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On The Media
"grand ole opry house" Discussed on On The Media
"The election was stolen. Though no one from the company confirmed it, there were reports that cumulus, one of the biggest radio chains in the country, with tons of conservative talkers, sent a memo to their hosts. It said, the election is over. If you suggest otherwise, you can expect to be fired. At Salem, there was no January 6th memo. The lies about the stolen election continued, and soon the rest of the right-wing media ecosystem caught up with Salem followed closely by a large contingent of the Republican Party. In the midterms last fall, well over half of all Americans had a 2020 election denier on their ballot. At least 170 of those candidates were elected to state and national offices. Some of those winners will be in charge of future elections. A favorite piece of evidence of elections and iers was brought to the public by Salem media. We must now face the chilling reality, the Democrats conceived the heist. They funded it. They organized it, then they carried it out. In May of last year, Salem released a film, hosted by far right activist dinesh d'souza. They rigged and stole the 2020 presidential election. We can not be okay with this. We can not simply move on. The film, 2000 mules, claims to prove election fraud in 2020. The movie is rife with shortcomings and outright falsehoods. Regardless, the film was a hit. Trump himself held an early screening at Mar-a-Lago, where the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rudy Giuliani, and Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Kyle rittenhouse all came to watch. 2000 mules has a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. According to Salem, the film grossed $10 million in under two weeks. In 2021, Salem launched their own podcast network, and the dinesh d'souza podcast was their debut feature. They've added over a dozen daily conservative podcasts since then. Often featuring young hosts who vive for a new generation of listeners. Every Salem radio host can also be found as Talking Heads on the company's new 24/7 Internet television station. Salem news channel, which they launched a couple years ago. Salem also has their own movies streaming service and production house, a rapidly growing conservative Christian influencer network, a series of Christian websites like Christianity dot com and God tube and a long running conservative publishing house called regnery. They even run a service that sells sermons to pastors. And for over a decade, they've been quietly purchasing some of the biggest conservative news sites. Town hall, hot air, and red state. But for all of Salem's varied media strategies, broadcast radio is still central to their operations. According to Nielsen, broadcast radio has a higher reach than television. Pew Research says it's nearly neck and neck with social media for how Americans get their news. Surveys repeatedly show that Americans trust radio over any other medium. Now that I've brought you up to speed on where Salem is today, let's go back to where they started. Our story begins fittingly in a small southern Virginia town called Ararat, named after the final destination of Noah's ark. Here in 1935, against the backdrop of the blue ridge mountains, a boy named Stuart epperson was born into a family of tobacco farmers. They didn't have electricity in their farmhouse, no one in the area did back then. But the epperson household was connected in a different way. When Stewart was a kid, his older brother Ralph had fallen in love with the new medium of radio. What do you do, everybody? And convinced his parents to get a mail order Montgomery ward radio set. Your grand Ole opry. Without power, he set up a windmill on top of the house to recharge the device's battery. The blades of the mill would cause the house to shudder on windy days. But the rudimentary generator worked. Heavy would be time to die the episomes invited neighbors and passers by in to listen along. And when their house got too full, they would open the windows so everyone out there could hear too. Ralph's radio set was the neighborhood's line to the outside. Friends come with us again to the grand Ole opry house and join in another half hour of fun music and song. But young Stewart's brother Ralph didn't just want to listen to the radio. In a high school correspondence course, he learned via mailed letters from instructors to build radios. And eventually, Stewart epperson watched his brother use his passion to serve his country, and then his community. Adam piore is a reporter who's written several lengthy articles about Salem media over the years. During World War II, his older brother worked for the navy developing radar. And when he got home, he built a radio station on the second floor of their farmhouse. Just two years after getting hooked up to the grid, the epperson's house was transformed into an electrical Wonderland of tubes, gadgets, and microphones, aspiring singers and musicians flocked to the home with banjos and fiddles, filling the epperson's living room and the local airwaves with what they called Hillary. It was live in the backseat and how it would kick. The family would take the mic. Okay, thanks a lot. That was mother who is also known as misses AKA option. Yes, we appreciate that expression. And preachers were invited to sermonized to unseen congregants within the station's reach. It was the essence of a community radio station. Homegrown and accessible, beloved, a little haphazard, and it must have left an impression on Stewart epperson, because he went on to study broadcasting at the evangelical bob Jones university in South Carolina. He married his classmate, Nancy at singer, and soon started a radio business with his brother in law, and fellow bob Jones alum, Edward at singer. In 1973, they started a small FM radio station. Anne Nelson is an author and professor at Columbia University. She wrote about Salem in her book shadow network, media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right. These brothers in law acquired a radio station in Bakersfield, California. It was almost like a patch of the south that was detached and sat down north of Los Angeles. Bakersfield had been a sort of southern outpost since the days of the dust bowl when farm workers from Oklahoma and other southern states fled there. But epperson and ad singer didn't just want to reach other southern transplants. They had a vision. To bring the message of their evangelical faith to new audiences. Soon, they bought a second station. In Oxnard, California, just outside Los Angeles. They realized that Christians wanted a platform where they could tune in and listen to people talk about biblical truth and their beliefs. And it's there that they began developing the formula that they would later replicate so successfully. At the time, a lot of Christian radio stations were small, not for profit, educational projects, with non commercial broadcast licenses. That
On The Media
"grand ole opry house" Discussed on On The Media
"Begins fittingly in a small southern Virginia town called Ararat, named after the final destination of Noah's ark. Here in 1935, against the backdrop of the blue ridge mountains, a boy named Stuart epperson was born into a family of tobacco farmers. They didn't have electricity in their farmhouse, no one in the area did back then. But the epperson household was connected in a different way. When Stewart was a kid, his older brother Ralph had fallen in love with the new medium of radio. What do you do, everybody? And convince those parents to get a mail order Montgomery ward radio set. Without power, he set up a windmill on top of the house to recharge the device's battery. The blades of the mill would cause the house to shutter on windy days. But the rudimentary generator worked. The episomes invited neighbors and passers by in to listen along. And when their house got too full, they would open the windows so everyone out there could hear too. Ralph's radio set was the neighborhood's line to the outside. Friends come with us again to the grand Ole opry house and join in another half hour of fun music and song. But young Stewart's brother Ralph didn't just want to listen to the radio. In a high school correspondence course, he learned via mailed letters from instructors to build radios. And eventually Stewart epperson watched his brother use his passion to serve his country, and then his community. Adam piore. During World War II, his older brother worked for the navy developing radar. And when he got home, he built a radio station on the second floor of their farmhouse. Just two years after getting hooked up to the grid, the epperson's house was transformed into an electrical Wonderland of tubes, gadgets, and microphones, aspiring singers and musicians flocked to the home with banjos and fiddles, filling the epperson's living room and the local airwaves with what they called Hillary. It was alive in the backseat and how it food would kick. He took him down a foot of hill to dry him out one day. He kicked in the party right all around what the food would say he would say wow. The family would take the mic. Okay, thanks a lot. That was mother who is also known as misses AKA option. Yes, sir. We appreciate that expression. And preachers were invited to sermonized to unseen congregants within the station's reach. And stored ever since, you know, at the age of ten, he read the 23rd song over the radio. It was the essence of a community radio station, homegrown, and accessible, beloved, a little haphazard, and it must have left an impression on Stuart epperson, because he went on to study broadcasting at the evangelical bob Jones university in South Carolina. He married his classmate, Nancy at singer, and soon started a radio business with his brother in law, and fellow bob Jones alum, Edward at singer. In 1973, they started a small FM radio station. Anne Nelson is an author and professor at Columbia University. She wrote about Salem in her book shadow network, media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right. These brothers in law acquired a radio station in Bakersfield, California. It was almost like a patch of the south that was detached and sat down north of Los Angeles. Bakersfield had been a sort of southern outpost since the days of the dust bowl when farm workers from Oklahoma and other southern states fled there. But epperson and ad singer didn't just want to reach other southern transplants. They had a vision. To bring the message of their evangelical faith to new audiences. Soon, they bought a second station. In Oxnard, California, just outside Los Angeles. They realized that Christians wanted a platform where they could tune in and listen to people talk about biblical truth and their beliefs. And it's there that they began developing the formula that they would later replicate so successfully. At the time, a lot of Christian radio stations were small, not for profit, educational projects, with non commercial broadcast licenses. That meant they couldn't take money in exchange for running specific programming. But epperson and ad singer did something different. They got commercial licenses, meaning they could sell airtime. And they found they could charge these preachers a fairly substantial fee for carrying their programs. For epperson and ad singer, it was a win win. They gave a platform to preachers, and with some money coming in, they were able to buy more radio stations and turn them into pulpits. They were not alone wolf Christian station, they were building a network. They mortgaged their homes, and it was a scary time. They had kind of bet everything on this. The vehicle for their godly mission was a radio format known as Christian teach and talk. From the beginning, they really emphasized what they called biblical values. Love your enemies, Matthew 5 44. Pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you that you may be the sons of your father who's in with. And this was promoting these very conservatives, social values, anti LGBT, see, this is why homosexuality spreads. This is why it's not a constant from society to society. It varies. Favoring Christianity over other religions. The idea of a Christian marrying a non Christian is totally and disobedience description. But for many who grew up with these radio broadcasts, they were more than just socially conservative messages. My father, he was a contractor, so he was in the truck all day, and that his radio locked in to Christian radio all day. This is John Thea. Today he's a Professor of history at messiah Christian university in Pennsylvania, but growing up, John was just another kid whose family converted to evangelicalism and who heard a lot of Christian radio. Someone look at this as kind of crazy, right? Like who does this? Who cranks, you know, John Macarthur that maximum volume in the middle of a construction site or whatever. Macarthur is a minister who started on Salem's Oxnard station in 1977. The idea here is if you're playing it on the 11, you know, with the doors open in the truck. It seems to be losing its Christian orient people are hearing it. And that was a way of living out your faith. One of the key components of evangelical Christianity is evangelism, right? Sharing one's faith. Thea also remembers hearing a show called
WMAL 630AM
"grand ole opry house" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Carrying American citizens and Afghans from leaving. This is White House press secretary Jen Psaki. We're in touch with American citizens who are working to get them out. There are four who were able to depart overland. Our secretary of state is in Qatar right now working on a range of options, including getting up flights up and operational, ongoing and what we have seen is that individuals have documentation are able to depart. Meanwhile, the Taliban creating a new government after days of speculation the Taliban has begun announcing what it calls an interim government for Afghanistan. It's headed by Mullah Hassan account who also held senior posts. The last time the Taliban was in power 20 years ago. The interior minister is wanted by the FBI over terror attacks. The Cabinet has details so far appears to be made up entirely of Taliban members when the U. S had urged the group to be more inclusive in London. Simon Owen Fox News Country music legend will hold a benefit concert following last month's flooding in Tennessee. Loretta Lynn is looking to give back following last month's devastating flooding in Tennessee. The country music legend and Humphreys County resident has recently announced an All Star benefit concert called Loretta Lynn's Friends. Hometown Rising that will directly support United way of Humphreys County. The event is slated to take place on Monday, September 13th at the Grand Ole Opry house in Nashville. The benefit is that to feature Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Luke Bryan and Luke Combs back in mid August, drenching rain led to floodwaters surging through the rural area, claiming at least 22 lives. Lauren Falkner Fox News on Wall Street this hour, the Dow's down 191 points the S and P 500 down seven. The NASDAQ Up 33. Double drama, L traffic and weather. Next after a year long flight delayed that.
Stuff You Should Know
"grand ole opry house" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Performer right yes. She played not in the opera houses. Where the steppingstone is to be invited to play the party plaza outside and she was playing in the sweltering heat and asked for some water. They couldn't get it to her if she could take a break. They wouldn't let her take a break so she took her shirt off in finish the set in her bra and they banned for life. The only person today has been banned for life. 'cause she showed abroa- yeah which is You know. I think. I think she could totally turn this on them now They would probably react pretty quickly to get her back in their. Invite her if she you know if you were like you weren't weren't taking care of woman's health on stage you are performers health on stage By giving them you know letting them hydrate themselves. Then i think they would be like. Oh yeah yeah so so back out here quick. Yeah and she said later in an interview that like this is not a stunt or anything like she was about to have heat stroke and this is how she was coping with it that she wasn't you know trying to be cool or anything or she said she getting kicked out of. The opry wasn't punk rock. It wasn't good or nothing. Good came of it but she did say that. They told her that she'd never play nashville again. And she certainly has played nashville including at the reimann a number of times to which is kind of Good good comeback. Yeah i actually just bought tickets to go see her. In wine country in california in august did a winery. Very chic cannot wait. i can imagine. She's one of my favorites. I've seen her a bunch of times. It'll probably be a nice small show. yeah. It's like you know outdoors at winery sipping wine listening and nico case that's awesome Really can't wait. But she's you know she has a reputation for sort of that outsider. Sorta punk rock attitude. And i think that's why they thought Some people might have thought she was trying to stick it to the grand alarm. And she's now that's not the case so we mentioned the rhyming and obviously the reimann still around But the grand ole opry move from the reimann in one thousand nine hundred. Seventy four right and two This this new venue the Grand ole opry house that it's still in today and it was a big deal when they move because they've been in the reimann for like thirty years. They started to hit like their peak of their popularity. Which has plateaued really high that time And they had their last show in march of nineteen seventy four. And i read this really great article from the new york times of all things From nineteen seventy four by suzanne freeman. It's called opera. Land is a dream to believe in. And it's about you know. The grand ole opry and what it meant to her growing up as a kid in pennsylvania and How she ended up going to this last show and what it was like But as they moved to the opera lane one of the reasons they moved was because of this amusement park it was a radio. Show that started out playing ho downs in the headquarters of an insurance building in nashville. Now had its own disney designed theme park built in nineteen seventy four and this huge forty four hundred person cushioned seat air conditioned venue To to basically celebrate the how far this this thing had come is pretty amazing Doubled almost doubled in size from the reimann And they took a little bit of the tradition with within. They cut out the six foot circle there at center stage with artists. Performs from the raymond's floorboards mood. It over to the grand old opry house Opened it big with richard nixon. On march sixteenth. Seventy four who Performed he actually play the dulcimer and the piano sang. Happy birthday to his wife. sure The reimann very sadly fell on hard times after that and hard to believe that. Kind of like our fabulous fox theatre here in atlanta was actually being talked about being demolished In the seventies and the eighties and there were like the fox. A lot of fundraisers and a lot of people getting involved to save the reimann. And now it's you know one of the oldest and still one of the most premier venues which still host the grand ole opry from november to january every year. They hold it at the reimann. Okay it's pretty cool miscall operate around but it's still the grand old opry Every tuesday friday and saturday february through october. It's sold the grand old opry house and Yeah they don't miss those shows man. There was a flood. Cumberland river flooded in two thousand ten. Yeah and It really damage like they had to do a lot of repairs even had to pull out that center circle and that was really damaged and they restored that got it going again and kept that traditional life so one of the things about the amusement park that i was looking up is that it was closed in nineteen ninety-seven and i was reading an article about it where they're saying like it was just a bad decision that this thing was closed. Elliot's this amusement park was lucrative. Basically from the day it was opened to the day it was closed. It made money. It wasn't it wasn't underwater until that flood But it was replaced in ninety seven by a megamall and even in nineteen ninety-seven people new malls. Were starting to go away so that was a really bad move to begin with. And then i found that the person who ran the The company that owned the amusement park also at the same time decided that it would be best for their company to start. Cornering the market online christian music websites during the height of the dot com bubble just before it burst and This is the same person that decided to to shut down. oprey land usa and replace it with the mall so it's not not one of the great decisions of all time but i thought this was super interesting that it was fine. It just was taken away from everybody. Luckily they're still dollywood so don't panic. Yeah i mean dali partners smart. She started playing the grennell happy when she was ten years old. She saw the writing on the wall with oprey land and Said one and i start my own Amusement country music amusement park. And i don't know if that helped drive opry land out of business or i guess you said they were still doing okay but yeah no. It was good. I saw another. There was another article basically said the Opera land made more money than Dollywood its last month in existence. Wow young bad move How old. I was when i we took that trip. That was us going to oprey. Land the grand opera house doing that stuff. That was a quintessential Bryant family vacation in the nineteen seventies. That's awesome your was to see being with people the whole time hopefully see being with people. We probably camped. Because i know he didn't stay in a hotel because i've literally never stayed in a hotel with my family before. Wow yeah dude. I didn't stay in a hotel till i was except for like church trips till i was out of college. You're like tiny shampoo. It was weird like they give you the stuff. It's funny man. I love the chuck bryant saga. You know it's interesting and not too far from years. I think something about growing up in that time period that's We we have some common. Dna yeah i stayed in hotels though we tell well the industry we can't be campers and we were also Didn't have a ton of money in also cheap. I gotcha i gotcha. All the things combined to enter the camp ground. What else you got anything else on. Grand ole opry. I got nothing else. Just check out my w playlist our july first five. Pm central very nice and hopefully this Fattened up the wfan people that get you that backstage.
Stuff You Should Know
"grand ole opry house" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"And welcome to the podcast. I'm josh clark. There's charles w chuck bryant over there. There's jerry jerome rowland and this is stuff you should know folks. Yeah can i do a little plug right off the beginning to sort of explain why i got this idea. Yeah yeah sure. 'cause this episode is on the grand ole opry in nashville tennessee. The longest running radio broadcast and us history and they sent you a check. No i got An email Chiesa feel like a long time ago from stuff. You should know listener in a movie. Crusher named joseph I'm going to pronounce it ten. L. t. i n. e. l. l. And he is the content and programming director of wm radio. Wow which You'll learn all about that here And he he runs the show and he started a saint. We kind of had some back and forth over the years about me coming to the reimann To see a show. And he's i. I've mentioned on movie crush. He said i can get you backstage. Ever want to come to nashville and go to show at the reimann. And so we been communicating for a long time and then this past year he started What's called the wfan playlist. Which is they. Turn the radio station over to someone for an hour and let them. Dj in program and he offered that to me. And i did it. Wow tell everybody about it. I'm doing right now. i'll win. Is it gonna play it. Is you know you record it. So they can release it whenever so you. You did covers of all the songs that you know. Just dj basically It's an air five. Pm central time. July first night at five pm central on wgn radio home in the grennell. Opry you can find it online at wwl. Radio dot com just hit the listen live button on july first at five. Pm central hear me spinning records from uncle tupelo and bonnie prince billy dolly parton johnny cash I can't remember who else a lot. A lot of great stuff that's awesome. Did you do that thing where you like. You just held the one Like can up to your ear headphones now. I was a little nervous though. And i felt i was a little stiff and loosened up and then send it to him and i was like hey i feel like i didn't do great at first. And he said yeah. You were a little stiff. And he said why. Don't you redo the first column all these radio lingers like ins and outs and the wraps and things like that because you've got to talk about the last song and then the next song and so he let me redo the i kind of set of those now and hopefully. I'm a little more loose. It's always better the second take it is. Willie nelson's in there. I got some good stuff. That's really cool man. Congratulations chuck i feel like you finally made it. You're a member of the grand ole opry. No no we'll talk all about that. That's a whole different deal so we are talking grand ole opry And now. I'm nervous about it because the station manager is going to be listening and they're promoting this too by the way this episode. What was his name. joseph teno. Joseph prepared be disappointed. He's guy i'm sure criticisms he's a stuff you should know listener movie crutcher to of course he's a nice guy he gets. So we're talking. Grand ole opry today And you said something that i find just fascinating that it is. I don't know if you said in the world. But it is the oldest longest running live radio broadcast program in the entire world is been broadcasting. The grand ole opry which is a radio show. A lot of people think it's it's a music venue in it is but really the music. Venue kinda grew out of the radio show. It all began as a radio show All the way back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five so it's coming pretty close to its hundred th anniversary and all that time. It's only missed one saturday night. Broadcast one live. Saturday night broadcast every other saturday night. All the way back to nineteen twenty. Five you tune. Into w nashville. Am six fifty and here. The grand ole opry radio program. Which is i mean. Hats off to that. I don't care if you think. Country western music is as bad as experimental smooth. Jazz doesn't matter. You still have to tip your hat tip that stetson We should tell them why they miss that. One broadcast it was after the assassination of martin luther king the city of nashville. I think most of tennessee probably was under curfew so they had to rerun a program and i think they did a live show the next day or later something during the day earlier that day before curfew i believe they tried to show so they still data show that they just missed the live broadcast that night but all the other ones dating back to nineteen twenty five. They made pretty neat. Yeah i actually went When i was a kid we went to. It was an amusement park called oprey land. Usa which is now. I think sort of a shopping center mall kind of thing But back then it was an amusement park like a country. Years pre dollywood. Oh you went to the opera land. Usa yeah oh wow okay. Yeah and so we also went to the grand ole opry house and i don't know if it was a saturday show and now they do shows on tuesdays fridays and saturdays but i don't remember much about it but i do remember being in that building in seeing the Sort of barn shaped motif sn age. And that's kind of all remember. I was probably no more than six or seven. I don't know what it is but there is nothing more cosy than a within a building. Yeah sure a little bar martinez golovkin. I definitely love the stage for the grand ole opry for sure all right so the grant will operate started out Out of indirectly out of chicago. There was something called the national barn dance which was a radio broadcast out of chicago. Playing country music Way back in the day and it had a really big following but it didn't reach nashville so the former A former dj from their named. George hey went to nashville. Became the station manager at wm and pitched what he called The barn dance. Yeah like national barn dance. But he's like here's the difference. We drop the national. Yeah it was kind of like a proto. Hee-haw yeah in that they had it was a variety show. They had music. They had dancers. They had comedy bits and sketches All with that sort.
The Down and Dirty Show
"grand ole opry house" Discussed on The Down and Dirty Show
"The american forces network. Welcome back to the general tired under your radio show powered by polaris razor. Got my very good friend. Tim montana on the show. This week and You know we're going to jump right back to this interview where Where we left off right before the break talked about what What put him on the grid. Put you on the grid. I mean that that yeah you know obviously you get that break your there you know but everybody. Everybody kind of knows who you are after that. You know. it's like who the hell's this guy what what just happened. You know you get that mainstream exposure and there's a lot of people you know that that are fans that might have heard of you but you know all of a sudden you hit that. It's people didn't know who the hell tim montana was and album sudden. You know they know exactly. Yeah yeah so. That was cool. And i was all day himself man He gave me that opportunity. He came out and showed up the table and held my daughter and he had his fiancee there. He just pick my brain about growing up off the grades. Of course my mom's as he's my biggest fan holgate maybe about how he grew up off. Oh the lantern all my goodness. I'm like that They don't need to know this. I i look at your career. And obviously you've put yourself in these positions to be successful in meet these amazing people. But i mean there's things like letterman. You know that happened. You talk about johnny highland in that happen and then obviously. You've got the whole boston. Red sox thing that happened in. What was it two thousand thirteen when your song became like the theme for the freaking world series run that year and stuff like that then you guys end up doing like a special cut just for the socks video. And that's not. Billy giving. I just had this. You know what does that say. Luck is preparation and skill layers. That saying goes meeting at the same time and that's what they call luck. Yeah but That song i had a verse and the chorus beer came here to party boots. Came here to stop. And someone. I walked into a hair salon nashville. Most like you said you look like z. Z. top and i'm like well had a dollar for every time. I heard that she goes. I know somebody that knows. Billy gibbons and i was like dollar for every time i heard someone who said that so just on. How can we got in tom. Vickers and religious shows up in nashville. We record the song he left me film it just like holy crap billy. Gibbons man is insane. I'm like never see him again. That's that's fine. I just got spend a day on my hero and he went to some dinner. Some guy walked up and it was like yeah. What confer song for the boston. Red sox growing beards out. Billy and i don't know much about sports and he's like well man check this. Cd out gave it to them like two weeks later. We're on the front page usa today. Just crazy weird how that happened so well and at that point that things that spiraled for you guys so you ended up. Didn't you in an opening for law for top tour. Yeah i've done. I thinks thirty some concerts as direct porpoise. easy top. We did the north american. Hell raisers to were. I remember the first thing really put me on was the rhyming auditorium and that was when he sent me that text like oh i gotta get to play the original grand ole opry house z. Top tonight's sold out. That was one of those moments where holy cow grew up. Listen those guys and that little. Cd player trailer house and park now on the front page of usa today and playing the rhyme in it was. It was unbelievable this weekend. Another crazy moment honoring Billy gibbons at the grand old opry. And they've got air church and dwight yoakam and billy bob thornton Travis trip and man. The list is insane and they asked me. Billy called want you on it and i'm like yes sir. And he's like i want you to play. Beer came here to party. And then i want you to walk out with the league range. Brad paisley and everyone will come out with us was like okay so last night i go to bed at nine thirty in trying to be a good boy. Whenever i have big weeks like this boozing running every day or training focal turning. My wife wakes up t like to. I'm like hey by the way. I'm wide awake. She's like why mike. Some i'm on the grand old opry stage in my head right now. Travel trip unique. Melatonin you psycho. If you know it's funny you're like me. 'cause i've i've had nothing near like your level of fame but like there's these things that happen and you look and i go. I say. tell everybody just dork from parker like no. No no. And i'm like no. I'm just fucking dork from barker. You feel like you're still a kid from montana and you're like like it just like i have this disconnect like i'll be on stage somewhere in front of people or doing something with certain people that i've idolized and i'm like like there's a disconnect. I'm like i'm here. But i'm not really here. Like how the hell did i get. Where i'm at because i can't still put it together. You know y- there's a thing and you talked to some people managers people business needed own. It i belong here. But i don't know that's not my personality. I think when you get to that point is when he goes take over. And i think you always need to have that. Oh my god. How did i get here and remember that trailer house. Remember that little town you grew up. You know type deal and for me. It's definitely that. I'm just like kind of pinched myself. Like oh shit. I how did this happen. You know my my on that list and not the next guy. That's more talented than me. As more fans than me. Whatever and it's like well. It was the reason i'm there. You gotta have a little bit of that but also a little bit of appreciation for the moment and wow this. You know those talking to dan my wife. I'm like might be one of the bigger shows the played you know other than you know letterman's up there but if you look at the you get stage at brad paisley and air church at the offering. That's going to be nuts. So yeah that's i that's massive. I mean that's you not to put pressure on you. But i'm just like oh shit. I wish i was there to watch this man. That's crazy talk about a star studded. Cast that's rad. Definitely looking forward to hearing how this on it too. Just like wow. Every time i read through it. And they keep adding more and they're gonna be surprised. Guess there's going to be another guest. I'm not supposed to speak of. But he may be the biggest name and country music guy from oklahoma last hand. It was just a rumor. He'll be there. But hey i'll fake the roster as is whoever else wants to show up name ryan dr if your name rhymes darth muck. I'm totally fine with it. So i wanna dude got so many bullet points i wanna hit on. But how the hell did you get linked up with. I'm street by tommy. I mean he's who introduced us. And i love tommy to death. He's a dear friend of mine. I know you're your buddies with p. You've done one of your songs. They do it fast over there. But going back i had to rewatch today because it had been a long time so i seen it but i i know the first thing i ever saw tommy news. What was a hillbilly rich. A few years back where you guys do that video. And tommy. Who's in his big black suit and got his ass kicked. Yep yep it was rob the guy that killed a lot of the navy seal and by tommy my band and then A friend of mine. Who's a veteran down in tampa that's Lucked out defense contractor and has massive super yachts and helicopter landing pads. He's like sure motion radio. Tommy's like wow what's this guy do for a living. I'm like You know defense About that yes. I met tommy Beef montana my hometown is where people can evil town and the guy that killed a lot. Soap sound and i played evil knievel days for years. It was like my world two or one of my stops in my world tour in montana and So one year. I'm up there. And i knew the nitro circus. Crews dumbing travis came. Tommy came and tommy had a huge beard. I had a big beard. This is what i'm saying. I mean we just started partying. We had this little after party. Head frame spirits a local Distillery and it came up to the house Saw the property. And then i met travis realizes he.
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ACM Awards Take Place for 2nd Time in a Year
"The academy of country music awards will be handed out on Sunday in Nashville for the second time in less than a year I'm Margie is our letter with a preview when the it feels like it wasn't that long ago that the last ACM awards happen well that's true the last ones were in September because of the corona virus pandemic the ACM's traditionally are in April Marren Morris and Chris Stapleton leads the nominations with six each Mickey Guyton who is co hosting with Keith urban will be the first black woman to host the awards the ceremony will air on CBS from the grand Ole Opry house the Ryman auditorium and the bluebird cafe in Nashville
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Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast from Nashville for first time
"Them this is a first the academy of country music awards will take place in Nashville the annual event is usually held in Las Vegas in April however due to the corona virus pandemic the ACM's hosted this year by Keith urban were postponed to the fall Monday the academy along with Dick Clark productions announced the move to three different locations in Nashville the grand Ole Opry house Nashville's historic Ryman auditorium and the bluebird cafe Damon Whiteside the CEO of the academy said the move was made to ease the burdens of traveling large teams to insure the safety of the