Episode Transcript
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Hey, welcome to Tailgate Beers. Ryan here. Austin, as usual. Hey. Today is the opening day. One tailgate tall boys, Clinton, Iowa. And we're standing here, we're back here, here in hospitality with Baker, Blake and Ship.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Baker.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Thanks for joining us.
[00:00:35] Speaker C: No, thanks for having me, dog. This is like, festivals are my favorite thing to do because you're just outside hanging with your buddies right now. The cameras can't see, but I'm watching people eating food, people playing some cornhole. You guys stand here drinking some beer in a pool behind me.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:53] Speaker C: And they call this work on, bro.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: Did you get in the pool at all today?
[00:00:56] Speaker C: Dude, I didn't bring my trunks at all.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Oh, you don't need those, do you?
[00:01:00] Speaker C: Listen, I can't go in my draws, man.
Boy, I can't be going. I do it at the Airbnb. We get there and I'm like, swimming pool. Yeah. I'll take my draws off, go on my little underwear. You know what I'm saying?
[00:01:11] Speaker B: You're big time now. You can do it. Whatever you want.
[00:01:15] Speaker C: See, people be telling me that, but I'm like, dude, I don't. I don't understand this at all. They're like, you can just go do whatever you want.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: I'm like, get away with it.
[00:01:24] Speaker C: Hey, I feel like a kid again.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: Hey, act vip. You are vip, Man.
[00:01:27] Speaker C: Dag, I'm right.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: But now you're a big time artist at. At what, 8? How old? 18.
[00:01:32] Speaker C: I turned 20 in three days.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Oh, no kidding. Happy early birthday, man.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Not excited because I'm losing my teens, but it's okay.
Growing up.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: We talked earlier. I think you were staying up there too. I mean, your whole team. The grandfather on your team is essentially 26.
[00:01:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Everybody else is still trying to finish high school.
[00:01:49] Speaker C: Yeah. The oldest guy I have that works for is like 50 years old, and he's my manager.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:01:56] Speaker C: Around that age. Maybe I'm giving him too much.
I hope I'm giving you the right age, but no, the rest of them, like, my. My drummer's 17, my bass player's 18. I just hired my. One of my little brother's buddies from high school. He's 17. My guitar tech. And then my league other. My rhythm guitarist is 20. And then, you know, our grandfather, 26 years old. Wow. Playing the lead guitar.
So it's pretty wild.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: 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.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: So.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: So you're here at Tailgate Tall Boys, Clinton, Iowa, you're on the stage tonight with Whiskey Myers. So, Wyatt Flores, I mean, what are you excited about? What have you done all day?
[00:02:50] Speaker B: What. What are you thinking?
[00:02:52] Speaker C: Just a whole bunch of like, man, I'm living the dream.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:57] Speaker C: I get out here, I'm like, this is wild. Like, the past three days, I haven't got much sleep. But I've done so much in the past three days and, like, done more than I would ever thought about doing a year and a half ago. Sitting in my bedroom, playing my guitar.
Yeah. It's crazy.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: But what's something here in recent time as far as festivals or meeting people? Because, I mean, you've gone like a rocket ship kind of, you know, in the. In the music industry in the last, you know, six months to a year. What's something that recently or that's happened in that year is like, holy crap, I cannot believe.
I mean, I'm in this position.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: I mean, I went to opportunity overseas for the first time, which was crazy being over there, because I've. I hadn't been out of Tennessee until last year in March, and then going out of Tennessee to almost. Traveling this year to almost the whole southeast and north west or Northeast. Like, it's crazy to be able to say that I've played music in all these states that I never thought I'd be. And then to be able to go overseas and play with 49 Winchester and Lainey Wilson and just to get to hang out with them backstage is like, what in the hell am I doing here, dude? You know? It's like Lainey Wilson walked by and goes, hey, bub, how are you? And I'm like.
I just. I just had to stop. I was like, I don't know what to do.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: I don't know what to do with my hand.
[00:04:28] Speaker C: No. I was like, never fangirled so hard in my life. I'm just like, damn, you're a beautiful woman, and your voice is angelic.
It's crazy.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Oh, that's awesome, man. What? So you said you're from East Tennessee?
[00:04:49] Speaker C: Well, like, I'm right. I'm in between Nashville and Knoxville, okay. Like, an hour and a half east of Nashville.
So, like, anybody knows where Cookeville or Livingston is?
[00:05:00] Speaker B: I do not know.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: Dude, you. If you get on I40 from Nashville and take it an hour and 15 minutes, get off of 288 and take Highway 111, you in Livingston in 30 minutes, and you'll be right there. In my hometown.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Did you grow up going to Nashville a lot?
[00:05:19] Speaker C: Not really. I went to Nashville maybe twice before I was, what, 17?
Yeah, 17 years old. And then the first time I went after that, I was 17.
I was staying with my brother in this place he was staying at, and I went and took my guitar and played on the streets of Nashville for like all day and made like 40 bucks. And I was like, hell yeah, this is sick.
And then after that, I kind of just started playing gigs. I was like, hell yeah. I'm making 100 bucks for playing two hours of just music. I learned five minutes in my bedroom. I was like, I think I'll take this as a side job.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:01] Speaker C: And then started posting videos on Tick Tock about it. And they were like, everybody's commenting saying, this is cool. And I was like, what's going on here, brother?
[00:06:12] Speaker B: You know, what was the. What was option B for career wise, as far as you.
[00:06:16] Speaker C: Oh, music, dude. I was going to work in industrial maintenance at this factory. It's called Parker Seals.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:23] Speaker C: My brother took this class at like this vocational school, and he's like, that's what you need to do right there. He's like. He's like, hell, by the time I top out, I'm gonna be like $36 an hour and hell, you're set for rest year. I was like, all right, you know, that sounds pretty cool. Yeah, I guess I'll do that. So I started taking those classes and did robotics classes and how to.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: That's my. That's my background.
[00:06:47] Speaker C: Really?
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm actually. My full time job is actually a caterpillar.
[00:06:51] Speaker C: Really? Yeah. That's crazy.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Doing the engine blocks and all that stuff.
[00:06:54] Speaker C: Industrial maintenance, that's what was going to be my job for the rest of my life. And I was going to die an old man in a factory.
And then I picked up a guitar probably like three years ago now.
Two and a half maybe.
I started singing and playing.
I was like, yeah, this is. This is something cool. This is different. I never really sang, but I hummed in church and sang in the shower. That was about it.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: That's insane.
[00:07:20] Speaker C: But, yeah, like 20. The end of 2022, I think it was. I posted my first video on Tick Tock.
And then from there it was just like.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Was it an overnight type of thing or was it.
[00:07:35] Speaker C: I mean, it took. It took a year. Like from 2020 in 2023 is the year that I posted all the videos I was doing. I worked at this place called Ten, like 1806 Barbecue and last year, in around March, I quit my job and I just did a few. I mean, I was working my job up until that time, still posting videos. And I think last year in February, I signed a record deal with Alamo Records in Nashville. Or not Nashville. They just moved to Nashville, but they were in New York. And I was like, this guy's skeptical, so I made him FaceTime me. And I was like, so you're a real person? He was like, yeah, man, I'm real. He's like, I just like your music, you know? He's like, I'd like to help you out a little bit. And sure enough, they helped me out a lot. Adam Laro, shout out He's a good dude.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: And, yeah, tell me where I am today. I guess I'm missing a bunch of that, but there's some. There's some parts I'll fill in.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: What's the.
What's the fun hobbies? What are you. What are you into outside of playing guitar, dude?
[00:08:41] Speaker C: Golfing, fishing and not really, you know, I'm not a cool dude at all.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Like a. Like, bass fishing. You crappie guy.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: Yeah, bass crappie. Just about anything in Del Hall. Like, you know, just about anything.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: So these are my groupies, by the way, over here. These are our fan girls.
[00:09:03] Speaker C: I'm good, brother. How are you? They like your hat.
Yeah.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: Hey, when you come. So that's Wayne's. So ducks is Wayne's one of his bars right across the street from Cruisins that you're gonna play.
[00:09:13] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: So we'll get. We'll get you some of those. We got white, black, camo.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: Okay. See, dude, my head is just weird. I got a weird head.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Well, the part of. It's the mop up.
[00:09:26] Speaker C: I look like exactly woke up.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: I just got a fat head.
[00:09:29] Speaker C: Seeing some of these hats don't fit right.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:09:32] Speaker C: Boy, my forehead's, like, long.
So that's why I got all this hair.
Can't let you see that. Just not yet. Not yet.
Another time. Yeah, that's another time. You guys might find one. But, dude, it's just like a damn.
Just wide as your hand, brother.
Kills me every day I look at it. I get in the shower and wash my hair and I'm like, well, you got the biggest egghead, brother.
[00:09:58] Speaker B: Speaking of that. Speaking of showering.
So one of our. One of our things that's really come to light on our podcast is do you use a washcloth when you shower? And I don't remember how this came about, but it came about because we were talking to our coaches, and they made fun of me because I use one.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: I'm glad you brought this up, because I didn't. I didn't know any of this shit. I didn't know.
Okay? So I heard some shit one day that I was. I stayed at my buddy's house for the first time, and I was, like, gonna take a shower and say, hey, man, you gotta washcloths. You know, I. I need two washcloths more for my ass and one for my, you know, the rest of my body. Huh?
And he's like, what are you talking about?
I was like, brother, hold up one damn minute. I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, we just use our hands in a bar of soap. And I was like, you done lost your damn mind.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: So he does.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: That's. That's for.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: And then you get down, slather it up. Then you go. Then you go to people that use aloofa for, like, months.
Okay. Insane. Then we called my mom on one of the podcasts, because I'm like. I'm like, okay. My mom and dad.
[00:11:08] Speaker C: Aloofo isn't insane. If you just.
You got. You can use it for a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. But the people that keep it for the months. Dude, that is disgusting.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: My. My mom blows my mind that says, yeah, I use a washcloth. Oh, thank God.
She reuses it the next day.
[00:11:29] Speaker C: Okay, I can do two days. What you.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: You start here.
Okay.
[00:11:35] Speaker C: You got to have two. Okay. First of all, you don't use one. Just one rag. If you're washing your junk and your rear and your face on one, bruh. No, you don't lost.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: I even do. Yeah, I even do. I even do my feet first before I do my ass that way. I'd rather have my ass smell like feet than my feet smell like ass.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: I just get another pump. Get another pump and go to my next body part.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: Oh, dude. But, like, it's a.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: It's a. It's a. It's a interesting topic that you can start asking some people because there are some weird people that.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: Dude. And some people are just like.
They have these long sticks in there. I have the brush. Oh, yeah, yeah, you wash your junk with that. Dude, you need to.
[00:12:22] Speaker A: Those hard. One of those hard sponges. Yeah.
[00:12:26] Speaker C: It's like, what are you doing? You know, it's crazy.
That is wild. It is this thing over in Europe. They don't have.
They don't have eyes.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's an American Thing.
[00:12:42] Speaker C: Oh my. Dude, I must be fat as hell. Because I got over there and I was like, can I have some ice? And they were like, no. I was like, you're insane. I gotta get him. Get out of here.
Lose my damn mind.
Because I was freaking out, dude. I went to get. I went to like. Well, you can't find gas stations unless you're out in the middle of nowhere over there. So we went to this little convenience shop and they don't have like.
They don't have. It's open refrigerators.
They don't have any doors on. Keep cold. It's all like 70 degrees room temp.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: And Americans are the ones that keep everything in the fridge.
[00:13:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Over there they like. It's like, no, the eggs stay out.
[00:13:23] Speaker C: Everything lay on the counter while. It's craziest thing I've ever heard. Anyway, it's weird.
Tailgating beers. Tailgate beers with Austin and Ryan.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: Quick little promo. Appreciate that.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Dude, that's sick.
You should get.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Get yourself a neon.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: Dude, I should.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: We. So we talked about doing. We were going to make it lunch beers. That was going to be our podcast. And then there that domain and all that stuff. And because I. We wanted it se. It's a separate entity from really the tailgate and tall boys and cruisins. But then I don't know, we came up with Tailgate Beers and love it. And actually the bar in Nashville, there's.
What's it.
[00:14:05] Speaker C: Tailgate Beer.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Tailgate Beer Nashville.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Yeah, Tailgate Beer. Nash is a. Is a restaurant right there. One of the roundabout kind of where Raised Row used to be at.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: Yeah, like the Live oak. Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: It's literally right up on the corner and they're the ones that have our domain. Tailgate beers.com or beer. Com.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: Yeah, but yeah, dude. So hear me out. We got this idea for the band. We're doing the pot roast podcast. Oh, right. Sounds good. Don't. Yeah, it's a cool, cool ring. But it's like. It's like professional opinion. Wait, how's it go?
Professional opinion.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: Topics on pot roast.
[00:14:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like pot roast. It stands for something. Professional opinion topics.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:14:53] Speaker C: Reasons on actual serious things.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: That is a mouthful. That's so cool.
[00:14:59] Speaker C: It's hard to remember, but we got it in. And once you get it down, wrote down on a piece of paper. See, we did this like two months ago. I don't even know how I'm actually speaking about this because I don't know how I remember this at all, but Anyway, it's going to be a podcast where we talk about all the shows after the show because the pot roasts were all steamy and we're all hot, you know? Yeah, you open the pot roast steam.
So I'm thinking about brewing on it.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: So what type of topics are you just going to cover, you know, the show?
[00:15:27] Speaker C: Like, the people in the crown. We'll have sections. We're like, on tonight's, you know, get some quick pictures of the show and be like, you know, funniest person in the crowd. And you show a picture of this guy. It's like, him just some cool. Like that coolest bartender at this venue. There you go. Boom.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Are you.
Are you famous enough or popular enough that you're getting recognized at all? Do you feel that ever where you're out just a random place, or can you just go and it's getting weird. Yeah.
[00:16:01] Speaker C: Yeah, dude, it's getting pretty weird. Not to the point where I'm like, whoa. But I'm like, hell, yeah. This is kind of cool. But I'm just like, I don't even think about it. And I'm walking through the airport, and then I look up and I'm like, oh, my gosh. I know that dude sees me.
And you don't make eye contact with him. You just know in your head. You're like, in about 10 minutes, this guy's gonna walk up to me, tap me on the shoulder, and on his phone, he's gonna have a picture of me or something.
I swear, every artist know. Every artist knows this feeling I'm getting. I swear they do do. And they come up to you, sure enough, in 10 minutes, go, hey, man, are you that guy?
And you're like, yeah, man, what's up? And you, you just. You take the picture and you're like, hell, yeah, that was cool. But you're like, man, I wish they would just come up ass with being so nervous. It's like, don't make me have to sit here and wait on you to.
Because I avoid eye contact at all times. I'm like, I don't want to make this weirder than it is, because if you look at them, they're sitting there staring at you. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I'm sitting there looking. I usually have my sunglasses on. I'm like, looking down. Look at that. I'm like, oh, yeah. Hey, what's up?
[00:17:13] Speaker B: You know, you ever google yourself just to see what comes up?
[00:17:17] Speaker C: I did it when I was last year when I first when I hit like 200k and I was like, okay, this ain't cool enough yet.
And I was like, I'm gonna give myself a year.
And just because I like, I go home, my dad would be like, dad, you don't see something cool or something? I'll look, I'll look it up. Like check that out. You don't get on Google, you know, I mean he could just ask his phone, but he's still learning.
And dude, he just got an iPhone. He's figuring out how to use Siri is. He is the funniest thing ever. And my mom's hurt poor typing on her phone. I swear she'll be at. She'll try to make out a whole paragraph and it's just, it's just a bunch of gibberish. I'm like, mom, you just gotta call me. You just gotta call me.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: She do the talking tech stuff?
[00:18:09] Speaker C: I think so sometimes I'm just like, mom, did you like, did you try to say this while you were eating food or something like that? That's crazy. But no.
Yeah.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: What's coming up, what's coming up next? What do you got?
[00:18:26] Speaker C: 2025 or going on tour? Whiskey Myers right after this.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: So this is pretty natural. Natural night what you're going to be coming up with, huh?
[00:18:35] Speaker C: Yeah. So it's feel good to get used to the, used to the people I'm going to be working like in, in day to day with before we get out there. So it's kind of, kind of cool to do it on a laid back day where we're not all in one space.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: Right.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: Right. So yeah, it's pretty nice. And then we got.
Jared, help me out here, brother. What we got coming up?
I done said that we're doing a ton of festivals.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:09] Speaker C: You should be like.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Because you got that young crowd that.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker C: We're doing the Country Thunder in Wisconsin.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:19:16] Speaker C: Oh, dude. In the, in the fall we're doing like September playing the Ryman with 49 Winchester.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: Oh, that's going to be amazing.
[00:19:23] Speaker C: Crazy. I was like, holy.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: That'd be cool to go down to that.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: Yeah. You guys should tag up.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Absolutely.
I seen them when I was in Boston.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Right.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: Winchester. They were awesome.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: Really? Oh yeah, dude. I opened up for them.
I wish I could call bus and hope man know he would answer.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: Don't take that chance.
[00:19:43] Speaker C: He probably would.
Oh, we got time.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah. It's your world, man. We're just trying to live in it.
[00:19:50] Speaker C: I'm living.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: I'm living.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: He sent me a Video.
Is it Baker? It's me, Wendy. Want to hang out one day?
He had Wendy to do his damn thing. Okay. Anyway, let's FaceTime.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: That's always a fun game. Will the person pick up? Yeah.
[00:20:19] Speaker C: Come on, dad, if you don't answer. He's not my real dad, I swear.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Yikes.
[00:20:30] Speaker C: Say, looking good, folks.
You think you know a guy? You think you know a guy?
[00:20:36] Speaker A: I bet he's busy. I bet he's really busy right now. Probably just a bad time.
[00:20:39] Speaker C: All right, Bus, I'll get your back. Get you back for that one.
He's probably paying me back for last night. So I was. I just laid down or something. I heard my phone ring last night. I didn't check it until this morning. I was like, damn.
Bus called me.
I feel bad. I didn't answer, but it's okay.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: Who's the most famous person in your phone.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: Dude?
Probably Gavin Adock.
Yeah, that's pretty wild to say.
You know, I wasn't thinking about it, and he had a show in Nashville, and I was like, I'm gonna take my chances because I'm here and already in Nashville. I was like, hey, Kevin, would you let a brother slide through? He said, yeah, and because my buddies were going, and they were like, hey, you should come to the show. And I was like, man, I really don't want to buy a ticket. I said, oh, let me text Gavin. They were like, oh, you.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Hey, man, I don't want to be that guy.
[00:21:32] Speaker C: But, yeah, I was. Well, I was like, man, it's just. It's just. It's just weird, you know? I mean, it's not. It's not weird. It's normal, but I don't know. I just never thought I could do this or all the time. It's my. It's my brain every day. I'm like, wake up. I'm like, yeah, widow. We. Why are you even healed?
I'm like, oh, yeah, you sing, dude.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: We are pumped to have you here, dude. Thank you for doing this podcast.
[00:22:02] Speaker C: And it's just bullshitting with me. I love it.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Great to meet with you. And if you get that podcast going, we. We're happy to help you.
[00:22:11] Speaker C: I would love to have you guys as a first guest.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Let's go. Let's go. We would. We would help you with whatever you need, man. It's. It's a. What's crazy? It's like, hey, let's start a podcast.
And then it just goes deeper into, like, oh, but then these cameras do this, and you need this and then the editing. But to. I'll tell you what. I think we. We could come up with a starter pack for you.
[00:22:31] Speaker C: Well, my. My guitar set up his phone, and he was like, why can't we just use this? I was like, eddie, brother, I want you to know how much that goes into a podcast for it to, you know, look good and sound good and just be presentable to the.
Because everybody that lives in 2025 has a. A wingspan that their attention span is about 0.3 seconds.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: You got to catch it.
