Welcome back to another episode of Whiskey Riffraff.

I'm Shelby.

And this is our first episode of 2026. Yes, 20206 is here. We're super pumped for more episodes of the Whiskey Roof Refref Podcast. And we've got a great episode today. Yes. We're really excited about this one. Today our guest is Ernest, who we already recorded with, and it was a great episode. Yes. In my opinion. Yeah. He definitely brought a lot of stories. Name dropped in the best way possible. Yeah, he's just connected in so many ways. Yes. To so many different people. Yeah. And so we got to hear a lot more about that. It's fun. Like, that's what we do here at Whiskey Riffraff. if you've never listened to an episode, we're talking to, you know, hopefully your favorite country music artists from the perspective of a fan. And then that's what we truly are. We're both fans of country music. And so obviously we're going to talk about, you know, the music process and the songwriting and all that stuff. But then we're actually getting into some more personal things, too.

Yeah, I love to dive into those kinds of conversations with artists.

I love hearing what else an artist is interested in besides the music.

A couple of examples are Cody Jinks with his scary movie obsession.

Yep.

Cody Cannon with his Marvel. Yes, Cody Canada loves Marvel movies. And that was fun to figure out. That was fun. And Larry Fleet with his conspiracy theories. So many. We're going to have Larry, I swear, we're going to have Larry Fleet back on and it's just going to be conspiracy theories and nothing else. He could go on forever.

And I think, yeah, it could be a, it could be, you know, a two or three hour episode, I think, with all that he had. Yeah. And, you know, with Ernest, we definitely talked a lot about music, but we got a lot of other tidbits, too, about, you know, he's from Nashville, so I feel like, you know, you get a lot more stories. Yes.

Yeah, and he's got a lot to share.

You know, he's got a, so I feel like, you know, you get a lot more stories.

Yes. Yeah, and he's got a lot to share. You know, he's got a lot of things musically going on.

And I think that'll be cool for fans to listen and hear all the plates that he has spinning and

just how he does it because he's got so much going on. So much going on. And if this is your first time listening to the podcast, I want to just kind of give you an idea of what both of our personal music tastes are.

So you kind of have an idea of what music we listen to and the kind of guess we hope to see on the podcast.

So you want to go ahead?

You go first. Yeah. I will pull up my list

real quick. So this is from, I guess, the end of the year thing last year, right? That we sent in

Whiskey Riff, anyone who works there and works with Whiskey Riff sends in their top albums of the year.

And then overall Whiskey Riff does an end of the year top 40 albums. And so these

are our personal list, the top five from that list. Do you want to go five to one or one to five?

Either way. Okay. For drama purposes, I'm going to go five to one. So my fifth most favorite album this

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