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Speaker: In my soul, every thought out of control Do it all to get them off defeat Crowd is here, about to blow, waiting for me to start the show
Speaker: I got you.
Speaker: Running like a bottle of hell I'm gonna make it get right back on my feet We can make love in the bed of that truck But it wouldn't feel the same to me All that wasted time Oh honey, I'm never gonna get it back Brown -eyed girl with a new tattoo and a brand new heart attack I got seventeen dollars in my back pocket and door roofs to be I can make a plumb to the end of the county if I put it in gasoline You got seventeen guys knocking on your door and don't give a second heart to be
Speaker: I can be on the road just as soon as I'm on task to find my case Let's turn to my scan and go spell I was shaking like a leaf on a tree Twenty whole years on God's green earth And I never ever felt more free Don't know what to do I'm getting so tired of this losing the streak Blows my mind at a small town called Omega Grown Man Feels so weak I got seventeen dollars in my back pocket And nowhere else to be
Speaker: I can make a plumb to the end of the county if I put it in gasoline You got 17 guys knockin' on your door and don't give a second part to be I can be on the road just as soon as someone has to buy my case
Speaker: 17 dollars in my back pocket and nowhere else to be I can make a plumber to the end of the county if I put it in gasoline You got 17 guys knocking on those door and don't give a second thought to be I can be on the road just as soon as someone has to buy my kit
Speaker: Be on the road, judge a song if someone has me find my case
Speaker: It's her. Happy Friday, everybody. What is going on? Welcome to Glick's House of Music. You know, we're going to try to get your Friday started. We're going to get your weekend started off with a little something something. Hopefully you guys are got you a few cold beverages of your choice. Maybe sit back ready to chill out. We got a cool guest on the show tonight, as always. But before we get to all of that, let me get to the business side of it real quick. If you're not already going to check out the nonsensical network, you know, we're across the board on all the social medias, Facebook, Instagram, X and tick tock. You can also join us live Monday through Sunday. We got a show for everybody on the YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and X. And she can listen to us any place, anytime, wherever you listen to podcasts that yes, we are on all.
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Speaker: Thursday nights is talking shit. I already said that Friday nights is this year show right here clicks out some music. You know me. I'm hanging out with the musicians, shit, chatting with them, getting to know them a little bit better and introducing you guys. Just hopefully some artists you haven't heard before. And maybe they're going to be new favorites. Saturday nights is nonsensical nonsense. The foundation of the network unhinged, unapologetic comedy based. We hang out, we have fun, but we also do something. Well, it's a little crazy. We open the doors to the asylum and we let the inmates take over. We call it the open door challenge. Basically we drop the link. If you guys want to come in, we ask one simple thing. Put your pecker away. Well, actually we asked to put your pecker away and turn your camera on. But everybody and anybody is welcome to join us on Saturday nights. And we do have a new show coming very soon on Sundays. All I can tell you is it's a sports show.
Speaker: I've been sworn to confidentiality. I'm not allowed to say anything more, but nonetheless, let's get to the, let's get to the point why we're here tonight. That song you guys heard beginning of the show, I was a, by a very talented young man by the name of Mr. John Thomas Moore. Call him Mr. And he's half my age, but but we're gonna go ahead and bring him up. John, what's going on with you, brother? Oh, not much at all. Just, uh, chilling, come back home. I have to work figured out, you know, hop on the internet a little bit, get on the interwebs. Get on the all the way, all the way from the hollers of Kentucky. Well, I don't know if you're in the hollers, but all of Kentucky is but by by most people's standards. Yeah. Yeah. I say that I'm from Podunk ass Ohio. Like I have any room to talk. Oh,
Speaker: I mean, it's all right. I guess if you're from here, you might, yeah you might think differently, but I think a lot of people feel that way about, uh, where they're from. Not everybody likes where they're from, but some people love it. I don't know why people love Ohio, but there are those that that do, but nonetheless, I do want to say thank you and I appreciate you taking some time out of your evening to come hang out with me here on the show. ah Um, I appreciate you. What up Benji? I got the chatter's box chirping away there. Oh, in the house. What's up buddy? What's up chatter's box. Um, first and foremost, uh, a little birdie told me you just celebrated your 22nd birthday. So happy birthday to you. Uh, have you belated birthday, man? Uh, basically at this point, a full fledged adult. but Yeah. Uh, all the fun birthdays are gone now. It's just like,
Speaker: Yeah. umm One year past 21, you know. Yeah, as a guy who's staring down the barrel at 43, I'm like, I mean, I guess the next one's 50. I guess that's cool if I make it to half a century, but... So you one of the first things I want to ask you, because you are a younger cat, you know how long have you been doing music? How long have you been performing on stage? I guess you could say. Um, well, if you count church, uh, the first time I played in church, I was about 15, um, which I sang in church before that, but that was always just like me going up with the choir. Um, but, uh, really the, the first time that I, uh, like performed one of my own songs was at a little, uh, pizza parlor place here in my hometown when I was 17. And, uh, I've just, uh,
Speaker: I fell in love with it. you know ah been I got a guitar for my birthday when I turned 12. When I was about 15, this girl that I was dating at the time dumped me, and so I didn't have anything to do after school anymore. So that's when I learned to play and like you know started to write songs and stuff. That ain't one of the most country music things I've ever heard. yeah I love country. I'm a country guy and I'm a country and rock guy. I love country music, but you know, I was like, well, you're all from dumpy. So I learned to play a guitar and already had this kick -ass voice. So I showed her. is um My voice was still cracking pretty heavy at that point in time.
Speaker: Nice, nice. Do you, ah um I know obviously you you you write a lot of your own stuff. um Before you started writing, were you just doing a lot of covers and stuff like that? ah Yeah, um so whenever I first started, like um I always loved country music, but I wanted to impress my dad. My dad was always a rocker, but like an old school rocker, so I learned like The first two songs I learned were Take It Easy by The Eagles and Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart. um So a lot of that type of stuff, John Cougar, you know. yeah And I've always, I still love doing those covers, you know what I mean? but And those songs that I learned originally are really huge influences on like the stuff that I write now. you know I still love all that shit. you
Speaker: I was going to ask you what your influences were and I could see that older music now, I guess it's the classics. You know, when I was growing up, it was only a few years old. It was like the Eagles stuff wasn't super old, but it was still old. You know, it was my parents' music and I grew up listening to. all that, you know, listening to the Eagles and Zeppelin and Floyd and yeah my grandparents loved Alabama and like Conway 20. And, you know, guys and I grew up listening to all that stuff. But, you know, it's it's funny because I always want to ask people their inspiration, you know, who they, you know, the music that inspires, inspires them. And just those couple of names that you listed, you can kind of hear that in your music yeah yeah you that
Speaker: And like I can tell everybody, I become a fan. You know, I am fortunate enough that the old algorithm is working in my favor and and putting super talented artists in front of my eyeballs and allowing my ear holes to hear them on on Instagram. And then I go and be an internet creep. And I'm like, Oh, did I got a YouTube channel? What's on their Facebook? What else are they doing? I want to hear more music by them. I want to, hear I don't want to hear the, the, the 60 second clip that that we're allowed to hear on, on, on Instagram. And I become a fan and, you know, and I listened to the music and, um, I was actually listening to one of your songs this morning on my way into work because I do really like it and I'll play it here in a little bit later.
Speaker: But lying in my head, it was a really good time. I was listening to that and I was like, man, this kid is freaking talented. And I'm double your age. I was like, God, I wish I had just a smidge of that talent. but think you ah but i' glad that really appreciate it yeah I'm just an asshole that talks into a microphone. That's about the extent of my talent. um Do you find it hard to to write a new song or or is it ah or or is your music based off of um something that's happened to you and in real life? I know a lot of songwriters go back to past
Speaker: things that have happened. or Do you do a lot of that or is it just like you're sitting at the house drinking a couple beers with a couple of your buddies and all of a sudden you're like, I got an idea. ah it's It's a little bit of both. I mean, so for songs start for me, it's usually kind of like what you were just saying. It's like
Speaker: Paul McCartney said this thing about how like whenever you have something come to you, you got to just get it get it recorded somehow, you know, and so a lot of the time, it's just like, usually the most inconvenient time possible, like I'm at work or something. and then Yeah, like I get a a little ditty or a line or something. And I usually throw it into my voice memos and the the musical part, that's usually all just like, you know, natural. But like the thinking about lyrics and stuff like you definitely have to draw or I have to draw from stuff that's happened or even just shit that I think is cool. You know what I mean?
Speaker: Yeah. I hate when that happens when, when you're at work, and it it'll happen. I'll be like, Oh, I got an idea for the show and I'm at work. And it's like, ah, where can I write it down? at So then like, one like one of the guys who wanted the, my original co -host who started the shows and my co -creator with the network, I'll just be like, you can ignore this message. I just need to spit this out and I'll just say whatever my idea was. And it'd be like, the fuck and I'm like, I just need it somewhere so that I don't forget it. know When I what i get a second and I just send it on Snapchat or something. Yeah, I'll, ah I'll be like running into the port of party at the job site and just like humming into my fucking voice memos, hoping nobody hears me and stuff like that. I did it all the time. Who let the meth head on the job site that's singing in the, the port exactly. Yeah. I look like a toy.
Speaker: ah yeah you know You never know. One of those moments when you look and sound like a tweaker might be that one song that just just skyrockets, man. you You never know what happened. Oh, that's the hope. but it's That's really cool though. um
Speaker: when When was it, all said du like you said, yeah you were like, man, I'm singing in church. You were singing in the choir. When was it that you realized that you're like, I think I want to be a musician. I want to i want to chase this this this crazy dream that of being a singer -songwriter. um ah So this is going to sound strange. When I was like, I was probably around 15 or so. I saw a documentary. Well, there's two things all around the same time. So, around that time, first, it was when Tyler Childers was getting big, and that's the that's the standard, like, dude from Kentucky loved Tyler Childers when he was a kid, so he became a country musician. I got to everybody, but I saw him and John Prine and Jason Isbell, not live, I wasn't there, but I saw on TV, they were on um Austin City Limits, and it was a...
Speaker: I get changed my life watching that. And, uh, that was like, well, I was seeing, uh, Tyler Childers and I got already lived, been listened to some Sturgill Simpson and stuff. And it was like, you can do this country thing and not seem like a twat. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, the, uh, the pop country, um, the, the, the plugin, the plugin, I, I, you know, I know a lot of people like Luke Bryan, but I, I, I call him, I call him catfish, uh, country catfish. He literally every song, a, it sounds the same. It sounds like he's playing the same four chords in every song, but it's legal. It's literally like a plug and play. Oh, I gotta put truck. Oh, I gotta put girl. Oh, I gotta put beer. I gotta put drinking. Oh, I gotta put bonfire. It's just like.
Speaker: what happened to these good old days, you know? and it's cri' and And now we're starting to see that resurgence with artists like you said, Tyler Childers, Jelly Roll but just absolutely taking over the entire world. You can't really, I don't know if he's a country singer, a rock singer, or a rapper. I don't know what genre he fits into, but you're starting to see that resurgence and and that reemergence of storytellers when they when they write songs. you know It's them and maybe two or three other people. it's not a It's not an army of producers and songwriters and musicians that are putting together something to get on the radio that's gonna be poppy and and everybody's gonna like. And I think that's the other cool thing you know with getting the talk but like you know getting to talk with like people like you and and other artists is that you guys are in that up and coming game and and you guys are you are influenced by that older generation
Speaker: but And a lot of you guys do, right. Uh, not a a, not only to be relatable, you want people to, to, to feel your music. And I'm a, I'm a huge music guy. I can't carry a tune in bucket and I've owned a guitar for about probably close to 20 years. And I can't play a single string on the damn thing. It just sits here and holds hats at this moment. i feel like But, um, but, you know, we're getting we're getting to see, and if people pay attention to their local scene and these up and coming artists, whether they're playing at a pizzeria or a farmer's market or a fair or something like that, there's a lot of really good talent there. Not only that, but really good songwriters who are writing songs that mean something that, you know, we've all been through a broken heart. We've all been through getting fired at work.
Speaker: But I don't need the pu it plug and play stuff. I want somebody who's actually felt it. And when I listen to their music, I can feel it in my soul. ah But like I said, yeah I've been very fortunate i you know with it with the guests that I've had so far.
Speaker: including yourself, you guys are super talented, man. And I and and i find myself listening to your guys' music more than I'm listening to the big names anymore. i want to And I don't listen to a lot of music. I listen to talk top radio. I'm not old. I don't listen to NPR. ah you know it's I a talk radio station out of Tampa, and they they do stuff like we do here on the network. They have fun. They're just a group of people in a room hanging out, chit -chat and talking, like you know, interviews, stuff like that. But um and then if I'm not listening to them, I'm listening to another podcast. I don't listen to a lot of music anymore just because new music. Man, I really sound like a curmudgeon -y old man.
Speaker: New music is not good. yeah It's few and far between, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah youll get like you said, but Tyler, ah you'll get Tyler or Jelly or, you know, I like Chase Matthews. He's pretty cool. I like i like a few of his songs. I like Harding. I'm a little bit over Morgan Wallin at this point, but, you know, when Morgan Wallin first was getting big, I liked him. but um But yeah, he's super talented. I'm not a huge fan of a lot of his music, but he's super fucking talented. bla Oh, he's super talented. You can't deny his talent at all. but now Like I said, i'm I'm finding myself, like I said, I'm driving in this morning and, i and and and you know, the playlist was just playing and your song popped up. I was like, oh, wow. I think I know who this is. Like, oh yeah, did I have another one? Hell yeah.
Speaker: You know, that kind of like half asleep, you know what it's like, you're driving into work, ass crack of dawn, you know, uh, not quite awake, just trying to get ready for the day. Thankfully it was Friday. Yeah. But, uh, so. where you're Where you're at down there in Kentucky, have you had um or have you have you traveled? have you Have you got the opportunity to travel at all to do a lot of a lot of gigs? Are you starting to get a lot of live shows or have you done a lot of live shows? um Well, I've had the opportunity to travel a few times. One of the times I went to North Carolina and did a show. I did one in West Virginia, Ohio. I've been a couple in Ohio. and
Speaker: One in Indiana, actually. But they've mostly all been in Kentucky and the ones that haven't been are around Kentucky. And it's usually just, you know, people that I know know somebody. But to yeah, I don't know. it I'm trying to break out of that. And I i love, like, the Lexington scene and stuff. Lexington has a really cool scene. Doesn't Lexington have ah have a pretty good music scene? I've been down there a few times and I thought they had a pretty cool music scene. I've seen a couple live gigs. Don't ask me the name of those bars because I can't tell you. I don't remember. but ive seen I've seen some really cool shows at a a couple bars down there before.
Speaker: And it seemed like talking to the locals. They're like, if you get down this way, you got you got to go here. You got to see this person. you gotta It seems like there's a really good music scene down there. Oh yeah. And Lexington is a really great city to like be starting out as a young artist and because everybody there, like the people there that want to see live music, they're extremely welcoming, you know, especially to young artists. Like they, everybody in Lexington wants to be the person that knew about the popular guy before they were popular. you like not Not necessarily me, but like any artist that you see, it's like everybody is really supportive and wants to, you know,
Speaker: wants to be a part of it you know and that's really cool and I'm grateful for that and I'm just getting to the point where I can do gigs where like it's an hour of me playing original stuff and that's like that's the most gratifying thing ever because like I've for really like three years now I've been doing cover gigs with my band you know and like they're fun and all and you know you know, college bars are always going to be fun for a multitude of reasons. But yeah, go say it you're, you' you're, and you're at that prime age and you're at that perfect age to, to, to perform at the, at the college bars. There's, there's a lot of, uh, parks and benefits. I remember being in my early twenties. You know, I remember some stuff from my early twenties. Oh yeah. yeah as Yeah. I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning. You know what I mean?
Speaker: I don't get any better when you get older. I'm just going to let you know. It has nothing to do with drinking either. It's just the fact that, you know, I, I blame it a lot. I I've taken a lot of shots to the head, you know, sports and, and, uh, I was a little bit of a roughneck when I was younger. So I've taken a lot of shots to the head. My memory is not what it used to be, but nonetheless, I, in my early twenties, most of those memories that I forgotten was because of a little thing called alcohol.
Speaker: I feel you. Alcohol is the most interesting drug that I've found so far. It definitely makes that shit happen. you know It's the only drug I've ever really, uh, partaken in and enjoyed. And, uh, I'll probably enjoy that right all the way down and right all the way to my grave at the end of the day. makes ah As I can't remember whose things are right off top of my head, but, uh, there was a lot of weekends where I wake up in the back of my truck and just go on sure it is Monday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ient Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of drank my ass back into work. Still hung over from Friday night. and It's just like.
Speaker: How are you hungry from Friday? Well, Friday night was a three day adventure. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those, uh, yeah, those falling asleep at four and waking up for work at six, that, uh, those take a toll too. You know what I mean? I can't do that shit anymore, man. I'm up too, I'm too old for that. Enjoy it. Enjoy it while it lasts, man. I, you know, I remember that party all night long and then get up and be like, Oh, gotta go to McDonald's, grab breakfast and, uh, and go to work, you know, and I was good to go. You sweat all that alcohol out all day long and you smell like a fricking brewery. Uh, yeah. ah times right there it's a It takes its toll though. You know, yeah I, I'm already getting sick of it, you know,
Speaker: Well, you know, and we we we go through phases, man, like, yeah and you know, when I was younger, it would be like, party hard, party hard, party hard. And then it was like, I just need a break. And then on the weekends, I would find other things to do, like go to the beach if it was warm or, um you know, go for drives, jump on my motorcycle, whatever the case may be, do something. So I wasn't in the bars or I wasn't partying, but it'd take that little break and hit that reset button. And then a few, you know, a couple of weeks later, it's like, Hey, look what are you doing? It's Friday night. I don't know. Where are we going? to yeah i go You know, back, back down the road, party express. ah and improving last Enjoy it while you're young. Just, just be careful. Don't do dumb shit. but don't Don't do anything too stupid to jeopardize yourself or anybody else.
Speaker: ah But what was that transition like for you from from from from basically only doing covers to now you could do an hour show of your of your own music, all your own original stuff? What's that what's that what's that experience like? What's what's for you? um it It's the scariest and most gratifying thing that I've ever experienced in my entire life. because it's you know, with with covers, like there's always the ah there's the fear of rejection, just like that you don't have the ability or whatever, but like original songs, I know it's stereotypical, but I mean, you put your blood, sweat and tears and heart into them, you know what I mean? So like to um to see like songs of mine that I got performed live and been like, OK, I didn't hit home. I need to work on that. And um but like the
Speaker: being able to play a song that's mine and like even if it's just you know there's ah even if there's only a few people there local people that like know it and enjoy it and like people ask me about it later on like they legitimately enjoyed it you know that's uh it's all i've ever wanted you know what i mean it's uh it's it's the best thing ever and i'm extremely lucky like even you know i like to think this is the beginning of it for me that it's gonna get a lot more serious but like even now it's uh it's the most gratifying thing that I've found. you know it's a it's It's terrifying you know to put yourself out there like that, but i mean I'm sure you get that too, doing what you're doing. 100%. Not only that, but you know when you're doing a cover song, you almost, I can i can only imagine that when you're doing a cover song, you have to live up
Speaker: to the original artist in some ways you know you can own you add your own little stuff to it but at the same time you still almost have to live up to that original artist so yeah I can see where both are both are kind of terrifying at the same time and then when you start releasing your own you start doing sets with your your original stuff. Did you start mixing stuff in and like you do a couple covers, do any originals and whatnot, or did you just go full on head first like, Hey, yeah, I'm John Thomas and these are all my songs. I hope you guys like them.
Speaker: um so really like beginning the only gigs that I could find and like really most of the time still the only gigs I can find are covers or cover gigs at least for the most part which um you know you you find uh gigs that one original songs every once in a while but uh it's usually like for every five six covers that I do I can do one original and get away with it you know what I mean um and uh you know that's uh I kind of enjoy that because uh
Speaker: early on, especially, but still now, like that's a good way to like, um, you can take a chance on an original song. And if it doesn't go over well, you can say, well, here's fucking jumping Jack flash. And then everybody's like back in, you know? Yeah, exactly. You do one of your songs in the crowds, like, huh? yes Exactly. yeah Yeah, exactly. I guess it's time to go. this this all We but didn't come here for this. Thanks a lot, John Thomas. but College borrowers are really bad about that, ah you know what I mean? like cause ah
Speaker: You know, I get it too. Like yeah if I'm, if it's fucking morning in the morning and I'm thrashed, like I don't necessarily want to listen to some dude try to put himself out there. Like, Oh, I'm here to listen to fucking Leonard Skinner. You know what i'm mean yeah so I Yeah, some drunk asshole at the college bar screaming out free bird all night. And you're like, fine, it's one o 'clock in the morning. I'll give you a free bird. All right. Exactly. Oh, I feel you. I've been there a lot. I get told. Yeah. I used to, I used to work at bars. I hated that guy, man. I hated that guy with a passion. Every time we had an artist come in and not necessarily free bird guy, just guy screaming from the crowd, like stop yelling your fucking requests. They're not going to do it. All right. And it's the off chance that they do cool, but stop it. You're, you're annoying. Um,
Speaker: So do you have, are you are you planning or is there works? Are you working on an actual album or is that down the road a little bit farther away from where you're at right now to where you want to put out ah an actual album of your own music? um So I do have something in the works. So a little bit of backstory here. I had a full band put together that I played with for over a year. Thanks for going really strong um dude that I play with that plays lead guitar. He's kind of been like my partner in this music thing ah really since we were basically kids. So he found out that his old lady he was pregnant and now he's you know, he's had to dedicate himself to that and that's wonderful. You know what I mean? um So I've like, you know, I love him and I don't blame him for it. But it's kind of been a setback in like the recording aspect because I'm
Speaker: trying to find somebody to fill those shoes in a way. but So there's a dude in Lexington with a studio. And we've done a bunch of ah recordings of just drums and rhythm guitar and vocals of my songs. And right now we're in the process of finding musicians to you know spice things up a little bit and do that do the crazy guitar solos and stuff. yeah There's something in the works. so I don't really know a timeframe, but hopefully it's, uh, this year. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like I just want to make something happen. damn yeah matt Do you, do you put a lot of the, uh, you know, as an old, as an old school guy, man, you know, as a rock guy, even some of the the older country stuff, man, and and some of the new stuff, uh, do you put a lot of the, the crazy, uh, guitar solos or guitar with your, with your.
Speaker: you know, what you grew up listening to, does do you put a lot of that into your music where you want to have somebody just break out and do a 15 second crazy guitar solo or something like that? um Absolutely. I mean, it depends on what song it is for sure. Like go every song has a different vibe, you know, um and I love old string band stuff too, like mandolins, violin, banjo, you know, yeah but I love that. Like the most fun, this is another thing I was going to say too. So you asked me like when I, I realized I wanted to be a musician. The other thing I was going to say is, I watched a video of, it's from the documentary about Kings of Leon, Tallahina Sky. And there's a ah scene in it where they're performing at Bonnaroo in 2004 and the entire band just like, they explode, you know, and it's the the coolest thing I've ever fucking seen in my life, it seen a band do. And that inspired me to put together a band that I can,
Speaker: Like the whole jam thing where you lose yourself in the music and like that, that's what I love about like having a band is, you know, stepping back, like I'm the singer. I'm not that great of a frontman, but like stepping back and like watching somebody else, you know, put their, everything into it the same way that I am. Like that's probably the most fun part about it, you know what I mean? Yeah, ah thoses those old jam sessions are cool, especially when you go to a live concert and a band just
Speaker: goes into a five minute jam session and they here just kind of just steps back and lets everybody kind of do their thing, man. That's that's that's really cool. Kind of give everybody the spotlight because nine times out of 10, the spotlight is <unk> always gonna, it's always on the singer, but it's like singer, guitar player, baby maybe the drummer, the bass player don't get a lot of love, you know, but it's really cool when when you go to a live concert and they're just like, getting into a, you know, get it coming out of a song and just go into a little jam session and let everybody kind of have their moment to shine. ah It's funny. you You're not much of a front man. I was going to ask you about that. Are you, I was going to ask you, are you the energetic type or are you just the kind of, I'm just going to sing my songs and do my thing.
Speaker: Um, I'm somewhere in between. I'm not very energetic with like the talking aspect. I'm not a big like, Hey everybody, uh, you know, what the fuck is up? I'm not one of those guys really. I'm more of like, uh, this is my name. This is my band. And then like where I have fun and where I do the front man thing is like in the song and. like just feeling the music and you know like with the guitar solos and stuff like stepping back and like that's when I don't have to worry about singing and I can let the whole thing just go through my body and like oh I'll catch myself doing this you know what I mean while I'm playing like jumping up and down. You don't even realize it. Yeah you're glomping around this. Oh for sure yeah like ah I lose myself in it and that's a
Speaker: I love doing that. And that's the the part that I feel like people look at me like a frontman, I guess, like, because I mean, even though i I don't really I don't shake my hips like Elvis or nothing, but, you know, and that's when I move around, you know. Yeah. If you're, if you're still young, you know, you're still young, you're, you're, you're still new to the, you're, you're still new to the game. You're new to the music thing. So, you know, that, that might come, uh, in time, you know, yeah five years down the road, you might be up there shaking your hips like yeah um i having all the girls screaming and wooing in the front row. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah ah I mean, you never know. I, I, I, you know, I, being older, I was a fan of Sting with Aaron Lewis. and And the first time I seen him, I was like, man, i I don't know if I can be a fan anymore because I love their music, but Aaron Lewis, literally the entire time they were on stage, he just sang into the mic like this and didn't look at the crowd. It was just, and then, you know, years later, he puts out a country album and you realize
Speaker: The reason why he was like that, he was miserable. He didn't he got sucked into a deal with the record label. They made him change who he was. He he wanted to do country music. they you know they They forced him to portray an image that wasn't him and everything. And he was just miserable at that time, even though they were fucking massive. And then I see it a couple of years ago, at Louisville, at Louder Than Life, I seen Stane there. oh And he was like a whole other guy, man. he was He was all over the stage. He was having a good time. He was having fun. It was like, holy shit. like My ah fandom was rejuvenated, getting to see this new personality, almost 180 version of of Aaron Lewis, and understanding you know in in the early 2000s when Stane blew up,
Speaker: was miserable. And then he did his country album, a couple of country albums, did his thing, got back together, was staying and he's happy. He's in his, he he's where he wanted to be. So he was like a different person. It was like, wow, they put on a good show now, you know, 20 years later, whatever the case may be. But um yeah, like I said, that's something that'll probably, that'll probably come in time. You know, you're, you're still new. You're still, like you said, you know, yeah I can get up there and sing all day long. However, the talking aspect is not really your your cup of tea. Yeah. like kind of Yeah. It might. And, uh, you know, I don't think I'm terrible at it necessarily. It's, uh, usually it's just like, I don't, I don't really know what to say. Like, uh, you know, uh, my job is to play the music. You know what I mean? And, uh, it might be different if you're playing in front of,
Speaker: 50 ,000 people to know who you are, you know, that yeah exactly know that you start to feel that energy from the crowd. and Yeah. Well, I was telling you pre -show, it's funny, you know, I do these shows and you know, I'm, I'm, I'm live, uh, several hours a week, multiple days a week. I'm doing, ah I'm doing these shows. but I can't get up in front of public and talk for speak man or talk for shit. I get nervous. ah risk I get anti, I get anxious. I start stuttering. It's, it's, it's weird. And even before, before I started doing the podcast, I was doing live streaming and I have some friends down in Tampa that are all podcasters and stuff like that. And, uh, went through a divorce and everything. And I, my buddies were like, dude, you need to come to Tampa for a week.
Speaker: You know, you need to get away from everything back home. We're going to have fun. We'll get you on all this, all of our shows and everybody. And the first, the first show, the first night I was there, I got on a podcast, no cameras, nothing. And I'm already used to doing live streaming with the camera in front of my face and talking to God knows how many people on a weekly basis, they put a microphone in front of my face for that first podcast. And I fucking froze. They're like, okay we'll come back to Glick and they were like they were doing their thing and then we took a break and they're like Glick what's wrong? I said I don't know I'm nervous as hell and they're like nobody can see you though you're just talking I was like I don't know but by the second show I started to loosen up and by the end of the week man I was just completely dominating
Speaker: dominating the rest of the shows I was on and, you know, going to different venues and seeing some of the musicians down there that I enjoyed from the shows, from seeing them on there, and that I'd befriended online and any different comedians. You know, it was like, all right, I'm here. Now I'm starting to feel it. But those first couple shows, man, I was an absolute wreck. I'm like, uh, and then as soon as the mics would go off, I'm like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What the hell is wrong with you? I'm like, I don't know, man. This is easy. Yeah. As you're sending down, I'm sure. Yeah. What's up, Thomas? Thomas. What's up, Thomas? Yeah, so it's weird how you as a performer,
Speaker: Just let me sing my songs. Somebody else can talk, you know, or or me. I put you in front of four people and you're going to freeze. It's like, I'm bad. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. Well, uh, I, I, one thing I do enjoy is the opportunity to, um, like a song that's more of a singer songwriter type song, especially. And, um, even like the songs that turn into big rock and roll explosions when I do them with a group, like, uh, but When I'm doing it by myself, and it's more of like an intimate setting, I do enjoy like, getting to give the background of a song and explain like, what I was going through at the time that I wrote it or, you know, you even if not that, like what it means to me now, like, haven't had the song for a while, like getting to give people my perspective of that, you know, yeah I enjoy that.
Speaker: that's That's really cool when your artists are given that opportunity to kind of sit down and be like, you know, this is what I was going through when when I wrote this song. I enjoy that, too, as as a guy who loves music and I love the storytellers and I love songs that tell a story. Yes, Jarvis, I'm your only Sasquatch, so by default. Jarvis is one of my but our one of my co -hosts and has a has his own show coming up here very soon. okay They all call me a Sasquatch. I'm not even that big. I'm 6 '2", like 300 pounds. i I'm not even that big. of I mean, I'm a big guy, but I'm not like massively tall. I'm only 6 '2", but nonetheless. um Speaking of the singer, Soul Rider, I do want to play one of your songs here real quick. Real quick -ish. But I want to ask you, I brought it up earlier. Well, I played it earlier, 17. I like that song. Where did that come from?
Speaker: and it got a bit older that's And that's a little bit of an older song, isn't it? That's a couple years old. Yeah. um So that song, well, the riff from it came from just ah sitting around with my buddy Caleb that I talked about earlier. And I just kind of did that little intro thing. And he was like, that was cool. But when i when I sat down to write it, so the girl that I'm actually still dating now, her name's Morgan. I love her to death. But so I had come out of a really shitty relationship and I had just kind of started to become infatuated with her. um But she was playing hard to get as girls do. yeah It's kind of a ah the the chorus is like a self loathing type of thing. It was just kind of like, you know, feeling like a feeling like you don't belong.
Speaker: and feeling like you're not good enough yeah for somebody, I guess. But at the same time, being in love with that person and not knowing how to enunciate it. You know what I mean? ah use And somebody's been reading this dictionary.
Speaker: um I do want to take a couple of minutes. I do want to play one of your songs here. And i'm gonna I just talked about it earlier because it popped up. and i um I do like this song. Lion in my Head. Just a background grab on that one, for if you don't mind. um So the the best way to put it is, um so my family and my girlfriend's family, mine probably more so than hers in like a traditional aspect. So we're from the Bible Belt, very traditional. you know even Even people who don't go to church act like they do.
Speaker: yeah i You know what I mean? so i lived up South Carolina for for for about a decade and that's part of that Bible belt. Like what are you doing? I see you Saturday night. I know better. yeah Exactly, yeah, it's kind of. um Wanting to be with somebody like all the time, but like you can't. and I couldn't spend the night with her like yeah every night it was having to. Go home and be not separated because you're together during the day, but
Speaker: ah It's kind of like a frustrated, like um I finally found something that makes me happy, but I have to, you know, be a way just to keep up appearances in a lot of ways, if nothing else. Like, which I think there is beauty in that, like um having to hold off on the, you know, sleeping in the same bed and stuff until you're married. Like there's definitely beauty in that. There's a reason that that's a tradition, but it's frustrating, especially when you're a kid, you know what I mean? When you're a young man, young men have needs. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And those can overpower a lot of things. yeah big This song came about out of sexual frustration is what we're saying. I'd say probably
Speaker: I'd say probably 95 % of all music that's come out since Elvis has been because of somebody's sexual frustration in some way. You know, I can absolutely see that or, or you know, somebody who who are is kind of living vicariously through their music, you know, they don't want to necessarily do the things that they want to try them, but they're hesitant. So instead they write songs about it, you know, like, you know, ah rihanna had that solid whips and chains excitement and it's just like but do they really are you take a lip to yeah rihanna i mean she might i don't know but i'm just saying like it allows you to to kind of
Speaker: say the things that you wanna say and possibly maybe even venture into without actually having to do those things, you know? So a little bit of an outlet. Yeah, it's it's definitely an outlet and like ah sometimes the case, yeah, more desire. Sometimes the case can be that, Not necessarily with that song, but with some songs of mine, like there's things that I want to be able to tell people about, but like the the area I'm from and like, you know, my there's certain stuff that I can't say on a platform that my grandmother's going to hear it. You know what I mean? So to just be able to put things into music through like metaphor, it's a
Speaker: Yeah. It's a way to and express yourself and tell the truth when you can't really like just by saying it. But in in song, you you got a lot more leeway. know yeah yeah you can You can get away with it. like you you can so like You have 100 % deniability. It's like it rhymes. You know what I mean? It's just rhymes. It fits. It fits. You know what I mean? Yeah. You got deniability. yeah Exactly. but I wish I had that on this spot on some of my podcasts. no no it' just yeah I didn't mean it. it just I was going with the flow.
Speaker: yeah I'll just take a few minutes out and I'm going to play a line in my head here real quick for the for the audience. Give them a little we' we'll taste of your music and your style and what you're doing. If you need to get a drink. take a potty break, whatever you need to do. Yes, exactly. I was about to ask. I'm going to do that. Yep, go ahead.
Speaker: I'm on the outside and I'm patiently waiting and I find I found myself gay I found a light to come and guide me through the darkness of the dawn Girl, tell me when and how have you
Speaker: This heart of mine won't let me fall asleep Laying in hell without you, babe, might be the end for me I don't ever wanna go home without you Tell me everything works out in the end I don't ever wanna die home without you
Speaker: I spent a lifetime here just waiting on the summertime to come around and melt my blues away I finally found someone to hold me through the wintertime and tell me that everything gon' be okay
Speaker: I don't ever want to go home without you Tell me everything works out in me, yeah I don't ever want to drive home without you, yeah
Speaker: Tell me everything works out in the end I don't ever want to drive home without you
Speaker: It'll come in a coming time. It'll come in a coming time. It'll come in a coming time. It'll come in a coming time. It'll come in a coming time. It'll come in a coming time.
Speaker: Yes, sir. Yes. John Thomas Moore. He's lying in my head. Welcome back to Glick's House of Music, everybody. Hopefully you guys are enjoying the show so far. Feel free to check out the social medias. You guys know where it's at. We are everywhere. All at the nonsensical network for bio dot lake slash nonsensical network. Give us a follow. Give us a like, give us a listen and give us a sheriff. You'd be so kind. Welcome back. I do. I like that song, man. That's it. That is a really good song in it. Uh, even a little bit, you know,
Speaker: makes it even a little bit better knowing the background, you know what I mean? where that Where that kind of came from. um But I do enjoy that.
Speaker: I love a lot of people know that I'm live doing a show and then send me a notification. They're like, hey, watch this live before you don't find I can't let me but let me stop my show and pull up their broadcast. ah um when you were When you were younger and first starting to get gigs, was it before you turned 21? Was it hard for you to to lock down gigs? I'm assuming you couldn't get into the... they wouldn't let you into the bars or would they let you do gigs in the bar? um Local places, like places in my hometown, they would. um But I really couldn't break out of playing
Speaker: like I could play places in Lexington, but it would be like restaurants and stuff. I couldn't really do, um like the gigs that I wanted to do, like hockey -style gigs, I couldn't do those until I turned 21. So I really only had a year of that type of experience, like at least a full scale, you know what I mean? And even still, they look at me and they're like, dude, you're fucking 16. Yeah, how old are you? child I got to show my ID a lot of the time. 12 stop it. I know. I'll believe me everywhere I go, but everybody tells me that I'll be grateful for the whole looking young thing whenever I get older. I'm telling you, hold on to that for as long as you possibly can. Yeah, that old age kicks in. You start getting a little bit of gray in your hair. You start getting a little if you grow beard, you start getting a little gray in your beard and then.
Speaker: and Then you hand some little girl at the gas station, your idea. And she goes, Oh my God, you were born in the 19 hundreds and serious right now. i wasn't that long ago I'm already starting to get a little aches and pains all the time. You know what I mean? I don't even, I don't even want to hear it. say I blew my back out almost three weeks ago and I'm still limping around going, Oh God, I want my back. Stop hurting. Yeah.
Speaker: ah yeah it I don't want to hear 22 or four. You poor thing. You you poor baby. and so Sometimes I, sometimes I smash my finger with a hammer or something. You know, that's a, I'll complain about that for a week. If you let me. Yeah. anymore. I've reached a point like, you know, I've been doing this, you know, we're, you and I are kind of in the same line of business. We're both in the trades business, construction business, so to say, yeah smash my fingers so many times with hammers or this, that or the other thing. And it's at the point now where it's like, fuck. And then I'm good. You know? Yeah.
Speaker: You got to get that little bit of anger at the world out for a second. Yeah. You let out one fucking and you just go about your business. Sometimes you might cut yourself and you just grab the roll of duct tape and just maybe a paper towel or something and duct tape and paper towel. I'll get this later. I'll clean it up later on. Yeah, that that's manhood right there. Just fucking covering up a big gas for duct tape. I'm saying I'll have time for this. Yep. I've been there more times than I'd like to admit at the end of the day, but I'm also at at at my at my age now, I'm also a big baby to where at the point where as soon as I can take a break and be like, all right, I gotta go. And then I'm getting into the first aid kit and I'm cleaning it when yeah but on it and putting proper bandages on it. I'm like, okay, I'm good. I can go back to work now.
Speaker: Yeah. Like the the whole throwing dirt on it thing, like that works for a little while. And then like you start, like it's got pus coming out of it and you got streaks and shit. And you're like, damn, I don't want to lose my arm. I'm going to take an antibiotic now. get summar Your arm's all purple and black and blue. And it's just like, no I don't know if this is good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In my younger days, I was i was quick to just be like, ah, fuck it. Here's a, here's an old dirty shirt and some duct tape. Just, just wrap the cut and that go back to work. Now it's like, Yeah, take a break. Yeah, get home and sp spread rubbing alcohol on it, you know. Yeah, exactly. ah All about the keeping it, keeping the wound clean, if you will. I'm all about that.
Speaker: um yeah who I'm a big baby deal with it. yeah i made up If it doesn't happen in the chatters box tonight, it'll happen tomorrow night on the show. Somebody's going to call me a pussy and be like, shut up. All right. I'm a big baby. I know. All right. I might look like a big scary Sasquatch, but actually, I'm a big old baby.
Speaker: Yeah, I am sometimes I've got my ass and it's in me a couple times and sit around bitching about it for a week, you know what I mean? Yeah, we all do. We all do. It's just when you're younger, when you're younger, like you are, there's this thing that's called pride and it's a real son of a bitch. But as you get older, It's a little, you know, it's ah it's a little bit easier to swallow as you get older and just be like, ass been call me what you want to call me. You know, it's, it's like
Speaker: Shut up, Travis. It's like you know when I was younger, ah you know I was ah quick to knock back down from a fight. Now that I'm a little bit older, I'm like, let me see if I can talk my way out of this. Maybe I can buy the guy a beer. And it's not because I'm a pussy. It's just I'm a little bit older, and it takes a lot longer to recover from things than it used to. So and know when you when you get a little bit older, it's easier to swallow that pride down and be like, All right. I'm going to, I cut my hand. I'm going to go clean it up and put an actual bandaid on it. Leave me alone. Yeah. I have a.
Speaker: and As I've started like ah hanging out with a lot more people in like alcohol induced situations, you know what I mean? it does and um When I'm sober, I can easily just ah take the high road and be like, okay, I weigh 140 fucking pounds. five feet like I need to relax. But alcohol, Definitely makes you think you're a badass sometimes. so alcohol get to feel like approve man ah You can take out the world. It's like, a absolutely yeah you're still only 140 pounds and five foot something. dog and Calm down. but Yeah. Yeah. yeah you get it It's good to learn your lessons while you're doing it. Yeah. when When you're younger, take those, take those lessons and learn them when you're younger. Don't do it when you get older. I tell my oldest daughter, I tell my oldest daughter that all the time. She just turned 19 and she's got a big old mouth on her. I'm like, you realize you're writing checks that your ass can't cash. I'll beat her. I'm like,
Speaker: You ain't never been in a fight in your life. but that yeah ah yeah yeah You're going to beat nobody's ass. yeah
Speaker: That's why I'm growing pain. you You figure it out, you know, stop talking all that mess. Don't come crying to me after you get smacked in the mouth by some chi yeah girl fights. You're a different game though. They're brutal. Like, I mean, dudes don't usually like grab each other's hair and poke each other's eyes and stuff. That's a girl thing. Most of the time, and girls are monsters. Girls are, I'm sorry, ladies. But y 'all are a whole nother creature, man. Y 'all fucking savages, man. Yeah, like you said, they're scratching, sticking thumbs in eyes and yeah just the nipples and shit like that. I'm like, yeah. yeah yeah I mean, i and i and I used to, I was a bouncer for years when I was younger. I'll break up a fight between two dudes right now or a group of dudes if they're fighting, I'll jump in the middle, break the fight up.
Speaker: If two girls start going at it, I'm like, I don't want to get scratched. I don't want to get my eyes gouged out. I want to get bit by some chick, right? You know, like yeah you have to take a different, like, how do we break this fight up without getting attacked by this fucking wild tiger that's been set loose in the bar? You know, we're getting fucking sued. You gotta be careful about that too. Well, yeah, that's the other thing. You know, we didn't so much worry about that. back then, you know, it's not like we broke up a fight and grabbed a girl that wouldn't, you know, a week later, all of a sudden some detectives showing up because she's claiming that you meet Tudor and it's just like, yeah yeah she was, she was fighting in the bar. We had to like separate it. I don't know how bouncers do it today without, without worrying about like,
Speaker: Oh man, I got to make sure I don't accidentally graze certain areas, like just grab her by the ankles and drag her out. They got female bouncers now. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. i got to it's it that They are, they are a different creature. That is, that is for sure. You know, and it's like, you know, guys don't get into a fight and break it up. And then five minutes later, they're, they're cool and they're drinking beer together and girls don't let that shit go. You got to like. no
Speaker: alright get home or something because You separate them and a few minutes later, they're going at it again. I'm sure you, I'm sure you've seen it but oh yeah it like in the college bar scenes and stuff like that. Um, it's, it's there. Um, ah yeah. So I want to, I want to, I want to ask you, the female fighting happens more in small towns. Did what? ah Oh yeah. Oh yeah, dude. Them country girls, them country girls. in They had no fucks to give about anything. I've seen, hell I was in high school. ah while I've seen girls square up on dudes that are three times their size. And I'm like, how exactly did this play out in your mind?
Speaker: You know, granted, thank you I'm from a little bit different time. And I think that we still, for the most part, men still live by the, uh, don't touch them. Even if a woman hits you don't hit her back, blah, blah, blah. But it is a different time. There's dudes that'll. Rock a chick if she, if she hits him. So it's just like, how did you exactly think that was going to play out in your mind? yeah You're yeah five foot tall, 125 pounds, and he's six, five, 345 pounds. And you're going to square up on like here his leg is bigger than you at the end of the day. How do you think this is going to, how do you think this is going to work out for you? So I,
Speaker: I want to kind of, I want to kind of put you on the spot. I want to kind of, uh, call you out, not really call you out, but but put you on the spot. Um, now we were talking a little bit backstage. We were talking a little bit, uh, through messaging and stuff like that. and And you said, you know, you're most comfortable. I think you're doing a great job talking tonight. So don't, don't worry about that. But you said you're most comfortable with your guitar and your hand singing a song. Okay. Would you be willing to do, and this will be a first for my show. I've never asked any of my guests this, but would you be willing to do a song live for us on the show? Um,
Speaker: ah I mean, uh, I'll even let you do a dealer's choice, whatever, whatever, you whatever, uh, whatever you're feeling. Okay. Um, I might probably not like you care and that sound good. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker: I'll let you get yourself here. I'll do you i give you a little build up. Ladies and gentlemen, for our first time ever on Glick's House of Music, one of my guests is going to perform live. got He's got his guitar there. He's had it ready. I want i want to put him in his comfort zone. We've got John Thomas Moore hanging out with us tonight. He's going to do Not Like You Care live for us. I'm actually going to turn my mic off and let you go, man. It's all yours. Okay. um And this song is, a it's ah a lot of my songs are about similar things. I'll give a short backstory. Living in a small town, rumors spread very fast, especially when like somebody feels like you crossed them or something. And so I dated this girl for a while, and it ended kind of poorly. And this song is my way of like um addressing a lot of rumors that were going around about me, which they're rumors that go around about everybody in a little town like this. but
Speaker: Anyway, this is a song called Not Like You Care. It's kind of a breakup song, kind of a victory song, you know.
Speaker: You watch the way I shine
Speaker: to grant it all the good things about our love. But now it's known to feel like a chance from above. Oh, oh, oh, oh, my face is not good. Oh, oh, oh, oh, and I feel so good in my family.
Speaker: Oh, you think I'm getting nowhere I just want you to know I'm finally getting there Not like anything Not like anything You saw my side
Speaker: I guess that's how it goes Some things ain't meant to last From a pedal down to the floor You never seen me move
Speaker: Oh, oh, oh, my face is not good. Oh, oh, oh, and I feel so good, my friend. I know, oh, oh, oh, you think I'm getting nowhere. I just want you to know I'm finally getting there.
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Speaker: oh I know you think I'm feeling nowhere. I just want you to know I'm finally getting well. Not like anything.
Speaker: Not like anything.
Speaker: Hell yeah, man. That was fucking awesome. Oh, thank you. That was fucking badass, man. I've never had a musician sing live on the show. I love that song. By the way, that's ah that's a really good. It's a kickass song. But that was that was awesome. And right there on the spot, you're like, hey, let me grab a guitar real quick. I got this. You just just just rocked it out. That's really cool, man. I appreciate that. Well, thank you. Thank you. That was a little first and for everything tonight, man. value First time doing the internet thing, hanging out outside of the, you know, the, the, nothing wrong with radio stations, but you know, they they have their format and they're like, all right, we're going to ask these same four or five questions to everybody. Let you do, let you do a little song, maybe a song or two. Uh, you know, and, uh, I know this is a different world for a lot of musicians, uh, when they, when they come on here. Um, uh, uh,
Speaker: That was really cool, man. I appreciate you grabbing the guitar and singing a song live for us here. Well, I hope it came through good. I'm not 100 % sure. I kind of live in the boonies. We got Starlink here, so things have been a little better recently, but yeah sometimes the internet is a little scratchy. so I like kind of live in the city and and we we have spectrum and spectrums. Internet is trash. So trust me, I feel you on that. But no, it came through good. It sounded good. The audio was was solid. The video was solid. So and oh, yeah, that was that was bad ass. Oh, I got to ask him. And I don't know if you got your own place now or whatever. But when you were younger.
Speaker: And you were playing and singing or whatever. Was your mom and dad like ever like, John Thomas, it's 10 o 'clock at night. Stop with the damn singing and the guitar. and right Oh yeah. Almost every night they kind of, they had to put like a 10 o 'clock limit on me playing. So like, ah I actually, so where I'm at now, I still live on the property of my parents, but we had a pole barn, which that's where I'm at now. i ah yes I invested some money and like furnished it and got a electric out here and you know, air and water, all the expensive shit. Yeah. But so back then when I was a kid, I would sneak out my window and drag my guitar out the window and come out here to where I'm at now and hide and
Speaker: fucking probably bother the neighbors, but my parents slept through it most of the time. so ah Most kids were sneaking out to go to parties and and do things that we shouldn't be doing, not Johnny. He was like, I'm just going to go to the pool bar and play my guitar and sing some song. Yeah. Well, ah I'm ah um'm too far away from town to go to any parties. I actually tried to sneak off and walk to town one time, but I got like halfway there. I was like, damn, that's a five miles is a lot fucking longer than you think. But, uh, I mean, I, I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. Uh, my family had, uh, had a big chunk of property. Um, you know, we had a little the the quote unquote little, I don't know what you want to call it, man. It wasn't a town. It wasn't a city. I it was, it was, I don't even know if it was big enough to be a village. Uh, you know, we, it was, it was a couple of miles down the road and we used to ride there all the, we'd ride our bicycles and, uh,
Speaker: jump on our four wheelers and our dirt bikes or whatever. We had a little camping spot, but we would ride into town, you know, the closest city to us, quote unquote town, whatever you want to call it, was like a half hour. There was no walking. um yeah yeah but yeah know we We had plenty of friends in the country where, you know, Uh, you know, my buddy, a friend of mine lived a mile down the road or two miles down the road. It's like, he's having a party. Oh yeah. I can, I can, I can jump on the four wheeler. I can ride my bike up there, you know, yeah whatever. But yeah yeah, but nine times out of 10, it was just like, Hey, Dan, I'm staying at Tony's tonight. All right. Whatever. I didn't really, I was never, I never snuck out. I can honestly say I never snuck out of the house.
Speaker: I never really had to because yeah I was, my sister was a wild child. I know she snuck out of the house more times than I can count, but ah you know I generally be like, Hey, I'm going to so -and -so's house. And my parents be like, all right, whatever. Cause I was somewhat a trustworthy one, but yeah. was I necessarily, I would start at said person's house, but I might end up somewhere else by the end of the night. l yeah so Once I got my driver's license and I was driving, but but that's that's funny. here Man, it's 10 o 'clock music a curfew. Got to sneak out to the barn. and Yeah, that was me.
Speaker: the
Speaker: Yeah, but i'm believe but yeah but look but look at you now, man. What what do your parents think what do your parents think now about, ah ah You know, your music career was thus far and you and you continuing to to chase after it. what What do your parents think now? Are they ah they super supportive? for um They're extremely supportive. They ah they do have their um there issues with certain things. Like um when i when I first, like when I turned 21, I started playing in bars, especially like college bars. and
Speaker: you know, rough, not rough, but you know, relative to a small town, rough places, like, ah yeah, that was where they had their doubts. And like, still, it's like, you know, a lot of the time, ah if I'm playing somewhere, like, particularly wild, and I know it, like, my mother will be sitting up, like, ready to call me whenever I'm supposed to be done, you know what I mean? that good They, yeah they have their doubts, not in me, but like, in the the industry and stuff, they don't want me to get screwed over. And yeah they don't you know like ah But they're extremely supportive in all the best ways. And I i love my parents. And I was really blessed with ah wonderful parents. And I was lucky enough to you know it you know take it for what it's worth. But I was lucky enough to grow up in the church. And you know ah not necessarily a the the best practitioner of that, now that I've gotten a little bit older. But I'm extremely grateful for that foundation. you know yeah ah My parents are great.
Speaker: you know I love them, you know. Nice. That's, that's awesome. And that's, that's really cool that, uh, you know, they, that they're there for you. And of course, you know, that's just mom being mom. She's obviously, don't worry about you. And she knows like John Thomas said he was going to be done playing at 10 o 'clock. It's 10 Oh three. And he hasn't called me yet. Yeah. Yeah. yeah nine one one I would like to follow this in person. Yeah. Oh yeah. and they yeah that My parents were very patient because um like when I first got out of high school, like especially when COVID was a thing, which COVID is a whole other fucking deal that was a big influence. like That's the reason I had a lot of time to practice and stuff after high school. But like yeah especially during that, there's a lot of nights where I would ah you know ah wake up and realize it's 6 AM and i'm haven't my phone's been dead. and like you know and just ah
Speaker: You know, showing up, not acting right and stuff, you know, they've had, they were, they were very patient with me. And, uh, you know, that's another thing that I appreciate from them was being so patient. Yeah, you can always appreciate the patience because, uh, especially, especially as, uh, you know, it, it, it girls do the same thing, but you know, as young men, when we're, when we're trying to. you know we We reach a point in our lives where it's like, I'm grown, I i can do whatever I want. And i and we're trying to find ourselves. we'rere We're trying to find our identity and who we are and and where we're going in life. and And it happens very young for us, ah for the most part. And you kind of appreciate that patience because I know I'm not going to always act right. I'm always going to
Speaker: Do the things that you taught me to do, but I'm on this journey. I'm trying to figure this crazy thing called out or this crazy thing called life. Out and figure out which direction I'm going. So yeah, you definitely that's that's really cool that they. been super patient and and and and and whatnot, and and and as well as supporting you. Support in creations goes a long way when when you're a young person trying to figure out what the hell you want to do. um Yeah. And kind of like you asked ah like how they feel about it. You know what I mean?
Speaker: ah the The biggest struggle for them probably and for me to like in my own head is. I got I'll bring up the church a lot because I was you know that was that was my life for my young life. You know what I mean? And that's like ah that's kind of the scariest thing for them is like seeing me like you not leave that but you know ah distance myself from that and stuff and you know it's a it's it's a risky ball game but they yeah I think when when I was younger, especially, I was one of those people that like the more they told me to not do something, it would just make me want to do it so much more. And so, like, I yeah ah hate it, like, now they just keep their mouth shut about some things. I hate to say it like that, but, you know, it's ah yeah kind of true to some degree, you know, like ah there's a lot of a lot of faith that they have to have. And I know that my mother
Speaker: shits up rain for me a lot, you know, so. Oh yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, that's what ah bombs are good for that. You know, they worry, they worry a little bit more than they should. They probably said now, you know, a few more prayers in need be, ah you know, I'm not, I'm not super religious type, but I mean, everybody finds their faith in whatever they find their faith in. And you, I think as human beings, we need to have that something to hold on to, something to grasp. I mean, I know when my mom was still here, she was always, she called me, I'm just worried about you. I'm like, what are you worried about? I'm just living my life. I'm doing things. I'm good. I'm just worried. Are you okay? I'm like, I'm eating.
Speaker: Still have my job, my bills are paid. and yeah Yeah, I think I'm good. yeah Yeah, that's what love is. you know being Being willing to stress yourself out over somebody other than yourself. That's what love is. Yeah, exactly. I think it's being a parent in general because Lord knows, especially but right now, especially my older, I've got three kids, 19, 15, and almost 11. ah My oldest one man, she she stresses me out more than and I need to be, but I get it, because I'm worried about her. She's 19, she's just great in high school, and you know the real world's about to dropkick her in the face. And yeah letter and you're you're right at that stage, no matter how much we think we're ready and prepared for the real world, we are not until you know we walk out that door and the real world is
Speaker: Bitch, man. And it will take advantage of you if you let it. So yeah, I find myself worried and stressed out more than I should be about her. But, uh, you know, what are you going to do at the end of the day? Yeah. Okay. It was like, uh, came as one of my, one of my, uh, best friends. He's like a little brother to me. Okay. Cool. We met when he was like 14 or 15 or something on call of duty. I was friends with his older brother and uh, uh,
Speaker: Amber alert. Hello. Uh, but we we've been friends now for a little, a little over 10 years, something like that. time flies hey Now he's married and got kids of his own and he's all grown. I'm like, I feel old. yeah I remember when you were in that and yelled at that it was time to go to bed because, and you were up playing video games. Yeah. Yeah. The, uh, the whole having kids thing that, uh, that is a, uh, terrifying aspect of my future that I'm, uh, not necessarily ready to face, but to I never know when it's going to strike, you know? So do you, do you want to have kids or are you kind of like, eh, if it happens, it happens. Um, I absolutely want to have kids. Uh,
Speaker: but Right now, like ah the stage I'm at, not that kids would be a burden necessarily, but like, ah you know, I feel like ah there there's a lot of things that I want to do for myself career -wise and like, you know, I'm not, you know, I ain't doing terrible, but I'm not financially where I would want to be when I have kids. And and I don't want to be, if if this music thing was to take off, like I'm hoping it would, Um, ah having like kids and especially like, uh, you know, making my girlfriend into my wife and the mother of my kids, like that would be a lot to dump on her if I'm going to be gone. You know what I mean? So, and it's like, ah if it happens, great, you know what I mean? You do what you gotta do, but, uh, I would rather, uh, hold off a little while. another role with that Focus on the career, get where you want to be. And when you're ready to settle down, how I tell my oldest one that all the time, I'm like, be young.
Speaker: You know, not that I, she was, I was 24 when she was born. I thought I have any regrets or anything like that, but you know, be young, live your life, figure out what you're going to do, figure out where you're going. And then when you're a little bit older, settle down and have kids, you know, i find the right guy and you want to get married, whatever, you know, but experience life a little bit. You know, I was fortunate enough when I was younger, I got to do a lot of the things that I wanted to do when I was younger. And when, when she came along, it was like, all right. Do the, do the family thing, you know, get, you know, get her mom and I got married and, um, a couple more kids down the road and just did the, did the family thing. And now it's the kids are a little bit older and now it's like, all right, they're older, they're doing their thing. They don't need me for a whole lot. Let me go ahead and start doing this podcasting thing. It's something I've always wanted to do. It's a, you know, I've always wanted to be on the radio. So let me start.
Speaker: Now that I've gotten them to the point where they're at, I still, you know, still played that, you know, still do the dad thing and everything like that. But and now I've reached the point where it's like, all right, let me start chasing my dream, you know, see where it goes, you know. So totally get that. There's nothing wrong with that, you know, wanting to wait and and wanting to wanting to see where where the music thing goes. And like I said, you know, I told you earlier, when we first started, you never know. I mean, that one song gets in the right ears. The next thing you know, you're fucking skyrocketing into the top. and And that's the last thing you want to be is like a quote unquote absentee that you know, watch your kids grow up through graphs or or videos you want to you want to be around for those little moments when they take steps or they say their first words or
Speaker: as silly as it sounds when they eat their first real food and they're not eating you know baby food anymore. They eat yeah other know they they eat real food. little Little things like that. you don't want to You don't want to watch on camera. You want to be there in person for it. so that's It's a good way of thinking. yeah A lot of people, um they rush into things so fast. The younger generation like yourself, they're so quick to rush into things. And it's like, are you really ready for this? Because yeah I don't think you realize how much goes into marriage and and and kids and everything like that. And then we have the failed marriages and baby mama drama and deadbeat dad and and and all that crap. And it's just like, oh my gosh, you could have saved yourself so much.
Speaker: pain and heartache and a struggle of you to just wait. it was like But we don't listen to people on that. We don't listen to the older people. i remember no um and ever ah Who am I to take advice from somebody who's lived life? I know what I'm doing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that that's pretty much that statement right there is like the summary of my entire like adolescence. And I ah feel like yeah that's the case with most people. You know what I mean? You think that you know, fucking everything, but you know, you yeah i'm I'm not very old, but I've already figured out that I don't know anywhere near as much as I thought that I knew. That's your upbringing. That's that your upbringing and the people around you that that that and have helped with your with your upbringing and and and and and it speaks volumes, you know, not only that, but the people you choose to be friends with the or you associate with, it it it gets that little voice inside your head going,
Speaker: ah You know, maybe I should hit the pause button here, call a time out and think about this for a second. So yeah I can appreciate that, especially from a from a young guy. yeah How long, if you don't mind me asking, how long have you and your lady been together? About a year and a half, about a year and a half, a little over a year and a half now, you know. I really like her. I love her. you know we're We're from similar backgrounds. like we're she's a She grew up in the part of the county that my family is originally from. um So she's a you know and in all the best ways. She is everything that like i I spent my entire youth like thinking, like man, it'd be really cool to find a girl that's like that. yeah And then she showed up and it was... ah
Speaker: Yeah, it was, you know, fucking awesome. Like, you you know, like yeah being able to sit down and have a conversation with a girl and it not be like, um you know, just like ah being impatient and, yeah like a you know, know, I don't want this to come off a section store or whatever, but but like being a young dude, like it's hard to sit and have a conversation with a girl because like, ah especially when you're like 16, 17, you got so many hormones, that like, It's hard to like see a woman as the person that she is a lot of the time. But meeting her and like ah she's fucking a lot smarter than me about a lot of things, you know what I mean? and something like you know like ah she's She's a ah very wise person. And that's something that I had always looked for. And finding that, it it really like put some gave me some perspective of like a and how great a woman can be.
Speaker: in your life. you know um yeah I didn't think when I was young that I would ever find that, but I found that while I was pretty young. and i mean you know I don't know what the future holds, but you know as as far as I can tell, she's a the better half. you know Yeah. yeah no it's It's nice when you find that you have that connection and and and you're able to You're able to just be yourself when when when she's around. And like you said, you guys can have the conversations and talk about things. And and and I'm sure she's supportive of your music. ah So it's nice to have that connection. And I hate to break it to you.
Speaker: but all women are always going to be smarter than us. it's just yeah damn straight and i like my My fiance, she's got two or three college degrees and I'm just a dummy who builds things. you know yeah I'm just, I'm just a big dumb animal over here and she's super smart and I'm like, oh, I tied my shoes today. Yeah. is it We get to have that, uh, that fantasy that like, if the world ends, we can fight bears and stuff. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. We get to have that. Yeah. The zombie apocalypse breaks out tomorrow. I got you. I can. think Yeah. What's going on? Arliss, I fucking love that name. that This is the only person named Arliss that I've ever met in person, but in the old Yeller movie, there's the kid, he's named Arliss. And I've always been like, damn, that's a really fucking cool name. I like that. So hell yeah, Arliss. Arliss, Arliss is the lead singer of the Southern Outlaws band. So he's got that oh no yeah perfect name for for Southern Rock. Arliss Walker, like, you know, like,
Speaker: He was destined to be a Southern rock star. Yeah, yeah yeah that's awesome. He's a good guy.
Speaker: Former guest of the show. Hopefully, we'll be seeing them here real soon at the end of August. But yeah, man, it's great when you find that connection. And and and I think you know a lot of times in relationships, it doesn't matter how young or old you are, I think a lot of times in relationships, we find ourselves playing a role when we're with our significant other. ah it's you know It's nice when you can take off the mask and just be yourself and and truly connect and and talk about anything in any way. That's that's something that's ah a rare thing to find today. So when you find it, that's something done.
Speaker: hold on to and enjoy and, and, and, um, and, uh, whatnot. Uh, I am drinking water. Come on. I am a lame. Oh, they're ripped off. I'm drinking water. I'm, I don't know. I'm battling through a stomach thing tonight. I don't know what's going on. My stomach's been bothering me all day. So I'm like battling through a stomach thing. Um, so I'm drinking a little water and, uh, Got like cold sweats hold on right now, but I'm trying to power through. ah But yeah, I'm just drinking water tonight. I've been drinking a lot of water lately. I think I might be, my body's rejecting the water because it's like, where's the pop and where's the beard?
Speaker: No, you yes yes and no, kind of sorta. I'm cutting back. I'm cutting back a lot. I was, uh, you know, I host four shows a week and I was, I wasn't drinking heavy. Um, Saturday nights, I do have a tendency to drink a lot, a lot more. Um, but during the week I would, I would drink six to 10 beers on ah on a podcast. And then on Saturday nights, I just really cut loose. But, uh, the last couple of weeks I've been,
Speaker: cutting back. I tried to drink on Saturdays only. I, um, last Saturday, I didn't, I didn't, I don't think I drank last Saturday, to be honest with you. I think I was drinking water all last Saturday night too. Uh, so yeah, I'm not battling an addiction or anything like that. I just, uh, just, just cutting back a little bit. I'm saying, yo, it's expensive to drink as much as I do. So what are you doing?
Speaker: But yeah, like I said, I've been i've been fighting the stomach thing since ah this afternoon. It's like, yeah, I am not even going to attempt fate and and drink anything tonight. I'm just going to drink water and and and and get and get through get through the show. um But, uh, yeah, man, I mean, yeah you sound like, you sound like you got like, got your head on straight, man. You're, you're, you're doing your thing. Yeah. You know, you're, you're writing good songs. Um, you know, you, you, you kind of, yeah, you've got your, I don't want to say you got blinders on, cause it doesn't seem like he got blinders on, but, but you're, but you're heading down the right direction and the right road to to do what you want to do. And, uh, you know, you might be, uh,
Speaker: You might be the next Kentucky boy to do Kentucky proud. I hope so. I don't want to say I got my head on straight because I definitely don't. worried you You portray it very well. I hope so. I try to keep a little bit of a, keep a little bit of my father and make you a little bit of a, you know, Kentucky Colonel Southern gentleman thing going on. But a lot of the time it's a facade. A lot of the time it's a facade. Yeah, what you sometimes you gotta you gotta you gotta have a little bit of mystery, you gotta have you gotta have something about you. But, you know, like I said, you portray like, you you know, you know what you want, you know what you're you know what you're chasing after and what you're doing and
Speaker: That's that's that's really cool Especially being so young because when I was 22, I had no idea what the fuck I didn't know if I was coming or going most days I didn't know what was going on 42 Yeah, I wake up and I'm lucky if I can put my pants on the right direction you know um That don't never change I'm almost 43 and I still have to There's been days granted I also get dressed in the dark because I don't want to turn the light on and bother my fiance but Uh, uh, there's been days I've gotten to work and I, you know, my undershirt's on backwards and I'm like, why is it so uncomfortable? Or where one of my button, button ups to work is like, it's all crooked and shit. And I'm like, Jesus Christ. ah Yeah. Well, that's how you know, you're doing life right. You're putting forth a hundred percent. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. If you if you don't run into into little issues like that every once in a while, you need to find something else to worry about, you know, exactly.
Speaker: I don't want to cut you short, but it was great having you on the show. It was great talking to you. I'd love to have you back again down the road. I'm actually going to be putting something together. Uh, I don't know. I gotta whenever, whenever I don't have an interview, I'm going to put something together, kind of an appreciation show for, for all my guests so far. And I'm going to reach out to everybody and see if they could pop in just for a few minutes. They don't have to stay the whole time. They can stay as long as they want, but I want to put something together where basically I'm just doing a show where I'm playing all everybody's, everybody's music for the, for the night. Um, but, uh, no, I would love to have you come back again and and sit down and hang out and should chat with you.
Speaker: Uh, one of the other things I would like to do as a panel of guest, um, with former guests and have everybody kind of come together and and and meet each other and and and all of us hang out. Um, I'm going to play one more song. I was going to ask you if you could stick out or hang out through, uh, through it. And before we take off, just leave somebody, you know, if there's a quote that you really like or some, like an inspirational thought or something like that, if you just want to leave everybody with that before we take off for the night. Oh, that'd be really cool. Um, I'm going to play, this is another song that I really like. Um, I appreciate it. Rip dog. I'm hoping so. Um, but I really like this song too. And and I just want to ask you, I like the, I like the little backstories that you give, uh, coming up. This is another one that I really like. hello lord Oh, Uh -oh.
Speaker: Yeah, you want to know the back story for it, I guess. Yeah, can didn't is your grandma gonna get mad if you tell us the back story to it? No, no, she would she ain't gonna listen to this. ah oh It's you know, it's about to. um Kind of being ashamed of yourself, I guess, but that it's. a I like to get tore up, you know, every once in a while. oh Yeah, I like to get wild. um It's kind of about that. and it's kind of
Speaker: like ah I'm at a very beginner stage of this music industry thing, but um like playing places and like hanging out with people to do music, you find yourself in situations where you're you're getting offered things you shouldn't be doing, or um you're just you're having too much fun. You know what I mean? And um like that that has its ups, and it definitely has its ah downs. But that that song is kind of about um the ups and downs of that and ah about accepting yourself ah throughout that, even though you wish you could do better. You know what I mean? Yeah, that song is about getting wild. Nice. Well, here's ah coming up, John Thomas Moore.
Speaker: Red lines as far as I can say, yeah. I know that when I come back down there, that you'll still be right there next to me, yeah. And now I'm drowning in the sand. Oh, oh, oh, my finest family.
Speaker: I don't wanna get washed up, set up my soul for the fucked up world of something, gonna bring me down. I don't wanna get stuck, I don't wanna get spawned, I don't wanna get drunk, stand dry myself home, but here I am, being your man, hunting, taking my hands out, coming up again.
Speaker: I woke up layin' on the ground No one to blame for what I've done, yeah Still holdin' on to what I found, yeah There, there ain't no mercy in your gun, yeah
Speaker: Yeah, hi
Speaker: But here I am, being your man
Speaker: Gotta wanna grow old, I don't wanna get washed up Sellin' my soul for a fucked up world of somethin' that I'm in and down Yeah, I don't wanna get stuck, I don't wanna get stoned I don't wanna get drunk and drive my cell phone But here I am, being your man
Speaker: Let's fucking go, baby. That's a killer song right there. Oh, thank you. Thank you. No, I do appreciate you being here tonight. I appreciate you coming on the show, man. It means a lot. I know, you know, you you said you appreciate it.
Speaker: And it means just as much to me that that you were willing to come up here and hang out with me ah as it might mean to you for the fact that I sent you the invite and said, hey, man, you want to come up and hang out? Because we're we're both in the same boat, man. We're we're both just coming up. we're We're both trying to find our our place and you know hopefully one day get big and and and be able to make ah make a living off of what we do what we love to do. this just This is my happy place. this is This is one of my favorite places to be is in front of the camera behind the microphone, just chit -chatting back and forth with people. So I definitely do appreciate it. I appreciate you being here. um As I ask, is there anything that you, is there is there a quote or anything like that that really just,
Speaker: rings in your head that you would like to share share within it with everybody before we before we take off? um One thing, I don't remember who the quote's from. It might be Waylon Jennings. I don't know. It's something that but my brother and my father tend to say a lot, which it might seem out of context. But in an ever -changing world, the bravest thing that a man can do is embrace tradition, um which yeah You know, my main something to somebody might not mean anything to other people, but that's a, it's rang true for me in a lot of ways, whether I'll listen to it or not. apps Absolutely. What's up, Brittany? Absolutely, man. I think that's a, that's actually a pretty powerful quote.
Speaker: Guys, like I always tell y 'all, follow your dreams, chase your dreams, do what makes you happy. You're never too old. You're never too young. Find your place in life. Just do what you do. And, uh, there's an old saying that says, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. Yes, sir. That being said, thank y 'all for listening. Thank y 'all for hanging out. I will not be live next Friday. I'm going to take next Friday off. It's ah my fiance, as the listening audience, most of you guys know Nikki. You've seen Nikki. It is her birthday next Friday, so I won't be doing anything next Friday, but listen to the rest of the shows on the network. I'll be back tomorrow night on Nonsense Will Nonsense. Go ahead and give us a follow. We are everywhere, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X.
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