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“Listen… Did You Know…” Justin “Danger” Nunley’s Tell All
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“Listen.. Did you know…?" That unmistakable voice has taken the internet by storm and today, we’re kickin’ our boots up with the man behind it all: Justin “Danger” Nunley.
From his small-town roots in Cherokee, Alabama, to building a life and business in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Justin gets real in this candid and hilarious conversation.
We dive into how a Church of Christ love story with his wife Crystal turned into a full life with two kids, Bryant and Blake. He opens up about the first viral moment that changed everything in 2020, his journey as an active duty military member, and how he balances fatherhood, content creation, entrepreneurship, and co-owning RedFin Polarized®.
In true “Danger” fashion, we also peel back the curtain to find out what really makes him tick. Hear his favorite conspiracy theories, the meanings behind his tattoos, and the advice he swears by for anyone navigating their 20s and 30s.
Whether you’re here for the laughs, the lessons, or just a behind-the-scenes look at one of TikTok’s most recognizable voices, this episode is one you won’t want to miss.
Tune in, laugh along, and get inspired by the real Justin Nunley, comedian, creator, military man, and above all, a guy who’s just getting started.
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Transcript
Podcast Scheduling Mishaps
00:00:00
Speaker
Nobody has ever gave me this rundown on things. As many podcasts as I've ever done. I've always knew there was like separate cameras, but nobody's ever told me that. Told you why? Well, you're welcome. Yeah, thank you.
00:00:12
Speaker
No, because now I know. Then I'm not looking at that one when I say I'm like right here. I am so happy that you're here because watching the John Chris podcast, that's the one I'm going to keep referring to because it was my favorite.
00:00:23
Speaker
You showed up a day early and then you also showed up a day late to somewhere else, right? Yes. Yes. i showed up a day today I showed up a day early to John Chris podcast and I showed showed up a day late to Bunny's podcast.
00:00:35
Speaker
Oh. Wait, is this Jelly Rolls Bunny? Yeah. Okay. I'll have to go watch that one. I was in Birmingham and Bunny called and she was like, hey, where are you at? And I was like, I'm in Birmingham.
00:00:48
Speaker
Like, what do you mean? Where am I at? Like, I'm not supposed to be there till tomorrow. was like, it's today. And I was like, oh, can we reschedule till tomorrow? You made money wait for you. Yeah. Yeah. She said, yeah, I don't mind, babe.
00:01:02
Speaker
You're good. ah I need to go back and watch that one. When you said that, I was like, I bet that's a good podcast. Yeah, it was. I'm a big podcaster. I love, obviously. But yeah um what did what podcast do you listen to?
True Crime Enthusiast
00:01:12
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um True Crime All the Time with Ashley Flowers. Okay. um Maybe I'm psycho. That's how i go to bed every night is I listen to True Crime podcasts. You are psycho. And and books about...
00:01:28
Speaker
Murder and stuff is wild. Right now i'm on Columbine. that The book. Yeah. So that's what I'm listening to while I put but me. And you don't have dreams?
00:01:39
Speaker
Like PTSD dreams? Yeah, probably. But that's that's what gets me off. You know what I'm saying?
00:01:47
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. yes yeah I guess that's the form of autism I have. That right there is the opening. That is. That's yeah got to be the opening right there. The flavor of autism I have.
00:01:59
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I was just gonna say,
1983 Fun Facts and Guest Introduction
00:02:00
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ah hey, did you guys know that in nineteen eighty three No, no, no. The chicken nuggets- Listen. Listen. Okay, listen.
00:02:10
Speaker
Did you guys know that in 1983, the chicken nuggets were first invented by McDonald's? And also in 1983, Diet Coke hit the shelves? And in 1983, our guest was born. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast, Justin Danger Nunley.
00:02:27
Speaker
What's up? How's everybody doing today? are you doing? Thanks for having me on. Of course. Justin, thanks for... You can find everything on Google. I told you I Googled you. it's Everything's out there. The good, the bad, the ugly. I've never Googled myself.
00:02:39
Speaker
You need to. I'm just kidding. Never, never. I don't care. Yeah. Whatever. I wonder how much of it's actually true, though. It's probably not true at all. None of none of it, actually. In fact, are you even from Cherokee, Alabama? I am from Cherokee, Alabama.
00:02:52
Speaker
Yep, yep. And you currently live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida? We'll say yes on that one. Yeah, We'll say yes. No, it's in an undisclosed location. Apparently you can find Raleo because people show up at my house the saw that post.
00:03:05
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Yeah. When I Googled you. Yeah, people are crazy. craziest experience? Don't come to my house. Yeah, PSA. I'll that. What's the craziest?
Unexpected Visitors and Home Security
00:03:12
Speaker
Yeah. Somebody drove from Colorado to my house to give me a flashlight.
00:03:18
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Flashlight. Not the other.
00:03:23
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But we was having an end-of-the-season baseball party. So I had all the – I coached baseball, my kids' baseball team. So we had all the players there, all the parents there. We was having a fun little pool party. The gates were open probably.
00:03:38
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yeah Visitors were welcome. ye yeah yeah Except for that visitor. Invited visitors were welcome. True. Yeah, and then and then he showed up, bless his heart. I don't know.
00:03:49
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He might not be listening to this, so you can give us the tea. Well, I mean, there there was really no tea. Like, I met him out front with, you know, my wireless hole puncher and told him that this was, so you know, inappropriate.
00:04:01
Speaker
This is my home. So, I don't know. You're going to have to get a new security system or change your address maybe or, unfortunately, that sucks. I've got a wireless hole puncher.
00:04:12
Speaker
Okay, that's enough. Yep, yep. It reminds me of... Bluetooth device. My Bluetooth device. I have so many i'm
Viral Fame and Privacy Concerns
00:04:19
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not even going to ask.
00:04:21
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Bluetooth made by Smith & Wesson. Actually, it's a SIG, yeah. Okay, right on, yeah. I know a lot of guys out there that are like, they get it. They knew what i was talking about, yeah. yeah um But it does remind me of a story. do Have you ever met Jace Robertson?
00:04:35
Speaker
You know who I'm talking about? No, know Jace, but I've never met him. No, love that family. They have yeah similar situations happen, and they talk about it too. and And most of the time, you know, it's all about the gospel. Most of the time, they come to Jesus about it and and stuff. But I can only imagine that.
00:04:49
Speaker
Well, and I'm sure everybody that has ever came to my house had pure intentions. Yes. The problem is. They were not invited. are crazy as. And you don't know the difference whether people are going to you know show up with good intentions or ill intentions. So I just treat everybody that they have bad intentions that they come to my house.
00:05:07
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You, and this is why you're my favorite guest on the podcast so far Everyone is like, you need to see the good in others. You need to be in like you do, but you got to keep them away. You got to have. I hope you find Jesus, but don't come to my to find him Or you might be meeting him. you me you You will find him.
00:05:22
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You know? No, it's... I don't know. It's weird. It is weird because we went from just being a normal, you know... In 2020, 2019, normal family. Yeah. 2020 was still normal.
00:05:37
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2021 is when the lid blew off of everything. And it's still just like... I don't... The difference is is that apparently I'm highly recognizable, right? I don't know what it is.
00:05:50
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ah have grew a beard. I have shaved my beard. I have wore a hat, not wore a hat. Glasses. No glasses. Exactly. Hat backwards, hat forward. Apparently I'm recognizable. I don't know. I don't get it, right? Maybe it's because I've had so many viral videos, but... A few.
00:06:04
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Yeah. It's just... I don't know. You know, I don't know where I was going with all that, but I was going somewhere with it. That's okay. Because you and know what i noticed at lunch today? What's that? So we should tell them we went as a group to a barbecue, Terry Black's barbecue here in Fort Worth. And there was a lot of guys that looked like you. Did you notice that?
00:06:23
Speaker
You didn't notice. So it was so funny to me because I was like, wait, I wonder if they know who you are. First of all, they didn't. Nobody approached you. i was very proud of them. There was a group that knew who I was. they did? yeah they Yeah, I could catch people looking from across, but they don't want to bother you. yeah There's two different types of people. People that don't mind coming up to you while you're eating or with a large crowd, and then people that are, you know, respectful.
00:06:46
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And they will not come up to you when you're eating. Which do you prefer? I really don't care. You know, now if I'm at a business meal, if I'm sitting down we're talking business, you know, it can be aggravating because if I get off track, it's hard to get me back on track.
00:07:00
Speaker
Unless I've had my Adderall, and then I'll stay on track, but, you know. Well, okay, so one thing that I was drawn to was, like, seriously, same look, ball caps, T-shirt, um tattoos, and everything. I was just like, beards? I was just like, okay, we need to just do a little shuffle. Would people recognize? Except the beard is gone now.
00:07:18
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True. Yeah, unfortunately. Was that a planned thing, or? Yeah, I got paid to do it, yeah. That's amazing. I would grow a beard to get paid to shave it.
00:07:29
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I mean, you could. It's 2025. You probably can. Yeah, honestly. There's some pills for that. I'm sure there is. I wouldn't know about it, but I mean, you. Yeah, no. Okay, so I do want to talk about your tattoos, though, because I don't feel like that's something you've talked about a lot. What are the stories behind your tattoos? I don't know. Impulsiveness.
00:07:47
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That's pretty much the story behind it. Did you get any of them when you were serving
Military to Civilian Transition
00:07:51
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the military? I guess you're still currently serving, so that's kind of a yeah trick question, but yeah you know what I'm saying. when you were From the outside looking in, most people think I'm already retired, yeah which technically I am, but I don't officially retire until like September the 1st.
00:08:04
Speaker
Oh, wow. I'm doing Skill Bridge. It's like a program that allows service members to transition, not like that, from military. That's why you shaved your beard. Yeah. From military life to civilian life and get integrated in the workforce because it is a huge transition for military members. Me, I'm not going to have to worry about that. True. Thank God, luckily. For real.
00:08:26
Speaker
If the Lord's willing, I will never have to work for anybody again. Amen. hey man um But you know it's a great program, and and I've said – I think I'll take advantage of that program. So I'm working for working for one of my really good friends, Gus.
00:08:42
Speaker
He owns Emerald Coast Hardly Davidson and Big Gus Tractor. but You got say, Big Gus Tractor and Equipment. Now I recognize it yeah because of the voice. Yeah, yeah.
00:08:54
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Down there. So I'm just doing videos with him and stuff, to you know which I'm a big Harley guy. love riding. Okay. Yeah, that checks out. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. yeah We're chasing a lot of squirrels. i don't even remember where that but that point was going. It's fun, though.
00:09:08
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It's so fun. I still have not. We're coming back. We will come back full circle, and I will finish my thought earlier about me going viral a lot. I haven't figured out where I was at when I hit that circle, but we're going to close that loop.
00:09:21
Speaker
I love talking to you because it is like talking to a squirrel. And I feel like maybe you're dodging my questions, but you're not at all. You're just like, oh, squirrel. No, you know how my videos are. yeah I interrupt people and then I give you a random fact that has nothing to do with when I interrupt. That is how my mind
Journey to Viral Success
00:09:35
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works.
00:09:36
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You don't even have to try. i don't. I don't. you know Do you remember your first viral moment, your first viral video all those years ago? um Yeah.
00:09:47
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I think it was the cloud one. Where the girl said, hey, legitimate question, how do you throw a punch? And I said, with your hand. Listen, did you know that the average cumulus cloud weighs over a million pounds?
00:10:00
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No, you do. And apparently I got the fact wrong. i got fact wrong. did people There was a FedEx truck that pulled up behind me right before i shot it. And yeah. They attacked you.
00:10:11
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They said you're wrong. Oh, they'll let you know when you're wrong. Oh, wow. No wonder you don't Google yourself. ah Yeah. now well Yeah. Okay. So, so when that happened though, do you remember thinking like, oh, I've got to do this again or what's my strategy? Or were you just like, hey I'm going to do another video.
00:10:25
Speaker
No, the hell with it. Keep rolling. Yeah. You know, there's only one perfect person that ever walked this earth and they, they hung him up on some wood. So roll on.
00:10:35
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Yeah. And at going back to that day, like that time, it was 20, you said 2021. I was thinking it was 2020, but maybe post a little post COVID. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever see yourself in that career? Like that you would be getting paid by brands to do things? No.
00:10:52
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I mean, everybody wants to when they start doing videos, you know, and it it took me about Uh, probably about a year and a half of posting at least three videos a day before you figure it out.
00:11:04
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Right. That's what everybody always asks me. Like, how do you do it? always say, start posting, you know, and I'm not being a smart aleck when I tell them that that's what you have to do. You have to figure it out for yourself.
00:11:16
Speaker
Cause I can, I can tell you everything that I know, but you're not going to understand what I'm saying unless you start doing it. Right. Um, like, the hooks for videos i never understood what a hook was up until probably about a year ago and i've been viral for what ah four years before that and i just didn't understand all this stuff right and now i understand it so i understand how to do standalone videos now you know with the you know with the funny stitches that i do so yeah i say yeah just do it
00:11:47
Speaker
that's That's really cool. And I love to get this kind of serious side of you because everyone you know knows you as the comedian and it's just natural to you. You don't even have to try, which I really appreciate. But um what's really cool for me is if we go back a little bit, even before you were viral, when you you mentioned living a normal life, you have a ah baseball, softball facility, right? I did. Okay, talk about that. Me and my friend Ski owned a, yeah it was called Extra Innings and it was a baseball and softball training facility. We had like four batting cages and then a bullpen at the end and um i i was a hitting instructor you know i taught hitting and i'm good at you know teaching how to hit a baseball you know really good at it and um i thought that that's where i would wind up being is you know moving up and you know hopefully one day you know reaching the big leagues being a hitting coach or whatever but you know
00:12:36
Speaker
Life had other plans. So when when i blew up on the internet and realized I didn't have time for that anymore, just said I sold my halfback to Ski for what I had in it and said, I don't care how much you sell it for when you wind up selling it, go make your money, man.
00:12:52
Speaker
I'm fine. It's so funny to hear you talk about your friends because so far you've told us that you have a Gus and a ski and you were on Bunny's podcast. It sounds like that's your your audience. That's your person. 100%. Yep.
00:13:05
Speaker
That's what we do. No, that's so cool. I love that. And that you can go back and have those good relationships with those people. That says a lot. Did you, because you obviously have two sons.
00:13:15
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Yep. Do they have any interest in baseball at all? Yeah, my youngest, he's he's an athlete. He's good. he's and And he's just like me. He's
00:13:28
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just like me. Except for he doesn't understand when to and when not to. He's got the comedic timing. I was telling them when we was driving back from Terry Black's that ah you know the youngest has figured out that he can say whatever he wants to say so long as it's funny.
00:13:45
Speaker
Oh, no. Because I'm not going to, like, me being a comedian, I'm not going to sit there and get on to you if it's funny. Like, it's a joke. It's a joke, you know? And ah he's figured out he's he he's figured out the comedic time, and and he will say some of the wildest stuff you've ever heard, but I'm like, it's actually a good joke.
00:14:03
Speaker
His mom doesn't think it's funny, but I'm like, that is a great joke. I'm stealing that. Yeah. And as his father, you can. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, ah you know, ive ah I've been with, you know, several A-list comedians and Blake's been around and ah they hang out with Blake for like 10 minutes and they're ah just about all them are like, that's the one.
00:14:23
Speaker
He's got it. he's He's going to make a lot of money one day. Wow. That's got to be cool for him, but then also cool for you as a dad. I mean, oh yeah come on. your Your friends, your peers, which by the way, you should go out on the road. I think you're going to want to soon, right?
00:14:36
Speaker
It's coming. Yeah. Okay. It's coming. We're in its works. Good. I was going to do something with Cletus T. Judd. Do you remember Cletus T. Judd? I don't. I'm only 28. Now, y'all can't hear what's going on up there, but it sounds like two elephants are making love upstairs.
00:14:51
Speaker
But she told me that we have noise-canceling microphones, so you didn't hear that. But just know that there's two elephants getting it on above my head. Those boots. That's how it's made up there. Right there.
00:15:04
Speaker
um What were we talking about? You're going on the road. Oh, yeah. I was supposed to do something with Cletus T.J. Do you remember Cletus T.J.? I don't know. How old are you? 28. Yeah, 28. Well, that makes sense. Well, he used to do like parody songs, country parody songs. Like, every light in the house is blown.
00:15:23
Speaker
I know you're talking about now. If Shania was mine. Just crazy parody songs. Anyways, so he does he does shows now, and he reached out wanted me to do a show with him there in Panama City, and I said, yeah, let's do it, man.
00:15:36
Speaker
And then about two days before the show was supposed to happen, he was going to stay with me the night before and us get you know some content, and the the promoter nixed it for later on in the year. So it's going to happen later on in the year. It just didn't. it was supposed to already happen, but that's where we're at. But stand-up is coming.
00:15:54
Speaker
um And as it should, i mean, you're naturally so funny, even hearing and seeing you and your element just among people, not even trying. It's amazing. And it's, it's so cool that you've been able to help so many people without even knowing it, realizing it, because you're so funny. You, you provide like a comedic relief in some of the hardest times. hard You've seen the hardest moments, hardest times in the battlefield, all that. You have seen some stuff, which we probably can't even talk about, but, um, but truly like you have such a gift. well, Well, thank you. I appreciate that. You know, I've, you know, I've, I've spoke about it before, but I've, you know, I struggle with clinical depression, you know, all through my adolescent years and then my young adult years
Dealing with Online Negativity
00:16:32
Speaker
and everything. And I'd say I'm fighting it now if we're being honest. Yeah.
00:16:35
Speaker
Are you? Yeah. Yeah. The twenties and trying to figure everything out and you have to have it all. The world says you have to have it all put together. And it's got to be harder now. Like me, you know, at the age that I'm at, I don't care what did anybody else thinks. You're right. I've gotten to that point where I'm just like, I don't care. You've got your stuff, you know your life, you know who you are. I know who I am, right?
00:16:55
Speaker
But as a young person, and that's why I feel bad for my kids is because everything's online, right? um You know, everybody's expected to be on, you know, the younger kids expect to be on Snap, Insta and everything.
00:17:06
Speaker
and And it can get pretty cruel on there. Now, me, i say what you want to about me. That's engagement. Baby, you leave a negative comment. I'm happy about it. You know, that's pushing videos more. Remake it. Remix it. Yeah, exactly.
00:17:20
Speaker
So, but I feel bad for for, you know, if you still do care what people think. Right? That's got to be hard. Definitely. That's one thing I told my wife.
00:17:30
Speaker
the The comics used to bother her. And I was like, look, You got to stop reading or stop caring one or the other. And I don't care, you know, so ah I'll read everything. And that's so beautiful. I do appreciate that, that you have that insight. And I know someone out there, including myself, needed to hear it, especially the people walking above us.
00:17:51
Speaker
And you're telling me they will not hear any of that. You know, i don't think so. They're not going to hear it. You guys comment below. If you hear it, let us know. Hey, right now you're going to have to eat not noise cancel out, but roll back over it.
00:18:07
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And then this is what it sounds like to us.
00:18:12
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There you go. The elephants are upstairs making love. Okay. Oh my gosh. Okay. So to get back into things, so appreciate that you have, you have a business alongside this, the red fin polarized sunglasses, yeah big in fishing industry, um hunting people would wear them too.
00:18:29
Speaker
Talk about that. Outdoors lifestyle. Yeah. It's a, it's a sunglass company and our, ah our frames are Italian made and a little family factory over in Italy. And then the the lenses are Zeiss lenses.
00:18:45
Speaker
If you know anything about the outdoors community, you know, Zeiss is like huge and, and scopes and binoculars and everything. So it's great quality glasses. And yeah, I love them.
00:18:56
Speaker
And that's kind of your side gig, per se. That and Waze Energy Drinks. Yeah, yeah. So Waze Energy Drinks, Waze, W-A-Y-S-S, the S is square, because it means we appreciate your service and sacrifice.
00:19:10
Speaker
So we give 10% back of everything we we profit back to organizations like the Gary Sinise Foundation. gary sinnes found Let's do this. You've had too many energy drinks. yeah The Gary Sinise Foundation and Fist Squad that helps, you know, military veterans and first responders.
00:19:28
Speaker
Wow. And the energy drinks are amazing. I'm going to have to send y'all a couple cases here to try it out. Justin, that wasn't on Google. I couldn't find that. Yeah, see, not everything's on Google.
00:19:38
Speaker
And also it's not all true. No, that's incredible. knew that you were down to earth guy just based on the podcast and interaction that I had seen. But um that is so cool that you're tied to that. I love brands. I build a lot of brand loyalty with brands like that. I give back to things. Kind of like Justin. don't know if you about if you know about ours, but the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, we help you know injured cowboys, injured injured athletes. And Same situation. if If we don't do it, who is? Same for you guys. If you don't do it, who is?
00:20:04
Speaker
so yeah i mean i keep up with Justin Boots. Now, listen, did you know that I was actually named after Justin Boots? Okay, that's what I had heard, but I didn't know if that was true. No, dead serious. My sister was named after Waylon Jennings song.
00:20:16
Speaker
I was named after a boot company. What's your sister's name? Amanda. And you were named after a boot company? The boot company, must have. The boot company, established in 1879. You know, yeah. Wow. So, yeah, Justin.
00:20:30
Speaker
My belt buckle. Got that for my 21st birthday from my parents. Yeah, so it's the only belt buckle I've ever owned. So it's not like, you know, i've ah you know just throwing some Justin stuff just to come to Fort Worth and meet y'all or whatever. Like, I've always been a big fan of the brand. It's an iconic brand. Very iconic. It's older than both of us put together and then some. Exactly.
00:20:51
Speaker
That is so cool to hear. You know, everyone um in in the comments section, I do read the comments section, by the way. Everyone in the comments section is always like, um Justin, it's my favorite. And you want to believe them because they're on social media and they say it. But talking to a person, i think that's so cool.
00:21:06
Speaker
Yeah, Justin, justin and and I think it's really cool. um Nikona is now part of, you know, the Justin brand now. They got acquired in 1990 or something like that. Don't get me lying. I think it was 1990. Was it 1990? Yeah.
00:21:19
Speaker
I think it was 1990. Juan says he thinks. The story behind all of it is is fascinating to me that the younger sister stayed in Nacona when the father and the three sons moved up here to Fort Worth. And she was like, or no, not the father had already passed away. The three sons moved you know the whole conglomerate up here. And she said, I'm staying in Nacona. I ain't going to Fort Worth.
00:21:39
Speaker
I'm making my own boot company. And that's where you know the Nacona is. So growing up, My family, my dad's side of the family lived in Burke Burnett, Texas, okay which is right outside of Wichita Falls, its not far from here.
00:21:51
Speaker
And there was a Nakona outlet there. So all of our childhood summers was spent in Wichita Falls, you know, Burke Burnett. We didn't get to go to Disney World or Disneyland or the beach or anything. We went to Burke Burnett, Texas.
00:22:07
Speaker
And shopped at the Nakona Owlet. Shopped at the Nakona Owlet. So seeing all the all the artwork for the Nakona, the snake coming up the boot and the you know the grizzly bear and everything, um my parents had those T-shirts you know growing up. So that's part of my childhood. It's really cool to come here and see all of that. When I was over there with Miss Nancy earlier, we went back there. She took me back to her back closet back there, and it was all those boot boxes and stuff.
00:22:33
Speaker
Those Nakona boxes. You know, our listeners love Nancy, so we've got to give Nancy a shout out, I guess, to set this up. Nancy is awesome. Justin was given the opportunity to go through our archives, and I still to this day talk about needing to do a vlog and just show everyone, but honestly, you can't even the video doesn't do it justice. No, not at all. i've've I've got goosebumps talking about It is so cool to see all of it, and then all of the all the old boots that was made for like...
00:22:59
Speaker
icons, just iconic people. Presidents, celebrities, yeah you name it. And a lot of the times there was a second pair made, so we would give them a pair, but then they kept a pair for historic archives and preserved it. So that's like... I tell you, the current, you know, I don't talk politics at all.
00:23:17
Speaker
yeah Don't get into it. I ain't trying to ain't trying to fight with nobody over politics because, you know, regardless of how you feel about it, I'm not changing your mind. You're not changing my mind. Let's just roll on with our lives. Let's coexist. Yes. um The boots, regardless of how you feel about him, the boots that y'all have over there that were made for Donald Trump, those boots are wild.
00:23:37
Speaker
Intricate. They are gorgeous. The soldiers The fact that somebody sat there and hand-stitched all that. Maybe you could overlay a video or a picture of those boots here. Yeah, have to do that. But the presidential seal, it is all hand-stitched. It is wild.
00:23:53
Speaker
Absolutely insane. So you got to design boots today with Ray. Have you gotten to meet Shelby, one our other designers? No, because she's in El Paso right now. She was supposed to be here, but she's not in town. Yes.
00:24:03
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Hopefully. She does a lot of, witht along with Ray, she does a lot of those celebrity boots. And um we just recently did like, so Reba is one of our partners and she likes to gift her friends boots. And we did like Michael Buble, Christina, no, Gwen Stefani.
00:24:18
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um And seeing those boots too, the idea, taking an idea, and then making it a boot, and then actually you're so right, having someone stitch, it's so mind blowing to me. yeah It's something I will never be able to do. ah it' is We should stick to talking, right? one hundred by i not My mind does not work like that. You came in towards the end over there when we were designing the boots. Okay. I think. yeah you Actually, I just met you over there. So I know i didn't see what you designed. yeah It's under under wraps. It's going to cool.
00:24:46
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It's going to cool. I'm looking forward to it. And we're actually going to give a pair away. So I'm getting a pair for myself. Heck yes, are. And then we're giving a pair away. and And trust me, I designed the boots. The boots i want to wear because I love wearing boots.
00:24:59
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Can you give us a sneak peek? Yeah. It's Elephant. The bottom's Elephant. It's going to be ah black on on red type feel. It's going to be cool.
00:25:11
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That's so cool. I'm looking forward to it. Are you going to ride them on your Harley or wear them on your Harley? Is that how that works? don't wear boots on Harley ah because i've got I've got a heel shifter, right? But I can't i can't get used to it.
00:25:24
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Because, you know, when you wear like nice shoes on a bike, you know, when you go to shift, they get scuffed right there, right? But I've got a heel shifter, but i'm um' I'm so used to just shifting with my toe. Yeah. yeah I never use the heel shifter, so. Probably not. I usually wear the same pair shoes when I ride.
00:25:41
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Wow. So do you rebuy them or are they just like an old pair that you just have? oh No, I rebuy them. Okay. Yeah. I'm just imagining. They're not, they're not white. They're not the white New Balance.
00:25:51
Speaker
You know, I'm not, I haven't hit that dad age yet. You're over 40, so you're pushing it, but. Thanks. I appreciate that.
00:26:01
Speaker
No, i have to I have to give you some crap because you're full of crap on the internet. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. And it's so entertaining. yeah What does it feel like to know? So so it's no secret. You're well known. My husband knows about you. So many people here have said that. And we even talked about you got recognized, you know, wherever you go.
00:26:19
Speaker
How does it feel knowing that like everyone's husbands and boyfriends and dads know about you? I don't know. It's weird. I mean, that that is that is a weird piece. One thing that I found the weirdest is, you know, people come up to me, and I've i've i've often said this, that it seems like everybody knows me, but I don't know anybody, you know?
00:26:39
Speaker
So they have that connection with me, but I don't have that connection with them. You know what I'm saying? I love meeting people. Don't get me wrong, right? um But I always feel like I'm missing out on something because they always come up, and they're like, and I don't know you like you know me, you know, type thing. Oh, that's such a trip. Wow.
00:26:58
Speaker
Even now, I did a lot of research, watched a lot of podcast hours of you. And um even even now, it's like we're carrying on a conversation. And really, realistically, we don' you don't know me from Adam. So that's got to be so... Wow. Thinking about your perspective, is yeah that is wild. I guess that's why it's good. um So everybody that I meet, I feel like I'm missing something. Yeah. You're like, wait, were you just talking about me? But not really, but like, right yeah yeah yeah, I totally understand that feeling. Whoa.
00:27:23
Speaker
Okay. Well then help us fill in some blanks and maybe I'll, I'll get to add some along the way. Um, I loved a story that you told about, uh, and you didn't really get to go into detail. So now is the time to go into detail. You met your wife growing up in church at the church of Christ. And we were kind of talking about it at lunch, but my husband grew up church of Christ right and I was totally shocked when I learned that there was no instruments, no instruments,
00:27:46
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And small town. Except for the pitch pop. Oh. You know, just to get get you um get that song leader on pitch before before you start singing, you know. Yes.
00:27:58
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and And, you know, in a small town, there's really not a lot of talent. there's so Sometimes hit and miss, there's some great talent. But Tyler's Church, there's really—I hope you guys are not listening right now. She's saying you can't sing. I am absolutely saying you can't And that's okay because I've been to a lot of Church Christ, and and there's some of them they can't sing.
00:28:16
Speaker
Now there's there's a few though. You get back off into the country and the acoustics are just right. And the congregation where me and Crystal met, the acoustics are perfect. There's some great singers there. wow and And it is it's is better without the music. Okay. So tell us about that.
00:28:31
Speaker
Your love story. Your meet-cute. ah There's really none. I mean, she's she's a lot older than me. You know, Crystal's, you know, I think she's pushing 60 now. She's not. She's only four years older than me. but we So we were, we were you know, separated by by four years.
00:28:47
Speaker
Classes, too. So you've got to think about that, right? So, like, I was, you know, I was in middle school when she's getting ready to graduate high school. Oh, wow. Yeah. So we didn't date or anything like that back in the day. I was already gone and off in the military before we started dating.
00:29:03
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you know, talking and decided to, I was actually in another country. I was in Qatar. Wow. I was in the Middle East, you yeah, have when when she reached out. And apparently my mom went up to her at ah at a funeral home of all places and said, hey you know, Justin's single.
00:29:20
Speaker
Like, mom, what are you doing? Y'all are at a dang funeral home. Why are we doing this? But, yeah, it worked out. Did she just send you a letter? How did she communicate with you? ah Well, it was in the 2000s. Lord have mercy. It's not like we didn't have email. The first cell phone. We emailed.
00:29:37
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We emailed. Okay. But we also did. Yeah, there was some letters sent. Wow. We didn't have the iPhones. Yeah, we did. When was the first iPhone? 2007. We didn't have iPhones sent.
00:29:49
Speaker
No. The iPhone hadn't come out yet. Whoa. You had to send the codes. Click the button three times to say one letter. Unless you had a Blackberry. Ooh, yeah. That changed everything a bit. Do you still have your letters that you guys wrote back and forth to each other?
00:30:03
Speaker
I'm sure they're somewhere. You're going to to dig them out. That's probably some good content, some spicy content. I can't. I can't. No? Because i know, I say, i say i don't know. i know where i know where they would be at.
00:30:15
Speaker
They're in the same bin as every other card and everything else I got while I was downrange. I am a very sentimental person. And to see, you know, cards from my grandparents that have passed away would wreck my week.
00:30:29
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Oh. Oh, no. But, yeah. and So i'm i'm that's one thing about me that I'm very, very sentimental. I don't like to look at old pictures. when When memories pop up on Facebook of the kids when they were younger, I don't even like looking at that.
00:30:43
Speaker
I'm like, scroll away. Can't do it. You know? That's such a good dad. My dad's the same way. Doesn't want to watch everything. It makes you feel old, first of all. it has nothing do it's is' It has nothing to do with with my age or, you know, my mortality or anything like that. It has to do with, you know, the, you know,
00:31:04
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simpler times being gone, you know, cause you don't get that. yeah You know, we don't get that anymore. It don't seem like. It's so crazy to think about that. Cause you are not making your living, but a big part of your living is on TikTok with the phones. It's one of those necessary evil things. Do you ever want to check out? Do you ever just want to be like, go back to simple times, get a flip phone, be gone fishing, hunting for the weekend.
00:31:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. My husband talks about that all the time. We're like this close to getting him flip phone. I think. Yeah. But it's, it's impossible in this day and age, especially if you, you know, you want to keep, you know, making the living that you're making or, you know, don't know.
00:31:39
Speaker
I couldn't imagine life without social media at this point. No, you couldn't. And I don't even consume a lot of social media. True. um ah You know, I spend most of my waking days, you know, creating instead of consuming.
00:31:53
Speaker
I mean, I probably, if you looked at my screen time, it would be wild. But, you know, that's all, you know, the editing and shooting and everything. Probably scrolling wise, I probably only get to scroll maybe 30 minutes a day.
00:32:05
Speaker
Oh, wow. Yeah. And that's when I'm laying in bed before I fall asleep with the phone on my chest. You know? Man. Yeah. What a time. That's like totally different than how we grew up for sure. That's almost unfathomable. Well, yeah. And as much content as I put out, because I try to put out at least four videos a day, sometimes more, right? So it turns into about days for me.
00:32:30
Speaker
me what is your What is your creative process? Do you do you see something? do you get inspo? Do people send you videos? Do you just think of a fun fact that you're like, hey, I'm going to share this now?
00:32:42
Speaker
No, i people send me stuff. um I don't really even know anymore. I really don't have a clue. You heard it here first. He's soul searching. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. it just kind of comes together at this point, you know? That's beautiful, yeah. Everything just comes together.
00:32:59
Speaker
You've just been doing it long enough that you kind of have the idea down. and is it Are you a one-man show? <unk> Yes. Do you shoot, record, edit? Everything. Wow. I'm tired. No wonder it's 17 Hour Days. I'm tired, boss.
00:33:11
Speaker
Yeah, no, so I do everything except for the business negotiations and stuff. Yeah. And i've got ah I've got a business manager. Her name's Carissa. Phenomenal person. She's like sister to me. Her husband, Brent, is like a a me and him, our best friends.
00:33:27
Speaker
They live in Bristol, Tennessee, and they are absolute godsends because I wouldn't be as far along as I am without them. So, yeah. I do every bit of the day-to-day stuff when it comes to like the business side of the house and like, you know, making sure that, you know, I have plane tickets, making sure that, Hey, you gotta, you gotta post this today for this brand. You know, she, she takes care of all that. So she kind of, she kind of mothers me a little bit and she's like, Hey,
00:33:56
Speaker
we got to get this done, you know? I'm like, okay, you know, and you need it. It works out. yeah Yeah. And it lets me kind of just free range, you know, with my mind and when she needs to pull me in to do something, you know, she's like, we're on a hard deadline. We got to do this.
00:34:11
Speaker
So, Is that because you are an entrepreneur, you have several businesses. Do you like the business side of things or do you like just to be the funny entertainer on cloud nine?
00:34:22
Speaker
um Do I like doing it? Yes. It's a necessary evil. You have to do it. But it also, you do too much of the business stuff. It takes away from the creativity, you know, in, in, in order to, in order to keep making content, you got to be creative, you know? So, you know,
00:34:40
Speaker
Yeah. No, I guess that makes sense. It does. Yeah. And I'm curious to know, there's a lot of our our audiences um about our in between our ages, actually trying to figure out life, maybe just getting established in businesses.
00:34:53
Speaker
So what's your best advice then as an entrepreneur? Like what what advice would you give to someone that's like starting a business or going out on their own or even continuing just to freelance? There's a lot of that too. Be too stupid to quit. every successful person throughout history at some point was met with such adversity.
00:35:11
Speaker
Nobody would have blamed them for quitting. They'd have been like, yeah, it just wasn't in the cards. But they they pushed on and they was too stupid to know that they should have quit. And they became super successful.
00:35:22
Speaker
Any autobiography you read from any successful person throughout history, overcame tons of adversity to become the successful person they were. So, you know, failure, failure is part of the process. And it's a, it's a, it's a part that you have to have, because if you don't know failure, you're not going to appreciate the success.
00:35:42
Speaker
Boom. Wow. That is solid advice because I mean, a fear of failure is a huge fear for everyone. They say public speaking is the biggest fear. You've already conquered that. But I would say failure, I don't know officially, but I would say failure is right under that. A lot of people don't want to fail.
00:35:57
Speaker
Well, you know, it's like when I, when I started doing videos, I started doing videos in 2019. right? And I posted for a year and a half before I figured it out three times a day, barely getting noticed at all.
00:36:08
Speaker
I had a, I had a viral moment here and there of just telling my wife jokes and stuff. But you know, when it took all of those, I probably posted 3000 videos, you know, and, and none of them caught any traction, but because of those 3000 failures,
00:36:27
Speaker
but was able to let me be successful. That's how I look at it. You know what mean? um I may not have a clue what I'm talking about, but you know, I think it had something to do with it. It builds character, you know, it's like, Oh, if I find can do that for a year and a half and become successful doing it, I can do whatever.
00:36:42
Speaker
Yeah. I love that you said building character. My parents would always say um whatever I wanted to do, i was complaining about or whatever. And they'd be like, oh, Taylor, it builds character or like go clean the horse stalls again, go clean the pig, but whatever. And I would be like, finally, I told my mom one time, I'm tired of building character.
00:36:56
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I want to have character. I want to make it. But I think there's something along that along those lines that like it fuels you to kind of overcome that old saying, you know, if you pray for patience, God's going to test you.
00:37:08
Speaker
Yes, yeah' he's not going to give you patience. He's going to make you learn patience. You know, it's pretty much the same same aspect of it. Yes. No, that is so real.
00:37:19
Speaker
And I feel like I've gotten too serious with you. I feel like you're like a fun guy, but I've like really cracked the code on being serious. So, I don't like it. I don't really like it either because you're just so funny. So I've i've got to change the ah tune a little bit and um ask you some crazy things that have happened to you. So like, I'm genuinely curious.
00:37:37
Speaker
is Has there been anything that's happened to you in the airport or somewhere that is like so embarrassing for either you or someone else? Because because along those same lines of you saying when people talk to you and they know you. Oh, somebody trying take a selfie with me while I'm at a urinal.
00:37:49
Speaker
No. Yeah. Who in the hell does that? I never did ask before we started this. Can I cuss? Yes. We'll bleep it. Who in the... And if you're watching this, what in the... Were you thinking?
00:38:03
Speaker
He said, hey, I'm a huge fan. Love your content. Can I get a selfie? And I said... It's in my hand. Like, bro, yeah can I come out of the bathroom first? You know?
00:38:14
Speaker
Yeah. It gets wild. Okay. Because I've never been to... i'm ah i'm a I have a sister. I don't have any brothers. I've learned a lot through marriage, meeting a husband and stuff. But so... I bet you have.
00:38:24
Speaker
Explain. have. Culture shock. We have a whole podcast about it. um In the restroom, there's no stalls for urinals, right? It's just like all... yeah Yeah, for the most part, yeah. Out there for everyone. Yeah, yeah well well, you usually have dividers, unless you're at a stadium. Okay. And then you've got a big trough.
00:38:42
Speaker
That's what I was thinking of. That's what I was picturing. No, no, no. That's just at stadiums and sports arenas. You have a trough, and they put ice in the trough. To keep from splattering? That, and it keeps the odor down.
00:38:54
Speaker
Ew. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah So, yeah. No, there's usually dividers, so you're not sitting there just watching somebody, you because who wants to do that? That's weird. yeah Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't. Who would do that? Clearly people do, though, because they wanted a selfie with you. Apparently, yeah, yeah. I don't know.
00:39:11
Speaker
We wasn't even at an airport or anything. Like, you're not in that big of a hurry. No. You know, but... I don't know. yeah People are awkward though. People probably do get really weird. yes They kind of get starstruck and sweaty and don't really.
00:39:24
Speaker
yeah i could see that. yeah that's Wow. Anything else? That's pretty crazy. No, probably the coolest experience that I had just randomly was we had went to Vegas. Me and Crystal were in Vegas and we had went to this show called Absent.
00:39:39
Speaker
You ever heard of that show? No. Well, it's it's an interesting show. Okay. I don't think there's any nudity, but it's it gets wild. Close to You know, um it was about as far as as my wife what have Would have went. You know what I'm saying? yeah Yeah.
00:39:56
Speaker
Absent. Okay. Yeah, we're at absent. And then we're sitting front row. but And after the show, somebody comes up behind me and slaps me on the back. And it was one of the it was one of the backstreet boys. And he was like, listen, did you know? And Crystal's mouth just... it was ah Yeah. Her mouth just flew open.
00:40:15
Speaker
And yeah, that was that was when I first blew up. Okay. You know, so that's when, i I think that was kind of the moment that me and her both realized, oh, this is. Wait, you made Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of cool. That is a cool. It was one of the Backstreet Boys and one NSYNC.
00:40:28
Speaker
Do you remember which ones? Joey Fatone and. Yes. It was Joey Fatone and we're mutuals. It's horrible that I'm sitting here drawing a blank.
00:40:40
Speaker
It'll come to me in a minute. What a cool moment, though. I mean, wow. He came to you, and that was probably cool for him because they probably don't get to do that much. You don't get to do that much. you know They were setting up in the VIP area, and they were doing a show the next the next ah the next day.
00:40:55
Speaker
and yeah This is random. So some people that are good at speaking normally can sing. Can you sing growing up Church of Crime? No. but Are you kidding me? Have you seen the videos where I've tried to sing? I guess not. No. Yeah, that's not me putting on.
00:41:10
Speaker
It's bad. That's you. It's bad. going have to go back and look. Oh, it's bad. might link one below for you guys, too. Yeah, oh, it's bad. It's bad. she'll She'll throw the link below. But Noah, you know, the singing barber. Yes. Have you seen him? Yes. So me and him are good friends, and that idiot has convinced people that I'm his father.
00:41:26
Speaker
He has convinced people on the internet that I'm his father somehow. And people legitimately think that I was his dad and he got sent to prison. People will believe anything. But anyways, he he every time I get around him, he gives me voice lessons and tries to teach me how to sing.
00:41:40
Speaker
And i can I can match pitch. You can harmonize. No, I can't harmonize. it no That's what I thought. Okay, yeah. I thought I was harmonizing. I'm uneducated him. was matching his pitch. Okay. So I can match his pitch no matter where he takes it.
00:41:54
Speaker
I can stay right there with him. When he stops, I fall off. Harmonizing, ah that's what I thought too. But harmonizing is where you're like one or two above or below. Oh. Right? So it's like a different pitch. Yeah. A little bit of a different pitch. Mm-hmm. I didn't know that.
00:42:09
Speaker
You're like, yeah, I can harmonize. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually really cool because I don't think a lot of people can even match pitch. I didn't even know what that was and until... Oh, I'm phenomenal at matching pitch. Matching pitch. Yeah, I said it right.
00:42:21
Speaker
Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I can do that. But if you stop, I'll be done. It just falls off. I go to bat right back to tone-deaf Justin. You know, I'm telling you, can't carry tune in a bucket. In another life, if you don't make it, as Justin Danger, tone-deaf Justin. Growing up, I always... ah We had a trailer.
00:42:40
Speaker
my dad My dad owned a... um
00:42:45
Speaker
Is that you or me? Growing up. I thought I had own Do Not Disturb, so I'm kind of wondering if
00:42:55
Speaker
Can I look at real quick? Yeah, please. Can we take a time out? Yeah. So growing up, my parents had a trailer. My dad had a trailer. He used own a backhoe business, and it was a big trailer, you know, like platform trailer.
00:43:06
Speaker
And I used to stand up on the side of it and acted like I was singing to hundreds of thousands of people. I wanted to be an entertainer, right? But nobody told me until I was an adult, you can't sing, you know?
00:43:18
Speaker
Where were those people in your life telling you? ah You know, when when when people say... ah The worst lie you can tell a kid is you can do anything you want. No, you can't. No.
00:43:28
Speaker
I couldn't sing. I wasn't going to be a singing entertainer, but I could still be an entertainer. Yes. You know? So, yeah, that's that's kind of where we're at. I can't i can't carry a tune in a bucket to save my life.
00:43:39
Speaker
That's so relatable, though, because do you remember Hannah Montana? I do. She can't sing either. Yeah, Miley Cyrus, she can't sing. That's a hot take. She sounds like 80-year-old smoke. That's not a hot take.
00:43:50
Speaker
but That is not a hot take. And Billy Ray couldn't sing either. Come at me. Wow. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell the comments I'm wrong because I'm not. Billy Ray couldn't sing. He'd had one good song. Ake you break your heart? No, some gave all.
00:44:01
Speaker
Oh, I don't know that I've even heard that. Yeah, I'm going to have to go. You got to listen to Some Gave All. a Phenomenal song. Very moving song. But great song.
00:44:12
Speaker
so Okay, well, she did it. she So maybe there's still hope for you. Yeah, she sounds like an 80-year-old smoker now. I mean, if JoJo Siwa can make it, anybody can, you know? True. That girl's something else. no true I didn't know that she wasn't as loved as I thought. So I was i was actually, I felt really old.
00:44:27
Speaker
I was at a wedding a few weekends ago and a little sister's, a friend's little sister was like fangirling over these people. And I was like, oh, she looks like Jojo Siwa. And she looked at me like I had three heads. Like that was an insult.
00:44:38
Speaker
I don't know I was like, I thought I was doing good. I thought I was being cool and hip, but okay. That's one thing that we need to talk about because you have learned it. I've seen a video that you've done with your sons. You you keep up with the trends. How do you feel about the new language that the kids are speaking nowadays?
00:44:51
Speaker
Oh, i'm um I'm here for it. Okay. Because always, my kids, whenever I use like one of the new words. Like, yeah, or something. Yeah. When, a you know, level seven got, ah they're always like, how do you know what that means? I'm like, dude, I'm chronically online, right? Obviously, I'm going to know what these words mean, you know.
00:45:09
Speaker
I forget what word I dropped on my 11-year-old the other day, and he was just like, Was it Riz or Ohio or Skippity Toilet? Those are even old now. I forget what it was, but it was like, it was one of the new ones, like hot off the press.
00:45:25
Speaker
And he was like, how do you know that? You know what I think's weird? What? Is like how, how... all the rumors before the internet got to every, and I've heard other podcasts talk about this before, like every kid in America in middle school or high school when I was growing up was convinced that Marilyn Manson had had his two bottom ribs removed.
00:45:48
Speaker
You can use your imagination for why we thought that, right? But everybody in America thought it, but none of us had the internet. We didn't have the internet. We couldn't look anything up. How in the did that get around?
00:45:59
Speaker
You know how it got around. because they Like the COVID virus. yeah They called someone. They called someone. Were you around? I don't mean this by calling you old, but were you around? looking up to see why we thought this.
00:46:14
Speaker
Well, it's over here on his phone. That's funny. He was like, I got to see why he removed those two bottom ribs. That's what you're thinking, one. When you were growing up, did you have the, what is it, party line calling?
00:46:25
Speaker
Do you remember that? Do you remember party line calling? Yeah. You might be young. Where you would like a song and stuff? No. that what you're saying? like i grew up in a small town. So you know where you know the town's name that I grew up in. Cherokee, Alabama. We didn't have any red lights.
00:46:40
Speaker
Wow. We was like 30 miles from a Walmart. um It was a small town. Our graduating class was 69. What an interesting number. The entire graduate. and Very interesting. and That was my my number in football for a year and until they wouldn't let me have it again.
00:46:56
Speaker
But, yeah, very, very small school. right No, I don't know what a party line is. Okay. We had request lines where you would call and profess your love. Oof. Play Don't Take the Girl for me. Oh, for the radio. Yeah.
00:47:10
Speaker
Man. Did you ever listen to Delilah? Was she in Alabama? I do remember that name. Late Nights with Delilah. Doesn't she still do that? Sunday Slow Jam. Maybe. think she still does it. yeah I don't listen to the radio. I need listen the radio. Nobody does anymore. Yeah. Everybody's too busy consuming digital media. On our phones. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I always say, you know, Legacy Media is dead.
00:47:28
Speaker
If you want to advertise, come holler at somebody like me. That's right. Yeah. we'll we'll get We'll get the word out, baby. We'll get the word out. While I have you, I am so genuinely curious to know what's going on in your head. So I've got to know what is a conspiracy theory that you will die on? Like, it you know, that you believe in.
00:47:46
Speaker
want to, I want to know. You're trying to get me canceled. Well, no, no, maybe, maybe don't be too real.
00:47:54
Speaker
Look. Maybe you don't even like conspiracy theories. Oh no, I do. I figured. Oh, I do. I do. I'm, Here's how look at conspiracy theories, right? I love dabbling in them.
00:48:06
Speaker
But, you know, like people say 9-11 was the inside job, right? You start talking about that, right? Mm-hmm. So many people would have to know about it and not say anything.
00:48:19
Speaker
You can't keep anything a secret these days. No. Right? No. so Something can get leaked somewhere. Oh, something's getting leaked. like Like, you know, our politicians can't, you know, have diarrhea without it getting leaked to the media, you know? Yes.
00:48:34
Speaker
Can we say diarrhea? You can say diarrhea. Please say diarrhea. i love i love that word. No, no ah and the moonwalk.
00:48:46
Speaker
Okay, the first walk on the moon or the or the dance move? Where are we going? the the The first walk on the moon. You don't believe it was real? I wasn't there. I wasn't there. I'll support you because I wasn't either. Could have been real.
00:49:03
Speaker
It's hard for me to fathom. yeah It really is. You know, I don't know. And people say, oh, we we placed a reflector on the moon. So if you look at it and you bounce a laser off of it, you can see it maybe.
00:49:14
Speaker
So maybe we did. But I see a lot of reasons why we didn't. And if we didn't, what was reason why we didn't? It was to, you know, bankrupt the Russians so we could win the Cold War, which we did.
00:49:26
Speaker
You know, with the space race, we beat the Russians to the moon, beat them to space. They sent a dog up. The Russians sent a dog up, Sputnik. Wow. On a suicide mission.
00:49:37
Speaker
That dog never made it back. You know? Sad, sad. So that poor dog just gave us life for nothing. I didn't even know that. Because won. USA, baby. All the way. Which like you can, you can really, I mean, you've lived it. You helped us win things.
00:49:52
Speaker
you You know, yeah yeah you can, you can definitely say USA number one. USA number one. Are you, do you want to talk about that for a second? Can we talk about Okay. So I have so many questions and I only want to go there if you want to. But, um, late at night when you weren't sure if you were going to make it through the next day, the next night, whatever that was, training, whether in battlefield, what kept you going?
00:50:11
Speaker
What kept you? I've never, I've never, in my 20 years in the military, I've never seen a bullet fly. Really? Never have. I've only, I've ah i've never shied away from, you know, this. I've only been deployed one time and it was to Qatar.
00:50:24
Speaker
um Doha, Qatar, which is the pearl capital of the world. um But i've I've never seen a bullet fly. I've never had a, I've never seen a mortar fly. Nothing.
00:50:35
Speaker
I'm lucky, I guess. um Yeah, for sure. But, you know, I built bombs. You know, that that was my career field. We'd build bombs and maintain anything that would blow up missiles, bullets, anything like that. Hang on. You built them?
00:50:50
Speaker
Yeah. Were you ever scared you were going to have a mishap? No. Because if one of them does go off, I mean, it's not your problem anymore. there was only one time There was only one time that I was scared.
00:51:02
Speaker
and I was towing some live missiles back from the flight line. It was on a Friday night, and I hadn't been in the military that long, and I had a trailer full. It was a 141 trailer, and I think we had, ah you know, bob five missiles on the top and then four on the bottom, so I had like nine live 1.1 missiles, but which would have just it would have ended everything, you know, in that truck and around that truck.
00:51:27
Speaker
but And I got caught out in an electrical storm. It was, you know, lightning popping. And poppping in Florida is the lightning strike capital of the world. More people get struck by lightning in Florida than anywhere else. but Wow.
00:51:39
Speaker
Yeah, so that was the only time I was scared. I was like, if this truck gets hit by lightning, I'm done, right? Yeah. But, no, I've never been never been worried. Wow. Yeah. That's honestly so cool.
00:51:51
Speaker
There's been a couple unnerving moments. I bet. You know, when you're trying to forklift something it falls off the forklift and it hits the ground. But they're pretty safe. You know, it's just like a big, big paperweight until you put the fuses and everything in it. But make it all work.
00:52:06
Speaker
Make it all go. yeah Wow. Okay. Well, that's so interesting. Yeah. I'm so glad you shared this. It's very boring. Yeah. I mean, no, it is interesting though to the normal person like you and me out there that um really don't get to see the ins and outs of it all. Yeah.
00:52:19
Speaker
And you're almost done. You said ah September 1st? September the 1st, and I am a free man. Oh, my goodness. 20 years, which is is is wild. You know, I did that video not too long ago, you know, when ah my last duty day that I was in uniform, and and looking back, it feels like, you know, just last week I left for basic training, then and you know, you look at it another way and you're like, man, it felt like a lifetime ago, so...
00:52:43
Speaker
Well, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service. That is huge. We, um, there's a lot of people that couldn't have done what they do, including myself without your service and full transparency. Even if you feel like you never saw a bullet fly, you know, you you weren't in the, like truly every person there just, just by volunt, just by saying I am going to the military has made an impact and changed somebody's life and made it for the better. And through your 20 years, you've seen some stuff because if everyone is doing the math and going back to the 2008 era. I've seen some wild stuff. Yeah. But nothing nothing more related. Yeah. But I've seen some wild, crazy stuff. Of course. And being employed by the government and stuff too. That's just a whole nother, we could have a whole nother podcast. so Oh Lord. Anyways. yeah Yeah. I'm just so thankful for that. And before we go, I actually have one more question for you.
00:53:28
Speaker
And I think this is going to be the best thing to end on because people have made it this far. They deserve to know what is something that people would be shocked to know about you. Maybe they don't know about, because you're such an open book.
00:53:41
Speaker
So do you, I'm going to think of something really girly. Do you put fruit in your cereal? ah love angry girl music. Okay. What, what's your favorite song? Angry girl song.
00:53:54
Speaker
Uh, anything by Alanis Morissette. That is like so weird, but like, like angry girl music, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Alanis Morissette or, uh, you know, Meredith Brooks.
00:54:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I love, I don't know why. Yeah. Me neither. But yeah, yeah, I do. I love it. Love it. Love Alanis Morissette. Well, there you go. The more you know. And I love Nickelback.
00:54:23
Speaker
Nickelback gets a lot of crap. That's a good band. yeah That's a good band. And Creed, you know, I'm friends with ah one of the bassists for Creed. I've coached this kid in baseball before. They live down there where we live.
00:54:36
Speaker
ah Brian Marshall, great dude, great family, and a huge Creed fan too. And they catch a lot of flack. They do. no Creed, Nickelback, and Angry Girl music is where I'm at, but mostly country, you know.
00:54:47
Speaker
Yeah. No, i I love that. Hold on. But you, music-wise. Ooh, okay. Well, what you think? turning the tables now. I'm asking. I'm in the driver's seat. Well, what do you think I listen to? Let's start with that. You listen to country, and I would say that you're probably a big Laney Wilson fan, but I think that you also like the older stuff, like Martina McBride and Jodi Messina, and that's what I'm reading here. Okay. You're not wrong. I think right now, currently I am like nothing but Lauren Daigle, Christian, full Christian, fighting some battles, you know, so we're getting it. But I will say for country, you know, I need to love more Lane. I need to love Laney more than I do. It's not that I don't love her. I love her so much. I just almost forget about her music. That's so sad to say. probably a hot take.
00:55:31
Speaker
Come at me. Please remind me to listen to Laney. Laney's an awesome person. Every time I see her, she she gives me a big hug and everything. and She's from your area, Louisiana area. So... well the so I don't know. I mean, I've just, i've I've only met her, you know, backstage at the Opry and different concerts and stuff. Yeah.
00:55:47
Speaker
Yeah. I would say, um, right now it's, um, Cody Johnson and Red Case, Red Clay Strays. Oh, Red Clay Strays. I'm good friends with Cody Johnson's, uh, pedal, pedal player. Okay.
00:55:59
Speaker
Yeah. yeah That's a whole nother, know what? Harrison Yunt. He's good dude. i Just got married last week. Congrats on your marriage. Were you at the wedding? I wasn't. I didn't get invited. Rude.
Family Connections and Social Media Safety
00:56:10
Speaker
I don't know. It's funny how that happens. You're friends until the wedding list comes out and then you're like. Yeah, but he invites me to the concert, so I'm happy about that. And you know my my ah ah first cousin, Dustin Nunley.
00:56:22
Speaker
So I'm Justin Nunley. Dustin Nunley. Stop. He's the guitarist for Luke Combs. Really? Yeah. Yeah, fun fact. That's a fun fact. That is something that nobody knew about you. at First of all, that your cousin's name is Dustin. Dustin Nunley, yes. That's hilarious. Dustin and Justin, yes. Did you guys grow up together too? ah not now Not that close. He's a little bit older than me, um and I'm way better looking than him. You know, he's got he's got way more talent than I do. How many times have you seen Luke Combs?
00:56:54
Speaker
Several. bet. Several, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Love Luke Holmes though. That's good. him. Good He seems down to earth. Yeah. So where, since it's almost time to go, where can everyone find you? Tell us, you want me to, I have them all listed if you want me to read them all.
00:57:08
Speaker
If you don't know by now, don't even bother. No, just any any any social media platform. Just look up Justin Danger Nunley. You're there. Yeah, there's a blue checkmark beside all of them. so That's That's the one you follow. Yeah. And I'm not going to message you and ask you for money. so Never. don't get fooled by scams.
00:57:27
Speaker
What's your demographic on this on this podcast? um Young or old? Yeah, 20s, 30s. 20s, 30s? Yeah, late 20s. What is like the normal premise behind your podcast here? storytelling, getting to know people, taking a second to just get, we normally do in a normal world when someone's not funny, we would do like background, how you got started. Well, this wasn't funny.
00:57:48
Speaker
Well, it was kind of serious. I'm so sorry
Nostalgic Memories and Sensory Experiences
00:57:50
Speaker
about that. You never even asked me why like boots. Why do you like boots? We're on a boot podcast and i never got asked this. We're doing the southern Southern Goodbye thing. We're just going to keep this rolling. We are. No, I used to do horse shows when i was when I was young. That's something people don't know about me.
00:58:09
Speaker
I used to do horse shows. I had a little Shetland pony named Molly. Right. And when I say horse shows, it was like the the lead line where, you know, my parents would, you know, run with you. Yeah, they would pull the horse and everything.
00:58:23
Speaker
And we would get completely canceled for it now. yeah But um I would dress in full Indian stuff with the, with the yeah, everything with the, you know, the headdress. Yes, everything, everything. Why? I don't know. And then and then i when I got a little bit older, we would, you know, that was just my introduction to like,
00:58:43
Speaker
rodeo ah you know horse shows and i got into barrel racing uh and really enjoyed that not with the same shetland pony because she was short and fat just like my first girlfriend and you know what i'm saying i do know she wasn't thin but she is now you know who you are you know who you are you put on a few pounds that's all right though you still got a good personality a face only a mama could love but You're blocked on everything. How would you know? Bless her heart. Yeah.
00:59:10
Speaker
Yeah. I just realized the other day that I did get blocked by somebody. Yeah. That's rude. Yeah. But that's okay. I don't care. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's it happens all the time. It does. It does.
00:59:21
Speaker
but Yeah. So did d and did you do horses growing up? You said that you cleaned stalls. Yeah, I did. know what one of my favorite smells in the world is? Don't say horse manure. Yeah.
00:59:33
Speaker
You are psycho. I love it. what Yeah. Well, it's like a nostalgic smell. I mean, I don't want to bury my face in it. I'm not one of those weirdos. People do that? The worst, I'm sure they do. that There's a fetish for everything. True.
00:59:47
Speaker
You know? True. My strange addiction on TLC. Remember that? Yes. Did you see the chick that would eat the the car foam? I did And the pods. That came back around at one point in time. that or i guess it wasn't it was detergent. Do you know how many farts were stored in those seat cushions? Pink eye. Ugh.
01:00:06
Speaker
There's no telling what happened on those cushions. The worst smelling manure though is chicken litter. It smells like Hershey bars. After you smell chicken litter for the first time and then you're like Nunley was right. It smells like Hershey bars. I won't eat Hershey bars to this day because of that.
01:00:25
Speaker
You mean at a chicken coop where they... I'm talking like a big chicken house. Okay. when they're when they're seabo When they're cleaning out the, you know, if you're probably about a quarter mile downwind from it and you you catch the smell.
01:00:38
Speaker
Okay. This is a good a good topic that now that we're on this. My friend, actually coworker here, she runs our social media. She says that when she eats cilantro, it tastes like dish soap. Do you have that gene? No.
01:00:49
Speaker
You like cilantro? Yeah. wear jeans.
01:00:54
Speaker
We need to get you wearing some Justin jeans. Did you know even have Justin jeans? We got to cut that out now, don't we? Dead gummit. Yeah.
Fashion Preferences and Humor
01:01:00
Speaker
do You know what? i will switch I will switch to Justin jeans. I will switch every jean in my closet out to Justin jeans.
01:01:07
Speaker
If. If. If. We pay you a million dollars. No. No, no, no. I'm not saying about the money. You women have been on to this for a while. Hold on. Yes. This is Justin. Justin Jean.
01:01:19
Speaker
Stretchy. They don't make men's jeans like that, but these are the ones that I found that are stretchy. We're about to convert you, Justin. We will ship some to your house Y'all have stretchy jeans for men? Very stretchy. I love stretchy jeans. Juan, wouldn't you say?
01:01:32
Speaker
Yeah. Juan, you wearing some stretchy jeans? Juan's wearing some nut huggers, and I love it. You've never seen Juan because he's always behind the camera, but Juan's rocking some nut huggers.
01:01:46
Speaker
And next week, we're going to have Juan on the podcast. Ha, ha, ha.
01:01:51
Speaker
And he edits this thing. So he's not even going to, I hope you don't edit that out. You leave that in there or I'm going to call you out on a video. Juan's funny all day long. he He'll say he's going to do something and I'll stop him as he's walking out and tell him to go do what he was going to do anyways. witnessed that. And I have never, I have to tell everyone this because they might understand.
01:02:11
Speaker
I have never seen Juan laugh as hard as he did after with the after the door was closed. So he didn't want you to see him laughing at you. The look, I wish somebody would have been recording when when want one was already through the door. He's like, hey, we're fixing to go to Terry Blacks. Yes.
01:02:26
Speaker
And he had his camera. He had this big camera. He had been filming all day, bless his heart, because he's a trip he didn't bring a tripod. so He's holding this camera all day. His arms have to be tired. Well, one arm anyways, you know, the other one's probably well worked out. But he went, he said, I'm going to set this down before we go eat.
01:02:43
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And there they go again.
01:02:49
Speaker
He said, I'm going to set this down before we go eat. And I waited until the door had already shut. i mean, it was probably about that far from shutting. I said, hey, Juan, made him come back. You had probably gotten, what, five, six steps away by then, just far enough to where it would have been aggravating to turn back around and walk back.
01:03:06
Speaker
He walked back, opened the door, and he's like, yeah. And I said, hey, you need to go put that down before we go eat. And he just eat this was the look I got from him. And then turned and walked away. Yeah. So I didn't get the laugh that you got.
01:03:18
Speaker
Yeah. So when you told me that he laughed, I was like, okay, good. Juan's not pissed. We're good. We're good. I love to mess with people. I'm so glad you did because you know your power. You know that like, okay, I have some influence. I'm standing in this room and you mess with them. That is my my favorite thing to do is mess with people.
01:03:35
Speaker
You don't say it is. it is. i do. I do enjoy doing that. I've got to say, have y'all ever like done a tour of this whole place on social media? No, we haven't.
01:03:47
Speaker
I wonder how many like boots are on property. not Not in boxes. I'm talking about just on the wall. They are everywhere. I'm telling y'all. You know what?
01:03:58
Speaker
Every office. Let's do a giveaway on the podcast right now. You're not going to be able to count all of them. think we will. I don't think there's... ah if you If you email the whole company and say, hey, I need you tell me how many boots are in your office. Take inventory.
01:04:10
Speaker
Let's do it. It is. Okay. I'm a fan of baby shower games and this feels like a baby shower game. I don't think you understand. Do it. Do it. You have no clue. No. there There is so many.
01:04:22
Speaker
Leave it in the comment section. You will never guess how many boots are in this place. Every room you walk into, every office you walk into, there are boot displays. There are so many boots. We've got boots on the wall in the back. You guys can see older styles, half pairs.
01:04:36
Speaker
What are you counting boots? Are you counting a pair are you counting a single pair boots? Single because a lot of them are just singles that are on display. Like all of those right there are singles. So even if they are pairs, they should still count as singles. Okay, So you need to know how many individual boots are. I'm talking about this, the warehouse here. Mm-hmm.
01:04:57
Speaker
You know, and the building across the building cross street. Archives, customer service. It's crazy. It is nuts. I'm talking about boots that are just out. If they're in boxes, they don't count.
01:05:08
Speaker
Miss Nancy, if they're in boxes, they don't count. Hmm. But if they're out, there's even a pair. If you walk over there into the other building, there's a pair of boots that were made for Shaq.
01:05:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah. They're huge. I did a video with them while go. They go all the way from here to here. Did you put them on your foot? You should. I didn't, but I set them next to my boots. You know what they say about people with big boot big big boots, big boot size?
01:05:36
Speaker
Big socks. They have big feet, yeah. Yeah, big socks, yeah. That's our joke. That's what we say. Have you ever seen LeBron's feet? No. I can't say that I have. Feet finder. Let's go.
01:05:49
Speaker
We're getting off camera for this. Got to grab the phone. want you to be on here when I show you what LeBron James' feet look like. Also, how do you have his feet on your phone? That's what I want to know.
01:06:01
Speaker
Are you the scammer that is like selling his feet? LeBron James' feet. Who did you just ask? Your camera? Your camera roll? Yeah, hold on.
01:06:13
Speaker
I'm telling you, are you ready for this? No. Hold um That's not good picture. This is a good picture. Okay, hang on. Is it with shoes on or just bare feet? Bare feet. It's so many questions. Are you ready to see his feet?
01:06:27
Speaker
Yes, let's go.
01:06:31
Speaker
That's fake news. That's not fake news. so
01:06:38
Speaker
This is feet. If you want to see feet. We're going to put the photo. We're going to put the photo. Show it to the camera. Here you go. Let me zoom it back up. It's got to be fake. It's not. Here we go. Here we go. But it's on it's online. It must be real. Right there.
01:06:54
Speaker
but You can overlay the picture, too. Yeah, will. Why not send you the picture? Because it is wild. and if you want to see even wilder feet, Deion Sanders. had his big toe removed.
01:07:06
Speaker
Because of all the stopping, jumping? although stopping yes I don't know. How do you know this? Do have a foot fetish? Not at all, but it sounds like you do. I ask every podcast host that I go on if they have a foot fetish. The Undertaker doesn't either. Okay.
01:07:21
Speaker
Has somebody ever said yes? Yes. Ooh. But they edited it out. Ah. And I was sworn to secrecy on who has the foot fetish. It's funny. It's got to be funny. I am the holder of secrets. It's John Crist.
01:07:33
Speaker
That would be funny. John, you got a foot fetish, dog? You got foot fetish? i know I know his girlfriend. I know. yeah She wouldn't
Episode Wrap-up and Listener Engagement
01:07:42
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have that. You ain't looking at my feet.
01:07:47
Speaker
I am so thankful for your time. Thank you for having me on. Do I get to keep cup? You get to keep the mug and I have a gift for you that I'll give you off camera. Do you really? I put some extra stuff in there. I know you have some sons, so I was hoping that maybe they wouldn't have to fight over some things. Let's go.
01:08:00
Speaker
Anyways, thank you for your time. It's so valuable. Thank you. I've learned a lot about you and I feel like everyone else has been enlightened too. so I hope it was an entertaining podcast. Oh, very entertaining to say the least. When we end on LeBron James' feet, come on.
01:08:15
Speaker
I feel like I'm just now getting into stride where we could where we could really get canceled. Yeah. So I'm starting to get unhinged. That's when we always... That's where the good stuff is. like border on that line. That is where the good stuff is. You are that line. Are you kidding me? Most of the time, yes.
01:08:30
Speaker
Absolutely. Anyways, you guys know where to find him. Thanks for listening. And as always, if you want your 15% off justinboots.com, head on over to www.justinboots.com and use code...
01:08:42
Speaker
We'll come back to that. Okay. Are they going to put in the comment section how many boots are in this whole place? Yes. Okay. You have to. If you guys didn't hear that before, it's now challenge accepted. I personally am going to do a whole inventory. I'm going to guess. I've seen the whole place.
01:08:59
Speaker
You know what? Before we leave here, just so you can put on your channel, yeah I'm going to walk around. And I'm going to show the majority. Okay. Not where people can pause. Yeah. I'm just going to say, this is what the normal office looks like here. Okay.
01:09:12
Speaker
Right? Yeah. And I'll show some of the bigger rooms. But then you can have at it. That sounds good. And then can give your have a guess in my mind. Okay. Don't say it here. No, I'll tell you what my guess is, and you can just bleep it out right now. Okay, yeah.
01:09:24
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I'm going to say...
01:09:30
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That's my guess. and and So I'm curious to see what it would be now. You got to keep me you have my word. You have my word. I will do that. What's the discount code for 15% off? KYBU15. That's the code you're going to use for 15% off. What was it? KYBU15.
01:09:46
Speaker
Why in the is it so hard to remember? KYBU. Kick your boots up. KYBU. Kick your boots up. 15. Justin, this has been awesome. Thank you.
01:09:59
Speaker
Thank you. Y'all stay classy, stay out of trouble. Take it easy. I'll take any way I can get it. Okay, we're done. Thanks for joining us on Kick Your Boots Up.
01:10:10
Speaker
I'm your host, Taylor McAdams, and we can't wait to share the next story of the West. Until then, feel free to like, subscribe, and leave us a review. Follow us on social media at Justin Boots to keep up with our next episode. And we'll see you the next time you kick your boots up.