Episode Transcript
[00:00:21] Speaker A: I'm going. Make the sick intro. You do it and then let me know.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Okay. All right. Ready when you are.
Sound of Lord's work.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: That's it.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Hey, Tailgate Beers, here we are, day two, tailgating tall boys here in Bloomington, Illinois. We're on our Tailgate Beers mobile set. We've got an old friend that joined us today. He's playing the stage tonight.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: He's not too old.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: 20 years old.
[00:00:49] Speaker C: As in he was episode two of Tailgate Beer.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: I do. Rob. Yeah. How y' all doing?
[00:00:55] Speaker C: Josh, thanks for joining us.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: Thank you very much. It's good to. Good to be here. The weather's holding off. It's going to be a rowdy day. It's.
[00:01:01] Speaker C: It's going to be. It's been a crazy couple days already.
Coupled with tailgate and tall boys and Clinton last week, we've got a heck of a lineup today.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: So I'm excited. Very excited. Yeah.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: Now you've played. You played tailgates, what, three years in a row now?
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Different variations. Yeah, yeah.
[00:01:18] Speaker B: You played Clinton, Iowa, last year.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Yeah, you.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: And you did not play last year.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: Here. We were not here last year.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: No, pulled off of that one. You went on tour with China.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: Was it with. Because we were with Bailey.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Trying to remember why you went on a.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: What was a Nickelback.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, probably the Nickelback Nickelback tour. We missed either way, several years. And then you played Bloomington the year before that.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that was my favorite.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: That was my favorite on stage.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah. That was my very first year. Yeah. Yeah. Three years ago. Yeah. It's crazy. It's cool to see. I mean, also, like, the festival's grown so much as to see, you know, congrats to you guys and everybody. And, dude, it's just always. It's nice when you pull into a festival and you know the people and you get to say hello. I have you taking a shot at like 10 o' clock this morning and.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: That, you know, I did not take.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: That shot, but it's not me asking for it. Anyway, Lily.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: Lily shows up. I think it's like nine in the morning to Clinton, and I just get this text and all she says is like, rumpel mints.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: There you go. I'm like, that'll be. That's a tough start to your day.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: Well, then, you know, it's her wife's birthday that day, so I'm like, it's gonna be a long day.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that. That's aggressive in the morning.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: And for us, it was aggressive because it was all the boys and Lily, because we Had Graham Barum, Dylan Schneider, Lily Rose, and then Gavin Adcock. So it was a wild. And then Jason Aldean. But he didn't hang out with us.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: No, that's all right. Yeah, he's probably. He probably knows better.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I think. I think his. His PR team was like, absolutely not.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Bad idea. Do not talk to bad idea. So.
[00:02:43] Speaker C: So you sat down with us. It's been. I think it was September time frame, so eight months, whatever it's been.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: And crazy.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: I. I can't turn on the radio without.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. I mean, it's. It's cool to now have my first top 10 single at US radio. And. And we're still working, you know, towards hopefully somewhere around that one spot in July time and. And then, yeah, just dishing out the next song. Working on a record that nobody knows about yet, which I'm really, really excited. And we put a song out with Acon two weeks ago that has just kind of gone crazy that you teased. You teased.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: You did.
[00:03:13] Speaker C: You did. I was gonna say.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Yeah, we used to tease it in our show intro, and that was before he was even on the song. Like.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah, you said you're gonna do a collaboration with somebody. You wouldn't tell us. Yeah, you told us, I think.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: But yeah, no, but it's been really cool to see. I mean, it's just a fun drinking summertime song and it's doing really well. So that's. That's been really cool to just have that and helps, you know, with streaming numbers and all that fun stuff. So.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: And that was like a. A favorite of yours too. Like a dream come true.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah, like, I. I literally grew up a huge Akon fan, so it made his top five. Yeah. Yeah, it makes my top five every year, I think. Yeah.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Well, your top five albums that we told you to pick, you. Akon was in it.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: Akon. Yeah. I mean, he just had so many good.
It's just his melodies and his songwriting and. But yeah, we got to do that. We got to shoot a video, which was really, really cool too, which has not been announced, but there'll be a music video for that song too. And. Yeah, just looking forward to it.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Did you plan to drop it on your birthday?
[00:04:01] Speaker A: Was that he only drops music on on Wednesdays. I think it was. Was like his thing, so we.
We put it out on that. And yeah, that was like the night of my birthday, which was.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, your birthday was like that Tuesday night.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Yes, it was like. It worked out perfect.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Happy birthday. And then it just so happens I'm like, wait a minute, did he plan.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: To put drop a song on my birthday? Yeah, no, it worked out. It worked out well. And yeah, I don't necessarily remember my birthday this year, so I definitely listened to the song and had a bunch of fun. And yeah, it was great.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: I think I just imagine the conversation like Akon's team like, yeah, what day do you guys want this date? Sounds really good. Like, can we do this date?
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Perfect. Why perfect? My birthday. Yeah. Actually, I don't think I've ever had a song come out on my birthday, so it was good.
[00:04:40] Speaker C: 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.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: What's the significance of dropping a song whether it's a Monday, too? Naturally it's Friday or Thursday.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. New Music Friday.
You know, it is definitely. It's different. It's nice because you're not in the noise of all the different people, you know, releasing music. But it's also. It's hard because you don't have like, the playlist switchovers and like the new music Friday playlists and you know, all like the COVID arts and stuff like that. So you can almost like release a song on a Wednesday and go, okay, it's streamed pretty good for the first two days. We still don't really know until that, like, Friday when, like, things actually switch over. But we saw the numbers the first couple days and, you know, just like organic, actual fans that went and found the song and was already doing really well. So once it. It came out, it's. It's been doing great. I think it's streamed like three or four times Any. Any songs that I've had out, you know, per day.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: So historically, in our younger years, music, like tapes and stuff, it was always on Tuesday. I thought, right, it's all changed. But I always just wonder because then there are some people that just don't give a. And she's like, hey, it's Wednesday. I don't know. Here's. Here it is.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I definitely grew up. Yeah. My stuff would have been like the itunes era. So I don't even. I wish I was selling songs for a dollar 29 each. That'd be great.
Be great.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: I'd buy one or two.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah. So.
[00:06:01] Speaker C: So you come to a festival like this, right? And I'm sure you're doing them all over the country. At this point, I mean, do you enjoy getting out there and seeing some of the people too?
[00:06:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's cool. Like I said, like, you know, you come back to festivals where you've been and you like, actually see some of the same people. You know, I'm terrible with names, but I'm really good with, with people's faces and like, you actually see fans that you've seen before and you come back to these markets and you know, you play a headline show, you know, maybe this fall or whatever it is, and you see the translation, you know, the correlation between these festivals and those people and.
Yeah, no, it's really, it's really cool. And it's a rewarding thing too to like be invited back because if you come once and you never come back is probably a reason why you were invited back. So. Yeah. Yeah. So it's. No, it's really great to see, you know, a lot of the same fans hopefully make a lot of, you know, more new fans. And, you know, I'm fortunate to be playing a little later every year, which is a good sign we're headed in the right direction. So.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah, what else is new in the life?
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Dude, that's it. Just, I think we were just talking about the NHL and so right now it's the Oilers and in Florida and we've had some opportunities to play some shows for the NHL and we'll find out. Hopefully there's a Game 7 opportunity. We might get to really play some this week. But I'm also. I have my family coming to town, so, like, I'm torn. It's my last weekend off until the end of November coming up this, this next weekend. So we might now be booked for it.
But yeah, just been dealing stuff like that, finding last minute things out. I think I bought a house roughly about the time that I played cruisins.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: We talked about that.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah, so got that. I got a little pond. Been working on that. Got another dog in January. He's a duck retrieving toler. So getting into the hunting side of things a little more hopefully this fall. And dude, life's good. Just trying to stay out of, not. Not get in trouble. Yeah.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: And we can, you know, we can cut this from the pod, but at the end of the day, did it just officially get announced? Is it like officially if you're off the market?
[00:07:46] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, I, I think, you know, I've kind of just left my personal life out of it even, you know, back then and now. And I definitely in this year, in the last Little while. I've just definitely figured a lot of things out that I needed to figure out.
A big of a huge part of that is just like, being happy.
It's just different to be happy. I think, like, I've always used to like. And part of this was probably me just like, shitty relationships and situations and, you know, I was never necessarily proud of the situations I was in. And now it's nice to be in something that I'm really, really happy about. And best part is like, I don't need to share it with the world. It's like, I'm happy and people don't need to know about my business. My business. So it's good.
[00:08:27] Speaker C: So. So with that, I mean, does that change the direction or the tone of some of the music you're writing these days?
[00:08:32] Speaker A: I feel like I. I think I've definitely, you know, the. The project that I'm working on is going to have more life and probably some lesson kind of songs on it. But I'm definitely not one to sit there and preach about, like, what's good and what's bad. At this point.
I'm still, you know, making decisions that I wake up sometimes. I'm like, why did I, you know, why did I do that? Or I'm learning and I'm lucky, you know, to have people in my life that. Now of that and.
But. But yeah, no, I. I think a lot of the context is still pretty, you know, the same, and I feel like there's still a lot of ideas that I've not got to write or now that I'm removed from those situations, I can kind of, like, look at them in a different perspective. So.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah, no, we talked about a lot. I mean, the struggle of just your life is not a normal situation, of go, go, go and having somebody fit inside of that and be able to deal with it.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: It's tough.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, to be in a relationship, it has, like, has to be the right person. Because I've tried, you know, a couple times with people, and it's nothing against them. It just. It was not you. You have to be 100% about what I'm doing and understand what I'm doing and be okay with it. And if there's like a moment of, like, you know, trust issues or anything like that, or commitment issues, it just doesn't work out. So shout out to all the artists that are dating somebody and have found the right person, because it's an inspiration for. For guys like me that are, you know, Navigating that and finally now fig. Renting it out. So.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Yeah, so you mentioned you're. You're basically on the road and. And working through November time framing what's. What's. Where you heading to next? What's. What's on the. The immediate routing for you.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, dude, I have to go on my phone. I'm like, so bad. Now.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: You said you're going up to.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: I go to Montreal tomorrow, but that's the thing for. I'm doing like, a little partnership with Jack Daniels, which is cool. So we're going to the F1 race up there, which will be really, really cool and get to watch Canada or what.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: What is it called?
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we're doing some Canada day, some July. July 4th stuff. 4th of July, and I know where we are. I think we might go to Arizona next week.
I know the next weekend run. We're gone for 10 days. So it's. It's a mixture of both US and Canada, and we're looking at possibly the UK in the fall. I don't know if I'm supposed to say that.
Australia, bunch of things, but, yeah, dude, I just. I'm just happy to be. You know, it's kind of like, tell me where to go, and as long as we can get there on time and I'm not totally dead, I'm happy to be there.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Was Canada just jealous of July 4th or how did that. What is Canada Day?
[00:10:54] Speaker A: 4Th of July? Honestly, I'd be really like, I always got to be careful what I say.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: I mean, I just want to know. But tell me, what is. What is Canada Day? Is it just.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Dude, I would just like to know, like, is what came first? Was Canada Day first or fourth of July first?
[00:11:10] Speaker B: What came first?
[00:11:11] Speaker A: We'll come back to that. Yeah, like, when was. Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:14] Speaker C: Versus.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: All right, we got.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: We got the team working hard on.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: Trying to figure, yeah, Canada is just their. It's their version of.
Or fourth of July's. I don't know. I don't know which version it is of which I'm just lucky to celebrate both.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: So I went to Montreal a couple months ago for the. I went to Canada for the first time ever, and it was interesting.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: It was interesting.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: What I found odd. What I found odd is, yeah, I went through customs here, right?
[00:11:41] Speaker A: To get there.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Then I went through customs in Canada.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Wait, what?
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I went through.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: What does they do as soon as you land?
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Yeah, as soon as I land, I landed there in Canada.
[00:11:51] Speaker A: You go through customs, went through customs.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: What's weird is I went through customs in Canada and I thought I would have gone through customs again in Chicago. Do you not.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: No, you only do it on your way back here.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: So they got like a joint.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: Yeah, joint thing. We got info.
Okay.
1776.
Okay.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: So like I fourth was in 1700.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: 17. 1700s. In the. Canada in the 1800s.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: And then July 1st, 1867.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: All right, chat GBT. Thank you.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah, thank you.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Let's go.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: What's. What's Joe Rogan's guy? What are they.
[00:12:29] Speaker C: I forget his name.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: What's his name? The guy off camera.
[00:12:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Or like answers all the stuff for us real quick.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Jamie. Jamie.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: Yeah, there we go.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Jamie. No, no. So I went there and I thought it was great. What is crazy to me is I did not realize it's like 80 French speaking in Montreal.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: It is. Yeah.
[00:12:50] Speaker C: Everything.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I mean, not Ontario. So I'm from Ontario. Which French, I guess would be like the second language.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: Can you speak French?
[00:12:57] Speaker A: I can like slightly understand it. I can't speak it. No, no, it's like an elective. Like when you're in school, it's like. It was mandatory, I think, to take until high school and then you could like pick if you still wanted to take it. And I just. Yeah, it was not for me, but.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: That'S where I was just blown away because all the menus and as you drive, it's like. Even the road signs, it was like, English, French, French, English, some just French.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: The worst is when you go into a restaurant and it is like, literally there's no English on it.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: I was staring at the. I was staring at the menu and I just said, you're going to have to just tell me, like, what do you think?
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Cheeseburger.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: And then I went to the bar. I went to the bar and I just. I didn't realize that I'd be in there. There would be an language barrier at some point.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: And so is Crown. Not me. Is Crown.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: Not Crown's Canadian? Yeah.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Well, I thought it was, but.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: Any whiskey, right?
[00:13:42] Speaker B: But they said it's actually made in the US or something like that.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: I don't. Might be. Who knows?
[00:13:45] Speaker B: Because of the. Whatever little terraform. They literally didn't have any.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Well, the Jack Daniels tariff thing that's gone on too. Like, that hasn't been in Canada for a minute, I think. I don't know. I'm going about to go do this stuff in Montreal, so find out.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: I just thought it was weird. I was like.
I said I. For other purposes. I'M gonna have to go back there some.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: So, yeah, Canada's fun. I mean, the country music scene, Canada is so good. Like, you have to go to, like, Ontario and Calgary. Like, those are two of my, you know, favorite. And then out west, twos are just incredible. And, you know, a lot. A lot of talented looking people in the crowds always do, which is really nice.
[00:14:15] Speaker C: Is.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Are they not doing boots and hearts? Yeah, they are. I would think for some reason somebody.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: Somebody just said that last week.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Just said they weren't doing boots unless.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: Because I know the lineups was already out, so unless they canceled it last minute. I don't. I don't think so.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: That's August, an amazing festival, though, that.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: I think they won, like, international festival of the year for country music.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: And that's one where, like, the closest town. And you can tell me, isn't it, like a ways that everybody really just commits?
[00:14:36] Speaker A: Yeah. It's probably an hour and a half, two hours north of Toronto. So you'd fly into Toronto and then go. Yeah, dude, that festival is.
[00:14:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Like 66, 40. Yeah. Brooke Dunford by probably 40. 40 to 60,000, probably.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: It's insane. Yeah, they always have killer.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Dude. I'm not being biased. There's just certain areas you play where, like, the fans are just so excited to be there. And that is one of the places where you go and you're like, these people really want to be here.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: So. Yeah.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: You got any other burning questions for them? We got them here. So.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: Right.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Ask me. Ask me what?
[00:15:06] Speaker C: I mean, what's.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: What dog did you end up getting?
[00:15:08] Speaker A: So he's a Nova Scotia duck. Retrieving taller. So he's technically a Canadian breed. They were started on the east coast and then I. They were breeding them in Kansas, so I got him from Kansas. Actually played like a private show for a Ford dealership, and one of the sisters was breeding them. And I had Paxton, the other dog I had on the road. And I was thinking of getting him, like a little brother, but was really wanting to get into duck hunting more and just get outdoors a little more. And I thought, like, okay, if I get a dog and invest a bunch of money in him, it'll make me.
Make me do that.
Yeah, I got the shirt now. Yeah, we got the shirts. Today. We did it. We did this today.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Hurricane Marsh.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: We did this to make Wayne a little jealous today when he rolled out, we're like, if we pull the same shirt, it's gonna be jealous.
Yeah, definitely. He's probably gonna come around this corner with it with it on me. Like, boys, look, I got it.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: I wanted one of those.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: Yeah, no, but yeah, dog's cool. He's just a lot of energy and he's definitely meant to be like an outdoor.
And it's crazy. Like, the, the dogs are so different. Like, smart and not to like, get in the whole thing, but like, like, if a duck falls in the middle of the water, like most dogs, most retrieving dogs will just run out of the water and go get him.
He'll like, run all the way around the water and then go in if it's the shortest route. Like, they're like, they're tuned a little different than like, other retrieving dogs. So it's pretty cool to like, watch his mind kind of work and how he. He does stuff. And then they kind of look like a fox. So, like, I guess foxes running along the shorelines actually, like, attract birds to like, land on the water. And like, that's the other thing. Like, people will like actually play fetch with these dogs on the shoreline while they're hunting. And like, it actually helps ducks, like, land on the water, which is pretty cool.
[00:16:40] Speaker C: I assume, I assume you have somebody else train him.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like, I have stuff at home. And then time wise. No, it's. No, it's. No, it is. It is a. It is a whole thing. Like, and for me, not knowing like a ton about it, like, you know, I've hunted growing up in fish and all that kind of stuff. Like, not to the point of like that. And yeah, no, I'm paying somebody to do it. And shout out to Brooke, she's doing a great job. And. Yeah, I'm just really excited to. I gotta get them all ready.
[00:17:04] Speaker C: I got a black lab raven.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:07] Speaker C: A year and a half ago with the thought of dog training her and. And that lasted about three weeks. And family dog.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:17:15] Speaker C: She's not trying to do anything other than tear stuff up.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Here's the worst. Like, at first I was like, all right, I'm gonna get the dog. And he'll be like an outdoor dog. Like, you'll sleep outside and whatever. And then I was like, okay, that's kind of mean. Like, I'll let him sleep in the house, but he'll like always be in his crate at nighttime. And he's. And then the last couple weeks when I'm home is. He's like, he's up in the bed and it's like 11 o' clock with the other dog. And I'm like, oh, maybe he can just sleep for the night in the bed, you know.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: So, yeah, there are people that, I mean, I know guys that like. No, that. That dog lives outside, stays here.
[00:17:39] Speaker A: And I originally wanted to do that with him, but I was. Dude, I was too torn. Like, I was like, it's kind of meeting. I don't know.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: I had a. I had a Chesapeake Bay retriever and now I got a £145 Bernese Mountain Dog.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: They're great romping.
My family's got one of those. They're so good.
[00:17:53] Speaker B: They're amazing dogs.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I appreciate you guys.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, I appreciate you. Thanks for doing this. Thanks for taking time.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: This will be. This will be somewhere.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Yeah. That's great. 50s.
[00:18:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Congrats. That's awesome. Cheers.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Cheers, man.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: Thank you very much. Yeah, appreciate you guys. All right.
