FRI PT 2: Aaron Watson On Crying At A Taylor Swift Concert + Getting To Perform With His 19-Year Old Son + Secret To Their 24-Year Marriage

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3:03before you invited me on here. I'm just throwing that out there. What's up, buddy? I'm good. I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt. Have a seat. Were you going to wear the same card again? Yeah. Oh, you mean the one behind you or the one behind me? Oh, glad I didn't wear that shirt. I thought he was taking a jab at your pink shirt and your cardigan. I would have accepted that and said, I'm glad you didn't wear my pink shirt and cardigan as well. Well, I do have a cardigan. One. I have one at home. My daughter bought it for me. Andy, wear it. I wore it once when we went to a Taylor Swift concert. Because that's a Taylor Swift thing. How did you like going to a Taylor Swift concert? It was fun. I enjoyed it. I'll say I've cried at two concerts in my career. And one was at Paul McCartney when he got up there and sang a song that he wrote for John. And then the other one was the Taylor Swift concert. I cried. What moved you about that? Just this music that I've been enjoying with my daughter, her whole life, from when she was little, and then seeing her just lose her mind,

4:04going crazy, having fun, and she started crying. And I think I just, I looked at her at some point, like, my little girl is growing up quick. And I just realized I was having like a moment, like I realized I had, I was having a moment. And it was pretty special. And it was, it was a fun concert, you know? You know, my daughter was very impressed that, like, I was getting recognized and took some selfies. But I did Taylor. I said, hey, I want you to look at this section we're sitting. Go down, because your dad's already done the math, for what I paid for the tickets. I said, go down eight rows, from here down eight rows, all the way over to the next walkway aisle. I said those seats. Your old man has to play about 150 shows a year to make that much money. So just letting you know how amazing. Like, I was like, girl, I'm thinking the math, of course, you know, there's no telling what her production cost.

5:05But it was a, it was a fun show. Yeah, the big show. People love the, not obviously the songs, but how she pulls off that show. It's so impressive. And I mean, I've always been a Taylor Switch fan. I grew up, my buddy Scott, his mom is Liz Rose. So I wrote all the songs early with Taylor, yeah? I remember in like their early 90s going over to Liz's house and there was some guitars. And I remember asking Scott, like, what's up with the guitars? And I remember Scott going, I don't know. I don't know. Mom thinks she's going to be a songwriter or something. And so that's just such a great story in itself. So, but the weirdest thing ever happened to me. And at the Taylor Swift concert, I guess there was one of the openers was like, be but do be or something. I'm going to bet you're not pronouncing that right? But I don't know. I don't know. I'm probably not saying it right. I mean, my daughter here, she really helps me out. You might be saying it right though. I've just not heard that. So after be but do ball or be but do be Mike,

6:06we're going to come to you in a second for an official explanation of who it is. It is be but do be. You're right. Congratulations. All right. Thank you, Mike. I'm not familiar with that artist. So my my daughter goes dad. So after be but do bees performance. Jolie looks at me and goes dad. If you need to go to the bathroom now is the time because Taylor shows like three hours. So I was like, okay, let's go. So we go up to the bathrooms. There is a mile long line in the girls' bathroom. The guys' bathroom. There's no line. So I was like, thank you Lord. I walk in about the same time as this like high school dude. We walk through the first set of doors. We walk in the next set of doors. This bathroom is packed full of high school girls. Oh, wanting to get a quicker way to end the bathroom. Oh, yeah. They're in the men's bathroom. And that high school boy was like, he said, I remember he goes, oh, heck no. Me, I'm in my forties.

7:08And I don't have that kind of negotiating power with myself anymore. It's like, I'm not going to make it three hours. Dude, there are four other dads pulled up to these journals, right? And I'm looking at all these girls. And I'm looking at this situation. And like my mind's racing like, what do I do? What do I do? A dad walks away from one of the urinals. It's my turn. And he kind of gives me this like, I don't know what to do. You know, what do you do? Kind of look. So I'm like, okay, we're doing this. We're doing this. So I pull up to the urinal to do my thing. And in the middle of the process, some girl behind me says, Hey, Aaron, why don't you sing us a song? Oh, yeah. And I was like, that's really, that was pretty messed up. And I literally said that I said girls. And they're all laughing. I said, girls, that's messed up. That's messed up, girls. And I mean, but we had so much fun.

8:09I love going to concerts. And it's fun. That's kind of me and my daughter said, I get to go to many concerts, though, because you're on the road a lot. Not a lot. I don't get to go to a lot of concerts. Every time I see you on TikTok, you're on the road. No, you're doing a show. Yeah. Yeah. Are you doing a lot of shows? Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, you're on the road a lot, playing shows. We always, my daughter has the bands in town app. And so I'm like, find the dates where, you know, we're going to a George straight concert. We bought tickets this week. And it's on a day that I have off. And so we have a lot of fun. She has a long list of artists we're going to go see. And I'll be honest, I know a lot of them about as well as, you know, be Bidubi. I do not know Bidubi. That's the thing. I never even heard of Bidubi. Like, I'm out. I'm out of here. Yeah. I'm sometimes just like, I am. She's taking me to places where I look like that dad. Like, I'm like, let's go. But just seeing her smile and saying like, whatever it takes.

9:11Do you feel though, like, when you go to these shows with your daughter, like, does she like any of the music that you also liked? And is that does that ever hit you? Like, it's so cool that she likes music that I also like like older stuff. Oh, yeah. Like, she loves the Beatles. She loves Elton John. She's, I mean, I posted a video while back. She's in there at night. You know, I can hear her in there in the bathroom getting ready for bed. And she is just singing Keith Whitley at the top of her lungs. So it's cool. We did this little cover album just for fun. A couple of years back called Cover Girl. And I did it actually as a project with Jolie. Because all Jolie was listening to was Taylor Swift. And I said, well, Taylor's great. I go, there are so many. Like, you need to know the Amy Lou Harris' of the world. Like, and so it's fun for she and I. We take a lot of drives, whether it's in my truck or the Corvette or the Jeep.

10:16We take these drives just to listen to music. And she's in control of the radio. So you never know what I'm going to be listening to. What about your son? He plays with you. He's, I think he's good. Dude, well, I already have labels called about him. And I'm like, the boy hasn't even recorded anything yet. He's so good. He's older though. Yeah, Jake is 19. And so Jack. And then there's Jack who's 18. Jack is too smart to be in the music industry. Jack is already, Jack already has like 200 ounces of silver and a couple ounces of gold. Like he works by stock. Like I was showing Jack some of my most horrible investments I've ever made. Thinking that would show him like, hey, you win some, you lose some. And he looked at me and he goes, why would you have ever thought that that company was a good idea? And I was like, okay, well, now you actually think pops is even probably dumber than you already did.

11:19So that backfired on me. But I'm having more fun. I'm telling you right now, if they gave an award out for a country artist that has the most fun at their shows, I would win it. Because I love what I'm doing. But now I'm literally like on stage with my son and we're jamming out. I'll go over there and, you know, mess with him and undo a pearl snap or I'll go up and button the tops pearl snap. And I just love messing with him. And then I just hand him the mic and I'm like, pops is tired, you know, that's tired. And dude, he'll just, and they go nuts for him and he's a great songwriter. He's going to be dangerous. Was there a point where he was actually good enough? Did you ever let him play with you when he wasn't quite there to help him get there? And then there was a point where you realize, oh, now he can actually play with this. I don't really have to like prop him up anymore. Yeah, I was very protective for a while.

12:19Like if he would be, if he was singing a song, I'd have the mic just waiting to see like if he kind of stumbled, I could jump in and sing with him. But he's been getting on stage with me since he was, I mean, five or six because he just loves to play. And now he has my whole show memorized. And like a couple of weeks ago, my drummer, his flight got delayed. And we had sound check. So my son just jumped in there behind the drums. He knows the entire show on the drums too. He knows the entire show on the guitar. He's super talented and it's fun to watch. Is he a better guitar player than you? Oh, like when he was 12. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But Jake started with the Beatles. You know, they got into like Mark Noppler, Dyerstreet. Like Dyerstreet, yeah. And then I mean, he just started learning all this crazy stuff. And honestly, you know, and I'm not like the biggest John Mayer fan.

13:21Like I have a great appreciation for his music and I like a lot of his songs. But a lot of John's acoustic stuff is so like Chad Atkins. It's just got that country finger style guitar picking and Jake learned all that stuff. So his playing is so good. And he's hungry. He calls me, you know, he's in college. So he'll call me late at night. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, well, I should be studying, but I'm working on a song. And I'm like, well, just I know your mom says he wants you to make good grades. I'm like, if you could just like, you know, have good attendance and pass. But don't tell your mom I said that. What's Amrillo like now? It's been probably two years since I've been there. Well, you know, I live. I grew up there. Are you not there? No, I've been in Abelene for a while now. It's been three years since I've been there. What's Abelene like? It's growing like crazy. They've got like, it's it's it's supposed to like double in size over the next 10 years. Cause like Google and has showed up in AI.

14:23Some AI deals showed up. I mean, we live about, I don't know, 20 minutes south of town. Kind of where the hill country starts buffalo gap Texas. It's a thriving. Is it is it only you guys? No, it's actually started growing. But it's we're out in the middle of nowhere. So it's it's pretty nice. What about you? You got a pretty big ranch big. Yeah. Piece of land out there. Yeah, I've got it. We've got a big ranch out there. I we built a a ranch house on the edge of this little canyon that has a bluff behind it. And I wrote I built that place just to write songs. So we we use that house for a lot of different reasons. I have riders come in. My bus driver, band guys will stay there sometimes. You know, it's not your primary house. No. Um, it's kind of like the dog house. Like also if I get kicked out of the house, I'm like not. But it's on the same property. No, it's about different property. Five or six miles away. Oh. So, um, but it's a really cool place.

15:24And like if someone at church, you know, needs a place to stay. I'm like, well, you can go to the ranch house. So we do a lot of riding at the ranch. And we I've recorded a lot of vocals there. But the that I don't know. It's just kind of my it's my happy place. And also to like whenever I go out to the ranch, I'm I will look around. And I'm like, you know, I bought this with a song. Like a lot of songs, not one, but like a lot of songs. But it always makes me go, wow, you know, people always say you think someday you'll ever like make it. And I was like, that's an interesting, you know, that's an interesting statement because what is make it. And I've always told people the reason why I'm successful is because I made sure that I made goal that my goals were achievable. Like if I would have started off my career saying, I want to be bigger than George straight someday or as big.

16:26You know, that's a pretty big dream. But my goal was it would be really awesome. If someday I had a career where I could write my songs, record my songs, play shows and do well enough that I could provide for my family. And so that's, you know, I've been able to achieve that. When you talk about seeing your house going, I got that because I wrote song. Sometimes I look at my swimming pool and go, I was able to get that because I just say stuff. That's crazy to me. I'm the same way. I'm the same way that I'm like, what in the world? It feels like it should be against the law. Because the swimming pool to me meant somebody made it. Don't even call swimming pool. They call it poles. Cool. Is that weird when I say swimming pool? I call it a swimming pool. Well, do you say washing powder? What? What? Okay, never mind. Deturgent. Obviously I'm from Arkansas, but I have things that I haven't been able to shake consciously. Yeah. So I will just say things.

17:26For example, that wasn't on purpose. I say swimming pool. And if I'm talking about doing the laundry, I think I've been better. But it would always been like, yeah, we'll use the washing powder in both. That's awesome. I'm going to start using that. No, no, it's never on purpose. But that's what they're alluding to. At times, I can't shake some of that fundamental Arkansas language. I like it though. It's, I mean, it's like I'm going to use that when I get home that I'm going to be like, babe, we're the flips of washing powder. She could be like, what are you talking about? Yeah. So no, I'm the same way. I'll say something. And I can't think of a word right now, but I'll say something to people be like, what did you just, what did you just actually say? I don't know if it's, you know, being raised in West Texas and my mom. For sure, West Texas vernacular. Oh, yeah. Yeah. How long has it been married? Gosh, 24 years. She's put up with me for 24 years. What's, what's the, what's, what, it's hard to say like why or like what's the reason?

18:29But what do you feel like is the common thread in relationships like yours that have lasted? Well, a good woman. That's a patient. And, you know, I think, I think the best way I can describe it is like, I remember when I was like four or five, my mom and dad got into a knockdown dragout argument. And I remember mom slammed the front door and I was in bed. And my bedroom was the closed in single car garage that my dad, you know, when my sister was born, he turned that into my bedroom. So when mom fired up the car that night, I remember the headlights like lit up my room. And I was pretty upset about it. And when I'm sure my mom, I'm sure mom drove down the street to her sister's house. My aunt B, I have an aunt B. And I'm sure they had like a diet coke and they, she cooled off and she came home. And when she came home that night, she came into my room.

19:31And I was so little, but I remember this. She said, I asked her, I said, what, what happened with you and dad? And she said, well, we had an argument. And I was like, well, what happened? You know, like what was going on? And she said, well, I'm just going to tell you this. She said, right now, I do not like your daddy. She said, but I love him with all my heart. And I think that's the mentality that like, you know, because that's the mentality you got to have. Because I'm not naturally like that. Like I'm more dramatic like the sky is falling. If there are times where I'm like, if it wasn't for the kids, like I just want to pack my bags and hit the road. Of course, I'd get 10 miles down the road and be like, where am I actually going? You know, but that's how, that's how I work. That's how my mind works. And, you know, I just think it's one of those things where, you know, for me in this phase of my life, you know, it's just, you know, I, it's not easy.

20:42I mean, I'll just say this, it's just not easy. It's not not easy. Sometimes I'll say like impossible. So, you know, you're really selling this. Yeah, I mean, but it's one of those things. You're really making you feel like the villain and she's the greatest superhero of all time. Well, well, he was the one that was, he's saying he's going to pack his bags. I know what I'm saying. Like he's the one that's like, I got to go. I think maybe if she's here, she'd be like, well, I was already on. I think if she was here, she'd just slap him and say, Aaron, stop talking. If you're a mouse. Yeah. Should we give him a shovel? No, it would be this, this, this look she gives me where it's like, please stop talking where she just does the side I like. Yeah, you have to say anything. It sounds like there's moments where you all don't like each other, but you love each other. Absolutely. But that's one of those. I think that's any relationship. Yeah. Yeah, 110%. If the true love is there, the unconditional love. The secret though, I mean, I don't, I don't know the secret. You know, if, if we're going to be married, if we make it 50 something years, bro, we still got the other side of the mountain to go.

21:47So it's like, but I think it's just that it's just trying to, it's trying really hard to work through the tough stuff. And man, we've had some, you know, we've had some tough stuff. You know, I mean, we, we lost a child together. And, you know, I think if we were to like probably dig deep into counseling, I do think that that probably that was hard on she and I both just, you know, there were. And at that time, we had like a literally a, like a four year old, a two and a half year old. And like, we had three little ones already. So I mean, I don't know. It does make for good songwriting material, you know, and that's life. And a lot of times I try to capture those feelings and put it into a song. And I really, I try to do that with a lot of my music. Like, man, if I'm, if I'm feeling something, I try to be real about it because I, you have to think there's other people out there that are going through those kind of things.

22:52And I've always found music to be very therapeutic. So even to write. Oh, writing's, writing's my favorite thing. Writing is, it's what I live for. Like, I wake up in the morning excited to make coffee and go sit on the back porch and write. And I tell you, there's like me writing right now. I'm a different writer. Like, I know I'm not supposed to talk about the next record. We've got this new record horse. It's about to do one with 26 songs here. Yeah. And it's going to have 40 on it when it's all said and done. But I've already finished the next record. And don't say that one's even better. You know, we're focused on this one. I can't help it. I can't help it. But the thing about it is, is that like, I don't know why, I don't know why now. I feel like my mom's always said I was like, I remember saying mom and my ever going to grow sideburns. And she was like, baby, you're just a late bloomer. I don't know if it's my songwriting has been kind of a late bloomer. I'm so proud of all my past 25 years of songs.

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29:0316, 17, like it's me and about three other dudes that have buckles and cowboy hats and boots on. And back then that they called me a hat act. Back then, you know, I was Texas music and it wouldn't work outside of Texas. And, you know, and so I love now when Ella Langley has a song that right off the bat talks about my two hometowns, Amarillo and Abel, in the first second I heard that song. I made a video and I was like, this is going to be the biggest song. It's going to be a number one hit. So I mean, I don't know. It's like, I think that I do take a little pride in being able to talk to a lot of independent artists to say, hey, what's your business model? It's about running a good business, making good business decisions. But I also love the fact that like, I'm recording, I've got sessions in a march. We're recording some fun little side projects.

30:04I'm recording again in May. I just love the fact that I don't have to ask some record label. Like, is it okay if I do this? Is it okay? You know, if I get excited about the music, that's what matters. Sounds like the good is, you as a creative can do the creative things that you want to do. It sounds like the difficult thing is especially early is, nobody's funding it. You're having to fund everything yourself. You're having to find all the money to make all the things happen. Yeah, that's like we are, we've got this five year plan in this new album, Horse Name Texas is day one. And we're going to be going to radio over the next five years. Well, you're here now. I'm here. When you're literally here now. Day one. Okay, I'm just making sure what is day one. I'm sure you know where you are. We're not at Chick-fil-A. Like we're here. This is day one. Okay. I was like day one of my five year plan. We must be on the Bobby Bones show. There are 26 songs on this record. There's a lot of songs.

31:04Did you not part with some of them? Why that? I'm just always when it's an odd number like 26. If it were 11 or 12, I get it standard. If it were 40 and you're like, it's a double album. But 26 is kind of an odd number of songs. Why? Well, we had them recorded. They're all songs I'm proud of. And those are all songs that I wrote during that phase. What would you call that phase? What was that season called? Well, the last four years, a lot of ups and downs. I had two vocal cord surgeries. I had a lot of time off. And for me, it's like I wrote all these songs together. And you know, it's for me, I don't want to sit here and be like, I'm thankful I've had this long career I've done enough. For me, I want to do more than I've ever done in the next five years. And so I love those songs. Those songs are finished. Those songs need to go out. I'm passionate about them right now.

32:05But I'm already having a hard time not wanting to push this next record. I've already finished. And Greg is over there like, do not. Well, so am I. I'm like, stop talking about the next record. We got 26 songs here. It's record. It's out now. It's my art. And it's like, it's one of those things. It's almost like talking about your kids. I have found myself, especially when they were little and baseball. And like, we go in somewhere. And next thing you know, I'm like, I talked about my kids the whole time and did not talk about the record. But it's just you get you get excited about the music. And so, but yeah, horse name Texas. It's a story about my career. It's where I've been, where I'm at, and where I want to go. And why I do it? Like the second verse says, came up short, been booked off, had my heart stomped in the dirt. But I got back up, got back on Tom and Tom again. And after all these years, I've learned a winner's just a loser

33:05who keeps on losing till the day they finally win. And that's just the story of, it's a lot like your story. Fail until you don't. It's one of my books. Absolutely. I should have made you a co-writer on there. Or you just could have said, hey, buy Bobby's book, fail until you don't have an Amazon. Hey, where's what camera do I look at? Pick one. Go down. Go down. Aaron Watson here. Bob Bobby's new book, fail until you don't. It's been out a few years. It's been out a few years. It's his old book. Actually, inspired me to write this whole new album, Horse Name Texas. And it will change your life. Where's my camera? Right there. Okay. Hey, it's Bobby here. I wrote that book, fail until you don't, inspired by the record, Horse Name Texas from Aaron Watson. It came out years later, but I really felt it in my heart what it was going to say. So please check out Horse Name Texas now. That's my dog right there. That's back and forth. That's my dog. We both did that. It's like you're a loser till you're not. It's like, You're working about Horse Name Loser. There's another one to say it. Now Horse Name Texas. But it's also just one of those things like like,

34:06like I love baseball. I love baseball. Hall of Fame hitter fails 70% of the time. So what do you? It's like I tell my boys you went over four. Were you going to cry about it? Were we going to work on the next game? Like what are you going to do? I mean, if you have, you have to understand that, you have to understand that's just part of the process. And also why do you do it? Like if I'm doing this to have big hits and number one records and all that stuff win awards, like if that's the reason I'm doing this, I'm gonna be disappointed at the end of the day. But like the bridge says something like, if I choke or wind up broke, God knows I do it all over again, because if I write one song that saved a life, wouldn't that be worth it in the end? And that's why you do what you do. You're, I get up on that stage, those people have paid their hard earned dollar to come see a show. And my job is real simple, just to give them a good time.

35:07And that's what I do every night. If we play the show in Knoxville a couple of weeks ago, not gonna lie, when you see that you only pre-sold 8% of the tickets, you feel that like feeling inside. But at some point you suck it up, you go out there and you give them the best you got. And then, you know, the next night is a sellout. And that's easy, but it's, you know, I don't know, it's, I'm just in a really good place with my music right now and it's exciting. And like I said, Jake, my boy is watching me. Man, he's watching me. And so I haven't, I've got a lot to teach him. And also too, I'm not gonna, I am fixing to have some big moments because his old man's not gonna go down without a fight. I'm not gonna just start opening up for him out of nowhere, like he's got, you know what I'm saying? It's like, it's like getting out there

36:07and playing basketball with him, they're better than me. And I know that I think I may have pulled something and pulled something right here, can't let them show, I can't let them see that, you know? And I box him out a little harder, get a little more aggressive, fight dirty. You can't let those boys beat you. You got a, the old man, it's the old man thing. I feel like you think you're dying, dude, you're scaring me. You're like, I got five years and I'm out of here. It's, it's say to me that you're not dying. I'm not dying. Okay, good, that's all I want to hear. Here's a deal. Here's a deal. No, but he's acting like I've got five years and then they're gonna spread my ashes at sea. Here's a deal, I'll come back in in five years and be like, okay, that five year plan didn't work. But this next five year plan, this next five year, this is the one. That's the one where you're opening for your son. That's the one where I'm opening for Jake. I've got so much exposure. Just really glad we had that kid. Tell me about Pontiac, what I think is interesting and I love it, you wrote the song by yourself. Yeah. So is that one of those you just grab a guitar at home and you really didn't have it set it?

37:07This is, can I do my romantic version of you writing this song? And you tell me how wrong I was. Whenever people write songs by themselves, I feel like there's just some sort of inspiration that happens and they just pick up a guitar and it wasn't any calendar for a write because they're not writing with somebody. And they're like, I have this idea, let me see how. And maybe you're even coming up with something for a write that you have coming up in the future. And you're like, oh man, this is just kind of fallen out of me. And the next thing, you know, you're like, I don't think I need anybody. This is everything exactly how I want to say it. Anybody else putting it on it would change how I'd say it. So I think I'm gonna record this as a work tape and then eventually you fall in love with it so much. You're like, I'm gonna record this as a song and then it becomes a single. That's the romantic version of my head. That's very close. My whole life, when there's something going on in my world, like I will call my mom and I remember I was like, so mom, tell me, like, dad, if he did this and it upset you, what would, like, what do I do?

38:08And so that's where that song came from. That came from me. I don't know, doing something stupid, upset in my wife, something's going on and me just going to my mom and saying, hey, now there are, you know, they say country music is like three chords in the truth. So that song has like five chords. So and my mom drove a Monte Carlo. An occasional lie. Got it, got it. My chords and an occasional lie. I like it though. Five chords. And a fib. Okay, you know, and I've never heard my mom cuss. And I actually called, and my mom, she's such a wonderful lady and she's so straight lace. Like I had to take down an Instagram post two nights ago because my mom didn't like it and it annoyed me so much. But that mama's boy inside of me went, fine.

39:09Well, what, what did you do? Well, I did, I did an interview with my buddy and he asked me what was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me at my show. And I said, well, it's happened several times but like having a lady breast feeding her baby right in front of me. I was like, there was a cutest little baby, baby boy you ever saw. And he's got on little headphones. And he's breastfeeding right there as I'm singing honky-tonk songs. I was like, and the whole thing is I'm like, stare at the woman in her eyes. But I know something is going on down there, right? So we talked about it. So my wife, when she was breastfeeding, it's a brand called Heidehooter. It's actually, that's what it's just something that a woman will drape over herself. And so we jokingly, we're like, we need to get some Aaron Watson Heidehooters at the merchandise booth. So I made a funny post about it and my mom literally commented on my post, like I don't like this, I don't think this is appropriate. And I was like, oh, I was like, mom.

40:11I was like, mom, I'm just kidding. She goes, I just don't think that's funny. She was, I just don't like that. And she was like, I don't think, and now I was like, fine. And whatever her mom control that she has over me, I just went up to the little three dots at the top and delete and, sorry. So no Heidehooter merch coming. No Heidehooter merch is coming. So the song is about your mom. Yeah. It's about leaning on her. You know, you know, what, how did, it's kind of the same question you asked me earlier, like how long have you been married? Like, what's, how did you get through that? Or how have you gotten this far? Like, what's the secret? It's me leaning on my mom, like, you know, and I think a lot about my granddad, um, my granddad was a great guy, but apparently he had a phase of his life where he was drinking, making a lot of bad decisions.

41:14And I think about my sweet grandmother that just somehow kept that family together. And I mean, I think without a doubt, you have to give credit to my grandmother for keeping that thing together. So it's, it's talking to mom about, like, what did dad do, how, how did you do it? How did y'all do it? And so that's just kind of a special thing when you can take a memory, a moment in your life. And just kind of, it's like a, it's like a snapshot of that moment in a song. So that one's, it's also, a song is fun to play live. It also get added by a ton of radio stations. Your five-year plan is working. It's working. Congratulations. We're gonna play it. Thank you, brother. Yeah, it's good to see you. Horse named Texas is out. 26 songs. You proud of it? Say it. Say yes. Don't say that a second thing you're writing now. But I think it's fair to say too, since we've talked a lot about my wife, and how she's been putting up with me for a long time,

42:14I think it's, it's, we need to be honest that everyone needs to know that all the proceeds from the horse named Texas album go straight into her purse. Into the white. Into the white foundation. Yes, that's good. I get nothing. That's good. I like that. Good to see you again, man. Dude, it's great to see you guys. Proud of y'all, and I love your new place. It's really cool. Thanks. Thank you. Yeah, this is radio, day one, radio. Day one. I was confused for a minute. I don't know if you're new. Or yes, all down the old premiere. Aaron Watson Music is Instagram. Is that also your TikTok? I follow you on TikToks. I don't know what it is. Yeah, it's the same thing. I told you this last time. Your TikToks are great. Thanks, brother. Even do you ever get annoyed when they don't hit and you think it's really funny? And, or do you even look back to see if they hit? I think of it as I'm just throwing darts because I've posted stuff that I thought was stupid. Like, like, I'll give you a quick example. I was holding this lady's baby at the rodeo in Vegas. And I'm holding this little boy and his pacifier pops out of his mouth and goes down into this crevice.

43:16And I reached down to get the pacifier. And when I reached, when I, when I found it, there's literally a beer, a full beer next to it. So I pulled out a beer and a pacifier and I was like, yes. And the mom video that I was like, oh, it's kind of funny. So I posted it and the thing had like 30 million views. And I'm like, what? And they don't post something good. And it's like 200 views. And I'm like, oh, that sucks. Anyways, I just, I think about throwing darts. Maybe one will hit. I don't think much of it, but I want to be consistent with it. I got some, I got some good ones coming up this next week. And then I started working on him. He's like, the ones I've got today are taking us all the way good. Wait till you see the ones who are coming down the few weeks. Yes. You know, but you do good too, man. Hey, you're one yesterday. Oh, yeah, poppin. I've, look, it's poppin, bro. Let's go. I'm callous at this point with negative feedback. You don't bother me anymore.

44:17I've just had so much of it. I've got to grow with it. Do you know what I say to people? Like if somebody says something awful to me, I have two responses. It just shuts them down. Either I say you're not wrong, or I'll say you're not my mom. And I just post it on there. And it's like you have, they have nowhere to go. If you agree with them, they have nowhere to go. That just stops them dead in a track. And then like just telling someone you're not my mom just says it all. You're not my mom. You can't, only my mom can make me take down a post. And then say listen to Pontiac streaming now. Listen to Pontiac streaming now. You guys check out the record, it is that. It's a horse named Texas, 26 songs all written by Aaron. A lot by himself, with other co-writers that are excellent, but all written by Aaron. And yeah, it's good to see you, man. It's good to see you too, buddy. Great, great appearance as always. And what also, we talked a lot about now, but Aaron and I did like way over an hour a few months ago,

45:19just kind of like about his life and how he came up. I encourage you to go check that out on the Bobby cast because I learned a lot about you as a person there. This here is very much like, hey, what's up now? What's up, funny stuff? That was a lot of fun. Thanks again for having me. And we did it nude. What people didn't know. Yeah, because we really wanted to like get back to the core of humans. Yeah, we wanted it, we wanted, I had a bolo on. But other than that, we were good. The bolo, that was a nice, it was. It kept me from getting distracted. Yeah, but I didn't wear it on my neck, just for everybody. Yeah, no, no, I said, yeah, it was a whole thing. The bolo was just enough to let me relax. Yeah. And it was shaped like his head. It was a bolo with his head with the, dude, that's a great merch idea. Your head bolo with my face on it. People would buy that. People would literally buy that. I mean, only do a hundred and see how they sell. We're not like an AW. No, no, no, do his face with a high cowboy hat. Yeah, do it. Sorry. I agree, I think that'd be awesome. Okay. All right, there he is, Aaron Watson. The album is out. Go listen to a horse named Texas, and the horse named Texas tour continues,

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