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Mike Broussard: The 23 Year Old Voice From 1975 · Tigs Bits Podcast

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We're covered in blood. That stuff does not come out
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easily. Yeah, I was like, I promise I
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did not commit a crime in the parking lot.
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I've had people like, you know, I'll play a A2 layer place, a
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two floor place, and people will come up to see what I look like.
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And they said, man, when we were downstairs, we thought you were
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like 70 or something. And we came up and you look like
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you're 30 or 32. And I'm like, well, thank you
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for both of those. But I'm actually 23.
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I get Adm on Instagram from Randy's page.
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They said we would love if you'd be able to to, to come to one of
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the shows on tour and sing on stage with Randy.
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Oh yes. What was your name again?
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And I said Mike Broussard. And she's looking through this
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stack of envelopes with different names on them.
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No, Mike Broussard. Randy Travis, if you're
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listening, make this wrong, right, brother?
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Let's start with you, Miss Taran.
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I mean, it's not every day that I have two guests in one on a
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show bring us up to speed on everything since the last time
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you and I talked. I know whenever we've we spoke
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last local was about to come out.
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That's been several months ago. So we're moving forward with
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that. You've had a lot of viral videos
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and success and got a lot of new followers, partnerships, all
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that bring us up to speed on where you're at.
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One of the coolest things that we've done lately would be the
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movie The flop. Yeah.
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That was really fun with Rachel and Casey had never been on a
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movie set before, so that was really cool.
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We did that, met Corey Ledoux, worked with him on that.
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Even hoses in there. I mean, tons of people.
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Nick Manning, Kristen Renton, The whole thing was just, that
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was a fun experience and I got to be the sound person for that
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too. And I got to be an extra.
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I got to go to the aviation center in New Iberia.
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That was really cool. Got to go in the the whole
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little setup where you like learn how to fly a helicopter
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and stuff. That was cool.
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When the helicopter I picked up Santa Claus.
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Oh yeah, that is right, yeah. Yeah, not many people do that.
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My I was talking to my brother. He was like, OK, I haven't even
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eaten breakfast yet and you are about to pick up Santa Claus and
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go fly in a helicopter. So that was really cool.
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I went to when we did the the movie, when we filmed the flaw,
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we actually had a scene, You know, I was a swamp witch.
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There was. The three of us, I was going to
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ask so, So what was your character?
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What can you tell us? I've had Halls on recently as
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well. Who's in it, you know, as you
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alluded to. So it was interesting to get his
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takes on this. I think I'm going to have a
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whole video to put together when with those these questions of
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what? What was filming a movie like?
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So yeah, to walk us through it. What was your character?
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What can you tell us about it? Well, I was one of the swamp
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witches, Inez and the they come to us to try to stop the flaw,
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to stop the curse. And we kind of go through a
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blood ritual kind of thing to help them and see if we can stop
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it. But yeah, that it was not what I
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was expecting. We had we had cut, we were
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covered in blood. That stuff does not come out
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easily. So after the movie, we ended up
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going eat a Mexican restaurant covered in blood because we
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couldn't get it off of us. So the conversation pretty
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stopped and pretty much stopped when we walked through the door.
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Everybody's kind of turned and looked at us like, yeah, I was
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like, I promise I did not commit a crime in the parking lot.
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I think we lost Mike. Didn't Randy Travis hear him
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from your video? And then and then his team
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reached out to Mike. Did Mike ever meet him?
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And. Ever.
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So I don't know if Mike wants to talk about it or not, but so we
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went. So Randy Travis's team told him
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he could go to a concert and then sing at the concert,
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perform for him. Because Randy Travis doesn't
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sing anymore. He has people that perform for
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him. There he is.
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There we go. We were talking about did we
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even want to bring up the Randy Travis thing?
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And she was telling, she was telling me the story.
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After the comment thing, I don't know, it was maybe it's probably
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the Monday that you had messaged me and was like, Hey, you need
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to get up and look at TikTok. So I got up and I saw that and
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you know, I, I think I replied to the comment or something and,
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and said, oh, it would be an honor, blah, blah, blah.
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Well, that Friday night I get Adm on Instagram from Randy's
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page and it said, you know, Hey, again, we've been, you know,
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watching your stuff. We really like what you're doing
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and your your whole like not persona, your personability, I
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guess, you know, and they said we would love if you'd be able
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to, to, to come to one of the shows on tour and sing on stage
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with Randy. And I was thinking for all this
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time, I was like, OK, this is some 20 something year old
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social media person, you know, whatever.
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I was like, yeah, sure. You know, blah, blah, blah,
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blah. Couple days go by and I look at
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the schedule and they are nowhere near here.
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Like there, you know, Salt Lake City and Wisconsin and North
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Carolina is like, man, I'm not the closest.
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The closest they had was Meridian, which is still, you
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know, 5 hour drive. I was like when?
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You have gigs to do that you've committed to.
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Well, yeah, I had the night, the night that they were in
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Meridian. I was supposed to be in Breaux
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Bridge at Cafe Sydney May. And luckily, you know, I've been
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playing for them so long and I'm, I'm close with them.
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I text him like, look, you know, big thing came up.
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I'm never going to do this to you all again.
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It was last minute, or I mean last minute.
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I, I did this probably a month or two in advance, but I got out
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of that and I texted him. I was like, hey, I can make it
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to Meridian a response for a little while.
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And then they were like, oh great, you know, blah, blah,
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blah, blah. They keep going back and forth
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with me a little bit. We talk about the songs I might
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sing, but they never said anything about passes or you
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know what I need to do to get in.
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And I started having people telling me like, oh, we'll buy
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tickets and we'll go up there, you know, to listen to you.
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So now I've got people like getting ready to spend money.
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So I'm messaging like, hey, just double checking I I'm gonna be
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there, right? Like no response, no response.
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Couple weeks and I think I was on a on a gig on a Wednesday
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night. It was like 9:00 at night.
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I get a response and it's we got 22 VIP passes for you.
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You know, I was like, perfect, that's the green light.
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We'll worry about everything else when we get there.
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So I start telling everybody, well, by that time it was sold
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out so nobody could go anyway. And then the day of comes or
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like the day before, and I'm thinking, wait, are they going
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to have passes there or are they going to send them to me?
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So I text and I'm like, hey, how am I supposed to get the passes?
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Dead silence. I'm like, well, I'd rather show
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up and not be able to get in then not show up and ruin my, my
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rapport with them. So we, you know, we get all
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dressed up and we drive out there with Karen and get up
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there and it's probably about an hour before the doors open.
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I go in to the, to the theater and I, I go to the, the box
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office ladies and I'm like, you know, is it possible there's a
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guest list that y'all have blah, blah, blah.
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And they go, we do have a guest list, but we're not going to get
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the names for another hour or two.
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I was like, all right, so we go sit in the truck, kill time for
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like an hour and a half. And then I get dressed.
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We go back in and now people are like showing their tickets going
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in. And I go to the counter.
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And she was like, oh, yes, what was your name again?
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And I said, Mike Broussard. And she's looking through this
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stack of envelopes with different names on them.
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No, Mike Broussard and I had a decision to make.
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I could either be a Karen and just like no, I, you know, raise
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hell over this let. Me show you my phone.
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And I didn't even think of that. I didn't even think of pulling
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up the, the DMS 'cause it was the verified account or I didn't
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think, could you get, you know, somebody from the Travis crew up
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here so that I could talk to them.
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Never crawl. I was just so focused on not
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being a nuisance. I was like, OK, I'll, I'll
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choose somebody's ass out later. And and you know, we drove the
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five hours back and got home at like 10:00 that night.
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And in town when we were back in town, James was asked actually
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passing through Lafayette. Travis and all them were going
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through Lafayette to do something for the Boys and Girls
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Club. And my family is really close
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with the family of James Dupre's guitar player.
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So I texted him. I said, hey, can you send or can
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you show James these screenshots?
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And I sent him screenshots of the DM and he texted me back
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later. He said, yeah, James said that
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that was Mary Travis. So that was Randy's watch.
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So apparently she not only manages, but she handles the
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social media and 50,000 other things.
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And what probably happened was she was so busy with everything
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else, she forgot about me. Yeah, that's I mean that I think
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that's that's highly possible and sounds most likely.
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I was thinking I was wondering if you were taking me down a you
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were catfished Rd. but if it's coming from the verified account
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I would. I thought about it.
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I was worried about that like is somebody, is somebody just mad
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at me and they want me to burn the gas to go, you know, a 10
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hour round trip for no reason. But no, it was Mary.
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And you know, like James, every time I've seen James since then,
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he was like, man, I, I just, I'm so sorry.
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And I'm like, it's OK, it's OK. It's been like half a year now.
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I think we can move past it. So I haven't messaged them yet,
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but they are coming to Lake Charles in April, I think, or
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March. And I think I'm going to be on
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vacation for one week while they do that.
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So I might, might hit him up again, you know.
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Randy Travis, if you're listening, make this wrong,
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right, brother? I wanted to be a Karen, but I
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did not want to take control of the situation.
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So I let him handle it. But I was upset for him.
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But I got to know his dad really well on the trip and Mike, and
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that's pretty much how he became friends.
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Because I mean, that was like 10 hours on the road that we talked
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the whole time. Well, and I, I was, I was going
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to ask that is how did you 2? I mean, so first of all, Taryn
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started telling me all about you Mike, like before I'd ever even
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seen a video or heard she she posted she was she posted one
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somewhere and I think you even texted it to me.
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Y'all got to listen to this guy. And then I was like, Oh my God,
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that's unbelievable. And that's just captured from a
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phone like there's that's not plugged into a soundboard or
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anything like holy cow. And so then that that's where I
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first heard of you and where, you know, was was on, I think
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the podcast that we did too. Taryn.
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We talked about it before and then I think we talked about it
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actually on the show. And and yes, so that was my
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introduction. But how did you 2.
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So obviously that trip that we just discussed helped y'all to
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bond because look, I've been in these situations and not that,
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but just on sales calls or gone somewhere for a long ways to
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sell insurance for a living. We do an open enrollment or
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whatever. The day just didn't go very well
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or the business owner was it there.
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We drove 4 hours to get there and it's like that ride back
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eight can either it is one or two streets.
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It can either be one of the funnest ride rides back you'll
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ever have and you just kind of have to laugh it off and then
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you still laugh about it, or it is holy hell and terror.
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It's it could be, it ain't. There ain't no in between.
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No, Mike handled it like a pro. I mean, he was just, he did not
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let it bother him. Like he was probably bothering
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him. But I mean, he's like, yo, you
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know, he was not like in a bad mood or rude or anything.
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So we just talked like the whole way back.
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And his dad I became for, I mean, I got close with his dad
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too, 'cause he told me all kinds of stories.
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And yeah, so now, I mean, I got close with him and his family,
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yeah. That is, that is one thing about
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our family. We are storytellers.
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So and we'll make a 10 minute story, 1/2 hour story.
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But but that's perfect though, and that's probably why you have
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such a a family full of musicians and very talented
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people, including yourself. It is Uber talented.
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You know that That's a, that's a, It sounds like you have a fun
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family, is what it sounds like. It is.
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It is pretty fun. It can be a little
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overstimulating for people outside the family, but in the
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family it's pretty. Y'all all get each other, you
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get it. Oh yeah.
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Let's go back to the beginning, Mike, when this all started.
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I mean, you, you, you have an amazing voice.
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No one, no one is denying that whatsoever.
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When did you, when did you first realize that your voice was just
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different, man? Well, I don't think, I don't
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think any singer ever realizes that.
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Or at least how do I say this? It's it's.
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That's a hard question to say without sounding arrogant.
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Correct. It is and it's not a setup
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question, but at all. But I mean, there's got to be
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some point where somebody said something to you that wasn't
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just your mama's or your daddy or somebody, you know, or tear
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and even it was just somebody, some sometime when you were a
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kid. You're like, they think I, they
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think I can sing. You know, maybe I'm not half bad
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like, 'cause I think that's the biggest confidence builder that
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you can have is whenever you're like, you know what, I could
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work on something. But but they're, they're
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probably I'm, I'm, I ain't bad, you know, I mean.
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Man, that that's such a hard question.
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He's such a humble person. It's.
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I know, yes. Well, it's, it's because look,
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you got, you got a lot of people that a lot of the, the regular
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crowd people like I'll get people to come to shows from
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from Houston, or I had a guy that came in from Illinois to
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come to Cowboys, or I had some people that come, came to a show
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from South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD last week.
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And it does make me feel good. But it's also like, it's stuff
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like that is subjective, you know?
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Yeah. And then same with musicians.
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I'll get musicians that are like, oh, this is Mike
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Broussard. He's he's going to be the
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biggest thing ever. It's like, that's that's their
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opinion, I guess. I guess when I really realized I
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had something was, I don't know, maybe, maybe sometime in
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December, we had done the final mix for my song and we were
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waiting for it to to get distributed and everything.
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And my dad was on the phone with one of his old buddies from back
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in the 80s or 90s, one of his musician buddies.
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And I wasn't in the room. All the good stuff that I hear
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from my dad is when I'm never in the room.
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And that's a good thing. It doesn't.
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It doesn't. He's not purposefully inflating
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my head. But he was on the phone with his
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buddy and he was saying, yeah, man, this song that he's putting
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out, I mean, you, if he had put that out, you know, 50 or 45
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years ago, you know, it would have been a a hit, You know, and
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hearing that from my dad, who, you know, he never, he never
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inflated us and he never deflated us.
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He was always very middle of the road with, with our, our singing
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or any ventures that we took. So hearing that from him in the
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other room, telling that to a guy that I, I believe it was a
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his friend Jeff Dugan, who was, you know, back in the 80s, he
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was with Warner Brothers. He had a couple of big songs
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out. So like hearing him say that to
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somebody that's been there, done that really, I think solidified
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that to me. Give a little bit of a
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background just for those out there that are listen to this
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that don't know the Broussard family and the music musical
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history. They're kind of walk through
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some of the some of the some of the folks in your in your
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pedigree, so to speak. Yeah, well, man, I mean it.
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It really goes back to great, great greats, you know, But as
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far as I'm familiar with my grandfather, so my dad's dead,
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was a guitar player and I, I unfortunately never got to meet
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him. He passed away about 10 years
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before I was born. But from the guys that knew him,
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he was able to, I mean, just tear up a guitar And mind you,
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he he played in like the 60s, seventies, fifties, 60s after
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World War 2. And you know, it's South
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Louisiana, it's Cajun country. So a lot of guys are playing
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Cajun music. There's not a ton of country
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guys, but he was a big country guy.
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He did not like Cajun music. And he was one of the early
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chicken pickers, which nowadays is pretty commonplace.
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But back in those days, that was kind of a new thing.
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So a lot of guys really, really held him in high regard.
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And then he had my my 2 uncles and my dad.
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My Uncle Ted, who's Mark Broussard's dad, ended up being
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a guitar player and he sang and he had his bands and he played
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with the Boogie Kings and all kinds of other stuff.
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My Uncle Al became a drummer and sang a little bit and he played
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throughout the 70s and early 80s until he got out of it because
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he had kids. And then my dad was the middle
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brother. He was a a piano player and
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singer and he had his band from 79 to 90.
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He was the front man for his band called Country on Delivery
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and they played all over. They played the 84 Governor's
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Ball at the Superdome for Edwin Edwards Reed inauguration.
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And I mean, we've got we've got yearbooks or scrapbooks from 76
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all the way to 2000 full of stuff.
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And he's open for he's open for George Jones a couple times.
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He opened for Gene Watson, who's my my personal idol, Johnny
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Russell, in fact, And I tell the story a lot on my live sets.
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When Rose Colored Glasses came out in 78, which I'm known for
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doing my John Connelly, John Connolly was touring, but he
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didn't have a band behind him. He didn't have a regular backing
21:11
band. So wherever he went to play, the
21:14
club would have to get a band to play behind him.
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So when he came to Louisiana, he flew into Shreveport and then he
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drove down with actually another piano player who is a a promoter
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at the time, Rick Lanyo, who plays piano with Wayne Tubes.
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Rick drove him down from Shreveport to Lafayette and he
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played a club called Boo Boo's Nightclub in Lafayette.
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It was a nightclub and then the front end was a record shop.
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And Boo Boo, the owner, called up a a bunch of guys to see if
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they could play behind him. And he called my dad up.
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And this was, I think my dad was about 20 or 21.
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And he called him up and said, I need you to come play for this
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guy named John Conley. You know, he's coming in.
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He's he just put this record out.
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Whatever. And so my dad had to learn rose
22:05
colored glasses and lady lay down and, and all that good
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stuff. So yeah, I'm, I'm proud to say
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my dad was the first piano player, I think, in the state of
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Louisiana to play behind John Conley.
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That's amazing, man. That is amazing.
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I freaking love John Conley. Like.
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Oh yeah. You know.
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Why that road trip? And I know why the road trip was
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so fun and so amazing. I.
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I guess so, yeah. Yeah, that would that that had
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to be a fun ride up and back. Taryn was just back there, just
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getting. Soaking.
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It in absolutely I would be. Too well, and I I don't remember
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if he told Taryn the story, but he's got this story of meeting
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Johnny Paycheck and you know, I don't know how much y'all know
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about Johnny Paycheck, but he was he was a bit of a
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troublemaker a bit yeah. It was like it was like 82 or 83
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or something like that. And and a friend of my dad goes
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hey man, would you like to come meet Johnny Paycheck?
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We're at the Howard Johnson by the airport.
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Somebody had shows up. There's a bunch of guys sitting
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around doing cocaine and and smoking weed, doing whatever.
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And he sits on the couch next to paycheck and paychecks picking
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out some stuff on his guitar. And he sat there for maybe 1/2
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hour. And the joke that he always
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makes is, you know, sat next to this guy for 1/2 hour and he
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probably didn't even know I was there, but he probably didn't
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know he was there either, so. Funny story about Johnny
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Paycheck years later. Possibly the exact same tour bus
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because it was from the early 80s.
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One of my friends actually bought Johnny Paychecks tour bus
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and turned it into a tailgate deal.
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And it's still, yeah. So I've been in this bus,
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believe it or not, and and it still had all the original
24:05
stuff, mirrors on the ceilings, you know?
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I mean this is. You know, it's what you would
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think it would be, except for it was like 82.
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Smelled like a bus from 82. It went hard that there is some
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things went down in that crazy thing about it.
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An electrical fire burned it up and it's gone.
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It no longer. Exists.
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Yeah, it sucks. It sucks because.
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That would be the end of a tailgate bus.
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That yeah, but I, I mean, I also think it's kind of fitting like
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it kind. Of.
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I mean, you knew, you knew Johnny Paycheck was going to get
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that thing one day or the other, one way or the other.
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And. Yeah.
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That's funny. Well, that's super cool.
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That is super cool. And I knew that you're.
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I didn't know all of that at all.
24:57
I did know that you come from a family of musicians, but I
25:00
didn't realize just how ingrained in the country sound.
25:05
This explains things a lot. Mike is like the oldest 20 year
25:11
old there is. I mean, yeah.
25:14
And he says it for all his shows.
25:16
Like he acts like he's like 60 or 70 maybe.
25:20
You're only 20, Mike. I'm 23. 23 OK, yeah.
25:25
There you go. You're the same.
25:26
I don't I'm Yeah, I don't feel old, Taryn, that you're the same
25:31
age as my daughter. So.
25:34
If it makes you feel any better, when I've, I've had people like,
25:38
you know, I'll play a A2 layer place, a two floor place and
25:42
people will come up to see what I look like.
25:45
And they said, man, when we were downstairs, we thought you were
25:47
like 70 or something. And we came up and you look like
25:50
you're 30 or 32. And I'm like, well, thank you
25:53
for both of those, but I'm actually 23.
25:57
And then they don't believe me. I think, I think Mike's actually
26:01
more mature than I am. I believe, I believe he
26:05
definitely is more mature than me.
26:07
Yeah. And my daughter certainly is.
26:09
So I think maybe it's that generation.
26:12
Y'all came up with good music too because you learned it from
26:15
your parents. And you know, I mean like, like
26:19
my daughter's taste in music phenomenal.
26:22
You know, she, she loves a lot of the same things I've I love,
26:27
but she's gone on and found some, she likes some things that
26:30
I don't just love. There's not a lot of music that
26:33
I don't like of, you know, I'm very diverse when it comes to
26:38
everything from from going old school country to I go to really
26:43
heavy metal, like really heavy metal.
26:47
And so then I like everything in between too.
26:51
So who are some of your favorite people?
26:54
This is going to be a 2 pronged question for both Taryn and you
26:58
Mike. Who are some of your favorite
27:01
artists? Who are your biggest influences?
27:03
I guess in music I don't know. 'Cause there's just so many
27:06
different. I'm like you, 'cause I like so
27:07
many different genres. Like Mike is going to be just
27:10
country, basic. Yeah, I know where he's going to
27:13
be, but mine's kind of all over the place, you know?
27:16
I mean, I was like Shenandoah, I love them.
27:20
When I met him, that was like, I was actually really nervous when
27:23
I spoke to them, you know? And he acts like he didn't know
27:26
who I was and stuff, and it made me, and he was just joking with
27:30
me, but I could barely talk at that point.
27:32
He's like, who are you? Like, what are you doing?
27:34
And I'm like, Oh my God. Oh, God, yeah.
27:36
I started freaking out. He's like, no, I'm just joking.
27:38
But I was like, oh God, I'm supposed to be here.
27:41
I promise. Yeah.
27:43
Shenandoah. Every time Mike plays that, we
27:47
get all excited. He knows that's one of our
27:48
favorites. Yeah.
27:51
Two dozen roses? I don't know.
27:54
Were you, is that what you were jamming back in high school?
27:57
Or were you, were you, were you listening to pop stuff too?
28:01
Tell me. Tell the truth.
28:02
Everybody wants to know this Taryn.
28:04
I will be honest, Bush. Bush.
28:08
Bush is I can listen to Bush any day.
28:11
That's my my workout playlist. Glycerine.
28:14
Oh my God, yes. Well, yeah, that's right.
28:17
You're who turned me on to the divorce Dad's play mix on
28:21
Spotify. Thank you for that.
28:22
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I forgot until right now.
28:28
And I am a secret closet Nickelback fan.
28:32
Hey. They they do jam.
28:36
I'm yes they do jam. I think that they get a bad.
28:39
Friendship was going so well. It was see this the the the Tigs
28:43
Mitts podcast could dissolve this whole thing today all over
28:48
music Mike's like I do countryman.
28:51
What the hell are y'all talking about wherever you're talking?
28:53
About Bush and Pantera and Nickelback.
28:56
Say that all he wants is I'm going to I'm going to out you,
28:59
Mike, I'm going to out you. Oh, here we go.
29:03
He was dancing in the in New Orleans to the Troll song with
29:08
Justin Timberlake. Yes, you were.
29:13
Yeah. I got my sunshine in my pocket.
29:19
Don't. Yes, yeah.
29:20
I will say I do have, I do have a guilty pleasure.
29:23
I do have a guilty pleasure, ABBA.
29:26
I do. I do.
29:27
Like ABBA, ABBA. OK, yes, OK.
29:30
I won't hold it. Against you like I listen to
29:33
whole albums, OK? OK.
29:35
All right. But no, I mean, as far as like
29:38
the stuff that that I've always listened to, of course, classic
29:43
country, you know, Gene Watson, George Jones, Merle Haggard.
29:47
I did have a little bit of Southern rock in there.
29:50
My dad, my dad and his brothers were big Eagles, Doobie Brothers
29:54
guys. So I was very, very, I'm still
29:56
very into to that stuff, you know, Steve Miller Band,
30:02
Marshall Tucker, you know, stuff like that.
30:05
But I specialize. I like to say I specialize in
30:08
classic country. And you know, a lot of people
30:12
say, oh, you sound like Alan Jackson or Keith Whitley.
30:14
I didn't really get into those guys like the the 85 to 90s guys
30:21
until I was almost out of high school.
30:24
You know, Alan Jackson didn't really care for him.
30:26
Vince Gill didn't didn't know hardly any of his stuff.
30:30
Trace Adkins, you know, I know a lot of his stuff now, but there
30:35
was a time when I was like 13, I rubbed elbows with Trace Adkins
30:38
for like 1/2 hour. Didn't say anything to him
30:40
because I didn't know any of his music.
30:43
Annie Annie's a big old dude. And he, I mean, I was like 55657
30:49
at the time and he's 66, towering over me.
30:54
But yeah, it's mainly just that 50s, sixties, 70s country, you
31:00
know? Just picking you out of nowhere,
31:02
not knowing anything about you. I would have never believed a
31:05
word that you just said. I never I wouldn't have been
31:08
like, he's full of it. No way.
31:10
Head dude's been jamming Alan Jackson since the day came out
31:14
of the womb, You know, like he's this is just ingrained in him.
31:19
It's amazing that that it that isn't where all of it came from.
31:24
That's that's so cool. It's really cool.
31:26
Yeah. That's why I believe you're a
31:28
storyteller of you can tell stories and songs which that art
31:33
has been lost since the late 70s, early 80s, in my opinion.
31:38
Yeah, I think we have. Some of that with Travis Tritt.
31:41
You what now? I said I think we had some of
31:43
that, like Travis Tritt, like in the 90s, his songs had the
31:46
storytelling, you know, he was, I think that was probably one of
31:50
my favorites in the nines. I couldn't wait for his new
31:51
music video to come out so I could see because it was like a
31:54
story conclusion. Yeah.
31:56
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
31:58
The class evading like, you know, Garth, which we're not
32:02
going to say too much on Garth, that's not.
32:04
Getting started on Garth. Going to start getting into a
32:06
rant, but you know, you had you had Garth Brooks, Clint Black,
32:11
Alan Jackson, all those or not Alan Jackson, Mark Chestnut, you
32:16
know, all those guys that that really brought back some of the
32:19
traditional elements. But no, funny enough, and I
32:24
think I've told Tara in this before, I actually never wanted
32:28
to get into music. Yeah, really.
32:32
I had terrible stage fright and music was kind of music was kind
32:37
of like the family business, like in The Godfather, you know,
32:42
Michael. Michael is like, I don't want to
32:45
get in the family biz. I want to be a normal person.
32:47
I want to live a normal. Life, you know.
32:49
Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in.
32:55
So I I never, I never liked getting up on stage.
32:57
My dad would get me up to sing a couple songs on his some of his
33:01
shows if they were kind of family friendly and I mean it.
33:06
I'd get pale white, cold sweat. Hands would be clammy, like
33:10
hated it. And I wanted this going to make
33:14
you laugh, you know, talking about storytelling, I wanted to
33:17
be in filmmaking, like Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking.
33:22
I, you know, I've written scripts or screenplays.
33:26
I worked on a movie that came through Lafayette a couple years
33:29
ago. So like, I didn't want anything
33:34
to do with music and 23 2023, you know, the economy was
33:40
starting to get pretty rough. I was still working in the oil
33:43
field and I was like, man, I could, I could really use a
33:47
second job right now. And people for years had been
33:52
bugging me to start doing my own shows because I'd never done
33:56
like a little solo set. So finally in March of 23, I did
34:02
like a little 2 1/2 hour solo set with just me and the piano.
34:06
And I mean, there was like two, at least 200 people in Buck and
34:15
Johnny's in Breaux Bridge, which for that place good bit.
34:20
And it was a train wreck. I mean, I was unbelievably
34:24
nervous. I kept missing notes on the
34:26
piano. I kept forgetting words to
34:28
songs. I had a list of songs that I
34:32
knew in my notes app that was like 4040 songs long and I blew
34:36
through all of them in no time. It was rough and it was like
34:40
that for probably the first couple months that I did it
34:43
until I chilled out so. Well, I mean, you, you mentioned
34:47
stage fright and all of that. What?
34:49
How? How'd you overcome it?
34:52
Really just exposure, you know, you, you get into something like
34:57
by, by last year I was doing shows four or five times a week,
35:02
6 * a week. I think I did one with seven or
35:05
eight in a week. You get so used to being in
35:09
front of people it, it just becomes second nature.
35:13
And really the, the main problem that I had with playing when I
35:17
was a kid was it wasn't so much being in front of people.
35:22
It was, you know, because I would get up in the middle of
35:26
the set, go sing a couple songs and then go sit back down before
35:31
you get up. Nobody's really paying attention
35:33
to you. You go sit back down and
35:35
everybody sees where you went and sat.
35:39
So now they're going to come talk to you.
35:40
And I'm a very introverted person.
35:42
I know that's odd in my line of work, but the whole like
35:46
strangers coming up and and being in your space and like
35:49
that I was like, I'm. Good.
35:54
But, you know, like I said, you're exposed enough to it.
35:57
You're forced into it. You kind of learn to, to cope,
36:02
right? I'm still, I'm still a little
36:06
unnerved around strangers, around new people, but I'm able
36:09
to, to work with it, you know? Well, I think it's it's you, you
36:14
have the determination, obviously that you're like, I'm
36:17
going to overcome this fear and I have a gift and I want to, I
36:21
like this more than you like doing it more than letting the
36:26
fear. Then I don't like then.
36:28
You don't like it, which is admirable, and thank God I'm
36:32
glad that you do. We're all being tearing.
36:34
Or both. Like, thank God.
36:36
Me and Mike are like so opposite.
36:39
So like when we went to New Orleans, he's like, you're like
36:42
Forrest Gump, like you talk to everybody.
36:44
Yes, she is like Ford. She what was it?
36:48
We were we were almost to the end of the Boardwalk outlet mall
36:54
and she sees like this little kiosk with paintings and you
36:57
know how the kiosks in the middle of the the mall aisle is
37:01
like you look but don't stare. Don't make eye contact you.
37:05
Don't want to talk to the person, Yeah.
37:08
And she stops and she's looking at at pictures of, you know,
37:12
like, what was it, Lil Wayne and LSU Tigers and Saints pictures.
37:16
And I see this guy walk out of one of the shops and walk
37:19
towards. I'm like, Oh no, we need to.
37:20
Go, we need to go. There we go.
37:22
And they talked for like half an hour, 40 minutes.
37:25
And he tried to sell her like a little 8 by 10 picture painting
37:30
for like what, 350 bucks? Yes, yes.
37:32
And I kept trying. And I was like, Oh no.
37:37
I think I ended up giving him my number.
37:40
Feels like I'm going to call you whenever I paint a bigger one or
37:43
whatever and Mike's just looking at me like it's time to go.
37:46
It's. Time.
37:48
To get out of here. What a noob like.
37:53
Everywhere we would go, I just talk to people.
37:56
It's just what I do, you know? And Mike's.
37:58
Just I understand. I understand.
38:01
I'm I'm a lot like tearing too. I don't meet very many
38:04
strangers. I don't think I would be doing
38:06
this if I didn't. I'm feel very comfortable
38:08
talking to anybody. Pretty much.
38:12
I'm in the line at this at the store and I'll just start
38:15
talking to Evers in front of me, behind me.
38:18
Well, that's good though, Mike, because as Mike gets bigger and
38:22
bigger and becomes a huge worldwide sensation, then you've
38:26
already kind of got that shell built around you that me and
38:30
Taryn don't. This is probably why we never
38:32
made it like that. So so that's good.
38:36
You've got a little safety net and some protection already just
38:38
kind of built into either to just look, that's the way Justin
38:42
Moore is just. He's, he's a super nice guy and
38:48
the guy who does a show with me, Jr. the Handler, he, he's his
38:52
tour manager. Justin is not standoffish or
38:57
anything. He's just, he's not a raging
39:00
people person like like me and Terren are.
39:02
You know, I get it. There's nothing wrong with that.
39:05
So it goes to show and a lot of people, a lot of artists that
39:09
I've heard and that J Rs talked about on the show, that seems to
39:12
be a a common theme. So I don't think you're alone
39:15
there at all. I think that's probably a good
39:16
mark to have actually. And there's there's definitely a
39:22
a cool down period after show, you know, like solo shows aren't
39:25
too bad 'cause it's just me. I just have, but you know, like
39:29
big band shows, like Cowboys, you know, we finish up and the
39:33
guys are tearing their stuff down and I'm going and talking
39:37
to people and the DJs playing super loud and I'm yelling to,
39:41
to talk to them and, and then, you know, 132 o'clock,
39:45
everybody's clearing out. So now I go tear down my stuff,
39:49
fill the trailer up with everything.
39:51
I'm wore out my ears. I got bad tinnitus, you know,
39:55
and I'm still in kind of what I call show mode where I'm very
39:59
hey, how's it going? You know that so that drive home
40:03
like there's no music that I turn my radio screen off.
40:08
I dim like my hood lights for my instruments and I just like come
40:13
down essentially I I decompress and you know, I go from being
40:19
this very lively, outgoing person and I get home and.
40:23
You know, I sit down and eat my my brisket fries at 2:30 in the
40:27
morning and you know, my mom will come in the kitchen like,
40:31
hey, how was it? But I'm like, mom, I love you.
40:34
I don't want to talk or see another person.
40:37
I'm. Done.
40:38
I'm done. Yeah, I'm done socializing for
40:41
the night. I love you.
40:43
I'll talk to you tomorrow. Whenever somebody comes to a
40:46
show, Mike, what do you want? What do you want them to feel
40:49
when they leave? Go in the other side of the the
40:52
spectrum. I I think the main thing is
40:58
because so many people come to my shows now because somebody
41:01
else told them or they've heard about me.
41:03
So there's a certain hype. So I think now the main thing is
41:09
I want people to say wow, that guy, that guy beyond lived up to
41:13
the hype. But in general, if they come to
41:17
a solo show, you know, most of my solo shows are a little bit
41:20
more laid back. I'm doing slower stuff.
41:22
People come to hear my voice, not so much to come see a show.
41:27
Right. So leaving a solo show, I want
41:30
people to think like, man, that that guy can really sing his ass
41:34
off, You know? I don't.
41:36
Are we allowed to swear? I didn't.
41:37
Absolutely yes. You can say anywhere.
41:39
You want. But yeah, you know, like I, I
41:44
don't necessarily think like, oh, that's the best singer in
41:47
the world, but you know, like, man, that guy can can really
41:50
nail it to the wall. And then for the band shows, you
41:54
know, playing more upbeat stuff. And I'm switching from guitar to
41:58
piano to just holding the mic singing.
42:00
So there's a little bit more of a entertainment element.
42:04
I'm throwing T-shirts out to the crowd.
42:06
K Toss, you know, so I want people to leave from there
42:10
thinking, yeah, he can really sing, but he's also a really
42:13
good entertainer, you know, like, we know there's money well
42:15
spent. I never want people to come away
42:17
from a show thinking that wasn't really worth the money.
42:22
Yeah, I think that's a good, that is a good, a good habit to
42:26
to have. And I don't think anybody's
42:28
coming away feeling disappointed whatsoever in any, any of these
42:35
things. And that I was going to ask.
42:36
So you just mentioned guitar and and piano and everything.
42:40
I know, I know that you can play the piano.
42:42
Well, that's where we first started to see your videos.
42:45
But it sounds like you can play just about anything.
42:50
Not, not anything I start. I actually started out playing
42:56
guitar. I played a little bit of rhythm
42:57
when I was 8 and then 12 years old.
43:00
I started seeing Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley and stuff like
43:03
that. I was like, OK, well I'm done
43:05
with guitar. I'm going to do piano and piano.
43:07
I really stuck with that. And then these past year or two,
43:11
I started getting back into guitar and knowing the notes and
43:16
chord structures and the number system from piano, I was able to
43:21
translate that to guitar. And then bass is not actually
43:25
that different from guitar. There's a little difference in
43:28
tuning, but the positioning is is very similar.
43:32
So I was able to translate guitar and piano to bass, drums
43:39
still. Jerry's still out.
43:42
I've never, I don't have a kit set up at home, so I don't get
43:46
to just noodle around. And anytime I'm in front of a
43:48
kit, other people are around. So I I'm very shy with.
43:51
I don't want to make AI, don't want to embarrass myself.
43:54
Yeah, but yeah, play. Play a little bit of bass, a
43:58
little bit of rhythm guitar. Awesome.
44:02
But yeah. That's great man, that's great.
44:04
I, I've seen pictures and stuff on your on your social media and
44:09
it looks like you're in a room full of instruments.
44:11
So I kind of had a feeling that that you could, you could do it,
44:15
do just about all of it. It would be hard to sing like
44:19
you do and play drums. I don't, I don't see how that
44:22
would you may be the first in the history of the world if you
44:26
could pull that off. So I mean, if the drum, if you
44:30
don't master the drums, Mike, I think it's going to be OK.
44:34
Don't tell my neighbor. Don't tell my.
44:36
Neighbor I think honestly, if I if, if I go anywhere, like if,
44:41
if I end up doing arenas and stuff like that, I think it
44:44
would be, it would be heartbreaking.
44:47
But I would ultimately have to get somebody to play piano for
44:49
me 'cause you know, regardless of how good you are at doing
44:54
both, one or the other is going to suffer when you're doing
44:58
both. You know, I'm not as good a
44:59
piano player when I'm singing or I'm not as good a singer when
45:02
I'm playing. So I would have to get somebody,
45:07
unfortunately. But.
45:09
Yeah, but I mean, you know, it goes back to the ultimately,
45:12
what are people there for? You're playing an arena.
45:14
They're there to be entertained. The prices of tickets playing in
45:18
arenas are not cheap. You want to give them the best
45:21
show. That is giving them the best
45:23
show. So you do have to make those
45:24
kind of sacrifices, so to speak. I love that you're already
45:29
thinking there, because you're going to be there.
45:32
There's zero doubt in my mind. I know they're hitting in
45:34
Terrans. None.
45:37
I don't like to assume that I'm going to be anywhere, but in the
45:40
event that I end up there, I want to be prepared.
45:43
Correct. That's right.
45:44
You can prepare. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't
45:47
happen, but it's going to. Happen.
45:49
I'm going to make it happen. Yeah, we are.
45:53
We're going to all do our part. We will.
45:55
I want this to happen. All I ask is I just want to come
45:58
backstage. I don't want anything else.
46:00
I'll even pay for it. Just whenever you make it big, I
46:03
want to be there. Yes, backstage at Tiger Stadium,
46:07
you know, of course. Oh, Lord, yes.
46:10
Now we're talking. We'll have a full on day that
46:14
day. Tales from the tailgate, all of
46:17
it. It'll all happen, yes.
46:20
Yes. Yes, with a backstage interview
46:23
culminating with a backstage interview with you.
46:25
If I can stay upright and vertical by that hour and.
46:29
Then I'll bring you out on stage and you know, we'll do, we'll do
46:34
a back and forth real quick. There it is.
46:36
This is recorded. I'm not going to forget this.
46:39
It'll be in the archives forever, even if it doesn't make
46:42
the show. Absolutely I will.
46:46
I will do it. Electronic signature on it.
46:49
Yes, there it is. There it is.
46:52
Well, I mean, you've kind of answered this a little bit, but
46:55
what what's one part of the music business that you are
46:58
starting to see that is just absolute real work, something
47:03
that would surprise people? Social media, honestly social
47:08
media cuz like I said, I'm not a super like people person.
47:12
I like being to myself and I like, I like doing hands on
47:15
work. So like, you know, ordering the
47:18
merch and folding up the shirts and, and ordering or not
47:22
ordering equipment, but maintaining equipment, stuff
47:24
like that. I'm a, I'm a gear nerd.
47:27
I'm a, I'm a sound engineer as well as as a single.
47:31
So I like messing around with gear.
47:34
But one thing I hate is just, you know, I gotta take time out
47:37
of the day to film a little video and and then the post
47:42
times. Facebook takes forever to upload
47:44
TikTok takes forever to upload Instagram.
47:47
You got to keep the app open for it to update it.
47:50
It almost takes an hour just to post 1 little 62nd video across
47:55
everything. And I know Taryn has told me
47:58
about apps that can, what would you say synchronize schedule
48:05
everything? I just never got into any of
48:08
that. So I just I do it all manually.
48:13
And then, of course, you know, there's certain people D Ming
48:15
you on Facebook or on Instagram or TikTok.
48:18
And some of them are asking about booking shows, which is
48:23
nice, but a lot of them are just trying to talk to me.
48:27
So it's like, OK, let's take a little minute to sit down and
48:30
say hi to all these people. And I do get some emails to my,
48:36
to my and my managers shared e-mail that's like, hey, Mike,
48:42
we love your voice, da da da da da.
48:44
And I try to make videos like, hey, my manager is also on this
48:47
e-mail and this is not his primary job.
48:50
So maybe keep that to the DMS in the comments.
48:56
People gone people. Just so he's not overrun.
48:59
Yeah. I've tried to get him more into
49:02
social media and he's done a lot better.
49:04
Like I told him, you know, to do videos that people see him and
49:07
get to know him and he's done a lot better with that.
49:10
I got him to do a foodie video with me.
49:12
I don't know if you saw that. One I did, I did see that.
49:15
Yeah. I mean, it's I think people just
49:19
want to see that artists like yourself are relatable people
49:24
just like, like you are like, I mean, you're just, you're just a
49:28
normal dude, you know, at the end of the day.
49:31
Ever. And so is Laney Wilson.
49:33
She's just a normal lady who's hit stardom, but she I think
49:38
it's been a big thing with her and Ella Langley and those that
49:41
are having this Uber success Co Wentzel, all these people, just
49:45
whatever they're the they're kind of a they show their
49:50
personality. They show they're not being
49:53
serious all the time. They have fun.
49:55
Food reviews could be right up your lane to just be a little
49:58
goofy, but have fun. Hasn't been shown yet.
50:01
That would be funny. There you go.
50:04
Well, and I, I attempted a while back, I attempted to make a vlog
50:10
for my YouTube of like going to Lowe's or going to Home Depot
50:15
and getting some stuff to make a road case or a furniture Dolly
50:22
or something for some of my equipment.
50:24
And I got maybe like 2 minutes into being into Lowe's and I got
50:29
my phone like close to me. I'm like looking around, making
50:32
sure nobody's there so they can't hear me, like talking to
50:35
my phone. I was like Nope, vlogging is
50:38
definitely not. Amazing.
50:39
Yeah, it is. I know that exact feeling
50:42
whenever you're somewhere like in a restaurant or whatever.
50:46
And I, I still have it too. I'm still not totally absolved
50:50
from this, but I still am like, I don't want anybody to see me.
50:54
Then I'm now that person that you would see and you're like,
50:58
they should just put their damn phone up.
51:00
And now I'm that person. And but I'm getting better about
51:04
not caring. It it also goes back to my fear
51:08
of being perceived as arrogant or thinking I'm somebody big.
51:15
My main thing is if somebody sees me walking around in Lowe's
51:18
video and talking to my phone, they're going to be like, oh, he
51:21
thinks he's an influencer. Oh my God, you know I don't want
51:25
to be that guy. Right, I get it.
51:28
I totally understand like. Oh he thinks he's an influencer
51:31
but he's got 5 followers and two of them are his mom and dad.
51:37
I've been saving little videos from all our little things that
51:40
we do and I'm going to put together like a little vlog for
51:45
him and everything. 100 there's no doubt that you have the
51:49
footage and you definitely have the know how Taran so you have
51:52
to it's a team effort. We're all going to get, we're
51:55
all going to help you along with you, along with you doing it
51:59
too, just to promote you, man, because you've got you've got
52:02
the voice and you've got the commitment and the grind.
52:07
So tell us a story. You did release a new single
52:10
here recently. There'll be no flowers.
52:13
Unbelievable. We talked a little bit about it
52:16
earlier. Just an amazing song.
52:18
So walk us through that song. What is the story behind it?
52:21
Did you write that song and tell us everything about it?
52:26
So First off, a lot of people think it has to do with George
52:29
Jones, 'cause you know, first line is the day we put George in
52:32
the ground. It has nothing to do with George
52:35
Jones. It's a placeholder name.
52:39
And I got the idea we were, I think we had played Cowboys that
52:49
night. It was back in April.
52:50
It was a long time back. We played Cowboys after after
52:55
Cody Johnson played the Cajun Dome.
52:57
So I mean, we were playing for like 5 or 600 people like
53:02
Cowboys pretty packed up and we had a great night.
53:06
We were all like, let's go get some canes, you know?
53:09
So we go to Canes and Canes. Of course you know, it's past
53:13
2:00 so it's full of people after the bar rush.
53:17
So I was like, well, I got, I got all those fuzzy chairs in
53:20
the, I got those Walmart, you know, fold up fuzzy bag chairs
53:25
or whatever. I had like 5 of them.
53:28
So I was like, let's go, just eat in the trailer.
53:31
So we went in our band trailer, put the light on, put these
53:34
chairs out, and we were just having a good time.
53:37
And it was me, my drummer, my guitar player, my bass player
53:41
and my bass player's girlfriend. And, you know, like my, my bass
53:47
player at the time and his girlfriend.
53:48
They, they're very in love, you know, like they, they just look
53:52
at each other this certain way. And you, you know that look, you
53:57
know. Yeah, I know the look.
54:01
And I, you know, I'd been single my entire never had a
54:05
girlfriend, never even had like a a couple talking stages or
54:10
anything like that. And it's like, yeah, I I didn't
54:14
have to go through any heartbreak that all these people
54:17
who had multiple relationships go through.
54:19
But at the same time, I've had to have this loneliness that
54:23
stretches out, you know, my whole life.
54:27
And I ended up getting back home about probably 5:30 that
54:33
morning. You know, I had to drop
54:34
everybody back off at their cars.
54:36
And I get back home and I was on my way to my bedroom and I, I
54:44
just got this little melody stuck in my head.
54:47
So I walked to my studio room and you could see the sunlight
54:51
starting to come through the blinds like it was that time of
54:54
morning. And I, I just came up with that
54:57
first line. I remember the day we put George
55:01
in the crown and I went from there and in probably 10-15
55:08
minutes I had the song. Really.
55:11
Yeah. That's amazing.
55:13
That is amazing. They it is such a such a
55:17
throwback. It's just like, like you said,
55:19
like you did, like your dad said, if that song comes out in
55:22
1978, that song's already like, it's, it's #1 like 100%.
55:30
It's just so it's wow, that's so cool.
55:33
That's so cool. I, I just, I, I, it's just, I
55:38
don't know how people like you. How does, how does this happen?
55:41
And that's a common story that you hear with a lot of hit
55:44
songs. It was like, yeah, it was just,
55:46
I was, I just happened. I was walking the dog and and it
55:50
hit me in 10 minutes. It took me 10 minutes and then
55:53
it was just there. I think a good song just finds
55:56
its way pen to paper rapidly a lot of times and sometimes keep
56:02
it simple, stupid or whatever the simplicity of it.
56:06
But there had to be some influence throughout that night
56:09
that just got you on that wavelength.
56:12
You know, you may not even know what it was just subconsciously
56:16
that just entered in. It's so cool.
56:18
What a gift. That's a That's a gift.
56:22
Thank you. And it's funny, I'm not even I
56:24
don't even consider myself a songwriter.
56:27
I've written, you know, I'm writing the songs for my album
56:29
that will hopefully put out this year.
56:32
But my sister is the songwriter in the family.
56:36
So she she's been to Panama City and San Antonio and Dallas and
56:44
Mandeville for songwriters festivals.
56:47
And I think she Bogalusa I think as well.
56:51
So she's she's going all over the place for songwriters
56:53
festivals and events. So I mean, she can whip out a
56:58
great song like that. I will say she's, she's a bit of
57:03
a, I don't want to say Bob Dylan because that would be an insult
57:07
to her. No offense to Bob Dylan.
57:10
She's a, she's a Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris type writer.
57:13
So she writes very good stuff, but it's a little bit long
57:16
winded. Yeah, maybe doesn't necessarily
57:20
100% fit your style necessarily. But I was like, Mary, if you
57:25
can, if you can write me something that's like 3 minutes,
57:28
15, because that's the window for radio play.
57:31
That's the sweet spot for radio play.
57:32
If I was like, you could write me a 30 minute song, we'd be in
57:36
the clear. I told Mike.
57:38
He was still working on that. That's going to be, that's one
57:41
of his songs are going to be amazing.
57:43
I don't want it to happen to him, but that he's going to
57:46
write some good stuff. Yeah.
57:48
Oh, there's zero doubt whatsoever.
57:50
Yeah, You just got to live some of those life experiences.
57:53
I don't think getting a girlfriend is going to be any
57:56
kind of an issue for you moving forward, my brother.
57:58
I'm just saying unless you don't want one.
58:02
Finding finding a good girlfriend, finding a a
58:06
girlfriend that what's the word isn't isn't just interested in
58:12
dating a singer or a musician, right.
58:14
Yeah, that's that's the the tough part.
58:18
Yeah, that is tough, but I love that that's your answer and that
58:21
you're that grounded and you're that wise at 23 to know that
58:25
that's what's important. Way more important than any of
58:28
the little bar flies that are going to come your way 'cause
58:31
they're a dime a dozen, you know?
58:34
I mean, they really are, truly. Are.
58:37
Exactly, exactly. Well, I'm that's, you're just
58:40
such a great. I'm sorry, I got to say it.
58:42
You're just such a great kid, dude.
58:44
You really are. I never thought I would say
58:46
these words because I don't feel like I should.
58:51
But I mean, it's just the truth. I'm I'm old now.
58:54
He's more mature than us. Yeah, for sure.
58:57
We. There's see running, running a
59:00
small business. So, you know, like with the
59:02
music and everything, I have an LLC set up and I, I, I got
59:07
spreadsheets full of expense reports and stuff like that.
59:10
So like I, I run this like a business, you know, you see me
59:14
on stage and I'm all having fun and everything.
59:16
I get off stage and I'm like, OK, here's your check, here's
59:19
your check, here's your check, here's your 1099.
59:22
You didn't sign that yet. You know, stuff like that.
59:24
Which musicians are not super fond of W Nines and 1090?
59:28
9 No, they're not. But I like to do it the honest
59:32
way, so. Well, and that's the right way.
59:35
If you do it the right way from the beginning, it'll always stay
59:38
that way. Whenever you make it big, that
59:41
isn't going to be an issue that brings a lot of people down.
59:44
You know, you're going to you already have all the structure
59:46
in place, which is which is smart.
59:49
You're front loading it brilliant.
59:51
I mean, you're ahead of the game, I think from a lot of
59:53
people really and truly what is what you kind of mentioned your
59:59
style. Are you going to stay in that
1:00:02
kind of is that the style? I mean, I know that artists
1:00:04
always evolve and you may evolve from where you're at right now
1:00:08
in three or four years and you knows, but is that kind of that
1:00:12
for quote, quote UN quote, old school, old style of country?
1:00:17
Is that kind of your genre that you think you're going to just
1:00:21
that lane that you're going to stay in kind of a Zack Top kind
1:00:24
of fish lane in the in a sense? Yeah, so it's as, as far as
1:00:29
right now, you know, for live shows, our set list, the the
1:00:34
parameters for the set list were 1986 to 1993.
1:00:39
So nothing newer. I mean, we threw in two Zak Top
1:00:42
songs because Zak Top is the exception.
1:00:46
But I, I noticed that it's, it's a lot easier to get the younger
1:00:49
crowd, which I love my older crowd, but the older crowd isn't
1:00:52
going to be paying $200 for a ticket at the Cajun Gnome.
1:00:58
So I'm, I'm really trying to get that, that younger college
1:01:01
crowd. So the, the later 80s nineties
1:01:03
stuff, but that's for the live stuff.
1:01:06
As far as my releases, I am trying to focus on that 1970 to
1:01:13
1980 Nashville sound style. Yes.
1:01:19
So the, the, the album that I'm, I'm working on right now is I'm
1:01:24
going to title it 1975. What's that called?
1:01:28
Colon Tales from the Honky Tonk. And it's going to be a themed,
1:01:33
it's going to be a themed album. One of them that I wrote is
1:01:37
called 8 track Romeo. And it's a song about a guy who,
1:01:41
you know, he goes into the bar and he fills up the jukebox with
1:01:44
old 80s country songs. And he gets the girls to dance
1:01:48
with him. And he picks out a girl to take
1:01:49
home every week and blah, blah, blah.
1:01:52
And then he sees one girl that he's like, oh, I'm going to have
1:01:55
her. And she knows, like, I'm, I'm
1:01:59
not, I'm not playing that game. So that's one of them.
1:02:04
And there's a couple of other ones that are very old school.
1:02:08
Oh. Man, I cannot wait for this.
1:02:11
That was one of my questions were when could we expect the
1:02:14
album? You said?
1:02:15
Hopefully later this year. That would be awesome.
1:02:18
That would be. Awesome I can't wait it's going
1:02:20
to be incredible. It sounds like I love, I love
1:02:23
albums that have a theme like that's old school in and of
1:02:27
itself. Yes, that's the way it should be
1:02:31
like every you're checking every single box.
1:02:33
And I know that people that watch our show, they they're
1:02:37
they're going to love this. They're going to love it too.
1:02:39
So. Well, amazing.
1:02:41
I mentioned, I mentioned on, you know, 97.3 the dog has a holiday
1:02:46
hangover show every January. And I did that show and I'd said
1:02:52
before I did flowers, I said, you know, the government didn't
1:02:57
experiment. It was unsanctioned.
1:03:00
But they said, let's see what happens if we have two parents
1:03:07
who are alive during the golden age of country music and they
1:03:10
have a child after country music has made a downturn.
1:03:15
And they we subject this child to only listen to absolute
1:03:20
golden platinum country music from the 60s, seventies, 80s.
1:03:25
And then we'll have him make a song and we'll see how that song
1:03:29
turns out. And that's basically what what
1:03:31
Flowers is. That's a fact.
1:03:34
We we tell somebody, we lock them, we lock them in a cell for
1:03:38
20 years and make them only listen to classic country.
1:03:42
And then we're like, OK, write an album now.
1:03:44
And that's that's what you get. I love that, man.
1:03:48
Yeah. That if you did that to someone,
1:03:51
they are like, you could freeze someone from 1979 and then
1:03:55
unreleased them today and they heard that song.
1:03:58
You would never convince him that that song is like 50 years
1:04:01
later almost. You know what I mean?
1:04:04
Like, you just wouldn't. It just is that pure is so, so
1:04:08
well done, man. Well, I'm excited.
1:04:10
I'm excited to see what all comes from this.
1:04:13
Of course, we'll have you back on to at some point, hopefully,
1:04:17
if you're willing to, that whenever you release your album
1:04:20
so we can go through. I would love to go through song
1:04:24
by song, like what have you, what where'd this come from?
1:04:27
What's all that? Because I know I'm going to have
1:04:31
answers. Well, let's let's start to wrap
1:04:37
this up a little bit. I want to play a couple of
1:04:39
little games. Just ask some questions to both
1:04:41
of you. This is nothing, nothing crazy
1:04:44
this time, Taryn, I swear these are just normal Louisiana or
1:04:50
southern questions and whoever wants to go first, just jump in
1:04:57
Jar Roux or homemade Roux. No fence sitting.
1:05:02
How do you How do you do your Roux?
1:05:05
Jar Roux. We all know I can't cook so.
1:05:11
We can cook, it's just the jar Roux is such a time saver and I
1:05:15
might get in trouble for saying that, but we we ain't got time
1:05:18
to cook all day long like. At the end of the day, it's oil
1:05:21
and flour and I've had it out of a jar and it tastes exactly the
1:05:25
same as the stuff that I slaved over for an hour stirring.
1:05:29
It's exactly the same. The only reason some people are
1:05:33
like, oh, you can only do homemade Roux, it's just so that
1:05:36
they can say they made homemade root so that they can feel
1:05:38
better than everybody. Else it's like, Oh well, they
1:05:41
say they'd had a homemade Roux in it and.
1:05:44
I was, I was there when DJ Redd couldn't tell the difference.
1:05:47
So if he watches this, I was there.
1:05:50
I witnessed it. He took he voted for Rusty's jaw
1:05:54
room. Yeah, exactly.
1:05:56
End of. End of conversation, I mean.
1:05:58
It's yeah, yeah, what an embarrassing moment for the
1:06:01
lovely DJ. Rat.
1:06:03
I love it. Do you dust your crawfish or
1:06:09
not? This is controversial to say the
1:06:12
least. I would say dust them.
1:06:16
You dust them, OK, We got a duster.
1:06:18
We got a duster. That's OK.
1:06:20
I'm not. I'm a fence writer on this I'm I
1:06:24
prefer them not dusted, but if I have had them dusted that were
1:06:28
done right I had they can be done correctly.
1:06:32
What about you, Taryn? I just don't even care.
1:06:35
I just want a boiled crawfish like any way to yes?
1:06:40
Tomatoes and gumbo. Yay or nay?
1:06:43
No, We. Can't do that.
1:06:48
Yeah. What is this?
1:06:50
Are you trying to make us angry? I mean, it's just a, it's just a
1:06:55
question. What in the 985 is that
1:06:58
question? That is fair, yeah.
1:07:03
I mean, I guess if you're making a Creole gumbo, you could
1:07:08
consider doing that because you would have to have the Creole
1:07:11
part of it. But yeah, I'm with you.
1:07:14
I'm with you. Yeah.
1:07:15
What in the DJ? Just throw that question the
1:07:17
long grass. That's exactly right.
1:07:20
As you know, he does and did. This came from our Facebook
1:07:25
questions posed a question today of what?
1:07:30
What's this? What are questions that I should
1:07:32
ask every guest that comes on the show?
1:07:35
And this kind of piggybacks the tomatoes and gumbo A1 sauce on a
1:07:40
steak. Yay or nay?
1:07:42
If it's cooked right, you don't need that.
1:07:44
You don't need anything. I I was going to say like a good
1:07:49
steak should speak for itself, but if Mama Karen made the
1:07:54
steak, it's going to need a lot of sauce.
1:07:57
I love her to death, but when she takes some steaks off the
1:08:00
grill, that's leather. That's not.
1:08:01
A steak anymore? She's a well done.
1:08:04
Boy, yeah, yeah, She'll take a steak that's that thin, and by
1:08:08
the time it gets off the grill, it's about that thin.
1:08:13
Whole shoe leather, I think that is.
1:08:15
The only exception that could be out there for saucing a steak is
1:08:19
if you if you just flat out overcook it.
1:08:23
Otherwise I think you should burn in hell.
1:08:26
There, I said it. That's for a clip I.
1:08:31
Agree. You're an idiot.
1:08:34
What's 1? Louisiana food.
1:08:37
That is a hill you are willing to die on.
1:08:41
Fish, I mean. Yeah, you're from Breaux Bridge.
1:08:50
I got so I got 3 on my mind. I'm stuck between as far as best
1:08:57
tasting, I'm stuck between red beans and rice, jambalaya and
1:09:02
gumbo, chicken and sausage. Gumbo.
1:09:05
I feel like it would be chicken and sock 'cause I can eat
1:09:08
chicken and sausage if you go all day long.
1:09:10
But I will say as far as one meal that you can't mess up rice
1:09:16
and just a plain old rice and gravy.
1:09:19
I think anybody can get behind that.
1:09:21
I think so too. I think so too, and no one does
1:09:25
a good old rice and gravy better than South Louisiana does.
1:09:31
No hate to my N Louisiana brethren.
1:09:33
It's done differently. It is done way differently.
1:09:37
I'm not going to even bait and bait either one of y'all into
1:09:40
that one. Not tonight.
1:09:42
I have others coming up. I'll bait them.
1:09:45
We're not going to get into the north of 190 question.
1:09:47
No, I want you to succeed and have all of the state of
1:09:50
Louisiana behind you, Mike. We're not.
1:09:53
We're not. We're not going to divide today.
1:09:55
We're not dividing Louisiana. We want the whole South and the
1:09:59
whole United States behind you. We don't need that kind of
1:10:02
friction. What's the most embarrassing
1:10:06
moment that you can laugh about now?
1:10:10
I. Got stuck on the side of a
1:10:11
mountain one time and that was pretty embarrassing 'cause I
1:10:16
thought they were going to get helicopter to come get me.
1:10:19
Holy cow, Like what were you hiking or was it there's a snow
1:10:23
or what? So it's called Independence
1:10:25
Rock, and it's this huge, huge rock.
1:10:28
I think it's what could be like 300 feet, 300 feet big.
1:10:33
So I'm like, I don't know. But I get up about maybe 50 feet
1:10:37
in the air and I'm climbing up the side and I look down and I'm
1:10:41
scared of heights. So the second I look down,
1:10:43
that's it. I'm frozen.
1:10:45
My hands are like this and they will not move.
1:10:49
And I am just stuck and I'm like, what am I going to do?
1:10:54
But it's kind of like, so it kind of slants a little bit.
1:10:58
And I see this old man, I turn saw it next to me.
1:11:01
I see an old man and he's climbing and he goes past me and
1:11:05
I'm just still stuck. And Kobe had to come because I
1:11:08
had told him like, we're going to have to call a helicopter
1:11:10
something, somebody's got to rescue me.
1:11:13
And people are laughing. Everybody's looking from down
1:11:15
there. And so he ends up coming next to
1:11:18
me and he talks me through it to where I can actually go.
1:11:21
But it was very embarrassing. Kids were laughing.
1:11:25
It was it was bad. And I'm just stuck like this on
1:11:27
the side of it. My goodness, the what a sight to
1:11:31
see. Oh yeah.
1:11:34
Wow, I like. My, my most embarrassing the,
1:11:39
the, the only one that can come to mind right now is back in 23,
1:11:44
I had a, a young buddy of mine named Kate Domek call me up and
1:11:50
he was like, hey, man, I'm opening for Clay Cormier in in
1:11:53
Oroville. We're we're doing this alumni
1:11:56
softball tournament and Cade does Zoda Cajun.
1:12:01
So he does a lot of Wayne Toopes, Richard Le Boeuf, stuff
1:12:04
like that. I had never even made a Spotify
1:12:08
playlist of Zoda Cajun, let alone played it.
1:12:12
And we are two weeks out from this gig.
1:12:15
So, man, I make a playlist of the set list and I'm listening
1:12:18
to it all and I'm like, this is going to be bad.
1:12:23
I'm not going to do it worth anything.
1:12:27
So I like get the licks down and I'm practicing, practicing,
1:12:31
practicing. And we get to the gig and we're
1:12:34
doing sound check. We hadn't even started the gig
1:12:37
yet. And they call out, you know,
1:12:39
whatever song to sound check with.
1:12:42
And I mean, I butcher it. It was it was horrendous.
1:12:49
And I went to I went to the guitar player who is the only
1:12:55
other Phil instrument, you know, that could take a ride.
1:12:59
I was like, man, I'm going to owe you like half of I'm going
1:13:02
to owe you my whole cut. You're going to have to do all
1:13:04
the solos and stuff because I'm lost.
1:13:09
And I just sat there just the whole time.
1:13:15
And yeah, I, I, I was completely embarrassed by the whole thing.
1:13:20
I apologize profusely to everybody.
1:13:25
I mean, it happens, but you learn something.
1:13:27
You I'm sure you'd add a take away from that.
1:13:29
That's part of the you know, that's just part of the the
1:13:33
chinks of the armor, so to speak, that you got to take you
1:13:36
got to take some licks. That's just you got to pay your
1:13:39
dues, I guess, since that was a due paying day.
1:13:45
If your life had a soundtrack, what song would be on it right
1:13:50
now? I.
1:13:51
Guess that Alex Warren song Ordinary.
1:13:54
I had put that in my video. That's a great, that's a great
1:13:58
song. I'd have to say life in the fast
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lane, the Eagles. There it is.
1:14:05
Yeah. There.
1:14:07
Yeah. I think that's probably very
1:14:10
fitting too, of where, where you were at right now.
1:14:13
It's coming. It's coming fast.
1:14:15
Oh yeah. What do you hope that song turns
1:14:18
into? The song.
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Cuz that one don't turn out too good.
1:14:26
Yeah, No, it doesn't. Now you, now you got me.
1:14:32
That's a gotcha question. I I'm sure I'm sure you didn't
1:14:35
mean it to me. No, I not at all.
1:14:37
I'm not that sharp. Maybe I'm trying to.
1:14:47
I'm trying to think of a song. Oh, you know what?
1:14:50
Footlights. Merle Haggard.
1:14:52
Oh oh hell yes. What a song.
1:14:56
I love that song. It's probably my that's I would
1:14:59
say that that's definitely my favorite Merle Haggard song.
1:15:03
Really. Yes, it is.
1:15:05
It is. I absolutely love, love that
1:15:08
song. All right, that's going to do it
1:15:10
for today's episode. A huge thanks to Taryn for
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