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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live across the world.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is the John Jay and Rich radio program.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Three point seven k r Q, the home of John J.
And Rich in the morning. Ah, Hey, it's John J.
Rich nine to three points seven Carque. Well, well, we
are live in the studio at the care Que Studios
where we on Sunrise we move we used to be. Yeah, yes,
and we have special guests this video. We got coach
Tommy Lloyd, We got Mark from Midland. Thank you guys
for coming in, Thanks for having us.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, thank you, Thanks than usual for going on a
little press tour right with me in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona.
And thanks John Jay and Rich for having us our
pleasure on the ninety three point seven r oh Q.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Is it close?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Is it true that you put Tommy Lloyd on one
of the new tracks on Midland. I think that'd be cool.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yeah, he's got a guest feature on it, Tommy. Tommy's
probably has quoted more Midland songs in press conferences after games.
Tommy's favorite song to quote is a song called long
Neck Way to Go that we just did with John Party.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And you told that you used that a lot in
press conference. Is that the one, but it's what you
always misquoted.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
How does it? What am I supposed to say? I mean, Uh,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You just go, you know, we we're we're We've come
a long way, but we've got a long way.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Uh uh paycheck one?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What what's the paycheck to paycheck?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Yeah, paycheck to paycheck, day to day, paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
There you go, Okay, that's what kind of how I
am living? Paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
But uh, definitely long neck along that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I saw the car that Tommy drove in here and
he's doing all right. Good.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Life was good. But now you guys got a new
album out, new song. You got a concert here Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know this is a hometown show for for myself.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I grew up in Snoid, Arizona and went to South
Point here in Tucson, the University of Arizona, Bear Down,
Go Cats, and uh we are playing this Friday night,
April twenty fifth at the Tucson Arena with our friends
Flatland Cavalry. That's going to be Yeah. So we've got
a new song out that we just went to to
radio last week. It's called I Wish You Would with
(02:06):
the Fabulous young Mackenzie Carpenter, which is amazing. And then
we're gonna be putting on a new album later this year.
So it's a it's a big one for us. Plus
for a one of the headliners at Stage Coach this
weekend Sunday, So this is a big weekend for me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, well, we're gonna play the new song of a second,
but I just wanted to, like, you know, just talk
all of us, just shoot the poop, because I think
this is really cool and this is very random to
have all of us specially first of all, Stage Coach.
Where is this inn, Austin.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Stage Coach is out in Palm Desert.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It is it's the same guys that did Coachella, and
Coachella goes for two weekends. This is a little insight
into the country music crowd. Stage Coach does double the
amount of alcohol in a one weekend. That's Coachella does
in two weekends. That's a fact.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
What about ecstasy, I've never done it before, different crowds,
it's it is the world's biggest country music festival.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's a sea of almost one hundred thousand people singing
back to you. This will be the fourth time that
Midlands played it and it is an absolute experience. But
to get it going too the weekend doing the Tucson
Arena where I saw my first Mega concert back in
the day when I was a little tiny kid mc
hammer by the way.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So wheat.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, it was pretty cool. That's why we pray. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, like the ten year old me is looking back.
You know that we're going to be on the same
stage and it's pretty cool and be in cher o Q.
I grew up on ninety three point seven. Grew up,
you know, listening the Top eight at eight that was
a big deal back in the day.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So school, I'm sidered looking at you, and you are
a very very handsome guy.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He's looking at you.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Tell me thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But this is gonna sound kind of weird. To be
not weird, but I just finished watching nineteen twenty three.
Have you seen that show? Yeah, and you look like
you could be on that show.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Like Brandon, my friend Brandon Skleoner.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I was hoping he was your friends. Wait, he's your friends.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, he's actually one of my guests at He hit
me up because we were getting tagged on social media
so much. When when nineteen twenty three came out and
everybody kept tagging me. He's like, are you in this
new this show blah blah, And I said no, damn
it because Brandon's cloner got cast instead of me. But anyhow,
we became friends in social media just because he reached
(04:16):
out to me and goes, hey, man, we might as
well be friends if everybody's confusing us first.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
That was so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So he's actually coming out as one of my guests
at stagecoach what Yeah, see this.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
This is why I don't like to talk before because
you learned.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes, I've had the same incident. I mean, they Brad
Pitt hit me stage for each other.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I am such a fan of that dude, you know,
I thought I just finished it like two days ago.
Nineteen twenty three, you seend, Tommy, do you get to
watch TV because you're so.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
You know, I mean, I know a little bit about
nineteen twenty three is the prequel fur was Yellow Stones
Yellow I watched some of those, man.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
It's it's hard to commit to those shows. Man, It's
it's like a long, big commitment.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I've watched all of them now, the Yellowstone and then
eighteen eighty three and the nineteen ten. How do you
have time.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean the cold plunge, like at three in the morning,
like you work in the mornings. Man, I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know how I want you, guys, I haven't.
I want you to come to my house to pledge.
You know who plunged in my house? Oh my god,
plunges Arizona guy.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Dirks and I became pen pals during COVID. You know,
Dirks is an Arizona kid. He actually went to uh
went to high school, so my cousins in Phoenix, and
when we kind of hit it, we found each other
as two Arizona boys, you know, doing country music. So yeah,
I've been Dirks was the early supporter of mine and
somebody that I kind of leaned on for advice.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
When we first kind of started.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Slid guy he's one of the most solid dudes in
all of music. Amazing dude, amazing father, amazing family guy,
made an artist, and he's also a pilot and he
flies himself all around the country in.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
A lear Jet. He's like, he's real pilot, real well
Tom Cruise esque pilot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He's got a cold pilot with him to because his
co pilot. They came to my house and adopted a
dog from our dog rescue.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, i'd hope.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So, yeah, they're really after show.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I probably don't want too many cords lights to go
fly a plant or no, nor would I want to
fly us or be you know ding saying his co
pilots his dog right, No, no, his.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Cold pilot adopted dog from us and the house. But
the the Dirk takes cold plunges on the road with him. Yeah,
he's a cycle cold puncher.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm a I'm a big advocate of it as well.
I got you know, Tommy knew about it. But when
I have a house just jump down the street from
Tommy's place, I got a a sauna and a cold
plunge set up and I do that religiously. Yeah, I'm
a big believer in all that daily exercise, take all
your supplements, eat well, exercise, get lots of sun, vitamin D,
(06:45):
do your cold plunges, do your sauna's drink cords light.
You got to you got to reach maybe maybe your
joint or two just to come down after the show
and then you're good.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
This is the healthy life.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, I believe that you very Let me ask you
about middling a little bit, because not a lot of
you know, not a lot of artists get what you
guys have got coming out of Tucson. Yeah, so how
do you how do you get that trajectory to take
off for you like that?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know a lot of people ask me that a
lot of young artists will will reach out to me
and ask me, you know, what's the uh, you know,
what's the map?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What's the key? Like, how can you do it?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
There is no map, there is no key. You just
got to put in your ten thousand hours. You got
to have you know, uh, you got to be lucky
to have some talent number one, but then you've got
to have drive and ambition because it's a really tough
way to make it. As Tommy and I were talking
about in another interview, you know, we're like twenty year
overnight successes. You know, nobody watched Tommy's you know, the
(07:47):
hard years he put in as an assistant and coming
on up with Mark Few and doing put in in
twenty years two decades before becoming one of the most
successful head coaches in college basketball.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So he's had a pretty good start.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Came out with Drinking Problem, which I think is now
eight times platinum as the first single, which is pretty cool,
and yeah, we've been really lucky, But for me, it's
I grew up a little place called the Steak Out
in Sonoid, Arizona, my family's little hockey Tonk steakhouse and bar,
and I grew up getting to watch greats like Kevin
Bacoulis and Andy Hersey and uh and Tim O'Connor and
(08:23):
a bunch of just amazing true musicians of the years
that we're playing at the restaurant on Friday, Saturdays and Sundays.
So you know, I got years and years and years
of being an understudy and all that I stole, all
their tricks.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You hang out with, you hang out with Drew Cooperdle
I know Drew.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Drew used to play it when we used to have
the Steak Out here in Tucson. My brother was running it.
My brother used to bring on Drew quite a bit
and we talked a lot. Great singer, really talented, and
you know, this is something I was dreamed about and
I couldn't believe when you know, I got a publishing
deal in Nashville and then a record deal and then
we're able to put music out for the first time
(09:01):
of my life. Which was years and years after starting
the pursuit of it. So the only advice I can
give to anybody is is, don't give up. Just keep going.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What's it like here on the radio for the first
time when you when you finally get that moment, you
know what, It's always cool.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's always really special because you go back to you know,
the the eight year old or twelve.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Year old, You're always still there, right, Yeah, you know you're.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
A fan of music number one.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know, so all of my heroes, so many of
them come from the music and the sporting community. So
it's always a thrill for me to hear a song
on the radio. It's always a thrill for me to
get a hang out with coach Lloyd. Tommy has become
a good friend and his beautiful family Chanel and you
know his kids where his daughters were my nannies and stuff.
But you know, I still get a kick every time
(09:47):
I walk into McHale Center. You know, I can't help
but think about walking in there when I was eleven
years old with loud Olsen. You know, getting to watch
a lot of great players and go to Loudelson's basketball
camp and you know, getting to watch Steve play as
a kid, and Sean Elliott, Joe Bushler.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And so on and so on, Frank all those guys.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Yeah we should.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Oh, well, he might be busy right now.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I think he actually has a game tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh does he?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
I think?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So? What?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I remember what time Rich Ren we with that party?
Whose house was that? It was his? Oh it was
oh Steve curse curs. Yeah, we went to a party.
It was something. It was first it was for something
for loot. And I remember Rich was the shortest guy there.
Oh yeah, like his meat didn't touch the ground. They
had these giant launch airs for like big NBA. Guys said,
my feet were tangling. Your feet don't even touch the
ground this place all right? So we got coach Tommy
(10:34):
Lloyd studio. We got Mark from Midland in the studio.
Your concert is Friday Tickets where tickets.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You can go to midlandoficial dot com to get tickets,
or you can go to Ticketmaster and search for Midland
at the two Sun Arena this Friday, April twenty fifth.
The doors open at seven point thirty. Flatland Cavalry is
an amazing group. Friends of ours out of Texas are
opening or you know they're are direct support, and then
Midland comes on. If you all have never seen us before,
(11:00):
you know we've been friends and in bands with each
other for almost twenty years. Midland's been playing together for
over eleven years, and we play with a seven piece band,
so we got pedal steel electric guitars, we got keys,
four part harmonies, harmonicas, and the full spectrum of the
show is pretty incredible because we're doing a lot of covers.
(11:21):
We're doing covers like Eastbound and Down a Footscoot and
Boogie from Brooks and Dunn, who we got to re
release that track together, which was a trip we do.
We finished with like a Rock Bob Seeger, which has
become an extra special song to me realizing that I'm
now my dad's age when the first time I heard it,
(11:41):
you know. So that's a song about kind of looking
back and seeing where you've come from and and thinking
that you still you know, your best days are maybe
still in there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You can crush it at stage touch. I think I
think covers are making some sort of come back with people,
because you see what Green Day did after a Coachell
last week. They went to a bar, two guys Billy
Joel and they went and they saying, thirty one covers
in a row, that's too much.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
That means enough.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
They do punk rock songs, they're ultimate.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I'm not doing thirty one songs Brooks had done.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I like to do any covers with Tim McGraw.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know, we've got to do uh, I gotta you know.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I was just hanging out with Tim McGraw last week
in Nashville. We're on the same label and Tim and
Faith took us out. That was the first one of
the first big tours. I got to do an arena
tour with them and we were just playing acoustic, which
is which was a thrill. But you know, I got
to watch them and the way they navigate the road
with a family. This is before I had a family
that was a little bit wilder. So learned a lot
(12:37):
from Tim and keep up with him and text him
over every once in a while if I got a question,
and he always writes me back.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And you know, you gotta do something like that. Yeah,
we did.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We did Redneck Redneck Girl, which was a thrill when
we put that out, which was really fun. You know,
Tim is Tim's a hard he's a hard voice.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
To to cover.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
He doesn't quite fit, and we have a kind of
different range. Songs that work for me a lot are
Whale and Jennings songs, Yeah and stuff, stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What about any Willie from Redhead and Stranger my favorite
country album of all time.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, Blue Ice Crying in the Rain the unexpected number
one hit. The label railed against that. They thought it
was way too sparse, and they thought it was unfinished
and created it. So he kind of started the entire
outlaw movement with that album, which is pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But yeah, we do.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
We do a great cover of Bruce Springsteen Tough Than
the Rest, which is one of my favorite covers that
we've ever done. And our whole thing is to try
to imbue our own style into cover as opposed to
just to to be totally, you know, kind of reductive
and just you know, copy it. The idea is to
make it your own.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Okay, so wait, you perform here Friday, but you're at
stage Coach.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Saturday, we go to flag Staff, where Tommy's son used
to play at nau at Liam Lloyd, who's also getting
married this weekend on Tucson, Arizona. Big weekend for the
Lloyd's Wow, otherwise I be at the wedding. But yeah,
we we headline stage Coach on Sunday evening on the
main stage right after sunset, and then Luke Combs will
(14:09):
close it out. So that's very big weekend for Yeah.
And we got this new song I Wish You Would
Mackenzie Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Which is play right now. Yes, you heard it on
the radio yet, Well I haven't.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I haven't heard it on the radio yet, so this
would be my first time.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Okay, So intro. What what is the song? It's what's
it called called?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I Wish You Would Wish? Midland and Mackenzie Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Exclusive on ninety three point seven j John Jay and
Rich John Jay and Rich Mornings from five to ten
on ninety three point seven KRQ, kr Q John Jan Rich.
It's a special edition of our show Afternoons. Is riching
me hanging here with Coach, Tommy Lloyd and Mark from
Midland and we're just kind of like hanging out shooting
the poop. And I was gonna tell you Mark quick story. Yeah,
(14:49):
because your brother, I don't see. This is the problem
we talking about stuff off the air, is that I
forget on the air. Your brother started a company called Freshly.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Called Freshly Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
So a couple of years ago. To tell you the story,
he he sent a bunch of this product to my house.
Right and at the same time, this just sound kind
of weird.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
It was ready to eat like meal Breavy company. So
it was like healthy Portions. Healthy food showed up as
like a meal delivery plan, so you just put it
in your fridge and then you heat it up when
you're ready to eat.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Rite.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So he sent it to my house. I was right.
So it was a big box with it. At that
same time, Charlie Pooth, you know the singer Charlie Pooth. Yes,
he was at my house. Okay, he was, and he
was with his sister and she they hung out. We
did a bunch of stuff and then and then they
had to go and they had their bus out front
and his sister was starving. She was everything to eat
and I go, oh, I just got this. She goes, oh,
can I have some? I said sure, and she took
it all. She walked out with all of our Freshly
(15:41):
and I was like, it was Charlie poo.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She had good macros. Then I'll never forget that.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So I was like, if you ever talked to Charlie Pooth,
be like, hey man, your sister took my brother's product.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We had it on the bus for a while. They sold.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
He ended up selling the company to Nesley and had
a very successful exit.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Was just pretty cool, but so real. Proud of him.
You live life. He lives, He lives good. He's still,
he's he's still. You know, we're humble ranch kids.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I grew up on the Mexican border of Arizona, so like,
I don't think I think my parents would ever let
him get too cocky.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
You know, our dad was a was a fighter pilot
and colonel in the Marine Corps. So keeps us he
still keeps his home.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, that's good. All right, Tommy, what about you. Let's go.
We got coach Lloyd. I was, you know, I was
thinking of a stupid marketing campaign today for no reason
at all. Sometimes in my brain and I thought of
coach Tommy Lloyd Webber, and everyone wears the mask from
like from a Phantom of the Opera, because Andrew Lloyd
Webber would be at the game.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I don't know if I can unsee that right, Everyone
was a game with the mask on, he started chanting, singing.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
John Jay, I had, I had and Rich. I had
an proposal to Tommy ear earlier this morning. I was
saying that he should let me style him for one game.
For one game, that's the whole deal. I'm getting very retro.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Look, maybe there's room for that now that Ada is
not here anymore. You know another coach.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Wouldn't you guys want to see Tommy kind of country
billing out a little.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Bit, Yeah, for a special Western night or something like that.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I'm not not against it, but I don't have those
pretty locks that he has.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
There's a couple of ball players who I've been to
the Sun's game when I don't know who they are,
but when they show up, they're not playing. They're wearing
their cowboy hats and stuff like that. The game.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
My buddy DeAndre Jordan, who plays now. I live out
in Boulder, Colorado, and uh, DeAndre and Russ Westbrook came
to our show at Red Rocks and they're both fans
of country music, which was pretty cool. So DeAndre came
in and Russ wearing full cowboy gear and uh, he
actually just posted that on his Instagram yesterday. More of
(17:58):
the cowboy gear that's makes something like that, but all
maybe blue mm hmm, right with an embroidered block a
on there and a big cactus in the back.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
We could get your Nike logo on it. There's not
that we can we can make it, see it? Yeah?
All right? So coach, like right now in the off season,
like what what what what's your day like? Like, what
are you doing today besides hanging out with us?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Well, I'm just helping out my friend Mark here. There's
no back to making sure we get this show sold out.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
On Friday at the Tucson Arena Friday, April twenty fifth.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You know, honestly, our drop never ends. You know.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
You know that you have the games, and you know
everybody sees that, and then when the season's over, you know,
I mean I've been telling people I don't I don't
know if our season ended six hours ago or six
months ago.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You know, you did? You you have all these emotions,
you know, from a from a hard season.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And but right now we're rebuilding our roster and then
trying to get loaded up for next year and then
eventually going to take a little bit of a breath
and some family time, and obviously you know, you guys
mentioned my my son and his fiance are getting married
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Why?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Is that like the time fly for you when you
see your sons get married. Oh whoa whoah.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, And you know, obviously we have we have a grandson. Now.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You know a lot of people in Tucson know about
So it's been awesome for our family. And you know,
to be honest with you, our entire family has kind
of moved down to Tucson.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Your two son guy, Now I can tell I'm a
t lok. Yeah, it feels like it because you know
all the spots you.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Eat snoring dogs, you know, for lunch almost you can tell.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Get a snoring dog from BK. That's strong, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I mean, I like one of my favorite places right there.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I would say the other day, we cold caught you
on the radio show the other day and after we
hung up, I kind of made this joke when we
said goodbye, I was like, this might be the first
interview you've done where we didn't talk basketball. But yeah, no, no,
I love that.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I mean, you know, obviously I have a lot of
other interests in hoops.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
You know that the public only gets to see that
one side of me as coaching basketball, which is fine.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What's another side. Let's get the other side of normal, dude.
I mean, I'm just normally to watch TV.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I watch a little bit, watch TV, watch sports are on.
I've actually been watching The Defiant One.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know, you say that one good? It's great, is it?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Yeah? So Mark and I are going to go to
my house later. He has some of his new demos
and I'm going to kind of cut him up. I'm
a little Jimmy iveen pressure.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He's got perfective.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Now, folks, how far are you in that show? I
say you episode four? It's freaking fantastic.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Because I mean I love all music and I actually
that you know, I was kind of in the in
the crux of that gangster rap, you know, and that
was like my age, you know, in the late eighties,
early nineties, so of course we listen to that and
uh and you know, I mean I love all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
And I grew up in the Northwest, so the grunge
music was huge, you know, for for me.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And then uh, you know, it's well documented that I'm
a huge Beastie Boy fan, you know, huge Beasty boy
fan in beck Those are kind of my two favorites
and Midlands, you know, trying to.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Make a push up there. Yeah, we're gonna see how
this next album is, you know, if they can kind
of move up the rankings.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But you know that that Rick Rubin is the one
that is the common figure in all those guys. There's
a great Rick Rubin and Paul McCartney documentary where they
go through and they listened to all the stems of
the iconic Beatles songs and Paul McCartney and cool and
talk about It's on Apple.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Have you seen the Wildflowers documentary of Tom Petty that
came out recently? That's that's a lot of Rick Rubin
in there.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, you know they do that. I saw that one.
And then there's the there's the brand new one that is.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The Zeppelin Becoming Zeppelin.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
That one is supposed to be amazing and I haven't
seen that. But there's another Tom Petty documentary that just
came out. Uh is that the one on who thinks?
So if the name is is failing me right now?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I watched the Becoming Zeppelin and imax, Yeah, it is
so loud and they are so good like you, you
would want to go see that band. I don't care
who you are, you wouldn't want to go to the
band right now because they were They were as good
as it gets.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Okay, I want to switch back to Tom real quick
on something like, so here you are in Tucson, to
know a little bit about yourself. What's like your favorite
restaurant you did here? Your top three? McDonald's because we know.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Mc donald I'm joking.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
We we eat a lot of Contigo because it's it's
really close to our house.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
We go to the Union some that's right down the
street from us by Vacci's the good spot that we.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Go to there.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
You know, we we have what's the one Tavolino is
right across the street from us, and we can actually
go there on a golf cart.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
There's no yeah, this is the bubbles, trust me. There's
no stoplights between our house and there. So still Roses down.
Charles great, all the old Charles are good.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
We we love those and we have a great relationship
with them and our family and they've been great to
us and they're actually doing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The steakout down Arizona.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The steakout is amazing. Now, the steak Out a great story.
So when Mark and I first met, you know, this
is a it's on the court in Michale and there's
a they have it a.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
It was the kind of Lootles Memorial weekend, you know,
because it's coming out of COVID and I and I
had just been named the head coach, so it's kind
of the first time in front of a bunch of
alumni and all these former players and the who's who
of Arizona basketballs here right away.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And it's like September, first weekend of uh.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You know, my first year, and I'd never been a
head coach, and so we kind of did a little
mini practice with our guys and you know, you got
Steve Curse sitting there crossing his arms watching you coach
the team, you know, for the first time, and and uh,
you know, and I went and talked to the guys
and we had a little meet and greet after and
I'm like, who's this character?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I mean, the guy's all dressed up and and I'll
never forget you had a shirt on. I'll never forget this.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
It was Polk Yeah, Pull And you know what I
had had a great player who's on my staff now
from Poland.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know, Uh, you don't have many shirts that do
have sleeves, do you, no, man?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And I went up to him and uh, and you know,
so we started talking about maybe he's a former player,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Walk on, you know, one of these guys, you know.
And and I said, hey, you know, you know, what
do you what do you do? And he's like, I'm
a country superstar And I'm like, okay, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You know, I did not say country superstars. I'm an artist,
you know.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, and yeah, so we hit.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
It off, and then we realized we kind of both
moved here at the same time and and we we
actually lived really close to each other. So we started
hanging out and and uh, you know, I'm sad that
he's kind of relocated up to Boulder, you know, because
we had a lot of great time and you know,
it was great just to connect and kind of, you know,
we we're running these crazy kind of parallel lives, but
then we can have our own little intersections where we
(24:08):
just get a repri even you know, I don't know
much about music, he doesn't know much about basketball, even
though you know he's gonna act like he does, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
So we had a great relationship there.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Tommy got me into pick a ball.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Tommy taught me pick a ball and got me involved
in a in a weekly game that they were playing,
and we'd do it up at a at La Ploma
and then Tommy built a pick a ball court at
his house so we'd host the early morning six am games. Wow,
I didn't get up that earl well before it got
one hundred degrees out, you know, in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
A lot of fun. He's a great player.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
There's more more injuries in pickaball than any other sport.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Right now, you stretch it out first, right, Well, it's
his mass participations, the numbers.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, that's that's very cool.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Wait, so the concert is Friday. Tickets are ticketmaster dot
comfer Midland.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah, you go to Midlandofficial dot com to get your
tickets at the two Center ETA for Midland and Flatland Cavalry.
Doors open at seven point thirty. We're trying to get
a sell out here in my hometown. It's going to
be incredible show, Flatline Cavalry, incredible live performers, Kleto one
of the best front men in country music. And then
you got Millan and I think we put on one
of the best live shows in music period.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You know, I could. One of the things about Tucson
is just a big walk up town. Yeah for people
like it, like last minute, yeah, up and run out
and go. We us we're hoping for it.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
We want people looking around, looking at the calendar and
if they want to go, have a great time. You know,
downtown is amazing, in the in the Barrio Viejo. There's
so many cool restaurants and bars that are all right
around there. It's a really great Friday night to go
kind of celebrate in the heart and soul of Tucson,
which is you know, downtown, in the in the barrio
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down there.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Real quick, we should call you, should call mist On
on my phone speakerphone, let's see, I mean, I don't
know what speakers other side. We're here? Yeah, okay, okay, yeah,
let's see.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Should you preface who mister ow?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Is everybody here? I hope everybody? That's a good point. Hello,
mister On. Yeah, Hey, it's John Jay. How are you
What are you doing? You're on the radio, by the way,
are you all yeah, I got coach Tommy Lloyd with me.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
What's that mister? Hey, mister on when we can open
that restaurant. You and I have been talking about lets you.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Lets you do and anyway, we just wanted to say, Hi,
we're calling you live on the radio, but we're doing
on my streephone. Lets you do it, Tommy, listen to
it to Son, you and me for sure, for sure,
and I want to do with your hometown.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Okay, that's done, Kelsey Washingtons, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Tommy, Josh cash On now you know you n LV basketballer.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Let's call Josh. We'll hang up. Called Josh. Real question.
Have you met with a yet Nick?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
NICKI? He used to go after there. I don't know
if I thought the director Nick?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Oh yeah, he was an Arizona guy.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh yes, yeah down there? Yeah all right, twelve years
Oh I don't know that. All right, Okay, listen, we'll
talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, you can't hut of my son.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Okay, okay, he will all right? Aye? Why should we
called Josh Passer? Have you met Josh Passer?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
H I know Josh.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
My wife. Uh, we were, Tommy. That's how I think
you and I kind of really connected. We were both
celebrity cooks misters at the preseason fundraiser.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's a Good event, which was a blast.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
And my wife, Tyler is from Boulder, and you know,
we moved out here full time in twenty twenty, so
she had never she didn't know who mister On was
and had never been. And then that quickly became my
wife's go to place. So we'd go to mister On's
like once a week.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
It's sock.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
She was very enamored by mister On. She's like, man,
that guy's a superstar.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
My son turned one and his first drink was with
mister On sockey bomb, and mister On did it with
him and screamed and yelled at you know, it's just right.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah twenty one when I had my first drink too.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
You know who's from Boulder, isn't it? And he used
to calling our show the producer guy, famous guy Ryan
Tenner from Boulder, Greeley.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Springs, Okay a little different. Yeah, you gotta we've got
We've got Coach Prime in Boulder, that's right. So we
got that whole town, yeah, Boulders, And then we just
got sun Dance, the Film Festival.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Seven.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
We don't need to be promoting a fellow Big twelve school.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
You know, it's good all all profile for all ships
rise with the rising tides, so it's great to have competition.
I think the Big twelve is basketball and football.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And baseball too.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
We're seeing is going to be one of the most
exciting conferences I think for a long time.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But how great is the University of Arizona. It's just
a great school.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You know, my mom, my aunts all graduated from here,
all of my big sisters went here, and when I
looked at going anywhere else, I was like, why Yeah,
And it was the greatest experience. It's such a beautiful campus.
You know, the education is actually fantastic. I graduated, believe
or not, with a degree from the Elder School Business,
(29:34):
which I think is now top fifteen. I was one
of the I was the first competitive entry class. Worked
out well for my brother. You know, I didn't use
too much of my skill set that I learned back then.
But it's an incredible school. You know, the weather is
basically almost perfect for most of the year. You know,
the pool parties are second to none. Just cruising around
(29:55):
on a skateboard, on a bikeer on this campus is.
It's a magical place.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Man. All you need is in Arizona. Taps tattoos.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I don't have any tattoos me and tell me I
have that in common. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Now his son, his son, he's got a little guy
who literally the Dutch boy would be jealous of his hair.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
And his hair is amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
He looks like he's straight out of like Dogtown and
the boys like just both my kids are.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
His name is Champion Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's how much I love pressure. Yeah, Champion Arizona actually
was was my wife's idea.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I woke up in the morning I had We were
on a on a baby moon up at this really
amazing resort just northwest of Phoenix, and we were on
a mountain bike ride and I saw this road said
Champy Road C H A M P I E. And
they were a founding family of Arizona pioneer family back
in the day. And I was like, I threw out Champy.
(30:50):
So then I woke up in the morning and the
doctor came and he goes, sir, would you like to
hold your son Champion Arizona wise track, And I was like,
I look at my wife and I teared up. I
was that that was amazing gesture.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So that's very very cool. Also, it sounds like you
were sleeping the whole time she.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Was giving You know, I didn't drink for seven months
or eight months with my wife, and the first thing
I did is once I once I secured that she
was okay and the baby's okay, I went out and
I went bought like a really beautiful Barollo like Italian red.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I was in the room just smashing that bottle. So
I slept in a little bit right on.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
All right, So let's talk about the concert. Concerts Friday night,
Midland at TCC, which is not called TCC anymore, the
arena ticketmaster dot com or Midland.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Official dot com, mid Little Official dot com. And we're
trying to get a sell out. It's going to be
an incredible show with our friends Flatland Calvary. If you've
never seen us play live before, we put on an
incredible show. We got a bunch of covers, we got
a bunch of our new songs, and we will be
performing our new song I Wish You Would, and my
keyboard player, mister Jeff Adam Check does an amazing rendition
(31:58):
of Mackenzie's parts in falsetto.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Which is int Have you watched the TV show Land Man,
Yes I have. It takes place in Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yes, yeah, I've.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
And I was just in Midland, Texas for a huge
show got two weekends ago. So I go down there
quite a bit. I got the Key to the city
last year in Midland, Texas.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Is band named after Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I came with the name.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I was listening to Dwight Yoakum a lot when we
founded the band in twenty fourteen, and we were out
in a place called the Sonic Ranch in West Texas,
just outside of El Paso, and I was listening to
an album called Population. Me on that album as a
song called fair to Midland, and it's essentially kind of
a parable about chasing after things that are maybe really
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bright and shiny and missing the fact that maybe everything
you ever wanted was kind of in your small town
with the values and with family, et cetera. Is that
you know, sometimes all the things that are shiny and
glittery and gold, they don't really give you a lot
of a lot of meaning, i e. You know, being
famous or already of that stuff, which is you know,
that's why I lived. I've been living in Tucson and Boulder,
(33:07):
and for me, it's all about family and friends first.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So beautiful, it's a beautiful town. I love being down here.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I was just staying at the Arizona Inn, was sitting
pool side and looking up at the palm trees and
the cactuses, and you know, it's just a perfect eighty
two degree day.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's awesome.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The food's amazing.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I took my tour manager on a little on a
Mexican taco truck tour last night and went stopped.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
A couple of places and yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
So, you know, so many friends and family, and it's
great to get to spend some time with Tommy. I
think we're gonna go up to his house when we're
done with this and drink a little tequila so by
the pool, Temmy.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
That's why you can never leave here too.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
It might happen.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
No, no, no, you guys are stuck with me real quick.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Thank you for plugging that.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
But can we just can we list off some of
the players that we got coming in next year?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah? Well, well, first off, I'm excited about our returners.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Or so Moe Crevis, you know, sat out this year
with an injury.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Really excited about him. And then you know, we have
a good recruiting class. We have some really good kids
coming in. We have a kid from from the Chandler area,
co O Pete.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Who's is an absolute stid beast, and we're.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Excited about him.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
We got Braden Burry's excited about him, you know, a
kid from he's the number one player out of California
and the state player of the year there.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
And just really excited about both those guys. And we
got another KI named Dwayne Aristode who's an.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
International kid who played at a prep school and broke
his foot this last year.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
But you know he's a really highly ranked, really really talented.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I watched his I watched all these guys tapes.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Well the freshman play, you think like a co op,
I mean, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I mean they're gonna have to, you know, they have to.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
I mean this NIL era has kind of changed how
you go. You don't have you know, thirteen to fifteen
guys anymore. You kind of get down to like ten,
so you know you have kind of a top ten
and you know, we signed you know, kid named Bryce James,
you know out of southern California.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
I mean people might not his dad. And he's an
awesome kid who's best.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Age that comes off the bench for the Lakers, right well, I.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Think I don't know if he ever has come up
the best I called you call mister James. Yeah, actually
I don't have that number.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Did you get to meet?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
We did it.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
We did a great zoom, you know. And and he
and I have a lot of just you know, cross
connections just to people.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
You know, he plays with a guy and his team
named ruy Hachimira who who I coached, and Goga and
who is you know, he's like another son to our family.
So there's a lot of cross pollination and relationships there
that we know each other through.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But we did.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
We did a great zoom and it was really cool
about their family is you know he and Savannah, I mean,
on their thing, they said what they're most proud of
is how they've raised their kids. Their kids are really
normal and uh, they they do their school work with
any other kids. They're not they're not spoiled, and uh,
you know, and and they take a.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Lot of pride in that.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So other than his game, I really admire Lebron for
how he's put his his family first, and I think
that is evident with the with the character of his
children here.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You can see it on the documentary that came out
not long ago. I forget what it's called. It was
it was like the football one where they had all
those players they follow around thirty for thirty. No, no,
it was on Netflix starting Fight. And when you see
him with his family, it's just fantastic. Yeah, like, what
a great dad.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
But if you haven't seen Bryce Bryce James, his mixtape is. Yeah,
he's pretty talented above the rim player, but he can shoot.
He seems like it is a big basketball like IQ.
He seems like a prototypical school.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Is a year younger than his class, so I think
he's gonna be a little time to develop. And uh,
he's got a lot of upside and kind of a
late bloomer.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
So we're really excited.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Mark's talking basketball. Look like you got that whole language.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Seems I don't miss a game.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
So every Arizona basketball game is a major event at
my house, whether you know, when I was here, Tommy
was gracious enough to get me, you know, tickets and
our buddy Paul Volpi would hook me up quite a bit,
so I don't think I've bought a ticket yet. One
of these days, I think I need to get some
Floris side tickets. But that's why when Tommy hit me
up for one hundred and sixty tickets Star Show Friday
(36:55):
night at the Tucson a Rona, I said, well, Tommy,
we got to go promote this thing. We got to
talk about Midland, we got to talk about the show,
and we got to talk about Arizona basketball because it's
it's all good things.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I think next year is going to be a big one.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
I think you're gonna have feels feel healthy, like you feel.
Do you manifest if you write things down, you write
down goals and stuff and you write that.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
You know, do I manifest things? It's a great question.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
No, but but you have ideas Like listen, I'm proud
of what we've done, you know, but I but I
also know Arizona basketball has done what we've done before,
so now we need to continue to build on that
and take the next steps as a program. And uh,
you know, the getting to the sweet sixteens has been great,
but uh, you know, we have bigger.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Aspirations, you know. But but listen, you also have to
respect how hard this is. And I think.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
You guys as entertainers, Mark is an entertainer, me as
a coach, you know, like just uh, when you're trying
to do to be great and kind of be one
of one, it's really really, really hard and you could
do everything right and still not make it. So you
just have to respect that part of the process. And
uh and and so yeah, but but I'm excited. I'm excited,
I'm hungry. You know, my family and I've decided to
(38:03):
make Tucson home for a long long time. And you know,
we were just talking off the air, and you know,
my parents just moved down here, my wife's parents moved
down here, my wife's sister moved down here. So we've
kind of you know, when you consider five years ago,
I think I'd played a couple of games in Tucsons
and that was about it.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
But now that that we're calling this home and plan
on doing it for a long time and something really special.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
But it's like like for me, uh, this this I
was kind of nervous about this because we've never really
done this before. Rich and I, you know, we just
come in the afternoon and take over long for a
interview for me exactly, That's what happened anymore. You know,
So I I like write down goals, daily goals, long goals.
In this morning, I wrote down, I wrote down you know,
I really hope I have a really good interview, like
I had a great interview with Tommy Mark. That's how
I wrote it down. And then I even on the
way here, I'm putting it out there in universe because
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I was really nervous about and I think it. I
think this went well so far, but I was curious
for you. We're going to like for you, you don't
there's nothing you write down, Tommy, you don't write or
like do you Mark? You write down?
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I had one this year and listen and and I
go back and you and I don't know if I
questioned myself, but you're always your your harshest critic, right yeah.
And you know, we started out a little slow this
year four and five for whatever reason. And I just
kept chanting in my own.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Head it basically, get this team to a sweet sixteen.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
You know, don't don't just say get to the tournament,
because you know, get into the but like then we
got to the Sweet sixteen?
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Did I did? I put a ceiling on it? You
know that. That's why I got to be critical of myself.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
But like, getting to the Sweet sixteen was a great accomplishment,
especially when you consider how we started. Now, we should
have started out better than four and five, but we didn't,
so our reality became.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
We struggled, and then we had to work ourselves through
the struggle. And I think that's real life.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
I mean, I don't think things are meant to be easy,
and I never asked for anything to be easy, and
and I think the harder things are, the more advantage
it is for me because I know I'll stick with it.
And while others might quit or or you know, chake
tage another path, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Keep going forward. But now do you think you'll remove
that ceiling and say it differently?
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Well, listen, going in the season, I didn't say that.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
I came up with the Sweet sixteen mantra after we're
four and five and and you know, people are crushing
us and crushing me and saying we're not good. But
I'm like, no, no, no, We're going to get to
a Sweet sixteen. But now, listen, we do need to
get to a final four. Let's put a championship there
in the Grammy for you? Yeah, I like, is a
Grammy a goal for you?
Speaker 4 (40:20):
I've I've lost a couple already that was already a
thrilled just get nominated.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Awards are not what I go for. I think for me,
it's just about making the music.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
You know that that I love that helps me work through,
you know, what I'm going through my life and then
hopefully we'll move you know, the greater masses through the.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Good times and the bad. The connection provide that soundtrack.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Uh, Chris Stapleton, Yeah, I do think, George Straight, you know,
I think and Tommy and I is in our friendship,
and I think there is something that there is an
over lap with music and with sports because I think
essentially they are kind of mirrors or reflections of our lives.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, you talk about like what you know, you go
through in a season, what you go through in a game,
you know, that is life. You're you're getting thrown you know,
the diversity and challenges in real time, and it's like,
how do you respond to that?
Speaker 1 (41:22):
How do you go?
Speaker 4 (41:23):
And as a musician, you tend to sit down and
write it and put it into in the song, and
those are the things that end up becoming, you know,
like a medicine for you. I remember we were cutting
Drinking Problem. I went through like a really terrible breakup
and was got broken up with over an email and
my producer looked at me, he goes, hold on a second.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
When got a twelve pack.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Of course, like drank probably four or five or six
of them and sat there and you know, cried and
went through that and goes, all right, you're ready. So
I went in the studio and I cut Drinking Problem.
I think part of that song's success was because there
was real emotion and that song for me at that time,
was incredibly therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
You know, it was medicinal for me.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
And that's the music that I seek out as songs
that I can sing over and over again for you know,
if I'm lucky for the next fifteen or twenty or
thirty years and they still mean something. I can mind
a different meaning depending on where I'm at in my life,
and that's what's cool about that. And I think with sports,
that's why I watch it too, to watch somebody performing
at the highest level into all that pressure.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
There's a lot of parallels to that.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Watch Get in the Groove is like, yeah, stepping on
stage and stagecoach. You know, That's why I think I
love sports and and admired and I've watched so much
because I'm fascinated by people dealing with pressure and performance
under pressure is is.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
It's truly an art form.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
And you know, as Tommy said, it's not an easy
thing to do. So you know, for me, I take
on a lot of the same probably attributes to an athlete,
you know, taking care of yourself and getting mentally prepped
in all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Well, well said, thank you guys for coming in. Thanks
for the opportunity.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
It was different, right, this was different.
Speaker 5 (43:07):
It was awesome. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
You guys can crank call me anytime you want, dude.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
All right, all right, it was like, let's go this
consider crank company.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Yeah, we were thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
We'll do another show.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Do you say crank call or prank call?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Change?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I say crank, crank, we say said crank.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
I say crank.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
When you grew up, I grew up here, we grew
up here and say crank.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
All right, thank you guys, Okay, Rich, thank you guys
so much, but real quick, Midland concert is Friday. Take
you baster dot com or Midland official dot com? You've
a walked out basketball? How do you get tickets to that?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Well?
Speaker 5 (43:39):
I think you go on there's a dot com?
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Or do you just find Tommy when he goes drives
his golf cart around.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Ticket and they're not already trolled down.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
We are all right, and thank you for Nick, thank
you for thank Hey what's that button? Do? All right?
This is John Jay and rich On ninety three point
seven kre q
Broadcasting live across the world.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is the John Jay and Rich radio program.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Three point seven k r Q, the home of John J.
And Rich in the morning. Ah, Hey, it's John J.
Rich nine to three points seven Carque. Well, well, we
are live in the studio at the care Que Studios
where we on Sunrise we move we used to be. Yeah, yes,
and we have special guests this video. We got coach
Tommy Lloyd, We got Mark from Midland. Thank you guys
for coming in, Thanks for having us.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, thank you, Thanks than usual for going on a
little press tour right with me in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona.
And thanks John Jay and Rich for having us our
pleasure on the ninety three point seven r oh Q.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Is it close?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Is it true that you put Tommy Lloyd on one
of the new tracks on Midland. I think that'd be cool.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yeah, he's got a guest feature on it, Tommy. Tommy's
probably has quoted more Midland songs in press conferences after games.
Tommy's favorite song to quote is a song called long
Neck Way to Go that we just did with John Party.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And you told that you used that a lot in
press conference. Is that the one, but it's what you
always misquoted.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
How does it? What am I supposed to say? I mean, Uh,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You just go, you know, we we're we're We've come
a long way, but we've got a long way.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Uh uh paycheck one?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What what's the paycheck to paycheck?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Yeah, paycheck to paycheck, day to day, paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
There you go, Okay, that's what kind of how I
am living? Paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
But uh, definitely long neck along that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I saw the car that Tommy drove in here and
he's doing all right. Good.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Life was good. But now you guys got a new
album out, new song. You got a concert here Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know this is a hometown show for for myself.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I grew up in Snoid, Arizona and went to South
Point here in Tucson, the University of Arizona, Bear Down,
Go Cats, and uh we are playing this Friday night,
April twenty fifth at the Tucson Arena with our friends
Flatland Cavalry. That's going to be Yeah. So we've got
a new song out that we just went to to
radio last week. It's called I Wish You Would with
(02:06):
the Fabulous young Mackenzie Carpenter, which is amazing. And then
we're gonna be putting on a new album later this year.
So it's a it's a big one for us. Plus
for a one of the headliners at Stage Coach this
weekend Sunday, So this is a big weekend for me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, well, we're gonna play the new song of a second,
but I just wanted to, like, you know, just talk
all of us, just shoot the poop, because I think
this is really cool and this is very random to
have all of us specially first of all, Stage Coach.
Where is this inn, Austin.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Stage Coach is out in Palm Desert.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It is it's the same guys that did Coachella, and
Coachella goes for two weekends. This is a little insight
into the country music crowd. Stage Coach does double the
amount of alcohol in a one weekend. That's Coachella does
in two weekends. That's a fact.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
What about ecstasy, I've never done it before, different crowds,
it's it is the world's biggest country music festival.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's a sea of almost one hundred thousand people singing
back to you. This will be the fourth time that
Midlands played it and it is an absolute experience. But
to get it going too the weekend doing the Tucson
Arena where I saw my first Mega concert back in
the day when I was a little tiny kid mc
hammer by the way.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So wheat.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, it was pretty cool. That's why we pray. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, like the ten year old me is looking back.
You know that we're going to be on the same
stage and it's pretty cool and be in cher o Q.
I grew up on ninety three point seven. Grew up,
you know, listening the Top eight at eight that was
a big deal back in the day.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So school, I'm sidered looking at you, and you are
a very very handsome guy.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He's looking at you.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Tell me thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But this is gonna sound kind of weird. To be
not weird, but I just finished watching nineteen twenty three.
Have you seen that show? Yeah, and you look like
you could be on that show.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Like Brandon, my friend Brandon Skleoner.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I was hoping he was your friends. Wait, he's your friends.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, he's actually one of my guests at He hit
me up because we were getting tagged on social media
so much. When when nineteen twenty three came out and
everybody kept tagging me. He's like, are you in this
new this show blah blah, And I said no, damn
it because Brandon's cloner got cast instead of me. But anyhow,
we became friends in social media just because he reached
(04:16):
out to me and goes, hey, man, we might as
well be friends if everybody's confusing us first.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
That was so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So he's actually coming out as one of my guests
at stagecoach what Yeah, see this.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
This is why I don't like to talk before because
you learned.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes, I've had the same incident. I mean, they Brad
Pitt hit me stage for each other.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I am such a fan of that dude, you know,
I thought I just finished it like two days ago.
Nineteen twenty three, you seend, Tommy, do you get to
watch TV because you're so.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
You know, I mean, I know a little bit about
nineteen twenty three is the prequel fur was Yellow Stones
Yellow I watched some of those, man.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
It's it's hard to commit to those shows. Man, It's
it's like a long, big commitment.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I've watched all of them now, the Yellowstone and then
eighteen eighty three and the nineteen ten. How do you
have time.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean the cold plunge, like at three in the morning,
like you work in the mornings. Man, I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know how I want you, guys, I haven't.
I want you to come to my house to pledge.
You know who plunged in my house? Oh my god,
plunges Arizona guy.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Dirks and I became pen pals during COVID. You know,
Dirks is an Arizona kid. He actually went to uh
went to high school, so my cousins in Phoenix, and
when we kind of hit it, we found each other
as two Arizona boys, you know, doing country music. So yeah,
I've been Dirks was the early supporter of mine and
somebody that I kind of leaned on for advice.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
When we first kind of started.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Slid guy he's one of the most solid dudes in
all of music. Amazing dude, amazing father, amazing family guy,
made an artist, and he's also a pilot and he
flies himself all around the country in.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
A lear Jet. He's like, he's real pilot, real well
Tom Cruise esque pilot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He's got a cold pilot with him to because his
co pilot. They came to my house and adopted a
dog from our dog rescue.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, i'd hope.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So, yeah, they're really after show.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I probably don't want too many cords lights to go
fly a plant or no, nor would I want to
fly us or be you know ding saying his co
pilots his dog right, No, no, his.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Cold pilot adopted dog from us and the house. But
the the Dirk takes cold plunges on the road with him. Yeah,
he's a cycle cold puncher.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm a I'm a big advocate of it as well.
I got you know, Tommy knew about it. But when
I have a house just jump down the street from
Tommy's place, I got a a sauna and a cold
plunge set up and I do that religiously. Yeah, I'm
a big believer in all that daily exercise, take all
your supplements, eat well, exercise, get lots of sun, vitamin D,
(06:45):
do your cold plunges, do your sauna's drink cords light.
You got to you got to reach maybe maybe your
joint or two just to come down after the show
and then you're good.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
This is the healthy life.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, I believe that you very Let me ask you
about middling a little bit, because not a lot of
you know, not a lot of artists get what you
guys have got coming out of Tucson. Yeah, so how
do you how do you get that trajectory to take
off for you like that?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know a lot of people ask me that a
lot of young artists will will reach out to me
and ask me, you know, what's the uh, you know,
what's the map?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What's the key? Like, how can you do it?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
There is no map, there is no key. You just
got to put in your ten thousand hours. You got
to have you know, uh, you got to be lucky
to have some talent number one, but then you've got
to have drive and ambition because it's a really tough
way to make it. As Tommy and I were talking
about in another interview, you know, we're like twenty year
overnight successes. You know, nobody watched Tommy's you know, the
(07:47):
hard years he put in as an assistant and coming
on up with Mark Few and doing put in in
twenty years two decades before becoming one of the most
successful head coaches in college basketball.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So he's had a pretty good start.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Came out with Drinking Problem, which I think is now
eight times platinum as the first single, which is pretty cool,
and yeah, we've been really lucky, But for me, it's
I grew up a little place called the Steak Out
in Sonoid, Arizona, my family's little hockey Tonk steakhouse and bar,
and I grew up getting to watch greats like Kevin
Bacoulis and Andy Hersey and uh and Tim O'Connor and
(08:23):
a bunch of just amazing true musicians of the years
that we're playing at the restaurant on Friday, Saturdays and Sundays.
So you know, I got years and years and years
of being an understudy and all that I stole, all
their tricks.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You hang out with, you hang out with Drew Cooperdle
I know Drew.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Drew used to play it when we used to have
the Steak Out here in Tucson. My brother was running it.
My brother used to bring on Drew quite a bit
and we talked a lot. Great singer, really talented, and
you know, this is something I was dreamed about and
I couldn't believe when you know, I got a publishing
deal in Nashville and then a record deal and then
we're able to put music out for the first time
(09:01):
of my life. Which was years and years after starting
the pursuit of it. So the only advice I can
give to anybody is is, don't give up. Just keep going.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What's it like here on the radio for the first
time when you when you finally get that moment, you
know what, It's always cool.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's always really special because you go back to you know,
the the eight year old or twelve.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Year old, You're always still there, right, Yeah, you know you're.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
A fan of music number one.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know, so all of my heroes, so many of
them come from the music and the sporting community. So
it's always a thrill for me to hear a song
on the radio. It's always a thrill for me to
get a hang out with coach Lloyd. Tommy has become
a good friend and his beautiful family Chanel and you
know his kids where his daughters were my nannies and stuff.
But you know, I still get a kick every time
(09:47):
I walk into McHale Center. You know, I can't help
but think about walking in there when I was eleven
years old with loud Olsen. You know, getting to watch
a lot of great players and go to Loudelson's basketball
camp and you know, getting to watch Steve play as
a kid, and Sean Elliott, Joe Bushler.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And so on and so on, Frank all those guys.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Yeah we should.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Oh, well, he might be busy right now.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I think he actually has a game tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh does he?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
I think?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So? What?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I remember what time Rich Ren we with that party?
Whose house was that? It was his? Oh it was
oh Steve curse curs. Yeah, we went to a party.
It was something. It was first it was for something
for loot. And I remember Rich was the shortest guy there.
Oh yeah, like his meat didn't touch the ground. They
had these giant launch airs for like big NBA. Guys said,
my feet were tangling. Your feet don't even touch the
ground this place all right? So we got coach Tommy
(10:34):
Lloyd studio. We got Mark from Midland in the studio.
Your concert is Friday Tickets where tickets.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You can go to midlandoficial dot com to get tickets,
or you can go to Ticketmaster and search for Midland
at the two Sun Arena this Friday, April twenty fifth.
The doors open at seven point thirty. Flatland Cavalry is
an amazing group. Friends of ours out of Texas are
opening or you know they're are direct support, and then
Midland comes on. If you all have never seen us before,
(11:00):
you know we've been friends and in bands with each
other for almost twenty years. Midland's been playing together for
over eleven years, and we play with a seven piece band,
so we got pedal steel electric guitars, we got keys,
four part harmonies, harmonicas, and the full spectrum of the
show is pretty incredible because we're doing a lot of covers.
(11:21):
We're doing covers like Eastbound and Down a Footscoot and
Boogie from Brooks and Dunn, who we got to re
release that track together, which was a trip we do.
We finished with like a Rock Bob Seeger, which has
become an extra special song to me realizing that I'm
now my dad's age when the first time I heard it,
(11:41):
you know. So that's a song about kind of looking
back and seeing where you've come from and and thinking
that you still you know, your best days are maybe
still in there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You can crush it at stage touch. I think I
think covers are making some sort of come back with people,
because you see what Green Day did after a Coachell
last week. They went to a bar, two guys Billy
Joel and they went and they saying, thirty one covers
in a row, that's too much.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
That means enough.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
They do punk rock songs, they're ultimate.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I'm not doing thirty one songs Brooks had done.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I like to do any covers with Tim McGraw.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know, we've got to do uh, I gotta you know.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I was just hanging out with Tim McGraw last week
in Nashville. We're on the same label and Tim and
Faith took us out. That was the first one of
the first big tours. I got to do an arena
tour with them and we were just playing acoustic, which
is which was a thrill. But you know, I got
to watch them and the way they navigate the road
with a family. This is before I had a family
that was a little bit wilder. So learned a lot
(12:37):
from Tim and keep up with him and text him
over every once in a while if I got a question,
and he always writes me back.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And you know, you gotta do something like that. Yeah,
we did.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We did Redneck Redneck Girl, which was a thrill when
we put that out, which was really fun. You know,
Tim is Tim's a hard he's a hard voice.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
To to cover.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
He doesn't quite fit, and we have a kind of
different range. Songs that work for me a lot are
Whale and Jennings songs, Yeah and stuff, stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What about any Willie from Redhead and Stranger my favorite
country album of all time.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, Blue Ice Crying in the Rain the unexpected number
one hit. The label railed against that. They thought it
was way too sparse, and they thought it was unfinished
and created it. So he kind of started the entire
outlaw movement with that album, which is pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But yeah, we do.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
We do a great cover of Bruce Springsteen Tough Than
the Rest, which is one of my favorite covers that
we've ever done. And our whole thing is to try
to imbue our own style into cover as opposed to
just to to be totally, you know, kind of reductive
and just you know, copy it. The idea is to
make it your own.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Okay, so wait, you perform here Friday, but you're at
stage Coach.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Saturday, we go to flag Staff, where Tommy's son used
to play at nau at Liam Lloyd, who's also getting
married this weekend on Tucson, Arizona. Big weekend for the
Lloyd's Wow, otherwise I be at the wedding. But yeah,
we we headline stage Coach on Sunday evening on the
main stage right after sunset, and then Luke Combs will
(14:09):
close it out. So that's very big weekend for Yeah.
And we got this new song I Wish You Would
Mackenzie Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Which is play right now. Yes, you heard it on
the radio yet, Well I haven't.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I haven't heard it on the radio yet, so this
would be my first time.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Okay, So intro. What what is the song? It's what's
it called called?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I Wish You Would Wish? Midland and Mackenzie Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Exclusive on ninety three point seven j John Jay and
Rich John Jay and Rich Mornings from five to ten
on ninety three point seven KRQ, kr Q John Jan Rich.
It's a special edition of our show Afternoons. Is riching
me hanging here with Coach, Tommy Lloyd and Mark from
Midland and we're just kind of like hanging out shooting
the poop. And I was gonna tell you Mark quick story. Yeah,
(14:49):
because your brother, I don't see. This is the problem
we talking about stuff off the air, is that I
forget on the air. Your brother started a company called Freshly.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Called Freshly Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
So a couple of years ago. To tell you the story,
he he sent a bunch of this product to my house.
Right and at the same time, this just sound kind
of weird.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
It was ready to eat like meal Breavy company. So
it was like healthy Portions. Healthy food showed up as
like a meal delivery plan, so you just put it
in your fridge and then you heat it up when
you're ready to eat.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Rite.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So he sent it to my house. I was right.
So it was a big box with it. At that
same time, Charlie Pooth, you know the singer Charlie Pooth. Yes,
he was at my house. Okay, he was, and he
was with his sister and she they hung out. We
did a bunch of stuff and then and then they
had to go and they had their bus out front
and his sister was starving. She was everything to eat
and I go, oh, I just got this. She goes, oh,
can I have some? I said sure, and she took
it all. She walked out with all of our Freshly
(15:41):
and I was like, it was Charlie poo.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She had good macros. Then I'll never forget that.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So I was like, if you ever talked to Charlie Pooth,
be like, hey man, your sister took my brother's product.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We had it on the bus for a while. They sold.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
He ended up selling the company to Nesley and had
a very successful exit.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Was just pretty cool, but so real. Proud of him.
You live life. He lives, He lives good. He's still,
he's he's still. You know, we're humble ranch kids.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I grew up on the Mexican border of Arizona, so like,
I don't think I think my parents would ever let
him get too cocky.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
You know, our dad was a was a fighter pilot
and colonel in the Marine Corps. So keeps us he
still keeps his home.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, that's good. All right, Tommy, what about you. Let's go.
We got coach Lloyd. I was, you know, I was
thinking of a stupid marketing campaign today for no reason
at all. Sometimes in my brain and I thought of
coach Tommy Lloyd Webber, and everyone wears the mask from
like from a Phantom of the Opera, because Andrew Lloyd
Webber would be at the game.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I don't know if I can unsee that right, Everyone
was a game with the mask on, he started chanting, singing.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
John Jay, I had, I had and Rich. I had
an proposal to Tommy ear earlier this morning. I was
saying that he should let me style him for one game.
For one game, that's the whole deal. I'm getting very retro.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Look, maybe there's room for that now that Ada is
not here anymore. You know another coach.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Wouldn't you guys want to see Tommy kind of country
billing out a little.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Bit, Yeah, for a special Western night or something like that.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I'm not not against it, but I don't have those
pretty locks that he has.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
There's a couple of ball players who I've been to
the Sun's game when I don't know who they are,
but when they show up, they're not playing. They're wearing
their cowboy hats and stuff like that. The game.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
My buddy DeAndre Jordan, who plays now. I live out
in Boulder, Colorado, and uh, DeAndre and Russ Westbrook came
to our show at Red Rocks and they're both fans
of country music, which was pretty cool. So DeAndre came
in and Russ wearing full cowboy gear and uh, he
actually just posted that on his Instagram yesterday. More of
(17:58):
the cowboy gear that's makes something like that, but all
maybe blue mm hmm, right with an embroidered block a
on there and a big cactus in the back.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
We could get your Nike logo on it. There's not
that we can we can make it, see it? Yeah?
All right? So coach, like right now in the off season,
like what what what what's your day like? Like, what
are you doing today besides hanging out with us?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Well, I'm just helping out my friend Mark here. There's
no back to making sure we get this show sold out.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
On Friday at the Tucson Arena Friday, April twenty fifth.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You know, honestly, our drop never ends. You know.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
You know that you have the games, and you know
everybody sees that, and then when the season's over, you know,
I mean I've been telling people I don't I don't
know if our season ended six hours ago or six
months ago.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You know, you did? You you have all these emotions,
you know, from a from a hard season.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And but right now we're rebuilding our roster and then
trying to get loaded up for next year and then
eventually going to take a little bit of a breath
and some family time, and obviously you know, you guys
mentioned my my son and his fiance are getting married
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Why?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Is that like the time fly for you when you
see your sons get married. Oh whoa whoah.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, And you know, obviously we have we have a grandson. Now.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You know a lot of people in Tucson know about
So it's been awesome for our family. And you know,
to be honest with you, our entire family has kind
of moved down to Tucson.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Your two son guy, Now I can tell I'm a
t lok. Yeah, it feels like it because you know
all the spots you.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Eat snoring dogs, you know, for lunch almost you can tell.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Get a snoring dog from BK. That's strong, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I mean, I like one of my favorite places right there.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I would say the other day, we cold caught you
on the radio show the other day and after we
hung up, I kind of made this joke when we
said goodbye, I was like, this might be the first
interview you've done where we didn't talk basketball. But yeah, no, no,
I love that.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I mean, you know, obviously I have a lot of
other interests in hoops.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
You know that the public only gets to see that
one side of me as coaching basketball, which is fine.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What's another side. Let's get the other side of normal, dude.
I mean, I'm just normally to watch TV.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I watch a little bit, watch TV, watch sports are on.
I've actually been watching The Defiant One.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know, you say that one good? It's great, is it?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Yeah? So Mark and I are going to go to
my house later. He has some of his new demos
and I'm going to kind of cut him up. I'm
a little Jimmy iveen pressure.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He's got perfective.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Now, folks, how far are you in that show? I
say you episode four? It's freaking fantastic.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Because I mean I love all music and I actually
that you know, I was kind of in the in
the crux of that gangster rap, you know, and that
was like my age, you know, in the late eighties,
early nineties, so of course we listen to that and
uh and you know, I mean I love all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
And I grew up in the Northwest, so the grunge
music was huge, you know, for for me.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And then uh, you know, it's well documented that I'm
a huge Beastie Boy fan, you know, huge Beasty boy
fan in beck Those are kind of my two favorites
and Midlands, you know, trying to.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Make a push up there. Yeah, we're gonna see how
this next album is, you know, if they can kind
of move up the rankings.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But you know that that Rick Rubin is the one
that is the common figure in all those guys. There's
a great Rick Rubin and Paul McCartney documentary where they
go through and they listened to all the stems of
the iconic Beatles songs and Paul McCartney and cool and
talk about It's on Apple.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Have you seen the Wildflowers documentary of Tom Petty that
came out recently? That's that's a lot of Rick Rubin
in there.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, you know they do that. I saw that one.
And then there's the there's the brand new one that is.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The Zeppelin Becoming Zeppelin.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
That one is supposed to be amazing and I haven't
seen that. But there's another Tom Petty documentary that just
came out. Uh is that the one on who thinks?
So if the name is is failing me right now?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I watched the Becoming Zeppelin and imax, Yeah, it is
so loud and they are so good like you, you
would want to go see that band. I don't care
who you are, you wouldn't want to go to the
band right now because they were They were as good
as it gets.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Okay, I want to switch back to Tom real quick
on something like, so here you are in Tucson, to
know a little bit about yourself. What's like your favorite
restaurant you did here? Your top three? McDonald's because we know.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Mc donald I'm joking.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
We we eat a lot of Contigo because it's it's
really close to our house.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
We go to the Union some that's right down the
street from us by Vacci's the good spot that we.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Go to there.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
You know, we we have what's the one Tavolino is
right across the street from us, and we can actually
go there on a golf cart.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
There's no yeah, this is the bubbles, trust me. There's
no stoplights between our house and there. So still Roses down.
Charles great, all the old Charles are good.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
We we love those and we have a great relationship
with them and our family and they've been great to
us and they're actually doing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The steakout down Arizona.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The steakout is amazing. Now, the steak Out a great story.
So when Mark and I first met, you know, this
is a it's on the court in Michale and there's
a they have it a.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
It was the kind of Lootles Memorial weekend, you know,
because it's coming out of COVID and I and I
had just been named the head coach, so it's kind
of the first time in front of a bunch of
alumni and all these former players and the who's who
of Arizona basketballs here right away.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And it's like September, first weekend of uh.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You know, my first year, and I'd never been a
head coach, and so we kind of did a little
mini practice with our guys and you know, you got
Steve Curse sitting there crossing his arms watching you coach
the team, you know, for the first time, and and uh,
you know, and I went and talked to the guys
and we had a little meet and greet after and
I'm like, who's this character?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I mean, the guy's all dressed up and and I'll
never forget you had a shirt on. I'll never forget this.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
It was Polk Yeah, Pull And you know what I
had had a great player who's on my staff now
from Poland.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know, Uh, you don't have many shirts that do
have sleeves, do you, no, man?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And I went up to him and uh, and you know,
so we started talking about maybe he's a former player,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Walk on, you know, one of these guys, you know.
And and I said, hey, you know, you know, what
do you what do you do? And he's like, I'm
a country superstar And I'm like, okay, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You know, I did not say country superstars. I'm an artist,
you know.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, and yeah, so we hit.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
It off, and then we realized we kind of both
moved here at the same time and and we we
actually lived really close to each other. So we started
hanging out and and uh, you know, I'm sad that
he's kind of relocated up to Boulder, you know, because
we had a lot of great time and you know,
it was great just to connect and kind of, you know,
we we're running these crazy kind of parallel lives, but
then we can have our own little intersections where we
(24:08):
just get a repri even you know, I don't know
much about music, he doesn't know much about basketball, even
though you know he's gonna act like he does, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
So we had a great relationship there.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Tommy got me into pick a ball.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Tommy taught me pick a ball and got me involved
in a in a weekly game that they were playing,
and we'd do it up at a at La Ploma
and then Tommy built a pick a ball court at
his house so we'd host the early morning six am games. Wow,
I didn't get up that earl well before it got
one hundred degrees out, you know, in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
A lot of fun. He's a great player.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
There's more more injuries in pickaball than any other sport.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Right now, you stretch it out first, right, Well, it's
his mass participations, the numbers.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, that's that's very cool.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Wait, so the concert is Friday. Tickets are ticketmaster dot
comfer Midland.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah, you go to Midlandofficial dot com to get your
tickets at the two Center ETA for Midland and Flatland Cavalry.
Doors open at seven point thirty. We're trying to get
a sell out here in my hometown. It's going to
be incredible show, Flatline Cavalry, incredible live performers, Kleto one
of the best front men in country music. And then
you got Millan and I think we put on one
of the best live shows in music period.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You know, I could. One of the things about Tucson
is just a big walk up town. Yeah for people
like it, like last minute, yeah, up and run out
and go. We us we're hoping for it.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
We want people looking around, looking at the calendar and
if they want to go, have a great time. You know,
downtown is amazing, in the in the Barrio Viejo. There's
so many cool restaurants and bars that are all right
around there. It's a really great Friday night to go
kind of celebrate in the heart and soul of Tucson,
which is you know, downtown, in the in the barrio
(25:44):
down there.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Real quick, we should call you, should call mist On
on my phone speakerphone, let's see, I mean, I don't
know what speakers other side. We're here? Yeah, okay, okay, yeah,
let's see.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Should you preface who mister ow?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Is everybody here? I hope everybody? That's a good point. Hello,
mister On. Yeah, Hey, it's John Jay. How are you
What are you doing? You're on the radio, by the way,
are you all yeah, I got coach Tommy Lloyd with me.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
What's that mister? Hey, mister on when we can open
that restaurant. You and I have been talking about lets you.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Lets you do and anyway, we just wanted to say, Hi,
we're calling you live on the radio, but we're doing
on my streephone. Lets you do it, Tommy, listen to
it to Son, you and me for sure, for sure,
and I want to do with your hometown.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Okay, that's done, Kelsey Washingtons, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Tommy, Josh cash On now you know you n LV basketballer.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Let's call Josh. We'll hang up. Called Josh. Real question.
Have you met with a yet Nick?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
NICKI? He used to go after there. I don't know
if I thought the director Nick?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Oh yeah, he was an Arizona guy.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh yes, yeah down there? Yeah all right, twelve years
Oh I don't know that. All right, Okay, listen, we'll
talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, you can't hut of my son.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Okay, okay, he will all right? Aye? Why should we
called Josh Passer? Have you met Josh Passer?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
H I know Josh.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
My wife. Uh, we were, Tommy. That's how I think
you and I kind of really connected. We were both
celebrity cooks misters at the preseason fundraiser.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's a Good event, which was a blast.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
And my wife, Tyler is from Boulder, and you know,
we moved out here full time in twenty twenty, so
she had never she didn't know who mister On was
and had never been. And then that quickly became my
wife's go to place. So we'd go to mister On's
like once a week.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
It's sock.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
She was very enamored by mister On. She's like, man,
that guy's a superstar.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
My son turned one and his first drink was with
mister On sockey bomb, and mister On did it with
him and screamed and yelled at you know, it's just right.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah twenty one when I had my first drink too.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
You know who's from Boulder, isn't it? And he used
to calling our show the producer guy, famous guy Ryan
Tenner from Boulder, Greeley.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Springs, Okay a little different. Yeah, you gotta we've got
We've got Coach Prime in Boulder, that's right. So we
got that whole town, yeah, Boulders, And then we just
got sun Dance, the Film Festival.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Seven.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
We don't need to be promoting a fellow Big twelve school.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
You know, it's good all all profile for all ships
rise with the rising tides, so it's great to have competition.
I think the Big twelve is basketball and football.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And baseball too.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
We're seeing is going to be one of the most
exciting conferences I think for a long time.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But how great is the University of Arizona. It's just
a great school.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You know, my mom, my aunts all graduated from here,
all of my big sisters went here, and when I
looked at going anywhere else, I was like, why Yeah,
And it was the greatest experience. It's such a beautiful campus.
You know, the education is actually fantastic. I graduated, believe
or not, with a degree from the Elder School Business,
(29:34):
which I think is now top fifteen. I was one
of the I was the first competitive entry class. Worked
out well for my brother. You know, I didn't use
too much of my skill set that I learned back then.
But it's an incredible school. You know, the weather is
basically almost perfect for most of the year. You know,
the pool parties are second to none. Just cruising around
(29:55):
on a skateboard, on a bikeer on this campus is.
It's a magical place.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Man. All you need is in Arizona. Taps tattoos.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I don't have any tattoos me and tell me I
have that in common. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Now his son, his son, he's got a little guy
who literally the Dutch boy would be jealous of his hair.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
And his hair is amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
He looks like he's straight out of like Dogtown and
the boys like just both my kids are.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
His name is Champion Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's how much I love pressure. Yeah, Champion Arizona actually
was was my wife's idea.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I woke up in the morning I had We were
on a on a baby moon up at this really
amazing resort just northwest of Phoenix, and we were on
a mountain bike ride and I saw this road said
Champy Road C H A M P I E. And
they were a founding family of Arizona pioneer family back
in the day. And I was like, I threw out Champy.
(30:50):
So then I woke up in the morning and the
doctor came and he goes, sir, would you like to
hold your son Champion Arizona wise track, And I was like,
I look at my wife and I teared up. I
was that that was amazing gesture.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So that's very very cool. Also, it sounds like you
were sleeping the whole time she.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Was giving You know, I didn't drink for seven months
or eight months with my wife, and the first thing
I did is once I once I secured that she
was okay and the baby's okay, I went out and
I went bought like a really beautiful Barollo like Italian red.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I was in the room just smashing that bottle. So
I slept in a little bit right on.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
All right, So let's talk about the concert. Concerts Friday night,
Midland at TCC, which is not called TCC anymore, the
arena ticketmaster dot com or Midland.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Official dot com, mid Little Official dot com. And we're
trying to get a sell out. It's going to be
an incredible show with our friends Flatland Calvary. If you've
never seen us play live before, we put on an
incredible show. We got a bunch of covers, we got
a bunch of our new songs, and we will be
performing our new song I Wish You Would, and my
keyboard player, mister Jeff Adam Check does an amazing rendition
(31:58):
of Mackenzie's parts in falsetto.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Which is int Have you watched the TV show Land Man,
Yes I have. It takes place in Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yes, yeah, I've.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
And I was just in Midland, Texas for a huge
show got two weekends ago. So I go down there
quite a bit. I got the Key to the city
last year in Midland, Texas.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Is band named after Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I came with the name.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I was listening to Dwight Yoakum a lot when we
founded the band in twenty fourteen, and we were out
in a place called the Sonic Ranch in West Texas,
just outside of El Paso, and I was listening to
an album called Population. Me on that album as a
song called fair to Midland, and it's essentially kind of
a parable about chasing after things that are maybe really
(32:44):
bright and shiny and missing the fact that maybe everything
you ever wanted was kind of in your small town
with the values and with family, et cetera. Is that
you know, sometimes all the things that are shiny and
glittery and gold, they don't really give you a lot
of a lot of meaning, i e. You know, being
famous or already of that stuff, which is you know,
that's why I lived. I've been living in Tucson and Boulder,
(33:07):
and for me, it's all about family and friends first.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So beautiful, it's a beautiful town. I love being down here.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I was just staying at the Arizona Inn, was sitting
pool side and looking up at the palm trees and
the cactuses, and you know, it's just a perfect eighty
two degree day.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's awesome.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The food's amazing.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I took my tour manager on a little on a
Mexican taco truck tour last night and went stopped.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
A couple of places and yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
So, you know, so many friends and family, and it's
great to get to spend some time with Tommy. I
think we're gonna go up to his house when we're
done with this and drink a little tequila so by
the pool, Temmy.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
That's why you can never leave here too.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
It might happen.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
No, no, no, you guys are stuck with me real quick.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Thank you for plugging that.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
But can we just can we list off some of
the players that we got coming in next year?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah? Well, well, first off, I'm excited about our returners.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Or so Moe Crevis, you know, sat out this year
with an injury.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Really excited about him. And then you know, we have
a good recruiting class. We have some really good kids
coming in. We have a kid from from the Chandler area,
co O Pete.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Who's is an absolute stid beast, and we're.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Excited about him.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
We got Braden Burry's excited about him, you know, a
kid from he's the number one player out of California
and the state player of the year there.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
And just really excited about both those guys. And we
got another KI named Dwayne Aristode who's an.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
International kid who played at a prep school and broke
his foot this last year.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
But you know he's a really highly ranked, really really talented.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I watched his I watched all these guys tapes.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Well the freshman play, you think like a co op,
I mean, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
I mean they're gonna have to, you know, they have to.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
I mean this NIL era has kind of changed how
you go. You don't have you know, thirteen to fifteen
guys anymore. You kind of get down to like ten,
so you know you have kind of a top ten
and you know, we signed you know, kid named Bryce James,
you know out of southern California.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
I mean people might not his dad. And he's an
awesome kid who's best.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Age that comes off the bench for the Lakers, right well, I.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Think I don't know if he ever has come up
the best I called you call mister James. Yeah, actually
I don't have that number.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Did you get to meet?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
We did it.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
We did a great zoom, you know. And and he
and I have a lot of just you know, cross
connections just to people.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
You know, he plays with a guy and his team
named ruy Hachimira who who I coached, and Goga and
who is you know, he's like another son to our family.
So there's a lot of cross pollination and relationships there
that we know each other through.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But we did.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
We did a great zoom and it was really cool
about their family is you know he and Savannah, I mean,
on their thing, they said what they're most proud of
is how they've raised their kids. Their kids are really
normal and uh, they they do their school work with
any other kids. They're not they're not spoiled, and uh,
you know, and and they take a.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Lot of pride in that.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So other than his game, I really admire Lebron for
how he's put his his family first, and I think
that is evident with the with the character of his
children here.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You can see it on the documentary that came out
not long ago. I forget what it's called. It was
it was like the football one where they had all
those players they follow around thirty for thirty. No, no,
it was on Netflix starting Fight. And when you see
him with his family, it's just fantastic. Yeah, like, what
a great dad.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
But if you haven't seen Bryce Bryce James, his mixtape is. Yeah,
he's pretty talented above the rim player, but he can shoot.
He seems like it is a big basketball like IQ.
He seems like a prototypical school.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Is a year younger than his class, so I think
he's gonna be a little time to develop. And uh,
he's got a lot of upside and kind of a
late bloomer.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
So we're really excited.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Mark's talking basketball. Look like you got that whole language.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Seems I don't miss a game.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
So every Arizona basketball game is a major event at
my house, whether you know, when I was here, Tommy
was gracious enough to get me, you know, tickets and
our buddy Paul Volpi would hook me up quite a bit,
so I don't think I've bought a ticket yet. One
of these days, I think I need to get some
Floris side tickets. But that's why when Tommy hit me
up for one hundred and sixty tickets Star Show Friday
(36:55):
night at the Tucson a Rona, I said, well, Tommy,
we got to go promote this thing. We got to
talk about Midland, we got to talk about the show,
and we got to talk about Arizona basketball because it's
it's all good things.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I think next year is going to be a big one.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
I think you're gonna have feels feel healthy, like you feel.
Do you manifest if you write things down, you write
down goals and stuff and you write that.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
You know, do I manifest things? It's a great question.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
No, but but you have ideas Like listen, I'm proud
of what we've done, you know, but I but I
also know Arizona basketball has done what we've done before,
so now we need to continue to build on that
and take the next steps as a program. And uh,
you know, the getting to the sweet sixteens has been great,
but uh, you know, we have bigger.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Aspirations, you know. But but listen, you also have to
respect how hard this is. And I think.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
You guys as entertainers, Mark is an entertainer, me as
a coach, you know, like just uh, when you're trying
to do to be great and kind of be one
of one, it's really really, really hard and you could
do everything right and still not make it. So you
just have to respect that part of the process. And
uh and and so yeah, but but I'm excited. I'm excited,
I'm hungry. You know, my family and I've decided to
(38:03):
make Tucson home for a long long time. And you know,
we were just talking off the air, and you know,
my parents just moved down here, my wife's parents moved
down here, my wife's sister moved down here. So we've
kind of you know, when you consider five years ago,
I think I'd played a couple of games in Tucsons
and that was about it.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
But now that that we're calling this home and plan
on doing it for a long time and something really special.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
But it's like like for me, uh, this this I
was kind of nervous about this because we've never really
done this before. Rich and I, you know, we just
come in the afternoon and take over long for a
interview for me exactly, That's what happened anymore. You know,
So I I like write down goals, daily goals, long goals.
In this morning, I wrote down, I wrote down you know,
I really hope I have a really good interview, like
I had a great interview with Tommy Mark. That's how
I wrote it down. And then I even on the
way here, I'm putting it out there in universe because
(38:46):
I was really nervous about and I think it. I
think this went well so far, but I was curious
for you. We're going to like for you, you don't
there's nothing you write down, Tommy, you don't write or
like do you Mark? You write down?
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I had one this year and listen and and I
go back and you and I don't know if I
questioned myself, but you're always your your harshest critic, right yeah.
And you know, we started out a little slow this
year four and five for whatever reason. And I just
kept chanting in my own.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Head it basically, get this team to a sweet sixteen.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
You know, don't don't just say get to the tournament,
because you know, get into the but like then we
got to the Sweet sixteen?
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Did I did? I put a ceiling on it? You
know that. That's why I got to be critical of myself.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
But like, getting to the Sweet sixteen was a great accomplishment,
especially when you consider how we started. Now, we should
have started out better than four and five, but we didn't,
so our reality became.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
We struggled, and then we had to work ourselves through
the struggle. And I think that's real life.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
I mean, I don't think things are meant to be easy,
and I never asked for anything to be easy, and
and I think the harder things are, the more advantage
it is for me because I know I'll stick with it.
And while others might quit or or you know, chake
tage another path, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Keep going forward. But now do you think you'll remove
that ceiling and say it differently?
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Well, listen, going in the season, I didn't say that.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
I came up with the Sweet sixteen mantra after we're
four and five and and you know, people are crushing
us and crushing me and saying we're not good. But
I'm like, no, no, no, We're going to get to
a Sweet sixteen. But now, listen, we do need to
get to a final four. Let's put a championship there
in the Grammy for you? Yeah, I like, is a
Grammy a goal for you?
Speaker 4 (40:20):
I've I've lost a couple already that was already a
thrilled just get nominated.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Awards are not what I go for. I think for me,
it's just about making the music.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
You know that that I love that helps me work through,
you know, what I'm going through my life and then
hopefully we'll move you know, the greater masses through the.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Good times and the bad. The connection provide that soundtrack.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Uh, Chris Stapleton, Yeah, I do think, George Straight, you know,
I think and Tommy and I is in our friendship,
and I think there is something that there is an
over lap with music and with sports because I think
essentially they are kind of mirrors or reflections of our lives.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, you talk about like what you know, you go
through in a season, what you go through in a game,
you know, that is life. You're you're getting thrown you know,
the diversity and challenges in real time, and it's like,
how do you respond to that?
Speaker 1 (41:22):
How do you go?
Speaker 4 (41:23):
And as a musician, you tend to sit down and
write it and put it into in the song, and
those are the things that end up becoming, you know,
like a medicine for you. I remember we were cutting
Drinking Problem. I went through like a really terrible breakup
and was got broken up with over an email and
my producer looked at me, he goes, hold on a second.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
When got a twelve pack.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Of course, like drank probably four or five or six
of them and sat there and you know, cried and
went through that and goes, all right, you're ready. So
I went in the studio and I cut Drinking Problem.
I think part of that song's success was because there
was real emotion and that song for me at that time,
was incredibly therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
You know, it was medicinal for me.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
And that's the music that I seek out as songs
that I can sing over and over again for you know,
if I'm lucky for the next fifteen or twenty or
thirty years and they still mean something. I can mind
a different meaning depending on where I'm at in my life,
and that's what's cool about that. And I think with sports,
that's why I watch it too, to watch somebody performing
at the highest level into all that pressure.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
There's a lot of parallels to that.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Watch Get in the Groove is like, yeah, stepping on
stage and stagecoach. You know, That's why I think I
love sports and and admired and I've watched so much
because I'm fascinated by people dealing with pressure and performance
under pressure is is.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
It's truly an art form.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
And you know, as Tommy said, it's not an easy
thing to do. So you know, for me, I take
on a lot of the same probably attributes to an athlete,
you know, taking care of yourself and getting mentally prepped
in all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Well, well said, thank you guys for coming in. Thanks
for the opportunity.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
It was different, right, this was different.
Speaker 5 (43:07):
It was awesome. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
You guys can crank call me anytime you want, dude.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
All right, all right, it was like, let's go this
consider crank company.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Yeah, we were thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
We'll do another show.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Do you say crank call or prank call?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Change?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I say crank, crank, we say said crank.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
I say crank.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
When you grew up, I grew up here, we grew
up here and say crank.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
All right, thank you guys, Okay, Rich, thank you guys
so much, but real quick, Midland concert is Friday. Take
you baster dot com or Midland official dot com? You've
a walked out basketball? How do you get tickets to that?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Well?
Speaker 5 (43:39):
I think you go on there's a dot com?
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Or do you just find Tommy when he goes drives
his golf cart around.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Ticket and they're not already trolled down.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
We are all right, and thank you for Nick, thank
you for thank Hey what's that button? Do? All right?
This is John Jay and rich On ninety three point
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