Ep. 82: Hometowns, Keith Whitley, and Coaching Little League with Justin Moore

This week Reid and Dan host multiplatinum artist and Arkansan, Justin Moore, out in God's Country. The conversation recaps how some of Justin's biggest hits came to fruition and how taking some chances sonically have helped him stand the test of time in the music industry. He shares the emotional experience of seeing his daughters harvest their first whitetail deer and tells the guys his favorite hunting past time. Moore explains why it was so important for him to move his family back to his hometown, population 300, and the things he may have missed as an artist living there. The gravorite is a throwback to one of the country music greats, that you won't wanna miss.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up? You're off in God's Country which your boy
read and and isbel also known as the Brothers Hunt,
where we take a weekly drive to the intersection of
country music and the great outdoors. Two things to go
together like arm tattoos of a fire breathing dragon with

(00:28):
its claws coming at you, and three year old tattoo artists.
Pretty dope. Actually, there's supposed to be eyes right here.
When I first saw it, I was said, he it
was just real. What if I just showed up with that?
I was like, what does that mean? Is it? I
thought it was cardinal wings? No, dude, it's feathers. It's

(00:48):
it's dragon claws ripping through my skin and breathing fire
out of its face. Or two things that go together
like umpires and getting thrown out of Little league softball games. Yep,
brought to you by Meat Eater and and Hit It
Ray everybody's favorite part of the podcast. Not sure. I

(01:09):
have to think about spots fan the show Now Baby.
In the show Now Baby, might be hard to get
off your feet if you don't wear socks, but they
give us a bunch of pairs, so.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
We give on pribes because to call us Spotsman show.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Now, baby, we're getting pretty good at harmonizing that part. Now,
even I never really know what I'm gonna do there.
I just try to stay on the major scale. Sounds
pretty good. Training musical on sounds pretty good. Dude, Justin Moore, Uh,

(01:52):
quickest guess we've had on the show. And by quick,
I mean quick, catlike quick. Busted a move on us,
busted a some more move on us, and he kind
of caught us off guard. He said, I'm not fast,
but I'm quick. He did quick like a cat man.
Always known that guy was cool. I always thought that
guy was cool, but it turns out he confirmed it today.

(02:13):
Dude gets it. Uh, you know, loves his family, loves
loves the lord, loves loves the outdoors, loves country music.
But you know, I think he's got his priorities nice
in the way. He didn't like like degrade Nashville. He
was just like Nashville's giving me some great things. I
just knew I didn't want to live here. Yeah, I
respect that respect. Some respect on Justin Moore's name, that's right,

(02:35):
got a bunch of number ones, does a great gravorite
at the end of it, you're gonna love it, so
stick around and watch it, listen to it. Hey, thanks
for hanging out, Thanks for following, Thanks for thanks for
leaving us five star reviews, even if it's just like
a nice Thanks for what you're doing to us, even

(02:58):
though we're not doing anything. Love you guys. Show five stars.
It helps a ton. Sounds like the roast is ready.
That was the longest longer. I think he found a
new one. You're a pro rus because he's keeping that
going while reading talks. It's incredible. Wow, roast is done.
It's done. It sounds like the potatoes. Hey, let's do

(03:21):
it nice. We'll do We'll do it mean when in
a nice one. The carrot smells like the carrots are
perfectly soft enough. You have to leave it in for
eight hours and to get the carrots soft smells like potatoes.
Don't take it that long. The peppers zenies, which is
a that's a tip. That's a pro move on a
reconstructed yep. Put about five in them. Let them eat
them too. But yeah, you smell something is the name

(03:43):
of this podcast listener podcast nickname is his name. Weekly
reminder from Dan and Ben Oh. Weekly Reminder from Dan
and Ben, this guy knows or is it read about
the impossible balance of parenting and working full time, something
they didn't from their dad, who fished six days a
week and preached on Sunday still does. Hey, don't you

(04:05):
That's exactly what's happened to right He's gonna be so
mad you out him for that. He's ripping brim out
of the brim hole right now. Dan proves that short
sharks are not for everyone and rocks the boots just
to make us cringe even more, and reads childlike good
looks and sopranos. Singing voice attracts men from all over
town at tracks, men, resulting in his wife having to
be on set at all times to fend them off.

(04:28):
Praise God, this is the podcast we can all relate to.
Bravo five stars. That's a that's a back home guy.
That's a I mean, especially if you said Ben from
my first name is Benjamin Dean. It's not Ben, but
it's read. Indeed, it's red A nice one. Love the
show from t hel fifty one. I've been listening since
the first episode premiered and look forward to new episodes
at that drop every week. I'm from West ten and

(04:51):
well as well, and enjoy hearing the stories from Dan
Read and the artist and songwriters that they have on
the show. Wonder commendation I would have would be get
David Nail on there. He's excellent songwriter singer. I would
love your store and background. Keep up the great work
and I look forward to the next episode. Thanks, fell
fifty one had a red lad and shine on some day. Yeah,

(05:14):
I could play me too. That's a good one, man. Yeah,
those were that was a that was a mean one,
turned a nice one and then just a nice one.
So we don't care what they are as long as
they're five stars. It really does good work for the podcast,
helps us put the roast on the table for our kids. Hey,
we appreciate y'all. We love y'all. Enjoy Justin Moore, he's awesome.

(05:37):
Peace everybody were speed Keith, Well, he's a guy, he's
a man, undefeated.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
He had he not passed away, I think he would
have been Alan Jackson, George Strait big.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, I'm with that as well, because what was he like?
How old was he forty thirties? Was he thirty early? Thanks? Yeah, yeah,
he was early thirties. He just road hot. You know
his road hard? Yeah? Is that what it was? Really? Oh?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Drank himself that lord, yeah, that Lord Morgan allegedly Orry Morgan.
What that's what I mean? Are you saying she killed him?
I mean made him drink himself to death? Right? Arax,
she made him drinking? Never mind, let's get into this.
We got a dad and a deer killing thirteen number

(06:32):
one song singing, including Viva Wasn't So Far Away? Small
town USA. This is mind Dirt and Bada Hook baseball
and softball coaching, our Kansa and mister Justin Moore himself
on God's Country. Thanks for having me, thanks for coming,
Thanks for coming all the way to Nashville just for

(06:54):
this podcast. And they turned around and going and thanks.
He has nothing else to do this week. Whether you
know it or not, you actually helped me. Not really
just helped, but you actually come out of the closet gotten.
You actually got me my first postion deal because you
cut a song of me and Randy Montana's called Rebel Kids.

(07:17):
And that's what started, did you correct? I absolutely forgot
a great song. I forgot about that great song you're cutting.
That song started my major publishing deal and I've been
there for eleven years.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Man, somebody recently, I forget who it was. A friend
of mine sent me, you know, hey, you can send
the song from iTunes or whatever on text. They just
sent it to me like a two three days ago.

(07:51):
It was great song. Wow, And I forget who it was,
but it was a great song.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
You when you cut that, you know how you know
how Nashville works? That was that your first? Was that
your first second? First? It was my second cut in Nashville,
my first major label, major record. Randy's great. Randy's one
of the best fuddies. Yeah, we love Randy. He's awesome.
I love him. Yeah, great human love his dad, Billy's great,

(08:23):
all of them. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
We probably write once every two months, just kind of
he lives out there kind of close to me, and
we just pop over there in the barn and and
and we had been writing that day. And uh then
when when I heard you were going to cut that song,
I was like, oh my gosh, that's going to change
my life. And it did. It really set me on
the path to to have it.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
I wish it would have been a single same, So yeah, yeah,
but that.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Was pretty much great song. That's pretty much our childhood.
I mean all those Daddy drove a bibcab ma'ma poor skilling, Yeah,
yep yeah poor at the cast iron Skilling shared the
same part as co Yeah. Yeah, ude, dude, dude, let's
do it. I'll sing it. I remember me and my
brother poor busting through a screen door. I can't remember

(09:09):
the words clearly, but I try. What's the has the start?
This is a did we never start with the.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Song drove a bobcat Mama, Poor Coffee had the cast
iron skillet to share the same line as I am
a co Wow, what's next? I remember me and my
brother he busting out the screen door like a couple
of wild Indian sansity for horses, as fast as as

(09:37):
we could go.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
Yep, I ain't a shame, and I was raised. Couldn't
watch the dirt dust smile off my face.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I still got the scars from growing up.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
There ain't a barefoot summer gone bad. I ever changed
a Baptist song ball way, God bless the rebel kids bad.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Come on, man, say we changed my life for that? Hey,
let's play that song that justin cut tom Mie. I'm
just kidding, man, I'll set you a few. But you
write song that is a great song, you know, the
think about the great song. Honestly, there's so many great
lines in that song. Well, we were so young, we

(10:40):
didn't even know what we were doing. And Randy, Yeah,
and Randy, when we were writing it, it was just
kind of like, I remember he had the title rebel Kids,
and you weren't you. You hadn't been in town long
enough to know to know to chase anything, to to
like try to do what hell, how old are you?
Forty one? Okay, I'm forty one, right, I was, And

(11:00):
that was probably twelve years ago, so wow. Yeah, and
we uh, he was like, I got this idea called
rebel Kids. It's about to this guy and this girl
sneak out and you know, the rebellious. And I was like, well,
I feel that I said. But when you said that title,
it reminds me exactly of how me and my brother
came out like busting through the screen door to or
ten speeds and then you know, shooting coke cans. And

(11:24):
I mean we literally did that all the time. That's
all we did and and and that's that's what it
taught me. In the cool water Creek with a ten
pump plic gun literally Indian Creek. Yeah, I mean Harden's
Creek where we would go. Anyway, My point is is
like it showed me that if you as a songwriter,
if you just write what you know, there's a better

(11:45):
chance of it connecting yep than chasing something.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I learned that with small Town, USA. Really because so
my first single was back that Thing, uh, which was
I blame on uh Randy Houser, Yeah for it.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Not being a hit. Why why do you blamed Randy
because he wrote it? I love that. So that's a
saying song of gun too. Yeah, that joke.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
The whole crew is man, one of my great friends
in this business.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
But when so at the time.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
When I uh signed my record deal, if you had
like two singles that missed.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
You're out, like you're gone. Really you know you got
too sh remember that? Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
And so, like I said, I'm your age and so.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
So your first one missed and first one it went
to like thirty eight. I remember the I remember hearing
the song. It wasn't like it just completely missed. It
just didn't It was it was pretty pretty big man, Okay, Okay,
I'll let you say it's like an honest man. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
So the label wanted to put out small Town USA,
and I thought, I don't know, man, Like I don't
I don't know if that's going to connect with Like
you said, I don't know if that's going to connect
with people.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Sure because that's twenty ten ish, I don't know exactly
when twelve is eight earlier? Okay, yeah, and and so.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Maybe even O seven I don't remember. Sometime back in there,
and I learned with that song if you could connect
with uh, if it's if it's true to you and
it's honest to you, it connects with people.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's pretty honest your point. Yeah, I remember hearing that
because that was kind of like that was kind of
the first time I think i'd heard you're you as
an artist, you know, kind of like your your vocal
and your thing and that that and a son and
on and on a boat array. I was like, yeah, yeah,

(14:00):
who's doing that? I think that perked everybody up, like
because there ain't nobody on the radio that doing that.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, live, I'm kind of pissy at myself that I
did that because I have to do that everything I'm like,
why did I do that?

Speaker 1 (14:20):
I mean, yeah, yeah, that was a great song. I
think it set you apart too as a as a
real life country singer, you know what I mean. It
had been a minute since we had an old, good
Southern singer that could get it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, you know, at the time, it was still somewhat
traditional country.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, and then through the middle part of my career,
you know, then it turned into like the FGL world, Yeah,
the bro country.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
And I didn't name it that, but other people did,
kind of the kind of where the genre went.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, and we just kind of kept doing traditional country,
and thankfully country radio stuck with us, and yeah, we
just kind of kept rolling.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I don't know why, but I'm certainly thankful. Oh. I
think it's because you stayed true. And I think your
fans they won't that they want you to, they do,
you know, and if you would if I think if
you had turned, but you're data turn. Sorry. You're also
the kind of artist though that can like, I mean,
one of my favorite tunes you've done, and we're all

(15:38):
ready we're nine minutes into this thing, talking deep into
the music. This never happens. We had hardy on like
one of the first episodes and talked. It was an
hour and forty seven minutes, and they and we were like,
how we got done there? How did that go? They
were like, oh, that was great. You just talked about
music for seven minutes. You're talking about hunting for an
hour ride forty minutes. But but I think one thing

(15:59):
that that I, I mean, my favorite song you've ever done?
I think is is besides besides revs somebody else will,
I mean, that's I've got an R. I got an
R and B, like just a total different, totally sound
for for us. We were like, I kind of tend
to go that R and B route and melodically wise,

(16:19):
and and you know, my I had him as an
older brother and my oldest sister. Her favorite was Brian
McKnight and Black Street and Genuine and those things. And
then and then I was getting, you know, taking the
school by him and it was.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Best dude all day long, jump Bone.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
So like somebody else Wheel the final.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
I got slapped by my ex girlfriend by uh dancing
with a girl at a dance to pony.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Ex girlfriend slashy. Yeah, I didn't marry dog. I've been
slapped by a girl. Before and you would think like,
oh again, slap by a girl, doesn't she clubbed me
and almost knocked me out in the garage, And yeah,
it was tough, wouldn't somebody I forget?

Speaker 3 (17:14):
I think that was maybe our like third album, fourth album,
something like that, and it was totally different for us, Jack,
we had never done anything like that. So that's that's
uh funny to hear you say that's your.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Favorite song, and but I think it was. It was
like your country, your your vocal, country vocal on it,
the timber of your voice on something on top of that,
man like that was. I think it opened the doors
for for other people to write songs like that and
be able to do that type of thing. It was
definitely r and b ish. Yeah, like you said, Yeah,

(17:51):
I love Adam Hambury. I'm a huge Adam hay fan.
He's from missip He's a missive kidds.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
So funny story about Adam. So he was playing he's
from Arkansas, where I'm from.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's right, he's from Arkansas, moved to Corinth. That's what
you're thinking up in Corinth. Yeah, Yeah, I went to
high school Arkansas. Yeah, and so yeah, he's a big
Arkansas basketball fan. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
So I'm watching Good Morning Arkansas. This was golly, this
had to be twenty eleven, twelve something like that, it was,
and I see him on there and I'm like, oh,
this this should be good because normally, you know, normally

(18:34):
on those local shows.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's not good. Yeah, it's not good ever, man, I
hate to be that way, but it's not.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
And I'm like, damn, this guy's pretty good. And I
come back and I go, he's real good.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Like, wow, he's stupid.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
So I texted Stover, yeah who we both know, my producer,
and I go check this guy out because I think
he's really really good. Uh, maybe I'm crazy, and he goes,
he's amazing.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
I go, yeah, I thought so too. Okay, good So anyway, Uh.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I had his uh one of his first cuts. Yeah,
it was a song that I did with Miranda Lambert
called Old Habits Yeah, and then somebody else will Yeah
He's a Killer was another one.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
That was his second number one. He had a number
one before, not to with Danny shap Yeah, Danny shav
that was yeah. So he's that guy too. He's got
that R and B bone him for sure, no doubt.
He's smooth oh yeah. And he's a great singer. He
great writer, a singer, he's just a musician. You see
what you think about this song where I wrote it
on the way into day. We wrote it on the

(19:49):
way and if you want to cut it, put both
of us, I'm gonna do with justin more style. H
oh yeah, they keep that going on there there? What
you're mad at? Just tell us what it is? What
you're mad? A?

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
You're in and lost kids? My bee bass, ma'am can't
hear with your neighbors cat. Just tell us what you mad?
You like that I do. I don't think it's a hit.
Did you hear his voice code? I like the melody. Uh,

(20:31):
you can change some things. Yeah, you can ride a
second con. That's the maybe we should get with Montana. Yeah,
that one we don't need. I don't need. What are
you mad at?

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
You're mad? My three year old dropped a nerf gun
on my toe and I think he broke my toe.
Oh gosh, dude, you just break your tonguey, So now
I got your pinky bro toe and the thing is
for a month. The nerf gun up and it's not
even that heavy. It's not a heavy gun. It's just
the exact like, oh, the drop you can yet, I've

(21:09):
done it with Champago, get it. It just popped. And
I was like, God, what the I didn't say nothing?
What the what? What? That's what you gotta say? What
they did say nothing? I just but I'm telling you
right now, did your hand and do like this town.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
This is probably monotonous and boring, but I hate when
people drive slow in the left lane.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
God just going in that same thing I did my Yeah,
probably boring, but mine mine. I just drove from uh,
my wife and I we have a place in Florida.
Uh we just went to the beach.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
And we drove from our place in Arkansas to the beach,
and it was constant.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm like, get the f over, please, please go go
over there. Yeah, that's what it's made for. Blanker own
or don't don't even care, get over, Yeah, get out
of your dude. Yeah, excoot. You should obviously see I'm
on you. Yeah. And then when they get like with
another car, that's they're going the same they're both doing. Yeah,

(22:20):
sixty five and seventy five stairs. I'm glad this morning
because I fixed my running boards that Dan broke didn't
didn't break it. Let me explain, because literally broke them,
because I'm the automatically the amp research. So you broke them. Yes,
I literally broke the teeth off of gears. Stop saying

(22:44):
literally so much. Literally broke them. So I go to drop,
I go to get in the truck to back up
to put the boat in, and when I open the door,
it goes, no, No, that's a lot, that's a lie.
It's a lie. I was like, it's a lie. Don't don't.
I'm not and you get away with that one. When
he opened the door, he goes and just stopped right here.
It's supposed to go all the way down. It didn't.

(23:06):
It didn't start popp until you stepped on it. So
I was in the boat, getting you gonna talk all
day or you're gonna let somebode else talk. I'm just
not gonna let you get away with the lie today.
And he stepped on it and went I was. I
was one hundred yards away, and I heard bop and
I looked out. I kind of gave the old one too.
I looked up and then and goes, it wasn't down
all the way it is now, And I was like

(23:27):
and then and then he closed the door and starting it's.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Down all the way down already in the truck, and
he's going to help it, help it from the.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Boat in the lake. And I'm like, he's help it, Oh,
you mean reach out the window and go all the
way and pull your stupid cheap running board up. Man,
she lived them things up on the internet. They ain't cheap.
I didn't buy them, but they ain't cheap. So yeah,
there's the intar story. So anyway, I got her there
and fixed them. I fixed them. I just I went
mechanic on them and fixed them. And now they're working
because you broke them and they're fixed. Now. About hunting

(24:00):
for a little bit. I'd heard it do that happing before. Yeah,
let's talk about something important. Yeah, I know, Joe, all right,
I'm just gonna start. I know, I know. Dan just
went straight into music, which we don't want to talk
about at all. If you had one afternoon or one morning,
just a little four hour period to be hunting or

(24:21):
fishing something, where would you be white tail? Okay? Where
and when?

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Probably at home Arkansas because I know the area the best.
But I look, Arkansas is world famous for duck hunting. Yeah,
you know, I live iron and a half from Stuttgart, which.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Is more central. Are you like close to a little
rock in there?

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, I'm like south a little rock about fifty miles.
But I love whitetail for some reason. I've hunted elk
and and mules and above. For some reason, I just
love white tail hunting. I don't know why, I just do.

(25:11):
So that would be my pick.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, I mean I always say mine too, Mine, mine's
white tail. Mine's white tail hunting. Probably now in Kansas,
I mean in the midwest, Kansas and Iowa. Pretty awesome.
I was great. Yeah, it's amazing. But uh but yeah,
so do you have did you did you grow up hunting? What? Like?
What was your first introduction into the outdoors.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
My grandfather was a big hunter, my dad's dad, and
he was my hero, Like he was.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
The guy, the dude. Yeah for me.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
He passed away unfortunately I don't know, fifteen twenty years ago,
but he was my hero still is even though he's gone.
But he's the one that took me hunting and taught
me how. And and then my other grandfather, my mom's dad,

(26:10):
taught me about fishing. So I got hunting from one
and fishing from the other. And but I mean, I
love both, but I love to hunt.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
What time of the year is your favorite? Telling me
to home, Yeah, Arkansas is kind of a sleeper white
tail statement. I don't want there's a lot. There's not
a lot of big ones. I've heard some bigger deer
on the road on the river. Yeah, I mean, now
if you delta, like.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
To the Delta, yeah, that area, it's there's big deer and.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's that's where that's running all the way up and
down the river. Though I'm in.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
A pretty good lease back home as well, where there's
pretty big deer, but we manage them like you can't shoot.
But this type of deer, you know what I mean,
Like it's so that makes a difference obviously, but uh

(27:11):
but yeah, the Delta is where you know where they
soybeans and rice and all.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah. Yeah, so they're studs. The duck bug everybody you not.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Really, which is weird, man, because it's a huge thing
in Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Like I said, I mean, yeah, just like talking to
you from that, like just knowing you now, you don't
seem like a duck guy. Like guys have a thing
like I mean, I'll go, but I suck at calling
and given.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Here's my thing. I don't like to eat duck. I
don't think it tastes.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Good, not even like duck poppers, not really just more creamy.
So I'd rather go kill something I'd rather eat, you
know what I mean. For sure, I'm with that. This
is my best tip. That's all I can do. That's
way better than me. Give them. You gotta give them
the clouds too loud, too loud.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Now I'll go and hang out and like like normally,
like when I go, it's with guys that are you know,
uh ballers or whatever, and uh, that's what we do.
They're pouring drinks in the blind and I'm like, whatever hard,
what are those ice teeth?

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Like one of the tea twisted teas? Oh yeah, that's
what we We crushed those, and but uh, yeah, that's
what we do. We're we're like a one time a year,
go for a few days, kill a bunch of ducks.
Just see it and then shoot a bunch. Yeah, shoot
a bunch. It's gotta be after deer. I ain't trying
to break ice. I ain't trying to set up there

(28:53):
thirty in the morning out there. Yeah, screw that two hours. Yeah,
I'm with that. I like to go sit in my
red neck blind.

Speaker 7 (29:04):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
And I got my heater, Not that I even need it,
because red neck blind they're pretty warm.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Are you sponsored by them or something?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I wish I was. I could use a sponsorship, sponsorship,
but no, I'd rather go sit in that and chill. Yeah. Yeah,
I think it's the a loneeness of deer honting that
that really draws me into it. Honestly, is the conversation
and the lack of talking. That's the thing about duck

(29:33):
hunters is they can't they the camaraderie of a blind
is what draws them to the blind. They can't sit
like I got like John Pickle, love him to death.
He listens to his podcast and he will agree with
me that he cannot sit in a deer stand by himself.
I love sitting, I will say, though. So.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
My two youngest daughters both killed their first dear this year.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Come on.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Sitting with me. That's that's the coolest thing of all time.
One of them is ten and one's thirteen.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
How many kids you got you got? We have four?

Speaker 3 (30:12):
We have three daughters fifteen thirteen, ten our boys seven
and so.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
So the two middle girls are the two younger girls
both killed their first deer, and I cried literally. I mean,
I've got.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
A video I can show you guys of us tracking
their deer. Wow, And I mean it was the coolest
thing of all time.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
So set it up. How'd you take them? When'd you
take them? Where? What were the deer? Did they show
interest before it? Were you like, hey, we're going today
and you're going with me? No? Both of them are
like way in.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
My oldest daughter she scoped herself a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Take out of them and she's out right now understandable.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
One wants to, but he's seven, Yeah, so he can't. Yeah,
he's a little too young. But uh, I tell you what.
My ten year old is the one that gets obsessed
and she is a dead eye, Like she shoots better
than me.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
What you got to shooting?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
She shot a two twenty three perfect, And then my
older daughter, thirteen year old, shot a two seventy.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
You haven't suppressed, are you like that one's suppressed? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:34):
But uh she waited for it to go from one
hundred yards to about two hundred yards and she shot
it right in the backbone.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
But the other one, just the other one shot.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
My ten year old shot a deer that was probably
the size of that guitar bag over there.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I literally picked it up and just threw it in
the back of Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
But yeah, it was awesome, lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
So do you feel like you're hunting now is more
geared too, because we have this conversation all the time,
like we both have young kids and they're coming up.
And we saw it with my dad too, Like my
dad was super. I mean he's he's the biggest and
talk about a whitetail guy. I mean he literally will
will pass up an elk hunt to because he's like
I can't miss a rut in Tennessee, like I ain't

(32:27):
going out hunt. But uh, we saw the switch in
him to where like it was hardcore with him, hardcore
hardcore he was he was, he was getting after it.
We saw the switch turn to us and then it
was all about us hunting and and he got more
and we saw it like he he had more. He
enjoyed that more I think than than going out there
by himself.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, I'm telling you, I told you guys, I cried
when my daughter killed the steer, and yeah, I remember
my grandfather, you know who I talked about teaching me
how to hunt, and I saw him make the switch.

(33:09):
He's like, I don't even need to take a gun
now because you're doing it. Yeah. And I did the
same thing this year. It was so much more. I've
killed so many big deer as you guys have, I'm sure,
and I enjoy every experience, and I've killed a lot

(33:31):
of elk and different things. And but to have the
opportunity to see the joy on my ten year old
daughter's face, yes, that's it, you know.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
It was amazing. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait for that. Honestly,
it's so awesome, dude, It's so cool. It seems like
you're hunting just kind of kicks into a new gear,
you know, and it means something totally different to you
than you know. And we got a few years. I mean,
my oldest is six almost, so I got some time.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
And to me, the moments inside the deer stand or
what makes it, you know, so like I'm handing her
a blanket and she's watching her iPad or you know.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Whatever, seeing the first deer come across.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, it like this particular deer. For my ten year old.
She slaps me like this with the back of her hand.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
She goes, Dad, there's a deer. I go, all right,
I go, you own it? Are you on it? All right?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Squeeze, don't jerk, squeeze the trigger. Bam, just hammered it. Yeah. Yeah,
so that's super cool.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
And then my thirteen year old, like I said, it
came out at like one hundred yards. I'm like, yeah,
shoot it, shoot it. It walks to like one hundred
and twenty yards. It walks to like one hundred and
fifty yards.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
I go, it's about to go over that fence out there,
two hundred yards and she squeeze it.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Squeeze, she squeezes and it hammers it hit it in
the backbone, broke his backbone. But but yeah, put them down,
hammered it.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I've heard I've heard guys that like take their kids.
They'll say, like, you know, it's hard to get time
with them at home because especially when they're growing up,
they getting into their teens, they want to do their
own specially with.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
The iPads, iPhones and all that, and they talk about it.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
They're like, you talk about quality time. I mean, that's
what you're saying is getting getting them out into the
woods and in a deer blind where you're sitting there
for hours on end, just you and them. They're like, well,
I can't I can't wait to do it. Some of
the best, you know, some of the best time I
get with my kids. Yeah, it's awesome, you know.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
And that looking back for me, so, you know, a
ride of passage for guys who hunt is when you
can sit by yourself, without your dad or without your
papa or whatever. For me, I always sat with my grandpa,

(36:27):
even when I was like eighteen nineteen years old. I
sat with my grandpa because I just love spending that
time with it.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
And so you for recognizing that that young you know,
uh m yeah. And so.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
You know, I hope my kids will, you know, feel
the same way.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
I don't know that they will, but I hope. So, yeah,
that's awesome. J Just cook it up. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
uh right, can't beat it, can't beat it, can't gravy
and biscuit, a little little rollet paded out and tender
eyes it go dad.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Italian and dress them yeah oh yeah, and then bread
it and fry.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yep. You we're going elk hunting this year for like
the where are you going the for real first time?
New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Okay, you've never been to New Mexico. I've been to
Colorado and Montana.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
It's the one thing in our hunting kind of like
careers that we haven't done is go out there and
chase them.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
They're so huge, Like, I mean, I know you know that,
but when you actually see them, you're like, holy cow,
like they're huge.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yeah. We ran up on one in Montana when we
were Miliere hunting and I literally thought somebody's horses had
gotten out because it was the first one I've ever seen.
You're just not then you even see them standing next
to horses and they're they're big. They're huge. Yeah, they're big. Yeah,
they're enormous. Tell us a little bit about your Colorado
hunt last year, or just tell us about your best

(38:07):
your elk story, best elk story you got my best one? Yeah,
just the best one Colorado. I killed. It was a
decent elk. It wasn't great.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Last year, but my favorite hunt was I hunted in Browning, Montana,
which is the northernmost part of Montana.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Western guess eastern uh the Glacier National Park.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
I think it's called the most beautiful place I've ever
seen in my life. And uh, we were on we
would ride in on horseback at like three am, which
was it was like cowboys and Indian, yeah kind of stuff.

(38:55):
And so we were riding around and we're glass and
off of.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Ridges and all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
And literally the last day, I think we had hunted
five six days and I finally got a pretty nice
six by six and then showed up at the show.
We were opening for Miranda Lambert at the time. Showed
up at the show with blood like all over me.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Come on, it was pretty cool. Yeah, do you get
to do a lot of hunting when you're on the road,
like when you when it a little and stuff like that,
when it when it works out, you know, Yeah, I'm
excited about it, just because I've never We don't know
anything about it, honestly. It's it's just something that unless
you're you know, get the opportunities to go do there's

(39:48):
we don't. We don't have any of that over here,
you know what I mean, anything even comparable.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's they're kind of like white Tail really really, I mean,
I think.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Like Mule deer stupid. My tail are pretty smart. De
mule deer a curious like they'll just they'll come check
it out.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Like the first mule deer I killed, I shot completely whiffed, missed,
and he just stood there and looked back at me
like this, and I shot him.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
That Tennessee and Arkansas white tails headed to the next
county happens.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, yeah, exactly a little. But I think elker somewhere
in between.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
How was it?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
How was the eating great? I've got a freezer full
of elk as we speak. That's delicious, man, So yeah,
it's great. You see any any wolves in Colorado? No,
I don't think we saw any wolves, but I will
say I did say on top of a horse, glass

(40:55):
and a ridge, like I'm literally like a mile away,
I saw a grizzly And so.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I know you're going to say.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
That I'm glass and and the the guide with me goes,
we gotta go. I go, why, he goes, that's a grizzly.
I go, like, like that spec like way down there.
He goes, yeah, it's probably a mile away. We we
gotta go. I go, he's like that spec but a

(41:25):
mile away he goes, Yeah, he can make up that
ground in no time.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Wow, which is I was stunned by. Yeah. But curveball question,
would you rather be killed by a silverback gorilla or
a grizzly bear? Whatever's quick as uh? I would think it.
I don't know. Okay, another another curveball question. If a

(41:51):
silverback gorilla and a grizzly fought, who would win? I
would think a grizzly. I'm going grizzly to a lot
of Yeah, A lot of guys say silver backs. I
just feel like with the claws, it's just kind of
instant and they're quick.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Man.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
I just told you they can make up a mile
and right, So if that had been a gorilla down there,
you gotta be like, all right, I don't know, man,
silver backs are me. I don't know how fast they
are distance runners? Silver Backs am me. No. I asked
you about the wolves because a big thing right now
is a hot topic in Colorado is the reintroduction of

(42:31):
wolves and kind of how I don't know when they
reintroduced them, but it's like they did their year end
review and a lot of the you're talking about, like wolf, wolf,
Wolf's wolf. Yeah, reintroducing them to the wild out there,
a lot of the a lot of the cattle farmers around.
Oh man, what's what's the what's the what's the town?

(42:53):
What's the town? We almost went elk counting. It starts
with the sea anyway, Kremlin, Yeah, Krimlin, something like that.
There's a farmer there that has seen almost like a
twelve percent drop in calf and and like calf production
one either to killing or two either to the stress

(43:15):
of his herd now because the wolves are coming in
and that. I mean, he's like he's gone to the
government for the local officials and everything. He's trying to
get them. He's like he's trying to get them out. Yeah,
there's a lot of people out wolves out there. I
really don't. I mean, I understand why people want them around.
And it's not that I don't want them around, but
they got to be managed someone. And I feel like

(43:37):
this topic is way smarter than me because we live
here and we're not really in it as much. But
I mean I get where they're coming from. I mean,
them jokers are they're paying they're paying people. The Colorado CWF,
I think is what it's called our Pampit people. Forty
thousand dollars a year to be range riders. And it's
where you can literally just hop on a horse and

(43:58):
ride around herds in farms out there to keep to
keep the wall, to keep the wolves away. I'll tell
you to kill them. I like, well, why do they
reintroduce them with no just to keep them away, just
to to to get them to run out. Yeah, it's
a tough tough subject. All right, dude, Let's talk about, uh,
your coaching career. Where where where do you see it ending?

(44:21):
Are you gonna you're gonna be You're gonna be in
in one day on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I hope we don't follow that far that they need
to hire me. Uh but no, man, I I grew
up I played baseball and basketball. Uh we didn't have
football because our school was so small, our town was
so small, we didn't have enough people.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
And so uh but I love the game.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
I love I love sports, and I think sports teach
you a great lessons how to succeed, how to fail,
had a lead, had to be lead.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Yeah, And so I'm.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Thrilled that my kids are have, you know, developed the
same passion for it that I have, and they are
okay with me. Coaching them. And so yeah, I've coached
all my daughters in softball and basketball, and then now

(45:34):
I coach my my son in baseball and football and
h this year basketball.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
That's all. It seems like one of those things that
once you start coaching, your kids are gonna be like, well,
you coached her, so you got to coach and then
there's no way. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
So my youngest daughter, who's ten, she's like, Dad, you
coached Ella, you coach Ken can come on and yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Man, it's awesome. And the other thing for me is.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
I love having the opportunity to, at least I think
or I'm trying to be a positive adult role model
impacts in our uh community for sure, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
And so do you live in the town you grew
up here?

Speaker 2 (46:28):
I do?

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Really? Yeah, that's cool. Three people three hundred. Wow, that's also. Yeah,
that's that's where I coach. That's sick. So have you
had any like I remember I was in high school.
I umpired some games and I had to throw dan
through a deacon through a deacon our church out. It
was like my best friend's dad, but he totally deserved it, totally.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I'm a bit of appeal if you will with with
ump Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Tell me you you gotta have you got to have
a good parent story tucked in there over the past. Yeah,
throw somebody under the bus here.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
I don't know, ten years ago or something. I'm coaching
my oldest daughter, who's now fifteen.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Set up the scenario so we can see who's whose
side we're on this. If we're on the side of
your side, Oh, we're on my side. Well, I'm on
Justin's side. I haven't made up my mind. Well you
couldn't record so because if you are, I still got
a song as going to the radio.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I'm on just I'm coaching third base and our girl
slides in. I don't remember if it was my daughter
was yeah, but uh, she slides in.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
She was safe.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
They called her out. It was a female umpire and
I go, you miss that one, you miss that one comment.
And then she gets from a coach, so she says,
I forget what she said.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
I got back a little bit.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
I said, look, I've forgotten more about this game than
you'll ever learn.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Justin quick bringing the bringing the skipper. I was just
gonna say, from a jad's standpoint, it seems a little quick, but.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
It was it was pretty obvious call heat of the moment. Man,
So I got, I go, you cost me a run.
So we're still going cost me a run.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
So she she's chill. And so.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
The next play we're totally out, like I don't remember
the play, but like we're we're definitely out, like I
throw the first and obviously out. Yeah, and she called, uh,
the girl say, and I go, thank you for the
makeup call.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
She goes, I don't do makeup calls.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
I go, well, you may not do makeup calls, but
every other umpire does, and thank you for the makeup call.
She should have tossed me to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
I wish he'd been like, I don't do makeup either.
Meet me in the parking lot. He'll whip you out.
Country singer, Like, do you have parents, like? Like, do
they treat you like Justin Moore? The country singer? They
treat you like Justin Moore? I grew up in the town.
They treat me like anybody else. Yeah, no doubt, No doubt, dude.

(49:21):
I we're from a small town too. It's it's not
three hundred, but I used to be mad at it,
like I used to like, I'm never moving back to
my hometown and I'm not going to. But I was
just having this conversation with Casey Beller yesterday. I was like, man,
I think of love Casey. Dude. By the way, he's
our national dad. He is the greatest, one of the

(49:41):
greatest human beings ever met. Totally. Yes, And it's like
my manager.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
He's here and he said this about other songwriters, and
I think the same thing about Casey, Like I know
all the same words.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
As Casey, Yeah, but I can't put them together. Like
he's an artist for sure. I mean he's ridiculous. Yes, yeah,
Next he says, such a good dude. We were we
were literally had yesterday off and nanny was gone, so
we just kept the kids. And well I was laying
lounging in a pool and he drove up. We live.
I lived for three minutes from him. Wait, wait, lounging
in what pool? And look my little water slide? Yeah,

(50:18):
a kiddie pool. Not yeah, it ain't. It ain't a
thirty six foot eleven dollars from dollar generally, you know
those things are expensive. It's actual water slide. Oh I
thought you met the pool. The no I was lounging
in the in the water slide, the water slide pool.
But anyway, I told Bucks we were talking about it,
and and uh, he actually started writing a song on

(50:40):
me while while we were talking about it. But I
was like, man, I I was mad at my hometown
for a long time, but now I think about it.
But he he he asked, He actually asked what I
was doing tomorrow. If I was working tomorrow, I said, yeah,
we're podcast with just More. He's like, dude, I love Justin.
He was like, he's and he said this and and
and this is this is actually what got us on
that topic, he said. He said, Justin's a guy that

(51:00):
gets it and he's got it for a long time.
And he was like, he's like he lives in his hometown.
And that's where we started talking about that, and and man,
I just I don't know, man I, you know, you
can get caught up in the You move to town
with this like this, this hunger and this thirst for
what Nashville holds and what you can get out of
it and what it's going to bring you and working

(51:21):
in it and succeeding in it, and then man, you
just kind of you do that, and you see behind
the curtain and you live here for a minute and
you kind of get a taste of it, and you
really don't know what you had when when you were
living in a small town, when life was slow, when
you knew everybody, when everybody treated you the same, when
you could, you know, leave your doors unlocked and all

(51:42):
that stuff. Man, And its just like now having kids.
I kind of wish I kind of wish they could
grow up feeling that, and they do a little bit.
Where we're at. We're not in town. We're forty minutes
south and you know, Thomas Station area, but they ain't
got it like town of three hundred. Well, I tell
you this.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
So for me personally, I moved to town when I
was eighteen and I wanted to be George straight.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Right.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
I wanted to be bigger than anybody, sell more tickets
than anybody. Then I got married, had kids, and my
priorities changed I supposed to, And so God is number
one for me. Number two is my family. And it's

(52:32):
more important to me to be a good parent and
a good husband than it is to be George the
George trade. And so I thought for me personally, that
would happen back home.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
You know.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
I have a lot of great friends here in Nashville,
and Nashville is really good to me, but it just
wasn't home, you know, it just never felt like home. Yeah,
and so you know, we moved back home and you.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Made that decision. When was that because I don't even
know if a lot of people know that, Like what
year was that? Yeah, yeah, ten, eleven, twelve, something like that.
Did you know you always wanted to do that? I did.
I never bought a house here. I couldn't make myself do.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
It, and so we always rented. And we had my
oldest daughter again, who's fifteen, and at the time she
was I don't know, eight ten months old, and we
moved back, so you can do the math. I don't know,

(53:53):
fourteen thirteen, whatever it was. And it's been great for us, Like,
for example, like my oldest daughter's second grade teacher was
my second grade teacher. That's so cool, man, you know,
And that's so good. That's just one example of many.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
I live.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Again on on the property I grew up on. I
can I can hit a pitching wedge to my parents
house where I grew up over a pond. Nice you know,
in a cow pasture, a pretty long pitching wedge yards.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Out there. If I blade it, you hit it grow, Yeah,
it probably.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
To be honest with you, guys, it's probably cost me
some things.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
I'm going to ask you that.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Yeah, it has, I mean awards and that kind of stuff.
It's cost me awards.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Why would it cost you? And why would you no offense?
But why would you care about awards?

Speaker 3 (55:05):
I don't you don't obviously, I don't even go to
awards shows anymore.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Not for you, man, you do get it. Well, you know,
there's so the book and it's obvious. Oh yeah, you know,
there's no dellusion that it's cost me things in my career.
I was going to ask you that. So obviously the
the pros for your family are nuts. But if we
just take family completely out of it, what do you
think career wise that it's actually cost you? Because you're

(55:32):
still awards tickets? Probably probably tours. You think not living
in Nashville's cost you tours? Really? Yeah? Wow? But I
don't give a ship.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Hey, hey, man, To be honest with you, don't turkey
gobble that one. Here's the thing. I don't know if
you can cuss on you can we put Turkey gobble over.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
But I don't want to tell on that one because
that was that's conviction, man, And I like to here.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Here's the thing I want kids twenty years from now
to goo. Dad was here, he was here. Yeah, he
made us the priority. So yeah, how much are you
playing there? How many shows you play here?

Speaker 7 (56:17):
We play about seventy five eighty Jesus you might still,
I mean, that's that's going dude, But I remember playing
to eighty, so eighty is yeah, like I'll take it.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Yeah, you know, yeah, So I mean that's I mean,
that's well over every weekend. I mean you're how are
you doing during the week stuff or everyone? No, No,
it's usually weekend.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
I mean like Friday Saturday or Thursday Friday Saturday. And
we take a lot of time. We've been off a
lot this year. For example, I don't know that we've
played more than ten fifteen shows this year so far.
But I mean we're about to get really busy in
the summer.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Do you does your family ever get to travel? You
take them on the road with you? My kids do.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
My wife does not care anything about coming out unless
it's like Chicago or Manhattan, or she's like, where are
you going? Nah'mah Detroit, but the kids want to go.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Yeah. Did you ever see did you ever see it
playing out like this? Like did you ever did you
see it when you moved to town or before you
moved to town, when like when you were when you
made the decision, Hey, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go
do music, try to do music for a living. Did
you see it getting to a point where you've got
thirteen number ones, selling out you know, shows and being
able to travel and that have been for twenty years,

(57:42):
absolutely having some of the biggest songs in this decade
of country music.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
You know, I don't know that I saw that happening
as far as you know, the the amount of success
we've had. But for some reason, man, like I'll always
thought I would I would do it.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
I don't know why. But it's crazy how many people
answer with that, and they always say, I don't know why,
And don't think I'm a bad person. That's not I
think faith is what it is.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
But if you if you told me, I would have
twenty plus top ten records and we've been doing this
for now going on two decades.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
I don't know that I would have thought that. I mean, well,
that's a critic career to be proud of. Man, you've
you've you've been, you stood your ground, and you've if
you've been who you are the entire time. And even
not knowing you personally, I knew that, and I think
your fans know that, and I think this town knows that.
And Uh, props to you man for stand trut yourself.

(58:49):
I appreciate you say your family will benefit I mean
from that, but yeah, I mean that time with your
kids and and and seeing and then being able to
coach there that that means way more than any accolade
this town could ever or any plaque you can hang
on the wall. Mayeah, I think that's your awards. I
think your awards are your kids and seeing you know,

(59:12):
grow up and be successful and be good humans. You know. Well, yeah,
one hundred percent. Uh, you just toasted your annual golf
Classic raised more than four hundred and seventy five thousand
dollars for Saint Jude. That's a that's that's awesome man,
good on you for doing that. Yeah, it's Uh, it's.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Been a really cool experience for myself and my wife
to be able to Uh, I guess spearhead.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
That yeah, if you will.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
For I think this our fifth year and we're at
like five million, four million raised.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Something like that, and that's all.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
I'm really proud to be a part of country music
for a lot of different reasons, but uh, the fact
that we do so much, which is a community for
Saint Jude, to me, is is something I'm I'm very
proud of.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Yeah, that's great, man, that's great. What's your You got
a handicap? You like to play?

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
I do right now. I'm probably over twenty. The best
I was was about ten, but that was that was
a few kids ago.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
You get to get a lot of four days when
I got to play a lot more. But all right,
we came up with a game and I'm really excited
about it. It's called justin Moore just enough or just
a less? Okay, So what you gotta do is say
more enough or less. So let's just do what do

(01:00:48):
you mean enough? Like it's enough? Okay? Is it more
or less? Or more enough? Let's just do more or less? No,
it's it's more just enough. It was it was just
and more or justin less.

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
I'm gonna I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Gonna throw a subject out. You said we need more
of this, that's enough any justin more of this or
justin justin Justin Moore of this? You say your own
name a lot, there is just enough of this, or
justin less of this. The last one doesn't really make sense.
So here's my subjects. Recently I've seen I've seen a
video of Ernest with his shirt off, and we love Ernest.

(01:01:25):
He's been on the show, He's awesome. I've also seen
he's a singer here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Okay, I don't know if you meant like like the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
No, that's what I was. Sorry. By the way, if
you Ernest states Christmas, go watch Ernest since Christmas? All right,
So because that was huge when we were kids. Camp Yeah,
turtle bites wo the not I remember. So shirts off
in country music is the subject I've seen Ernest with
his shirt off recently, which is you know, props too,
I'm a bigger guy myself. You got Warren Ziders coming

(01:02:02):
out all all the and slicked up hot boys Warren Zyders,
and you got Gavin Adcock. So when it comes to
shirts off in country music performing, do we need Justin
Moore of that? Is it just enough of that or
justin less of that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Justin lest he gets it? Okay, so you got a
game least? Okay? All right?

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
I saw uh so, Uh, Gavin and Warren we're both
on my team on the softball game.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Celebrity. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Here, Warren looks like he works out. Gavin looks like
you don't like he drinks beer and so I told
Connor Smith. I don't know if you guys haven't had
him on it, but a great guy. I go, Man,
Hardy is way faster than I thought he was. He goes, heart,

(01:03:01):
he's not here. I go, that's Tody right there. He goes, No,
that's Gavin.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I go, no kidding, alright, definitely live in Arkansas, bro,
He goes, Dude, that might be the funniest thing I've
ever had. That's amazing. That's good, that's amazing. Do they
not look alike? Yeah? Yeah, I can see it. Goates
and built here. Yeah yeah, I don't know. Sure sure,

(01:03:30):
especially if he had glasses. I like you and more
now even all right, second, these are yours you want
to take over? Here, I've got the list. Let's just
go down. Okay. Conspiracy theories justin Moore, Is there just
justin enough of them? Are justin less? Your ten hat guy,

(01:03:52):
what's nine eleven in jobs? Inside job? I'd say just enough.
Teeters on the fence talk oh less? Okay? Uh Donald
Trump media ruts, I'm here for I forgot one. Uh

(01:04:15):
kill my president. Cold plunging, oh gosh, uh last, Yeah,
I'm with that. You know I've been warned plunging lately
where I just get out there, took a hot shower.
It's been done. Wonders for me. Stop that's done. I'm
just saying. Toy story movies, Oh more. I love toy

(01:04:36):
same dude, probably my favorite, uh yeah, sequel of serious album.
I'm the same way. It's so good.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
I cried during the same the one where the the
kid went to college college.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
I cried. And he's playing with the he's playing with yeah. Yeah,
he gives his toys to cowboy and he grabs. Yeah,
he's gonna take you. That's I got chilling with some
arm on my tattooed arms right now. Really great riding.
What about pineapple and pizza, No at all? Pineapple human

(01:05:11):
there the same age? Uh, he know, he's way cooler
than you are. Maybe Richard but college college football playoffs,
we kind of got more of them. But do we
need more than we already got? Like more teams more?
I mean that's kind of a that's kind of a
load of quick because I mean they just added I
mean last year was the first twelve team, right, twelve,

(01:05:33):
I could see going to like sixteen. Okay, I'm with that.
Maybe I'm with that. I like a good college football
game on the weekend. Man, I'll take as many as
I can get, especially since the SEC is back. Man. Yeah,
uh is that all of them? Yeah? Oh yeah, that's all.
That's a love. Thanks for playing along. You won that.
Sponsored about to get a pair of covies for that? There,

(01:05:54):
show it to Hey, how did the softball and going?

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
I hit like crap?

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
So I get onto my girls for rolling their hands
over ground and I square through it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Yeah not palm up, palm down.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
I always tell, and I did it every time I
went over three.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Oh Jay Moore, come on, just dinkers. Yeah I didn't.
I didn't strike party struck so Hardy Yeah Hardy was
wasn't even there. Man, he was a speedster. I saw
he wrote. I swear to God like I really go

(01:06:42):
damn hearty's fast. Now, I will say this. Dan doesn't
look like he's fast. He's got tiny legs, big torso.
But guy's sneaky fast. I'm fast, sneaky fast. I'm slow. Really,
people think I'm fast, your leadoff hitters knowing fast quick,
Yeah like yeah, like that sideways. Give me a little quick, man,

(01:07:05):
But I'm not. That's pretty quick. That's pretty quick. But
but I'm not. I mean, that's the quickest. That's the quickest.
Guess I would thought he wasn't gonna do it, as
missed it because I wasn't even looking far quickest. Guess
we've had some doubt by far. Totally still got it, dude,
we still got I like you so much. Man, all right,

(01:07:28):
let's uh, let's do h We've been here, you've only
got we've only got fifteen minutes, we've been here in
an hour. Let's do a gravorite song. Yes, you won't play,
you want play, We're gonna do the uh whatever you
want to do. Man, if you want to do another one,
do it all. Where there's a cloud on rain, there's

(01:08:01):
some of my eighes.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Don't mean there's pain on the flattery yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
I'm bowling over you, Christy shoe.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
It by same little ber cold. It only pains that
you lost the whole. Yeah, and on me, I'm bold
over you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
You heard I'm drinking more than that sh fabby on Actor.
Someone told job sticking letter up. Why they making those
stories of nine gold over you shoes? The vocal killer

(01:09:05):
man you sing your oh thank you man? Were you
were your was your granddad or your parents? Like, did
y'all listen to classic country growing up?

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
And and my dad was a big time influence.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
And as far as that goes, and back then, you know,
you could call into a radio station and go, hey,
can you play that new.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
Clint Black song? And they would play it. Now you
can't do that, but so.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Yeah, growing up, I mean, I don't know, there were
four or five stations locally and and all, but maybe
one of them was a country station, yeah, you know,
and the other may be like a classic rock station
or something.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Yeah. Uh So I've called one song, I've recalled and
requested one song in my life as before. It was
country Grammar by Nelly back in middle school, oh man,
when I was in hot when we were in high school.
How old are you? Thirty? Seven before when we were
in high school. That was in middle school. Jam oh,
no doubt all those Saint lunatics and I'm throwing down

(01:10:21):
down baby. But the edited version Rainbow Street Cocoa pas nine,
light it up and take above past it again something, No,
that's not the words. Hey, dude, uh, we're spall. You
know we're we're like kind of a big deal around here.
So we get a clearly, we get to give boots
to our guests, bron and I know that's the only

(01:10:43):
reason you're here. Thanks for coming on. There's a pair
of a slick should yeah get in there though? Should
I should? I wear them without socks like him, Dan
does not have socks on today. But that we should
just keep the We should just keep the cameras on
until he gets them off. I think we're I think

(01:11:04):
we're that closed. Put me on blasts long pod clo.
That's a dumb that's a dumb mood. I will try
to take thee off. Try to take them off. Start
right now and start trying to take them off. Take
a minute, there you go, start taking them off here?
Do you need help? I need a boot jack, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Not that bad?

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Not the left one Yeah, dude, I can smell those
ridonculous you you look ridiculous. You want to see that's
gonna toe where my son dropped that gun on my toe?
Oh dude, you're just a baby. Can tell you it's broke.
That didn't look hurt. It broke. No, it's not that.
They still smell good. Can not send can to go?

(01:11:40):
Does not send you all some socks? Maybe they can't.
I mean, listen, I moved my lawnmower back to the
shed this morning because I ran out of gas and
I forgot to put socks on and wore my crocs crocs,
so I don't know if you can do crocs with socks.
I can smell those and they smell amazing. Yeah, they
smell like the best boot and country music. I love it.

(01:12:01):
Thank you guys, Thanks, thanks, thanks for coming on. I'll
put them to good use. You're a great example of
a country artist that cares about his family and his career.
And thanks for coming on. Thank you all for your time,
your time for sure. Hey where are you on the
road this fall? Where can people watch? I have no idea,
So go check out Just More Some everywhere. Just Moore

(01:12:24):
is everywhere. This is this fall playing eighty shows? Go
check them out. We are out.

Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
We're doing a lot of shows with Joe Nichols, who
girl brother and Arkansas guy. Y'all should get him on here.
I'd love to love He's a great guy. He cuts
some my songs in this last record, man did he Yeah, look.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
At you a little sneaky good writer over there. I
got cuts too, I got hits. Oh really, yes, we're
talking about really. He's the only one who brags. You know,
I'm not. I'm secure in my manhood. Listen, I need
every stream I can get. They're tearing us up out Hey,
songwriters need them all, no for real. Thanks for coming on,

(01:13:08):
Thank you all for tuning in and watching, watching this episode,
listening to this episode. Justin Moore, everybody appreciate you. Thank you.
We come back, appreciate you coming back some time. Absolutely
next year, when you're back, when you're back in town
for the c m A Fest, when your first time
years from now. Can we do this bea zoon Yeah,
we love zoom everybody. Hey, we'll check y'all next time. Peace.

(01:13:30):
Thanks