This Past Weekend - Theo Von - #606 - Lainey Wilson

Aug. 28, 2025 - This Past Weekend - Theo Von

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#606 - Lainey Wilson

Lainey Wilson is a country singer and songwriter from Baskin, Louisiana. The deluxe version of her latest album “Whirlwind” is streaming now everywhere. Lainey returns to reminisce about Louisiana upbringings, getting her own exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the time Hardy took her whole crew to a strip club in Alabama. Lainey Wilson: https://www.instagram.com/laineywilson/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ JackPocket: Download the Jackpocket Lottery app today to start ordering Powerball and Mega Millions tickets right on your smartphone. New customers opt in and use code TVON for $5 in lottery credits. http://jkpt.co/4lOvTIG Helix Sleep: Go to https://helixsleep.com/theo to get 27% off sitewide. Acorns: Sign up now and boost your new account with a $20 bonus investment at https://acorns.com/THEO See America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys streaming now only on Netflix! Shopify: Go to http://shopify.com/theo to build start building your business. BoomBoom: Get BoomBoom at http://BoomBoom.com and use code THEO for 20% off or you can find them at Walmart or CVS nationwide. Perplexity AI: Ask anything at https://pplx.ai/theo and download their new web browser Comet at https://comet.perplexity.ai/ ------------------------------------------------- GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, (800) 327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY).Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), or visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD).21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). 1 per new customer. $5+ first-time bet req. Max. $200 issued as non-withdrawable Bonus Bets that expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 9/29/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: tpwproducer@gmail.com Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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	Today's guest is a country singer and songwriter.
	She's my Louisiana sister.
	She just released the deluxe version of her latest album, Whirlwind.
	She's on tour now.
	She always is up to something.
	I'm so grateful to spend time again with Miss Lainey Wilson.
	I'm on the side.
	Dang, girl, you got that deluxe coming out, hu huh?
	Deluxe.
	God.
	How many songs are on it?
	I mean, it's it's five.
	But I'm already working on that next record.
	I'm already working on that, the record before the record's out.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like the next one.
	Oh, yeah.
	I feel like you're just in working in the past and the future.
	That's it.
	What about us?
	Hey.
	Why does that sound like telling a ghost story?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, that was the best, that kid that got under there and told that ghost story with a flashlight?
	Yeah.
	And then there was always the one kid he couldn't control the flashlight.
	It was just like he'd put it straight into your eyes and you're like, God, it's the thing, exorcism.
	I was just thinking about it.
	Did you ever hear any stories from the Myrtles in St. Francisville, Louisiana?
	Like the plantation?
	The plantation.
	I mean, my mama took her gifted students down there.
	She did.
	And she got some weird stuff in her pictures.
	I just thought about Louisiana and Oh yeah, no, that's some of the kind of stuff.
	I mean, they I mean, first of all, being gifted in Louisiana, I was in, I was in some of those courses, and it was.
	Were you?
	Yeah.
	I mean, you just got the full alphabet they gave you.
	I remember like regular ed, they were cutting kids off at like M. I'm like, what?
	You'd meet kids that could only knew words that had the first half of the alphabet in them.
	I was like, God, you got to...
	But then you get in that gifted class and they had, dang.
	Uh-huh.
	13 more letters in there.
	Dude, I was never in the gifted program.
	Really?
	No.
	I'm too AHD.
	Oh, you did have it.
	I mean, I'm like, I never really got like diagnosed with it, but I absolutely know that I'm like squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.
	You know, I was thinking about, I wasn't thinking about...
	You had four HDHD, I think.
	You know what I'm saying?
	That's I like that.
	That's a real kind of rural version.
	That's it.
	That's what I'm going to call it.
	Yeah, you can't pay attention, but you'll pet something if it shows up.
	Uh huh.
	Yeah.
	Me and my sister, we did show horses.
	I bet there's a We'd walk out there like this.
	This is like you're holding like right there at the, you know, at the bit.
	Uh huh.
	And then so you walk out like this and then you have to like get all four of their feet lined up.
	And my horse half the time was a pain in the ass, but I think I got like first runner up, something like that.
	God.
	Yeah, they didn't have that.
	Were you in 4H?
	No, I was not.
	You weren't.
	I was not in it.
	I think they something happened in our area got discontinued for a year or something.
	I think the barn sunk or whatever they were running it out of.
	They had a dang infestation over there or something.
	Or termites.
	I mean, a bad batch of termites came.
	That's some Covington stuff, huh?
	Oh.
	They took that thing down in a night, that barn.
	They left town.
	So yeah.
	Yeah.
	They were full.
	I was like, how did you not see them leave and they ate all that wood?
	They ate all that wood and just took off, you know?
	Oh, gosh.
	It was that kind of thing.
	Show horses, I bet there's a'cause a lot of women put in extra hair.
	Do you ever have to do it or no?
	Put in extra hair?
	Yeah.
	On me?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	You think this is mine?
	I can never tell.
	Is that all yours?
	It is.
	That's it.
	You got that good hair.
	Well, it's coming and going.
	You still got all your hair.
	It's coming and going, honey.
	Something will happen.
	I'm sure.
	I'll probably lose mine before you lose yours, you know, that's just how it goes.
	That's true.
	I bet there's a horse out there that is so happy you are wearing its hair.
	I hope so.
	I hope so.
	I bet there is just a.
	I have a horse who's turning 31 this year.
	No, you don't.
	31, Tex.
	and how is he he's good but i think i just got the last ride on him oh yeah was he in the in your four by four video or no no that wasn't him no he's in louisiana um okay i don't know if any of these pictures right here are texts the one that looks the closest to him is that one right there though uh god he's beautiful huh yes he is i got him when i was nine years old and taught me a lot.
	Did he?
	Taught me a lot.
	He did.
	I mean, how to stay in a saddle, you know?
	I mean, he was not.
	broke.
	That's him right there.
	That's in 2020 back in Louisiana.
	He's 31.
	31.
	And he's got to be getting a pension now, huh?
	He better be.
	He better be.
	If not, we better talk about it.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	Yeah.
	Oh, Tex.
	And did your sister have a horse too or no?
	Yep.
	She did.
	Hollywood and their best buddies.
	And he's, I think he might be like a year or two younger than Tex, but they hang out God, maybe they met online or whatever.
	I probably did.
	Yeah, I think I would like to get a horse as soon as I get a family or something.
	I'm gonna get me a little horse.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Where are you gonna put it?
	Is that something I'm gonna do?
	Probably in the yard, I guess.
	I mean, I guess in the front yard?
	No.
	That's also some Louisiana shit.
	Fence in the whole house.
	Yeah, dude.
	You have a horse in the front yard.
	You live on a quarter acre and you got a horse.
	At least you got a horse.
	Oh, God.
	God, dude.
	Yeah, I do miss being in Louisiana a lot of times.
	It gets interesting as your life changes when you get outside of there.
	You know, do you notice it feels slower when you go back now?
	Oh, yes, 100%.
	Even just calling mama and daddy back at home.
	That's why I do call and FaceTime my family so much.
	I just kind of, you know, you think about the fast pace of all of this.
	I mean, it is like life is constantly changing every single day.
	It's probably the same way for you.
	But it's important for me to just call.
	And the teacher asked the other day, they were talking about like the farm and way of life and the country living life and all that stuff.
	And somehow country music got brought up.
	And she was like, does anybody in here like country music?
	And Knox, he's in the back of class and he's just like, you know, not raising his hand.
	And she's like, Knox, you don't like country music?
	And he goes.
	Not really.
	And then she goes, if you had to choose a favorite, who would it be?
	And he said, well, I guess my ain't Laney.
	I'm like, oh, you little asshole.
	Forced to do it.
	Forced.
	There's nothing I could do that would make them think that I'm cool.
	A couple more number ones.
	I mean, I don't know what it takes for these kids, you know?
	I don't know what it takes.
	They're almost like the damn CMA voters or whatever.
	That's exactly how it feels.
	I'm like, what else can I do?
	Please vote for me.
	Kids are funny.
	My little nephews won't even answer my calls anymore.
	I'm like, dude, what are you leaving you on red?
	Yeah, they just, it's different.
	They don't, I think it that they just, they're locked in their own universe, you know?
	Have you guys, are you just getting married?
	Are you married yet or not?
	I ain't married yet.
	Okay.
	I'm making him wait.
	Oh.
	Making him wait.
	he made me wait yeah yeah was that your wedding ring on yeah let me see that thing yeah when he opened on that box i was like yeah i guess i do i guess i do i'd have been dang i'd have hell i'd have considered it and i prefer women you know i know i know god where did he get that out of it he well he uh designed it he designed it did he really yeah yeah Yeah, you see that?
	Uh-huh.
	That thing would make Superman sit down for a half hour.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	We got engaged at George Jones' older.
	I remember seeing the video, seeing something of it.
	Oh, there you go.
	There he is.
	mister Hodges right there, good guy.
	He is a good boy.
	He's He just lets me do my thing and he is his.
	And it's just, it just works.
	Does it?
	My best buddy.
	Wonder what errors people make in that type of thing, I guess.
	I mean, it's so hard because, like, people's schedules get so hectic.
	Well, for sure.
	Does he come on the road with you if you're out or does he kind of pop in and out?
	Every now and then, like, he's busy doing his own stuff.
	And that's great.
	You know, like, I've always said, like, I have to have somebody that has their own dreams and goals and motivations and you know then we can we have things to talk about and come together and dream and i just didn't want to be the only one dreaming kind of thing um but yeah he's he's awesome he's he's killing it yeah i gotta check him with um with mr hodges and see what's going on you need to come out to the house we had a crawfish bowl i think we
	almost y'all invited me to something i did we were having a crawfish bowl i think it was actually duck's birthday Do you get crawfish a good bit?
	I don't do it in Nashville very much.
	We got it sent up.
	Was it good?
	It was good.
	I've heard it's good.
	It was good.
	God, I've heard it's good.
	Yeah, I got to come and have some.
	I got to get some this year.
	I can't even believe I haven't done it that much.
	We have some during the season at our bar downtown, Bell Bottoms Up.
	They got a truck out there, a crawfish truck.
	Oh, really?
	Hell yeah.
	Kind of sounds dangerous, but good, you know?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm surprised they don't get hijacked more by criminals and stuff, but I think that's just us from Louisiana prefer it.
	Look at that.
	God, that's it right there.
	That's it.
	Oh, that'll definitely get in my belly.
	Get that salt intake.
	the beautiful color on those sometimes you get the dark red one the one that's been like to hell and back or whatever is that the one that like died before they say something that died and got brought back to life i'm like nobody's resuscitating these things like i heard the one with like real flat tail yeah is the one that was like dead before they cooked it yeah i heard that one got around a lot in college that's what i heard yeah it's definitely yeah i mean you hear a lot of myths about those but there is always like the crawfish that's like way too dark it's like it just like at the colored
	way, you're like, what is going on?
	And you just gotta go around it.
	you just got to sit it to the side yeah yeah yeah i feel you and there's one sometimes they're still blinking at you a little bit you know one of them still's got that left turn signal going when you pull them out pot.
	I'm like, some of these you should, people should not be eating.
	Yeah.
	Congratulations on everything you're doing.
	Everything's going so great.
	Thanks.
	How burnt out did you get last year?
	Were you really burnt out?
	Because I'm not joking.
	Every time I would talk to somebody, I'd be like, Is Laney okay?
	Because it seemed like you were just as busy as possible.
	It was wild.
	I'll be honest with you.
	It was wild, but like...
	I've been in Nashville now for 14 years.
	Oh, yeah.
	I remember the last time you were on, we talked about, you know, when you got there and living in your camper and, you know, the shower.
	Yeah.
	You know, the shower breaking and you standing in there just doing a prayer circle by yourself, yeah.
	And I feel like the last two years at least, I felt like all my dreams were really just coming true.
	Like, honestly, ten times more than I could have ever imagined.
	Like, I knew I wanted to write songs.
	I knew I wanted to tell stories.
	I knew I wanted to play shows, but it was a lot.
	And it was a lot of opportunity coming at once.
	And I wanted to say yes because for so long I didn't have opportunity, you know?
	Oh yeah.
	And then I said yes and I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it.
	I was tired mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, all of it.
	But I tell you what, Theo, I'm all right.
	And I am in a healthy, healthy place right now.
	I feel like I've had a lot of balance this year.
	And I've just, I've learned a lot.
	You know, I've learned like what you say yes to now might not even come into effect until like a year down the road.
	And so it's, it's important to like protect your peace and, um, But also like, you know, roll your sleeves up and get her done too.
	Yeah, it's kind of tough because you feel like I got, you know, you want to take advantage of stuff, but at the same time, you're like, I don't even even like, how do I even show up for this?
	Well, that's the thing too, is what I'm realizing is like, how important it is to, I mean, your cups have to be full in order to keep pouring out, you know?
	And then if you're just pouring out from a half empty cup over and over and over again, at some point in time, the dang thing is going to run dry.
	Oh, you turn into a damn methadone clinic at that point.
	Exactly.
	And you don't want that.
	You don't want that.
	That sounds terrible.
	Yeah, it's not preferred.
	It's not preferred.
	And, uh, yeah.
	But I'm, I've learned a lot.
	Like, I feel like, and especially we put out a record last year called Whirlwind.
	And I think it's just funny how.
	Even though like music was the, is the thing that like, how can I say it?
	Is the thing that like, um, was about to make me lose my mind, you know?
	Like all these opportunities, um, it's still the thing that I ran back to.
	It was the thing that like helped me kind of navigate that time of my life was writing more music and just like putting pen to paper and picking up my guitar.
	That's like, that's what I do when I was nine years old coming home from school and I didn't know how to, you know, talk about what I wanted to talk about.
	Yeah, because you're burning gifted courses.
	That's why you only had to ask the damn alphabet.
	I mean, I was I was writing songs about tequila and cigarettes, you know?
	Really?
	Yes.
	As a child?
	As a child.
	Are you worried?
	Look, that was a concerned look on your face.
	I mean, I think I'm worried.
	I'm also impressed.
	I'm like, hey, dude.
	I had one that went like, my cigarette pack at 10 years old.
	My cigarette pack is empty.
	My tequila bottle is gone.
	Thinking how you're gone.
	I keep looking for the future, but it comes to the past.
	I don't have to think about you no more.
	Freedom.
	Hell yeah.
	People would pull up in the yard, like coming to buy a horse from daddy.
	And he'd be like, hey, sing them that song you just wrote last week.
	I'd get on the trampoline.
	That'd be my stage.
	I'd say, my cigarette pack is empty.
	Just your big tails are popping up out of the back every now and then.
	Wait till you're at that like crescendo of your jump to hit the high notes.
	That's right.
	You do your toe touch.
	Freedom at last.
	Freedom at last.
	That's the best thing, man.
	the most american thing ever that's the best song look at that is that picture you in that red and white and black and i don't know why but during this one phase of my life life I was doing like that's you.
	This underbyte.
	That's you.
	Are you a missing person?
	It looks like I'm gonna be on a milk carton, yeah.
	Oh my god.
	Yeah, that's me.
	Wow.
	That was our rodeo shirt.
	Dude, those rodeo stuff's so great, isn't it?
	I love the rodeo.
	I love the rodeo too.
	I feel at home with the rodeo.
	It's my favorite.
	I was just watching, now I seem like a real creep, but I was just watching videos.
	There's some little girl.
	See if you can find it on my TikTok.
	I think I shared it yesterday or maybe I'd have saved it.
	It's this little girl who just, man, she gets out there and bell races.
	She must weigh 40 pounds out there and looks like she has two jobs.
	Stop.
	She just knows how to do it.
	Yeah.
	I really love that.
	Pretty impressive stuff.
	Yeah, I love the rodeo.
	I wish I could, if I had like, that would be one thing I would like to invest in a rodeo team.
	If I could get enough money and then invest in like a rodeo team, you know.
	I like that.
	You let me know when you need some more investors.
	Yeah, I'd be happy to do it.
	We'll do it.
	I love the frickin' rodeo.
	Do you really love it or not?
	No, I do.
	I grew up doing it.
	My daddy is still the president of the rodeo committee back at home.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so it's like, it's just, there's something about it even when you just roll up and you just smell it, you know?
	It's like.
	We used to barrel race and we were PRCA flag girls and all that.
	So I'd ride in with the flag and sing the national anthem and screw the lyrics up every single time.
	Every time.
	Really?
	Yes.
	There was a text message, you know, back when there used to be like, forward this to ten people.
	If you don't, you're going to die kind of thing.
	Yeah.
	There was a text message going around the arena that ended up making its way to my sister somehow that said, Did you hear Laney Wilson mess up the national anthem?
	Send this to ten people.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	So I'm like, guess what?
	You can't hurt me.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You can't hurt me.
	Yeah.
	We've been there.
	Dude, that's the dang gossip super highway.
	That's when gossip just hit the dang HOV lane.
	Yes.
	I can't believe that that's how it got.
	Uh-huh.
	Oh, this is her right here.
	Let's go, girl.
	Look, she said, get the hat off of me.
	She's not even playing, bro.
	Look at her.
	That's crazy and she should do door dash how does she not work for them dude if she worked for door dash we'd be getting our stuff quick bro it'd be warm when it got there it would be warm even if it was a coldold idol, it would be warm.
	Look at her boy.
	Let's go.
	Who is that?
	I love that.
	I know.
	Little cowgirl.
	Look at her.
	Daddy.
	Dog.
	Pretty cool.
	That's great.
	Yeah, I love.
	I mean, I just met, like, even just growing up in Louisiana, like, did y'all ever have a parade in y'all's town or not?
	We did.
	Our rodeo parade.
	Yeah.
	And we'd ride through the town and everybody come out and we'd throw candy and.
	That was good.
	It was.
	Remember those days?
	I mean, those were like the good old days.
	Picking the candy up off the street, you know?
	Did you do a lot of like Mardardi Gras parades and stuff like that.
	Yeah, we did Mardi Gras parades.
	But the parade in our town, they had like, even the people in it, it was like, tallest guy in town or whatever, you know?
	Stop.
	Yeah, it would be like, kid who can walk backwards.
	Like, the shit was like, You are lying.
	No.
	That's some South Louisiana stuff.
	We don't do that kind of stuff in North Louisiana.
	First of all, we're not that different from each other, okay?
	Well, I mean, they are.
	But we, these were like our heroes in the community or whatever, you know?
	Stop.
	No, we had, I'm trying to think of who else we had.
	And they would just walk through the parade or like be in a car and wait.
	We'd have a car and it's sitting on the side of it.
	Newly single or whatever.
	Sometimes if you had a little bit of cash, you'd get your daughter out there.
	I like that.
	I like that.
	And that was a kind of good, that was a neat thing, I thought, because it was kind of showcasing the goods of the area, you know?
	It's really not a bad idea.
	Gotta shine a light on it.
	I mean, that was kind of the original OnlyFans little bit was just driving some stuff.
	Stop.
	I mean, like, you know, kind of more of a Christian OnlyFans version, but driving a decent woman, buying an open convertible.
	Yeah.
	Got it.
	And putting it up on the back of it?
	Yeah.
	With the signs down the side.
	That was.
	That's great with the Christmas lights.
	Yeah.
	Miss Rabies or whatever.
	That was at the press.
	I'm like, that shouldn't be.
	You guys should have picked it, something else.
	Miss Rabies.
	That was always a little bit different.
	Well, there is, so there are so many like different festivals in Louisiana, what I've realized, and I got to hang out with them some.
	It was like the duck queen, the duck festival queen.
	It was like the strawberry festival queen, the watermelon festival queen.
	It was like any kind of queen you could think of, any kind of animal or fruit.
	The frog, yeah.
	It exists.
	And rain, they had the frog princess or whatever.
	Yeah, they have like the mosquito queen or whatever.
	The armadillo queen, the possum queen.
	Just some nervous, this thin girl just standing on all four or just shaking.
	Yeah, they had all but yeah, there was all that in Louisiana.
	That was a lot of it.
	What do you notice like as your career gets busier that like you have to spend so much more time doing the career part?
	Yes.
	And it changes like like like like is there stuff that you miss from like the earlier parts like is even like little moments?
	For sure.
	I mean, there things are different.
	You know, I don't miss going to the grocery store.
	I'll tell you that.
	I don't.
	I ain't never liked going to the grocery store.
	Well, the one area gets so cold or whatever, you gotta go in there to get the cold goods or whatever.
	That's right.
	You gotta run over to the other side just to warm up.
	Yeah.
	God, I'd be be there looking at something and I'd be like, oh, I'll be right back.
	I'd have to go over there and just go like this by the cereal boxes and then head back over there.
	Or I'd open that little chicken warmer thing they got out of the rotisserie thing.
	Sometimes they don't lock it.
	You get up there.
	Oh, I'd be, well, I wouldn't get in, but I put my hands in like, you know.
	Oh, I do remember doing that too.
	I cracked it just like, you know.
	In Walmart.
	Oh, yeah, dude.
	I'm the guy, I'm always cold.
	I feel like I'll be the guy like at a Circle K who will have his, both of his hands in that little hot dog spinner.
	You were lying.
	And I'm the guy.
	And that's why, that right there is why nobody needs to be eating hot dogs from the convenience stores because of people like you.
	I'm not touching the frank.
	It don't matter.
	I'm just keeping my hands warm.
	Well, they should have a little warming section right above that for people that are cold.
	They should.
	They should.
	But yeah, life has changed.
	And I mean, of course, there's things that I miss, but I also know, like, on a serious note, that, like, this, this is my calling.
	Right.
	You know, and I knew that at a very early age.
	And so I just think, like with anything in life, there are times when there are things you just kind of have to, like, give up.
	And so I'm okay with that because this is, this is what I feel like I was, like, born to do and made to do and so um it changes things change yeah they do i know it's kind of tough it's tough sometimes because you want to be that you want to be the same person but also who you are changes and you grow up and things are different that's right and you know like i didn't really like sign up to be a businesswoman or whatever but you kind of have to be you have to like rise to the occasion and other opportunities have have come my way and
	i'd be silly not to you know to hear what it's about and take that step.
	So I thought when growing up, you know, when I was jumping on the trampoline and singing freedom at last, I thought that I was just going to be writing music and playing shows and bouncing around and that's not it at all.
	This is like 80% business and 20% music, but I'm willing to do the 80% business so I can do the 20% music.
	Amen.
	You know, it really is.
	It changes.
	In the beginning, it's just all, it's mostly all the music, I guess.
	Or actually, I don't know if now maybe it hasn't merged more.
	Like, you have to make your own flyers.
	I remember having to make my own flyers at home and like trying to figure them out on the computer and stuff.
	Yes.
	My grandmy used to make these little like CD covers and little stickers.
	Who did?
	My grandmy.
	She would make Oh make Like, we'd burn the CDs where I'd recorded some songs.
	Oh, yeah, that CD burner.
	Uh-huh.
	I found a triple decker CD burner one time.
	A thing had three rows in it.
	Oh, God, baby, we're doing it.
	Look, my daddy found a burnt CD of ours that had Colt 45 on it.
	He popped it in the CD player and listened to it.
	You remember that song?
	Colt 45, two zigzag.
	Baby, that's all we need.
	We can go to the park after dark.
	Smoke and cat tongue for weeks.
	Yeah, then I have heard this, dude.
	Unless somebody stole that beat from them.
	Out of the marijuana fire.
	We can take our turn singing them dirty rap songs.
	Stuff to hit the bong like TTN John Felix is from here to Hong Kong.
	Let's go.
	So roll, roll.
	Anyway, daddy put that into the I have to have heard this, huh?
	CD player.
	And he about had a heart attack.
	It's Afroman?
	It's Afroman.
	Oh.
	Next time I see you, you better have learned every lyric to this song.
	Okay, that's fair.
	I promise you I will.
	I will learn it.
	We need to play it at a show.
	You need to come up at a show and we do Cult 45.
	Okay.
	I'll do it.
	Oh my.
	As long as your dad will dang two step over there on the side of the house.
	Oh my gosh, he's going to have a heart attack.
	It won't get the trampolinepoline out there tonight, you know?
	I'll jump on it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Dude, I love this.
	I saw Afro Man at a frat party one time up in, uh, at University of Mississippi, and he was like so higher or whatever on stage.
	He hit a note that just shook him a little.
	And he, uh, had just vomited in his own hat and just threw it.
	And some, like, uh, some freshman kid just was like excited.
	I think he thought it was just a hat, not that a hat that had vomit in it.
	And he put it on?
	No, he just caught it.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	He put it on the guy's down.
	He's just waterboarding himself out there.
	But yeah, Afro Man, that's, that guy's played ever everywhere, huh?
	I guess so.
	He's played everywhere.
	Cult 45, I don't remember, but I believe that it happened.
	Cause I got high.
	I remember that was like his big hit.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah.
	I was going to go to work.
	And those were the jams.
	Oh, those were the jams.
	That was it.
	But my daddy, like, he like tore up the CD and, you know.
	He's like, you ain't going to be singing stuff like this at this age.
	But it was okay for me to write about tequila and cigarettes, you know, and be like, hey, play that song.
	I guess as long as you were like the person writing, then it made every everything okay, you know?
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
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	So it's Whirlwind Deluxe.
	Whirlwind Deluxe.
	And it's out right now.
	And it's out right now.
	And there's new songs on it.
	There's new songs on it.
	There is several new songs on it.
	So when I was writing Whirlwind, like I was saying earlier, it was like during that time of my life that was chaotic.
	When you were asking if I was okay.
	Oh yeah.
	And then I felt like after the dust kind of settled after I put that record out, I had a minute to really just kind of get my stuff together.
	And these were the songs that I wrote, but I still felt like it was kind of connected to the tail end of The Whirlwind.
	So felt like they were still in that family.
	And so I just wanted to, you know, add a little bit to the story.
	And so they're out.
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	One of my favorite songs I've ever written is on there.
	It's called Peace, Love and Cowboys.
	And it's a bop.
	What made you feel like it was your favorite kind of like did you just know i don't know it's just that that feeling it's like when you're writing the song everybody in the room has has that feeling it's like the holy spirit it's like you just feel it um and you just kind of feel like the song's gonna be around for a long time yeah even if that just means that like you're gonna sing it 30 50 years from now and so that's how i felt about it i was like i'd be okay with singing the song for the rest of forever Yeah,
	you kind of have to, I guess, and you have some truck songs already.
	Do you feel like you can't do any more vehicle songs?
	I got a vehicle song.
	Don't you even play?
	I'm doing what I said.
	I'm doing what I said I'd never do.
	Shotgun.
	The one called I'm riding with a shotgun.
	King George, King James.
	King what?
	King Ranch, King George, King James.
	Hmm, all right.
	God, I want some of that.
	That's it.
	Yeah, I got a Heart Like a Damn F 150 hybrid, I think.
	A hybrid breaks down a lot.
	Them bitches will break down, dude.
	And they will actually.
	Oh my gosh.
	Heart Like a Prius.
	Oh, that's a song yours, Hot Like a Prius?
	Heart Like a Prius.
	Oh, Heart Like a Prius?
	Oh, yeah.
	What about, look up some Laney Wilson songs that she never, the titles of songs she's never done.
	Oh, shit.
	Use perplexity and see what they got.
	Pick up whiskey on a Wednesday.
	Look at twang in my bones.
	Twang in my bones, that's good.
	I got that twang in my bones.
	I think you need an MRI, bro.
	If you have a twang in your bones.
	See moon like daydreams.
	Oh my god, is this what people think of me?
	Mason jar miracles.
	Hey, those are some good peaches.
	Oh my god.
	Kissed by Kudsudas, sounds like you need some damn calamine lotion.
	That's all that's good.
	I said kissed by your cousin.
	Yeah, kissed by your cousin.
	It's just some guy who has a kuds who rash on.
	He's so inflamed from the kuds that you can't even tell if you're related or not.
	Kissed by my kuds.
	That's a good one.
	See if they'll make them sillier if you look up goofier ones.
	There you go.
	Honky tongue hiccups.
	Honky tongue hiccups.
	That is hilarious.
	Yeah.
	But it'd have to be honky tongue hiccups.
	Sand in boots.
	That'd be the best.
	They should have.
	Dude, there has been a time where I thought I was about to have hiccups on stage uh-uh oh yeah and what do you have to do just oh i think you're supposed to eat a bunch of sugar or something right i do that anyway oh yeah all right so i ought to be clear but uh no and then there's one time where i was like i don't know what's happening but i feel like i'm about to burp i'm feeling i don't know And it's just like you have to just get it off your, like somehow get it off your mind.
	Right.
	Just like start staring at somebody or you're about to sneeze.
	Oh, the craziest.
	Oh, that feeling.
	One guy came to get like, somebody was introduced me to their friend the other day.
	And the guy just kind of came in for, and as he's coming in for like a close, like handshake thing, I was just going into a sneeze.
	I didn't know.
	No, you did not.
	I sneezed right into him.
	Sneezed right into the guy.
	Yeah.
	And I think that's like a mating call in some cultures or whatever.
	I didn't mean it to be, but it just was like, I don't know.
	What did he do?
	Huh?
	He just kind of went like that.
	I don't know.
	What would he do?
	He wasn't stoked.
	He wasn't upset.
	He was understanding, but it was.
	Did you say I'm sorry?
	Or just like, thank you.
	I was like, well, what do you expect?
	You know?
	That's what I said.
	Oh my gosh.
	What are some of the goofier titles bringing back up?
	Oh my gosh.
	Lasso my latte.
	That's what you're doing over there right there.
	Lasso that latte.
	Bootscut and wi-fi is pretty good.
	Stop.
	hold up gravy on my guitar.
	It just reminds me.
	Hardy took me and some of my crew to a strip club in Huntsville.
	And they have biscuits and gravy night.
	Uh-uh.
	Yes.
	Oh, that's great, huh?
	On Thursday nights.
	And how much is it?
	Is it pricey over there?
	Well, he gave me 100 ones.
	And it was like, have fun.
	It was like my end of tour gift.
	It was.
	And you're over there just buying biscuits and gravy.
	Well, it wasn't biscuits and gravy night that night.
	We had just missed it.
	This was like a Friday night or something.
	Oh, got it.
	But.
	Huh.
	I've seen them do bingo night at a strip club, too, which is kind of cool.
	Because everybody will get right up there and be using their blotters and stuff.
	And some of the Christian women would even blot out their eyes so they don't see all the sexual stuff.
	Uncle Buck's Booby Bungalow.
	That's it right there.
	Is that what it's called?
	That's it.
	Uncle Buck's Booby Bungalow.
	And they got biscuits and gravy.
	What night is that on?
	Yeah, we're going to have to ride on down there.
	Oh.
	Ride on down there, load up.
	Load up.
	I'll take Tex for one last ride down there.
	I tried down at the Huntsman Hill.
	God, I'm trying to think of what food goes good with a with a good tit or whatever, I shouldn't even say it, but you know, anything.
	Yeah.
	Well, supposedly, I don't know if this is true or not, but they were like, you gotta come back for biscuits and gravy night, blah, blah, blah.
	And I thought, oh, that's nice, you know, sitting around eating some biscuits and gravy.
	No, they're rolling around in the gravy and people are throwing the biscuits.
	No.
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah, I don't want that.
	My mother loves biscuits and gravy.
	If I took her and you didn't get to eat it, she would be upset.
	Oh, this is Uncle Buck's third annual biscuits and gravy rasslin.
	Oh.
	I love how it's filled rasslin.
	Well, the recipe better be good because I'll tell you this.
	If I'm even that close to biscuits and gravy, I'm waiting.
	I'm going to have a little.
	I'm going to have a little.
	I'm going to have me a bite.
	You telling me somebody ain't going to whip something around fast enough or just something's going to land in my mouth, honey?
	You dang right.
	God, I just hope it's sausage gravy, too.
	I really like that.
	What about Halloween?
	How was y'all's Halloween like growing up?
	Do you remember that over there?
	I mean, we'd go to Trick or Treat or was it, was there not enough folks?
	We'd have to go to Monroe to Trick or Treat because that was like the biggest town.
	We just go to like random subdivisions and, you know, to the rich subdivisions.
	Yeah.
	People that had lights out in front of their house.
	Oh yeah.
	I was like, oh, these people got money.
	Oh dude, we.
	We had electricity inside our house, yeah, like normal people.
	That's right.
	But some people had a light right outside their front door and I was like, you gotta be F and K. I know.
	I was like, it must be nice.
	It must be nice to open your front door and see what's happening in the world at night.
	That kind of shit pissed me off, dude.
	I know, I know, but we would like some years, like I lived on this one road that we just had a few neighbors and so we'd go like see my granny and we'd go see, you know, the Olivos and we'd go down the road and see the Graysons and would everybody dress up or no?
	Me and my sister would.
	Yeah.
	Did you dress up for Halloween?
	Yeah, I dressed up.
	I had some kind of alternative, or not like, like our mom was always working so we'd have to get dressed up like our dad was like in charge of getting us dressed up or whatever and he was like 75 years old or whatever so he didn't know what was going on.
	What was I?
	Oh, I remember one year I was a ghost, but I was like too scared to stay under the sheet or whatever.
	No, you were you were like claustrophobic?
	Yeah, well, I was just like I'd be like, Ooh, but then I'd lift it up and the other guy's like, It's me.
	Who's under here?
	It's me.
	Like I would scare myself, you know?
	You are live.
	Oh, I definitely remember that dude.
	I was like, I can't be a ghost anymore.
	What else?
	I was a wheelchair.
	One year I had a little chair, like a kids' chair that we put around a rope on my neck and I carried two bike tires with me.
	It was pretty cute.
	You are live.
	I swear.
	You need to be in that parade.
	I was like, what are you talking about?
	It's not that parade that went through your whole town.
	That's the parade you need to be in.
	Tallest kid best list he always got his own car in that parade dang it he's over there trying to whistle at people we might have been from the same town i dude yeah there's there was something nice about that.
	Or somebody that had too many freckles, they'd put them in the parade sometimes.
	You know, there'd always be some girl named Abigail or something that had too many dang freckles.
	That's right.
	Dude, I'll tell you something that was amazing was I was in, I had a show in Winnipeg, Canada.
	After the show, they said there's some people here that are actors in town that are doing a show here and they wanted to come and say hello.
	And I got to meet the people from Little House on the Prairie.
	They're redoing it.
	Mm hmm.
	Remember that show?
	That's cool.
	Yeah.
	The reboot.
	That's cool.
	So when's that happening?
	And I got to go to set the next day too.
	What was that like?
	Awesome.
	Was it just like even the clothes and everything just saying like from a different time?
	Everything.
	Period pieces.
	There they are.
	That's going to be incredible.
	And yeah, the reboot.
	You think you'd ever want to be in something like that?
	I don't know.
	I met the man who's doing Charles Ingalls, and he's...
	You ever meet somebody like that?
	They're so good.
	They keep all the good looks for themselves, you know?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They're over there just There's a lot of people like that.
	Yeah.
	They're over there looking at photos of themselves and shit and just hiding from mirrors, you know?
	Exactly.
	I don't just turn the light out.
	Yeah.
	I'm over there just buying five watt bulbs for my house, you know?
	Just trying to keep my own reflection away from me.
	Amen.
	Were you in pageants growing up?
	You were in pageants, yeah.
	I was in one pageant and it was a Farm Bureau pageant.
	My mama back in the day was the Farm Bureau Queen.
	And so she was like, you know, I'd love for you to be in the the farm bureau pageant and so the on-stage question was um what does agriculture mean to you and i think i had one line and i think it was what really sealed the deal and i said agriculture is the backbone of america and then i think they just said give it to her give it to her give it to her um yeah that's pretty much what i was right there oh my god you won it i won the
	franklin parish one um that's big though that's big boy but my sister she went through a little phase where she was doing some pageants and This is hilarious, but she was doing the watermelon pageant.
	I think that's in Ruston, Louisiana.
	And she gets up to the microphone and she goes, I'm Jana Wilson, Concaskicant number three.
	And then in the microphone, she goes, shit.
	And then walks off.
	She definitely didn't win.
	Yeah.
	But she won a lot of people's hearts.
	Concaskicant.
	Oh, if you're a dang Concaskicant.
	Oh, we had.
	That's beautiful.
	She was in another one and it was a junior Miss pageant and they asked her, they said, what does going green mean to you and she goes don't pollute she's off didn't win that one either dude y'all needed what y'all needed was like a like kind of a question answer groom or something i know y'all didn't practice that we needed we needed a coach yeah y'all need a damn coach we just like had the bullet points you know what i'm saying it's one bullet point yep that's awesome
	did you get to the point Yeah, that's it, honey.
	We don't not waste anybody's time up here.
	Don't pollute.
	Yeah, we got to get these crops out of the ground.
	We do not have time to waste.
	Yeah.
	Did you ever did you tune in with a lot of that Jon Binet stuff, do you ever tune in with it?
	I've, you know what?
	Like, being a kid, I remember a little something about all that.
	But is there a new, like, show or something that's out about it right now?
	No, I don't think so.
	There was one that came out like last year.
	Was it?
	And I watched it, yeah.
	And I mean, I think it's one of those weird things because like a little kid was like just, you know, like, and so I started thinking about it.
	I think, and I know he's not gonna be happy to hear me say this.
	And I'd love to have him come on the podcast and talk about it sometime.
	The dad did it.
	Really?
	I shouldn't have said that or he might have come on.
	Really?
	I don't think you did it, sir.
	Did they find her?
	Yeah, they found her.
	They found her.
	She wasn't alive when they found her.
	Some people think she's still alive.
	But yeah.
	Anyway, sorry to bring the buzz down.
	I just didn't know if...
	It was like early 90s?
	96.
	Ooh, 96, baby.
	Dang.
	That is so strange.
	I know.
	Strange.
	But did you get caught up like that?
	Was there people in there out there?
	We were like, oh, this kid.
	You know, like, did you, were you guys that deep in the trenches of it?
	Oh, no.
	No, no, no, no.
	We went to the consignment shop and bought, you know, bought the dress they had that's the one I wore you know what I'm saying yeah you guys were just kind of last minute pageants we're just like or double up like if for the farm bureau pageant I was like I'm gonna wear my prom dress for like I'm gonna we got to get our money's worth you know yeah so that's what I did I like that that's what I did I like that were you ever in pageants no we
	didn't have that they did have a good but I didn't have any direction as a child and I did get to dress myself for photo days and stuff like that did you and like what would you put on I do a tank top sometimes I would do a tank top yeah I did one year I did a costume, like kind of thing, like a wheelchair costume?
	No, skeleton.
	And then one year, one year I did do a nice outfit.
	It was kind of like a bow tie and stuff like that.
	Maybe see if you can search that up real quick.
	See if you can find me in a little bit.
	Let's go.
	You were like, I'm gonna dress nice today.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'd seen somebody else dress nice and I was like, oh, I see what they're doing.
	Uh huh.
	I see what these bastards are doing.
	Uh huh.
	Oh, there's one.
	That's when I lived in Russia for a little while.
	Different times.
	That there.
	Yeah, they're.
	Let's go.
	Look at that ear pierced tube.
	That hair, I had glasses too.
	I was blind as they used to be.
	That's actually me!
	That's me!
	Would that picture be you and I look the same?
	We brother and sister.
	Man.
	God, those are the days.
	That was fun.
	Look at that.
	Being alive, piercing your own ear, did you do that?
	Did you pierce your own ear?
	Yeah, I did.
	Would you pierce it to me?
	I'm a man.
	I did not.
	I went to the Claire's in the mall.
	You did?
	God.
	I was just a little baby.
	My mama got my ears pierced when I was like a few months old.
	Uh uh, really?
	Brought me home and my daddy was mad.
	Yeah.
	You got it looking like it is kind of crazy your kid can't even see that good and you got dang you know you got earrings yeah like feathered earrings you got some big hoops coming off her or something hey what's the youngest you can get a child's ears pierced in America there's got to be a two-week I don't know there's got to be like a catch-and-release type of thing or something what's the youngest age to pierce a child here It's two months.
	What is it?
	Around two to four.
	After that vaccine, it says.
	Uh-huh.
	Because I guess that they put in that metal or semi-precious metal through your ear.
	You can't be allergic to things that are semi-precious.
	So that's it.
	When you're touring, are you choosing places to go now?
	Or like, what's that like?
	Well, it's kind of like mapped out to the point where it's like, I don't know how it is for you.
	It's like we want to try to make sure that, you know, we're letting the demand build back up in that city and things like that.
	And then trying.
	So yeah, it's like a team effort of just figuring out where we're going., we're about to go back to Australia.
	Yeah.
	You've been to Australia?
	So good.
	Did you go to Bondi Beach?
	I haven't been to Bondi.
	Bring it up real quick, just so you don't forget to go.
	It's worth going.
	It's like 18 minutes outside of Sydney.
	Okay.
	And you just take a ferry?
	No, you can drive right there.
	Oh really?
	It's the most beautiful beach I've seen that's not like a super tropical place, if that makes any sense.
	Got it.
	So it's kind of like a city on the beach.
	Yeah.
	But it's wow.
	It's a pretty cool place.
	Man, I'd love to do that.
	If you have a family and stuff, do you think you'll raise them over there in Nashville or not?
	Do you know?
	I will.
	You will?
	I will.
	I think Nashville is just a good spot.
	Like, even if, you know, music wasn't a thing.
	I think it's just, I think they got, like, good schools.
	And I feel like you can go far out.
	Right now, you can go far out enough on any side and still feel like you're in the country.
	You know, I want to raise my kids like I did, like playing in the dirt.
	And I don't know.
	I just want them to, like, be outside and.
	Yeah.
	and do the things that we grew up doing you know what i'm saying and like just enjoy those things too because you see these kids at these supper tables on their iPads and on cell phones.
	I'm like, oh gosh.
	Grilling like digital meats and stuff on there.
	Yeah.
	We, we, me and duck.
	Me and Doug took some kids that he coached last year to eat Mexican food not too long ago.
	these two little boys across from us.
	Sorry, that's just a great...
	That's like...
	That's the Louisiana way of kind of saying we're having a United Nations meeting.
	Exactly.
	That's what was happening.
	Look, look, honey.
	Yeah, but these two boys sitting across from us, they were twins.
	And they were just like for 17 years old, like carrying on great conversation, making eye contact, like it was.
	Because you could just tell that they were raised right.
	And then I realized they said they had never had social media.
	And I was like, that's why you can carry on a conversation?
	Dang.
	Dang.
	Well, a lot of people are homeschooling their kids now too.
	And keeping everything away from them.
	You know?
	Which I'm not trying to, like, you know, keep everything away from them.
	Because I think then you kind of mess up, you know?
	Well, they said there's pedophiles in the roadblocks now.
	That's what I heard yesterday.
	You know?
	And I, yeah, I've heard it.
	Uh huh?
	They're everywhere.
	Well, yeah, but I didn't think they were in the Roblox, honey, you know?
	I know they were out in these streets.
	Roblox facing mounting lawsuits as parents across US Select Company enables child predators.
	Stop.
	So I just want you to think I'm making that up.
	Stop.
	That's how I feel too.
	I discontinue my account.
	I just had it only for two weeks.
	You have to be protecting and watching like it's not.
	That's what I'm saying.
	You could do homeschooling.
	I want you to homeschool my kids.
	I'd love for you.
	Uncle Tayo!
	All right!
	yeah Dude, that would be terrible.
	What are you talking about, man?
	You would teach them something, you would teach them, you would educate them.
	Oh, hell yeah.
	You would educate them.
	You would teach them how to do CPR.
	Uh huh.
	With a unique style that a lot of people don't do.
	Which is what?
	A lot of people breathe straight into the lungs.
	I kind of take a roundabout pattern.
	What are you like, people's elbow on or something?
	I'm not gonna say, I do different stuff.
	Okay, but.
	Are you really decent?
	Decent success rate.
	Yeah, I'm certified in CPR, honey.
	Are you really?
	I need to see like a badge or something.
	I don't believe it.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	I'm deputized.
	Did you know that?
	I couldn't believe that.
	Look.
	I'm deputized.
	Are you?
	Yes.
	Just by somebody in town that was a sheriff, gave you one?
	In Richland Parish they asked my daddy to be a deputy.
	You better quit.
	And then daddy was like, I'll do it if Laney can do it.
	Yeah, I love that.
	I went up there and got sworn in.
	Did you?
	I love that dude.
	I was at a balls game like probably a year and a half ago and some guy up there, some, and I will say he was an alcoholic, but he had drunk a lot and he'd probably drunk most of his life.
	And you could tell because some of his kids didn't even talk to him or whatever.
	But anyway, what I was saying was he was like kind of, he was getting drunk and I said, I'm going to go downstairs and say to somebody.
	And he goes, well, look, man, if you have any trouble down there, he goes, I'm a sheriff, just flash my badge, you know?
	So this guy gave me a sheriff's badge, right?
	Swear.
	So I didn't know how they work or whatever.
	So I'm down there talking and then something happened in this area where like some people started like we're kind of talking shit to each other and stuff.
	So I just break this thing out, right?
	I swear.
	Yeah, the rock for Moonshine.
	I didn't do that.
	I'm a sheriff, dude.
	I'm just sheriffs just raise the bat.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	And then they go get something to eat.
	Yeah.
	But I flashed that thing and then a real cop, a female police officer, kind of like pushed me up against the wall and she's like, what's going on here?
	And she was like reprimanding me for having a fake identification or whatever.
	And I was like, the guy.
	gave it to me, you know, but it was spooky for a minute.
	I thought they were going to take it.
	You thought you were really about to get in trouble.
	Yeah.
	It was like.
	When was that?
	Probably two years ago or maybe a year and a half.
	I think they were playing Georgia or something and they got their, they got their tap they got their tails kicked, Tennessee did, but yeah.
	But I remember like, God, that guy's the worst sheriff or whatever.
	Like he didn't even he didn't give me anything.
	He's just like Yeah, like he could have told you.
	Yeah, if you got to piss somewhere or just whatever.
	That shit gets heavy.
	He flashes.
	And I flash that bitch and I just, oh my god.
	Right up against the wall, that lady had me.
	I was pretty nervous, but I respect her.
	She's doing her job right there.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Oh, that doesn't look too much.
	Yeah, that looks like a first of all, that looks like a pretty decent looking woman in the town I'm from.
	I will say that.
	Oh, I remember the haircuts yes oh god yeah we had our bus driver would cut everybody's hair your bus driver cut people's hair mr ray yeah he cut his he he had a barbershop i don't know if he had a barbershop anytime i thought you meant as y'all were walking off the bus he just he would pull over probably six times a year he had his he had those clippers going he'd get everybody in there cut up you are lying 40 minutes he cut everybody on that thing that is hilarious walk right off that everybody be looking slick walking off there pretty slick enough with
	their ears lowered and the best thing is if everybody looks the same nobody looks better or worse you ever had like a real bad ha, real bad haircut.
	Yeah, I've had almost all of them.
	I think if you just look through pictures of me online, you'll see them.
	You're right, you're right.
	I've had one.
	Yeah, I went to that Roberts Beauty College or something that was in our town and they were running a special.
	It was like 75 cents get your haircut.
	And I was like, well, at that price, I gotta go over there.
	100%.
	You gotta see what it's about.
	It must just be a great deal.
	And so I got in there.
	I got in there, dude.
	And they were letting people that were just like, I don't even know if they were haircut.
	Some of them were just like recovering mechanics and stuff.
	They were letting anybody who could keep their hands stable enough.
	enough in that bitch, they put a pair of scissors in them.
	And yeah, they did stuff to me, man.
	I can't, I still will never be the same.
	I walked out of there.
	And I had to walk home.
	It was about 2.5 miles and the whole time I was so depressed and I kept trying to get a good reflection of my head and different things I was walking by.
	Dude, a bad haircut, like a real bad haircut, can it can be painful.
	Well, especially as a man, because it's like you don't have, as a man, you're not going to grow breasts or you can't wear lipstick.
	So like you were down 0,2 in your chances of That's right, and then you just have to wait for it to grow back.
	Yeah, so you have one item going on.
	You know, maybe you can do eye drops, but otherwise it's a haircut.
	It is a haircut.
	Duck dyed his hair bleach blonde.
	No, for God's sake.
	As a joke.
	Just like as a joke.
	What a joke was it?
	Well, I don't know, but I'm gonna tell you right now, I didn't think it was funny.
	I didn't think it was funny.
	I said, You better sleep with a ball cap on until that thing grows out.
	Now it's starting to look like frosted tips.
	Uh uh.
	Really?
	Well, take him down to damn Panama City and let him make a little bit of hair.
	That's where he did it.
	Uh uh.
	As a joke, we were playing Panama City and my mom and his mom and he had this bright idea and they all got it done?
	No, they just did his.
	They just did his.
	it is and uh they videoed my uh reaction seeing it they did and it was like let me if you can find it pull that up my mouth my mouth was wide open i was like uh-uh nope wedding's off wedding's off bro wedding's off bro who's gonna play at your wedding do you have to play at your own wedding if you're like a really good musician no no I don't want it to be about what it's supposed to be about that day.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Oh, yeah.
	Like the love, the nuptials.
	I might like write him a song or something and like share it later on.
	or whatever before, but like, I don't know.
	I'm just like.
	Yeah, I just didn't know if you have to play it your own.
	I never thought about that.
	I'm not.
	I want to have some kind of like jazz band or something like that.
	Ooh, big X to plug.
	Big X to plug.
	He could do it.
	Which I love y'all's interview.
	Yeah, he's great.
	He is great.
	We went and watched a show in Nashville when he was there.
	It was fun.
	He was?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's just like, it's great energy, you know?
	Where was he playing?
	He was playing over at, um, not Brooklyn Bowl.
	You're not, you're talking about Brooklyn Bowl.
	Yep.
	He was playing at Brooklyn Bowl.
	Got it.
	Yeah.
	It was good.
	I saw Red Clay's trays.
	Where did I see them at?
	They are so good.
	I saw a video of you guys singing.
	Right.
	Yep.
	In Canada.
	Yeah.
	He's a real deal.
	Oh.
	I mean, they put on a hell of a show.
	I'm just a fan.
	Yeah.
	I think that it's just like timeless.
	It's like they stepped out of another, like, time and they're just doing something so different.
	I don't know.
	I'm just a big old fan.
	And their audience is a lot of men, too, are their fans, I realized.
	Yes.
	Yeah, let me see a little bit of that.
	That's cool.
	Oh.
	Oh.
	Pass the hat.
	I'll put some money in that.
	I'll put my second born in that hat.
	Uh-huh.
	That's special, huh?
	Yeah, he's cool.
	Have you guys done a song together?
	No, do you like to do a lot of collaborations like that or do you not like it?
	Well, no, I've seen it seems to be really hot right now too.
	I love collaborations, but I was doing a bunch of collaborations there for a minute.
	Oh, that's right, you did.
	I know the one with Hardy that I loved.
	Wait in a truck.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I forgot that was in the truck too.
	Truck, truck.
	Look, sorry to say that.
	I didn't, I look, I don't care if you're How funny.
	God, I don't care if I just, I don't care if you've, every one of your songs talks about it in CarMax, I'm still going to listen to it.
	You know?
	Well, I ain't going to do that.
	Okay, okay.
	I ain't going to do that.
	I ain't going to do that.
	I forgot about Wait in the truck too.
	Mm hmm.
	Wait in the truck, four by four by you, heart like a truck truck and we got one like i said coming king ranch king george king james yeah i got a damn heart like a damn little 50cc motorcycle honey yeah i got a heart got a damn outboard motor on it oh my gosh i got a heart that's got it that's got damn training wheels on it My nephew just FaceTimed
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	Did he not?
	With no training with Ledger.
	That's the four-year-old.
	He was like, oh, ain't laney.
	So right when I think they don't love me, he says stuff like that to my sister.
	They tap in?
	Come on, Aunt Whitney and show her.
	I'm like, oh, see, y'all do love me.
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	You know, I'm on the go constantly.
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	That's me.
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	And Shopify has this new AI assistant called Sidekick.
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	never meets any kids even on the weekend or whatever i'm gonna set your ass up let me let me think of who i could set you up you are i'm gonna set you up oh yeah Thanks.
	What's your type?
	Woman.
	Just a full grown woman.
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, obviously.
	But yeah, adult woman positive attitude warm eyes wants to be a mom okay what else hard worker okay right so a nurse i think i would like but i think i may just say that because of hard worker yep but okay i got to pray a little bit more about it too and just help get my kind of sights lined up you know let the lord kind of i'm gonna tell you right now he he can Yeah.
	He can.
	I'll be praying for it too.
	Yeah.
	Thanks.
	Because you can meet people, but you got to like, you know, you just got to meet the right one.
	It's something you just got to be patient to.
	That's right.
	And he'll make it clear.
	He always does.
	And I always heard that want, want, want about, you know, when you know and all that stuff.
	But like, I do believe it now.
	Did you lock?
	Did you make like a little list?
	List or altar or whatever?
	an altar.
	I made a list of like, I went through some doozies.
	I'm talking about like stuff I'm embarrassed about now.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I'm sorry.
	God bless you.
	But embarrassed to think that I let somebody do me that way.
	Yeah.
	And then, uh, and then met somebody who just would never in a million years, but I did like, i took a few years to myself didn't even go on a date like but also nobody asked me out either like wouldn't nobody ask me out and um but those years were like really important for me and i figured out i'm like okay like no more playing around like i'm i'm the next person i'm dating like it's got to be i'm not going to spend a few years
	of my life with this person if it's not like going in the direction that that it's supposed to and um so i was like okay yes i want somebody who is like you just said like hard working and And I hate to say that this is even a quality on my list, but loyal, you know, that should just be, that should just be, you know, it shouldn't be a quality.
	It is kind of true.
	I've gotten to a sad place.
	I know that I'm going to be their only spouse.
	Yeah, I would love to be their only spouse.
	But yeah, I think like write it down and.
	Yeah, I just have to be more intentional about it, you know?
	I've been getting, I've been, I've done some of that, but I want to do, I want to do even more of it because I want to see how fine-tuned could you get that arrow, you know, if you really locked in with some intention.
	But I do notice myself not spending time, like a lot of times, like wasting it in areas, you know, or trying not to spend my time wasting it in certain areas, you know?
	Yes.
	It's just kind of like cutting the crap.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I think that's a big step right there.
	Right.
	Is you deciding, yeah.
	Is just being like, just no more.
	I want something.
	And then only the real thing can find you at that point.
	Yeah.
	You're going to find somebody.
	She's going to be badass.
	She better be.
	I'll tell you, I'm already pissed at her a little.
	Are you?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm mad at her too.
	Thank you.
	I got a couple notes in my phone.
	I'm texting her right whenever I get her number.
	That's it.
	Because I'm definitely going to have to be.
	I'm just trying to like envision what this chick is going to be like.
	She better work out of town sometimes.
	I'm telling you that.
	Okay.
	Because I don't want her messing my house.
	That's it.
	I think the big thing I realized, I want kids, I want to be able to have kids that have like a comfortable, a nice.
	like a emotionally well upbringing.
	So that's what I need, like a emotionally well woman.
	Just a good girl, like just yeah.
	Well rounded.
	Yeah, we'll find it.
	Maybe she has a coupleple animals or something or we could get some animals because sometimes you meet a woman they already got too many animals you could see they're trying to do their own little zoo or something yeah put that horse in the front yard yeah on the front porch you know that's how that's how y'all gonna live well that's how that was my old way to meet a woman just put that horse in the front yard you know but i'm not doing that now the horse needs going to back yeah but i can't live like that anymore um What else?
	You have a movie that's coming up?
	Is that true?
	Yeah.
	Reminders of him.
	Colleen Hoover.
	And I will say I'm very excited about it.
	It was an opportunity for me to kind of dip my toes a little bit into being something other than a musician, which was fun.
	Why not you done some Yellowstone, right?
	Was this more like extensive than that or like what was different about it?
	This, you know, it probably took me three or four days to like film my part.
	And I feel like with Yellowstone, because I was in like several different episodes, it was probably like a little bit more filming.
	But I had fun.
	I had fun like.
	It's not fun, like, I feel like I kind of found myself within the character, you know?
	Like, I realized that okay, maybe I don't have to be playing music to feel like I can play the character.
	Dang.
	Which is cool.
	Like, I'm like, who loves?
	Who loves?
	I want to do a comedy.
	Do you?
	God, that would be good.
	You'd be so good at it.
	We should make one then.
	Let's do it.
	Me and David Spade wrote a movie.
	It's almost done.
	I can't talk about it any more in the podcast because we've talked about it on too many episodes.
	But we're editing it right now.
	But is that so fun?
	It was the editing itself is a nightmare, but it's fun.
	Got it.
	it's like a puzzle you're like figuring out okay we got to move this here how do we move this what do we do so it's probably like putting a record together yeah yeah it's been a big learning experience it's been good i think but yeah you definitely start to see like oh i could do more these or figure out how to do it or create different ones like funny ideas yep are you going to start like a festival back at home or anything do you think you thought about that we've talked about it i mean we've um like do you feel like you have to i guess it becomes like a thing i definitely like would love to be able to do something
	specifically like form my community you know what i'm saying yeah um Yeah, just, you know, just to like bring in some more people, some more fans and like just even last year we played a couple shows in Monroe back to back and And I heard, you know, that a lot of people had lots of business that week.
	And that's important.
	I want people to flourish and do well.
	Like these are, this is a community that believed in me before anybody did, you know?
	Yeah.
	So I would love to do something like that at some point, but it takes a lot of, like I want to do it right.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's got to be right.
	You want to definitely have some...
	You got to think, I mean, it's got to be like a neat critter that's from the area, I guess, kind of.
	I mean, it could just be the Laney Wilson Festival.
	No, there's something cooler.
	Well, there's something probably that had a little more critter in it.
	Yeah, we definitely had a critter.
	Yeah, I mean, you have a decent amount of critter, it seems like.
	Am I trying to uncritter you or whatever?
	You kind of uncritter me.
	Yeah, I didn't think I could.
	Dude, did you ever go on like, I remember you told me that you went on this horrible date one time.
	It was like a Valentine's Day.
	Remember we made a little cartoon about it?
	Oh, it's Rose's Ray of Valets are Black.
	Logio Trios is Pilate of Joe Back.
	But dude, it reminded me.
	So one time when I was a kid, I started...
	You know, you're like 13.
	And this girl down the street, dude, had...
	Uh-huh.
	And she was like willing to sneak out of her house at night, right?
	So I was like, was she the same age?
	Yeah, same age.
	So I was like, I'm going to go pick her up and we're going to go out to this like boat launch area that you can park the car out there and dance a little bit and put on some country music, put on some top 40 or whatever, you know?
	They play some strawberry wine or maybe some, I'm trying to think of whatever else, maybe some John Michael Montgomery.
	Let's go.
	You know, something that'll just ding.
	I'm not adjusting, just keep my eyes open, you know?
	So anyway, pick her up.
	And this girl always wore like a two-piece bathing suit, like she was on the swim team at school, right?
	So anyway, but I don't even know why I said that, but anyway, well, I needed the visual.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, picked her up.
	We go out there.
	We're listening to some music.
	A car comes across the parking lot, goes into the water and starts to sink.
	Right.
	We're the only people.
	You are on.
	Swear.
	We're the only people out there.
	It goes right off the boat launch.
	And then starts to sink.
	And the headlights are up towards the top of the water.
	The car sinks.
	You are on.
	No.
	And it's me and her.
	And I'm like, oh my God.
	I'm out here.
	We still want.
	I can't call the police what do i even do i'm gonna get in trouble right so you jump in the water we run right over there to the thing and um i was like we got to get we got to do something you know something what if somebody's in there like we're the only people out there and she's like okay on the count of three we'll jump in and i'm like dude you don't do the count of three dude if somebody is drowning in a car You know what I'm saying?
	Like that is the one, two.
	Yeah, you don't waste people's time that are drowning if you can just jump in, right?
	So anyway, she goes, I was like, all right.
	She's like, no, we have to do it.
	I was like, all right.
	So she goes, one, two, three.
	I jump.
	She doesn't even jump.
	You are lying and she's a swimmer.
	She's a swimmer.
	And I'm not that great of a swimmer.
	And that's a life lesson right there.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's what I'm saying.
	That's why you need to pick a woman who is willing to go that extra mile.
	That's it.
	Because there's a lot of these fake-ass swim team bitches out there.
	But anyway, moving on.
	Anyway, I reach down in the car.
	I get underwater, reach down in the car.
	And I feel like the car seat and stuff.
	And they had like one of those like covers on the car seat that was like that fur, you know.
	You know, they had the white fur seat cover sometimes.
	It was like, I don't know, it wasn't like Dalmatian.
	It was something nice, you know, or light.
	Something.
	It was fake, probably.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, yeah, something like that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wolf or something.
	And so I touched it and that scared me so much.
	I thought, I didn't know if it was somebody's skin.
	just like, so I start kind of vomit like underwater.
	I'm like getting sick.
	Get back up above the water.
	Now I can't hold my breath to go down, right?
	Like the car's completely underwater.
	So get out.
	We run back to the car, drive to this bar that was close by.
	And we started just like, we ran inside and we're like, this car went off into the water.
	There's like six people in this bar.
	They all clear out of there and then they all run down to, they all drive down or run down to this, to the dock.
	And people are jumping in the water, saying some lady's name or something.
	Got in my mom's car left so you don't know what happened mm-hmm left went there was somebody in there wasn't it i don't know but how did the like news not come out in the town or anything i mean we were kids i don't think we would have heard it probably because it was like it was more adult stuff so did your mama ever know that you took the car she does now she does sorry mama almost save that woman mama And if you'd have let me borrow your freaking car without a freaking ass, I probably would have been able to save her.
	I wouldn't have had to sneak back home.
	But yeah, I think that was something.
	I'm still thinking about the girl not jumping with you.
	Oh, it's unbelievable.
	You can't stay on a count of three and then not go.
	And who has time to count of three?
	Somebody's drowning.
	You're like, Okay, one, two, don't do that.
	I don't know what ever happened to her.
	Dude, there was a beautiful girl in my town that kissed me one time by a fire and then she I never ever ever, ever saw her again.
	That's how it goes.
	God.
	Uh huh.
	Wonder where she is, you remember her?
	I don't know.
	Yes, I remember her.
	We need to get in touch with her.
	And she let me brush her hair for almost fifteen minutes out there.
	You literally just had a brush and you were just combing her hair.
	She brought it.
	I'm not I'm not that creepy, yeah.
	But I would, yeah, I helped her out.
	That was my four H. It was.
	What is this?
	Oh, do you see Justin Bieber showed up, this fake one?
	What's he talking about?
	That a fake Justin Bieber showed up the other night.
	To where?
	In Las Vegas and everybody thought that it was him.
	I'm like, this doesn't not even seem like him.
	No.
	It seems like Chet Hanks just had a long weekend, kind of.
	What in the world?
	But there were literally, I guess, like thousands of people fucking scammed.
	Everyone gets scammed.
	It is wild.
	So many people get scammed nowadays.
	I just saw the other day that we're one of the biggest scamming times.
	What are some of the biggest online scams?
	Have they had any Laney Wilson imposterers?
	Oh my god.
	I mean, I don't know about like dressing up like that and whatever, but I'm just talking about like online in general, like the amount of messages I get about.
	Oh, tickets scamming, all that stuff?
	Well, just like people who think that they are like actually in a relationship with me and stuff because like somebody's pretending to be me.
	And so it's really bad.
	I've ruined a couple marriages on accident.
	Didn't even mean to.
	You didn't.
	Yes, I sure did.
	Laney.
	Yeah.
	They're like, my husband of 30 years believes he's talking to you and this and that and whatever yes and i'm like oh no and what do you have to do then you can't call there's literally nothing like there's there's nothing i can do um i'm just besides like telling y'all about it you know yeah if you are not married to lenny wilson you are not married to lenny wilson so that's well you think it ought it ought to be that simple but i mean i've heard i've heard all kind of stuff i was uh I
	mean, one woman got scammed by a buddy of mine and she showed up to the show, had her bag packed and everything and was just waiting there.
	Like, I'm going with him.
	And they were like, no, ma'am, like, but she had been communicating with somebody online.
	And thought it was him.
	And thought it was him.
	So.
	It's getting that real.
	But I guess I would be shocked.
	How could you think it would go that real online, you know?
	It's like a certain, what I've noticed is it's like a certain age group of, it's probably like lonely, lonely people.
	Right.
	Whether they're married or not, they're lonely.
	And I don't know.
	It's just like they just find like the right person.
	They must try it to a million people to find the right person to actually convince.
	Yeah.
	You know, and they're asking for money and they just give them lots of money.
	Lots of money.
	And it's sad.
	It is sad.
	I guess I'm trying to think if somebody emailed me and said I am, I'm trying to think of somebody that would really have me just fired up, probably.
	Can't even think of anybody off, off, off top of my head.
	Probably like a night nurse or whatever, like an ICU nurse.
	Uh-huh.
	Um.
	I forgot, no, that's not it.
	It'd have to be somebody like you know publicly, probably.
	Somebody that you'd be like, I can't believe they're messaging me.
	God, yeah.
	Who could that be?
	Maybe Pamela Anderson.
	Yeah, one of the Spice Girls or somebody.
	One of the Spice Girls for sure.
	Ginger or Baby Spice.
	Yeah, or Marjoram or whatever is in that one.
	Sporty Spice.
	Oh, Scarlett Jonison.
	Who else?
	Johnny Depp.
	That's a man.
	I don't know.
	None of these people are doing it for me.
	Maybe Tom Hanks.
	Yeah, if Tom sent you an email.
	Look, Tom, one of the best actors in the world.
	But if he said, Theo, I'm in a bind.
	Yeah.
	And I need $200,000.
	Because that's some the crazy amount.
	It's not just like, hey, I need 100 bucks.
	Right.
	People are getting screwed, glued, and tattooed.
	I would not say that.
	I would send him maybe 1,200.
	I'm not.
	Say God bless you, Tom.
	Yeah.
	I'm not sending somebody.
	That much money is crazy.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what goes into the psychology of that.
	We should talk with somebody and learn about that.
	What is one of the biggest scams that's happened online with somebody?
	But I mean, that one with Justin Bieber's crazy.
	People thinking that that's him?
	Like, I remember like Kip Moore got scammed and there was like a Dr. Phil episode about it.
	Not Kip Moore, but somebody was getting scammed by somebody pretending to be Kip Moore.
	And it was just like the girl really thought she was, you know, in a relationship, like for real, for real.
	I'll have friends that'll send me stuff.
	It's like, oh, is this you?
	And it's like a fake email or something.
	It's like, that would be insane if that was me.
	Like, if you read through this, you know, and have like recipes for things like for dinner and stuff like, who, you think I'm going to send something like that?
	But I guess, yeah, people get caught up.
	I mean, I've fallen for stuff when I was growing up, Ponzi schemes, stuff like that.
	So I guess we've all fallen for something.
	I was trying to buy a French bulldog.
	You were bit by a French bulldog?
	No, I was trying to buy.
	I was trying to buy one.
	He's got good taste.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's an old French bulldog.
	And I got scammed.
	This is probably about six years ago.
	God, that's now that is not cool.
	Because they're really cute.
	And you see them and you just wanted them.
	And did you see pictures or they also had videos of him?
	It was just pictures.
	I mean, I'm a dumbass for thinking that.
	Like, I've learned a lot.
	That was definitely my thought.
	Really thought it was Jellyroll.
	Ohio man says he was scammed by AI video of the singer.
	A Springfield, Ohio man said he lost money.
	I really thought it was Jellyroll.
	Appeared to be from a celebrity that happens to be a fan of the message said he won $50,000 on a brand new car.
	I want to see it.
	Then the account sent a video of the man who appears to be singer songwriter Jelly Roll asking him to cover shipping to get his prizes.
	They're not linking to the video, but this is the image from the AI generated video.
	That is insane.
	That's a thing, Theo.
	Like used to, you had to be like, I gotta see it to believe it.
	Right.
	But now, you just gotta figure out yourself.
	You gotta have that wisdom and discernment whether or not to, you believe it or not.
	I mean, there's been stuff in the past month going on about like me and Duck having a baby getting married.
	They gave me six fingers on one hand.
	Yeah.
	Oh, and you say you're cheating when you're doing your songs or whatever?
	Yeah.
	And then like they put my daddy in a hospital bed picking his guitar.
	And I was in a wedding dress in the hospital room because I had to go to him to get married.
	And then I showed my daddy the picture.
	And he's like, not pissed about just AI making that rumor up.
	He's like, I got more hair than that.
	I'm like, really?
	That's what you got to say?
	I got more hair than that.
	Hey, look, if you got it, you got to keep it.
	That's right.
	That's it.
	Dang.
	Yeah, I guess everything's getting weird out there.
	Yeah.
	But have you met any real impersonators of you?
	There is, um, there's a girl in London that actually puts on, um, she teams up with this guy who I believe does Luke Combs, so it's like her and her name is Georgie, I believe.
	They just like put on these like co-headlining shows together, which is really cool.
	It's like a, um, there she is right there.
	That's pretty cool.
	The Laney Wilson experience, um, she's awesome and she's got the dance moves and everything down.
	Like she does Laney Wilson better than me.
	She does?
	That's got to be pretty fun.
	I'm like learning some stuff from her, you know what I'm saying?
	She's got the whole outfit and everything.
	Wow.
	Yeah, it's pretty cool.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	Pretty cool.
	That's pretty cool.
	Look, she does a cowgirl of a night.
	She like, she just got it going.
	I'm proud of her that she's like, you know, making a job out of it.
	Yeah.
	It seems like a fun job.
	Oh, that's pretty special right there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, my niece's first show that we went to together was your show over here in Baton Rouge.
	I think it's probably two years ago.
	We're about to be back in Baton Rouge.
	Y'all are?
	Yeah.
	When I'm about to have to come.
	Yeah, come on.
	I'd love it.
	We're gonna be there in September tell your family come on god I want that my sister my mom's down there now she would come yeah yeah tell her to come on I'll bring her come on thank you I'll have to um oh I saw that they just opened up your exhibit at the country music hall of fame yes did you go see it yet I did go see it it was wild my mama kept Everything.
	She kept my baby blanket.
	She kept this little like plastic star that went like on the wreath the day I was born and it said a star was born today.
	You're lying.
	No.
	So they were betting on you.
	They were like, she got to do it, Lord help us god honey yes it's so cool because i really got to like kind of zoom out and you know it looked like a bunch of tiny little steps like everything i've done since i was just young and then like me impersonating hannah montana all that stuff that's my journals i wrote tim a girl a letter when i was 18 and was like all i need is a shot and i can do the rest you did and i still have never met tim a
	Wow.
	I think I need to send him the letter now.
	Well, I think you guys will probably make a movie sometime soon.
	I'd like that.
	But yeah.
	Is that you right there?
	That's me.
	My God.
	That's me on a good day.
	I thought that was your stunt double from England again.
	Uh-huh.
	That's Georgie.
	Yeah, that'd be so good.
	You start sending her to spend time with your family?
	I mean, honestly.
	They might like her better than me.
	Lainey, that's so cool.
	It's cool.
	And that's in the Country Music Hall of Fame?
	Yes.
	Wow.
	Everything I've...
	like ever done it for me like being able to look at it with my parents and i mean because they worked their butt off so I could do what I was doing and they when I tell you Theo, they believed in me.
	they they're they're the kind of people who are they're real realistic you know what i'm saying right like people don't those kind of things like don't happen in our area but for some crazy reason they're like no this is what she gonna do like this is like we know it and they help me do whatever i mean whether it was like helping me buy my camper trailer or um if there was like a singing competition somewhere in another state or whatever i was like wanting to sign up for it and
	like, Mom would take me and...
	um betty would pay for the gas you know like it was just like a team effort so it's cool just to see everything come from it and it's just yeah, well, parents just want to be proud of their children, right?
	And so I think, yeah.
	You know, and parents get proud of their children if they see them do something small or big, I think, you know?
	And so I'm sure even just to have a, like, to have something like that where so much of your child is kind of like, that's right.
	recorded and and has some, you know, in a museum, that's damn.
	I know.
	I said, I ain't never been more proud that my mama was a hoarder.
	Yeah.
	But she kept it.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	They were trying to send this tractor tire swing that we, like, used to swing on.
	We were, I'm talking about this tractor tire swing was like this big around.
	They're like, no, we don't, we don't need that.
	My dad's like, no, you all take it on there.
	They're just trying to clean up the house, you know?
	They're doing it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	There's this stack of your dad's old pants.
	You're like, what the hell?
	No, just take it.
	Don't take them up there to Nashville.
	The exhibit just morphs into a garage sale.
	What, um, I know your bell bottom pants.
	I remember being at your show and seeing all these, like, uh, girls and some men wearing different kind of laney bottom style pants, right?
	Do you have a brand that's pants now?
	Or like, did that become like a thing?
	So, I actually have a, um, partnership with Wrangler, which is so much fun because we get to do like, we have like our fall collections and then we'll have some stuff for the winter and then we do spring and summer.
	It's just fun.
	It's like another way for me to be creative.
	But we actually just launched a boot line too called Golden West and really was inspired from really just like when I think of songwriting and how I've kind of learned how to write a song.
	I feel like I've been given the opportunity to write with such incredible writers.
	They've kind of taught me how to step into other people's shoes and like tell a story from their perspective.
	Yeah.
	Oh, there we go.
	There they are.
	There's the Somewhere Over Laredo boots.
	Those top two right there are best sellers right now.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	It's fun.
	People are wearing these little boots now.
	What is that called?
	That little boot.
	A shorty.
	That's a shorty.
	Shorty.
	Ooh.
	Yeah.
	I've been seeing those.
	We're going to find you a nurse and we're going to get her a pair of boots.
	Yeah.
	We're going to hook her up.
	A couple appaloosas right there.
	Uh-huh.
	Heck yeah.
	And tell her she can take them boots on out of town if she wants to keep it together.
	Never mind.
	She can come back at least once.
	At least once.
	Golden West.
	Oh, I like those.
	Yeah.
	We're excited and it's doing really well already.
	ready and I'm just excited to like continue.
	Are they only online or people can get them in some stores too?
	Only online right now.
	So okay.
	Yep.
	And then we're just going to continue like dropping, you know, dropping some and see what happens, but it's going in a great direction.
	How do you start to feel about your that you have the possibility to think that your best songs are still ahead of you?
	You know, I know with comedians, you start to think like, man, I'll never have a bit that's as good as that, you know?
	How does that affect an artist?
	Like, what's that like for you in your world?
	I mean, because you've had some, you know, you have a lot of great music.
	You've had some that have been bigger hits than others that's just the way it goes but do you does that like what is that like do you have fears like that ever you know i mean it's absolutely like crossed my mind because i think just like being human in general probably crosses everybody's mind you know even like getting out of a relationship like i don't ever love anybody else as much as you know but i think uh i keep like shocking myself or like surprising myself and being like We ain't done.
	I really do feel like we're really just getting started.
	Like even the songs that I've been writing in the past six months for the next record, I feel like we keep leveling up.
	And I don't really know how that happens, but a grace of God.
	So he's delivering.
	Amen.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I believe it.
	I think, yeah, it's those moments because there's days where you'll feel like, okay, everything is being perfect.
	I'll feel this way.
	Everything's on the right path.
	And there's days where I feel like, man, I'm on a detour right now, you know?
	I know.
	And I think just trying to like tune, like almost like you're using a tuner for a radio dial.
	I was trying to tune my heart in, you know?
	That's right.
	It's like positioning yourself.
	I'm learning that.
	Yeah.
	It's like positioning yourself so you can be.
	And also like getting rid of the things in your mind that are like stopping you or preventing you from finding whatever that next like great joke is or great song.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like you got to get rid of those roadblocks in order to find them.
	Yeah.
	And sometimes the roadblocks are people.
	Sometimes it's just like a...
	It's an actual roadblock.
	Literally.
	you're just sitting there waiting for them to turn the sign around.
	You know?
	You just...
	Sometimes it's people.
	Sometimes it's a habit.
	A habit, dude.
	A habit.
	How many people have not had made certain amazing things happen because of a bad habit probably god i know it's that's i just want to get tuned in it's the lord fm honey that's what i'm gonna see at the lord fm just reset so let me know when that's the station because i'm gonna i'm gonna tune in too reset my dial uh Tell Mr. Hodges we said hello.
	I will.
	Yeah, appreciate it.
	Yeah, I'm gonna try to come see you there down there in Baton Rouge again.
	That'd be great.
	Cool.
	And yeah, thanks for all the beautiful music.
	Congratulations.
	And thanks for coming and just chatting with me about Louisiana.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	It's just fun.
	Oh yeah, congratulations Lenny Wilson, best of luck.
	Now I'm just falling on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone.

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