Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: This is Outside the Round with Matt Burrill for Rage Rowdy Podcast.
What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Outside the Round with me, Matt Burrell. Today, a very special guest, beating him for the first time today. He's chilling, got the sunglasses on, and it's CMA Fest week and you're out here for a month. He's from the great country of Australia. We got our first Aussie guest on the podcast. It's Mr. Matt Geer. How you doing, brother?
[00:00:41] Speaker C: I'm good, man. Yourself?
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Doing well. So when did you get here to the States on this trip?
[00:00:45] Speaker C: This is day three.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Day three. All right. What have the first two days been like?
[00:00:49] Speaker C: They've been pretty hectic.
Yeah. We're here in Nashville for a week and we just try to cram in as much as we could. So we've been running around like hell. Headless chooks.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: But like headless what?
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Headless chickens.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Headless chokes.
[00:01:00] Speaker C: We call them chokes. Yeah.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: We call them what? Chokes.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: Chooks.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Chucks.
[00:01:03] Speaker C: Chokes.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: I'm gonna learn a lot of Australian slang on this thing.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: I'm very excited.
If there's anything that you don't understand, let's. Let's just talk through it. We'll get. Because it's probably a fair bit.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: Yeah. No. So you guys have. Where all have you been in this in the past two days? What have you been up to?
[00:01:19] Speaker C: Well, we got in what day we get in? Monday.
Got in Monday. Like 6pm I actually got a good night's sleep. I haven't been like jet lagged at all. Really?
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: Yeah. That's impressive because. What's the time difference? It's how many hours?
[00:01:32] Speaker C: What, seven, eight hours or something? I don't know. It's like 3am at home right now.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: 18 hours. Okay, so it's like.
So that's good. You haven't been. Jet lag, though.
[00:01:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I've been pretty good.
But I don't know, it's all really just mixed up in my head because we've just been running around place to place. But yeah, we did the stick sessions last night.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Nice. I love those guys.
[00:01:58] Speaker C: Yeah, they were really chill. We're just sitting around a campfire, which I felt very at home doing, you know, because I played that many campfires in my life. So it was just me and my fiddle player, Kate, and my guitarist, and we just sat down at a jam. It was real good.
Hell, I don't know what else we're doing. It's just all mixed up in my head.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: Yeah, man. And. And you're out here for a while and it's perfect timing where Walk A Straight Line came out and we love that project out here and I know a lot of folks are loving it all over the world and especially in Texas and Oklahoma. And you're getting ready to hit the road and play some legendary venues. We were talking about it right before we started recording. You're getting to go to.
To Green hall and you're getting to go to Kane's Ballroom and you're getting to go to Billy Bob's and the Armadillo Palace. All rooms that I've been lucky enough to be involved with shows there over the years, so. And this is your first time really touring in the States, right?
[00:02:47] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it is. This is like actually one of our first tours ever with the band.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: So we're doing us before we're doing Australia, but yeah, it's sort of 12 months ago if you said we were, you know, playing these different places like Canes and Green and, you know, Billy Bob's and that, like, I wouldn't believe you, but, you know, everything's sort of skyrocketed lately and we're just sort of going with the flow and making the most of it. But, yeah, we've sold out a couple shows as well, which is just blowing my mind.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: That is so hard to do. Like club shows, dance hall shows. Right now, you can ask anybody that's in the music industry if they're not playing a festival. It's very hard for people to get shows right now. So the fact that your first time doing tour is selling out legendary venues like that, that's a huge accomplishment, brother.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I appreciate it, but, yeah, it still blows my mind, but, yeah, I'm just itchy to get on the road and just, I don't know, just sing to these American audiences, to the. To the Texans and Oklahoma there too. And see, I'm singing my songs back. Look, I can't wait, man.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: You should be. You should be, man. That's glad. It's. I'm glad you have that itch because that's really important. And so take me back. You're 21 years old and how long have you been doing this thing for?
[00:04:02] Speaker C: Yeah, I probably. I picked up a guitar when I was pretty young, like in primary school, probably.
My dad taught me four chords and a lie and.
Yeah, GE minor cd, but he's missing these three fingers, actually.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[00:04:17] Speaker C: So he taught me to play like this.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:04:20] Speaker C: I had to, I had to learn how to use a pick myself, but.
But yeah, I was playing the guitar pretty young and then I guess I started finding my voice a bit in high school. Started writing a few songs, probably a few girls who probably, you know, broke me out a bit and wanted to get there some way and started writing a few songs. And they were pretty average at the start.
And then I guess by the end of high school I was starting to get on stages and stuff like that.
When I was probably around 16 or 17, I started, you know, getting on stage and my hands would be trembling up there and trying to remember the lyrics.
But I guess the way I started to get into it was.
Probably goes all the way back when I was kid, before school, you know, Mum and Dad, dad was a big 90s country man. Like he was in his prime growing up in the 90s. And so all those big dogs like Alan Jackson and Garth brooks and Tim McGaugh, Tracy Lawrence, Clint Black, all those guys.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Makes a lot of sense that your music sounds the way that it does if that's what you're growing up on. Hanging out with your old men pretty much.
[00:05:24] Speaker C: And like Mum and dad always used to sing in that, so we'd always be singing.
And I'm the oldest of five, so generally in long car rides, you know, we're all in this sort of minivan, I guess, eight seater. And if we're not singing, me and the kids in the backseat are usually punching on. So yeah, I don't know, Mum and dad were pretty smart in that way and just turn that music off and as long as we're singing, we're getting along and yeah, I guess that's sort of how it started. And you know, I like all sorts of music but that stuff sort of really, I don't know, found its way into my veins and.
And I think naturally, you know, that's the sort of music, you know, even pushing back to the 80s, you know, and 70s, going back to like Whitley and Jones and you know, Hank and stuff like that, like, I don't know, just sort of naturally become the music that I love. And that's. I want to make music I like listening to. So that's what I'm doing now. And I definitely pull stuff from all different places. I'm not putting myself in a box, but. But yeah, that's the stuff I grew up on and that's the stuff I love to play and. And I guess that comes out in my writing a bit. So.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: That's awesome, man. Now I have a little bit of, I was talking with, with your team earlier.
I have a little bit of history with the Australian country scene. So I had a college radio show back in the day and it, it turned into like where we would have some random like up and cominging indie Australian artists on the show and we played their music and that was here in the States. And and so I did a couple of shows where it was midnight to 2am here in the States and it coincided with like happy hour time out in Australia like way back. So it was acts like McAllister, Kemp and folks like that that were big in like 2013 to like 2017. But the Australian country music scene is huge and there are so many artists here in Nashville that one of their big goals is to get to Australia and play those big festivals. Festivals and get out there and play, play in, play in Sydney and play in Brisbane and play in all these markets. So talk about being from that world and coming up in the Australian country music scene.
[00:07:29] Speaker C: Yeah, sure. To me it makes a lot of sense because like Australia, I don't know really if this is an accurate thing, but I feel like Australia is probably similar size to the US but we just got like no one living in the middle and so and anyone who lives off the coast, it's all agriculture, it's all cattle stations or ranches, you know, 2, 3 million acres, you know, in the middle of Australia and very deserted.
So yeah, for Aussies, like, you know, the country's all around us. There's so much wide open spaces and I think that's why country music's so strong in Australia. And I guess, you know, it might be easy to forget that, I guess. But yeah, I guess the scene is, you know, I think it's going stronger than it ever has.
Obviously I listened to my fair share of Aussie artists growing up. Like fellow named Slim Dusty, he's like an Aussie icon back home.
And then yeah, lots of other ones. Like there's a bunch of sort of people my age or a bit older, but a lot of young new talent starting to boom and sort of post Covid and it's exciting, you know, I think everyone's sort of got their backs. We were at a thing this morning where all the Aussie artists were there together and you know, there's no real competition because we're all in the same boat. You know, we're all over here on the other side of the world and we all come from the same place. And I think that's the really nice Thing about the Aussie country scene is if one of us is doing well, you know, with all.
What's the saying with the boats? There's a saying about boats.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: High tides raise all ships.
[00:09:03] Speaker C: There you go.
And that's exactly what it is, you know. And so that's a really cool thing about the community in Australia. But I guess for me, like, I grew up in regional sort of Australia, so the closest major city was probably seven or eight. Seven or eight hours away.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:20] Speaker C: It was about an hour drive to school back and forth each day. So two hours total driving to get to school. And Mum and Dad have run cattle, so they've got a cattle stud that. That we've been running ever since I can remember, and. And Mum and Dad sort of grew that from the ground up.
And I guess. I guess that's the story for a lot of Australians, and that's why country music's so strong over there, is because. Yeah. You know, we're surrounded by the country and.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: And that's what it is.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: And I've heard that over there, it's like here they talk about rednecks or hillbillies. They talk about. Instead of getting redneck like it is in the U.S. you guys get feral. Is that a real feral? Yeah, I've heard the term feral, and I've heard here in the States, everybody jacks up their trucks, you guys lower them and call them Utes, right? I've heard of.
[00:10:07] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we got you. We just. We don't. We don't call them trucks. Yeah, you call them, like, you know, a big.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: Like a semi or something transporting something.
[00:10:16] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. We call them utes, but I think in the bush, we jack them up, too.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: You do jack them up. Okay.
[00:10:22] Speaker C: We definitely like to jack them up, but, yeah, I don't think too many people lower them down, but.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: But fair. But feral is. The term's good.
[00:10:31] Speaker C: We also got bogan.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: Bogan, yeah. I've heard of the bogan thing before.
[00:10:34] Speaker C: Yeah. Bogan. Sort of like redneck.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:37] Speaker C: If you call someone feral, they'll probably, you know, want to smash it.
Bogan is probably not much better, but I'm sure maybe if you called someone a redneck here, they'd probably want to turn around and square up, too.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Depending. It's. It's funny. It's like people really embrace, like, where they're. Where they're from and how they grew up, you know, Like, a lot of people take pride in that.
[00:10:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: So I feel like if you. If you're truly a bogan. You probably take pride in that, right?
[00:11:01] Speaker C: I think it's different, to be honest. I don't know.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: I think it's a different thing.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: Yeah. In Australia, like, if you're from the country or you're from a small town, you definitely prep like you're proud of it. But I don't know. I don't know what the word would be for that to be on a small. Small town or rural. But bogan for me is like a bit. I don't know, a bit. A bit rough.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: It's a bit more of an insult than a thing. Okay, okay, Makes sense. I'll make. I'll make sure not to call anybody a bogey, for sure. But you're gonna be going to be encountering some. Some bogans for sure, going out to Texas and Oklahoma, and you're going to be in like the cities out there, though, so it's like you're going to be driving through the country. Are you now what. What kind of vehicle are you riding around in?
[00:11:40] Speaker C: We got two little. We got two vans, two van.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: Okay, so your van and trailer, you're doing it the right way for your first time. I was going to say. I hope they're not spoiling you with a bus on your first tour. You can't be doing that. I always get on as someone that did the van and trailer thing. Your first tour has to be in a van and trailer.
[00:11:56] Speaker C: Oh, and we're not. We're not complaining about it, but yeah, we got. We got one van. It's just gonna have all our gear in it. And we've got the other van where the band and me are going to be nice getting around. But. Yeah, I can't wait to see a bit of that country, you know?
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And you guys have truck stops out in Australia? Yeah, yeah. That's the thing like. Like where you guys have like the things on the side of the highways.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:12:17] Speaker C: Servo.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: A what?
[00:12:18] Speaker C: A servo.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: A servo.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. A service station. That's what we call.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: So you're gonna encounter. Have you heard of BUC EE's yet?
[00:12:26] Speaker C: No, I've heard of it.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Okay, well, you're going to Texas, which is the mothership of BUC EE's.
[00:12:31] Speaker C: Tell me more.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: That's where Bucky's comes from. So you're familiar with Walmart that we have here in the States? Do they have Walmarts in Australia?
[00:12:37] Speaker C: No.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: No. Okay, so Walmart here in the States, you can get everything at Any time. They used to be 24 hours. Covid kind of killed that. Now they're not 24 hours anymore. But Buc EE's is like a servo that's the size of a Walmart and they have everything and anything. They've got like almost 200 pumps. Like gas pumps.
Yeah, it's. It's going to be. It's going to be overwhelming for you, but you're going to. I'm interested to see. And you can get anything you want at any time, pretty much. And it's just chaos.
[00:13:07] Speaker C: Sounds good, man.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: So I. In your. Where you're going to and where you're going to in Texas, they got them all over the place.
[00:13:12] Speaker C: All right. So you get a fa. You get food there as well?
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: They got barbecue. They got beef jerky. They got these kolachi things. I got the beaver nuggets they got. You can get. You can get hunting stands there. They got a whole section of clothes like it's. It's gonna blow. Your Australian guns there too.
No, but I believe in some of them in Texas, you can get ammunition, which is wild. Again, you're gonna see like you're gonna. You're about to really experience.
[00:13:40] Speaker C: I've heard lots of good. Well, everyone says everything's bigger in Texas.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: It is. It isn't. Buc EE's is the definition of that.
[00:13:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: Everything is, in fact bigger in Texas, man. And Billy Bob's is like the world's biggest honky tonk. Yeah. Like, that room can hold up to like 5, 000 people in it.
[00:13:56] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: It's a special, special spot. And for your style of music, it makes so much sense why you're selling out some of these rooms. Like you're going to the mecca of where that traditional style of every song that's on Walk a Straight Line fits in the mold for it's songs that people can dance to and two step to. So I want to talk more about the project. So you signed a. You signed a big old record deal too, brother, Right?
[00:14:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I did. Yeah.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: How's that feel to have that at 21 years old? That's pretty rare. Not a lot of. Not a lot of artists can say that.
[00:14:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Massive blessing, you know, and.
Yeah, I'll just give the credit to the Lord, but to be honest, yeah, really grateful for it. You know, having a team to sort of promote your music and work with you through your projects is. You know, when. When you're starting out as an artist, you're doing all that yourself. You Know, you, your own promoter, you're your own, you're doing everything yourself and with your management. So yeah, it's a really, it's a really big blessing. Just have a team pushing your music out there to the world. Yeah, I'm stoked.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Yeah, man. And talking about this project, did you record it? You recorded it back in Australia or out here in Nashville?
[00:15:04] Speaker C: Yeah, back in Australia, just sort of an area outside of Brisbane.
There's a fellow there named Jared Adlam, he's my producer and he's got the studio sort out the back of his house and it's like this big shed that he's built himself and it's like just the best, the best sort of environment. Like you walk in there. He's so easy to work with.
And yeah, we, we did this whole album there in Australia, which I'm pretty proud of. And we've, we did send it over to Nashville to get different instruments on it, like steel and fiddle and things like that. So we got some really cool players on it. But yeah, AUSTRALIAN PRODUCERS JOIN STUDIO So.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome, man. And what's it been like seeing the reaction of this project because you got, you got a lot of buzz right now and that's got to be a lot for a 21 year old that's living on the other side of the world now. You come out here to Nashville and folks already know who you are.
[00:15:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it's surreal.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: It gets pretty crazy.
[00:15:58] Speaker C: It is crazy. You know, it's. It's ridiculous. But yeah, really overwhelmed with, you know, how people have been liking the new project. I think we might have hit a million streams on the project in three days.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: That's insane. Yeah, that, that doesn't happen, brother.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I don't know. That doesn't happen.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: That's insane.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: So, yeah, just. I don't know. But for me, like I wrote. I'll write on every song and that as well.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it's something I noticed because I'm. I'm a bit of a nerd with it where I like to look at the credits of who played on it and who, who were the co writers. And I'm looking through yours and it's like a lot of these are solo rights.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: Yeah. Like you're just five out of six was solo, right? Yeah. And then I did one which is Hole in the Wall, which was a co write and.
But that's something like I sort of always visioned for myself as my first project because, you know, I'm a writer as well as a Singer. And I'm just really proud that, you know, that's. That's my writing. Those are my lyrics.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:56] Speaker C: And I guess the whole. The whole idea for it was just to paint a picture of who I am for. For the audience. You know, obviously, I had that String bar song go pretty good, and it's still going all right. But, you know, I wanted to introduce people to who I am and the music that I love and. And I thought I picked out these six songs and I. I'm pretty happy. And I think they do that. You know, that represents me as an artist. And, you know, it's got a few sad, depressing ones in there, which is my bread and butter.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: You gotta have some sad country songs, brother. You need to have.
[00:17:26] Speaker C: I'll be in the best mood in the world and I'll sit down and listen to. To some just really depressing stuff, you know, like, that's how wide. I don't know why. Might have a screw loose, but.
And then, you know, we got. We got a track in there that's like a bit of western swing, which I've always loved. And then we got like, some driving ones. So I'm really pleased with it. I think it paints a picture of who I am. And.
Yeah, I'm stoked that people are loving it as well.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: So.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And the way that you can tell how. A little tip for you. Going out to Texas and Oklahoma. So. It kind of blew my mind because I'm. I'm from New York originally. The two acts I worked with were both from Alabama.
[00:18:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: And in the Northeast and the Southeast, you go to a concert and people rush to the front row. And it's like a. Like a club environment, you know, the way it works in these dance halls is they all stand off to the side. So, like, say the stage is this Surfside can. And then there'll be like the dance hall. And then there's like a barrier, like, around the dance hall. Everyone at the start of the song will be on the side. And then when you start playing, if they like the song, they start two step in and waltzing around to the song.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: So you can tell you have them based on how they're dancing to the music. So having some dancing songs in there, it blew my mind because I'm like, wait, why is nobody in the front? I'm like, oh, they're waiting and dancing and finding a different girl to dance with. Yeah, yeah, there's no one there. And they're all standing on the sides. You're gonna be like, what's going on? Because a lot of these dance hall floors, like canes has been there forever. Green Hall's been there forever. And they don't let drinks on the dance floor. Like, the dance floor, which is most of the room, is there for the dancing. And your. Your set's going to fit right in there, bud.
[00:19:00] Speaker C: Yeah, we're excited. You know, we got a few covers we're throwing in there that, you know, I think people who know Game are really going to like.
[00:19:07] Speaker A: So what. Tell me about some of those. Like, there's so much traditional country that I'm sure you and the band can just hit out of the park.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: So what. How do you pick your couple that you throw in there?
[00:19:18] Speaker C: Well, we pretty much. We put in all my songs.
[00:19:21] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:19:21] Speaker C: And then we've got about half a dozen, probably four or five unreleased ones that I'm really keen to see how people like.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:30] Speaker C: And then we're just filling the gaps from there and just. I just go back to the music that sort of shaped me and music that I can sing and really put my heart and soul into the song. So we got like some Gary Stewart in there.
What else we got in there? We got some.
Oh, we're throwing in. We got like one rock song at the end. Just because, like, why not? Yeah, we're in Texas having a good time.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: Just let it loose.
[00:19:55] Speaker C: Yeah, pretty much, man. I always say, like, if I could sing rock, I'd probably be doing it, to be honest, because you can just let loose out there.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a different thing.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: But I was giving this voice, so I'm doing country. But yeah, we're throwing one of those in. Like, we got some Hank junior In there.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:20:12] Speaker C: So just a few little things, but overall, I'm really stoked with the set list. I think people love it. Really keen to try out all this new music, too.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Yeah. What does the band look like? Because I'm imagining it sounds like you got some strings in there, you got some pedal steel, you got a fiddle in there.
[00:20:28] Speaker C: It's not a band without pedal steel and fiddle to me. So. Yeah, we got a six piece band.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: We got three part harmonies, so.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:20:36] Speaker C: Dude. Yeah. Yeah, we're, you know, and that's. That's.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: I got. I got to get to a show. Yeah, man.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: Oh, awesome. Anytime. Let me know. But I think for me, like, for my type of music, harmonies have always been really important to me.
So we've got like, I've got Ashlyn, who's on bass. And then Kate, who's my fiddle player. So we've got two females, and we put them together on the stage there, and they're like. We got all these rough and rowdy, you know, cowboys playing. And then we just got these two sort of angels over the side doing these beautiful little harmonies. So, yeah, they add so much. And then, yeah, steel and fan fiddle. I mean, I can't really play a show without either of those.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah, so you gotta have those. And they say if you. If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle.
No, it's not. Did you grow up going to a lot of concerts and stuff in Australia?
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Not a whole lot. Like, where we lived, we didn't really get too many people coming through every now and then. Like, Mum and Dad loved music growing up, so any chance we could, we'd go out. But, yeah, where we lived was sort of rural, so not many people would, you know, come out and play there, you know, if you're outside those major cities. So I guess that's something that I always keep in mind for, you know, when I'm choosing where to play places. You know, I think about when I was a kid and, I mean, I'm still a kid, but when I was a younger kid, you know, I'm mindful of people in rural areas because I don't get to see that. But also, I think for anyone who's. Who wants to play out there, like, people appreciate it that much more and they get around it that much more because they don't get it often.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: You know, I think of the Brooks and Dunn song Hillbilly Deluxe, where it's. They say big time. And in a small town, like, if you can create those memories to a town of only like a couple thousand or even a couple hundred people, and it's like the whole county or that whole area descends on one section of it. That's something that lives on for generations. Like. Like, remember. It's like, remember that time Matt Geiger came back here, you know, and that's something that lives on in those areas forever. That's how you build those fan bases and build those super fans.
[00:22:40] Speaker C: 100.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: So it's important to do. So what do you like doing when you're not doing music stuff?
[00:22:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm usually. I'm usually at mom and Dad's. Like, they got the cattle there. So I'm like, the week before I come here, we were preg testing and mustering. So preg testing's, you know, putting your arm down There.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Getting in there. Yeah, Getting all nice and in there.
[00:23:03] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, feeling. Feeling for pregnancy and. Yeah, cattle. And then. Yeah, I bet I was on a horse. We were mustering at home and. Or rounding up the cattle. Yeah, you got to say, we call it mustering. So.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: And the pregnancy test, do we have a lot of. Do we have a lot of calves being born?
[00:23:20] Speaker C: Oh, a lot, A lot.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: So it was a good, good pregnancy test.
[00:23:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Above 85, obviously, we want to have 90 or something.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: And that's what my mom and dad are into. Like, when it comes to cattle is into genetics and all the numbers.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: There's a science to it.
[00:23:34] Speaker C: There's a lot.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: There's a big. There's a lot of data that needs to be in there.
[00:23:37] Speaker C: 100. So, yeah, we're right into that. But I mean, outside of that, I don't know.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: Like, what is there? Growing up, were you growing up big sports guy? Big sports guy. So rugby and cricket, right?
[00:23:50] Speaker C: Very rugby. I did touch football and I did athletics as well. So.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: Athletics. So what.
[00:23:56] Speaker C: What is track and field?
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Oh, tracking.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Yeah.
[00:23:59] Speaker C: So growing up was just a lot of. Yeah, footy originally, but, yeah, I was a bit of a runner, too. So be running around the track.
Yeah, sort of went to a few. I won a one second place at two national competitions.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:24:14] Speaker C: The decathlon, which is like 10 events in two days.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:24:18] Speaker C: Field and represented my state. And touch football and rugby was just. Because I loved it. Yeah, I wasn't really the most solid kid growing up, but I could run fast and, yeah, I was pretty quick on my feet. So, yeah, just sport. Sport was like my whole life as an early as a young kid. And I think it was really good for me. Just, it teaches you dedication, you know, to work hard for trainings and things like that. But I met so many good mates and that. But music. Music was just something I'd just do every now and then, you know, it wasn't really my dream early on.
And then, I don't know, towards the end of high school, it all started changing and I started thinking, this stuff's pretty cool. Yeah. Like. And I. I think I'm someone who has something to say, and that was a way that I can get that out to people. So.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: Yeah, man. And I always like to say that show day is game day, you know, like how you're getting ready for. How you're getting ready for. For a rugby match or the Cathlon event or something like that. That's how you feel before you go on stage and put on a show for people, you know, so having. Having that athlete mentality as you're going in there, it's like you're a team with your guys and girls on stage.
[00:25:25] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: You know, so it. It. I can see why it translates really well for you.
[00:25:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess I haven't thought about that.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: And being on tour is like you're in a tournament, you're going from place to place, you know, 100.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: And that's the. I haven't thought about that. But that's exactly right. You know, like your band, your team. Yep. You're getting geed up before. Before we've had to walk out there and just hook in. So.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: And Your game is 60 or 90 or 45 minutes, whatever the set time is. And then you get out there and then you go. You go to the next town and do it all over again.
[00:25:53] Speaker C: That's a song, you know, it's a special.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: It's a special thing because there are so many athletes, like in country music. Like, Morgan Wallen was a baseball player. I remember Brett Young was actually drafted for professional baseball here in the States. And there's so many guys and girls that grow up doing it that translate over to the music thing, and it works well. And you said before too, like, you're not just a singer, you're a songwriter. You're a songwriter as well. And. And you're a musician. And we have a term for that. It's called artist. You know, like there's people that sing other people's songs and then there's people that can write their own songs and pick along with them and do what you do. And man, you're truly an artist, you know, like, you're able. You're able to do this thing. You. You said String By. You're very humble about it, that it's done some big things for you. But talk about the impact that a song like that off of this first project that you got to really hype everything up with. Like, talk about how big String by has been for you.
[00:26:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I wrote it in 2023. I was just.
Ah, sorry, 2024.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:26:52] Speaker C: I was living in Brisbane at the time. I was studying to be a paramedic.
[00:26:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:58] Speaker C: Which is something we haven't gone over.
[00:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
We could dive into that a little bit. A little bit later on for sure.
[00:27:04] Speaker C: But. And I was just at the kitchen table and I thought, I just want to write. I just want to write a sad song. And I just sat down and I started A few chords and next minute I'm in the studio and next minute we put it out and next minute, you know, people on the other side of the world are getting around it and Australia's never really heard it, you know, like we put it out in Australia and it was my second single. I had one out before that and, you know, before you know it, a lot of people seem to resonate, you know, it's a story I wrote about someone who's in a relationship that's pretty toxic, you know, and, you know, they're sort of, they're stringing you along a bit, you know, and it's about putting your foot down and being like, I deserve better. And to be honest, in the moment I thought, you know, it's a cool story, but I didn't think too much of it. And next minute all these people are resonating with it and a lot of people are reaching out saying, you know, you gave me the courage to walk away from something that wasn't good for me. And I think as an artist that's. That means the world when you hear, you know, your music is touching people or I guess inspiring people to, you know, make good decisions in their lives.
[00:28:17] Speaker A: Yeah, dude.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: Even though it was a really sad, like, what's corn sad song. So, yeah, it, it took off a fair bit. Tick tock, you know, did its thing.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: And how big has social media been in getting you to where you're at now? Because you're talking about how you're selling out shows in, in Red Dirt country, we call it, in Texas and Oklahoma, and you're all the way out in Australia. You're 18, 19 hours away in some places that you're going to here in the States. Like, talk about the impact of social media. Being able to shoot yourself taking a video and then post it and the entire world has access to it.
[00:28:51] Speaker C: It. Yeah, I always hated social media until this all happened.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Everybody, everybody does, man. It's a tool. It's a tool in your belt and if you figure out the right way to utilize it. And you're so much more than like what people would consider like a Tik Tock artist or something like that. Tik Tok's just the vehicle that we in the States could use to find a guy like you.
[00:29:11] Speaker C: Yeah, and that was the biggest thing for me is, I mean, once upon a time you're trying to hand your CDs out and, and I can sort of bitch and moan about how we don't make much money from all these different streaming Places. But the reality is it's allowed me to shoot my song over to so many different populations. And yeah, that's how it took off. It took off in Texas really early and Australia wasn't really doing much here. It was all over in Texas and I'm just in Australia. I'd never left the country. And I'm like, this is a bit weird. Like you're looking at the stuff, statistics and that. Yeah, what the hell's going on? Yeah, no one here is listening to it, but everyone over on the other side of the world is.
[00:29:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:51] Speaker C: And. But yeah, it's. I don't know, it's sort of. It's did its thing. I think it's. I don't know how many streams it's got. It's got a fair few. And that was the main thing that sort of. I think a lot of record labels, you know, took notice of and started figuring. Sussing me out a bit.
So once that started doing good numbers, that's when I started getting phone calls and we're in Zoom meetings and.
And before you know it, you know, we started getting some offers from these labels and what we did. Well, I sort of said, well, I don't know anything about you. Like, I'm not about to sign everything over to you right now.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:27] Speaker C: Without knowing you. So I pretty much said, if you're serious, fly me over to America and have me meet you. Because for me personally, I think you can tell a lot about someone by looking them in the eye.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Yeah, you really can.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: And that's pretty much what I said to them and they were serious enough to do that. And yeah, now I'm signed to Columbia and Records Nashville. So I guess that all come from that sort of moment from that song.
But even more than that, it come from just a moment of vulnerability to sort of tell a story and sort of let your heart out. And I guess that's the whole thing with being an artist is, you know, that's what you pay for it. You. You sort of open it up your heart to people and.
And. But it's all worth it when you see other people resonating.
[00:31:14] Speaker A: I guess it is, man. You're having an impact on someone, some random person that you might never meet. You're having a huge impact on their life.
[00:31:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: And you can't. You can't put a. Put a price on the time it took like, of do. Of writing that song, you know, man, so that's huge. Now, had you been on a plane before? Was your first flight fl first time on a plane, flying out here?
[00:31:33] Speaker C: No, I've been on a couple.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: You've been on a couple planes?
[00:31:35] Speaker C: But I left the country until February and I come over talking to a few labels.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: So how. How different of an experience was it for you to leave the country and your first time flying all the way out here to the States?
[00:31:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it was just a whirlwind.
Not long before that, I was just working cares and studying and.
Oh, like I was studying to be a paramedic for two years.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. What was, what was your. What made you want to do that?
[00:32:01] Speaker C: Paramedics, you know, it was bittersweet walking away from it because it's a job.
It's like problem solving and there's a lot of, like, I don't know, you're walking through a door that you've never. Into a house you've never been to. You don't know what's on the other side, and there's just a person there who's in need, and you just pretty much got to figure out what's wrong and give them a chance at life. And. And for me, that sounded like a challenge to me.
Not really from a real big medical family, but I just like the challenge. But also, being a paramedic is like your role is to be that person there for someone in the sort of the worst time of their life, you know? And I think when you finish a shift as a paramedic, you go home and you can sort of sleep good at night knowing that you've made an impact on someone's life. So that's what drew me towards it. And I had a year to go in. In it, and then I'll started running around singing songs instead. But yeah, that was. Yeah, that was a big part of my life for a while. There was. Was paramedics and study.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, man, it's like, you're like. You talk about where it's changing people's lives and you're here getting these messages and these comments on your videos and the reaction to the music that you've put out, and you're still. You're saving people, but just with different strings. You're using your guitar strings as opposed to sewing somebody up on a scene, you know? Isn't it?
[00:33:24] Speaker C: That's poetic.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I know I'm having a good mom.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: I'm.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: I don't know what's in this water, but I don't know if it's the Zen that I got in my mouth, but I'm. I'm. I'm running with them today, man.
So. So we're here for a month this. On this trip, right?
[00:33:37] Speaker C: Yep. So this week's CMA Fest, so we're playing on Chevy Vibe stage Friday around lunchtime and then we got a few other pop up gigs around the joint as well. And.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: And then you head to Tulsa, to Fort Worth, to Houston.
You're going to College Station. New brothels. Rich, you're going all over the place, bro. Like that is that, is that one hell of a first run to tour, let alone your first time here in the States? Like.
[00:34:08] Speaker C: Yeah, we're stoked.
A lot of people say Texas is a lot like the state I'm from in Australia called Queensland. So yep, I'm keen to explore that. But yeah, that's. It's a pretty hectic two weeks.
Got the band from Australia here too. So it was really cool to have my own guys come over.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:26] Speaker C: And be able to share that.
[00:34:28] Speaker A: Had they, have they been over here before? Is that the first time for a lot of them?
[00:34:31] Speaker C: A couple had, a couple hadn't. So they're loving it. They're. I don't know, going around the city, looking at all the sites at the moment and, and just have you, have
[00:34:39] Speaker A: you, have you let them loose on Broadway yet?
[00:34:41] Speaker C: Yeah, a couple of them have snuck out the back door and had a look around out there. We had a little poke around during the day, during the night. It seems pretty, pretty wild.
[00:34:51] Speaker A: It is, it is.
[00:34:53] Speaker C: But it's definitely, it's unique.
[00:34:55] Speaker A: And what's cool about CMA Fest is you get the biggest country music fans in the world that come out here and descend on Nashville. I think it runs somewhere between a quarter and a half a million people come to this city this week to find their new favorite artists. Like a guy like yourself.
[00:35:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:11] Speaker A: So it's just, it's all. It's the busiest week here.
So for you to get to be a part of that. And then I'm seeing on here on the schedule we got some shows back in Australia. You coming up soon, huh?
[00:35:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I can't actually think of what I'm playing.
[00:35:24] Speaker A: I got. Well, I got them right here. Power of Spotify. Shout out Spotify with your events tab, I can check out where all the people are playing. You're playing Corner Hotel in Richmond on July 8th, Liberty hall and Moore park on July 9th.
[00:35:37] Speaker C: Oh yeah, that's with Drake Milligan. Yeah. So Drake Milligan took me on. Well, managed to. I think we applied for it, but I'm just gonna say he Invited me on it.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Drake's a good dude and sonically, y' all are a perfect fit.
[00:35:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: Playing shows together.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: I've loved what he's doing for a while. You know, I actually met him just yesterday.
We were at Darius Rock is like, golf tournament, and it was raising money for sort of sick kids, this hospital for sick kids. And I met Drake there and seems like a really chill.
[00:36:10] Speaker A: He's a great dude, great guy.
[00:36:12] Speaker C: But I'm also shout out to Darius Rucker in that golf tournament, too. That goes.
You'll have to look it up on Google on that. But that's a really good cause for a hospital somewhere around for sick kids with cancer, so. Definitely. Look at that. Yeah.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: Did you. Did you get out there and play. Play golf yesterday?
[00:36:29] Speaker C: I suck, man. I suck.
[00:36:30] Speaker A: You're not a golfer.
[00:36:32] Speaker C: Oh, my God. I think I went through, like, 20 balls and I left after the ninth hole.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: But you had it. But you had a good time.
[00:36:38] Speaker C: But I had a good time.
[00:36:39] Speaker A: That's what matters. That's what matters.
[00:36:40] Speaker C: When I wasn't trying to smash my. Smash my clubs, I was having a pretty good time.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: And then in August, you're playing the Amore.
Alma Moore Creek camping area. Gimpy Muster.
[00:36:53] Speaker C: Gimpy Muster. Yes. That's a big country music festival in Australia.
It's pretty unique. It's like, in this big national park.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: And everyone camps there, like, pretty much everyone. So it's just like caravans for kilometers and kilometers and campsites. Most of the artists camp there as well. There's like this big artist section where.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: Oh. So you're hanging with all the other artists and you're, like, experiencing the festival. Festival, too.
[00:37:17] Speaker C: A lot of them. Yeah. A lot of the artists actually camp and you're just walking through camp and you hear, like, a banjo player over here and then you hear, like, someone singing over here and, like, it's. It's really unique and it's really good vibe out in the middle of nowhere.
[00:37:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:31] Speaker C: Sticks. So. Yeah, that's. That's going to be good.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: That's awesome. So you got that in August, and then in October you're playing the Ballarat Mining Exchange and Vi. What's Vic.
[00:37:40] Speaker C: Victoria.
[00:37:41] Speaker A: Victoria and Victoria. Australia. So that's awesome, man, that you got. You got some shows.
You got to be excited to finally be doing some big shows since all this stuff's happened back in. Back in Australia.
[00:37:51] Speaker C: Yeah. 100. And we're sort of planning some more sort of stuff to tour properly. But, yeah, I just got off the Tour with Warren Zeiders, actually on his Australian tour. And getting around them and seeing people sing my songs, like, I was just sort of playing with me and my fiddle player, and it sort of blew me away that, you know, there's a lot of people who are really listening to my music, and a lot of people, some more, are supporting me, too.
[00:38:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:17] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. It feels good, man. It feels good. I mean, Australia is my home country, and, you know, it always feels good to get back to the homeland and. And play there, but at the moment, we're focused.
[00:38:28] Speaker A: Oh, you're focusing on the States, man.
[00:38:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I love the States, too. Like, I don't know, the. The energy here is definitely high, you know?
[00:38:35] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:38:36] Speaker C: We're just even, like, just walking down the street, someone will just give you a compliment, man. Like, I don't know.
[00:38:41] Speaker A: That's because you're in the south, bro.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: Yeah, right.
[00:38:43] Speaker A: That's because of where you are in the States. I don't know if it's like this in Australia with your different states, but people have different characteristics. Like, where I'm from, the Northeast, they like to say Northern aggression. You go to New York, you ask somebody how they're doing, they're going to tell you to screw off. You know, like, down here, you're in what's known. I think the friendliest part of the States is the Midwest. They talk about Southern hospitality, but if you go to Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, like, you go to, like, similar to where you. Where you're from. You're from Queensland.
[00:39:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:13] Speaker A: So Queensland, it sounds like it's in. Is that more in the center of the country?
[00:39:16] Speaker C: It's like north east, but Northeast. It's like the Northeast quarter.
[00:39:21] Speaker A: But it's a lot of agriculture and stuff, right?
[00:39:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: So it's a lot of agriculture in our Midwest. In our center, they call it the heartland. And that's where all of our grain, a lot of the. The crops for the US Come out of there. So it's folks that grow up with combine tractors and farming and not a lot to do, not a lot around, you know. So they're the very nice ones. So when you eventually go to the Midwest and you run through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, you're gonna see, like, that's where the real nice people are.
[00:39:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I thought they were pretty nice here, too.
[00:39:51] Speaker A: Yeah, they are pretty nice.
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Me and my girlfriend are just walking down the street and they're like, this guy just sings that.
Damn, y' all look good. You know, y' all a great couple. I'm like, damn. All right.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Yeah, good, man.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: I don't get that at higher side.
[00:40:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome, man. And then I gotta ask one more Australian question because.
So my girlfriend has a little girl and I've been. I've been lucky enough to know I've been dating my girlfriend for three years. So I met. I met little Charlotte when she was 4 and non stop on her TV was Bluey.
[00:40:23] Speaker C: Right?
[00:40:24] Speaker A: Bluey was non stop. Is it as big in Australia as it is in here in the States?
Like, is it. Is it a big thing? Like all the kids, like, you grow up watching Bluey.
[00:40:33] Speaker C: Yeah, like, it was a bit after.
[00:40:35] Speaker A: I know you're a little. I know it's a little bit after your childhood. You're 21.
[00:40:39] Speaker C: Louie is massive over there.
[00:40:40] Speaker A: It is massive. Yeah. I was wondering, I'm like, is this the Australian spongebob? Like, is it that big over there? Like, where we get into that?
[00:40:48] Speaker C: It's funny because some things we found over here, they've labeled it as Australian, but it's like, not really Australian, but Bluey is.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: So what, what's, what's one of those
[00:40:56] Speaker C: things we were talking about? We're talking the campfire last night. There's this place in. Where there's. There's a place somewhere, New York, and it's like supposed to be like Australian cuisine. And we're looking at the menu and they got like biscuits. We don't have biscuits at home. And we're like, nah, this is like, not it.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: So what, what would an Australian. An authentic Australian restaurant have in it?
Like, what are the go to?
[00:41:20] Speaker C: Like, usually just go to the pub with like the bar.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Like, so you get your carbohydrates just from drinking cold beers.
That's just beers.
[00:41:28] Speaker C: I would say it's pretty accurate for most of the Australian population. But. But like a lot of our bars, like, have a kitchen and they'll be cooking things like steak and chips or chicken. Chicken parmi. Which. Which is like a chicken schnitzel with ham and melted cheese on it. That's like a really good.
[00:41:46] Speaker A: We call that a cordon bleu. That's what we have in the US we have a similar type of thing. Yeah, yeah, so we have that too.
[00:41:52] Speaker C: Yeah. We call it chicken parmi.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: Chicken parmi?
[00:41:54] Speaker C: Yeah. The people down south call it a chicken Palmer, but they're off their heads for corner chicken parmi.
[00:42:02] Speaker A: See, our chicken parm is like an Italian thing and it's got like the red sauce on it, right? And it's. It's a piece of chicken with, like, parmesan mozzarella cheese and red sauce.
[00:42:12] Speaker C: Well, it's probably that, to be honest.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: It's probably a similar thing. Now, you go to New York, you can get a chicken parmi, but it's gonna be like a chicken parm, like the God. Like Marlon Brando, the Godfather type of thing.
[00:42:21] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, Australia's so multicultural.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: That's how the US Is, too.
[00:42:25] Speaker C: We don't know what.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: Hey, we're both British colonies.
British colonies. Y' all just have more of the accent than we do. Yeah.
[00:42:32] Speaker C: You know, and. And all of our. All of our British colonies were just, well, as real, buddy.
Straight out jail. That's. That's how Australia got started was people got shipped over. All the.
What do you call them? Criminals got shipped over to Australia. That's. That's how we really.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: I didn't know that. That's the origin of Australia, you guys. So you guys were a giant landmass. They were just putting the prisoners on.
[00:42:56] Speaker C: Pretty much, like, they'd ship all these. Those prisoners over to Australia, and that's. And that's what grew Australia.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: So, like, makes a lot of sense that you get wild and have a good time.
[00:43:05] Speaker C: Yeah, well, yeah. 100.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: The degenerates just got sent pretty much. How many years ago was like, how old is Australia?
[00:43:13] Speaker C: Oh, that's an ex.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: The U. S. You're here. You're here in a special year, too. This is the 250th year of America.
[00:43:19] Speaker C: Oh, there you go.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: We broke away. We threw all that tea in the harbor and declared our independence 250 years ago.
[00:43:25] Speaker C: Yeah, Australia's a young country, but I must have skipped that day at school. We went through that in geography, but, yeah, we're a young country.
[00:43:32] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: So that's awesome, man. Yeah, that's cool. Well, I appreciate you very much coming on here and hanging out. I can't wait to see where this rocket ship that you're on right now takes you, dude, because it's the fact that you've had the success that you've had this early on, and you've got this team behind you. Just dumping gasoline on your fire is incredible, brother.
[00:43:53] Speaker C: No, I appreciate having me on. And we're loving America. We're keen to get down the road, play cma. Play Oklahoma, Texas. Like, we're loving your culture over here and your people, and. Yeah, we appreciate you. Yeah, I appreciate you having me on, dude.
[00:44:07] Speaker A: Of course. Of course. And we'll think of some. Some American Stuff to do next time you're here in Nashville. I know you got a busy week this week, but we'll. We'll take you on. We'll do something. I'm gonna try to think of, like, what's some route, because we're called Razor Audi. I'm like, what's some rowdy. I can make Mac do with us to give them. Give him the American experience, you know, because we got some friends with farms and stuff in nearby, so maybe. Maybe something like that or fireworks. Do you guys have fireworks in Australia?
[00:44:33] Speaker C: We do, but they're illegal. Except for one state. They're legal for one day of the year.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Okay. But yeah, that'd be another fun thing for you guys to do when you're going through Texas. Yeah, you can just buy fireworks places.
[00:44:46] Speaker C: Just let them off.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Texas, bro.
[00:44:48] Speaker C: Let them off in Billy Bobs or something.
[00:44:50] Speaker A: Oh, outside.
Outside.
But no, you're not. You're not doing those inside. That'd be a whole other time.
[00:44:56] Speaker C: That would be.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: No, no, no, none of that. None of that. You'll have to ride the mechanical bull at Billy Bob's. They have the mechanic. A lot of these venues have mechanical bowls in them and stuff.
[00:45:06] Speaker C: So you stick to a Morado.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: I don't. I'm from New York. I don't know how to do that. But you would probably be doing. You would probably do very well on it. You would probably do very well, but appreciate you. I'm gonna send you home with some of these teas, it seems like. Did we approve of the. The. He was like, it's a. It's a Tom.
He said it was a. I. I told him it was an Arnold Palmer, which is what we call our half tea and half iced tea or half iced tea, half lemonade thing. I guess you guys call them a Tom Collins.
[00:45:33] Speaker C: No, that's just.
[00:45:34] Speaker A: That's just lemonade. That's just lemonade. Well, I'm going to send you home with these because the team seem to like them. And you can drink them. Stay hydrated out there. Our friends from Surfside, they're no carbonation, they're saying, is no bubbles, no troubles. So I'll send you guys home with a couple eight packs of them. You can take them on the road with you.
[00:45:50] Speaker C: Appreciate it. We'll crack a few tonight.
[00:45:51] Speaker A: There you go. Absolutely. And I got a bunch of hats over there for you and the team to sift through as well, so we can officially welcome you to the raised rowdy family. And I appreciate you so much. Brother. Y' all be sure to go check out Walk A Straight Line, the new EP from our man, Matt Geiger. And if you're out there, the tickets are going. A couple of these shows are sold out already. So get out there, get your tickets, go see our boy, and shout out to all of our friends down under watching this. We appreciate having an international audience. We don't normally get that because we don't have a lot of international folks on here. So happy to have you as our first Aussie guest. We, brother, appreciate it. So from my man Mac. I'm Matt Brill. This has been outside the round
[00:46:31] Speaker B: I ain't never been the kind for star 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 trick pony maybe the drink and the lack of money for show I'm just a two trick pony.
