Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show
Episode 21: Jon Hasz
(upbeat music) - I got the whiskey. - Let me have a drink here, whiskey. Gotta get out of here. (upbeat music) - My name's Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's underhole. (laughing) - Underhole? (upbeat music) - I know you don't agree, but I think he's the king of country. - Get the fuck out of here. (laughing) - Get out of my studio. I'm scared. No, hell no. (upbeat music) - From the Ramona Radio Studios, it's the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show. (upbeat music) - All right, we're here. Happy Sunday everybody. Hope everybody's had a good week. With me as always, sweet curbs. - Hey, hey. - Hey, hey. And also Eric, go forth. - Ho, ho. - Ho, ho. - Hey, hey, ho. (laughing) - We got a very-- - They're coming to take me away. - They're coming to take me away. - Ho, ho. (laughing) - So sorry. - Guess what y'all, we got a really cool guest today. - This dude's so random. - Having cool dudes in Ramona. - He owns the Ramona music store. - And I don't even need to know, I don't even need to say your name, bro. If you just started talking, I bet people will already know who you are. (laughing) Everybody will know. - Yeah, I have to talk all different now, just to kind of throw people for a loop. - We got John Haas with us today. - The winner. - The winner of Haas. - The winner of Haas. (laughing) - We gotta start with where that came from. 'Cause that's like your signature. - Yeah, totally. Yeah, that's kind of a funny one. So originally it was people had issues like, they would think my name was the avocado, Haas. You know, so I had pronunciation issues. I was like, well it's like Wizard of Haas. You know, and that kind of stuck. - Haas. - Yeah, the funny thing though, is Kat, when my wife Kat, she plays bass in our band. And when she was growing up, she had an obsession with the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy. - Oh yeah. - She like ran around thinking she was Dorothy. And so then, you know, years later, we're getting married and we're kind of comparing notes. And I'm like, I'm the Wizard of Oz and you're Dorothy. Like how amazing is that? That's like meant to be, you know? 20 years in Prague guys, we had no idea. - Right on. (laughing) - So Brad. (laughing) So John, you're from, are you good on your-- - I'm all good. - You're good on your whipped cream. - Thank you. - Awesome, right on. So you lived in Ramona your whole life, yeah? - Moved here in '91, that was first grade. So, as much as I can remember, it's pretty much all Ramona. - Where does it move from? - I was born in Flagstaff, Arizona. And I don't remember anything from there. So it's pretty much, my whole life is here. - It's just on a piece of paper. - Yeah, exactly. - All right. - Is Kat from Ramona? Did she grow up here? - Yeah, she was born here, grew up here, and got married here and bought a house here. So we're hyper local. - There we go. - Hell yeah. The music I play for Ramona. - I feel like most people are super local, like you've either lived here a year or you've lived here 30 years or more. - Yeah, there's really no in between. - Yeah, I met John back in 2007. - Yeah, Kenrecht stays. - Yeah. - How'd you guys meet? - Oh my gosh, I forgot they did music there. - So that was, so back in '07 I bought the music store up here, it was called Blue Horse Music at the time. And it was really the only thing, we didn't really have a big winery scene. There's not a lot going on. There were a lot of like house shows, like you could go to a punk show at a house or they had some shows at the Boys and Girls Club and at the high school once a year. But that was pretty much the extent of like the local scene other than Dive Bar stuff. And so I bought the music store in '07 and I started doing an open mic at the local sushi restaurant, which was Kenrecht. - Kenrecht. - And that was pretty much the first time that we had a really good like songwriting scene. And so that's where we met Travis, introduced Travis to the other Travis, Travis Doll. And we had a really hop and scene for two or three years, every Thursday we had packed that place to-- - Yeah, I know, man. - Marshall Katasa, you never think like a sushi place. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had a big old grand piano in there or a baby grand piano in there. Where was that at? - You know where Bishards met at? - It's where Pinto-Tai is at. - You know that Thai food place, yeah. That's used to be Kenrecht's. - Yeah. - You see the sushi joint? - Yeah, it was where Pinto-Tai and the Smoke Shop is. It was both of those. So it was pretty big. They expanded. - Oh, okay. - And so yeah, that's where we first started. And then you came in and did EP, just a solo acoustic EP of your original songs, killer stuff. - We heard it, we played one of those, that song Bullet Train on one of the episodes, previous ones. - Oh, is this back in your punk day? - Yeah, that yeah. No, it was not country. - It was not country. - It was not country. - Did you say to our server from the par? She's saying that, Brianna? - Brianna. - Yeah, yeah, she was just a little... - Brianna Thompson, absolutely. And Riley Murphy, who's the singer from Full Moonlight. Have you guys played them yet? - No. - They're a great local band out of Julian. You remember Riley, right? - I think so. - Yeah. - That's so long. - And they're all older, like, they were like little kids. - Yeah. - Like, when, excuse me, when that was going on. - Do you remember, you know, Ocean Natives now? - Yeah, yeah. - They were like 13 or 14 and they were playing there. - Yeah. - It's funny 'cause it's like, there's these big time gaps. - It's been the same guys then, like they've been friends forever. - Yeah, they all, they started taking lessons back in like fourth or fifth grade at the music store. So I've seen the same guys in high school. I was, a couple of them, I was one of their jazz instructors at the high school up there. - Oh, wow. - So it's like, yeah, it's real deep seated with roots. Love it. - So you taught at the high school as well for a while? - Yeah, so part of staff or was like an after school programmer? - No, well, I've done, I've been doing music for so long that I've done different things. I've had an after school programs, but I did teach on staff for the jazz band. So they had basic section leads. So like, they would have a trumpet instructor come in and just pull the trumpet kids out and they would spend two hours with the trumpet kids. For me, it was bass and guitar. So I would teach them the theory and stuff. - So that's pretty cool. That was, you know, we've had probably 10, - You can just set that on the floor. That's fine. - That's perfect. - Smashed on the ground. - Yeah. - Wasn't that important? - We've had probably about 10 different band directors since I've had the music store. So every iteration allows for different things. - Right. - Different visions. - Each one has a different vision. - Yeah, exactly. - So you go out to New York a lot and you do a lot of music festivals out there. Tell us about some of those sites. - So basically it's, you know, we all remember the COVID times and the craziness that was involved in that. And we used to travel a fair amount. So when we were locked in a house for six months, we got a little stir crazy. And we just started picking cool places that we wanted to visit. And we kind of picked a random spot on the Canadian border up by Buffalo, just 'cause I had never been to the Northeast. And so we just went blind, didn't know anyone, didn't know anything, just wanted to kind of get away. Originally it was, my wife is a writer, so she wanted to write books. And I wanted to write songs. I needed to get away from my to-do list and write songs. And the first trip we went and we found like, there's 32 shows today. - Oh my gosh. - We didn't go home at all. So it was like the first trip was like 10 days. And I think we went to like 50 or 60 shows in that week. So that was like a big eye opener to like, I had no idea there was such a healthy scene out there. - That's wild. - Yeah, it's pretty cool. - And it just drew you in. - It just drew us in. So yeah, and we found there's a really healthy scene, both, you know, people go and support. It's just a way of life out there. And then also financially, it makes sense for us to go out. We can make our money back if we play a certain amount of shows and connect with people. It was just an astonishing thing, you know. - Then we had the universe just kind of like, makes that kind of stuff happen. - Things are meant to be, you know. - Yeah. - They line up. - Okay man. - So yeah, we've met a lot of great bands out there. I got one band I wanna play for you guys in a little bit. - Yeah, what do they call it? - They're called Uncle Ben's Remedy. They're Kat's favorite band of all time. - Oh yeah. - And they're out of New York. - They're out of New York. - And specifically, this is Western New York. So Western New York has a very different field than what most people think of when you say New York. This is open fields, cows and big grain silos. And you know, we see Amish and get Amish donuts when we're out there. And it's a very unique experience. And then downtown Buffalo's, you know, 100 years old. And there's these big old mansions and a cool art scene. So, but these guys grew up in the back country. And so there's some serious outlaw there. - Yeah, we gotta check them out. You never expect it, but. - That's killer. What kind of music is it? Like country or is it like a bluegrass? - It's kind of all over the place. I like to tell people they're like a really swampy version of social distortion. So they're like outlaw country, but with this swampy vahib. And they're just singing about, you know, some down country stuff. - Are they banjoin' and fiddlein'? - They have the great fiddle. It's electric guitar, acoustic guitar, upright bass, accordion, and then the guy, this one guy, Sean, he is just a master of multiple instruments. So you never know what he's gonna swing down from the trees with a trombone or, you know, jump out. - Probably him. - Yeah, he's just, you got a favorite song of theirs, you really like? - Yeah, absolutely. - Yeah, which one? - So I wanted to play two for you guys, just to show some range. - Well, let's get one. - But let's kick one off first. - Sure. - Let's get one. Let's see. - It's called pedal, I think pedal to the metal. - All right, let's see if I can find it here. - Should be a couple albums back. - Pedal to the metal. - Yeah, we'll check it out, for sure. - So is all the, excuse me, that when you go to Buffalo and you play these shows, is it like Ramona where everything's fairly close together? Like you can park and like kind of walk and check out different venues, playing different music, or is it kind of spread out? - It's kind of both, like the, it's a lot like San Diego where you say Buffalo, but it's really 100 different towns that are all five minutes away from each other. So, you know, you can just drive in a straight line, stop every five minutes and find five or six different musical acts and a new whiskey to try and a new restaurant, right? So it's, you can go hard out there. - Nice. - Well, let's check out Uncle Ben's remedy. - Yeah, let's check it out. (upbeat music) ♪ I got my metal to the metal ♪ ♪ He all to the steel ♪ ♪ I got my foot up in the carburetor ♪ ♪ With hair on my heel ♪ ♪ Girl, I'm driving like a dead rocker shot ♪ ♪ Couldn't help me lie ♪ ♪ To the city ♪ ♪ Can't even see my face ♪ ♪ Steering with my knees ♪ ♪ I'm free to die ♪ ♪ I'm telling you story ♪ ♪ Sorry if I ran on the lawn ♪ ♪ Open your mouth and layin' in the sugar ♪ ♪ Up since yesterday's all ♪ ♪ I live no number of freedoms ♪ ♪ And freedoms are sweet ♪ ♪ I'm all to release a racket ♪ ♪ And raise your arms out of gasoline ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ I know you're enemy ♪ ♪ And I know mine is booze ♪ ♪ You got to know you're enemy ♪ ♪ And I know mine is booze ♪ ♪ I keep my friends close ♪ ♪ But my enemies closer, yeah ♪ ♪ Now me and booze got a common enemy ♪ ♪ Try to poke it ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ I gotta feel down in my belly ♪ ♪ I can feel it all the weight of my feet ♪ ♪ I gotta relax my mirror and I don't know how much to walk in here ♪ ♪ Well, son, this officer, this dope here ♪ ♪ It don't belong to me ♪ ♪ 'Cause I hurt this man and it belongs to the man I used to be ♪ ♪ And I listen to him walk on a pedal to the metal ♪ ♪ He all through the steel ♪ ♪ I got my foot up in the carburetor ♪ ♪ And I'm spinning Mario ♪ ♪ And I'm not a dead rock shot ♪ ♪ Couldn't have me lie ♪ ♪ A CD case in my heart is staring with my name ♪ ♪ Not afraid to die ♪ ♪ A CD case in my face staring with my name ♪ ♪ Not afraid to die ♪ ♪ A CD case in my face staring with my name ♪ ♪ And I'm not afraid to die ♪ (audience cheering) (upbeat music) ♪ Just a few months ♪ ♪ Wouldn't it be better ♪ ♪ To paint a picture ♪ ♪ Or I'll let her ♪ ♪ Bake and cake or ♪ ♪ Plant a sea ♪ ♪ Ponder the difference between me ♪ ♪ Want and need well ♪ ♪ Just a few months ♪ ♪ But there's not much time ♪ ♪ But rivers to swim ♪ ♪ And mountains to climb ♪ ♪ Music to hear ♪ ♪ To be friends to cherish ♪ ♪ And a life to lead ♪ ♪ Well, just a few months ♪ ♪ The world's out there ♪ ♪ With a sun in your eyes ♪ ♪ And the wind in your head ♪ ♪ On the water of snow ♪ ♪ A shower of rain ♪ ♪ This day will not come round again ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ And us a few months ♪ ♪ But there in mine ♪ ♪ Old age will come ♪ ♪ And it's not kind ♪ ♪ And when you go and go you must live ♪ ♪ You yourself will make more dots ♪ ♪ So dust if you must ♪ ♪ But what would it be better ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Dust if you must ♪ ♪ But what would it be better ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ It must be better ♪ (laughing) So much better. - So John, what was the name of that first band again? - So they're called Uncle Ben's Remedy. - Uncle Ben's Remedy, okay. And then that last song we just listened to, that was you. - That was our band, yeah. - Was Kat playing in that? - Yeah, so she played bass and she sang harmony on that one. - Oh. - That's Dust if you must, we put it out. - About six months ago, I believe. And that was an adaptation, my favorite poem, Growing Up. And we just kind of threw it. - I like that. It kind of reminds me of almost like a big band kind of thing. - Totally. - You know what I mean? - Yep. - Ah, what like a. - So the same kind of thing? - Yeah, you nailed it. That's it. - Big band swing, yeah. - Yeah, we recorded that out in Buffalo, a great room. There's a studio out there called GCR, owned by the Goo Goo Dolls. And it's just this big, beautiful room. So we book it when we can, when we're in there. And we got Tyler Westcott, he's a big name. And like the folk scene out in Buffalo. And he pulled in a great clarinet player. And that was just us jamming with the record button on. - Damn, man. - Yeah, super fun. - That's cool, man. - The process is fun for sure. That's one of our favorite things with our band is. - Well, before you move on, you keep saying our band. But it's the name of the band that is pretty fucking cool. In my opinion too. The beard and the bird. - That is? - Yeah, the beard and the bird. - We tell, we always make the joke that, you know, you never know which ones which, you know, could be like the eternal question, you know. - I would say you asked. - Yeah, if you don't count, doesn't have a beard. So, I don't, but I got, I have the memory of a bird. So that might work too, you know. (laughing) You never know. - Oh man. - Right on. - So that festival that you were talking about, it's the folk festival? - Folk Alliance. - Folk Alliance. - Oh, Folk Alliance, yeah. So that's the one out in Kansas City. Ashley Norton and Stacey Antonell told me about it last year. And I got the chance to go in February of '24. And it was crazy. It's a really cool, it's a special thing. It's basically speed dating for musicians and like radio promoters and tour managers. And just hundreds of shows per hour in all the little hotel rooms. And you just run around trying to catch as much music as you can. - Is it kind of like a, like, nam? Like, that kind of thing? - Kind of-ish, yeah. - There's people like selling equipment and like- - There's a little bit of that, but not- - It's more just basically like songwriters. - Right. - Pretty much the whole day all day. - And it's one hotel? - It's one hotel, yeah. They take over the whole hotel. I'll never miss it again in my life. It was a powerful show. - Wow. - What hotel? It must be a pretty big hotel. - This is the western downtown Kansas City. I think the, so the Folk Alliance took over the bottom. I think it was, they had everything to the eighth floor. So every room up to the eighth floor was a stage. For four days, which was incredible. And then during the days, basically until 10, they had like classes on like, oh, so you have a new song. Here's how to promote it on radio. Here's how to promote it on Spotify. You can do meet and greets with all the DJs for different radio stations all over the country. And you can sit down and hang on there, your album and talk a little bit. And so it was just really cool. - 10 a.m. or 10 p.m. - That was basically from 10 a.m. Till 10 p.m. was like- - Music. - Was normal stuff and then 10 p.m. is when all of the crazy shows started. - Oh, so it's like playing musical nights. - Yeah, it's 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. - Oh wow. - And then when people were done at 4 a.m. they went down to the lobby and you know, it was like 7 a.m. and there's people still jam and bluegrass. I've never seen anything like it. It was like straight out of my wildest dreams, you know? Pretty cool. - Wonder if there's any music in the hotel tonight. - Right. - Poor lady. - Come on. - Some lady checks in. - On the ninth floor. - Yeah. - Yeah. - There's lots of peace and quiet. - Yeah, there's lots of music tonight. - I came here for peace and quiet with all I got was this damn festival. - Yeah, indoor music festival. - That's awesome though. So dude, how long have you been playing, when did you start playing like guitar or music? What did you pick up first guitar? - Yeah, picked up guitar. My grandma had a classical, I picked up in fourth grade. Basically, I was always jumping around, like as a kid, I would be like, okay, I'm gonna be a guitarist and I'd do that for three or four months. And I'm like, I'm a cowboy now. And I'd go by about a lasso. And I'm like practicing roping in my backyard. - I was Batman once. - Yeah, right. I went through the phase. And then I was like, okay, I'm gonna be a professional skateboarder. So, you know, and, but basically every like six months, I always came back to some form of music until like eighth grade. And then I was like, okay, this is, you know, I'm taking loans out from my dad for recording equipment and, you know, and basically never turned away from that. - Yeah, so what was your like, what kind of music like when you were, you know-- - When I was good. - When you first started, like what was like a-- - My progression was like, yeah. It was like, I was pretty, pretty into like Green Day. - Oh yeah, okay. - Like Green Day punk during the skate era. - Like some little power chords everywhere. - Yeah, lots of power chords. - Two fingers and one asshole, that's all you need to do is play this guitar. (laughing) - Not so much truth, right? Three power chords and less truth. (laughing) But then I went into like the Metallica phase, eighth, eighth, ninth grade, a little angstier, then I got into tool. So basically I went through this whole like punk metal phase and then it wasn't until like 20, mid-20s, I was like, this jazz stuff is pretty cool. That's kind of the natural progression from metal is going into jazz. And then from jazz, I got into-- - That's only wild to me, that's a natural progression of metal is to jazz. - You'd be really surprised. - From a musical theory kind of thing. - Exactly. So the idea is like when you play really fast notes, really complicated fast notes, if you take the distortion off, you end up with 1930s jazz. - Okay. - It's crazy fast, crazy clean, big attention to detail and a lot of mental math, you know? So that was really, that was like the next thing for me was getting into jazz. And then when I bought the music store, there's, you said NAMM, right? So NAMM is the big yearly convention for, it's really for music stores to like see what stuff they wanna buy for the following year, but it's also just a crazy amount of musicians that show. Well, there's always the Anaheim one in January, but back when I first bought the store, there was the Nashville DAMM and that was in July. And so I didn't like country at all, I grew up in Ramona kind of rebelling against like, I hate cows and everything. And nothing I didn't think against cows necessarily, but I love cows. - Cows a lot of matters. (laughing) - So we started going to Nashville NAMM and that's when I've heard like real country for the first time, not like what I thought was country. And I totally fell in love. So I've been doing like Western swing ever since. So like Wayne Hancock is one of my favorite artists of all time. Sierra Farrell, Bob Wills, I really fell in love with the old, old, kind of the jazz country stuff. So that's where the beard and the bird kind of ends up. We listen to all of it. - Like this? - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah. - Isn't that cool? - I love this dude. - This Wayne Hancock. ♪ This ain't black clowns ♪ ♪ Blown in from the west ♪ - We covered the song, it's one of my favorites of all time. ♪ I'm a good song ♪ ♪ I'm a good song ♪ ♪ I'm a good song ♪ ♪ I'm a good song ♪ ♪ I love that bass man, that I'm walking bass, you know what I mean? ♪ - Yeah. - I ran sound for him in Ramona. - Oh yeah. - And that was one of the reasons I fell in love with the style is Wayne Hancock was at the main stage. And yeah, I was just like John the floor while I'm running sound like, oh my gosh. - That's wild dude. Yeah, I remember you running sound for the main stage. - Yeah, yeah, for a couple of years. - Yeah, that's pretty cool, man. - I know, I've done, I've worn a lot of hats in this tiny town, you know. - I know, well you were what Citizen of the Year, this past year. - Oh, we finally got them both in here. - Yeah, we had Ashley in here, no. - Nice. - Now we got the other one, John. - Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, we've, the town's grown up a lot. - Yes. - We've accomplished a lot as a group of people. - It really has, man. - Just with the music stuff in this town, it's been incredible, it's just past few years. - We all have a lot to be proud of. - Yeah, absolutely. - Absolutely. - Yeah, we couldn't do it without all of us, you know? - Yeah, truly. - You know, all the music. All the people who are on that poster right there. - Heck yeah. Well, that's, you know, that's a huge part of it. Like, I've been trying to do this, I mean, since you and I met, right? Like, in '07, '08. - We're talking about this for years, dude, I don't. - So it's all about the, all the extra people who are actually moving into town and these guys running Ramona Radio and all the promotion and all the networking that we have. And, you know, just, we have all the right people in all the right places, we're super blessed. - Yeah, super cool. All right, John. - Yeah. - We always ask this question of our guests, country. - King. - Go. - And don't say George Strait. - I'm just kidding. - I mean, I, yeah. - You got, I mean-- - No, I'm just kidding. - There's a million categories, right? I mean, it depends on what you mean, country. But for me, I'm a Western swing guy, so Bob Wills. - Bob Wills. - That's, you know, that's OG roots right there. - Bob Wills is still the king. That's a song. - Who did that song? - Oh, no. - If you're in Texas. - I mean, pretty much all those guys have to tip their hat to the-- - I think it was Waylon Jennings that did that song that Bob Wills is still the king. - Oh, well, there you go. - Is that it? Did you find it? - Yeah. - Play it. - Oh, I don't know about that. I didn't find that song. But let's listen to some Bob Wills. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Oh, no. (upbeat music) That's how I'm done your role. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ Deep within my heart ♪ ♪ Like a moon ♪ ♪ I tell a song of old Santa ♪ ♪ Santa and tongue ♪ ♪ Where in dreams ♪ ♪ I live with a little more ♪ ♪ Yes, yes, go on ♪ ♪ Eat the stars all along ♪ ♪ It was there ♪ ♪ I found beside the alamo ♪ ♪ Alamo ♪ ♪ And Chapman strange as the blue ♪ ♪ Up above the far moonlit path ♪ ♪ That only she would know ♪ ♪ And I tell you here's my broken song of love ♪ ♪ Oh, no, you're spending ♪ ♪ Oh, only my heart ♪ ♪ Come back my rose rose of Santa ♪ ♪ Live so sweet and tender ♪ ♪ Like feathers fall apart ♪ ♪ Speak once again of my love ♪ ♪ My broken song and the words I know ♪ ♪ Still live in my heart all along ♪ ♪ For the moonlit path by the alamo ♪ ♪ And rose my rose of Santa ♪ ♪ Oh, only my heart all back my rose rose of Santa ♪ ♪ Live so sweet and tender ♪ ♪ Like feathers fall apart ♪ ♪ Speak once again of my love ♪ ♪ Broken song and the words I know ♪ ♪ Still live in my heart all along ♪ ♪ For the moonlit path by the alamo ♪ ♪ And rose my rose of Santa ♪ ♪ And rose my rose of Santa ♪ ♪ Well, I've heard those city singers singing ♪ ♪ About how they can love ♪ ♪ Deeper than the oceans ♪ ♪ Deeper than the stars above ♪ ♪ Well, I come from the country ♪ ♪ And I know I ain't seen it all ♪ ♪ But I've heard that ocean salty ♪ ♪ And stars this sometimes fall ♪ ♪ And that would not do justice ♪ ♪ To the way I feel for you ♪ ♪ So I had to sing a song ♪ ♪ About all the things I knew ♪ ♪ My love is deeper than the power ♪ ♪ Stronger than the river ♪ ♪ Higher than the pine trees ♪ ♪ Go and talk on the hill ♪ ♪ My love is purer than the snowflakes ♪ ♪ That fall and lay December ♪ ♪ And on its days of robbing ♪ ♪ On the springtime windowsill ♪ ♪ And longer than the song of a poor way ♪ ♪ From the back roads to the Broadway shows ♪ ♪ With a million miles between ♪ ♪ There's at least a million love songs ♪ ♪ People love to sing ♪ ♪ And everyone is different ♪ ♪ And everyone's the same ♪ ♪ And this is just another way ♪ ♪ Of saying the same thing ♪ ♪ My love is deeper than the power ♪ ♪ Stronger than the river ♪ ♪ Higher than the pine trees ♪ ♪ Go and talk on the hill ♪ ♪ My love is purer than the snowflakes ♪ ♪ That fall and lay December ♪ ♪ And on its days of robbing ♪ ♪ On the springtime windowsill ♪ ♪ And longer than the song of a poor way ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ My love is deeper than the holler ♪ ♪ Stronger than the river ♪ ♪ Higher than the pine trees ♪ ♪ Go and talk on the hill ♪ ♪ My love is purer than the snowflakes ♪ ♪ That fall and lay December ♪ ♪ And on its days of robbing ♪ ♪ On the springtime windowsill ♪ ♪ And longer than the song of a poor way ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ A poor way ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I got a piece of land ♪ ♪ Out in the countryside ♪ ♪ Lay back and smell the sun ♪ ♪ Warm up the Georgia pie ♪ ♪ It's so good to be taking it easy ♪ ♪ Why would I ever leave ♪ ♪ 'Cause I know I got some good friends ♪ ♪ Down the street got a good lookin' mama ♪ ♪ With her own town ♪ ♪ Givin' a small town ♪ ♪ Where it feels like home ♪ ♪ I got everything I need ♪ ♪ And the wind that I don't own ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, oh ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ We gotta find the door ♪ ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ ♪ Sip this key up and by ♪ ♪ Livin' like we'll never die ♪ ♪ Come on, stay away ♪ ♪ If you don't believe me ♪ ♪ Why would I ever leave ♪ ♪ 'Cause I know I got some good friends ♪ ♪ That live down the street ♪ ♪ Got a good looking woman with her arms round me ♪ ♪ Here in a small town where it feels like home ♪ ♪ I got everything I need ♪ ♪ And nothing that I don't want no ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ I got some good friends that live down the street ♪ ♪ Got a good looking woman with her arms round me ♪ ♪ Here in a small town where it feels like home ♪ ♪ I got everything I need ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ And nothing that I don't want no ♪ ♪ Everything I need ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ And nothing that I don't want no ♪ ♪ It's the way that you carry from the things you think you want ♪ ♪ It's the way that you carry from the things you think you ♪ ♪ Where it is you ♪ ♪ Where it is you ♪ ♪ It's the way that you carry from the things you think you want ♪ ♪ I got everything I need ♪ ♪ Nothing that I don't want no ♪ ♪ Everything I need ♪ ♪ Nothing that I don't want no ♪ ♪ Everything I need ♪ ♪ Nothing that I don't want no ♪ ♪ Oh everything I need ♪ ♪ And nothing that I don't want no ♪ - Oh man, what a cool song. - Yeah, that was great. - It was like a Zac Brown song. Homegrown, you know what it reminds me of, man? Reminds me of Ramona. And he says, "I got some good friends that live down the street." - Yeah. - That's fucking cool, man. - Every direction out here, man. - Oh, I know, I know. - Everywhere you throw a stone. - And throw a stone, I got a good friend over there. (laughing) - It's like that other, there's this other song that reminds me of Ramona, it's all... - Shh. - You know when you try to come up with the name of the song. - What is that? - You know the song? - Yeah, it's that song. - It goes, "Did you do that?" - Yeah, it goes, "Did you do that?" (laughing) - I love it. - You know this song goes, "Dada, Dada." Oh yeah, there was an episode of "Married with Children" where Al Bundy goes into this record store, and he's like, "And there's a guy standing behind the counter, and then people are just going up to him saying, "All right, I don't know the name of the song, but it goes, "Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada." And the guy's like, "Oh, it's right over there." "All three, we have the..." (laughing) - It's like Shazam, the first generation. - Yeah. - You get a check from them. - Right. - It's pretty good. (laughing) - So who else was that? That was Bob Wills. That was the first one that we played on this one. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Bob Wills is the game then. - Oh, gee, man. - And then some Randy Travis. - And Randy Travis, yeah. - Can't go wrong with that. - Okay, so I gotta ask then, we got your king of country. Who's your queen? - Queen. Oh, queen it. You know, I went old school with Bob Wills. I'm gonna go Sierra Farrell. I don't know if you're in on her, but she's the queen of Americana right now. She's out doing stadium tours with Zach Bryan and I've been following her for years and she's a great writer. She's this little Spitfire. She's amazing. And her voice, man, she could shatter glass. ♪ Don't you sit down ♪ ♪ You know I love you ♪ - Oh, she sounds like old country. - Dude, she's new. - She's new. - Brand new, oh wow. - We've gotten, I've seen her a couple times. - Is she older, younger? - Oh, she's about her age. - 'Cause she's, I mean, she sounded like some old like Dolly and like Loretta Lynn, kind of. - No, she's OG sound. - Yeah, I like that. I gotta look her up now. - She cut her teeth like just jammin' on the streets too. Like, you don't remember Phillip Twitchell, right? Our mutual songwriting buddy that we met at Kenrecks. He actually used to play on the streets with her out in like Fresno and Missouri and all over the country. So she's like, she's famous for Hoppin' Trains. She's like a real OG songwriter. Not sure how to pay bills, you know? Just gettin' out and singin'. And now she's huge, so it's awesome. - So I gotta ask you this, is Hoppin' Trains a euphemism or something or legitimately? - Legitimately. - Hoppin' Trains. - Hoppin' Trains is a whole thing. - Oh shit, okay. - There's a subculture on music thing. No, it's a real thing. - Well, I wasn't sure. I was like, I mean, she literally hops trains. That's cool. - Literally hops, I mean, I think it's a means to an N for a musician getting to their next gig, you know? - Right, right. - But, yeah. - You know how long they've been hopping by how many toes they have left? - Right. - There's bussin'. - That's some outlaw country. - I'm missing a shoe, didn't calculate that stuff, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Didn't quite grab it. - Didn't time it. - Like, they opened up the North Door, I ran out the South Door. - Gotcha. - Gotcha, gotcha. - That's so rad. - All right, so John, you know that this is a music show, but it's also a drinking show. So what is it you're drinking over there? You got some? - I got whiskey, what are you pouring? - I got more, man, you want some more? I'll take a little bit. - We got some more. - There you go, we got gentlemen. - You got chrys couple there? - You want some more, right? - We got a gentleman, Jack. - So, okay, real quick, 30-second story, you ready? - Yeah, let's hear it. - So we were doing a bunch of, what is it, ancestry? And we found that one of my, I think it's great, great, great grandfather was a reverend and he was a distiller, right? And so he would make whiskey and he brought in, he would also take in kids like orphans and stuff. And so he took in this orphan and he was making just wicked whiskey. And at some point though, he was, his congregations just getting wasted, right? So he had this like, he had this conflict of like, well, am I a very good reverend if, you know, so, so I don't know how many years, I still gotta look up the story and verify it. But at some point he's like, you know what, just here's the whiskey recipe. Orphan kid that I've been working with, I've been training with, just take it, it's Jack Daniels. So this is my family's recipe. - Oh, wow. - So you can go to Tennessee and go to the Daniel call distillery, which is across the street or just down the street from Jack. And that's, yeah. So that's kind of cool we found out like via ancestry.com that I got whiskey in my blood. - But you know it's wild about Jack Daniels, but it's in Kentucky and it's a dry county, I guess. - Oh, I know, yeah. They make it there but you can't drink it there. - Really? - Yeah. - Kind of wild, right? - That's a fun fact. - Yeah, I think I, one of the blue laws are, there's just a dry county or something like that. Can't buy alcohol there, what kind of place? - No. - It's wild to think about, right? - That is wild. - A whole industry built around it. - Yeah, it's still today. - Well, in Texas, you can't, I said, I think I've told this story before, my sister was like mortified, they had moved to Texas and she was like Walmart picking up supplies for their house and my brother-in-law was like, oh, get like some beer. - Sunday? - Uh huh. - South Carolina's like that. - And so she's gone through the line and she said, the lady said, well, honey, you can't buy that today. And my sister was just like, what? - What do you mean? - What do you mean? - It's like, it's Sunday. - We were driving through Utah and you couldn't find anything off of the 15 anywhere, right or left of the 15. It was like impossible to find. - Well, some of those states, I think Utah, probably, they have like the different kind of beer where it's like a two, three, something like this. - Yeah, it's like different. - Super low. - Yeah, you're just like drinking water or like drinking old duels or something. (laughing) - I'm drinking 18 of these damn things and I'm feeling nothing. (laughing) - Just bloated, yeah. - Just bloated. - Just bloated. - And I'm peeing a lot. (laughing) - It's clear, though. - It's clear. - You're very hydrated. - Yeah, I'm very hydrated. (laughing) - Yep, that's this core's light right here that I can also put on my whiskey tray. - You're chasing it down with a core's light. - I chased my gentleman, Jack, with a core's light. - Spam chasing mine with white corn. - Rocky Mountain Kool-Aid. - Those are all songs waiting to be written in man. - Colorado Kool-Aid. - Colorado Kool-Aid. - Colorado Kool-Aid, that's right, sweetheart. - What is Colorado Kool-Aid? - Colorado Kool-Aid. - Rocky Mountain, that's a song. You never heard of it. - Oh, it's a great song. - Oh, it's a great song. - Oh, dude. - Johnny Paycheck. - Johnny Paycheck, yeah. - Oh, that's amazing. - It's called Colorado Kool-Aid. - Johnny Paycheck. - Oh, dude. - Yeah, that's a good song. - Hell yeah. - Funny. - All right, hold on, let me take a sip of this. - All right, you got a new song coming out, John. - We do, yeah. We got a brand new song we wrote about getting out of the city, getting out of the big city and kind of clearing your head. And how much we all need that, you know, first. Growing up here, it's the '67, '78. You get to get out of downtown and, you know, reap some real air. It's the same thing. So the 219 out in Western New York, you go south out of Buffalo and you go into this beautiful ski town called Ellicottville. And so for us, going out there, driving down south on the 219 just felt like home. So we wrote a song called the 219. - Oh, here. - You just wrote this, like, put it out? - It's not even out yet. Like, this is gonna be the first time right now. - Right now? - This is it. - Wow, sweet. - This is the world premiere. - This is the debut. - The world premiere. - It's one hell of a Sunday, you know? - That's awesome, man. (laughs) - Let's check it out. - Yeah, let's check it out. ♪ If you need to get away from the stress ♪ ♪ And the worries of your life ♪ ♪ If every day feels like you're dancing ♪ ♪ On the edge of the night ♪ ♪ If that concrete jungle boogie ♪ ♪ Is driving you insane ♪ ♪ There's a paradise just over there ♪ ♪ To lane ♪ ♪ Take the 219 ♪ ♪ The prettiest thing you'll ever saw ♪ ♪ Where the air is pristine ♪ ♪ There's 80 shades of green ♪ ♪ Come on, baby, take it 219 ♪ ♪ If Monday morning feels like you're deeper in the month ♪ ♪ If Tuesday afternoon it's getting hard to give a damn ♪ ♪ When hump day comes around ♪ ♪ But to the one that's getting hung ♪ ♪ Back to college, not that far ♪ ♪ But I'll get you out of that summer ♪ ♪ Take the 219 ♪ ♪ The prettiest thing you'll ever saw ♪ ♪ Where the air is pristine ♪ ♪ There's 80 shades of green ♪ ♪ Come on, baby, take it 219 ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ Heaven knows you got no nose ♪ ♪ Left for the grindstone ♪ ♪ Back in the human burns all out of ice ♪ ♪ Even better, there's no chatter left for the rat race ♪ ♪ Kick those tires like the fires ♪ ♪ Put the pedal to the mat ♪ ♪ Getting chased by the hills down ♪ ♪ To the valley of the shore ♪ ♪ There's fire in those waterfalls ♪ ♪ Who could ask for more ♪ ♪ Black diamonds are a girl's best friend ♪ ♪ With that large life summer snow ♪ ♪ Whatever reason, hunt the season ♪ ♪ Now's the time to go ♪ ♪ Take the 219 ♪ ♪ The prettiest thing you'll ever saw ♪ ♪ Where the air is pristine ♪ ♪ There's Haiti, shades of green ♪ ♪ Come on, baby, take the 219 ♪ - All right, man, damn, that was a good song, dude. I heard you do that. - Thank you. - I heard you do that pommel a couple weeks ago. - Yeah, we've been, we've been workshopping it out live. You know, it gets people out in the dance floor, which we love. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. - It's always cool to play and have people dancing out there. - Yeah, absolutely. - Be able to vibe, you know. That's one of the things I like about the style of music we play is it kind of makes you tap your toes and move, you know? Most of the time. - I like that about you guys. I don't know where we were. We were at a party or something. We showed up and you guys were playing, you and Kat. It was off of Ramona Street. Where the, what was that? It was probably where we used to live off of Ramona Street. Anyway, you guys were, they hired you guys to play, and I was like, "What? John Haas is here?" - Oh, shit. - That's awesome. - That was a party. - Love it. I don't know what it was. It was like a Hawaiian themed or whatever. - Oh, yeah, I know exactly which one you're talking about. - That was my client, Glenda, her 80th birthday. Yeah, yeah, I do remember that. - Yeah, they wanted some old Elvis, so we played a bunch of old Elvis stuff, some '50s rock. It was great. Super fun. - That was killer, dude. But yeah, I like the way you guys like rearrange songs, like cover songs where you can take like a Michael Jackson song, something like that, or something like that, where you can turn it in-- - We're Backstreet Boys. Whatever. - Backstreet Boys. One of my favorite things is taking, like we did a pretty good version with Tony Oconum on drums. We did Ace of Spades by Motorhead. - Nice. - And I love doing that at like wineries, like, you know, people just like sipping their, their cabernet, listening to like Lemme Kilmeister from Motorhead. Like, how cool is that, you know? Or a guy, one of my favorites is like, what a guy, like six foot tall guy with big boots and a stretch, and that's a good song. I was like, "That was Miley Cyrus, sir." Like, I love that, it's just-- - Who's she? - Yeah, that was Miley Cyrus. - She sounds hot. - I don't know who that is, but-- - A good song's a good song. It's kind of fun to-- And half the challenge is like reinventing the song. Like, we do a version of Sweet Child of Mine, and we have, you know, I just got burned out on that song. So, putting it in a new light was kind of cool. You're like, "Okay, I like, I know every lyric, I can sing along to this," so. - The absolute best version of that song ever, and no one can argue with me on this. - Yeah. - In the movie Old School. When the, not Old School, I'm sorry, stepbrothers, when they're singing in the car and it's the family, and it's like the kids in the back, and the dad, and they all like-- - You're gonna get so mad, you're off-key, you're off. - It's so good. It's so funny. - That was a funny movie, holy shit. - So, now the beard and the bird, I always want to say the bird and the beard. - I know, yeah. We almost had that for a time, but we looked it up and the numbers just weren't right online, so beard and the bird is it. - The beard and the bird, yeah. - But prior to doing that, you've done some solo work. - Yeah, I actually have a new solo album. - It's been a while. - Then I'm gonna be, basically this next trip out to New York, I'm gonna be recording almost all new original stuff. So, I have a solo album that's coming out in the next six months. Yeah, just me, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you hear milk and honey? - It's the most recent song I did, but I haven't put it out yet. - I don't think I've heard them. - I watched, what was that show, 1883? Did you watch Yellowstone? - No, I don't know. - Dude. - It was like the prequel? - Yeah, 1883 is the one that's like, well, it's our generation. The girl, our generation, the organ trail generation, 'cause we all play organ trail. - Right, yeah. - I'm like the, on the Apple too. - On the Apple too, that's it. You got it. - I died of dysentery many times. - Yeah, absolutely. You remember the, for the river. - I'm a little older than you, yeah. A little older than you, but did you play the lemonade stand? - Well, it did that a couple times. - It was the organ trail and the lemonade stand. You guys go. - I never played that. - Eric, you're-- - I did that. - Worth the same age. I never played the lemonade stand. - Yeah, you all are a little younger than me and Eric. We're the old men in here. - Yeah, like no one had computers, but we had, in school, like-- - You went to the computer lab. - Third or fourth grade, you went to the computer lab. And then everyone just named their characters, the other people behind you, and you're like, "Rachel, you died of dysentery." (laughing) - You broke an axle. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - But so basically, the 1883 is like the HBO version of that story. - Oh, okay. - And I was just like, all in. I watched it in like 48 hours, and then I wrote a song about it. And basically from that, I've just written like nine other songs. So I got a bunch of stuff that I just need to take time away from my to-do list and record them. - Yeah, get it done. - That's what I'm doing. - Get it done. - Just get it done. - Love it. - Because drowning is one of his songs that gets requested all the time on a room on a radio. - Oh, that's wonderful. - It's been on there a long time. This one, such a good song. - Oh, yeah, yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? Do you remember Asia Alice and Rachel? Asia Alice and her rings a bell. - She was a great country singer. Travis Dahl and I played in her band, and that was her singing the duet part. - I'll be good. - So yeah, she's definitely one. She'd throw into the mix. I'll throw you a link for her album. - Thanks. - Great country artist. - Yeah, yeah. - A lot of history, man. - I'll tell ya. All right, we got another, we got two more requests here. We're gonna come back. We have to say bye to John, 'cause he's got far more important things to do than sitting on a second whiskey with us. - He's got music to make. Far from me, I got more music to make. - More music to me. - He's got a whole eight-hour day coming at him. After the gentleman, Jack. - Yeah. - Oh, yeah. ♪ You pray for angels in all far from you ♪ ♪ That sense will both be saved ♪ ♪ And indicated when they rhyme ♪ ♪ Do you thank the Lord above ♪ ♪ And I'll thank my lucky stars ♪ ♪ And we'll live together side by side ♪ ♪ Where all you think I'm wrong ♪ ♪ And you know we all right ♪ ♪ We both have our reasons ♪ ♪ To keep our minds locked up tight ♪ ♪ It's okay if you believe ♪ ♪ What hurts the ancient prophets row ♪ ♪ Careful not to drive me in ♪ ♪ Whatever floats your own ♪ ♪ You pray for angels in all far from you ♪ ♪ That sense will both be saved ♪ ♪ And indicated when they rhyme ♪ ♪ Do you thank the Lord above ♪ ♪ And I'll thank my lucky stars ♪ ♪ And we'll live together side by side ♪ ♪ Where all you need when you're afraid of hell ♪ ♪ And all you think you're only trying to save me from myself ♪ ♪ Try and see that some of our sheep are destined to be goats ♪ ♪ Careful not to drive me in ♪ ♪ Whatever floats your own boat ♪ (instrumental music) ♪ Careful not to drive me in ♪ ♪ Whatever floats your boat ♪ ♪ Careful not to drive me in ♪ ♪ Whatever floats your boat ♪ ♪ We're trying to save each other ♪ ♪ But we both end up soot ♪ ♪ Careful not to drive me in ♪ ♪ Whatever floats your boat ♪ ♪ Do you pray for angels in all far from you ♪ ♪ That sense will both be saved ♪ ♪ And indicated when they rhyme ♪ ♪ You're the thanks Lord for holding on ♪ ♪ They're my lucky stars ♪ ♪ And we'll live together side by side ♪ ♪ We'll live together by and by ♪ I'm sitting in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas. He's drinking Colorado Kool-Aid and talking to some Mexicans. And we was, was that to say, what's Colorado Kool-Aid? Well, it's a can of coors brewed from a mountain stream. It sets your head on fire and make your kid any scream. Oh, it sure is fine. Yeah, we was having ourselves one of the real good times. But you know, every beer joint that you've ever been in, some big mean drunk, we just ain't got no friend. Sure enough, he wants to fight. Yeah, he's gonna whip everything inside. Well, he took him a big cold swallow beer and he walked over and spit in my Mexican friends ear. Sure enough, that made my buddy real man. That's something like he ain't never had. Well, sir, he pulled out a big long switchblade knife. Quick as a whistle, he began to slice. That big main drunk stood back, his face full of tears. Looking down at the floor, one of his ears. He cut that thing off even with a side learn. You might say the little Mexican fella, he just didn't give a darn. But even a gentleman about it. Been over with a halfway grin, picked it up and handed it back to him. He said, "Now big man, you get the urge to spit a little beer. Just open up your hand there and spit it in your own ear. There won't be no trouble that way." That's what I heard him say. And I said, "Bar made, set us up around that Colorado coolay." While you're up there, bring his big fella here at Box Band-Aids. Now, let me tell you, if you're ever riding down in South Texas, then decide to stop and drink some Colorado coolay, maybe talk to some Mexicans, and you get the urge to get a little tough. Better make damn sure you got your knife proof ear mug. Hey, ain't that right, big man. Ah, hell, he can't hear, not on this side anyway, he ain't got no ear. Hey, bar me, bring us all a big tongue, glad to that Colorado coolay. How about it? How you doing, big man? Still got your ear there in your head. [Music] All right, John, what do you think of that Colorado coolaid? Legendary, man. Yeah, that's such old school. I know. Everyone's gonna have their song about some crazy liquor, right? All right, I would like those talking country songs. Oh, until I heard that, I thought the only Johnny Pachock song was, "Take this job and shove it." "Take this job and shove it." I ain't working. [Laughter] A woman done left. Check all the reasons that was working. We're gonna do a four piece quart quart. Sorry, I felt like I got you. You said you're saying, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." [Laughter] Oh, he's right into my parade. No, but you know what we've got to do, though. We've got to do a big shout out to our sponsor here. I love barbecue, right? I love barbecue. [Laughter] We love you, Dean. We love Dean. We love Dean. Oh, John, you've had a lot of barbecue. Oh, yeah, heck yeah, Dean's the man. Yeah, I always do it on the-- Do you have a favorite? Yeah, what do you guys want? You know what, I never expect sausage to be amazing, and he hooked it up. It was incredible. I think it was the thea's release. He was serving up some stuff. It was crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The distillery. Yeah. Yeah, so good. Yeah. You know my favorite thing about Dean, and I don't know if he does this for everyone, but he'll just pop in pama and be like, because he knows I like spicy food. I made this. Try it. He made ghost pepper. That's right. Yes. Oh. Ghost pepper beef sticks, but it wasn't. He also made candy. Oh, it was like a toffee almost, but it had bacon and something else in it. Yeah. It was so good. Oh, man. But he'll just pop in or wherever he's at. He's like, oh, I tried this new recipe. It's pretty spicy, or I made you one, or what. That's awesome. He's so cool. I love him. Yeah. He came with that little bucket of little sausages in the candies, and then he-- It looked like a slim gym, kind of like a beef stick. Yeah, so then he comes out. He's like, all right, Travis, you're not allowed to have this. Well, because I told him, don't let Travis try it. He doesn't like spicy, or it's spicy doesn't like him. He's like, no, dude. That's got ghost pepper in it. And I'm like, all right, let me try it. Well, I even said to him when he-- He's breathing fire. They're not that bad, because I had said to him, I like spicy, but I've never eaten a ghost pepper. I know those are hot. Yeah, no joke. And he goes, no, no, I can eat them. It's not that bad. And it wasn't. It was like the perfect amount of spice. Salty, had a nice snap to it. It was very good. That's awesome. Yeah, I had one little piece of it, and he was thinking, he's like, don't even do it, man. Kirby's going to yell at me. Kirby said you're not allowed to have it. He knows, man. Well, because here's why. He's watching out. I wake up to a Tom's bottle shaking next to my head at three o'clock in the morning. That's not even a joke. That's for-- I know. There is no punch line. That's the truth. It's funny, because it's true. And I literally roll over. I'm like, oh, heartburn again? Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, y'all out there listening up. If you got any events happening in the near future, and you need a caterer, or best barbecue in town, in my opinion, give Dean a call, 858-354-7712. And remember, nobody likes to party with salads. [LAUGHTER] But you got to finish it. You got to have the meat? There you go. And all the barbecue just got it. [LAUGHTER] I love that. That's it. Yeah, dude, for real. I mean, come on over, man. We're going to hang out and eat salads. I'm going to make a nice-- I'm going to make Caesar's salad. I'm going to make you a Caesar salad. This has got the best croutons and whatever out here. It's got Keith and Paul in it. Oh, can you swallow a salad? That makes you think of white chicks. A Nikoi salad. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. She went in order to Nikoi's salad. So dumb. So dumb. It's a good movie, though. So good. Oh, yeah. Good movie. Good old back-of-the-day movie. All right, John. So you're going to be leaving us soon for a few weeks, heading out to Njok? Njok. Yeah, we got our-- You're starting to pick up any New York, Njok? Njok, not yet, not yet. When you're out there, do you pick up the accent? No, I don't. Do they have an accent all over? They do. Or is it just like Long Island and certain places? No, the whole state does. But their accent's interesting. Because they're more like Great Lakes, it's more like a Great Lakes accent. So if you think like-- it's almost like long A's, like Minnesota. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't you know? Yeah, a little buffalo in there. Buffalo, yeah. It's interesting. It's almost like Canadian, almost. Yeah, well, because they're right across from Toronto. So it's like Toronto. It's a whole thing. Yeah, it's interesting. But yeah, we're heading out there for the last festivals of the year, and then we're coming back, and we'll be here through the new year. And can't wait to do all sorts of great festivals and stuff. Here, we got the Art and Wine Festival coming on. I am. I'm excited for that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, lots of good stuff. Lots of good stuff happening. Well, shit, man. Thanks for hanging out with us. Yeah, thanks for having me, man. Yeah, dude, thanks for coming. Thanks, John. John, give us one more song to take us out. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh. What was Kat's song you said you wanted to play? We played that one. That was-- yeah, Angels and Amuleons says I love that song. I would say Albert Lewis. So many ways to get you home. Oh, yeah. So, Gary Lewis, I've been working with him in the studio for the last year. And he's from Julie in Winola. And he just released this album. I think August 16th, but my favorite song. So many ways to get-- he actually let us cover this song. So I play this song all over, because I'm like a full convert. I love this song. Killer, man. We're going to have to get on the show. Rad, like this guy can sing. I love all of this guy. This is cool. Yeah. It's amazing guys. Raise voice. Yeah. We'll get him on the show one day. Heck yeah, man. Heck yeah. [MUSIC PLAYING] Gold and whiskey and fine wine, burning wheat. And a new sunrise, moonlit nights, with room by. Oh, there's so many ways to get you high. There's a springtime in the fall. There's a winter, a summer alcohol. There's pretty sad songs that'll make you cry. Oh, there's so many ways to get you high. [MUSIC PLAYING] There's starry nights and burning hot days. While there's little pills that'll put you in her haze. My days ain't look on your lover's face. Child, there's so many ways to get you high. New born baby, a birdie fly. All the things that you did last night, was it wrong? Why did it feel right? Oh, there's so many ways to get you high. All right. [MUSIC PLAYING] And in the end, in the bye and bye, did you find your way? Did you find your reason why? Did you go deep? Did you go wide? Yeah, there's so many ways to get you high. There's so many ways to get you high. 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No. (laughing) - Victoria, we love you. Ramona Family Naturals is one of my favorite stores legitimately, I'm probably there five times a week. We appreciate your support. Make sure you vote for Best of Music Venue. - Oh yeah, Best of Music Venue and all other kinds of stuff. - And all other things. I know Red, White, and Bruce is nominated for quite a few. - Pommo. - Pommo's nominated, Mama Ramona's. - Oh yeah, Mama Ramona's. - So make sure you're voting for Best of Ramona. And we thank you very much, Ramona Family Naturals, for sponsoring the Outlaw Country Show. - Bop, bop, bop. - For our show, bing, bing, bing. - I gotta give Victoria her time. (cheering) There she is. (laughing) - Victoria gets a chime. - No other guests has gotten a chime, Victoria, so. - No other sponsor gets a chime. (laughing) - Or a sound bite, whatever you want. - The other sound bite is snowy, like it's the part of a sandwich. - I think it's gonna be okay with that. (laughing) - She's like, "I dream a genie." (laughing) - Yeah. - Dude, dude, dude, dude. - So we just had Jon Hoss hanging out with us today. He had to take off 'cause he's got an album to record. - Or back in studio. - Back in the studio. - Back in the studio. - The guy's a machine. - What's the name of his studio? It's in the back of the Ramona music store. He calls it the after hour studio, right? - There it is, after hours. - I think it's after hours. - Oh, okay, yeah. - It makes sense. - We recorded there after hours, that makes sense. - Yeah, we did it for the Ramona. - Ramona song. - Ramona song album. - That was the first time I saw Dana Duplan play guitar up close 'cause you're in a music shop, so musicians are just picking up stuff that you've trained. - Yeah, we're all just messing around, huh? - And he's friggin' killer guitar player, man. - Dana Duplan, he's pretty good, very amazing. - All right, so we got Cassie with us. Cassie, how you doing? - I am back. - Are you doing my pasticle? - Oh my gosh. - Fantastic. - I tell you, it was really cool to listen to chatting with John earlier, but I gotta tell you. So I started following the beard and the bird because really upbeat, fun stuff, but they play the kazoo from time to time. So he and I kind of have this thing that we'd be entering back and forth 'cause before I even really knew him, I'd be that crazy lady in the audience going, "Plant a kazoo!" - I want more kazoo. - So more kazoo. Drew is ready to play the one kazoo song. - We do, we do. - He was telling me off air though. So they're actually going to start doing kazoos for merch, but the factory that makes these, the original one is like, he said 10 miles north of his place in New York. - Oh wow. - So it's kind of nutty. So full circle moment, full circle moment. It was kind of fun. - Full circle. - I do have a thing for kazoos, but. - That has gotta be the most energetic and that man never slows down. - Okay. - And he doesn't do cocaine and he doesn't have heads in his basement. - No, he doesn't murder people. - They're in a duffel bag. - It doesn't. - Oh, sorry. They're not in a basement. - He's way more neater than that. No. (laughing) He's a Dexter. (laughing) - Just full of energy, but what? - Wait, John, you don't have a boat, do you? (laughing) - In Florida, yeah. - In Florida. - That's so cool. That guy is cool. - Yeah, he's a cool dude, man. - And the Ramona Music Center has everything. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Guitar, drums, bass, what? - Kazoos. - Did I steal your ashtray? Oh, sorry, sweet curbs. - Yep, Kazoos. - There you go. - Yeah. I think that, yeah, they do. - They probably have Kazoos. - You know, you've ever been down a seaport village probably about 10 years ago or so. - Yeah. - And there's a guy out down there, he was a mime. And he played the Kazoo. His name was Kazoo. - I don't, okay. I do remember my name. - No, I'm supposed to make noise. I mean, I'm not judging. I just thought that's what a mime was, it was silent. - Yeah, no, he played Kazoo, but he was a mime. Like he was-- - But that's not a mime. He played the Kazoo and did this with his hands. He can't see me. - Well, maybe it wasn't a, maybe it was a mime. - But isn't a mime silent? I mean, I'm not. - I don't know. - There's a Zoom through listening. I love you and I'm sure you're very talented. - It was actually painted on the, one of the walls down in seaport village. Anyway. - I think it was, say, a clown? - Yeah, it was a clown. - But not a mime. - Maybe, yeah, that's what it was. He was a clown, not a mime. God dang it, I'm screwing it all up. - Mine's here like this. - We're here to help. - We're here to help. - Anyway. Anyway. - You can't see my hands, but I was pretending I was trapped in a box. - Anyway, his name is Jerry. And he was, he's actually my uncle. - Wait, I thought his name was Kazoo. - He's your uncle? - Yeah, he's my uncle. - Your uncle's the Kazoo clown in seaport village? - Yeah. - Is that true story? - That's a true fucking story, yeah. - Five years together, I feel like I know nothing about you. - Oh my goodness, right? She goes, who are you? Who am I sleeping at? - I don't even know you. - That is powerful, Kazoo. They called him Kazoo, that was it. 'Cause he had Kazoos and, I don't know. I was a kid walking around. - Having grown up, it's seaport village. Yeah, that's... - What is that? - I thought that was the Kazoo clown. - No, that sounds like a sick cat. - That belongs in a heads and a duffel bag territory. - Oh, yeah. - I thought that was the way your cat makes it in the middle of the night. You jump up 'cause you know they're going to throw up on the floor. - Oh no. (laughing) - Oh my gosh. - Oh my goodness. - Whatever you do. - Hey, sweet curbs, will you have me selling the ice you got over there in a little... - I will. - I tell you, Eric's favorite musician down at seaport village. Pulling that thread a little. There's a guy that plays the didgeridoo. - Oh, that's cool. - He's so cool. - Wait, the what? - The dirigidoo. - Yeah, I'm like, I'm like... - Diggeridoo. - Diggeridoo. - Diggeridoo. - Yeah. - Diggeridoo. Do you know what they're rigid? - A native Australian. - Did you read it? - A native Australian instrument. - Yeah. - What does it sound like? Is it like raw? - We'll see if our producer can find something. It's not like a Mongolian throat harp at all. - It's this guy. - Yeah, that thing, I'm a man. I sound just like him. Did you hear me? - Yeah. - I knew what you were going for. - Babe, what is the guy's name? Do you remember? - We met him at three hills. - Oh, here he is. - He makes finger pianos. - Oh, the thumb piano. - This is the San Diego didgeridoo guy. - Thumb piano. - Check this out. It's really simple. He's got shells on his ankles. And he's just got the shells. I don't even can't say the word didgeridoo. - What? Didgeridoo. - And that's all his mouth. - Do you hear that walk out, walk out thing? That's... - What? - That's all from one dude. - That's one dude. - That's crazy. - Have you ever been down to... - Are you watching for hours? - What is that, the place that we talked about a couple of episodes ago? - Balboa Park. - Yes. - And when I was younger, there was a guy down there playing guitar. I think it was called Big Foot or Big Toe or something. - Big Toe. - Big Toe. - Did he play with his feet? - Yes, he played with his feet and now arms. - That's right, I've seen that guy, he plays guitar. - Yeah, he's fucking cute. - With just feet, yeah. - Dude, that guy's incredible. I remember when I was a kid. - Human resiliency. - Well, to go back to talking about the didgeridoo and all the noises coming from his mouth, that's why I like, what is the name of the band, Pentatonix? - Oh, yeah. - Where there's zero instruments and they beatbox and do all these crazy noises. - Yeah, they got a dude that does the drums, and he's like... They do, like... - Yeah, that's pretty cool. - Oh, he me in Rhapsody. - I found that guy, I found that guy that completed the guitar. - Is it Big Toe? - Yeah. - That's what it is. - This is him in Balboa Park. - Oh, yeah. - This guy's playing the guitar with his feet, bro. - With his feet? - Yeah, I'm watching, he has no arms. - Yeah. - Okay, we're gonna have to try to get him in studio. - I might try to look him up. - Yeah. - Try to see if we can get him in here. - He was born with no arms. - What's his name? - Yeah. - Big Toe. - His name is Mark Goffany. Mark Goffany. - San Diego famous right there. - Yeah. - If that just goes to show you, there are no limitations in life to what you can do. - Man, I tell you what, that is so true. Like, there's nothing you can't do. You know, no matter what elements you might have or are born with or whatever, you can always make it something work. - He is, it was his passion. - Yeah. - He made it work. It's amazing. - Yep, that's him. - Yeah. - There you go. - How cool is that? But you were talking about pentonics. I love their Christmas stuff. I do. - Their version of Mary did you know is my all time favorite version of that song. - Just amazing. And it's not quite Christmas time yet. - Or the little drummer boy. - Because they don't, I mean, there's no drums in the little drummer boy. That is them making the noises. - Yeah. - I think that's all, I mean, they're mostly known for their Christmas music. But they do like sounds of silence. - Yeah. Oh yeah. - And they were, um, reality show. That's how they got discovered. - Oh, look at this. They did a feature with Dolly Parton. They did a Jolene. - Yeah. - With Dolly Parton. - No shit. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. ♪ Jolene Jolene ♪ ♪ I'm begging of you please don't take my ♪ - Dude, our harmonies are just incredible. - Mm-hmm. ♪ Jolene is beyond compare with flaming looks of overhead ♪ - It's a little weird. - Was Dolly Parton singing with them or did they? - Yeah. - Or did was it overlaid? - No, this is Dolly Parton singing with them. ♪ Is it like a breath of spring your voice is so flexible rain ♪ - Yeah, cause it's different. - It's definitely different. - Look, there's no guitar in it. There's just no drums, nothing. That's just their... - So they were on a show called The Sing Off. I can't tell you if they won or not. I mean, clearly they did win because everyone knows who they are. But it's called The Sing Off, yeah. Song competition. - Damn, that's wild. - Awesome. - How are you? - All right, what have you been up to this week, Travis? - I was just about to say, man. How was you guys this week? Do you guys have a good week? I had a pretty, I'm a little drunk right now, but... - That happens about this time in this day. - I don't... - He gets the giggles at me now. - I had a shush very weak. - This is why I prefer coming on for the second half. - He's well-lubed. - Well-lubed. - The part is now underway. - Lubricated. - No, yeah, so I'm working on some songs, you know? - Are you really? - Yeah. - What are you working on? - I got a couple of songs I'm working on. Songs about the world. - That sounds so deep, Travis. - I don't know. - So do you. - Songs about the world. - Songs about the world. And what the hell's going on? - Like, Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Like, those kind of songs, joy to the world. - Yes. - Yeah. - Taking songs about the world. - All the boys and girls, all the stuffs, you know? - I can interpretive dance the hell out of that song. - Oh, you know it's so funny, man. I drive to work every morning. And a couple weeks ago, I got a text message from Tara Hall's Apple. - Our infamous hat lady. - Our infamous hat lady. I love that lady. But she makes some great hats. Anyway, she texts me, I'm on 78. And I'm stopped in traffic. I get a message on my phone. And I know you're not supposed to look at your phone and drive. But who's fucked up? - Who was stopped in traffic, folks? - Yeah, I was stopped in traffic. Anyway, I had one hand on it. Anyway, she messages me, she's all, "I see you." (laughing) - Did she read it? - She did. - She's like right behind you. - I'm like, what? - She's all, "I see you." I'm right behind you. (laughing) - She doesn't, she went first. - Yeah, she goes. - Yeah, she goes down that way. - She goes down that way at the same time. (laughing) - That's so district. - You can't go anywhere in this town. - We're outside of this town, right? (laughing) - It was getting right on the 78, so what is that? Oceanside. (laughing) - Oh. - Cigarette set. - Get your cigarettes. - Fine. - I got a fire. - All right, let's do some music, man. - Let's do something. - Let's do something cool. - Let's do something old. - Old. - Old. - All right, I'll find some. - I wanna hear some Hank Williams, seniors. - This is how it works. - Hank's senior. - I think this is what we should do. - Senior. - Siri, cool old country, and what Siri says we're gonna play. - All right, all right. - Oh, God. - Give me one. - Cool old country song. - Siri, give me a cool old country song. - All right, what did she say? - She better not say George Strait. (laughing) - Apologies to our audience so that you can't hear Siri. (laughing) We do keep our friends quiet while we're on there. - I might have to do William. - There's too much talking going on. - Put on some Hank Williams, Hank Williams, senior. Put on, let's listen to... - No, hold on. - Here we go. - Awesome, brother. That's all right. - Mind your own business. - Mind your own business. - Hang on, let's turn that one in. - We can, we'll follow it. - Cold, cold heart by Hank Williams is cool old country. - All right. - There we go. - Cold heart. - Cold, cold heart. I like it. - Here it comes. Ready, set, go. - Go. - Ready, set, go. - 9, 8, 7, 6, go. - Go. (laughing) (upbeat music) ♪ I try so hard my dare to show that you are my every dream ♪ ♪ Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil skin ♪ ♪ A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart ♪ ♪ Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart ♪ ♪ Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue ♪ ♪ And so my heart is paying out for things I didn't do ♪ ♪ An anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrop star ♪ ♪ Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart ♪ ♪ You'll never know how much it hurts to see you set in crime ♪ ♪ You know you need and won't my love yet you're afraid to try ♪ ♪ Why do you run and hide from life to try it just ain't smart ♪ ♪ Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart ♪ ♪ There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me ♪ ♪ But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory ♪ ♪ The more I learned to care for you the more we drift apart ♪ ♪ Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart ♪ ♪ The first thing I remember knowing was a lonesome whistle blowing ♪ ♪ And a youngened dream of growing up to ride ♪ ♪ On a freight train leaving town not knowing where I'm bound ♪ ♪ And no one could change my mind but come on my pride ♪ ♪ One and only rebel child from a family meek and mild ♪ ♪ My mama seemed to know what they'd store ♪ ♪ Got all my Sunday learning towards the bad I kept on turning ♪ ♪ 'Til mama couldn't hold me anymore ♪ ♪ I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole ♪ ♪ No one could steer me right but mama tried ♪ ♪ Mama tried, mama tried to raise me better ♪ ♪ But a cleaning I'd be nice that leaves only me to blame ♪ ♪ Mama tried ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Dear old daddy, rest is so left my mama heavy low ♪ ♪ She tried so very hard to fill his shoes ♪ ♪ Working hours without rest wanted me to have the best ♪ ♪ I tried to raise me right but I refused ♪ ♪ And I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole ♪ ♪ No one could steer me right but mama tried ♪ ♪ Mama tried, mama tried to raise me better ♪ ♪ But a cleaning I'd be nice that leaves only me to blame ♪ ♪ Those mama tried ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I remember that whole free or river ♪ ♪ Where I learned to swim ♪ ♪ But it brings to mind another time ♪ ♪ Where I wore my welcome band ♪ ♪ My transcendental meditation ♪ ♪ I know there each night ♪ ♪ But I always come back to myself ♪ ♪ Long before deadline ♪ ♪ Oh, my exes live in Texas ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And Texas is a place ♪ ♪ I didn't love to be ♪ ♪ But all my exes live in Texas ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And if all I reside in Tennessee ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I think I'm hiding ♪ ♪ It's been rumored that I die ♪ ♪ But I'm alive and well in Tennessee ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Shadows slowly creeping ♪ ♪ Down the prairie's trail ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Everything is sleeping ♪ ♪♪ ♪ All but the night and gale ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Moon will soon be climbing ♪ ♪ In the purple sky ♪ ♪ Night when saw the humming ♪ ♪ This tender lullaby ♪ ♪ Cares of the day have fled ♪ ♪ My little sleepy head ♪ ♪ The stars are in the sky ♪ ♪ Time that your prayers were said ♪ ♪ My little sleepy head ♪ ♪ To a prairie lullaby ♪ ♪ Sad left your pony ♪ ♪ The sandman's here ♪ ♪ To guide you down the trail of dreams ♪ ♪ Tumbling bed ♪ ♪ My tired little sleepy head ♪ ♪ To a prairie lullaby ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Cares of the day have fled ♪ ♪ My little little sleepy head ♪ ♪ The stars are in the sky ♪ ♪ Time that your prayers were said ♪ ♪ My little little sleepy head ♪ ♪ To a prairie lullaby ♪ ♪ Sad left your pony ♪ ♪ The sandman's here ♪ ♪ To guide you down the trail of dreams ♪ ♪ Tumbling bed ♪ ♪ My tired little sleepy head ♪ ♪ To a prairie lullaby ♪ ♪ The ordinary, ordinary ♪ ♪ The ordinary, ordinary ♪ ♪ The ordinary, ordinary ♪ It's Lord Almighty. They just don't yodel like that anymore. I was going to say, how come you don't hear songs with yodeling in it anymore? Do you guys ever hear, like, and that was a lullaby? That was a lullaby. Certain words or songs or phrases that immediately make you think of something else. What's that? Anytime I hear yodeling, I think of it's one of my favorite movies, The Sound of Music. So do I. Who yodels back to the lullaby? Let's start thinking of every time I hear yodeling. And I can see the little puppet show. You know what it reminds me of? What's Bob Barker? What the hell was that show? Oh, yeah. Oh, when they have that word climb them out. Yeah, yeah. You have to stop them before you fell off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or the Matterhorn, whatever. Oh, man. You know what? This songs remind me of my grandpa. And my dad, actually. My daddy used to... Did they yodel? The old stuff. I thought you were going to tell us about yodels. He yodels? My dad? No, my dad used to listen to that stuff. I listened to it a while. I love it all. But my dad used to listen to that shit when I'm even driving, going, whatever. I'm like, "Dad, what the fuck are we listening to?" Now here we are. Oh, sir, come over again. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now here we are listening. Now I'm dead. Right, genre. Right, right, right time frame. Oh, fuck. Who would that be? Jimmy Rogers. Oh, harder. Okay. Yeah. Those people know that makes sense. That makes sense. That was the radio shit back before TV. Huh? Oh, the fuck? The fuck? Bucklewinds. No, fuck, rock. Yeah, we down around the radio every night. Yeah. I remember that movie, like Christmas movie with a... A Christmas story? A Christmas story. Yeah. Yeah. That one. You'll show your eye out? Yeah, you'll show your eye out. Remember that the radio would come on and he would be like, "Oh, he's got that decoder thing." Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how it... Man, that's crazy. Speaking of dads. What do you know about any dad jokes? I got a few. You know what I love? I love dad jokes. They're fucking hilarious. What do you got, sweet curves? Give me... Give us a good dad joke. Where do pirates buy their hooks? Where do pirates buy their hooks? I know. Where? Toys. No? No? That was good one. That was good. Oh, yeah. That's a good guess. The second-hand store. Uh-uh. Oh, second-hand store. [laughter] April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring? This I do know. Pilgrims. Woo! [laughter] Cassie got any dad jokes. I do. What do you got? I was a... I was a mom. But I didn't like it. So this would be minor. Why did Tigger look in the toilet? Why did... What is heading out of... Tigger. Tigger. Yeah. Look in the toilet. Yeah. Why? He's searching for poo. What? [laughter] What? What? I was thinking of that one. Have you guys heard about that book that was written about constipation? Mm-mm. It hasn't come out yet. Yeah. [laughter] It's very bad. Oh, my good. From Tony. Oh, my good. From Tony. Tony Haver out there. All right, Eric. What you got? Gutty dad jokes. No, I don't know. But you know something. I seem to get sick on weekdays. You know why? Why? I must have a weekend. I'm in Cisco. [laughter] Okay. I do have one that none of you will catch the punchline. All right. All right. Let's hear it. All right. Go. What do you call a yellow and green anteater? Yellow and green anteater. Oh. A yellow and green anteater. [laughter] Okay. What do you call a red and blue anteater? A red and blue anteater. Dude, they only come in yellow and green. [laughter] That was quite funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [laughter] You know why it's so cheap to throw a party at a haunted house? Why? Why it's so cheap to throw a party at a haunted house is because the ghosts bring all the boos. Boos. Boos. Boos. Boos. Boos. There you go. [laughter] Okay. So on that same note, what's a monster's favorite comedian? Blob Newhart. Blob Newhart. Blob Newhart. Blob Newhart. [laughter] What's a monster's favorite female comedian? Harry Tyler Moore. [laughter] [laughter] Oh my God, these dad jacks. Okay. So let's say, so we're going to do this thing now. [laughter] Oh my God. That's stupid. Fair with us. We're going to do this thing. So we're going to-- We're going to knock over our dude. Why are you not going to shit over? I don't know what to do with my hands sometimes. Someone will refill her whiskey. Are you okay with your glasses? Are you in the shakes over there? Are you in the shakes? [laughter] Oh, there's no ice cubes. I didn't do anything. Oh man, I'm in ice too. I need more ice. But anyway, so I think what we're going to do, we were doing, you know, constantly for, I don't know, 18 episodes of "Name That Tune." Let's do some trivia. It wasn't-- It wasn't a machine. There was like two or three of bullshit theme songs. [laughter] That you lost. We didn't play it around with the winter looser. Oh my God. Remember the little buttons that we-- [laughter] Oh, that was the most bullshit of all, the buttons. I totally won that one. Here's the thing. It was the button concept. The buttons are the epitome of, it's the thought that counts. This is an amazing gesture. Oh, I know. Eric, you're a freaking suck. I had one hand. I didn't have enough hands. I appreciate you. I don't need to try. All right, so we're not going to do "Name That Tune." We're going to try some trivia stuff. We're going to see how this goes. It's between me, sweet verbs, and Cassie, because this is a name that tune Cassie. This is trivia. Oh, yeah, it's trivia. But it's country music trivia, trivia in general. It's trivia about music, right? It's country music trivia. Okay. All right, so really, it's just between them anyway, because I'm not going to get anything right. Oh, I don't know. No, because you always come into the clutch and you will be sitting here and be like, "I've never heard this song." And you're like, "Yeah, dang it. I know this. What's wrong with you people?" I know random stuff. Yeah. Nothing above. Same rules as always, except there's only one answer. There's only one answer. So no bonus points. So no bonus points. But somehow, by the end of this, sweet curbs is going to finagle our way into getting two points at something. My luck is not bigger. I don't know how you do it every time, sweet peruse, but it will happen and I'm going to end up losing. We'll see. All right, here we go. Let's see what we can do with this, all right? All right. Are you going to read the questions? Yep. Okay. All right. Who is known as the father of country music? Travis. Go ahead. Hank Williams. What the fuck? Bullshit. [laughter] Come on. I just gave you guys the answer. Oh, Rory Rogers. Oh, come on, guys. Jimmy Rogers. Jimmy Rogers. Okay. I said Rogers. Okay. This is how she's finagle your way. She gets a half point. No, I get nothing. No, she gets a half point. She's going to win by half a point. Half the name. [laughter] All right. All right. What year did the Grand Ole Opry start broadcasting? We didn't even get a multiple choice. That's crazy. Just give me the decade. Travis. Go ahead. 1920s. I'll give it to you. Well, 1925. Oh, good job, babe. There you go. I knew that. You guys ready for the next one? I'm going to get a point. Yeah. Which country artist was known as the man in black? Travis. I heard Travis. Trying to get it. Wrong. Not just kidding. This is bullshit. [laughter] All right. All right. Here we go. What is the best selling country album of all time? Travis. Go ahead. Unfortunately, Garth Brooks. No offense. I would have taken if you said Garth Brooks and left it at that, but you picked the wrong album. Oh. What was the album? What would we do on that? Does that mean that we have to-- Do we get-- If I can guess the album, is it Wild Horses? No. All right. What is Garth Brooks though? It is Garth Brooks. I was going to go with-- Double Life. Oh. I was going with Shawn. I have that. So do I get like-- Wait, so do I get a half point for her? Yeah, we should give him a half a point. I get a half a point. He gets a half a point. All right. I know the artist. I just know the album name. Well, then Kirby gets a half a point because she came up with Rogers. No. Yes. Last names don't count. No. [laughter] You are complicated, my lord. I'm just so sorry. Wait, this isn't-- I don't make the rules. I just play by him, okay? Actually, Kirby's point cancels out his point, so both of them get no point. All right, I'll just do it. I knew it was Garth Brooks. All right. Here we go. Who won the first ever CMA award for Entertainer of the Year? Travis. In 1967. Kirby, George Jones. No. Oh. '67. Yeah, 1967. Oh, that would be-- Cassie. Go ahead. Dolly Part. Negative. You know, I thought it would throw in there. Oh, man. '67. You know what's funny is-- [buzzer] All right, everybody tried it. It was Eddie Arnold. Never even heard of him. I'm sad. I'm sorry, Eddie. But now I'm curious, because that was the first CMA Entertainer of the Year. Wait, here's-- I know. I know. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Eddie Arnold. Eddie Arnold. I'm writing that down. I want to-- Hold on, I want to hear it. I want to hear one song. Let's hear his top hit. What's his number one song right now? It is this right here. ♪ Make the world go away ♪ Oh, I heard this song. I know this song. I do like this song now. Hold on, we're-- '67. '67. We're going to take a two and a half minute break. Yeah. I want to hear this one. ♪ I want to hear the things you used to say ♪ ♪ And make the world go away ♪ ♪ Do you remember when you loved me ♪ ♪ Before the world took me astray ♪ ♪ If you do, then forgive me ♪ ♪ And make the world go away ♪ ♪ Make the world go away ♪ ♪ And get off my shoulders ♪ ♪ Say that thing you used to say ♪ ♪ And make the world go away ♪ ♪ I'm sorry if I hurt you ♪ ♪ I'll make it up day by day ♪ ♪ Just say you loved me like you used to ♪ ♪ And make the world go away ♪ ♪ Make the world go away ♪ ♪ And get off my shoulders ♪ ♪ Say that thing you used to say ♪ ♪ And make the world go away ♪ ♪ Say that thing you used to say ♪ ♪ And make the world go away ♪ Holy crap, dude. 1967. Eddie Arnold. Eddie Arnold. So Eddie Arnold, I apologize. I did know that song. I've heard that song before, yeah. I do want to hope that we are not ending every break with a lullaby. No. I just woke up from a nap. To those fans that love like the upbeat, like that whole stuff. But hey. Sorry about that. What do you want to do? We love all music here. You know, it is Sunday night. Maybe we do need to do more lullaby stuff. Sorry to our listeners on Monday morning. Can you imagine if you're sitting on your couch or whatever, listening to the show and you heard that song, you fell asleep and then you wake up or you don't wake up, but the show keeps going. Well, I hope you know that. Well, yeah, you wake up. You're still sleeping. And then we come back on talking and roll shit. What kind of dreams would you have? All right. All right. Here we go. We ready for the next one? Yes. What is Dolly Parton's theme park in Tennessee? Try this. Sorry. I heard Travis. So, okay. Do we have to wait for you to finish the question? Because he's interrupting in the fucking middle. Maybe we should make that roll. Well, wait. Whoever says... Let's answer the fucking question. The beauty of it. Actually, the beauty of it though is if you ring in before the end of the question, he has to stop asking the question. Oh, that's true. Yes. I have to show it. Okay, so that point doesn't count then. Because... Because... But you understand, like, because the question could be... Dang. See, Travis is throwing birds all around the studio right now. Extended, like... Oh, I'll throw them right here because... The day it was attended by so-and-so. Right? But I do get a point on that. No! Yes, I get a point, speakers. Come on. Hold on, we got more. But I will, from now on, if I hear somebody say a name, I'm going to just go shut up. Okay, stop. All right. Yep. Which country music singer is known for the gambler? Kirby! I heard Kirby. Kenny Rogers. Who's saying... We need buttons. Stop racing time. That's a question, Eric. Who's saying Jolie? Kirby! I heard Kirby. Dolly Parton. Oh, wow. I didn't hear that. I need to remember my name. What was the first country song to sell over a million copies? Song. Selling a million copies? Just a song? Not a single. It's a single song. Try this. Go ahead. Hey, good looking. The thunder rolls? Not yet. It's going to be Garth Brooks if he was the best part of his song. No, first. First country song. If it helped him... Elvis doesn't count. What is it? Wreck of the old '97 by Vernon Dahlhardt. Never heard of him. Dang. We don't have time for this, okay? I tried to defend with my title. We're going to have to have that one take us out. Wreck of the world. Wreck of the old '97. All right. End of the show. We'll have that one take us out, okay? All right. All right. This is a dumb question. Okay. Those are the ones I know. Which artist's real name is Trielle Garth Brooks. Kirby. Are you kidding? Kirby going... What the fuck? What was that? Oh. Now I want you guys to think really hard about this one first because it's obvious when you know the answer. All right. Who is the most awarded female country performer? Kathy. Go ahead. Dolly Part. Performer in history. Mm-hmm. Travis. Go ahead. Shania Twain. Kirby. Go ahead. Reba. It is Reba. And the woman has taken the lead. Oh. Yeah. You go ahead and play that song now if you want. [laughter] It is poor Kirby. Damn Reba. I was going to say Reba. Nothing over here. All right. Well honestly, if she hadn't said Dolly first, I would have said Dolly. Yeah. I would have said Dolly too. All right. Which song did Willie Nelson write that became a hit for Patsy Kline? Kirby. Kirby. Crazy. I swear, I feel like we're doing the same thing here. Like we're all in the same, like we both said our names at the same time. Ty goes to the runner. But because your name, your name starts with a K and my name starts with a T. [laughter] They hear, they hear K first. Ty goes to the runner. Because it's alphabetical. All right. You can get this within a five-year window. Okay. All right. What year did Shania Twain release her album? Come on over. Kirby. Kirby. 95. It was 1997. Two years. I got that for birthday present one year. I'm like, I know how old I was. Who is known for the hit Friends in Low? Chris. Chris Brooks. Is he his Chris Brooks? Friends in Low. Good job. Come on. Dang it. Make sure you mark that down with Cassie. I did not get a bell. You did not get a bell. So make sure that yes. So it is five Kirby four Travis. All right. All right. Which country artist was originally a professional baseball player before starting his musical career? Travis. Go ahead. Not him. [laughter] Oh my God. I think it was them. [buzzer] All right. Any other guesses? I know Tim McGraw's dad played baseball when he was in a singer. Mm. I don't know who. Charlie Pride. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. All right. All right. What is the name of the famous country music venue in Nashville? Travis. Grand Ole Opry. Bluebird Cafe. All right. Finish the question or finish what you said. Cassie, you got a guess? Was that the end of the... No. So you can finish the question now. Oh. Cassie. It's the name of... What is the name of the famous country music venue in Nashville? Now the Grand Ole Opry is in it, but that's not the name of the venue. Opry land. [buzzer] It's the Ryman Auditorium. Oh, come on. No, they are separate. No. The Ryman Ajax. The Ryman is nowhere near Opry land. I didn't say Opry land. You said Opry land. And he said no, it's in Opry land. No. I thought it was the Grand Ole Opry. The Grand Ole Opry is a Rime in Auditorium. Okay, yes. No, I knew... That was a trick question. That was a trick question. That's okay. All right. We only got a couple more. There we go. Who recorded the album Golden Hour in 2018? Hmm. 2018. Just 2018? That was just not too long ago. Yeah. I haven't... I don't listen up... Golden Hour churches. Go ahead. Alan Jackson? [buzzer] No. Casey Musgraves. Okay. I thought that was a baseball play. What? [laughter] All right. All right. What was the first country music song to win a Grammy award? The first country music song to win a Grammy award. Does it say the year? Do we get a year? It does not. Okay. No year? Can we just guess the artist? Sure. Thank you. Cassie. Oh, go ahead. [buzzer] Travis. Hank Williams Jr. [buzzer] Kirby Reba. Travis. The first one. First. Long time ago, friends. You've got to go way back. [laughter] When the hell did the Grammy start out? But country wasn't invited to the Grammy. But there wasn't actually Kirby. Go ahead. Gene Autry. No. All right. It was Johnny Horton for the song The Battle of New Orleans. And I think six people took a little trip. I know that song. Okay. Okay. All right. Who is the youngest artist ever to win the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year? Travis. Go ahead. Hank Williams Jr. What? Youngest artist ever. Yeah. Youngest. Oh. Yeah. Hank Williams started playing when he was eight years old. I don't think he won the CMA award. I don't even know when the CMA award started. Youngest artist to win. Entertainer of the year. Oh. Kirby. Go ahead. Carrie Underwood. Travis. Go ahead. Leanne Rhimes. No. Who? Taylor Swift. Taylor. Markin Swift. Fuck. They don't talk about her on the show. There's a reason. Delete that. Which country duo was known for the hit Need You Now? Final question. Kirby. Go ahead. Sugarland. Oh. I know it. Sorry. Need You Now. That was the name of the song. If he doesn't know, can I guess him? Yeah. Lady A. It is Lady A. All right. Well, there you go, friends. We have seven to four Kirby. Whatever it is. I feel like I got cheated. All right. As always. Say goodbye, Travis. Wait, let's go out with that song, though. I'm going. It's chewed up. It's going. All right. Cool. Say goodbye. All right, you guys. Have a good night. Thank you so much for listening and hanging out with us. Ramona Family Naturals. God bless you guys. And we'll see you throughout the week. Wherever we play. Wherever we see you. 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