EP80 - Ethan Carl: Stories We Shouldn't Share, Wild Shows, and Crazy Crowds
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Matt Judy sits down with country music artist Ethan Carl to talk about the grind, the glory, and the wild stories that come with chasing a music career. From the chaos of a rowdy bar night to the thrill of opening for some of the biggest names in country, Ethan shares the moments that have shaped him as a performer. They dig into the realities of booking shows, balancing life on the road, and staying connected with the crowd no matter the venue. Whether you’re a music fan, a dream chaser, or just here for the behind-the-scenes stories, this one’s packed with energy and insight.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome back to episode 80 of the dive bomb squadcast. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm your host, Matt Judy. |
| 0:14.8 | And today, you might see a familiar face on here. |
| 0:17.9 | If you're at Squad Fest, he was rocking the dive bar. |
| 0:20.8 | We've got country music |
| 0:21.9 | singer Ethan carl on today how we doing man doing good man thank you for having me hell yeah no |
| 0:27.5 | problem uh what you what you got going are you like between shows right now or you got something |
| 0:31.7 | coming up for this weekend or what oh dude we've always got um brolin we play about 150 shows, I think, this year. Dang. Maybe a little more than I want, you know, maybe, I don't know, I guess you can't get too much of a good thing. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Well, dude, I got to get this off my chest immediately. I saw you play a show from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. the other day. And that, dude, it's got, it had my mind |
| 0:58.2 | blown. I'm still, I was like, dude, I got to ask him immediately on this. What was that? |
| 1:03.4 | It had my mind blown, too, when it was presented to us. But, I mean, I can't say I want to, I want to be as |
| 1:10.2 | big as I want to be and then pick and choose where I play. |
| 1:12.8 | But it was a wild experience. |
| 1:15.5 | We played at Pops Nightclub in Sauget, Illinois. |
| 1:19.6 | And Austin, Cleveland, and Pops are doing an incredible job kind of rebranding. |
| 1:24.7 | And to be honest, with the crowd they they pull i didn't know how my music was |
| 1:28.4 | gonna yeah but it did well broke out the bib overalls for it no shirt hell yeah dude |
| 1:35.2 | hit an arm day before i'm sure i looked apart funniest thing about that show and i had to confess |
| 1:41.6 | this to my wife is that I was flashed twice. |
| 1:45.0 | Was that the first time at any show yet or what? |
| 1:48.1 | No comment on that. |
| 1:49.4 | Yeah, gotcha. |
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