14. Common Ground in the South w/ Bryan Andrews

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Monte Mader

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5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

When I was sent a video of this guest... I judged a book by its cover and assumed I was going to get really upset. BOY was I wrong. Bryan Andrews is a country singer from the south who blew my mind with his vibrant and powerful personality... and opinions.

How are we so far apart? In the world of current politics it feels like we are light years apart. That decency and common sense and respect for humanity are so far out the window.

Yet, common ground can come in the form of a country singer from the south. A singer who never left his small southern town but also sees a way forward, and a glimmer of hope that maybe we aren't as far apart as we have been led to believe.

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0:00.0	This might surprise you, but it turns out that I'm human.
0:04.0	And even though I try not to judge a book by its cover very often, sometimes I still do.
0:09.0	And when I was sent a video of the young man we're going to talk to today, I immediately was like,
0:14.0	oh man, this video is probably going to piss me off.
0:17.0	And it was a country music artist and clearly a Southern boy.
0:20.9	And I was like, oh, man, I was sent by a girlfriend of mine on Instagram.
0:24.2	I opened that video and I started screeching in my living room like I was at church.
0:29.5	I jumped up off the couch.
0:31.1	I got really excited and inspired.
0:34.0	And this is what that video said.
0:36.3	Over the last few months, I've gained over 700,000 new followers on this app, and I see a lot of comments like this one.
0:41.3	So I feel like I'm going to take the next minute or so to tell you guys who the fuck I really am.
0:45.3	And I might lose followers for this, but I don't really give a fuck.
0:47.3	My name is Brian Andrews, and I'm a country rock singer-songwriter from a very small town of about 3,500 people called Carrollton, Missouri. I still live in my hometown instead of moving somewhere like Nashville because I love my
0:57.3	community and I actually take a lot of pride in the fact that I'm the guy that never made it
1:00.3	out of his hometown. I wear camo, I like to fish, and I love hunting white-tailed deer.
1:04.4	I drink bushlights on the weekends. I cuss like a motherfucker sailor, and I used to work on the road welding pipe and consider myself blue collar until the day I'm fucking dead. I also consider myself a Christian and I try to work on my relationship with God
1:15.3	every single day. But I don't go to church on Sundays because I don't believe that praying
1:18.3	inside a building with four walls and a cross in the middle of it makes me any more or less of a
1:21.8	center than it makes anybody else. I think that gay people ought to be able to love and marry whoever the fuck they want. I think that every person has the right to quality health care without having to file for bankruptcy.
1:29.6	And I think that a homeless veteran should never, and I mean never fucking exist.
1:32.9	I love my guns.
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