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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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To close out 2022, Ben Burgess stopped by the podcast for the first time to talk about his debut studio album 'Tears the Size of Texas,' getting out of a bad recording contract and moving to Nashville to pursue country music, writing for people like Lil Wayne, the Jonas Brothers and Morgan Wallen, Morgan's insane career trajectory over the last couple years, making the transition to being an artist, opening for and hanging out with Koe Wetzel, looking up to George Strait as one of his role models and much more.
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0:00.0 | All right, we've got Ben Burgess here and we were just talking about we're on a Zoom |
0:18.7 | here and Buck DeKiller is your Zoom name. |
0:24.2 | So can you tell the fans a little bit about that story because that sounded really interesting? |
0:29.3 | You know, he's in that video where that guy's like, man, I'm just doing hoodwrap shit with my hoodwrap friends like, you know, we used to think we were cool and do a bunch of dumb shit and we were young, ended up in an old man's backyard. |
0:40.8 | He didn't like us very much so he fired off his, he fired his shotgun off in the air right, but we wanted to say it was at us and so I didn't get hit with nothing, but they thought they heard the fence get hit so they call me both lucky. |
0:53.4 | And here I am, man, with enough air, my lungs to sing about it, were you where you are right now and are you in Tennessee or Texas or I'm near a week filled in Virginia. |
1:08.4 | I just put off to talk to y'all I'm headed to somewhere to go play with the Warren'siders. I can't remember the name of the town Charlottesville. |
1:16.8 | Okay, college town. |
1:18.8 | Yeah, that sounds right. |
1:21.8 | Yeah, that's where Grady Smith is from. |
1:25.8 | I believe the YouTube. |
1:28.8 | Yes, I just pulled over. I think I'm in front of a firehouse right now. |
1:33.0 | My old male was a fireman, so anytime I see a firehouse, man, I'll pull up so I can talk to some firemen if they want. |
1:39.6 | I live across the street from one in Chicago and they always are just like chilling in the front, like playing football and stuff and people come by with their dogs and just I don't know, it seems like a fun. |
1:52.6 | Aside from the whole like haptic fighting fires and risking your life shit, but like it seems like nice. |
1:57.6 | I'll just hang it out, cook in and grill in. |
2:01.6 | So I used to live in Chicago with West at times as roommates as roommates and then over the years, you know, we lived all over the place. |
2:08.6 | But in Chicago, if you've been to a Cubs game, there's a fire station right outside of the bleachers. |
2:14.6 | And those guys have it best because they the girls just want to like come by. |
2:20.6 | And they're just like, and I feel like most of their calls are going to be for like drunk related things. |
2:27.6 | Right. So that would they send the fire truck drunk girl got her head stuck in a fence or some shit like that. |
2:32.6 | It's usually not like hopefully not like actual danger, but that's cool to hear. |
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