0:00

One Skin is redefining

0:02

the aging process with

0:04

their proprietary OS1 peptide.

0:07

The first ingredient proven to

0:09

help skin look, feel, and

0:12

behave like its younger self.

0:14

Get 50% off with code

0:16

random at One Skin.co. That's

0:19

15% off at One Skin.co. with

0:21

code random. After you purchase, they'll

0:23

ask you where you heard about

0:25

them. Please support our show and

0:28

tell them we sent you. Invest

0:30

in the health and longevity of

0:32

your skin with one skin. Your

0:34

future self will thank you.

0:36

If I've said it once, I've

0:39

said it a thousand times. Why

0:41

can't I have a larger detergent

0:43

that smells of Spanish leather, Siberian

0:45

pine, or Italian burgamont?

0:47

Well folks, my prayers. Thank God

0:50

have been answered and they've been

0:52

answered by this week's sponsor.

0:54

Laundry Sauce, for a limited

0:56

time only, our listeners get

0:58

20% off your entire order when

1:00

you use code random at

1:02

laundry sauce.com. That's 20% off

1:04

your order at laundry sauce.com with

1:07

promo code random. Smell good, look

1:09

good, feel good with laundry

1:11

sauce. The start of a

1:13

new year is the perfect

1:15

time to get organized and rocket

1:18

money shows me all of

1:20

my subscriptions right in one

1:22

place and helps me easily cancel

1:24

ones that I forgot I've

1:26

been paying for. Rocket Money's dashboard

1:29

gives you a clear view

1:31

of your expenses across all of

1:33

your accounts. Cancell your unwanted descriptions

1:35

and reach your financial goals

1:37

faster with rocket money. Go to

1:40

rocket money.com/random today. That's rocket

1:42

money.com/random. Rocket money.com/random.

1:45

I see her play for the first

1:47

time and I was like that

1:49

may be the biggest star I've

1:51

ever seen. You knew right then?

1:54

Right then. You get blood all

1:56

over you if you're all over

1:58

you. And you want that? That's

2:00

just the way it is.

2:03

Jesus, what a bunch of

2:05

redness. I like this, uh,

2:07

did you dress me or

2:10

did I dress you? Oh

2:12

yeah. What a great pleasure

2:14

to meet you. Hey, great

2:17

to see. Music royalty in

2:19

the house. Oh well, royalty.

2:21

Royalties, uh, careful with that

2:24

one. Are you, uh, here

2:26

for the Grammys or the

2:29

fire? We're doing, we're taping

2:31

idle tomorrow. But are you

2:33

involved in the Grammys this

2:35

year? It's coming up in

2:38

a minute, right? It's coming

2:40

up and kind of missed

2:42

out on some Grammy nominations

2:44

through the years. Sweetheart, you're

2:46

talking to the old time.

2:49

I've had 40 nominations and

2:51

they would never give it

2:53

to me. So, it's not

2:55

about me. Is it Susan

2:57

Luci? Is that the right

3:00

reference? I understand where it

3:02

comes from. Oh, ice there.

3:04

But, um, well, let's, what

3:06

could I, uh, CCC, I

3:09

haven't drank yet today. Yeah.

3:11

Because I'm on, I'm gonna

3:13

do vodka grapefruit. Oh, and,

3:15

uh. And you bring your

3:17

own grapefruit? No, you got,

3:20

provided. Good. Somebody, uh, one

3:22

of your people, uh, yeah.

3:24

I'll take that, I'll try

3:26

that one. Do a little

3:28

half shot, that. Sure. on

3:31

the staff who just handles

3:33

grapefruit. That's what a borer

3:35

I am, Luke. Are you

3:37

serious though? No, of course.

3:39

You're kidding. Well, I do.

3:42

Hell, I'll fix it and

3:44

say we're... What do you

3:46

have, like, a big-ass ranch,

3:48

I'm guessing? Bill, I, um,

3:51

really, fortunate. I... Cheers. Don't

3:53

be modest. Thank you for

3:55

coming. Thank you. I highly

3:57

overpored, but we'll fix that.

4:00

Now it's good. So my

4:02

business manager called me years

4:04

ago 2011 and one of

4:06

his one of his clients

4:09

in town had a farm

4:11

that was coming on the

4:13

market I had just started

4:15

getting to where I was

4:18

making a little money and

4:20

could start thinking about

4:22

a farm and a place to

4:24

kind of settle and we

4:27

Found a hundred. It's about a

4:29

hundred fifty acres about 20 minutes

4:31

south of Nashville Literally cow pastures

4:33

where you guys all live. I'm

4:36

surprised there's not much land still

4:38

available since everybody seems to have

4:40

the same fucking ranch with the

4:42

cow pasture Don't they butt up

4:44

against each other? Isn't like Brad

4:46

Paisley's cows always coming on your

4:48

land and car? Brad's got his

4:51

farm in the holler and the

4:53

holler and the holler He's kind

4:55

of in a holler, I'm in

4:57

some, I'm in a cow pasture,

4:59

I'll build up. I thought a holler

5:01

and the only thing I

5:03

know about a holler is

5:06

from the movie was Sissy's

5:08

Basic. Right. Where she played

5:10

Loretta Lynn? Right, a coal

5:12

miner's daughter. Butcher holler? Butcher

5:14

holler? I think you're holler.

5:16

I always thought a holler

5:18

was like a ghetto in

5:20

the country, like like really

5:22

a holler. A bad kind

5:25

of poor area, but country

5:27

version. Well. A

5:29

holler, the best way to

5:32

describe a holler is there's a

5:34

there's an old classic

5:36

song that Brad actually,

5:39

Brad Paisley actually,

5:41

re-recorded called You'll

5:44

Never Leave Harlan Alive

5:46

and it's the famous line is

5:49

the sun comes up about 10

5:51

in the morning and it goes

5:53

down about three in the day.

5:56

So a holler... is your you

5:58

got two mountains it's a

6:00

Essentially an Appalachian Valley It's what

6:02

a a gully a gully a

6:04

Glenn a Glenn or is it?

6:06

Well, you know like from Glenn

6:08

to Glenn You know that from

6:10

Danny boy, right? You know Danny

6:13

boy. Don't know Dan. Oh, come

6:15

on. Is that a so Danny

6:17

boy everybody oh Danny boy? The

6:19

same is that a is that

6:21

a musical? It's like the Irish

6:23

anthem Danny Boy, I'm sure. Hell,

6:25

I'm redneck, I don't know. Everybody

6:27

knows that no matter what color

6:29

their neck is. Go back to

6:31

your crew on Idol and ask

6:33

them about Danny Boy and they'll

6:35

all go and they'll all say.

6:37

Well, is it a musical? Oh,

6:39

Danny Boy. No, it's like it.

6:41

It's like the Irish traditional folk

6:43

song. It's with bagpipes, it's awful.

6:45

I've heard it. You've heard it.

6:47

I'm not probably singing it well,

6:49

but that to me is what

6:51

I feel like. Because you know,

6:53

I mean, Ireland, places like that,

6:55

that's my heritage. You know, very

6:58

similar in ways to Appalachia and,

7:00

you know, very rural, clanish. I

7:02

mean, the southern part of the

7:04

United States. has sort of its

7:06

character because it was founded and

7:08

populated by Scots and Irish. Have

7:10

you ever seen Gone With The

7:12

Wind? Certainly. Okay, Scarlet O'Hara. Right.

7:14

And her father has the Brog.

7:16

My Brian was an original, an

7:18

O'Brien. Oh, is that right? And

7:20

they moved the, and my mother

7:22

is adopted. So what was funny

7:24

is we never knew anything. I've

7:26

always had dark complexion and we

7:28

always thought that I had maybe

7:30

some Native American in here or

7:32

something like that, but we, I'm

7:34

33% Scandinavian and about 20% Irish.

7:36

So, another 2%? 2%? 2% what?

7:38

2% West, West African? You are.

7:41

Yeah. Oh, you had your thing

7:43

done? You had your... Wow! Two

7:45

percent in West... Yeah. Yeah. Well,

7:47

that didn't come over on the

7:49

May fly. That was such a

7:51

much worship. Yeah, we did some

7:53

bad things, but you know, the

7:55

good thing is, as Obama used

7:57

to say, the Ark. goes, bends

7:59

more toward justice. You know, we

8:01

keep, I think, basically getting better.

8:03

I mean, don't tell that to

8:05

the kids, because they like to

8:07

believe that things- I think- I

8:09

have to live with the hope

8:11

that we are getting better. I

8:13

believe it. You're sparking out over

8:15

there? It's hysterical that these things,

8:17

I say this every week, but

8:19

how did they burn down half

8:21

of Vietnam with these Zippo lighters?

8:23

I just can never get, I

8:26

get it at home, I put

8:28

the lighterer in, the fluid, the

8:30

fluid. and then I get here

8:32

and it never works. Here you

8:34

go. And I have to, but

8:36

I don't want that one. I

8:38

want, I want it to look

8:40

like this. Cool. These look, see

8:42

Bill, you even do the cool

8:44

flick? Cool, I can't even do

8:46

it with two hands. It's not

8:48

me, it's this fucking thing. I

8:50

don't know why I don't know

8:52

why, I don't know what I'm

8:54

doing. I may get a cigar.

8:56

You can. I mean, I never

8:58

understand when anyone sees season when

9:00

anyone sees them them, but if

9:02

they're them, but if it, but

9:04

if it, but if it, but

9:06

if it, but if it, but

9:08

if it, but if it, but

9:11

if it, but if it, but

9:13

if it, but if it, but

9:15

if it makes you have makes

9:17

you, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,

9:19

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,

9:21

I'm, I'm, I want to, I

9:23

No, it's just a little recreational.

9:25

I don't know how to do

9:27

it that much. I mean, I'm

9:29

sure there are people who've sat

9:31

right there who do it all

9:33

day long, you know, but I

9:35

never was that kind of guy.

9:37

But for a special occasion with

9:39

a special person, it's great to

9:41

get to know you. You know,

9:43

I have to be honest, growing

9:45

up in New Jersey, you know,

9:47

country music was just not on

9:49

my radar. It's just not something

9:51

we did. So I'm slowly catching

9:53

up to it because like for

9:56

so long and it was my

9:58

fault I just wrote it off

10:00

as like that's just a different

10:02

kind of music that I don't

10:04

and then slowly I you know

10:06

starting like back in the 90s

10:08

with I remember Brooks and Dunn

10:10

and then Obama used to play

10:12

there only in America song which

10:14

I love this is not my

10:16

granddaddy's country you know it's a

10:18

great electric morphed into Americana and

10:20

with rock and roll and I

10:22

tell you when I go play

10:24

when I'm in Jersey when when

10:26

I'm up there in that part

10:28

of When I'm up

10:30

there in that part of the

10:33

world and I see... Part of

10:35

the world. Well, that's... Well, like

10:37

we're Eskimos. It's fucking New Jersey.

10:40

We have a turnpike. Look. We

10:42

have a turnpike. That you pay

10:44

a toll on. Oh, we pay

10:47

too many tolls. So... Too high

10:49

taxes. The, um... The... And when

10:51

I say that when you grow

10:54

up in South Georgia and you...

10:56

start your music journey, and then

10:58

you arrive in New Jersey, and

11:01

people are screaming your music. It's

11:03

one of the most proudest moments

11:05

you could have as a musician,

11:08

because, and what was my term

11:10

I use? Up there? What did

11:12

I just say? You people? That

11:15

part of the world. That part

11:17

of the world. That part of

11:19

the world. That unexplored foreign land.

11:22

Mark, grab me a cigar out

11:24

of my green bag, please, if

11:26

you get them in it. Done.

11:29

Sit here and let this man

11:31

smoke alone. Club cigarettes? That's where

11:33

I used to... call it because

11:36

I thought they wouldn't let me

11:38

do it but yes so again

11:40

we've changed so much 32 years

11:42

old thirty two years ago reluctantly

11:45

tried weed and man it's been

11:47

something that I've never never done

11:49

a lot of but I don't

11:52

have those stigmas reluctantly. Because man,

11:54

I grew up in the Bible

11:56

Belt where it was billed, it

11:59

was seriously. What does the Bible

12:01

say about it? Because I don't

12:03

remember anything. Well, I don't even

12:06

know why they called it the

12:08

Bible Belt until somebody explained it

12:10

to me. I don't remember anything.

12:13

I don't even know why they

12:15

called it the Bible Belt until

12:17

somebody explained it to me. I

12:20

don't remember anything about not sparking

12:22

up. you know, that it would

12:24

corrupt you or, you know, whatever

12:27

they've said later about it, that...

12:29

Well, oh... Devil's Week. No, no,

12:31

no, no. Gateway. Gateway. Well, actually,

12:34

it's funny, that's ironic, because the

12:36

Gateway drug is actually beer. Which

12:38

is... Well, and your parents beer.

12:41

Well, I mean, the love that

12:43

you country people have for beer.

12:45

It's just something I've never ever

12:48

seen on this earth. I mean

12:50

that the devotion to the singing

12:52

about it the incombium well and

12:55

I've I've hit a subject a

12:57

lot. I don't I never understand

12:59

that that the amount of songs

13:02

that well it's you know beer

13:04

is really ingrained in the culture

13:06

I mean we it's made a

13:09

grain. from the football aspects of

13:11

growing up in the South to

13:13

sharing your first beer with your

13:16

dad, to sneaking your first beer,

13:18

trying to buy your first beer,

13:20

you know, with a fake ID.

13:23

Wait, so you drank it with

13:25

your dad before you snook it?

13:27

Well, you know, when we were

13:30

kids, I think if we were

13:32

on a hunting trip or a

13:34

fishing trip, as a kid, you'd

13:37

have a beer. Well, you'd be,

13:39

you'd go, dad, what does beer

13:41

taste like? and your dad hands

13:44

you a bud wiser and you

13:46

taste it and spit it out

13:48

of the boat. But so I

13:51

just think it's it's a part

13:53

of our it's ingrained in our

13:55

culture as and it just It's

13:58

involved in when we play shows

14:00

and honky talks and the fabric

14:02

of, I mean, heck, when you

14:05

look at, there's a tear in

14:07

my beer, Hank, Hank Williams,

14:09

and that was 60 years ago,

14:11

so it's, beers, beers are pretty.

14:13

Yeah, no, it's almost liturgical. It's

14:16

almost like anointment, like a sacrament.

14:18

There's something almost... But did beer

14:20

not mean that? Was it not

14:22

that much? I hate beer. I

14:24

think beer is gross. I mean,

14:26

I've drunk way too much liquor

14:28

in my life. It wasn't beer.

14:30

I feel like beer is a

14:32

poor man's liquor. It's gassy. You

14:35

need to drink a shit load

14:37

of it to get high. You

14:39

know, I don't like wine either.

14:41

I think wine is another. something.

14:43

This shit's like 90. Get to

14:45

the point. Yes, it's so funny

14:47

you guys, you like beer and

14:50

moonshine. Either 3% alcohol

14:52

or 200. You're ingesting

14:54

3,000 calories or you're

14:56

blackout in 10 minutes.

14:58

You know Larry Flint

15:00

used to give me moonshine.

15:02

Larry Flint, remember him?

15:04

Yeah. Hustler guy. Club

15:06

random. I'm getting the random

15:09

now. The random is. Right.

15:11

Right we try to live up to

15:13

our name well, but I never like

15:15

beer I remember the I think it

15:17

was the first thing I ever drank

15:19

because I have a memory of being

15:22

I don't know 14 or something and

15:24

at night at night with a bunch

15:26

of other Naredo well Oh, we were

15:28

a rough gang there in New Jersey.

15:30

Oh, we grew up on the mean

15:32

streets well The mean circular driveways of

15:35

Bergen County, New Jersey. No, we weren't

15:37

rich at all, but it was, you

15:39

know, like lower middle class. We had

15:41

a little house. And so we went

15:43

on the golf course and drank rolling

15:46

rock beers, rolling rock. Did you have

15:48

that in this out? We had rolling

15:50

rock. They were called green grenades. They

15:52

were like little bottles. And I remember...

15:55

How old were y'o? Old enough that

15:57

I threw up. Yeah, of course. Your

15:59

body rejects every... every drug you

16:01

do at first, because you shouldn't

16:03

be doing it. Yeah, my first

16:06

beers were probably 15, 16, and

16:08

then we would, every now and

16:10

then we'd go get old English,

16:13

which was like a malt liquor

16:15

beer. I remember one called Southern

16:17

Comfort. Southern Comfort. Did you ever

16:20

do Bartles and James fuzzy navels?

16:22

No. You remember those things? I

16:24

remember Bartles and James, but I'm

16:27

not even sure. Was that liquor?

16:29

It was like a wine cooler.

16:31

It was like the first smearing

16:34

off ice. It was ten years

16:36

before smearing off ice. It was

16:38

ten years before smearing off ice.

16:41

There was zemas. You remember zemas?

16:43

Vaguely, yeah. No, there was that

16:45

terrible period when you're first drinking.

16:47

And you don't have a drink.

16:50

You know you see you got

16:52

to sample them you just drink

16:54

anything and they're down to what

16:57

you don't throw. I mean it's

16:59

just it's just not good not

17:01

to have a drink you know

17:04

James Bond had a drink right

17:06

vodka shaken not stirred you know

17:08

there was no that's a man

17:11

you don't want to be like

17:13

own planners punch whatever fucking and

17:15

the football players are endorsed I

17:18

mean it's hard not to start

17:20

you know I know but it's

17:22

like That's what you expect from

17:25

a young girl. You know, what

17:27

are you drinking? I don't know.

17:29

Okay. You know, just, you don't

17:32

want to be there with liquor.

17:34

You want to know. And then...

17:36

Listen, be glad. You probably didn't

17:39

do the... the Yeager bombs. Oh,

17:41

I did. I used to do

17:43

Yeager bombs. I remember doing, oh

17:46

my God, I can't even believe

17:48

I did this to myself. I

17:50

remember drinking, when I did finally

17:53

get a drink, it was Jack

17:55

Daniel for like 25 years. They

17:57

set me a plot of land,

18:00

like just a one-foot. That's how

18:02

much fucking Jack Daniels I was

18:04

barely consuming. And I remember drinking

18:07

all night at like a Playboy

18:09

Mansion party and then like at

18:11

three in the morning starting with

18:13

the Yeagermeister. I mean how could

18:16

my body have taken that? Bill

18:18

I didn't realize you had to

18:20

realize all this drinking was going

18:23

on and... Well that was certainly

18:25

wasn't every night but yeah but

18:27

I get it but Yeager bombs

18:30

were... I mean, and then you,

18:32

it is so terrible. The worst,

18:34

you know, and then so my

18:37

college drink very interesting crown and

18:39

water as a, as a 20,

18:41

I didn't get to college till

18:44

I was 21. Well, I'd gotten

18:46

a two year degree from a

18:48

small junior college and then transferred.

18:51

So I was 21. What did

18:53

you think you were going to

18:55

be? Man, I didn't think I'd

18:58

be this. No. See, see, I

19:00

did. See, I did. See, I

19:02

did. See, I did. Did you?

19:05

I thought you would be exactly

19:07

this. No, I thought I would,

19:09

I knew I was going to

19:12

be a comedian when I was

19:14

like eight years old. Well, I

19:16

knew I loved being on stage

19:19

and I knew I loved performing

19:21

and singing, but I think I

19:23

just, I knew that I had

19:26

to do college too. That was

19:28

really ingrained in me. Yeah, me

19:30

too. So I wasn't, you know,

19:33

I was at 21. But what

19:35

was your backup plan? My backup

19:37

plan would have been. You know

19:40

after I left college I was

19:42

playing in bars and at different

19:44

colleges all through the South East

19:46

and man it was fun and

19:49

shit We'd load up on the

19:51

weekends and we'd we'd go build

19:53

one market We'd go try to

19:56

do without us to Georgia and

19:58

then statesboro and then kind of

20:00

my hometown and we try to

20:03

start doing Athens and we we'd

20:05

play all these shows in Athens

20:07

Georgia and if you could get

20:10

in the damn Athens music scene

20:12

Oh, yeah. skin care routine. For

20:14

years products have promised to fix

20:17

lines and wrinkles but rarely deliver

20:19

lasting results. That's where today's sponsor

20:21

One Skin changes everything. Look at

20:24

me and I just turned 130.

20:26

For me it's basically because of

20:28

the magic of One Skin. In

20:31

honor of National Women Inventors Month

20:33

we're highlighting One Skin's founding team

20:35

of female scientists who have developed

20:38

a whole new approach to skin

20:40

care, starting at the cellular level.

20:42

Their proprietary OS-1 peptide is the

20:45

first peptide scientifically proven to reverse

20:47

skin aging by switching off the

20:49

dysfunctional senescent cells that cause lines,

20:52

wrinkles, and creepy skin. Yuck! You

20:54

can try OS1 in all of

20:56

One Skin's topical supplements from their

20:59

flagship facial moisturizer and award-winning cream

21:01

to sunscreens that protect skin from

21:03

UV damage and cellular aging. See

21:06

for yourself an exclusive 15% off

21:08

using code random at One Skin.

21:10

CO. Founded and led by an

21:12

all-woman team of skin longevity scientists,

21:15

One Skin is redefining the aging

21:17

process with their proprietary OS-1 peptide.

21:19

The first ingredient proven to help

21:22

skin look, feel, and behave like

21:24

its younger self. Get 50% off

21:26

with code random at One Skin.co.

21:29

That's 15% off at One Skin.co.

21:31

with code random. After you purchase,

21:33

they'll ask you where you heard

21:36

about them. Please support our show

21:38

and tell them we sent you.

21:40

Invest in the health and longevity

21:43

of your skin with one skin.

21:45

Your future self will thank you.

21:47

Let's be real guys. Doing laundry

21:50

sucks. I know because my housekeeper

21:52

is always cussing at the dryer.

21:54

But what doesn't have to suck

21:57

is your laundry detergent if I've

21:59

said it a thousand times. Why

22:01

can't I have a larger detergent

22:04

that smells of Spanish leather, Siberian

22:06

pine, or Italian bergamont? Well folks,

22:08

my prayers, thank God, have been

22:11

answered and they've been answered by

22:13

this week's sponsor, Laundry Sauce. I

22:15

no longer smell of pedestrian soap.

22:18

Jesus, God, pedestrian. Instead, I get

22:20

to walk through life smelling of

22:23

Oregon mint like a... Damn adult!

22:25

That's why laundry sauce has created

22:27

the world's best smelling laundry pods.

22:30

So your clothes don't have to

22:32

smell like grandma's perfume anymore. Don't

22:34

stress about remembering to put on

22:37

Cologne because now you don't need

22:39

to. Each laundry sauce pot is

22:42

highly concentrated with four times more

22:44

cleaning power than traditional liquid laundry

22:46

detergents. Yeah. For a limited time

22:49

only, our listeners get 20% off

22:51

your entire order when you use

22:53

code random at laundry sauce.com. That's

22:56

20% off your order at laundry

22:58

sauce.com with promo code random. It's

23:00

time to get saucy. Maybe the

23:03

best part about laundry. They offer

23:05

a full money back guarantee. If

23:07

you don't get better smelling cleaner

23:10

laundry, you get a full refund.

23:12

No questions asked. For a limited

23:14

time only, our listeners get 20%

23:16

off your entire order when you

23:19

use code random at laundry sauce.com.

23:21

That's 20% off your order at

23:23

laundry sauce.com with promo code random.

23:26

After you purchase, they'll ask you

23:28

where you heard about them. Please

23:30

support our show and tell them

23:32

we sent you. Smell good, look

23:35

good, feel good, with laundry sauce.

23:37

The Athens music scene, we

23:39

saw it out the Georgia theater

23:41

for the first time. Athens, I,

23:44

maybe I'm wrong, but I think

23:46

of Athens as alternative. I mean,

23:48

Athens is RAM. No doubt. No

23:50

doubt and B52's. Yeah. And but

23:52

listen, I mean. I think of

23:55

Athens as sort of the alternative

23:57

to Nashville's more mainstream.

23:59

It totally is. And there's

24:01

such amazing music coming out of,

24:04

you know, coming out of Athens,

24:06

but Bill, you got- You make

24:08

in Georgia, how about making? Making

24:11

shit. Well, that's more my era.

24:13

Like, they turned out a lot

24:16

of, like, what came out of-

24:18

Allman Brothers? Allman Brothers. What about

24:20

Leonard Skinner? Where's that from? Leonard

24:23

Skinner was, they're from Jacksonville. Oh,

24:25

yeah, that's right. Same thing. So,

24:28

man, you know, making, you got

24:30

James Brown. Oh, right. You got,

24:32

uh... Stacks records? Is that from,

24:35

is that not? Chapricorn records, a

24:37

guy named Phil Warren. Okay, where

24:40

was Stacks? Maybe. Stacks was Memphis.

24:42

Memphis. Memphis. Yeah. So, but yeah.

24:44

Shit, Bill. And then Elvis? Sun

24:47

Records. That's, you know, that's Memphis,

24:49

too. God, there's so many complexities

24:52

in all that southern music, but

24:54

you know, when I, when I,

24:56

when I started headline in the

24:59

Georgia Theater in Athens, in such

25:01

a, such, what you said, Athens

25:04

was a real diverse town, certainly,

25:06

and, and, and for me to

25:08

go in there and, and probably

25:11

way more politically liberal. Then your

25:13

standard Southern University was leading that

25:16

way at the time. For example,

25:18

I bet in the last election,

25:20

Nashville voted, you know, it's a

25:23

city, it's blue, so it's not

25:25

going to be like, but I

25:28

bet you're considering how Trump, how

25:30

well Trump did in places he

25:32

hadn't done that well in the

25:35

first time around, I bet you

25:37

Nashville was maybe 50-50 Trump for

25:39

her, whereas Athens, I bet you

25:42

was 70% for a Kamala Harris.

25:44

Just politically I think that's where

25:47

they are. Right now I think

25:49

Athens may have tilted back a

25:51

little a few years ago but

25:54

I couldn't argue with you on

25:56

that and... I don't know I

25:59

mean the South is... I mean,

26:01

I played Huntsville, Alabama, you know,

26:03

which is where NASA is. Right.

26:05

Yeah, I mean, that was, that

26:07

crowd was almost too

26:10

liberal for me. Yeah,

26:12

and Huntsville's one of

26:14

the fastest-growing, yeah. If

26:17

they're probably the number

26:19

one fastest-growing city in North

26:21

America or even, certainly, certainly

26:23

in the South, but Huntsville's

26:26

on fire. Yeah, I know.

26:28

We're not that sensitive about

26:30

it. Lord, Bill. No, we

26:33

are not on fire today.

26:35

But the Huntsville is

26:37

a great town. Well, why? Because

26:39

they're pouring a lot of

26:42

money into NASA or maybe

26:44

the space program. I think

26:46

the space program, I

26:48

think. But it's just a

26:50

lot of smart tech people

26:52

there. Because the space program

26:54

pulled a melting pot of

26:56

smart people from all walks of

26:58

life. Right. I guess 30 40 years

27:00

ago when the space program maybe

27:03

was really rocket in Huntsville

27:05

that pulled all the smartest

27:07

people right from India right

27:09

I mean it pulled everybody

27:11

to Huntsville well they're getting pulled

27:13

there for their brains and all

27:15

that but then 40 years later

27:18

those those ethnic you know different

27:20

cultures I think that little spot I

27:22

think that mixture is great. I

27:24

think that mixture is great. I think

27:26

that mixture is great. It's amazing. I

27:29

mean, eggheads, they should be in fucking

27:31

Alabama. You know, just because the people

27:33

are generally nicer. I mean, look,

27:36

if we get on to political issues,

27:38

are we going to have arguments about

27:40

some things? Yeah, we are. But, you

27:43

know, I keep preaching. You can't hate

27:45

people who disagree with you, except

27:47

about the most absolute... outrageous

27:49

things, but you can't hate them if

27:51

they like Trump. You can hate Trump,

27:53

I get that, I'm not a big

27:55

fan, but you can't hate them for

27:58

who they like. So like I... is

28:00

very good when those type of

28:02

people who normally would be at

28:04

Stanford or some other stifling place

28:06

with an equally obnoxious sort of

28:08

wokeness, that's Uber, Uber, Uber on

28:10

the left, get down to a

28:12

real place and talk to real

28:14

people and you'll see that they're

28:17

not monsters. And actually, in a

28:19

lot of ways, they're just more

28:21

fun to hang out with. They're

28:23

looser. They're not uptight you can

28:25

make jokes. They're not looking around

28:27

the room to see who's the

28:29

bigger name You know, there's a

28:31

lot to recommend it South's amazing.

28:33

Yeah, I wouldn't live there No,

28:36

I'm not but I really do

28:38

like it and I could I

28:40

I could there are places I

28:42

could live but I you know

28:44

I look with all the in

28:46

with the fire. I've been here

28:48

42 years bro. I'm dug in

28:50

yeah, and you know I came

28:52

from Georgia and then You know,

28:54

Georgia brought me obviously out here

28:57

with American Idol. Yeah, it's not

28:59

horrible out here, is it? Man,

29:01

it's amazing. I mean, it really

29:03

is. It's really that horrible to

29:05

go to the Tower Bar for

29:07

dinner? No. It's not bad at

29:09

all. And I really, I go

29:11

back home to Georgia and even

29:13

friends in Tennessee and they're like,

29:16

man, how crazy is it out

29:18

there in LA? And I'm like...

29:20

Man, it's not that crazy. There's

29:22

just good restaurants and... Yeah. I

29:24

mean, a lot of the people

29:26

are crazy. But they're show people.

29:28

And show people, they're just not...

29:30

You know, what I can't handle,

29:32

man, is just, I just hate

29:35

seeing homeless people struggle, man. When

29:37

I didn't grow up seeing homeless

29:39

people, and because it was like

29:41

in the South, churches would help...

29:43

churches would come together and help

29:45

sure of somebody struggling. That's the

29:47

kind of thing churches do. I

29:49

never denied it. I mean, I'm

29:51

an atheist. Well, but churches will

29:53

keep people, um, yeah, keep people

29:56

going and then you, as a

29:58

southern boy, you come out to

30:00

LA and I'm like, how can

30:02

we fix this? It is my

30:04

dream that every homeless person in

30:06

LA has their own holler. No.

30:08

But I think we could, you're,

30:10

you could fill a holler up.

30:12

Well, the homeless people out here

30:15

and I hate that because there's

30:17

no homeless and Nashville. Yeah, there,

30:19

there are. There are and it

30:21

and it's a problem. And what

30:23

is Nashville solution? Man, I think

30:25

they're trying to figure it out.

30:27

So that's what we're trying to

30:29

figure it out. And man, every,

30:31

you know, every crosswalk, I mean,

30:33

every red light stuff, there's a

30:36

homeless person sitting there. How many

30:38

anchors do you have on your

30:40

farm? 150. And you can't fit

30:42

any homeless there? Bill. No, I'm

30:44

fucking with that. That was amazing.

30:46

That was amazing. And so wrong

30:48

to do that to me. Hey,

30:50

I've got a lot of land

30:52

here too. And I'm not... This

30:55

fuckers got five acres up here.

30:57

No, I don't have five acres

30:59

up here. But I got a

31:01

nice little holler and... And you

31:03

know what? I'd love to invite

31:05

all the homeless, but I'm not

31:07

going to do it either, and

31:09

neither would anybody. I understand. Don't

31:11

ever shame me for not being

31:14

as good a person as you,

31:16

and don't pretend that you wouldn't

31:18

be inviting a potential nightmare in

31:20

your life, that also probably wouldn't

31:22

even benefit them. That's not the

31:24

answer that we have with the

31:26

homeless into our private residences. The

31:28

answer is that government, as you

31:30

said, should figure this out, and

31:32

the fact that they can is

31:35

ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous. I don't know

31:37

why, I know why we can't

31:39

hear, because everything is a bureaucratic

31:41

nightmare with too much red tape

31:43

and regulations. If I was king,

31:45

I would just make a giant,

31:47

or many, if I guess you

31:49

need that many, you know, shelters,

31:51

barracks. I'm sorry if you have

31:54

to live in barracks, but it's

31:56

better than living on the street.

31:58

And they do that and they

32:00

don't want to live there. There's

32:02

no security. Get some. I want

32:04

you to cost to put a

32:06

fucking guard on every aisle of

32:08

the barracks and make sure nobody

32:10

is robbing each other, have doctors,

32:12

to compare to like, they pay

32:15

for putting them up in hotel rooms.

32:17

That's what they do. They have mental

32:19

health people. Yes. I mean, they

32:21

do it on a ad hoc basis.

32:23

They've had. They usually do this in

32:26

third world countries, because America is now

32:28

often a third world country in some

32:30

ways. They have these big events for like

32:32

three days where they'll put up a

32:34

big tent in some place where there's

32:37

extreme poverty. And you can do this

32:39

in Ethiopia, but I've also seen it

32:41

done in Appalachia. And they have a

32:43

big tent and people from the area

32:45

know who cannot get... Their teeth

32:48

looked at her eyeglasses.

32:50

They come in and

32:53

it's like it's like

32:55

a renaissance fair except

32:58

you're getting your fucking

33:00

toothpole that is

33:03

killing you. I don't know

33:05

why that can't be a

33:07

semi-permanent version of that. I

33:10

agree with you. just get

33:12

them somewhere where they're not

33:15

in you know out there

33:17

hurting in the street I mean I

33:19

mean that's got to be just like

33:21

of all the answers that we could

33:23

come up with for this I feel

33:26

like bottom of the barrel is

33:28

stay on the street which seems

33:30

to be you know like that's

33:32

the ultra woke position is like

33:35

don't don't disturb them it's it's

33:37

like messing with a endangered species

33:39

that's in its natural habitat and

33:42

we can't That's the mental approach

33:44

to it seems to be wrong. And

33:46

by the way, it wasn't what liberals

33:49

believe 20 years ago. I do used

33:51

to do that show called Comic Relief.

33:53

Do you remember that AnH Yeal? That

33:56

Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Carstoy and Robert

33:58

Williams. And we are the... Well,

34:00

point of it was, let's get

34:02

these people. Y'all are my damn

34:04

base, I mean, y'all are a

34:06

weaved into what I learned comedy

34:08

as a kid. Really? Hell yeah.

34:10

What did you watch as a

34:13

kid? What was on? Like, what,

34:15

like you were a kid in

34:17

the 90s? Man, I was a

34:19

kid when thriller came out. 80s.

34:21

Yeah, that was early 80s. Yeah,

34:23

I mean, I was born in

34:25

76. Thriller? Thriller, oh my God.

34:27

What a what a moment. Yeah,

34:30

thriller was we, Bill, we would,

34:32

you know, thriller came out and

34:34

we would rush home from school

34:36

and we knew that certain increments

34:38

MTV was going to play the

34:40

thriller video. And we watched it

34:42

every time. And then we watched

34:44

foot loose. So you thought, so

34:46

Michael Jackson was, oh my God,

34:49

when, when my family members would

34:51

have, you know, a bunch of

34:53

people come in the house. my

34:55

dad and my mother and my

34:57

brother and my sister, they would

34:59

make me dance like Michael Jackson

35:01

in front of strangers. Yeah. See,

35:03

I'm always trying to prosecute this

35:06

argument that America is just much

35:08

more complicated than the two sides

35:10

who were always screaming each other

35:12

would allow. It's just like, these

35:14

things that, you know, you might

35:16

not suspect. I had this special

35:18

that's running now, and then I

35:20

talk about J.D. Vance's grandmother, who

35:22

told him when he was eight

35:25

years old and thought he might

35:27

be gay, because he only had

35:29

boyfriends, and she says to him,

35:31

you know, do you like to

35:33

suck Dix? Do you want to

35:35

suck Dix? And he said, J.

35:37

Vance's grandmother said that. Yeah, because

35:39

he was saying, my gray grandma.

35:42

And she said, do you want

35:44

to suck Dix? And he said,

35:46

then you're not gay. But even

35:48

if you did, God would still

35:50

love you. J.D. Vance told you

35:52

that? No, no, it's in his

35:54

book. Wow. Um, hillbiliology. Right, well,

35:56

I've heard the, um... And the

35:59

point is, like... I've heard, you

36:01

know, the... movie getting around that

36:03

he wrote it but I hadn't

36:05

had a chance to sit down

36:07

and watch it and did a

36:09

run Howard made it into a

36:11

movie right did that was Amy

36:13

Adams I haven't seen either I

36:15

just read the part about the

36:18

dick well I got you but

36:20

I just think you know coming

36:22

from his grandmother who was born

36:24

in Kentucky in 1933 America is

36:26

just not as easily pigeonholed as

36:28

they would want to make it

36:30

And see, I know this because

36:32

I've traveled this country. Me too.

36:35

For over 40 years. Right, everybody's

36:37

got their differences. But they're basically

36:39

the same. You're down right, they

36:41

are. You know, and... Because you

36:43

know what they don't want to

36:45

do? I mean, they want to

36:47

come to great music. They want

36:49

to see all kinds of great

36:51

music, from rap, to country, to

36:54

damn. They just want to come

36:56

out, spend their harder money, and

36:58

they want their tax dollars. To

37:00

look like it's helping the country

37:02

and also I got to say

37:04

don't you agree? I totally agree

37:06

I mean man I've looked at

37:08

the From when I moved to

37:11

Nashville and made zero to what

37:13

I make now and I paid

37:15

a ton of taxes and man

37:17

I just want to see it

37:19

I just want to be able

37:21

to go That's my damn tax

37:23

dollars working right there. That's helping

37:25

people and making the Making the

37:28

country a better place, but I've

37:30

never I've yet to see buddy.

37:32

I live in a state with

37:34

13% tax on every year and

37:36

I just had to endure a

37:38

fire That would have happened anyway,

37:40

but could have been handled a

37:42

lot better But my 13% was

37:44

not used wisely. I know door

37:47

was any do well. Yes, I

37:49

do gosh. That's what I'm saying

37:51

is I do, but you know

37:53

We just are in this place

37:55

where people are locked into these

37:57

They're brainwashed on both sides like

37:59

a certain percentage of them. I

38:01

can't get through to them I

38:04

can't get through the ones who

38:06

are supposedly on my team I

38:08

mean, I've said to people right

38:10

in that chair, you know, like,

38:12

we voted for the same person.

38:14

It's just that you or why

38:16

she lost, because... Well, and, you

38:18

know, she, I don't, I don't

38:20

know, it was, it's been a

38:23

crazy, you know, you look from

38:25

the... It's just been a crazy

38:27

political time in my life. It's

38:29

only getting crazier, and yet, you

38:31

know, I just will not sit

38:33

there and stand for... America sucks

38:35

and you know like a lot

38:37

of a lot of what you

38:40

see and it just comes from

38:42

rank ignorance I mean they're just

38:44

so ignorant they have no idea

38:46

what anywhere else in the world

38:48

is actually like they just know

38:50

this is the worst place and

38:52

that we're irredeemable and racist from

38:54

the beginning and that will never

38:56

change even though it's changed immeasurably

38:59

all that kind of stuff that's

39:01

what they know but you know

39:03

I'm just always amazed at with

39:05

what all were dragon behind us,

39:07

not just the over-bureaucracy and the

39:09

taxes that don't go to the

39:11

right things, but you know, like

39:13

really kind of losing democracy now

39:16

and how somehow somehow the economy

39:18

is all based on two things,

39:20

cryptocurrency, and rich men paying women

39:22

on the internet to do something

39:24

while they masturbate. That's the intent.

39:26

And yet we keep going America?

39:28

It's like my dog Chico. He

39:30

should be 17. He should be

39:33

dead. He's out there barking at

39:35

nothing right now. He would just

39:37

I do America right just keep

39:39

going You know, it's hard to

39:41

make a place like this go

39:43

though. It's we're irrepressible though Like

39:45

we can't I was thinking about

39:47

that a couple days ago in

39:49

your light Man, it's hard to

39:52

keep The different people in this

39:54

country, it's hard to keep them

39:56

in check with all their little

39:58

with all their little spots. from

40:00

the South and the Northeast and

40:02

in the Midwest and what the

40:04

Midwest claims they're great at

40:07

like basketball or something and then

40:09

you get the South say I

40:11

mean just from sports and culture

40:14

and all that and then you

40:16

throw and music. Look at all

40:18

the crossover between rap.

40:20

R&B now with music, I

40:23

mean, Beyonce having the big

40:25

country album. Right. I mean,

40:27

who's the Shaboosi? Yeah, I

40:30

mean. But that comes from

40:32

you liking Michael Jackson when

40:35

you were six. Exactly. Yeah.

40:37

And that's what, but that's

40:39

what this country, this

40:41

country made that, hey.

40:44

Where's my bowler? But no,

40:46

this country made, made all that

40:48

happen. We fought our. We fought, we're fighting

40:50

all the time as a country, but damn,

40:52

we made our way through it. The start

40:54

of a new year is the perfect

40:56

time to get organized and rocket

40:58

money shows me all of my

41:01

subscriptions right in one place and

41:03

helps me easily cancel ones that

41:05

I forgot I've been paying for.

41:07

You sign up for something, forget

41:09

about it after the trial period

41:11

ends, then you're charged. Month after

41:13

month after month after month. The

41:15

subscriptions are there, but you're not

41:17

using them. Missing out on a

41:19

show that everyone is talking about

41:21

isn't an option for me. I'm

41:24

constantly signing up for this streaming

41:26

service or that one and then

41:28

a few months later. Realize I've

41:30

still been paying for the service

41:32

long after I finished the show.

41:34

Getting rocket money was game changer

41:36

for me. They'll find you unwanted

41:38

subscriptions and even help you cancel

41:40

them. So you never have to

41:42

worry about them slipping through the

41:44

cracks. Rocket money is a personal

41:47

finance app. that helps find and

41:49

cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your

41:51

spending, and helps lower your bills

41:53

so you can grow your savings.

41:55

See all of your subscriptions in

41:57

one place and know exactly where your

41:59

money's... This

42:40

episode is brought to you by Shopify. Upgrade

42:42

your business with Shopify, home of the number

42:44

one checkout on the planet. Shop Pay boosts

42:47

conversions up to 50%, meaning

42:49

fewer carts going abandoned and more sales

42:52

going cha-ching. So if you're into growing

42:54

your business, Yes, get a commerce platform that's ready

42:56

to sell wherever your customers are.

42:58

Visit shopify.com to upgrade your selling

43:00

today. your selling today. a restaurant and

43:02

you learn pretty quick the sound of Don't miss out on the final football The Sound

43:04

of starts way before the first

43:06

bite. game of the season with Prize Pix. Join now because Prize Pix has given away

43:08

a free pick for the big game where

43:11

one yard equals one win. Just pick more

43:13

or less on at least two players for

43:15

a shot to win up to a thousand

43:17

times your cash. Download the Prize and use

43:20

a thousand times your cash. Download the Prize

43:22

Pix app and use Code Field and get

43:24

$50 instantly when you play $5 to get

43:26

$50 instantly when you play $5. You don't

43:29

even need to receive to receive for restrictions

43:31

for restrictions in bite. have

46:09

been a hit in the 70s or

46:11

even the late 60s when I first

46:14

started to listen to music you know

46:16

it's just got that feel and then

46:18

like you know Nikki Glazer was

46:20

here she's like you know she's

46:22

the biggest jealous whip van she's

46:24

went to the show 18 times

46:27

Unbelievable. And then, but

46:29

her personality would, you would

46:31

think, because she's such a great

46:33

dominating female personality, her personality

46:35

you would think she would

46:38

not like Taylor Swift. And

46:40

then you find out she's like,

46:42

gone to her show 18 times,

46:45

right? Did you have Nicki Pegg

46:47

to be like a Taylor Swift?

46:49

Yeah, because I know Nicki for

46:51

a long time. I did. Oh

46:53

yeah. And well, Taylor Swift must

46:55

be doing some Vulcan mine melt

46:57

to the women. There must be

47:00

some estrogen-laden sort of vibe that's

47:02

some evil ray, not evil. It's

47:04

not evil, but it is a

47:06

ray, okay? It is a ray

47:08

that's going out to all women.

47:10

And they, so it makes them

47:13

think that this music is,

47:15

it's not terrible music. I

47:17

just don't get it, that

47:19

it's like, why it has

47:21

been elevated to this level, when

47:23

it seems to me fairly

47:25

run of the mill? I mean,

47:27

it's not, again, not bad. Listen.

47:29

But I watched, Nikki said, you

47:32

gotta watch, you'll catch up on

47:34

her whole overra, watch the concert

47:36

film, and I did. all 19

47:38

hours of it and and you

47:41

know I was really struggling because

47:43

I always want to like everything

47:45

like I'm just a customer I

47:47

have no musical ability I'm just

47:50

the young man in the 22nd

47:52

listen do you know why Taylor

47:54

Swift is that big? Tell me

47:56

man when she first started

47:58

it was right when social media

48:01

where you could talk to your

48:03

fans. Well 2009 was the smartphone

48:05

and that was her first year

48:07

maybe so I think. Well Taylor's

48:09

will so I was going to

48:11

I was going on a radio

48:13

tour for my first single and...

48:16

Heartbreak hotel? Shit. No. Oh that's

48:18

Elvis. You remind me. You remind

48:20

me. I'll take the compliment. It

48:22

is a compliment. I got, I

48:24

get to, I have to fly

48:26

out and meet a radio station

48:28

up in the north, up in

48:30

the northwest, and first time I'd

48:33

ever been to the northwest, and

48:35

it was just beautiful, just gorgeous,

48:37

the two, you know, the two

48:39

volcanic mountains in the background, my

48:41

ass was fired up to be

48:43

up there in the northwest. Well,

48:45

I go to this little nightclub,

48:48

it's Halloween night. And my song

48:50

my first single all my friends

48:52

say had not come out of

48:54

the radio, but I just went

48:56

to go see a concert and

48:58

Taylor Swift was on this on

49:00

this Halloween night. She was on

49:03

this radio show and I had

49:05

just heard the song Tim McGraw

49:07

for the first time and It

49:09

was interesting to me when I

49:11

heard that song and I remember

49:13

thinking. The song called Tim McGraw?

49:15

She wrote a song called Tim

49:18

McGraw. How confusing? Someone like me,

49:20

who's just learning about country music,

49:22

is a song by a country

49:24

store called another country store. But

49:26

go ahead. Okay, Tim McGraw. So

49:28

she, um... It's like moves like

49:30

jagger. Totally. It was made to

49:33

Tim and man, she crushed it

49:35

with that song. Right. And so

49:37

I'm standing there at that bar.

49:39

And the radio station brings her

49:41

out and I see her play

49:43

for the first time. And she's

49:45

got an angel costume on with

49:47

a little butterfly wings and a

49:50

little sparkly guitar and like a

49:52

little halo. And I'm sitting there

49:54

watching this girl sing. And man,

49:56

I was like, that may be

49:58

the biggest star I've ever seen.

50:00

You knew right then? Right then.

50:02

Because? Because she just had it.

50:05

Right. I mean, she had the

50:07

outfit? Oh, she does put on

50:09

a great show. She had. You

50:11

know, I feel bad every time

50:13

Tell Westiff comes up. I have

50:15

to like be honest about it.

50:17

I don't quite get the music,

50:20

although I like Sparks Fly. Well,

50:22

yeah, yeah, you do. Well, she

50:24

got you on that one. Yeah,

50:26

that one. Yeah, she did. Yeah,

50:28

she did. So that's all it

50:30

takes? Well it's not all it

50:32

takes because obviously I've heard the

50:35

other ones and didn't get it.

50:37

There was one I liked in

50:39

the concert. What? Other than Sparks

50:41

Fly, because you already like that.

50:43

Something all, all those years ago

50:45

are all, I don't know, I

50:47

forget, it was pretty good. But

50:50

really, I mean, there's a lot

50:52

of singing on a roof with

50:54

moss that I got. Listen, so

50:56

she, when she, right after I

50:58

saw her, right after I saw

51:00

her. in that Halloween show, you

51:02

know, the world on the street

51:04

was she was out there talking

51:07

to all her fans on socials.

51:09

Nobody ever did it more than

51:11

her. No, I mean, she earned

51:13

every... She worked her butt off

51:15

and earned those fans. Right. Well,

51:17

and here's to her butt, but

51:19

I just want to say, like...

51:22

And this is a backhanded, no,

51:24

you are not, well first of

51:26

all, this show is about ramble,

51:28

so it couldn't be bad. But,

51:30

like, this sounds like a backhanded

51:32

compliment, but I admire her, yeah,

51:34

the music, either works or it

51:37

doesn't, but as a human, I

51:39

have great admiration because to be

51:41

that far up in the stratosphere

51:43

and not be doing anything stupid.

51:45

Being still a good role model

51:47

basically, you know, she's had a

51:49

bunch of boyfriends boyfriends. Boyfriends. I

51:52

mean, when you're what is she

51:54

30 and the people are like

51:56

34 friends are the worst you'd

51:58

say excuse me girlfriend She's 35.

52:00

Yeah, but the only thing people

52:02

can say about is she's had

52:04

boyfriend. No, I guess she goes

52:07

to the lands. Travis Kelsey. Well,

52:09

first of all, and then it's

52:11

like, oh my God, she's pressured

52:13

it. I don't want to go

52:15

back to this, but I did

52:17

this once, I think, on my

52:19

show, and it's pretty funny. I'm

52:22

only being facetious, but like, all

52:24

these boyfriends, and like, to be

52:26

that famous, where we actually could

52:28

nay, I could nay, I don't

52:30

even, I'm not even a fan,

52:32

and I can name all her

52:34

boyfriends, because I'm the. I'm just

52:36

going to say, you just named

52:39

that, you're, you just named, you're,

52:41

you just named, you couldn't name

52:43

two of her songs, but you

52:45

know, all, exactly. That says a

52:47

lot. You know, you just, I

52:49

don't know, all the boyfriends you

52:51

just rambled off. None of them

52:54

are black. Oh God. I'm just

52:56

going to say. Couldn't we shouldn't

52:58

we really in this day and

53:00

age have one in there? I

53:02

mean, and then she goes to

53:04

the NFL, which is 80% black

53:06

and finds a white cat. I

53:09

mean, you don't even look that

53:11

hard. I mean, for God's sakes,

53:13

especially on defense. All right, that's

53:15

again, facetious, but no. I mean,

53:17

I'm not saying it's, she's, This

53:19

is with Travis Kelsey. Which is

53:21

crazy. First of all, that's going

53:24

to add. But then their table

53:26

is like... That's going to end.

53:28

Oh, I don't know. You want

53:30

to make a bet? I don't

53:32

want to make a bet, but

53:34

what's funny. Okay. As soon as

53:36

there's tabloid, like Taylor and Travis

53:39

Kelsey's mom, I agree. And I'm

53:41

like, what do we do? I

53:43

want to go on record as

53:45

saying, but not going either one

53:47

of them. I think they're both

53:49

fine. A-Sapp and Rocky. No. But

53:51

look, Travis is not the keeper.

53:53

He's just not. I mean, he's

53:56

not... He's not yet ready to

53:58

be house trained. He's not. And

54:00

he's going to be coming off

54:02

and on the Super Bowl. I'm

54:04

not getting into any of that.

54:06

Of course you shouldn't. But I'm

54:08

just telling you, he's you 20

54:11

years ago with more liquor in

54:13

him. I mean, it's just, you

54:15

know, think about what you were

54:17

20 years ago, right? Well. Is

54:19

that, are you married? Yes, I

54:21

am. Yes, I am. How long?

54:23

18 years just wow yeah 18

54:26

years of marriage that's just it's

54:28

amazing we celebrated well hell we

54:30

just celebrated it in December and

54:32

hey so how did you know

54:34

she was the one man I

54:36

just walked into you know she

54:38

walked into a bar and there

54:41

she was and it was just

54:43

like that one right there that's

54:45

so interesting and it was a

54:47

college bar a college bar that

54:49

you know that if my brother

54:51

doesn't pass away I never go

54:53

to that college and then if

54:56

you lost your brother right I

54:58

lost my brother and then that

55:00

sent me down this path and

55:02

then I meet Caroline and we

55:04

kind of date on and all

55:06

through college but it wasn't time

55:08

and we kind of broke up

55:10

at the end of college and

55:13

then it was five and a

55:15

half years till we got back

55:17

together and man that five and

55:19

a half years I went to

55:21

Nashville and got my career going.

55:23

I did all kind of crazy

55:25

shit, you know, drinking. Like I

55:28

said, I told you, I started

55:30

college drinking crown and water. Who

55:32

the hell is 21 and just,

55:34

well, that's all they drink. Crown

55:36

and water? Are you kidding me?

55:38

I had Gerald Hall of Polonote

55:40

here. What the hell they drink?

55:43

Well, they don't drink anything together

55:45

because they're suing each other. Oh

55:47

God, they need to get over

55:49

that shit too. Yeah, they put

55:51

out some great records. Dude, every

55:53

time I party, I listen to

55:55

You Make My Dreams come true.

55:58

Wow. It's the greatest. No, they

56:00

were... We ought to rock. We

56:02

ought to play that. Now I'm

56:04

sorry, but I asked at the

56:06

end. For our careers, which is

56:08

shortly after. Yeah, about 930. No,

56:10

we're fine. But... Yeah, but you

56:13

make my... But I said to

56:15

him, like, how did... Because like,

56:17

back in the day, I mean,

56:19

he was a real matinee idol-looking

56:21

guy, and you know, plus that

56:23

falsetto and the voice, and I

56:25

said, how does a rock star,

56:27

you know, with all the women,

56:30

throwing themselves out, you... I

56:32

mean, how do you resist?

56:34

And he said... It's impossible.

56:36

Yeah, poor guy, right. Well,

56:38

man, you know, hall of

56:41

notes and heck. So anyway,

56:43

just me and my wife, we

56:45

got, you know, three kids

56:47

at home with us. And

56:49

so circling back to that,

56:52

it's, it's just been an

56:54

amazing ride with my

56:56

family and my life, my

56:58

dad boys. My nephew came to

57:00

live with us when he was.

57:03

13 and he's now 23. Nephew.

57:05

Nephew. Till. Well that's where he

57:07

was my sister's son. Oh that's

57:09

beautiful. And then I got we

57:12

got our 16 year old Bo

57:14

and got a 14 year old

57:16

named Tate's the three boys and

57:19

then those are rough ages 16

57:21

and 14. I'm guessing I don't

57:23

have kids. It's it's pretty amazing

57:25

though. You know they're but aren't

57:28

they too into the viral I

57:30

mean the virtual world. You

57:32

know what's crazy. Fortnight, man.

57:34

Fortnight. Yeah. Jesus. I wouldn't

57:37

know what if I tripped over it,

57:39

but I certainly have heard a lot

57:41

about it, and I vaguely know. I certainly

57:44

know it's not real. It's

57:46

something they're playing. Man. Right. Dude.

57:48

But these kids love it. I

57:50

know. My son for Christmas, you

57:53

know, gets the whole new,

57:55

like, processor to process the

57:57

speed of this damn thing

57:59

for Christmas. It's got all these

58:01

light-up fans on the back and

58:03

he gets set of headphones a

58:05

new keyboard and a mouse And

58:08

he looks like a he's on

58:10

a turntable And they're they're talking

58:12

to their friends on headsets And

58:14

talking shit and cussing but see

58:16

and then I have to go

58:18

in there and I mean they're

58:21

they're into that fortnight getting them

58:23

out of their virtual world is

58:25

becoming more and more of an

58:27

impossible task. I mean this is

58:29

the same thing that's going on

58:32

in their sex lives because look

58:34

at the success of Only Fans.

58:36

I mean Only Fans is a

58:38

bunch of guys who must know

58:40

in some part of their brain

58:42

that this girl, that they're paying,

58:45

is not really their girlfriend, not

58:47

even the person who's actually texting

58:49

back to them. That's some fat

58:51

guy in the Philippines. and they

58:53

don't seem to care. They would

58:56

rather do that than have a

58:58

real girlfriend or do whatever it

59:00

takes to get a real girlfriend.

59:02

I feel this is not going

59:04

to come out well. Well, you

59:06

know, we just, I don't know

59:09

what those guys are up to,

59:11

but you know, you just got

59:13

to teach your doing kids to

59:15

go try to be funny in

59:17

class and work hard to study

59:20

and keep your... I don't know,

59:22

man. Do things, with them in

59:24

the outdoors? I mean, do I?

59:26

Yeah. That's all we do? Oh,

59:28

what about the fortnight? Well, that's

59:30

how I get them away from

59:33

that. Oh, I see. Man, I've

59:35

taken my kids on, we go

59:37

on every hunting and fishing trip

59:39

together. So that's good. You still

59:41

murder innocent creatures with your family

59:44

members. Thank God, that tradition lives.

59:46

It lives. with our family and

59:48

man we have a lot. What

59:50

do you hunt? Man we hunt.

59:52

Do you eat what you hunt?

59:54

Yeah, you know, we certainly. do

59:57

and okay like said so then

59:59

I approve oh man but it's

1:00:01

not like well what's you know

1:00:03

Bill we go on an annual

1:00:05

elk hunt with my me and

1:00:08

my three boys and we kill

1:00:10

a couple of elk a year

1:00:12

and we get it processed at

1:00:14

some elk dude out in uh

1:00:16

you got an elk man you've

1:00:19

got an elk processor yeah I

1:00:21

got an elk man Well, listen,

1:00:23

process is male. So listen, then,

1:00:25

I'm at my farm one day,

1:00:27

and I see this huge refrigerator

1:00:29

truck pull up to my farm.

1:00:32

And I'm like, what the hell

1:00:34

is this? It's a giant truck.

1:00:36

And I run up there to

1:00:38

the side of it. And I

1:00:40

said, Mayor, why are you here?

1:00:43

He goes, you Mr. Bryan? And

1:00:45

I said, yeah. I'm delivering your

1:00:47

help me. And I'm like shit,

1:00:49

I never knew that's how it

1:00:51

got to my farm. It just

1:00:53

always showed up in our refrigerator

1:00:56

in the garage and But I

1:00:58

met the guy that delivers it.

1:01:00

Well, turns out this dude's has

1:01:02

a business Where he picks up

1:01:04

everybody's wild game That they go

1:01:07

that they go do in a

1:01:09

oh totally so Am I blowing

1:01:11

your mind with this? I'm listening.

1:01:13

He picks up his, it blew

1:01:15

my mind, this guy's job is

1:01:17

to take his fridge-roaded truck, pick

1:01:20

everybody's game up, and deliver it

1:01:22

to their house. And man, we,

1:01:24

you know, we eat, we eat

1:01:26

all of our elk every year.

1:01:28

I had a girlfriend in the

1:01:31

late 80s, early 90s, and her

1:01:33

father was military. You know, he

1:01:35

was a hunter, and I remember

1:01:37

spending time there, and eating a

1:01:39

lot of elk. But would you

1:01:41

think about it? I thought you

1:01:44

know if you're going to the

1:01:46

fucking supermarket and buying a package

1:01:48

of meat You're no, you know,

1:01:50

let's not get each other either

1:01:52

you're eating meat or you're not

1:01:55

and yeah if you're gonna eat

1:01:57

it probably even better if you

1:01:59

kill it yourself they don't process

1:02:01

it you know it's not like

1:02:03

animals don't kill each other that's

1:02:05

always been my moral justification I

1:02:08

just don't believe in torturing animals

1:02:10

until we kill them man I

1:02:12

don't think you need to torture

1:02:14

them but they do that's what

1:02:16

factory farming farming is torturing pigs

1:02:19

and chickens and cows until, it's

1:02:21

just like, well, you know, there's

1:02:23

a lot of gray area and

1:02:25

all that. I mean, I would

1:02:27

imagine agriculture in America is disgusting.

1:02:30

Well, they got to, they got

1:02:32

to work on it. I think

1:02:34

so. They got to work harder.

1:02:36

Well, they do. And don't. They

1:02:38

don't care. It's profit. Why are

1:02:40

you friends in the pig industry?

1:02:43

Man, I got friends everywhere. Okay.

1:02:45

Well, you should tell them. I

1:02:47

got friends in the pig industry.

1:02:49

Well, tell them to put a

1:02:51

crowbar in their wallet and pry

1:02:54

out $10 million, and they won't

1:02:56

live any worse if they don't

1:02:58

fucking torture the pigs before, because

1:03:00

pigs are very smart. They know

1:03:02

what's happening. Well, I know people

1:03:04

in the pig industry, and I'll

1:03:07

take that info again. Listen. You

1:03:09

didn't think you were going to

1:03:11

get confronted on that, on this

1:03:13

episode of 60 minutes, did you

1:03:15

know, right? I think that's what

1:03:18

it's all about. Here in your

1:03:20

side, my thoughts on, like I

1:03:22

said, with the elk stuff, I,

1:03:24

it just, uh, elk is lean,

1:03:26

right? Very lean, and all of

1:03:28

the stuff of wild game, and

1:03:31

you know. cattle and all that

1:03:33

and then like I said I'm

1:03:35

not even this guy that how

1:03:37

do you eat your elk do

1:03:39

you man we we get most

1:03:42

of it in hamburger so you

1:03:44

make it like a burger out

1:03:46

of it we'll do burgers and

1:03:48

then taco night and spaghetti night

1:03:50

or bowling a's night oh man

1:03:52

we don't ever buy ground beef

1:03:55

anymore right and it's But like

1:03:57

I said, I mean, I- So

1:03:59

when you go out there to

1:04:01

murder the, murder, murder, I love

1:04:03

it. I love it. So you're

1:04:06

there with your boys. Man, let

1:04:08

me- You all got a gun.

1:04:10

We got a boat. You see?

1:04:12

We're bow hunting. Oh, really? Is

1:04:14

that true? 100%. Why? Because it

1:04:16

makes it more of a sport?

1:04:19

Because the animal is like, I

1:04:21

respect you. Before he goes? Here's

1:04:23

the deal, man. When you have

1:04:25

these, you know, elk or a

1:04:27

herd animal. Yeah. Well, if you

1:04:30

go up to an elk herd

1:04:32

and you have a gun, it's

1:04:34

not hard at all to shoot

1:04:36

an elf. It's unfair. I wouldn't

1:04:38

say it's unfair. Oh, please. Well,

1:04:40

listen, I mean, we as humans,

1:04:43

we have the knowledge to make

1:04:45

hunting unfair, you know. Well, it's

1:04:47

unfair to begin with. First of

1:04:49

all, to call it a sport,

1:04:51

it's a sport if a sport

1:04:54

was the case where one team

1:04:56

didn't even know the game was

1:04:58

going on and the other team

1:05:00

had all the... They do. I

1:05:02

mean, the other team knows the

1:05:05

game was going on. They don't

1:05:07

know a guy's in there with

1:05:09

a rifle. But look, they see

1:05:11

you and they run off and

1:05:13

man. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah,

1:05:15

that's true. So, but why do

1:05:18

that's do that. The kids do

1:05:20

that. The kids have failure. The

1:05:22

kids have failure. failures in hunting.

1:05:24

That's the big thing about hunting.

1:05:26

I mean they can figure out,

1:05:29

they can figure out a, you

1:05:31

know, the codes, hell there's cheek

1:05:33

codes and they can go figure

1:05:35

out. What if you just, if

1:05:37

you shoot at the, with your

1:05:39

arrow, you shoot at the elk,

1:05:42

but you just nick his ear

1:05:44

like Trump. Man, if you, if

1:05:46

you, nick an elk in the

1:05:48

ear. It don't even

1:05:50

know it that might as well

1:05:52

have been a mosquito bite to

1:05:55

them where because I mean they're

1:05:57

a tough animal, but it's tough

1:05:59

if you if you just wing

1:06:01

it and it's got the arrow

1:06:03

when it runs off because then

1:06:05

it's got to live with the

1:06:07

arrow. It gets home and the

1:06:09

wife is like, what happened? Dude,

1:06:11

you can you can you can

1:06:13

hit an elk not properly and

1:06:15

that elk's fine. Yeah, look, they're

1:06:17

so tough. I mean, and then

1:06:19

the beauty of bow hunting and

1:06:21

all that is when when it

1:06:23

comes together perfectly. and the elk

1:06:25

doesn't suffer, the elk runs 20

1:06:27

yards and then at that point

1:06:29

you've got to pack the elk

1:06:31

off the mountain. Okay, so Bill,

1:06:33

check this out. Okay. You go

1:06:36

through all that. Well, then the

1:06:38

work, you know, you have hiked

1:06:40

eight miles a day for four

1:06:42

days, you shoot an elk. He

1:06:44

elk dies right there, clean, you're

1:06:46

like, perfect shot. Then you got

1:06:48

to pack that down saying five

1:06:50

miles off the mountain. What do

1:06:52

you mean, pack it? You've got

1:06:54

to quarter it up in the

1:06:56

field. Quarter it up. Quarter it

1:06:58

up. Cut it. Cut it into

1:07:00

quarters. Cut it into quarters. What

1:07:02

do you use for that? Knives

1:07:04

and... Bin Salmon's bone saw? No,

1:07:06

you know, you just get real

1:07:08

sharp blades and you carve the

1:07:10

animal up. It's right through the

1:07:12

ribs and every other... Man, you

1:07:15

don't, you go along the ribs

1:07:17

for the back strap, you quarter

1:07:19

out, you do leave the ribs

1:07:21

and the carcass, the neck, but

1:07:23

your shoulders from here, your back

1:07:25

straps, your tenderloins, and then all

1:07:27

the... What do you do with

1:07:29

the head? Whoever killed it toots

1:07:31

the head out, that's the heaviest

1:07:33

part. What do you put it

1:07:35

in like a hat box? No,

1:07:37

you total on your shoulders. The

1:07:39

head? The head? The head. What

1:07:41

do you mean toad it on

1:07:43

you? What do you put it

1:07:45

in? No, you um... You get

1:07:47

blood all over you if you...

1:07:49

All over you. And you want

1:07:51

that? That's just the way it

1:07:53

is. Jesus, what a bunch of

1:07:56

redness. And I mean that in

1:07:58

a good way, but wow. Really,

1:08:00

you want the blood all over

1:08:02

you? Hey. with your boys, right?

1:08:04

You all got your bows ready.

1:08:06

Does one guy, do you decide

1:08:08

one guy takes this shot or

1:08:10

do you all empty your

1:08:12

clip like the LA

1:08:15

Police Department? No, really.

1:08:17

Does one guy take

1:08:19

the shot? Do you all take

1:08:22

the shot at the same

1:08:24

time? Man. What? I'm asking.

1:08:26

Well, with us, we, you

1:08:28

know, um... Like, said my nephew the

1:08:30

first year, he, uh, it was, it was

1:08:32

his turn and not everybody gets an elk

1:08:35

every year. Oh, I see, it's his turn.

1:08:37

What's that? It's his turn. You said it.

1:08:39

You go by turns. You said it was his

1:08:41

turn to shoot the elk. My nephews, yes,

1:08:43

sir. Yeah. So, like, now he got that

1:08:45

one next year, it's your turn or one

1:08:47

of the other boys? Yes, sir. Wow. Well,

1:08:49

again, I can't judge it, I can't judge

1:08:52

it, because I can't judge it, because I

1:08:54

can't judge it, because I eat meat, because

1:08:56

I eat meat, because I eat meat. Because

1:08:58

I eat meat. What I'm telling

1:09:00

you I will I don't judge

1:09:02

it. I only judge torturing animals

1:09:04

not not killing them They kill

1:09:07

each other, you know, to me.

1:09:09

That's a moral position I

1:09:11

know my friends at PETA and

1:09:13

I'm a board member and

1:09:15

yeah, I know they don't

1:09:18

agree. They're vegetarians, but look

1:09:20

the science Frankly is

1:09:22

just not out on that There's

1:09:24

no real evidence that we

1:09:26

shouldn't be eating meat as

1:09:29

human creatures. You know, our ancestors

1:09:31

did it. And... Well, I mean, you know,

1:09:34

I think there's so much,

1:09:36

there's so much stuff out there.

1:09:38

I think people just do

1:09:40

what they gotta do to

1:09:42

survive in their different environments.

1:09:44

And... Yeah, it's also an

1:09:46

economic issue. Poor people. Eat it

1:09:49

McDonald's for a reason. Because

1:09:51

it fills you up. It

1:09:53

tastes great. It kills you eventually,

1:09:55

but, you know. People are

1:09:58

thinking about the end of the month.

1:10:00

end of their life, you

1:10:02

know, and, uh, but no,

1:10:04

I don't, I'm, look, I

1:10:06

always loved playing the Red

1:10:08

States because I would get

1:10:10

a crowd that was hip,

1:10:13

smart, but didn't have that

1:10:15

fucking woke stick up their

1:10:17

ass, you know, you know,

1:10:19

and you felt that in

1:10:21

some cities, you know, it,

1:10:24

it got better in recent

1:10:26

years, even in like, woke

1:10:28

places like San Francisco, because

1:10:30

the crowd... understood that I

1:10:32

was going to give them

1:10:34

what we agree on, which

1:10:37

is we're not conservatives, but

1:10:39

we don't just pretend that

1:10:41

woke nonsense isn't nonsense. And

1:10:43

they want to hear that.

1:10:45

I mean, Trump is changing

1:10:48

America in the last two

1:10:50

days, like overnight. And look,

1:10:52

I didn't agree with a

1:10:54

lot of the stuff, but

1:10:56

the leftists... They

1:10:58

invited this by overreaching on the

1:11:01

other side. He's getting rid of

1:11:03

all DEAI. Well, they went too

1:11:05

far the other way. They put

1:11:07

DEA everywhere. They left the border

1:11:09

open. Like you look at the

1:11:11

chart for like this president, like

1:11:14

Clinton and Obama and Bush. It

1:11:16

changed very little and then Biden.

1:11:18

Of course they're going to like

1:11:20

overreact to that. You know, they

1:11:22

invited it on themselves. So yeah,

1:11:24

I mean, in recent years it's

1:11:26

been great because I get that

1:11:29

crowd, but yeah, there were times

1:11:31

when I was in San Francisco,

1:11:33

I hate to pick on them,

1:11:35

but there are places that are

1:11:37

very woky, thinking, God, I wish

1:11:39

I was in Alabama, because that

1:11:41

crowd laughs, but they don't have,

1:11:44

they're not pretentious, you know, they're

1:11:46

basically liberal, but they don't, they're

1:11:48

not too politically correct. And comedy...

1:11:50

is not politically correct. Yeah, I

1:11:52

mean, unless it's not comedy. You

1:11:54

know what I mean? father was

1:11:57

a southern Democrat. I mean, she,

1:11:59

that was just what he was.

1:12:01

All Democrats used to be, I

1:12:03

mean, also those used to be

1:12:05

Democrat and. Kennedy changed that. And,

1:12:07

you know, I remember it was

1:12:09

just, you know, that was a

1:12:12

thing and then growing up in

1:12:14

a Republican household, I mean, it

1:12:16

was, but man, you know, it

1:12:18

just, I don't know, in the

1:12:20

South, we just. I don't think

1:12:22

we really care that much. I

1:12:25

mean, we just want to damn

1:12:27

wake up. Right. We just want

1:12:29

to wake up and... First of

1:12:31

all, people have to understand politics

1:12:33

mostly comes out of like your

1:12:35

personality and where you were born

1:12:37

and raised. You know, it's just,

1:12:40

it's just deeper than just, we're

1:12:42

the good people and anyone of

1:12:44

things differently isn't. It's just not

1:12:46

that simple. It's just so annoying

1:12:48

that attitude and I live amongst

1:12:50

it because this is the epicenter

1:12:53

of it in Hollywood that terrible

1:12:55

attitude. But yeah most people just

1:12:57

first of all they don't want

1:12:59

to think about it at all.

1:13:01

When Biden got elected that was

1:13:03

really his big pledge was if

1:13:05

you elect me you don't have

1:13:08

to start you don't have to

1:13:10

keep thinking about Donald Trump and

1:13:12

all this stuff. Of course that

1:13:14

was a pipe dream because Trump

1:13:16

never went away and then he

1:13:18

won the election again. So we

1:13:21

never stopped thinking about it but

1:13:23

most people. They would like to

1:13:25

stop thinking about politics, because it

1:13:27

doesn't really, in their view, affect

1:13:29

their lives. Government can help their

1:13:31

lives. They usually don't recognize when

1:13:33

it does. They very well note

1:13:36

when it doesn't. But basically, would

1:13:38

they even know who was president

1:13:40

a lot of the times? Many

1:13:42

times, in many households, not. And

1:13:44

they want to just get back

1:13:46

to that, you know? And I

1:13:48

can't blame them. I can't blame

1:13:51

them. It's too on people's minds.

1:13:53

They put it in their social

1:13:55

media, they put it in what

1:13:57

they write on Facebook, and so

1:13:59

we're always like cockfighting each other.

1:14:01

Yeah, about. Like making the... And

1:14:04

we... You know, like, we don't

1:14:06

have to. We can just talk

1:14:08

about murdering animals. Which I'm not

1:14:10

against if you eat them. Well,

1:14:12

and like I said, about what

1:14:14

we're saying, man, it's hard to

1:14:16

get everybody together on the same

1:14:19

stuff in this country and then,

1:14:21

and it just takes time and

1:14:23

it takes work and... So what's

1:14:25

it like playing LA? Man, where

1:14:27

do you play here? Well, I

1:14:29

played... Hollywood Bowl. Oh, that's a

1:14:32

big array several times. Um, that's

1:14:34

great. I played, uh, I played

1:14:36

the Dodgers Stadium. Well, that's big,

1:14:38

which was Dodger Stadium. I mean,

1:14:40

that goes back to what I

1:14:42

tell you with, um, you know,

1:14:44

New Jersey. And I mean, thinking

1:14:47

New Jersey and then coming out

1:14:49

here and playing Dodger Stadium. I

1:14:51

was like, it was just so,

1:14:53

just so trippy. I got into

1:14:55

cycling and I cycled up a

1:14:57

big hill that morning and stood

1:15:00

out over the stadium looking down

1:15:02

and shoot, I was like, damn,

1:15:04

that's Dodger Stadium and I'm playing

1:15:06

it. Any time you're playing a

1:15:08

place whose last name is stadium,

1:15:10

you did well. Man, it all

1:15:12

came out in the wash for

1:15:15

you. Like, because I always feel

1:15:17

like music is, you know, the

1:15:19

music is sitting on your shoulder.

1:15:21

And sometimes he sits there for

1:15:23

one hit. You've heard that term,

1:15:25

one hit one. Yeah. And sometimes

1:15:27

like you and, you know, not

1:15:30

just you, but, you know, he's

1:15:32

there for a while. But you

1:15:34

just have to worry. Like, is

1:15:36

the next one going to come?

1:15:38

Because it's not. Something you can

1:15:40

control completely. No, I mean you

1:15:43

just Do your best to try

1:15:45

to write a right a great

1:15:47

song and well you actually try

1:15:49

you don't wait for it to

1:15:51

come Well, I do that also.

1:15:53

I take songs. I love the

1:15:55

songwriting community in Nashville and the

1:15:58

fact that, you know, they can

1:16:00

send songs to me. And so

1:16:02

I love, I love trying to

1:16:04

record, you know, a little bit

1:16:06

in Nashville's what their songwriting community

1:16:08

has. But so yeah, it's, you

1:16:11

know, you wake up every day

1:16:13

trying to make great music. And

1:16:15

sometimes you... Just because it's a

1:16:17

fickle industry. Well, it's tough. And

1:16:19

you can't, right. And you know,

1:16:21

with kids on idle, man, they're

1:16:23

up there singing in front of

1:16:26

us and we try to get

1:16:28

them to this level and that

1:16:30

level, but man, they got to

1:16:32

go to work after that. Where

1:16:34

it just doesn't work. Yeah. I

1:16:36

mean, look at what you worked

1:16:39

as a comedian and then look

1:16:41

at, you do, you do a

1:16:43

funny, one funny joke. You did

1:16:45

a million bad ones. I did.

1:16:47

I had my version of playing

1:16:49

those rock and roll bars that

1:16:51

you played. Right. I played a

1:16:54

million small clubs. I played bars,

1:16:56

which is not even a place

1:16:58

a comedian should be. I played

1:17:00

with no stage standing on a

1:17:02

floor with sawdust on it. You

1:17:04

know, I mean, oh yeah. But

1:17:07

you know, you had it, I

1:17:09

had it, it's the best thing

1:17:11

in the world that could ever.

1:17:13

So good. And I had fun

1:17:15

the whole way. I've never not

1:17:17

had fun. It was more fun

1:17:19

for you than me. It's less

1:17:22

fun for a comedian in that

1:17:24

stage. Really? Yeah. I think music,

1:17:26

even if you're in a little

1:17:28

shitty place, first of all girls

1:17:30

still come for you. It's a

1:17:32

comedian, you're just a loser. And

1:17:34

very often they're, you know, they're

1:17:37

just not listening or, you know.

1:17:39

In that stage? Yes. You're just,

1:17:41

it's a sacrificial lamb kind of

1:17:43

a thing. God, you spent how

1:17:45

many years having to... Not, I

1:17:47

mean, not that many in that...

1:17:50

Really learn it just that's the

1:17:52

only way you can offens you

1:17:54

So the only way you can

1:17:56

learn to... I mean, man, I

1:17:58

had... I mean, you had bad

1:18:00

shows. Oh, yeah. And no one

1:18:02

was video on them. Jesus, could

1:18:05

you imagine if they'd have video

1:18:07

on them? Those bad ones? Yeah,

1:18:09

well, it's one reason I got

1:18:11

off the road, just now, because,

1:18:13

I mean, among other reasons, like,

1:18:15

I don't trust the crowd anymore.

1:18:18

Everyone is just out there to

1:18:20

get a scalp. You know, they

1:18:22

tell them to turn the phones

1:18:24

off. Now you could collect the

1:18:26

phones, some people do that, but

1:18:28

I really don't want to do

1:18:30

that to the audience. Most of

1:18:33

them, I feel like it would

1:18:35

be an insult. I feel like

1:18:37

my audience are my friends. They

1:18:39

could be my friends. They think

1:18:41

like me. It's just not something

1:18:43

you would get from just a

1:18:46

random sampling of the people out

1:18:48

there. So I don't want to

1:18:50

insult them like that, but... you

1:18:52

know every once in a while

1:18:54

or somebody who's directly hostile to

1:18:56

you can film your show take

1:18:58

things out of context and also

1:19:01

you're pushing boundaries you you know

1:19:03

he crossed the line yeah that's

1:19:05

my job to cross the line

1:19:07

and how do I know where

1:19:09

the line is sometimes until I

1:19:11

cross it you should thank me

1:19:14

for crossing the line and every

1:19:16

comedian who does it right but

1:19:18

you have to cross the line

1:19:20

you do look at Johnny Cash

1:19:22

I he was That's what he

1:19:24

had to do. I crossed, no,

1:19:26

I walked the line. I walked

1:19:29

the line, but man, God, you

1:19:31

look at Mark. Have you ever

1:19:33

seen Walk Hard? You know, I've,

1:19:35

I know. It is the funny.

1:19:37

If you haven't seen it or

1:19:39

saw it once, watch it. Was

1:19:41

it John C. Riley? Yes. You

1:19:44

know, that's probably his only movie

1:19:46

I haven't watched from top to

1:19:48

bottom. Oh, you have to. It's

1:19:50

about in your industry. It's about

1:19:52

the music, it's hysterical. I've seen

1:19:54

clips of it. It's Judd Apatow,

1:19:57

it's fantastic. Oh, you gotta watch

1:19:59

it, it's a scream. You know,

1:20:01

he's Johnny Cash at the beginning.

1:20:03

Right. And then, but then they.

1:20:05

take it into the 60s so

1:20:07

he meets the Beatles he goes

1:20:09

through his Dylan phase his Bob

1:20:12

Dylan phase which is very apropos

1:20:14

now with have you seen the

1:20:16

Dylan movie I hadn't seen it

1:20:18

yeah I want to see it

1:20:20

me too I love the the

1:20:22

previews really look good it's out

1:20:25

now that right yeah you are

1:20:27

a Dylan fan you know in

1:20:29

my household we didn't um you

1:20:31

know I just heard Dylan kind

1:20:33

of on the peripheral I didn't

1:20:35

really I just never really got

1:20:37

a chance to listen to him

1:20:40

and through the years, I wouldn't

1:20:42

say I was a, you know,

1:20:44

I wouldn't say that I was

1:20:46

a big dealing fan, but God

1:20:48

when you look at, you know,

1:20:50

when, like the band, didn't he

1:20:53

write, take a load off any,

1:20:55

I think he wrote that. Well,

1:20:57

that is a band song, that's

1:20:59

called The Weight, yeah. I mean...

1:21:01

Did Dylan write that? He wrote

1:21:03

so many songs sometimes where you'd

1:21:05

think, oh wow, Dylan wrote that

1:21:08

because it wasn't a hit for

1:21:10

him. You know, I mean, sometimes

1:21:12

he was well served I think

1:21:14

by somebody else singing his song

1:21:16

because like, you know, he had

1:21:18

a, I don't, you know, they

1:21:20

make fun of his singing voice.

1:21:23

It was certainly unique. It's obviously

1:21:25

like beyond charismatic because he's Bob

1:21:27

Dylan, so if he didn't hit

1:21:29

every note perfectly. But he's actually...

1:21:31

You know, he does hit, it's

1:21:33

not like he sings clams. He

1:21:36

sings in his own very distinctive

1:21:38

way. Yeah, but I never, I

1:21:40

like his voice, I thought. Yeah,

1:21:42

it's, yeah. Thought being. It's certainly

1:21:44

not Robert Gulay. Not everybody can

1:21:46

be, not everybody can be. Not

1:21:48

everybody should be. Well, when you

1:21:51

look at, you know, Paul Simon

1:21:53

through the years, I mean, love

1:21:55

him. Gosh. Oh. So that's somebody

1:21:57

who like well I'm a crazy

1:21:59

Paul Simon fan but I am

1:22:01

I'm a crazy Paul Simon But

1:22:04

I know enough that now what

1:22:06

a what a career you built.

1:22:08

What in... Both lyrically and music.

1:22:10

Like very few people write lyrics

1:22:12

I think that stand up

1:22:14

as poetry without

1:22:17

the music. He is

1:22:19

one of them. Totally. I

1:22:21

mean when you think about

1:22:23

Paul Simon and... I mean...

1:22:25

What? Well, I was going about

1:22:28

James now. Well, I was going

1:22:30

back to Dylan and Simon and

1:22:32

then you know those guys that

1:22:34

James Taylor who James Taylor his

1:22:37

These guys are not like They're

1:22:39

just not like a Robert plant.

1:22:41

They're not like a Robert

1:22:43

plant type singer. No, Robert

1:22:46

plant was you know, no one.

1:22:48

I mean, he was just the

1:22:50

greatest well then you look You know,

1:22:52

but Paul Simon and singers like that

1:22:54

could make it and then Robert

1:22:56

Plant could do that. It's just

1:22:58

funny how everybody can find their

1:23:00

little niche as long as you've got

1:23:03

something that's your niche and you've

1:23:05

set yourself. I mean I've heard

1:23:07

a lot of collapse. I've never

1:23:09

heard like heavy metal in country.

1:23:11

That seems one that's sort of

1:23:13

elusive. Like I can't imagine like Robert

1:23:15

Plant, you know, doing something with

1:23:18

you. Well he and Allison Kraus

1:23:20

did some stuff together. Well,

1:23:22

that's jazz. Well, she's

1:23:24

jazz. She's bluegrass. She

1:23:26

is? In her core.

1:23:29

Well, maybe, but Robert

1:23:31

Plant, in later years,

1:23:33

was less Ledzepliny. Oh,

1:23:35

when they were like,

1:23:37

don't, no, no, no,

1:23:39

no, no, you know, that

1:23:41

they hit an e-court and

1:23:44

the world was shaken.

1:23:46

You know, I mean, the

1:23:48

country rap thing works.

1:23:50

Hell yeah it does. But I'm

1:23:52

not sure about country heavy metal.

1:23:55

It might. I'm trying to think.

1:23:57

I mean Jay-Z did did wrap

1:23:59

with... He did 99 problems with,

1:24:01

I think, was it rage against

1:24:04

the machine? Somebody like that, that

1:24:06

was kind of heavy metal, but

1:24:08

I could see why rapid heavy

1:24:10

metal can go together. Country, I

1:24:13

don't know. You know, I'm gonna

1:24:15

go through my mind, but I

1:24:17

bet, gosh, there's been some. There's

1:24:20

been some CMT crossover stuff. There's

1:24:23

so much more collabbing than when

1:24:25

I was a kid. When I

1:24:27

was a kid, you know, Tommy

1:24:29

James and the Shondelles, like... They

1:24:32

all tried to kill each other.

1:24:34

What? Well, I mean, back in

1:24:36

those days of music, man, those

1:24:39

artists didn't like... I mean, they

1:24:41

were out working to... be better

1:24:43

than the other. I mean it

1:24:46

was, it was cutthroat, it was,

1:24:48

it was, yeah, I mean it

1:24:50

was, I don't know, my cutthroat,

1:24:53

but it was competitive. And there

1:24:55

was no like, you know, hey,

1:24:57

the fifth dimension, why don't you

1:25:00

come on my record? Like, fuck

1:25:02

off, I'm doing my own record,

1:25:04

we can get on your record.

1:25:07

But now, like, nobody puts out

1:25:09

of record old. Man, there's a

1:25:11

lot of clabs out there, but

1:25:13

people love it. People just love

1:25:16

it. You do it. You do

1:25:18

it. You do it. You do

1:25:20

it. Yeah, I mean, I mean,

1:25:23

I mean, I mean, I mean,

1:25:25

I mean, I mean. What about

1:25:27

Dolly Parton? I hadn't done anything

1:25:30

with Dolly. Why? It's an insult

1:25:32

to you. Well, I wouldn't say

1:25:34

that. Oh, I would. Why when

1:25:37

you collide with Dolly Parton? She's...

1:25:39

It just hadn't happened. I mean,

1:25:41

I've met... I've seen Dolly in

1:25:44

concert. Man, she's... You know, I

1:25:46

just said, it hadn't happened yet,

1:25:48

but it might happen after... You

1:25:51

know, Bill, you're so adamant about

1:25:53

it. Luke has to do a

1:25:55

fucking collab with the only part.

1:25:57

Well, who was your favorite collab

1:26:00

that you ever worked with when

1:26:02

you did a collab? Gosh. I

1:26:04

don't know, you know, early on

1:26:07

I did a collab with... FGL,

1:26:09

Florida, Georgia line, and it was

1:26:11

a fun call, this is how

1:26:14

we roll. It was really fun.

1:26:16

I've got a... Can I suggest

1:26:18

a few people? What's that? May

1:26:21

I suggest a few people? Who's

1:26:23

that? Steely Dan? Whoa! Oh, you're

1:26:25

reeling in the years. Is it?

1:26:28

Yeah, reeling in the years. So

1:26:30

good. Great. Right. Okay. Okay. Well,

1:26:32

the guitar solo in there? I

1:26:35

mean, it's a, that was a

1:26:37

two-man group, one of them's gone,

1:26:39

so, you know, step like I

1:26:42

can get in there with him.

1:26:44

Steve Miller Band, come on. But

1:26:46

you know, classic. Oh, what's their

1:26:48

song? The Joker? Yes. Come on.

1:26:51

There's a little country in that

1:26:53

song. I mean, totally. You really

1:26:55

draw your inspiration from a really

1:26:58

wide range. And yeah never asked

1:27:00

you didn't even mean to it

1:27:02

was just whatever my sisters and

1:27:05

her friends and man whatever they

1:27:07

listen to But I mean you

1:27:09

seem to be the product of

1:27:12

all that That went that the

1:27:14

whole range of the of the

1:27:16

American songbook hell I remember you

1:27:19

know Prince Yeah when Prince had

1:27:21

that damn album where he had

1:27:23

the jeans cut out of his

1:27:26

his ass cheeks I was like,

1:27:28

I don't remember that one. I

1:27:30

think that was a picture. I

1:27:32

don't remember it might. Maybe you

1:27:35

imagined that or somebody said to

1:27:37

it. Reference it right now, but

1:27:39

I was like, is this crazy?

1:27:42

I used to have a poster.

1:27:44

Prince will stamp crazy. Yes, what

1:27:46

an animal. Prince, I mean, very

1:27:49

few people have whettened pussies like

1:27:51

Prince. At five foot two, bitch.

1:27:53

five foot two and very i

1:27:56

mean gangster i know it's very

1:27:58

gangster i mean five foot two

1:28:00

trust me i knew I knew

1:28:03

women who talked about him, I

1:28:05

knew women who talked about him,

1:28:07

and that five foot two, you

1:28:10

know, for all the women who

1:28:12

were on, you know, whatever the

1:28:14

dating site is, where they're like,

1:28:17

well, you know, tender, I wouldn't

1:28:19

go out with a guy who

1:28:21

wasn't six foot tall. Yeah, you

1:28:23

would. I know one you would.

1:28:26

He was the pussy whisper. He

1:28:28

really was. And then he got

1:28:30

into... It was a big fan

1:28:33

of my first show, Politically Incorrect,

1:28:35

The Sign is behind you. And

1:28:37

he used to talk about it,

1:28:40

like publicly. It was a show

1:28:42

with four guests, and he would,

1:28:44

I was told, he would, this

1:28:47

is after he became a very

1:28:49

serious Jehovah Witness, I think it

1:28:51

was, but something, he was very,

1:28:54

very religious. and he would bring

1:28:56

like four strippers back from the

1:28:58

club and they thought there was

1:29:01

going to be an orgy and

1:29:03

he'd just do an episode of

1:29:05

politically incorrect with them and they'd

1:29:07

talk about Jesus. Yeah, yeah, so

1:29:10

a little tidbit for you. I

1:29:12

don't know if that's true but

1:29:14

that's somebody who knew him told

1:29:17

but I know he really yeah

1:29:19

he became well he definitely became

1:29:21

super religious. I didn't know that.

1:29:24

Right. And the God was fentanyl,

1:29:26

unfortunately. No. That's, that's, that's, too

1:29:28

soon. No, he was very, you

1:29:31

know, he became, you know, had

1:29:33

some very interesting theories about history.

1:29:35

Yeah, but all too soon. Yeah,

1:29:38

I mean, I mean, Whitney, geez.

1:29:40

But so many, I mean, how

1:29:42

many rock stars? Whitney Houston. And

1:29:45

I always want to just get

1:29:47

one of them to say, to

1:29:49

ask, rock star, you're given so

1:29:51

much, just by being a rock

1:29:54

star, you know this, you have

1:29:56

so much. Why then need like

1:29:58

this level of drugs that's going

1:30:01

to kill you? that. It's just

1:30:03

and it happens so many times.

1:30:05

Like I just want to say

1:30:08

to them you don't have to

1:30:10

be doing that well to do

1:30:12

the amount of drugs you're doing

1:30:15

that's enough to kill you like

1:30:17

you could probably do it on

1:30:19

like maybe four hundred grand a

1:30:22

year. You could probably buy enough

1:30:24

coke and liquor and fentanyl or

1:30:26

whatever with that salary to kill

1:30:29

yourself. You're making way more than

1:30:31

that and you're still, you know,

1:30:33

I don't know what they're, what

1:30:36

is this sorrow that they're dampening

1:30:38

down sorrow? And I'm sure there

1:30:40

is. I mean, I don't doubt

1:30:42

that people have their own pain

1:30:45

no matter how much it looks

1:30:47

from the outside, like everything's great.

1:30:49

But you just have to explain

1:30:52

to me, okay, everything actually is

1:30:54

great. Yeah, I mean, you have

1:30:56

so much. What the problem, what

1:30:59

is the problem? Why are we

1:31:01

doing the drugs? Why do we

1:31:03

need to forget? Forget. I want

1:31:06

to remember this life, and I

1:31:08

even have had it. Man, I

1:31:10

want to remember it. Yeah. I

1:31:13

mean... Well, you seem like you

1:31:15

have your head on very straight.

1:31:17

I hope so. You know? Yeah.

1:31:20

It's a... Who's your, like, kitchen

1:31:22

cabinet friends who you could just,

1:31:24

like, lay it all out with?

1:31:26

Oh, man. I got a great

1:31:29

friend group I've got... You must

1:31:31

have, some of them must be

1:31:33

your peers, because like the only

1:31:36

people who really understand you on

1:31:38

a certain level are not your

1:31:40

high school friends. Yeah. They're the

1:31:43

people who also play stadiums. Yeah,

1:31:45

well, my thing, my high school,

1:31:47

I got some high school friends

1:31:50

that are like, they're just so

1:31:52

tight and one of them, he

1:31:54

and I are in some businesses

1:31:57

together that were doing really well

1:31:59

and just so... thankful of that

1:32:01

and then I've got man I

1:32:04

got high school friends and a

1:32:06

little group of college friends that

1:32:08

you know we try to get

1:32:11

together were your peers my peers

1:32:13

that you know can I would

1:32:15

say my peers in country are

1:32:17

probably very early on. Dirk Bentley

1:32:20

was a very dear, you know,

1:32:22

a peer of mine. But he's

1:32:24

not as big as you. Well,

1:32:27

you have to like have people

1:32:29

who understand what your life is.

1:32:31

Nobody like that? Well yeah, I've

1:32:34

got Shelton or somebody like that.

1:32:36

Somebody who understands what your life.

1:32:38

Oh man, me and Blake, we

1:32:41

have a good time. I told

1:32:43

you. I know it. You would

1:32:45

play. We have a good time

1:32:48

together. What do you do? Me

1:32:50

and Dirk's fear and murder animals.

1:32:52

Let me guess. Let me guess.

1:32:55

I love that we're different. Me

1:32:57

too. You know, I mean, and

1:32:59

fuck it, we're not even that

1:33:01

different. Man, I tell you. We're

1:33:04

not that different. We do slightly

1:33:06

different versions of the same. Well,

1:33:08

we're, you know, I think. Like,

1:33:11

we're all Americans and we're all...

1:33:13

Well, the main difference is if

1:33:15

it's more generational. We're living still

1:33:18

in the real world. Younger generation

1:33:20

is living in the virtual world.

1:33:22

That's going to be the main

1:33:25

difference. Yeah. Whether your girlfriend is

1:33:27

an AI fucking app on your

1:33:29

phone, or where they're actually... You

1:33:32

know the other way. The old...

1:33:34

Call it... Call it women classic.

1:33:36

Well... Anyway... God, you know, but

1:33:39

it's a lot to handle and

1:33:41

control and the beauty of it

1:33:43

is You get to fight your

1:33:45

fight and not your fight You

1:33:48

get to tell you through comedy

1:33:50

and you get to tell yourself

1:33:52

through through satirical We I mean

1:33:55

you you go after it and

1:33:57

you take your We're both so

1:33:59

lucky, right? Hell, hell you all.

1:34:02

I mean, we could have been,

1:34:04

you know, not that their other jobs

1:34:06

are bad or horrible or boring,

1:34:09

but a lot of jobs are

1:34:11

bad, horrible and boring. And

1:34:13

we don't have, we don't even

1:34:15

have jobs. We have careers.

1:34:17

Some people have careers, and

1:34:19

some people have jobs. I've had

1:34:21

plenty of jobs when I was

1:34:24

young, and I didn't like them,

1:34:26

because they were fucking jobs. If

1:34:28

you have a career as opposed to

1:34:31

a job, you are lucky. Very.

1:34:33

And that's what we got.

1:34:35

Well, there's a lot of hardworking

1:34:38

people out there that... Yeah, and

1:34:40

we work. What do they want?

1:34:42

I just want to do. And

1:34:44

we work hard too. Don't take

1:34:46

that away from me. Just

1:34:48

because I enjoy it. And I

1:34:51

still work hard at it, and I

1:34:53

bet you do too, too. How often

1:34:55

are you like in the studio?

1:34:58

You know, um, that a lot. We're

1:35:00

in the studio quite

1:35:02

a lot. You know, we have,

1:35:04

um... We have a thing at

1:35:06

your house, were you? Thing at

1:35:08

the house, guys drive out, piano,

1:35:11

guitar, amps, and man, we,

1:35:13

you know, we write out there,

1:35:15

and it's fun, you know, we...

1:35:18

Right? So you have a in-home

1:35:20

studio. I've got a room

1:35:22

in my house that I've got,

1:35:24

you know, my pianos and stuff

1:35:27

like that. Are they sitting on

1:35:29

actual bales of hay? Or do

1:35:32

you know, the donkeys come up?

1:35:34

You have furniture. The donkeys come

1:35:36

up, you know, the dam.

1:35:38

You know, we serve our freshly

1:35:41

slaughtered eggs and chicken. And I

1:35:43

understand the Uber driver is a

1:35:45

tractor. All right, I'm going to release

1:35:48

you back into the wild to murder

1:35:50

more animals. Oh, listen. I'm going to

1:35:52

go back to work on my show.

1:35:55

Thank you. Such a pleasure. I hope

1:35:57

it's not the last time. I'm

1:36:03

a a, I'm a you know, I... Oh,

1:36:05

you know, I, I, to listen to,

1:36:07

stay able to. If you're a facilities manager at

1:36:09

a university, you know If you're a facilities

1:36:11

manager at a for you know

1:36:14

students rely on the cafeteria for

1:36:16

breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the occasional

1:36:18

late a snack. So when a dishwasher

1:36:20

breaks down and dirty plates pile

1:36:22

up, the mess hall can turn

1:36:24

messy the the blink of an

1:36:26

eye. eye. Enter Granger With over a million

1:36:28

industrial grade products and fast delivery,

1:36:30

the product you need now is

1:36:32

never far away. So you can

1:36:34

turn that dishwasher back into a

1:36:36

lean, clean a machine. Call. Click

1:36:38

ranger.com or just stop by. Granger

1:36:40

for the ones who get it done. it done.