WEBVTT 00:00:01.180 --> 00:00:04.839 She's a big fan of the Predators. Taylor Swift 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:07.700 loves Predators. Five, four, three, two, one, 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:12.199 zero. Welcome to the show, people. Welcome to 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:25.920 the show. Eat my shorts. So here is to conversation. 00:00:27.759 --> 00:00:37.219 Tranquility Base here. Vehicle has landed. Welcome 00:00:37.219 --> 00:00:44.640 to Cash Exchange. Welcome. How's it going? Good. 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:47.439 Something happened the other day at work that 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.619 reminded me of an older episode that we did. 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.719 I went to greet a guest and I was like, you know, 00:00:53.780 --> 00:00:56.020 like, how are you doing? Welcome to the restaurant 00:00:56.020 --> 00:00:58.740 that I work at. And she actually answered me. 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:02.659 She was like, well, you know, I'm only here because 00:01:02.659 --> 00:01:06.040 and then was talking about her issues with Facebook 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.500 Marketplace. She tried to buy a rug. And when 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:10.319 she went to go buy that rug, she found out that 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:13.920 that rug was not in a pet free home. I got I 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:17.420 got her full life story. It's the first time 00:01:17.420 --> 00:01:19.959 that's ever happened to me. That's how she ended 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.980 up at your restaurant. Yeah, she was in the neighborhood 00:01:22.980 --> 00:01:25.819 that I work in because she went to go pick up 00:01:25.819 --> 00:01:27.719 a rug off a Facebook marketplace, but she forgot 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.280 to ask if it came from a pet -free home. It didn't. 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:35.239 She's allergic to cats. So she ended up at my 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:39.140 restaurant. That was how I greeted her. That's 00:01:39.140 --> 00:01:41.939 how she greeted me. It reminded me of the pod. 00:01:42.299 --> 00:01:44.959 And how'd that make you feel? To be burdened 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.819 by strangers' nonsense. I was a little thrown 00:01:47.819 --> 00:01:51.909 at first, but... I mean, we discussed her future 00:01:51.909 --> 00:01:54.849 decor plans for the new house that she has. Did 00:01:54.849 --> 00:01:56.849 you tell her that you're a filthy cat person 00:01:56.849 --> 00:01:59.650 and you couldn't serve her? You know, it didn't 00:01:59.650 --> 00:02:04.390 come up. Wow. Wow. So you exposed this woman 00:02:04.390 --> 00:02:07.709 to a potentially life -threatening allergy just 00:02:07.709 --> 00:02:10.530 so you could make a quick buck? I mean, I was 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:13.289 on the other side of the bar, so I don't think 00:02:13.289 --> 00:02:15.110 that that's how that works necessarily. I'm sorry. 00:02:15.229 --> 00:02:19.680 I didn't know. Allergens don't travel. You should 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.139 probably tell that to my sinuses during pollen 00:02:22.139 --> 00:02:24.039 season. Okay, well that's in the air. I'm not 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.460 actively sniffing a tree, but it still attacks 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:30.620 me. Sure. So, wow. I will bear that in mind. 00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:33.939 You think you know somebody. All right, Chloe, 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:35.599 you ready to get into today's episode? Yeah, 00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:39.060 what do you got? Okay. What do Taylor Swift, 00:02:39.819 --> 00:02:43.580 Cody Jinks, and Slipknot have in common? It has 00:02:43.580 --> 00:02:46.099 something to do with concerts. Because I know 00:02:46.099 --> 00:02:48.780 that you've been to... The heiress tour, I believe 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:51.419 one of your first dates with your fiancé was 00:02:51.419 --> 00:02:55.500 Slipknot? Pretty close, yeah. Yeah, she was not 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:59.819 a fan. And I remember hearing about you and your 00:02:59.819 --> 00:03:03.319 oldest, I believe, going to Cody Jinks. We did. 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.139 We did. I will tell you that today's episode 00:03:07.139 --> 00:03:09.539 has nothing to do with personal concert experience. 00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:13.689 Okay. Are we just... Talking trash about Ticketmaster 00:03:13.689 --> 00:03:16.750 because I have a lot to say on that matter. We 00:03:16.750 --> 00:03:18.009 could, but we're going to have to save that for 00:03:18.009 --> 00:03:23.030 another day. Lame. I got the inspiration for 00:03:23.030 --> 00:03:30.370 this episode because I was just sent my 2025 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:34.930 replay from Apple Music. Okay. I don't know who 00:03:34.930 --> 00:03:37.590 makes this playlist, who curates it, but they 00:03:37.590 --> 00:03:41.270 have impeccable taste. Just banger after banger. 00:03:41.610 --> 00:03:46.030 Like just nonstop hit, hit, hit, hit. Your Apple 00:03:46.030 --> 00:03:50.090 replay contains Taylor Swift? Well, you see, 00:03:50.189 --> 00:03:56.669 first off, I am a fan of Life of the Showgirl. 00:03:57.629 --> 00:04:01.270 Okay. I'm a fan of like a third of the Tortured 00:04:01.270 --> 00:04:05.449 Poets department. Okay. Everything previous to 00:04:05.449 --> 00:04:10.729 that, eh. But my... iTunes account is connected 00:04:10.729 --> 00:04:15.030 to our Alexa. Whenever I get requests in the 00:04:15.030 --> 00:04:19.470 car, it's through my Apple Music. Our Apple TV 00:04:19.470 --> 00:04:23.230 is connected to my Apple Music. So it's not completely 00:04:23.230 --> 00:04:26.889 my fault, but if it does come on, I don't turn 00:04:26.889 --> 00:04:30.810 it off. You do enjoy listening about teardrops 00:04:30.810 --> 00:04:33.389 on your guitar? Do we not go that far back in 00:04:33.389 --> 00:04:37.860 the catalog? No. At one point, whenever she was 00:04:37.860 --> 00:04:40.500 actually country, before she slapped her fan 00:04:40.500 --> 00:04:45.100 base around and was like, no, screw y 'all. I'm 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:46.819 going complete pop. She was cosplaying country. 00:04:47.379 --> 00:04:50.939 She wasn't cosplaying country then. She's from 00:04:50.939 --> 00:04:53.259 Pennsylvania. She was in the thick of it. Yeah, 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:57.399 but she lived in Tennessee. She wrote some of 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:01.120 her best songs at the Parthenon. That's in the 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.360 middle of Tennessee for some reason. She was 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:07.160 a big, she's a big fan of the Predators. Taylor 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.379 Swift loves Predators. I would like that to be 00:05:10.379 --> 00:05:12.279 on record, and I would also like that to be the 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:16.519 cold open of this episode. The Nashville Predators. 00:05:17.819 --> 00:05:20.360 Horrible team name, but sure. Honestly, when 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.240 you get these, when you get these playlists, 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:29.720 it is kind of eye -opening, I guess, and not 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.639 in a good way. Okay. I mean, my job, I do a lot 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.939 of driving and I can listen to music pretty much 00:05:36.939 --> 00:05:40.139 all day. So it makes a little more sense to me. 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:44.660 If I was someone that had a job where I couldn't 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:47.180 just zone out for the entire day, this would 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:52.759 probably be problematic. But my number one is 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:58.079 Coe Wetzel at a whopping 429 minutes listened. 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.800 That's a lot of co. That doesn't feel crazy over 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.819 the span of a year. And then Luke Combs, Cody 00:06:07.819 --> 00:06:10.779 Jinks, Eminem, Toby Keith, Chris Knight, Bowling 00:06:10.779 --> 00:06:13.860 for Soup, Jarrett Reddick, You Made, number seven. 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.519 Has nothing to do with the fact that every time 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.740 I start my vehicle, it plays the first song in 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:24.600 my library and it just so happens to be one of 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.439 your songs. Has nothing to do with that. No, 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:33.389 a -hole. Ah. I really, I really don't listen 00:06:33.389 --> 00:06:35.110 to this part, Jared, but I really need to take 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:38.529 that song off my playlist off out of my library 00:06:38.529 --> 00:06:42.670 because it's so annoying. Every time I start 00:06:42.670 --> 00:06:46.949 driving and it starts playing. Mine for the longest 00:06:46.949 --> 00:06:50.920 time. whenever I saw an iPhone was Passengers 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:52.939 Let Her Go because it comes from an album called 00:06:52.939 --> 00:06:55.579 All the Lights or something. And so now if I 00:06:55.579 --> 00:06:58.600 hear the opening notes from that song, it makes 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.560 me immediately angry. Well, before then, before 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:07.779 A -Hole, it was Absolute Zero by Stone Sour, 00:07:07.939 --> 00:07:10.360 whose frontman is also the frontman for Slipknot. 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.060 And that one goes a lot hard. So that's a punch 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:18.199 in the face. No. When it's 5 .30 in the morning 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.459 and you're just trying to get to work or school. 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:27.180 No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, that's a lot. So, A 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:31.300 -hole is a little better. But I still need to 00:07:31.300 --> 00:07:35.259 change that up. And then number eight, Taylor 00:07:35.259 --> 00:07:42.259 Swift. And at my number, which I was surprised 00:07:42.259 --> 00:07:44.379 this was a lot lower than I thought it would 00:07:44.379 --> 00:07:53.839 be. At my number 13th spot with 279 minutes. 00:07:54.540 --> 00:08:00.579 I'll take a guess. I've talked about this musical 00:08:00.579 --> 00:08:09.259 person, group, multiple times on this show. So 00:08:09.259 --> 00:08:12.379 it's a band that you've talked about on this 00:08:12.379 --> 00:08:16.540 and it's... Not bowling for soup. Is not bowling 00:08:16.540 --> 00:08:20.120 for soup. Can I get another hint? A genre, perhaps? 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:30.180 It's country. Country. And also rock. I was going 00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:32.279 to say Eli Young, but they wouldn't be considered 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:36.120 rock. And also apparently mild Satanism. That 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.840 would be the chicken -loving Zac Brown Band. 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:46.360 Zac Brown Band. Made it number 13. And he, his 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.000 group, have been in the news recently because 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:55.899 they just started a, is it a tour? Is it a residency? 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:00.159 I have no idea. A string of shows. First in Vegas. 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.519 At the Sphere. Do you have any interest in going 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.659 to the Sphere? I would love to go to the Sphere. 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.440 I think that it would be cool to see once, but 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.070 I don't think that. A, I would want to pay as 00:09:13.070 --> 00:09:15.110 much as they would probably ask for a ticket 00:09:15.110 --> 00:09:17.990 at the Sphere. I also think that I would, on 00:09:17.990 --> 00:09:21.289 a good day, get vertigo from it because of all 00:09:21.289 --> 00:09:23.850 of the things I've seen of the Sphere. I think 00:09:23.850 --> 00:09:27.409 it is meant to kind of break your brain. Music 00:09:27.409 --> 00:09:33.090 or movie? I think music would be cool, but it 00:09:33.090 --> 00:09:37.370 would depend a lot on the act. I did send you 00:09:37.370 --> 00:09:39.929 a video of Zac Brown playing at the Sphere, and 00:09:39.929 --> 00:09:43.909 it is... Unbelievably silly. Unbelievably silly. 00:09:44.590 --> 00:09:48.230 I don't want to see you two, so wouldn't go to 00:09:48.230 --> 00:09:51.669 that. No, thank you. Wizard of Oz looked really 00:09:51.669 --> 00:09:54.269 cool. It did, and then you get to keep an apple. 00:09:54.750 --> 00:09:56.809 Oh, did not. If you were lucky enough to get 00:09:56.809 --> 00:10:01.970 pegged with one. What? They threw apples? They 00:10:01.970 --> 00:10:04.210 dropped apples from, they were foam apples from 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:07.549 the ceiling. Huh, didn't know that. They're red, 00:10:07.649 --> 00:10:14.059 like, just red foam balls with the... the logo 00:10:14.059 --> 00:10:22.059 on it. If it is a sphere, is there a ceiling? 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:28.879 Is there a ceiling or is there no ceiling? Like, 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.940 is it all ceiling or is it no ceiling? It's all 00:10:30.940 --> 00:10:38.639 wall. You're surrounded by wall. Yes. Huh. You 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:40.500 know, I didn't see nearly enough Drake and Josh 00:10:40.500 --> 00:10:44.440 memes whenever this fear first came to be. In 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:50.580 retrospect, I'm disappointed. Oh, yeah. But anyone 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:52.960 listening to this show, anyone that has a passing 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:57.480 knowledge of me, knows that I am a Zac Brown 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:01.059 defender. I will stick by them. They've made 00:11:01.059 --> 00:11:05.299 some silly choices. The whole thing about when 00:11:05.299 --> 00:11:11.759 he... divorced his second wife after, like, not 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:15.559 even a year, and then ended up suing her for 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:19.919 breach of contract. Yeah. Or breaking an NDA, 00:11:20.179 --> 00:11:22.419 something like that. That was a little silly. 00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:25.639 The Kendra Scott stuff kind of came out of nowhere. 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:32.649 A lot of people are blaming his turn. To the 00:11:32.649 --> 00:11:34.830 dark side on Kendra Scott. I don't know why. 00:11:34.850 --> 00:11:38.309 I don't know much about Kendra Scott. I think 00:11:38.309 --> 00:11:42.129 it's a little strange. I get it. But I do think 00:11:42.129 --> 00:11:44.830 it's a little strange that her brand was built 00:11:44.830 --> 00:11:47.970 off her ex -husband's name and she still goes 00:11:47.970 --> 00:11:49.950 by that ex -husband's name to protect the brand. 00:11:50.269 --> 00:11:53.210 Would you do that? Interesting. I don't know 00:11:53.210 --> 00:11:54.730 that I would want to change my name in general. 00:11:55.429 --> 00:12:01.360 No? Huh. I don't know. Okay. I think if you start 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.919 a, if you have a compelling reason to keep your 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.679 partner's name after you split up, then that's 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:14.899 valid. Like our mom kept her married last name 00:12:14.899 --> 00:12:16.879 because she has two kids with that last name. 00:12:17.059 --> 00:12:20.340 I think that's valid. Maybe not if you were to 00:12:20.340 --> 00:12:23.899 get like remarried, but. If I'm not mistaken, 00:12:24.019 --> 00:12:31.320 I'm pretty sure Kendra is. Like, based out of 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.360 your neck of the woods. She is indeed. I worked 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.019 at that company when I was doing sales. The Kendra 00:12:39.019 --> 00:12:41.899 Scott headquarters is not too far from me. Oh. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:49.419 Okay. So I said I'm a Zac Brown defender. I realize 00:12:49.419 --> 00:12:56.100 he has some faults. That's fine. Sure. I understand 00:12:56.100 --> 00:13:02.149 the criticism from people. About his current 00:13:02.149 --> 00:13:05.190 path, I think it's blown way out of proportion. 00:13:06.850 --> 00:13:11.470 I think that he was trying to convey a message 00:13:11.470 --> 00:13:14.269 and maybe was a little too heavy handed with 00:13:14.269 --> 00:13:19.009 it. And now people just people love to attack 00:13:19.009 --> 00:13:22.669 something. Sure. And then even if people don't 00:13:22.669 --> 00:13:24.370 love to attack something, they love to get the 00:13:24.370 --> 00:13:28.309 brownie points from attacking that thing. Yeah. 00:13:28.809 --> 00:13:33.110 So even if it's like, well, I don't agree, but 00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:35.330 if it had been me, there's no way I would have 00:13:35.330 --> 00:13:38.090 done that. You still get your brownie points 00:13:38.090 --> 00:13:39.769 even though you're not directly attacking anyone. 00:13:40.409 --> 00:13:45.789 Yeah. I'm not a defender in most of these situations 00:13:45.789 --> 00:13:48.450 because I think there's a lot more nuance to 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:51.990 a lot of it than obviously we're told. But I 00:13:51.990 --> 00:13:54.470 also don't care enough to put my two cents in 00:13:54.470 --> 00:13:58.429 in most of these situations. Yeah. I think it's 00:13:58.429 --> 00:14:04.309 interesting when your fan base is particularly, 00:14:04.590 --> 00:14:08.929 the majority is conservative. The majority is 00:14:08.929 --> 00:14:13.990 Christian country music loving people. All of 00:14:13.990 --> 00:14:20.070 the love thy neighbor goes out the window when 00:14:20.070 --> 00:14:22.309 this kind of stuff pops out. Whenever people 00:14:22.309 --> 00:14:27.919 decide that they want to experiment with, Maybe 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:30.720 something new. Maybe getting some feelings out. 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:32.720 They don't have any other avenue to explore. 00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:36.620 And this isn't even the first time. Maybe it's 00:14:36.620 --> 00:14:39.000 the first time that he's directly used, like, 00:14:39.019 --> 00:14:43.519 hell imagery in his stuff. But it's not the first 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.460 time that he's stepped out. And lucky for you, 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:50.100 I can go through his entire discography for you. 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:56.899 Okay. So, Zach Brownband. They're less of a band. 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:58.720 They're more of an ensemble. Do you know how 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:05.259 many members are in Zach Brown Band? Considering 00:15:05.259 --> 00:15:07.220 the fact that it's called Zach Brown Band and 00:15:07.220 --> 00:15:10.019 the frontman is Zach Brown, quite honestly, I 00:15:10.019 --> 00:15:14.960 only consider it to be the one guy. Wow. I know 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.759 that's wrong. Wow. So you're just going to negate. 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:19.539 But it's also a band named after the one guy. 00:15:19.820 --> 00:15:22.799 You're going to negate all the other eight members 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.899 of the Zach Brown Band? Good Lord. There's also, 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.179 I mean, he could have at least gone the Eli Young 00:15:28.179 --> 00:15:30.320 route and gone with two people out of the band. 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.600 But no, just Zac Brown and co. Well, he started 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:36.419 it. Not even Mumford and Sons. He started it. 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:40.080 He can do what he wants. He can. When it started 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:45.659 out, it was him and one bass player, one drum 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:48.980 player. There are eight members of the Zac Brown 00:15:48.980 --> 00:15:51.960 band. That's excessive. There's nine. There's 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:58.720 eight. Including Zach. No, there's Zach Brown 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:04.539 on lead vocals and guitar. There's Jimmy DeMartini 00:16:04.539 --> 00:16:10.139 on fiddle and vocals. There is John Driscoll 00:16:10.139 --> 00:16:12.779 Hopkins, which I feel like he put the Driscoll 00:16:12.779 --> 00:16:14.340 in so he wouldn't be confused with the hospital. 00:16:14.899 --> 00:16:20.399 Fair. John Hopkins. Isn't it John's Hopkins? 00:16:21.580 --> 00:16:23.940 It is Johns Hopkins. It's probably two people's 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:27.279 last names. Yeah. But still putting the Driscoll 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.019 in makes it a little... Do you think he opted 00:16:30.019 --> 00:16:32.340 for Driscoll or was that an actual part of his 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:36.340 name that he just... Oh, you think he just picked 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:40.860 up Driscoll? You could. It's a stage name. You 00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:43.559 could. That is correct. He replaced the original 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:48.539 bassist, Jacob Lawson. He plays bass, banjo, 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:56.639 and ukulele. Oh, okay. So next time you're practicing, 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:03.179 think of John Driscoll Hopkins. I don't know 00:17:03.179 --> 00:17:05.619 why I had a stroke over that. All right, you 00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:09.599 got Coy Bowles, who plays slide guitar, dobro, 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:15.460 piano, and organ. He plays dobro? Dobro, yeah. 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.529 It's like a... It's like, you know what a steel 00:17:20.529 --> 00:17:25.549 guitar is? Yeah. You play it over your lap. Well, 00:17:25.630 --> 00:17:31.529 it's like that. But it's its own thing. And it 00:17:31.529 --> 00:17:34.890 has like a slide for your finger. And it's got 00:17:34.890 --> 00:17:38.190 knee pedals and foot pedals. That's a Dobro. 00:17:39.130 --> 00:17:42.029 So it's like a fancier steel guitar. Interesting. 00:17:42.170 --> 00:17:45.670 A lot more adjustments you can make. Clay Cook 00:17:45.670 --> 00:17:49.549 is guitar, keys, vocals, mandolin, and steel. 00:17:50.269 --> 00:17:55.269 Okay. Daniel De Los Reyes is drums. He is the 00:17:55.269 --> 00:18:01.910 oldest member at 64. Nice. Matt Mangano is bass. 00:18:02.009 --> 00:18:06.089 Chris Fryer, who I am obligated to shout out, 00:18:06.109 --> 00:18:09.430 is a University of North Texas alum, replaced 00:18:09.430 --> 00:18:14.440 the original drummer, Marcus Petruska. And then 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:21.680 Caroline Jones is on vocals. And when Zach started 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:28.539 out with Jacob Lawson and Marcus Petrusca, he 00:18:28.539 --> 00:18:32.500 was playing in a restaurant that he and his dad 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:35.920 owned called Zach's Place in Georgia. He would 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:42.660 also do like 200 shows a year other places. So 00:18:42.660 --> 00:18:44.200 they did that for a little bit. And then once 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:47.079 developers came in, they bought the restaurant 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:53.759 out. And Zach went and bought a Ford Econoline 00:18:53.759 --> 00:19:01.099 450 bus. It's a tour bus. If you've been to somewhere 00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:04.740 where they shuttle old people, like from retirement 00:19:04.740 --> 00:19:08.160 homes to like casinos and stuff, that's the kind 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:09.680 of bus they're rocking. That was our first tour 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:17.829 bus. In 2004, Jimmy joined with Fiddle. 2005, 00:19:18.410 --> 00:19:22.630 Hopkins and Bowles. 2008, Fryer. 2009, Cook. 00:19:22.849 --> 00:19:27.390 Reyes in 2012, Mangano in 2014, and Caroline 00:19:27.390 --> 00:19:31.549 Jones in 2022. Only reason I'm telling you this 00:19:31.549 --> 00:19:37.309 is because throughout this span of 20 years, 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:41.400 a lot of different... People have joined the 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.039 Zac Brown band, which means there's a lot of 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:45.680 different tastes. There's a lot of different 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:49.359 opinions. There's a lot of different musical 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:53.819 proclivities come up. Sure. And so your sound 00:19:53.819 --> 00:19:57.140 is going to change throughout that time. Of course. 00:19:57.539 --> 00:20:01.980 Which one of them introduced Satan? Well, I mean, 00:20:02.099 --> 00:20:06.400 Caroline Jones was the most recent one. And their 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.579 most recent album. Did you know they had a recent 00:20:09.579 --> 00:20:12.440 album that came out this year that they're promoting 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:16.119 at the Sphere? I haven't listened to Zac Brown 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.220 since the Jekyll and Hyde album came out. It 00:20:19.220 --> 00:20:21.720 has been quite some time. I'm sure I've listened 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:23.440 to like something that they've put out in that 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.559 time between. But like the last album I could 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:28.940 tell you about was the one with Homegrown on 00:20:28.940 --> 00:20:30.980 it. It's interesting that you mentioned Jekyll 00:20:30.980 --> 00:20:33.559 and Hyde because that was their first foray into 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.259 like actual rock songs. The biggest single off 00:20:37.259 --> 00:20:41.400 that album was Heavy is the Head with Chris Cornell. 00:20:41.619 --> 00:20:47.539 So they started making the turn a lot earlier 00:20:47.539 --> 00:20:51.480 than most people think. But in 2004, they released 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:55.140 their first album, Homegrown, independently on 00:20:55.140 --> 00:20:58.740 Zach's own label, also called Homegrown, but 00:20:58.740 --> 00:21:01.460 then later changed to Southern Ground. And if 00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:06.309 you're in the Zach Brown camp, During the research, 00:21:06.549 --> 00:21:09.569 I went on their website. I was just trying to 00:21:09.569 --> 00:21:12.990 get what information I could and found out that 00:21:12.990 --> 00:21:22.470 their fan club is called the Zamily. Ew. Z -A 00:21:22.470 --> 00:21:27.130 -M -I -L -Y. I hate that. I hate that a lot. 00:21:27.390 --> 00:21:29.549 So needless to say, I didn't sign up to be a 00:21:29.549 --> 00:21:34.029 member of the Zamily. Every... New thing that 00:21:34.029 --> 00:21:36.170 I'm learning about the Zac Brown Band, in addition 00:21:36.170 --> 00:21:38.170 to everything I currently know about the Zac 00:21:38.170 --> 00:21:41.849 Brown Band, gives the strongest divorced dad 00:21:41.849 --> 00:21:46.329 vibe I have ever encountered. Well, that's fair. 00:21:47.049 --> 00:21:49.890 Because he is, in fact, a divorced dad. Twice 00:21:49.890 --> 00:21:52.410 over. I don't really think the second one counts 00:21:52.410 --> 00:21:57.029 all that much. But technically, he's on his way 00:21:57.029 --> 00:22:01.329 to his third marriage. But homegrown and southern 00:22:01.329 --> 00:22:07.480 ground. If you are a fan, as I am, you would 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:11.000 know that Homegrown was the title of its own 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.579 song. And Southern Ground is a term that he uses 00:22:14.579 --> 00:22:17.440 in, I think, at least two songs. And Chicken 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:21.920 Fried. And Chicken Fried, yep. What other songs 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.519 does he use it on? I think it was one on his 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.099 second album. I might be crazy. It might just 00:22:29.099 --> 00:22:32.339 be Chicken Fried. You give what you get. Yeah. 00:22:33.140 --> 00:22:36.359 You get what you give, yeah. But, yeah, I don't 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:39.380 know 100%. I do know that it's in Chicken Fried, 00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:43.380 though. But what do you remember the first big 00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:47.480 Zac Brown band song being? Chicken Fried. Toes. 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.980 Chicken Fried. Did you know that the first version 00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:56.140 of Chicken Fried that was on the radio was not 00:22:56.140 --> 00:22:59.740 Zac Brown band? I did not. Who was it? You know 00:22:59.740 --> 00:23:02.859 who the Lost Trailers are? No. I don't blame 00:23:02.859 --> 00:23:06.640 you. They had one song that did anything. It 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:11.859 was called Holler Back. Not Holler Back, girl. 00:23:13.539 --> 00:23:16.319 Holler Back. That sounds familiar. I feel like 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:18.920 I know that song. Yeah, I'm sure you do. If you 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.859 heard it, you'd recognize it. It was a flash 00:23:21.859 --> 00:23:29.299 in the pan. Nothing. They did a remix re -recording 00:23:29.299 --> 00:23:34.380 where It was for the NFL, the upcoming NFL season. 00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:39.140 It was called the football mix. It was the same 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:41.519 song, but just had football terminology in it. 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:49.400 So that's, that's the level that obviously it's, 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:51.660 it's nowhere near on par with what Zach Brown 00:23:51.660 --> 00:23:55.839 band would become. But at the time they were 00:23:55.839 --> 00:24:01.559 signed, Zach Brown wasn't. And. Chicken Fried 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:06.420 was a song that was on the Homegrown Independent 00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:11.319 album. Lost Trailers approached Zac Brown and 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:15.740 said, hey, we want this song on our album. Can 00:24:15.740 --> 00:24:20.819 we have it? They were still coming up. They hadn't 00:24:20.819 --> 00:24:23.779 made their big break yet. And so Zac Brown said, 00:24:24.019 --> 00:24:27.700 you can have it, but it has to stay an album 00:24:27.700 --> 00:24:33.160 song and you can't. Turn it into a single because 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:35.119 he's still holding out hope for his big break. 00:24:35.299 --> 00:24:37.140 And then chicken fried would be his first single. 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:46.019 Well, the head of Sony Nashville heard the lost 00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:50.480 trailer song or album and decided that their 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:56.019 strongest option for a single would be chicken 00:24:56.019 --> 00:25:01.019 fried. Zach was just. driving down the road one 00:25:01.019 --> 00:25:04.440 day listening to country radio, and here's Chicken 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:07.920 Fried playing, and it was not him singing. And 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.220 he got pissed. Reasonably. He reached out to 00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:14.140 his attorney. His attorney tried to talk him 00:25:14.140 --> 00:25:15.619 down, said, Hey, man, you're dealing with the 00:25:15.619 --> 00:25:17.960 head of Sony Nashville. Like, you're going to 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:20.759 get blackballed. They're going to torch you, 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:22.680 and you're not going to have a career. So maybe 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.720 you should just let this one go. Zach said, Nuh 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:28.609 -uh. And so convinced his attorney to send a 00:25:28.609 --> 00:25:30.710 cease and desist and it was taken off the radio. 00:25:31.910 --> 00:25:37.970 That whole incident led him to getting enough 00:25:37.970 --> 00:25:43.289 press to where he started meeting some people 00:25:43.289 --> 00:25:46.869 that ended up getting him signed to Live Nation 00:25:46.869 --> 00:25:50.589 Artist Records, which almost immediately closed 00:25:50.589 --> 00:25:53.930 and then was bought out by Atlantic Records. 00:25:54.089 --> 00:25:56.740 And so he got signed. Their debut single, Chicken 00:25:56.740 --> 00:26:00.099 Fried, was released in 2008 and it debuted at 00:26:00.099 --> 00:26:04.400 number one. It was the lead single off their 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:10.160 foundational album, The Foundation, which is 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:15.619 the album that we at Cash Exchange, mainly me, 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:23.500 tout as very instrumental in our growing up. 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:27.319 Beginning our love with the exact ground band. 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.279 Yeah. It was their first major label release. 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:33.279 It peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:36.619 and number two on the Billboard Top Country album. 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.420 Certified five times platinum. Wild. Biggest 00:26:41.420 --> 00:26:45.339 singles are Chicken Fried, Whatever It Is, Toes, 00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:49.299 Highway 20 Ride, and Free. It was a really good 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:52.579 album. And it still is. I forgot about a bunch 00:26:52.579 --> 00:26:57.309 of those. You know, Emily, she claims that she's 00:26:57.309 --> 00:27:00.829 never heard the song Highway 20 Ride. You haven't 00:27:00.829 --> 00:27:03.250 played it for her at any point? I don't know. 00:27:03.369 --> 00:27:07.990 I don't know. It's funny because whenever I find 00:27:07.990 --> 00:27:12.769 a really sad song, I play it for her just to 00:27:12.769 --> 00:27:16.769 get her reaction. There is a song by Luke Bryan 00:27:16.769 --> 00:27:22.349 about a kid who goes to a toy store. And apparently 00:27:22.349 --> 00:27:27.750 it's a toy store where they make toys. He goes 00:27:27.750 --> 00:27:31.910 to a factory? I don't know. It's country, so 00:27:31.910 --> 00:27:34.289 it's a small town. He's got a room in the back 00:27:34.289 --> 00:27:36.529 where he makes all the toys. Maybe it's Longlegs 00:27:36.529 --> 00:27:42.109 for all we know. I don't know. Sure. And he sees 00:27:42.109 --> 00:27:46.849 a toy soldier in the window. And he goes in and 00:27:46.849 --> 00:27:53.390 asks the... guy behind the counter if he can 00:27:53.390 --> 00:27:57.269 make him a daddy because his dad was a soldier 00:27:57.269 --> 00:28:03.150 who died at war huh and so since that incident 00:28:03.150 --> 00:28:05.490 I have not been allowed to play my sad songs 00:28:05.490 --> 00:28:08.869 for Emily and so maybe this is one that that 00:28:08.869 --> 00:28:11.609 took the heat because of that Luke Bryan song 00:28:11.609 --> 00:28:16.970 that is such a um a broad range of country music 00:28:16.970 --> 00:28:20.660 like there are So many songs you could point 00:28:20.660 --> 00:28:23.420 to where it's literally just grieving over a 00:28:23.420 --> 00:28:27.039 soldier, but it's infused with every bit of the 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:31.000 all of the hallmarks of a country song. You have 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:33.660 Luke Bryan's Drink a Beer. You have Lee Bryce's 00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:36.900 I Drive Your Truck. You have Build Me a Daddy 00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:41.359 for some reason. Haven't heard the song. Not 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:43.640 going to point to anything specifically, but 00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:46.519 come on. You definitely need to check it out. 00:28:47.819 --> 00:28:52.599 cannot stand luke bryan okay okay his first couple 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.019 albums before he started before he started releasing 00:28:56.019 --> 00:29:00.119 the spring break albums which don't get me wrong 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.059 spring break albums they're catchy i like them 00:29:03.059 --> 00:29:06.039 okay i don't like his i don't like his stuff 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:10.920 pretty much after that but there's another song 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:16.170 that i discovered from limewire It was one of 00:29:16.170 --> 00:29:18.470 the few songs that didn't give our family computer 00:29:18.470 --> 00:29:21.390 a virus. As far as you know. You can find it 00:29:21.390 --> 00:29:25.990 on YouTube, but there's no actual copy of this 00:29:25.990 --> 00:29:29.430 song that you can download and just play on demand. 00:29:29.970 --> 00:29:33.690 It's called Small Town Favorite. Okay. That's 00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:36.069 another one. And it's got all the hallmarks. 00:29:36.109 --> 00:29:39.670 It talks about John Deere. It talks about being 00:29:39.670 --> 00:29:44.049 the star football player in a small town. and 00:29:44.049 --> 00:29:47.210 getting his girlfriend knocked up and throwing 00:29:47.210 --> 00:29:50.269 all of his dreams away. Oh, I know what you're 00:29:50.269 --> 00:29:53.269 talking about. I've heard that song before. Yeah. 00:29:53.509 --> 00:29:55.230 I think we've probably talked about it before. 00:29:55.609 --> 00:30:00.990 Probably. But, yeah, I mean, that era of Luke 00:30:00.990 --> 00:30:06.289 Bryan is peak. It's whenever he started leaning 00:30:06.289 --> 00:30:10.089 into the bro country moniker is when it all went 00:30:10.089 --> 00:30:13.079 to hell in a handbasket. That is why I don't 00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:15.720 like Luke Bryan, is because so much of his music 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:20.059 for the longest time was just the exact same 00:30:20.059 --> 00:30:23.180 copy -paste. You know the Bo Burnham country 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:29.559 song from Make Happy? So much of Luke Bryan's 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:35.619 music is just that. Yeah. I was trying to remember 00:30:35.619 --> 00:30:37.640 the lyrics of it. It's a very good song. If you 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.619 haven't heard it, listen to Bo Burnham's country 00:30:40.619 --> 00:30:44.460 song. Only if you don't like country music. I'm 00:30:44.460 --> 00:30:47.279 not trying to stir the pot. Yeah, he talks about 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:51.220 drinking a beer with the label out, feeling up 00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:55.140 on a woman and realizing she's a scarecrow in 00:30:55.140 --> 00:31:02.720 a cornfield. But no, I think, I mean, whenever 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:10.579 the foundation came out, I was a sophomore in 00:31:10.579 --> 00:31:14.630 high school. And so I really didn't have any 00:31:14.630 --> 00:31:17.329 point of reference for songs like Highway 20 00:31:17.329 --> 00:31:22.289 Ride. But boy, I didn't know what my future had 00:31:22.289 --> 00:31:25.950 in store for me. Because I have had to drive 00:31:25.950 --> 00:31:30.769 on Highway 20 to receive my children. That is 00:31:30.769 --> 00:31:34.569 very specifically accurate. It is. And maybe 00:31:34.569 --> 00:31:38.670 that's what solidified Zac Brown in my heart, 00:31:38.750 --> 00:31:43.720 was just this one song. That's fair. I think 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:46.720 that's valid if you have that one connection 00:31:46.720 --> 00:32:11.720 that just puts you in deep with the artist. majority 00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:16.180 of country listeners but for anyone that knows 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:18.740 anything if you've heard the non -radio version 00:32:18.740 --> 00:32:22.579 of toes it's i got my toes in the water ass in 00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:29.059 the sand and for that line the entire album is 00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:34.160 rated explicit huh i didn't know that album was 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.400 considered explicit the only song that has any 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.099 semblance of a curse word And that curse word 00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:45.720 is ass is listed as explicit on Apple Music. 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:49.920 And this is what's wrong with our country. This 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:52.420 is what's wrong with the world. Yeah, that's 00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:56.079 the problem is that ass is enough to qualify 00:32:56.079 --> 00:33:00.519 something as explicit. How many children are 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:03.619 going to miss out on the greatness of the foundation 00:33:03.619 --> 00:33:08.470 all because... The nanny state is over here saying 00:33:08.470 --> 00:33:10.910 that ass is too bad of a word for children to 00:33:10.910 --> 00:33:14.210 be able to hear. Genuine question. How many people 00:33:14.210 --> 00:33:18.990 do you think listen to Zac Brown and are using 00:33:18.990 --> 00:33:23.930 the parental guidelines for what their kids listen 00:33:23.930 --> 00:33:26.630 to? If you listen to that music, you know that 00:33:26.630 --> 00:33:27.990 it's not explicit. You're going to play it for 00:33:27.990 --> 00:33:30.150 them. And if you don't listen to that music, 00:33:30.309 --> 00:33:34.399 you're not going to listen to Zac Brown. Like, 00:33:34.399 --> 00:33:36.380 you're not going to show your kid Zac Brown if 00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:40.359 that's not your vibe. It's good music, but it 00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:44.279 is also just cookie -cutter country in a lot 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.079 of ways. And now that I think about it, Sycamore 00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:49.880 Chicken, all -time favorite, one of them, also 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:53.319 has the phrase, some bitch. That's not rated 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:56.880 explicit on here. The only song that has an explicit 00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:00.180 rating on here is Toes. I was going to say, I 00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:02.539 don't think they've ever played Sycamore Chicken 00:34:02.539 --> 00:34:05.460 on the radio. At least I've never heard it, so 00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:10.599 it must be a playability. The fact that it's 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:17.480 toes, it couldn't be free or different kind of 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:20.780 fine. It has to be toes that they say is explicit. 00:34:22.099 --> 00:34:24.500 That implies there's some kinky thing going on 00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:26.739 with toes in this song and children shouldn't 00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:30.139 listen to it. I don't think it does. I don't 00:34:30.139 --> 00:34:33.789 think it implies any kind of... Of kink. Some 00:34:33.789 --> 00:34:37.690 fetish nonsense. I will never listen to Zac Brown 00:34:37.690 --> 00:34:42.429 again. Because the song about toes is explicit? 00:34:42.869 --> 00:34:47.449 Because it's kink based. If that is the case, 00:34:47.449 --> 00:34:51.550 I'm good. Anyways, enough harping on about one 00:34:51.550 --> 00:34:55.250 of the greatest country albums of all time. 2010, 00:34:56.949 --> 00:34:59.829 You Get What You Give. My second personal favorite. 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.380 Peaked at numero uno on Billboard 200 out of 00:35:04.380 --> 00:35:08.960 all genres. And also peaked at number one, obviously, 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:11.340 on the Billboard Country. This one has only certified 00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:15.300 platinum three times, though. I think that is 00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:18.079 due to the fact that this is when we were starting 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:20.940 to make the switch into everything getting all 00:35:20.940 --> 00:35:25.920 muddied up with digital music and all that. People 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.159 weren't actually going out and buying the physical 00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:35.269 albums. Okay, that's fair. But this one has the 00:35:35.269 --> 00:35:38.110 singles As She's Walking Away, featuring Alan 00:35:38.110 --> 00:35:41.769 Jackson, Colder Weather, Knee Deep. I can play 00:35:41.769 --> 00:35:46.610 that song. Colder Weather. Nice. It's one of 00:35:46.610 --> 00:35:52.250 my favorite of theirs. It's so just foreshadowing 00:35:52.250 --> 00:35:56.489 for later in the episode. There's a rash of comments 00:35:56.489 --> 00:36:01.400 online. on videos of Zac Brown at the Sphere 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:05.920 saying that ain't one song Zac Brown has that 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:09.119 needs these kind of visuals. I absolutely agree. 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:13.599 I'm in that camp. There's something about Colder 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:15.539 Weather. It's like this is the same band that 00:36:15.539 --> 00:36:17.940 did Colder Weather, but there was like multiple, 00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:22.440 like 10, 20, 30 comments about, oh, well, this 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:24.079 is the band that did Colder Weather and they 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:28.719 need a devil skeleton on the Sphere. And why 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.300 is that the song that everyone's latching on 00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:34.440 to? Maybe the truck stop just outside of Lincoln 00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:41.559 was the crossroads. I mean, like the actual music 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:44.980 changed that like that's a song about sadness. 00:36:45.380 --> 00:36:48.559 So, I mean, it would lean more into the darker 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:51.739 motifs than something like, I don't know, chicken 00:36:51.739 --> 00:36:58.760 fried or or knee deep. You can. very easily convince 00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:01.960 I think the general public that that sphere show 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:04.940 was Tenacious D and not Zac Brown. The visuals 00:37:04.940 --> 00:37:08.860 are just bizarre and not specifically in a they 00:37:08.860 --> 00:37:10.880 also made colder weather kind of way because 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:13.619 a lot of country or a lot of artists have made 00:37:13.619 --> 00:37:16.820 like super big scary rock stuff and then also 00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:20.559 like softer ballads. But like it doesn't feel 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:23.360 like it fits them. Do you think people had the 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.599 same problem when Charlie Daniels came out with 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:27.530 The Devil Went Down to Georgia? Do you think 00:37:27.530 --> 00:37:29.670 people felt the same way when Johnny Cash had 00:37:29.670 --> 00:37:32.829 the Ring of Fire? No, because their entire vibe 00:37:32.829 --> 00:37:36.869 was more of that that kind of aesthetic, that 00:37:36.869 --> 00:37:40.030 kind of that kind of music. They were already 00:37:40.030 --> 00:37:42.349 doing things that were in line with that. And 00:37:42.349 --> 00:37:45.349 so if they had done Johnny Cash doing that kind 00:37:45.349 --> 00:37:48.110 of like devil show at the Sphere would have also 00:37:48.110 --> 00:37:50.050 been out of place. I think Charlie Daniels could 00:37:50.050 --> 00:37:53.869 have made it work. But the like they built their 00:37:53.869 --> 00:37:56.750 name. They built their discography off of things 00:37:56.750 --> 00:37:59.849 that would have lined, I personally feel, a lot 00:37:59.849 --> 00:38:03.530 more with the, again, pick of destiny things 00:38:03.530 --> 00:38:06.769 that were in those visuals rather than Zac Brown. 00:38:06.889 --> 00:38:10.250 And that is also to say I haven't heard newer 00:38:10.250 --> 00:38:12.650 Zac Brown. So I could be totally off base and 00:38:12.650 --> 00:38:16.409 they actually successfully switched to Devil 00:38:16.409 --> 00:38:19.469 Went Down to Georgia Country. I listened to the 00:38:19.469 --> 00:38:23.329 newest album. And I will reserve my comments 00:38:23.329 --> 00:38:24.949 until we get to that portion of the episode. 00:38:25.389 --> 00:38:28.329 Okay. I have some things to say and it's going 00:38:28.329 --> 00:38:30.510 to hurt to say it, but that's got to be done. 00:38:30.829 --> 00:38:34.269 All right. She's walking away. Colder weather. 00:38:34.389 --> 00:38:37.610 Knee deep. Keep me in mind. No hurry. 2012 was 00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:39.190 when we start to get a change. This is where 00:38:39.190 --> 00:38:41.389 we start to. Oh, yeah. This is where we start 00:38:41.389 --> 00:38:44.090 to get a little more experimental. You got your 00:38:44.090 --> 00:38:49.869 first two albums, which are pretty much the same 00:38:49.869 --> 00:38:54.650 thing. Same. Greatness, just peak. You get a 00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:59.670 little antsy. You don't want to be typecast. 00:39:00.309 --> 00:39:04.650 This is the first instance where we get artwork 00:39:04.650 --> 00:39:09.110 that is a little pearl clutchy, a little bit. 00:39:09.230 --> 00:39:12.429 It is based off of... Day of the Dead, right? 00:39:12.550 --> 00:39:18.349 Yeah, it's a Dio de los Muertos motif. It is... 00:39:18.809 --> 00:39:21.070 I want to get the guy's name right because it's 00:39:21.070 --> 00:39:23.289 an actual artist that designed it. It's from 00:39:23.289 --> 00:39:27.210 Brandon Maldonado's 2009 Our Lady of Merciful 00:39:27.210 --> 00:39:30.650 Fate. Okay. And it's like a sugar skull, none, 00:39:30.889 --> 00:39:36.949 with a big old branched crown holding a branch, 00:39:37.090 --> 00:39:40.610 holding a twig, like a branch of a tree with 00:39:40.610 --> 00:39:43.969 a vulture on it. So people might have been up 00:39:43.969 --> 00:39:47.090 in arms. Internet wasn't as prevalent then. in 00:39:47.090 --> 00:39:50.989 2012 so i don't know maybe maybe there was a 00:39:50.989 --> 00:39:53.730 hubbub about it and people just didn't have enough 00:39:53.730 --> 00:39:57.510 reach to let their asinine opinions reach every 00:39:57.510 --> 00:40:00.210 corner of the internet uh but this one was definitely 00:40:00.210 --> 00:40:05.269 more somber more sad yeah it was less guaranteed 00:40:05.269 --> 00:40:11.119 radio darlings uh and their charting showed that 00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:13.420 people weren't feeling it as much. Peaked at 00:40:13.420 --> 00:40:16.559 35 on the Billboard 200 and number 10 on the 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:19.860 Billboard country album chart. It certified platinum 00:40:19.860 --> 00:40:24.519 once. Its singles are The Wind, Goodbye in Her 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:27.820 Eyes, Jump Right In, and Sweet Annie. I liked 00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:30.219 this album. I did too. I have a soft spot for 00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:34.400 albums that are more of the softer, sadder things. 00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:36.599 If you look at my Spotify raps, a couple of the 00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.880 artists that have ended up on it. that did their 00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:43.519 thanks for listening this year things were like, 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.699 hey, I hope whatever's going on with you is better. 00:40:47.980 --> 00:40:51.460 I can't tell you how many years in a row I've 00:40:51.460 --> 00:40:53.980 gotten those like, hey, bud, I hope things are 00:40:53.980 --> 00:40:55.960 good with you. Thanks for listening to my album. 00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.500 Yeah, like when it gives you a breakdown of the 00:40:58.500 --> 00:41:01.139 song that you listen to the most for whatever 00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:03.980 month and you're like, what was I going through 00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:08.260 in May? I stopped asking those questions a long 00:41:08.260 --> 00:41:15.159 time ago. I really like that side of music where 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.440 bands that have more of that more upbeat, poppier 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.460 country or whatever songs have a little bit more 00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:28.519 levity behind them. In the same way that Panic! 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.820 at the Disco's Pretty Odd album was a real departure 00:41:32.820 --> 00:41:35.949 from A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Yeah, because 00:41:35.949 --> 00:41:40.949 I mean, it feels more intentional. It feels like 00:41:40.949 --> 00:41:46.190 they purposefully made this change because they 00:41:46.190 --> 00:41:48.610 had something to say about it versus, okay, well, 00:41:48.670 --> 00:41:51.750 this sad album follows the previous sad album. 00:41:51.829 --> 00:41:54.510 So maybe these people just get off on doing sad 00:41:54.510 --> 00:42:02.150 albums. Yeah. 2015, Jekyll and Hyde. This is 00:42:02.150 --> 00:42:07.349 probably one of my least favorite Zac Brown band 00:42:07.349 --> 00:42:11.710 albums. It's really disjointed. They're trying 00:42:11.710 --> 00:42:14.349 to play both sides of the fence. And I get it, 00:42:14.349 --> 00:42:18.809 the whole Jekyll and Hyde. But it just doesn't 00:42:18.809 --> 00:42:24.190 work for me. I only recognize two songs. That 00:42:24.190 --> 00:42:28.190 has Homegrown and Heavy as the Head. I recognize 00:42:28.190 --> 00:42:31.699 Homegrown and Castaway. You don't know Beautiful 00:42:31.699 --> 00:42:35.340 Drug? That's a good song. Oh, and Loving You 00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:37.239 Easy. I guess I know three. I don't think I know 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.800 Beautiful Drug. Happy as the Head? You don't 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:43.159 know that one? I don't think so. Black doll drinks 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:47.500 from the water trying to cool his tongue. With 00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:52.860 Chris Cornell? That was a huge single. I don't 00:42:52.860 --> 00:42:55.539 know. Oh. I mean, I might also know that one 00:42:55.539 --> 00:42:59.849 if I played it, but as it stands, no clue. Well, 00:42:59.869 --> 00:43:02.050 this is definitely the biggest departure from 00:43:02.050 --> 00:43:06.050 their chicken fried days. It peaked at 24 on 00:43:06.050 --> 00:43:09.250 the Billboard 200 and number three on the Billboard 00:43:09.250 --> 00:43:11.329 Country and it was certified platinum one time. 00:43:11.469 --> 00:43:15.889 You want to know a fun, not so fun fact I have 00:43:15.889 --> 00:43:20.190 about Chris Cornell? What do you got? So, there 00:43:20.190 --> 00:43:25.809 was a movie called 127 Hours, The Secret Soldiers 00:43:25.809 --> 00:43:34.070 of Benghazi, all about how Nope. What? 127 Hours 00:43:34.070 --> 00:43:36.469 and The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi are two different 00:43:36.469 --> 00:43:38.570 things. 96 Hours? What was it called? 13. What 00:43:38.570 --> 00:43:42.030 was it called? 13 Hours? 127 Hours is James Franco 00:43:42.030 --> 00:43:44.489 getting stuck in rocks. Damn it. Okay. Let's 00:43:44.489 --> 00:43:48.610 try again. Thank God I added the subtitle or 00:43:48.610 --> 00:43:50.650 else everyone would be completely lost. This 00:43:50.650 --> 00:43:53.889 would be a vastly different story. 13 Hours? 00:43:53.929 --> 00:43:56.530 That's what it's called? 13 Hours is the Benghazi 00:43:56.530 --> 00:43:59.579 movie. It is one of Nate's favorites. I am absolutely 00:43:59.579 --> 00:44:02.139 right on this one. Okay. That's the one with 00:44:02.139 --> 00:44:07.699 Jim Halpern. Let's rewind. All right. 13 Hours 00:44:07.699 --> 00:44:11.079 of Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Uh -huh. Which 00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:14.579 is a great movie, and I will watch it pretty 00:44:14.579 --> 00:44:17.219 much any time I pass by it. I will seek it out 00:44:17.219 --> 00:44:19.099 if I have nothing else to watch. It's a great 00:44:19.099 --> 00:44:25.260 movie. Stars John Krasinski. It's got Roy. I'm 00:44:25.260 --> 00:44:29.480 Blank David. David something from the office. 00:44:29.780 --> 00:44:34.019 It's got porn stash from Orange is the New Black. 00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:35.579 And I think that's a completely outdated reference 00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:39.480 now. That's got a lot of people. And it's all 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:42.920 about how a certain secretary of state, we don't 00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:47.059 know, maybe got all these guys killed because 00:44:47.059 --> 00:44:50.940 of this and that, you know. Anyways, so movie 00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:53.440 was coming out and they were going to have a 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:55.139 movie premiere. Do you know where they were going 00:44:55.139 --> 00:44:58.000 to have the movie premiere? No. Jerry World, 00:44:58.219 --> 00:45:01.659 AT &T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, United States, 00:45:02.019 --> 00:45:05.719 North America, Planet Earth, and the Milky Way. 00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:08.199 In case you got Arlington, Texas confused with 00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:13.400 somewhere else. Anyways. And so at this premiere, 00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:19.280 I saw Krasinski, Roy. I'm sorry, David. I forgot 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.159 your last name. All the other main characters 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:26.150 of the movie. Michael Bay. Was there because 00:45:26.150 --> 00:45:31.230 he directed it. And the song that goes over the 00:45:31.230 --> 00:45:37.429 end credits to the movie is a song by Chris Cornell. 00:45:37.730 --> 00:45:40.710 And Chris Cornell performed that song before 00:45:40.710 --> 00:45:42.369 they played the movie on the giant jumbotron. 00:45:42.849 --> 00:45:49.349 And then a few years later, I heard the news 00:45:49.349 --> 00:45:53.630 that Chris Cornell had hung himself in his Detroit 00:45:53.630 --> 00:45:58.079 hotel room. And I cried. And I don't know why. 00:45:58.940 --> 00:46:01.659 Big fan of Soundgarden. Big fan of Audioslave. 00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:06.099 I just had this one moment where I saw him perform 00:46:06.099 --> 00:46:10.659 live and not really, like, didn't go any deeper 00:46:10.659 --> 00:46:13.519 than that. But he is the only celebrity that 00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.920 that has happened to that I felt that way towards. 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:21.539 Interesting. And still have no inclination as 00:46:21.539 --> 00:46:26.360 to why. Chris, you put out some good music. And 00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:30.440 you did a great song with Saffron. Yeah. 2017, 00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:34.320 Welcome Home. Bring it back around. I think Welcome 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:39.300 Home was a little market -y. I think that they 00:46:39.300 --> 00:46:42.179 were like, hey, yeah, okay. So you didn't like 00:46:42.179 --> 00:46:44.940 us experimenting that much. So let's bring it 00:46:44.940 --> 00:46:48.340 back. Let's reel it in a little bit. And please 00:46:48.340 --> 00:46:50.639 like this one. I don't know much about this album. 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:54.380 It's... I don't know. It just didn't come up 00:46:54.380 --> 00:46:58.519 on my radar. It features a song with Kacey Musgraves 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:01.239 and a song with Pharrell Williams. Pharrell Williams? 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:05.300 Pharrell Williams. It's definitely reactionary 00:47:05.300 --> 00:47:11.280 for how the previous album was received. It does 00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:14.579 have one of my top five Zac Brown Band songs 00:47:14.579 --> 00:47:18.019 on it, though. Which is? I will go a little easier 00:47:18.019 --> 00:47:20.639 on it. Mild Man. I don't think I know anything 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.079 from this album. and Roots. I don't know much 00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:25.900 about Roots. I couldn't tell you how it goes. 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.699 But check out My Old Man when you get a chance. 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:31.780 This one peaked at number two on the Billboard 00:47:31.780 --> 00:47:34.260 200 and number one on the Billboard country charts. 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.559 2019, The Owl. This one is important because 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:43.000 it was written during the period of time in which 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.820 Zac Brown was getting a divorce from his first 00:47:46.820 --> 00:47:53.099 wife. He had been married from 2006, Divorce 00:47:53.099 --> 00:47:56.099 2018. This album came out in 2019. This is probably 00:47:56.099 --> 00:47:58.820 their most emotional album yet. It peaked at 00:47:58.820 --> 00:48:01.320 number two on the Billboard 200 and number one 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:04.480 on the Billboard Country Albums. I think all 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:09.000 you need to know is the fact that the two singles 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:13.320 on this album are Someone I Used to Know and 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:17.599 Leaving Love Behind. Yeah, that feels fitting 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:20.519 for the Divorce album. Leaving Love Behind is 00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:27.099 a great, it is a great breakup song. It's optimistic. 00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:32.159 It's recognizing that this thing is over, that 00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:34.699 there have been good times, there are bad times, 00:48:34.739 --> 00:48:38.739 but that you just got to leave it and start your 00:48:38.739 --> 00:48:42.460 life anew. 2021, The Comeback. I don't know much 00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:45.510 about this one either. I probably listened to 00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:48.409 it through maybe two times and could not tell 00:48:48.409 --> 00:48:50.449 you a single thing that I liked. Couldn't tell 00:48:50.449 --> 00:48:52.070 you a single thing I disliked. It just was a 00:48:52.070 --> 00:48:55.829 non -starter for me. Just a nothing burger. According 00:48:55.829 --> 00:48:58.829 to the stats, everyone else felt the same. It 00:48:58.829 --> 00:49:01.349 was number 27, where it peaked on the Billboard 00:49:01.349 --> 00:49:04.090 200, number three on the Billboard Country album 00:49:04.090 --> 00:49:06.789 charts. Singles are Same Boat and Out in the 00:49:06.789 --> 00:49:08.869 Middle. Yeah, definitely don't know. Apparently, 00:49:08.909 --> 00:49:12.590 I stopped listening to any new Zac Brown in 2015. 00:49:12.889 --> 00:49:19.349 And that brings us to the 2025 release, Love 00:49:19.349 --> 00:49:22.949 and Fear. Is the whole album out or is it just 00:49:22.949 --> 00:49:28.030 the singles right now? Whole album. It is the 00:49:28.030 --> 00:49:31.289 most controversial one, obviously, mostly because 00:49:31.289 --> 00:49:33.369 of this fear. I think if it weren't for this 00:49:33.369 --> 00:49:36.829 fear, it would just have fizzled away. I felt 00:49:36.829 --> 00:49:40.210 like what they were going for was like a angel 00:49:40.210 --> 00:49:43.030 on one shoulder, devil on the other. And so like 00:49:43.030 --> 00:49:44.909 the songs would just like bounce between butts. 00:49:45.309 --> 00:49:49.250 Some more, more Jacqueline Hyde. Yeah. But it, 00:49:49.309 --> 00:49:54.809 it didn't really land. It was, it was very disjointed 00:49:54.809 --> 00:49:59.329 and just all over the place. Oh boy. This song, 00:49:59.329 --> 00:50:09.190 this album. It's in the first. 24 seconds drops 00:50:09.190 --> 00:50:13.389 its first F -bomb. Oh, okay. So you know it's 00:50:13.389 --> 00:50:18.449 serious. So you know without a doubt that we're 00:50:18.449 --> 00:50:22.150 not here to mess around. Snoop Dogg is on this 00:50:22.150 --> 00:50:25.989 album? Oh, just wait. Just wait. What? I have 00:50:25.989 --> 00:50:29.510 things to say. So I Ain't Worried About It, which 00:50:29.510 --> 00:50:32.789 was the first single from this album, people 00:50:32.789 --> 00:50:35.429 keep trying to tell me how to live, and I'm just... 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:40.679 over here running out of Fs to give. Which, okay. 00:50:40.900 --> 00:50:45.980 Okay. Okay. Again, 24 seconds into the song. 00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:48.000 I ain't worried about it. I ain't worried about 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.860 it. Your TV's lying because the world ain't on 00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:53.679 fire and the only thing burning gets me higher, 00:50:53.820 --> 00:50:57.119 higher, higher. Now, what could he be referencing 00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.619 there? Sage. He's cleansing his space. Well, 00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:03.260 the fact that you just dropped the bomb that 00:51:03.260 --> 00:51:06.039 Snoop Dogg is on this album. Weed has a very 00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.940 heavy presence in this album. And it's not like 00:51:08.940 --> 00:51:11.340 in the cool, like, yeah, you know, sometimes 00:51:11.340 --> 00:51:15.340 I just need to relax. And so, you know, I just, 00:51:15.380 --> 00:51:18.280 yeah, I smoke sometimes. It's, hey, guys, I do 00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:21.360 weeds. Hello, kids. Weeds and me are best buds. 00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:28.860 We love the weeds. Big narc energy. Yes. And 00:51:28.860 --> 00:51:33.639 just, holy moly. All right, so Let It Run, which 00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:37.110 is the second. Single from his album. Oh, boy. 00:51:38.570 --> 00:51:41.409 Everyone was getting high, passing flowers around 00:51:41.409 --> 00:51:45.070 the fire. No one even gave a damn till it landed 00:51:45.070 --> 00:51:48.090 in your hand. Now you're overly concerned with 00:51:48.090 --> 00:51:50.510 the way that cherry burns and you're thinking 00:51:50.510 --> 00:51:53.030 you're about to spit on that joint I'm about 00:51:53.030 --> 00:51:56.510 to hit. Just let it run. Let it run. If it's 00:51:56.510 --> 00:51:59.050 burning kind of funny, we can roll another one. 00:51:59.230 --> 00:52:02.090 It ain't like we're down to crumbs. We got more 00:52:02.090 --> 00:52:05.250 where that came from. Don't be spitting on my 00:52:05.250 --> 00:52:11.630 blunt. Just let that mother effer run. As we 00:52:11.630 --> 00:52:14.789 previously mentioned, this is a song with Snoop 00:52:14.789 --> 00:52:18.309 Dogg. I ain't trying to police the way y 'all 00:52:18.309 --> 00:52:22.090 smoke your weed. Didn't mean to haunt your buzz. 00:52:22.389 --> 00:52:26.090 I just said something because we got cars that 00:52:26.090 --> 00:52:28.889 drive themselves. We put people into space and 00:52:28.889 --> 00:52:33.550 pop stars, but we can please. Don't you disrespect 00:52:33.550 --> 00:52:36.510 astronaut Katy Perry like that. Like it's 1998. 00:52:37.409 --> 00:52:42.590 So this wasn't my sin of choice growing up. I'm 00:52:42.590 --> 00:52:44.989 not implying that it's yours, but you do have 00:52:44.989 --> 00:52:51.869 heathen friends. Sure, yeah. Is spitting on the 00:52:51.869 --> 00:52:58.809 blunt a thing people worry about? Yes. On the 00:52:58.809 --> 00:53:03.010 flame part? On the part that's smoldering? Or 00:53:03.010 --> 00:53:06.170 on the mouth part? Consider on the mouth part, 00:53:06.250 --> 00:53:10.409 yes. If you put your whole mouth around a cigarette, 00:53:10.650 --> 00:53:13.909 you would not pass that cigarette to another 00:53:13.909 --> 00:53:18.090 person. It's wet. But, like, you're going to 00:53:18.090 --> 00:53:21.489 get other people spit if you're passing it around 00:53:21.489 --> 00:53:25.409 either way. But you at least, it's a considerate 00:53:25.409 --> 00:53:28.849 thing. Is this why you get cotton mouth? For 00:53:28.849 --> 00:53:31.150 community purposes? Yes. So you're less likely 00:53:31.150 --> 00:53:32.670 to pass along things? It is actually for the 00:53:32.670 --> 00:53:38.389 greater good. So you can't be slobbering all 00:53:38.389 --> 00:53:41.789 over it before you pass it on? Yes. That is, 00:53:41.809 --> 00:53:46.909 it is a big faux pas. Well, this is part of your 00:53:46.909 --> 00:53:48.590 homework. This is part of everyone's homework. 00:53:49.030 --> 00:53:52.409 Give this album a listen and let me know what 00:53:52.409 --> 00:53:56.210 you think. There's another one called Animal. 00:53:58.069 --> 00:54:01.730 And you know Three Days Grace, correct? Mm -hmm. 00:54:02.030 --> 00:54:04.670 I don't know how much play it had for you, but 00:54:04.670 --> 00:54:08.349 for me in middle school, Animal I Have Become 00:54:08.349 --> 00:54:11.550 was like a, it was a big song. It was a real 00:54:11.550 --> 00:54:14.230 pump -you -up song. Somebody save me from this 00:54:14.230 --> 00:54:19.909 animal I have become. Mm -hmm. Zach takes a whack 00:54:19.909 --> 00:54:22.690 at that on this album, a song called Animal, 00:54:22.849 --> 00:54:31.420 and it just, It screams like a, like a look how 00:54:31.420 --> 00:54:34.679 tough I am. How can you control me when I can't 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.699 control myself? Flesh and blood and bone and 00:54:37.699 --> 00:54:40.119 rage will tear till nothing's left. It sounds 00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.460 like he's singing this whole song wearing a fedora. 00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:47.280 Yeah, no, this is straight out of a Reddit thread. 00:54:48.599 --> 00:54:53.340 But then there's a line where he says, come for 00:54:53.340 --> 00:54:56.780 my guns and you'll see I'm no man at all. Which, 00:54:56.860 --> 00:54:59.420 OK, so you're trying to get back your conservative 00:54:59.420 --> 00:55:03.760 audience by saying, hey, hey, come and take it. 00:55:03.860 --> 00:55:06.519 But you can't. You know why? Because and you 00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:10.280 got to you got to. I cannot do it justice. But 00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:13.380 after he talks about try to take my guns, you'll 00:55:13.380 --> 00:55:17.059 see he says animal three times. But the first 00:55:17.059 --> 00:55:21.480 time he hits it, the first time he hits it, it's 00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:28.590 like animal. I would just like to point out there 00:55:28.590 --> 00:55:30.329 is a line that says filling up their coffers 00:55:30.329 --> 00:55:32.389 while the poor man bleeds, the poor man bleeds. 00:55:32.550 --> 00:55:35.469 I googled it. This man is worth between 50 and 00:55:35.469 --> 00:55:38.909 60 million dollars. Does he think he's one of 00:55:38.909 --> 00:55:42.170 the poors? He's poor compared to Bezos, compared 00:55:42.170 --> 00:55:46.969 to Musk. Is that our bar? That's his bar. Everything 00:55:46.969 --> 00:55:52.030 is subjective. I'm wealthy in the eyes of Rhonda 00:55:52.030 --> 00:55:55.469 on the street corner. I'm poor in the eyes of... 00:55:55.869 --> 00:55:59.150 Zach Brown, who is poor in the eyes of Jeff Bezos. 00:55:59.389 --> 00:56:03.050 OK, well, if this album is made for Jeff Bezos, 00:56:03.170 --> 00:56:06.010 then I have follow up questions. Starting with 00:56:06.010 --> 00:56:10.050 why? Real man of the people, Zach Brown over 00:56:10.050 --> 00:56:13.550 here. The madness of this effing place, the shallow 00:56:13.550 --> 00:56:16.090 lives we lead. He's really saying something here. 00:56:16.309 --> 00:56:19.090 I think I wrote this as a poem as an emo teenager. 00:56:22.469 --> 00:56:27.239 And the third. Third single, Butterfly. Is it 00:56:27.239 --> 00:56:32.539 about a tramp stamp? No. No. I think it had the 00:56:32.539 --> 00:56:37.420 opportunity to be a great song. But, and you 00:56:37.420 --> 00:56:39.980 can come at me if you want, Dolly Parton had 00:56:39.980 --> 00:56:44.400 no right to be in this song. No right to be in 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:46.760 this song? She has a right to do whatever she 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:51.980 wants. She's Dolly Parton. I think that one of 00:56:51.980 --> 00:56:56.199 the... All -time signs of being the greatest 00:56:56.199 --> 00:57:00.119 is knowing when to hang it up. Dolly, in my opinion, 00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:04.360 should have hung it up before this. She should 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:05.760 have hung it up before she did the Thanksgiving 00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:09.480 halftime show last year for the Cowboys. She 00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:11.400 should have hung it up probably about a decade 00:57:11.400 --> 00:57:13.719 ago. She did Please, Please, Please with Sabrina 00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:16.559 Carpenter, and it is not what I thought it would 00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:20.800 be. Uh -huh. Bit of a bummer. So maybe. Just 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:24.309 consider it, Dolly. Live your life in retirement. 00:57:24.969 --> 00:57:27.809 Going out on top. Well, going out in the middle. 00:57:28.070 --> 00:57:30.650 We just don't want to see you up on stage like 00:57:30.650 --> 00:57:35.030 Richie Valens. Is that who I'm thinking of? What? 00:57:35.110 --> 00:57:37.750 Who looks like a... Let me make sure I'm talking 00:57:37.750 --> 00:57:39.670 about the right guy. I don't think you are because 00:57:39.670 --> 00:57:41.710 Richie Valens died in a plane crash. Yeah, you're 00:57:41.710 --> 00:57:44.449 right. That is correct. He was the day the music 00:57:44.449 --> 00:57:48.989 died guy. Who am I thinking of? Who's the guy 00:57:48.989 --> 00:57:53.650 that sings Sherry? That's... The Four Seasons? 00:57:54.369 --> 00:57:56.670 Who's the lead singer of The Four Seasons? Frankie 00:57:56.670 --> 00:58:00.269 Valli. Yes, Frankie Valli. Up there looking like 00:58:00.269 --> 00:58:05.010 an animatronic in need of an update. Just up 00:58:05.010 --> 00:58:08.050 there with a microphone to his mouth, just opening 00:58:08.050 --> 00:58:10.829 and closing his mouth like a guppy fish. Don't 00:58:10.829 --> 00:58:14.570 end up like that, Dolly. I mean, if you still 00:58:14.570 --> 00:58:17.190 are able to do the thing that you're passionate 00:58:17.190 --> 00:58:22.500 about at that age, do it. I think you care decidedly 00:58:22.500 --> 00:58:24.400 less at that point what people think of you. 00:58:24.659 --> 00:58:27.400 Do we have the right to criticize that? Sure. 00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:31.119 And they have a right to to not care what we 00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:33.639 have to say. Do you think Frankie Valens knows 00:58:33.639 --> 00:58:37.079 what or Frankie Valley knows what a. Gotcha. 00:58:37.659 --> 00:58:40.159 Do you think that Frankie Valley knows what a 00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:45.159 podcast is? Hmm. I can just about bet that he 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:48.139 doesn't know what this podcast is. We don't know 00:58:48.139 --> 00:58:51.139 that. We don't know that. We don't. You are correct. 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:55.780 That is an educated guess. So, love and fear. 00:58:56.179 --> 00:58:58.900 Check it out. Let me know what you think. Not 00:58:58.900 --> 00:59:02.639 for me. Might be for somebody. Just seemed like 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:05.340 he got a lot of hate from all the stuff that 00:59:05.340 --> 00:59:08.139 happened with whatever her face was. Second wife. 00:59:08.659 --> 00:59:13.039 And so he's like, oh, but look at me. Look at 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.440 me. So, I don't know. Just let me know what you 00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:21.179 think. Now. There are songs on here like Animal, 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:26.699 even though it's a song that is not to my liking. 00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:32.019 The visuals do go along with the song. The skeleton 00:59:32.019 --> 00:59:35.820 with the crown that swallows the crowd and they 00:59:35.820 --> 00:59:38.880 end up in a... I didn't notice this until today 00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:41.780 when I was going back watching videos. The cage 00:59:41.780 --> 00:59:47.199 that you go into after you're swallowed by the... 00:59:47.449 --> 00:59:51.849 The demon skeleton is a cage made of human people 00:59:51.849 --> 00:59:55.230 riding around. Did you catch that? Quite honestly, 00:59:55.409 --> 00:59:59.489 I saw that it looked like every Harley writer's 00:59:59.489 --> 01:00:01.389 general motif. I sent it your way and didn't 01:00:01.389 --> 01:00:06.170 give it a second thought. And did you? I mean, 01:00:06.170 --> 01:00:11.869 so there's a whole show. This portion is maybe 01:00:11.869 --> 01:00:16.719 20 minutes of it. I think the crown. The crown 01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:19.019 that he wears while he's performing the song 01:00:19.019 --> 01:00:22.119 is a little much. Like maybe just let the visuals 01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:24.579 speak for themselves. You can have black clothes 01:00:24.579 --> 01:00:26.380 on. Sure. But the crown just makes you kind of 01:00:26.380 --> 01:00:31.559 look dorky. Sure. I have seen snippets from before 01:00:31.559 --> 01:00:34.260 this portion of the show and after this portion 01:00:34.260 --> 01:00:36.579 of the show. They're completely normal. Zach 01:00:36.579 --> 01:00:39.139 Brown stuff. At one point, you're going over 01:00:39.139 --> 01:00:42.639 landscapes of Georgia. You're on a football field. 01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:45.139 You go through goalposts and then you're in. 01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:48.400 You're at a lake and you're just living your 01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:52.420 best country fried life. I don't know if that 01:00:52.420 --> 01:00:55.199 makes it doesn't make it worse, but I definitely 01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:57.059 don't think it makes it better that that's only 01:00:57.059 --> 01:01:01.320 20 minutes of the set. Because what does the 01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:04.300 transition look like? Are you just like knee 01:01:04.300 --> 01:01:06.019 deep in the water somewhere and all of a sudden 01:01:06.019 --> 01:01:10.219 you're in hell? OK, so Zach Brown has been asked 01:01:10.219 --> 01:01:15.840 about this. This show is a representation. Of 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.480 his life. Sure. It starts out cheery and optimistic 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:23.820 and hopeful and slowly starts transitioning into 01:01:23.820 --> 01:01:28.059 a hellscape. But then he emerges from the hellscape. 01:01:28.260 --> 01:01:34.099 As a beautiful butterfly. And into his best life 01:01:34.099 --> 01:01:39.320 now with his fiance and his tons of songs about 01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:44.690 weed and just. Taking the best of life and making 01:01:44.690 --> 01:01:48.389 that what he's about. There's already a Kid Rock. 01:01:48.449 --> 01:01:52.369 I don't think we need a second one. I don't understand 01:01:52.369 --> 01:01:55.889 what this is. I can't imagine how difficult it 01:01:55.889 --> 01:02:02.769 is to create a stage show around this fear. Because 01:02:02.769 --> 01:02:04.969 if you've seen videos from people like up in 01:02:04.969 --> 01:02:07.630 the balcony, it's all screen. And then there's 01:02:07.630 --> 01:02:09.989 just teeny tiny little stage in the middle where 01:02:09.989 --> 01:02:12.840 the band's actually performing. But apparently, 01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:15.119 you want to be on the balcony because then you 01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:18.280 can get the full view of everything. And down 01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:22.420 on the stage is really inconsequential. Yeah. 01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:27.440 And I've seen clips from you two. I've seen clips 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:32.000 from Paul McCartney, the Eagles. Jonas Brothers 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:34.619 are going to be there. Weren't the Backstreet 01:02:34.619 --> 01:02:37.300 Boys there? Backstreet Boys. Backstreet Boys 01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:41.369 had a really cool one. Like, I'm sure it's super 01:02:41.369 --> 01:02:45.230 difficult to find something that's encompassing 01:02:45.230 --> 01:02:47.730 enough to use that whole space and also have 01:02:47.730 --> 01:02:50.690 something to do with the music. So I would imagine 01:02:50.690 --> 01:02:53.630 that a lot of it is just like background stuff 01:02:53.630 --> 01:02:58.510 or filler or just I don't know. I mean, maybe. 01:02:58.570 --> 01:03:01.949 Oh, well, this song. I mean, it's I was in a 01:03:01.949 --> 01:03:03.789 hellish part of my life. And then you just build 01:03:03.789 --> 01:03:05.349 from there. And then all of a sudden you have 01:03:05.349 --> 01:03:08.989 you have. Demon skeletons swallowing your entire 01:03:08.989 --> 01:03:11.510 audience and putting them in a cage of humans 01:03:11.510 --> 01:03:13.389 writhing around. I don't know. I don't know. 01:03:13.610 --> 01:03:17.710 I will have to revisit that video. Also rethink 01:03:17.710 --> 01:03:20.409 whether or not I want to go to the sphere. I 01:03:20.409 --> 01:03:23.869 personally think that I would want to throw up 01:03:23.869 --> 01:03:27.289 the entire time. I went to watch Five Nights 01:03:27.289 --> 01:03:30.690 at Freddy's 2 last night. And let me tell you, 01:03:30.750 --> 01:03:36.250 do not recommend. Just hot garbage. But I saw 01:03:36.250 --> 01:03:39.550 it in a Dolby theater. So screen's huge. The 01:03:39.550 --> 01:03:42.210 only place I could sit center was three rows 01:03:42.210 --> 01:03:46.369 back from the screen. And I was super nauseous 01:03:46.369 --> 01:03:48.789 the entire time. It kind of leveled off like 01:03:48.789 --> 01:03:51.789 30 minutes in, but there was always the hint 01:03:51.789 --> 01:03:54.590 of it in the back throughout the entire movie. 01:03:54.829 --> 01:03:56.849 So I can't imagine what that would be like if 01:03:56.849 --> 01:03:59.570 I was completely surrounded by it and it was 01:03:59.570 --> 01:04:03.309 just in my face the entire time. Yeah. So I don't 01:04:03.309 --> 01:04:06.519 know. I think. I think if the purpose is the 01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:10.280 visuals, then I'm not paying as much money as 01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:12.460 it would cost me to get a ticket at the Sphere 01:04:12.460 --> 01:04:17.460 just to watch a big movie. Yes. Because the point 01:04:17.460 --> 01:04:20.059 is not to see the artists themselves. So what 01:04:20.059 --> 01:04:22.539 is the point of going? That's fair. That's fair. 01:04:22.619 --> 01:04:25.260 I would love to have the opportunity for someone 01:04:25.260 --> 01:04:30.760 to grant me the ability to see this show. If 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:35.300 someone in their infinite generosity. could make 01:04:35.300 --> 01:04:39.900 that happen. And I could come back with a full 01:04:39.900 --> 01:04:43.900 detail on what I experienced, how I took it, 01:04:43.940 --> 01:04:45.800 and whether all the hype was worth it or not. 01:04:46.659 --> 01:04:48.820 And whether all the controversy was worth it. 01:04:49.780 --> 01:04:53.300 I'm leaning towards no right now. Probably not. 01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:57.039 I don't think there's a lot of juice that's worth 01:04:57.039 --> 01:05:03.429 the squeeze these days. That's fair. In events 01:05:03.429 --> 01:05:10.389 and whatnot. So, your homework. Listen to love 01:05:10.389 --> 01:05:17.210 and fear. Listen to heavy as the head. Okay. 01:05:18.769 --> 01:05:21.489 And my old man. I think that's all we got. Oh, 01:05:21.510 --> 01:05:26.610 and build me a daddy. I don't want to. Put a 01:05:26.610 --> 01:05:29.230 stopwatch. Turn a stopwatch on. And then when 01:05:29.230 --> 01:05:32.590 the first tear falls, you stop. Press stop and 01:05:32.590 --> 01:05:35.690 you let me know. Let me make sure that's what 01:05:35.690 --> 01:05:38.630 it's called. Well, it is called build me a daddy. 01:05:39.289 --> 01:05:43.750 Yeah. Oh, man. But sometimes you just have to 01:05:43.750 --> 01:05:47.070 you just got to let it out. And there are times 01:05:47.070 --> 01:05:50.969 where I seek out like super, super sad Christmas 01:05:50.969 --> 01:05:54.170 or not Christmas songs, country song. Sorry, 01:05:54.349 --> 01:05:59.469 I got Christmas shoes stuck in my head. That's 01:05:59.469 --> 01:06:02.500 a tough one. Did you know there's a movie based 01:06:02.500 --> 01:06:05.559 on Christmas shoes? I did. Yeah. With Kimberly 01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:11.559 Williams Paisley. Yeah. Hmm. I'm not a big sad 01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:14.860 Christmas movie person. I'm not a big sad movie 01:06:14.860 --> 01:06:19.460 person. I just saw Jack Frost pop up. The Michael 01:06:19.460 --> 01:06:22.980 Geek one. Yeah. Not the evil Jack Frost. I don't 01:06:22.980 --> 01:06:27.500 think I'd want to rewatch that one. All right. 01:06:27.500 --> 01:06:31.210 It was a good movie, but it creeps me out. What 01:06:31.210 --> 01:06:35.789 is your verdict on the sphere controversy? I 01:06:35.789 --> 01:06:40.130 don't think that I'm ever going to have a well 01:06:40.130 --> 01:06:42.829 -rounded opinion of the sphere because I don't 01:06:42.829 --> 01:06:44.449 think I'll ever be willing to pay the amount 01:06:44.449 --> 01:06:46.429 of money that it would require to go to the sphere. 01:06:46.510 --> 01:06:50.809 And also, not a big fan of Vegas. For the people 01:06:50.809 --> 01:06:53.690 who have the means and opportunity to do it, 01:06:53.710 --> 01:06:57.090 cool. As far as the Zac Brown stuff goes, I still 01:06:57.090 --> 01:06:59.840 think those visuals are incredibly silly. I can 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:01.800 understand where they're coming from because 01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:04.079 this album, I also think, is incredibly silly. 01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:07.920 If it is the progression of his life, cool. Do 01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:12.320 you? I am not one to yuck people's yums. It's 01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:15.320 just not my bag. I don't want to hear him singing 01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.460 about spitting on a blunt with Snoop because 01:07:18.460 --> 01:07:21.320 that is not a thing that could ever connect in 01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:24.119 my head. Those dots are very separate points. 01:07:24.900 --> 01:07:31.269 But do you, man? Hmm. We're a long way from just 01:07:31.269 --> 01:07:34.889 Zach chilling at a lake with his toes in the 01:07:34.889 --> 01:07:40.630 water, ass in the sand. Wow. Inappropes. That 01:07:40.630 --> 01:07:42.510 was actually his villain origin story. He was 01:07:42.510 --> 01:07:44.150 like, if you're going to call this album explicit 01:07:44.150 --> 01:07:49.070 because I said the word ass, hold my joint. Isn't 01:07:49.070 --> 01:07:52.630 it a little sexist that ass is considered explicit, 01:07:52.670 --> 01:07:55.369 but bitch isn't? Technically, it's some bitch, 01:07:55.389 --> 01:07:57.619 so I think it gets... cleared in the way that 01:07:57.619 --> 01:08:02.460 like if you say god damn on tv you censor god 01:08:02.460 --> 01:08:06.300 but you don't censor damn isn't that the way 01:08:06.300 --> 01:08:08.300 of the world just trying to remove god from everything 01:08:08.300 --> 01:08:13.280 sick of it sick of this if this new album has 01:08:13.280 --> 01:08:17.539 taught you anything we are already in hell uh 01:08:17.539 --> 01:08:21.180 but we have redemption on the other side according 01:08:21.180 --> 01:08:23.100 to zach i haven't seen that part of the show 01:08:23.100 --> 01:08:28.039 so apparently i there's And there is, towards 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:29.939 the end of this album, there is a song about 01:08:29.939 --> 01:08:35.079 him trying to be more Christ -like. So, again, 01:08:35.340 --> 01:08:38.340 I don't know. I don't know. I get what they were 01:08:38.340 --> 01:08:42.140 going for. I just think it was a swing and a 01:08:42.140 --> 01:08:47.220 big ol' whiff. Yeah, well. I think it's been 01:08:47.220 --> 01:08:49.220 several albums of swings and big ol' whiffs. 01:08:50.140 --> 01:08:53.989 All right. If we have any... Gracious benefactors 01:08:53.989 --> 01:08:56.029 that just happen to have two sphere tickets. 01:08:56.930 --> 01:09:03.510 So we can make a more educated opinion on things 01:09:03.510 --> 01:09:07.149 such as these. We would gladly take those off 01:09:07.149 --> 01:09:12.069 your hands. Is that your takeaway? That is my 01:09:12.069 --> 01:09:19.170 takeaway. And Zach, still love you. Still love 01:09:19.170 --> 01:09:27.170 you, man. Not much that could undo my love for 01:09:27.170 --> 01:09:33.350 Highway 20 Ride or Sikkim on a Chicken. Fair 01:09:33.350 --> 01:09:38.250 enough. And with that, we'll see you. Peace out, 01:09:38.270 --> 01:09:38.689 Girl Scouts.