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Speaker 1 00:01:28 They've got all kinds of great products. And um, speaking of great products and great guys that we love, we got our buddy job Fortner hanging out with us today. Oh, this has been a while in the Macon bro. We've been trying to get you on a podcast. Yes. Cause you're a busy dude. You're always out on the road right now. Of course none of us are on the road, but, um,
Speaker 3 00:01:44 No, I'm still on the road though.
Speaker 1 00:01:45 You're still on the road. Oh yeah, that's right. Cuz you're going out this weekend still
Speaker 3 00:01:49 On the road. I'm, whether it's like I'm playing a show for somebody that I'm just at their house and I brought my guitar.
Speaker 1 00:01:56 That's true. I
Speaker 3 00:01:57 It's like, Hey, you didn't expect a show tonight, but
Speaker 1 00:02:01 It's happening. Yeah, I got, I got, I got a, um, I got a little private job for Orion Nelson concert the other night over at the redneck track. Yeah. That's
Speaker 3 00:02:06 Pretty dumb, man.
Speaker 1 00:02:07 So how the hell have you been doing? I'm
Speaker 3 00:02:08 Good man. I'm, I'm good. I, I've been, like I said, trying to stay on the road, stay outta Nashville, um, you know, going to the mountains whenever I can. Going to stay with friends here and there. Uh, going to stay in Texas. Texas is like, yeah. Felt like a second home for me for like the last year, year.
Speaker 2 00:02:26 It's just slowly becoming that for me
Speaker 3 00:02:27 Too. Yeah, it's a great, it's a really good place. There're great people there. Um, I
Speaker 2 00:02:31 Was just in Galveston this La Houston last week in Galveston. Yeah. This weekend. So
Speaker 3 00:02:35 Yeah, I was down in Huntsville, uh, hanging out with some buddies down there. Um, and shout out to Kojo and those guys. Yeah. They're all, they're all down in that area,
Speaker 1 00:02:44 So you'd be know if we rewind back a little bit. So you're from the Waga, Georgia. Yeah. A lot of people know that from a little Ashley McBride song. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:02:51 That's bar a lot. Somebody mentioned that today. They're like, oh. So it's on the map now. And I'm like, well, you know, I think Zach Brown's from there. Yeah. There's a lot more cool stuff going
Speaker 1 00:02:59 On. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of cool stuff. So when did you move here to town? Cause you've been here a lot longer than I have, I think.
Speaker 3 00:03:05 Um, I've been here five years. Yeah. Yeah. I think I moved here like 2016, early 2016 or 2015 or some shit. I'm not good at math. Clearly <laugh>, but yeah.
Speaker 1 00:03:16 No dude. But so coming from Dega, Georgia, what was that process like for you of moving from small? I'm guessing Degas a pretty small town, right?
Speaker 3 00:03:25 Uh, not really. No. I'm,
Speaker 1 00:03:26 I'm worrying
Speaker 3 00:03:27 About Georgia and there was a, there was a time when I lived in Monroe too. Okay. Um, which is near Athens, Georgia. Yeah. But I was actually living in Dega right before I moved to, um, uh, here to Nashville. And it, it was, it was a process, man. It was, I mean, I had a, I had a truck at the time with like truck payments and stuff. I was doing welding and my company was actually in Nashville as well. Um, so, um, I was able to transfer and still do welding here. So I had some income and um, I think it was just a time where I was like, at a point in my life where it's like, I need to do this now or, or never. Yeah. Like I, I kind of just made a ultimatum for myself. And so I got rid of the truck. It was the truck or moved to Nashville. So I got rid of the truck and, uh, drove my Chevy Cheyenne up there with a trailer. Old Chevy. Cheyenne is a beautiful Chevy Cheyenne two door short bed red with a baby blue hood. Ooh. Hell yeah. Ooh. Very slick. Picking 'em all up.
Speaker 1 00:04:30 That's a truck with some character, man. And honestly, like, so I've started listening to your shit way back 2016 when, when you had your, when you put out that EP and hearing a song like Georgia and hearing all, all those songs going way back and now to actually be able to like, sit in a room and like, hang out with you, bro. It's pretty fucking cool. I'm not gonna lie. Like, it's cool. I tried it. It's cool for in the round for us to be at this point. And, and dude, thanks for coming out and hanging with
Speaker 3 00:04:52 Us. Yeah, man. I appreciate you having me out. It's, it, everything I write is a true story, you know, there, there's connection to it. And I think that I'm kind of a quiet person, uh, when I first meet people and stuff. And so maybe it takes a minute for people to get to know me. I've kind of learned that. And so, you know, it's when people figure out like who I am as a person and realize how much the music is connected to, to me, um, it's not just stuff I'm creating a room or, or whatever, or creating a feeling for the fans. So they like the music better. It's, I'm really, it's my therapy. Like, I'm pouring exactly what happened to me and, and how I feel about it in the music. So
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Speaker 2 00:05:42 This is the, uh, Jim Beam. Um, it's basically like what they made, like the six to eight months after prohibition is the same way they made it back then. Pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's really, we got it on the rocks, um, really smooth, you know. Yeah, yeah. Like it's,
Speaker 3 00:05:59 Unless you wanna slap your mama <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:06:01 Yeah. Like, it's not all, it's not one that's like making you choke every time you drink it, which is good. Yeah. Very smooth. Very, very tasteful. That's good.
Speaker 3 00:06:09 No sitting really well on my eyes. I can't tell if it's the CBD or
Speaker 1 00:06:13 Yeah. What, what, what do you, what do you think of the trail side? I
Speaker 3 00:06:16 Think it's good. I'm, I'm, I'm feeling great. That's awesome. Yeah. I'm happy. Hell yeah. I'm happy. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1 00:06:22 Dude. Fuck yeah. No, that's what we want to hear because it's, it's a cool product and we're, we're happy to have our buddy Andrew along with us on doing stuff with, with CBD and whatnot. It's cool to have a sponsor and everything. Um, yeah. Yes. So we were talking, you were talking about Texas and you were talking about the road. So for 2020 for you, you had a lot of gigs planned. You had you get to go out with a lot of cool people. What was March like for you? Like the transition from being off the road to being, or for being on the road to going off the road? Like where were you when all Thiss
Speaker 3 00:06:50 Shit started? Oh yeah. I mean the last gigs, I mean, COVID was happening, but not here at all really at this point. I think, from what I can remember, and we were on the road with Cadillac three. Oh yeah. Doing full band shows in like, Milwaukee. Great time. Loved it. Was was,
Speaker 1 00:07:06 Was that the rave? Um, the Rave Eagle Club or whatever?
Speaker 3 00:07:09 Yeah. Yeah. What do you think of
Speaker 1 00:07:10 That, that building? Because we, me and Boro had a chance to go there once with Gary and Chuck. What do you think of that room?
Speaker 3 00:07:16 It was cool. It was, uh, which
Speaker 2 00:07:18 Room did you play?
Speaker 3 00:07:21 The, well, we played the big room. I
Speaker 2 00:07:23 Mean the ballroom upstairs. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:07:24 Yeah, yeah. It was a long, long to stage. I can remember that. I'm, I'm not a skinny guy, so like <laugh>, I remember the long walk to the stage and the long walk back from the stage. So Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:07:38 Did you go down to the pool and like see all the, all the haunted stuff
Speaker 3 00:07:41 They got there?
Speaker 1 00:07:42 I, I didn't Cause there's the whole story with that, with like Jeffrey Dahmer's house was like across the street. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:07:46 Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment was the, like when, I don't know if you went outside much, but if you went out the front entrance and looked like basically across the street diagonally mm-hmm. <affirmative>, that big, huge tall building over there was an apartment complex. It still is. Yeah. Um, but that's where like Jeffrey Dahmer lived did and that's like Yeah. His actual apartment where like, he had the buckets in there, like Yeah. Decomposing Bodies was like in there.
Speaker 3 00:08:09 Yeah. My, my band was talking about it and shit. Um, you know, I'm like, I'm about good vibes <laugh>. Yeah. It's like, you guys can go check out the murder in the murder pool. I'm gonna like hang out. We was a cool green room. We had,
Speaker 1 00:08:23 We had Fair, we had Farn out with us that weekend and she was getting a little freaked out by
Speaker 3 00:08:27 Oh
Speaker 2 00:08:27 Yeah. We were also like downstairs. We weren't in the big room, which is the big downstairs room. We were like in the little like bar off the big room basically. Yeah. So like, we were in an really small room and it was like three weeks before Halloween I think, or month before Halloween. And so they had it decorated for Halloween and all, all these
Speaker 1 00:08:45 Corpses and shit everywhere. And then, and then, and then you have all the, then they tell the Ghost
Speaker 2 00:08:50 Tour. It was Lee Zolton was walking upstairs with me at one point and all of a sudden like one of these like, animated things, like jumps out and tries to grab 'em and dude, they just like took off for a minute. It was hilarious. I wanna say it was Lee, but it might've been Zolton.
Speaker 3 00:09:02 Probably Lee. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, that like place, it looks too much like a scene from Ghost Ship to me. Mm-hmm. Not cool with that <laugh>. Yeah. And what was crazy, there's the scene in Ghost Ship where
Speaker 1 00:09:11 That night that we were there, there was an EDM group. Yeah. Um, Colossus or something. Yeah. And so, so there
Speaker 3 00:09:17 Was like a, just some weird sounds going on. So, so
Speaker 1 00:09:19 There was a rave going on upstairs that
Speaker 2 00:09:21 Was upstairs in the room y'all played.
Speaker 1 00:09:22 So we're loading out and we got, you see people dangling out the windows of upstairs, like,
Speaker 2 00:09:26 It's like puking, like it
Speaker 1 00:09:28 Was all college kids. Wow. Because
Speaker 2 00:09:29 It was, and it was like,
Speaker 1 00:09:30 It was the fall,
Speaker 2 00:09:31 It was September, but it was still like warm and that upstairs doesn't, it was like 80 degrees still and upstairs doesn't have an AC in it.
Speaker 1 00:09:38 It was 5,000 kids, edm, rolling face, like tripping and stuff. Like, it was, it was quite the scene. So you were in Milwaukee and then where else were, did you get to go on that run like right before Covid
Speaker 3 00:09:51 On? Honestly, I don't remember <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:09:53 That's what
Speaker 3 00:09:54 I had a great time that weekend. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:09:56 That's,
Speaker 3 00:09:57 That's one of those where I mistakenly say the wrong town on stage or something. Cuz that happens. Happens. It does,
Speaker 1 00:10:03 Happens. No, especially when you happens when you're out as, as much as you are and stuff. And you said you were with the, with the boys from Cadillac three. How'd you get linked up with them and what's it like being with those guys? Because,
Speaker 3 00:10:13 Well, honestly, not a lot of people know this, but um, they were like my favorite band when I was deciding to get into music and I saw them play a show at 40 Watt and Athens, Georgia and Jarron's stage presence in the way that the band handled the show changed the way that I thought about everything of music, dude. The fact that, and that night that one show was, was a moment for him. The
Speaker 1 00:10:37 Fact that there's that much noise coming out and you're in the crowd and you're like, there's only three guys up there. I saw
Speaker 2 00:10:42 Seen 'em. That's still like one of the bands I wanna see. They're
Speaker 1 00:10:45 Incredible.
Speaker 3 00:10:45 Yeah. The promoter that night, he was like, I want three people to leave. You know, cuz their ears hurt. Like, that's the goal. And I'm like, and Jar Can on stage and I think he like had some, some, some Buddha amps or, or something. Yeah. And I love Buddhas and he came out and just flicked them all on and just said, I was like, sounds pretty good. No <laugh>. I was like, yes, <laugh> hell, this is how you do a show. So
Speaker 1 00:11:09 For, so for you growing up as a fan of them, what was that first run like? Because I know you've been out with 'em quite a bit. What was going out? What, like when you first got to know those dudes?
Speaker 3 00:11:17 Well, I got to know Jar. Uh, I don't even remember how how he met exactly, but man, it was, I mean, the more that I moved to Nashville, the more I got to know about Jaren. I saw more and more of their shows the way that they do their band. They love their music, they rock out. And then you also have the Jaren songwriter who's like getting Yeah. Triple plays, multiple ones and, and doing like all this crazy songwriter stuff and, and achieving all this, these great songs and still being able to get on stage and, and do his like rock and roll. Like he's a true rockstar in my opinion. Like, not many of those exist. And to be able to do that and still be professional and write and do all that, that inspired me to do what I'm doing today. Like today, you know, we were trying to write a, a really good song for radio. I, I, I hope, I hope that somebody can cut it, you know? And then that's not what I do on stage. Yeah. Really. It's like we, and that's, that's definitely gotta be inspired by Jaren, but it's kind of worked out that it's it is it, I'm just me. I'm, I'm the person I wanna be. And
Speaker 2 00:12:30 That's kind of sounds to me, one of my favorite like writers, artists, producer guys is, uh, Butch Walker, which is another Georgia guy, you know, from Rome and stuff. And like, you know, he said like, there's a difference between a good song and a hit song. And he's like, I'll sell all my hit songs away. But like, I keep all my good stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:12:49 Yeah. For sure. Yeah, man, I mean, I don't know, there's, I got a song right now though that's like one of my favorite songs. Double Wide Dues. And I wish Miranda Lambert would cut it double
Speaker 1 00:13:00 Wide wide dues. That's a fricking title right there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:13:04 That's your play that one in a little bit.
Speaker 1 00:13:05 Okay. Yeah, we can, we can do any, anything you want to play. I Am All For, which is why the other night I was like, Joe's sitting there just like, we're just hanging out at the redneck fra house with some good folks celebrating Brent Ray's birthday. Shout out, happy Birthday Brent Ray. Um, but like, just the fact that guitars come out, that's why I love Nashville. And like, even though the bars are closed, we're still able to hang out as music people Yeah. And do our thing, which is cool.
Speaker 3 00:13:28 Yeah. I mean, you know, to be able to write today we, we wrote in person. Yeah. That's gonna be good. I don't see a problem with that
Speaker 1 00:13:35 <laugh>. Yeah, no. If you're, you got a couple people in the room. No. Hey, sorry man. We we're, we're sitting, we're sitting on a couch. Yeah. We're
Speaker 3 00:13:40 Usre far, we're far away from each other. We're fine. You know, and to do these Zoom rights, I've done them. They're tough for me. Uh, I like the connection in the room. I'm like a vibes guy all day. I wanna, and like, there was a couple moments a day that we noticed, uh, I wrote with Steve Ogle and, uh, Kyle, Kyle Jacobs today. And, uh, there was a couple moments where it was like, that doesn't happen in a Zoom. Right. You know, like just us vibing off each other real quick and just come up with these lines and being like, oh, that's it. You know? And like that, that's the type of moments I look for in writes that make good songs. And, and, uh, I'm, you know, I don't put, I, I don't put out necessarily in my opinion like super poppy music, but, you know, I, I want to, A dream of mine is maybe being on the radio one day, but also just as big a dream as hearing a song I wrote. That's not me on the radio.
Speaker 1 00:14:33 Yeah. Well, one that you were on, you you just had a, had that big cut that went to radio with Meg. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:14:38 Yeah. Which <laugh>? Yeah. That's
Speaker 1 00:14:40 A fucking song, bro.
Speaker 3 00:14:42 Dude, that's, Hey, that's a lot of Ryan Nelson too. That's, yeah,
Speaker 1 00:14:46 I was gonna that's
Speaker 3 00:14:47 Some Martina McBride vibe in
Speaker 1 00:14:48 There. Yeah. Yeah. So what, tell do you remember, do you remember the day you wrote that one where it was the it was the three, I
Speaker 3 00:14:53 Remember a little bit of it. Yeah. Yeah. <laugh>. Yeah. I remember a little bit of it. Uh, we had a good time that day. Uh, some beers were drank, some smoke was had. Uh, but you know, Ryan, Ryan came in with that riff, I think. And it, you know, Ryan's Ryan's like, uh, nineties country as shit like Yeah. The great, great nineties country, you know, if there was all the great songs of that could be, you know, that's what Ryan's writing. He's like, he's, he's he killing that early nineties, 2000 vibe, I think, and bringing it back in the way it should be. But yeah, Meg, she has the attitude. She came in with the attitude, man, she's
Speaker 1 00:15:33 A awesome, awesome bro. I remember,
Speaker 3 00:15:34 I love her attitude.
Speaker 1 00:15:35 I remember when I first moved to town, and Dave, my buddy, our buddy Dave Hangy had, had pointed out and was like, that's me, Patrick. She'll pack, she'll pack a bigger dip than you, like she will. And she'll out drink most guys in this room. So now I'm gonna find out. I took a pinch and I went, I took a, took, took out my Copenhagen Mint and she pulled out what she was dipping. She's like, I don't dip that mint stuff. And I was like, I, I was like, I love this one. She's awesome. And yeah, she,
Speaker 3 00:15:56 I think the first time I met her, definitely the first time I ever met her, she had a dip end. Yeah. And I was like trying to figure out if it was a dip. And then she like talked and then she looked back at me and she had a little bit of dip spit running outta her mouth. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:16:09 She's the, she's the,
Speaker 3 00:16:09 And she just wiped it and she was like, she just did her thing and wiped it. And I was just like, wow, I gotta go to Canada.
Speaker 1 00:16:17 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:16:18 You know, like, that's a cool girl. Like, I
Speaker 1 00:16:20 Have you, have you been to Canada?
Speaker 3 00:16:22 No. Never. I wonder if they'd let me in. I don't know. <laugh> <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:16:29 I think they would.
Speaker 3 00:16:31 I heard they got a pretty strict, uh,
Speaker 1 00:16:33 <laugh>. Yeah. They got, yeah. No, they they do, they do, they do get pretty strict. So talking about good songs and stuff. Yeah. Um, you were in the studio right before all this shit hit too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:16:42 Like a week with Gary. Yeah. Gary Stanton. Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 1 00:16:46 Gary Gear, gear
Speaker 3 00:16:47 <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:16:48 So what, what was, um, how was that for you? Cause that was like the first time you've been in a studio in a while, right?
Speaker 3 00:16:54 Yeah. Like, well, I mean, you know, I do demos and stuff, but it's not, it's not like working on your own stuff and being able to just really Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:17:02 Cut, cut the project with your boys. Like was, so what was, what was that environment for you? How
Speaker 3 00:17:06 Was that that a great process? Uh, I loved working with Gary and, uh, with Ryan Yemens and doing our thing, man. He, this guy's crushed it. And, you know, we had it idea for the music, me and Gary to, we, I tore a lot with Muscadine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:17:21 We see you a lot.
Speaker 3 00:17:22 I mean, I, you know, I think we see each other every couple months or so. Yeah. You know, if, if hopefully, and, um, and Gary would just always approach me and he's like, dude, I know what you wanna do. I know what you wanna do. Like, I, I got you. I got you. He's like, I know what you wanna do. And I'm, I'm telling him like, I'm not trying to get this Nashville sound like, da da da da da. You know, he's like, trust me, I got you. Like, you know, I love Musk on to death, but, you know, I, of course I had to think about the thought of like, if I do this, is it gonna turn out like exactly like Musk on stuff? And I don't think it did. I think that we were able to capture, you know, what I do. And
Speaker 1 00:17:56 They, they sound like Joe Fortner songs,
Speaker 3 00:17:58 Gary being the professional that he is and, and, and the knowledge that he has. Like, I think he knows what he wants to hear. And, uh, like we were on the same page and yeah, it came out great. It came out better than I could have hoped for.
Speaker 1 00:18:11 So, yeah. Now do you have, do you have a name for that project or is it still, you're still kind of have it now you're sitting, this is something you wanted to talk about? You
Speaker 3 00:18:19 Haven't said it. I haven't said, I've never said it. So, uh, I guess so
Speaker 1 00:18:23 You get the
Speaker 3 00:18:23 Exclusive? I guess so. Yeah. Hell
Speaker 1 00:18:25 Yeah. Holy shit. We get a job Fortner exclusive,
Speaker 3 00:18:29 It's called What I Believe.
Speaker 1 00:18:31 Fuck. Yeah. And it's, yeah. And it's songs that you believe in.
Speaker 3 00:18:34 Yeah. Yeah. And it, and there's a, there's a song on there called What I believe. So it's the title track and yeah. Be five songs and, uh, it'll be like a live show at once. You start the first track, if you buy it and you wanna listen to the whole thing sitting right there, it's like a live show. It won't stop going through. Um, love that. So there's transitions and, and everything into each song. The track just never ends. It's, it's kind of kind like we wanna give you, I wanted to give you the live experience of, you know, when you come to a show, this is what you're gonna hear.
Speaker 2 00:19:05 Kinda like what country Squire Tyler Childers did with his Yeah. Kind of that where he transitioned. Yeah. Keep pretty well between the songs.
Speaker 3 00:19:13 Keep it going. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:19:13 Yeah. See, I love your live show, and the first time I saw you was at a whiskey jam and it was probably like where I was hanging out with Ryan and hanging out with everybody and, and had a good time and stuff. Yeah. And then seeing you on the road now, and there's a lot of nights where, or when, when you're out, like most recently when you've been out with us, it's been acoustic, but you'll play some songs. The whole, you're one of those guys, the whole room shuts the fuck up when you're playing. Like, they listen, like, like the crowd loves the songs. Like when you're, when you're singing Georgia, I remember at Buckhead, that was one of my first shows with you guys and you, you played at Buckhead and we're doing that and, and the crowd was just like, fucking into it. Yeah. Like, it was dope. Dude.
Speaker 3 00:19:49 Man, I love, I love when the crowd gets into it and when they, when they listen and when they get quiet. Like, when I first started out, I thought that was a bad thing, but then I soon realized that that means they're listening. You know, when the crowd doesn't like you, they're talking, you know, clearly. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I mean, those are, those are, uh, magical moments. I mean, the last time I remember playing with Muscadine, maybe it wasn't the last time, I don't know, but we were, we were in a Buckhead theater.
Speaker 1 00:20:20 Yeah. But there was Buckhead, I mean, there was also, I think you were with us in, uh, Starkville Rick's Cafe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Rick's Cafe.
Speaker 3 00:20:27 Good Times
Speaker 1 00:20:27 Out there. And, uh,
Speaker 3 00:20:29 But I remember, I remember Buckhead a lot because that was one of those nights where like, there's a lot of freaking people in there, but there was definitely, it was quieter in, in moments that you could tell. And, uh, people were really listening. And I think I got up there, brought Merch guy up, Matt Daniel, he's an artist. He's a killer,
Speaker 1 00:20:50 Killer artist. That was my first time meeting Matt Daniel. And
Speaker 3 00:20:52 He came up and sang harmonies on a song called, uh, digging For Change.
Speaker 1 00:20:55 I remember, I remember him saying that he, he was gonna need to go at some point. I think Ben Chapman was there too. There were a lot. There were a good part of your crew there. I got to meet some of the fam, like, yeah, you
Speaker 3 00:21:04 Got
Speaker 1 00:21:04 A good crew around you, man. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 00:21:05 Did you get to meet Nanny that night?
Speaker 1 00:21:07 I met Nanny
Speaker 3 00:21:08 Nanny's
Speaker 1 00:21:08 A kid. Nanny became friends with me because I, I brought, I had my, I had my, uh, my CBD card. We had a good time with Nanny.
Speaker 3 00:21:15 Yeah. Nanny's a bigger star than me. Yeah. Yeah. She's a celebrity. She's, she doesn't know it yet, but she's likes, she's a bigger character than me, man. <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:21:23 She's hanging out by the merch table that night. She introduced herself and yeah,
Speaker 3 00:21:26 I, one day people will be more excited to see Nanny at shows than me. Probably <laugh>. I can tell you that she's gonna be incorporated in this next project, I, I promise you, for videos and stuff. Oh dear. So everyone's gonna meet Nanny if you haven't already. I feel like she was a big hit at Rome River Jam. So <laugh> really big hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:21:47 That's awesome. At Rome River Jam. That's, that's a pretty big festival, right?
Speaker 3 00:21:51 Yeah. That was 15,000 people last time we were,
Speaker 1 00:21:54 Geez. Who were you there with?
Speaker 3 00:21:56 Luke Combs. Oh, no,
Speaker 1 00:21:57 Shit. Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 00:21:58 Yeah. No shit. We were direct sport for Luke Combs. What? <laugh>? Yeah. No, I couldn't believe it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1 00:22:03 Mean, I mean, you got so going, going back now, that's, and that's the way I think a lot of people had found you. I mean, you were kind of running in the same circle where Musser Charlie were doing their thing. Luke was doing his thing, Ray was doing his thing, drew was doing his thing. You're doing your thing. Like mm-hmm. <affirmative>. What were those years like of you? And you're the youngest outta the bunch. Like you're what, 24 right now? You said?
Speaker 3 00:22:22 25? Uh, 25. Yeah. 25. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I mean, again, I was, gosh, like a lot of these guys before, you know, when I'd met them, they'd been doing this for like five or six years, seven years at that point. And for me, this was like the newest thing. Like th I, I had no experience with shows, crowds, social media. I played college football my entire life and that was my game. And that's what I did. And, uh, I started, you know, doing shows about a year before I moved here. And that was about the only experience that I had. And a buddy of mine that was a mentor for me, chase Brown, who I wrote Georgia with, uh, he helped me with, you know, getting my feet on the ground and, and helping me do some things. And uh, and you know, coming up in those times I was just learning from, from those guys. Like to see the business that Muskatine runs on their own is incredible. Yeah. And to see how they handle it and to see how they work together and how they work off of each other. You know, like they each know what their talents are, I feel like, and, and they pick up, I was
Speaker 1 00:23:37 About to say, they're literally like yin and yang.
Speaker 3 00:23:39 Yeah. Yeah. They pick up, they pick up the slack for where, for one another, where it needs to be or, you know, or, or the hustle or whatever it is. You know, and I gotta see that and to see Luke.
Speaker 1 00:23:50 Yeah. Cuz you, when
Speaker 3 00:23:51 You, I mean, I was right there right there with Luke and all. There
Speaker 1 00:23:54 Was, there was a of that, there was a night y'all were in my home turf, I believe New York up in New York, you guys played that little mercury lounge. That little tiny ass, I dunno if you remember it, tiny ass room. Oh. Where it's like you walk in, it's the narrow bar and then the room's in the back. Real tiny low ceiling. Yeah. There's a really good deli, cat's deli right next door. Yeah. Um, and whatever. So to see, because you were, you were there for that. Yeah. But then also there as things really started popping off. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:24:17 Yeah. I mean, when I, when I had my first show with Luke, um, I think he sold 80 tickets that night. This is in my hometown pretty much too. So I mean, that brought everybody I could. Yeah. Brought, you know, like, so there, there was 80 people there that night. And uh, I think the next time I played with him was at Georgia Theater co-head line with, uh, Frank Foster, no
Speaker 1 00:24:40 Shit.
Speaker 3 00:24:41 And yeah. And uh, I think Luke went on before Frank Foster and I opened up acoustic and after that he was like, man, I think this is how it went. He's like, man, I, you, you know, you gotta come on the road with us. I was like, yeah, that would be awesome. He's like, you should be in Nashville though. Like, I was like, deal. Like I, yeah, okay. I like that. That's what I wanna do. I want to, I wanna move to Nashville, not to be in Nashville. I wanna be on the road. So literally did the whole packing up thing, transferred jobs, you know. And uh, and that's how it worked. Uh, I'd clearly been thinking about it cuz I'd been working on it for like a year to, to try and, you know, see what I could do to get in the music industry because I'm, I'm not just playing around. I didn't wanna be just playing three hour gigs at barbecue joints, you know, I, I knew that there was definitely a process to it and you had to work your way through the levels. And, uh, like working with Peace Street Entertainment helped me get to Nashville. Yeah. So Bradley Jordan. Yeah, we know,
Speaker 1 00:25:41 We know Bradley.
Speaker 3 00:25:42 Yeah. He, he introduced me, he introduced me to Ray Foer. That was the first guy I met when I got to town that lived in Nashville. And uh, that was, that's pretty good guy to meet when you moved to town for the first time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:25:51 And these guys gotta become like older brothers for you when you're, you're the young kid moving to, did you move the town by yourself or did you have another guy from the Lana ago or Rome or
Speaker 3 00:25:59 That guy come? No, no, no. Um, I moved up here by myself. Yeah. And I lived in a one bedroom apartment. I worked, uh, did welding every day, putting together gates and crazy stuff like that. I, loading trucks and stuff. I did that like 6:00 AM to six seven. And then I would immediately go downtown every night and I would stay out at Whiskey Jam, revival, all the rounds I went to every round, every hangout, just trying to get into the scene. And so, yeah. Yeah. I mean I was doing that and I was also still hitting the road with Luke on the weekend. So I'd take off like Fridays at work, <laugh>, it's uh, dang. I eventually did that until, uh, until, you know, like the guys at work were hating on me so hard cuz they're like, man, I was having to take off like Thursday, Friday, Monday sometimes too, because we'd be playing in Louisiana or some shit. And so, uh, yeah. And I, I, I made the step of leaving that job. I definitely couldn't afford to do it. So I, I don't know if y'all ever heard of delivery dudes, but it's like Uber Eats.
Speaker 2 00:27:05 Yeah, I've heard of it
Speaker 3 00:27:06 Kind of thing. But it's basically for the upper class I feel like, and you deliver like alcohol, groceries, whatever they want. So I did delivery dudes nice
Speaker 1 00:27:18 Joke for the delivery
Speaker 2 00:27:19 Dude.
Speaker 3 00:27:20 Yeah. And so I did delivery dudes and uh, that was my thing. That was, uh, that's
Speaker 2 00:27:26 What I did Postmates for years.
Speaker 1 00:27:27 Yeah. We were about to do Postmates this weekend, but he, he's got something, something cooking.
Speaker 2 00:27:31 Yeah. I finally got something lined up for a job for the next few weeks. So I ain't gotta do Postmates,
Speaker 1 00:27:35 But I've, I've never done that before. Like the Postmates, like deliver like delivery.
Speaker 2 00:27:40 My favorite thing. So like, I never really got, like, I would always go chill down to Green Hills cuz like, it's pretty much the same type of people. Like they're all pretty, like they're pretty decently off there. Yeah. And uh, I would go down there and chill and so you get like paid per minute. You have to wait and all. Yeah. And so I'd like get like a steakhouse and have to wait like 20, 30 minutes and I'd get paid for that. And then you'd have to drive it like all the way across town. Yeah. You get paid for that too. But then like, you'd always, dude, my favorite place is, there was one customer that I knew when I was going to her house. Like I had that address pretty much memorized and dude, she was always drunk and it was always a book club <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:28:21 And so they would be sitting there and she would order like a hundred dollars worth of food. Yeah. And she would hand me what the food cost and I'd be like, ma'am, this is already paid for. And she goes, here's the money for the food. And like, not comprehend. I'd be like, all right, well, so I'd take the money and pocket it. It'd be like 120 bucks most weeks <laugh>. And then, oh thanks man. And then she would tip me like another 20, 30 bucks in the app. And so like, you're sitting there like, you know, 160 bucks Yeah. For like an hour. Yeah. An hour of work and like
Speaker 3 00:28:56 Yeah. That was, that was the thing about delivery dudes. Like I, I delivered to uh, some pretty famous people I feel like. Yeah. Like a lot of football players.
Speaker 2 00:29:07 Who's the most famous person?
Speaker 3 00:29:12 Uh,
Speaker 2 00:29:13 Or the person that was your like wow, this is like
Speaker 3 00:29:16 Idel. My favorite one was like, um, I delivered to like one of the people from Lady Antebellum.
Speaker 2 00:29:23 Same,
Speaker 3 00:29:23 Pretty, pretty often blonde haired guy.
Speaker 2 00:29:26 I, mine was dark haired guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:29:28 So blonde haired guy. And lady Antebellum delivered him, he was always nice. He was always like, Hey, come in. You know, he was like, don't worry about my kids. They're doing homework. And him and his wife were always just like so nice and they'd hang out and chill and then they'd like tip me. Nice. Yeah. So I mean, so the dark hair dude, it was very enjoyable to like not be treated
Speaker 1 00:29:46 Like a piece of, I think football
Speaker 3 00:29:47 Players will like, gimme the shit and they gimme like two bucks and they're like, get outta here. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 00:29:52 Yeah. I think they're talking about Charles, Charles Kelly I think is the guy's name. The blonde?
Speaker 3 00:29:55 No, not Charles Kelly. He's the
Speaker 1 00:29:57 Blonde hair dude though. Charles. That's the blonde hair Dude. Look it up. Tyler.
Speaker 3 00:30:02 Oh no, I'm thinking about little big town. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:30:04 Okay. Oh, little big town. Okay.
Speaker 3 00:30:05 The blonde. He's got medium blonde, blonde hair.
Speaker 1 00:30:07 This blonde hair guy. Cause I don't know his name either. So I'm, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with blonde hair guy, blonde guy, little big town blonde hair guy.
Speaker 2 00:30:13 But mine was Lady A,
Speaker 3 00:30:14 He had a beautiful grand piano. Ooh gosh. All white or some shit. You, you
Speaker 1 00:30:18 Played piano?
Speaker 3 00:30:19 No, definitely not. The song I wrote today is on piano. Oh.
Speaker 2 00:30:23 How would
Speaker 3 00:30:23 That go with Steve ler and, uh, Kyle Jacob, Steve Kyle, Jake Kyle Jacobs is playing the piano. Yeah, he's, he's crushing the piano. I definitely don't know how to play piano. I wish I did, but
Speaker 1 00:30:34 I see I don't know how to play anything. They tried to teach me how to play a G chord like a couple months ago. You asked Tyler how it went. We sat there for an hour.
Speaker 2 00:30:41 Cat scratching on the chalkboard.
Speaker 3 00:30:43 Yeah. We could teach you how to play spoons or something.
Speaker 1 00:30:46 Oh, spoons. I could totally like a southern thing. I could play spoons at the vit. I
Speaker 2 00:30:49 Dunno. He doesn't have that great rhythm though.
Speaker 1 00:30:52 There you go. Yeah. Yeah. We could totally do that. So something about your, your family's background or something. I learned this when I was hanging out at your house. I had to go and pick up Ryan Nelson one afternoon. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And we ended up having dinner and hanging out. It was awesome. Heated up some pizza for us. Um, your family has some stuff in the food business, correct? Like the
Speaker 3 00:31:10 Restaurant? Yeah. My family has a restaurant. Yeah. Was trying, it's called the wagon wheel. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:31:13 I was trying to explain this to Tyler. You said it was what? It's like a country style, like
Speaker 3 00:31:17 Yeah, it's like a meat and three. It's okay.
Speaker 2 00:31:20 Yeah. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3 00:31:20 Yeah, yeah. Like a line, a line meat and three, uh, breakfast is like a, a line breakfast so you can pick out what you want from the line. This
Speaker 2 00:31:28 Is probably a very big insult, but I'm gonna say this. So Matt kind of gets what we're talking about. It's like a Piccadilly.
Speaker 1 00:31:34 Okay. So of that style but of real style. Of that style. But the real, this
Speaker 3 00:31:37 Is, it's definitely much better. I promise. Yeah. This is very high quality meat. And three, it's not,
Speaker 2 00:31:43 We gotta take you to a meat and three here in Nashville. There's some good ones. There's some
Speaker 3 00:31:46 Good ones. Yeah, there's some good ones. Uh, and then at night you just order off the menu. They do all you can eat catfish and then they got badass steaks and good hamburgers, Cole slaw hamburgers and stuff.
Speaker 1 00:31:57 What's your favorite barbecue joint in town? We're gonna get this going. We get the food discussion going. We
Speaker 3 00:32:02 Do this every episode. My own barbecue. So
Speaker 1 00:32:03 You don't, you're
Speaker 3 00:32:04 Not a Martin's guy. I'm competing in a barbecue competition this weekend. What bro? Saturday I'm cooking in a rib Cookoff.
Speaker 2 00:32:11 Where?
Speaker 3 00:32:12 Michigan.
Speaker 2 00:32:12 Damn. I'm buying a ticket
Speaker 3 00:32:14 And I'm playing at the rib Cookoff <laugh>. No shit. So you're playing, I'm cooking all day and then I'm playing at the rib Cookoff.
Speaker 1 00:32:21 No shit.
Speaker 3 00:32:22 Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:32:23 I did not know that. So
Speaker 3 00:32:24 Yeah, I'm smoking ribs for like eight hours. Ooh. Yeah. Saturday.
Speaker 1 00:32:27 Can can you reveal any, any, any of what you do with your ribs? Like
Speaker 3 00:32:32 Light brown sugar?
Speaker 2 00:32:33 Yeah. Okay. That's the trick.
Speaker 3 00:32:35 Light brown sugar, not brown sugar light
Speaker 1 00:32:38 Brown light brown sugar. That light makes a little bit of a difference.
Speaker 3 00:32:39 Light is definitely a difference.
Speaker 1 00:32:41 That's cool man. Yeah, cuz we always talk about the barbecue joints and stuff on here. And I like Martin's a lot. Yeah. I mean, again, my, my taste of barbecue. I'm a I'm a damn We got good barbecue. We got decent barbecue back home. Yeah, I know you've been up to Jersey in Phil Philly a lot. Cause your buddies with Rob.
Speaker 3 00:32:55 I can tell you the best barbecue I've had recently. Let's see, the best barbecue I've ever had now is in uh, uh, Moro Bay, California. Really
Speaker 1 00:33:09 Interesting
Speaker 3 00:33:10 That Yeah. This, there's this little bitty mom and pop barbecue joint in Moro Bay, California. The best barbecue I've ever had in my entire life in California. Did not expect that.
Speaker 2 00:33:19 Never would expect that.
Speaker 3 00:33:22 The best barbecue I've had recently is Bucky's
Speaker 2 00:33:24 Dude. <laugh>
Speaker 3 00:33:26 Buckys is
Speaker 2 00:33:27 Fun. Fact, I have a pound of Bucky's uh, chopped brisket in my fridge right now. Cuz when I flew back from Texas, I made my girlfriends stop from the way from Galveston's the airport. And I was like, give me a pound and a half barbecue. Yes. I made quesadillas yesterday and today with it and I flew it home and the like the guy at TSA was like, pulled my backpack. He goes, who's backpack? And I was like, mine. And he's like, all right, open it up. And he opened up the part, he's like, can you pull that out? And was like, yep. <laugh> pulled it out, pulled it out. He's like, can you open it? And I was like, sure can. And the whole, like my backpack still smells like Buckys right now, but like I pulled it out and showed it and he goes okay. And then he like made me pull out. I have a Whataburger Yeti also. Yes. And so he made me pull that out and like, so I'm like, there was no liquid in it. And he's like, all right, well see you're gonna enjoy your week <laugh>. Yes I
Speaker 1 00:34:16 Am. Yeah. He brings back the stuff from Bucky's all the time. Like now gets
Speaker 2 00:34:20 And all that. Yes. I smuggled that stuff.
Speaker 3 00:34:21 For those of you that don't know what Bucky's is a gas station by the way.
Speaker 1 00:34:25 That's also like
Speaker 2 00:34:26 Walmart, a gas station the size of Walmart.
Speaker 3 00:34:28 Yes. It's a very awesome gas station if loves QT and flying J and Pilot had a baby
Speaker 2 00:34:37 And Speedway
Speaker 3 00:34:38 And it weighed 1800 pounds. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:34:40 Oh it's a Texas size <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:34:41 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:34:42 So now they've actually got like these, what they call the community bies and they're like, it's like a community Walmart. It's like a regular gas station, but they still have like a bar in it. So you can still get like all your brisket and stuff, but you just have to walk up and order it. But it's like a regular sized gas station, huh? Yeah. I actually had to go to one the other day. This
Speaker 3 00:34:58 Is my problem with Bucky's. If I needed gas, that was it. I'm not going to Bucky's if I see Big Bucky's, it's just too big. Like I'm not <laugh>, there's traffic to just get into the parking lot. I'm not gonna just go in there and get some gas.
Speaker 1 00:35:12 We, we know it's like an extra 40 minutes stop. Lee always bitches at us for taking too long. Like a, like a regular gas station, a regular stop. If we hold the Buckys, he knows it's an extra 30, 40
Speaker 2 00:35:21 Minutes. It's my on
Speaker 1 00:35:22 The road.
Speaker 3 00:35:23 Even taking extra time taking your poop. Cuz the bathroom's just so nice.
Speaker 1 00:35:26 Yeah, nice.
Speaker 3 00:35:27 You're like, you have to just appreciate it. So you just sit there a little longer and
Speaker 2 00:35:30 Then there's like all the art going in the bathrooms. Like you're walking out and you're like, Hmm, wow, I could use this cow in my living room. It's $300. But you
Speaker 3 00:35:37 Stop by and get you some name brand clothes and a barbecue sandwich. You're like, well I'm gonna just take a glance and everything else is
Speaker 1 00:35:43 Here. Also go get a pair of Costas real quick. You know, like
Speaker 3 00:35:45 Yeah they got
Speaker 1 00:35:45 Costas in there. You can buy a Green Egg there. You can buy, you can buy, you can buy your duck Blunt Your blind. The things that
Speaker 3 00:35:51 I love, love Bucky's nicer than Walmart. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:35:54 I mean, yeah. It's
Speaker 3 00:35:55 Nice sir. I it's gotta be because they cook food for you. Name brand they got. Yes. And you could probably buy groceries in there. I wouldn't be shocked. You can,
Speaker 1 00:36:02 You could
Speaker 3 00:36:03 Buy their stuff to take home so better than Walmart.
Speaker 1 00:36:06 Yeah. I I would rather go to Buckies than a Walmart. I mean I bought, it's also cheaper half the time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:36:11 And then the gas stations isn't separate from the store. Exactly.
Speaker 1 00:36:15 Oh, it's a one stop shop man. So is that, that's your favorite stop on the road? Yes. You prefer Bucky's over like Casey's or
Speaker 3 00:36:21 Love is number one because they're everywhere.
Speaker 1 00:36:23 Yeah. You like and you, you, you, you're the kind of guy who'll get down with a Loves pizza. Yes.
Speaker 3 00:36:27 Everything. Loves everything. Oh yeah. They even got dog parks now. I got a dog <laugh>. They have dog parks that loves now it's a new thing and fenced in areas I can let my dog run around there and shit.
Speaker 1 00:36:38 Why? You can just go stop real quick.
Speaker 3 00:36:39 Well no I'm not gonna leave my dog
Speaker 1 00:36:41 <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:36:42 I feel like a lot of people want a blue heer have a blue heer, so Ah, yeah. Yeah. It's not like a ugly dog. It's, if it was like a little shit zoo, I'd probably just leave it out there and let her run <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:36:53 I bet you don't. What's your dog's name again? Cause I bet your dog before
Speaker 3 00:36:56 It's Ronna.
Speaker 1 00:36:57 Oh that's right. Cause you got him
Speaker 3 00:36:58 Sorry. Right, because I got her here in Coronavirus. Yeah, <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:37:02 Ron.
Speaker 3 00:37:03 But you'll love this cuz you're from the North Ronny baloney is what I call her
Speaker 1 00:37:06 Ronney baloney. Yeah. Hell yeah. Ronny Bologna gonna go pick up the check. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:37:10 Yeah. Get a Sammy pick up some Rony Bologna, you know, <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:37:13 How'd, how'd you, how'd you get connected with Big Rob? Because I know you've done a lot in Jersey and a lot in like you've gone up there quite a bit. You've experienced the summer on the Jersey
Speaker 3 00:37:20 Shore I got connected with Rob cuz I feel like good people meet good people.
Speaker 1 00:37:23 Yeah. And he's a really good guy. I love that. He's
Speaker 3 00:37:25 A great guy.
Speaker 1 00:37:26 I'd love to have him on here one time. He's
Speaker 3 00:37:27 A great guy. Trying to set that up guy. I try to be a good person. Rob tries to be a good person. He calls me on my shit, feel like could call him out on his shit. We help each other through problems. He's a really good friend. Like there's a lot of people I have that are friends because of music. But I feel like, you know, we, we did meet and because of, we live in Nashville and because of revival and everything and that's where I met him for the first time. But I mean, Rob is like a dude that I feel like I'll know the rest of my life. You know? What
Speaker 1 00:37:54 Was that first trip up there with him? Like, because you're, you're a Georgia boy, you're going up to Jersey. What was
Speaker 3 00:38:00 That like? We all the food <laugh>. Hell yeah. All the food. We love food. That's like our favorite thing. I think that's why we get along so well <laugh> because we just we're like, we're the type of dudes that sit down and order like 12 entrees just to
Speaker 1 00:38:13 Try.
Speaker 3 00:38:13 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to, and then we finish 'em all <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:38:17 <laugh> Clean Plate Club right there. We're
Speaker 3 00:38:20 Like, we're at Wawa and we're like, we're gonna get four sandwiches. Cause <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:38:24 I'm the same way
Speaker 3 00:38:25 Because we can just try 'em all the mac and cheese.
Speaker 1 00:38:28 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:38:29 So like that's what me and Rob do. We crush food together and, and just have a good time.
Speaker 1 00:38:33 Is it like culture shock for you going up there?
Speaker 3 00:38:36 Uh, nah cuz it's everything I wanted it to be. I wanted there to be a dude dropping f-bombs on his porch of people. And that literally
Speaker 1 00:38:46 Happened. I raised my right head
Speaker 3 00:38:47 Except, except for the fact that we were on the beach. There are people walking onto the beach and this guy that we're with is on his porch with a big ass speaker in his own microphone. Bluetooth connected to it going fuck you,
Speaker 1 00:39:01 Fuck you
Speaker 3 00:39:02 <laugh>. Fuck you. As they walked by. And I'm like,
Speaker 1 00:39:04 This is
Speaker 3 00:39:05 Jersey <laugh>. This is, this is Lbi <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:39:10 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:39:10 This is everything I expected it to be. And we ate chicken wings for breakfast that day. Did you go,
Speaker 1 00:39:15 Did you go to um, did you go to the Chegg? Did you go to Chicken or the egg?
Speaker 3 00:39:19 That's where we ate chicken wings for breakfast. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:39:20 It is great. Cheg Chegg is solid. We gotta get you up there. It's a place where Ke hangs out. We have a good,
Speaker 3 00:39:24 We have a good, they got a sandwich called, what's it, oh what is it called? Like got pork. It's got all the breakfast meats on it. Damn it. What
Speaker 1 00:39:31 What's called? Yeah. Ch Chegg is ridiculously good
Speaker 3 00:39:32 With bro. It's, it's, the sandwich is like as thick as a solo cup. Hell
Speaker 1 00:39:37 Yeah. And it's like a DIY little place when you go in. Like it's got, it's a place that's got some character but the line you can wait for like hours Oh wow. In that line. But you
Speaker 3 00:39:44 Can call it in. You
Speaker 1 00:39:45 Call. Exactly. That's the power. That's
Speaker 2 00:39:46 What I do with Hattie B's here.
Speaker 3 00:39:47 It's the promo that is
Speaker 1 00:39:48 The promo
Speaker 3 00:39:49 Promo's on here. Promo's
Speaker 1 00:39:50 On, yeah. And I'm guessing you've had the good sandwiches up there then Rob's introduced you to some Italian combos and some chicken cutlet sandwiches and the Hogans.
Speaker 3 00:39:56 So people have cheeses, steaks. People have made the statement that like northern food is not as good. Which to say Northern Food. I don't think mid-Westerner food is a Midwestern food. Is is great. Mean
Speaker 2 00:40:08 Western foods like let's fry it
Speaker 3 00:40:10 Chicago maybe. Yeah, they got some cool stuff there.
Speaker 2 00:40:14 Maybe parts of Wisconsin where you got like the cheese curs The butter burger. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:40:17 Cheese curs. The butter burgers.
Speaker 3 00:40:19 Yeah. Yeah. Theirs are good. But then you get to like jersey and pa the, the mecca of sandwiches and soups and chowders and pasta. Like some of the best pastas and sandwiches that I've ever eaten in my entire life. Thank you for for
Speaker 2 00:40:35 Saying this.
Speaker 3 00:40:36 I pa
Speaker 2 00:40:36 In Georgia when I legit whenever, so I did a semester internship in Connecticut like 45 minutes from Boston, like five minutes from Rhode Island, an hour from the coast. So like, kind of centrally located everything. And then I did a summer in South Jersey and dude honestly like whenever I'm like not going to Texas now to see my girlfriend, like whenever I'm like I'm just gonna take a vacation for myself honestly I just go up to the northeast cause I just want to eat. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:41:01 Yeah. Dude. Have you guys ever had per Manny's? Yeah. Oh yeah. That's this in Pittsburgh. I've not Pittsburgh thing I've heard,
Speaker 1 00:41:07 I've,
Speaker 3 00:41:08 I think I've had it put they, their, their burgers are as thick as the solo cup and, but they put the fries on the burger.
Speaker 2 00:41:17 See that can make or break a burger.
Speaker 3 00:41:19 This is a, this isn't make it. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:41:21 Okay. Cause I've had some burgers.
Speaker 3 00:41:22 I'm thinking until you make it here. This is real.
Speaker 2 00:41:24 I've had some burgers where they add the fries and it just adds to like the bun and there's just too much like mm-hmm. <affirmative> dough bread taste.
Speaker 3 00:41:32 This is, this is very good sandwich dude. Pernis is the shit. Hell yeah. I was at Perman one time. Funny story. Uh, I'm really good friends with uh, Stefan Tuit. We grew up together kind of, he plays for the Steelers, his defensive end. And we were there one time and, and uh, he, he was just upset with the fact that I was gonna sleep in a parking lot on the road that following weekend. I was like, I'm gonna be on the road. I gotta pull a all nighter and I'm just gonna like crash in a parking lot for a minute. He's like, why would you do that? I'm like, cuz it doesn't make sense to spend the money when I could just crash in the parking lot for a couple hours and be fine to me cuz like I'm not making a lot of money at the time. So he couldn't handle that. And he's like, I'm not, he like, I wanna give you money but I'm not just gonna give you money. He's like, you gotta earn it. I'm like, all right, cool. This sounds fun, let's earn it. So we just ate per mani sandwich, big ass sandwich. And he's like, alright, I want you to chug six in Y Yang links back to back <laugh> and you can't stop and I'll give you $250. And I'm like,
Speaker 2 00:42:35 That one's accepted.
Speaker 3 00:42:37 I'm like, I love beer. Great. Third, fourth one in dude. I'm like, it's not gonna happen. I'm gonna have to throw up. And he said, I can't throw up. I said, can I throw up and finish it? Cuz I could have done that. You know, pulled the old boot off situation here. But no, I didn't, I didn't finish it. Didn't didn't get the money. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:42:57 You slept in the parking lot. Slept in
Speaker 3 00:43:01 In that moment. It was like, could I have finished two more beers maybe.
Speaker 1 00:43:08 Damn dude. Yeah. You've gone up to Pittsburgh quite a bit. I mean, it's cool that you got a, you got a buddy playing for the sealers, but games Nicky
Speaker 3 00:43:14 T and those boys. Yeah. Watch. Tell
Speaker 1 00:43:15 Me about those raised rowdy guys because
Speaker 3 00:43:17 I've never been, been up there with them. Uh, instead Really? Yeah. I've never stayed at their place or, but I'm trying to, uh, Nicky t's actually moving in with me.
Speaker 1 00:43:26 Yeah, I've heard that. I if I've heard you that, so
Speaker 3 00:43:28 Nikki t Ray Rowdy is moving in with me.
Speaker 1 00:43:30 Yeah. What Nikki t will be living with Joe Portner starting in September, correct?
Speaker 3 00:43:34 Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:43:35 I mean I've seen where he is made like a few trips in Nashville and I was like, uh, maybe it's happening and like, yeah,
Speaker 3 00:43:40 No, he's moving in. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:43:41 Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 00:43:41 So what, what are you looking for? What's do you think that's gonna be like, because we love Nick. Nikki teases our boy too. Everybody
Speaker 3 00:43:46 Thinks he's gonna party. Yeah. <laugh>. Everybody thinks he's gonna party hard, which I do think that will happen.
Speaker 2 00:43:53 It happens to the best of us.
Speaker 3 00:43:55 But he says he has to work a lot, so
Speaker 1 00:43:58 Yeah. He works remotely.
Speaker 3 00:43:59 Yeah. So that's, that's the real question here is Nick t down to party or not to party.
Speaker 2 00:44:06 I'm gonna say this. Matt's done it. I've watched so many people do it. You moved to Nashville the first like month, two, three months every night that you can, you're out on Broadway. Yeah. You're doing your thing. You're having fun.
Speaker 1 00:44:19 Which, you know what he's moving down right now where he doesn't have the opportunity to
Speaker 2 00:44:23 Do that. Right. Right. Which that's probably good,
Speaker 1 00:44:24 But we still get together enough at night where there're Oh yeah. Or we're still hanging out. Like,
Speaker 3 00:44:28 Uh, he's moving in with me, bro. Yeah, I
Speaker 1 00:44:29 Know. And Rob, I party
Speaker 3 00:44:31 Myself every night.
Speaker 1 00:44:32 Dude, you him anda
Speaker 3 00:44:33 I crush beers by myself every night.
Speaker 1 00:44:35 It'll be you, him and Rona hanging out in the house.
Speaker 3 00:44:37 Yeah. I've I've gotten onto this thing now where I like to, uh, frequently, uh, shotgun for Locos to get the party started. Sick bastard. So I go get me a big deal. See
Speaker 2 00:44:46 I have something I call the party starter and it's a shot of Jameson, a shot of bourbon and a Jack and Coke. I order that first thing at the bar. Yeah. And that's like, it's doom doom. And then I pretty crush it pretty fastly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:44:59 That's what I'm looking at. Doo Yeah. Yeah, I did the, the, the, uh, the Reds Wicked Apple. L they're like eight percenters. They're like the 32. I crushed two of those the other night. <laugh>. Those are, those are fun <laugh>. That's a little sweet. Put you in a good mood. Yeah. Oh yeah. Those are a little sweet, but hell, the four Loco. That's pretty, that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 1 00:45:18 I've
Speaker 2 00:45:18 Never had a Four Loco.
Speaker 3 00:45:19 They're pretty hard shotgun if
Speaker 1 00:45:21 You, if you like the energy drinks too.
Speaker 3 00:45:22 I'd rather shotgun them than sip them down.
Speaker 1 00:45:25 Yeah. You'd rather just get it over with Ice Day. I've just always
Speaker 2 00:45:27 Heard horror stories of people in for Loco and Jagermeister, so I've just kind of stayed away from those two.
Speaker 1 00:45:33 Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:45:34 Yeah. There was, there was some, I had a lot of for Loco and, uh, mad Dog 2020 Moments in high school. That was, that was big down there.
Speaker 1 00:45:42 Mad Dog. 2020 was the big thing for me in college.
Speaker 3 00:45:44 Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:45:46 Mad Dog.
Speaker 3 00:45:47 I've seen, I've seen in college people, they duct tape Mad Dog, 2020s, their hands.
Speaker 1 00:45:51 I've done Edward 40 Hands. Yeah, I've done those with, with the old English and the Col. 45 Edward's 40 hands. And you're swinging 'em around. That's how, that's how you break a TV in your dorm room, dude. Yeah. Chick gets pretty
Speaker 2 00:46:00 Crazy. Sounds like experience there.
Speaker 3 00:46:01 Yeah, I spent some time in college, I guess
Speaker 1 00:46:04 A year a half. Yeah. What was, yeah, what was playing football like? Where'd you, where'd you
Speaker 3 00:46:06 Go? Uh, Emory and Henry. Yeah. In Virginia. Um, Southwest Virginia. And it was fun, man. It was, it was a little bitty college. It was a small town. Feel like we had a bar, a store, a grocery store, a gas station.
Speaker 1 00:46:22 I'm guessing I'm, I'm, I'm guessing and hoping for the sake of people you played against that you were a lineman.
Speaker 3 00:46:27 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:46:29 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:46:29 What, what position?
Speaker 3 00:46:31 Um, I swapped around. I, I also long snap too, so. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:46:36 I was gonna say, I could pick like you as a fullback or you as like a goal line situation, like them giving you the ball. I could just see that being him.
Speaker 3 00:46:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I did a lot of different stuff in high school, but um, for college I just mainly stuck to the line and, and then, um, I tore my hamstring and I was, I was just never the same after that, honestly. It was, it was never, I probably should had surgery, didn't wanna have surgery, so it was just, just, I was never as fast, never trusted my leg the same. Didn't, didn't ever squatted the same, never ran the 40, the
Speaker 1 00:47:08 Same. What was, what was, what was your max squatting, because you're a big dude.
Speaker 3 00:47:13 Probably, probably the upper fours. Jesus. I was, I was never like a super strong guy, but I think I made, I don't know, I was in a thousand pound club and
Speaker 1 00:47:22 Stuff. Yeah. I got a thousand pound club once. Yeah. I did it my junior year.
Speaker 3 00:47:26 Yeah. I was, I was, I was more like, the thing that got me to where I was in football was technique, cuz I was always smaller. If I was two or three inches taller, I probably would've gone to D one A I'd, I'd hoped. Yeah. But, um, I was just, I was just always, I would get beat out by guys that were, that were taller than me. The leverage, the leverage game, you know, you can't teach heights. So you a chop, were you a chop lock guy? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's how I was do, yeah. Oh yeah. Until they took it away. <laugh> until they took it away. I definitely, they only took it away. Definitely busted a couple knees. I am not gonna lie, I busted some shins and some knees and took some dudes out. Bro. I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 2 00:48:01 I, uh, I
Speaker 3 00:48:03 The dirty too. I would fake them, dude. Yeah. Before they took away the rule where you could drop step and then cut. Yeah. Not, you just had to cut straight away. I would totally just step, step wham and just outta nowhere and I would just crushed it.
Speaker 2 00:48:15 <laugh>. Yeah. I remember my, I think it was my senior year, it might have been my June, no, it was my senior year of high school. We played this team for homecoming only game we won of the year. Like we were, we had 17 players on varsity. So like everybody played both ways. Oh wow. Yes. Small. That was, that was not ninth through 10th, that was seventh through 10th. We had seventh graders that were starting at cornerback, like Oh boy. Yeah. Like
Speaker 3 00:48:37 Small, some small 10 Alabama
Speaker 2 00:48:39 Shit. Yeah. We actually played Gary my senior year and like he, his team crushed us. They showed up on like buses with suits and ties and like freaking preppy ass kids anyways. Yeah. But, uh, we played this team and this dude was playing across, I was playing guard at the time on offense and he's playing like kind of a nose guard slash tackle position, like one two hole position. And uh, I remember cutting him and he fell on my, like the back of my legs and he couldn't get up cuz he was that big of a dude. Yeah. And like, they had to like, like he's just like wallowing like all my hamstrings and stuff. And I'm like, get him off, get him off <laugh>. And they like, literally like, it took like three of his teammates and like a ref to get 'em off of me.
Speaker 3 00:49:25 Oh, brutal. Yeah, man. And we, we had a man, we had a great team actually, like before I got there, um, and before, like my buddy Stefan Tut's class got there. He graduated when I was a sophomore, so he is two years older than me. But before they got there, we hadn't even won a region championship since 1969. So when we got there, we went to the playoffs to the fourth round right before the Georgia do like four years in a row. So we had like Stefan Tuit who plays at the Steelers now, and like, you know, we had some stack players, uh, Damon Smith, he played at Greenwood Packers. Um, Michael Gallup, who is now a receiver for the tech, the Dallas Cowboys. He was our quarterback. Like we had some stacks stuff like, so were you, you a Georgia Bulldog fan? I think this is pretty Definitely not, not, no, no, no. I'm an Alabama fan. Roll tide. Roll tide buddy. Roll tide. Roll tide. Let's go Roll tides. Come on
Speaker 2 00:50:22 Dude, let's get with it.
Speaker 3 00:50:24 Dude. No, definitely not a dogs fan. Sorry.
Speaker 1 00:50:27 You probably really disliked them then. I,
Speaker 3 00:50:29 I love Georgia. I think Georgia is the best state in the United States in my opinion. But I did not like the Georgia Bulldogs. <laugh> <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:50:38 That was,
Speaker 3 00:50:38 That was Mark that down. Did you get a lot of right in stone? Did
Speaker 1 00:50:40 You get a lot of shit growing up for that?
Speaker 3 00:50:42 Of course, yeah. Everybody's like, dogs are, duh, you know, <laugh>. See
Speaker 1 00:50:47 I was,
Speaker 3 00:50:47 Yeah. Like no, like I can't, don't gimme no trains coming down the tracks or whatever that shit is. Like, I don't want to hear that. Like, yeah, I don't wanna hear y'all are gonna be champions again. Over and over and over and over again. Y'all got the best drafting class and all this whatever dude who gives a shit about that? You guys ain't got the numbers in the end. You can't finish. You ain't got the code. Just like most of the Georgia sports that I know. I'm sorry man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:51:09 Hey, we got, we got Yankees Braves tonight. I'm excited. What
Speaker 3 00:51:12 Happened to the Thrasher? See,
Speaker 1 00:51:15 Go back to Canada.
Speaker 3 00:51:16 They're
Speaker 2 00:51:17 Still the Thrashers in my mind,
Speaker 1 00:51:19 Whatever. And, and now they're beating the predators. Now the Winnipeg jets are
Speaker 3 00:51:23 Destroying the
Speaker 1 00:51:24 Predators.
Speaker 2 00:51:24 You see, I'm, so, I'm originally from Atlanta. Okay. And like, you know, like I went to a Thrasher game or two and like I'm a big Falcons fan. I was kind of like a pseudo Georgia fan. Like I remember them beating FSU in a bowl game like when I was young. But then I moved to Alabama still pretty young. And they were all like, you gotta be Bama, Auburn, choose. And I was like, Bama. Yeah. Even though they were getting their tail whooped in the Iron Bowl by Auburn then
Speaker 3 00:51:49 Yeah, the reason, the reason I'm an Alabama fan is my stepdad. He raised me since I was four. And he's like, I mean, I remember being terrified as a kid, like a little bitty kid and he would just be screaming at the TV and if I said anything against the game or what was happening, I was getting cussed out. Like he was a hardcore Alabama fan. And so, I mean that's, that's definitely how I became an Alabama fan cuz you know, I saw how happy it made him and, and uh, I honestly did not dig any of the Georgia shit that was going on. All my buddies were talking about like, just the whole cocky like attitude
Speaker 1 00:52:29 Matthew and Matthew Stafford was there at that time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:52:31 Like the whole just cocky, just like,
Speaker 2 00:52:33 What's the ESPN and analogy
Speaker 3 00:52:34 Brady Boy attitude. I didn't dig it.
Speaker 2 00:52:35 Uh, he's, he was a linebacker for Georgia Pollock. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:52:38 AJ Pollock was there. Yeah. Yeah. But you've gotten to see some good Alabama teams now, so I think your decisions worked out well for you. You get to for a good team. I know last year was a little rough
Speaker 3 00:52:47 And I make amends. I actually got to meet Pollock one night at, uh, 40 wi He's a nice guy. Oh yeah. He enjoyed the show. Oh, that's awesome. He enjoyed the show. Yeah. But I said roll Tide as he walked away. I'm not gonna lie. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:52:59 Just
Speaker 2 00:52:59 Slide it in there.
Speaker 1 00:53:00 Yeah. What are the, what are those, what have those Athens crowds been like for you and you being a Georgia guy and playing there as much as you've gotten to? I mean that's where guys, I mean, going back, I mean like that's where Brantley got his starts where he wanted to play. That's where Luke brought like all, all the Georgia guys, the quintessential Georgia even going back to Rhett like way back. Yeah. That's the spot. And you've gotten to do that so much.
Speaker 3 00:53:19 Yeah. Yeah. Man, I, I love Athens. Athens is amazing. It's one of my favorite talents to play in. 40 Watt is one of my top three favorite venues in the country, in my opinion. I would, I love the Georgia Theater. It's up there in those top three, but 40 Watt is just character for me. Um, it's my first promoted show. It's the first show I played with Luke. Um, so it's, it's where I met Bradley for peace entertainment. It's just, there's just something about that room and, and everything. And uh, going back to that's my favorite place to play, you know?
Speaker 1 00:53:54 Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 00:53:55 The, the, the day that, uh, my mom passed away, uh, was at soundcheck for 40 Watt and then I played the show that night. So that's like a show I'll never forget. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's, there's just something about Athens and that venue. I don't know what it is. I think I'll always try to play there from now on when I go.
Speaker 1 00:54:15 Yeah. And I think and I think it's a town that'll take you as many times they get. Yeah. Because that crowd, I've, I've seen, I've only gotten to go twice. We, we've been there once with, with Gary and Chuck headlining and then another time where we were crossing from Mississippi to Carolina and the guys popped up, got up there with, with uh, Langston. Yeah. But there's that crowd, they appreciate the music. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:54:33 You find true music people in that in Athens. Yeah. And, and they're not all from Athens. They come to Athens. A lot of 'em I think. But you find true music fans in Athens cuz it, it's kind of like the hippie town other than Asheville, North Carolina. Yeah, it is in a way, you know, and, uh, yeah. People, people appreciate It's not, it's not just a college town. It's not just like a Auburn or like a Tuscaloosa to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:55:01 And you've Yeah, and, and you've got you at one point. It's crazy. We, and we actually learned this in like, I think it was like episode like 10 or 11 or it was one of the early ones we had. Um, I think Butcher's got a sneeze. You all right there Butra? Nah,
Speaker 2 00:55:12 I was just yawning. Trying not to do it in the mic.
Speaker 3 00:55:14 Oh man. Putting him over, sleep over there. Put, put Bojo to sleep.
Speaker 1 00:55:18 You didn't even take any of the cbd. Come on buddy.
Speaker 2 00:55:20 It's the bourbon kicking in the, there's like that little dip real quick and then you come back up
Speaker 1 00:55:24 Your band back in the day. Yeah. Think because we found this out when we had Ryan on. It was like, it was you and then you had Ryan with you, you had Jordan with you really. You had like your band, like who was playing your band and shit.
Speaker 3 00:55:36 Yeah, that was, uh, yeah, Jordan Dobo, Chris and Ryan Nelson. Yeah. What were those?
Speaker 1 00:55:41 Jordan Fletcher? Yeah. Yeah. What were those days like of you and those boys? Vanning it just going around.
Speaker 3 00:55:49 Um, we discovered that Ryan can do shit ups,
Speaker 1 00:55:54 Shit. Ups What? What's a shit up?
Speaker 3 00:55:57 Every time he sits up in the van, he shits himself. <laugh>. That happened a lot for some reason. And so think that Ryans doing shit ups every day. That is not something I like, like that's my favorite thing about that dance. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:56:20 Love you Ryan.
Speaker 3 00:56:21 And we had a dog with us,
Speaker 1 00:56:23 <laugh>. Oh, that's dope.
Speaker 3 00:56:25 It was all right. He didn't listen, you know, <laugh>. Yeah. It was the best, you know, I'd be like at the merch table selling t-shirts and hear 'em barking at somebody
Speaker 1 00:56:35 <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:56:37 I'm like, I'm like, Chris, where's Jackson? And Chris would be like, hanging off the fucking rafters in the building, you know, <laugh> ying or some shit. You know, those were wild dudes from Jacksonville, Florida. So that's
Speaker 1 00:56:48 What I'm saying. Yeah. Like how'd you get Con how, who'd you meet first at that
Speaker 3 00:56:51 Group? Jordan Fletcher is a very good person. He's very responsible, but back then he was drinking and he wasn't married yet and he was in his wilder days I would say. So <laugh> they were drinking all way more than me. I feel like I was babysitting a lot of the
Speaker 1 00:57:07 Times. Right. You're also the youngest guy to that group, right? I don't know how old Dobro is, but Yeah, they got a few years on us. Yeah, they
Speaker 3 00:57:13 Were, they were, I mean at that time I was like 2021 and they were like 27, 26. So Jordan, Jordan was like 23. I think he's just a year older or two than me. But yeah, I was babysitting. So, but we had a great time. We played some good music and, uh, we played some, some uh, some college town bars and just did our thing man. And it was good. I mean I I really love those dudes. I've lived with all of them. Still live with Deborah Chris. Yeah. What
Speaker 1 00:57:46 Was the redneck And, and again, not to, not to, not to divulge too much information from the past that'll, that'll be, it'll be crazy or whatever, but like the redneck frat house that the, the, the crew that's been through there. Yeah. And this is what all you guys are doing now and you fast forward a few years and everybody's putting out their own music. Like
Speaker 3 00:58:02 It is the redneck frat house. It was, it was the party house. I mean, we were talking the other day about how on my 22nd birthday, uh, me and Jordan woke up, we were sleeping on the living room floor for some reason from the night before. And, uh, Jordan woke up and, and uh, I didn't know it was my birthday. My phone was blown up. And so we were like, shit, we just like crushed a bunch of Natty Ice the night before. Yeah, the heavy shit, the 5.8% alcohol shit. Oh shit. So we're feeling, we're feeling good, so we're like, damn, we gotta get fucked up again. You know? And so we go to the store and get a box of wine and uh, two cases of Natty Ice and about 11 o'clock Ryan Nelson wakes up and comes outside and weird piss drunk at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 00:58:51 Jordan is, there are three fire pits in, in Ryan's yard and Jordan is taking gas and connecting all the fire pits and drawing fire lines in the yard. <laugh>. And we're out there riding, wakes up and we got like Leonard Skynyrd Saturday night special plan, <laugh> we're out in the yard, just like hoing and hollering 11 o'clock in the morning. And uh, yeah, that, that day, uh, turned out Ryan got off work, early Crust, two more cases of Naty Ice. Then we went to the Mexican restaurant and drank four pictures of margaritas. Then we called Ward from Whiskey Jam and said we're gonna come play at Whiskey Jam. He's like, come on, <laugh> <laugh>. So then we go back to the house and all pass out and wake up at like 1130 and had to text Ward like, Hey, we're not going to Whiskey Jam now. You know, or two too drunk. But yeah, we had some crazy days. Some very, a lot of those days were the same. Just like that <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:59:45 And then, and then talking about Ward with Whiskey Jam, that was I think the first time I had the opportunity to see you. Yeah. Was you playing Whiskey Jam? What's your relationship with those guys been like? And you got to see it kind of the beginning. I mean, you've been here five years, whiskey has been around for what, 8, 9, 7, something like that? Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:59:59 We've played like, I think I've played like three anniversary shows now. And we, every year when we do the anniversary show, it's still the same thing with me, Jordan and Ryan, where it's like, back then we used to be in the same band. Well then it just kind of worked its way into, uh, like the three of us play ev the Whiskey Jam anniversary shows and Ward Ward's just a big fan of, of all of us. I think we're a big fan of Ward and what he does in Whiskey Jam and uh, yeah, he just always has us, has us on there and um, you know, gives us really good opportunities and to, to get our name out there, I think.
Speaker 1 01:00:34 Yeah. And it's become a monster. Like
Speaker 3 01:00:36 It has man, like Whiskey Jam is such a, it's true family. I think, you know, people in town and like, once you get to play it, you know, it's, it's a big thing to play Whiskey Jam. I feel like, you know, like to be able to get on that stage, there's a lot of people that have got on that stage and that's, that's your one opportunity to sound good. Like, and there are a lot of bands that go in there. I think if you, if you sound good, you're gonna sound good. If you sound bad, you're gonna sound bad in Whiskey Jam. Like there's no hiding, there's no tracks usually, you know, there didn't used to be any tracks. It was like that, that was the true statement. And Whiskey, whiskey jam's in this tiny ass room, that does not sound good. No. So if you sound good
Speaker 2 01:01:19 In there and it's not even got a digital board, like it's got an old school board. Yeah. Like everything's just,
Speaker 3 01:01:23 If you sound good in there, it you're, you're sounding good. Like, and if you get the crowd into it, there's those magical moments at Whiskey Jam where you can really connect with the crowd. And I, we got an encore one night for Georgia, which was crazy. And like, I mean that's, that's just that room where it's like you gotta make a statement or not. And there's been nights where I played Whiskey Jam and I was like, that's not it. That was not, not the show for me. Cuz I've played that probably 15, maybe 20 times now. I don't know how many times I've played it, but I've been up there a lot.
Speaker 1 01:01:58 So yeah, dude, that's, that's awesome. So, real quick for everybody listening, 2020, you got the new music, you, you, you got a lot of stuff going on in stuff going on. What can people expect now for the rest of the year from Job Fortner? Cause I know you've been in the studio. I know you've been
Speaker 3 01:02:12 I've in the studio. Yeah. Yeah, I've been in the studio and I'm, I've got five songs I really love and these songs are songs that people know like, that's my man and a song called Time. But, you know, those songs are really, really, really special and I wanna put 'em out when they can get the, the, the exposure that I believe they deserve and for us to be on the road is, is gonna help us do that. And we're not on the road right now, so we're resulting to plan B now, which, you know, when I record that music, it was a week before Covid hit. So I was planning on having that music out by now and, uh, us also being on the road. But that's not the case anymore. We don't have any shows going on and stuff. And so the thing that me and my management are talking about doing now is to, uh, record some different music that, you know, people maybe haven't even heard and just, uh, and give them that and, uh, and, and do a single, so there's a song, uh, called Wherever She Is that probably gonna come Back to Life and put that out, uh, hopefully in the next couple months and just put out some singles and, uh, that EP is probably gonna turn into an album.
Speaker 3 01:03:23 I don't know, we're talking about it, so.
Speaker 1 01:03:25 Okay. Sweet man. Well, I,
Speaker 3 01:03:26 So we're talking about yeah, maybe four, four or five more songs and having a full album instead of, you know,
Speaker 1 01:03:32 Ep Well, I speak for, I think I speak for everybody when, when I say like we we're the, the music family, they're ready for, for Wardrobe fortner, and we're gonna, we're gonna crank the shit outta him. I'm ready, whatever. But I'm, I'm sure you're ready, bro. It's been 40 years. It's been a whole time of kids freshman in high school now that other motherfuckers are graduating. Dude,
Speaker 3 01:03:49 I, yeah, I mean, I wanted to, I wanted to put out these songs, you know, two years ago. Yeah. But things being what they are. Yeah. You know, uh, I wasn't able to put 'em out, you know, not necessarily in my control at that point, but now I have control again and I work with people that I, that I love to work with and, uh, we decided we wanna do what we're gonna do <laugh>. So. Yeah.
Speaker 3 01:04:14 Um, I think, yeah, I think waiting to put out the EP till shows come around for those songs, because those songs, I want videos with those, you know, and, and they need the time. The thing is, I'm like 25, you know, I'm still learning stuff every day and, uh, I'm a, I'm a big component of like being on the road and being a road dog. And so not being able to do that and putting out new music that, that I haven't put out music in three years doesn't, doesn't fit the book for me. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1 01:04:42 No, absolutely man. Well, yeah. Well, hey dude, this has been an absolute pleasure. Yeah. Um, do you wanna play some songs for us? Yeah, I can please. All right. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, man. Um, well, um, guys, thanks for listening to another episode of the, um, of the Inro podcast. We, we greatly appreciate y'all listening bores. What's a damn fun one? Yeah, dude, finally sitting in a room with Joe Forton. I wanna tell you guys real quickly mentioned it earlier on, but we're gonna give him another read cuz we, we love our new friends over at Trailside CBD Emporium. I wanna tell you all about them. That's our boy Andrew and his team. They meet all your CBD hemp and delta H t h Delta eight THC needs from oils and gummies to cartridges and flour. They have it covered using D eight T H c, which has derived from the hemp plant as opposed to the common marijuana plant. The stuff is 100% legal and gets the job done personally, and I think Joe can attest to this too, fan of the cartridges. They're super, yeah, they're man, they're solid. So y'all can hop on and get them yourself. Check 'em out. It's trailside cbd.com. Use the promo code ITR at checkout. Once again, that is trailside cbd.com promo code ITR 20% off your purchase. You can also find them on Instagram at trailside cbd and you can find us where Tyler in the round podcast. So
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Speaker 5 01:06:09 Hey,
Speaker 3 01:06:09 You know, uh, just my name <laugh>. Thankfully, thankfully not many people have Job Fortner, but uh, yeah, just add Job Fortner. Um, and uh, job fortner music.com.
Speaker 1 01:06:20 Oh yeah. Well guys, thanks for listening. We're gonna let take over play some songs for us.
Speaker 5 01:10:39 Lights on the Suns. I smell in the truck. First job of the day. And she's already till she's getting tired of. Money's gotta be made. Bills get tough when it's only until she's getting scared she off and pull in. Kyle's the, see she's on lunch break. Let say job as overtime stay alive. Listen to your granny and know I miss Right. Love you. She grandma like every night and she's crying. Ain't inside.
