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Episode 34-Whey Jennings and Johnny Packer Coffee · Johnny's World

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now, welcome a true hero, a CF Warrior whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Hey everybody, BW here.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a little while since we've we've been on together here.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh BW and Johnny, and uh we've got a special episode for y'all coming up right after this little intro that we're gonna do here.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: But we had a special announcement we wanted to make, so I figured we'd hop on here for a second and then uh we'll introduce our guests in a few minutes here after this.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: But uh how you doing, Johnny?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Good to do you again.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's good seeing you.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: It's been a while since the two of us have been uh on a podcast together, so it's like like old times.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: I think we started this thing up about a year ago from right now and still rolling with it.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: I know it's hard to believe.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: And um, so many how many people have listened?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're over 5,000 now, something like that.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: I hadn't looked in it in a week or two.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, we it's everyone we've done gotten a little bit a little bit bit bigger and better, and more listeners.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_03: So feel like we got a little following coming on now.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I think they're really gonna enjoy the the news that you're about to talk about, and uh hopefully that'll help spread more awareness about my fight with CF and bring some money in for the CF Foundation.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, um, so basically I'll go ahead and just share the announcement here.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we've been selling the glasses on johnnypacker.com and we still have the glasses, they are going to be in my store in in uh Carrieville and then at Mississippi Iwear in Starkville.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're interested in buying those, you can either come to one of those two locations and check them out and we'll have those.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: You can try them on and do everything in person.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we wanted something that was gonna be a little bit more entry-level for somebody that may not want to spend$150,$200 on a pair of glasses that they can buy something from us and still the money can go to a our to CF foundation for us and just be able to support our our cause here.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so I really like to drink coffee.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think Johnny really cares too much about coffee, but um, I've really got into it the past few years, and there's there's so many different varieties and so many different ways that you can make it, and there's just um you know, a lot of cool stuff with coffee out there.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I found this roasting company up in New York that sells coffee, and we are able to um buy some blends from them that are from various different countries and everything, and they roast them for us.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: And so um I've created about seven or eight different blends of coffee and kind of sticking with the same theme of the Johnny Packer Eyewear.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: We we've named them out for Mississippi, Mississippi Towns.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: We've got the Noxapater half calf, the starkwell grind.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then I don't know if if everybody will get this, but I named one called Hottie Coffee, kind of like Hottie Toddy.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: And um, it's one of the more expensive varieties, so that's why I figured we'd call it Hottie, Hottie Coffee for uh homage to our Oxford folks.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: But um, it's uh really cool because when you order it, the order goes into our roaster up in New York and they roast it.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: I think they roast Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so depending on the day of the week you order it, they're gonna roast it the day after, basically, and then they'll ship it out to you by by the post office.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: It usually takes about a week to get in there.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so when you get it, it's gonna be a fresh roasted bag of coffee.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: You can get it whole beans or you can get it crowned.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: And if you've never had like fresh roasted coffee, it's so much better than just like going to the store and buying the folgers and just it's been sitting there for for a year, basically, you know, since it's been roasted.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: So um it tastes really good.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: There's lots of really good varieties.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: We've got Colombian, we've got Guatemala, we've got some blends, we've got decaf, half calf.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so basically, there's anything if you like coffee, there's gonna be a choice for you out there.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um, they they vary a little bit in prices just depending on where they come from.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: And and some of them are seasonal, so you may see us changing blends coming up here.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: But um, you go to the website johnnypacker.com and you look on the top of the page, it'll say like shop coffee, and you can click on it and you can see basically everything that's on there.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: Or if you just are on the home page and you scroll to the bottom, you can just um see it down there too.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, you can get a 12-ounce bag uh roasted um you know that week, either whole bean or ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: We also sell five-pound bags too.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: So if you want a whole big bag, you can do that too.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then eventually um in the next few weeks, I'm gonna work on a subscription service.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, if you if you buy some and then subscribe to it, it'll basically ship to you about the time that you're about to run out.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm still working on getting that set up, but that'll be there pretty soon.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then the last thing is I'm working on putting uh a donation button on the website.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I know nothing about computers or making websites.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: I just kind of put this together and luckily it works.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: But um there's gonna be a button at the end if you buy some coffee from us, you can round up your change or you can just add however much you want to as a donation to us.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: And eventually I'm gonna put a button that's on the front of the page that just says donate to us, and so you'll be able to do that as well.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: So um really looking forward to seeing how this goes.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: I I made an announcement on my Facebook page this morning, and we've already sold four or five bags of it.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I think people are gonna like it, and I'm excited to see where it takes us.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's that's real exciting.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: You know, uh the glasses and uh sunglasses, that's that was uh that was really cool.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: I really I appreciate you doing that because that that was awesome.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: But I I can understand people who don't want to try them on in person were skeptical about ordering them online and spending a couple hundred bucks, you know, it's not real feasible.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: But uh I feel like this uh this deal that you got going on, people more people will be inclined to to buy because it's only like 15 to 20 dollars, and and uh you it sounds like you get you get some good coffee out of it, and uh and and hopefully we'll raise more money doing it that way for CF because um yeah, it's like like I said, it's it's uh it's kind of a win-win deal on all an all around.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_03: You get like I said, that about the glass, you got glasses that make you look good, and then you're donating.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: So same deal with this, you get some good coffee and and donate.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: So win-win all around.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: So I think and I think that donation button's gonna help out a lot too, because um when people see that they can they can do that or round up.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, when I with me working at the hospital for many years, we we participate in a lot of uh campaigns with uh Walmart and different sponsors where we had roundup campaigns where you know, like you buy something and then they ask you, would you like to round up?
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_03: So so that's that's uh that's awesome.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_03: So that's a another good way to go about it.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_03: So hopefully these new changes that you're putting on the on the website will make a difference, and and uh more people who don't know about my fight with CF will hear about it through the upcoming podcast if you hadn't listened yet, and they'll be inclined to help donate.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, because um in CF, you know, I'm rocking along with this miracle drug right now, but a lot uh 10% of the population with CF do not have access to a miracle drug, and they're struggling like I was before.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_03: So um every little bit helps, you know, when it comes to fundraising.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I'd encourage everyone to jump on, buy some coffee, donate to CF, and and uh win-win all around.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: So thanks so much, Brent.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: And um we did we made a donation before the end of the year uh to the foundation.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so all y'all that supported us through the glasses over this past year, we made a pretty good donation for that.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so um I'm hoping with the coffee too, we'll be able to make more regular donations.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I know that when people round up or donate, it actually goes directly from our website to the CF Foundation, it doesn't pass through us or anything.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the cool thing about that, too.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: So just go straight to them.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: So uh get on there, get you some coffee, and you know, let us know if you have any questions about that.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: Feel free to reach out to us.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: We've got um email address, it's um johnnypackercorp at gmail.com, and you can uh email us there and ask us anything you want to know about that, and uh hopefully you like it.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: But um, we've got a podcast that Johnny recorded a week or so ago with um somebody pretty famous, and uh so we'll uh we'll get we'll get to that in a second.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: Is there anything else you want to add before we we get to that part?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: No, I think that's it.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: I think they're gonna enjoy this uh upcoming podcast episode.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_03: It was uh had a great time uh listening to it.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_03: I mean recording it.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: And um he his his grandfather was my is my all-time favorite musician.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_03: So it was a treat to get to hear him uh tell his story.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, so I think everybody's gonna listen, love listening to it.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: And look for more podcasts coming over the next few weeks.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, y'all have a good one.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: We will talk to you soon.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_03: All right, welcome to uh another edition of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_03: I'm uh I'm Johnny here today doing it solo again.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_03: And uh just want to give you all an update on uh on about CF.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_03: There is a new uh there's a new documentary I just saw today.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_03: This is gonna be a premiering uh January the 25th.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_03: And uh it'd be really cool for y'all to check it out.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: The the name of it is uh is Salt in My Soul.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_03: And it is uh it is a young woman who uh like me had has been fighting for uh her life with cystic fibrosis and uh and she passed away a few years back and after having a uh double lung transplant.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_03: And it's kind of her journey.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_03: Um so I haven't seen it yet, obviously, because it just came out.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it's coming out uh January 25th on video on demand on streaming.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_03: So I encourage y'all to check it out.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you people who've been listening to this podcast know about my fight with CF and know we've been trying to uh do spread awareness and raise funds for it, but this will give you an opportunity to watch something uh firsthand and see exactly what a CF patient uh has to go through.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_03: This young woman uh passed away a few years back, and and this is kind of uh uh a tribute to her life and um of what she dealt with uh with CF.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: So so anyway, uh I encourage you all to check that out and uh and you might learn a little bit about CF and see it firsthand of what people have to go through, like like myself.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_03: So uh so that's all we have for uh for for the CF part today.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um we'll be getting back with you soon and uh hopefully be donating some more money to the to the cause and uh help spread the awareness, and more people will hear about it, and more drugs will come out, and more people start start feeling good like myself right now.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: So anyway, uh we got a great show lined up today.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so excited to introduce our guest today.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh wow, this is uh this is this is gonna be a great interview.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: Um he is from a line of country music royalty.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh he is uh the grandson, uh the my all-time favorite musician of all time.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: It it was his grandfather, and that was uh the one and only the outlaw himself, Whalen Jennings.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: So so without further ado, I want to introduce uh Whalen's grandson, Wade Jennings, to the show.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks so much, Wade, for joining us.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: You bet, man.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me on.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: Well, well, man, you just uh I just want to hear about the life of Wade Jennings, man.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_03: Being being the grandson of of country music icon and legend, Whalen Jennings.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_03: What's it like being being Wade Jennings?
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's pretty fun, man.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, a lot more fun these days than it used to be.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I got a bunch of kids running around and yeah, good career going on.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: We have fun out on the road, and uh it's just like being just about anybody else, I reckon, except for right, right.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: I can tell I can tell I can tell that voice though, man.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's it's I bet everybody says you sound just like your granddaddy.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: I get that every once in a while, yeah.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh so tell us a bit how you got started.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I I I was doing I was reading a little bit about you last night on online, and and uh I found something interesting.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_03: I wanted to ask you about.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: Was it was it a was it at a concert with uh with your grandmother, Jesse Coulter?
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: Were you were you saying something?
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_03: Wayland said that said, uh oh hold on now.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: What tell us a little bit about that?
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: I was about maybe six, seven years old, and I was at a concert of my grandfather's.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: And my grandmother always had a wireless mic, and she went out on stage and they did storms never last, and a few other songs, and then she came off stage and sat her mic down in the chair, and I snatched it up and ran out on stage and started singing Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: And my grandfather was like, Hold on, house, wait for me.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was pretty wild time.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_03: I loved it, I love it.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_03: So, when did you get into the music industry?
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_03: When did you start out?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: I actually didn't start my music career until I was about 30 years old.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I worked on a cotton farm before that, and I did that for about 10 years, and then my mama got sick, and I went back home, took care of her for a little while, or helped take care of her, and um, she asked me to do something with music.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: So I got on Facebook and got in touch with some people and got a couple shows lined up out in Kentucky, and I told him I told my mom I'd throw myself at the wall, see if I stuck.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I guess I did.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_02: So went out there, did a couple shows, and then I did a couple more and a couple more and a couple more until I got to where I'm at today.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: My dad was a big help too.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: He helped me guide me along.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: Today's actually his birthday, and I lost him about three years ago.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_02: And um, yep.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Today he would have been, I think, 65, 66 years old, something like that.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_02: He was born in 57, so whatever how many years that is.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_03: I read that book a few years back that your dad wrote uh about traveling along with Whalen.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_03: It was it was a great book.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: I really enjoyed reading that and hearing the whole stories about sounds like he he lived it firsthand on the road with on the road with your granddad.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: It was really good book.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's a book called Whalen Tells of My Outlaw Dad, and you can still get it on Amazon if you want to go get it.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, it's a good book.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: I wrote that when I first got it in the mail.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_02: I started reading it in Wichita, Kansas, and I finished the book in St.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Louis, Missouri.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I read and read and read and read and read until it was through.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is a good book.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's one of those I didn't want to put down.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: You you learn so much about about your whole family, about how it all started.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: And uh it was it was really cool, firsthand look.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_03: Um, because you know, when you all everybody loves your granddad Whalen, and and but then to read that book and and and put it all together and and and figure out and see see the life that he lived, it really was uh really was exciting.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: And uh yeah, so anybody who's listening, I encourage you to pick up that book uh and uh and check it out.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_03: But uh so uh to tell us about your music career now.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_03: Where what what you're doing now?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: Are you touring or what what's going on?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, well, right now I'm off for a few weeks.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_02: I gotta go uh take care of a tooth problem I have, but I'm gonna start touring again in February.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_02: And uh March is looking like it's full, and I got pretty much booked up the whole year.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, my next show is coming up.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: I got February 12th at the Everglades Seafood Festival with Ryan Bingham and Ira Dean.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: And then February 25th, I'm at Bright Box Theater in Winchester, Virginia, and then the 26th, I'm at another round or two in Manquin, Virginia.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_02: And those are the three shows I have in February right now.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: And then um I just signed with Dirt Rock Empire, and uh we just filmed a few music videos.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: We're finishing up an album, and uh everything's been going pretty good for me, man.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_03: Well, um, I listened to one of your songs last night.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_03: I really really enjoyed was uh Gypsy Soul.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: That was a that was a great song.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: I really enjoyed that.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was the number one, that was the first single off of my last album.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's called Gypsy Soul.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: Love that song, it's a good one.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: It is.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: You know, another another cool thing.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: I uh when I was doing some research reading about you, I I really enjoyed how it said that you continue to uh to play some of your granddad's songs to to keep his legacy living.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: I really I really respect it.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: I love that because man, he's such an icon, and and you know, a lot of people who who go out on their own and try to do their own stuff, but then they forget about the past, and and that's just part of it, right there.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_03: And it so that's real cool that you you do that.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_03: Do you do that usually at at different shows?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: Play some Whalen songs?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, I always play some Whalen songs, man.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: I may be his grandson, but I'm also a big fan.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: I love Whalen's music.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_02: I love my grandfather's music, and I love that everything about it, man.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: I love that.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I I watched on YouTube last night the the thing that you said.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, was it uh I'm missing you?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: That was that was really special when he did that.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I wrote that song the day he died, and then the day after I learned about it.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: It was actually a letter.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: I sat down to write him a letter after I ripped the door off of the hinges in my bedroom.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: I was so pissed off.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_02: But wow.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_02: I sat down and wrote him a letter, and then I just started singing the letter.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_02: And I always do that song a cappella.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_02: We tried to put music to it a few times, it just doesn't work out.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of takes the whole thing away from you when you try to put music to it.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: But I agree, it's it's so it's so thankful.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_03: If you're out there listening, yeah, like I I know exactly what you mean by not putting music to it because just the way you're you express it, it's it's just uh it's really deep, you can tell.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: So uh that was that was good.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_03: Well, well man, do you uh do you do you still keep in touch with some of the some of the casts on the dukes, man?
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I know they're all close to Wayland.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, quite often.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: I just did a show with Tom Wolpat uh in Nashville for um for Christmas.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_02: We had a Christmas show out there.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, I still talk to Katherine Bach and Ben Jones, Alma Vietar.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_02: She's a really good friend of ours.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'll go out to Cootie's quite often out there in uh LaRay, Virginia, because I live up in Pennsylvania.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_02: And Laray's about three hours for me, so I'll go out there and I see them every once in a while.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I love all the Dukes casts and all the Dukes fans and all of them.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm doing Hazard Fest again this year.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I saw that.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_03: Where is that gonna be?
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_03: Tell us a little bit about Hazard Fest.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_03: I've never been, uh I've always read about it and look, it looks really cool.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's a few different hazard fests.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_02: This was in uh it was in Bullsgap, Tennessee, two years ago, and then they moved it to the fairgrounds in um where's that at, man?
• 19:23
  unknown: Greenville Tennessee.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: Uh in Greenville, Tennessee, yeah.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 19:27
  unknown: Greenville, Tennessee.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: Greenville, Tennessee Fairgrounds out there.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Last year it was huge, man.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: They had a bunch of people out there, they had a lot of cast TV shows and uh and uh bunch of moonshiners out there, yeah.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: And we put on a show, and there's a few other bands, it was pretty good, man.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: I had a good time.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: I remember seeing you at Bose Extravaganza a couple years back, and uh, and that was when Kid Rock was there, and y'all were out jamming with Kid Rock on stage.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: How cool was that?
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was cool, man.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_02: I love I love Kid Rock when my mama got sick and she was about ready to pass away.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_02: I asked her what she wanted to do before she died, and she said, I want to go meet Kid Rock.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: So I called Shooter and asked if he could make that happen, and he did.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_02: And he got me some backstage passes and tickets to a show at Winstar Casino in Oklahoma, in Oklahoma, right there across the border from Texas.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: And we went up there, and the only people he left backstage was me and my mom and a friend of mine.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: And they sat and talked for a while, took pictures and all that good stuff.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: And I've always been grateful to Kid Rock for that, man.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: And uh it was really good to see him again.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: I was able to tell him how grateful I was for what he did for my mama.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, I've always been a big Kid Rock fan, and my mama was a huge Kid Talk Kid Rock fan.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: When she was uh going through chemo, she was running around the house with her headphones on, bald headed, rapping all the words to his songs.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, he he seems like a real down-to-earth guy.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_03: I can see him doing that.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know, people that you meet in in life, you know, especially singers and stuff like that, who have that other side to them that are just uh it's really really cool.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: It makes you even, you know, we're we're big fans.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, like you said, you're a big fan of kid rock, but then when something like that happens, you're just like, wow, that that really makes me makes it even more special, I guess you could say.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: Even though you're a fan of his music, but then you become that fan of that person.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: So that's cool that he had that had that experience with him.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: Well, what about shooter?
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh do you ever do you ever tour with him or sing with him?
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_03: Or where where's he what's he doing?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: No, we run around, we run into each other every once in a while.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: Our crawls pass, we cross past.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I've stayed with him a few times at a few shows, you know, but we've never actually did a project together.
• 21:43
  unknown: Right.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully we will in the future, but he's been pretty busy.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: He's been doing a lot of uh producing with a lot of different artists.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_02: He's been winning Grammy after Grammy.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so proud of him.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: He's been doing really good.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's a really artistic person, man.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: He's got he's got an ear for music, like Nobody else, man.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_02: You can you can just have a vision of what to do with an album and make it come to life, man.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's I'm really proud of that.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: That he's able to do that, man.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_03: Man, back when I was in college, I uh went to college at uh Mississippi State University in Startville, Mississippi, and uh and one night the local bar here in town called Rick's Cafe.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um I looked up on the on the Marquee thing and it said Shooter Jennings.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, Man, Shooter Jennings.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: I wonder if he's related to Wayland.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't know back then.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: I went to it and went to the concert, and it was an awesome concert.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: Went out and bought a CD the next day, became a big fan.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: And you're right, he he's been doing some doing some great things.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: And that was back, I guess, gosh, like 2005, I think.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh so yeah, it's uh that that's that's that's awesome.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad I'm so happy for him.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: I'm happy for you, happy for happy for all y'all.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: No, I know your granddaddy and dad are up in there having smiling now.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: But so proud of y'all.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we got a whole family full of music now, you know.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Struggle out there too.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: He's been out there just tearing it up.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's only struggle shooter, me and Jennifer.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: We've been doing our best and Brianna.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we've been trying our best to keep it all going, you know what I mean?
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: We got somebody in every genre.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: We got that's all that's all snorter.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: We got somebody in rap rap, and it's just yeah, we're hitting it from all angles, man.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I love it, I love it.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: So so your next spot you said said uh is uh where where'd you say you're going next?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: You're going somewhere the next weekend or Winchester, Virginia.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_02: Winchester, Virginia, okay.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, my next one is at the Everglazed Seafood Festival, and I believe that's in Florida, right?
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's down in Florida.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_02: We're doing that one, and then we're going to Winchester on the 25th.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Well, if there's somebody out there's listeners wants to catch you in person, how can they follow you?
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: They find you on Facebook or what's the best way to look you up?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_02: They can find me on Facebook.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on all the music platforms and all that.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: Just type in Wade Jennings and uh it'll come up.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm pretty easy to find, man.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: There ain't nobody else out there named Way.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_02: W-H-E-Y.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_02: First, it'll pop up protein, and then as soon as you put the J, Way Jennings pops up.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_02: So there you go.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_02: Easy to find.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: I love that name.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: Did that is that did that come from from I'm guessing Whalen or or what's where'd you a bunch of different stories?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: My mama told me she named me after uh after a uh nursery rhyme.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_02: Little Miss Muffet sat on her tough at eating her curves and way.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: How about that?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_02: My dad said he got my name off the back of a cereal box, and and it's half of my grandfather's name spelt different.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_02: And then yeah, I don't know what it is, but I've had to fight for it my whole life, and I'm keeping it.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_03: It's so unique, man.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_03: You don't meet many people named Way.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's just a that's a real cool name.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_03: I know you're proud of it.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: They hear my name Way Jennings and they're always trying to Google me W A Y, but yeah, but it's W-H-E-Y.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_02: And if they try hard enough, they eventually find me, but I'm sure there's some out there that just peter out and keep on moving, you know.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: But it is what it is.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's that's awesome though.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: But it's real, real, real unique, and I I know you're I know your granddaddy's smiling now.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh well, you got anything else you want to add?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh uh all you out there listening to it, uh be sure do what he just said.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: Go Google Way Jennings, but don't do W-A-Y, W-H-E-Y Jennings.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: Google him, read about him, listen to his music, it's awesome stuff.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: Comes from a great, great line of uh uh outlaw country, you know, it's just uh really cool.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: And uh Way, I can't thank you enough for joining me today.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_03: And I hope I hope more people tune into your music and catch you on the road.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh you got a good career ahead of you, man.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_03: We're really proud of you and and uh all your whole family.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: I also want to send a shout out to Dirt Rock Empire.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody needs to go like their page.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um, my buddy Creed Fishery is also part of dirt um Dirt Rock Empire and the Lacks, they're they're the creators of Dirt Rock Empire, and uh y'all just make sure y'all go check them out.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: You can find out anything you need to know about me on that page as well.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Way Jennings on TikTok, on Facebook, on Instagram, all the things, you know me.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_02: Just type in my name on every platform you can possibly go to.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_03: All right, Way.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_03: Well, thanks so much, man, for coming on.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: We really appreciate it.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: Well, thank you for having me, man.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: You have a good day.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_02: All right, you too.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_03: Take care.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: All right later.
• 26:43
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• 26:47
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• 26:54
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