's album release show. [00:34:39] Speaker C: It's bound to happen. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think we're gonna try. Trying to get my kid up. [00:34:45] Speaker E: Literally every time there's a house kit, I'm always like, Ashton, you should try and break it. [00:34:51] Speaker C: That's like, please don't. [00:34:53] Speaker A: That's Odie. I'll let know. And what they could do is we could probably just swap some of the drums around. Like, we can make that work. [00:34:59] Speaker B: My kid is pretty small. We'll make it work. I think. I think we can. [00:35:03] Speaker A: And you have homies playing in front of you guys too. We haven't talked about this album release show. For playing the game. You got. You got Owen and the Smokes. You got Rob Langdon, the boys. And they're. They're also from. I know Rob's originally from Florida, but they're Carolina scene. Because Rob really started his music stuff when he was at App State. [00:35:20] Speaker E: Correct. [00:35:20] Speaker A: Moon area and Owen, you guys have known forever. So talk about having other guys that are part of, like, your Carolina rock, country rock. Like, I know Owen even leans more alternative than that, but talk about having those guys on that show with you? [00:35:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, just repping the home, you know, we love. Those were our good friends. We had good, you know, relationships with them from home. And then, I don't know, it was just exciting to be able to be like, you know, we can bring you guys along and, like, experience this awesome night with us. Yeah. [00:35:53] Speaker A: You know, How'd you first get connected with Owen? [00:35:55] Speaker B: I've known Owen since I was in elementary. [00:35:56] Speaker C: Oh, really? [00:35:58] Speaker A: You guys all. You grew up with them? [00:35:59] Speaker B: Yeah, me and Owen used to ride this. The bus home from school. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Oh. [00:36:03] Speaker B: And I remember Owen, like, used to rap on the bus and it was always like, I would try to compete with him by just like, rapping Eminem [00:36:11] Speaker C: verses that, like, I wrote that. I definitely wrote that. [00:36:15] Speaker D: That's an awfully hot coffee pot. [00:36:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:19] Speaker B: But no, I've known him forever and we've always been huge supporters of him. And then we met rob through 60 and, you know, Rob was just. Just a great guy. But then, yeah, he went to App, so we and Logan went to App for a semester. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't know you were over in Boone. [00:36:32] Speaker E: I went for one year. [00:36:34] Speaker A: One year. [00:36:35] Speaker C: A bunch of college dropouts, these guys. [00:36:37] Speaker B: We dropped out. [00:36:38] Speaker E: I started a band. I was too focused on playing music and I failed all my classes. [00:36:43] Speaker A: What were you gonna major in? [00:36:44] Speaker E: Music production. [00:36:45] Speaker A: Okay, so you were there for the. [00:36:46] Speaker E: I didn't make it into the music. [00:36:48] Speaker D: I quit my job in college on the same month and just screw it. [00:36:52] Speaker A: Oh, you. What was your day job? [00:36:53] Speaker D: I was a auto technician. [00:36:56] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:56] Speaker D: And I was apprenticing for, like, mechanic work, basically just going around to different shops with people I knew. And I remember I was still doing. I was doing music business as my major. And I came home and looked at my parents in the eye, said, I quit college and my job. And they were like, get out. [00:37:17] Speaker B: I remember the day when we told you we kind of peer pressured him into doing it. I feel like we were like, we were like, if you're good, if we're gonna do this, you should probably quit all that. And he was like, okay. [00:37:29] Speaker C: And I went home and I quit playing these, man. I'm a firm believer that you cannot have a plan B and. And make this work. Like, I truly believe that you gotta [00:37:38] Speaker E: have all your eggs in the basket. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Pretty much, yeah. [00:37:41] Speaker A: I think it was Hardy that said that on one of the podcasts that he said, like, if you have, like, the first thing you got to do is eliminate options BC shout out Hardy. [00:37:49] Speaker C: Too Hardy. [00:37:50] Speaker A: He's a huge influence. And you Talk about being all in. That's one of my favorite songs by you guys. You know, you got to be all in, you know. [00:37:56] Speaker C: Sure. [00:37:57] Speaker B: I. I mean, I definitely agree. I. I think that. I think we realized that a lot with this album, and that's why you can kind of hear it. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:05] Speaker B: Is that we. We felt fully committed to everything that's on this record. [00:38:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:11] Speaker B: The. The sounds, the songs, the. The visuals, the. Everything. We were like, yeah, this is. This feels like us. [00:38:17] Speaker E: We're. [00:38:18] Speaker B: We're locked in on this, and this is gonna work. I told these guys when we started the band, I was like, I. You know, first, and I don't know why I thought it and I just kind of felt it, but I was like, first and second album, you know, I'm. Obviously are going to be great. We're going to put our hearts into it. And I was like, I just got this weird feeling that, like, we knew we were going to be a brick by brick band, but I was like, I feel like the third one's going to be one that changes a lot. [00:38:40] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:38:41] Speaker B: And that was before we even dropped the first album. I was like, I don't know why. I just feel like the third one's going to be the one. [00:38:48] Speaker E: You're like, these first two are gonna suck. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Not like that. [00:38:52] Speaker A: But I want to talk about some of the songs that you guys have released before this. This baby comes out. So High Agenda seems like it's been a huge one for you guys. Talk about the songwriting of that and where that idea came from. [00:39:02] Speaker D: That was a message. [00:39:03] Speaker C: We wrote that with Owen. Me and Owen started writing High Agenda. We wrote it and it was. And then we brought it to Cheese. Or actually we brought that to the studio unfinished. And Cheese wrote the chorus. And then we kind of all kind of just figured this, like, how it speeds up crazy at the end. [00:39:20] Speaker B: That's how we write every song. [00:39:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:22] Speaker B: These. These two write the songs, and then they'll bring it to me and Landon, and me and Landon will just figure out more of the structure and put it to make it feel like it's all of us. Like, we always talk about all in, but all in was a piano ballad. [00:39:36] Speaker E: Me and VEED wrote that on the piano. [00:39:37] Speaker A: Wow. [00:39:38] Speaker C: Like, slow. [00:39:39] Speaker B: It was like a emotional slow. [00:39:42] Speaker E: This is boring. Let's speed it up. [00:39:45] Speaker B: And like with. [00:39:45] Speaker A: That's one of your fast. The songs swear. [00:39:48] Speaker B: And then with. With High Agenda. Yeah, they came and brought that. And then I was like this. It was like the first verse, and that's really all they had. And I was like, this is sick, but we should do something different. And, like, we were just like. I was like, let's just go really fast right there. [00:40:05] Speaker A: You just want. [00:40:06] Speaker B: That's the punk. That's the punk. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:08] Speaker C: Yeah. We actually have on this upcoming record. We have. Everybody has wrote on at least some of the songs on this upcoming record, which is cool, which is super dope. Like, we have a song on the album called Phase Me, which I think is. Might be one of the best songs on the record. And I actually started with Landon writing. Writing some of that. And then we brought it to Andrew Bayless in town, and we did it with him. Shout out Bayless. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Bayless. One of the best. Red Door hangs in this. [00:40:34] Speaker C: Bayless is a. Jeez, he is hilarious. [00:40:37] Speaker A: He is the man. [00:40:38] Speaker E: He doesn't even try to be funny. [00:40:39] Speaker A: No, it's just him. Yeah. [00:40:40] Speaker C: And we dropped a song called Waiting, that was the first one of the first singles, and we did that with TK And Texas. You helped us write on that one, too, in the studio. And our main guy we have to shout out out of Columbia, South Carolina, is Kenny McWilliams. And he's pretty much produced everything that we've had. Like, he's. He's really helped us a lot, like, as far as just, like, orchestrating the songs, like, helping us, like, establish our sound. So shout out Kenny. [00:41:09] Speaker D: Yeah, Shout out Kenny. Archer Avenue Studios. [00:41:10] Speaker C: My guy. [00:41:11] Speaker B: The thing about Kenny, too, is, you know, even when we go. When we went with Taylor and we would go with Bayless, like, they kind of just are like, you guys go in there and you do your thing, and, like, we're good. [00:41:22] Speaker C: Felt like we were cheating on Kenny. [00:41:23] Speaker B: Yeah. But with Kenny, the thing we love about Kenny was Kenny. We would go in there and play, and he'd be like, nope, do it again. Like, you know, he's. He's the nicest guy ever. But he'd be like, I think you could do that better. Or he would be like, you and me and Landon aren't, like, meshing, right? You guys need to, like, get. Figure this out and get tired. And he just. I think that helped this record be so good because we've been doing him with stuff with him for three albums now that we became much better musicians and a much better band. Because, yeah, he. He challenged us to be tighter. He was like, I could fix this in post, or we can do it again, and you can make it way better. And I think you should do that. [00:42:02] Speaker A: And then that's what's Going to translate [00:42:03] Speaker C: to why it does. And he has a lot to do with our success, bro. Like, I, I, I 100. Got to give him, like, props to. [00:42:09] Speaker A: How'd you get linked with him? Because he's down in Colombia, so that's a little bit of a drive for you guys. [00:42:14] Speaker E: We had a. Our first producer for our very first EP that we made that we is gone now. But he was a horrible producer, to say the least. Sorry. [00:42:26] Speaker A: Just like, does he talk about the first song and you guys trying to be more country? You figure stuff out as you go? [00:42:31] Speaker E: It was. Yeah. So we ended up getting that. When we were getting that thing mastered, the. Our mastering guy, Dave, he's actually valid. [00:42:39] Speaker C: Very valid. [00:42:40] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:42:40] Speaker C: Dave is great. [00:42:41] Speaker E: So Dave was like. Well, first of all, he was like, this guy has no idea what he's doing. He's missing the basics. He put us on to Kenny. He's like, I got this guy in South Carolina and y' all would like him. And me and Christian did those acoustic [00:42:54] Speaker C: songs, those first songs we ever called out and cheating. [00:42:57] Speaker E: Yeah, we tried out Kenny with that and we were like, oh, this. This dude's badass. [00:43:01] Speaker D: Whenever we first. [00:43:02] Speaker C: It could have been something. Yeah. [00:43:03] Speaker D: The first song, whenever we first met Kenny, he was running out of like a shed in his backyard. And it was. It was like a Narnia thing where you walk into the wardrobe and you're like, there's a whole thing in here. Yeah, it was like this little shed and, you know, nothing special, but you walk in. It was this well made studio. And we were like, this is crazy. And now he's moved into a new space and we're very happy. It's a killer spot. [00:43:24] Speaker B: The funniest thing was that they went. Went and did like these acoustic country songs. And then they were like, all right, kitty, we're gonna come back and we're gonna bring the whole band. And we came back and we were like, here's this heavy ass, drop D over driven, crazy rock song. [00:43:39] Speaker C: And it was originally even heavier than what it was. What it sounds like now I. I [00:43:44] Speaker E: talked the band into because I was still on, like, the guys. This is a big switch from anything we've ever done. And the fans we do have are gonna be like, like, what the. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Keep in mind, we had like, like a hundred. [00:43:56] Speaker C: Yeah, [00:43:58] Speaker B: we didn't have a lot, but [00:43:59] Speaker E: I was like, if we're building an image, like, to go from like super country to super heavy is like a big switch. And it was when we first got the first mix back it was crazy. [00:44:11] Speaker B: We still have that. Don't. We still have that? [00:44:13] Speaker C: Oh, I still got it. [00:44:13] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker B: That was heavy as hell. [00:44:15] Speaker A: I can't wait. I gotta hear. [00:44:16] Speaker C: We'll show you after that. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Yeah, show me. Show me after. Another song I want to talk about is Ride, and I feel like that's been a cool one. I saw a familiar face in the writing credits there. Yeah. Jacob on that. [00:44:26] Speaker C: Yeah. Yep. [00:44:28] Speaker E: They played that song originally. [00:44:29] Speaker C: Really? [00:44:30] Speaker E: When we first toured with them, like, when they first started, they were playing that song, and we always thought it was a cool song. And then they, you know, started releasing their newer music. It's more, like, folky and chill. And one day they were just like we had wrote with Jacob because they only had the first verse in the chorus, and we wrote the second verse with him, and they just never. They started going in a different direction, and they were like, y' all can just have the song. [00:44:56] Speaker C: We're like, yeah, this song rocks, dude. [00:44:57] Speaker A: It's a cool song. I love how you guys made it yours. [00:45:00] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:45:01] Speaker A: You can hear a little bit of the 60 in it, but it sounds like a damn fox and beats. [00:45:04] Speaker C: Shout out Jacob, too. He's a great songwriter, man. All the. Oh, six. [00:45:07] Speaker A: He's always a poet, man. [00:45:07] Speaker C: He is just. [00:45:08] Speaker A: He's just a sad, super smart kid that has his quirks, but is, like, a genius when it comes to putting. Putting words to paper, man. [00:45:16] Speaker C: Yes. He's great, man. [00:45:17] Speaker D: He just got engaged, too. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. [00:45:19] Speaker D: Congrats to him. [00:45:21] Speaker A: I know. I know he's been here in Nashville, but it's like, he was like, man, we're gonna hang out all this. I moved to Nashville. I haven't seen him at all, but they've been on the road a bunch, I think. [00:45:29] Speaker C: He's a little bit of a hermit, I think. [00:45:31] Speaker A: And he likes me in the best way. Yeah. Yes. [00:45:34] Speaker B: I mean, I don't blame him. [00:45:35] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:45:35] Speaker B: Chaotic life. Sometimes you just want to sit down. [00:45:37] Speaker A: Yeah. How do you guys balance the being on the road and then you have to come here for stuff, and then you have the team that's. That is down in Texas now and balancing the road and then having your loved ones, you know, like, how. How do you guys balance your crazy lives that you're living right now? [00:45:52] Speaker E: We're trying to have a good mix, you know? [00:45:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:55] Speaker E: We try and we try and be home, and when we're home, you know, just hang out with family. [00:46:00] Speaker C: As much as these are my best friends in the fucking world, dude. [00:46:03] Speaker E: So, like, if we all hated Each other. Then. [00:46:06] Speaker C: Yeah, we hang out when we get off tours. Like, we. Like, we really do. Like, we get up and get together [00:46:11] Speaker A: at each other's houses or go out to the bars or. [00:46:13] Speaker E: We went to a Pitbull concert. [00:46:15] Speaker D: Yeah, we did. [00:46:15] Speaker B: We just saw Pitbull. [00:46:17] Speaker A: All you guys went to Pitbull? [00:46:18] Speaker B: Yeah, Doll. It was awesome. It was. No, we do either. We take, like, two days off. We're like, all right, we need a break. [00:46:25] Speaker D: Just. [00:46:26] Speaker B: And then after that, we're like, we should probably get back up and. And, you know, practice. Practice and keep talking. We do practice a lot, but I don't. I think. Not necessarily by choice, necessarily, but we took a. We took a lot of time. We had a lot of time at home over this year, and we just. We felt like it was pretty necessary to do and. And to finish this record and make sure that it stands out. So now that we're finally getting picked back up with shows and the album coming, like, I'm. I'm excited to get. Get on the road and get away for a little bit, because I'm. I want to. I want to go play up, you know, that's. This is. That's my happy place is being on the stage, for sure. [00:47:12] Speaker C: We got, like, a month off. We got July off. So I'm sure we'll get up, like, as long. I love touring hard. And then give us a little time to go and write and cook up the next batch of stuff and then throw us back out there. So, like, it's. There's a good balance. There's a good balance. [00:47:25] Speaker B: It keeps people excited, too. [00:47:27] Speaker E: Like. [00:47:27] Speaker B: Yeah, if we played the same states every every month, every other month, like, it would get old. So it's kind of nice to, like, take a second for us and regroup for the fans. [00:47:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm looking at where you guys are going actually this weekend, huh? You guys are out on the road with Dexter. With Dexter in the Midwest. [00:47:44] Speaker C: It's gonna be fire. [00:47:45] Speaker D: That's gonna be crazy. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Shout out to Fox and Dexter, because they've been. Fox has become a really good friend of mine and the bands just helping us understand social media better because he's a guru. [00:47:57] Speaker C: They're on a generational run right now. [00:48:01] Speaker E: Kind of crazy how the. Dexter, that song that blew off, it's trickling down, but it's trickling down to all of their openers. Yeah, Carolinas. [00:48:09] Speaker B: It's trickling down. [00:48:09] Speaker C: Speak to that a little bit. To the. To the scene. To the. To the Carolina scene for a second. [00:48:15] Speaker A: But who Are you got to put me on these acts so I can get them out here and then come rock out. [00:48:19] Speaker B: I just think that something weird is happening right now. I don't really know. I'm trying to think of the best way to explain it, but I saw an interview recently where Fox talks about how Texas is, like, how Seattle was back in the grunge days and how it's making this thing and it's creating this movement. Well, it's funny because now, like, a lot of the bands that are taking over that Texas scene are coming out of the Carolinas. Like, I. I don't want to say us, but, like, I feel like we're having. [00:48:49] Speaker A: Y' all are there. [00:48:50] Speaker B: We're having. [00:48:51] Speaker A: Y' all are there. For sure. You guys are there. [00:48:53] Speaker B: I hope to keep growing as a band, but also, Cigarettes at Sunset is having an insane. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Dude, I haven't met those kids yet. They just. They just shot us a dm, and we're like, hey, can we get some merch from you? I'm like, absolutely. We love what they're doing. [00:49:07] Speaker B: We came up with them a little bit. Like, we didn't play much because they were in Boone and we were in Charlotte, but we knew of them. But we. We played it. We tried to play one show with him, and we ended up walking out on that show because the bouncers were [00:49:19] Speaker C: bullying one of the bands, the first band. They were bullying him. So we were like. [00:49:24] Speaker B: And it was Frigate Five. Yeah. [00:49:26] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:49:27] Speaker C: We ever tell you this story, how [00:49:28] Speaker A: can you bully the Frigga kids? [00:49:30] Speaker D: Because he was badass. [00:49:32] Speaker B: Badass. [00:49:32] Speaker A: And they're nice, like, because they were the venue. [00:49:36] Speaker B: It was the finals, right? The NBA Finals. [00:49:38] Speaker C: Quick side note, right here. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Yeah, the NBA Finals. [00:49:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So right around this time of year, because finals are going on right now. [00:49:45] Speaker B: The bar was like, hey, there's nobody in this bar. First of all, there's, like, three people watching the finals in the other room. Hey, we got to keep these doors closed. So. No. And we're small bands, all of us, and there's barely anybody. [00:49:57] Speaker E: We were headlining at that point. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Yeah, we were the headliners. And so Frigate Five, being who they are, that did the lead singer walks off and. And kicks the door open because who cares? There's, like, three people watching, rapping to everybody. [00:50:12] Speaker D: It was sick. [00:50:13] Speaker B: And so the bouncers come in and start bullying him. Being like you. [00:50:17] Speaker E: They wanted to fight him. [00:50:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:18] Speaker B: They were trying to find him. So we were like, if you keep bullying this kid for trying to play music at a music venue, we're gonna leave. [00:50:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:24] Speaker B: And they kept going. So we were like, all right, we're leaving. And that was US and Friga 5 and cigarettes at Sunset. And I still, like. I hate that. [00:50:32] Speaker A: What a show for that venue to look back on. I know you guys are at right now. I know. Know Frigga's still doing their thing down in Atlanta and figuring it out. But you guys and Cigs at Sunset on there, like, that is. That's a story that'll be told for a long time in that small town. [00:50:47] Speaker B: But anyways, so the Texas. The Texas scene is. [00:50:50] Speaker A: So Sigs at Sunset. Who else you got coming up? [00:50:52] Speaker B: Sigs. And High June has been great. [00:50:54] Speaker A: High June. [00:50:55] Speaker D: I don't. [00:50:55] Speaker A: I'm not familiar with them really, so I feel like. Put me on them. [00:50:58] Speaker B: But Dexter is really. They're leading this way. Them in Treaty Oak. And then I feel like there's a lot of bands. Not to say that Texas isn't doing their thing. They're still doing. [00:51:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:51:06] Speaker C: Texas and Carolina are like the joint. It's coming together right now, in my opinion. [00:51:11] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:51:11] Speaker B: It's funny how, like, Carolina has. Has put a foot in the door in that scene a little bit, because, yeah, it's usually just Texas and the surrounding states, but then on the other side of, like, basically halfway across the country, there's this whole other scene forming out here in the Carolinas, I feel like. Which is cool, but it's. It's different. [00:51:29] Speaker E: Different. [00:51:30] Speaker B: It's not the same. It's like. It's, like, adjacent. [00:51:33] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:51:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:33] Speaker E: But I mean, they mesh well together. But it's a. It's literally since Dexter's had that moment, all these bands from Carolinas, like, even our numbers have actually quadrupled in the past couple. [00:51:45] Speaker C: Crazy. Yeah. [00:51:45] Speaker E: Like, actually sick. Yeah, it's badass. [00:51:48] Speaker B: It's like this Texas scene, in this Carolina scene are just running side by side. And it's all because of this. This surge in this, like, alternative country and. And co. And Treaty Oak and Dexter. [00:52:01] Speaker C: Paving the way, bro. [00:52:01] Speaker B: Are paving the way. Those three guys are, like, really, really leading this charge. And everyone is, like, just spreading their horizons and seeing all these other bands. [00:52:11] Speaker A: And I think it's sonically where the world is ready to have fun. [00:52:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:16] Speaker B: Rock music is coming. [00:52:17] Speaker C: Rock music is so bad. [00:52:19] Speaker A: The world is ready for. For heavy and something that they can sing a. A chorus that's melodic and heavy, that they can put their arms around their bros or hold their girl and sing along to and rock out. [00:52:30] Speaker D: And Dexter has done a very good Job of that, especially, you know, with the freaking out song. It has gone ballistic. [00:52:35] Speaker A: I'm even thinking of, like, Ritalin and Carolina and, like, who was the band [00:52:41] Speaker B: you were talking about yesterday where you were like, dude, rock music is definitely coming back. It was another, like, I can't. I don't even remember if. You'll remember either way, if you just look at the scene right now, like, outside. Oh, Julia Wolf. [00:52:55] Speaker C: Oh, man. You know who Julia Wolf is? [00:52:57] Speaker E: No, bro. [00:52:58] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [00:52:59] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [00:53:00] Speaker B: Julia Wolf has a song with Drake. That's how. That's how mainstream she is. [00:53:04] Speaker C: So fire. [00:53:05] Speaker A: She's got 8.5 million monthly listeners, dude, [00:53:07] Speaker C: she is fire in my room. That song is crazy. [00:53:11] Speaker B: Turnstile. [00:53:13] Speaker A: Oh, the turnstile thing is a punk kid. That has to make you so happy. You've probably known about them forever because they've been in that world for a long time. [00:53:19] Speaker B: It's just beautiful to see rock music. [00:53:22] Speaker C: Will Sweetville. [00:53:24] Speaker D: Yes. [00:53:24] Speaker B: Gosh, yes. We can sit here and name all these bands that we really love, but it's just so cool to see, like, this resurgence. [00:53:32] Speaker C: Super Heaven. I mean, all these bands, all the [00:53:35] Speaker E: music that we grew up on and, like, crossfade. And now that we're getting older, people are like, I want new of that. [00:53:41] Speaker C: Hell yeah, dude. [00:53:42] Speaker E: It's nostalgic. [00:53:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:43] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:53:43] Speaker A: It's similar to 90s how 90s country came back and everyone was craving that. And then Zach Top comes back and kicks down the door. Lainey Wilson with the bell bombs and all that rocks. Having its time, like, for Turnstile to be playing Coachella. [00:53:55] Speaker B: Yeah, Crazy. Like, one of the biggest crowds of the whole weekend. And it's. It's like how country country in the 90s morphed into, like, pop country, this country, that country, this country. It's like rock music is starting to [00:54:08] Speaker C: morph into, like, so many lanes of it and avenues. [00:54:11] Speaker B: Country, rock, punk rock. Like, Julie Wolf is like, shoe gazy, Shoe gaze. He's big. Alt rocks big. [00:54:18] Speaker A: What. What is Shoe Gazy? [00:54:20] Speaker B: Shoe gaze is like, really? [00:54:22] Speaker C: Do you know Super Heaven? Like, youngest daughter? You heard her. You know who Super Heaven is? Oh, my Lord almighty, please. [00:54:28] Speaker A: Now, Sam from Rowdy Alternative, I'm sure [00:54:30] Speaker C: knows who all the Super Heaven title fight. I know you say, like, that's like shoegaze God, dude. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Somebody please beg. [00:54:37] Speaker C: Listen to Youngest Daughter by Super Heaven. [00:54:39] Speaker D: That's. That was a super big tick tock song, and I think that was released in 2013. I remember my dad, like, listening to that back in 2013 for the first time. So I knew about Super Heaven but you know, it just kind of swept to the back of my brain. And then this song just surfaced and it was like, it's useless. I've tried, but to no avail. And then it just went crazy on TikTok and I was like, I knew about these guys. I knew it. [00:54:59] Speaker B: It's so crazy. Like a lot of these. All these alt bands are having like these tick tock resurgences like title fight and stuff. Please come back. Title. [00:55:07] Speaker E: I mean, look at Crossfade. They made it. [00:55:11] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:55:12] Speaker C: Talk about Columbia, South Carolina, baby. [00:55:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. They're butt rock gods. Whenever we do whatever. Whenever we do our butt rock night. Never meant to be so cold. [00:55:21] Speaker E: I love them. [00:55:22] Speaker A: And now they're on my bucket list. That's on my bucket list to get to a cross country crossfade show. [00:55:26] Speaker C: I grew up on that Red album. I don't know. Is it a self titled? I don't know. Anyways, that Red album, dude, I grew up on that, man. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Because it was another song about. It was like stars or something like that. [00:55:36] Speaker C: Colors. [00:55:37] Speaker A: Colors. [00:55:37] Speaker C: That's starless is on there. [00:55:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:39] Speaker C: I can name that whole album. [00:55:41] Speaker A: I'm a cross stand for sure. Yeah. We love us in CrossFit. We love that whole era. [00:55:45] Speaker C: And it's. [00:55:46] Speaker A: And it's like you had Nickelback and Creed and, and Biscuits touring again, but now you have bands that were even like the. [00:55:52] Speaker C: The. [00:55:52] Speaker A: The second tier, if you will, in that time that are coming back and now you have the new guys on the block like yourselves and all those acts you were just naming. [00:55:59] Speaker B: Man, Limp Bizkit is so good live too. Me and Landon somehow made it to the pit. We bought. We bought lawn tickets and we knew a guy and he got us in the pit and it was crazy. [00:56:08] Speaker A: Yeah. So we're planning on. And I know he's. He's probably going to be tuning in because he loves you guys and he watches the pause up. But we're gonna. Sam from Rowdy Alternative. [00:56:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:18] Speaker A: Shout Out Sam. He's the man. But he still lives in Cincinnati. So we're trying to like persuade him to get down here. So we're gonna be. To take care of him. Biscuit's doing the two shows at the Truth here in Nashville. It's like a 4, 000 cap room. So it's biscuit and a 4, 000 cap room in Nashville. Back to back nights. I think it's in like November, October. But Nick and I bought tickets for me. [00:56:39] Speaker B: Nick and Sam have You seen him yet? [00:56:41] Speaker A: No. [00:56:41] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:56:42] Speaker C: Good luck. [00:56:42] Speaker A: You see, I have the tech. I love Limp Bizkit. Like Significant Other was an influential album in my life when I was like 7 years old. [00:56:49] Speaker B: It's such a party. That's what I love about it, is that Fred. Fred doesn't give a. [00:56:53] Speaker C: Don't they play break Stuff twice? [00:56:55] Speaker D: Yeah, they play it at the beginning [00:56:56] Speaker B: and the end when I saw them. At least he came out and played it at the first song. So everyone's immediately crazy as hell. In the middle of the set, he goes, what do you guys want to hear? And like, someone just screamed a song. He was like, we haven't played that in five years, but do it. And he played it and it was cool. And then at the end of the set, he was like. Like, let's play break stuff again. [00:57:17] Speaker D: Yeah, that we. There was a huge mosh pit. Whenever we got into the pit. And I mean, I got elbowed, kicked, spit on my glasses got broken off of my face. You like, yeah, let it happen again. But. And then we were leaving. I was about to throw up the whole way. It was great. And we had a good time. [00:57:35] Speaker A: What bit was Fred in? Because I know he does different bits. Like, he did the dad. He did like the dad thing. [00:57:40] Speaker D: Yeah, it was his dad. [00:57:41] Speaker A: Was it the dad vibes? [00:57:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:42] Speaker B: I can't even remember. [00:57:43] Speaker A: He did the yacht rock. He's done the yacht rock thing too. He's got like a different get up right now on the European. On the South American stuff that he's doing. He, like, just alternates. Like, he doesn't wear the red hat again ever. It's just random bits. Then he had Corey Feldman opening. [00:57:58] Speaker B: Dude. And it rained and we missed Corey film. [00:58:00] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:58:01] Speaker B: And I was pissed. Who is that, like, crazy out there [00:58:03] Speaker A: with Corey during his set? It says he's doing it. [00:58:05] Speaker B: He's doing it. [00:58:06] Speaker A: He's ripping, he's shredding. [00:58:07] Speaker B: He had. [00:58:08] Speaker D: He had some crazy, like, German DJ out there and just. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Crazy. [00:58:14] Speaker D: Yeah, like German house music. And we were just like dancing in the rain. [00:58:18] Speaker A: Just the DJ from Ramstein, not the rest of the band, but just something like that. [00:58:22] Speaker D: I don't even know. [00:58:23] Speaker B: It rained, though. And we missed. [00:58:28] Speaker A: I want to see him shoot the Flaming Arrow. [00:58:31] Speaker B: Their stage set up for. For Ramstein. It's ridiculous, dude. It's like they have to. It takes them like four days to set up their stage before the show. [00:58:39] Speaker E: They have so much pot. I mean, yeah, they. [00:58:41] Speaker C: I'm sure. [00:58:42] Speaker E: How many fire marshals have to come make sure. That. [00:58:44] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I'm pretty sure they only do like a couple, like, maybe 20, 30 shows a year because it's such a huge [00:58:50] Speaker A: production that they like genuinely the cost of the show. [00:58:54] Speaker E: So nuts. [00:58:55] Speaker A: Yeah. That is crazy, man. What are some. Some bucket list things? You guys have gotten the cross off the. The list already. You guys have gotten to do some Cool Caverns few years. [00:59:04] Speaker B: I love a band called. I used to be obsessed with a band called Highly Suspect and. Oh, dude, King Gizzard and the Lizard. [00:59:10] Speaker A: Know those guys? [00:59:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw those two bands at. Or I. I saw they used to play there all the time. And I was like, man, one day I want to play there, so I want to go headline it one day. But I'm just thankful that we get to play there. [00:59:22] Speaker C: The pinnacle was sick, opening up for Gavin. That place. Awesome. Yeah. [00:59:27] Speaker D: What was that place in Seattle? [00:59:30] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's right across from the fish market. Yeah, it's like something ballroom. [00:59:35] Speaker A: Seattle venue across from the fish market. [00:59:37] Speaker C: The Showbox, maybe. [00:59:39] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:59:40] Speaker A: Seattle guys. [00:59:41] Speaker D: That was the loudest show. Yeah, that was the loudest show we've ever played. We. I think the sound guy clocked us at 117 decibels. [00:59:49] Speaker E: Wow. When a jet takes off, it's 120. [00:59:53] Speaker D: So something like that. [00:59:54] Speaker B: We were loud. [00:59:55] Speaker D: Absurd. [00:59:56] Speaker A: Now, is that a room that's been there for a while? Like, is that one of those. You go in and you see the history of the grunge stuff? [01:00:01] Speaker D: Yeah, it's definitely an older building. [01:00:03] Speaker B: I mean, you could just feel it. Like, they just felt like a place that was special. And like, when we got in there, we've been playing with Gavin and the crowds were great, but like, Gavin's country and we are not. But I guess Gavin just liked us a lot. It just brought us out. Even knowing that it was show, especially [01:00:21] Speaker A: at that time, was chaos and absolutely chaos. In country, you could have it in hip hop. You could have it with a German EDM dj, or you can have it. You could have it with a bunch of boys from Carolina rocking out. So I think it's the. The chaos fight and so much of it's the hang. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:34] Speaker A: And guys bring it on tour because they. They gel with you and consider you family. [01:00:37] Speaker B: We knew that. That. That being in Seattle and being more of like a rock grungy band, like, we were like, maybe. Maybe this one will be. [01:00:44] Speaker C: The amps went, yeah. [01:00:46] Speaker B: We were like, maybe this one will be fun. And it was fun out was ready for it. [01:00:51] Speaker E: They loved it. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Somebody came Up. Yeah. It was so loud and I forgot who it was. Somebody was like, yo. I went and stood out front and it was ridiculously loud. And I was like, well, nobody else was complaining. It was one of the best shows we ever played in our lives. [01:01:06] Speaker D: So, Yeah, I mean, I'm. I'm a little bit more on the germaphobe side. And I was having so much fun. I drank out of another dude's beer cup. I was like, why did I do that? [01:01:15] Speaker B: That was stupid here. [01:01:16] Speaker C: But smokes joints with anybody. [01:01:20] Speaker A: A joint pass is different. [01:01:21] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. [01:01:23] Speaker A: Five second rule. You know, [01:01:26] Speaker D: weed kills germs. Everybody knows that. [01:01:27] Speaker A: It does. Hey, it's on. [01:01:28] Speaker B: Alcohol definitely doesn't. [01:01:30] Speaker D: Yeah, but so. [01:01:32] Speaker A: So the west coast has been good. Have you guys done a lot in the Northeast yet? New York or New Jersey? Boston, anything like that? [01:01:39] Speaker B: A little bit. [01:01:40] Speaker C: We did the Gramercy in New York. That was super dope. But Snell. Oh, with Austin, that was super dope. [01:01:46] Speaker B: We hit a little bit like. Like Boston. We did like one offs there pretty much, but we haven't been back. [01:01:51] Speaker C: We did the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Yeah, I think that's what it is. [01:01:55] Speaker E: That almost Buffalo that we did with Dexter. [01:01:58] Speaker B: I love Buffalo. [01:01:59] Speaker C: That was a cool show. [01:02:00] Speaker B: I'm a huge Bills fan. [01:02:01] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Buffalo. Electric City. [01:02:05] Speaker E: Yeah, something like that. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Yes. Dude. I had a blast there because I love Buffalo so much. [01:02:09] Speaker E: Much. [01:02:10] Speaker A: Did you. What you should have. Did you jump through a table? [01:02:12] Speaker B: I wanted to. [01:02:13] Speaker A: If you had incorporated that into your. Into the thing. It's just tough when I was an opening show. It's tough when you're the opener. But if you could have facilitate. Well, do you imagine if you do like, you do your jump, when you jump up on the kit and do the big boom, but you jump up and you. You go through a table. [01:02:28] Speaker C: We got to keep unhealthy, man. [01:02:29] Speaker B: Well, that was the thing. [01:02:31] Speaker A: If it's in Buffalo, though, it's what you do well. [01:02:33] Speaker B: So I think I was trying to get. We were with Dexter and I think I wanted Fox to do it with me. And he was like, that's a great idea. [01:02:40] Speaker C: You should do it. [01:02:42] Speaker B: He was like, that's a great idea. And then we never spoke about it again. And that just kind of passed. [01:02:48] Speaker A: Shout out to my promoter friends in Buffalo. We got to get the Fox and Bead Boys back up to Buffalo. [01:02:53] Speaker C: Come on. [01:02:53] Speaker A: Preferably Saturday Night Football season, so then they can go to a Bills game on the Sunday. That would be. That would be cool. [01:03:00] Speaker E: That would be cool. Sick. [01:03:01] Speaker B: Go Bills. [01:03:02] Speaker E: Their new stadium looks ridiculous. [01:03:06] Speaker A: I'm excited for them and happy, but at the same time, the home field advantage is that you have the outdoor thing. Like, the Bears are moving to Indiana. I don't know if you guys. That's crazy. Which is right on the board. It's going to be like how the. How the Giants and Jets play in New Jersey and you can see the Empire State Building. Like, it's going to be just outside Chicago, but they're doming it so you won't have snow on the field. [01:03:23] Speaker B: The Bills thankfully didn't dome it. [01:03:25] Speaker A: Oh, they didn't film it. I thought they did. [01:03:27] Speaker B: It's like a half ceiling, so, like, it protects the fans from the snow, but then it still hits the field. [01:03:32] Speaker A: They're like these players. [01:03:34] Speaker B: But also, like, it takes away the wind chill, too. It takes away a lot. [01:03:38] Speaker A: So it's a better viewing experience. [01:03:40] Speaker B: It's a better viewing experience. But, like, I've been to the Old Bill Stadium, and it. It literally feels like you're at, like a. Like a high school game, like, but like, on a bigger scale. It's, like, crazy. It's. It's sick. It was really fun. And you can. You can tell why everyone just like, like goes kind of feral there, you know? [01:03:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So what's the. What are the big goals? Obviously, this playing the games coming out this year, 2026, you're going out there, still getting to open up for some friends and do the headline thing. But what are. What are the big goals now? We're halfway through this year, which is crazy. [01:04:11] Speaker C: But sell out. Sell out. Fall tour, I think is. [01:04:15] Speaker B: Is the biggest goal I want to sell out. We would love to sell out our hometown, Charlotte. I mean, we've done it before on smaller scales, but something about it would feel different to be home in North Carolina and, you know, because we haven't played there in a year, which is insane. But I'd love to do that, and I'd love to just. Just have some serious organic growth from this record. I feel like we have had little, Little, little growth, you know, here and there. But, like, I would love to have, like, a serious change in. In our careers. [01:04:49] Speaker A: You said fall tour, and I'm looking online. I don't see it yet. So you just spilled some beans, which I'm very honored. Do we know where we're going? Like, how many shows? [01:05:00] Speaker B: I just got word of it. We just got word of it yesterday. [01:05:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:05:03] Speaker C: Show it to him. [01:05:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:05:04] Speaker C: He knows all. He knows all the. [01:05:05] Speaker A: I know all these Venues I've been. If you want to know about Dive. About clubs that are dive bars, Give us the rundown. [01:05:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:11] Speaker A: I could tell you everywhere you're going to. If you show, if you pop it up to me, I'll read them off. I'll even do, like, a radio promo. [01:05:16] Speaker C: Come on. [01:05:17] Speaker E: Come on. [01:05:17] Speaker A: Chase and Cody are gonna love. [01:05:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:19] Speaker C: Hey, Shout out. Our management at. [01:05:23] Speaker A: I want to say, like, you guys have been lucky enough to work with a lot of great people since you started doing this thing, but you guys are. Y' all found a good dude. [01:05:30] Speaker C: It's been amazing working with them. [01:05:32] Speaker D: It's been a game changer. [01:05:34] Speaker B: That kind of applies to the Play in the Game album, dude. [01:05:37] Speaker A: You're going to some of my absolute favorites. Holy. [01:05:40] Speaker D: And we're going to your absolute favorites. [01:05:43] Speaker A: And you're so the music farm. I know you guys are. I'm sure familiar with that. [01:05:48] Speaker C: Yeah, we played there. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Charleston. That's big. Has Charleston been a good market for you guys? Historically? [01:05:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's been all right. [01:05:53] Speaker D: Yeah, that's my hometown right there. [01:05:55] Speaker A: Oh, really? [01:05:55] Speaker D: That's where I'm from. [01:05:56] Speaker A: Nice. [01:05:56] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:05:57] Speaker D: Shout out. [01:05:57] Speaker A: Then you're off. Then you go from Charleston. Then you're with us at Rock the Country, which will be a ball. And we'll film some content. We'll go parties, we'll get to. We'll go to somebody's RV and get, like, an RV tour. [01:06:06] Speaker C: And you shine. [01:06:08] Speaker A: It's a whole deal. You go to Richmond. Musical. You go to Atlantis. So D.C. virginia, and then you go Lawrence, Kansas, Tulsa, Off Kansas again. Open court in Knoxville. Haven't been to that one. Songbirds in Chattanooga's cool. Asheville. Asheville show is gonna be. [01:06:22] Speaker C: That's gonna be nasty. [01:06:23] Speaker A: And that's when. So that. That is September. I'm gonna mark some of these dates for Nikki T. And I tonight to [01:06:28] Speaker E: take a road trip. [01:06:29] Speaker C: Please send them. [01:06:30] Speaker B: I'll send them. [01:06:30] Speaker A: You guys are playing. Oh, my God. Back to. Back to. My. My. One of my favorite back to backs in all of. Of country music, touring and rock music as well. Joe's on Weed street in Chicago. Have you guys been there? [01:06:42] Speaker B: No. And it's funny because Chicago is one [01:06:43] Speaker A: of our best markets, one of the best markets for country music, particularly folks that come out of the red dirt world. [01:06:49] Speaker E: Yes. [01:06:50] Speaker A: Because Ed Warm, who owns. He runs the Windy City Smoke out and the Lone Star Smoke out, which is the newer one. [01:06:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:56] Speaker A: And he owns Joe's on Wheat Street. And what's great about it, he was one of the first guys to bring CO and turnpike and like that scene up to the. Out of. Out of Oklahoma and out of Red dirt country. So Joe's on Wheat is a great club. They'll feed you deep dish pizza. If you guys had Malort before. [01:07:13] Speaker D: Malort. [01:07:14] Speaker A: Malort. Okay. They're gonna give you a bottle of Malort and it is delicacy. Yeah. It's a liquor you can only really get in the Chicago area. And they'll give you. They'll order you some deep dish pizzas and they'll give you Chicago. Joe's on Weed is one of the. Is voted one of the best venues. Like when they do like the ACMs or the CMA, like venue of the year, Joe's is always like top of the club. Like I've been there with Trey. I went there with Muscadine twice with Muscadine. We sold it out the second time. And then you go into the machine shop. Are you familiar with that in Michigan? The machine shop in Flint, Michigan. Now Flint, Ivy Town, they've been through some. They had the water issue years ago. A lot of sadness there. They love. That's a rock club. So it's a rock club that takes in country acts. So that's gonna go game for y'. [01:07:59] Speaker D: All. [01:08:00] Speaker A: It is like, God, smack has played in there. Slipknot played in there. Back. [01:08:04] Speaker B: Yes. [01:08:04] Speaker D: Oh, God. Yeah. [01:08:05] Speaker A: Essentially you feel like you're in a tattoo shop, but it's a music venue. [01:08:08] Speaker B: That's so funny. [01:08:09] Speaker D: That is awesome. [01:08:10] Speaker A: It's very industrial. There's a beautiful scent or not beautiful. It's dingy looking, but the sandwiches are awesome. Like. Right. I forget what it's called to look it up for you guys, but that back to back is epic. And they're both legal states. So speaking of my agenda, Michigan has the best prices in the country. Shout out to all of our Michigan growers. Then you go to. I never heard of one. Adoti the Burl. Have you guys done that with 60? No, that's like their. That's one of their big like home. That's a great venue in Lexington. Minglewood hall in Memphis is wild. And then Exit in. [01:08:39] Speaker B: Exit End is going to be sick. [01:08:40] Speaker A: Oh, bro. Yeah, I'm going to put that on my calendar right freaking now to make sure. [01:08:45] Speaker C: I don't know when we're announcing this tour, but hell yeah, guys, I think it's. You're welcome. [01:08:49] Speaker B: We're going to announce it like probably a day or a couple days after we. The record comes out. [01:08:54] Speaker A: So this. [01:08:54] Speaker E: This. [01:08:55] Speaker A: This comes out, like, right around record times. Okay. We should be good. [01:08:59] Speaker D: We're right there. [01:09:00] Speaker A: But. Oh, my God. And I didn't even look at the Southeast yet. Oh, you're doing Silver Saloon. Yeah. Terrell, Texas. [01:09:07] Speaker C: I know Blue Light is on there, and I'm. I'm stoked for that one historic, man. I'm stoked for that. [01:09:12] Speaker A: That's where all. That's where Pekis got started. That's where Flatland Cavalry got started. Like, that is like the. Have you been to the Blue Room in the Statesboro already? Heard of that? [01:09:21] Speaker C: No, I know it's Gavin. Gavin's area. [01:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's like a breeding ground for so many people that came out of, like, the Georgia Southern scene. Like Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell. All those guys used to play there. The Blue Light. Is that for the Texas scene? William Clark Green, Treaty Oak. All those guys came up and that was like, their first club that they [01:09:38] Speaker C: were like, how big is that room? [01:09:40] Speaker A: It's not the biggest, but, like, that was like a landmark moment for all those guys. And then. [01:09:44] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:09:44] Speaker A: A bunch in the South. The other proud. Larry's is fun. Rick's Cafe. Yeah, we're. We're gonna end up on the road with you guys for some of these. [01:09:51] Speaker D: I think we played a Rick's. [01:09:52] Speaker A: Apologies if I spilled the bean. Sorry, management. But those are going to be awesome. [01:09:56] Speaker C: They'll be fine. They're chill. [01:09:57] Speaker A: You're going to some. Yeah, they. They really are. They really are. But those shows are going to be sick. [01:10:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:10:03] Speaker A: Congrats on that. [01:10:04] Speaker B: I hope it. I. I think they're going to be sick because this last headline tour that we threw together, I mean, it ended up being so much better than I think we could ever even hope. [01:10:12] Speaker C: It was awesome. [01:10:13] Speaker B: It was great. [01:10:14] Speaker E: We were like, hope we sell at least, like, 20 tickets. [01:10:18] Speaker D: Dude. [01:10:19] Speaker A: It's hard to sell tickets. It really, really is. Like, it's harder than ever for bands to break. Coming up in clubs and theaters and, like, smaller rooms than it's ever been before. [01:10:29] Speaker B: Shit's too expensive. And that's why you should come to our free album release show in Nashville. It's free. [01:10:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it is free. And it'll be coming. It'll be happening. We'll drop in this next Friday, so. The Friday after. Yeah. So you guys come out to the free show at OD's. I can't freaking wait. What's the biggest takeaway that you want, people? I'm going to ask each of you individually, biggest takeaway that you want folks to feel from playing the game. [01:10:54] Speaker C: The biggest takeaway I want people to get from this is that this is the. No matter what you're going through, no matter the setbacks, no matter all the. All the bullshit that tries to bring you back, man, or bring you down, you just stay strong. God is good. And just keep on keeping on, man. That's. That's it for me. Really. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. I feel like the biggest thing I learned from this album is the patience. And like, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you do need to take a step back and. And just let things fall into place. And so when I listen to this record, that's how I feel. I feel. I'm like, man, we really took a step back and. And everything worked out really well to the point where, like, I love every. I love every inch of this record. I listened to it again because we got test pressings, because this is going to be coming on vinyl. Yeah. Another announcement here. And I listened to it all again on record. [01:11:49] Speaker A: And the vinyls will be available at the free show at Odies. [01:11:52] Speaker E: Should be. [01:11:53] Speaker A: They will be. It sounds. That's what they had said. [01:11:55] Speaker B: The. [01:11:55] Speaker A: The vinyls are. Will be there so people will have a chance to get the music. [01:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:00] Speaker B: And I. Announcing here. [01:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:02] Speaker B: If you. Two days before the album comes out, you can buy this the. So. [01:12:05] Speaker E: And we'll sign it right on the bottom. [01:12:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And it looks sick. [01:12:08] Speaker E: It looks beautiful. [01:12:09] Speaker B: We used a local presser out in North Carolina who does some insanely good custom stuff and. But anyways. Yeah. That's what I learned from this record is like, sometimes you just gotta, like, just kind of turn the other cheek and be patient and just put your head down and work and keep playing the game. [01:12:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:12:30] Speaker E: I really hope people think that this is our best work. Like, no matter what, they can feel how they want to feel about all the songs. It's all subjective, but I want people to listen to this and, like, be like, these guys are serious, man. Like, this is some of the best shit that they've ever put out. [01:12:46] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, just with all the stuff we've kind of been going through this past year and like, all the hardships, you know, you just. It's hard whenever you're a person like me who, like, likes to have a schedule and, you know, things are going to work out. But not having that comfort has been hard. But, you know, having put. Having put this project together and, you know, you know, doing the best that we can do, I think that it really just put me in a position to trust God's timing a little bit more and trust less of myself. And, you know, you can't. You can't do everything by yourself. And that's why I have these boys with me. Takes a village, man, our team is amazing. You know, our family and friends are amazing. And having good people by your side really does make a difference. [01:13:24] Speaker B: We honestly hit like a. We all kind of just hit like a low. And we felt like we were like, losing it and like. And so to be able to come together as like brothers and get through this crazy stuff, and we got stronger mentally and with our faith and with our, you know, just our drive, we. We really did kind of pull ourselves out of this slump that we got in. And it feels like it. Like, I think the day that we got the release date set, immediately, like, I was like, I felt this uplifting spirit of being like, hey, man, like, this past year has been ass. [01:14:06] Speaker C: Felt like Sylvester Stallone, baby. Felt like Rocky. [01:14:09] Speaker B: Now I was like, this past year has been the ass. [01:14:11] Speaker A: But like, the trumpets are playing. [01:14:13] Speaker B: It's coming. And that's what is making us so happy that it's getting well received so far. So I just. I hope that it just keeps climbing and it reaches more people. [01:14:24] Speaker C: And. Shout out y', all, bro. The race. Rowdy boys. [01:14:28] Speaker B: The story we should have led with is that we wouldn't be sitting here, we wouldn't be talking about any of this without you guys. Because when we came to play that first free show in Nashville, we loved it. So we met a bunch of new people and we brought a little, like, I don't know, it just. It lit something else. So we called you guys again. We're like, can we please come back and do that again? It was awesome. And y' all were like, you guys are the first band to ever ask [01:14:52] Speaker C: to do it again. [01:14:54] Speaker B: And we were like, why the don't. Doesn't everybody want to do it again? It's great. And we drove seven hours back and. And did it again. And that was when we met got, you know, ton more people. That was like the life changing one. We knew that, like, this was a big event for us. Let's go back and do it again. And it worked. [01:15:10] Speaker C: Shout out Buffalo Will too. [01:15:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Smith. [01:15:13] Speaker D: A legend. [01:15:14] Speaker C: Yeah, he's. He's our dude. He's gonna. I believe he's gonna be out with us on this fall tour too, like doing video and just. He's helped us out a lot too, so. Shout out Will. [01:15:23] Speaker A: All Those rooms I was talking about, Will's been too as well. [01:15:25] Speaker C: You got a great. [01:15:26] Speaker A: You got a great guide with you on the road as well. [01:15:28] Speaker B: So it is a full circle moment. We're doing this album release with you guys because it feels like our strongest project that we've done. And it's cool to come back to where we kind of got our first kind of break was with you guys. [01:15:42] Speaker A: It's gonna be so much fun. And I love that we announced it so ahead of time because normally we announced the Wednesday event on like Sunday, but you got. You guys have this rabid fan base that is growing in numbers of Will probably be by this time next year double triple what it is right now. People will be. People are gonna. We're gonna have some Carolina folks in the house. We're gonna have some Illinois, Missouri, some Texas folks that are gonna make a weekend in Nashville and kick it off with a Wednesday night with you boys. Celebrating this project like it's. It's gonna. I've already told Odies. I'm like, we're gonna have to staff up for this one, guys. Like, it's gonna be. It's gonna be wild in there. And you guys are playing the out the whole record from top to back, right? [01:16:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:16:22] Speaker A: Top to bottom. [01:16:22] Speaker B: Top to bottom album. Play a little more. [01:16:25] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:16:25] Speaker B: Have some fun. You never know what's gonna end up happening. [01:16:29] Speaker D: Have a couple friends, surprises might happen. You know, just keep tuned. [01:16:33] Speaker B: We just wanted to be like, this is gonna be the best party ever. [01:16:37] Speaker A: It's. It's. Honestly, I haven't been this excited for a Wednesday. The last one of the ones that I was very excited about was the Nothing Fancy Takeover Shout out to Jackson and the whole Nothing Fancy. And you guys came in and played that. We had you guys. Then we had Matt Hankins playing the Moonlighters play that night too. And the crowd that was there and stayed late for you guys was fire epic. And that was only a. I think you guys might have done like one extra song that night. But this is going to be like closer to a show. [01:17:01] Speaker C: Oh, it's going to be a show. It's gonna be a show. [01:17:04] Speaker B: This isn't the five songs. [01:17:05] Speaker C: We're not holding out at all. [01:17:07] Speaker B: No, I think we got like, we got a pretty solid almost full length set. Like Ready to Rock. [01:17:13] Speaker A: That's awesome. I can't freaking wait. And it's. It seriously means the world to us. Like we've gotten to be around this thing for a while now and it's so cool to get to have our name beside guys or girls that we really believe in. And you guys have been that from. From day one when. When Will first sent Nick and I a text and was like, hey, check out my boys from Carolina. And we first started listening to your guys stuff and then to see it live, then to see it that second time, then to see you guys out on the road and. And I'm so excited that we get to be alongside you and watch this next chapter. [01:17:43] Speaker D: It doesn't feel like two years, does it? [01:17:45] Speaker A: Doesn't. [01:17:45] Speaker B: Man, a lot of. [01:17:46] Speaker A: A lot of life has happened, man. A lot of life has happened. And I. I can't wait. I know this is Record three, but I can't even wait to see where Record four records, Record six and the greatest hits album already. The live. The Live from wherever the Dream venue is. Live from the Caverns. Whatever. Like I can't wait for all that to just go. Because you boys are on a rocket ship. You're so humble. You're good freaking people. Your families. I've gotten to know your families. We partied. Was Gracie's 21st birthday. [01:18:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:13] Speaker C: Shout out Grace. [01:18:15] Speaker B: Grace is my girlfriend who is also our videographer or photographer and is picking up videography. [01:18:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:21] Speaker A: And she does great work. Dude. Her stuff looks great. [01:18:24] Speaker C: She's clutches she's not there and we [01:18:27] Speaker E: have to hire somebody else. We're like, that's like having Peyton Manning and then switching to like a third string. [01:18:34] Speaker C: No. No disrespect to anybody else. [01:18:37] Speaker E: Great photographers. [01:18:38] Speaker B: She stepped up. She stepped up crazy too with this record because we had some really great people working with us that, you know, weren't at our disposal anymore. So now we were like, you know what? Like, let's just. Let's just do this. Like, I don't care if it looks like the worst ever, but it's gonna feel like we did it. [01:18:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:55] Speaker B: And I looked at Grace and I was like, you're gonna have to figure out how to do this. And she did. And she, like me and her would stay up all night just like, what about this idea? Can we do this? Can we do this? Can we do this? And then we were just like, it, we're gonna go shoot it and if it looks bad, it's gonna look bad. And then it ended up looking really great. [01:19:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:19:15] Speaker A: And the fact that she spends time out on the road with you guys. She does goes to all the shows like, you got a ride or die. And you guys all got a ride or die through her, you know, man, it's awesome to have a fan that where the families are all close and everything like that. [01:19:27] Speaker C: Get her ass some coffee and she'll [01:19:29] Speaker A: be good coffee girl. [01:19:32] Speaker B: If we can stop at a which sometimes we don't get to, but if we can stop and get her an iced coffee, she'll do whatever we needed to do. [01:19:38] Speaker C: She'll drink two sips of it and then throw it away. [01:19:42] Speaker A: Just starts going beating on that drum. That's awesome. Well, I appreciate you boys coming on here and hanging out and I can't wait for the world to hear the. This record is going to kick some serious ass and take you guys to places that you never could have even dreamed of. Like, I firmly believe that you got all the tools in the belt right now and you've got an incredible team, you've got incredible mentors and I can't wait to have you all back on here when we're talking about number one songs at rock radio. [01:20:06] Speaker C: Come on. [01:20:07] Speaker A: Seriously, man. I firmly believe it. If you guys are not on the Fox and Beat Train, what the are you doing? Give them a follow. Check them out. Playing the game. It's gonna be coming out here real soon. Go and check it out. Pre save that. And if you are anywhere, anywhere in the world, we got an international airport. You're wherever. Come out to Nashville. You don't want to miss this album release party. It's going to be unbelievable. It's gonna be like a damn movie. Ike and Gracie are gonna shoot it like it's gonna be a movie. It's gonna be awesome. So big shout out to our homies from Fox and Beat. For more on us, visit raiseradley.com and shout out to our friends from Surfside. I'm gonna send the boys out to the Midwest with a case of vodka iced teas. Delicious and well you guys can drink them. No bubbles, no troubles. And we will see all next time. This has been outside the round with me, Matt Burrell. I ain't never been a con for st one place for too long I ain't never been the best at sin I love you to a girl I love Only got a couple tricks on my sleeve they usually just make them leave so if you know me if you really know me you know I'm just a two trick pony maybe the drinking and the lack of money for show I'm just a two trick pony [01:21:30] Speaker B: yeah.