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Speaker: In my soul Every bite out of control Do it all to get them off their feet Crowd is here, about to blow Made it for me to start the show Out the gods like the world from home My father's dead
Speaker: What's your name? I really like your style Looking so fine, so sweet, so kind Like strawberry wine So come on over here, let me talk to you I wanna get to know that smile We can sit, we can talk, we can dance, we can walk for a while Y 'all, I got my hands up Singing along to my favorite country songs Blipping lip pride in the neon light Girl, I'm really feeling your heart
Speaker: No, you bound to me! You took my dreams and got my name!
Speaker: Hey girl, how about we go on over and get a drink They got beer, got rum, got tequila, if that's your thing Whatever you say, the way you move Well, I got your hand in mine You and me just lose in time, baby, feels so right Y 'all, I got my hands up Singing along to my favorite country songs Slipping lip, riding the knee, I like, girl, I'm with you feeling your heart
Speaker: Got this, got that parts in the man hold me back
Speaker: You know you got me wrapped around a little finger so tight Got this, got that, parts in the manhole made by Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker: Blue jeans, crop top boots Yeah, you got your cowgirl, half blonde curves You know that we should hop in the truck Get tangled up and maybe go drive around We go slow, go fast, we can do whatever, baby, I'm down Y 'all, I got my hands up Singing along to my favorite country songs We've been lit up brighter than the art like girls I'm really feeling your heart
Speaker: you know you got me wrapped around a little finger so tight got this got that bartender man hold me back
Speaker: What's going on everybody? Happy Friday. Two clicks house of music. Hopefully you guys are having a good Friday. The work week didn't do you too much damage. That was Hunter lot with my type. You guys aren't already going to check out them social medias. The new, the newly branded nonsensical network, ladies and gentlemen, the home of men caring for men. Oh, not that men caring for men. Jeff's garage.
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Speaker: Wasting too much time. I do want to go ahead and introduce our guests tonight. Shung man, Mr. Hunter lot in the building. What's going on with your brother? I'm doing good, brother. Are you doing all right? I'm doing man. I'm doing good. Uh, or, or should I say AKA the outlaw Travis Clayton? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes. That is me.
Speaker: I'll get to that later, but I actually enjoyed it. I stumbled upon that little hidden gem earlier today when I was downloading music and I was like, what is this? Let me check it out. And those were the days. I actually kind of, you know, I actually enjoyed it, you know, for everything. But nonetheless, young man coming up, you're in Nashville, correct? Or coming up in Nashville,
Speaker: Singing and songwriting, doing his thing. We're excited to have him here in Glick's House of Music. And the House of Music, if you will, tonight. I'm good to be here. So glad to be here. I do appreciate you. I appreciate you coming on, man. In all honesty, the interview game is tough. Yeah. Trying to lock down people and get people to agree to do interviews and stuff like that. I understand. You've probably got a hectic schedule, but I do appreciate you coming on, man.
Speaker: I do want to ask you right off the rip real quick, uh, what's going on in your world right now? What do you got? You got gigs and stuff like that. Uh, you know, albums coming out or anything. I have a, uh, a big festival coming up in a couple of days, actually on may the fourth, that's going to be a big festival. So Star Wars day.
Speaker: Yeah. May the fourth be with you. Yeah. For the, for the nerds out there, I got love for you guys. I know you're out there. Yeah. Yeah. So we, um, I'm going to Collins, Mississippi. There's a festival called the Oklahoma Fest and there's going to be a whole bunch of people there and I'm super excited. It's actually my hometown. So I am in Nashville now, but I grew up in Mississippi and going to a festival. Now I'm a hometown finally get to go back home and put on a good show. You know, how long have you been down in, uh, and down in Nashville?
Speaker: Uh, over two years for sure. I really actually suck with time. So I don't, I can't tell you if it's like two and a half or two. I feel like I've been back home in Ohio for six, seven years and then something will pop up on my memories on Snapchat or something like that. It'll be like five years ago and I'm still down in South Carolina and it's like, Oh man, it feels so much longer than that. I'm horrible with time.
Speaker: Um, but that's gotta, that's gotta be crazy going back to your hometown. Um, you know, you're, you're starting to see some success. Uh, you're, you know, you're, you're down there doing what you love. Uh, what's that, what's that feeling? What's that, what's that like for you to be able to go back to your hometown and put a show on. Or I'm assuming family, friends, they're all going to be there.
Speaker: Yeah, there's a whole bunch of people gonna be there too. I don't remember how like, it's just gonna be what's gonna be weird about it is I haven't gotten down there to do the show yet. So I but I think about it all the time. And it's, it's gonna be weird because I used to go to that festival when I was like a such a little kid, you know, like my grandfather used to take me to that festival. And now it's like, now I'm gonna be the head on the headlining artist for it. So it's,
Speaker: Oh, nice. It's just, it's kind of hard to wrap your head around. I guess when I get up there and I'll be on the stage, you know, I'll just be like, man, it's just been a long circle. Yeah. Um, you know, you said you grew up there. You were going to the festival.
Speaker: off the top of your head, what are their acts that perform there? Or have any big names or anything come through? Oh, I'm sure. I know they do stuff, because we have a couple of things down there in Mississippi. When I went, I mean, it's like a normal festival. There's like fair rides, and the Pharaoh might be there, and then there's like, of course, like face painting and stuff like that.
Speaker: a bunch of like merchant merch stuff you can put everywhere and there's thousands of people and it's like a normal festival thing and then uh then the neighboring city Laurel they do their they do they have a festival stuff that ends up happening as well so there's some things going on um but I was so little I was so young when I went and I didn't go to yeah and I didn't go to school in in that town where the festival is I did go 30 minutes away to Hattiesburg
Speaker: So, um, there's, they got some stuff going on, but, and I don't know, that's the thing. I haven't looked into it. You put me on the spot. I didn't look at it. See if there was any big, big artists going to be there or not. I know there are some people playing before me. Um, and then there's got, there's going to be a guy playing after me, but as far as like big game, big names, I don't know if I knew any of the top of my head. Yeah. I know. Like we do like, yeah, we have the county fairs up here. Yeah.
Speaker: And we, you know, they always have the rough trucks and the monster jams and the dirt bikes and the demolition derby and stuff like that. And, uh, yeah, but they always have one night that it's a concert night. I remember when, uh, just, just, just, uh, just, just a young man with a mullet came through. Nobody really knew him by the name of Mr. Blake Shelton. Yeah.
Speaker: through our little town, you know, my little hometown and performed and, you know, he, he was still coming up in the, in the game back then. I think he had, you know, he had Austin was out at that point in time, but it was so cool because it was in a, such a, again, thousands of people, rides, vendors, food, all the, all the fair stuff. Uh, but after his show and before his show, he was just hanging out with everybody. Yeah.
Speaker: Nobody would have thought, you know, all these years later, he would be a megastar married to Gwen Stefani and, you know, just living the life. But anybody like that came through there.
Speaker: you know, if you look back at it, there's like, wow, you know, I'm possibly sharing a stage that may be a young Jason Aldean or, uh, you know, uh, young Toby Keith or, or whatever once, once was on, you know what I mean? Um, but you probably already have that feeling being in Nashville. Have you got to perform much in Nashville or around that? Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's been through Nashville. I've had, um,
Speaker: I mean, if we want to really drop some names, I've had, uh, I've had, I've had Tanya Tucker's fiddle players played with me. I've played, uh, played with Taylor Swift's guitar player, um, right now. And, um, uh, Luke Holmes, one of Luke Holmes concert guitar players has played with me. And that was when I worked on Broadway though. That was when I did, did the Broadway stuff. So I was on Broadway for like eight or nine months. If you have like, uh, like a standing gig where you're like a, like a house band or something like that, or was it just.
Speaker: five days a week. Hey man pays the bills and it gets your voice out there and gets your music heard. Five days a week, four hours straight every day on either Tootsies. It was either kid Tootsies, kid rocks, rippies, um, honky talk central, all of those places, you know, Nashville is on my bucket list. I've never been down to Nashville. What? I, I, yeah, you know, I've, I've, I've been a lot of places. I've seen a lot of places in this country. Uh, I've never got down to Nashville. You know, I'm a big,
Speaker: You know, I love all genres of music. I love all genres of music, but I'm a big rock and country guy. Yeah. I'm just, I'm a, I'm a music nerd. Let's be honest. I'm a bit of a music nerd, but I'm a big rock and country guy. But I've never, I've never got down to Nashville. I know my fiance and I were actually next year, we're getting married down in New Orleans and we're going to drive and we're going to,
Speaker: Because Nashville is like the halfway point between where we are in Ohio and New Orleans. So we're going to stop for where it works. We're taking. I think we're taking a week or two off of work. And we're going to spend two or three days down in Nashville.
Speaker: I've never been there. And I was like, I may never leave. I'm just going to be honest with you. You have to message. You have to message me. Let me know. I could be playing that that week. Oh, definitely. Oh, when we did that, I'll hit you up, man. Yeah. And if you're if you're in town, you know, when I while I'm playing, just swing back. Mm hmm. Absolutely. Monkey part said they saw you in Nashville. Oh, please don't don't give any of my secrets out.
Speaker: Well, then we'll just put that up on screen. Somebody, you know, I think when I worked at Tootsies, when I worked the Broadway circuit, I have seen some things. We will say that, you know, some of these people in the comments, they might be telling the truth. Yeah, I can only imagine, you know, in my younger days, I'm a bit of an old dog, but in my younger days, I used to bounce.
Speaker: And I worked security at concert venues and stuff like that. And, you know, if we'd have acts come to the clubs and stuff like that, that I was working in. Yeah. I can only imagine some of the things you've seen because Lord knows I've seen some things that I wish I didn't see. Oh yeah. Yeah. There's some, we've had some things we've had people fall off of countertops or like the bars. And we've, one of my guitar players I was playing with one day, his whole, his whole system stopped working.
Speaker: Oh wow. Someone tripped and like threw a drink all over his pedals.
Speaker: And we've had stuff like that happen weekly. And it's nuts. But it is really fun being a tourist and going down to Nashville and spending time on Broadway. They've got all those different shops, all the different bars. And then outside of that, during the more daylight activities, there's all the different museums, like the Johnny Cash Museum. And there's all types of things like that that you could check out. And you could go to the Ryman, you could go to an opera show while you're there. On my list of
Speaker: When we're down there, I want to go to the Opry. I want to see a show. I don't care who it is. I just want to be inside the Opry. Yeah. And you got to stop by the Opry Hotel, of course, too. You got to see that, man. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be a fun trip. Everybody that I've talked to has been down there. I have some musician friends that were down there years ago and spent time down there playing and whatnot. And then I've
Speaker: come and gone or whatever the case may be. But they're like, dude, for you with your love of music, we can't believe you've never been to that. I know. I went when I was a little too. Yeah. You know, you know, unfortunately, you know, I'm a busy guy, you know, I work a lot and then, you know, my oldest one, I was 24 when she was born. So that kind of put a kibosh on my traveling and whatnot. So and then I've been doing the dad thing for the last 19 years. So, you know,
Speaker: I got a few more years until they're all grown. Once they're all grown and whatnot, I'll still be young enough that I can enjoy life. I'm still not started that dad journey. I don't plan on it anytime soon either. You know what? You just do your thing. I was, I was actually your age when my oldest one was born and you know, don't get me wrong. I love my kids. I love being a dad. You know, it's, it's one of those, it's one of those accomplishments and achievements in life that, you know, that I'm proud of. I think I've done a pretty good job with, with, with my three.
Speaker: But if I could have started a little bit later, I probably wouldn't have been mad at that either. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like you're pretty, uh, pretty popular amongst the ladies there. First time hearing of it. Let me tell you, but we've, I don't know. I try.
Speaker: Sometimes. Not really. Are you a single gentleman? Are you off the market? I am single. I've been single for... I'm still too busy. I'm too busy for anything where I have to actually put effort in. Anything serious, relationship wise.
Speaker: Well, you're going to be a rock star one day, man. You're going to be going from town to town, city to city. You're not ready to be like that. You're still a good man. Plus, I just have never... I have not found one that I want to be steady with. I haven't found anyone that has the same values as me and understands things about me putting my career... Because I've been in relationships while trying to be in music and it's just not for people. It's just not for people.
Speaker: It's tough. My fiance and I, we had the conversation and since my ex -wife and I split up, I've had a couple failed relationships. It happens, but that was a conversation that my fiance and I had two totally different worlds. I'm trying to chase a podcast dream and you're trying to chase your musical dream.
Speaker: But it's a dream nonetheless. And I want to be successful at it. And, excuse me, we've had our ups and downs with it because I do spend a lot of time and I put a lot of energy and effort into it. But at the end of the day, she's very supportive of it. Even when she gets a little aggravated and annoyed because I've done four shows in a week and
Speaker: you know, 20 hours or 25 hours worth of podcasts into them. I spend another, you know, eight to 10 hours a week uploading stuff and promoting stuff and reaching out to people and everything else. So, you know, yeah, you got to find that right person.
Speaker: And I seen the comment in there, and you spoke on your values, it said you're a Christian. Are you a hardcore Christian, like church every Sunday? And that's - Everything I do goes to the glory of God.
Speaker: for sure. So I don't, I don't do any sort of, I don't really drink. I don't do any sort of drugs. I don't do, you know, a lot of things and a lot of things that most people be, especially, especially a guy who's in my shoes where, you know, they're playing on like, they're playing a lot of bars and stuff, which I used to do. I'm on, I've moved up to pretty much bigger stages now, but I used to play a lot in bars and all that stuff. And, you know, I just, uh,
Speaker: Yeah, it's tough when you're in that environment. We discussed this before the show. His camera does not like him, so he might bounce in and out tonight. But don't worry, we'll bring him back as soon as he comes back. I was going to say, being in that environment and playing in that environment, especially when you obviously don't do drugs. Drugs are bad.
Speaker: but not being a drinker and being in that environment on a, you know, on a regular basis, it makes it hard. All right. First crash. You're good. Don't worry about it. I don't think it's better from here. Um, but yeah, no, I was just saying, you know, being in that environment, it makes it hard, but you know, Jesus did drink. He did turn water to one. I'm just saying he did. He did. He absolutely did. Um,
Speaker: But unfortunately, I do drink. Well, not unfortunately. I enjoy my alcoholic beverages. My dad, like on holidays and stuff, you know, like Christmas and 4th of July, there's nothing wrong with all that. But I'm not a guy who just, you know, goes and just gets hammered every day when I've got to put on a show, you know? Shut up, Travis. Allegedly. Yeah. No, I yeah, I don't I don't drink every day. I you know, I do. I'll drink.
Speaker: a few, you know, uh, podcast nights, I'll drink a few beers. Yeah. Saturday nights. I do have a tendency to get a little, a little crazy, but that's one night a week. And then every once in a while, my fiance, I guess she likes to drink and we like to go out and follow our friends and, and we like to drink. And I used to be a raging alcoholic. Um, and, and, and I wasn't like, when I, when I quote unquote recovered,
Speaker: It wasn't like I'm never touching alcohol again. It was a matter of getting that control back that I lost at the end. Yeah. But I want to ask you, how long have you how long have you been in the music game? How long have you been writing, playing, singing? See, I was 16 when I started. That was a nice comment, Andrew. Well, thank you, Andrew.
Speaker: But I started when I was 16, so it's. Help me with math, like eight years now. Yeah, eight years into the game, man. Nice. Yeah, eight or nine years. And that's guitar and singing as well. And I was writing, you know, ever since and I wrote and put out my first song when I was 19, though. So my first song came out as. Well, Glitch of the Matrix.
Speaker: We're gonna work through this, I promise. We're gonna continue this. So he's got eight years in the game. He's in Nashville. He's in the right place, especially for his style of music at the end of the day. I was telling him before the show started, I stumbled upon him coincidentally on Instagram. He was promoting one of his new singles and it caught my ear.
Speaker: I mean, that's how I stumbled across them. You said your first song came out when you were 19? Yeah. Yeah. What made you decide to get into music? Was it something that you were always interested in? Okay. Well, I played sports when I was in school in basketball and football and stuff like that. And then my grandfather passed away.
Speaker: And my grandfather was one of the, or probably the biggest, you know, person in our family and the whole family took a super, super, super big loss when my grandfather died.
Speaker: And especially my mom, my mom will tell you from this day that my music saved her, you know, like that. So I was also just, I used to go and cruise in the coast with him. We'd hang out with him all the time. And I used to go to all my sister's softball games where he was a coach and he just, we just grew up, you know, in the same little area where their houses are all close together. And it's my grandpa's here, you know, all that stuff. And when he passed away, you know, none of us really knew what to do. So.
Speaker: kind of left in limbo, man, kind of you guys were living your own purgatory, you know? Yeah, we didn't know. We didn't know what was going on. So I don't know, I grew up on Metallica, I got a guitar when I was eight, but I didn't play it. So, you know, I remember being in those moments where I just feeling like I had nothing to do.
Speaker: And I had found that guitar again whenever I had moved because we had recently moved soon enough. This time I didn't lose it in the closet. Like I knew where it was because we just moved and I found it again. I picked it up and I made sure it was set up in tune and two weeks later I was playing Metallica riffs. Nice. And learning some... That would be cool to hear. Yeah, learning some country stuff. Right.
Speaker: It's a little $100 guitar, like $100, maybe $80 now. And then one pickup, just one single coil bridge pickup. And that's how I started it. So I started playing then. And then I started, started singing. And you just had a natural, natural talent.
Speaker: At first, I thought of my parents just being good to me because I went down the scene for my parents, you know, and your parents aren't going to tell you, you know, they might not tell you it's awful. But then they took me to my church and they took us to the music minister for the church. And then we went to like a vocal coach for a university for an opinion. And the vocal coach told us to run with it. So I'm already. He's a good looking young man.
Speaker: He can sing and complain. I'm already jealous. I'm already jealous. Tell me, you know, for my mom passed away, she always said, you're handsome, you're handsome. She never told me I look like a Sasquatch though. Dude, the beard is snake. I can't, I'm Tony. I can't grow a beard at all. I was, I, I, I tell you what I went through the, I went through the, uh, the many phases I had, uh,
Speaker: I had a goatee that was real long. Cause that was all that I could grow. And then I had, I call them douche straps. They're called chin straps. And then I was able to grow like a full goatee mustache and all. And then I turned 30 and I woke up one morning and I had this on my face and it hasn't gone away since. So you got a few more years. Oh, don't give up yet, man. Maybe, you know, maybe, maybe a few years down the road, you'll wake up and you'll look like Chris Stapleton or something like that.
Speaker: I'll end up like my dad. My dad's got some nice scruff, you know? Yeah. So I'll end up like him. I don't think my dad even would grow up, would grow like a full beard. So I don't know if I have it in my genetics. None of my grandparents either had it. Uh, you know, it's, it's a blessing and it's a curse. Uh, you know, uh, I feel that if, you know, like, much like Spider -Man, you know, with, with, uh,
Speaker: You know what I can't remember the now I can't remember the day on quote. You know Uncle Ben said it drivers help me out here and nerd like me. Y 'all are just y 'all are on one tonight and y 'all ladies are on one tonight.
Speaker: You heard the man. He's Christian. He's got values. He's, you know, he's looking for, for a good, a good woman. All right. And you got to understand he's a busy, a busy man. He's crap bro. I don't know. It's all good. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I don't know what's doing that. I don't know. Every time I know great power comes great responsibility. That's what it's like having a beard. Yeah. You got to make sure. Oh yeah. Yeah. So you, you wake up and you put like oils in it and I do.
Speaker: oils, lotions, balm, I brush it, I comb it. I got a beard straightener, bro. And I can brush it and straighten it out. It's a work. I have a razor. Yeah. The great thing about my beard is it hides my neck fat. I'm jealous of that. That's always a good thing.
Speaker: The ladies are on one tonight in the chat, man. I gotta, I gotta be honest with you, bro. They love you, man. I'm trying not to, uh, out of respect, uh, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to throw too much. I see. I see. I can't see the comments because, uh, I'm going to touch anything up in your, uh, uh, left -hand corner where it says, or yeah. Right -hand corner where it says comments, you can click that and it'll show the comments on there. Um,
Speaker: That's better. Sorry. I'm into that. Uh, it's just out of respect. I didn't want to, I didn't want to put any of the, uh, the, the, the, the dirty comments up there. That's okay. So you said you grew up listening to Metallica and stuff like that. So you were like a little baby metalhead. Yeah. My dad, I used to go on fishing trips with him and we would wake up at four in the morning and
Speaker: drive an hour and a half to Big Reservoir in Mississippi. And the whole way there, we'd be listening to Metallica. Nice. The whole way. How did you end up in the country world? Well, I, I loved country too. So as I got older, I grabbed the country thing. You know, in my old, later teenage years, but I grew up on, on Ramstein, Metallica, been sevenfold. All of that stuff, man.
Speaker: You're killing me right now, bro. You said I grew up on these bands, and I'm like, I've already graduated high school around the time these bands are coming out, like a band called Ramstein. I'm in high school when these bands come out, man. You're killing me. You're making me feel old. So, as far as your music goes, obviously it's very heavily country influenced, but I've seen you labeled as country pop, and
Speaker: And Christian is is all of your and not all of your music is Christian based No, I just it's a lot of the pretty much every song that I do
Speaker: At least 90 percent of the songs that I do, they always have that. You can always tell that there's always a positive message there. And then in a lot of the songs, a lot of the songs I do, I do give God kudos. And then on any any social media posts, I always do a Sunday post. And any time we're doing interviews and stuff like this, I always talk about how I'm a Christian. Now, it's always I couldn't be where I am, you know, without giving God all the glory and.
Speaker: So I do, I do a mixture of all the music I do. I do country. I do country pop. I do country gospel. I do Southern rock. I do, you know, it's all there. Now I kind of want to hear you, you know, I want to hear you drop a song that's like Metallica ask. I want to hear you like rock out there. If you stay, if you keep up with my socials, I have a unreleased song right now that what I would call ambient rock.
Speaker: Okay. So, but there's the title's not there. You know, there's no title. I haven't released any information on it. I haven't released any, any, all that stuff, but it's, I think I have made a post before that I was coming out with some sort of rock ballad in the future. So I'm a sucker for a rock ballad. You know, I grew up in the late eighties and early nineties. I,
Speaker: I grew up loving the hair bands. You know, those guys, those guys had the rock ballad down to an art man. Warren, you know, skid row, uh, poison, those guys, poison. I was about to say that. Yeah. Bon Jovi. I mean, to, to a T to an art, they perfected that rock ballad. I mean, it was, it was a good song. Still had the sweet guitar riffs in it. But you could also, you could also maybe slow dance a little bit with your lady.
Speaker: maybe get a little bit intimate with your lady. You know, shoot. Yeah, I'm talking to you Bon Jovi. Slippery When Wet came out and we seen what you did with the album, the title, but some of them songs on there. I know there was a lot of ladies in the eighties that had some babies because of that album. Dude, I wish I could go to
Speaker: to a Bon Jovi concert in their prime. I've seen videos of them doing all the flying around the whole stadium and stuff. I would love to see them in their prime. You know, now Richie and John, they've had their split and Richie's doing his own thing. Richie's actually got a brand new song that just came out and it sounds great. Compared to Bon Jovi's new song that came out that sounds like garbage, let's be honest. Richie's doing his solo thing and his new song sounds good.
Speaker: Uh, Nikki six. Oh God. Oh, where would it now? I'm drawing a blank Nikki six. Yeah. He was, he with, uh, Molly crew. Yeah. Molly crew. Uh, uh, Nikki six did his heroin diary album. And who would have thought that Nikki six was as talented as he was. Yeah. The guy's great. You know, I'm happy for him. I'm happy. He got clean and everything like that. But, um, that was an album. That was, that was an album that I bought.
Speaker: based off of one single that was released because I wanted to hear the rest of it. But, so you said you do a Sunday, like what is it like, you know, just like a, like a give thanks, like inspirational type thing on Sundays. Every Sunday I do that for sure. Nice. Let everybody know, you know, the biggest thing I think, I heard here recently, I give all of it to God and I've heard here recently, I've asked people,
Speaker: You know, um, every Sunday is just another, like you said, skip. Thanks. Another positive message. Keep your head up. It's, you know, it's all, all saying thankful to God. And it's always remembering, you know, Hey, we woke up today and I would, I would rather wake up tomorrow than get a hundred million dollars today. So, you know, I used to, I used to work with a guy, um, every, every day we believe the shop, we, we, we, we weren't building maintenance.
Speaker: He was an older black gentleman and every day, and I was actually, when I had this job, I was your age. I was, I was just a little guy. Well, not little, but a young man. I ain't never been little. Let's be honest. Uh, I was just young and, and, uh, every day we'd leave the, we'd leave the shop and I'd say booze. I'd see you tomorrow, man. And he said, Hey God will it. And I'm like, Hey, hell is he talking about?
Speaker: And it was some years down the road that it was like, I know what he said. I know what he makes. But I'm not a super religious guy. I grew up with a very religious grandfather, and my mom would go through her spells and stuff like that. I'm not a super religious guy. But I've read the book. I know the book.
Speaker: It's, it's, it's good that people find somewhere to ground themselves and to kind of keep focus. And, and, and, and a young man like yourself, especially in the industry you're in, that's, that's really nice to hear. Um, you know, that, that you've grounded yourself, you know, what you want, you know, what you're looking for, you know, what you're chasing not only that, but you know, you also know what you're looking for in life and, and, and to keep that, that, that, I don't know that, that, uh,
Speaker: Words are hard. So it's a catch phrase, but, uh, you know, it's, it's good to have that, that mentality because then you don't lose track of where you came from or where you're going at the end of the day. Yeah. I try to always keep myself focused on my goal.
Speaker: And to not let temptation get me, you know, because it's it's been there. It's been in my face many times. It's in the chat. I believe it because it's in the chat tonight. Some of the things is wild, man. I have seen.
Speaker: I've been across some things in when I worked at some you know when I've been forming bars because you just Never know what you're gonna see and you never know what you're gonna run into I want a crazy night when it's 11 p .m. And that place is literally shoulder to shoulder full and Yeah, so I appreciate you, you know telling me all that that feels I always feels good to hear that that I've people notice that I try to keep myself grounded and I try to stay humble about things and
Speaker: Man, if you would, brother, I could tell you stories about my early 20s that would probably make you hide under the covers. Oh, no. You know, you know, when it comes to writing music and there's always a method to buy madness here because I do want to I do want to get to your music as well. I do want to get to his music as well.
Speaker: What's going on? Like, no worries. You're good. Don't worry. Um, when he comes back, we'll get it back. We're, we, again, like I said, we addressed the, the technical difficulties. His, his camera does not like him. So it's been cutting in and out even before the show when we were doing the pre -show stuff. So, I don't know what the problem is.
Speaker: No worries. No worries, man. Don't, don't worry about a thing. It's okay. Uh, I, you know, I just keep talking cause Lord knows I like to hear myself talk. Um, but I want to get to one of your songs here and I want to ask you before we get to it. Um, when you sit down to write a song, does it come from personal experiences or is it like something maybe you, maybe you're flipping through television or Instagram or something like that?
Speaker: And it inspired I'm just never mind. You don't even need to answer that. I already know I don't know all of the all of the above that you said because I could it could come from anything I could see a piece of gum wrapper on the cement and that song could start from there, you know But I it comes from a lot of it I always try to take a song and anything that I write I try to write it in a relatable way even if it's something one of the you know that I didn't directly deal with but I
Speaker: If I write it in a way to where I can relate to it, then you can relate to it. I wrote a song about my grandfather, and the song was written about my grandfather passing away. But I did write it in a way to where you could more so relate to it as if you lost a loved one so everyone could really gravitate towards it. Thanks. I wish I could know that. We're going to get there.
Speaker: That's, those songs, those songs like for me as a fan, as a fan of music, the songs that come from, you know, from the heart or a personal experience or something like that, those are the songs that I gravitate towards. Those are the songs that I like even more because I, you know, you can almost tell when the artist or the singer or the songwriter
Speaker: has a special connection to those songs. I was just saying like for me personally as a fan of music, when a song comes from something personal, I'm gravitated to it more because you can get that sense of feeling from them.
Speaker: And like I said, there's a method to my madness. We did start to show tonight with my type. And next stage, actually, before we started and Hunter and I were kind of chit -chatting and hanging out and whatnot, I asked him. I said, hey, man, I want to do my little goofy intro. I'm a wrestling fan, so I'm a nerd.
Speaker: I love Cody Rhodes, his engine song kingdom. So I was like, eh, yeah, Cody won't mind if I steal his music. Um, but I like to, with the, with, with, with having artists on the show, I like to do my little intro and then play one of their songs into the show. Uh, and, and, and, and I asked you which one and you said, you know, I'll do my type because you said that one was charted around 70 something. Um, was that your first song that charted?
Speaker: Yeah. What was that like for you? That was on the music road chart, man. And that was, that was no, I've won some awards too. You know, I won album of the year for ISSSA, ISS, ISSA. And I've done, I've won a couple of awards and then I started, and then I started charting with my type. And, you know, that was surreal being played on mainstream radio, you know, all of that happening.
Speaker: And that is all crazy exciting. And it just doesn't really hit a guy like me. I don't know. I can't process it.
Speaker: I need to work with you on that. It's okay to be a little arrogant. It took me, especially when it first happened, I was like, great, that's good. And then I started seeing the posts and I started seeing the radio spans and I was like, oh my God, it's actually
Speaker: Yeah, this is really yeah, yeah, it's actually there and then it's like I gotta write another song right now like this one's charting and they need you know They need more they need more so I gotta keep writing and keep writing keep writing And that's where this next this next song coming out is is gonna be we hope that one does well as well I think I think that one and again, we'll pull the curtain back We were talking backstage and he was telling me about my type of chart and and hitting in the 70s and he says that he would love to
Speaker: hit the top 40. I think this next one coming out in May. I hope so. I've only heard snippets of it and I'll play you guys the snippets. I'll give you guys a little, don't worry baby birds. I'm going to feed you a little bit later on in the show. I'm excited for this song, man. I've only heard the snippets and I'm excited for this song myself because I want to hear the whole song. I can't wait to put it on replay and
Speaker: and play it over and over again but you did just today and I want to play that you you did just today release a brand new song it's called life of a sinner you got tea gram singing with you
Speaker: We're good. He's got T Graham singing with him. Uh, it just dropped today. Um, and, and this was another one that, you know, I heard the snippets to it and, uh, and, um, I liked it. I was like, you know, I'm digging this. I'm feeling this. What's going on blaze. How you doing brother? Like he in the building, super dope Brian in the building.
Speaker: Uh, well, lastly, Matt Davis said, it's hard to be humble, but it's nice to see humble people. Yes. I agreed. It is nice to see humble people. Um, I was just, I was just talking about your song. You dropped today and shouting out the chatter's box. They're, they're, they're coming alive or they're talking, but you just dropped life of a center today with T Graham. And, uh, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. All right. Look, we're going to work through the technical difficulties.
Speaker: At the end of the day, even if we got to get him on his phone, we'll get him on his phone one way or another, but. Third time's the charm, right? Third time's the charm. Oh, absolutely. No, I wanted to pop in for a few minutes and I was lingering. I was lurking the whole time. Up until we started, until we started here. You're good. Don't worry about it. No apologies at all needed.
Speaker: Oh, shoot a mess. Uh, we'll see. Maybe we might have to get him on his phone and see if that works out better. He's got an external camera and, uh, it's just not cooperating with him tonight at the end of the day. Uh, but that's all right. You know, we, we technical difficulties. We work through them. We work through them. We keep going.
Speaker: For those of you who just might be joining, we have Nashville artist Hunter a lot hanging out with us tonight. Excuse me. Excuse me. There's that Mexican, but we have national artists Hunter a lot hanging out tonight. Um, hanging out chilling. We're talking about.
Speaker: a little bit of everything and anything. He's a pretty cool young man. We got to talk a little bit. We've been talking a little bit on social media. And we got to talk a little bit before the show. And I'll be coming. I'm becoming a big fan. He's got good music out there. He writes good music. He's got a good voice on him. And as we're learning,
Speaker: He's got a good head on his shoulders too at the end of the day. So, you know, we can't be mad at that. You know, we see a lot of the younger generation just acting a damn fool out there. And this young man's got a good head on his shoulders and he knows where he wants, he knows what he wants and he knows where he wants to be. All right. Fingers crossed. Last thing I heard.
Speaker: I heard, uh, yes, we were talking about my song that I released today. Today. So you just dropped life of a sinner. Yeah. T Graham on there with you. The name sounds so familiar to me. Has he been in the music game for a long time? Yeah. I was going to say that. And like I said, when, when, when, when he came in and does his verse and I'm going to play the song here in just a minute,
Speaker: Even the voice, and I love the voice, he's old school, country, gruff. You can tell the guy has seen some things, he's done some things. But even his voice sounds super familiar. I don't know, I've heard him somewhere somehow before.
Speaker: He's got, uh, he's a legend, man. So you could have heard, you could have heard anything. There's so many songs that you could have heard for tea that you just can't put the name to the song or, and all of that, but you might know the song, especially wind and water. That one specifically is, is just an incredible song. And Tigram is an amazing person. Let me tell you, he's one of those guys where he just know he has stories.
Speaker: Yeah. And you know, he can tell you just about life. Yeah. You can hear it in his voice when he sings. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. He's got one of those voices when he sings, you know, that he's seen and done things and it's, it's, it's like, what was that like working with an absolute legend in the industry for you? Oh, glitch action. Don't worry. We've all been there before. We know how the internet works. Go kick the hamster.
Speaker: It's all good, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to go ahead and play the song. We'll get this figured out. I'm going to go ahead and play the song, and then I'll come back. And when we come back, we'll conversate more about it. But this is Hunter Lott's brand new song. It just dropped today, ladies and gentlemen. It just came out. I was glad that it was up, and it was ready for tonight's show, because I was hoping that I would get to play it. But here is Hunter.
Speaker: Hunter Lott and T Graham with Life of a Sinner. Another day in Tennessee here alone no one but me myself and I
Speaker: Another bottle in my hand I've taken all I can But here I am
Speaker: God, I don't know your plan But you take me as I am Just a little crazy But I'm in your hands Thank you for one more day And loving me along the way That's the life of the sender And the prayers I pray
Speaker: There's so much that I do wrong But God, you've always been there For me all along I'm thankful that you can Love a broken heart like mine Understand and forgive me Time after time God, I don't know your pain
Speaker: Just a little crazy But I'm in your hands Thank you for one more day And loving me along the way That's the life of the sun
Speaker: God, I don't know your plan But you take me as I am Just a little crazy But I'm in your hands Thank you for one more day And loving me along the way That's the life of this city
Speaker: We're workin' progress But you help us every day Cause that's the life of a sinner And the prayers I pray
Speaker: That's a, that is a dude. I love that song, man. That's a beautiful song. Thanks brother. You can hear me. All right. I'm back. We can hear you. We can see you. I get it. You're, you're good to go. Don't worry. I just switched to the, I just switched to my phone, you know, maybe clicking easy. So sometimes that's what you gotta do. Like I said, Hey, you know what? We always offer redos on this show. So anytime you want to come back. Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker: You are absolutely welcome. Um, so right before, right before you kind of glitched out and, and, and, and got the, got the proverbial boot, if you will. Yeah. I was asking you, uh, what was it like to, to, to work with an absolute legend in the industry like, like team?
Speaker: It was amazing. So me and T, when we met, we just happened to hit it off and we just became friends, you know, and we did a lot. And then working, you know, it's exactly, it was fantastic because it was exactly like you'd expect it to be, right? Someone with that much experience comes in and he just, you know, he comes in and he's just the best.
Speaker: Like right away, you can just see he's the best, he's been through it, he's been doing this. Oh, don't tell me the phone's gonna kick his butt. No, it's good, it's good. The voice that he has too is just, it also speaks for his experience and his type of industry. So it was incredible, it was incredible to work with T. And he's also just a lovely guy.
Speaker: He's so nice. That question was, uh, you know, how was he personally, you know, he's awesome, dude. Did he, did he have like, uh, any, uh, uh, advice or anything like that for you to kind of, you know, steer you in the right road, the right direction, the right path. And right.
Speaker: Oh yeah, he talked to me about a whole bunch of things, but he's always just so laid back. He's just such an awesome dude. When I went up to him and I talked to him one day, I said, hey, our management teams are...
Speaker: are talking about doing a song together. This is before we did it. And he's so chill. He's just like, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Then we've talked before. We sat backstage. I had a show in Lebanon, Tennessee, and he was there. And we both performed at that show. And backstage, behind all that, just sitting there talking with T about stuff that they did and about he talked about his time
Speaker: him and his wife the whole time they had been together from this from the 80s and 90s, you know, all his, all his stuff, you know, he's just like I said earlier, it's one of those people where you just enjoy into him, you can sit down, like listen to and talk about his life. That older generation, man, you know, I don't think a lot of people appreciate, you know,
Speaker: where they've been, what they've done and who they are. You know, um, I, I used to, uh, when I lived down in Charleston, I used to work for a pest control company. And this leads me to something that I want to do eventually charity wise, but I had a couple of nursing homes and, um, I had like three nursing homes that I knew when I did these nursing homes that, uh, that was going to be my entire day. And one of them was, was a two day job, not because they were, had
Speaker: bugs or disgusting or gross or anything else. It was because I genuinely, genuinely looked forward to getting to sit down and talk to people. Yeah. In home. I loved hearing their stories. I loved hearing about their life. I loved, you know, like, and they were, and they were genuine. They were, they were very genuine people and they would ask you, you know, about your life and what you want to do and where you're going. And they would, they would give advice and, um,
Speaker: you know, and I dedicated those days to those, those nursing homes, not because it was a hard job or a long job was because I knew I was going to spend more time hanging out with the residents and with the residents and, and just talking to them and, and, and, you know, and even the nurses and the, and the directors and stuff, they're like,
Speaker: our patients, you know, they call them patients or whatever, you know, they, they're like, we, they look forward to that monthly visit when you come through because someone like their family never visits. And, and I, I want to create once I'm able to, and, and, and, you know, and I'm able to have the time, I want to create like a charity. And that's just all we do is just go to the nursing homes and, and, and spend time with people who may not have anybody to spend time with.
Speaker: That would be awesome. You know, because you learn so much from the older generation, you know, uh, and, and, and to hear their stories and their life experiences, uh, you learn so much from them and to get an opportunity like you, especially being a musician and wanting to continue this career and chase this dream that you're chasing any chance you get to work with somebody who's been in the business for a long time.
Speaker: It's like, man, you, you, you get me an old school podcast or I'm shopping at the bits to work with you. Yeah, dude, it was, it was awesome. You know, my mama, my mama's a nurse, so she's smart because she hears all them stories. She's got advice, you know, so she's dealt with many, many, many older patients and, and all that. And, uh, and me too, you know, when I'd go to see her work or something, you know, I've met lots of patients and I met lots of lovely people.
Speaker: like that. So that charity you're talking about would be super cool. You know, it's something that I've wanted to do for years. It just hasn't quite yet. Yeah, I say yet. You know, it will. At the end of the day, it will. You know, I'll get there eventually. I'm getting no love from any flight in today. But
Speaker: So I do want to, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to, that's not cool. I don't want to, uh, I'm just more curious. You said that, uh, you know, earlier you said your grandfather, he, uh, he was, he, you know, he was, he was the head of the table. You know, he was that he was the, um, the, uh, the head of the family, you know, very, very involved in everything. Very close knit, very, very, uh,
Speaker: you know, just there is your whole family like that. And you know, uh, even, even with the passing of your grandfather's, everybody's still kinda close knit and tight. I have, I have my mom and dad, I have my older sister and my brother -in -law and my niece and I have a new niece coming. Oh, congratulations on you becoming an uncle again. And congratulations to your sister and brother -in -law.
Speaker: And I got some cousins, so we all felt that loss of my grandfather. But do you guys still stay tight, or are you guys still pretty tight knit? Especially me and my little niece, my sister, my brother -in -law. My brother -in -law is like my best friend. Nice. We all stay tight. I still live with mom and dad, too. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Speaker: Hey, man, if I could, if I don't like my parents, I wouldn't move. You know, I moved out on my 18th birthday, but my parents went to every gig I've had. They haven't missed one. That's, that's awesome. And I was, I was just going to ask, you know, how supportive are your parents? Are they, are they, they're pushing? I would not be, I would not have gotten as far as I've gotten without my parents and without God, without God and my parents, I wouldn't be anywhere near as far without my mama.
Speaker: You sound like a little bit of a mama's boy. Oh yeah, definitely. Nice. Another one with that, I was too. I was too, man. My mama's been gone. My mom's has been gone 14 years now, but I was a mama's boy, man. She was the OG rider died, man. No matter what she did or what mistakes she made, anything like that, she was the OG rider died, man. She was always there. I was always her baby boy.
Speaker: It didn't matter that when I was 12, I was twice her size. She was, she was, she was that person, man. And that's, that's cool. There's nothing wrong with being a mama's boy. Don't, you know, embrace that shit and, and, and appreciate that, man. Yeah, I do. That's the thing is cause I realized, you know, there's just, I'm blessed like a,
Speaker: A lot of people don't get to have what I have, you know, when it comes to like that close family and all that stuff. And so I have to hold on to that, you know, because, because one day, you know, it won't be like that anymore. And, uh, you know, there's no, I'm not in a hurry to be, to get there. No, I remember growing up, man, my family used to be tight, you know, cousins and, and, and, and whatnot. And we were always doing.
Speaker: you know, birthdays or cookouts or just going to grandma and grandpa's just to hang out on a Saturday or something like that. You know, my sister, well, sorry, my broaster, he lives 10 minutes from me. I can't tell you the last time I seen him in person, let alone talk to him. My older sister, she lives 15 minutes from me.
Speaker: I think it's been a good year and a half or some change since we've talked or seen each other man You know, sometimes I miss those days, you know when you know I got another sister who lives two hours away from me another one who's an hour away from me actually last year We last 4th of July we surprised her and said hey, we're we're on vacation and we got a cap in 20 minutes from you guys My nieces and her and her her significant other I said
Speaker: Why don't we get together and go watch fireworks? You know, that's my baby sister. So, you know, I miss those days when the family was tight, but also at the same time, I understand for me personally, yeah, tight with family. I might run into a cousin here and there, but I mean, these are cousins back in the day, like growing up, we was always together, you know? So hold onto those days for as long as you can, man, and appreciate them and value them because when they're gone,
Speaker: It sucks. It really does. We try. My sister and my brother -in -law, they come up from Mississippi all the time, and they bring my niece with them. And she stays with us, even my niece. She loves her Meemaw people. And she stays with us all the time. And we go down there, too. We just go down there to visit. Every couple of weeks or so, we go down there and stay a couple of days. And we all hang out, and we all do stuff, especially for last week. We were there for Easter.
Speaker: So, and then my nieces birthday party is coming up the day after my next gig I've got. So we'll be there. Oh, yeah. Nice. Nice. That's, that's awesome. And I, I really am. I'm truly excited for you. Um, I can't wait for the, I can't wait for the next release, man. I really cannot wait. I'm super excited for that one.
Speaker: All my friends too. My friends are on standby. You haven't snuck them like a full version or anything like that? They've heard the full version. They just can't listen to it on their own. Ah, gotcha. They can't listen to it on their own. And they've seen all of the social media stuff too. I have lots of clips and snippets and hints of the song all over my socials. Oh, trust me. I know.
Speaker: I've been a little bit of a creeper. Yeah. If you just go to my website, hunterlotmusic .com, I have a tab and a link tree for all of my socials. And you can go any of those. There's tons of clips of the song being teased. And I'm super excited about that one, man. I am. Like I said, I think that's going to be your top 40 song right there.
Speaker: That's, that's the prayers right there. Um, so speaking of that song, but the last song in a life of a center, was that, was that something that did you write that or did you and T write that together? Or was that, you know, I'm a co -writer of that song.
Speaker: I was sent to send lyrics by a friend of mine and I had to put it in actual song form to actually make it a song. So I had to compact lots of lyrics. I had to rewrite lots of lyrics and change lots of lyrics and I mean a whole bunch of stuff to make it fit the formula of the song and I wrote all the music for it as well.
Speaker: a lot of the production directory and all that stuff is all done. So I'm a co -writer for that song. It was one of the only times someone's sent me a song and I have turned it into a song. So they basically just sent you a journal entry, so to say, you want to make it
Speaker: kind of dumb it down a little bit. And then you worked your magic and was that was that written from from personal experience by that person or was that just something that they were looking to be inspirational or do you know and
Speaker: or maybe what you added to it, was that kind of personal or? There were some things where I did, I can always put myself in someone else's shoes when I get something like that. We'll call it a journal entry or a really long poem, you know? Yeah, I was thinking of poem, journal entry, you know, sometimes poems are kind of short, but that's what I did.
Speaker: And I put myself, I read something like that and I put myself in those shoes and I start relating to it. And just trying to make myself relate to it and get used to how the song is supposed to feel. And some of the stuff in the song, I don't have to change. I just have to make them fit. And some things I have to write like a whole new line. Like, this doesn't rhyme. This doesn't make any sense. You know, I need to start this from
Speaker: I need to start this from zero and come up with my own thing to fit right here. And, and of course going back and forth with the songwriter and then I send them, you know, the done product and all that with, with what they say. So if this is what you want to, you know, as a song, this is what I've turned it into. Yeah. And the cool thing about that song is, you know, you don't have to be a super religious person. No, not for life in the center. Um, you know, like I said, I love the song. It speaks volumes.
Speaker: Um, and, and, and it's like, you know, me personally, not a super religious guy, uh, but it still hits home at the end of the day, you know? Um, so that that's really cool. The, the up and coming song and I'm purposely, I'm not saying the name on purpose because I'm going to tease it, you know, before we're all said and done tonight, I am going to teach it, but the song is coming up in May. Uh,
Speaker: Was that just, I'm going to write something fun and catchy or was that, was that a, a, a personal relationship thing? Well, well, well, well.
Speaker: Well, a little bit of both. Yeah, it was. I've been in that I've been in that seat a couple of times. So it is pretty it is pretty relatable. The new song is pretty relatable. It was meant to be fun. I wanted it to be catchy. I wanted people to like it and hear it all. But as far as lyrically, yes, it's pretty accurate. You know,
Speaker: Oh no, trust me, just what I've heard of it so far, I'm like, the hunter's sneaking inside of my head? What's going on? You know, I'm a little bit older, you know, probably, you know, a little bit more experienced, but it's like, wow. Yeah. I would like to send this song to somebody in particular.
Speaker: One of my posts said that too. One of my posts posted saying, you know, you should send it to someone who didn't know your worth. That was one of my posts and that was the teaser. So that was, yeah. Oh yeah. Totally relatable song. Yeah. Very relatable to anybody who's, who's ever been in that situation. And like I said, we'll, we'll get to it down the road. I purposely do these things.
Speaker: uh you know you're not the only one who's gonna yeah it'll stir the pot you're not the only one who's gonna tease I'm very good at a tease as well um so I gotta ask I brought it up at the beginning of the show I gotta ask you man outlaw Travis Clayton you're a bad man you're a bad boy you're a bad boy those are the days
Speaker: So not only is our new friend, Connor, a musician, but he's also dabbled a little bit into acting. Just a little bit, man. Just a little bit back in, oh, what was that? 20, oh, I forgot to. Oh, 2021. 21. You did a little movie.
Speaker: Very low budget. Uh, uh, 2021, he did a movie called Vernon. Yeah. Anybody that's out there, uh, it's, it is on Tubi. It is free. The movie's only about an hour long. Yeah. Uh, I got to say, like I said, very low budget. Uh, but, uh, I was like, let me, let me check this out because one of the songs that you did or one of your songs that I like is from that movie drag you down. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, it was like kind of the theme song to that movie or what that whole nation even started. Yeah. And I liked that song. That was one of the songs that I had picked for the night as I thumb through your catalog on YouTube. I was like, Oh man, I really liked this song. I was like, I'm the motion picture running. What is that? I had to dig in and I was doing some research today. I said,
Speaker: Oh, there's an actor. Let me see if I can find this movie. And it was on TV and I was like, all right, let me watch it. I enjoyed the movie. I mean, people, people probably going to go, oh, it's corning. It's cheesy. It's low budget as hell, whatever. But what's going on, Alyssa? But.
Speaker: that pro cook, just stir the pot, just stir the pot, go, you know. But I enjoyed the movie, man. It's one of those things where, you know, had that same movie been made with like a big production or something like that or, you know, it would have blown up. But what was that like for you to step into a little bit of an acting role? It was, I gotta tell you, shooting Vernon was some of the most fun I've had in my entire life.
Speaker: I gotta say that for sure because you know how I got into it, I got approached by the movie director. He just needed a theme song for his film.
Speaker: And he told me about, you know, the plot and told me what kind of vibe song he was looking for, you know, and all this and that. And so I was like, okay, well, I'll write, I'll write up a song. So two weeks later, I sent him Drag You Down. I sent him the lyrics and like a scratch track of it, you know, and I said, it's not a studio yet. Let me get it in. And I'll be, but here it is if you like it. And he said, yeah. And he said, as a matter of fact, uh, how would you like to be, you know,
Speaker: the main role of the film. I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, you know, I just think you'd be a good fit for the main role. And I was like, will you tell me I get to shoot people?
Speaker: Oh yeah with your fake guns and all and I was like dude send me the script send it to me I'll take it so we got we got all the little outfits you know we got we got all the shots and all the setups and we had a blast it was like barely it was I gotta be honest with you it was barely work
Speaker: The work was, was memorizing all the lines and getting ready and practicing. You got to do lines of it before, but whenever I have to shoot any scenes or anything like that, we would all just sit around and play with stuff. Like there's so much action set, you know? And we had a great time.
Speaker: I mean, learning lines can't be that hard for you or any musician because, you know, yeah, you guys sing your songs day in and day out. But, you know, it's probably the same, probably close to the same thing, right? Yeah. Well, what happens is a three minute scene.
Speaker: Normally takes like two and a half hours. Oh, I believe it So what ends up happening is is when you even if you know the lines going in if it's like a three or four person dynamic five You've got to film it without you know airplanes go by cars pass yeah, but and you just got to get the shot just we spent a Good two hours one day making sure just the camera is
Speaker: wasn't getting anything in the background that it wasn't supposed to be getting we hadn't even started shooting so whatever all that stuff goes on and you do all the cuts and stuff when i knew my lines go again you know and then we've done so many stops right in the middle of it and all this stuff then you then you have another then you have a little brain fart and then you go
Speaker: And then you have to cut and do it again. It's like, I knew it all it did. I was just, and then no, I mean, who didn't know he didn't mess up before he messed up now. All of a sudden it's like, you know, stuff like that. It takes a while. That's why we do a live show. We just say, Hey, whatever happens, happens. We're going to roll out the boxes because I don't have the time or patience to like pre -record and make sure everything's perfect. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, I, like I said, I enjoyed the movie. I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass. I, you know, take it for what it is, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's, it's not, it's not tombstone. It's not the magnificent or anything like that. You know, my guy did get to shoot someone, the banker of Quinn, you know, he did. However, he was only defending himself. I don't think you were in the wrong.
Speaker: You saw the movie, so I fell in that bush like 27 times. I was gonna ask you, how many times did you have to fall into that bush? 27 times. I fell into that bush.
Speaker: how how how jacked up did you did you have scrapes cuts bruises like did you do your own stunts yep that was me that was me falling down we even had turkeys because that was place that place was at a place called land rooms and they have a lot of wild animals that they've like and they're domesticated so there's there's turkeys there and there's peacocks and they just walk around free all over the place so you guys would be shooting a scene they would
Speaker: Yeah, one of our scenes where Maddie's got the character's name already. The blonde that was with me. What's her name? Becky. Thank you. Or as the town drunk said, Maddie? No way. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure of it. It's Becky. He came running. One of the scenes we wish we couldn't keep it, but
Speaker: we wish we could have kept it is that one of the turkeys walked in her way when she was running and it scared it and flew it off and the the cinematographer was like telling us he's like I would kill to have that again just one more good shot you know we couldn't get it to work but I did all of my I did all my stunts I fell in that bush a lot I got shot a lot
Speaker: You know, I gotta say, I gotta say, man, the last, the last bank robbery, you were looking sharp, man. You were looking like a real outlaw, all black, man, black cowboy head, the duster black. I'm like,
Speaker: All right. You know, baby face, you're not Billy. The kid was a quote unquote, a handsome kid. You know, I was like, I was robbing all the base, saving up my cash and getting my drip. You know, I was going to say you definitely, you definitely got your drip on because that was a sharp look. And that's a, you know, I'm not ashamed to admit it. That's kind of a look that I've done a couple of times myself. I'm an old country bumpkin. I've got that. I'll wear the cowboy hat and then.
Speaker: I got a duster in the closet. I'm like, he really does look like a, like a Western out. All right. Even though I was doing, uh, doing all the, the dress ups before the costume rooms and all that, I was just, I was channeling my inner Johnny Ringo, you know, just nice. There you go. Whatever you want to put, you know,
Speaker: Yeah, but we'll pull that hat super low. I was like man this look I look good. I was like If only this was today's fashion, you know, oh God looks so great. I Loved it Yes, I know I don't care I have to appease the the minions the minions. I
Speaker: I call myself the champ on the other shows because I'm better than everybody else at the end of the day. Like I said, it's okay to have an ego from time to time. I actually have made championship belts. There you go. Yeah, I do. Oh, that's saucy. That looks good.
Speaker: the nonsensical nonsense. It is just a leather strap. It's an eight pound fucking belt. Yeah. So, yeah. So, uh, I call myself the champ. The guys get mad. They call me the chump. Hey, there's a, there's a belt to prove it. Yeah. Yeah. At the end of the day, the belts don't lie. But, uh, no, dude, like I said, I, I came across that and I really did. I was sitting at work and, uh,
Speaker: I'm prepping for tonight's show. I'm setting up the studio. I'm downloading your music. And I was like, I come across that and I said, let me watch this. I pulled up on my phone and set it beside my computer while I'm doing what I'm doing. And I watched it. And like I said, for what you guys did, I enjoyed it. I definitely enjoyed it. And it looked like you could tell that
Speaker: when you sometimes when you watch and I'm a fan of low budget movies, I love the independent scene and stuff like that. I'm already in that that world as it is. But you tell it that the entire cast had a good time filming together. You guys jailed really well. You guys meshed really well. And, you know, and you're still kind of snuck in the, you know, the religious aspect to it, which was cool, too. You know,
Speaker: where, well, I wasn't going to do anything like you pointed it out, but you know, you, you guys, you guys had fun with it, man. And it's still had that, that, that positive notion to it too. You know, no matter what you do in this life, there's still, there's still something else, whatever you believe in, whoever you believe in, there's still something else down the road. And that was really cool that you guys kind of did that low key and got it there.
Speaker: without beating people over the head with it, you know what I mean, at the end of the day. Yeah, without forcing the issue. But yeah, we like it. We like it to be a Christian film, even though there were guns and stuff. But I'm really glad you enjoyed it. My friends think it's the best movie they've ever seen, all of them, easily.
Speaker: It's like I said, I mean, whether they're whether they're blowing smoke up your ass or not, it really is. It's a fun movie to watch and it's only an hour. It's not that long. You know, if you guys have to be check out Vernon on on on on on Tubi, it's an hour long. You're going to see our guy. He's a bad boy. He told Becky he's a bad boy. I don't hear the end of that ever.
Speaker: I said, you are not a bad boy. Stop it. My friends, tell me that all the time. I loved it. When you dropped that line, I was like, this is just me because I'm a smart ass. I grew up in Thunderdome at the end of the day, man. My initial thought was, you're too pretty to be a bad boy. Shut up.
Speaker: Also, I didn't come up with the lines. You know, I was only saying told I did my job. You did your job. You did your job. Good. It was it was a fun movie. It's you know, like you said, it was a cool thing to do, man. I might have to come to you for acting advice because I can't say too much as of right now, but.
Speaker: I'm acting myself down the road, so I might have to come to you and ask you for advice because you're experienced. Do it is so much. It was a lot of fun. Like it's like you could tell you know we all got along on the set.
Speaker: and we liked each other. And we all had such a good time. It was great. That was some of the most fun. I can't wait to be, I can't wait to shoot another one, dude. No, that's really cool. And I would love to see it in another one. I do want to, because we were talking about the movie and we were, we were talking about the song. I do want to play it real quick. Yeah, play it. This is one that I actually, as I said, as I was thumbing through your
Speaker: your YouTube and listening to your music. Um, there wasn't one that I didn't like, I'll be a hundred percent honest with you. Um, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not type of guy who's just going to BS somebody or anything like that. Um, but I really liked this song and I didn't, you know, I just, I just clicked on it and I didn't really pay much attention to it other than the fact that once I heard it, I was like, all right, I know I want to have this on the show tonight.
Speaker: And then it was today when I was downloading it that I seen that it was from a movie. And then I started letting my fingers carry me away and investigate and see something. And then that's where I found it. But I do like this song. And this is the theme, the main track from Vernon. You guys can catch it on Tubi. You can see our guy being the main character. Yeah. Outlaw, the outlaw, man. It'll be like a cool stage name, the outlaw.
Speaker: the outlaw Travis Clayton man. But this is drag you down and we'll be right back here in a few minutes to continue our conversation with Mr. Hunter Lott.
Speaker: He entered life the natural way His thoughts were poisoned from the day he began the chase No danger for him to see He takes what he wants no matter who's in the way
Speaker: just a kid on his own living day by day running from the lawn and getting by as long as he gets paid and if things go wrong he could end up six feet in
Speaker: Cause love can help you It can also drag you down In her eyes, he could do no wrong Got caught up by the way he came along
Speaker: Now she's out of her mind How could she be so blind and not see the signs?
Speaker: As long as they get paid If things go wrong they could end up six feet in the ground Just looking after you It could also drag you tight
Speaker: As faith would have if the good Lord called them home Two kids on their own living day by day Running from the law and getting by As long as they can
Speaker: Yeah, buddy, we'll drag you down a lot from the motion picture burning. You see that picture right there?
Speaker: Hunter looking like a damn outlaw looking straight like an outlaw and the lovely miss Becky I believe her name is Madeline. Yeah. Yeah Very pretty girl. She was great She was so innocent and so sweet man. Yeah That song reminds me of and Maybe you'll know this maybe you'll I'm a huge fan of Clay Walker
Speaker: Yeah. Some old school Clay Walker, but Clay Walker did a song a few years back called Jesse James. Yeah. That's kind of what that song reminds me of a little bit. I think that, you know, I dig that. I like that. I'm also kind of jealous because in all honesty, I would love to play like a wall man or an outlaw in a Western movie.
Speaker: you know so but uh no but you know that that was really cool man that was that was a fun little surprise to find today uh i gotta say uh a little something something but um hopefully you'll get another roll again down the road i hope so i really did the best part about it was was when you didn't have a scene and you're playing with all the props that's the best all the little all the guns we'd be sitting there
Speaker: like on the side and me and the guy who was playing the sheriff and the guy who was playing the bounty hunter and all that, we would sit there with a little pistol. I didn't like that guy. I did not like Scarborough.
Speaker: I didn't like him. He did a good job. I was like, man, I hope Shadow or the Chef. I hope somebody shoots him. I hope somebody guns him down. I was kind of hoping you were going to gun him down. But I was like, I hope somebody guns him down. For the moment he showed up on screen, I was like, I don't like this guy. I don't like him. He's a very, very good actor. He's great in person, too. They're all amazing in person. Yeah.
Speaker: Uh, yeah, I was just like, man, this, this dude, I knew you're, you're a snake, bro. You're a snake. He, he, he definitely nailed the character in the role. Um, you know, I want to ask you, we were talking backstage and you said, uh, we were talking about your, your, your, your desktop and in your computer setup and stuff like that. And you're talking, you know, it was pretty expensive. And we all know when you, when you, when you're doing the music or.
Speaker: podcasting or radio or something like that. You gotta have the best of the best of equipment, or you can just barely get by with the bare minimums and do okay -ish and be mediocre at the end of the day. But when we were talking about it, you said that it was almost as expensive as your dream guitar. Can you show us your dream guitar? I've got it. I've got it right here.
Speaker: I got it. There it is. That is a beautiful guitar. Now we're not going to ask him to play it. We're not going to ask him to sing. It's got a story behind it, too. That's what I wanted to ask you. And I purposely steered the direction backstage before the show started. What is the story? First and foremost, what kind of what kind of guitar is that? This is a custom shop. This is a Fender custom shop, 1951, 70th edition Telecaster.
Speaker: Nice. I thought it was a Fender. I know a little bit about it a little bit. Yeah. So what's the story behind it? And why was that your dream guitar?
Speaker: It's my dream guitar. Okay, so because I tell people a lot and there's a lot of new guitar players that come up to me and they don't know what guitar to get, you know, and I tell them you go in there and you play every guitar, ignore what style you want. You know, like if you, you know, just because you're a metalhead, you don't need, you know, you know, I like I have a sinister Gates custom on my wall and
Speaker: And but just because you're a metalhead you might not find the guitar that speaks to you. So I went into the do the guitar shop and I looked at all of their tellies and all of their strats and everything they had and I found this one and I played it and it was just
Speaker: It's so insane how I immediately connected with this guitar and how it felt and how it sounded. It was just too good. I've never touched a guitar like this in my life.
Speaker: And then a couple weeks later, I would go in there always to get new pedals or new chords or something. And I'd go in there and I'd play it. And Tony ended up knowing my name. That's the guy who ran that section of guitars. And Tony would hand me the guitar every time I come in and play it. And then they sent it off for a couple months. They wanted some more work done to it on some of the frets. And a year later, I walked in looking for a new strat. Because I needed a new strat for my studio.
Speaker: And I walked out with this I couldn't I couldn't I didn't need another telly. I have really good telly, you know and I really needed a new strat especially for studio worked I was doing and recording and just playing and versatility and all and the telly was that same guitar was back in there and I Couldn't I couldn't leave behind anymore and Spoke to your soul man. You guys were were intertwined and
Speaker: Yeah, and it's uh Ever since ever since I've I've bought this guitar. I've had it for a while now for a while now I've uh I've had a hard time finding telecasters if I need another one because I Mean I found the the telecaster that just makes the other tellies not compete
Speaker: Um, do you do that? Do you use that, uh, in your, in your live games and stuff like that? Or so that's, that's, that's so down the road, you know, 60 years from now. And when people are telling the stories of Hunter a lot.
Speaker: That's the guitar that every guitar collector, every music fan, that's the guitar they're going to want to get in their collection. Once you're long gone down the road and whatnot, that's going to be the guitar that people want to get their hands on because that's the holy grail of the Hunter Lott guitar collection.
Speaker: It's already super beat up. But by the time I'm done with it, you know, there may not be any paint left on it. It might just be it might just be straight wood. But it is a it is a dream. And it sounds it sounds so good. And it feels so good. It's just you don't ever find a lot of guitars that feel like this one that that sound like it to you can always make sound really good.
Speaker: and they might not feel the greatest, or you can make your guitar feel amazing, but it might be one of the best. I think, and this is just me speaking as a non -musician, just a fan. I think, and I don't think it's the guitar that, I think that it's the artist, the player, you know, like, I'm a huge Van Halen fan. And for those of you who hear this, not Van Hagar, Van Halen. I like my David Lee Roth Van Halen,
Speaker: Yeah, but people have replicated and tried to make the same Eddie Van Halen guitars, but they can't make them sound the way that Eddie does because Eddie's playing the guitar. Yeah, it's Eddie that's playing it. So for you, you know, that is your guitar that that guitar from the moment you seen it from the first time you played it.
Speaker: you guys, you and that guitar were meant to be together. And it's like, that's super cool that, you know, you knew that and you felt that and it came true for you, man. That's cool. And for you, it's got to make, when you hear your music played back, it got to make your music sound that much better. Yep. Oh yeah. A lot, a lot. Because I, with it and,
Speaker: I do a lot of the old recording, all of my scratch tracks too and things that I end up sending to studios and sending to my producer before we start working on stuff that's all done through my studio system with this guitar. And then when we get in there a lot for the final guitar work, I take my amp and I take my guitar and it goes in and gets put into it. And it's, I haven't found a guitar that's especially a telly, I haven't found a telly yet that will, that I don't think I ever will.
Speaker: So, you know, like, uh, uh, uh, God, what was it done? Gone in 60 seconds. I don't know if you've ever seen that movie with Nick cage. That Mustang was like his end all be all. You know what I mean? Gone in 60 sections is basically a movie. It's a little bit older movie, a lot of older movie actually come to think about it. Nicholas cage was a, was a car thief and he had a whole crew, but there was one car that always alluded to him and it was a Mustang.
Speaker: And it was like it was that that car was meant to be that that's and I can't remember the end of the car Jarvis is gonna pop in there in a minute with with the name of the car and make me feel freaking stupid because I know it's like the Bethany or Amber or Jamie or something like that. I wouldn't be able to tell you the last Nicolas Cage movie I saw was Wasn't it like the convicts on a plane? Oh, uh, oh wow Wow
Speaker: Um, uh, Conner. Yeah. Conner. That's it. Yeah. Wow. You really are. We love Nicholas Cage in the, at the nonsensical network, man. We, we, we, we, we love Nick Cage. Uh, there's a movie out there. It's called Willie's Wonderland. Oh, I've seen that. The movie is so bad. It's good. Yeah. I feel at least that, that, that recognizes
Speaker: And then, uh, wasn't he on like national treasure too? What's that movie called? I never watched national treasure, but yeah, he was a national treasure. I think they made two or three of those movies. So I want to ask you totally off subject. We're getting to know Hunter tonight. We're, we're diving into the world of Hunter. Yep. This is, this is your, this is kind of your stage. This is your platform. What kind of movies are you into? You know, what are, what's your favorite genre of movies? What do you, what do you like?
Speaker: Favorite genre, I like it all. Probably, maybe not now, because it's really hard to make a good horror movie today. But horror movies, I love horror movies. I love the Insidious franchise and the Conjuring franchise.
Speaker: all of that anabelle all that that whole universe and then um I like action movies too when I was little probably too young to watch rambo But I was a huge john rambo fan when I was little you know Yeah, I was gonna say because uh, you were still pretty young when the last one came out Yeah, the first rambo I saw was rambo four I think he's later I think he's got one later, but
Speaker: Thank you, Jeffrey. Eleanor is the name of the car. I knew it was. Thank you, Jeff. Jeff's my co -host on Nonsensical Nonsense. Jeff and I created this podcast world that we live in now. This podcast Multiverse, KTKM. That's one of my best friends. Him and I have known each other since we were 15.
Speaker: So, but yeah, no, I did. I, I, I slept on the, uh, on the insidious movies. I slept on the conjuring verse and then I finally watched them and I'm like, cause I'm a huge horror guy. I love horror movies. I love horror and I love action movies. Now I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a hundred percent into insidious. I want more of the conjuring universe. Uh, you know, I want more, you know, I grew up in that again, I grew up in the eighties and nineties. So yeah.
Speaker: You know, I grew up in the era of Michael Myers, Jason Warhees, Freddy Krueger. And much like you say, and you were too young to be watching John Rambo, I was way too young to be watching the horror movies that I watched when I was growing up. But I grew up and I watched them and I loved them to this day. I grew up with the action heroes, Sylvester Stallone, Jean -Claude Van Damme, even Steven Seagal. Yes, I know I'm going to get hate.
Speaker: Chuck Norris. Oh, yeah, we love my house Chuck Norris jokes in my house or they live rent free in my household. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but I am sure I like all movies, you know, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. I'm a huge Harry Potter nerd actually.
Speaker: And I'm a huge Star Wars nerd from top to bottom as well. And - Okay, who's Star Wars fan? Greatest Star Wars character of all time. The greatest Star Wars character of all time? Mm -hmm. And it gets Skywalker. And - Well, who? Who? Jar Jar Binks, baby. Of course. The Sith Lord Jar Jar. Sith Lord Jar Jar. No, I -
Speaker: You're about to get some new fans just so you know, you said Harry Potter and Star Wars. You're about to get some new fans I love I love them all. I don't have a bias. I like Lord of the Rings. I like the hobbits You have to forgive me it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Speaker: We're actually the birthday party that we have coming up for my niece is a Harry Potter theme birthday party. Wow. You have to forgive me. And I'm sorry, but everybody gets this. And I didn't think I was going to have to. I didn't think you were going to get this tonight, but I stand corrected. You're a fucking nerd. You're a fucking nerd. No one likes you.
Speaker: 100%. That's me. That's me. We have that on the main show. Every time somebody nerds out, I'm a nerd too. I'm a, you know, I'm a wrestling fan. I'm a comic book nerd. I'm a sports fan. I'm a sports nerd. You know, uh, we have that at any time somebody starts to nerd out, we drop that
Speaker: That's what jeff said don't do it. Yeah, you have to I mean I I gladly accept my nerdiness and for the whole world to see I don't like it I will never I will never Hide my nerdiness. Oh Yeah, lady lady here in the comments. She's actually from Edinburgh. She's ever in Scotland. Oh So and she's she's she's a friend of the network a friend a friend of mine and and you know, she's
Speaker: So she's in here hanging out tonight. And she lives over. Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Yeah. Nice. Now, you know, let your nerd flag show, man. We all nerd out about something. You know, they'll be ashamed of it. I want to go to New Zealand where they filmed the Lord of the Rings to see all those hobbit houses. That would be so cool.
Speaker: Jeff actually is a hobbit. I can introduce you to a real life hobbit and Jeff at KTKM. He's a real life hobbit. I drive them crazy because that's not my wheelhouse, but I know enough about those movies to be dangerous and I can make references and then it drives them crazy because I make the references right. I know all the lore, all of it.
Speaker: we do have two hobbits on the show. All the Lord. So, wow, dude, like that's actually kind of, you know, I want to say I'm a little bit surprised. Yeah. At the same time, I'm not all that surprised, you know, hearing you say that you're, you're, you're a bit of a Potter and a Hobbit guy, Star Wars guy. So, so I got to ask you because I seen the first three Star Wars movies. Um,
Speaker: and I rip my toes into the other ones. Are you, first and foremost, Jeff, you know better, second of all, are you partial to the original three or do you like the other 47 after better? The original three are amazing movies, because you always got to say that,
Speaker: that the original three were for their time, too. They're just insanely good. It's unbelievable, actually, what they for the time period that the movie that they came out with. And it's it's so but I like but I grew up watching. I like them all. I like the four, five and six and episode one, two and three, because I grew up as a little kid watching episode one, two and three. OK.
Speaker: Hold on, hold on, Jeff. Hold on. I want, I want to prepare Hunter for this. I told you, I can introduce you to a real life hobby. I know hobbits hobbits are real. No, it's better than to come up here on Friday night because Friday night's my show, but he's going to pop up anyways. This is my co -host, my co -creator of nonsensical nonsense. One of my best friends in the entire world, the one and only hobbit Jeff.
Speaker: The don't do it by the way that was the Jar Jar Binks line I swear to God if I was closer I'd slap him every time he does it and he does it just to piss me off I've heard a lot of people say the best their favorite character Jar Jar a lot
Speaker: I 100 % I do it on purpose just just to drive the Star Wars fans crazy because in all honesty if I was little Anakin or if I was one of the droids or if I was Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader or Darth Maul was badass. I'm not gonna lie. That was a that was a cool freaking character. Yeah, Hunter. I actually have a question since you're a Star Wars nerd. Yeah thoughts on Mandalorian
Speaker: I liked the first season. Agreed. First season was pretty good. I liked it. I liked it, Evan. Yeah. I liked the second season. Okay. And I want to finish the second season yet. I watched one episode of the new season and I doubt I'll watch anything more to be honest. Yeah. I think they, they, they got so much controversy went after they kicked off Gina.
Speaker: And, and that by the time it came back, it was just, they ruined it. I haven't watched, uh, the book of Boba Fett yet either. I have not either, but I've heard good and bad. One scene from, I don't know if it was Mandalorian or what it was with the big, but the big tank dude, the big tank dude that sacrificed himself. I don't know, man. I don't know. Like he like, like he held the door open.
Speaker: And then got everybody out and they were all dressed in Boba Fett costumes. And he like held the door. He was a big old tank. And then he left the door closed. And there was like one female Boba Fett. And she was like, no. And he was like, I have to do what I have to do. And he had like a big fuck. He had a big LMG. And he was just and he was just like, that was the 20s.
Speaker: That was the goodies sloth letting all the kids out I was just like yeah the big guy that might have been a season two thing. I don't remember that It was a Boba Fett. It's a Boba Fett thing. Is it? Yeah I love when the big guy gets like
Speaker: Because I'm a big dude. Like, I'm not a little guy, man. And I love when the big guy gets to be the fucking hero. Because nine times out of 10, us big guys, we're just a joke. He's a big dumb animal. Yeah. He sacrificed himself to save all the other Boba Fett's. They're actually Mandalorians. Whatever. That's the whole concept. Whatever.
Speaker: So I want to ask you, you know, you're a huge nerd. Again, much, just, just, just embrace that. Just embrace that ish, man. So when the time comes for you, bro, like you meet the right woman, you settle down, you get married, you decide that you want to have kids. You didn't name your kids like after like Harry Potter or Star Wars or Hobbit characters. I cried.
Speaker: My son's name, I already have a plan for my son's name and I've wanted to name myself for a long time because my second passion of the music is bow hunting or archery. I haven't been hunting with a gun since, I don't know, it's been years now. It's only been bow hunting.
Speaker: And I'm super passionate about that archery. So I think having a son named Archer would be super cool. That's actually really cool, man. I like that. Especially because your name is Hunter. You got a cool name. You got a cool name. And you're Hunter. He's Archer. That's cool, man. That's actually really cool. What all do you bow hunt? Anything that's legal for me to bow hunt.
Speaker: So, yeah, you know, uh, actually Sasquatch are in season Hunter. Yeah. That was, that was when I, when I was introduced to honey, uh, I was introduced to bow hunting. Yeah. And then, uh, I never been a big fan of, uh, uh, rifle hunting because I got, I got a destroyed shoulder.
Speaker: Uh, you know, I can shoot a shotgun. It just, it hurts. Yeah. I'm left -handed and I'm not, I look like I have special needs. If I try to do anything with my right hand, or if I try to change, you know, like if I try to change anything, I like, so I, and unfortunately my quote unquote shooting soldier is absolutely destroyed. So I'm, I prefer bow hunting, but I haven't been, Oh my God.
Speaker: You might not have been born. You might not have been born the last time I went bow hunting, to be honest with you. Especially when White House season is around, man. We're in the day. Now do you do crossbow as well? No. Are you cheating? Those are called cross guns. Yeah, I get it. I get it.
Speaker: No, my dad shoots a crossbow. He loves his. He loves his. You know what? Sometimes when when when when when gentlemen of a certain age, we get we get to a point where, you know, we we go for the simple things in life. No, there's a guy on TikTok. He he's he builds bows. Have you seen this guy?
Speaker: could be uh that could be anybody there's a bunch of them there's the one guy he just built one it's like a 200 pound draw and he can't even pull it back like uh and somebody ordered it because they're big bow hunters and they couldn't pull it back either like it's a 200 pound draw that's a huge uh yeah yeah a lot of people who have never shot a bow you'd be surprised this week to call them bow hunting muscles
Speaker: When I was in high school, as a matter of fact, the high school quarterback's name was Luke, and he had a hunting bow, and he had it set for 70 pounds. And our running back set the record in Mississippi for most yardage run in a season. He's a strong kid. He's a strong man, running back. And he couldn't pull back the quarterback's bow.
Speaker: You know, it's just he couldn't he could bench press and squat and every single one of us But he couldn't pull back the boat just because complete different set of muscles. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird What got you into bow hunting? I've been just normal hunting my whole life rifle hunting when I started when I was little my dad, you know, I
Speaker: and doing everything from squirrels to rabbits, deer, turkey, all of that stuff. And then I liked the idea and the therapy, like the therapeuticness and the beauty and the skill it takes to bow hunt. That's, that's, I got to agree with you, man. That's, that's exactly why I enjoyed bow hunting. I was never a big, I was never a big gun hunter in general. I was,
Speaker: growing up and my friends in school and stuff, they would get a, plus I'm in Ohio, deer season. I don't want to get up at four o 'clock in the morning. Hey, because it's like 30 and there's snow out there, but I was a tracker. I've always been very good at tracking. Yeah. Shout out to my indigenous people blood. But, uh, but, uh,
Speaker: You know, sometimes it pays off to be a Sasquatch. You know, they would call me and they're like, hey, Glick, we shot a deer. You know, we need help tracking. I love tracking because it was very therapeutic for me. I love being in the woods, you know, the woods or by the water. But I love being in the woods. I'm in my own. I'm in my own world. You know, I'm doing my thing. It's just tracking. Yeah. Very therapeutic. And then I agree with you with the bow hunting thing because it takes a certain type of individual
Speaker: to really enjoy bow hunting and to really get into that world. And I loved it. I loved it. I mean, I had a traditional bow and I had a compound bow as well. And just to be out there and do your thing and it really brought you back. And bow hunting for me is like, this is what our ancestors did.
Speaker: They didn't have, uh, you know, uh, 12 gauge or this, that or other thing that they were, they were in tune with nature. They were listening. They were watching the sense, the smells, uh,
Speaker: the weather change, you know, everything like that, you're locked in man and you're in your own world. So it is a very therapeutic. It's so much more rewarding with a bow. It's so much harder. People don't know people who I mean, people who do hide, but people who don't know, don't understand how skittish those animals are. And the slightest move, I mean, the slightest movement you make in there out.
Speaker: Yeah. The wrong smell too. The smell, that's another thing. You can't beat a deer's nose. If he's got you down wind, he's not coming. I've spooked so many deer, just when they're totally behind cover, they can't see me and just the drawback of the bow myself. And they stick their head up. And so how did they hear that? How?
Speaker: You know, that's the nice thing about the traditional bow, you know, you don't have, you know, the compound has all the, the, you know, the mechanism and so that traditional bow it's, it's, it's, it's smooth. It's silent. It's, I mean, a bow is a silent killer, man. You hear people talk about snipers and, and, and they're silent killers, but you look back in history and you look back at our ancestors and.
Speaker: you know, before snipers, some of the most deadliest people in the world were those who just had a branch that they molded and shaved down and hooked a string to or intestines, whatever. And you could draw back a bow and sit in silence. I mean, you sit like this. If you can sit like this, how long until that
Speaker: You know, that deer comes within your eyesight and you let go, man. It's game harboring. It takes a lot, man. It takes a lot of patience. It's a tough thing to do at the end of the day. It takes a lot of practice, a lot of patience. And yeah, it really is patience. I've sat at full draw for
Speaker: at least two minutes before just waiting and they are taking their sweet time and I don't have another opportunity. So that's sitting there. My shoulder is about to explode. No, like I said, you know me these days, I would love to get back out in the woods.
Speaker: I would love to get a bow, but you know, two, three minutes, four minutes. I'm not, I'm not, because like I said, I'm drawing back. This shoulder is shot. This shoulder is shot. So, you know, I got, I got maybe two minutes max. Like you got to hurry up and do your thing so I can kill you. It starts cramping up and getting old ain't no fun, brother. I'm just saying, enjoy being in your twenties.
Speaker: I'm going, you know, when I start grunting, you know, when I start grunting to get out of my chairs, you know, when I know my time's coming, you know, every time, every time, right around the corner. Sit down. I make noises. I stand up. I make noises. I go to bed. I make noises. I get up in the morning. Sometimes it's not even me being vocal. It's my body. Yeah. Just enjoy it. So I want to ask you, man, you know,
Speaker: I'm enjoying getting to learn so much about you tonight, man. This has been really cool. Music -wise, and I'm not cutting you off by no means, trust me, I told you, you can stay as long as you want. You can stay as short as you want. I have no schedule. I do what I want. I do have to dip at 9 .30, but... You're good. Okay. Okay. Well, let me...
Speaker: Let me get to what's coming up in the future. We heard about you got your music show coming up in your hometown, which man, I'm super excited for that for you because that's going to be so cool to go back to your hometown and perform on that stage in front of your friends and family and everybody. Album wise, what do you got coming up? What do you got? What are you working on album wise?
Speaker: But we've got, I can't, I can't. As much as you can disclose. Yeah, okay. So that's, I can say that I have the song that I just released today, Life of the Sinner, you know, and then I, you know, I have the one in May the 4th coming out that I've teased, right?
Speaker: Um, we can just, I, what I can say is that it will be consecutively with the same patterns throughout the rest of the year. Nice. I am, I am songs ahead. Many songs. I have, I have one more song tonight and I wanted to ask you about this song. I stand my ground. Yeah. Did you write this one or was this another? Did you know?
Speaker: You wrote this one. I wrote it. Where did this song come from? Because this is another, I basically, I picked my four favorite songs. I got to be honest with you. I picked three favorite songs and one that I was excited for tonight, uh, being life from the center. I was excited for that. Um,
Speaker: But where did that, where did that come from? That I stand my ground. You know, it's just one of those songs where I just, I'm super appreciative and I, you know, I cannot pretend to be as brave as the people who put them, who put their lives on the line for me, you know, and for our country and stuff like that. So I don't take, you know, there's a lot of people, a lot of people like that, they get criticism that I don't understand.
Speaker: So I just always have thought about that I wrote a song back in the day where it's like if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say nothing at all. I wrote a song back in the day like that. And it's the same thing to know.
Speaker: Like about the about that song is just like I've got my opinions and you're gonna have your opinions and all that stuff and it's totally cool if you have an opinion and if you have a different opinion of me and You know, but I'm not gonna sit there and just attack you for it I don't expect you to do the same to me, you know
Speaker: And, but I do believe in whatever you believe in, you should believe in strongly, firmly, and that you should have those beliefs because, you know, what, what do you have if you don't know what you're talking about and you don't know your beliefs and all that. So I swear that's where that song came from. Absolutely. I mean, and, and, you know, unfortunately I wasn't in the military, I say unfortunately, because that was my, that was my, that was my goal in life.
Speaker: I wanted to join the army. I was going to make a career out of it. I was going to do 25, 30 years, whatever, however long I could have done. I wanted to do a certain job that, you know, unfortunately I was told I couldn't do the job I wanted to do because Private Ryan, I'm a sole survivor in my family. I was the last of a bloodline. Really? Yes.
Speaker: Uh, and then I was like, oh, that's cool. You know, I can find something else to do and I found something else to do, but then I met a cool issues. Like I said, I, I was an athlete in high school as well. Uh, blew my knee out playing football, busted up my ankle, playing basketball. Um, not proud of it, but I also had a, uh, from my teenage years to my early twenties, I had a, uh, a mean streak a mile long. Uh, I was, uh, a very, uh, hot headed, uh,
Speaker: had a little bit of a violent streak in me. So, you know, I've done other damage to my body, even though my recruiter was like, when the medical records came back, my recruiter was like, this guy can literally run circles around anybody that you've put up against him. So I couldn't go into the military, but I am a huge supporter of the military. Both my grandfathers were in the military. Both my grandfathers served. My dad was in the military.
Speaker: Shout out to the 101st. My dad, Jeff, claims to be a Navy vet. I'm just fucking with you. Jeff's the Navy vet.
Speaker: One of our other friends from Talking Shit, he's a Navy vet. Another friend of mine, one of my other co -hosts, he is not only an Air Force vet, he did eight years in the Air Force, retired from the Air Force. The day he retired, he re -enlisted into the only
Speaker: Yeah, so he's doubly dumb. He did three years there. Unfortunately, medical issues took him out of the army. Cam, who is down here on the bottom screen, that's my little brother. Not blood, that's just, that's my little brother. At the end of the day, his dad did like 475 years in the Coast Guard. So, you know, I'm very pro military, I'm very pro
Speaker: Our military are very thankful. I'm very grateful for them And maybe that's why that sounds really struck a chord with me. Maybe why maybe that's why that strong song really Like really really touched me, but you know, I really do like this song I want to play it here real quick. This is a hundred lots. I stand my ground and We'll play that we'll be right back
Speaker: It's a big old world of decisions Are you making the right ones? Gods come true from the beginning The devil's playground ain't wise
Speaker: When will this cross repound How my flags support the military load? You can't express your will Have opinions, but so can I And I will till I die
Speaker: Like they used to be You don't like what you see It's okay to disagree Do your thing Just don't dread on me I stand my ground with this crowd
Speaker: Special will have opinions but don't care now
Speaker: Still when I pray And I give that firm handshake I talk to God through my days To help me correct my mistakes
Speaker: Cause I'm
Speaker: Mr. Hunter, a lot. I stand my ground. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Great song. Another great song, man. Thank you, brother. Like I said, you know, I'm loving the one of the biggest things that I'm loving about doing this show and everything is the fact that my Instagram is so full of so many great artists that I feel like, you know,
Speaker: Don't get the attention and don't get the love that they deserve. And you are one of them and I came across you and I was like, let me check this kid out real quick. Let me dive into this wormhole. And I'm very grateful and I'm very thankful that I messaged you and you messaged me back and we chit chatted a little bit and you agreed to come on the show.
Speaker: Yeah, I do definitely want to have you back on the show again down the road. I'm down. I've had a great time, dude. I'm so down. I almost want to invite him to a Saturday night show, but I feel like I was thinking the same thing. I feel like we would corrupt him and maybe taint him. We have to we have to protect Hunter at all costs. I agree. We have to protect him.
Speaker: I've had a great time. I love pot. I actually really love what you're doing here because I love podcasts like this. I love podcasts where you just sit down and you talk about whatever, you know, and it's, there's no scripts. There's nothing like that. Seven of a week now. Difficulties. And it's like, you know, the whole world sees it, but it's, you know, it's whatever. Like I love stuff like that. We just, we just, we just roll with the punches, man. We just roll with the punches. I wanted to ask you one last thing.
Speaker: Yeah. Can we see the tat on? Can we see the tat on your arm? Because I've seen it in pictures and I'm and I'm digging it. Yeah. All right. So on your on your forearm, on your forearm, the music notes and stuff. There's a microphone right there. Nice. One of those. Well, it was like these mics. It's an old school mic. Well, yeah. Yeah. And then up going further up, that's the head. That's a guitar head. I don't know if he. There we go. Yeah. So there's. Yeah.
Speaker: And I've got music notes in between it as some filler. And then this is a clock that hurt super bad, by the way. So it's right in that tickle spot, man. It was awful, but it's got my, uh, my time started 9 29 99. That's the nice. Yeah. I seen the one on your forum and I really liked it in your pictures. I hadn't seen that.
Speaker: I got all of this done as well. So this one, I have a prostate cancer tattoo right here because my dad is a prostate cancer survivor. Oh, all right. Shout out to cancer survivors. The cancer warriors and stuff is very near and dear to our heart. One of the first things that we did as a podcast was
Speaker: Um, Connor, who was now one of our co -host, he had a very good friend of his. She was diagnosed with cancer and I was like, oh, we're small time. We don't matter much, but we absolutely will get behind her and we, we jumped behind her and supported her. And, and, and not only was Connor a friend of hers, um, I developed a friendship with her and not only her, but with her mom. And I got to take that journey with them as she fought cancer and she kicked cancer's ass. Yeah.
Speaker: And I was so grateful to be a part of that journey and so thankful as I came in as a stranger. You know, I've been touched by cancer so much in my life by complete strangers. I used to work at a facility where it was a YU. Actually, you know, it's been so long. I used to work for the Ohio State Medical Center and the building I worked at was one of the tower was was mainly a James Cancer Tower.
Speaker: I was the maintenance guy, but I was always there and I seen patients come and go and complete strangers, you know, thankfully nobody in my personal life, nobody in my immediate life has been affected by cancer, but you know, being an outsider and being, becoming a part of their story, a part of their journey, um, cancer survivors and cancer fighters, I hold very near and dear to my heart. Um, people that I didn't know from Adam.
Speaker: I became friends with because they were there every week and we would get to chitchat and you know, you'd get to, you'd get to ride the good man. You get to see them ring the bell, but then you'd also get to get the bad news. And you know, you don't see somebody for a few weeks and then all of a sudden their, their mom or their sister or their daughter or their son or their friend or whatever comes in, just to give you the bad news. They lost their battle. Um, for me, it's very personal, uh, because I did,
Speaker: I'm very grateful that that opportunity was given to me to be a part of their lives and to be a part of that struggle and be a part of that journey through the ups and downs and the good and the bad. Hopefully their interactions with me made things a little bit better. I'm assuming it did because family would come and tell me A or B or C or whatever happened.
Speaker: Um, you know, I got invited to weddings from cancer survivors. I got invited to birthday parties, graduations. And it's like, I'm just, I'm just a dude changing the light bulb. I'm just a dude because you're hot. You want to be cold. You're like, I'm nobody important, but I got to take that journey. So, you know, shout out to your pops, man. Congratulations on kicking cancer's ass at the end of the day. He did that. That means that that's, that's so cool. I mean, that for me personally, like I said, I've never been touched by it personally. And I, I really hope I never am.
Speaker: but, you know, in a way I kind of happen, you know. So yeah, that's, that's an amazing thing, man. Shout out to your pops. Um, I thought about doing the, I thought about doing the old school mic thing, like on my hand. Uh, we were talking about tattoos before the show. Uh, and I thought about doing the, doing the mic thing because, you know, as a podcast host and this is what I love and this is what I, I do kind of like the joker, uh, you know,
Speaker: with the, with the, yeah, I, you know, like do the mic. So then I can just, anytime I can just, I'm on a microphone, but you know, and I want that same old school mic like you have, but I don't know. I mean, I kind of told you when we get bigger, when we get bigger.
Speaker: Oh man, I can stay smaller. I can stay big. I can go big. It don't matter at the end of the day. It's still passion. It's a dream. And that's, and that's what I, that's what I appreciated about the tech and I've seen it in some of your pictures. And that's really cool that, you know, part of your, this is your journey. This is your life. And it's, and it's very music incorporated. Oh yeah. Yeah, it is. We might scare them away on a Saturday night. Yeah. I don't know. I think he might be able to hold his own.
Speaker: I think he had hold his own, but I think he also might think different about us. I don't know, man, I've been to some places so. Well, Saturday night we do the open door challenge where anybody and anybody could come in and one of our favorite things to say during the show is, wait, that's the line that we're supposed to cross, but we cross it every time.
Speaker: Oh, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what, Hunter, I'll start, I'll start sending you the link. Don't feel obligated on Saturday nights. I'll send you the link. And if you're feeling extra frisky and you're feeling froggy and you're not doing anything and you want to jump up, you are more than what tomorrow night, tomorrow night, actually we're doing the roast and flick being our entire network. It'll be the easiest show ever. Jeff, Connor, Mark, Brian, uh,
Speaker: and friends of our shows, Leggy Jarvis or, uh, blazing cam, if he's available, I don't know who's going to come up, but they're roasting me. It's the worst of click tomorrow night, dude. I didn't even know this. Hell yeah. I know what I'm doing tomorrow. I'll start sending me a link, man, and don't feel obligated. Don't feel like pressured or anything like that. But if you're free on a Saturday night and you want to
Speaker: I will warn you. It's not for the faint of heart. We are we were giant children. We're not good. Yeah, we're not. You know, we've we've decided a long time ago that there's a special place in hell already waiting for us. We call the VIP section. Yeah, we can't go to hell. We're not going to go to heaven. They're putting us right outside the pearly gates.
Speaker: in a VIP section where we're just going to mess with St. Pete for all of eternity. Got it. So we can make him go crazy. Yeah. But I have a tattoo cancer even on my arm from a mother -in -law grandpa. Oh, nice. Oh, there you go, man. I didn't know that you were affected by it. Mark's the host of Talking Shit. He's a member of the network.
Speaker: I do want to, I know you, I know you got to get ready and run. Uh, we've been teasing it all night. We've been stirring the pot all night. We've been talking about it all night. Yeah. This comes out May 6th, right? Yep. He dropped some made six. May 6th. This is just a sample. This is just a taste. It's a little appetizer, if you will.
Speaker: Uh, this song, I'm going to go out. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to call it right now, man. I'm going to call it my, I'm going to call it right now. My friend, this is usually a top 40. We're going to call it a top 20 hit 20 hit. That is the, that's the hope bro. Top 20 hit.
Speaker: coming out May 5th. I'm going to give you guys a little sample. If you're not already following Hunter, uh, I'm going to, he said it earlier and I meant to give you multiple opportunities and I apologize to conversation. We were having so much fun with the conversation that I totally forgot, but I want you to shout out your social media before you take off, but I'm going to give you guys a little sample May 6th.
Speaker: Just a week or two away, you had your chances coming out. And this is something that I'm looking forward to. I haven't heard the whole song, but I am super excited. It's a little sample, if you will. Then you opened my soul and decided to just close the door. But I should've known that you were gonna drive me crazy. Have my thoughts saying maybe she loves me. But why am I in so much pain?
Speaker: I look over my shoulder cause you're getting bolder And I'm never gonna be safe Girl I think that it's time to tell you I know you lied I've heard your secrets that your ego just would not let you keep Baby you woo the dice and now that I'm doing fine You text me call me and DM me while I'm trying to sleep
Speaker: I like it.
Speaker: I like it. Jeff, I told you earlier, I was like, I think of a few people I like to send that song to personally. Yeah, you and me both. I'm going to come out too. I'm so excited. And then, you know, there's, there's so many, dude, you, you are, you are a professional. You are right up there on the lick level. I have a question before he goes. He's in that. And I believe one of the videos that you made that you teased that song, you had your guitar in it. Yeah, I did. He was there. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Like he's teasing the hell out of it. I'm, I'm, I'm super stoked, man. I can't wait. I'm calling it right now. I'm calling it right now. It's the top 20. Right. It's a tight 20 hit, bro. This is going to be your breakthrough song. You're going to drop this bitch and you're going to, and I've tried real hard not to curse tonight, just so you know, I curse like a sailor, but I'm trying real hard not to curse tonight, but you're going to drop this and you're going to blow the fuck out, man. You're you are you.
Speaker: You're going to blow up and I'm going to message you to be like, I don't even know who you are. Top top, top 40 is, is the, is the absolute dream. That's what we're going for. I think this is going to, I think this is going to be your song and this is going to be that jam that people are going to be.
Speaker: people are going to be doing TikTok videos and you know, if they start making TikTok videos and you're done. I might be the first one that does, that does a TikTok video to this song once it drops. All right. I'll be looking forward to seeing that. That'll look good. Uh, but I'm super excited for it, man. I'm super excited for everything you got going on and you know, getting to know you tonight and hanging out with you, man. I'm super grateful, man. I do appreciate you coming on. Uh,
Speaker: I look forward to hanging out with you again down the road. The door is always open, brother. I want us to stay in contact with each other and communicate back and forth and chitchat. I'm definitely going to hit you up when I'm down in Nashville. It'll be next October. We'll be down there. I definitely want to hit you up. But yeah, like I said, do this again. You're welcome on the Saturday night shows. You're welcome at any time.
Speaker: I got something to tell you that you may not know about you had your chance by the way. So there is a there's a dance competition for it starting. Oh really? So there's a dance competition for it starting and Nashville we've gotten a lot of sponsors.
Speaker: to line up with it. And we've gotten my promotions team in Nashville to be a part of it. And there are winners, there are cash winners that are gonna be selected for whatever the best dance is gonna be for you had your chance. Nice. So hopefully, I don't know exactly how big the pool is, but I think it's, I think like the first place winner is like two grand, 2 ,500.
Speaker: I'm saying right now, it's not me, Chris, or I that wins because we're very, very clear. This Sasquatch has got rhythm and I've got moves. I'm just saying. I have a question before he leaves. What's up?
Speaker: It's totally random, but how do you decide your release date? Do you just pick a random date and you just hold it off until then, make everybody wait? Or is it the production coming through? I've always wondered that. It's a major factor of production, how busy I am on top of just keeping it consistent. So anywhere from six to eight weeks constantly apart from each other, that's one thing that we'd like to do. Just people be consistent on releases.
Speaker: And because a lot of time goes back, a lot of time goes into writing, a lot of time goes into the production of it all and then the promoting of it all and all that stuff. So then keeping them, you know, at a certain time frame apart. It's not random, it's all calculatedly placed, but you also have people like some of the people that are on my teams here, on my promotions team, those are people who are better at knowing what date it needs to be released, you know, really.
Speaker: Also, because the festival that I had the big gig coming up on May the 4th, you know, it's just two days after is when you had your chance drops. And all of those people at the festival are going to get to hear you had your chance live. We're playing it live and we're advertising. Please, please tell me you're going to have somebody professionally record you doing that live. Multiple, multiple. Can I get a video of that? Yeah, of course.
Speaker: I'm going to get you a video I can promote and I'm going to put it all on my socials. Okay. Okay. Um, I just want to say to, to, to Hunter's people, uh, I don't particularly like you too much because he was going to actually play his guitar and sing live tonight. And you guys said no. So I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. And that was not my doing that, but mind you, that was not my doing that was all Hunter. He was like,
Speaker: Yeah, I got my dream guitar here. I can, I can play a little something. I can sing a little something. And then his people started blowing him up. They're like, no, you're not. Yeah. I might, I might play something, but then I was like, well, I didn't prepare. So no, my emotions team said, Nope, Nope. Don't do that. Don't do it.
Speaker: Yeah, no, I know that that was all on him. I didn't I didn't put him up to it. That was that was all on him and he checked and you know, I don't want to get you in trouble, but I give him a hard time. I kind of give him a hard time, right? It's hard for the course. Hunter, I know you I know you got to go, bro, man. I appreciate you being here tonight. This was really cool. This was a lot of fun. I would love to have you back on.
Speaker: the House of Music again. I would love to have you on one of the other shows. We have plenty of shows to choose from. I really, truly do. I hope the best for you, man. I hope you continue to grow. I hope you continue to blow up. I can't wait for the single to drop on May 6th and it go straight to the top 20. Your dream is 40. I'm calling it right now, brother.
Speaker: You're going into the top 20. This is going to be, this is going to be your jam. This is going to be your breakthrough song. Uh, and I will be the first one to make a Tik TOK video to it. And when you, when you blow up on, on, on those Tik TOKs and the reels and, and everything like that, man, I just, and the thing that, that I, that I'm really grateful about for you is the fact that you're, you have your head on straight.
Speaker: You know where you're going. You know what you want to do.
Speaker: Thanks brother. And it's amazing to hear from a young man like you because you are just a baby. You're just, you're just, he's just a baby. I wish I would, I wish I would have had my mind right. Like you do. So, uh, much love brother. I appreciate it. I wish you nothing but success and, and, and just keep doing what you do, man. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be here watching. I'm going to be ready. I'm going to be ready. I'm going to be watching. I'm, I'm, I'm anticipating it. And, uh,
Speaker: You know, I can't wait until I see you on the CMAs one day. One day. Thank you. I'm so glad to be on because it's always fun. I really appreciate it, man. I really did have a good time. You guys are so laid back. So it's just nice to be a part of something that's just so chill, you know, and just super cool. I do appreciate it. I really do. You're welcome anytime, brother.
Speaker: And I do want to stay in contact with you, man. I really do. You know where to find me. I got to tell the people now where they can find me. I got to tell them. Yeah. Let everybody know all your social media. Just tell them, just tell them everything.
Speaker: All you gotta do is go to my website at hunteralotmusic .com. I have everything there from merch to updates for tour dates, song releases and all that stuff. And there is a link tree there as well for all of my socials, for my Insta, for my Twitter, for my TikTok, my Facebook, all of that stuff. And music videos as well. All of those songs that you played, I've got lyric videos and music videos for those and y 'all can go check them out. I really, really appreciate it if y 'all did. And y 'all did a lot.
Speaker: It's Hunter a lot, right? No, it's just a lot of music. Okay. Okay. I typed it as he talked. You're making me second guess myself. Yes. Also, also go to Tubi. If you don't have Tubi already. Yeah. Go download Tubi and watch Vernon and watch, and watch the bad boy himself, the owl, Taranis Clayton. Oh dear.
Speaker: No, man, I really do. Uh, in all honesty, y 'all can tell me I'm fans are on out. You can do whatever you want. Uh, this is a dream of mine. The podcast thing is a dream of mine, but to be in the music world is, is, is, is a huge dream. I love music. Um, and to get to interact with musicians and chat with them and hang out with them and not do the boring.
Speaker: You're you've done five albums. When's your next album come out? What's your tour dates blah blah? Just actually legitimately get to hang out and get you know You know like, you know typical interviewers aren't gonna find out that hunters a huge fucking nerd, you know He's a very hard guy. He's a Star Wars guy. He's a he's a fan of the hobbits, you know, nobody's gonna a typical interviewers not gonna find that out man, but now I
Speaker: I'm very grateful. Thank you so much. Thank you for your weekend, man. I hope that I hope that you absolutely kill it in your hometown. You know, I can't wait to see the live video. I can't wait for the full release of the new song. Me too. Just keep doing what you're doing, man.
Speaker: And stay true to yourself at the end of the day. Don't let the industry change you, man. You hear the stories of a lot of musicians. Aaron Lewis, lead singer of Stained. He came out on his first country album once he broke away from the record labels. And he wrote songs and talked about how being in Stained and being the lead singer of Stained was not who he wanted to be. I've got something to say.
Speaker: how they told him he had to do this, that, and the other thing, man. Just always continue to be you, brother. Always remember who you came from and where you came from, because my buddy, he was friends with Kane Brown when they were little. And even as they got older, they were friends. And then Kane Brown is like a major fucking dickbag now. Oh, really? Totally forgot where he came from. I can't wait for the day when Hunter tells me, I don't know who you are.
Speaker: just so you know, it's in the archives. Glick, when you get more better yet, he's on, he's on, he's on CMT wearing a nonsensical network t -shirt. I'm just saying. I just checked out his page and you know, I saw all the Christian beliefs and everything. Just, just hang on with that, man. Oh yeah. I mean, well, Cam and Cam, I hope you didn't take it the wrong way. I know I was busting your chops a couple of weeks ago, but Cam is recently born again.
Speaker: got you. That's good. Congratulations. I mean, you know, throughout the years, I and click knows, but, you know, I've been through a lot, but man, I give it all to God. I wouldn't have everything I have if it wasn't for him, man. I mean, the things that he's brought me through, like without him, I wouldn't even be here today. So it really does. Yeah, no, I'm being serious, man. Look, looking at that. I can, I can see him and you're going to go a long way. Just keep it up. Don't lose faith.
Speaker: Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm glad. I'm so glad to hear that. And I can hang out with these heathens and I can still, you know, he can still forgive me. So you see my moneer, you know, I'm a damn heathen. Others are heathen too. Others are heathen too. Don't let them pull you. Don't let me pull you. I can hang.
Speaker: If you got a run bro, I'm not chasing the off man, you're welcome to be here as long as you want to be here. But if you got a run man, thanks again. Thanks. I look forward to hanging out with you again. Whether it be here or on one of the other various shows. I do look forward to hanging out with you in the, in the chatter's box from time to time. Don't be shy. Yeah.
Speaker: Next next I'm not doing a show next Friday, but next Thursday night our guys over at Talking shit. I don't know how they did it. I honestly I don't know how they did it and my mind is blown but they got Richie Ramone from the Ramones is the drummer of the Ramones and They landed them and their first thought was not oh my god. This is huge. Their first thought was we gotta get Glick involved You know, so, you know
Speaker: My door is open for everybody. If you're a musician, I wanna get into your world. I wanna conversate with you, man. But like I said, man, I do appreciate you. Don't worry about the hiccups. Don't worry about the technical difficulties. We had fun and I know you said you gotta run. So one more time, 100lotmusic .com, correct?
Speaker: Make sure you guys go follow them, go show them some love. If you're down in Nashville, maybe you'll get to see them on a stage. Yeah. Hit me up. See what I'm doing that week. Where are you from in Mississippi? I'm from the Hattiesburg area, but I grew up in Collins. What's the fair you're going to be at? Okotomo Fest. Okotomo. I didn't want to mispronounce it.
Speaker: May 4th. May the 4th be with you. Yeah, Oklahoma Fest, Mississippi. If you're in the area, if you're even remotely closed, take the drive. Go see our guy. Go show him some love and hear the, hear the release, the debut of his brand new song. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Speaker: I got one more question for you and I already know the answer to it, but I'm going to ask you because I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you alive. I'm going to get you giving me the permission moving forward. Is it okay if we play your music on our various other shows? Of course. There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, he hesitated. Yeah, but for good reason. I mean, uh, by the way, that's recorded. So.
Speaker: I feel like when I go to tennis or when I go to Nashville, you got to know man, I am going to play. I am going to start playing new music on our other shows. That's right. You know, I do host a men's mental health show. So life of the center is absolutely going to get played on there.
Speaker: Alright cool. So thank you again, bro. I want to say before you take off or anything anything else. Just you know, thank you for letting me come and hang out. That's all I got to I got to chill for a night, you know, and just.
Speaker: I'm so so appreciative of it. Actually, it's been a long time. We are the most laid back interviewers ever. Okay, worst interviewers ever. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys for hanging out. Appreciate it. Hopefully you guys enjoyed getting to know Hunter. Hopefully you guys will check out his music. Please do. We will be back.
Speaker: Glick's House of Music will be back next Thursday, again with our interview of Richie Ramone, drummer of the Ramones. And then who knows what's going on, I'll go on after that. Make sure you check out the rest of the shows on the network, Monday night being Men Caring for Men, Tuesday nights, Jeff Barrage, Wednesday nights is the nonsensical news show. Thursday nights is Talking Ship, Friday nights is Glick's House of Music, Saturday nights is nonsensical nonsense, unhinged, unapologetic.
Speaker: Be prepared because we are a wire wild roller coaster ride of shenanigans and tomfoolery and flockery And then sunday nights we end the week up with jarvis doing a monday a little a movie review And you can find all the shows All at bio link nonsensical nonsense and these guys have added so much stuff actually no you changed it
Speaker: Sorry. I changed it bio .link slash the nonsensical network. You can find all the shows there. You can listen to us live on YouTube Monday through Sunday. And you can also listen to us on all major podcast platforms. Anytime, any place with that being said, I feel like I think I, I think I played all of Hunter's music tonight. I think so.
Speaker: I guess I just got to hit the button. So I'm gonna hit the button. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys right now. Again, Hunter, much love to you, brother. Appreciate you here. It meant the world to me, you know, being a guy who's trying to get into this music interview game, having somebody come on and like you and just be chill. It means the world. Tune in tomorrow night, Saturday night, nonsensical nonsense for the rest of this guy right here.
Speaker: All right. I might, I might stop by, you know, say hello in chat. I mean, moving reviews and interviews. And then until next time, I don't want to have a closer for this. Be good or be good at it. All right guys.
