Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: This was for the home team.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Welcome, Tailgate Beers. Ryan here. Austin is out on assignment tonight and is not joining us, but I'm sitting down with. With Hayden Kaufman. He's Nashville artist coming through. Opening up for Tyler Braden tonight.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: It's been great.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Looking forward to. To seeing you on the stage. I see you got a, you know, your nice bandwagon out there. Trailer.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Love it.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: The trailer with your. Your picture and. And name on it.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Just like yelling on the side of the trailer there. I'm a little fatter and, you know, hairier.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: More. More hair. I did see that.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Still cool, though. I like it.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: So where have you been here recently? Where are you heading to?
[00:00:51] Speaker A: Yes. So yesterday we were in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Then Thursday we're in Chicago, both with Tyler. It's been great. Cold. Cold as hell. It is cold right now, but very fun. And then two weeks ago, at my first show of the year with Chris Jansen.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: In Georgia. So just kind of getting our toes in the water right now, starting for the year. But it's been great so far. Just doing some opening stuff and having a good time, drinking Surfside.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. Thank you to Surfside for helping us out here at Tailgate Beers.
We mentioned it just before we came on camera, but you've been to Peoria before.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: And played cruisins.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: Yep. Twice. So this is the third time, and I think probably the best time, like, from what I gathered from the other two shows.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:35] Speaker A: With Tyler so far, so I think it's gonna be great.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So hopefully you'll see some familiar faces out there that I've seen before.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. Already did during soundtrack. Yeah. So pretty cool.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: So what do you. What do you think about, you know, just jumping on stage? I mean, is it like a.
You get into, like, a different Persona? I mean, is Hayden off stage and Hayden on stage a different guy?
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Like, way different, I feel like. Because I feel like people, like, think I'm crazy from after my show, and I'm like, really not. Well, sometimes I am, like, Saturday nights, you know, whatever. Friday night. But, like, yeah, kind of just get amped up and kind of treat it like a sport almost where I get real fired up, you know, for, you know, 45 minutes, go crazy up there. 30 minutes, however long we're playing, 90 minutes. But, yeah, get psyched up, and it's, like, fun. It's sport. You kind of get high from it, you know, and it's way different than just your normal job, I guess.
[00:02:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, so.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: And I assume that, you know, the band and. And the team, the camp. I mean, a good camaraderie and traveling together. You're basically living together in a bus.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Exactly. That's what people say. I'm really music. 90% of it's not music. Yeah, you know, you're just hanging out people, and hopefully you like them, you know, and luckily we have a good crew and all that stuff like that got beautiful hair. He's in there.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Oh, he does?
[00:02:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Sound guy, earlier. Yeah, we. We got a great crew and it's. It's awesome. I love it.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: So kind of going into 2025, what's. What's. Goals? What's. What's happening?
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Yeah, man, just really like how we've already started out is staying busy, you know, busier than ever, and then also dropping more music than ever. So I just dropped first single of the year last Friday called Don't Come with a label. Got another one coming out in March.
So I know you said that this is airing in March, so go pre save and pre order. Love and a Heartbreak. That's gonna be the name of that song. And it's Also the name March 14, I believe, whatever that Friday is. We're also announcing the album this Friday against the name Love and Heartbreak. So it's perfect that you're releasing this on March 11th.
[00:03:40] Speaker C: Love that.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: No, that's perfect. Perfect timing. Love it. So coming up in just a couple of days.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: You'll have more music coming out. You'll have big announcements coming.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Yes, sir.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: So, yeah, go, go look up Hayden Kaufman and do it.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Please save it, pre order. It helps me out a lot. I'm an independent artist, so I need all that.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: Absolutely. And then, you know, all the follows.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: And likes and. And, you know, all of that as it comes out too.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: Yeah, man, Love that a lot. You get it. Podcasting all that is as well.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Yeah. I was actually talking to Tyler earlier about, you know, just the. The fact that artists these days, and it's not brand new, but in the last, I don't know, five, seven years, you almost have to become an influencer, dude. Yeah, just get your name out there, get your name out.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: Sure, man. I mean, that's why we got Jade right here with, like, following me around the camera all the time.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Right? Like getting content. It's all about content, dude.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: It is, man. It is. But I like it. It's fun. It's just like. Like, I'm sure Tyler could probably. It says gets exhausting sometimes just cuz like, you're not always, you know, in like, tik tok mode or whatever, but, you know, it's fun. I like it. You kind of have to embrace it, I feel like at this point.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: So from a social media standpoint, and you mentioned her as well, I mean, do you guys focus on certain platforms or is it trying to saturate all of them?
[00:05:12] Speaker A: I mean, guess, like, really all of them. You know what I mean? Like, there's some times where I'm like, you know, I'm not, like, worry about Twitter or X. Right, so.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Right. X. Yeah. I don't know. You know, Elon's kind of got some pull in the government now. I need to.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: I might run for office. You know what I'm saying? So we'll see what happens.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: But what office would you run to run for? Hayden Kaufman, Mayor. For office. Mayor of. Of what?
[00:05:36] Speaker A: I don't know, man. I guess Surfside. Alcohol? No, I don't know. I mean, I don't. Could never run for office, but I'd like to, you know, shake hands, kiss babies, all that.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Absolutely. I've got too much baggage to run for office, man.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: I mean, I'm really worried about my career now, honestly, with all, you know, what I've got out there before I started this.
See what happens, man.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Ain't that the truth?
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: So you got new music coming. You got a release coming for some announcements with, you know, a new album.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Getting ready to drop, videos, everything, man. It's really going to be a lot of stuff coming out, Music videos and just like, set content for days. So we're just working on that right now, finishing up, so going back into.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: You know, kind of the. Coming into the. The music scene. I mean, what. What kind of got you there? What?
[00:06:21] Speaker A: Yeah, she's like, kind of very, I guess, abstract. I started out in college. I was actually playing baseball at a small school down in near Nashville called Cumberland University.
So doing that and then, like, I had a buddy there that was just, you know, learning how to play guitar, picking and grinning, you know, whatever. And we would just, you know, mess around for, you know, months at a time, just like, dorm room stuff because we're young guys, can't go to the bars and stuff down in Nashville. So, yeah, I did that. And then, like, kind of just kind of got addicted to it, I guess. You know, first I was like, just a hobby, you know what I mean? We'll have fun with it. Then, like, I just realized I was like, over and over, I'm like, hey, like, I love doing this, like, it's really fun.
And then obviously too like, you know, getting into doing gigs, it makes more adrenaline rush. It's not as, you know, it's not as boring as just playing a video for yourself and post it on, you know, Instagram or whatever that was. But I did that for two years, right. Just randomly, right when I got college. No plans of doing music at all.
[00:07:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Then sophomore year, I was like, man, like, first off, I feel like I could do this a lot longer than play baseball. So not. I'm not a pro ball player or anything by any means. So, you know, like with doing that too, it's college boards is like a job too, where it's like you can start loving something more than that and blah, blah, blah there. But yeah, just, you know, know, started putting out music videos or not music video cover videos, you know, up on the Internet and all that. And people seem to like it. And I just kept doing it and doing it, doing it. Finally I was like, dude, I'm gonna get out of college, just chase this. Luckily my parents are super cool and they were like, hey, we'll support it, but you're not gonna go to school and you know, do music at the same time and like half ass something. So, you know, we'll help, you know, for a while and just see if that works out for you or not. And so luckily, you know, it's like doing well. So.
Yeah, it's kind of how I first got into it, really. Just posting on Instagram and then, you know, gigging and then playing cover gigs for a couple years. And I finally started writing songs, you know, in like 20, you know, around when it started. So 2018, 2019.
Then, you know, got addicted to that, Met the right people. You know how it is. You kind of create your own community.
So yeah, man, just kind of started that way. And then I just got lucky a couple years ago, just going viral a few times on, you know, different platforms. Tick tock, Instagram, YouTube did really well for me on because of Tick Tock. So yeah, it's kind of like, I guess a nutshell of everything and then like, yeah, I'll quit rambling. I'll let you ask more questions.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: No, you're good, you're good. People want to hear you. They want to hear me.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: No, dude, I do, I do, man.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: So you're going through that process and, and what is your, you know, songwriting? You mentioned you started getting into to writing songs. I mean, are you writing with others when you first start? Are you doing that alone? And, you know, a room by yourself.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: First off, when I first started doing, I was just doing it by myself. And I'm not a guitar player really at all. Like, barely at all. Like, not even a player. I can just put mess around with it. So, yeah, stuff at first is doing that, but that's what I was doing. And I had a buddy I was writing songs with, and then I had people reaching over Instagram, kind of like wanting to write. And you know, when you first hear that, like, you don't even know what that means. Yeah, like, yeah, you know, let's go write a song. Like, what the hell? Okay, sure. Like, how do you, you know, write us a song and think of another song? You know what I mean? I hear people say it all the time and I'm surreal.
But, you know, now I do a lot of co writing, you know, obviously, you know, you get really, like, meet the right people that are like, in your kind of world, I guess, and get you to write those songs and can, like, feel you out as a person. It's like therapy sessions. A lot of times you're like, hey, like, you know, you go to a room with three or four guys, toss ideas out. You might like this, I might not like it. He loves this. Blah, blah, blah. We all agree on something. Then we just kind of spitball and just go, you know, go after. That's kind of how I approach it. And so, yeah, I mean, co writing is the best thing ever to write with other people. I love doing it, but I mean, just me.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: You know, you sit down and. And you're all kind of shooting out ideas, and somebody's probably a couple people probably, you know, strumming along on the guitar and trying to come up with.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Some like, you know, the new age these days, there's like track guys too. So you'll have a guy in there with a beat.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: Like, he's, you know, great, you know, maybe a musician guy, but he's not. Not really there to write the song. Yeah, but, you know, it's like, you know, listening. Okay, that's cool vibe, you know, like, it's love, but song whatever, you know, or it's a rock song. Okay, guys, you like this blah, blah, blah. And you kind of just all agree on something and kind of roll with it like that as well.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: And. And in the. The country scene or the Nashville scene, I mean, if you're in the room.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: And something, you know, gets released, something gets cut there.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: You know, you. You get a part of that.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: Right.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: Even if you are.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Word is a third or whatever that's saying. So if you're just, you know, there and you have a shitty day but, you know, they cut it, it's like, hey, got lucky today. It's a bad day at the office, but, you know, it happens to everybody. You know, you're going to have bad days, you know, your normal job too, and. But you're still going to get paid most of the time, you know. Right. But, yeah, I mean, it's very different. Cool. Nashville. Know anything about, like, LA or anything? I've heard that's way different in that world.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: I've heard that as well.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: But I mean, I don't know anything about that. I'm just used to Nashville. And I like it because, you know, you're, you know, your best buddy's gonna have the, you know, great days, have bad days, gonna have days without carrying the right, you know, they're gonna have days and they're hungover and they don't know what to say. You know what I mean? So.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: So we were talking off camera before we. We started about, you know, us. Us being good friends with Matt Burrell.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Man raised Rowdy.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: And I heard on. On the podcast I was watching with. With Trey that you did. I think it was a year or so ago.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: You know, about Matt get kicked out of. Of Red Door and.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: And maybe so. I don't even remember that, honestly. But I mean.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: But yeah, there was a. A story to it, but it just. Yeah, I love those guys.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Bonner too. I'm sure. A good story for that. Those guys are always running around.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no great guys shout out to them because they. They take care of us and we love. We love them.
But in Nashville, I mean, you're. If you're there and an artist, you know, are you even visiting Broadway at this point? I mean, even you going down there, are you more of a, you know, Midtown or somewhere else?
[00:12:48] Speaker A: Well, like, personal, like, you know, both. I like Midtown.
I also like Broadway, like, which a lot of guys don't. Yeah, but, like, first I can go down there and not see people I know and get related hammered, party it up. Whereas, like, you know, Midtown, you go down there and it's like, you know, just industry people. So, you know, probably don't be a jackass. You know, it's kind of like we look at it. But yeah, I like both. It just like, really, I guess, depends on the kind of night you're wanting to have. Yeah, like, you know, rowdy night. Broadway, you Know you can fit in out there. Right.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Tourists and everything else, literally.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Because they're partying, they're blacking out. They don't have any recollection what you said or did. I mean, but you know, midtown is way different where you're going to see people you might have to, you know, write with on Wednesday.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: So, you know, maybe don't get blackout and you know, take your shirt off in the bar or something like that. So, yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Going back to, to baseball. So you kind of the, the baseball guy through high school and went to college. Small, smaller college education.
What position did you play?
[00:13:56] Speaker A: Catcher.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: Really?
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Not anymore, obviously.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: But my son, he's. He's 11, he catches quite a bit.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: So Austin and I, we, we coached together. That's how we originally met. We coached baseball together for our, our kids starting like, you know, seven, eight year old and. And now we're at 11 year old, so.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Hey, enjoy that.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: So, yeah, man.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Always try to, to ask some of.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: The baseball questions real now, right? Travel ball or what?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. It's getting ready to start. I mean, it's chaos, right? Oh yeah, it'll be, I mean, it's year round.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Oh yeah, man.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: You know, it's year round. We have practice every week, you know.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah. They love it. Two weeks a year. Great memories and great. Just team stuff. You're going to love that forever.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: It is. And just being involved, but then also getting to know, I mean, even Austin is a good friend of mine. Getting to know his son and.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Right.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: And the boys at the, you know that they hang out with school and stuff like that.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: Boy, shout out to the boys.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: I've got an older son too, that I coached his team as well and, and you know, got to know all of them.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: Nice, man.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: Those are definitely, definitely some memories in the, in the baseball.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, love that. Yeah, we played, you know, from little to all the way up to college. So get it. And it's just fun. You definitely cherish those moments with your parents too.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: So it's great.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Where were your parents involved with your upcoming as far as a baseball player and all of that?
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Not coaching really, but like pushing to play sports. I played like everything, you know, growing up, you know, football, basketball, baseball. Till high school, then high school. Just football and baseball both. But I stopped playing basketball in my sophomore year of high school.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: But yeah, I do love sports. I mean, I'm addicted to sports. That's all I do is watch, you know, sports every day. So it's kind of My life with music. You know, if I'm not playing shows or whatever, I'm probably watching Tennessee play.
[00:15:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: So it's kind of.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: I am a. Are you a Tennessee football fan?
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Everything.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: So I'm an Ohio State baseball.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: Yeah. They whooped us. They whooped us, man.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: We got. Well, you got lucky this year and actually, you know, went all the way to the national championship.
[00:15:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: After a tough loss to Michigan, I. I still would fire a coach, even.
[00:16:00] Speaker A: If Michigan for that. They screwed us.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Like, we took the ass whooping because of that. So. But no, they were great team, though.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: You guys watch a lot of. Lot of sports on. On the bus. I mean, you get your, your, your next venue and green rooms and, and all of that kind of stuff.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Or your phone even if you don't have anywhere else to watch it. So. Yeah. Football, basketball, baseball. I mean, hell, I watch women's basketball even. So I watch all of it. Softball. Heck yeah, man.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: One of the, the questions that Austin usually asks. And like I said, he's not here tonight, but I'll give him a quick shout out. But so he goes through this whole story about, you know, the planes going down and. And I'll cut to the chase. So, you know, top five albums. If. If you're going to. To spend your rest of your life on an island because the plane went down, you have access to. To every album. It can be greatest hits, it can be compilations, can be, you know, dual disc, whatever it is.
And if you want to go artist. Yeah. If you want to go artist, you want to go anything, you know, along those lines. But what, what, what would you be grabbing on the way down?
[00:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So first off, great question. Second off, hard question. Third off, I'm terrible with names of my albums.
[00:17:19] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: So I'll try this.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: You go artists. It's fine.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Do artists. Okay. So for. All right. Gotta, like think different vibes, right?
[00:17:29] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: So for.
Gosh, tough for rap. Do I go modern? Do I go a little bit barely throwback. He's not really a throwback, but he is wheezy. Lil Wayne classic.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Next.
Gotta have Luke Combs.
Love him. Huge inspiration. A lot of the reason I started doing music. That guy.
[00:17:53] Speaker C: Love it.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And this probably for the album. This one's for you. Classic. Top to bottom all.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Absolutely. One of the few.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
Third. Got to go George Jones.
Sad stuff. Drinking whiskey. That's drinking Surfside late at night.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Absolutely. Classic George stuff. Yeah.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: Fourth.
Feel like I need to switch it up a little Bit maybe go like a little rock vibe. Yeah, it's tough.
Know what, actually, Elvis. Okay, man.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: That's the first on. I don't think.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: First one Elvis.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: I don't think we've had one.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I love Elvis, definitely. For certain. Guess just certain occasions, I guess. Driving around for me.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Love it. Fifth. Gotta go, Wallen, go. I mean, he's goaded right now, so. Gotta get Wallen right now. I can't, you know, stop listening to that guy.
[00:18:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: So.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: Ever.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: Ever met him as five once. Red door.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah. So early on. Sure. He's not. Remember. Not recently.
[00:19:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: Yeah. This is like, you know, partying Morgan, I'm assuming, which I don't know him at all, so. But he was partying. So was I.
[00:19:13] Speaker B: You throw any chairs or anything?
[00:19:14] Speaker A: No, just shots, really. Just shots. Yeah. Fireball, man.
Yeah. It was brief and like I said, there's no way he remembers it because I barely do. I only remember it because it's him. I'm like. Right, right, That's. That's Morgan Wallen. Yeah. But, yeah, it was like when I first moved to town to like, 20, 19, met him, and it was like, you know, whiskey glasses and all. That was like, huge.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: So you are a. At Eastern Tennessee.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Knoxville.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: Knoxville area. Well, and Morgan's from. Yeah, around there too, isn't it?
[00:19:45] Speaker A: He is close by.
[00:19:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: We've got, like, you know, mutual friends apparently, and all that. He's obviously a little bit older than me, but, yeah, pretty. Pretty wild.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: So going back to. To Elvis, I mean, are you a conspiracy theorist at all?
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Not really, but hit me with it. So hit me with it.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Recently, within last, what was it been, three or four months, there's like, school teacher that has, like, a name that matches up that he claims, like, you know, he is Elvis.
[00:20:16] Speaker C: And.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: And wow, you know, there's a lot of. A lot of information, data.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: Sober. Is he a sober guy?
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know how much sober, but. But, yeah, no, he claims Elvis, he. He talks about it, you know, and. And. But from what I've seen, like, on some of the little, you know, TV shows that, like, a lot of stuff line up, like the days, the times, the names, the, you know, the look. He's got a little bit of a. I mean, it's more white, you know, grayish hair.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's older now, but he's got to be handsome.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Yeah, well, absolutely.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: He has to be absolutely claiming that, right?
[00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: But, yeah, I didn't know if you were kind of that conspiracy guy that, you know, that some of. Some of these. These artists that have left us way too early.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: I mean, not. Not really, honestly. It's tough, like, for me to even follow someone like Tupac and all that stuff, but.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It was all kinds of.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: Yeah, right? It's like, I hear that all the time, but I don't know.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: You ever been to a Diddy party?
[00:21:15] Speaker A: No, I have not either. I'm not.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: I have not either, but I wish.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: I got invited at least.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: I'm. I'm still hoping for.
[00:21:22] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: I'm still hoping for exactly. You know, Exactly.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Maybe one day.
[00:21:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Podcast, you know, get. Get a couple more views.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Like. Yeah, ask him to come on here.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:21:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:35] Speaker A: Crazy.
[00:21:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: We might have to call him in.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. For sure. Couple favors.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: I think he's got a few phone calls.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: Yeah, probably.
Tough scene right there.
[00:21:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Tough scene.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: I. I wanted to mention, too, Alexis, who is your. Your girlfriend's also.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: Fiance.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: Fiance. Well, that's. That's new news to me at least. Congratulations on that.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah, she's big on that.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: And I think she's at the. At the merch booth right now. Sitting up.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. Just slinging merch out there, man.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: That's awesome. And.
Yeah. And how did you guys meet? I. I heard the story, but we'll. We'll.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Funny enough, through Instagram. Yeah. So just, you know, classic. A couple, you know, a couple likes here, a couple likes there. You know, just playing the game.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: So you went. I heard you went with the. The triple, like.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: Heard you go the triple, like, and then kind of hit you back with the triple, like.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, I wasn't gonna be too slow, I hear, with, like, two more likes. Just two, not three.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: And then she. She slid into your DMs after that.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: I mean.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: He played that well at first.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: She did, and it was great, man. And then it's, you know, we're here now. Worked out. Love her.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: So she's doing your merch. I. I was talking with her this.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: Week and getting this schedule.
[00:22:45] Speaker B: She does TM kind of stuff.
[00:22:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Tour managing. She does everything for me. You know, dresses me, all that stuff. Yeah, she's great, though. Yeah. She, you know, wears a lot of hats.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: So it's cool.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Wedding date planned yet or.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And this fall. This September. So excited about that. You know, she's stressed because, you know, women get stressed about it. Oh, yeah, I'm a little stressed, but I'm also like, hey, you know, one day it's a party. It's gonna be really fun.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: It's not like you, you know, have anything. You know, you're. You're out on tour and.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: And, you know, busy.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: And. And all of that. So you get to plan a wedding at the same time.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: It's tough. Yeah. We've. You know, obviously I had to block that off, you know, for touring and that and the bachelor trip, but going.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: To Broadway for that.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: Yeah, Just straight Broadway. Staying home now.
We're gonna go to the beach, I think, just there, you know, with the boys. Have a good time.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: There you go. Well, it's great to get to know you. I am really looking forward to see you get up on stage tonight.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Dude. Party. I'm excited about it.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: Really appreciate you taking the time to sit down with us here on. On Tailgate Beers podcast.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Thanks for having me. Appreciate that.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: Let's get a.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: Cheers, brother. Cheers.
