Skeez & Eric Van Houten

Speaker 1 00:00:14 What is going on everybody? What is, uh, episode 1 0 3 of the in the Round podcast's issue? Boy, Matt ll We got Sweet Boy Behind the Camera. And today we've got a real treat. Uh, we've been doing a lot of these, uh, two guest episodes and I'm really starting to like it because just adds to the conversation. It's a fucking blast. And, uh, today we were joined by skis and Eric Van Houghton, Eric Van Houghton, uh, a friend of the family for a long time. He's played the writers round a bunch. And, uh, a dude that's been in town forever, uh, doing the country music thing. Originally from Western New York, but a longtime brother, then a new friend of ours, skis. Uh, you may have seen him on the road with Mike. Uh, with Mike, formerly known as, uh, as Mike Stud, uh, out on the road doing, doing the music thing. Speaker 1 00:00:56 And he is just a, a incredible human being. Just an absolute legend. So have the two of them together. It was a real blast. 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Speaker 3 00:02:36 Yeah, Thursday. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:37 We started. I don't remember exactly where Speaker 1 00:02:39 We were doing. What's the move on the Thursday night? Speaker 3 00:02:41 Uh, where you guys going? We don't really have a plan ever. We just kind of go with it. Speaker 2 00:02:46 What'd we do? Speaker 3 00:02:48 I'm gonna assume Tin. Speaker 2 00:02:49 That's a good assumption. Um, bro, that's crazy. I have no idea what we did on Thursday night. We went out though. Speaker 3 00:02:56 Yeah, we went to Tin. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Did Were you Speaker 3 00:02:58 Here? You were here. He was here. Speaker 2 00:03:00 He was here? Speaker 3 00:03:01 Yeah. You were. Speaker 2 00:03:02 I'm drawing a blank. No, he got here Friday. Speaker 3 00:03:04 Oh, okay. Speaker 2 00:03:05 Yeah. And I was a mess. You must have done Speaker 1 00:03:06 Some crazy who's who's our who's Speaker 2 00:03:08 I was a mess. I couldn't get up. Speaker 1 00:03:09 Who's our man? Off the mic. He's visiting towns. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Yeah, it's my boy David. He's our videographer for tour. Oh, sick legend. Speaker 1 00:03:14 Yeah. Oh, so he sees all this shit. Yeah, no, Speaker 2 00:03:16 He, Speaker 1 00:03:16 He was out there in, he was out Speaker 2 00:03:18 There in the trenches Speaker 3 00:03:18 With me too. There's a lot of clips that you probably can't share for sure. Speaker 2 00:03:21 Yeah, I'm telling you. But it's hilarious. Yeah. I have no idea what we did Thursday, but Friday he got in and um, Speaker 3 00:03:28 We went on a Tu Way Friday. Speaker 1 00:03:29 Yeah, we saw you guys at La Jackson. That was early in the night. Cause it was my girlfriend's birthday. So we started out the electric Jane and then she's like, I want a fancy cocktail. So like, all right, let's go La Jackson. We took her there for the cocktail and then hit the mum and hard. Speaker 3 00:03:41 Oh yeah, it was Speaker 1 00:03:42 Got after Speaker 3 00:03:42 It. Yeah. Well we, uh, LA Jackson's always funny cuz skis is wearing a tow ring and I don't know, got the sandals on. He's like, I don't belong here. Yeah, he's got his pinky out drinking a margarita or something. It's hysteric. Yeah, it's Speaker 2 00:03:54 A vibe. Speaker 1 00:03:54 Yeah. No dude, it's, it's cool. And you've been in town for how long? Cause I know Eric, you've been here for years, right? Speaker 3 00:03:59 Oh yeah. Almost 10. Man. That's embarrass. Speaker 1 00:04:01 No shit. Fuck yeah. So how, how long have you been here? Excuse. I Speaker 2 00:04:03 Just moved here officially on uh, like September 5th or so. Somewhere around there. So about a month. Um, yeah. I'm loving it, dude. I was kind of bouncing around for a while with, uh, with my buddy Mike. Yeah. But, um, yeah, it's good to be here. Put the roots down. I was in LA for five years and then I kind of got over it, so, you know, it's good to get back to, uh, like a southern vibe. Speaker 1 00:04:22 Yeah, dude. Cuz you're from Nebraska. Speaker 2 00:04:25 Yeah. Oma, Speaker 1 00:04:25 Nebraska. Omaha, babe. We love Omaha. I've good time. Big time. Fucking rad. I've, uh, welcome. Yeah, dude. Between, um, between, uh, back in the day when I was working with the Mutt on Bloodline Guys, now working with Trey, I think I've been out to him about four or five times for shows and everything from the, from the slowdown to, to Bardo, which is one of the wild Speaker 3 00:04:41 Bars. Bardo. It's Speaker 2 00:04:43 Bardo Speaker 1 00:04:43 To it's next to the to the dealership. Yeah. Next to the Batley dealership. It's Speaker 2 00:04:46 Like connected to the Speaker 1 00:04:47 Dealership. Yeah. Which is wild. Cause it's like you're doing this, your soundchecking, you're looking over and you're like, oh shit, there's a fucking Bentley right there. It's wild. And then we've done, uh, what's the whiskey bar out there that um, your boy works at? Speaker 2 00:04:58 Oh, that's Know Two Barrel and Vine. Speaker 1 00:04:59 Barrel and Vine. Yeah. That was the last time we were out there. Yeah. Nebraska's fun man. We enjoyed it. I Speaker 3 00:05:04 Mean, I'd honestly walk right to the dealership, dude. And just ask for a quick whip. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:07 Put that on. Put that on the, Speaker 3 00:05:09 Lemme get one real quick. Lemme cruise. Lemme get one real quick. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:11 Take the Bentley for the day, man. But what kind of inspired the move out to here? And then how did you two become boys? Like, how'd y'all get connected? Speaker 2 00:05:17 Shit, we met, we met in passing when I was like visiting a bunch. Yeah. I was, I was here a decent amount over the last year and, um, a lot of mutual friends and we started getting together and he's a good time. So we just, we stuck together pretty quick. Yeah. Hell Speaker 1 00:05:31 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:05:32 It was a quick vibe. We, uh, I think it was just the copious amounts of alcohol that we consumed that probably brought us together. <laugh>. Speaker 2 00:05:40 We did catch a couple Speaker 3 00:05:41 Ways. Probably probably four or five, five day bender and then woke up on my couch. Speaker 2 00:05:46 That's actually exactly what Speaker 3 00:05:47 Happened. You woke up on my couch. I came downstairs. We, I did, we smoked some weed and watched a bunch of football and that was it. We're like, yeah, we're in, we're in it. We're down. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:55 We got a good, good thing going. We're gonna keep this one. Keep it going. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:59 Yeah. And then for, for you, I mean, not being necessarily like a, like a country artist, but having that vibe and, and your background and stuff. And then Eric, you're, you're from upstate New York? We, or do you cla do you claim Upstate, central or Western? It's Western New York. You Western New York? Yeah. Western Speaker 3 00:06:13 New York. Buffalo is Western Speaker 1 00:06:14 New York out there on the western side out there. Yeah. Uh, but go, bills go. Okay. I love the Bills Mafia man. Y'all are the, y'all are the my favorite fan base guy. I, I, my first job in town was working downtown at Whiskey Row. I was a door guy, I was a bouncer. So I moved from being a radio guy in New York to being a bouncer on Broadway. And so we'd see all the different football teams come in. All their fan bases would come in and like, my first like two months were like the Eagles came in. So we had a fight with Philly fans. The Patriots fans came in, they were the worst. They remember the Bills mafia came in that year. I think it was 2018 and everybody was so Speaker 3 00:06:44 Pleasant. It was 20, yeah. 2019. Speaker 1 00:06:45 It was, was it 2019? Okay. So it might have been 18 years, Speaker 3 00:06:48 Right? It was Speaker 1 00:06:48 18. Somewhere more than that. 18, 19 range. But I remember no fights, no bullshit. People were just climbing up in trees and jumping through tables and just insane drinking lots of booze and just nice people, Speaker 3 00:06:59 Good dudes. It's honestly like they inflict harm on themselves strictly because they love a football team. I mean that to me is crazy. Speaker 2 00:07:06 I'm not cosign, but it's the best. I'm not cosigning the belt. Who's Speaker 1 00:07:08 Your So you're, you're a chiefs guy? Speaker 2 00:07:10 I like the Chiefs. I like the Panthers. I love Baker Mayfield, my guy. But, um, I don't like the bills. So that's aggressive. However you want. Really? Why? I do like Josh Allen. Speaker 1 00:07:20 Why is, why, what did he have against the bills? I don't like, I Speaker 2 00:07:22 Don't like, I don't like the fan base man. Speaker 1 00:07:25 Too much. Speaker 2 00:07:27 I don't like, but it's funny cuz like Nebraska's fan, it's like the same pretty much. I was just gonna say Speaker 3 00:07:31 It's the same. You'd be right in the mix. If Speaker 1 00:07:33 It's same, it's like if you have one Speaker 3 00:07:34 Of the Bills tailgate you'd No, Speaker 2 00:07:35 No. Snap your leg. I get it. I don't like it because it's a good fan base. It's like, I like Nebraska. We're the good fan base. Yeah. I don't like the other ones. Speaker 1 00:07:43 But then, but like the bills have had their comeback. When is the Nebraska Renaissance coming? Cuz you guys had the shot. Speaker 2 00:07:48 That's what I should have said. That's what I shoulda have said Speaker 1 00:07:51 Guys. Still because cause Nebraska coming mean you can't talk about the history of college football without talking about the sea of red. It sucks. And Nebraska, same thing with the NFL with, with the bills. Especially in the nineties. And now to see the bills come back. Speaker 3 00:08:02 Yeah. For Super Bowls. Absolutely. Yeah dude. Speaker 1 00:08:03 And but tragic. It is tragic but like to see how the bills have come back and see how the family appreciate it. When, how far off is Nebraska? When are y'all getting there Speaker 2 00:08:11 Bro? I drank. I Speaker 1 00:08:12 Know you and your, I know you and your boy will talk about it. There's Speaker 2 00:08:15 Nebraska. Hey, it's right here. Two and oh in Spooktober. Welcome to that. That Speaker 1 00:08:20 Rutgers game was scary man. Speaker 2 00:08:21 Two, two and oh, doesn't matter how we won two and oh in Spooktober. We're back. Will Compton, Mickey Joseph, we love you home. Big fucking around. I'll die on hill. I'm about this right now. That's what I should have said though. When you, he asked, well what should I not bring up? I should have left that Speaker 1 00:08:36 One out. Nebraska football. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:08:37 Let, it's too late now buddy. We're Speaker 1 00:08:39 We'll talk about Omaha then. You're out Speaker 3 00:08:40 Here, here trashing the Bills mafia. Watch out. Everybody out there watching Speaker 1 00:08:44 If you're, if you're Speaker 3 00:08:45 Being from he loves the Buffalo Bills. He does. Speaker 1 00:08:46 Being from Omaha, because we were out there I think the week after the World Series happened out there. Yeah. How big is, are you a big college baseball guy then? Or is it just something that goes on? No, when you go out to the bars and get rowdy. That two week, three week Speaker 2 00:08:57 Stand. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it's, I don't care much for watching baseball. I do love baseball, but I, it's like, it's hard for me to get into. It's too many games. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Yeah. It's too long of a season. Tough. Speaker 2 00:09:07 We, it's kind of our, it's our whole bit in Wow man. We got the College World series and it's kind of our whole thing every Speaker 1 00:09:11 Year and people just get rowdy and Speaker 2 00:09:12 It's a really fun time, bro. It's a good time Speaker 3 00:09:14 To, I've never been to that. Yeah, it's awesome. I didn't make it past when they took the tee away. It's just a Speaker 2 00:09:18 Lot for baseball and it's like two weeks and it's like Speaker 3 00:09:20 The whole growing up in Buffalo was like hockey. My, my parents tried every sport with me, but once, once they took the tee away from baseball, I just gave it up. It Speaker 1 00:09:28 Wasn't you guys Speaker 3 00:09:28 Probably, I was like, yo, Speaker 1 00:09:29 You guys were probably doing pond hockey and shit. Stick. Speaker 2 00:09:31 Yeah, probably pond hockey. Speaker 3 00:09:32 That was me. I was five years old, six years old back. Speaker 1 00:09:36 I would struggle doing the pond hockey thing because there's nothing to hold onto. I just fall on my ass. Like I grew up going to Central Park and like Bear Mountain and I'd be that kid that was just falling on his ass. And I tried doing it as a teenager. Fell on my fucking ass. I couldn't. I can do it. You can skate. Speaker 3 00:09:48 My god. Here you go. Speaker 2 00:09:49 Boy. Can't a And there's people, there's people that know this Speaker 3 00:09:52 By the way. Well I'd love, I'd love them to reach out to me and let me know. Cause this kid's been talking to, I Speaker 1 00:09:56 Bro watch you to race. So they set up, Speaker 2 00:09:58 No, he's gonna cook me off on skate. Speaker 1 00:09:59 Don't cook me. Have you gone when they've done this? They've set up the ice rink on the stage at Ascend. Where they do like the winter thing there. Ascend amphitheater. No, I can't say that I have. So they put a, like a mini rink on the stage at Ascend little amphitheater here downtown. And you can go and it's like open skate shit. You guys should go and do a fucking, oh, I'll go do some, do some racing. He'll, he'll, I take the guy from Buffalo, but it's cold. Nebraska Speaker 2 00:10:18 Too. Nice. I don't play, I don't played hockey. I can just skate in general. Just Speaker 1 00:10:22 Oh, like skate roller Speaker 2 00:10:24 Roll. Speaker 1 00:10:25 Like the inline, inline blaze just going. Speaker 2 00:10:28 I can roller blade like a motherfucker and I can't ice skate very well, but he'll cook me. He played hockey. Speaker 3 00:10:32 I would love to see this. Speaker 2 00:10:34 You know what, I'll never give you that. Who knows. I don't know if you can cook me. Speaker 1 00:10:36 Did you, did you bring, did I'm Speaker 2 00:10:38 Not gonna let you have Speaker 3 00:10:39 Let, Speaker 2 00:10:40 Did Speaker 1 00:10:40 You bring, did you bring the skates with you to Nashville? No Speaker 2 00:10:42 Dude, don't make me, I thought about Speaker 3 00:10:44 Doings. You know what? Actually that's the thing. We can't do that roll. The thing is I'd have to buy a pair of skates for him. Yep. Like a, like a a $500 pair of skates. Cause I wouldn't go the same as mine because if I give him rentals and I torch him, he's just gonna blame it on the rentals. Speaker 1 00:10:56 Yeah. Can't give him any. I'm in rentals. You Speaker 3 00:10:58 Can't do this. Yeah. That's how it's gonna be. So we, we gotta buy the same pair of skates and just go for Speaker 2 00:11:04 It. Well I'll get, Speaker 1 00:11:05 I wanna see you rollerblading down Broadway on that hill. God. Cause I used to ride the scooters would electric. You remember the days when the scooters didn't have the time limits on 'em and you could take 'em out at two in the morning after a wild night on Broadway. People were falling. People were literally dying on those scooters. Legit dying. Speaker 3 00:11:19 I Speaker 1 00:11:20 Would to see you go down on those roller blades. I'll go down Speaker 2 00:11:22 Backwards. Speaker 1 00:11:23 Oh, Broadway backwards. Speaker 3 00:11:27 Four Speaker 2 00:11:27 Wheels. No, no. My roller play game. I got it. I got Speaker 3 00:11:31 The roller. I actually trust you with that. If you wore the crop top with the short George flip flops going, going nuts. Awful. Obviously. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:37 Where does, where does the style come from? Cuz I, I love, we have our guy, um, our bass player went out with Trey, his name is Mitch. Gosh, we call him the Haas cat. And he, he's a nickname. You call it purebred ha cat papers and all. And he walks, he's George Crap top after every show he has like a floral, like, like two piece getup. It's like shorts and like a button down, like short sleeved shirt. It's like floral Hawaiian, like key west kind of vibes. That's incredible. And he puts it on after every show and goes out in the crowd, does his thing, parties, whatever. But for you, it's like you're just, you have a vibe. Like right now we're, we're in, we're in uh, Spooktober, you got your flip flops on. You got the the throwback nineties. What the dice, the, the hat. Like what's up, what's up with the ski style? Where did, where'd it come from? Man, Speaker 3 00:12:18 I'm Speaker 1 00:12:18 Actually interested in this. You you got some style too, man. Oh Speaker 3 00:12:21 Yeah. Mine's a little different. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:12:22 <laugh>. Yeah. But like, where's his come from? Real Speaker 2 00:12:24 Bro? I've been, I've, I've lived a lot of different fashion lives man. I've lived a lot of them. But, um, the one thing that stayed, I've been wearing, so the name skis came from uh, uh, me wearing sandals all the time. My cousin called me a skis ball when I was like 11 at Christmas. Yeah. Cause everyone would show up in their fits in their Christmas outfits. And I would just show up in my sandals and sweats and he's like, bro, you're fucking skis ball. My brother heard it and I was just like, oh fuck, here we go. And like immediately I was skeezy d cuz my last name's Dressler and then it just shortened the skis eventually. But yeah, it's like I've been wearing pretty much, I've been wearing nothing but sandals for about 12 years. Speaker 1 00:13:01 He never got in the Crocs. Just sandals. No, Speaker 2 00:13:03 Doesn't Speaker 3 00:13:03 Count. I mean we were kicking it at his place, well last week or something like that. And I don't think he owns a pair of shoes. I haven't, I'm not gonna lie to you though. Haven't owned shoes. I saw shoes, his closet shoes. He's like, red, what should I wear this shirt this year? I'm like, bro, you know. Not even a pair. Not even a pair of running shoes. Nothing. Nah. Speaker 1 00:13:17 What do you do when it snows? Speaker 2 00:13:18 Double socks baby. <laugh> pack the socks. Speaker 1 00:13:20 Double socks with the, with the, Speaker 2 00:13:22 With the, yeah. Yep. Exactly. Speaker 1 00:13:24 So you fitted in there with the, with the toe Speaker 2 00:13:26 Thing. Yep. Split toe It <laugh> Speaker 1 00:13:28 Double socks. But what color are you? Are we, are we, we talking like midcaps. Are we talking like tubes? Speaker 3 00:13:33 Like No, no. He goes no, you got Speaker 2 00:13:34 Just, just socks Speaker 1 00:13:36 Is the ankle, ankle cap? No, Speaker 2 00:13:37 Just pack another pair. Just, just, I was walking to school in the snow and I while, and I'll just bring another pair of socks in my backpack. Speaker 1 00:13:43 No shit. Speaker 2 00:13:44 Just grinding. Just really grinding. Keep dedicated. Just just to keep this thing going Speaker 1 00:13:48 Man. Oh, dedicated to the brand. Speaker 2 00:13:50 Oh, I was dedicated to it man. It's been a long time coming. I wear shoes for three occasions and it's really one, but there's a couple exceptions. Wedding, funeral, basketball, Speaker 1 00:13:59 You don't hoop shoes. Yeah. So you, you gotta, I'm a bucket. Speaker 2 00:14:02 I'm not gonna go out there and sandals and bust my Speaker 3 00:14:04 Ankle. Yeah, you can take him to basketball. I'm trash. That's the one game I can You Speaker 1 00:14:07 Got moves. You got game basketball. Speaker 2 00:14:08 I can move. I Speaker 3 00:14:09 Can move. Apparently skis got game in everything. So we'll see what Speaker 2 00:14:12 Happens. I'm him. Speaker 3 00:14:14 Oh my God. Speaker 2 00:14:15 I I'm an athlete. Speaker 1 00:14:16 I'm Can you, are you like one of the dominant guys when you're out on the road with Mike and all those, all those Speaker 2 00:14:22 Guys? No, Mike's, Mike's a hooper. He doesn't play though. He is got a bad back guys. He's just getting old man <laugh>. Oh my. Just getting old guy's. Got his shit back, horse shit back and he can't do it. Then our other guy blew, he's a bucket too. I'm not gonna say he is got me, but he's, Speaker 1 00:14:35 Have you hooked up with any country guys? Speaker 2 00:14:37 Like No, I'm about to, I'm about to start going over to that, um, that, that Kane Brown and those guys have a run that they do like once a week or two. Yeah. I'm gonna go pop over there. Suits of dominance Speaker 1 00:14:46 Dude. And just, you, you, what's what's the, what's the attire when you're hooping? Are you cropping it? Sweatpants, Speaker 2 00:14:53 Turtleneck, beanie. I might even put braids in my hair Speaker 1 00:14:56 Bro. If that's the case. I hope you're there for that. Speaker 2 00:15:00 No. Yeah, it's a no. He's, I got, I got videos of that. I really do. Sweatpants, I got these, my buddies got these shoes that I usually wear. These big ass like fucking spiders they're called. They're just, and it's hilarious bro. It's Speaker 3 00:15:11 A good bet. That's honestly incredible. Or I'll Speaker 2 00:15:13 Go the short shorts in the turtleneck. Oh the short shorts. But I'm always in the turtle. Speaker 3 00:15:16 Short shorts are a vibe short. Like when you're ball and shorts, shorts are a vibe. Yeah. Yeah. Or like if you're playing like a, like a game of baseball and you show up in short shorts like in the, Speaker 2 00:15:26 In the Slow pitch Speaker 3 00:15:27 League. In the slow pitch league. Like people just know you'd mean business. Speaker 1 00:15:29 Yeah. See Yeah. Yeah. See in 30, 20 20, i I how I got to meet Trey and a lot of those guys was, none of us were able to be out on the road. It was weird times summer of 2020 we started playing pickup kickball games at Rose Park. That's incredible. In Belmont. And dude, we would get, after we called it SIGs in the outfield, cuz myself, Ryan Nelson, cheap out back, I'm, I'm at, I'm, I'm pitching. Speaker 3 00:15:50 I have a great Ryan Nelson story. Speaker 1 00:15:52 Oh, everybody's got one dude. He's wild. But I'm, I'm up there. I'm up there on the mound pitching. I got, I got my, my sig lit. I'm, I'm taking puffs dude. I scored one time. I had a home run while I had AIG in my mouth. I'm running. I got it going. You got dedicated SIGs in the outfield man that's like party. I wanna hear the Ryan Nelson story cuz Yeah, he's the future mayor. We're trying to get him, we're trying to get him the run Speaker 3 00:16:10 For mayor. A hundred percent. He Speaker 1 00:16:11 Deserves it. Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. He Speaker 3 00:16:12 Deserves it. Honestly, nobody else in this town deserves it but Ryan Nelson Speaker 1 00:16:15 Absolutely Speaker 3 00:16:16 We're. So I like just had moved to town. I, I'd maybe been in town a couple years at this point, but like I didn't really kind of spread the spider web yet wasn't, I was like just starting to meet people and like really catch a vibe. And we played at that poor house. Remember Poor House? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like that Fat Slims bowling alley or some shit. Whatever the fuck. They turned it into <laugh> across from party file. So I'm playing this writers around there. It was like Thursday, Thursdays I think is literally what they called it. It was a, it was an awesome time. Good, good vibe. This the person running it, I think it was Tess at the time. She like just hit me up, says, Hey come out. Like I'm gonna put you in a round with Ryan Nelson and Jordan Fletcher. Speaker 3 00:16:50 And I'm like, all right, cool. We didn't play till nine o'clock. I'm like, I'm gonna show up there early cuz I don't know anybody. I'm gonna watch some rounds. I'm gonna catch some vibes. Get up to the bar to go order a drink. It's like 6:30 PM like the first round hadn't even started yet. And this loud motherfucker just comes sprinting up to the bar. Apparently on Thursdays it was two for one bottles of wine <laugh>. Bro this this guy this, he is him for this. So you ready for this? He is him for this. He walks up to the bar. I just ordered like a tequila soda standard Hootie drink. And I'm like, this guy comes up and I'm like, I saw his face, whatever. So I knew he was the dude I was in the round with. He goes get two bottles of chardonnay or whatever the hell he ordered. Speaker 3 00:17:31 She gives him the bottles. This dude grabs one of 'em straight down. The golf kills the whole bottle just like that. It's six 30 bro. We don't go out until nine. Swigs the whole bottle down. His fricking stomach grabs the other one pours Fletcher one glass and then drinks the rest of that one and orders two more bottles of wine. Wine. I'm like, who is this legend? We get on stage. He was like, how is Ryan Nelson <laugh>? And then he said, but then he sang incredible. Like had his shit in the back. Yeah. Like he knew what he was doing. Yeah. But when it came to talking he just couldn't speak. And Speaker 1 00:18:01 I'm like, dude, that was back 2 1 1 night. That was back when he had the long hair. Oh yeah. That was like, was down to the Speaker 3 00:18:05 Middle of his back. Speaker 1 00:18:06 So, so Ryan and Jordan are both from Jacksonville and they're very proud of Duval disciples. Duval guys. And Ryan's a smart dude. That's the thing. He's like the drunk uncle, music rep legend. He's got a PoliSci degree from Florida State. Like very like, like intelligent, articulate, intelligent. I know he just loves his vibes and he loves to just like, if you've ever tripped with Ryan Nelson and you get him going down some of them rabbit holes, man, oh my God I love he'll just go love that. And he's a hell of a songwriter and he's just a wild, wild guy. Who were some of the other folks early on that you were getting to meet? Like cuz going back, so you say about 10 years, that's going back like 20 12, 20 13. That's a cool era to be in Nashville. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:18:41 It was, it absolutely was. I mean dude like literally all the people that don't go out anymore. <laugh>. Yeah. Unless it's like on a weekend are the people that I kind of came up with and I mean, shit man, I, there's just so many to name God I'm not like literally blanking. The Ryan Nelson Fletcher, um, you know, the rounds with uh, freaking Snyder over at Tin Roof and Speaker 1 00:19:03 Yeah. Revival Baby Speaker 3 00:19:04 All this guy. Yeah. Tin Roof Revival before it was even Tin Roof Revival. Yeah. Like they were just doing rounds there. Um, were Speaker 1 00:19:09 You there when Whiskey Jam was still at Tin Roof? Speaker 3 00:19:11 Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. I was here when Whiskey Jam was there. Yeah. That was like, you know, when Ward was still bartending at Tin Roof. Yeah. Um, God. And, and I was, I think like my first weekend here, all those apartments across from Tin Roof were literally a dirt parking lot. And I Speaker 1 00:19:27 Remember like there was the Shoney's there, right? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:19:29 I remember with Griff and like all those guys we're doing donuts at like four in the morning outside that dirt parking lot. <laugh>. I like we'd late night tin roof. And then you just go get in somebody's fricking Buick that they brought from, you know, Wisconsin. And then you're just, I mean this place has changed so much man, but it's just, it also hasn't at the same time Speaker 1 00:19:51 And it's gone through different eras within the, within music. Like you come around that that's true. You come around that time, that's when, and people think bro, countries like about bros. But I think a lot of it has to do with Broadway and it was what was going on in Broadway and infusing different styles. Like what you see, the guys that were coming up at that time, like the fgs, the, the Sam Hunts, I mean Aldean was putting out Night Train around that time. Like the different styles that were going on to see where we're at nowadays in country music where you could pretty much do whatever the fuck you want. Speaker 3 00:20:16 Which is live genre man. Speaker 1 00:20:18 Which is so cool, man. Country music. Speaker 3 00:20:19 Music doesn't have a genre at all. Speaker 1 00:20:21 Yeah. It's, it, it has influences. It's the best way cuz we all grew up listening to different shit and we all grew up listening. Bumping some Nelly but also bumping some nickel back. But also Oh yeah. But also bumping Tim and Faith all Speaker 3 00:20:32 Nickel kinds of the man of all the time. I'll stand by that dude Speaker 1 00:20:34 And it's, I can stand and it's just wild to, it's, it's cool that you got to see that area. Cause I got here 2018 and it's even changed in the four years that I've been here. Yeah. It's changed tremendously. Speaker 3 00:20:44 I was probably drunk when we met. Speaker 1 00:20:46 Probably. Yeah. I got so I, I'm lucky I got sober before I came to Nashville sober. Oh, that's true. I, I but I wasn't. Oh no. And I, and my thing was, I used to go, when I first moved to town, it was the, um, the dab pen was key for me. Yeah. Because it was like, I'm around all these drunk motherfuckers, especially bouncing on Broadway. And we would drink pre-workout during our shifts. Like the bartenders would make us mocktails with like C4 or CRE team. Oh wow. So I'm at, so we're, I'm pulling 12 to 15 hour days down there. And it's like, and then you're going out with people after that and you're, you're eating at the, you're eating at the diner or Oh yeah. The fucking Or going the Hermitage Cafe Speaker 3 00:21:21 Cafe was a vibe. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:21:23 That was the best bro. That was, Speaker 3 00:21:25 You missed out on that era. I was 14. Her cafe, I was 12 I think Speaker 1 00:21:28 Actually in Speaker 3 00:21:29 2012. Herman's Cafe was the vibe. Speaker 1 00:21:32 Well I'm saying, I'm saying like, even though the last couple years, I, because what year, how old are you? You're what? 25 I assume. 25. No shit. Okay. I'm 27 and then Speaker 3 00:21:39 I'm 30. 30. I'll be 30 in a month. Speaker 1 00:21:41 Oh hell yeah. Happy early birthday bro. Thanks man. It's fucking awesome. But, um, a good job. Hermitage Cafe was a La <laugh> Hermitage Cafe was like this late night little DIY spot Cash only, which worked out great for all the musicians playing Broadway. Oh, that was perfect. They spend their tip money in there and you go in there after a few beers or or after a good puff of smoke and they had good chicken and biscuits. Oh man. Chicken and Speaker 3 00:22:01 Waffles. Man. It was your classic southern diner that like was next level. It was like Waffle House, Speaker 1 00:22:06 The golf. No, it was right here. It was on Hermitage Avenue. So it's on the road that you take. It's like still in the downtown area. Korean Speaker 3 00:22:13 Vet and First Avenue right there. Bang. Speaker 1 00:22:15 Yeah. And it was nice and easy and it was, it was a good, good spot. But talk about that era of Tin Roof as well. Like Tin Roof has been, oh man, you can't tell the Nashville story of just the music scene, the songwriter scene, the party scene, the, the tourism scene, everything without Tin Roof and Tin Tin. Those guys have done there. It's, it's, it's home for a lot of people. Tin Speaker 3 00:22:35 Roof, demeans Elite. It's a little college right now. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:22:38 It's going through a college. It's, it's seasonal. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:22:40 But I'll tell you what, that place has created a lot of people. Created a lot of people like people's entities in this town between the bartenders, just like being who they are and knowing everybody. Yeah. You Speaker 1 00:22:51 Had Speaker 3 00:22:51 All the musicians like, I mean, Luke Combs has a freaking plaque sitting up there for a reason. Yeah. That bar like just, it just is what it is. Speaker 1 00:22:59 And I love how you have the different vibes within Tin Roof that they do nowadays. It's where it's crazy. Where it's like you have the live band stuff on the right side and then you go, you can't, then you go into the DJ and then we're at Bucket. It's crazy out there. Boom, boom, boom. Room on the left side and it gets wild in there. Boom room. And it's a, it's a good timing. Mean I put Tin Roof to Ian up there with some of the best bars in the country just for the vibe and just what it means to the community. And you guys get to go out on tour and see all kinds of different bars in different places. Yeah. Where have been some of your favorite spots that you guys have been to even shout out? Like back home. Like I'm sure Buffalo's got a fun time, like certain times of the year where it's just like, actually the winter's probably great in Nebraska and Buffalo cause everybody's just drinking cuz it's so fucking cold. There's nothing else Speaker 3 00:23:36 To do. Same vibe. It's all is man. See the thing in Buffalo that is dope in the winter is the garage parties. You throw a big propane heater up, you get the, you get the, Speaker 2 00:23:45 That's so Buffalo. Speaker 3 00:23:46 You know what I'm talking about. But Speaker 2 00:23:47 Hey, I think Buffalo, you didn't do that. Speaker 3 00:23:48 I think you didn't Speaker 1 00:23:49 Do that. I, we would, we would hang out in my garage in the throw throw lower part of New York. We do garages now. Throw, throw Speaker 3 00:23:53 The propane heater up. At least two of them. Yeah. Probably gassing yourself could Speaker 2 00:23:57 Die. We were, we were a basement party. Speaker 3 00:23:58 But I mean, basement or garage. Same vibe. Yeah. Yeah. And then you throw the, the folding table up and it's just games for Speaker 2 00:24:05 Days. Jump through it and games for Speaker 1 00:24:06 Days Speaker 3 00:24:06 Jump through it. Well, no, see we'd have like the, we'd have the beer pong going while Flip Cup was going on both sides. I mean, everybody was involved. There was not one person sitting down. It's pretty Speaker 1 00:24:13 Crazy. Yeah. What music Speaker 3 00:24:14 Were you? We used to drink Keystone Light and sped co vodka. That was what Speaker 1 00:24:17 We did. What was the music you guys were bumping back then? Bro? Everything at Buffalo Speaker 3 00:24:20 Parties literally Nelly to Matchbox. 20 to, sometimes somebody would get on there and throw Frank Sinatra and it would turn up the party. It would go Speaker 1 00:24:27 Crazy if you're ever in New York and you're at one of these things. I remember doing the garage parties. They were big for New Years for us. Oh yeah. And we would all, we'd, uh, my buddy had a pool table in there and we had like the pong table. That's just a vibe, dude. This was back before I got sober. And we would, we were, I remember singing, I remember singing Piano Man. Oh. At the top of of my fucking lungs, dude. All that stuff. And it's just that, that that vibe. And then what are you doing out in the Midwest as far as coming up listening to music? Because you got a little bit of everything out there, Speaker 2 00:24:51 Man. Yeah, I was, I was like a, I was big on r and b for a while. Oh gosh. Like I was big on Speaker 1 00:24:58 That baby making shit. Speaker 2 00:24:59 Like, I loved it. I I bounced all over the board, man. I loved country. I loved r and b. I, I never really loved rap. It's not that I hated it or anything, but I never played it by myself. Speaker 1 00:25:09 Where was the line you would draw? As far as like, like liking rap. Cuz some people they'll, they'll like say r b and hip hop. Like there even line, it's not, line Speaker 2 00:25:16 Not, I never, I never did. I never didn't like it. And it was played enough to where I was always listening to it. Like people, it was like at the parties. Like it was rap growing up. It was a lot of rap. And right before rap came in, it was like the pop punk type situation Speaker 1 00:25:29 Going on. So like the all time low shit. Yeah. All that era. And Speaker 2 00:25:33 Omaha had like a weird reggae presence. Speaker 1 00:25:36 Really? Speaker 2 00:25:36 Yeah. When I say reggae, I mean like, Speaker 1 00:25:39 I wonder where that comes from. Cause you guys are the sublime, you guys are in the middle. Yeah. Literally. Middle America. Speaker 2 00:25:44 Yeah. Super weird, but like, you know, air sublime and cherub. Speaker 1 00:25:48 Were you guys doing Sky? Speaker 2 00:25:50 Oh no, no. Like, Speaker 1 00:25:52 Like streetlight manifesto and all that shit that was coming outta New Jersey. Speaker 2 00:25:56 No, no, no. But yeah, it was weird. We were all over the place, man. And um, yeah, dude, I just, I really loved my whole life though. I was like a, I was like a sucker for ballads. Like any, any genre of a ballad. Like that was kind of my bet. I mean, like, I was on, I was listening, I was on the beat Prime Speaker 3 00:26:11 Example. Like Speaker 2 00:26:12 I was on the Alicia Speaker 3 00:26:13 Keys Prime example. We're, we're partying at the house Saturday afternoon. I still Speaker 2 00:26:17 Do this Speaker 3 00:26:18 <laugh>. We're chilling. We're like, we're doing the pre-game thing. We, so we, we got absolutely roasted on Friday. We all needed a little chill. So we're catching a vibe at the house on Saturday. Everybody's drinking slowly. We're pacing ourselves. Yeah. It's Speaker 1 00:26:32 A marathon, not Speaker 3 00:26:32 Sprint. We know, we know Saturday is the marathon and over and over again by Tim McGraw and Nelly comes on, Speaker 1 00:26:39 Dude, smash <laugh>. Speaker 3 00:26:40 I straight up looked to my right and he's just holding the phone, just shaking his head, nodding at me. I'm like, you just played over and over again. I did by, by Tim McGraw, Nelly. And he is like, man, this is me. This is what I, this is my music. This is what it is. And I'm like, you can't complain, bro. I, I remember some girl in high school or middle school probably for me broke my heart and I listened to that song for 10 days straight. Yeah. That was the Speaker 2 00:27:02 Wave. Speaker 3 00:27:03 Yeah, Speaker 2 00:27:03 That was the wave. Oh yeah, man, I was that Neo Speaker 1 00:27:06 Songs, bro. Speaker 2 00:27:07 I was on the Neo the J holiday song. Yeah, I was, yeah. I was big on the r b and like, I was a diehard Bieber fan. Really? It was not easy for a guy at my age to be a Bieber fan. I Speaker 1 00:27:17 Did you ever go and see him in concert, Speaker 2 00:27:19 Bro? What? 13th birthday? Get no Shit. Took my dogs with me. Took my dogs with me. Everybody's rocking the same Bieber shirt, bonkers in the sandals. Speaker 3 00:27:27 I'm a believer. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta admit it. Speaker 2 00:27:29 And I was grinding that one out, like I was getting shit on by. I'm sure Speaker 1 00:27:32 You, but you know, Speaker 2 00:27:33 And I was like, Hey, you just wait. But, you know, but he's him. Speaker 1 00:27:35 But you know, it was loving it. The ladies were probably loving. They probably, that probably got you some ends Speaker 2 00:27:40 And like, that was like low key. That that was pretty much the first time I started singing. I was singing Bieber to to, to the Chicks. Wow. Like I really was That's a vibe. They gotta be playing the Bieber just going b before cigarettes too. Yeah. So I was hitting Falsettos. Yeah. Welcome to that show. <laugh>. I was back, I was back in my bag. So that was kind of where I was at man. And I enjoyed it. Had a lot of fun. Speaker 3 00:28:04 We were writing a song last week too. This is great. Speaker 2 00:28:06 They kept trying to gimme false. Speaker 3 00:28:07 We're trying, we're trying to hit, we're like telling them like, dude, you gotta hit. Like you can hit that note. Just like throw it into the falsetto bro. It'll slap And like, like this guy Chris do his thing, his his Chris V. Yeah. And he just looks at me and goes, man, like couple packs of cigarettes a week. I just can't hit false settle bro. Just don't have anymore. He goes to try and do it and it's just, nothing comes out. Nothing comes Speaker 2 00:28:29 Outta my mouth. He's literally nothing. Speaker 3 00:28:30 Like his mouths open and he's forcing it and nothing comes out. I'm like, yeah, fuck. Just bring it back down. Here we go. Jeez. Speaker 1 00:28:35 See you're a spirits guy. Speaker 2 00:28:36 Yep. I'm the spirits Speaker 1 00:28:37 Guy now. I was a, I was a, I'm on and off Marlboro Lights guy. I Speaker 2 00:28:41 I was the, I was on the diet shakes for a while. Speaker 1 00:28:43 My What was your first pack that you ever bought? Speaker 2 00:28:45 First Speaker 1 00:28:46 Pack. The first pack is always cringy. The first pack we always buy was always Speaker 2 00:28:49 Was taking, I was like sneaking cigarettes from my mom. And she was on the diets, she was on the Marlboro Lights. Speaker 3 00:28:54 Same dude. Speaker 2 00:28:55 So that started that. And then, yeah, I was on the Marlboro Lights and then college, I was on the Turkish Royals. Yeah, I was the royal out at Nebraska for like my little six month stint. Yeah. My little, Speaker 3 00:29:06 My mom was on those Virginia Slims. This, my mom thought she was slick, bro. Trying to like, she thought she was her and I'm like, no. Yeah. But my dumb ass didn't have anything else. So I would take him Speaker 1 00:29:16 And my first pack, my, I remember cuz it was, it was right when I quit drinking. I went saw Justin Moore at the, uh, at the Starland ballroom. It was a, was I used to do like tailgates when I worked in college radio and stuff with like sponsored tailgate parts. I'm like, oh fuck, I'm gonna have to have something. I, I, I didn't have any like, weed on me, whatever. I bought a pack of Maverick Red 100 s Oh God. And I smoked those for about two months. I was like, there's gotta be a better way to Speaker 2 00:29:40 Do this. There's gotta be a better way. Right. I like these American spirits, man. I enjoy 'em. I enjoy 'em. And they can't really, yeah. I mean they're, Speaker 1 00:29:46 They're good long smokes. Yeah, they're Speaker 2 00:29:48 Good Speaker 1 00:29:48 Smokes. Smokes. They're great for like a smoke break if you want to have Oh yeah. That's a big thing of going out is the smoke break is a huge part. Huge of the smoke in the cigarettes. Being on the patio, being out back of Tinders, Speaker 2 00:29:58 It slows down my drinking Speaker 3 00:29:59 A ton. I don't rip darts and I, I'd go out there for, I go out there with 'em. I'm like, I need, I need a break too, I think. Yeah. I Speaker 2 00:30:04 Feel so bad cuz people ask me for cigarettes. I'm like, Hey, you can have one. But it's a grind. Like this cigarette's gonna be a grind for you. Yeah. Like, you're not ready for this for 17 minutes. Like there's no way Speaker 1 00:30:13 You're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna get to know each other very well. You're not for this. Speaker 2 00:30:17 And I see them like people that really don't smoke and they're kind of just like coming to do whatever bit that is. Yeah. And like, I'm like, yeah. I mean you can have one, but you can just, you can hit mine too if you want. They're like, nah, I'll smoke. I'm like, all right. And I see them halfway through this thing, bro. Grinding. Their eyes are Speaker 3 00:30:32 All Speaker 2 00:30:32 Bloodshot. They wanna Speaker 3 00:30:33 Throw it out hurt. They want to throw it out. They don't wanna disrespect bad bro. Yeah. But they don't wanna disrespect Speaker 2 00:30:37 Him. And I, and then like, I already gave you the opportunity, so I'm just gonna sit there and watch you like Speaker 3 00:30:41 Fake, enjoy it. Watch yourself. Speaker 2 00:30:42 I'll let you fake enjoy it the whole time. I'm Speaker 3 00:30:44 My favorite is when, uh, when, when people claim that they smoke cigarettes. I don't smoke cigarettes, but my favorite is when people claim they smoke cigarettes. And I saw at Tinder on Saturday night. Yeah. It's not like a Speaker 2 00:30:54 Cool Speaker 3 00:30:54 Thing to do. Some kid grab a cigarette, Speaker 2 00:30:57 Fired up, grab a Speaker 3 00:30:58 Cigarette from skis, starts ripping it, and like three or four puffs into it. I could see he's like holding in the cough. Yeah. He's like, like he, he's not used to, to actually inhaling a cigarette. He's just trying to be hip. Just don't, don't be that guy. Yeah. Like if you don't rip darts, don't rip darts. Just hang out and drink and Speaker 2 00:31:15 It's fine. You Yeah, it's fine. Smoke a Speaker 3 00:31:17 Cigarette. Yeah. Just hang. Speaker 2 00:31:19 And like what I, what I actually feel bad about this because like the little, the little fans that I do have, they like want to enjoy a cigarette with me. It's like kind of the big part of the Speaker 1 00:31:28 Skis experience. Speaker 2 00:31:28 I don't, yeah, I don't. And I don't like it man. I feel terrible. I'm like, yo, like I'm not trying to get you guys on cigarettes. It just kinda like fell into my bit because like, I don't like being on camera. Like I don't not like it, but like, I don't know what to do. So like that's my go. Like that's what it is Speaker 1 00:31:44 For me. Yeah. Something to do with your hands. Speaker 2 00:31:45 Yeah. It's what it is for me. It's like I have a drink and a cigarette and I can, I can resort to Speaker 1 00:31:49 That. Yeah. Then when you're on stage, you got the mic in your hand. Yeah. And that, that covers it. Speaker 2 00:31:52 Yeah. And I, I also have the drink and the cigarette when I'm on stage <laugh>. So it's like I have the like it's kinda like a Speaker 1 00:31:57 Go-to for me. Yeah. Now, now talking about the live show, you, you obviously you've done a lot of touring with your boy Mike. How did you guys get to know each other and then the vibe of going out in the crowd after the set and being with the people? Cause I'm sure that's how you've made a lot. That's that's a big way. One your music. That's the only one. One your music's super dope. But people love they, they probably love you for you as opposed Oh yeah. As in addition to just the music being dope. Speaker 2 00:32:19 Yeah. I mean for me I want to say that like the whole skis bit is, is like the real winner. Like thank God I make decent music. You know what I mean? Like that that Speaker 1 00:32:28 You stop lapping. You're right. And I'm excited to hear what you guys are writing. Cause I can Speaker 2 00:32:31 Imagine I'm, we just made our first record to go. But um, yeah. So I met Mike out in Los Angeles when I was probably 19. Um, I'm not sure exactly how we met or when we met, but we were in the same kind of circuit of friends. And um, if I had to guess, I know that I know like when, I know like a month-ish, you know, when we started hanging out and I'm sure I was hammered and I'm sure I was talking shit facts about beer pong or something along the lines. Because I remember the first, like, the first time I remember going over there, it was immediate beef on the beer pong table. So I'm assuming that that's what I started this whole thing with. You know what I mean? <laugh>, that's my assumption. And I got my shit dragged. I got dragged him and him and his boy blew are they got it. And the beer pong thing, they grew up together. Like next door neighbors. Like they got it, the beer pong, I'm gonna give it to him. Don't let me get my boy in town <laugh>. You know what I mean? But I'll give it to him. And then we started. Yeah man, he would always have these crazy after parties in these, in these, in these fun parties and not in LA style. It was very house party because where's Speaker 1 00:33:33 He from? Speaker 2 00:33:34 Vibe man. He was, yeah, he's from Rhode Island, the house. Speaker 1 00:33:35 Oh wow. So he is a New England guy. Okay, cool. Speaker 3 00:33:37 The house parties are Speaker 2 00:33:38 A vibe. Yeah. And he was throwing like one of the only parties in Los an especially in the Hollywood like circuit where like you could go actually have a good time. And it wasn't about who, you know, there's no like bouncer at the door. There's no like promoter no list. There's no like who do you know? It's just like you, if you got, if you have the address or if you can get the address, you're more than welcome to open that front door and go upstairs and and come party. Just don't be weird. Yeah. Like pretty Speaker 3 00:34:00 Soon. I think that's the biggest thing with any party. Don't be weird. Speaker 2 00:34:03 Don't be Speaker 1 00:34:03 Weird. Don't be that Speaker 2 00:34:04 Guy. And he was killing. We did not that. And we had a blast, man. And then I, I started like passing out on the couch and then, you know, we started hanging out a bunch and then I showed him some music eventually and it kind of turned into this. And then he like threw me onto this tour thing. I was not ready for it by any means. I never sang, I'd never sang on a microphone. Really? Oh God, no dog. I was, I was, I thought I was gonna be a business man. I thought I was in a suit and tie with the sandals. I thought I was, I thought I was actually, yeah. I mean I was like in it. I was doing it. What were you doing? I was doing it. We Speaker 3 00:34:32 Don't got time. What were you doing? Speaker 1 00:34:33 You bring it up. You about I do my show prep and like, I had no idea you were doing that. Doesn't Speaker 3 00:34:39 Know either. Were you doing, where was your Speaker 2 00:34:40 Degree? I was my old bit in Los Angeles. That's what I was doing man. Were Speaker 3 00:34:43 You selling, were you selling La Speaker 2 00:34:45 <laugh>? I was selling Sunset. No, I was um, I was bad at it too. That's what I was really bad at it, but um, Speaker 3 00:34:52 Like good bad or bad? Bad. Speaker 2 00:34:53 No, just bad at it. I could have been good at it. I just didn't work. Speaker 1 00:34:56 Was it, was it like, was it worker Speaker 2 00:34:58 Related? Related or No, no. I was uh, I was like a lot of my friends were all these like Instagram, like da da and I could get them brand deals. Speaker 1 00:35:06 Oh, you're the branding guy. Speaker 3 00:35:08 You were managing Speaker 2 00:35:10 Influencer managing all. I was just like, I knew a lot of people that owned, owned brands and companies and I knew a lot of people that needed that and I was like bridging that gap and I got, you know, I could have been good at it. I just didn't know how to, couldn't work, didn't know how to do it. But then, uh, I didn't, I didn't get it. That Speaker 3 00:35:27 Actually out. That actually makes a lot of sense cuz like the other day he's talking about couldn't getting a roulette table at Speaker 2 00:35:32 The house. I got the ette. He Speaker 3 00:35:33 Got roulette table. Speaker 1 00:35:34 Dangerous boys. Love with that. Speaker 3 00:35:36 We probably should, we should probably cut this part out. Speaker 2 00:35:39 No, we do not need cut that part out the whole bit. Well Speaker 3 00:35:42 We just don't want any feds coming. Knocking on the Speaker 2 00:35:44 Door. I'm not taking a ring. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:35:46 We're not taking a Speaker 2 00:35:47 But I am the house and I'm taking a ring. Speaker 1 00:35:49 I'll get, I'll get my, hey, go get, I'll get my boy Big Joe and my dudes from New York. Come down here bro. He's gonna be the one. Speaker 2 00:35:56 He's gonna be the bit though. I'm gonna get, I'm gonna, I'm gonna really get poker chips and it's gonna be a real, I'm gonna make it a real currency. I'm gonna only make X amount and you can come cash in for cash. Ski, Speaker 1 00:36:05 Ski coin, just, just Speaker 2 00:36:06 Chip ski coin, Speaker 1 00:36:07 Whatever coin, whatever I call that's Speaker 2 00:36:08 A great name. Whatever I casino, I'm gonna get the chips and like if you end up with those chips, you can come get cash for me and that's gonna be the bet. Speaker 1 00:36:16 <laugh>, you just got all these people coming up. Speaker 3 00:36:20 It's Speaker 2 00:36:20 25 bucks. I'm like, well fuck. You know, here you go. <laugh>. Speaker 3 00:36:24 That's Speaker 1 00:36:24 A whole gotta start carrying money. Tons cash on you. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:36:27 That's the bit. I'm gonna get a bunch of cash. Speaker 3 00:36:29 Well the thing is we're gonna have a door guy and everything. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:36:31 I'm gonna be the door guy. Speaker 3 00:36:32 He's gonna have a door guy. We're gonna need a door guy. Speaker 2 00:36:34 Yeah. I'm gonna get player cards. Come Speaker 3 00:36:36 On through. Call him Big Mike or something. Yeah. Even though his name's Tyler <laugh> like six foot five. Speaker 1 00:36:42 It says, oh no, you gotta do it like they do at all the country bars. You gotta call 'em big country. Big you go every, every, every shit hole. Diving country bar or venue that or club that we go and play. The head guard is always big country. Yeah. And it's some big dude with a head sometimes. It's a big black guy. It's just a big dude wherever. So I'm sure we're gonna run into one of those in uh, up in New York. So how'd you get doing the music thing? So how do you go from doing that to, is Mike just like, bro, what um, you interested in doing this music thing or what I like Speaker 2 00:37:07 I made, so all my, all my buddies were making music out there. So I was at the studio a lot. Okay. Just hanging out as a homie and like, I was helping, I was like helping a little bit without really knowing it. And like the producer that got Chris that you met? Speaker 3 00:37:21 Yeah, Chris v's. Dope. Speaker 2 00:37:22 Yeah, legend. And um, he was doing a lot of the music and one day my buddy didn't show up for his session and I was already there and he was like, yo skis, like I've heard you sing back here. Like just go give it a shot. I was like 18. Gave it a shot, made a record. It was pretty good. Didn't do anything about it for another year or so. Made another record, didn't do anything about it for a while. And then when I was like 21, I wanna say I spent like a week in the studio cuz my buddy Joey Paris, he kind of, he, he's got a big part in this too. Um, he was like, yo bro, you have to give this a shot. Like, I love these records. You I'll put the money up, go to the studio, let's do it. Speaker 2 00:37:57 So I spent a week making these records and we liked them. I finally put one out and then, um, again, just ghosted the whole music thing for another year. And then Covid hit. So I had like, probably six songs over the course of like three years. Covid hit this guy. I met him outside of a bar. We had a lot of mutual friends and he came up to me and was like, yo man, like my homegirl's showing me all your music. I like it. I wanna sign you to warn a chapel. He's got like a JV with them. And then like the, a week later I was like a songwriter, <laugh>. And then I kind of fucked that thing up. Didn't really do much songwriting. <laugh> co Well Covid happened like right, I signed and then two weeks or like three weeks later, COVID Speaker 1 00:38:35 In California. Covid in California. So Speaker 2 00:38:38 There's no more sessions. Yeah. And now they're doing, so I'm taking all these Zoom sessions. I don't got a fucking laptop. I don't got a microphone, I don't got a studio. I don't know how to make music in the first place. So I was just like, fucking Speaker 3 00:38:49 That's the, that's the best bit. It was shitty. Speaker 2 00:38:51 It was real shitty. Speaker 3 00:38:51 That's the best bit. When he tells that he told me a story from the first time I was, I was, what the fuck? Just flabbergasted. He's like, I don't have a laptop to do Zoom calls. I'm on my phone. I don't have a microphone. I don't know how to produce Speaker 2 00:39:01 FaceTime, make music. I'm Speaker 3 00:39:01 Taking FaceTime. People taking FaceTimes with like, dudes that like have hits bro. These guys, like, they're sitting them that have hits and like Speaker 2 00:39:07 Dude told me with some guys my Grammy's and I'm sitting there, I'm like, bro, what are you, you making me look like a jackass right now? Like I'm, I'm getting my ass kicked outta here. I can't really, like, I'm not, I'm not doing anything. You know? Yeah. Like we'll be on the Zoom session. They're like, yeah, so here's a beat. Uh, just, you know, go record some shit and send it back to us. I was it record some shit. What do you want me to record man? Yeah. I don't know how to do this. And like that kind of sucked for a little bit. And at that point I was hanging out with Mike a lot and that was when like, the whole artist thing started coming to fruition. Cause he was like, yo, let's like give this a real run. Speaker 1 00:39:40 Do you remember the first show you did with him? Where it was? Speaker 2 00:39:43 Yeah, it was here in Nashville. Really. The first show ever was that Speaker 1 00:39:45 Marathon, Speaker 2 00:39:46 Which Speaker 3 00:39:46 Was next level. That Speaker 2 00:39:48 Was my first show. I was fucking geeking. I was geeking, I almost, I almost called it off that morning. Yeah, I almost called it off that morning, Speaker 3 00:39:56 Dude. I Speaker 2 00:39:56 Almost told Mike, I was like, Nope. Not getting up, not doing it. Geez. Speaker 3 00:40:02 I don't to this day. When was that? Last year Speaker 2 00:40:05 Was like, no, it was June. Speaker 3 00:40:06 Oh yeah, June. June, that's right. Wow. Speaker 2 00:40:08 No, April 19th or something. Speaker 3 00:40:09 April 19th. April, yeah. Uh, still to this date we've been out probably. What? Every weekend you'd say? I mean, I have, I'd say <laugh>, I'd say. Um, I swear I've not seen him as drunk as he was that night in Nashville. Oh. On that show, boy, I was and we're backstage. I think his eyes were, were crossed going either way, which way or the other. But I mean, it was a vibe. Like that was probably the dopest thing. Speaker 2 00:40:30 I was in my bag kind of, Speaker 3 00:40:32 Kind of. And then, and then you just absolutely roasted the whole tour. Speaker 2 00:40:36 Yeah. But it was unbelievable. After that first one, everything was all right. I just had no idea what to expect. I had no idea what was going on. Then Speaker 1 00:40:41 What's your setup when you're doing show? So is it you and like dj? You got a band up there with you? Do you got a, like, what do you Speaker 2 00:40:46 No, it was just me and a track and then our buddy. So Speaker 1 00:40:48 You're up there by yourself? Yeah, bro. At Marathon Music where it's sold out. I was good size room. Speaker 2 00:40:53 I was up there faded, man. Speaker 1 00:40:55 Well, yeah, kinda ha, I can't imagine how nervous you fucking wore. It's very aggressive for your first, Speaker 2 00:41:01 The pregame cocktail facts A little bit. I overdid it a little bit for the pre-game cocktails, but I needed it, bro. Like, I was like really stressing it. Like a lot of my friends were there. No one's ever seen me sing. No one's ever seen before. I've never seen it before. I'm like, it was kind of just like, what the fuck is he about to do up there? And I walked out there with a football to fucking Vanessa Carlton, a thousand miles <laugh> with a cocktail and a cigarette. I Speaker 1 00:41:25 Just, and the crowd probably ate it right up. Went nuts. Speaker 2 00:41:27 Yeah. Was dark. I threw a fucking, I threw a great ball to this guy in the back of the crowd and he dropped it my first throw out there. Pretty sick about it. But yeah, the, the last thing I actually like, I don't remember, I don't remember anything besides walking down and handing the mic off after the show was over on that first one. Not even on a drunk thing either. It was just like the, the adrenaline just Oh yeah. Kicked my ass. Yeah. I had no idea what happened from, I remember walking up the ramp Speaker 3 00:41:50 Wearing, and Speaker 2 00:41:51 Then I walking down the ramp and handing the mic off. And that was Speaker 1 00:41:54 For the first show? Yeah. Um, favorite, favorite city you got to go to Speaker 2 00:41:56 Chicago Best show ever. Chicago's Speaker 1 00:41:59 Just a good guy Speaker 2 00:42:00 Too. All my, all my high school friends came out. It was just fucking, I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I was like, dude, this is just like, this is outta control. Like, what am I doing here? Speaker 1 00:42:07 Did you get uh, Portillo's? Speaker 2 00:42:09 I've had Portillo's, but I didn't get it in Chicago. Speaker 1 00:42:12 I got it for the first time, last time I was up there. What's, you have Portillo's. So it's like Chicago's like fast food thing and they have I getting portellos? It is, uh, it is a very, one of a kind thing. I was told I had to get it when I was up there. I'd never had it's, Speaker 2 00:42:24 Portillo's is Speaker 1 00:42:24 Crazy. They do, is it, it's like those beef, they do those like big beef sandwiches, but they also do hot dogs, but they also do burgers, but they also do like all kinds of the Speaker 2 00:42:32 Ship. I did the hot dog bit when I was Speaker 1 00:42:33 At port's. I did the, you get a big beef sandwich and they, it's like getting a French dip, but they soak it in the French dip, so it's wet when you get it's, so I had that. Wow. And then they do, they do chocolate cake. They do a chocolate cake shake. Speaker 3 00:42:44 Holy Speaker 1 00:42:45 Shit. Which is, from what I've heard from JD Groover, like, you gotta get the chocolate cake shake. I didn't feel like dying that day. I felt bad. Cause I was up there with Trey on the Kid rock thing and he was on a diet. So I was like, dude, I'm, I'm gonna, I went, I just got, I went to the dispensary, then went from the dispensary. I ubered from the dispensary to fucking, uh, Portillo's. And I was like, I'm gonna get stoned to eat all this food on the, I'm sorry man. I know you're on the diet. He, no man, you're good. He was like, motherfucker, you just ate that in 10 minutes. I was like, yeah, I had a big beef. A a small, um, onion ring. A small fry and the chocolate cake. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:43:13 No, Speaker 3 00:43:14 That's, Speaker 1 00:43:14 I was hurting, but it was coke fucking Speaker 3 00:43:16 Good. We just had the, uh, the chicken wings and the beef on Wex up in buffalo. Speaker 1 00:43:19 And the beef. What Speaker 3 00:43:20 Beef on we wh is what it's called. They literally take, they take a roll, like a bread roll, like a, a freshly baked bread roll. Speaker 1 00:43:27 We're talking like here or we're talking like round Kaiser roll? Speaker 3 00:43:30 No, yeah, we're talking like Kaiser Speaker 1 00:43:31 Roll. Okay. Kaiser roll. Yeah. And they Speaker 3 00:43:32 Put the salt and like the caric seeds on it. Yeah. So they call it beef on weck. And then they take like just roast beef, like prime roast beef, slice it in little pieces, put it in the, like the dip. And then they throw you on the thing with a little horseradish snaps. Speaker 2 00:43:52 Ah. It seems like a lot for the kid. Well, no, I have an awful Speaker 3 00:43:55 You don't have to do it. Speaker 1 00:43:56 What, what, what the fuck do you eat then? You can't appreciate that. That is Speaker 3 00:44:00 It. No, I, that is incredible. D Speaker 2 00:44:01 Delicious. I'd eat it. I'd eat it Speaker 3 00:44:03 With french fries. Speaker 2 00:44:04 Yeah, I'd Speaker 3 00:44:05 Eat it on the side. It's a horse sandwich of Speaker 2 00:44:07 All time. Keep me away. Speaker 3 00:44:08 Yeah. You don't need to put a horse. Speaker 2 00:44:09 What's Speaker 1 00:44:10 Your mo what's your move for Speaker 2 00:44:10 Eating then? Dude, Speaker 1 00:44:11 I on the road pizza guy. Like a you breakfast guy. Speaker 2 00:44:14 10 year old's palette Speaker 1 00:44:15 Taco guy. I eat chicken nuggets or what I nuggets. Speaker 2 00:44:18 It's like meat, cheese and bread in all different variations. But I'm trying to get healthy. I'm eating ground Turkey and brown rice right now. Okay. That's what I'm, that's my go-to right Speaker 1 00:44:27 Now. The meal you're doing the whole meal prep thing? I'm Speaker 2 00:44:28 Just cooking, man. I'm trying. I gotta lose some weight. It's getting a lot sweating on my walk over here kicking my ass. Smoking a cigarette. I'm outta breath on the way up. This, we got a slight two block hill, like a slight hill. I mean, I'm not sweating right now. Speaker 3 00:44:41 It's like not even a 12 degree incline. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:44:44 We're just getting too big. Speaker 1 00:44:45 Sweating out here. Speaker 2 00:44:46 Guys's getting too big, bro. It's over. I'm ready for the cold. Speaker 3 00:44:48 I'm not gonna lie to you. Tequila. Speaker 2 00:44:49 This Speaker 1 00:44:49 Is, this is why I'm Speaker 2 00:44:50 Sweating, bro. Speaker 1 00:44:51 Fireball. I'm pretty close. What's what's, what's on, what's on the skis? Rider? Do you have a rider when you're out there or do you just live off what Mike and the guys have? No, Speaker 2 00:44:58 I didn't have, I mean like, I had like a halfass rider, but I'm Speaker 1 00:45:00 What was, what was on there? What was on there? I'm my Speaker 2 00:45:02 Rider right Speaker 1 00:45:02 Now. What, what was on there? My Speaker 2 00:45:03 Original rider, the first thing I, <laugh> had, Speaker 3 00:45:07 Dave's laughing already. Speaker 2 00:45:08 The first, the first rider I ever had was at Marathon Works. And they're like, yo, what do you want like in your green room? And I was like, bottle of casamigos, bottle of Titos light Blue American spirits and a football. And that's the end of my rider. Speaker 3 00:45:20 That's honestly elite. No, Speaker 1 00:45:22 No water. Speaker 2 00:45:23 No water. No Speaker 1 00:45:24 Water. No soda, no snacks. No soda. Speaker 2 00:45:26 Just water. Didn't have nothing. I just had booze, cigarettes and a football just in case. Speaker 1 00:45:30 That's incredible. I mean, I'm not surprised at, at all. No, Speaker 2 00:45:32 That's what it was. I didn't know what I was allowed to do either, so I was like, Speaker 1 00:45:34 Well, I need a football. So, so what are the, what are the new additions? Like what's, what's the dream? What's, what do you want Speaker 2 00:45:37 On, what's the dream? I brow what Speaker 3 00:45:38 A roulette table. Speaker 2 00:45:39 Gimme me. A pair of sands and a roulette table. Speaker 1 00:45:41 Yeah. A casino past to the nearest casino. Yeah. Gimme Speaker 2 00:45:43 Some shower slippers and a and a and a roulette table. Speaker 1 00:45:45 Shower slippers. That might be the new one. Shower slippers be a good one. Yes. And then what you can do, you can rate all the, you can take, you can rate all, then you have a collection of shower slippers. You just Speaker 3 00:45:53 Keeping a box that's Speaker 2 00:45:55 In Speaker 1 00:45:55 A box. You could write, you could write in like a sharpie. Like what? Speaker 2 00:45:59 Dude, Speaker 3 00:46:00 That's such a sick idea. My Speaker 1 00:46:01 Shower slippers we're good. There's your content slipper. What they got be like chi be like Chicago did it right. That put somebody on blast when the slippers are like, somebody will give you like leopard slippers Speaker 3 00:46:12 Or like those weird ass like super hard plastic ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 00:46:15 Yeah. Yeah. That'd Speaker 3 00:46:15 Be sick. Oh, I'd be sick. Be sick Speaker 1 00:46:17 Dude. That would be terrify. Terrifying be something. So let's talk about music and stuff. Eric, what do you got cooking as far as the music stuff right now and all that? Man, you know, you guys been writing a lot. Like what's going on as far as far as releases, shows, like what's going on in the world? Speaker 3 00:46:29 World. I feel like I'm writing every single day. Oh shit. A shit Hundred times over. It's amazing though. I mean this is, that's the best part of like the, the artist form for me is like the creative side, right? Yeah. It's just taking life experiences that you bottle up for a year and then throwing 'em out there on paper and then you get to go and play 'em live. Which is even better. Yeah. Which is probably my favorite part, obviously. Like yeah, I built my whole life on playing shows live. Never really gave too much of a shit about recording them or anything like that. Which is probably why I still have songs, you know, that I wrote seven years ago that I haven't recorded yet, but still play live. Just cuz I've loved the way Speaker 1 00:47:05 They now Well that's part of the challenge too, is that you're, if you're writing as much as you are, yeah. You might have this dope song from like five, you might even have this dope song from two months ago. And then you get in the room with a buddy and you write something, you're like, fuck, this is the what? And then that other one gets put back on the back burner. It's tough. It's, there's a Speaker 3 00:47:19 Lot out there. So much. Especially in this town, man. It's, I almost feel like there needs to be like a pause button for everybody because we write so much, so many times that there's so many songs that just get left in the dust that could literally outperform half of them that are on the radio. Yeah. And you're like, man, if only everybody had an opportunity to sit, chill and listen for like six months, they'd probably find songs from 10 years ago that were still, that's still hold up today. Yes. Which is wild to me. But that's the nature of the beast. You just gotta keep writing better ones, right? Yeah. But yeah, we were just cut, we just cut three more on Thursday and Friday last week. Six me and DeStefano and, um, we don't know what we're gonna do with 'em, but we got 'em. You got Speaker 1 00:48:00 'em in. You got 'em in the tank, man. In the pocket, man. That's the hardest. That's the, that's the hardest thing. Speaker 3 00:48:03 And they feel good. They feel great. Like, you know, they, they hit pretty hard. They're kind of, they, they feel like everything that me and Chris keep doing just feels like it's one upping what we used, like what we did before. So that's the goal, right? Like you just wanna be better every time. And I feel like we're accomplishing that goal right now, which is awesome. And we're just playing shows wherever we can opening up for, for the homies and Speaker 1 00:48:24 Yeah. What do you got going on as far as the rest of this year? Cause I know this is when you'll see this now living in Nashville. Yeah. From like, after Halloween to like St. Patty's Day, with the exception of New Year's Eve, it slows down quite a bit. Just at the end of four. The end of q4. Yeah, the beginning of q1. Our little slower here from everything that goes on down the road at 16th Ave. Everything on Broadway kind of slows out. It's very locals only kind of vibe, which is nice for us going out to Tin Roof and stuff and going to different places. Live Oak, all these bars. But as far as that, like you're coming towards the end of 2022. Now looking into 2023, what you got end of this year? Beginning of next year? Uh, Speaker 3 00:48:57 We got a couple more like local shows. You know, I've been, I've been loving jumping on a lot of these writers rounds and stuff. A lot. Yeah. Okay. Like I said, it's been a lot of fun. I I didn't do it pretty much all summer just cause we were gone playing a lot. Yeah. Um, so it's kind of, I mean, for me that's the best. Like just being able to take the song that you just wrote last week, test, test the waters Right. Speaker 1 00:49:16 And be on stage with your homies. Speaker 3 00:49:17 Yeah. Be on stage with the boys. Getting, literally drinking as much as you possibly can for some reason in like a matter of an hour. Yeah. I don't know. I don't feel like it's a game. Like it feels like a game. Yeah. I mean that's no way I can do it. But, you know, you do that for, you know, do that for an hour and you get to test out new songs and then really determine whether or not you want to even bring him to the full band or not. Right. Which is like, for me, having the full, like skis got the bit where he just gets up there by himself and, and causes an absolute ruckus on, I mean, Speaker 2 00:49:42 I want the band though. Speaker 3 00:49:43 It'll happen. Speaker 2 00:49:44 Yeah. I want the band. Like I'm really just doing karaoke up there, just catching a vibe. <laugh>. But it's Speaker 3 00:49:48 An absolute tidal wave when Speaker 2 00:49:49 You do it. Yeah. It's fun. Speaker 3 00:49:50 But, but like, you know, for me with the band thinking like, you know, arena style shows, it, it's like taking those songs and Okay, you know, they fuck live acoustic, let's bring 'em with the band. Speaker 1 00:50:02 Yeah. And having those swells within the show where you kick it off high, have that little bit of swell mix in some of those ballads, some of that slower shit and then pick it right back up. Speaker 3 00:50:10 Big Lover boy over here. Hell yeah. All my, I mean, I don't think I have a single song about anything other than love Heartbreak or just finding the one you're supposed to be with. That's it. That's all I got. Hell Speaker 1 00:50:20 Yeah. Sick. What do you got going on? I know you've put out, you put out a lot of music this year. Speaker 2 00:50:24 Yeah, man, I finally got, got Speaker 1 00:50:26 Ran and shout out to um, two of my good buddies, Jordan Doey and Matt Moha, man. Oh my God. God. Matt Mo Hare's another, another New York boy. He's from the same area. Cause 8 45 Doey. Yeah, dude. The, the, those kids. Those kids right now that are coming up and it was really tall. He Speaker 3 00:50:40 Tall. Tall I've seen in a Speaker 2 00:50:41 While. Yeah. He's the tallest dude ever. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys are unbelievable, man. I got real lucky bumping into those, those big loud guys right When I got here. Those were the first people I met when I, when shit, when first came to Nashville. Yeah. I got off the plane and I had a meeting over at Big Loud and um, they introduced me to Rocky Block and Speaker 1 00:50:55 Grady. Oh, the block. Brothers, brother, brothers. I've known those boys since I've known those boys since going back to like three, four years ago. And they were on the road with Fair and Rachel's and they were, and uh, they were all kind of coming up now to see them all coming into their own. It's so cool to watch what those guys are doing. Speaker 2 00:51:09 They're chilling at dude. Yeah. Those are my dudes, man. I really love those guys. They're helping me out a ton. So I'm, uh, I'm excited to keep working with 'em. But, um, Speaker 3 00:51:17 Is it fair to ask the guy hosting a question? Speaker 2 00:51:20 Yeah. What you got? Speaker 3 00:51:23 What, what, what are the Yankees actually doing this year? Speaker 1 00:51:27 Okay, so, so this, Speaker 2 00:51:29 I'm thinking about the Speaker 3 00:51:30 Yankees. So, hey, I'm not a big baseball guy. I know they're in the playoffs. Speaker 1 00:51:33 They just started, right? Yes. The game one is tonight, again, Cleveland, I wanna say Cleveland. Cleveland Guard is Cleveland Indian. I wanna say Cleveland Indians. Cleveland. Just like the Washington Redskins still go by the, Speaker 2 00:51:44 That's Speaker 1 00:51:44 I've seen a long time. Go ahead. Um, but it's, it's tough because the, this episode will be out in like a few weeks. So the playoffs moves so fast. Like I, I'm, this is the most excited I've been about Yankees team in a while and I grew up going to games, watching, watching Jeter and Pasada and David Cone and all those dudes, the scat, David Wells with his food, Manchu mustache and all that shit. Like, I grew up watching all those guys. So like going to Yankee playoff games was like what you did in October and November and September and stuff. So I, I wanna say I'm confident, but at the same time there's a little bit in me, but like New York sports' is doing what now, the exception of the Mets. But all they do is choke. They've been doing that since I've been a kid. Yeah, yeah. So like, fuck the Mets. That's what what they do is they just, they just choke and they can win a hundred games and still knock down the wild card. But the Giants are playing really well too, which is Speaker 3 00:52:31 Giant. Some jets aren't Speaker 1 00:52:32 Bad. The jets are not bad, which is really cool to see. I mean, I Speaker 2 00:52:35 Love, I love uh, I love Wilson. Speaker 1 00:52:38 Yeah. He's, he's awesome. Um, and but Jack Wilson, Speaker 3 00:52:41 Isn't he the cat that slept with his boy's mom? Speaker 1 00:52:43 Yeah, the BYU allegedly. Allegedly kid. He allegedly kid the, I mean allegedly. Speaker 2 00:52:47 Let's not put the guy Speaker 1 00:52:48 Down. Allegedly. Speaker 3 00:52:49 My apologies. Speaker 2 00:52:50 We hope he did. No, allegedly Speaker 1 00:52:52 He did. Dick can sling the ball though. And I think he's actually, for the first time in a long time, he's in a good situation being with the Jets, which you cannot say for any of the other guys, like poor Mark Sanchez and all those dudes that came up and were just thrown into the shit show. But as far as the Yankees, I think that we've, we've got, I'll put it this way, if they win the World Series, I'm cool, fair and Judge Walks cuz he's, our mission every year is to win the World Series. We've got 27 of 'em for Christ's sake. And it's been since 2009, Christ, since we got another one. It's been, it's been since it's been 13 years since we won one, which is the longest streak of them not winning in my lifetime. Cause I was born, born 95, they won ninety six, ninety eight, ninety nine 2000 went to the World Series in oh 1 0 3, went to the playoffs every year that Derek Jeter was there. I was spoiled. Is Speaker 2 00:53:31 Crazy spoiled. Speaker 3 00:53:33 He's crazy. Those staling just Speaker 2 00:53:35 Rolling. But bro, that's how I would be was Nebraska football, I Speaker 1 00:53:37 That Yeah, dude. And then, and then, and then I was spoiled and I was spoiled being a Giants fan. We stole two from Tom Brady and those guys with Eli and our defense, mostly our defense and David Ty catching on the helmet and practical burst before he shot himself. You know, all that stuff. Um, but yeah, I would say New York sports are good right now. It's great. I count are new Giants, giants, Yankees, Rangers and Knicks. Because I think all the other, we have 13 pro teams in the New York City area. So I, it's like funny. It's like the, the the original teams. I call 'em the Big brothers. 13. That's crazy. Yeah. Cause baseball, Speaker 3 00:54:08 I counting the bills on that. I Speaker 1 00:54:09 Want one, I I mean I guess 13 does count the bills. You count the bills on the sabers. Um, so which you have the two have that stuff. You have the two in Buffalo, then you have the um, Yankees and the Mets, then you have the Giants and the Jets, then you have the, um, Rangers, the Islanders, then you have the Knicks and the Nets. That's 10. And then if you loop in the devils cuz they're metro area, that's 11. If if right now, and then we have the New York football team, the soccer team that plays the Yankee Stadium, the soccer team that plays in Jersey. And we have the W N B A team that's like 13, 14 teams. Dude, Speaker 2 00:54:39 Just snap. You never got, you never got 'em started. Now Speaker 1 00:54:42 I love, so when was, so when I was coming up, we Speaker 2 00:54:46 Got the Huskers <laugh> <laugh>. We got the storm chasers. That's our, that's our uh, what are they called? The Farm league I believe. Baseball Speaker 1 00:54:55 Team. Oh, those Farm league games are fun though. Those dolly notes. That's Speaker 3 00:54:58 What I went to. Yeah. The Buffalo Bisons. Speaker 1 00:55:00 Yeah, those the bison Jays. Speaker 3 00:55:02 Yes. No, they were Toronto Blue Jays when I was a kid. Speaker 1 00:55:05 Oh. And then they took, I think the Mets took over for the Bisons. Yeah. We Speaker 3 00:55:08 Didn't really, I didn't really, I wasn't really, like I said, I wasn't a baseball guy. We'd go to the Bisons games. I'd get a fricking hot dog, some popcorn and yeah, listen to my uncle yell and cuss and then we'd leave <laugh>. You know what I mean? Yeah, dude. Like that's just what we did. But we'd go to Bills games, man, I remember being 15 at the Bills tailgate. Just sorry mom blacked out Speaker 1 00:55:24 And Yeah. Blacked out putting on that 15 years old. We call it the liquid blanket. That's how you stay warm blanket. You gotta load on the liquid blanket. Speaker 3 00:55:30 Legit. Those, that's what you gotta do. Those games were tough in December, but I'd go, I'd Speaker 1 00:55:34 Love it. Those Yeah. And that was back when Marshawn was that back when Marshawn was Speaker 3 00:55:36 There? Marshawn Lynch bro. Speaker 1 00:55:37 Marshawn Lynch. And who, who was, who else was on that? Who was the quarterback in those days? Speaker 3 00:55:41 Oh my God. We, we had Speaker 1 00:55:42 JP Latimer. We Speaker 3 00:55:43 Had JP Lawson. Lassman Speaker 1 00:55:44 Lawson. Speaker 3 00:55:45 We relax. We had Kyle Orton at one point. Which was you talking my quarterbacks? Yeah. Oh yeah. The bills have had, oh God. Hey Gaggle of amazing backup. Speaker 1 00:55:53 These Speaker 3 00:55:53 Guys. Yeah. Trent Edwards. Speaker 1 00:55:55 Yeah. He played for while Speaker 3 00:55:56 We went five and oh to start the season with Trent Edwards. And then he got, ended, killed, Speaker 2 00:56:00 Ended five in times. Speaker 3 00:56:01 <laugh>, he no, literally ended, ended five and 11. Oh wow. Speaker 1 00:56:05 Joe. I got Joe. Yeah. I got Joe. Thousand Speaker 3 00:56:07 Ended five and 11, 11 because he got concussed. Trent Edwards went down, couldn't handle it. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:56:12 Act like Trent Speaker 3 00:56:13 Edwards. No, he was balling was Speaker 2 00:56:14 The guy that Speaker 3 00:56:15 Was hitting Trent. If you're on dude, Speaker 1 00:56:16 It was having Marsh. Who was that? Really? You guys had a really good receiver back in that day. Eric Speaker 3 00:56:21 Molds. Speaker 1 00:56:22 Eric Moles. He had another Speaker 3 00:56:22 Andre Reed. Speaker 1 00:56:23 Well, no, I'm talking like when we like fantasy. Oh, oh yeah. Like I played fantasy football high school. That might have been the guy we Speaker 3 00:56:29 Had. Uh, who else do we have? Speaker 2 00:56:32 I don't know any Speaker 3 00:56:33 Of these huge Are all sports Buffalo Bills guy. Speaker 1 00:56:35 Yeah. Cause I unbelievable because growing up I wanted to be on espn. That's like, I had a sports blog when I was like 13. You Speaker 3 00:56:41 Probably fucking, you probably killed Speaker 1 00:56:42 13. That's Speaker 2 00:56:43 What just, you might send that thing in for your resume. Sports Speaker 1 00:56:45 Are, sports are resume are fun. But then I got into the whole country music. They had a college radio show Speaker 2 00:56:50 Tailgate. No, if, if I had it my way, I'd be in sports. No question if I had it my Speaker 1 00:56:53 Way. Sports are fun. It's just, it's, Speaker 2 00:56:55 It's tough. Speaker 3 00:56:55 Someone I sports send Speaker 2 00:56:57 Music. I'm sports then coaching Speaker 1 00:56:59 Coach. Dude, you would be an awesome Pop Warner football coach dude. Just go over to the Y M C A and be like, let me coach these kids. Be like, be like Carman from South. But how do I reach these keys? Speaker 2 00:57:08 I'm telling you, when it's said and done, my legacy will be, will Speaker 3 00:57:11 Be in. You think you'll coach? Speaker 2 00:57:13 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:57:13 You think you'll coaching? You're 25, bro. So technically, technically the amount we drink and smoke technically have like 40 years. But you didn't put a timeline. 50 years. Speaker 2 00:57:22 Me, don't you put a timeline on Speaker 3 00:57:24 Me. I'm gonna say 82 you guys Speaker 2 00:57:25 80. I've got plenty of time. And I will be, Speaker 3 00:57:28 You think you'll coach? Speaker 2 00:57:28 I'll tell you this, I will be the head coach of a high school basketball team. Speaker 3 00:57:31 At what age do you think? If it's Speaker 2 00:57:32 The last thing I ever do, I will. And that's Speaker 3 00:57:35 The end. At what age do you Speaker 1 00:57:36 Think you're coaching? What are you gonna wear? You gonna do sweater vests? Like bob night Speaker 2 00:57:38 Style? No, I'm switching it up. I'm switching it up. Flip flops Speaker 1 00:57:41 For sure. Oh, flip flops. Flip Speaker 2 00:57:42 Flops. Always. I wonder I, Hey. Whew. I already was a coach. Don't forget it. I was coaching back in my prime back in my youth. I coached Speaker 3 00:57:52 Low Speaker 2 00:57:52 Hockey. I was putting, I was putting the youth on Speaker 3 00:57:54 Back in Buffalo. Speaker 2 00:57:55 Nice. Speaker 3 00:57:56 That was pretty sweet. Actually. Speaker 2 00:57:58 Get on the hardwood <laugh>. Speaker 3 00:57:59 Oh Speaker 2 00:57:59 My God. Yeah. Get on grass. Do something. Do something. Speaker 1 00:58:02 Would you, would you wear the hat when you're coaching or would you let let the, the Speaker 2 00:58:05 Flow? No, I letting the hair down. I mean it'll be, it'll be different fits, but yeah, I will be coaching. That's the end of that. Speaker 3 00:58:10 The slick back hair would, would be a vibe. A hundred percent done. Speaker 1 00:58:13 I feel like we should find like a charity thing to do. Or like a YMCA or I wanna start my own team. Where you guys, were you guys coach against each other? Speaker 2 00:58:19 I wanna start the AAU basketball team. That's what Speaker 1 00:58:21 I want. The Nashville AAU basketball Speaker 2 00:58:23 Team. I wanna start the AAU basketball team. Speaker 3 00:58:24 I know Speaker 2 00:58:25 What that means. Means I could probably get, AAU is like the, it's like where kids are getting ranked and like, Speaker 1 00:58:29 It's the highest level of travel level youth basketball. Highest level of travel basketball. It goes Speaker 2 00:58:33 Until your Speaker 3 00:58:34 Senior. That's a big task. It's Speaker 1 00:58:35 Like junior. Speaker 2 00:58:35 Oh, it's Speaker 3 00:58:36 For real. You got this. No, Speaker 2 00:58:37 These kids like this. Believe it. This like Ronnie James. This is, Speaker 1 00:58:39 It's like, it's like junior midget in hockey up in Canada. Got, it's like playing juniors in Canada. It's the equivalent. I Speaker 2 00:58:44 Get it now. Yeah. It's, it's for real. It's like they got the rankings. You're him. And now they like, because of the social media, these kids are like, oh, Speaker 1 00:58:51 They're not even playing high school. They're play for their high school teams. Speaker 2 00:58:53 They're bro, like a lot of these kids don't even play for the high school teams anymore. Some of them, they just go play au ball all year round. They're just like, Speaker 3 00:58:58 Seems such Speaker 2 00:58:59 A vibe. Some of these kids are getting paid now. That's cool. That's crazy. Speaker 1 00:59:02 It is. It is wild. I would love to Speaker 2 00:59:03 See, I wanna, I want my program and I wanna build my program. Put some kids in the league Speaker 1 00:59:09 That'd be sick. Speaker 2 00:59:09 All because of me, because of this mind here. Speaker 3 00:59:12 I believe that man, can that mind help us win some bets this weekend? Speaker 2 00:59:16 I struggle Speaker 1 00:59:17 <laugh>. I'm not gonna lie to you. It happens man. Feel like that sometimes Speaker 2 00:59:23 I struggle. I gotta, Hey, the thing is, we, I'm better. I'm better than Mo. I'm better than most. Speaker 3 00:59:27 We've, we've had a couple parlays. Speaker 2 00:59:29 I'm good at football. I'm good at the player props in football. That's what I'm good at. I'm struggling with my parlays touchdown Speaker 1 00:59:35 Scores, shit like that. That Speaker 2 00:59:37 Touchdown scores over, over passing. Speaker 3 00:59:39 I'll, you've got a couple parlays that have had mega legs and then just like, well Speaker 2 00:59:43 I missed out on that one. Speaker 3 00:59:44 Random Speaker 2 00:59:44 Team. I missed out on that 17 bands because, uh, Speaker 1 00:59:48 17 bands Speaker 2 00:59:49 I missed out. You, you bro. No, you were outta town. I was gonna suck. I had a 10, I had a 10 leg. Same game. Parlay. So 10 legs in this thing and I'm grinding out. I think it was Pittsburgh. I think it was Pittsburgh, but it was Cleveland. I don't know why I put all my eggs in this basket. <laugh>. But I, but no. So I won nine out of the 10. I won nine outta the 10. What'd you miss Kareem hunt over on receiving yards. He needed like, Speaker 3 01:00:15 That's tough. Speaker 2 01:00:16 Whatever actually, whatever it was. I think he needed like 21 and a half over 21 and a half. Right. Usually Speaker 3 01:00:20 He hits that Speaker 2 01:00:20 He had 17 in the first quarter. So I stopped looking at that Kareem Hunt bet. I'm like, oh, he is gonna get one more catch. Like he'll be fine. So now I'm grinding out the rest of these right in the last two minutes, three of the bets cover like the fryer booth, like caught like a 25 yarder covers one more like covers. And I'm just like, oh my God. I'm him. Like, I'm rich. I'm him. I'm about to buy a fucking van. I'm about to buy my minivan. Mini table. We need to talk about Van. I'm a bunch of sandals. Like some jackets like I'm him. Like let's do this thing. And then I look at the thing like I'm about, I'm like, I'm fired up. And the guy didn't catch one more football. He had 17 yards at the end of the game. Speaker 3 01:00:58 That's a bad beat. Just never caught another football. That's a bad beat. Speaker 2 01:01:01 17 in the first quarter, bro. Speaker 1 01:01:03 What's up with this minivan? <laugh>. Oh my god. Is this gonna be your touring vehicle? Speaker 2 01:01:06 No. You should see what I'm making attempts on right now. I have Speaker 3 01:01:10 This might be the craziest Yeah. Coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, Speaker 1 01:01:13 You ain't doing it unless you get the astrovan from the nineties. Oh, you Speaker 2 01:01:16 Astro Speaker 1 01:01:17 Van, Astro van. Speaker 2 01:01:19 You just wait over there. No idea Speaker 3 01:01:20 What you doing. You just wait over there. Okay. Sit in the pocket and wait. Speaker 2 01:01:22 You guys got no idea. What's Speaker 3 01:01:24 Tom Brady? This thing. Okay, Speaker 2 01:01:26 This is what I'm getting. Oh my God. I put the offer in. I'm grinding it out right now. I put the offer in Speaker 1 01:01:33 <laugh>. Speaker 3 01:01:35 Yeah. Have you ever seen anything like that? They Speaker 2 01:01:37 Cut the roof off of an old school minivan convert. Oh, it's camera show. Speaker 1 01:01:41 It's convertible show to Speaker 2 01:01:42 The camera. It's a convertible minivan. OG Red for it's only Speaker 1 01:01:49 Got 179,000 on Speaker 2 01:01:52 It's that Speaker 3 01:01:52 Looks like a, that's a Dodge Chrysler right. Or a Dodge uh, uh, Dodge carrier. That's Speaker 1 01:01:56 What I'm Chrysler. Who the fuck fuck I've ever seen Speaker 2 01:02:00 All my friends in Nebraska got the ad on Facebook. Imagine me and the game. Speaker 3 01:02:03 Imagine, imagine Speaker 2 01:02:04 Driver Speaker 1 01:02:05 While Speaker 3 01:02:05 While ripping Speaker 2 01:02:07 Cigarette. Jesus. I'm cruising in with my groceries. Speaker 1 01:02:10 Toot. You got room for your Speaker 2 01:02:11 Store? Dude, everybody's coming. Speaker 3 01:02:13 I'm not gonna lie to you. This computer is smacking me. Speaker 2 01:02:16 Yeah, this fireball's got my ass kicked. I Speaker 1 01:02:18 Need a cigarette. Speaker 2 01:02:19 Yes. I wanted a cigarette Speaker 1 01:02:20 For an hour. Well, so you got the van coming, you got using all that stuff. Touched all the bases. Um, what, um, where do people go to find you guys? Cause I really appreciate y'all coming out. Who's, who's Speaker 3 01:02:28 Running the Super Bowl first of all, that's my question's. Speaker 1 01:02:30 The super. Speaker 2 01:02:30 Yeah, we don't gotta be, I can figure out the cigarette. I will tell you who's winning the Super Bowl and it's the Kansas City Chiefs. Speaker 1 01:02:35 I don't know about that. I I know about that. I don't know about that. Speaker 2 01:02:38 I know about that. And I'll, I'll reference is also was Speaker 1 01:02:42 It's not gonna be my giants. I'll say I'm not that off right now. You Speaker 2 01:02:45 Guys are lucky. I'm not putting Carolina Panthers running the Super Bowl. Speaker 1 01:02:47 What do you mean that's Speaker 3 01:02:49 Not gonna happen? How? Speaker 2 01:02:50 Just wait, how undefeated We're going undefeated the rest of the year. Baker Mayfield. Hell, we're going Speaker 1 01:02:54 Hell. How? I mean, that division is, that division is pretty weak right now. No, Speaker 3 01:02:58 It is weak. Speaker 1 01:02:59 Brady Brady's coming towards the end. The the dates are very much the eighth. He's coming. Speaker 2 01:03:03 Katie is not coming towards the Speaker 1 01:03:05 End right now. He's like, Speaker 2 01:03:05 His family life just fell apart. That's what I'm saying. Now he's pissed. Oh, Speaker 1 01:03:08 Now he's got four more Speaker 2 01:03:09 Years. Dude, I just said that he's gotta be not this year. Speaker 3 01:03:12 He just said that Four more. I literal just said he's Speaker 1 01:03:14 Gotta make back all the money that Gi gi ask Speaker 3 01:03:16 You this taking May have lost the game this year and may have lost Aaron, but his wife just left. Him and his kids are running away taking Speaker 2 01:03:23 Angry. He's money from Giselle. But Speaker 3 01:03:24 He's angry. Speaker 2 01:03:24 You're tripping. Giselle's got more money Speaker 3 01:03:26 Than Tom. That's about Speaker 2 01:03:27 You. Speaker 1 01:03:27 She's his wife's got, I did not know that way. Speaker 2 01:03:29 More money. Way more now. Not a little bit. So like if there's no prenup there, Tom is is winning big Speaker 3 01:03:36 Winning Tom. And now he's gonna win flying. I guarantee he gets to least two more Super Bowls before he retires. I don't, he's too crazy. Guarantee he's pissed. He's he's pissed. Speaker 2 01:03:45 Let me ask you this. If you're his kids and you're getting that age, do you want your dad to keep playing? Yeah. Speaker 1 01:03:50 Do you wanna be keep Speaker 2 01:03:51 Winning? What? Are you nuts play to you? 57. I love Speaker 3 01:03:55 He probably could. I'd be Speaker 2 01:03:56 In my bag if I was in high school. My dad's Tom Brady, he's still playing. Could you imagine going home crying? Like come home, hang out. Like, no, leave. I'm partying. I'm having a blast. What are you talking about? Like crying at the house? Yeah. Speaker 3 01:04:10 Come they're throwing raids like I'm Brady Candy. Speaker 2 01:04:12 You're about come hang out your dad's Tom Brady. Yeah. Play football. That's why you're here. Speaker 1 01:04:18 That's what you're on this earth to do. Yeah. That's what he's here for. Um, I would say Speaker 3 01:04:22 So what are you saying? If you don't, if he, he's I That is a stress gonna the Speaker 2 01:04:25 New football Speaker 1 01:04:26 Giant. No, we're not. No. Speaker 3 01:04:27 I Speaker 1 01:04:28 I'm happy if we win seven. My outlook going into this year is, I was happy if we win six or seven games. Well, you're one, you've been so bad for so long. Speaker 3 01:04:35 And I'm, I'm not trying to take anything away, but I will say this and mark my words, Speaker 2 01:04:41 I'm Speaker 3 01:04:41 Hammered. Buffalo Bills gave you Brian da you're four and one Speaker 1 01:04:45 And, and, um, and Joe, um, Joe Show. Our GM was your assistant gm. You're welcome. Yeah, it's great. You're welcome. I mean, you could say the same thing about the Giants to the Patriots too. All the Patriots dynasty came off the Giants teams from the eighties and nineties. That's facts. They all came from there. Does do you know Speaker 3 01:04:59 This? This is crazy. You should not be in music. You should be straight up on espn. You should Sports' Speaker 1 01:05:03 Fine. It'd be, I don't know anybody in sport. I don't know Speaker 3 01:05:06 Any of the sports guys. Let's find people Speaker 2 01:05:07 Figure out right here. <laugh> Speaker 3 01:05:10 Pound Speaker 1 01:05:10 It in Speaker 3 01:05:11 Sports. He know I'm right Speaker 2 01:05:12 Here. I'm in sports and I got four years left. I got eligibility. Speaker 1 01:05:16 You got eligibility. Speaker 2 01:05:17 I'll go back. I'm gonna give you the, oh, I don't know if I can give this one out. I Speaker 4 01:05:20 Just keep picturing him running down the court with the split Flo. Speaker 2 01:05:23 I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give this out right now, but I'm gonna give this out right now. But I don't know if we can put it out yet. We might have to take it out. Okay. But I'm gonna give you the album. Right. When I do the album Former athlete, that's gonna be the album. And my whole promo is gonna be me going back to college trying out for a team Speaker 3 01:05:41 That's elite. Speaker 2 01:05:42 No shit. It's gonna be the whole bet. You Speaker 1 01:05:43 Could probably, probably Speaker 2 01:05:44 And I might fuck around and make the team. So y'all just fucking, Speaker 1 01:05:48 Y'all just fucking, Speaker 2 01:05:50 So y'all just fucking wait. You just wait till I pick the sport. Cause any he I I can do four. What all, what are the four? Four? I can play competitively. Four. I can play competitive. D two sports. Speaker 1 01:06:03 D two. All right. Speaker 2 01:06:05 I could play D one and one I think. I think in what ball? I could play competitively. Golf, basketball. I could play, I could play small D two basketball and not be the worst player on the team. You can get Speaker 1 01:06:16 Minutes. I believe that you can get minutes. Speaker 2 01:06:18 Probably wouldn't get minutes. Could be not the worst player on the team. Fine. <laugh>. They Speaker 1 01:06:22 Baseball, they put you in just for Speaker 2 01:06:24 Baseball mind. You need two months to lose some weight. That's fine. Yeah, I'll be right back. You could do that. Baseball D two baseball. Speaker 3 01:06:31 That's a lot. Speaker 2 01:06:31 Money. Speaker 1 01:06:32 What are you playing? You DH Speaker 2 01:06:33 Shortstop. You trip shortstop? I am a steel trap. Ball's going nowhere. I'm him. They think it's funny. I'm really him. I'm nice. I'm so glad. Shortstop up the middle too. Like right there. Right there. I dare you got an absolute whip. No chance. Ball's not going anywhere. You're out. Go back to the dugout. Golf. I'm him. I can really play that game. That's yeah. Not funny anymore. Is it? Where do you golf at? I can golf. I'm Speaker 3 01:07:02 Laughing. I mean, I didn't laugh at all, but Speaker 2 01:07:04 No Speaker 1 01:07:04 Golf. Where do you do you golf at? Around here. You a you an old Hickory guy. Speaker 2 01:07:07 I played Old Hickory with Aaron, uh, couple weeks ago. Played so well. Oh my God. I was him. Oh my God. Man. Tennis. I can play tennis. Speaker 3 01:07:17 You shoot. What's your handicap? Speaker 2 01:07:19 I'm shooting. I'm shooting right now. Never had a, never had my own set of clubs. Golf. Here we go. Golf. Golf. Like tennis. No Speaker 1 01:07:28 Stipulations. Golf. Like Speaker 2 01:07:29 Five, 10 times a year. 10 times a year. Speaker 3 01:07:31 He starts with the, the Speaker 2 01:07:33 Excuses and then roll. I, I'm shooting. I'm shooting 70, 77 to 81 from what's his, from the tips. I hit the ball a mile. Really? Oh, you're nuts. I'm hitting the ball through 10. Doug. I'm really him on that game. I could really, that's the one I could do. I could really play the game of golf. Really? You gave me three months to really golf. You gave me a month to really golf. I could get around two over three over even Speaker 1 01:07:58 Have, have you been out with Daley yet? Speaker 2 01:08:00 No. God, I'd lose it. Fuck. Speaker 3 01:08:01 That would be depend Speaker 1 01:08:03 You. I should. It's not out their own. Poss is that old? He is that the hick all Speaker 2 01:08:06 The time? No. Yeah. Yeah. That's on. Have you Speaker 1 01:08:08 Partied Speaker 2 01:08:08 With Daley? No, that's on Aaron. If Aaron wants me to party with Daley, I'll party with Daley. Speaker 1 01:08:12 <laugh>. That would be, I think the world, the universe would just, just if Speaker 2 01:08:15 Me earn in Daley, Speaker 1 01:08:16 That just over Speaker 2 01:08:18 It's earned. And then it like now I'm Aaron's son as Speaker 1 01:08:21 Well. Yeah. It's the lineage. Speaker 2 01:08:22 Daley is earn is his son. I'll be the son And like we all just be big together. Speaker 1 01:08:27 Just get after Speaker 3 01:08:30 Be together. Family tree. Speaker 2 01:08:31 Yeah, we're in it. So yeah, that. I'll do one of those. That'll be the bit. And don't make me play volleyball. I'll be the best libero you've ever Speaker 3 01:08:38 Seen. Oh Speaker 1 01:08:38 My. Oh, you'll be wearing that jersey. Them short. Those spans. Soapy shorts. Speaker 3 01:08:42 We're going to the ba. Hey, what just happened? Speaker 1 01:08:46 Let's go to the Y after this. You Speaker 3 01:08:47 Said four. They did not expect volleyball to come out your mouth. But I'm, Hey, I'm, Speaker 2 01:08:51 The worst part is I'm dead serious. That's the worst part. Can't play football. I can play it too small. Too big. Same time. Speaker 1 01:08:59 Beita football. Like this Speaker 2 01:09:00 Way, this, this way. Too small, too big this way. So it's like this, bro, I could play fallback. Speaker 1 01:09:06 I use a fallback. Speaker 2 01:09:07 I Middle Speaker 1 01:09:08 Scott Speaker 3 01:09:09 Check bro. You could, you could, could easily hit a used check. Fuck it Kyle. Use check bro. Right off the slot. Speaker 2 01:09:14 I could be the slot. Speaker 3 01:09:16 Well, no, I mean like full back position. Lemme Speaker 2 01:09:17 Lose some weight. Speaker 1 01:09:18 Flat going out to the flat Speaker 3 01:09:20 End. Full back. Yeah. Full back position. That's my whole belt into the flat. And then just pick up that first down kid. Well Speaker 2 01:09:24 I will get the first, I will get you two yards. I will get there fourth and two. I will get the two. Hey. Or that like I will get the two. Gimme one good block. Hey, I will get the two Speaker 3 01:09:32 That like fake fake running back toss. Yeah, pull back, hand off without the middle. Speaker 2 01:09:35 I'm telling you. Speaker 1 01:09:36 Were you ever a wrestler? <laugh>, you're a wrestling guy. Cause you're from the Midwest where wrestling is king. No, Speaker 2 01:09:40 Wrestling. Not gonna say it. We all know what I was gonna say. Not gonna say it. Not gonna fucking say it, but it's Speaker 1 01:09:46 So big out in Nebraska, Iowa, all that Speaker 2 01:09:49 Shit. All my boys are wrestling. You're all corny. And you, you're lucky. I'm on a podcast. <laugh>. You're lucky. I'm on a I feel like Speaker 1 01:09:57 You, I feel like Speaker 2 01:09:58 Go Speaker 1 01:09:58 At it. I feel like you would do well though. And David, Speaker 2 01:10:03 Me and David on tour got this all on video. We Speaker 3 01:10:06 Were rese. No, you guys wanna, and we're one and one. Did you put a circle? Because Speaker 2 01:10:10 We in a green room numbers, Speaker 5 01:10:11 Like he'll come up behind you and, and catch you and then won't let, Speaker 2 01:10:15 But we, we squared up. He'll Speaker 5 01:10:16 Be like, he'll be like, oh no, no, no. Like I had you, I had you Speaker 2 01:10:19 Remember this. That's dirty Eric, remember this. Remember this. Right? You hear what Speaker 3 01:10:23 He, this conversation? Yeah. We have video. Speaker 2 01:10:24 So Speaker 5 01:10:24 I got him one back where he wasn't looking. So we both had one. He was chirping the mic saying blah, Speaker 2 01:10:29 Blah, blah. I'm him. Speaker 5 01:10:31 And I'm like, all right, let's run it back for real. And we, we got a little circle going in the green room. Like Speaker 2 01:10:36 Tiny green. Speaker 3 01:10:36 The circles the best part. The circle's the best part. Speaker 2 01:10:39 Oh dude. And we got into a real one and we Speaker 5 01:10:41 Did it. I almost had him split. Second he gets out of it. He puts me in a guillotine. I slip out of it. And we were too gassed to even Speaker 2 01:10:48 Down. We almost Speaker 1 01:10:49 Get each was like Speaker 3 01:10:51 Anybody shoulders down or No? Speaker 2 01:10:52 No. Well first of all, we were not wrestling for points. We were wrestling to tap a guy out. <laugh>. Speaker 3 01:10:58 Y'all were trying to choke each other out up. We couldn't go to sleep. Both of us bro. Go to sleep, bro. Speaker 2 01:11:03 We're already gased. Speaker 1 01:11:03 You guys are exhausted. I am Speaker 2 01:11:05 Hammer. Speaker 1 01:11:05 You're probably sweaty as fuck, Speaker 2 01:11:07 But we're Speaker 1 01:11:08 Sweating it out in the wife feeder bro. Do you have your, Speaker 2 01:11:10 It was crazy. Speaker 3 01:11:11 Y'all were trying to put each other to sleep. Speaker 2 01:11:12 Oh, a hundred percent <laugh>. And I wasn't gonna, Speaker 1 01:11:15 When loser to the Speaker 2 01:11:16 Bus, I almost did fall asleep. And then I, and I snuck my way out cuz he got tired. <laugh>. And I grinded it out and then I got him back. It was a grind. Cammy is still messed up. Like Yeah bro. We got Speaker 3 01:11:25 So you really think you're him though at volleyball? Speaker 2 01:11:26 Yeah. No, I am him at volleyball, bro. I'm good with these Speaker 3 01:11:29 Sports. Like Speaker 2 01:11:29 The height thing you got. I'm telling you I lobero. Speaker 3 01:11:33 Oh you're dude, you're kid in the middle. Speaker 2 01:11:34 I'm the libero. What are you crazy? All the stocky chicks. So you get Speaker 3 01:11:37 Spiked Speaker 2 01:11:37 On bang. All the stocky chicks are berros. Speaker 1 01:11:39 Yeah, they're very, that's, Speaker 3 01:11:40 I don't even know what the hell that means, Speaker 2 01:11:41 Bro. Spike. I'm the guy that's going. I'm Speaker 1 01:11:44 The, it's like the quarterback setting. Everybody. It's the point card guard, the volleyball Speaker 2 01:11:47 Spike. Speaker 3 01:11:48 So Speaker 2 01:11:48 You, your hand. You could be the the, they're gonna be sick when I call 'em a spiker. But you're gonna be the spiker. You can be the setter or the lobero runs around and just make it safe. Like let's keep this ball alive so my good players can win. Speaker 3 01:12:01 You are. You're the Yeah, I got it. Okay. That's what it is. You are the him. I'm just Speaker 2 01:12:04 Yeah. I'm I'm the him. I'm the her. So that's the bit. Speaker 1 01:12:09 Yeah. Speaker 2 01:12:10 You guys will see it. It's gonna be a good bit. Speaker 1 01:12:11 Hell yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:12:12 Well I really am the sports guy. Speaker 1 01:12:13 Well I really appreciate you guys. You're gonna Speaker 3 01:12:15 Try all four sports Speaker 1 01:12:16 Though. Come on. Yeah, we're we're gonna stay too for this. This is gonna be a real thing. We're gonna try out all, we're gonna watch sports. Speaker 2 01:12:20 All sports. I'm gonna try at colleges. Speaker 1 01:12:22 You should do it. Speaker 2 01:12:23 I might be drunk. You Speaker 1 01:12:24 Could do it as part of the tour too. Speaker 2 01:12:26 No, I wanna go for it. I wanna go. I wanna go try and make a team and then the whole bit if you did. Cause I'm gonna go down with a fake injury. Like I, oh he twisted his ankle. That's why I didn't make it. Speaker 1 01:12:36 It's like no shit is playing in Sandals album. Speaker 2 01:12:38 And then yeah, Speaker 1 01:12:39 It would make sense. You're trying to run 40 on dash sands Speaker 2 01:12:42 Busting. I'm running a 6 4 40. Just cooking. Just running straight up and down, Speaker 3 01:12:49 Bro. I don't know if you'd have a six four. I think it'd be like seven two. Speaker 2 01:12:51 You tripping. I'm running a four seven and you wish Speaker 1 01:12:53 We're gonna go run. We're gonna do it do 40 times Speaker 3 01:12:55 In the, should do this outside. Like right now. Speaker 1 01:12:57 We'll do it in the hallway. We got content here. We'll do Speaker 2 01:12:59 It. Well you know, you know you get faster in in hallways do Speaker 1 01:13:02 You? Speaker 3 01:13:02 A hundred percent always. You've never heard that bro. No. Speaker 2 01:13:04 Hotel Speaker 3 01:13:04 Hallways. Hotel hallways. Speaker 2 01:13:06 Wait, you're running way faster. Speaker 3 01:13:07 Especially when you think someone's behind you. You're gone. Speaker 2 01:13:09 Everybody, everybody's cooking gone though down the hotel hallway. Speaker 3 01:13:12 And if you do the little, little knock knock on the hall on the hotel door, you gotta cook to hit that exit. You know what Speaker 2 01:13:17 I'm saying? You gotta get out. Yeah. Long hallway kick out. Speaker 3 01:13:20 Like Speaker 2 01:13:21 God forbid bang. God forbid Coach finds out. Speaker 3 01:13:24 Oh man, she's, Speaker 4 01:13:25 We'll go up to that one up there and knock on their door. Cause they're always banging on the roof. Speaker 1 01:13:30 Yeah, we got loud neighbors upstairs. Let's go get 'em then we'll go. We'll go get 'em. Let's go, let's Speaker 2 01:13:34 Get go get Speaker 1 01:13:34 'em. Where, where can folks go to find you guys? It's Eric Van. How music and what skis? Just just Speaker 2 01:13:39 Skis. Speaker 3 01:13:41 Van. Speaker 1 01:13:41 Oh, is that Eric Van Howen? Speaker 3 01:13:42 That's it. Eric Van Howen. Hell yeah. H o u t e n. It's a weird name. I get it. I Speaker 2 01:13:46 Like it. Thanks Speaker 3 01:13:47 Man. Speaker 2 01:13:47 It's official. Skis. Speaker 1 01:13:49 Skis. Just, Speaker 2 01:13:50 Just, Speaker 1 01:13:51 And then, and then you guys got stuff, obviously Apple Music, Spotify. Oh yeah. All that shit. All this stuff. All the info on the websites. We're excited for the new music. I can't wait to hear what you guys wrote together. I'm really stoked for that man. That's Speaker 2 01:14:02 About, we'll tell him the name of it. Yeah. Dance in the living room. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:14:05 Oh fuck yeah. And Speaker 2 01:14:06 It's, it's up. It's a weird, it's a weird little, it's a weird little Speaker 3 01:14:10 Genre. It's like R b r and B. Motown meets like Bieber I think. Speaker 2 01:14:14 Yeah. Nice <laugh>. Yeah. Except it's not in the garage. So by the way no <laugh>. We can't, you can't take that. We could take that. I'll take that. Speaker 1 01:14:25 Hell yeah. Speaker 2 01:14:26 Why? Can, could you imagine if we had that one dude, we'd be rich. That would be, we might be Might. No. Yeah, we're on our Bruno Mars Speaker 3 01:14:33 Hook is Bruno. Yeah, that's a better way to do it. Speaker 2 01:14:35 The hook is on our Bruno Mars. Yeah, we're Speaker 3 01:14:36 On our Speaker 1 01:14:36 Bruno Mars. If you hit on something like that, you got all the convertible minivans you could ever want. Yeah, Speaker 2 01:14:40 I'll buy all, got a fleet of them. Fleet Funniest part is the lady that listed it, she's like, yo, that one might get sold, but I'm making another one. I think you Speaker 1 01:14:47 Oh, she's Speaker 2 01:14:47 Making, you're making another one. You got a plug? You got the plug. There's a plug. I, yo, if I just buy one of these, can you make it like, who knows? Can Speaker 1 01:14:54 You get one from my crew? Can we have a couple of Speaker 3 01:14:56 'em? Yeah. I'm not gonna bloody, my thing is like the old school whips now. Like I have an 88 F-150. Oh nice. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get my boy and I Speaker 2 01:15:02 Got a 2002 caravan shot off Speaker 3 01:15:04 And my, our buddy will's trying to buy like a seventies Cadillac. Like widebody. Yeah. I'm just trying to get everybody on the old school car kick and just get like, let's just, let's scratch anything Speaker 1 01:15:14 The caravan fits in there. Anything Speaker 3 01:15:15 Over 92? My Speaker 2 01:15:16 Caravan's. Perfect. No, Speaker 1 01:15:17 I think, I think oh two. Oh that's Speaker 3 01:15:18 A vibe. Speaker 1 01:15:18 Oh, two fits. That counts. That's two is Speaker 3 01:15:20 20 years. That counts. Oh Speaker 2 01:15:22 Five earlier. I Speaker 1 01:15:23 About oh five. I don't about oh five. Speaker 3 01:15:25 I would say 20 years. Cuz 20 years makes Speaker 1 01:15:27 Yeah, 20 years and further the back Speaker 3 01:15:28 20 years makes it uh uh, what do they call a classic? Yeah. And then 30 years makes it an antique. That's what they say. Speaker 2 01:15:34 Well what the fuck? So I'm a classics. Speaker 3 01:15:36 You're about to be classic Speaker 2 01:15:37 Whip classic. I'm a classic. You're Speaker 3 01:15:39 A classic. Hey, I'm in the vintage. I'm in the Speaker 2 01:15:41 Vintage game. You're a classic. Oh, you're classic. Speaker 3 01:15:43 I'm an antique Speaker 2 01:15:44 Bro. You're an antique. I'm classic. I'm a classic. Hell Speaker 1 01:15:47 Yeah. Well guys, this was a, this was an absolute blast. Really appreciate you guys taking time man. Man. Appreciate your, can you run 40 times upstairs? That's what I'm looking for right now. Our ass off. I'm hammering. Speaker 2 01:15:55 Hell yeah. I'm Speaker 3 01:15:56 Literally drunk right now. We're Speaker 2 01:15:57 Gonna have to go take it out. Yeah, Speaker 1 01:15:59 Go sweat it out. Macwas probably feeling a little buzzed up there too. I'll sweet boy behind camera. Speaker 3 01:16:02 How many be you had Speaker 1 01:16:03 Man? How did you get through all three? Speaker 2 01:16:04 Nah, I'm about halfway through 30. Alright, good. That's pretty. You're moving. Good. I caught a lot of Speaker 1 01:16:09 Fireball. You did. Speaker 3 01:16:10 I tequila on ice in here and I'm regretting it, but I'm also happy I did it. Speaker 2 01:16:14 You go, Hey, Speaker 1 01:16:14 We're we're partying on a Tuesday. We're having a good time. We'll Speaker 3 01:16:17 See you. Let's, yeah, we'll see you at the round in about, we'll Speaker 2 01:16:19 See Speaker 3 01:16:19 Five hours Speaker 1 01:16:20 Dude. It's gonna be Oh yeah. Five hours. Speaker 2 01:16:23 I won't but i'll there. Yeah, you can imagine. I'm gonna be acting in five hours. Speaker 1 01:16:26 Dude. It's gonna be, it's gonna be a blast. Speaker 3 01:16:27 You're gonna need two more packs of American spirits. I need a Speaker 2 01:16:30 Minimal. Nice. Speaker 1 01:16:31 You'll get, you'll get those for sure. But, uh, but guys, appreciate it, you guys as always for watching at home. Uh, big shout out to our friends from Whale Tale Media, Saxon Studios, our friends at Pickle Jar and of course our boy Mitch with the Digital Marketing Agency. Thanks as always for watching. Be sure to like rate, subscribe, check out our boys, Eric Van Houghton and skis. Great music out there. Be on the lookout for a cutoff saw off Minivan coming to Nashville, Tennessee soon. Um, you'll be sure to check them out. Until next time. Thank you guys again. This has been the In The Round podcast.