Theo sits down with recording artist, Kane Brown, to discuss his climb up the music industry ladder, funny childhood memories and video chats with Reckless Road, the first act Kane signed to his new label.
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Today's guest has had eight number one musical hits in music.
And he is, you know, he's kind of that soft-spoken sherub.
You know, he's, you know, but the breadth of his work and his success is very loud.
He now has a band that he's, I think, providing the label for.
We're going to find out a little bit more about him.
Honored to have him in here today.
He grew up out in the Central East of America.
It is Mr. Kane Brown.
Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories Shine on me And I will find a song I'll be singing just for you Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Yeah, I don't know.
It's just like the power is more like in people's hands, you know?
I mean, you know some of that.
I mean, I saw, you know, you would put yourself out there, bro.
I see your early videos, and it's like, damn, this dude, you know, it's brave of a guy just kind of like, like, I was up last night watching a couple of them.
And, you know, you got just, you're sitting in there and the lighting's behind.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like, it's putting yourself out there.
Yeah, it was just me and my cell phone.
Yeah.
But it's kind of crazy to think that, but that that's the, like, it's interesting how you got to take that first step of like, it's almost like vulnerability kind of, you know, to put yourself in that space, you know?
Yeah, I mean, you got people coming at you from every which way.
Some people like you, some people don't like you.
It's just, I don't know.
I guess it kind of made me figure out how to take some of the...
Just get myself ready for the industry, basically.
Oh, you mean by putting yourself out there like that?
Yeah, yeah, because when I got here, you know, it was like there, I was by myself, and now, you know, I have all this power behind me.
So.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Because I guess, yeah, with comments and stuff, I mean, it gets harsh if you get down in there.
Yeah, I used to read everything.
Oh, man.
I used to be that guy.
Dude, do you have one?
There's some about me that are so funny, bro.
Like, like Theo looks like a guy that sells drugs at a Build-A-Bear.
You know, just shit like that.
Like, things that's just like, do you ever have any, are there any that stood out in your mind?
You're like, damn, that one really.
Nah, a lot of them were just, especially when I was first getting into the scene, it was a lot of them that I would just say, like, oh, you know, this dude's a rapper.
It was like all that stuff.
Just going off my appearance.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and just things like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, Miss, because you've, I mean, your rise has been like in the last two or three years, right?
I mean, like, really blow.
I mean, like, I know you've, but I mean, to really get to like a crazy level, like, you're pretty famous now.
Yeah, it started the like, you're like the Patrick Mahomes of country music now.
Everybody says I look like him or Dak Prescott.
Oh, really?
Oh, now, Dak, I can see.
I just thought because you're kind of by, because you're mixed, you know, kind of that, I would think that of Patrick Mahomes, but I didn't think of Dak.
You do look like Dak, I think.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, right.
But that is crazy going to a level where it's like, now you're like, you have to hide and be famous.
It's like you got to play hide and go seek, like kind of constantly a little bit.
Yeah, well, at first, it's kind of cool now.
At first, it started to get a little crazy.
And then now it's like, you know, when people stop trying to take pictures with you, that's when you need to worry.
Yeah.
You know, so now, right now, it's just you got to look at the positive and everything.
Yeah.
So it's pretty cool.
I mean, you know, I'm excited to be where I'm at and provide for my family.
Just, you know, have a good time.
What have you been doing during the pandemic?
Like, for fun?
Like, what have you been doing?
Like, picked up any hobbies, dude?
You just been resting?
Like, what have you been doing?
Be honest with me, bro.
Well, no, I mean, there's not really much to do.
Like, you've been hunting, you've been shooting anything, you've been chasing?
I went hunting like three times, which in my property, they come up to my back.
Really?
Yeah, I could shoot them off my porch, which I feel bad.
Yeah, you could shoot them with a handgun, huh?
We actually just started building like a treehouse slash luxury.
Oh, really?
So it's going to be cheating, but it's going to be pretty cool.
How luxury we talking?
What's going to happen?
I'm going tile floors and windows that will just open whenever.
I don't know if I'm going to push a button or use a rope.
Bro, you got to use a rope.
If you do push button in a deer blind, that's going to be cool, though.
You might get some heat for it.
We're doing a little two-story.
That'd be nice, man.
What about sports?
Do you follow any specific sports, actually?
Yeah, I mean, football and basketball.
I've gotten to DraftKings like crazy.
Really?
Yeah, during this year.
Betting on stuff.
Yeah.
You always got to go for the underdog, man.
You do?
Yeah, I just won some serious money off the McGregor fight.
Yeah, who'd you bet on?
The other guy.
Poor?
Yeah.
Come on, man.
Dude, he's been on this show twice, bro.
I mean, in my heart, you know, I felt like McGregor was going to win.
And, you know, it's just McGregor.
But my whole house was going for McGregor, so I was the only one.
And, you know, he came out pretty nervous.
Yeah.
and so I was laying in the floor, and then when he started getting those couple licks, in my baby was asleep.
I just started freaking out, I was yelling, and everything.
Yeah, bro.
My wife was like, and I was like, Hell, not tonight, honey, not tonight.
He was going against me, too.
She's like, Why would you put money on him?
And I was like, You gotta go for the underdog.
Underdog.
That's crazy, man.
Yeah, I got to, I was lucky enough to get to go talk with Dustin because he's from Louisiana.
That's where I'm from.
So to go talk with him right before the fight, before you went over to Abu Dhabi or Dubai.
I think it's the same place, honestly.
But yeah, dude, I was so ecstatic, bro.
I watched that corner pub and I was swinging off the rafters.
I literally hurt my neck.
I wasn't even in the fight, and I hurt my neck, bro.
I had to get injections last week, man.
So anyway, dude, I was so amped.
But yeah, I bet on him, man.
And did you see the guy before him, Michael Chandler?
He's from here.
Or he lives here.
Yes.
I didn't know he was from Nashville.
I found out after the fight.
But I actually ended up putting money on him because I think he was the underdog as well.
Let's go.
Yeah, he was, bro.
Dude, that's the same bets I made, man.
That's dope.
Do you watch a lot of UFC or no?
I do, and it's like the big card fights.
Yeah.
But not on a regular.
Have you seen that guy, Israel Adesanya?
Is that the dude that's like Anderson Silva?
He's kind of, you know what, actually?
Maybe he is like the new Anderson Silva.
He's a little more streamlined.
Can you get a picture of him up?
He's a little more streamlined.
This dude, man, you watch him, it's like watching the Harry Potter of freaking...
Israel.
Oh, he's next level, bro.
He's like a video game, bro.
He fought Silva.
Oh, yeah.
He fought Silva?
Yeah, he beat Silva, but it was kind of like, I think it was more of just entertainment, you know, both of them doing the crazy stuff.
Right, right.
And I think he ended up knocking him out.
I might have gotten in the UFC after that.
I've only been watching for, let me see, maybe about three years.
Okay.
I'm a white belt, too.
Oh, are you?
Yeah.
Sick.
I mean, they give it to you when you walk in, but I hadn't even walked in yet.
Oh, brother.
You guys dogged.
Oh, so you a parking lot fighter.
Yeah, there we go, bro.
Yeah, that's where it changes from the streets to the map, man.
Would you ever do what you think, bro?
It's been, for me to go, it's been fascinating, man.
Man, I've been getting into boxing recently.
I've got a boy that actually is a fighter right now.
He's trying to work his way up.
I was thinking about trying to get my manager to manage him and, you know, try and get behind him.
But he's like seven and one.
He lost to the number one guy.
It was like his second fight.
But every other one's been a knockout.
He's pretty good.
And does he fight at like just regular spots?
Like I said, like, because I used to go watch boxers when I was coming up.
A friend of mine, this dude Billy Conforto in R.I.P.
He died.
He drove into the side of a bridge or something.
He was on pills.
But he was the first, first of all, first gay prize fighter I ever knew, bro.
Toughest dude ever, bro.
Knocking people out and then flirting with them while he was unconscious.
You know what I'm saying?
He was a bad dog.
But his whole family was prize fighters.
So we would go watch and we would go watch and it would be like in a, sometimes it would be like in a bar.
Sometimes it would be like in a conference room at a holiday inn.
Like it was just the most unique spots where the fights were.
It wasn't like in arenas and stuff.
What's your boy fighting in?
He does, I guess like people pay to go watch him and he's on pay-per-view and stuff like that.
Oh wow.
It's like the low bar, but they're actually like fighters.
Like they have a ring.
People come watch them.
It's not like that backyard fight.
No, no, no.
That's tough.
I love watching that stuff and it comes up on Facebook.
I'm watching some songs.
They always have the craziest names, though.
It's like Shogun versus Biscuit Magic.
They always got the freaking weirdest names.
Tally's on the wall on the face.
And somebody always usually gets knocked out pretty quick, I feel like.
That's hilarious.
Those fights remind me of Mortal Kombat, of almost the game Mortal Kombat, the way they have it put it together.
Yeah.
We used to do something like that in high school.
After we get out of high school, everybody would go to this guy named Frady's house, and everybody would go over there and box.
Did people get real with it or was it just...
Damn.
But it was all kids from your high school.
So it's like you knew who not to mess with.
Right.
You know, used to go in the bathroom and just randomly start fighting in the bathroom.
Oh, at school?
Yeah.
Oh, that's wild.
That was crazy.
We used to, well, I went to this school in Arizona for one semester.
I got kicked out of where I was living in Louisiana.
And I went to Arizona and it was all, the kids there.
It was all, my high school was predominantly Mexican, man.
Like full, or mostly Latino.
I think it was Mexican, but mostly Latino.
But they would go fight in the car wash after school.
Like for some reason, the car wash was like the place where people would fight, you know?
Like in the car wash?
Yeah, in the car wash, right?
Inside of it, yeah.
And the people, like the cars would have to stop.
They would get all pissed.
People would be honking.
And you would just have two dudes just in there throwing down.
Because I think you could come in from each side of it.
So you knew when you won when the guy came out the back.
Oh, gotcha.
You know, like if you came out, yeah, like, yeah.
Yeah.
If you came out your side, then you lost.
So it was kind of like a mad max kind of a little bit.
But yeah, I love growing up like in a rural area.
Did you grow up pretty in like a pretty rural area?
I grew up in Fort Oakthorpe, Georgia.
I'm going to say, yeah.
I guess.
But like, was it just kind of like not a ton of people, you know?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Fordo's probably 9,000 people.
But the thing about where I'm from is it's like, you got Fordo, like everyone's a rival.
So like I'm close to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Oh, yeah.
But even like, so all the Georgia schools around that area are rival Georgia, Ring Gold Heritage.
All the high schools, you mean?
Yeah.
Oh, so there's a lot of beef out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dude, that's fun.
There's like new, like, heritage when I was in high school was the new school.
And so like everybody hated them.
Yeah.
And so their option was to beat everybody and everybody else's option was to beat them.
Like that was the main focus.
Dude, that kind of stuff was fun.
That's one thing I do miss, bro.
Sometimes it's just that high school, like just like the beef and the vibes that there were in high school.
Because you had like an enemy.
It wasn't a real enemy, but it was like you had like somebody to like go against, you know?
Yeah.
Like we had like Salmon growing up, was a high school.
And Chris Duhan played there.
He ended up playing at Duke and then went to, he played for the Bulls for a long time, a couple teams.
But I remember like he would come and play our school, and everybody would be so against him.
And he would tell everybody to be quiet in the stands and then shoot it and just hit it every time.
But I missed that high school rivalry.
I missed all of that, dude.
Growing up in a rural area was pretty, it was fun, dude.
People would have parties sometimes.
And so you would go, one time we went to this party, and these guys were like, had this house that was off the road a ways.
And so you had to walk to get there.
And you had to walk through this field.
But they didn't tell anybody they'd put an electric fence in the middle of the field, right?
So you're walking.
It's nighttime.
And this is before cell phones.
So people were just, you know, hoping for the best.
You know what I'm saying?
You just had the light of the Lord.
You know what I'm saying?
You just walking.
We had some friends that would hold on to them.
Uh-uh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, damn.
I did it by accident one time.
You did?
Yeah, it's like once you grab one.
It was a cow fence.
Once you grab it.
Have you ever held one?
I've held on.
I got electrocuted at a carnival on the zipper ride one time pretty good.
Like for at least about 15 seconds, bro.
Like I was on a carnival ride?
Yeah, on the way out, I touched like one thing and like two hand, like the rails, basically what you're supposed to touch when you're leaving, bro.
But apparently you're not supposed to touch both of them, right?
And I just locked up.
Yeah, you can't let go.
It just holds on, yeah.
And the guy was like, get off the ride.
And I literally couldn't say anything, bro, because I was getting electrocuted, you know?
And he kept yelling at me, bro.
And then he called me a couple names.
And literally, I remember he put his foot in my back and just kicked me off the ride.
Thank God he did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My situation, I held on for about five seconds and I couldn't let go.
And then next thing I know, it threw me back.
Damn, really?
Yeah, it was wild.
That should be a, I feel like that should be a new game.
There's a TikTok you need to go look at.
It's pretty hilarious.
It's this guy from another country or something, bro.
Another country, yeah.
He's like, this one guy goes and touches the fence and he's like, oh, dude, that's gnarly.
And he's like, this dude just, you know, he gets lit up.
He's a baby.
So he, he, yeah, he does.
He like cries or whatever.
So the other guy, he's like, he's just a baby.
He's from so-and-so.
So he goes and touches the fence and he's like, woo!
And then afterwards, he's like, I'm going to do it again.
And he goes and he touches it again.
He's like, yeah.
And he tells his friend, he's like, you got to do this.
And then he goes back and he just holds on to it and he's like, uh.
That's crazy.
You see it, Sean?
Looking for it.
I wonder if that would be like a new sport, you know?
We had Jess Lockwood in here and he's a he's like one of the number one bull riders in the world, right?
I mean, this kid is, I think he's probably 23, 24, maybe.
I mean, he looks like a baby, you know?
His body's kind of, he's the perfect height whereas like his, like where you bend is right in the middle of his body.
So that's kind of perfect for bull riding because it's like you kind of, you know, you just are like that the whole time.
But I wonder if PBR could do like a sport where it was just like electric fence riding, you know, like just locking in and staying as long as he could.
Oh, yeah.
I wonder what sport will be next, man, because they're always kind of coming up with something new, you know?
I've been waiting for that basketball.
Yeah.
You told it is?
The movie?
Oh, the one.
I didn't see it.
What is it about?
It's like I ain't seen it in forever, but it was like a huge thing back in the day.
Baseball?
I've heard of the term.
Yeah.
Did it look like a good sport?
I mean, yeah.
I mean, in the movie, it was professional.
So, I mean, they got, you know, so what is you start with the ball at home plate and you got to run the first base kind of thing?
Man, it's been so long since I watched it, but that was, I mean, it'd be a cool sport.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I think anything, man.
I think mixing up anything, you know.
I don't know what the next one will be.
Well, you know, they had XFL Arena football was trying to be big right before COVID, remember, and it just killed it off.
Is that, no.
I think it was XFL.
What was it?
Sean was at XFL?
I think that was XFL.
Yeah, I mean, bottom line, they just ran out of it.
I remember they suspends operations is the league finished.
The XFL suspended operations and laid off.
Yeah.
A grim outlet for the future.
Yeah, this is right when COVID picked up.
This is April 10th, yeah.
So, because they had just started out.
Do you remember you even see any of it?
Oh, yeah, I saw any of it.
Yeah.
They were just trying to get fans again.
They spent all that money to build the hype and everything.
And then that was it, man.
We got a question that came in from a viewer right here, man.
Let's get into it.
Here we go.
From damn Luke Combs.
Maybe sent this in or his son.
Yo, what up, Theo?
What up, Kane?
This is Dallas from Houston, Texas.
Question for Kane.
How does it feel to be a trailblazer in your industry?
Right?
Not a whole lot of brothers in the country music space, you know, but I think you've done well with it.
Similar question to you, Theo.
I know you kind of talk about it all the time, but what's like being, you know, a southern brother, a southern man, southern gentleman in Hollywood?
You know, similar plight.
You know, there's a lot of stereotypes on both accounts.
Let me know what you guys think.
Gang, gang, buzz, buzz.
Gang, bro.
Well, I'll answer first.
Is that okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, I just feel like Hollywood kind of forgot.
I feel like sometimes, this is just my perception also.
I don't know if this is anybody else's.
I just feel like sometimes Hollywood forgets that there's a lot of talent, that everybody from the South isn't like a racist person or isn't a bad person or isn't narrow-minded or isn't dumb or isn't, or can't be creative.
I think that they, you know, when I was growing up, they just had shows that there was a little bit more, I feel like diversity of where people were from, you know?
And then I think they started to get, it just started to get a little bit narrow.
But I think that that also provides a lot of opportunities for people to start their own platforms.
And also, for cities like Nashville, who still who have like a real confluence of, I feel like kind of everywhere, there's a good southern vibe here, but there's a lot of people from all over here.
So, for I feel like, you know, for me, I feel like I did feel like a lot of everybody thought I was just a redneck.
You know, nobody gave me a chance to kind of get to know me, I feel like, in comedy.
But I think it also kept a chip on my shoulder that made me want to keep trying harder.
And also made me have to be creative and made me have to kind of prove myself a little bit, maybe, if I'm real honest, you know, and if I'm, you know, and some of that could have been on my own head too, like, I think they hate me, that kind of shit, that Eminem type of shit, you know, where you're just running around fucking eating spaghetti, you know, and fucking angry at everybody, you know, like some of that could have been also in my head, but sometimes you need something in your head to keep you going, you know?
Yeah.
But I don't, but I don't know if I feel, I'm just, as a country music listener, I don't know if I feel like there's a lot of like vitro towards black or any type of entertainer that's different in country music, but there may be, you may have a different experience.
No, for me, man, it was like, you know, that when I first came in, that's what I was kind of nervous about.
And, you know, I did get a couple of racial slurs here and there.
But my fans is what accepted me and they pushed me to where I'm at now.
So in my head, I was just like, you know, as long as they're behind me.
And then I got country radio behind me.
It's like, I quit thinking about anything.
And, you know, I just kind of do me and just have fun with it.
I know me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel you, man.
Yeah.
And also, look, if a black dude calls you any word, it's pretty cool.
I think that's cool.
You know what I'm saying, bro?
Like, I got called like a week ago, you know, and I feel, honestly, I was pretty excited.
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Here's a guy you've inspired right here.
Some fella right here sending.
We just got a ton of videos we put out for people to send in questions.
Here's one from a fella, Sean Bigger.
What is his name?
Sean Bigger.
Sean Bigger.
What's up, Kane?
What's up, Theo?
I got another one for you.
You going almond brothers?
Or are you going Grateful Dead?
Let me know.
Gang.
Gang, bro.
What you going, man?
What do you think?
I don't know.
What you just played right there had to go with the Almond Brothers.
Had it almond brothers.
Sound pretty good.
Play him again, man.
Let me hear it again.
Yeah, a little slide actually.
What's up, Kane?
What's up, Theo?
I got another one for you.
You going Almond Brothers?
or you going Grateful Dead?
Man, I lie to Almond Brothers, man.
They really, sometimes they get me, especially if it's in the summer, man.
I've been out on a boat or something and I'm wet and I'm cold.
I'm waiting for somebody to bring me a towel, bro.
The only thing that makes me feel okay, bro, is hearing the Almond Brothers.
But I'm a huge John Mayer fan, so the fact that he goes in with the Grateful Dead and knows so much about them.
And when he goes on tour with them, he plays like second fiddle.
He doesn't even try to be the star.
He's just like the background element.
And pretty powerful to see him do that.
But I think just growing up, like that song Melissa, that one always gets me.
I love Almond Brothers.
I'll probably go Almond Brothers.
I'll do Almond Brothers as well.
Yeah.
What do you think about that?
Let me think about what I'm going to ask you next.
What, uh, when, When you were growing up, do you remember your first kiss when you were growing up?
My first kiss?
Yeah.
I was in a trailer park.
Yeah.
And I was like seven years old and she was like 13. Damn, really?
Yeah.
13, bro.
And how did you even meet her?
She was a neighbor.
Damn.
My nana was the owner of the trailer park.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Nice, man.
So she, dang, that's crazy, bro.
So, well, I remember my first kiss was they had this girl named Chrissy was her name, right?
And we live in like a fourplex, like four apartments.
And so I don't know how, bro.
Her brother was always flirting with me too, honestly, bro.
If I'm real honest, bro.
But she had like a little bit of like a she had like an overbite and i had an underbite so i'm thinking in my head we supposed to be together you know what i'm saying bro we got a lip lock like we got to make the world complete you know because we each other's missing links but um and i remember oh i invited her over i don't even know how i did this dude i invited her over to see my pillow in my room bro like i i was just trying to think of anything so i was like oh you got to come see my pillow and so she came into my room and
then we like kissed really fast and then her mom used to drive this like kind of toothpaste colored corvette it looked like crest blue right like this thing was real sparkly and the mom would sit in the car with her sunglasses on when she was too drunk and wouldn't even drive it and just play the radio and just like do cigarettes out the window bro and just kind of chill and the mom made us kiss again in front of her which freaking blew my mind bro i was like damn i guess we going on a tour yeah mine was like a you know everybody's first kiss was like a oh yeah
that's all mine was killed and then it was like i left yeah i don't even think i talked to her again after that it was like a okay that was cool you know so yeah a lot of it's fear man some of it's just so much of like i think people have been trying to get us to kiss each other all the time and so it felt like this thing you know but what was it like what was halloween like in a trailer park was it pretty fun at halloween over there dude that was it was sick man it was honestly probably the best time of my life um you know i got i
got caught smoking cigarettes my papa made me eat the pack afterwards no way damn like how many you eat bro be honest dude no he made me literally chew the whole pack no damn and then uh dog that's illegal i don't think you'll ever be the same after that oh dude i went through some stuff as a child uh and then like i remember and it's it sucked at the moment but now just looking back it was like it was awesome i remember having to go and uh pick my own like hickory switch and i picked i'd pick like
the smallest one which hurt the worst honestly and then i'd go back and she was like this is too small so she whipped me with it make me go back but the sad part was is every time i went to go get this uh it was all it was in poison ivy every time i went so i would get a whip and then i would come back i would have poison ivy afterwards damn bro yeah it was uh it was brutal but looking back it was awesome yeah that's awesome bro dude my mom so my mom got the smallest car bro i don't even know how right she had four
kids and my mom raised us you know and so she had four kids and so the car was so small bro so it was not good because mom could hit everybody from the front seat right so it was like a ford festiva it looked like a little and it was two-door i don't even know how we all got in there bro i felt like the cops sometimes would pull us over because it just looked like something was wrong right because you had too many people in the car like you were up against the window but my mom could beat everybody just with her own arm dexterity from that driver's seat like
drums bro like playing cymbals like she would go off on us man and she would uh what else would my mom do dude that was really we didn't have anything like that so your grandpa made you go get a switch oh my my nana oh your grandmother yeah she used to make me do that damn that's gangster dog and then was she really really cool is she still alive yeah she's still alive oh nice man she must be so proud huh yeah she's uh so she's like i don't really see her anymore she's uh on
my brother's side so it's uh my i have a half brother and it's his dad's mom okay you have a half brother i think it's actually his dad's like his his dad married her so she got married into the family i see yeah so she wasn't even by blood wow and she raised you or she was there she helped raise me uh my actual my nana kathy is the one that raised me okay which is my mom's mom okay so i mean you still see her a lot oh yeah yeah she was supposed to come up today oh nice my
family tree is like so confusing because i have so many papas and mammas and nanas and pops and granddaddies it's like my wife's tried to keep up and she's like i'm lost and i bet they pop him even more out of the woodwork now i bet they got you got side uncles you got everybody cousins i'm finding out about yeah that's wild man um let's pull another question in here sean here we got a young fella right here he's got a question for us yo what up theo gang bro what's
up kane uh my name's clay i'm a singer songwriter here oh run that back real quick look at the interaction he's excited talk he's like yo what up theo gang bro he's probably look man we'll edit it we'll edit it and put some rebirth but he called for you bro he never sent in a video before this guy i know he hasn't what's up kane uh my name's clay i'm a singer songwriter here in nashville and um kane i got a question for
you if you could name three other bands or artists to go on a dream tour with who would they be and uh what order would y'all play in each night yeah what y'all got gang gang german shepherd rough rough baby damn hey he put you yeah bro that's tough because he also said what order y'all gonna play in yeah i don't i don't know it's that's one of the things we always talked about is like you know me and me and al Dean want to go in you know together and tour again deep voice tour bro people get stuck in the mud this and
y'all's voices bro well that was that was my favorite tour i toured with him twice and he's like i wanted to go back out with him but now it's like he's got you know triple my number ones um but if we play like a 12 000 seat venue it's like we can both sell that out right so it's so how do you do it yeah you know what i mean i mean obviously i mean i look at it as aldeen would have to be the headliner um it'd be a wild tour yeah and some of it gets is it hard with ego
does ego come in it doesn't sound like it when you're talking about that because you guys it sounds like you're willing to kind of figure it out agents kind of get into it sometimes you know yeah i don't i don't have a big ego it's like i just want to go out and have fun um the agent is a big thing but i don't know i mean like i feel like if i went out with jason we would have to end up doing stadiums yeah and then we would have to get another big artist as well to come out and You know, be with us.
Well, you almost answered this dude's question, bro.
Who's that third?
You know, if you pick Boosie Badass Dog, I'm freaking in it, bro.
Nah, I don't know, man.
Would you keep it country?
You'd probably keep it country, huh?
Yeah, at that point.
Yeah, you'd have to.
I mean, I got a couple pop songs, and it's cool dipping my toes in the water every now and then.
But I feel like if I had to pick somebody like my guy Khalid, you know, I would love to bring him in.
Yeah, I saw him in that new video you guys did with Sway Lee.
That's dope.
Yeah.
He's from Mississippi.
Him and Ray Schrimmer is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Them boys.
Damn, they're so good.
Yeah, he's a good guy, man.
He's such a vibe, man.
He's a whole vibe, bro.
He gets more vibey.
Every time you see him in a video, he has like a, like, he has so many tattoos.
It's just like, he's just darker now.
Like, he don't even.
Yeah, you can't even...
It's just everything is just...
He's like Lil Wayne.
Like, by the end, like, Lil Wayne looks like a Christmas tree now when you look at him.
Like, he got so much swag on him, you know?
Yeah, no, Sway's awesome too, man.
But Khalid, dude, he's just got, he's just so chill and laid back.
I remember we were doing that music video, B like that, and he don't move out of a foot box.
But like whenever his moves that he's doing, he did this one thing I was so jealous of because he says, don't cry in the song.
And he was just vibing.
He just did this.
Oh, damn.
And I was like, how did you make that look so cool, bro?
And so that's like, every time I sing that, I'm just like.
Yeah, some people just have coolness in them, bro.
You know, some people just have swagger.
I think that's one thing going back to Conor McGregor.
There's just something about it.
Yeah, he got that walk.
He's got that.
Yeah, he's got the walk.
And he just, it's like a confidence at another level, you know?
Yeah.
I always felt that way growing up around, even mostly like black guys, like our neighborhood was black and white, but the black guys always, I don't know, they just had a different level of comfort with what they did.
Like I always felt like my, like if I'm making a move, I'm thinking about it first, you know?
But the black guys always just seemed like just, it was like they were just like living in a river, you know?
It just seemed like, and I'm out here, I'm fucking just kind of hanging on the bank, you know?
Yeah.
I think I was always envious of like, I think it's one of the reasons why a lot of people get envious of black culture is this, you know, a lot of black guys seem so confident, you know?
But I saw that video.
I saw that video actually, and I thought it was awesome.
Yeah, it's definitely a little bit different.
Oh, it's way different.
So who's that third, man?
You got to finish this off, baby.
Who's that third?
So at least you said already that Jason Aldean could go last.
Very kind of you.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, who would be that third on there?
Man, honestly.
I would love to do.
I mean, I would love to tour with anybody, really.
But I feel like just with quarantine, my three, me included, would be like me, Jason, and John Party.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, just because me and John's got really close.
He's like my neighbor.
Is he really?
His wife's supposed to cut my hair, actually.
Really?
Yeah.
Heck yeah.
Yeah.
I saw him at Kid Rock's birthday party.
If you need a barber, just let me know.
Dude, I don't know if I want that fade, bro.
No, don't get it.
You don't have to get the fade, but you can fade this right here.
Yeah, I could do this better.
Yeah, fade this.
Well, I'm not saying you can do it better, but I'm saying if you faded this and then left the rest of this.
Yeah.
Maybe I'll do that, man.
It's nice.
Yeah, I would go for something, man.
I've been doing, I've been seeing this little lady over here that cuts it, and she's good, but I'd probably venture out.
But yeah, John said his wife was there too, and she's really...
You know what I'm saying?
Because I don't want to get accused of it.
John's actually waiting for my barber to come back in town.
Oh, really?
Yeah, he got his hair cut by him in Gatlinburg.
Well, then that's strange because his wife cuts hair.
So why are you telling me to go to your wife, John, if you've seen another barber, dog?
If you ain't even getting your hair cut in your own house, that's ice cold, man.
Well, he still gets his hair cut, but they've been asking when CT was coming back.
Yeah?
He's good?
Oh, he's amazing.
What's his name?
CT?
My friend has CT.
Let's hear this guy right here as a question.
So that's it, John Party.
So that's the three, man.
That'd be a good tour.
That'd be fun.
That would be fun, bro.
Stady, do you think you're at a level, man?
You go to a ring.
I mean, you can do those level of tickets.
It does get spookier once you get bigger.
It's like, you know, you got to package it up.
It has to make sense to the agents, want it to all make sense, or otherwise you're taking a pay cut, you know?
Well, see, the agents just care about tickets.
So, like, the thing for the artists is, especially when you've been doing it for years, like at first, I didn't care who I was out with.
I was excited, which I was out with FGL.
So it was a good tour to be on for the first tour.
But when you're an artist, you're also with these people all the time.
So you want it to be a good hang.
You don't want to be the people that just go on the bus and they don't talk to you.
That's a boring tour.
But for me, it's hard to go out with somebody that I enjoy their company and hanging out with, but also fits my lane of music as well.
Right.
So.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got invited in a movie last year and I went there and just the hang was not because it was going to be 12 weeks.
So luckily I was able to get out of it.
But man, I was like, dude, there's just no hang.
It's just like going back to my hotel.
I would have gotten to such a downward space, you know?
And comedian, you just, well, at least you get to bring like your opener and somebody like that, you know.
But I just do theaters, but I think I don't know if I'd ever want to do diff anything bigger.
And I don't know if God would ever even have me doing that.
I don't know if that's in my future.
But I like theaters because it's at least still for comedians, it's still kind of personal enough because you're just talking, you know?
Yeah.
Whereas music, I mean, you get everybody rocking.
I don't know if it matters if they're in a small space or a big space.
Does it feel different to you?
Oh, yeah.
You know, for a while, I was excited to just, you know, be playing.
But once I put my foot in the arena, it was like, well, because you hear like just this different type of roar with echo as well.
And then...
You also, you only see people in the pit.
So it's kind of like you're still playing in, you know, just a regular bar.
But then after that first couple rows, it's black.
Yeah.
So it's like you can just have the time of your life on stage.
You ain't got to make eye contact with anybody.
You can just kind of be yourself.
And then when you just, when you hear the roar, it just amps you up even more.
And it's fun.
Damn.
That's an interesting take because I never thought about it like that.
Like, I'll play like I think I maybe play 2,500 in Melbourne in Australia.
I think that was maybe like the biggest amount that I did last time.
But I could only see the front.
But I always think like, shit, I'm scared because I don't know where I'm supposed to be looking for these people in the distance, you know?
And sometimes I won't even come out early.
So I don't even know how big the room is.
So I'll be like yelling like it's a big room.
And then the lights will come on at the end.
It's like they just got them kind of packed in.
I'm like, damn, I just read the room wrong.
But maybe that's a better take to just perform for the people in the front, you know?
Yeah.
I mean, if they're laughing, everybody else will be laughing.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
That's just one person to laugh to make everybody else laugh.
Yeah, that's a good point, bro.
Yeah, I never thought.
I just, I always feel like I'm just like kind of yelling into this abyss, maybe.
Because I think I'm focusing on the abyss instead of focusing just on the people in the front.
Yeah.
Do you, have you ever been to a comedy show or no?
I haven't.
I was trying to go to Kevin Hart, but he sold out for the next eight years.
But have you ever heard of Ben Dadon?
Uh-uh.
He's a guy on Instagram.
He's a comedian.
Y'all should link up.
Can you pull him up, man?
Ben Dadon?
Yeah.
So he lives with Odell.
He's good friends with him.
He's kind of in this LA comedy group.
He's also starting to put music out.
Is he?
Yeah.
Ben Dadon.
Oh, I'm going to have to check him out.
He's based out of LA?
Yeah.
Man, maybe we'll have him on a podcast next time I'm out there.
What's he like?
He's real funny?
Dude, he just, he don't care.
Really?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
He don't care, huh?
He does not care at all.
And you know him?
Yeah.
He'll come out on the road with me every now and then.
Man, you got to watch his dude, Cat Williams.
It was before his time, Cat Williams.
He's a little before him.
Like the Cat Williams?
Yeah.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
He reminds me of him a little bit.
Some of those little moves that he does and stuff.
He reminds me of Cat Williams a little bit.
Because you got to think, these guys didn't have Instagram.
They didn't have any of that.
So the only way to go see him was just you had to go to the club to see him, you know?
Yeah.
It used to be like a different vibe, I feel like.
I love his skit about Shaq.
I don't even know if I've seen him.
He said he went to Shaq's kid's birthday party and he was like seven years old and he said this.
He said this baby came out and was like, or he looked at the baby and was like, the baby was huge?
Yeah.
Hilarious.
He said, pick me up.
He said, you pick me up.
Yeah, Catwin is the best, man.
I forget about him sometimes.
Let's watch it.
Type in Shaq's kid's birthday.
That must be it, then.
Friends with Shaq.
I'm only talking about my friends now.
Fuck it.
He's going to look like you with a mullet, too, bro.
Praise God.
This motherfucker got enough money to be whatever the fuck he want to be his whole life.
And what the fuck does this nigga want to be?
A goddamn sheriff.
You can't be no goddamn sheriff, Shaq.
You an 18 foot, 6 foot 12, nigga.
I don't fuck with you.
You can't even go undercover this nigga.
Do you have any drugs?
No, Jack.
You know that's your motherfucking ass.
You a dumb motherfucker if you let Jack pull you out the car.
You can step out the car, nigga.
Could you make a free throw?
You ain't not getting out, nigga.
I'm just not gonna do it.
You want that nigga not to shoot you?
You gotta dress up like a basket.
He can't shoot them.
He can't shoot baskets.
That's my nigga.
I been talking about it.
I ain't scared of Jack.
Jack ain't even a gangster in his family.
His wife is the gangster.
She's my size.
She done had five of this niggas gargoyle at you and cocked dinosaur-ass babies.
You didn't give a fuck no more.
Jack's baby be three and a half years old when they come out.
She be standing in the conversation.
Anyway, girl, I was going off.
Fuck Jack.
They gonna invite me to his son's fourth birthday party.
I get there.
and this goddamn baby is looking at each other out of the eyes Then his son gonna have a nerd put his hands up like I'm gonna pick his big ass up.
Put your goddamn hands down.
Everybody's picking you up.
Nigga, we the same size.
Dude, you should go see him.
Have you ever had a comedian open up for you or no?
There's a guy, Jim Brewer, who's coming on later this week.
He opened up for Metallica for like two years.
That's sick.
Which I can't even imagine.
It's pretty crazy.
It's hard in comedy to go before and do.
You seen this guy, Jim Brewer?
Just hit a picture of him.
Yeah.
It's hard to go and do before music.
I bet, especially the age differences.
Because I got so many kids and then they go all the way up to 60. Oh, at your shows.
Yeah.
Oh, like, I couldn't imagine a comedian.
Yeah, you can't even do it.
Yeah, you couldn't even do it for you then because it would have to be.
Yeah, you need like a specifically zoned age zone audience.
Yeah.
Damn.
Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
Damn, you got children at your shows?
Oh, yeah.
Dang, that's crazy, bro.
I usually, my rituals kind of bring like one or two up on stage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some of them sing and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Some sing, some of them dance.
Some of them get shy and they get out there.
Their mom just throws them up on the stage.
Who does?
Their mom does?
Oh, that's crazy.
And so will you just pick them out?
Like, how does that work out?
Yeah, like, if you picking somebody out of the audience, do you tell a guy?
Do you rate?
Like, how do you do it?
Sometimes they're close enough, I'll just pick them up.
But sometimes the rail's like five feet back so nobody can climb on stage.
So I usually get my security guard to go grab them and bring them up.
Dang.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
It's a cool moment.
Yeah.
Oh, I bet, dude.
If I'm a kid, man, I don't know.
I think if I'm so young, I would have no idea what's going on.
Yeah.
But if I'm like 11, I think I would be, I'd be nervous.
I was 11. Yeah, well, they get up there and most of them's front row, so they don't see anybody behind them.
They're just literally looking at the stage.
So when they do get up there, they're like, you know, that's when they kind of just, you know, shy up real quick.
Oh, yeah.
It's always fun, though, especially when they break out.
I had this girl in there, I think she was like 12 or 13. She started breaking out and just started dancing, started killing it.
Oh, she did?
Yeah.
Oh, that's dope.
And the place goes nuts, I bet.
You know, there's something about when things happen that are just impromptu, it creates like this different vibe in people where they can feel that it's just like absolutely real, you know?
Yeah.
Like even outside of music or comedy or anything, like there's the moments of the show that people love, but when something happens, that's like, it's crazy how the cheers then go to another level.
Yeah.
There's just something people love about things being like live.
Yeah, our show is super real, man.
Like, you know, all these people, a lot of times, they'll script or, you know, do things, like practice, rehearsal, and all that.
It's like, as long as I know my lyrics and as long as I know what I'm about, like, supposed to come in and what I'm supposed to do, I just do my thing.
You know what I mean?
Y'all got animals or anything like that on it?
Y'all do anything except wild?
I surprised, you know, I buy a chimp, bring it out.
Dude, get something.
Get you something, man.
Get Bieber.
Didn't Bieber have a chimp for a little bit or JB have a chimp for a little bit?
Yeah, I think he did.
I don't know if I'm at that level at all.
I could see you guys do something together, man.
What, with Bieber?
Yeah.
Yeah, possibly.
We got to call him JB, I think.
JB?
Yeah.
Sorry.
It's okay.
I mean, I don't, I mean, I just noticed, I've hung out with him a couple times, and I just noticed other people say it.
Yeah.
So then I'm like, okay.
Because I'll call him Bieber and then I'm like, fuck.
I'm thinking like he's a child, you know?
Then I get all freaking self-conscious.
But here's a question right here we got from a young fellow right here.
This guy somewhere in a sauna.
What's going on, Theo?
What's going on, Kane?
I'm laying in bed with my smoking hot wife.
Smoking hot.
Hey, question for you.
What are your hobbies?
Like, what's on your bucket list?
Have a good one, Gangang.
Yeah, because you could do anything now.
I mean, you got enough money.
Now you could own a Galapagos turtle.
You could buy your own Hawaii shit.
You could build a Hawaiian damn Clarksville if you wanted to.
I mean, you could do whatever you want now.
Yeah, man.
I'm very, I'm a very, like, homebody type of person.
So, like, you know, a lot of people are buying beach houses and all this.
I'm putting all my money into my one house that I have.
You know, just, you know, kind of invest it in myself like that.
So the money will always be there.
My house value just goes up.
Yeah.
And now as I'm getting older, especially this year, I don't know if you've been on the stock game since the game stopped and everything like that.
I tried to get in some.
It's making me reconsider everything, you know, and trying to invest and put my money elsewhere.
And then if I ever become a 800 millionaire, you know, then I might just start splurging and doing whatever.
Dang, you're going to wait till then, bro?
Probably.
Get you a bass boat at least, though, huh?
You got a boat?
I'm a cheapskate.
I borrow people's boats.
I love that.
Or I'll go out with somebody else's boat.
You know what the best about going out with somebody's boat?
When you get back to the dock, you just go home.
They're over there empty and shit, like, you know, like throwing away empty Coke cans, bro.
I'm done.
Yeah, so what's some things?
What's that guy asking there?
Hobby-wise?
I know you game, right?
You do some gaming?
Yeah, I game.
I'm trying to get out of it.
You do crypto?
You in crypto right now?
Dude, I was.
Are you on the Dogecoin?
Oh, dude, people's dozing out right now, bro.
I'm about to doge off, bro.
I don't know if Doge is really going to pop.
I think it's a lot of hype.
Dude, it did one night.
I went in at a penny and almost two cents.
And that night it jumped to nine cents.
And I skyrocketed.
Did you sell or no?
Oh, immediately.
I sold.
I was like, it's not going to hit 10. It's not going to go up any higher.
So that was good.
I think it's off the wall now, though.
I don't think it's going to do anything.
Yeah, I think songs you got to get in.
Now it's all getting too much.
Like the AMC, the GameStop.
It's all just everybody knows about it now.
Naked juices, all of this shit.
Dude, I met a guy.
This is crazy.
I met a guy on Twitter two years ago.
He convinced me to give him my Ameritrade passwords, right?
So that dude now just does my stocks, bro, like this dude, right?
So I've never met this dude, right?
And he's a great guy.
So if he listens, but anyway, he hits me up the other night.
It's like 5 a.m.
I wake up to pee and I check my phone and I shouldn't, bro, but I do, bro.
And it's the worst thing I ever do.
So I check my phone and he messages like, hey, hit me up, call me.
We've never spoken on the phone, right?
Yeah.
So I'll give you my Ameritrade passwords, but I ain't taking a fucking verbal call, dog.
You know what I'm saying, bro?
So anyway, this dude, he's like, so we start messaging.
He's like, buy these stocks.
So we buy them.
We're up 20, two hours later, we're up 21,000, right?
So I'm freaking geek, dog.
We living high.
I'm buying shit in my head.
I'm on Instacart.
I'm fucking buying steaks.
You know what I'm saying, bro?
I got the two-hour delivery.
I'm paying extra.
I'm living life.
The problem was right when we started to sell, Ameritrade closed it down, closed the apps down.
By the time we sold, I had lost $1,000.
So not only did I not make the 21, that was all gone.
I lost $1,000.
Then I tried to get back in the other day and I lost another $2,000.
That's something that sucks.
I was trying to sell today and it wouldn't let me.
Hopefully it's a good thing, though.
Yeah, yeah.
Sometimes you, yeah, I guess there's a way to look at it like that.
Like, oh, maybe this is what's best, you know?
Yeah.
So we do a lot for single moms on this show, right?
So it's just something we've done over the years.
You were raised by your mom, right?
Yep.
Cool.
So we wanted to just surprise a mom today and just call her.
We're making an initiative this year to donate $20,000 to single moms, just hitting them up.
That's awesome.
And just giving them $500 on the spot.
It's not a big thing, but dude, if somebody would have called my mom and give her $500, dog.
That's huge.
To see my mom get like a new dress or just be able to get her hair done, do something for herself.
That's a car payment plus more.
Yeah.
Depending on what car you got.
Yeah, we had a Dodge.
Oh, dude, I remember my mom finally got a Dodge Neon, bro.
And we thought we was living large.
Dude, the first three nights we had it, me and my brother slept in it, bro.
That's how excited we were, bro.
We stayed out there and slept in that bitch, dude.
Mom's like, you sure you want to stay in it?
We're like, yeah, mom.
This thing is nice, bro.
Pull up a picture of that Dodge Neon, dude.
Gray, bro.
Gray.
What whip did y'all have growing up?
We had a gold spirit.
Dang it, bro.
And it was...
I never even heard of that car.
That was my car with those circle front lights.
That bitch was lights, man.
That bitch was snazzy.
Let's see that gold spirit, dog.
Pictures of the church coming up.
Damn, y'all had that fucking thing, bro.
And that was older.
It's probably like a 94 or something.
Was it like a cutlass kind of car?
There it is.
There we go, boy.
Let's go.
And so the back window is like a little rectangle.
I remember it got smashed one time.
And so we kept it together with duct tape.
Yeah.
And I was young, and I just kept looking at this smashed window.
And my mom went in the grocery store one day, and I just like, I had this book in my hand.
And I remember I just like slowly kept hitting it harder and harder.
And eventually it just all crumbled into pieces and went in the back seat.
And my mom was so mad.
She was like, who broke my window?
And I was like, maybe somebody was trying to break in.
I was like, I wasn't here.
You know what I mean?
So I don't know.
I remember we had it.
The top of it was falling down.
We had tax.
Yeah.
My dad's car was like that, but he wouldn't do the tax, man.
My dad was real old.
My dad was 70 when I was born, right?
So he was an old man.
So by the time I got to know him, like when I'm seven or eight years old, he's 77, 78. So he would drive, but his shit was falling in, bro.
But he never thought to get the tax.
So he was literally just pushing it up out of his eyes.
Turn the windows down so the air picks up.
And he couldn't even turn his neck.
He had bad arthritis.
So he would ask me, bro, I'm fucking seven, dog.
I'm sitting there on the seats.
Sometimes on my knees, sometimes standing on the seat.
You know, just being a kid, he would be like, can I go?
You know, and I'm fucking like, yeah, you know, like, I'm not even looking anymore.
Just sending him out, man.
Damn.
Yeah, the end of that car, man, we were at the KOA.
The campground?
Yeah.
And we were in the pool, and my pop drove it.
And this lady comes out, and she's like, hey, your car's smoking.
And it was like, such a piece of junk.
He was like, it does it all the time.
It does it all the time.
And then five minutes later, it's completely in flames.
Yeah, bro.
We had to get to call the fire, the fire trucks and everything.
Damn, that's crazy, bro.
That was the end of it.
That's, hey, man, it went up in flames, bro.
It's pretty epic, really.
It's a good way to go.
It's almost like in those old Roman shows when people just die, like they like, like they'll fire an arrow, they push them out into the lake, and they fire the arrow and just like send it up in flames, you know?
It's better than being buried, you know.
I'd rather be cremated, probably, I think, if I'm a car.
Okay, so let's surprise.
Who are we going to call right now?
This is Brittany.
She's a single mom, nominated by your sister Jennifer, and she's got a 10-year-old daughter named Madison.
Okay.
Oh, I got a niece named Madison.
Yeah, and before we do that, actually, I want to, I know you have a new band.
So you managing the group now, or what's going on?
Yeah, man.
So it's kind of a cool story for us, especially if they break, which I'm going to do everything I can to, or I'm not going to sign anybody else.
So this is it, people.
You hear it.
This is it.
Yeah.
So when I was on X Factor, I went solo and they tried to put me in a boy, a boy group.
And I said no, and then ended up going to do my thing now.
So, and is that boy group still a group?
So I signed them.
No way.
So this was the boy group you're supposed to be in?
Yeah.
So they ended up coming in fourth on the show and ended up signing them.
And now they're here.
But what's even crazier is they knew my wife before I knew my wife because after the show, they ended up getting signed by her manager because she used to be an artist as well.
Okay.
So they ended up getting signed by her manager.
And then they all met.
And then I met my wife.
And then I told her I signed Restless Road.
And she's like, what?
You know Restless Road?
So it was just like a full circle moment, man.
You know it and I know it.
And it is wintertime.
Man, it's winter.
God.
Oh, God.
It's winter.
We're in the thick of winter.
If you look on a calendar, boy, you can't even...
That's wintertime, man.
This is the coldest part of a calendar.
If you touch a calendar, you hit your face.
I bet.
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Hello, Brittany.
Hello.
Hey, hey, is this Brittany?
Yes, it is.
Hey, my name is Theo.
I'm just calling.
Your sister nominated you.
I just wanted to call and chat with you about something.
Can I call you on FaceTime for a second?
Sure.
It's nothing perverse or nothing like that.
Okay.
Yeah, everybody.
It's fully clothed.
Yeah, so I'm going to call you back on FaceTime and just put your phone sideways too.
Okay.
Okay, cool.
Let's make it a thousand bucks, huh?
Hey, can you hear me or not?
Yes.
Okay, cool.
So, yeah, so we just, I work as a podcaster, so we just do a show.
And I was raised by a single mom, and I'm sitting here today with Kane Brown.
He's a musician, and he was raised by a single mom and his grandmother, and his nana, sorry.
And is that right?
Mom and Nana.
Mom and Nana.
So anyway, we know that you're a single mom, and we just try to do something all the time to do something sweet.
So we just wanted to send you $1,000 to do something fun for your daughter, Madison.
So we're not trying to be weird or anything.
We just thought it would be just something nice to do.
Nope.
I'm not kidding.
Is Kane kidding?
I'm not kidding.
I'll tell you what.
I'll go ahead and add another $1,000.
How about that?
Dang, Kane is rich.
Kane is rich, honestly.
So now you got $2,000 to $2,000.
So what does your daughter like to do?
I'm speechless.
Well, that was sweet of Kane.
I didn't know he was going to do that.
Thank you, bro.
Yeah, man.
That's nice of you.
My daughter is a good one.
She's got a good little mixture of tomboy and girly jersey.
That's just like Kane.
Okay, okay.
Well, what's something fun you guys would go do?
What's something fun that she likes to do?
I own a G, so we drive around in our G. There you go.
go off-roading every once in a while, but just driving around in the Jeep is something that we do together.
She loves shopping.
She loves everything.
She's just such a great kid.
We recently wanted to go on vacation, but unable to.
COVID really well, you could go to Florida with $2,000.
You could go to Florida.
It's open, you know?
That's crazy.
I don't even know what to say.
Thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
Yeah, we didn't mean to put you on blast either.
We just were just talking about it.
Like, I remember my mom growing up, like, if somebody would just come out the blue and just done something just to offer her just a little, you know, just something nice where she could go do something fun.
And, man, it would have been, man, it would have just made me feel good as a kid to see that somebody cared about my mom.
And it would have just been a little bit easier on my mom.
So.
She was going to be so grateful.
Well, look, you could put a lot of gas in that Jeep with 2G, so there you go.
Well, look, we don't want to mess you up on your lunch break or anything, but yeah, we just wanted to say thanks for being a hard-working single mom.
And your sister nominated you, is that right?
I believe so.
Yeah, I think your sister nominated you because she listens to this podcast.
And yeah, we've just been trying to be a part of single moms' lives for a while.
And so we're just nice to meet you.
And I look forward to meeting you in person when I come in town to do a show.
That's wonderful.
Thank you so much.
Okay, you bet.
Be good.
Bye.
Well, that's a sweet lady, huh?
Oh, yeah.
Thank you, bro.
That's nice of you.
Yeah, man.
Damn, I didn't know he was going to come over here and have to spend a G, bro, but there you go.
That's cool.
That's awesome, man.
That's awesome.
Good call.
So, well, also, we'll have to get her tickets to Restless Road then, bro.
Definitely.
Well, they'll be on Tour with Me.
Oh, they will?
Yeah, so we'll just have to send her some tickets.
Dang, bro.
So was it crazy?
Did they reach out to you when you decided to sign them, or how did that kind of go down?
No, so Zach and Garrett were kind of doing their own thing, and Colton kind of split off.
So Colton covered one of my songs, and we were talking about getting the label, and I was like, I think I'm going to go with Colton because I had a pass with him and whatever.
And he was the one I was closest with in the band at the time.
So he decided he wanted to get back in with Restless Road.
So we had a meeting.
They brought everybody in.
They started showing me their music.
And they're just so different, man.
They have these crazy harmonies.
They can all sing.
None of them sound alike.
And it's just something different to bring to country music.
I like that, man.
Well, that goes back even to our first question, man.
It's just about being different and doing different things in the space, man.
And it's interesting when you come from a place that's even just a little bit different, whether it's part of your history or where your parents are from or where you're from.
Being a little different always kind of sticks with you, I think.
And so it's interesting to see that it's kind of transposing itself into you recognizing difference in what could be unique for the genre.
Let's check in with these cats, bro.
They're super funny, man.
Are they?
Yeah.
Super witty.
So it's Colton Garrett.
Colton, Garrett, and Zach.
So Zach's on the far left.
He's got a deep voice.
Garrett's medium.
And then Colton's super West Virginia boy.
Okay, medium Garrett, huh?
You got medium Garrett.
Dang, this is rough.
What did I just walk in?
They need to walk in.
What did I walk in?
Look, he was just describing y'all's body types.
You know what I'm saying?
I think it took a wild turn all of a sudden.
Wait, so he said I'm medium rare, right?
Garrett's medium, and then what was I just the West Virginia boys?
I was trying to explain y'all's voices.
I said Zach was low.
He's got a low voice.
And then y'all both are completely different as well, but I didn't know how to say it.
Oh, okay.
That's what I was like.
I was like, you know, you got your super West Virginia accent when you sing.
Yeah.
And then, but Garrett was at, you know, Kingsley's birthday party and was singing that rock song, but he can also sing, you know, country.
So I was just like, he's medium.
I was just putting you in the middle.
Medium, Garrett.
But I'm going to ask this.
So say you guys are trapped in a, it's like a windstorm, right?
Y'all trapped, bro.
Something happened, right?
The trailer fell over, bro.
The bus driver was drunk, dude.
He's been doing perco sets.
He's been doing pills.
He's got issues with his second wife.
So you guys are in a windstorm.
One of y'all has to yell for help, bro, upwind.
Who's it going to be, bro?
Who do you send it?
Easy, it's got to carry me.
It's got to be me.
There you go, boy.
There you go.
That AAA bad boy with that AAA throat, bro.
That roadside assistance right there.
Yeah, that triple A throat.
So you guys, have you guys gotten the tour?
Have you guys gotten the tour with Kane yet?
Have you guys gone out together yet?
They got to put their toes in the water.
Yeah, we actually went out, I think it was three weekends.
We did a total of five shows.
So it was like, you know, it was really, really fun and cool.
And we got like just in there and then COVID hit.
So it was great while it lasted, though.
We will say that.
So you guys are praying this vaccine or whatever happens happens fast, huh?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things.
Like, I think honestly, it kind of made us feel like even more wanting to get back out there.
Like, this time that we've had to kind of settle back in and get creative, I think it's made us more hungry to get back on the road.
I think it could be looked at as maybe a good thing.
And so you guys met on the TV show?
I didn't even know that you were on this TV show.
So you met on the game show, the contest, the music contest, right?
X Factor?
Price is right.
And sorry, bro, I did not do my homework.
Some of it, I just, you know.
But were you guys bummed out when he didn't want to do the band?
Well, we actually didn't know that, you know, we got put in the group and Kane wasn't in it.
And we actually didn't know that he was meant to be in it until later on.
And we all actually reconnected and he kind of told us like, yo, I was actually going to be a part of it and decided not to do it.
And I was like, well, at the time, he was like at the top of the charts.
And we were like, well, damn, man, you chose probably the right thing to do.
And now it worked out great.
That's amazing how things work out sometimes.
Yeah, it's crazy, man.
And I was just thinking about this.
You know, we were just like, you know, all in Kane's truck the other day listening to this new song we just put out and it was just really cool.
I was just like, I can't believe eight years later, like here we all are all together working on this music together and we all get to be a part of it.
It's really, really cool.
And we keep saying, you know, our catchphrase is how full circle this all is.
And it really is.
And it's really cool to get to work with Kane.
Amen, bro.
You know, it's interesting how if you, yeah, it's so hard to realize at the moment that there's a bigger picture going on that you can't see.
It's so hard to realize that like so many things feel like defeats in our lives or it feels like, man, it's supposed to happen right now.
And then it doesn't happen for eight years, for 10 years, for 12 years.
And that's when it's really supposed to happen.
It's just so hard to recognize that, man.
Yeah, you just got to follow your gut.
Yeah.
Yeah, you just got to follow.
Yeah, but some of your gut is like greedy, bro.
My gut gets greedy, bro.
You know, my gut wants that, you know, you want it now.
Yeah.
And you want to be angry that it's not happening.
But, you know, to see you guys, you know, really take this restless road, honestly.
I mean, you know, not to freaking, you know, sound like as cliche as anybody ever could.
But so what is it?
Like, what is you guys just sound different?
Is it like kind of like the Beatles, but stuck in the woods?
Like, what is it?
Like, tell me what's going on.
I love that.
We're definitely using that.
You know what, man?
I think one thing that's cool about our group is, you know, we're really focused on harmonies, but also we each, like Kane was saying, have these different voices.
And we try to feature everyone's voice in each song.
And I don't really think there's a lot of bands that do that and showcase different vocalists.
And we each have a different style and we each have a different story and a background.
So it's really cool when all those things come together in the songs that we write.
Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's a lot of like truets or something.
What's a 3-3 duet?
Is it a truet?
What's a trio?
A trio, yeah, my bad.
I'm trying to think of how a tree, if they have a lot of, I guess they've had like Rascal Flats, Dixie chicks.
I'm trying to think about it.
Yeah, but even with like flats is all.
Yeah, they don't all sing.
It's usually the one.
And it's something that for years, you know, ever since this band started, that people have always told us, oh, you can't have more than one lead singer.
And I mean, we've got told that for years.
And, you know, for a while, we believed it.
And it really wasn't until we started working with Kane and we felt like we got this whole clean slate, this do-over.
And we were like, we're going to finally do this the way we want to do it.
Sing the songs, record them the way that we want to.
And that's exactly what we've been doing.
Dude, that's hype, bro.
That's crazy.
And now all y'all get to be lead singers.
That's freaking wild.
Yeah, we're all the Justins.
We're all the three Justins, bro.
This ain't going to end well, but I love this stuff, bro.
Nobody wants to leave because you're all doing your own solo projects while you're doing the trio thing.
Dude, that's wild, bro.
That's dope, dude.
It's going to be fun.
So does Kane help you?
Do you help him put the music together?
Are you having a hand in that kind of thing?
Man, they're super creative.
So it's cool that, I mean, I literally just kind of sit back and then whenever something's about to get released, we kind of just all strategize on how to release it together.
I mean, my biggest thing is just kind of using my platform and my fans and social media to help them get bigger.
I followed you yesterday, guys.
Oh, man.
Appreciate it.
Thanks.
Thanks, bro.
Yeah, I will say, Kane, Kane is being pretty modest on that.
I think when we went and did our first DP, you actually were really hands-on, like in the studio with us, and you actually had some really great ideas with musical arrangement stuff and harmony parts.
Kane's more than just music advice.
I mean, he's our personal trainer.
He's our relationship advice.
They all showed up too one time.
Hey, that's more than you can say about a lot of people.
But it's watching you that's continuing to motivate us.
Yeah, watching Kane work out is y'all's new thing.
I like that.
That's classic, man.
Hey, don't bite your lip when he says that, Zach.
Well, I think we're going to, on the way out today, we're going to listen to some, is it a new song?
So, tell me what do you guys like?
I actually used to work as a tour manager, man.
I used to work, I was a tour manager for Josh Kelly.
So, Charles Kelly, his brother did music before him.
Georgia Clay.
Yeah.
I remember Georgia Clay.
Only one of my friends with a fake ID.
ID, yeah.
That's awesome.
So, I got hired as his tour manager.
So, we went to all the radio stations around the country and were just trying to, you know, like he was playing for him in the morning and stuff like that.
I mean, we went to, I mean, I don't even know, we went everywhere, man.
And Josh and I are still friends.
I know Charles, I think, lives in Nashville.
I don't know.
But anyway, so yeah, I remember he had a single they were trying to push on the radio and stuff like that.
What are you guys, like, how do you guys, how are you introducing this band to the world kind of?
Dude, it's a lot harder now, especially during this pandemic because they can't get out to these, you know, the radio stations.
So we're, you know, trying to look towards the fans because, like, I feel like labels and they do too, is everybody's going, they're telling them, like, you got to blow up on TikTok for us to put this song out, which is bullshit.
Yeah.
So we're just trying to get through to the fans and everybody and just let them hear the music.
I mean, they sound the exact same as they do live, as they do on the song.
So it's just, I know they're super talented and I'm excited for them.
And when we get back on the road, I feel like they're going to take off.
That's awesome, bro.
Dang, dog.
Y'all get to go on a freaking big tour, dog.
It's going to be a bad thing.
Y'all are lucky, bro.
Dang, bro.
Y'all luckied, bro.
Really?
We definitely feel that way for sure.
We can't believe it, honestly.
It's been a really long time.
We did that first show with Kane last year, and I'm not going to lie, we all got off stage and got in the green room and cried like babies.
It was just overwhelming because it's just something that you think about and visualize for so long.
And then just to walk out there.
And I mean, an arena period is amazing, but an arena filled with fans like Kane's is just, I think, a whole different thing.
And we got to be a part of that.
And it was just, we can't wait to do it again.
Amen.
Definitely a huge man.
It's cool to see dreams kind of come true, you know, and just see them in this moment.
Like right now, they're all kind of like, you know, comfortable and they're all chilling.
Fast forward two years, one of y'all will have face tats.
One of you guys will have lost an arm.
One of you guys will look like little Wayne.
Like it's going to get way interesting, bro.
It's going to get weird for sure.
Like one of us is just going to go like Dennis Robin, just go miss him if you can't find him.
And then he's like, oh, there he is.
He showed up.
I think it's West Virginia that's going to go Dennis Robin, man.
He's going full robin.
Yeah, honestly, yeah.
I've always said, I don't know if I'd ever touch my face with a tattoo, but I'd definitely go up my neck.
I'd definitely get up there.
Yeah, get that Whalen Jennings tattoo on your neck, dude.
Awesome.
So on the way out today, we're going to check out their song.
Let's do this, man.
I was thinking about this.
Let's think of different things before you guys go.
And Restless Road is the band.
Let's think of things that...
Like I was thinking like Candy Kane.
I'm sure your wife calls you around Christmas and stuff like that.
So let's just go and we'll go in order and see who can think of a nickname for Kane.
But it has to have Kane in it.
That's the thing.
It has to have Kane in it.
Kane.
Yeah.
And if this doesn't work, we can take it out, bro, because we have editing.
Can I go first?
Hold on, Kane was to go first.
I got one because, you know, Kane's, you know, signed us and he got that Kane Brown money and he helps pay for things for us.
Oh, yeah, he just gave $1,000 to some woman we met on television.
Yeah, yeah, he got that money.
He's our sugar cane.
Sugar cane.
So there we go, boy.
That's good, bro.
That's good.
Maybe there could be a song called Purple Cane by Prince.
Purple Cane.
I like that, bro.
That's a good one.
Well, we've always, I don't know why we always have said this, but when we're going over to Kane's, it's always, we always reverse his name and say Bane Crown.
He's Bane Crown.
It kind of sounds like he's like some villain in some like superhero movie.
He's Bane Crown, baby.
Yeah, it does.
Bane Crown sounds like a villain in like a Zaxby's advertisement.
Oh, there's the evil chicken guy, Bane Crown.
Bane, Bane Crown.
Okay, Kane's got one.
What you got, Kane?
Well, I was in elementary school, and I had to go to the bathroom.
And I left, and I come back, and all the kids were laughing.
I was like, what are y'all laughing at?
And they were like, well, when you were leaving, she was like, she yelled Hurricane, but it came out like Hurricane.
I know.
Okay, the storm.
It's not that funny, but it was funny at the time.
Very funny at the time for second grade.
Was it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like second grade humor.
You know what I mean?
Oh, hugely good at second grade.
I'm going to go with, I'm going to really take a detour here.
I'm going to go with more of an appetizer.
Cane on the cob.
How about that?
Yeah, it works.
Cane on the cob.
I don't know if I like that one, though.
Okay, maybe that's it.
Cane on the cob.
That just sounds bad.
Yeah, cane on the cob might be bad.
All right, I got one for you.
In cane in the membrane, dude?
You got it.
Oh, that's too smart, too soon, dude.
What about Novocaine, bro?
If you're leaving the dentist, what about Novocaine?
No cane, no game.
No cane, no game, man.
Cocaine.
I used to be addicted to cocaine, but I'm sure that's an easy one.
Baked cane, fried cane, cane on the kitty job.
What is another good one?
Cane train.
Cane train?
Cane train's pretty good.
It's not that bad.
Two canes?
What is it?
Your rap name is Toucan's.
Toucan?
That's good.
Two canes.
Two canes.
Two canes is good, man.
Oh, man.
I'm trying to think of it.
Oh, I'm still stuck on this candy cane.
I've never heard that in the beginning, but now it's like I almost want to cut.
He would never let me call in that.
No, man, that's for his wife's, bro.
Maybe on Christmas Eve you could whisper it to him, but that's it, bro.
Look at Candy whisper something like that.
Can you see?
Can you see what that woman been doing to me?
Is that a song?
Okay, nobody liked it.
There's the cane from the Bible, but I think he either killed somebody or got killed.
Which one was it?
Cain and Abel.
He killed his brother, yeah.
Well, you know, some caniacs.
The caniacs, yeah, I could see that as like a group, like a caniac.
The caniac.
Canyak is good for a drink.
That's like a senior ride at home drink.
Yeah, I will.
I'll have a million later.
I still can't get purple cane.
Purple cane.
That's a good one, bro.
Dude, that was probably the only good one I had, to be honest with you.
I feel like you're cheating right now.
I'm trying to.
I got nothing, though.
You know how country songs are always talking about rain on an old tin roof?
You could have a meme that's like cane on an old tin roof.
Well, we're going to cut that one out.
That was horrible.
That was our best.
Raising cane.
Raising cane.
Raising cane is good, and I can't believe they haven't done a collab.
You guys will at some point.
Maybe.
Raising cane's chicken?
Yeah.
I don't know.
They took my name, though.
Stay in your cane.
Stay in your other channel.
Took a little trip down memory cane.
Sugar cane.
Did we do that one?
Yeah.
Sugar cane.
Okay, I think we, you know, we did our boss here.
Look, I'm just going to let people know the live show of them is going to be way better than the guessing, us guessing Kane's nicknames.
I think that's probably good, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think maybe on the way out we can, so tell us about this song that we're going to hear on the way out.
Yeah, so we got this song out called Took One Look at Her Mama.
And it is, it's awesome.
Garrett, can tell you a little bit about kind of how it came about.
Yeah, it was a couple years ago.
And to preface this, my dad is like my best friend, and he always has like the best dad wisdom, you know, as dads do.
But we were all sitting at our apartment after CMA Fest about four years ago.
And I was dating this girl, and we were all sitting around, and I asked my dad, and I said, dad, I really like this girl, but like, how do I know if she's the one?
Like, how can you be sure?
And my dad just looked over at me, had like a Michelo Bulture in his hand, and he said, son, if you want to have some sort of look into the future and know what a life might be with this, be like with this girl, he said, all you got to do is take one look at her mama.
And I was like, wow, that was crazy cool.
Like, the way he just said that.
And so we, you know, fast forward a few years later, we were trying to come up with a song title.
And Zach had mentioned to me, he was like, what about what your dad said?
Like, took one look at her mama.
Like, you know, that would be a great song title.
So we all sat down over the quarantine and we whipped it up.
And yeah, now it's our next single.
So it's just crazy how that happens.
That's dope, man.
Yeah, man.
That's dope.
Well, congratulations, guys.
And congratulations to you, Kane, on being able to circle back up with these guys and all you guys really coming full circle, man.
That's beautiful.
It's cool when things like that happen in life, you know?
Yeah, man.
Thank you.
And I guess we can go out on that, man.
Is that cool with you?
Yeah.
We'll go out on that on Restless Road.
The song is called?
Took one look at her mama.
Yep.
She got a heart of gold.
She lights up every room she walks in.
She got the sun glow.
Yeah, someone's been waiting for sitting there listening.
I was just sitting here vibing how long.
I was lying low.
Well, it all makes sense.
Where she brought me home.
I took one look at my.
Never mind.
I took one look.
I knew that I was going.
Look how excited they are about that jump.
That's awful.
But there's no better time in like a career that's rising.