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00:00I was a receiver, back in my prom, the good old days.
00:28That's right.
00:31Did it make you sad when you got hurt?
00:34I was in a time of confusion, if you would.
00:41Everything was going right.
00:42Like, I just got, like, scout player of the year at Tech.
00:44And then they're like, hey, you're going to be number one receiver for the next four years.
00:49I was like, all right, let's roll.
00:51And so everything was going great.
00:53But I just felt, like, on my heart that I wasn't going down the right path.
00:57Got to my buddy's house because I was, like, bumming off his couch my entire freshman year.
01:05And put my bag down and then went to the bathroom and locked the door.
01:12And I just started, like, bawling, sobbing.
01:15I was like, I don't know what I'm doing, yada, yada.
01:18I just didn't feel right for a long time.
01:19And then it kind of just hit me one night.
01:21And I grew up super religious.
01:25My grandpa was a pastor.
01:26And, you know, I grew up in the church my whole life.
01:28And I was like, hey, man, I know it's been a while, but I need a sign.
01:33Next day, went to classes and then went to practice.
01:38Very first play, ran a post over the middle, broke my leg in three places.
01:41I was like, that's my sign right there.
01:44I kind of knew that that was the sign right off the bat.
01:49It did hit pretty hard.
01:50It was tough at first, but God's plan.
01:54Can't deny that.
02:04And now we're coming backstage.
02:06I'm still in my airport outfit.
02:08So hopefully we can get rid of the car real fast and watch Tucker.
02:15I might drink a couple beers.
02:17You?
02:18Yeah.
02:19Get that on camera.
02:20Watch that now.
02:21Everybody watching this is like, no way.
02:23I don't think we need to get a job there, but.
02:28Yeah.
02:29Right here.
02:30I can do it.
02:31I can do it.
02:33I can do it.
02:34We're all right.
02:36Where to go.
02:38Oh man, that's the people.
02:40We're going to go we're going to figure it out.
02:41You're going to figure it out.
02:42Yeah.
02:43I mean to hear your voice.
02:44I know where you're going.
02:45It's all right.
02:46It's like I love.
02:47I love to go.
02:48I love to have a guy.
02:49I love to have a cat.
02:50If I was really good at singing and really good at dancing, it'd be over for everybody.
03:05It'd be over because your head would be this big.
03:10I'd be way too good at it.
03:12I've only been to Montana a couple of times to hunt.
03:16That's it.
03:17And hang out with Steve Brunello.
03:18That was really fun.
03:19Go watch that video if you haven't.
03:19We're in the middle of nowhere in Montana.
03:20This is the place I like to be.
03:22Good old country folk.
03:23Good vibes.
03:24Everybody here is so great.
03:25I love it.
03:26I heard that there was projectiles being thrown on Thursday.
03:29What are you doing?
03:30Fuck on Montana.
03:31I had to.
03:32Okay.
03:33Can we get a photo real quick?
03:34Yeah, let's do it.
03:35I'm so sorry.
03:36Okay, cool.
03:37Are you a legend?
03:38All of it?
03:39Yes.
03:40We've traveled so much this year with him.
03:43Mexico, Europe for a month, and back to Nashville for the Sacramento show.
03:49Texas.
03:50Back to Nashville.
03:51No, I said Europe.
03:52Yeah, and I went backwards.
03:53Yeah.
03:54Yeah.
03:55Set up like we are right now on the bank and just plunk and drink and then wait hours.
04:09We'd be out there all night just waiting for that bell to ding, ding, ding, ding.
04:14You'll be sitting there fighting a five, six-foot sturgeon for like 30 minutes, dude.
04:18It's fun.
04:19So much fun.
04:20That's the perfect thing.
04:21Yeah, you gotta do that.
04:22Beer.
04:23Beer.
04:24And then fishing.
04:25That's all you need.
04:26Really.
04:27Just a catch.
04:28Still a catch.
04:29Yeah.
04:30That's the shooting.
04:31Oh, right.
04:32Oh, yeah.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Yeah.
04:35What the hell's getting at it, man?
04:36That is my fan!
04:37This is my fan!
04:40Woo!
04:41It's my fan!
04:42It came on real lift.
04:44That's my fan.
04:48Holy shit!
04:50Three months.
04:52We just got a Montana Tech tan and orange hat, so we're going to roll it with that.
05:05We're probably going to do these bad boys right there to wrap in all the orange.
05:12That's the plan.
05:14Jack Daniel, if you please.
05:17This is a luck of the show of mine.
05:27Thank you guys for being a part of it.
05:30Let's show Montana what we got.
05:33I was a barstool ambassador for Belmont briefly.
05:36Yeah, I think I was the worst one they ever had.
05:38I had a couple of insane inaugural posts and then I kind of forgot I was doing it.
05:43Go Ta Bless Paul. 57 reissue.
05:47Check this out.
05:49I got it.
05:50Oh!
06:19I got it.
06:49I got it.
07:18Yeah, look how amazing that is.
07:23That's how many kills the warrior had, those lines above.
07:26I don't know how old they are, they're very, very old.
07:29Yeah.
07:30They can draw way better than I can.
07:35It's amazing that they're still there at this point.
07:38I know, I'm glad they're not vandalized or anything either.
07:43That is amazing.
07:44That's real cool.
07:46We have made it to the Missouri River, right Josh, our nice captain Josh, Steinmetz Outfitters.
07:56Tucker and I are going fishing for the first time on the Missouri River.
07:59Oh yeah.
08:00Are you excited?
08:01I'm fired up.
08:02You're wearing the new Mossy Oak Barstool sports hat.
08:03You liked it?
08:04Yeah, you look good.
08:05I felt pretty.
08:06Yeah, so we're excited to be out here in Montana.
08:07Look at God's creation.
08:08It's absolutely breathtaking and it makes me want to go elk hunting.
08:11Now we're here to catch some rainbow trout, maybe a brown, maybe some walleye, perch.
08:16But we're just going to have a good day on the water and fish.
08:19Let's do it.
08:25This is new to me.
08:26I do not fly fish often.
08:28Neither does Tucker.
08:30This is my first time flying fishing.
08:32I'm excited about it.
08:33So we got two novices on the boat, which is good.
08:36So expectations aren't very high.
08:37Not high, but the vibes are high.
08:40We're going to get set up.
08:41We have an issue that the water temperature is getting a little higher.
08:44It's about 63 degrees.
08:46A lot of grass in the water, which isn't ideal too when you are trying to fish through it.
08:51I got a good feeling.
08:52I'll catch a fish.
08:53Catch a fish.
08:54Let's do it.
08:55How much casting have we done?
08:56I have never fly fished in my life, dude.
09:03I feel like I need to stand in the back of the boat so I don't kill him.
09:07He doesn't kill me.
09:08The good thing is we're wearing glasses, so nobody's going to lose an eye today.
09:11We're going to catch fish today.
09:15Oh.
09:16Oh, I thought you'd go.
09:17No.
09:18Alright.
09:19Maybe it'll take some good news, too.
09:20I feel like you're competitive, so you're like, I got it.
09:21I got it.
09:22I got it.
09:23Let's do it.
09:24You want to take that off?
09:25Yeah.
09:26You're like, yeah.
09:27He's competitive.
09:28Super competitive.
09:29Alright.
09:30Everybody watch your lips.
09:31The wind's kicking.
09:32Do we like this wind?
09:33Do I like it?
09:34I like that we have a chop on the water.
09:35It doesn't make things easy for you guys, though.
09:36Yeah.
09:37Tucker's like, yeah.
09:38I'm like, yeah.
09:39I'm like, I'm low-key.
09:40I'm like, am I in a good spot right now?
09:42You're going to come back with it?
09:44It's going to be like, yeah.
09:46With the wind blowing, the easiest thing to do is it's going to be trying to put the
09:47wind at a 45-year back.
09:52See, I don't want to do anything.
09:57I'm just thinking, yeah, you've got the bad wind where you're going to jump.
09:59This is a little bit easier to do it.
10:02Yeah.
10:03The wind's kicking.
10:05Do we like this wind?
10:06Do I like it?
10:07I like that we have a chop on the water.
10:08It doesn't make things easy for you guys, though.
10:09Yeah.
10:10to put the wind at a 45 to your back to let it melt you it's going to be a feel thing the more
10:16line you get out the more power you put into it yeah but it's not really a power thing it's a
10:20finesse thing if that makes sense yeah yeah i set the hook controlling the line this way okay when
10:25a fish gets on there and he's pulling we're just going to go to right here and allow the line to
10:30slip through our finger and the reel will take over and do the work a little zertlebug action and a
10:36little calivated snow i will tell you one thing i have hooked a lot of tree branches
10:44i actually got my first fly fishing set up for christmas and i went into the yard got it rigged up
10:54and practiced just practicing the yard and that's essentially i'm not necessarily great by any means
11:04but i can cast that's a good plus i'm all tangled up already look at that wow this is going to be a
11:12pain in the ass with this grass for sure i just ran into the same issue a little tangle you need a hand
11:18yeah all right so not to not not to uh off to a great start am i okay no um so josh and rather
11:27have five seconds had to fix tucker and myself this is the great part about it though you know
11:33we got some wind we're learning and we're really learning today with the wind if you're not tangling
11:41thanks for making me feel better where's uh while you're doing that do you mind if i go ahead and
11:46grab a spinning reel i feel like i'm gonna hook somebody then i'm gonna feel bad about myself you
11:52know at least it's a small hook that's right i was just hooked in the ear the other day were you in
11:58the ear i'm gonna go up there with tucker and go look at that um active target oh and i'm all tangled
12:03up again look at that look at me go we're doing great do that i'm gonna go pitch right to that fish
12:11i'm trying to get out there it's going like five feet so how many days a week are you uh on the water
12:20on the water yeah oh on the water seven working i try to usually just do five but yeah
12:28that ain't a bad life to live well when you're with people every day you don't know maybe it is
12:36depending how they treat you have you ever had anybody that you're like wow you really got to get
12:40off my boat he's like right now really yeah as i throw grass in your boat
12:53what a beautiful day
12:56aha oh i missed him
13:00watch watch watch watch sucker see them like oh my gosh all right i screwed that up i looked at the
13:07active target everyone into the vibe a little nibble yeah yeah
13:17into the wind let's see it
13:23where'd that go
13:26you launched it i wish you had labels like fish
13:30weed bait
13:34catch of the day look at that
13:38it's a big one i think it's the cousin of the uh the northern pike
13:45very rare around these parts
13:47but you you grew up doing all this oh my gosh oh yeah my dad's a little country
13:52redneck like all he does is hunt fish so i just learned how to do it from him and that's what my whole
13:58life oh yeah there's a much
14:00i'm doing my fish dance
14:06could you imagine if i just smacked one big dance
14:08get him that song is stuck in my head and give me the beat boys to free my soul
14:21that was my first song that i've ever learned on the radio
14:24really yeah i think it might have been mine too really yeah give me the beat boys to free my soul
14:29here's something for you tucker i really wanted to go on american idol when i was little i was like
14:33that's my dream i will be awesome at it and on the fourth grade i was really excited about it because
14:39i'm fourth grade on the musical you have your own solo we gotta try out i was the only one
14:44who didn't get the solo i remember the song it was like hey i'm living green you know what i mean
14:49i like when my air and my water are clean okay and um yeah they felt so bad so they gave me the
14:56kazoo and i like marched around and it was like a solo of the kazoo oh yeah that's my that's my singing
15:02career you still dabble with the kazoo no i'm gonna catch a fish i'm gonna catch a fish
15:15oh hey so y'all caught one
15:17what's your like biggest bucket list venue to play oh i mean i played fenway last weekend which
15:34was pretty cool was it like the crowd crazy oh yeah is that with uh thomas rat yeah i want to
15:43uh i want to headline red rocks real bad that'd be cool that'd be so cool one time one time in
15:51college i was sitting in my dorm uh just having a few beers winding down it was like a thursday or
15:59friday and uh my buddies came into the dorm a couple my football buddies came into the dorm and uh
16:07they're like put some clothes on we're going to the casino i was like all right and uh and i was i
16:13was wanting to go home for a while but i was broke so i couldn't afford like a a uh a plane ticket back
16:18home and so i had like 20 bucks 25 bucks maybe in cash and so we went to the casino i ended up winning
16:26like 350 bucks and buying a plane ticket for the next day to go home and surprise my mom yeah
16:43see the difference in the speed of move hit it hit it hit it there you go there we go i'm on
16:54now just strip your line nice and easy keep a good bend on the rod and get ready for him to run keep
16:59stripping keep tripping strip a little more you're about to be a hero when we were just at zero real
17:06then there you go you get a good bend on your rod keep some pressure on it there you go reel them in
17:10now yep if he wants to pull just let go of the reel let the drag do the work otherwise reel when you can
17:19do i fit no oh my gosh it ain't big oh wait what damn what snapped off
17:29what happened it looked decent size yeah damn no
17:37i'm trying that was so exciting i was back there like quiet try to run i try to let go and it just
17:43didn't well that's all right okay they're here there's fish in this water we have found out
17:52you're like no we're so close docker damn i know oh he looked decent size too he didn't feel big i didn't
18:06see him he was probably about yeah really yeah that was cool wait you've never even caught one on the
18:12fly rock nope so that was exciting that was very exciting that was new yeah i'll see okay well let's
18:19catch another one there here there was the pressure of the sky it was
18:33wow beautiful ways that was exciting i think we needed that
18:43let's get you back up over towards that grass edge and we'll do it all over again
18:46i need a little mountain dew swig maybe this will give us uh some luck but we got a storm rolling in
18:55maybe that'll help with the pressure this is me just having a guessing game now but uh tucker and i
19:00have got our fly game um locked and loaded now we just need a bite we've missed a couple i think maybe
19:06the indicator definitely has gone down for me could have been weeds could have been a fish so hopefully
19:09they start biting nothing's better than have a nice cold mountain dew with your buds on the water here in
19:14montana let's go i spoke that into existence that was on the weed line like tucker on the weed line
19:26what was going on is i had a little tangle we wanted to change out bait on the fly picked up the
19:33spinning reel and here we go our first fish of the day this is not on the fly but um i'm that's okay
19:39that's okay that's okay if you don't have a line in the water you're not catching a fish okay i'm gonna
19:45walk him over to you
19:49and
19:53yeah let's go
19:59not on the fly rod yet but it's okay i'm not too upset i just i'm pumped that's a gorgeous fish
20:06so with these rainbows what's key is you need to get your hands wet before you fold them because
20:12they have sensitive skin what do you call the layer of them slime layer yeah slime layer i was going to
20:18say their mucus layer but that does not make sense
20:27yeah look at this beauty that's a pretty big that's a big one let's go let's go
20:34look at this beautiful trout i don't know how much to say but this is big i do know that right
20:42it's a beautiful fish
20:47let's go
20:53all right here we go here we go running running running and dang it
20:56oh here you're ready maybe you're ready are you ready oh uh-oh he's gonna go to that weed line
21:11and he's off oh nope he's on i don't want to go he's going to that weed line because he's smart he
21:17knows he can maybe get off there
21:23all right this is going to be the last one on the uh on the spinning reel wait i got to catch one on
21:30the fly okay here we go what a beautiful fish
21:35there should be another poster right there that's i can tell that's a hatchery fish so that was a
21:50stocked fish um and yeah that's how you can tell because the clip out of those fins gone and yeah
21:57there she goes
22:07who said he couldn't sing i can hum really well i fully believe that we were going on a restaurant
22:13josh's like we're gonna hurry up and get this barbecue i'm like okay let's just go ahead and
22:16go not a big deal he's like all right we're here welcome to the barbecue joint this is perfect
22:30i peed right there
22:34we're camping now elk burgers elk burgers this is great this is my kind of barbecue stop cooking up
22:45elk burgers it's very fitting here in montana we caught some trout this morning and we're gonna
22:50go back at it this afternoon this is the first time i've had fruit pizza i dropped mine while fishing
23:04it's about 4 30. hopefully it's after night you can get on the fly we got two on the rod and reel and
23:09now we just need a fly fishing big rainbow in our hands actually in the boat that's right we'll get it
23:15we're gonna get it here we go
23:17it's a lot of ugly weather coming
23:43it doesn't look good
23:48yeah
23:59yup yup
24:05let's go baby
24:06come on come on fishy fishy
24:12come on bubbas i know you want it
24:20he's right there
24:26yeah let's go hell yeah
24:33that's what i'm talking about
24:40it's pretty fish
24:44oh let's go baby yeah
24:48come here fishy fishy it was a song
24:52the song fishy fishy
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