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Glick's House of Music: The Handlers
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Glick was welcomed the Mechanics of melody Southern country music artist The Handlers into the House of Music. The guys shared funny stories, how they were affected by COVID and so much more
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Welcome and Network Intro
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yeah yeah
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Yes, sir, yes, sir. Yes, sir. What's going on everybody? Happy Tuesday. Long time. No see. Welcome to Glick's House of Music. Y'all know me. I am Glick, obviously. Part of the nonsensical network. If you're not already, check us out. We are everywhere. Facebook, Instagram, X and the old ticky tacky shows alive Monday through Sunday on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch. Yes, we are back on Facebook and we are back on Twitch. We're hanging out. We're trying stuff out. We're playing around. It is what it is. And you can listen to the shows anytime, any place, wherever you listen to podcasts at all at the nonsensical network, or you can simply go to bio dot link slash nonsensical network.
Merch Store and Platform Access
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All them links are there, including the links.
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to our merch store. If you guys are interested in getting any of them goodies, we got the hoodies, the shirts and the cups and just all kinds of random shit. I don't know what mom was doing. You guys know Nikki, you know, she's handling that. And, uh, I'm just sitting back telling you all about it at the end of the day.
YouTube Challenges
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Uh, um, go give us follow, give us a like, give us a share. We greatly appreciate that. We had that bio link scrolling right down there at the bottom of the screen, uh, all night. So you know where to find it.
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Apologies. Uh, replay that the listeners, uh, real quick. Apparently we got in trouble on the old YouTube channel. Got a little spanking on their ass. Uh, we hurt their feelings. Uh, so going to get this replay a little bit later on down the road, but we will get it up on the YouTube channels. Uh, anyways, enough of that and enough about us. We're here for a reason tonight. We're just living and we got the boys with us. We got rowdy.
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And now apparently this next gentleman comes with a warning. So the views and opinions of JJ are not necessarily the views and opinions of around the helers earn in the building. What's going on guys? What up? How's it going?
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Welcome to the show, first and foremost.
Social Media and Music Discovery
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Thank you guys so much for taking a little bit of time out of here your evening to come and slum it with us peons in the podcast world. I do appreciate that.
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Um, I do not consent or condone anything that JJ says. All right. No, all good. Nice. Um, I'll write off the Batman. I, uh, I stumbled across you guys. Like I do most artists that I've had on this show on Instagram. And it looks like you guys are, are, are new to the, uh, the Instagram world. Or are you just kind of diving into that a little bit?
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Yeah, we just set up an account, officially, I guess you could call for us ah to be able to promote music, be able to just promote what we're, what we got going on. You know, I i come i come from an era, it's a little different, ah as far as like being able to represent represent yourself as a band or as a unit, whatever you want to call.
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um And it's been a bit of a curve for me. um i'm I'm not old by any means, but I've just never been the most computer literate about things. JJ j has to usually hand walk me through things. but um But yeah, we just, we got the handlers thing up. It's, you know, we're about to cross over 300. Hey, you know, we'll take away our victories.
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Um, but other than that, like him and, him and I've had our, obviously our own Instagrams and been a part of other bands and other things.
Musical Backgrounds and Collaboration
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And, um, and, and that, that was fun, but it's cool to really truly grassroots it, you know, like really kick it off from the ground. Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's always fun to, uh,
00:09:05
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learn as you go, because that's been, that's been my whole thing. You know, even here with the podcast thing, since we started it, it was like, I have no idea what I'm doing. I thought, Hey, I can just turn a camera on and start talking to my buddies. And that's all we had to do. I didn't realize, wait a minute. There's a ah whole behind the scenes of the internet and social medias and everything like that. But.
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Um, yeah, I was scrolling through and you know, my algorithm is a lot of, uh, local up and coming musicians. And I heard one of the clips for a living and I was like, Oh, I like these guys. And then I was like, I wonder what else they got. I was like, Oh, these guys are new, new on, uh, on the, on the social. So, but, uh, I'm digging that song. I'm liking it. So I had to, uh, I had to reach out. I like your guys. as sounds You got like that. Uh, you got a little bit of an old school, um,
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like uh almost uh it's it's country but almost a little bit of like the southern outlaw like it vibes to you like a little skinnered and and whatnot um to you so i that really shows with your new song i have been checking i have listened to that i've seen you guys drop that the other day and i was like listen that and then of course i couldn't get it up for I couldn't get it up up here for tonight. ah yeah But ah we will down the road. We'll definitely, I'll have my guys that are way smarter than me work on that and be like, can we get this on the brand so that I can play? Right. JJ and I have worked have worked together on a few different projects and and before him and I,
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really put put ourselves together as as a as a unit. we We kind of practice you know music in other ways with other bands. And I had like an outfit that he was fully involved with. It just kind of made me sort of the front front end of it. And it's called Rowdy, Rowdy Dixie Original. And we put out a record a few years ago called Los Sabeneros that ah He co-produced and engineered and we did it here in Nashville at Sundog Studio. Awesome spot shout out Sundog. We had a great experience. Had some good friends on that record. If you want to hear more of that stuff, sort of the root of where all this came from, that's a good record to reference Like I said, it's Rowdy is the name and the record name is Los Sabineros. If you go to handlers.com, there's a link for it down there. Like I said, JJ co-wrote that whole record. The first version of Livin' is on there. Yeah. Well, I'll have to check that out on Blue Mountain. Check that out. I know we were talking behind the scenes. This is the great thing about StreamYard is I'm up here in Ohio.
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The rowdy year in Tennessee and and JJ you're down there and, uh, and Florida, the South Ohio as, as we like to call it on the show or we're North Florida. One of the two were basically the same. Yeah. You open up a newspaper and there's Florida man or Ohio man. One of the two, but how how how long have you guys been working together and and and how did the, how did that collaboration and that meetup happen?
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Go ahead, Ralph. I hope you have a questions
Songwriting Journey
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about, um, like, yeah, take the class back. Like, you know, your football conversation is going to be good, but I was going to say JJ, JJ's going to be really familiar with the anything music that's going on in Tampa. He's been involved in it for over.
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that will happen his life. So there's a lot of accolades that go to to him and what he's doing down there. But I've i've been on my own musical journey since my teenage years. I started songwriting back in East Tennessee and um ah we we met in 2016. We were both working for a band called Under Oath and he got hired on as a grip and I was drum tech at the time for ah the drummer and and We just, I guess we kind of hit it off. We right away, right away. Like he was kind of curious what I was up to. Well, he was so big when he walked in and I was like, who is that? And then they were like, he's our drum tech. He's coming on the bus with us. And I was like, I'm going to have to ask my mom if I'm allowed to talk to him. he was so yeah with Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much right away. I was like, all right, this is my guy. like this We immediately walked outside and he pulled out a stick. I pulled out a stick. And we just were like, all right, cool. So we got this thing going. Best friends now.
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The great great story as far as as far as this goes is like Continuing on like the next week when we kicked off the tour after we did pre-production there in st. Pete we ended up one of our first shows on that run was in South by so on it's it's in Arlington, Texas at the time was Arlington I believe but anyways, we had a couple days off before the show and and I had already planned on and songwriting this whole tour. I'd really kind of kicked my songwriting back up. I was working with a couple co-writers in Nashville at the time and was really just, I was going to utilize the time since I, ah you know, had had one one kid at the time and yeah just when I'm home, I want to give all the attention to them. But if I'm working, I'm on the road, I'm on a bus or whatever.
Career Building and Personal Life Balance
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i'll I will
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I will ring it dry with opportunity. um So I was planning on using the tour to just write this whole new record that we ended up putting out in 2018. And the guitar I bought, ah I walked into a pawn shop and I was like, I'm only looking to spend 25 bucks maybe. And I was like, I just need a beater. I was like, that's all I need is something to make a little bit of noise. And they're like, well, we don't have anything under you know whatever, 50 bucks or whatever. I'm just like, I'm sure I'll find one. And this this kid was like, i I got a guitar, I could say, yeah. and I was like, what do you got? He goes, come out to the car. I went out to the car. He pulls it out of the back of the car and it's- Real, real good deal here. The bri the bridge is lifted and it's just hanging with the strings. I was like, would you take 10 bucks for it? He goes, he's like, he's like sure. and I was like, all right, well, cool. I knew how to fix it, but um you know granted, the the instrument was not going to be in its best shape. but Like I said, I just needed something to make enough
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sound to be able to you know figure out a note. And I poured some glue down there and I took a rock and leaned it against the fire hydrant that was right there in the parking lot and push just wedged it to where I was going to hold it together. And he saw me do all of that. And just I'll hand it over to you. He's curious going, what the hell's this dude doing? Yeah, I was like, what are you doing with that guitar? I was like, are you going to pick on that thing? He was like, oh, buddy. And then he just started playing. And I was like, oh, God.
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but I just ah but left an indie band. So I was like, man, I want to like make music still like we're gonna work for this band. But like there's other time. So be sick to work on some tunes and literally he's right there just already working on tunes. I'm like, well, look at that. That's something to do. And pretty much right there. I think we wrote a song that That day we wrote one that we still play. That's right. And we'll talk about it. Like it's still a good, it was like pretty much immediate. It was like it all just clicked. We were already having insane conversations about just what, what we like about music, but not, yeah not just, you know, we were ah ah automatically already saying like basically what we wanted to make. You know what I mean?
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um right away. We had known each other a week, like not even, not even a week. ah That's literally, we literally have not stopped since. and we just Right place, right place, right time and right person, you know, everything. I gotta ask you, I gotta ask you that. Do you still have the guitar?
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Yeah, absolutely. night it's It's in the house. I have it in my my son's room. um i believe I believe like, yeah, it's a real small. it its It's like a three card a three quarter yeah it's like a three quarterter size, like kids guitar, but I wanted something that was more songwriter at the short scale and it worked out perfect. um I have a couple other ones that I use now, but that one's in my son's room. I like to, I like to find the spirit in life and and things intrinsic things like you know it's medicine it's it's something that that is you know ah carries fallen memories or or or presents like a good vibe and this studio is kind of full of stuff as you can see it it's like yeah um I wanted to my kind of keep that in my son's room and see if you know just let him kind of understand what it is and he's come around to start playing music JJ was just here we recorded a bunch of music and he actually got to catch my son a song he wrote and
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recorded him a little bit but anyways that little guitar I just want to kind of carry it on like he's got he's doing songwriting stuff on it still so that's awesome yeah now you you you look like you're a pretty big guy I can only imagine what it looked like outside of a pawn shop. You buy a tiny guitar from some random strange kid out of the back of his car and getting glue and a rock and just like what is this guy doing because it's usually the other way around like somebody's taking an old guitar in there. Flip it and get get some cash, right? Like I'm I'm handing cash and getting I'm like ah re reverse fire them.
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Yeah, a little tiny broken guitar. We, we, we, we got some really cool footage and, and actually he had a laptop and, and had a microphone cause we were working for a band that they do the same thing. They record on tour when they were, when they do a tour cycle, they're going ahead and riding a sister together. And it's really hard to get a band together at that, at that point. But when you're on tour, it's like you utilize that time once again, ringing it out. for every opportunity and they would do writing and recording too and they had a microphone and a laptop and sort of a small recording console rig, you know, that could stay on the bus and we, they let us borrow it. We're like, no, you guys aren't gonna use that anymore. We're like, no, we'll take that. No problem. We literally used more than they did. We're like, well, it's here. If you need it, it'll be in the bunk if you needed it, but it's ours. It's ours now.
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But we we got we got to see a lot of cool stuff. And then over the next couple of years, like it it but sort of became the same thing. I kind of always traveled to Florida like about a week and a half, week two weeks before we would do a run. So him and I started planning time.
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When I would get down there and those those days started getting a little bit longer like we started just adding days to like, have you know, I get down there for pre-production and then it was pre-production and two days with JJ and then it started becoming a pre-production week and then a whole week with Jay is like I would go down and we would start spending lots of time together in the studio.
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and working in between our jobs, doing what we needed to do, like killing it, always, always keeping it like A level, no matter what our work, you know, we're committed to, um you know, we're committed to our our opportunity as much as we are, you know, our obligation. um So we- Yeah, the job was fun. We enjoyed our job and we had to do it together and we got to write songs.
Pandemic Impact and Strategies
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So it was like- The best job in the world. It really was the best.
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It still is. It still is the best. We've continued it. We've let it evolve and and grow and become amazing things. But like it's still the best situation because we've been blessed with the opportunities to be able to do what we love and allow that to fuel what we are passionate about. And it is a great, beautiful thing. um And we're thankful. And we we don't think it's by any mistake you know that him and I met each other and we worked together and and that we found camaraderie and then we basically started our energies focused in the same direction. um But here, like I said, in 2020 when everything shut down, we we kept it going. We kept the locks on. we We literally got the guys together. We tried to just keep keep the whole thing moving, keep it progressing forward. And and it was hard because, man, we we all saw drought, really, really, really deep drought. and
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we were able to just muscle through it, man, like cowboys do, and that that we we will consider ourselves carrying that code as cowboys, because if it you can't have it done for you, you do it the damn self, you figure it out, especially if you've got family that are dependent on you. And that's just kind of what what it's always been about, bootstrap and handling it. and that And that's where we came up with ah with the name. like he he We like the concept of a cattle dog in reference to you know, it goes in the NASCAR, it goes to the Tetris, Dell Senior, and and and it, you know, the kerosene rags and piss ants and all this, like, just basically, like, always put put your cowboy hat on and, you know, don't mind it. Don't mind the work. And then at the same time, when opportunity comes, you thank the Lord for the breeze, you know. Thank you, Lord for the breeze.
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Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. I can respect that man. You know, not upper shut up. Yeah. Who? Yeah. What else are you going to do? Right? Yeah, exactly. At the end of the day. Yeah. I mean, you know, you guys have been doing this long enough and and you guys might be one of the first artists that I've really actually had the opportunity to talk to you that might have been really affected by 2020 and the shut dwell set for Florida because Florida said,
00:23:22
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We do whatever the hell we want. Nobody tells us. kind of It's kind of how we were here in Ohio for the first part. A lot of difference was you guys had DeSantis down there going, yeah, we fuck, we're doing whatever the fuck we want. You can kiss my ass. We had DeWine up here trying to tell everybody, you got a nine o'clock curfew, everybody in the house. Us Ohioans were like, you can kiss our ass. I only want my mask to sleep in.
00:23:48
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You had to off or I left the house. Yeah, I i wore my ah wore my law lawn mowing apparatus like to to the hospital and to Walmart. Yeah. I literally did. I walked, I'm like, I'm not going to go get that well done mask. I'm going to put something on that I would go in a paint booth with and I know I'm not going to get anything in it. So particle mask. That's not an accredited mask. You know what, one time it happened to me and Kyle, we we when we worked together. We both walked in with it and they were like, sir, we're not sure if that's in. And we just both like looked over and it's like, Oh, really? Dude, no way. I was like, a mine is better than yours, actually. Yeah. that That piece of cloth that you have on your face is not doing anything. You know, like I cannot smell the grass that I'm mowing, ma'am. And, um,
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So, you know, the fact that you guys were able to find a way to keep going and, and like you said, keep food on the table and everything like that with, with all the just absolute craziness that was. oh Yeah. ah to fo were yeah We're all going to die. The Armageddon has, has, has reached us. you know like ah Hey, dude, then once we got that ouchie-fout you, dude, everybody got better.
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um It's all good now. It's all good now. Nothing to worry about, everybody. You know, I tell people I was I was driving a delivery truck at the time that the quote unquote shut down happened. I didn't change my life. I was all over the road, up and down the roads all day, every day.
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You know, on the weekends, you know, my small town that I live in, we start breathing in people's places. Yeah. You know, I'm in and out of truck stops. I'm in and out of stores. ah You know, we start a couple of local bars that stay on door handles. Licking door handles. Yeah. Licking door handles and everything. Just go. And I'm like, I still do that. Just that tastes good. It's fun. You know, sometimes you got to. Life's all about taking risks. Are you really? Exactly.
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but I was actually thinking about whenever it did go in and like, there's so many good things that did come out of COVID though. Like I was wanting to say like. Hello. Hello. Bing bong. Yeah. like So much great.
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content came out of that. There's a lot of yeah really bad stuff that happened to but horrible things, but like there's so much humorous stuff and that's me and my friends, all my friends, we, we live that way. We live on the positive side. We hate the injustice, but we truly live like, no, no, no, like shut all that off. What is the funny shit? Let's watch that. That's what we, and my, my threads are full of it. So it's only the best, only the best and funniest things as they know.
00:26:57
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and And that's kind of, you know, where we were with when we started the show, we were still fairly new and it was like, you know, COVID happened and it was like, look, we got to create some kind of escape, like give people an escape. We made, we just made light of everything and had fun with everything. You have to. and and it's side of it yeah Yeah. What else are you going to do, man? You can't sit there. and come on and woe is me, blah, blah, blah. yeah man We had to give people some kind of an escape. So I mean, yeah, that's where we kind of really kicked off with, with our shows and what we were doing in the beginning. But yeah, dude I heard you mentioned Call of Duty. Yeah. I got a lot of Call of Duty time in on the weekend. My eyes still hurt. du breath head Like, like that red dead redemption.
00:27:50
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I didn't do any of that. I didn't have video game console. I didn't play video games. I bought an 85C20 and started tinkering on that damn thing.
Family Influence and Creativity
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That was my video game. It was great. I went and worked on a ranch. I went the opposite way. I actually was like, no, I want to do the hardest things. I went and worked at a horse ranch.
00:28:16
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um I started rebuilding an 85 Chevy like I just went into it and then took on house projects because I mean the at the time before the late before lumber and labor just skyrocketed, I took advantage of building a fence putting it like this studio. I built this studio like I just tried my but best to get in ahead of everything and then it all skyrocketed and I actually had to like stop halfway through this project to like wait for lumber to come back down but found a place shout out to Kentucky Lumber Company. Shout out shout out to Kentucky Lumber. They they have the they have the best tongue and groove um shout out to Middle Tennessee
00:28:58
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You know, I'll plug it. I'll plug it. yeah gonna like i the These guys helped me out. They they gave me utility grade at half half like half a dollar like ah you know, per square foot is like that's a big deal with wood. So like yeah shout out. Shout out.
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it it take bra
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Anyways, enough talking about wood. Hey, we're just getting started. so Ask man down there, how do you feel about wood? How do you like your wood? I like balsa. Balsa is favorite kind of wood. ah Bamboo. Yeah.
00:29:49
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No, you know, that's that that's it. Like I said, you know, you guys coming through that coming out of it and still being able to be positive and stay focused on what you're doing. You know, that's awesome. And, you know, the different projects and and everything like that was, you know, the handlers. Was this something that you guys knew right off the bat you wanted to do? Or is it just kind of.
00:30:12
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just happened because you you guys said you were working in different groups and doing different projects. Did you guys ever have that discussion where it was like, you know, one day we should just do our own thing. Or it was ah like, Lost Hub in Eros was kind of that. We just did it with a lot more people involved. And it just for all kinds of reasons, just it didn't work out that way and that orientation of our group. But me and Rowdy were like, well, we still have already written like 40 songs. no Like, let's do some, we could still, like, let's not stop doing that. Like, that's never, we've never had a plan for releasing any of this in the past.
Inspiration and Songwriting Methods
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So why would, that's never stopped us. So no let's keep writing and then
00:30:57
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we were like, dang, do we wanna like write songs for other people? Like, do we want, like, how, like, what are we, are we trying to be like a songwriting duo? And then it's like, what the fuck are we doing? i'm Like, we should just, it should just be us and we will get a band. yeah yeah Like, we don't really need, we I mean, we don't need anybody other than to play live. Like, we just need more bodies, you know? And thank God, I mean, man, we have,
00:31:22
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we have assembled the slangiest of slangers over here absolutely a real a real fleet a yeah a a real and like that just all kind of came together with these people like a stable fool of just boys fast horse nine ready to go fast faster so so that was that was an interesting thing between him and i because i was just i was already gunning after it and just involved in writing writing 200 plus songs a year and and then he on my own time writing another 200 plus and then he's in a couple different bands he's doing producer engineer stuff and and we we we both
00:32:04
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knew of each other's flow and we knew of each what what each other were creating. we were we were We were always song swapping. We were always bouncing songs off each other. Like, what do you think about this? but And drastic styles, like what what we're involved in. And it was beautiful because I found elements of what he was doing. Then I was like, man, I like that. And then of course he's, he's looking at me going like, you write, like you really write songs. You spend time writing songs. And and I'm like, well, you,
00:32:30
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wrench on songs. like and And it just kind of became more evident that if we're going to work together, let's let's start keeping like track of this stuff. So he he started a folder. He started a you know Dropbox folder. We started sharing. And now would when I would come down there, we'd spend a day, two days, three days. Like I said, it started growing and growing and started having more songs. And then finally, I just started. We're scrolling in this web page. I'm like, people so many songs. Oh, dude. we i started I started you know the the all the 200 plus songs and then like I said my own 200 songs that I had like I started I kept I keep voice notes on my phone and I would just bring them those ones that he'd not heard not the ones that aren't being worked or held you know I would bring these songs down to him and it'd bring like 15 there'd be like we can't pick through all of them so you yeah I'm like I have to pick my favorite yeah I picked my 15 that I thought he that he would that he would really be into and
00:33:28
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and I would pick, I'd be like, all right, I like this one the most. Yeah, we just, I would do this one and then like, actually give it time and write it. And I would play him and then some of them would hit immediately. He would, he would be like, I like that one. We'd be on his back porch, which is sort of the sanctuary where everything kind of happens. And he would just start thumbing something, picking through something. And I would just kind of throw a melody and we'd have one written right there in 15, 20 minutes and ready to go. for that next day at studio before we go to work. But that's, like I said, that's grown, that's evolved into a really, I think a streamlined process that him and I have figured out being a little bit of a distance away. I've been able to come down there and we've worked out of some certain spots and he's got a spot down there in his house. But here recently we've been able to utilize my place and we've been able to utilize other people's studios there in Northern Florida near where
00:34:22
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jj liz and And it's just become this community, and this this asset, this this toolbox. you know we We could kind of pull from every drawer and and really get the job done. And that's expedited things for us. And we've started taking, like we we do all of our own work. We really do all of our own labor and everything when it comes to sound, when it comes to video when it comes to media, when it comes to representing ourselves, interviews, we and we we we we literally plan it and do it all. And that's where the handlers kind of came about is like, we we we're we're far along in the process and we got much to learn, but we're thankful that we figured out a a workflow between each other because we crush so much stuff in a small amount of time. It it works out so well for us. Yeah.
00:35:08
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No, I, I get that.
Musical Influences and Industry Opinions
00:35:10
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I actually, and after almost um almost four years of doing this, I finally started. Cause I was doing everything shows behind the scenes, social media, you know, video clips, the other thing. And then the last month or so, I was like, look guys, we're doing this network thing. I need help. um I'm getting so long. It's nice when you have somebody that you can count on somebody that you can rely on to, you know, be able to go, Hey, this is, I have this idea.
00:35:39
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What do you think? And then, you know, from that idea or that song, you know, you get, like you said, you get to wrench it on it, tinkering around with it, playing around with it. And then next thing you know, Hey, we're good. We're ready to go. Uh, when it comes to songwriting for you guys in particular, do you, I can't even imagine having 400 plus songs that you just, you know, written out, uh,
00:36:07
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Do you write a lot from personal experiences or is it more just like ah you know you happen to be out to dinner and you see something happen or you're out fishing or something like that and then you just like hey you know this could be relatable like where do you guys get your inspiration to write from?
00:36:24
Speaker
ah I'll sum it up for Rabs real quick. I could see it happen in his brain whenever something happens. I'll just go like this to him. I'll let his little googlersrs Googlers out because he'll like we walk by something and he'll you knowll see a sign or he'll giggle over something and then he'll be like oh and then I could just hear him over there like quietly just like And I'm like, oh, you're writing something right now, aren't you? And he's like, oh, buddy. He's like, so like I'll say something. He's like, oh, who just sound like a phrase and be like, there's there's a song right there. He's like, just give me a second.
00:37:01
Speaker
and what I mean, that's my observation. He obviously has like a way more delicate answer than that, but oh no. did No, we call that we call that like nanny nanny. Anytime that you're like um somebody in close proximity might be like talking about something that you'd be ah very much interested in. Like you just kind of like, you know, you just kind of yeah kind of lean in a little bit. Like you it's definitely rubbernecking, but like we we call it every day on the road on stage. All the locals that are working there, you're just like,
00:37:31
Speaker
just lift on listen to the mar there we got that We call them the crusties. No, but that I mean, I would say we we're both inspired by our upbringing. You know, not the 90s raised him. I was raised more like 80s going in the 90s where he's more like 90s in 2000s. We've got about 11 years in between us.
00:37:55
Speaker
Um, that's made for a very fun friendship, just but different different dynamics, but him, him and I figured it out for each and it's, thank God, because it's a black. Um, but, uh, but as far as like, just, I grew up in East Tennessee. It's like considered birthplace country music. And I was just surrounded by music growing up and grew up in church. Of course, you know, if anybody's in church in the South, they're definitely around music. And he did too. and And in his own way, he went.
00:38:23
Speaker
He was surrounded by a family that's you know from deep Louisiana and and then you know being in Central Florida there. I would say he's deeply influenced by the gospel and the swamp. And he just took to a little bit more of an urban view of things living outside of Tampa. like being involved in maybe newer churches, but just happened, just a smattering of culture around them at all times, you know, listening to newer music. And, you know, I grew up in, like I said, just the gospel and like Southern rock and roll, Lynyrd Skynyrd and all, you know, all the, all the 80s rock, all the 70s rock, all the classic rock stations. Yeah, I wasn't allowed to listen to that stuff.
00:39:04
Speaker
yeah my but devil was easy yeah yeah Yeah, my mom my mom listened to country music. She was big Alan Jackson, you know, Dolly Parton, George Jones fan and and and I just I had that and my grandparents were really into southern gospel and I had that and I was just.
00:39:21
Speaker
constantly it was just it literally was left right left just coming out of all the speakers and and i just kind of took to a melody and and i love singing i love harmony that was a big thing my family did a lot of harmony like multi-part harmony just beautiful and it just moved me and i was always just kind of set out to try to recreate that moment over and over again from from what i felt so long ago and and we'll and him and i just wear his musical taste his and his love for music and and how it moves him to, we've created a ah beautiful thing when when him and I both are are working together. We accomplished that feeling that I was just talking about. we We go back there to a place where I felt so moved. And he does that with melody and and how how he hears a song and and how he'll compose and and make a song sound of a particular way. when the voice note that I recorded in my bedroom sounds a completely different way. It just, that's a beautiful thing about him and I having drastically different musical backgrounds, but sort of from the same family table, the South, you know, highly influenced Southern music and gospel music and country music, so. Yeah. 100%. All over the place. All over. All over.
00:40:39
Speaker
That ain't nothing wrong with that. That's kind of my music. I say it all the time. I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket to save my life, and I sure as hell couldn't play an instrument if I had to. I've had a guitar for about 20 years now, and it does a better job holding a hat than any. And I'm all, I look at it, and I'm like, oh, I'm going to learn to play you one of these days. And it's like, eh, keep plugging dust and holding my hats up for me. That's how I feel. I like that hat hole in my truck. Yeah.
00:41:09
Speaker
but ah But I love music and I love all different all different genres and and and eras and, you know, he big fan of the 50s and 60s. And I surprise a lot of people because I'm a bit of an old school hip hop head.
00:41:23
Speaker
oh And they're like, what do you know about hip-hop? And I'm like, where are we talking? East Coast, West Coast, down South, you know, 90s, you know, what are we doing? And nice but I just listen to everything and I love it. and And that's the cool thing about doing this show is getting to meet, quote unquote, the next generation of artists like you guys themselves. And it's cool to see music kind of coming back around because let's be honest, the last Well, 15, 10, 15 years of music has not been that great. yeah i do you You have your, your acts that have been around for a long time and they've always been great, but a lot of these new artists, just 40 people write a song and the computer does fix their vocals and everything else. And it's just not good. So it's, it's, as a fan of music, it's really cool to see people like you and and this new generation that's coming up that takes pride in their music, takes pride in
00:42:22
Speaker
writing songs and and they're not just writing ah There's a tree with yellow leaves. And then they put a beat around it and just say, tree with yellow leaves 45 times for two and a half, three minutes. you know i Unless it's like tree with yellow leaves. Tree with And that's different, right? Yeah. I like something with substance. ah yeah in their story you know maybe you have Maybe I've just reached that age where I'm like the old curmudgeon yelling at kids for being on my yard. I don't know. I like music with substance.
00:42:57
Speaker
tell me a story, give me something to hang on to. you know browser I'll say there's every era has its high points, low low whatever you want to call low points. A good friend of ours always you know says that there's not there's no such thing as a bad song. There's only bad sounds and it's like,
00:43:15
Speaker
OK, I mean, you could you could you could you could go down two different ways there. But I kind of, you know, I'll give any song a listen if it doesn't if it doesn't move me, if it doesn't like anti something. I mean, I thought or what. And then it's like, OK, that's a song. I'm not going to say it's a good or bad play, but it's a song. yeah But something.
00:43:35
Speaker
Huh? It exists. It exists. it so Thank you for doing that. Yeah, it is in the ethos. But at the same time, like I think what would be i've thought about this recently. If I had a chance to like speak speak you know or give give any type of information out there to the world in front in front of people, in front of a group of people, in front of a crowd of people, is is you know don't be afraid to have an imagination Oh. Oh, no. His imagination got the best of him. Oh, no. He's still there. He just went. He's still there. He just went black on the screen. He had it. Oh, no. I guarantee you, I know his phone died. He didn't even think about it. He had it plugged in. He said he had it plugged in. I'm sorry. Give me a moment. He got a phone call. I have to.
00:44:35
Speaker
Do have games on your phone? Hold on a second, I gotta play candy, Chris. Hold on. Yeah, I just got all my lives back. Yeah. I'm playing a Monopoly Go with my friends.
00:44:51
Speaker
Monopoly Go. Okay. That been an amazing setup because I was about to go into some... Awful.
00:45:04
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on I'm so sorry I got booted off for some reason. you Something wrong with your mic.
00:45:13
Speaker
Hello there we go. There go with touch bear we go. Sorry about that. Sorry, internet. Sorry, YouTube. Sorry.
Weather, Community, and Dining Experiences
00:45:22
Speaker
What's up, guys? Glick. I'm sorry. What's up, guys? like it Welcome back to... ah Welcome back to Rowdy's House of Music, where he does whatever he wants when he wants. We'll see you later. We'll see you later. All right. I'm gonna head out. Yeah, you just took over my show like you took over those guys' recording equipment. Yeah. Oh, I'm a head out.
00:45:49
Speaker
You're not eating for the show anymore, are you? I got this. I'm having it i'm having a great time. Yeah. i I'm trying to have fun.
00:46:00
Speaker
ah um i i forgot what I sort of forgot the thought that of ah where we were. Yeah, it's funny. Moving on. I think we derailed the whole show. I think we're all just kind of like, yeah where do we go from here? so now and he's so with youin and um Tell me, tell me this. What is, what's the snow like up there where you're at right now? Fortunately for us, we haven't gotten any. Now, unfortunate for our,
00:46:35
Speaker
neighbors a little bit to the north of us. Uh, I think they are still under about 35 feet of snow. Uh, I think, uh, I think I've been, uh, Northern Ohio up along, uh, Lake Erie, uh, it do, uh, and whatnot. I think they got like about three to four feet of snow this past weekend.
00:46:57
Speaker
I'm over Central. I'm down in Central Ohio, so yeah, we've been. We've been lucky we haven't had much snow. It's just it actually just started getting cold last week here and I'm already over it. I hate it.
00:47:10
Speaker
so failurelia our Our buddy that plays guitar with us, Connor, he is from ah he is from up there, him and his wife both. and And we were talking about the snow and it was how it's been just spitting snow here. you know We got a little bit of a dusting last night and I was like, I think it's pretty, it's it's whatever. yeah But he he's just like, oh he's he's like i'm I'm so thankful I don't live.
00:47:34
Speaker
up there anymore, but like, keep it out of here. He doesn't, he don't want to, he don't want anything to do with the snow in Nashville. And it just, i did it gets icy here too. It's just like, it's still dangerous. Yeah, it gets so dangerous because there's a lot of people from California and Texas here and they ain't, they ain't knowing nothing about driving on ice. Yeah. now i got it on nice I lived down in, down in Charleston, South Carolina for about 10 years. And the first year we were there, they had a,
00:48:04
Speaker
ice storm. Oh yeah. And it was about a quarter inch of ice and it's sat down half of Charles. Oh, I believe it. I'm like, Oh, what in the world is going on here? But however, a couple of years before I came back up home, we did get a blizzard. The big thing about the blizzard was that for about four days prior, it was warm and raining. And then it got cold real fast, real quick.
00:48:31
Speaker
And all that rain froze. And then we got about eight inches of snow on top of it. So Charleston was shut down for about a week and a half, but you know, you get down into those Southern parts of the country and they don't have plows and they don't have salt. yeah They were trying to th throw sand on the road and I'm like, guys, uh, you got.
00:48:50
Speaker
three inches of ice underneath eight inches of snow. You know, you're just going to have to wait for it to get warm in a couple of days and flood everything. But yeah, you know, fortunately, you know, where we're at, we get snow from time to time. It might get a little, a little ugly, but yeah, we don't get anything like they get up there up north, up by Cleveland and up on the, uh, on the lake and whatnot. Cause they just get hounded up there all year round. My fiance,
00:49:19
Speaker
She's from about, uh, she's from PA, uh, about three hours from where we are. And it's wild, the difference in weather where her parents are compared to where we are. Like, you know, they'll get three, four, five, six inches of snow. and We won't see anything down here where we are, uh, or more, more than that, you know, it's just like, jeez. I remember when we first started dating and I would go visit her, I'd leave here.
00:49:45
Speaker
Nice, sunny, like 45 degrees in the winter and get about halfway up there and snow and frigid. By the time I hit her place, 10 inches of snow and everything's slushy and sloppy. I'm like, how is this like two different worlds? And we're only yeah three hours apart. Wild. So wild. But it gets like that in the Carolinas. I know I had a buddy of mine that lived you know a couple hours away from me when I was in and Charleston. And he of course he was in the mountains.
00:50:14
Speaker
and they got all four seasons. Charleston, we got like summer and spring. Yeah, yeah yeah exactly. I just went back home. I just went back home for the holidays in East Tennessee. Got to see some good snow with the road mountain. It's beautiful up there. If you ever get a chance to go to Carver's Gap, shout out Carver's Gap. Shout out.
00:50:36
Speaker
But if you ever get a chance to venture over that way, like it's it's beautiful. The Western North Carolina region right there, that that hurricane, Helene really affected this beautiful county. It's just right on the border. I got to see the the cleanup efforts have been unbelievable and amazing there because there's so much work yet to be done. But man, the work that they've done in just a matter of ah a month, a month and a half is on Unbelievable and how they got places back open schools back up and run. It's just the whole I'll tell you man for for an area that got hit so hard and you see other areas like it hard kind of similar to it like they it gets it gets a bit more coverage gets a bit more light on it like with the little bit of coverage that really happened to this unprecedented thing that that you know,
00:51:30
Speaker
It's amazing how people just got the note, like they got the memo and showed up. Like all over the country, people from other countries. I mean, people just flooded, because I think they these but these are people that have visited there, that have spent time there, and they understand the beauty and the value of it. And they also know just how simple living there is. And the amenities are very minimal, and everybody is truly bootstrapping up in some of those mountain areas.
00:51:57
Speaker
And just to see the efforts just come together and just, it wasn't about how much money was allocated. It's about how many hands and feet yeah taking care of business. And I just huge, huge ah appreciation and respect for everyone back in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee that just literally dropped their life for a month to go look for people, help people, um use like drive heavy machinery they never had driven before and building roads. like just like moving giant rocks the size of houses out of the way and like leveling out an area where you can at least drive one vehicle through so people could come down from the mountains and go to doctor's appointments and get food or or you know take a shower it's just it's unbelievable the efforts and we're just we're behind that we are behind that mindset like 100 i've got some good friends i've we've we've been able to contribute by donating things and at a distance unfortunately but
00:52:51
Speaker
But these people who are taking these things and on the front lines, man, they're absolute angels and the real badasses, the real the real ones, yeah. Yeah, no, it's it's wild. And it you know like you said, it doesn't matter how much money you give them, they could have all the money in the world. But if the people aren't there to.
00:53:11
Speaker
That's right. To rebuild and and clean up. None of that's going to matter. Speaking of the hurricanes and stuff, you're down there in the Tampa area. How'd you fare? We got hit pretty much directly by the last one, Milton. It's probably the scariest thing I've ever been in living here my whole life because we had in 2004 when we had a all that come through, I was a kid.
00:53:31
Speaker
Yeah. And this was way worse than that. Luckily, I mean, my our neighborhood was like pretty fine compared to the coast. I mean, holy shit. People just devast like birds. It's just all gone in a lot of places. Bridges collapsing like it's just crazy. Yeah, I've seen one of the islands down there. One of the more popular ones down there. They were showing some footage and whatnot of it. And it just looked like a bunch of like fingers off of a river. Yep. Going through, you know, the trees. You can't really see how there was like next to no houses left or anything like that is devastating. Man, it was scary. It was scary. It's category three. Pretty much a direct hit right to the bay. Yeah. Shove a bunch of water in there and the wind was insane. There are places that didn't have power for 14 days, I think. We didn't have power for five days.
00:54:27
Speaker
that that's that gets a little crazy after a while. Yeah. You start getting a little like nighttime is weird because you just hear generators and then you hear like people.
00:54:40
Speaker
It's just weird. I have an hour. It really puts it in perspective. It's like, oh shit. Like, man, I really like having that. Welcome back to the stone ages, my friend. Yeah. yeah like I don't know. I'm not going to survive. I won't. now You're like, I'm not. I'm not. pa day like I was ever a straight dog. 24 hours max. Dude, right? Yeah. I wouldn't know in the wild.
00:55:08
Speaker
Game over, I I'm not in it for long. off I don't have Uber Eats in the woods. figure
00:55:20
Speaker
oh Yeah, no. yeah it's ah i wouldn't ah you know Sometimes sometimes there's there's a part of me that was like that would be like, man, I would really like to be out in the mountains somewhere, off the grid, no no internet. But then I go.
00:55:37
Speaker
Hey, I really couldn't live without my TV. That'd be a sick for vacation for a couple days lot of I like stuff. I like my TV. I like my video games. I like my phone. I like that like Uber eats a lot. I'm a big boy. I like to get done with the show on a Saturday night at 1, 2 o'clock in the morning. I wonder what's open. I'm hungry. Wow.
00:56:05
Speaker
Oh yeah, we call we we call that getting bloody. Yeah, in that yeah, when there's all there is is McDonald's and Taco Bell is like. ah o after after after about a case of after about a case of beer that nothing hits better than small Taco Bell at two o'clock in the morning. Oh dude been there. I i have spent $90 at Taco Bell. nice It was unbelievable. I don't think I've ever got that crazy. Now we we have a place back home and here up here home and
00:56:45
Speaker
Thanks, COVID. You gotta ruin that for us. Used to be 24 seven, uh, restaurants called TJ's, but everything's made from scratch. Everything is home style country cooking. And, uh, there was, there was one here in town where I live growing up, well, growing up in my early years, uh, drunken debacles and going to the bars and leaving and whatnot. We'd always hit it up. And then there was one.
00:57:11
Speaker
right outside of a club that we always went to, but man, three o'clock in the morning, they have this breakfast. It's called a barnyard buster. It's sausage. It's a sausage gravy or biscuits with eggs and, uh, either hash browns or home fries, whatever you want. And it's not on a plate. It's on a planet. I mean, it is like but like it's a good solid four pounds of food, if not more, you you go into that place three o'clock in the morning, drunk off your ass. You walk out sober.
00:57:41
Speaker
over and over and your belly's full and you're like, so they start selling beer in an hour.
Touring Plans and Tampa Scene
00:57:52
Speaker
Uh, ready to go around two or what, what's happening here? Start it all over. Yeah. Um, now I have spent some money in TJ's at two or three in the morning. Cause yeah know sometimes you get feeling generous and it's like I have a table and they're not realizing that.
00:58:10
Speaker
there's 20 people at your table. but so No, I can't say I've been in that spot. I bought a few drinks but I've not bought a table of drinks before. I bought plenty. I bought plenty of meals but not never really uh I would love to be able to one day just be able to be like, hey, one on me. That'd be crazy. Yeah. Hey, you know, I mean, you never know. You never know. You might get there. You
00:58:38
Speaker
That right song hits the right set of ears and it's a game changer. You never know. Yeah. you never so So, you know, you guys did, you guys, you know, talked about doing some of the behind the scenes stuff or to going on tour. What's it, what's it like for you to be on stage and, and performing? Well, we haven't really done it that much. Have you had that opportunity yet?
00:59:06
Speaker
individually as a band like us as a unit we we did a tour with some good buddy of ours uh 2000 and the beginning of 2020 right before everything shut down we did we did a month tour um he played drums i played bass um i opened up the sort of the night with me just playing an acoustic playing my songs and i played bass in the band Um, so him and I have toured together working for a band over, you know, a little over eight years, you know, seven, eight years. And then we've toured together playing music. Uh, I would say like,
00:59:41
Speaker
ah other than that other than that it wasn't our songs and it wasn't even our music yeah yeah yeah and then and then him and i playing together like we've done a bunch of little just spots and stuff where we've played together and you know we might have some people to listen in or we let some people kind kind of listen in or whatever but um this coming up the shows we're playing uh december the 15th that janice landing opened up for Under Oath. That's gonna be like the first, like as a band, having a band playing these songs live together. So it's gonna be wild. It's gonna be wild. It's gonna be cool. Like we've, it'll be interesting. Yeah, we'll build the show.
01:00:20
Speaker
Yeah, we built a template. We built a template. We got an idea of what we'd like to hear and what we'd like to see. And we we feel like we've got the best people to do the work for with us, do the work with us. And and man, up I think it's going to be something ah worth worth keeping keeping hold of and and remembering, for sure. Oh, yeah. Janice is kind of a big deal down there and in the Tampa area. That's not a small venue. sure For sure. Definitely not.
01:00:50
Speaker
It'll be fun. So that'll be that'll be cool. I mean, I know they've had a lot of acts come through there. And as I said, I'm ah um um a huge fan of Tampa Radio. So you know i listen all you know I listen all day every day. And you hear the different acts and in the different venues that they're playing down there. And Janice is one of those ones that people seem to go to quite a bit. It's a staple yeah yeah at that size. Yeah, it's like a 2,000 cap venue.
01:01:18
Speaker
all outside. I've seen a lot of a lot of good bands there. Another good staple spot called the crow crowbar there and E-board. Shout out crowbar. Father Tom. dad another time dan that that That man has stuck out his neck for many, a many projects. So many people. JJ and I have been a part of and so many other people and we're so thankful for him. He he has pioneered and truly cut a trail into the side of that Tampa music scene and hosts amazing shows, Broken Mold, shout out.
01:01:55
Speaker
but booking some amazing acts through there for janice for for crowbar for a lot of the venues there were we're playing another show mark the um six six wrong yeah i think it's for six ah rock the park there and in tampa that's downtown no i proposed to my wife there and like park we're playing oh oh
01:02:26
Speaker
shout out ki and acutto shut up marriage up love um but we're playing at the crowbar January 11th we'll we'll be playing uh show there now I uh this thing off I'm antsy I'm ready to get I'm ready to get a couple under our belt honestly oh absolutely yeah feel what it feels like you know, make the little mistakes that we're gonna make. I'm just ready to get, I'm ready to get on it. Absolutely. Start really wrenching in tune and all. Actually doing it. Like we've been in the studio for so long, you know, just waiting for this day, pretty much. Not waiting, but like working towards this being more of what we spend our time doing. Yeah. Deep in the car. Yeah, deep in the car. We're trying to go cut some laps finally.
01:03:18
Speaker
Yeah. Nice. Uh, yeah. um ah The last time I was down there in Tampa, we went to a crowbar. Um, friends of mine, well, through other mutual friends, uh, they used to have a band. They were rock band. and I cannot remember the name of the band. shout out I remember the name of our neighbor. I remember the name of the husband and wife reaching Amanda. Uh, they, I don't know that I don't think they're doing music anymore. They decided to do the family thing. Um, but, uh,
01:03:47
Speaker
They're like, yeah, man, they're playing. I was like, I don't care where they're playing at. I just want to see them. And I know I've got the stickers and stuff like that in and my closet. I never write where it's at. I just can't remember the name of their band. and but But they were great. And Crowbar was a cool bar. It was a cool place. It was pretty cool music. ven because there was another band right before them that was playing. And I was like, this is, I could i can see myself hanging out down here at E-Bar a little bit more often. We actually made a whole night of it. We went and seen some other friends ah doing comedy at a bar right up a few blocks up. on eboard Yeah. And had a good time there. And then we made our way down to Crow Bar. It was a fun time. we we We had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun.
01:04:36
Speaker
ah I just want to come up here and like spend like two or three nights in Ybor, but then you also hear all the horror stories of Ybor. It's like, I mean, I know, I know Florida is dangerous as anywhere. It's just, if you walk outside, bad things happen.
01:04:55
Speaker
yeah Fortunately, i'm I'm big enough in stature that I'm i'm a little bit intimidating. so fine so Even though I'm a big teddy bear, I wouldn't hurt a fly. I ain't nobody gonna bother you down there, buddy. You'd be fine. now No, we we we had a really good time. I've had a lot of fun. The few times I've been down to the Tampa area, ah kind of adopted their sports teams, even though the hockey team building a little bit of a rivalry with my hometown team. Oh, blue jackets and lightning. Oh, yeah.
01:05:26
Speaker
and uh of course my boys in Tampa well you know uh you guys had Brady and I'm a huge Brady fan uh it goes way back when he played in Michigan and now you got my boy Baker down there you got the Tampa Bacon ears so yeah dude Baker's a cowboy dude he's a badass he is he you know he He does whatever he wants. He's got his own damn agenda. And yeah we loved him in Cleveland. We're still mad at Cleveland for what they did. and And all of us Cleveland fans basically have the same mindset. Let Baker win a Super Bowl in Tampa. And I hope he just, I hope, ah you know, with his attitude and his mentality, I just really hope he gives Cleveland hell. ah Yeah, dude. Absolutely. the The kid is a hotshot man. He's a Maverick.
01:06:16
Speaker
Oh, are you ready? Oh, do you love me some football except for last night? but You guys couldn't have kept him down there, James? Yeah, I mean, I will give the good credit. I will give him credit. He's making even though we're a three and ten football program or three and nine, whatever they are right now, ah and he's making it exciting to watch. and Oh, yeah, it ain't boring.
01:06:47
Speaker
No, that's, that's for sure. Right on the edge of your seat, all the way down to the final second of the game going, ye you know, there's 50 seconds left in this and there's still a chance we could win this. Nevermind. There's James. There's the interception. James. Man,
01:07:07
Speaker
man you guys are just, uh, you guys are all over the place, man. You guys are, you guys are cool as hell. Um, um I don't even know where to go. Why are we covered? red Yeah, we have. Yeah.
Parenting and Music
01:07:23
Speaker
So, yeah yeah, one thing, one thing you said, Ronnie, which a few other guests have said, and I think this is really cool because, you know, you, you years back, you you hear the stories of, you know, musicians, they go on the road and then they, they're, they're never really around. I like what you said about when I go on the road, I'm busting my ass. I'm working because when I'm home, I'm home.
01:07:46
Speaker
ah yeah How many ah how many youngins do you have? I got I got two youngins. I got a little boy named hockey's. He's five and I got a little girl named Bristol. She's nine.
01:07:59
Speaker
we baby Yeah. where they argued they Yeah, they're they're amazing and the their mother and I are absolutely in love with them. i'm I'm in love with being a dad. and That's awesome.
01:08:16
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um We have the the the most dynamic children on both sides of the spectrum, of course, a little boy, a little girl, but both of them are into like different things and they love different things. But of course you can see yourself and a little bit of everything that they're doing kind of taking you back to where you kind of came from. and And, you know, I didn't know at the time when I was their age, like how much music really meant to me. It wasn't until I was a teenager, I started like, you know, doing it myself. And then it was like, oh, I was like, you know, this is something I really enjoy. But I've i've been able to introduce them and sort of get them involved in their own expression and what how they do music and what they love about music. And they're both great singers. They both great little voices and they're little, little songsters, too. They, they songwriting. I have a good time just sort of, you know, hosting that and and helping kind of steer them and and the things that they love or that they're passionate about. um But ah we here recently, you know, they're they're a little bit more independent, him being five, and and
01:09:20
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we both We got both of them off on riding the bikes. We're just you know trying to outfit them as they grow and and sort of in the spaces and and and things that they need, I feel like are essential to learning. and They're not you know on the tablets or on the iPhones or on video games as much. They don't have their head in the screen as much. as they're They're genuinely loving being outside, running around. They love going fishing with dad. they love They love spending time at home with family. They love you know doing all the kind of the same stuff that we love to do. and um I think the the the big the best part of of sort of watching these kids grow up and and make good choices on their own and things that like I believe are going to help them with their own creativity and their own stories. And and my dad was a mechanic. My mom was a school teacher. I kind of got a couple different ends of the spectrum. and And just what I saw growing up and involved in church, just ah just the the life in East Tennessee and and in the South, agriculture, you know
01:10:21
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being a farmer, being a cowboy, all all these different, being a mechanic, being, I sort of relate to the mechanic side a little bit more, just like, you know, JJ would as well. um we We both sort of lean into like, you know, what we can do with our hands and that and and and and how talented we could be. ah yeah but as as a mechanic, as as a an engineer, or any anything that and involves using all of the senses and and all the talents put together, the product may look different than what we're trying to do in the handlers, but I feel like we're just trying to to relive and and and capture these stories.
01:11:00
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feel like We're trying to capture our own stories and reflect on things that might not be as common today as they were when we were younger and and sort of immortalize those in these songs and these melodies and and and always hoping that it takes somebody to a place in time for themselves, like a place they've been before, a person that they've loved, a relationship or whatever, just being as relevant as possible. And it's interesting, me being 43 and having younger kids, because they're in tune and picking up on things that are wildly opposite from anything that I've ever learned as a kid. And it's, it's, it's great. Cause I mean, like I said, it's good for me. I'm um stretching me. and And as far as,
01:11:47
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learning and and retaining, you know, how how they understand things. and But it's really cool to see that creativity. Like it's still, there's a there's a little bit of papal in what they're doing, even a at at a young age. and um by us the other day I felt somebody at the other day, I was like,
01:12:03
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We gotta here's here's the the truly the golden rule of life past what the Lord's given us is you gotta keep a little pap on it all you do. You have to keep a little bit of the the the back the back then and it all you know.
01:12:18
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no hundred percent Well, what about what about you, JJ? You got any any little ones? Are you planning on any ones? No, we just got a dog. Her name's Ray. little angel where it works She's a sleeping hood donut right now. Please tell me you got an actual you got an actual dog. It is not like a little. Yeah, it's you or Pomeranian or something. No, it's a real dog. It's a life size. it' like Yeah, it's a real live dog.
01:12:49
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Yeah.
01:12:53
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Nice. Now, it like you say, man, I got, I got three, I got three kids and you know, they're my oldest. She's 19, 19, 15. And my boy's 11. And it is wild to see how each one of them have their own little personalities or, you know, or as they grow and develop, and you know, my, my oldest one, she's obviously becoming a young lady now, a young woman, whatever. Uh, she's trying to figure out her direction in life where she's going, you know, be a 19 and just graduated last year and whatnot. And then there's my son who I imagine I'm kind of surprised he hasn't popped back here at least three times. Um, but yeah, he, the complete polar opposites.
01:13:40
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own personalities, but also have a lot of things in common, you know, and, you know, my shit, my girls would rather, I think it's because they're teenagers, but they'd rather be sitting here like this all day long. And my son comes home and he's, where he's not even out of the car after school. Can I go outside to play? The change of school clothes comes in, throws his phone on the couch or wherever changes his clothes and supposed to be in when the street lights come on. But, uh,
01:14:08
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streetlights come on a little early and he was like, can I stay out a little bit longer? And I'm like, yeah, next thing I know it's pitch black out there and him and all those little friends are running, but we kind of tucked back away from everything. We got a nice little neighborhood where where we're at and a whole bunch of little, I call them a bunch of feral monkeys when they're out there. Cause it's just like a bunch of wild animals, man, running around the neighborhood. how but Yeah. But it is, uh, it is, it is fun to watch them grow up and see.
01:14:37
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you know, what influence you you can have on them. And, you know, uh, my, my son and I, we actually do a show here on the network together. Cause I'm a big wrestling fan, been a wrestling fan my whole life. I grew up watching it and he, the girls were watching it when they were younger, they kind of grew out of it. He's always been kind of a fan, but now over the last like couple of years, he's just full on WWE and him and when I watch wrestling together and we sit around and talk about wrestling. And I was like, you want to do your own podcast? I got a network. I can, we can do a show once a week. Oh yeah. And it's cool to see him start because i he's the host of that show, but it's really cool to see him start to develop and become, oh, you know, his own, you know, his own personality and his own host. However, if his little,
01:15:30
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arrogant ass doesn't quit talking shit. I'm going to have to teach him who the boss is. the reason why i'm the i gotages I got a nephew. His name's Martin. He's got a YouTube channel. It's MBA outdoors. Shout out MBA. yeah out but he's He's doing some really cool things too. And just kind of watching that dynamic, watching my um my younger brother being on that with him and just sort of how, you know, we as a parents take a backseat and let the kids be creative and upfront and just watching him do that and that he's killing it. He's doing so good. He gets great content. He's got like almost 10,000 subscribers. Really? Yeah. He's doing really, really good. So way good.
01:16:20
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Yeah, I think it's probably like I guess last night maybe it actually probably flipped over about 10,000.
Pets and Household Dynamics
01:16:27
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But anyways, just what I mean, I was doing way different things when I was younger. And I think JJ could attest to this too. I was playing Walker speed underground.
01:16:36
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yeah i was working yeah I was working. I was working. I was working. I was working and trying to go fishing um and my some of my friends like rollerblading. I gave that a go being a big guy. Pretty comical to watch definitely but I was going to say I'm about the same age as you and again um I'm 42 and yeah I gave the rollerblading a yeah You know college try if you will, but you know, I really loved riding around. I didn't like. I didn't really do big tricks, but I could do the half pops and stuff that was fun. that was i I could stay upright. Could barely ride a bike. JJ could barely ride a bike. He just said barely ride a bike. But you keep going back all the time. You guys go riding down by the Hillsborough River all the time. Yeah, I'm ordering hu right now. You're ordering Taco Bell?
01:17:32
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I mean, I had to talk about lunch today at work. it just i don I got to kick the lay sandwich. He's waiting for me up there.
01:17:47
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yeah Yeah, I was, I was, ah I was working and, uh, uh, trying to, uh, you know, being a typical teenage boy, trying to. get my wiener wet. Oh, yeah. There there was no I we didn't even have internet when I was a teenager, you know. Yeah, squiggle porn. Yeah. Is that a nipple? finger nip What is that? Is that a butt? Yeah. No,
01:18:13
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ah but now so yeah, I mean, yeah, two, the two totally different worlds from where we were growing up. but You know, i do shout out to my son. he he He wants to be outside playing and doing things, man. And doing what he he does not, it's getting cold. So, you know, he's now he's like, couldn't my friend come in and we play Fortnite? I'm like, I don't care. Just take it in your room. youve got You've got your own Xbox. You got your own TV. Just take it to your room.
01:18:45
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I don't really care what you do. That's what you tell Ray, right, JJ? Yeah. She has her own phone. She plays. She plays Paw Patrol. Paw Patrol. Hey, we when we leave the house, we got to put SpongeBob on for our dog. Oh, that's awesome. Well, let's show Bluey. I hear is shot in like the colors that dogs can see, apparently. Oh, I had to try that. Oh, I don't see. Oh, I don't like to see what she thinks. i mean I don't know how they know that shit.
01:19:18
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Like, they don't know. They don't know. Well, they've crossed they've crossbred a human and a dog, so he speaks English. Yeah. Yeah. It's American. And it's American. It's not allowed. It's not allowed in Canada. It's only in America. Yeah.
01:19:34
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but
01:19:37
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I don't know what the dog knows. I just know she enjoys it. I don't what the dog knows. I got seven dogs out here behind my house. Oh, you got so many dogs there. I got a pack. I got a pack of dogs out here. but It's a small family, but we love them. I keep threatening to trade my dog in for otters. For otters? I don't know what it is. I'm obsessed with otters. They're like puppy dogs in a way. If Keisha had her way, she'd get a raccoon. ah She only likes watching them eat grapes.
01:20:12
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then They got thumbs. They got little thumbs. but They like the cob and a grape. Yeah, they have opposable thumbs. You could have an army of raccoons. that would When they scoop stuff, they scoop stuff. there so That would be a pretty Florida thing to do. You could have an army of raccoons.
01:20:30
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It'd be a pretty Florida thing to do. We got Carole Baskin. I can have a raccoon. Yeah, exactly. He'd be a raccoon. That one killed her husband. She is still out on the loose.
01:20:46
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She is a broad. Yeah, and she's just down the road from my house.
Carole Baskin and Tiger King
01:20:50
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i was good say have you ever everybody ever been have ever been to the ah Have you ever been to the Tiger Kingdom or whatever it's called? What's it called?
01:20:59
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Catnip University. Wildcat Park. Wildcat's America. She's the wildest of them all. o but I think I would have to go if I was close just for the novelty. She's probably shut it down.
01:21:19
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oh She should. She knows what's good for her. Easily. She knows what's good for her. She sucks. Everybody knows it. She gave those tigers the time off to go on vacation. Yeah. She killed that poor man. That poor man. I don't think there's any doubt about that. He looks like Wallace and Gromit. You remember that claymation show? Yeah. He looks like that guy on there. That poor man is in somebody's is the bottom drawer of a Chester drawer somewhere.
01:21:48
Speaker
Yeah. I think he was the, uh, what was, what was Britney Spears caught up in? What was that thing where her dad had all the money? That's what he is. Uh, yeah. Mesothelioma. Oh, Mesothelioma. Yeah. That's what he had. Well, some, some mysteries we'll never know. Kind of like where's Jimmy Hoffa? Where's Jimmy Hoffa Barry? Where's, where's Carol Baskin's husband? Some things we never had the answer to.
01:22:15
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car' be asking
01:22:18
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get Tiger King out of jail too. He didn't do shit. Yeah. He's running for president. Yeah.
01:22:25
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he might he might get so yeah At this point in time, uh, anybody could, uh, What's that? He locked down a presidency. Carol Baskin. What's that man? That was a great part of COVID too. What was that? Carol Baskin. Oh. He killed her aint grand. Dude, I can't remember it, but that was it. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. What's happening? Carol Baskin. Huh? I forgot about that. Dude, that was the best part of COVID. Yeah.
01:23:02
Speaker
shit wait time i you like I can honestly say I can mark myself safe from Tiger King. never I've never watched a single episode. What? Do yourself a favor. Come on, man. He's a beautiful human. Dude, the closest thing I've come to watch. Hot content. Hotcontent.gov.
01:23:25
Speaker
until watching an episode of Tiger King is when that douchebag Zach Baggins from Ghost Adventures went and and did it ah but did an episode at the Tiger Ranch or whatever. Baggins? Barely knew Baggins.
01:23:40
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yeah
01:23:44
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ah god brow I can't do it. It's like there's that new show, what, chip Chimp, you Chimp Crazy? Chimp Crazy or whatever. Yeah, that's, oh, Chimp Crazy, we watched that. Yeah. That shit's insane. It's super sick. I back everything that they do. I'm with it. I can't be reality television. Yeah, nothing's real anymore. It's all just for the likes, man. Like and subscribe. Yeah, like hurt here first want to see me and You want to see me my in this door? Yeah.
01:24:20
Speaker
Give me a hundred thousand,000 new subscribers, you know? Hey, there's ah there's a stage trick for you. Oh, yeah. Come see the handler's line. Yeah, yeah. Smash it. Smash it. Smash and gas it. Clicking that like button.
01:24:49
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gap but has your cabin tea
01:24:55
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yeah gang shout up
01:25:05
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You never know what you're going to get out. What how you doing brother? Arliss, you look sick. Your picture's awesome. How did I? Very good friend of ours, lead singer of the Southern Outlaws band, Arliss. Oh, hell yeah.
01:25:32
Speaker
sunday so ah so So outside of obviously you got, you got the shows coming up. you got what else you guys got coming down the pipe you got morning music you're going to do an album you guys get out what you got what you got in the works as much as you care to disclose uh yeah we've got some more of those uh some more of those videos that we shot like living we've got a couple more of those that we did that we'll put out um i mean yeah we've got we've got too many songs let me know what to do with
01:26:05
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With music, nobody really valuing any more monetarily. It's like doing a full length. We can, doesn't that's a lot. you know we We kind of like so putting it out all the time, like a single every now and then. So we kind of just keep keep going. That seems to be what really works for people, that or EPs. um yeah But I mean, we'll figure it out. We don't, there's,
01:26:31
Speaker
It's a new day in age. we're We're trying to just get people's attention and just have somebody else honestly come up to us and be like, here's what we want. Here's what we think you guys should do.
Releasing Music and Social Media Engagement
01:26:40
Speaker
We'll be like, okay. That's fine. Do it. Because we're just going to do it this way because it's easy. And like we already have, like you we were talking about earlier, it's just so much work to do all of it. Let's just keep it simple. It's just about music. Yeah. So if we just keep making that the main thing, then that's all it really is, you know, as far as we we think about it. You know what I mean? So yeah, they would be just singles throughout the year. Yeah. and
01:27:08
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There ain't nothing wrong with that. A good friend of mine and former guests of this show and now co-host on our football show that we do Sunday, Derek Wayne Douglas. That's what he does. He put out an album earlier this year, but now he's just dropping singles like crazy. He's had like five new songs come out in the last like month and a half. He's like, this is so much easier to do. And and it it more views and more listens,
01:27:36
Speaker
by doing it that way, you know, yeah independent and and doing his own thing. So, yeah, I mean, hell, there ain't nothing wrong with that either because then you keep your fans, you know, you're like, hey, what's when's the next song come out? You know, when's the next song come out? yeah and And that was cool. that I like the way you guys shot that video for for a living. Just kind of just real. You know, Megan. Yeah, that's like you play drum him and his girlfriend. They they run that kind of side of things. They do a lot of videos for a lot of people.
01:28:06
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Nice. They're badasses. Absolutely. They helped us put all the you know shots and everything together and and editing it and JJ Bucky.
01:28:17
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had a hand in on, you know, lining the audio up, syncing all that up. And then our good friends at King State there in Florabrasca and Tampa, like they let us use their their bar, their food store. I just did like as a community, literally a community effort, like just good friends and and good people that we've found community with and and they have been so generous. And we we um we only- Couldn't do it without them. Couldn't do without them. And we only intend to reciprocate Yeah, back and forth, like as far as like being being available to to help out, always always being able to lend a hand. But yeah, that was back in May and and we spent the summer. ah I work for an artist in country music and and do that pretty much full time. So we what we did earlier this year, we just wanted to get it all down because we knew that we would end up at this spot.
01:29:08
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at this time of year, rolling into December ah with these shows coming up and we wanted to release a song. we and the whole Going back and forth from an album to you know releasing a single, you know the program, the formats just changed with with how you release music anymore and and TikTok and Instagram and how you do those things. thats you know they're They're really monitoring how many people, how much how much exposure and and how much coverage do you have on those social media sites. They really monitor that to sort of see if they you know anyone in the industry would want to work alongside or or want to um sort of join join in the ah monetization of what we're doing. And I think it's cool watching this this evolution in the music industry. I remember because it's going back into live shows, it's going back into concerts and ticket sales, kind of going back to
01:30:02
Speaker
The the sort of ah an older model how it was in in the nineties and early two thousands like it still a record and records gonna be its own entity but, The main thing is is getting out there and putting asses in seats and selling tickets. and And we just so happen to know everything there is to know about that side of things. And that's what we've kind of been gunning for and and putting all of our horses in that pasture of like, let's get all we can and the best of that we can with this media stuff and social media and releasing songs and let's get all that the best way it can be. And then let's get booking on some shows. was to get some shows and it's been yeah cool seeing the turnaround because we are, you know, we are getting this progress happening as far as booking these shows and we're seeing, you know, people jumping on board and and giving us like great opportunities to go and and put this band on a stage and, and yeah, let us do what we do best, you know, get out there and all you could ask for and rip it. Yeah. That's all we're trying to do. Just play music. Would you want to play our instruments and sing our songs? yeah No, exactly. and the
01:31:12
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, that's, that's where, you know, social media, as far as an entertainer. Aspect goes, it's a, it's a necessary evil man. You got, like you said, man, that's what people are looking at. They're not, they're not looking at, uh, you know, uh, album plays or they're they're going to your, your Instagram or your Tik TOK and going, Oh, they've got hours, you know, they're getting,
01:31:36
Speaker
they're They're hitting the right algorithms and getting the right amount of views. So yeah, let's let's get them down there. Basically, is it working? like Is the engagement? Is it working? Is it is is your formula working? like you We're creating something. We're putting it out there. like Is there engagement? And are people looking at it and actually liking it to enough to to want to continue like the engagement? And that really matters if you have something independently. like if you're if you have If you have people in those positions,
01:32:06
Speaker
creating creating content and it's not really showing attention, it's not really showing feedback, then those those people might want to they think of having a different career. But us as the independent artists and and that we're putting our best foot forward in how we translate it. When we read the when we read the rules and we read sort of the guidelines, it's like how we translate it is what you're seeing.
01:32:29
Speaker
and doing it ourselves is it's it's your greatest return um you know in that you can grow something you know from the ground up but we definitely are in a spot where it's like you know I'm not a social media guru by any chance but I'm a mechanic and I can I can read a schematic and see how it works and apply my best understanding to it and I think we're getting good engagement where I mean hell we met you and we're on this podcast so it's like it's It's doing its job. It's doing what it's supposed to be doing. But as far as JJ and I, our job is is not truly done until we're we're you know we're wrapping up that last song on on the stage. like We are really looking forward to that engagement and taking these stories out and about and seeing what opportunities come from you know having these seasoned musicians around us and really putting our hearts and ourselves out there with these songs. and
01:33:24
Speaker
And just literally wanting to move people. We want to move the masses. That's really what we want to do. That's it. Yeah, you can't be dead. And I think that's everybody's goal. You want to have the content that people want to see. You want to hear. You know, if you guys are out in Wyoming or something, you know you're going to be able to but put ass in seats and and and whatnot, asses in seats and and people are going to want to come out and see you. So you're not, you know, you have those opportunities. Absolutely. And that's, you know, like I said, quite a few people that's that's talking to them, that's, you know, they're like, I want to do an album down the road, but I'm having better success using TikTok or Instagram, the Reels and the shorts and stuff to their advantage. But yeah, it's a guideline and rules.
01:34:18
Speaker
What are those? honest che says this Says the guy who woke up this morning to an email from YouTube telling me we're suspended for two weeks from a podcast three and a half years ago.
01:34:31
Speaker
you but they go out of here It's our first strike in four years and and it's also something from in the beginning, you know, we were a little bit, we're still kind of loose cannons. It is what it is. yeah somebody was like Somebody was late to late to the game. ah Yeah. it's That's some new jerk off in the HR department or their guideline department who wants to make a name for himself. Oh, look what could I did boss. I found these bad boys.
01:35:03
Speaker
yeah Well, no yeah, bad boys, bad boys, bad boys for life. Yes. We, we have the bad boys at podcasting around here. We got no rules. We live by, we live by our own standards and our own guidelines the at the end of the day, man. Yes. You guys have got like a, well you guys have had like a wild ride and, and, and continuing to,
01:35:32
Speaker
just continuing to grow and, uh, and get better. That's awesome. I'm looking forward to the new music. I, like I said, I'm digging the new song. Uh, do you like that? Uh, let's do it a few times. Uh, I was trying to get it, uh, on the brand here for for music tonight, but of course nothing was collaborating with me today. Cause I am a bonehead when it comes to technology.
01:35:58
Speaker
i I have a caveman. I just push the buttons. I know what buttons make things work. And if those buttons don't make things work, then I reach out to guys and that know how to make those things work for me. You're button. You're button guy. You got a button. Yeah. Yeah. I got a button guy. Blaze, where are you? I need you.
01:36:18
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ah
01:36:22
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I already lost. I was just kidding. I was going somewhere with that. And then I just, that's the joy, squirrel, a shiny moment. um
01:36:32
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Yeah, no, I totally lost my ah train of thought. Yeah, that that's always good. ah You know, you a you know you were it's good when it happens this way. Because you know, you you've covered a lot of shit. Covered a lot of ground. um Or I'm old in borderline dementia.
01:36:51
Speaker
ah you I think you just, you'd mentioned that we've just been like, we've been doing so many things for such a long time. We've been working together for such a long time. We've done, I mean, him and I have traveled the world, Europe and Australia together.
01:37:07
Speaker
um southing oh South America and yeah, we've we've got to see the world. It's been a pretty amazing thing and this is all, you know, all pre pre covid. So the world was yeah a different place at that time. But um but yeah, we've we've got to. We've got to experience so much cool stuff together that seeing the old world and then of course traveling all all 49 continental you know United States. um Yeah, I've I've Alaska to Mark off. That's my last name.
01:37:36
Speaker
But yeah, we've we've got to see them all. We've got all the, and and I've made sure, like I'm um i'm a bit of a you know historian when it comes to this country. I just, I love. I just love stories and I love where everything comes from. I'm a big advocate for the Native American community and um i'm just I'm just deep into understanding like how that really influenced and and reflects in what we understand our government is and and the idea what of what a ah joined community or a union or a confederacy at the time.
01:38:11
Speaker
tribes uniting states uniting regardless it's like the idea of that you know that we have everything we have as far as a unionized um you know country is is all from that it reflects back into certain agreements and treaties that were written between different tribes and and different uh native tribes um but like that's that's a big part of of ah traveling around the united states and touring these places i would just make JJ come with me make him like hey let's go look at this hey let's go you know yeah
01:38:43
Speaker
let's go to this historical spot and then of course he's just like uh but then afterwards he's like oh okay yeah but we just made sure because I just him understanding everything has a story everything's got something that you can pull them and create a really cool vivid picture you know with words and and then he you know watching him grow into his this this place of a producer where he started taking those same experiences and experiences and letting them color like what you hear. um and And then us combining those things and and truly creating what the sound we have today. But um we're we're big we're big on taking advantage of traveling and and absorbing the culture wherever we're at. like it just so Because of the listeners, the people who are going to be
01:39:30
Speaker
Like the biggest support to us are the ones that we're trying to you know inspire and move and at the end of the day. Truly like people that want to buy the tickets to come be moved by what we're writing about. We're ultimately we're writing about them. We're writing.
01:39:46
Speaker
through through their stories and through and i'm I'm excited about that part of this is like not just because we've met so many people from all over the world and became good friends and we've taken these relationships and learned so much about different people and i'm I'm excited about seeing that as an artist touring, singing shows and meeting people you know, not just on a quick basis because
Audience Connection and Performance
01:40:12
Speaker
I got to get back to work, but yeah having the day to be able to get to know people, spend time with people, have conversations with people, and then then we go put in 90 minutes and give them something and then pick right back up where you left off. I'm really looking forward to that.
01:40:26
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close encounter with yeah with with top concert goers and really just listening to them and asking them what do they want? What do you want to hear? What are you, you know, getting to know our audience, getting to know our our ticket holders, you know? got That's that yeah that's that's all i' um i the same way. I'm i'm i big on, you know, history and and I like to go, if I'm somewhere new, I like to like, when I go see something historical, whether, you know, and or, you know, military wise, or, you know, whatever the case, if you got ports down here, farmer whatever. a cow farmer But beef cattlemen, like, I mean, everywhere we've ever went, like a Midwest, the West,
01:41:13
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California, like just and but working in the country music industry. I'm a little bit more in tune with that because these people who are coming out to these shows are those farmers. They are those companies. These are the ticket buyers. And, you know, after some of the heavier rock shows we played in the Midwest, you know, these people are probably working out, you know, and and some of the rural areas and coming into town, you know, we're playing, you know, in the middle of farm town, Illinois, and, you know, farm town, Iowa.
01:41:40
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um But playing the country world, it's it's cool because i'm i'm I'm trying to absorb their stories. you know I want to hear yeah want to hear what they've experienced and then be able to take that and and like I said earlier, immortalize that and and what they hear and what we want to create. and I think that's that relationship that you create with the audience is what supersedes that time. you know It makes it timeless. and Yeah, it's it's cool because we kind of get we've we've seen things from the the the ground level all the way up to where we're at now. By no means and have have we accomplished anything other than what we've set our goals to be. But yeah, we're just looking forward to the building on this. that you know we've We've already got the the momentum and we understand the brick by brick and our bricks are becoming larger. you know our Our foundations are building up to walls now. and
01:42:34
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and you know soon the roof is going to get put on the thing and and we're just watching like I said the progress happened and I'm just I'm really looking forward to 2025 and releasing more songs releasing more videos and seeing the return like how much we've been getting here recently has been amazing that's just the response has been and and unbelievable. um' I'm looking forward to doing that again and again and again. It's a drug. Yeah.
01:43:00
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yeah yeah Indeed, it really it really is. It's you know, that's ah I joke around doing the podcast. It's kind of how it is for me. It's it's it's it's it's like a drug. So, you know, I look forward to doing the shows. I get excited. You know, this show in particular being such a huge fan of music. And knowing what I wanted to dedicate this show to was the up and coming, the local artists, the guys who are
01:43:32
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You know, we're girls, the guys and girls that are, that are putting in and doing it, you know, independently and building those bricks and stuff like that. I get excited. I get even more excited when, you know, I just randomly message an artist and, you know, I'm just, you know, shooting baskets and your yeah yeah, you know, like.
01:43:55
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I probably won't hear anything back and then I'll get a message back. Oh, and then I get excited. I'm like, Oh, yeah wait a minute now. yeah Hold on a second. Uh, I got a bite, you know, this is nice and slow. Don't, don't jerk it too fast. You know, remember what, remember what, uh, can't hear you.
01:44:16
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Remember what granddad touch or grandpa taught me when we, when he took me fishing, when I was little, don't, don't jerk it too quick. Yeah. ah yeah and Nice and slow. But, um, but no, I get excited and, and I'll tell you what, you know, being on stage, I've never, uh,
01:44:35
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been like, i have I have a huge fear of public speaking. Yeah. So. uh, our, our, our, our list who was in here earlier and said, hi, um, they gave me an opportunity a few months, so you a few months back to MC one of their shows. And I'll tell you what, that was the most nerve wracking thing I ever did. But once I was up there, it was like a drug that I've never felt. be I was like, hi, I'd never felt before to be on stage. And and that's what I figured. It's like for, for kind of like musicians, you know, every time you guys get up on stage and get that opportunity to perform, it's just like some rush.
01:45:10
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Yeah, huge dopamine hit like it's all of it. I mean, man, and something you've put in so much time and effort and energy and to have people like if they don't like it, you know, yeah, like they're gonna walk away or they're not gonna. I mean, you know, you're a person you could read body language and shit. Yeah.
01:45:31
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So when they get it, it's like that, it's that connection. It's that reward. Like it really is like a dog, like yeah after it did the right thing. You know what I mean? It truly does feel that way. I think routes your mind. so It's doing it. No, we can't hear you now.
01:45:54
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i Oh God. love married just now now be and where he was like you can't hear me yeah youre go be upside down he' gonna laugh my back ah yeah and that's the other thing i mean you can tell when people yeah that's the great thing about doing this i'm i'm in my bedroom i'm behind here I'm not looking somebody right in the face. So, you know where you know, and I've been to enough concerts and I've been to especially like the local music scene. I fucking love going to local bands. and But you can see in the crowd, you know, when people are like, fuck, you jerk offs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we got you. Yeah.
01:46:44
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Now we can hear you. Yeah. and And that's like, I couldn't imagine trying to do this show in front of an audience. And I know sometimes we go off on tangents and whatnot, or doing any of the shows and being able to look out in the audience when they're just like.
01:46:57
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yeah yes you call this entertainment and probably want to fight somebody but you bro you think you can do it better than once you can up appear do You know, I get to witness all different all different levels of musicians and artists out there. and and you're You either have something that is is naturally gonna captivate or or get someone's attention, or you've gotta really like play the dress up part. You gotta do all the right things. And and yeah it it can get uncomfortable to watch that happening, but then it's always redeemed by someone that comes up and just slings it. And you know we we only hope to sort, cuz I know we ain't much to look at. we ain't The best looking dudes by any means, but we're not really worried about that because ah we you know we we really we want to come correct and have and we want people once again to come on out and spend that record, that to revisit that song because they love it. We love watching people enjoy what we do. That's literally our favorite thing.
01:48:02
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Well, and, you know, you you said it earlier with you being so in tune and wanting to have the in tune and and wanting to have those conversations and chat with people. I mean, you almost with the when you write songs about, you know, what you know and what you learn and whatnot.
01:48:20
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do you almost become the soundtrack to their, you know, a farmer working, you know, out on the tractor all day long and they're listening to your music. It's like, it was kind of the soundtrack to my life, you know, um yeah I can relate to what they're saying and and it's good and I enjoy it. um You know, you know, some people will take ah there's there's songwriters out there that will take bits and pieces from history and create a story about a fictional character. But It's got enough, uh, truth behind it or, you know, history and and it and it makes it a good song and people enjoy listening to it. And they're like, Hey, we're singing about my hometown. Cause that's loosely based off of a local legend or something like that. You know, and Charlie Daniels did the legend of wooly swamp. Uh, I'm sure everybody down around the swamp country or swamp land.
01:49:15
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Uh, has a story about a crazy old man that used to bury his money. And you always know, there's Rick frat that think they're going to get one up on the old man, you know, type deal. So just songs like that. And, you know, that was kind of out of left field, the old C, Daniel King, catch your music.
01:49:34
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Yes, sir. Hell of a man, too. Great guy. a Great guy. King of Dixie is what but Ronnie Van Zant used to call him, King of Dixie. he was He was a super nice guy. I had the honor and pleasure of hanging out with him on multiple occasions. He used to play one of the bars I used to bounce at. Him and David Allen Co. used to always come through town a few times a year.
01:49:58
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and Charlie Daniels is a great guy, one of the nicest one of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of hanging out with and and sitting down and chatting with. he's definitely must took advantage of that yeah Definitely took advantage of that that that privilege sitting down with Charlie Daniels. I wouldn't mind ah having that opportunity again, but unfortunately.
01:50:22
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maybe made in one day they let me here Maybe one day they let me in the pearly gates. I can sit down and conversate, but I already know my ticket's punched. Wrong door, Mr. Glick.
01:50:35
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yeah you But no, I mean, yeah, you guys you guys become that soundtrack and people want to hear what's coming next. And they look forward to, you know, when on your social media or whatever that hey, shit, the guys are coming. You know, they're going to be up in up in Evansville, Indiana next month. Oh, yeah. let's Oh, yeah. Let's play. out Let's play in a three hour drive and go go see the guys. You know, that's exactly you're at that.
01:51:05
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that yeah and the fact that evan is like houston and Like you said, you know, the fact that you're like, I'm going to do my 90 minute set. And then I want to go hang out with people and chat with people and not just a quick, Hey, shake your hand, take a picture. Yeah. Smile for them. You know, you actually want to sit down and chat with them. It makes you guys, it it has that human element behind it because you know, a lot of times, so you know, musicians or actors or.
01:51:29
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whatever that you kind of put up on a pedestal, like you're almost not real in some cases. But when you get to see that real side of an artist and and hang out and chat with them, like I said, that goes back to sitting down with Charlie Daniels. You know, I grew up listening to this man's music. I love, I love Charlie Daniels band.
01:51:48
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um and And had that opportunity to see the real person off stage was amazing. So I mean, that speaks volumes to who you guys are and what you guys are about. I hope you get up to Ohio sometimes so I can. Absolutely.
01:52:03
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kids work catch you this you know We're working on it. We're going to get these shows, um you know get the footage of these shows and and put it out there and and really hope to to be able to make that connection with other promoters and just yeah just get in get into a routine, more of a routine of of playing playing shows when we're not busy with touring season, you know, March to October. um the but For right now, like the those this off time sort of around the holidays and after New Year, like that's when we are able to be busy and and not have to be so conscious about anything else, but getting this car on the track, really just getting some laughs. And honestly, it yeah you know, any any
01:52:51
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any type of, uh, you know, promoter contact, any, any place or a bar, a little honky tonk or anything around where you're at. We'll well gladly, gladly take that information. we'll send jump All kinds of bring them a good. foot bench ah bu love it i found that monster bug i got from the book fair last year I don't know. talking about nice parent option yes but Not bud. All right.
01:53:19
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Now he's going to bring some monster he found in here. Yeah. I mean, we got some, I mean, you know, not, not, not like now we do have a couple of pretty nice venues in Columbus, but around my area where I'm at, I'm in, kind of a small town, but we've got some nice places that, uh, bring in some good acts and stuff like that. There's one, there's one that I'm actually looking to. Oh, your monster book. definite Yeah.
01:53:47
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they're cryptids of america and we got we're the south carolina yeah lizard man in south carolina and we got dog man in michigan and we're the frog man yeah we have to frog man oh dude he's talking about he's talking about cryptids yeah i'm big into cryptids he's he's starting to get into this is dude moth man big fool Yes. Well, I mean, he lives, he, he he lives with the big foot. So the guys, the guys network and, and, and, and a lot of our listeners and viewers call me a squat. They call me a Sasquatch. So I am embodied in a Bigfoot 18,000. Yeah. Sasquatches. We got, we got big foot country down by where Amy's cabin was in Logan. Yeah.
01:54:38
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it's most Hey Arkansas is is a hot zone my friend Arkansas what yeah for postmon For Pokemon Pokemon Pokemon Pokemon Yeah pogemons catch emmon yeah got catch him all catch a ball like that in the pokeies poy watch the pokeki squat is Yeah, I'm um a big into cryptids and the paranormal as well he's slowly starting to navigate into the cryptid stuff. and so Oh, yeah. um Yeah, we got like I said, we got a couple of nice venues here in the area. ah There's one that I want to actually I got to reach out to and start talking to. And this is going to be probably a couple to maybe three years in planning an event that I want to do. But I want to I want to put together a music festival of former guests on this show.
01:55:36
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and do a whole like four day weekend, Thursday to Sunday event. And I've already got a destination that I want to. But again, I don't know anything about that. So I'm shooting for the three year plan because I'm going to start learning how to put together, uh, uh, you know, get with the right promoters, get with the yeah
Future Music Festival Plans
01:55:54
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right people. And you're being realistic. How much, yeah it's whole thing how much is going to, I mean, I would love to be like, Hey guys, uh, what are you doing next year? Uh, in, uh, July going to come down, but I realistically, it's probably going to be at, at, at minimal three years before I figure everything out and how I want to do it. And.
01:56:12
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And I think it'll be cool because I have so many different genres of ah musicians that come on here um yeah and and whatnot. So a little something for everybody, if you will. that i mean This is this was great. I would say any artist or any person that you interview is going to walk away from this feeling refreshed and like nice to have like a way to be able to talk about things that they're passionate about. like It's a really cool thing you got going on here, man. Yeah, man.
01:56:40
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I try to keep it low-key, try to keep it chill. I don't want to be that boring interviewer that goes, so JJ, Rowdy, is that your real name? And where'd you come up with a name for the band? And tell us where you're going to be next month. OK, great interview, guys. Appreciate you being here. I want to, you know, I try to build a connection. I try to stay in touch with as many artists as I can after they've been on the show. Obviously,
01:57:10
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You know, you guys are going to be dropping a bunch of stuff. You're going to be having a lot of things going on next year. Keep us in the loop. You know, for sure. i Don't we? We'll tag you. We'll keep you tagged. We one of the things I always ask is I was going to ask earlier.
01:57:24
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ah As far as your music goes, like I said, we've got eight, seven, eight different nine shows on the network. I try to keep, i mean we we generally take breaks on different shows and I keep the artists who I interview stay in a rotation. If it's all right with you guys, I would love to continue to play your music across the network. Absolutely, of course.
01:57:47
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and know And that's why I said, keep get me in the loop when you got new stuff coming out. Sometimes I get a little behind. Sorry, Derek Wayne, but I'm trying, buddy. I can't keep up with your song releases.
01:57:59
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but He's dropped like six songs in the last month. Come on. I'm trying. Hey, he's working hard. Good for him. he'ss he's He's killing it. He's a good guy. Like I said, there's there's a few There's a few people that I have become very good friends with that have been on this show. Derek Arles has become more like family. They love those guys. Actually, I got to get them back on here probably after the whole. They got a bunch of stuff going on. They got a new album and everything like that getting ready to come out here soon. But you know I've developed some actual friendships and and whatnot with some of the artists. and
01:58:43
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Apparently we're gonna tear it up when I get down, when when my fiance and I get down to Nashville because I have interviewed a lot of people out of Nashville and they're like, yo, well, there's no one here down here. And I'm like, shit hey yeah I'm gonna roll through Nashville with a whole damn entourage. Yeah, that's awesome, bud. That's the way to do it. That's awesome. So I definitely encourage you guys to stay in touch as much as you can. Don't be strangers. Don't be shy. Anything we can do, help promote shows, help promote music.
01:59:11
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um whatever we can do for you. If you guys are ever hanging out and like, Oh shit, the guys are lying. I mean, you drop in the chatter's box and say, Hey, what's going on? I got a little bit of time to kill. I'll send you the link or you can come up on any other show, man. Whatever you guys got going on. I do appreciate you guys coming on. I'll let you get ready and get out of here. Um, I'm going to do my little closing and spiel and everything like that. And I'm gonna play here. I'm gonna play living one more time and then I'm gonna close down shop. Um,
01:59:41
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Before I let you guys go, first and foremost, um let everybody know where they can find you at on the social media. Go ahead, Ralph. Oh, sorry. I yeah i was like, that's your job. a Instagram at home with the handlers.
01:59:59
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um the handlers on TikTok, at Home of the Handlers, basically everywhere, all social media, and www.homeofthehandlers.com. We've got all of our shows coming up. Everything that we've got released is out there. um You can search Rowdy, Los Sabeneros, everything out on all digital streaming platforms. um And then keep up with us, Matching Gasoline, we just released a new single.
02:00:26
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The handlers just came out, um Apple Music, Spotify. ah Once again, matching gasoline with the and sign in the middle. um yeah andgie along You guys follow along, come join us. This is a lot of fun. Me and JJ have a time of our life and we're, once again, our most favorite thing is what you guys enjoy. We love, love that the most. 100%. Definitely go play that.
02:00:51
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new song matching gasoline even though they got the fancy and sign in there and so but we think is y'all fa lose we're okay yeah I will say, you know, JJ has been very well behaved tonight. I'm going to have to get behind the she yeah but doing a thousand years last night, and not tonight. We're going to have to get JJ on a show on a Saturday night show and see if we can him a little lazy. Yeah, he's a little bit of time to come out of the beehive. Yeah, yeah so we're
02:01:24
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And I can just need that. I just need that incriminating video so I can get a route. We got it. Hell yeah, man. That's awesome. I cannot wait for the new one. Hey, there you go. Oh, this is a great guy. You know, uh, son and outlaws, man, our list Walker on Facebook. He's been in the business for years. Travel the world. Like you guys said.
02:01:50
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done it all and and still has so much more. And he's one of those guys that'll truly for anybody and everybody. you together bud Yes, sir. joe Yes, sir. he He will help out anybody and everybody. He's a great guy. I got another beloved for the guy. Like you said, we're family and that happened. They came on the show. They were recommended.
02:02:12
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um by another artist that I interviewed and we hit it off, wound up doing a six hour show. We were all feeling a little, a little loosey goosey that night. And you know, just kind of took off from there. Uh, but I was doing shows on Friday nights and not on school nights. So, you know, I get a little, a little wilder on Friday nights, but yeah, same thing for you guys. Have you got any, uh, anybody out there that, uh, you think would be fun to have up here on the show? Uh, let me know or tell them, Hey, hit, hit this guy up, give him a follow, hit them up. and
02:02:43
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I'll gladly get them on the show. I mean, a recommendation from you guys. that It's an automatic in for, for me. So oh yeah brother awesome, bro, man. Thank you so much. yeah like yeah right back up you guys Absolutely. Appreciate you guys. Wish you guys the best of luck. Can't wait to see what the future holds. And I'm really looking forward to to all the new music and and everything like that. and And we'll be playing the hell out of it here on the network. So awesome, brother. Thank you so much. appreciate You guys have a good one.
02:03:12
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Appreciate y'all. See ya. Yep.
02:03:17
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And there we go. Y'all listening. Those guys were fucking awesome. Make sure you go show them some love. Check them out. The handlers, home of the handler, or the home of the handlers. It's on my screen and I can't even say it. Great time with those guys.
02:03:36
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um Definitely kind of what this show is all about. Just kind of hanging out, cutting loose, having a good time. You know, um, greatly appreciate these, uh, JJ and Rowdy coming on. Uh, always, always looking forward to doing new interviews and whatnot. Uh, before I come back and do my little spiel, as I said, we're going to do their video for the living. And then, uh, we'll be right back and I'm gonna close this bad boy out.
02:04:07
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And as soon as I can get my hands on matching gasoline and get it up here on the network, it will be.
02:07:34
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yeah that's say right
02:07:39
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Yes, sir. That was the handlers with the living. Again, huge thank you to those guys coming on and hanging out with me tonight. Greatly appreciated. Definitely looking forward to the future with those guys. Hopefully, we'll do some more stuff with them. um Maybe we'll have them on the show again down the road. Maybe we'll get them on one of the other shows. Who knows? ah But definitely looking forward to what the future has in store for them. Awesome group of guys.
02:08:04
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Uh, JJ and Rowdy, um, can't say nothing. thought I can't say nothing but good things, man. Uh, I love doing this show. We never know what's going to happen. Uh, never know where the show's going to go. Nothing's scripted or, or planned. And we just jump in the studio together a little bit before the show starts and, uh, chat a little bit and then we come right in. Uh, so, uh, very grateful, very appreciative for all the artists who have been on here, uh, and, and have hung out with me.
02:08:34
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make sure you tune in next Tuesday. So a little FYI and I'll do this the next couple of weeks. So um holidays are right around the corner, everybody. We all know that. We know what time of year it is. um
02:08:56
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Holidays are right around the corner. There we go. I got music playing in my ear. ah Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on a Tuesday. Uh, so I will not be doing a live show that night, but, uh, Blaze and I have been talking and we'll probably talk a little bit more as we get closer. And we're probably going to do a best of that night or rewind or whatever you want to call it. We will replay an old episode for Christmas Eve in New Year's New Year's Eve. Excuse me. But, uh, however, I do have next week.
02:09:32
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planned to come on the show, Reckless High. I think they're going to be another fun interview. A little bit different on the music genre, but the music in the country, but definitely a fan and another artist that I found on Instagram. So tune in next Tuesday night. Same nonsensical time, same nonsensical channel. 8 p.m. Eastern time, clicks out some music, hanging out with Reckless High.
02:10:01
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um In the meantime, though, don't forget, we've got a whole baby of other shows starting Mondays with speedway stories and cold blooded conversations hosted by Chris. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Monday, right after Chris is done. Connor comes in with Men Caring for Men, Tuesdays being Glick's House of Music, Wednesdays, what the fuck news? If it's in the news and it makes us say what the fuck, well, Jeff and I are going to talk about it. So tune in tomorrow night for a brand new episode of What the Fuck News. And don't forget, we always got your penis report. I know it's become a thing. It's weird, but it's a thing nonetheless. Thursdays is kind of an open slot right now.
02:10:40
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we're We're still figuring out what we're doing on Tuesdays as of right now on our Thursdays. I'm sorry Fridays is nonsense and chill hosted by blaze with Jeff and they're watching movies and Hanging out shit chatting and talking about the movie. They're watching. I think they're doing some fan-made movies this week Which will be cool because there's a lot of super talented ah movie creators, directors, writers, and stuff out there that are doing fan-made movies based off of some of our favorite movies and comic books and TV shows and stuff like that. So I think that's what they're doing this Friday. And then Saturday night is the main event. It is the night of the day of the week we all wait for.
02:11:20
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You know, shit's going to get weird. Shit's going to get crazy. The inmates take over the asylum. It's unhinged. It's unapologetic, but we're having a good time. Saturday night, 7 PM unnecessary nonsensical nonsense with the open door challenge because it is an open panel. So we dropped the link and then we wrap up the week with a little football chat. Ladies and gentlemen, we've only got a few more weeks left in football. I don't know what's going to happen to unnecessary roughness after the football season server.
02:11:46
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Maybe we'll figure something out and it'll stick around on Sundays. But for the time being, we're talking football. We're making picks. We're talking shit. We're having fun. That's myself, big Rick and former guests of the show. And now co-host of unnecessary roughness, our guy, the one and only Derek Wayne Douglas. So tune into the shows. We're live Monday through Sunday on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.
02:12:09
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02:12:43
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