Episode 41 - Cole Goodwin

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This was for the home team. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Hey, welcome to Tailgate Beers. We got Ryan and Austin here. Hey, today we're gonna sit down with a new friend we just met tonight. He's actually opening up here at Cruisers Farmington Road, West Peoria, for our friend Vincent Mason. So right on we got Cole Goodwin. [00:00:30] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [00:00:31] Speaker B: Cole, thanks for. Thanks for joining us. [00:00:33] Speaker A: Oh, shoot. Thanks for taking a few minutes. I feel the leaving leaving my mind oh, I reckon you got me this time I can't think of a thing you could do to bl me on so, baby, go on now I'll be here when you get home oh, baby, go on now I'll be here when you get home. [00:01:25] Speaker C: First time cruising play? [00:01:27] Speaker A: First time I've ever been anywhere around here. Yeah, I'm. I'm out of my element a little bit. I feel right at home, y' all. Y' all are doing a fine job making us feel welcome. [00:01:35] Speaker C: My guess is like, A Chicago or St. Louis probably is closest or. [00:01:41] Speaker A: I don't know. Well, we. We probably did some stuff that was pretty close to here a few months ago. We were out with. With Zach for, like, three months and did all. I. I couldn't even keep up with where all we were. So I'm sure. Yeah, we've. We've probably been a little closer to here than I think, but I don't know. I'm bad about. Once you get out of Georgia, everything's just. I have no idea where I'm at, so. [00:01:59] Speaker B: But yeah, so. So. So Midwest. I don't think you're. You're too much of a stranger to the Midwest. I know you've been through St. Louis. [00:02:07] Speaker A: And before did St. Louis back in January, and like I said, right outside of Detroit about the same time or maybe a couple weeks after. But, yeah, that's kind of been the extent of my Midwestern travels. [00:02:21] Speaker B: But before we cut. Jumped on. On. On camera, too, you were talking about being a hunter and doing some hunting here in the Middle west here coming up. [00:02:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, we're. After this weekend's run, we're leaving Indianapolis on Saturday and going to Southwest Missouri to hopefully kill a few turkeys Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, before we head back home for a day or two. [00:02:41] Speaker B: But how is turkey? I've never been turkey hunting. I do some. Some goose and. And some waterfowl. I've been deer hunting, stuff like that. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Out in Colorado, but see, I've never done that. [00:02:52] Speaker B: What's turkey like, though? [00:02:54] Speaker A: It's like. It's cat and mouse, man. It's. I think it's so cool. And I'm. I'm still fairly new to it in the grand scheme of things because I've only been doing it like. I think it's my fifth year doing it because my dad didn't grow up turkey hunting or anything. I just deer hunted and never really thought twice about a turkey until Covid. But yeah, it's. I don't know, it's very vocal. Like hearing the gobbles, hearing the hens. Like there's just. I don't know, you're really trying to get in his head and trick him. I think that's what I like about it. It's such a challenge. [00:03:20] Speaker C: What. What kills me is how big of birds they are. [00:03:24] Speaker A: See, not where we're at. That's what I was just telling you earlier. The turkeys up here make ours look like yard chickens. They look like dinosaurs. [00:03:30] Speaker C: How big they are. But then knowing that they, like, roost in trees. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah. They fly. [00:03:35] Speaker C: And then those fat little guys disappear. Because when I was deer hunting years ago and. And big into that, you drive by fields and there'd be 50 of them. 50 of them? [00:03:47] Speaker A: Yeah, they flock up in the fall. [00:03:48] Speaker C: I might be able to kill a turkey. You go deer hunting, you won't see a damn turkey. I mean, I saw a few, but it's just crazy how I'm like, where do they all go? Because up here, again, we're all deer hunting. I'm just thinking, I mean, I gotta see some turkeys. I mean, I just saw them here when I wasn't. You go deer hunting, they're gone. [00:04:06] Speaker A: Changes with the seasons. Yeah. In the fall, they flock up and get in big groups. And then like, there's places back home that I'll have trail camera pictures of turkeys every fall and have never seen one during turkey season ever. On the same. The exact same property. Just because they. They kind of. Just like a deer has a fall in a summer pattern. [00:04:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:21] Speaker A: They kind of do their own. [00:04:23] Speaker C: Are you a mouth caller? [00:04:25] Speaker A: You do whatever it takes. [00:04:27] Speaker C: You do any. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Mostly mouth call, though, but. [00:04:29] Speaker C: Okay. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Yeah, my. Whatever it takes to get him killed. [00:04:31] Speaker B: That's something you can do right now. I mean, on. On command. [00:04:34] Speaker A: I don't have one on. I've got. [00:04:35] Speaker C: Yeah, you put the 15 of them. [00:04:37] Speaker A: I've been working a little bit on my. On my natural voice, but maybe not on the spot. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:04:41] Speaker A: I like the owl hoot, though, because that's how you locate them is like with an owl call or a crow, they'll shock, gobble at it, you essentially scare them, and that's what gets them to gobble and give up their location. But, yeah, like, I'll hoot with my natural voice, but I'm not brave enough to actually turkey call with my natural voice yet. [00:04:59] Speaker C: So if you're ever up back this way, ever, you just call me and then we'll get you. So Presley's Outdoors is a big outdoor store right here in town. Just became a sponsor of this podcast, even ironically, and the festival. So your Thursday night, but Friday night is Presley Outdoors, camo night at tailgate and tall boys. But next weekend, we're still trying to figure out the logistics, but we're supposed to go to their turkey camp and do tailgate beers at their. At their camp. [00:05:29] Speaker A: That's right up my alley. [00:05:31] Speaker C: So, yeah, any fishing, hunting, anything you want to do or something? You need something? Yeah, we'll get you connected with Presley's man. He's been asking me about getting connected with an artist, getting somebody out there to hunt. [00:05:41] Speaker A: So, hey, you don't have to twist my arm. [00:05:43] Speaker C: Yeah, you might as well really take full advantage of it. [00:05:45] Speaker A: I'll cancel Christmas to hunter fish. No joke. [00:05:48] Speaker C: And that was one of those stores that I grew up. It's in Bartonville. And again, to give you a reference, I mean, I live in a town on the other side of the river, 25 minutes away from there, and we. You have to drive right by a bass pro to even get there. But it's one of those good stores, family stores, has been around for a long time that just has such good equipment that for me, I used to drive all the way there just as like, for no damn good reason. I didn't really have anything I needed to get. But once you get addicted, I think there's an addiction to going to a hunting store. Oh, yeah, I think I really need this. [00:06:22] Speaker A: I'll stop every time whether I need anything or not, whether I'm going hunting next week or next year or whether hunting season's over, whether it's not time to be fishing. If I pass a sporting goods store, nine times out of ten, unless I'm late for something, I'll probably pop in. [00:06:36] Speaker B: So awesome night guy's idea with. With Presley's with the store is that kind of like home alone style, like where the, The, The, The. The robbers, they, like, camp out like one of those little houses, you know, Then the store closes and they come out and they play, you know, with all the toys at the New York one. Anyway, so we're gonna, like, camp Out. Like, the store's gonna close. We're gonna be like, in a. In one of the. The little huts. [00:06:58] Speaker C: Store closes, Me and Ryan come out, but we're locked in the store. Maybe we can't get out. [00:07:03] Speaker B: And then we, like, playing with all the toys, you know, and we're shooting, like, you know, darts and. And doing all of that. [00:07:10] Speaker C: That's our concept. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It hasn't been approved yet. [00:07:13] Speaker C: It's a store. I mean, hunting stuff. So expensive. And I never got into the turkey hunting, but when you're going. Are you going shot? Are you going like, shotgun? Are you bow? [00:07:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. Well, mainly shotgun. Like, people. You can't rifle hunt them, to my knowledge. You can't legally. But people. People bow hunt them. It would be nearly impossible to kill one with a bow in Georgia. It's really tough in the Southeast as is. And then, I don't know, they see so well. Like, if a turkey could smell, you could. You'd never kill one. But their eyesight is so good, and, like, they just got. I swear it's like an intuition. Like, they just know when something's not right and. But yeah, mostly shotgun. And people now, though, are modifying their stuff or they're making this. It's called TSS. It's like tungsten shot, and it's like 60 bucks for a pack of five shells. And with the right choke, you can shoot, like, 80 yards and this and that, which I think is stupid. I think the whole purpose of turkey hunt is to get him within 40 yards and trick him. So I'm old school. I shoot a cheap choke and. And lead shot. I'm a. Yeah, I can't get on board with the TSS stuff. [00:08:23] Speaker C: Wow. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Surfside's got real vodka, real iced tea, and real lemonade. You know what's not real? That excuse you gave to skip the tailgate, grab a surfside and redeem yourself, champ. Now back to your regular programming. So let's move to music. [00:08:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:42] Speaker B: And so, like, I do that also. Yes. So you're. You're here tonight. You're in West Peoria. [00:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Cool. [00:08:48] Speaker B: Cruising Farmington Road, Playing. Playing tonight with Vincent. And so what has been your journey, your path from Georgia? Georgia. Boy hunting. Growing up. I mean, what. What got you into country music? [00:09:01] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I'll try to condense it best as possible. I. I'm 24, from Pooler, Georgia, right outside of Savannah. Still live there. I don't live in Nashville. I'm trying to kind of keep it that way as long as I can to be able to disconnect from it. I'm there all the time. But I, I don't call it home, but yeah, I grew up around music all the time. I actually grew up playing tournament baseball year round every weekend all over the place and got kind of burned out on that by high school and I had dabbled a little bit with, with piano and, and whatnot. And I always just thought even middle school when I was playing baseball, I'd come home and, and spend hours on the Internet watching Every Hank Williams Jr. Video or, you know, Waylon Jennings video I could find. And yeah, it was, it was always really cool to me. And my mom sang, still sings, she sings BGVs on pretty much all the stuff that I've got out and released. And she still gigs around town some here and there. She would gig around town when I was young, so I would, I was always around her and around other people playing music and hey, I just always thought it was the coolest thing and, and finally once I got to high school and baseball was kind of burned out on it and when I figured out I could play guitar some and play piano and hunting fish on the weekends instead of being on a baseball field and I quickly became a baseball fan instead of a baseball player and started focusing on that and sitting in playing guitar for whoever she was gigging around with because I wouldn't sing outside the shower for the longest time. I couldn't take the shower with me, so I just wasn't going to sing and. But no, I got to college and sat in playing guitar and really focused on writing and becoming a better writer and just writing by myself while I was at Georgia Southern in college. And yeah, eventually they kind of bullied me into singing a song one night and it a good bully and it kind of stuck and I don't know, it snowballed from there and then I really focused on writing and doing my own thing and playing my own gigs and I think I've been playing my own like four and a half years now. So. Still pretty new to that too in the big picture, but it's all happened really fast and it's been really fun. So yeah, yeah, signed a publishing deal in the past year. Concord got some other stuff going on that I can't really talk about yet, but been, you know, touring with some people that I'm friends with now. You know, I was just fans of them first and it's been really fun, really cool. [00:11:18] Speaker C: And what, what year was that that you ended up in Nashville? [00:11:21] Speaker A: I'VE only been making trips to Nashville for going on two years maybe. [00:11:25] Speaker C: So you're still just commuting back and forth? [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm there all the time. But, man, my first, like, shoot. I've only been co writing for, like, maybe two years because I just wrote by myself through college. And then my first co write or like, my second co write ever in Nashville was last March, so about a year ago. [00:11:47] Speaker C: Wow. [00:11:47] Speaker A: And I have Cole Taylor and Ray Fulcher, who I've become really great friends with, and they've kind of helped me out with a bunch of stuff. And yeah, it's been. It's all happened so fast. And I feel every time I go back to Nashville, I feel more connected and more in the community than I did the time before, which is cool. Like, it's. It's really awesome. I used to go there. I'd be there a week and have like one little piddly thing booked and then the rest of the week just twiddle my thumbs and. Yeah, now it's like I'm there for two, three days and I don't have time to breathe, so it's. It's awesome. [00:12:17] Speaker B: So what do you do in Nashville? I mean, you try to get everything set up before you get there. Yeah, just, you know, running from. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I can pretty much tell you what I'm doing, like, the three days I'll be there in June. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Are you playing there at the same time or just mainly doing quarterbacks? [00:12:30] Speaker A: I've actually. I can probably count on one hand how many times I've ever even played in Asheville. Well, aside from, like, Riders rounds. I do like playing Riders rounds occasionally and played a handful of those and played Whiskey Jam once or twice. We actually did the Ryman auditorium with Zach back at the end of February, March 1, and it was like, obviously a bucket list thing for me and one of the most special things that I've done and probably ever will do and got my mom up to sing a song with us. Yeah, it was actually a song that she sang BGVs on. On the record. It's called when you get home. And it kind of opened a bunch of doors for me and helped get things started. And I got her up to do that with us at the Ryman. So it was really, really special. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Has she ever played the ramen before? [00:13:10] Speaker A: No. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Really? [00:13:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. And I knew it was something that she, you know, it would mean a lot to her too. And. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that whole day was really cool. [00:13:18] Speaker B: I can only imagine. Just like the emotions and the feelings of being up there with your mom on. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Yeah, and I'm a softy too, man. I. Yeah, I got a little choked up there at the end of it. Yes. I'm unashamed, I'll tell you. I'm a softie. [00:13:32] Speaker C: Yeah, you have to be at something like that. [00:13:34] Speaker A: Yeah, man. [00:13:34] Speaker C: Just think of that journey and then being able to be up there with your mom on that stage and again, and especially how fast it moves. Whether it moves slower, fast, but even faster is even crazier. Like, how does it go from, you know, last year, what you're doing to now you're standing in rhyming, you know, playing with your mom. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty cool. Pretty crazy. [00:13:53] Speaker C: That's badass. So does she have any involvement in your, your music career, your day to day? [00:13:59] Speaker A: Yeah, so actually her and I have twin sisters. Twin little sisters. They, they just turned 21. One goes to Georgia Southern where I graduated from. She's doing physical therapy and then the other one goes to Georgia, a University of Georgia, and she's majoring in accounting and marketing and then getting her minor, I think they call her certificate, through their music business program. So she's, she's doing a bunch of stuff on her own, like working for a promoter down there, Six String Southern, and doing some other remote work, but also helping me with like email, social media, just a ton of stuff and has been for the past couple years and my mom's pretty much handling all the finance side of things for the past few years and merch, all that. She just retired two weeks ago, so now she's like nothing but time on her hands at the house to help with stuff and yeah, it's been really cool and it's been really fun to build it from the ground up and, and really DIY and kind of on our own. It's cool and I think it creates a little bit of a, A, I don't know, mystery factor. Like, wow, you know, he's. He's not in Nashville. What. How's he doing that? So, yeah, it's been fun. But I've recently started working with Daniel Miller who's managing me now. And even he's like, what can we help with? Ali's doing this, Ali's doing that. So, yes, it's really cool now to, to, to grow the team and, but still have my mom and my sister very much involved. [00:15:16] Speaker C: Essentially just create a family business. [00:15:18] Speaker A: No doubt. [00:15:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:19] Speaker A: Big family guy. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Are they on the road with you at all? [00:15:21] Speaker A: Some. They come to a ton of shows mainly just to Attend them because they're. I mean we're huge. A huge concert family. Like I've seen just about everybody you could imagine live at least once and they go to concerts non stop and just love music. So yeah, they, they fly to a bunch of shows now that they're, you know, outside of Georgia and outside the Southeast. Even now they fly to a bunch of them and are still very much involved and very supportive. [00:15:45] Speaker C: They can come to the festival or. [00:15:47] Speaker A: That's my mom's birthday weekend, so her birthday is the 15th. She, they, she talked about it. They may end up my dad and my mom and Father's Day weekend too. Yeah, I know. Who knows? I don't know. Sometimes they show up even when I don't know they're coming. [00:16:02] Speaker C: Okay. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. I'm sure they'll probably end up at one of those shows that weekend. We're a couple other places that weekend as well. But yeah, I'll tell them to. [00:16:10] Speaker C: All right. Yeah, they're more than welcome. We'll show them a good time. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. So that's Tailgate and Tall boys. June, Bloomington 12th. June 12th in Bloomington. [00:16:20] Speaker A: So yeah, really looking forward to it. [00:16:23] Speaker B: So what else do you have going on in 2025? What? What? [00:16:27] Speaker C: Yeah, so you can tell us? [00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can tell you most of it. Um, yeah, we just, just got done touring with Zach Topp. We did the first 20 or 21 dates of his headline tour this year, January through March, and it was really fun. He's really treated me like a little brother for the past year and a half or so and came off of that. I was out last weekend with my buddies Dylan, Dylan Marlowe and Connor Smith. Did three shows with them of their co headline tour and out with Vincent this week. And then trying to think what we got. Oh, we got like a fundraiser back home next week and then we're out with Luke Bryan this summer and out with Billy Currington some this summer and wow. Some festivals mixed in. In between. [00:17:07] Speaker C: So Connor still has to get on here. He's. He's slated to get on here. We just haven't ever connected when I come. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:17:13] Speaker C: Connor's a good friend of mine and he's all, yeah, we love Connor. I just, anytime I'm in Nashville, he hasn't been and then getting him back up here, we haven't. But he played the festival in 2023. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Really want to say yeah, he's. He's one of the nicest people you ever meet. Like just down to earth. [00:17:29] Speaker C: Very genuine. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Really great guy. [00:17:30] Speaker B: So from a fan perspective, I mean, how does that connection work to. I mean, you talked about some, some. Some great names within the country industry and the scene. How does that connection work? How do you, how do you make that connection with, with the art, the other artists? [00:17:46] Speaker A: Yeah, so actually, so Zach, who's been really, really helpful for me. [00:17:51] Speaker C: God, we can edit that. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Hey, leave it in, I think. Yeah, Zach Top, who's been really great to me and really take me under his wing and help me with a bunch of stuff. I met him last, beginning of last February, I think. Peachtree Entertainment put me on a couple shows with him one weekend and we hit it off and got to chatting and he got my information, got my number and text me the following week and invited me out to a few more shows in the Southeast and then invited me out to a few more and then we got to where we were just chatting about other stuff and kept in touch and he, he asked me back in September to come out on the first chunk of this tour this year. And it was so much fun. It flew by, of course. But yeah, his whole, his whole crew, everybody that, that he works with are just top notch people. Great people and very welcoming. [00:18:40] Speaker C: So Peachtree partnered with us for Tailgate and Tall Boys. Oh yeah, we're partners with them for, For Tailgate and Tall Boys. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm a Peach Tree Entertainment fan. [00:18:48] Speaker C: Yeah, they got. They have some amazing shows all around the. All around the country growing by the minute. [00:18:52] Speaker A: Absolutely. Yeah. Bradley Jordan's actually helped me with a ton of stuff too. That same weekend that I met Zach and they put me on those two shows with him. They were Peachtree shows and he, Bradley is the one that set up the Colt Taylor. Right. Who then invited Ray Fulcher. That was like one of my second co writes in Nashville ever. And that opened like the whole. The door to all the publishing stuff. So yeah, it's been. Bradley's been really, really helpful as well. [00:19:18] Speaker C: She's still involved with the sunglasses. [00:19:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I've got a pair of blue otters that he sent me. Actually I got a text and I finally, after months and months, they finally got a little scratch on them. The wind blew them off a table the other day at the driving range and of course they landed lens down. But yeah, he sent me a pair of sunglasses and there. I've never been one to buy like expensive sunglasses because offshore fishing and stuff and I'm just clumsy and I go through them like crazy. So I always just get cheap ones. And then get another pair the next month whenever I break those. But yeah, they're my like by far favorite pair of sunglasses. [00:19:50] Speaker C: I want to get sunglasses. We. We. I won't even name it since, you know, you're. I don't know if you. How can. Well, apparently you're connected, but a lot of people are sponsored by them. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Unofficially. I mean, I just. [00:20:00] Speaker C: That are connected to Bradley, but we had a big sunglass company that was a sponsor of the festival that all the artist camps. Everybody got sunglasses one year. It was the Morgan wallen year of 2022. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:20:12] Speaker C: And I've always wanted to bring somebody back and I've just never been able to get. The Blue Otter stuff was blowing up and. Yeah. So you have to text him. I'd let. Well, with his involvement with Peachtree, I'd love to have him back, let alone the podcast too. [00:20:24] Speaker A: For sure. Yeah, he's awesome. He's another one, just down to earth. Top notch guy. [00:20:28] Speaker C: Yeah. There. I've heard a lot about him. Because isn't he managing Ella? Yeah, she's. She's incredible. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Yeah, she's. She's had herself a year or so, hadn't she? [00:20:37] Speaker C: Yeah, we have heard. And Riley Green in Iowa on Saturday. On Friday. Sorry. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Cool. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah, she was just here cruising seven months ago. [00:20:47] Speaker C: Crushed it. [00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:49] Speaker C: Yeah. But again, you guys are going to be playing in front of a crowd that was the same. Same number. I mean, Vincent and you sold hella tickets tonight. Damn near sold it out. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Sweet. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. [00:21:01] Speaker B: So on that point, I mean, what. What can people that are coming and. And. And maybe they're. They're coming to watch Vincent. Maybe they're coming to. To watch you. What can they stage? [00:21:10] Speaker A: What? Probably a couple bad jokes. Hopefully some. Some pretty decent singing and guitar playing. Probably a few sour notes in there on the guitar, but yeah, just I think I play a couple covers mixed in with a bunch of songs that I've written and co written and just stuff that's true to me as an artist and you know, stuff that I. I don't know. I. I feel like I write stuff that reminds me of stuff that I grew up listening to, which is. Makes sense. But. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's. It's very authentic and true to me as an artist. So. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Sorry, are you acoustic tonight? [00:21:45] Speaker A: Yep, it's me and my guitar playing. [00:21:47] Speaker B: Playing up there and just entertaining. Yeah, so is that. I mean, you do band stuff too, I assume. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah, actually. So my drummer is actually out with me this weekend, not playing drums, but helping out with everything else. Paying them for a different job this weekend. Yeah, he's. He's helping me drive some and slinging T shirts for me. And there you go, really being a team player. And yeah, I'm really thankful for all the guys in my band and it's, it's really a brotherhood. And actually that run of shows we did with Zach the first like three, three or four weeks, we just stayed out and didn't go home because we all live in Georgia and it didn't make sense to go home in between weekends. So we stayed. We're torn out of RV with bunks. So we were all together for like four weeks straight. And I told him, I said if, if I would have done this with anybody else, I would have turned into an asshole by now. But it's. Yeah, I really, I love all of them and they're all so talented and really, really hard working dudes and I. People say, you know, you can't do it without somebody, but I really could not do it without them. So I'm. I hope they feel appreciated. [00:22:46] Speaker B: So what are some of the things you guys do to like past time as just as you're on the road, you're traveling in between or you got a venue and just waiting for, you know, showtime. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Tell bad jokes, trade guitar licks, learn new songs. We're. We try to go through old songs and make lists of stuff we want to learn. We'll learn songs that sound check and take us like two or three sound checks to get. One sounded decent, but yeah, we do a lot of that. My drummer is a NASCAR fanatic, so we watch NASCAR some and we watch old concerts like from the 80s. Like we'll watch old Ronnie Millsap concerts or Waylon Jennings concerts in the RV and kill time and throw the football. Now that the weather's getting good, we'll probably play cornhole practice turkey calling golf. So a little bit everything. We try to. Try to stay busy and sometimes just sitting around and doing nothing. Yeah, it's. I'm bad about that every now and then too. But yeah, I don't know. We stay busy. [00:23:44] Speaker B: It's good. [00:23:46] Speaker C: What's the, what's the diet like on, on tour? You. [00:23:50] Speaker A: Dude, lately, whatever I can get my hands on, man. I've been. We. Matter of fact, I'm a chocolate milk freak. I love chocolate milk. And dude, it's. Yeah, we stopped last night like two in the morning. I like woke up from sleep and walked in a gas station, got A tube of powdered donuts and a chocolate milk and then went back to sleep. [00:24:07] Speaker C: So if you're chocolate milk freak. So Prairie Farms milk is like our local. Very good. [00:24:14] Speaker A: I've had it. [00:24:14] Speaker C: You have? [00:24:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:24:15] Speaker C: Okay. So I will say, though, if you're. Because you guys. Where you headed to tomorrow? You're headed to Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids. So tonight or tomorrow, which will you guys stay here tonight? [00:24:29] Speaker A: We'll probably get a big chunk of it done tonight, if not the whole way. [00:24:32] Speaker C: You'll head out tonight? [00:24:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:34] Speaker C: All right. Well, if you leave here tonight, if you stop at, like, a high V or a Kroger's, really, any of the stores, I think there's Oberweis. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Okay. I jot this down. [00:24:46] Speaker C: Oberweiss is in a glass jar milk container. And I will say, you will be blown away. Really. You will be. If you're not. If it's not one of the best chocolate milks you've ever had, man. [00:24:57] Speaker A: We've got. We've got this brand back home called Borden's Chocolate Milk, and, well, you can't really find it anymore where I'm at. I don't know why. I don't know if the cow dried up or what, but it's a. They've got it@buc EE's. I know y' all don't really have Bucky's up here, but they've got it at these giant gas stations, Buc EE's. And few little, like, hole in the wall places you can find it for some reason. But, man, it's. It is so. Oh, gosh. It's the best milk you'll a lips on. And I. We passed a Bucky's on the road a few weeks ago, and I got like eight or nine of them and put them in the fridge in the rv. I was like, I'm. I'm stocking up on these suckers. Yeah, I love chocolate milk. That's mine. [00:25:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. I don't know. [00:25:33] Speaker B: You might. Might pass Wallies on the way. [00:25:36] Speaker A: Wallies? [00:25:36] Speaker B: Wallies. It's kind of like a Buc EE's. [00:25:38] Speaker C: Okay. It's just as big as a Buc EE's. [00:25:43] Speaker B: 55 North. [00:25:44] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know if they'll go that way. They might actually head it up to where they're headed. They might go by. Yeah, Wally's. [00:25:49] Speaker B: But it's about 45 minutes away from here. [00:25:52] Speaker A: Okay. [00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's kind of like a Bucky's. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Yeah, sweet. [00:25:54] Speaker B: They might have it There. [00:25:56] Speaker C: What would you say you would drink chocolate milk? Like would you drink it with a meal? Because I found it weird one time. [00:26:01] Speaker A: Breakfast, like grits and eggs. [00:26:04] Speaker C: But you don't eat it for. You don't drink milk for dinner or anything? [00:26:07] Speaker A: No, no. [00:26:07] Speaker C: Really? [00:26:08] Speaker A: Sweet tea. [00:26:10] Speaker C: Sweet tea? [00:26:11] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. Drinking wise it's for me it's water, chocolate milk or sweet tea or maybe. [00:26:15] Speaker C: Like a root beer every now and then so. Because I. I drink 2% milk in a frozen mug for dinner because that's really. That's my go to with one family. [00:26:26] Speaker B: Thing too though, right? [00:26:27] Speaker C: It's a family thing. [00:26:28] Speaker A: Like would you eat that with like a fish sandwich? I mean would you drink that with like a fish sandwich or something? [00:26:32] Speaker C: I don't even know if I'd eat a fish sandwich, but I would do. [00:26:34] Speaker A: It with like a. Yeah, one of mine. [00:26:36] Speaker C: I would do it like a steak and potatoes. I do it with anything for dinner. [00:26:39] Speaker A: And a glass of milk. [00:26:40] Speaker C: I love pizza and glass of milk. [00:26:42] Speaker A: All right, you lost me that one. Dude. I was thinking like Oreos. No, I'll try them. [00:26:47] Speaker C: I'm a glass of milk like a night kind of guy. [00:26:49] Speaker A: I'm not opposed to trying it though. [00:26:51] Speaker C: But chocolate milk or not, get the frozen mug, put those in your freezer and bust that out with. With some milk and I'm steak and eggs. [00:27:00] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:27:00] Speaker B: The last time I had a glass of milk was really probably. [00:27:04] Speaker C: He doesn't drink water years. [00:27:07] Speaker A: Well, I used to know five years. But any. I drink a lot of water now just like liquid IV and he doesn't drink water. [00:27:12] Speaker C: Well, he didn't know you spit your gum out. There's so many different things that I found out. [00:27:16] Speaker B: I knew that. I just don't. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Doesn't it take like seven years or something to digest? [00:27:21] Speaker B: I would be £500. [00:27:23] Speaker A: You got. He's got four packs of Trident in his gut. [00:27:26] Speaker B: If it was true, I would probably be dead. [00:27:29] Speaker C: Trust me. They're doing this podcast and being friends with him for so long, we have found out a lot of different stuff about each other and other people where you're like, I've lived my entire life a lie. [00:27:39] Speaker B: All right, all right. We got to ask the. The age old question. What you got the washcloth. You do one. Do you use a washcloth when you take a shower? What? How do you lather up? [00:27:48] Speaker A: Maybe. Depends hand if there's. [00:27:50] Speaker C: Let's say you're a home. Perfect case scenario. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Loofah. [00:27:53] Speaker C: You're in your setting when you shower. Do you use a washcloth every time? [00:27:58] Speaker A: Maybe not every time. I feel like maybe I go through phases. I don't know. [00:28:02] Speaker C: Yeah, well, it's a yes or no. [00:28:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Washcloth. [00:28:05] Speaker C: Okay. [00:28:05] Speaker B: So if you use that washcloth, this is a new washcloth every time you take a shower? Or is it something that just kind of hangs out in the. In the shower and you use for a week? [00:28:16] Speaker A: I've done both. I've washed it afterwards. Or it's maybe not like a week. Maybe like a couple days. But then sometimes I may not use it. If I'm in a hurry, I might just speed check. [00:28:30] Speaker C: We're on the same. Him and I would say him and I are. He leans more my way. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:34] Speaker A: And a lot of times, too. Whenever I like, whenever I take a shower, there's a 4 million things running through my head. I'm always like. I never slow down. I'm always thinking about something. So I'm like, I don't know. It's. It really depends on the day. [00:28:47] Speaker B: So Austin is more of the. [00:28:49] Speaker C: Sadie called me back. I call her after we're done. So I was just asking where you were every. [00:28:54] Speaker B: Every shower. [00:28:56] Speaker C: Well, no, I'm sitting here talking. [00:28:57] Speaker B: Cool. [00:29:00] Speaker C: Hey. Hey. When you shower, do you use a washcloth every single time? If you're in a perfect setting at home, are you a towel and then you take a washcloth in. Are you a loofah guy? You just bare hands? A loofah guy? [00:29:15] Speaker A: Since I was a young. [00:29:16] Speaker C: How often do you replace that loofah since it gets real tattered, defined. [00:29:27] Speaker B: You ever just washed the loofah? [00:29:29] Speaker C: So, so. So the basis behind this. The basis behind this. We're. [00:29:33] Speaker A: We're. [00:29:33] Speaker C: We're a baseball. We're doing something. Doing something. I don't even know how it came up, but I made some comment or somebody said something. I was like, don't you guys use your washcloth? And they're like, no. And we went around and the group of dads goes, yeah, I don't use a washcloth. [00:29:48] Speaker B: No. [00:29:48] Speaker C: That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. I'm like, I've always taken a towel and a washcloth to the bathroom and I shower. What do you use? And it's like, bare hand, loofah. All. All this stuff. And I'm just, like, blown away that I never realized. And so then it just became this thing of, like, I feel like I've lived a lie that people don't. And then what's even more fucked up is we called my mom. And my mom said that she reuses her washcloth, which I think is absolutely disgusting. And then. But then you go the loofah route. I don't know. It's just opened up a whole can of worms. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Hey. More than one way to skin a cat. [00:30:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:28] Speaker C: Would you eat pineapple on pizza? [00:30:30] Speaker A: No, I eat pine. I would grill pineapple on grilled fish. [00:30:33] Speaker C: Every day of the week, but not pineapple and pizza. [00:30:37] Speaker A: Never. No. [00:30:38] Speaker C: Okay. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Would you pick it off if it was given to you, just not either? [00:30:43] Speaker A: No. Yeah. I mean, I'd pick it off and eat it. [00:30:45] Speaker B: I'm just not. Yeah. We talked about before. I'm not a fan of warm pineapple. I enjoy eating it. [00:30:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I like. I wouldn't. I wouldn't just eat a bunch of pineapple slices, like, as a snack. [00:30:58] Speaker C: I love it. [00:30:58] Speaker A: I like. Yeah, I like. One of my favorite things to do ever, actually, is, like, grilled fish, like snapper or mahi or whatever. Get a jar or can of pineapple slices in pineapple juice. Pour the juice in the. In a Ziploc. Put the fish fillets in there. Put it in the fridge for hours. So get everything ready. Take it. [00:31:19] Speaker C: You guys have to be that quiet. Yeah. [00:31:23] Speaker B: As they open up their bottle of Jack. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Take the. Let it soak in the fridge or marinate, whatever you call it. Take it out, wrap it in tinfoil, put, you know, two pineapple slices on the bottom. Your filet fish, two pineapple slices on top. Wrap the whole thing in tinfoil, lay it on the grill, take it off, grill the actual pineapple slices, and then put that on the fish on a better rice. [00:31:47] Speaker C: I'm instantly hungry. [00:31:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I could eat that every day. Honestly, in the summer, most of my diet is fish. [00:31:52] Speaker C: Have you ever done some offshore fishing? [00:31:53] Speaker A: That's what I grew up doing. [00:31:55] Speaker C: Okay. So place in Florida went offshore. We did a bunch of grouper snapper, caught it all. Then there's a restaurant that we went to by Naples that we caught it all, cleaned it all, took it ourselves to the restaurant that's not connected to our fishing, but essentially it's byof. I mean, bring your own fish and they cook it for you. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:32:20] Speaker C: It was the best. [00:32:22] Speaker A: Just about all the restaurant. All the seafood restaurant or local seafood restaurants that aren't chains around Savannah, they all do that. Yeah. [00:32:28] Speaker C: That's when I've never even heard that. Byof. [00:32:30] Speaker A: All right. [00:32:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:31] Speaker A: Bring it back. Matter of fact, literally week and a half ago, I was home for a couple days, and a place called the Flying Fish, where I've played a hundred acoustic gigs, I think, over the past few years. It's one of my favorite places. Just go hang out and everybody in that little area, Wilmington island, everybody hangs out there and we, you know. Yeah. One of my dad's friends had been fishing on a fishing trip that I was supposed to. To go on. I was just couldn't get back home for it. And he brought a bag of. A bag of fish and they cooked it for us for supper. Yeah. [00:32:59] Speaker C: So good. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Sure enough. Yeah. Offshore fishing, that's my jam. That's what I grew up doing. I still do it. I every. I. I hardly ever freshwater fish anymore. And every largemouth bass I've caught over the past five years has been on accident. [00:33:09] Speaker C: See, I've never. I never ate. So I fish forever. I still do, just not as much as I do when I was younger, but like, I don't eat bass or anything. You know, all sport fishing, stuff like that. I didn't fish till I was like 27. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Really. [00:33:21] Speaker C: And I went some amazing places around. Everywhere. [00:33:25] Speaker A: Well, now I believe too, you have like one or two bad fish meals. Somebody that didn't know what they were doing cooking it, it can ruin it for you. [00:33:34] Speaker C: But I was also like a 90s kid that you grew up eating some bullshit, you know, home cook. What do you call them, the microwave salmon patties? No. Yeah, well, you know, Those are like McFish from McDonald's. My family was plenty of places. My family is plenty of places that. I mean, I had goods. I just. I was a steak and potatoes guy. Well, so I grew up, but now like that too. I love sushi. I love salmon. [00:33:57] Speaker A: See, I'm not a big sushi guy. I like. I like weird. I'm not. I like stuff cooked. But like, I take that back. [00:34:03] Speaker C: Tuna ahi. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Tuna bites are fire. [00:34:05] Speaker C: God. [00:34:06] Speaker A: Not like completely raw, but, oh, 100 raw. Well, now the only fish I'll eat, like, really, like raw, like, is a wahoo. Like, we've been in the Bahamas before and caught a wahoo, gaffed him, put him in the fish box. Once he was dead, take him out, cut a chunk off of him, cut it in, like, really, really thin strips, put it on a plate with some soy sauce, put it in the cooler, chill it, and eat it 15 minutes later. So good, like, the fish will swim in 30 minutes. [00:34:30] Speaker C: I'm saying, you got it. [00:34:32] Speaker A: But other than that, like, all the rolls and I couldn't even tell you. [00:34:37] Speaker C: I love it now. It's one of our favorite meals. [00:34:38] Speaker A: Really. [00:34:39] Speaker C: Kids love it. My daughter and I just went last. [00:34:41] Speaker A: Weekend and I'm a pork chop guy. I love a pork chop and a pot roast. [00:34:45] Speaker C: We just had a. I just had my first at Dustin's. That thick? [00:34:49] Speaker A: Your first pork chop? [00:34:50] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no. Thick. It was like steak cut. Oh, I've never done that. I've done a pork chop. I've just never done this, like, steak cut, pork chop looking thing. It was damn good. Damn good. [00:35:05] Speaker A: So. [00:35:08] Speaker C: Ask this question all the time. I asked Vincent when he was in here. You're on your Cole Goodwin private jet, and you have every album known to man. You travel everywhere with them. Plane starts going down. What five albums are you taking with for the rest of your life? [00:35:28] Speaker A: All right. [00:35:28] Speaker C: You can only take five, and it's going down quick. [00:35:31] Speaker A: Get my thoughts together. The New south. Hank Williams, Jr. Stranger Things have Happened. Ronnie Millsap. Sinners Like Me. Eric Church. Oh, shoot. Night Moves. Bob Seeger. [00:35:54] Speaker C: That's a first. [00:35:54] Speaker B: That is. [00:35:55] Speaker A: And see, the last one. Gotta make this one count. Let's go. I was just thinking. What was it? Did I say Nashville Rebel? Waylon Jennings. [00:36:07] Speaker C: No. [00:36:07] Speaker B: No. [00:36:07] Speaker C: There you go. Wow. Those are good ones. Probably a lot of first. [00:36:11] Speaker A: I could get by on those. Yeah. [00:36:13] Speaker B: A lot of old, older countries. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. For sure. [00:36:17] Speaker B: I like it. [00:36:18] Speaker C: It's a great five. [00:36:19] Speaker B: I like it. [00:36:19] Speaker C: A lot of first. Well, you excited for tonight? [00:36:22] Speaker A: I'm pumped, man. Yeah. This is right up my alley. I love it. Really, really excited. [00:36:26] Speaker C: It's going to be a great show. Pumped. Pumped to have you and pumped to have you at tailgate, man. We're going to be doing the same thing backstage. [00:36:32] Speaker A: Cool. [00:36:33] Speaker C: At tailgates. Probably a little bit more rowdy, but we're. We're excited to have you, man. And I appreciate you even taking the time to do this. [00:36:39] Speaker A: Oh, man. Thank you all. [00:36:40] Speaker B: Really looking forward to seeing on stage tonight. [00:36:44] Speaker A: Oh, thank you. Thank you. I hope I don't disappoint you. [00:36:46] Speaker C: Absolutely. Hey, cheers. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Cheers. Yeah. Cheers. Liquid iv. Right on. [00:36:50] Speaker B: Is that firecracker. [00:36:52] Speaker C: Over rice milk tonight?