You Know You’re From a Small Town If…

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[00:00:00]Hey y'all. Welcome to this week's The Boys and Me podcast where we are talking all things small town.

[00:00:17]>> You know what? Hello, Max.

[00:00:19]>> Hi, you know, I think we should just do this episode. Just the two of us. Let's just do it. Let's just do it.

[00:00:25]>> Wow.

[00:00:27]>> You know what? there for a second. He honestly thought, "This is going to work for me."

[00:00:31]>> Well, yeah.

[00:00:32]>> Yeah.

[00:00:33]>> Assuming he was listening.

[00:00:35]>> This is probably wasn't.

[00:00:37]>> This is voluntary.

[00:00:38]>> You make me do this.

[00:00:39]>> Yeah. You volunte her into this gig.

[00:00:42]>> 100%. Okay.

[00:00:44]>> Are Are we ready to actually get going?

[00:00:46]>> I am.

[00:00:46]>> We got to do another podcast.

[00:00:48]>> I want to. We're the good fans.

[00:00:50]>> I want to do it.

[00:00:51]>> Are you ready?

[00:00:52]>> Yes.

[00:00:52]>> Okay. How are y'all doing?

[00:00:55]>> I'm great. I I'm so glad to hear that.

[00:00:59]>> What What are we doing today? What's What is this?

[00:01:01]>> Oh, what are we doing today? We are doing a small town USA episode >> because you guys have seen a small town or two.

[00:01:09]>> Yep.

[00:01:09]>> Yep.

[00:01:09]>> You sure have.

[00:01:10]>> Grew up in one.

[00:01:11]>> Yep.

[00:01:11]>> Funny you should say that. That's exactly where we're going to start.

[00:01:14]>> Wow.

[00:01:15]>> Yep. The Apka Boys.

[00:01:16]>> Smooth segways >> right here. So, we're going to talk about what it was like to grow up in your small town of Apka, Florida, and what small town life still means to you.

[00:01:24]>> Okay.

[00:01:25]>> Okay. Okay. What is your most small town memory that you still laugh about?

[00:01:31]>> Uh, I mean, we had no sidewalks, plenty of streets that weren't yet paved and >> dirt roads. I lived on a lived on a dirt road.

[00:01:43]>> Yeah. And you just go riding your bike, whatever.

[00:01:45]>> Yeah.

[00:01:45]>> Yeah.

[00:01:46]>> And what was a Friday night like in your town?

[00:01:49]>> Oh, goodness gracious.

[00:01:50]>> You know, was it like the Friday night lights stereotype?

[00:01:54]>> Yeah. Well, >> it could be.

[00:01:55]>> The high school football game would be a big deal.

[00:01:58]>> Yeah.

[00:01:58]>> And then once we had a McDonald's >> Oh, goodness.

[00:02:01]>> You know, you'd want to just go right around the parking lot >> and you would cruise.

[00:02:05]>> Yeah.

[00:02:06]>> Yeah.

[00:02:06]>> To the McDonald's parking lot.

[00:02:08]>> Yeah. Well, the lap wasn't quite that big, but Yeah, it was. Yeah.

[00:02:12]>> Um, was there a certain local spot that felt like the center of your universe?

[00:02:17]The McDonald's.

[00:02:18]>> It was McDonald's.

[00:02:18]>> McDonald's, probably. Um, and also I mean literally football, even though we didn't necessarily always have great football teams, the whole town supported and we only had one high school field.

[00:02:30]>> Yeah. Edwards Field.

[00:02:31]>> Yep. Yeah.

[00:02:32]>> And was it like the whole town came out?

[00:02:34]>> Yeah, pretty much.

[00:02:35]>> Yeah.

[00:02:36]>> What small town value still shows up in Sawyer Brown?

[00:02:41]Oh, I think everything we do, you know, all you >> none of us, every guy in the band is from a small town.

[00:02:50]>> So, I just think the way we approach um life and our job, the what we do, >> hard work, the value of community and what that really means. None of us, I think, feel um entitled.

[00:03:11]>> Yeah. No.

[00:03:11]>> Yeah. At all.

[00:03:12]>> Okay. Dovetailing off of that, what do you think small town life taught you about work ethic?

[00:03:17]>> It was incredibly important. You saw everybody in that town worked hard at whatever their their gig was. It felt like to me. And I know even when we will be out on the road or whatever and we get tired and we're just, you know, we always just go think, well, all of our friends, most of our friends, our folks all grew up and worked very, very hard.

[00:03:44]>> Mhm.

[00:03:45]>> And probably weren't quite made the money that we were making.

[00:03:50]>> Mhm.

[00:03:51]>> And you're going, you know what? You can suck it up. Exactly.

[00:03:54]>> You You may be tired, but you can suck it up.

[00:03:56]>> And we love playing a small town for those very reasons. It's like I think sometimes, man, if we had ever been able to have a concert in Apka when we were kids, our minds would have been blown.

[00:04:06]We wouldn't have been able to believe it.

[00:04:07]>> So, we love that. We do. We love that.

[00:04:10]>> Love it.

[00:04:11]>> We treat that as um as a big a deal >> as playing an arena or stadium.

[00:04:17]>> Yeah. Well, I think it was really cool in the documentary that Blake talked about uh Blake Shelton talked about his small town in Oklahoma that you guys came to play and like no one really came to play there and you know what an impact that had on him. Um and so I think that's something that's really cool about y'all's career and what you've been able to do is you have played every map dot.

[00:04:36]>> Yeah. Yeah, we have.

[00:04:37]>> You do not discriminate.

[00:04:39]>> Um now what do big city people misunderstand about small towns in your opinion? that we're dumb >> backward.

[00:04:48]>> Yeah.

[00:04:48]>> Yeah. I mean, honestly, even growing up, >> you are dumb. But >> you're from a big city.

[00:04:59]>> Not everybody in our our hometown was as dumb as I am. Dumb as you are.

[00:05:02]>> Yeah. There is that.

[00:05:04]>> But we, believe me, people in Orlando and Winter Park when we were kids, I may be different now, >> definitely thought we were the bumpkins.

[00:05:14]Mhm.

[00:05:14]>> You know, we were the sticks.

[00:05:16]>> Yeah.

[00:05:16]>> Hey, but guess what? You guys have had two country stars.

[00:05:20]>> Three if we count Hobie. Come out of aka >> Right out of Apka. That's right. Yeah.

[00:05:24]>> Our buddy John Anderson.

[00:05:26]>> Yeah. And >> right around the corner.

[00:05:28]>> Yeah.

[00:05:28]>> That was a pop. That wasn't Winter Park.

[00:05:30]>> That was not Winter Park didn't give us that.

[00:05:32]>> Okay. Who was the one person out of like, you know, y'all's friends in the small town that everyone knows. So if you're like, "Oh, I'm from a papa."

[00:05:38]They're like, "Oh, do you know so and so?"

[00:05:41]>> Greg Hathaway. Yeah.

[00:05:44]>> Or Tommy Tomelli.

[00:05:45]>> Yeah.

[00:05:46]>> Either of those guys. Everybody would know.

[00:05:48]>> Yeah. They would definitely know.

[00:05:49]>> Not for, >> you know, even some policemen you might stop and ask would know both of those gentlemen. So, >> oh my goodness. Um, what does Apopka still mean to you guys? Now, >> when I hear the word home, that is what I think of. And I haven't lived there now in 46 years, >> but I still think of that place as home.

[00:06:12]>> Oh, I get images in my head.

[00:06:14]>> Yeah.

[00:06:15]>> Of the Spanish moss.

[00:06:17]>> Mhm.

[00:06:18]>> You know, hanging off the trees.

[00:06:20]>> Yeah. I see a little gator floating in the >> in in the the ponds and stuff. Yeah.

[00:06:26]>> When we go to play Florida, when I wake up on the bus and I look out the window and see that moss, it is just like I know I'm home.

[00:06:33]>> And smell the orange blossoms in that.

[00:06:35]She's so great. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:37]>> Now, what is something about small town life that you miss as time goes by >> now that you live up here in the big city?

[00:06:45]>> Well, about our town is because of the growth of Orlando.

[00:06:50]>> Mhm.

[00:06:51]>> Our little town has kind of been engulfed.

[00:06:54]>> Can't tell where Orlando stops anymore.

[00:06:57]>> Yeah.

[00:06:58]>> We when we were kids, you could feel those 10 miles that were between Apopka and Orlando. There was a big difference.

[00:07:04]And you'd roll through stuff where nothing had been built yet.

[00:07:07]>> And now it's just one sweeping metropolis.

[00:07:10]>> Yeah. There's a lot of our little hometown that's not there anymore.

[00:07:14]>> Yeah.

[00:07:15]>> But a lot of >> a lot of it that is though. Yeah.

[00:07:18]>> Yeah.

[00:07:18]>> I mean, they have a Starbucks now.

[00:07:20]>> Yeah.

[00:07:20]>> So, >> well, our friends when we get to visit with our friends, >> we all go back there.

[00:07:27]>> Oh, it's Yeah.

[00:07:28]>> Yeah.

[00:07:28]>> Mentally, we're still cruising McDonald's on a Friday night.

[00:07:32]Now, we're going to talk about some small town unwritten rules. I'm going to give you guys a classic like small town unwritten rule, and you guys decide whether each one is real or total nonsense. And for this one, >> I am going to give you guys the paddle.

[00:07:46]>> Oh, I was thinking it was going to be >> Okay, >> there you go. Mark, >> ready?

[00:07:53]>> Yep.

[00:07:54]>> First up, if somebody waves at you on a back road, you better wave back.

[00:07:58]>> Yes.

[00:07:59]>> Okay. I I'm glad you got that right.

[00:08:04]>> Man would sooner drive his car into a tree than wave.

[00:08:07]>> I He has point blank said that to I feel like that's a lie.

[00:08:10]>> No, no, no. Here, but in our hometown.

[00:08:15]Yes.

[00:08:16]>> Okay.

[00:08:16]>> Oh, wow. Wow. Okay. We're playing anybody here.

[00:08:20]>> Oh, I know.

[00:08:21]>> We know.

[00:08:22]>> I know. If a town has one diner that everybody loves, you never publicly say it's overrated.

[00:08:29]>> Oh. Oh, >> yeah. Never.

[00:08:32]>> Yeah.

[00:08:32]>> Uh, if the high school football team is good, Friday night plans are already decided for the whole town.

[00:08:38]>> Even if they're bad.

[00:08:39]>> Even they're bad.

[00:08:40]>> We were like 1 and 11.

[00:08:42]>> Mhm.

[00:08:43]>> And in our senior year and stands were packed still.

[00:08:47]>> No one cared.

[00:08:48]>> No.

[00:08:49]>> Uh, if you're new to town, people know before you do. Oh yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:08:54]>> Mark, could you slide yours and just It was just starting to cover Madison a little bit.

[00:08:59]>> Joel, you need to quit yelling at me, man. Wow. Yeah.

[00:09:02]>> Give me my spotlight, father.

[00:09:04]>> Yeah.

[00:09:05]>> Stop trying to hold me down.

[00:09:07]>> Just so you guys know, >> Joel is just wearing me out.

[00:09:12]>> Yeah. Sick of that, Joel. We need an episode where it's only Joel and Hunter.

[00:09:16]>> Yes.

[00:09:16]>> 100%.

[00:09:17]>> Yeah.

[00:09:18]>> Make it Hunter. Write that episode.

[00:09:20]>> Yeah.

[00:09:21]>> Okay. If there is a local parade, somebody you know is either in it or helping run it.

[00:09:26]>> Oh yeah. Or throwing rotten oranges.

[00:09:29]>> I mean, depending.

[00:09:32]>> Yeah. Floats.

[00:09:33]>> Story time.

[00:09:35]>> Well, you remember the people we were mentioning earlier.

[00:09:39]They enjoyed a good parade for whole different reasons.

[00:09:41]>> I'm all of a sudden starting to realize where the love of pranks Yes. was developed.

[00:09:46]>> Oh, it started early. Um, if somebody says, "Bless your heart," you need to listen to the tone before you decide if that was nice.

[00:09:53]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:09:54]>> Yeah.

[00:09:55]>> If the county fair is in town, normal life pauses for a few days.

[00:09:59]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:10:00]>> Yeah.

[00:10:01]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:10:01]>> Oh, yeah. Because >> in every place we play, >> there will be places that we play that you can't get anything to eat. They'll close the like the old main street restaurants because it's >> you only you'll only be able to eat fair food because no restaurants in the town are open.

[00:10:19]>> Oh, and sometimes those like church lady fair booths.

[00:10:22]>> Yeah.

[00:10:23]>> You know.

[00:10:24]>> Yeah.

[00:10:26]>> Fantastic. Incredible food.

[00:10:28]>> Fantastic. You know what we need to bring back? This might be a passion project of mine. Bring back the church cookbook.

[00:10:35]>> Right.

[00:10:35]>> 100%.

[00:10:36]>> Bring it back.

[00:10:37]Um, if there is a town festival, somebody's uncle is in charge of the grill.

[00:10:43]>> Oh, sure. Yeah, sure.

[00:10:45]>> We had a foliage festival that happened every year. That was also a big deal in Apopka.

[00:10:48]>> The foliage festival.

[00:10:49]>> Foliage festival. Because we're the indoor foliage capital of the world.

[00:10:52]>> What does that even mean?

[00:10:53]>> Well, it's >> green houses.

[00:10:55]>> Green houses. Indoor foliage.

[00:10:57]>> Oh, >> miles and miles of green houses.

[00:11:00]>> Incredible amount of that. Yeah.

[00:11:02]>> Okay. So, you guys had a big festival.

[00:11:03]Anybody growing up in Apopka at one time or another? You worked in a greenhouse?

[00:11:08]>> Sure did.

[00:11:09]>> Okay. Okay. So, Hobie, what greenhouse?

[00:11:11]What was your foliage of choice?

[00:11:13]>> I worked in ones where you picked podarpus berries. They're there. This tree that >> shrub has podarpus berries and you pick those off and you separate like the the seed part from what looks like a little piece of fruit.

[00:11:28]>> Can I ask what does one do with a >> Well, you carpus. Py carpus. It's a big Well, it's bigger than a shrub. I mean, they grow so tall, but yeah.

[00:11:37]>> What What do you What do you do with the berry?

[00:11:39]>> The berry you just toss.

[00:11:41]>> What What do you do with the seed?

[00:11:42]>> The seed you plant from carpus.

[00:11:47]>> Hey, >> I think you're making that up.

[00:11:51]>> I am not that creative to be honest with you. And you know that.

[00:11:54]>> Yeah.

[00:11:54]>> Okay. Uh Mark, >> my first job was cleaning or weeding an overgrown greenhouse.

[00:12:06]>> Mhm.

[00:12:06]>> That had not been tended to for like two years.

[00:12:10]And I'm deathly afraid of snakes.

[00:12:13]>> And I bet there was a garden snake or two in there.

[00:12:16]>> Well, and with in a popka, it could be more than a garden snake.

[00:12:19]>> Yeah, >> cuz we'd have water moccasins.

[00:12:20]>> Oh, goodness.

[00:12:21]>> Yeah. Yeah. So, you >> Yeah. How long did you keep that job, Dad?

[00:12:25]>> Well, I cleaned out that greenhouse and then I decided maybe that wasn't the life that I wanted to live.

[00:12:32]>> That wasn't like >> I knew that at 14.

[00:12:34]>> Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wasn't there a story about some guard swans?

[00:12:41]>> Oh, yeah. At Yes. Yes. the family I grew up with, the Nelson's, who had um Nelson's Florida Roses, this incredibly huge operation where they sold roses.

[00:12:51]And instead of guard dogs, they they had guard geese. Those things were so mean that it was like you didn't go near that place at night because they just turned the geese loose.

[00:13:03]>> For some reason, I really thought that those geese were part of him cleaning out the greenhouse.

[00:13:08]>> Well, we can blend those together.

[00:13:11]Man, those things are mean.

[00:13:13]>> They were mean. Yeah.

[00:13:14]>> Guard geese.

[00:13:15]>> Guard geese.

[00:13:16]>> Guard. You know what? I want some guard geese. If the weather gets bad, everybody suddenly becomes a meteorologist.

[00:13:22]>> Yes.

[00:13:23]>> Yes.

[00:13:23]>> Yeah. Oh, for sure.

[00:13:25]>> So, because you guys have seen your fair share of small towns in your 40 years of touring, we're going to play a small town superlative game. Okay.

[00:13:34]>> Okay. So, I'm going to give you guys a category and you guys tell me what small town that you visited you think gets that superlative. Okay.

[00:13:41]>> So, we'll start out easy with best small town for barbecue.

[00:13:47]>> Oh, now you boy, you could offend some people on this, but >> that gas station in Corinth, Mississippi >> Yeah.

[00:13:56]>> had some of the best barbecue I've ever had in my life and colelaw.

[00:13:59]>> Yeah. Well, and we got to get bunions bunions in um in muscle shells.

[00:14:03]>> In muscle shells.

[00:14:04]>> Okay.

[00:14:05]>> Yeah.

[00:14:05]>> If you had to move to one small town outside of Tennessee or a popka, which one are you picking?

[00:14:12]>> I was going to pick a popka. Um >> Zelwood because it's >> There we go. There we go.

[00:14:17]>> Close to aka such a workaround.

[00:14:19]>> Yeah. Yeah. I might say Astatula just because that's fun to say.

[00:14:25]>> Oh my word. Okay. Zelwood, Florida.

[00:14:28]>> Yeah. Zelwood. Oh, absolutely.

[00:14:31]Absolutely.

[00:14:31]>> Had a corn festival.

[00:14:32]>> Sure did.

[00:14:33]>> All the biggest tasks.

[00:14:34]>> Oh, man.

[00:14:35]>> Sure did.

[00:14:35]>> We played it.

[00:14:36]>> Yeah. Best sweet corn in the world.

[00:14:37]>> Yeah, >> I know. Um, that is such a workound and I'm very disappointed in both of you.

[00:14:42]>> Thank you.

[00:14:42]>> Name a small town that feels like a hidden gem that people don't know about.

[00:14:46]>> Could we say Missoula, Montana? Is that small?

[00:14:49]>> I don't know if they I was thinking about that even when we talked about >> Would you guys consider that a small town?

[00:14:54]>> Missoula.

[00:14:57]>> Come on. Huh? Somewhere in that area there's there's other little small towns.

[00:15:03]>> Oh, I know. Swan Valley, Idaho.

[00:15:05]>> Oh, >> Swan Valley, Idaho.

[00:15:06]>> Well, there you go.

[00:15:08]>> Yeah. Mags for the win.

[00:15:09]>> Yep.

[00:15:09]>> Yep.

[00:15:10]>> Yep.

[00:15:10]>> Yep.

[00:15:11]>> Uh best small town for a weekend getaway.

[00:15:15]>> Oh. Um well, in this area, Gatlinburgg.

[00:15:18]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:15:19]>> That is not a small town.

[00:15:21]>> Yeah, it is. It's tiny.

[00:15:23]>> Gatlinburg.

[00:15:24]>> Okay. Pigeon. Pigeon Forge.

[00:15:27]Gatlinburg's tiny hunter. Look up.

[00:15:30]>> Everyone goes to Gatlinburg. Look up the population.

[00:15:33]>> It's like saying I like to go to this little place called Disney World.

[00:15:37]>> It's only 3600 Genber.

[00:15:40]>> There you go. There you go.

[00:15:41]>> Thank you.

[00:15:42]>> And what's Pigeon? What's Pigeon Forge?

[00:15:44]>> Wrong.

[00:15:44]>> What's Pigeon Forge?

[00:15:46]>> 6,300. A little bigger.

[00:15:48]>> See?

[00:15:49]>> Wow.

[00:15:50]>> See, someone was right.

[00:15:51]>> Well, it's only 1300 if you take out the >> But that feels like a workaround.

[00:15:55]>> Okay. Well, that feels like you want an alternate.

[00:15:58]>> I want an alternate.

[00:16:00]>> Um, that is a weekend getaway.

[00:16:03]>> Mhm.

[00:16:04]>> There's that place in uh Swany >> that or just Swany the people go to cabins?

[00:16:11]>> Yes.

[00:16:11]>> Yeah.

[00:16:15]>> Does Gatlinburgg really only have >> the year round population?

[00:16:18]>> The year round population. Wow.

[00:16:20]>> Per Google. Yeah.

[00:16:22]>> Okay. I'm surprised. I'm surprised Pigeon Forge is that big. Must have gotten bigger since Dolly.

[00:16:27]>> Both Both of you apologize to me >> later.

[00:16:29]>> I'm going to do Sorry.

[00:16:31]>> Oh, sorry.

[00:16:32]>> Yeah.

[00:16:33]>> Okay. Name the best small town in America for southern food. There is a correct answer.

[00:16:42]>> In Mississippi. Where is that place?

[00:16:43]>> That's not the answer.

[00:16:44]>> Oh, Laurel.

[00:16:45]>> Laurel, Mississippi.

[00:16:46]>> Laurel, Mississippi.

[00:16:48]>> Yep.

[00:16:49]>> Oh, man. I mean, >> yeah, >> the I I could weep thinking about those fried green tomatoes.

[00:16:54]>> They were off the charts and everything was good. And it was like, "We're not going to be here long enough to eat all the food I want to eat."

[00:17:00]>> You know who is from Laurel, Mississippi?

[00:17:02]>> Who?

[00:17:03]>> Landon says, >> this the southern Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:17:06]>> The southern Tik Tok personality that we love. He's from Laurel, >> but also they they film that um TV show.

[00:17:13]>> They sure do.

[00:17:14]>> Um My Hometown or something like that >> in Laurel.

[00:17:18]>> I don't know. Yeah, it's HGTV.

[00:17:20]>> They There's an HGTV show there, too.

[00:17:23]>> Um, name >> I can't stop thinking about that food now.

[00:17:26]>> Name a small town in America where you always knew the show was going to be good.

[00:17:31]>> Small town.

[00:17:32]>> Mhm.

[00:17:33]>> Oh, I got it.

[00:17:34]>> Where?

[00:17:34]>> What?

[00:17:35]>> Renro Valley.

[00:17:36]>> Oh, well, yeah.

[00:17:36]>> Oh, there you go. There you go.

[00:17:38]>> Yeah.

[00:17:39]>> Yeah.

[00:17:40]>> Uh, name a town with the wildest county fair tradition.

[00:17:45]>> Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. What was the town that they have? It's out west.

[00:17:49]>> The chuck wagon races. Uh >> the No, the the uh jumping on the the wild horse race.

[00:17:56]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:17:57]>> Oh, no. That's at um I've seen that at uh Cheyenne Frontier Days.

[00:18:02]>> No, but yeah, there is that. But there is one. Where is um Talent and Tara from?

[00:18:09]>> St. Louis Abyspo. Yeah. California.

[00:18:11]>> Yeah.

[00:18:12]>> And there was one Are you >> talking about Indian relays? where there was no there was one where there was >> like it was typically dads and a kid and um you'd go in as a team to catch a grease pig which I thought was pretty epic.

[00:18:25]>> Wait, where is that?

[00:18:26]>> I can't remember. You have to forgive me. I'm old. But um yeah, I just remember thinking, "Oh man, that's that rocks."

[00:18:32]>> So it's like a family effort.

[00:18:34]>> It would be somewhere in Iowa, you know.

[00:18:36]>> It's got to be Iowa.

[00:18:37]>> Used to have a grease pig contest on on Labor Day. Can your breath?

[00:18:44]>> Yeah, >> we used a fat dog.

[00:18:48]>> Yeah.

[00:18:49]>> Are you serious?

[00:18:51]>> No, it was a grease pig.

[00:18:54]>> You don't understand. You sometimes used to be a pitbull.

[00:18:57]>> Yeah.

[00:18:58]>> Labor Day was a big thing in Apopka.

[00:19:00]There was a parade. There were fireworks. There was a grease pig. And then the groove killer was you knew, oh, when I go to bed tonight, I got to get up tomorrow and go to school because it was always the start of the school year.

[00:19:11]Yeah.

[00:19:12]>> But nothing welcomes in a school year like catching a grease pig.

[00:19:14]>> Yeah.

[00:19:15]>> Can we can we have that contest for Sawyer Brown this year?

[00:19:18]>> Grease pig contest.

[00:19:18]>> The band.

[00:19:20]>> Oh yeah.

[00:19:21]>> Oh, 100%.

[00:19:22]>> Yeah, >> 100%.

[00:19:24]>> Um, name a small town in the US with the coolest local music scene.

[00:19:31]>> I'm sure there's some I'm forgetting.

[00:19:33]I'm going to go ahead and say muscle shows >> because it Yeah.

[00:19:38]>> Yeah.

[00:19:39]>> per capita.

[00:19:40]>> Yes.

[00:19:40]>> Everybody plays >> everyone plays something. Yeah.

[00:19:43]>> Yeah.

[00:19:44]>> I have another one.

[00:19:46]>> Uh Grun Hall in Texas.

[00:19:48]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:49]>> I was Yeah. Texas. I'll give you Texas because like some of those towns like you know Luke and there's like no one there but they have these incredible >> Bont Bont Texas >> because >> um Mark Chestnut >> and um >> I think Tracy Bird was from there. Um >> I think Clay was close to there.

[00:20:09]>> I think I think you may be right. Yeah.

[00:20:12]Yeah. Texas would have a bunch of pockets of that.

[00:20:14]>> The population of Bowmont is 112,000.

[00:20:17]Well, >> that's small, right?

[00:20:19]>> Little bit.

[00:20:21]Compared to what, Mark? Compared to New York City. Yeah, that's small. But >> exactly.

[00:20:27]>> Oh my word. Okay, we're going to end on this one. I'm going to need y'all to put on your thinking caps.

[00:20:33]>> Oh boy.

[00:20:34]>> The small town that you think Sawyer Brown has passed through the most in their 40 plus years of touring.

[00:20:44]>> Okay. It would be It would be >> pass through. Where was the Midpoint Cafe? What was the actual town?

[00:20:51]>> You remember the Point Cafe?

[00:20:52]>> I definitely know I've been there, but >> yeah, on Route 66. Yeah, they do have.

[00:20:56]Um >> because if we didn't get to stop to eat at the Midpoint Cafe, we certainly drove through it >> a million times.

[00:21:04]>> It may have been um >> it was the midpoint of Route 66, right, is the where it got the name. But um >> I love that y'all don't even know like what state it would be in because you just know the route that it was on.

[00:21:15]>> Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:21:17]>> Okay. You know what? We'll take it. The Mid Cafe that cheeseburger tastes like.

[00:21:20]>> Would it be Adrian, Texas?

[00:21:23]>> Adrian, Texas. That's >> okay. The Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, Texas.

[00:21:26]>> Thank you, Hunter.

[00:21:27]>> Thank you, Hunter. Use your microphone.

[00:21:29]>> Adrian, Texas.

[00:21:33]>> Okay, we're going to move on.

[00:21:35]>> Okay, >> we're going to move on from Adrian, Texas. Small town.

[00:21:37]>> Um, we're going to talk about small town songs.

[00:21:41]>> Oh, there's some good hall of fame because there are so many good songs about small towns. Yeah.

[00:21:46]>> So, you guys have a handy dandy list.

[00:21:49]>> And I Okay, so I'm going to give you guys three songs and out of those three, you have to name the one that you think deserves to be in the small town hall.

[00:21:58]>> No, this can't this is not fair.

[00:22:00]>> So, first up is round one, we have Small Town by John Melanchamp, Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, and Sweet Home Alabama by Leonard Skannard. You may only pick one.

[00:22:12]>> Sweet Home Alabama. You can't not pick that.

[00:22:16]>> Yeah.

[00:22:16]>> Now, where we're from, you can't.

[00:22:18]>> You can't. Right.

[00:22:19]>> Okay. Next up, we have Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver, Chicken Fried by Zack Brown Band, and Amarillo by Morning by George Strait.

[00:22:28]>> Take Me Home Country Roads.

[00:22:29]>> Yeah, you got to.

[00:22:30]>> Yeah. But is Amarillo by Morning a uh a hometown?

[00:22:35]>> It's a small town song.

[00:22:37]>> Oh. Oh, you don't think it qualifies, Mark?

[00:22:39]>> I bet you Amarella is bigger than Bowmont, is it?

[00:22:44]Come on.

[00:22:45]>> How much money you got on it? Just so we know what what's at stake here. You going to buy or anything?

[00:22:49]>> Twice. Twice the size of Bant.

[00:22:52]>> Thank you.

[00:22:54]>> It's a small town vibe song.

[00:22:57]>> Yeah.

[00:22:57]>> Okay.

[00:22:58]>> This is about the vibe.

[00:22:58]>> I think everyone else but someone had picked up on that. But yeah.

[00:23:03]>> Round three, we have Chattahuchi by none other than Alan Jackson, John Deere Green by Joe Diffy, and Back Where I Come From by Kenny Chzn Mac Minelli.

[00:23:12]Back where I come from.

[00:23:14]>> I know.

[00:23:14]>> One of the greatest small towns.

[00:23:16]>> Gotta be back where I come from.

[00:23:18]>> But you can't put in there or Yeah, that's >> man.

[00:23:23]>> Okay, but you're going to go with Back Where I Come From >> and Ched. Yeah, I am. But Chhattahuchi, man, >> that's a great song.

[00:23:29]>> That's just honorable mention.

[00:23:31]>> Yeah, that's sure.

[00:23:32]>> Yeah.

[00:23:32]>> Okay. Next up, we have Boondocs by Little Bigtown, Mayberry by Rascal Flats, and Good Directions by Billy Carrington.

[00:23:38]>> Oh, I know mine.

[00:23:41]Good directions. Yeah, >> I love Billy Currant.

[00:23:44]>> Yeah, >> we know that.

[00:23:46]>> We know that.

[00:23:46]>> He's He's literally one of my favorite country singers.

[00:23:50]>> I he is a great writer.

[00:23:52]>> Yeah.

[00:23:53]>> And a good dude. Yeah.

[00:23:54]>> A good dude.

[00:23:56]>> I don't know how you guys are not picking Mayberry by Rascal Flats. Come on.

[00:24:00]>> So is Boondock. So >> now next up we have My Front Porch Looking In by Lonear, Sunday in the South by Shannonoa.

[00:24:10]You you brought Chhattahuchi back. I messed that one up.

[00:24:14]>> Okay.

[00:24:14]>> Okay.

[00:24:16]>> Let's just skip that round.

[00:24:18]>> But you know what? Let me weigh in here because it wouldn't matter what the other one was. Sunday in the South again. Sunday in the South and Back where I come from on a record. I'm listening to that all day long.

[00:24:29]>> Yeah.

[00:24:30]>> All day.

[00:24:31]>> Who wrote Sunday in the South?

[00:24:33]>> Wow. I don't know.

[00:24:34]>> Hunter.

[00:24:35]>> One of that is one of the best all time.

[00:24:37]>> It's going to be somebody from down there. Maybe Walt Aldridge.

[00:24:41]>> Oh, I think you might be right.

[00:24:42]>> Jay Booker.

[00:24:44]>> Oh, really?

[00:24:45]>> Jay Booker, thank you. Wherever you are, because that is an alltime favorite song of mine.

[00:24:50]>> He's from down there, though.

[00:24:51]>> Yeah.

[00:24:51]>> Yeah.

[00:24:52]>> And when we just worked with Shannonoa, I would make sure I was in there every single night to hear that. Love that song.

[00:24:58]>> Round six. Smalltown Southern Man by Alan Jackson, Red Dirt Road by Brooks and Dunn, or Small Town Saturday Night by Hal Ketchum. Oh, >> I love Small Town Saturday Night with us and >> what a great song. It's a great song.

[00:25:13]>> Small Town Saturday Night.

[00:25:14]>> Okay, next up, Small Town USA by Justin Moore, Dirt Road Anthem by Jason Aldine, or American Kids by Kenny Chzn.

[00:25:23]>> American American Kids, man, that song just gets it right. I love that.

[00:25:28]>> Love that song.

[00:25:29]>> Yeah. And Kenny is a great storyteller in his voice. He is. disbelievability in his voice. Love, Kenny.

[00:25:39]>> And congratulations to Kenny on just having had a number one bestseller with his book.

[00:25:44]>> Speaking of being a great storyteller.

[00:25:47]>> Okay, next up we have Copperhead Road by Steve Earl. Okie from Muscogi by Merl Haggard or Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams.

[00:25:54]>> This is ridiculous. You cannot mute and that's >> Wow. Okay.

[00:25:59]>> Okay.

[00:26:00]>> Okay.

[00:26:01]>> Okay. Better love Copperhead Road.

[00:26:03]>> I'm going to go Copperhead Road. Yeah.

[00:26:05]>> Hey.

[00:26:06]>> Okay. You can you convince me I'll >> go there song has got it going on.

[00:26:12]>> It's got a thing.

[00:26:13]>> It's got a thing.

[00:26:14]>> No, I'm I'm just going to go ahead and apologize for this next one.

[00:26:18]>> My Tennessee Mountain Home by Dolly Party.

[00:26:21]>> What are you doing right now?

[00:26:22]>> Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn.

[00:26:24]>> Meanwhile, Back at Mama's by Faith Hill McGrath.

[00:26:27]>> Oh, I will not pick between the Dolly and Loretta. You have to give those.

[00:26:33]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we got to go.

[00:26:35]>> I can't do that. I can't do that. I will.

[00:26:37]>> Dolly and it's a tie.

[00:26:38]>> It's a tie.

[00:26:40]>> We can't be Hunter.

[00:26:42]>> You got to do a guy like that.

[00:26:45]>> And last but not least, >> The Dirt Road by Sawyer Brown. Outskirts of Town by Sawyer Brown. Or Cafe on the Corner by Sawyer Brown.

[00:26:53]>> Oh man.

[00:26:55]>> And think small town song.

[00:26:57]>> Outskirts. Outskirts for me.

[00:27:00]>> Okay.

[00:27:01]>> Yeah. You both agree.

[00:27:03]>> Yeah.

[00:27:04]>> Yeah.

[00:27:04]>> We wrote it.

[00:27:06]>> Yeah.

[00:27:07]>> So, >> yeah. Yeah.

[00:27:10]>> Yeah.

[00:27:11]>> Pretty good.

[00:27:12]>> Pretty good. Pretty solid. So, SP Nation, make sure that you are checking out all of Sawyer Round social media so you can see our lineup and see if we missed any songs for the Small Town Song Hall of Fame.

[00:27:23]>> Yep.

[00:27:24]>> Next up, we have small town big name.

[00:27:27]>> Okay.

[00:27:28]>> This is going to be a guessing game.

[00:27:29]>> Okay.

[00:27:30]>> Okay. I'm going to give three clues about a celebrity from a small town. And you guys have to see who can guess it first. And because you've been so good, I'm going to give you the buzzers.

[00:27:40]>> Oh, wait. So, we're guessing the celebrity or the town?

[00:27:43]>> The celebrity.

[00:27:44]>> Okay.

[00:27:46]>> All right. Bring it.

[00:27:47]>> We're going to start with our first celebrity.

[00:27:49]>> Clue number one.

[00:27:50]>> What are we What's it we doing?

[00:27:53]>> We're She's going to tell us something about a small town. And we have a celebrity. We're picking the celebrity from that town. Yes, >> I'm going to give you three clues.

[00:28:02]>> Okay.

[00:28:03]>> Clue number one, born in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.

[00:28:08]>> Clue number two, she has broken 58 Guinness World Records, including most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours.

[00:28:18]>> Nothing.

[00:28:19]>> Sorry, Taylor.

[00:28:20]>> Yes, Taylor Swift.

[00:28:22]>> Yeah. Yeah. I did not know the Pennsylvania thing. I'm thinking, what am I missing?

[00:28:25]>> Yeah. The third clue was she was recently engaged to an NFL star. Okay.

[00:28:29]>> Oh, okay. This is good to know.

[00:28:31]>> Okay.

[00:28:32]>> You cheated.

[00:28:32]>> Number two.

[00:28:33]>> How did I cheat?

[00:28:34]>> You just did.

[00:28:36]>> Pay attention.

[00:28:37]>> My thumb had a cramp in it.

[00:28:38]>> Okay. We're going for our second celebrity.

[00:28:39]>> My thumb had a cramp.

[00:28:40]>> I don't care.

[00:28:42]>> I don't care, Dad.

[00:28:45]>> Okay, >> I'm going with my finger.

[00:28:46]>> For celebrity number two, they were born in Owensboro, Kentucky.

[00:28:53]They were the world's highest paid actor in 2012.

[00:28:59]Johnny Dip.

[00:28:59]>> Johnny Dip.

[00:29:02]>> What's that?

[00:29:03]>> Oh, he got it.

[00:29:05]>> Wow.

[00:29:06]>> Is this Third Clue real? Hunter, he's also a talented guitarist in the super group band called Hollywood Vampires.

[00:29:12]>> Yep.

[00:29:13]>> I did not know that.

[00:29:14]>> You know who else is in that group?

[00:29:15]Alice Cooper.

[00:29:16]>> Okay.

[00:29:17]>> And Joe Perry from Aerosmith.

[00:29:21]>> Incredible. Uh, our third celebrity, clue number one, born in Ryan, Oklahoma.

[00:29:27]Clue number two, he is one of three Americans to achieve an eighth degree black belt in taekwondo.

[00:29:33]>> Chuck Norris.

[00:29:35]>> Yes.

[00:29:38]>> Wow.

[00:29:40]Love me some Chuck Norris, baby.

[00:29:41]>> I know. Did you see? And I'm so sad.

[00:29:44]>> I know. And I I texted your dad. I said the first person I thought of is I said, "I know your mother is talking to Chuck Norris right now."

[00:29:50]>> 100%. Right now, >> my mom's favorite actor >> of all time. Oh, I was watching Walker Texas Rangers as like a 5-year-old.

[00:29:57]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:58]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:29:58]>> Next up, >> this person was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.

[00:30:04]>> Lionel Richie, >> man. I Wow.

[00:30:11]>> Did you know that?

[00:30:12]>> Yeah. Yeah. I was right there.

[00:30:14]>> Okay.

[00:30:14]>> Do you want that point? Would that make you feel better?

[00:30:18]>> You keep leaning into the mic and it scares me.

[00:30:21]>> Can I continue? Is that to make your voice deeper?

[00:30:25]>> Is that why you do it?

[00:30:28]>> Well, okay. Moving on.

[00:30:31]This person was born in Smyrna, Georgia.

[00:30:36]>> Trisha, you're Wood.

[00:30:37]>> No.

[00:30:38]>> Okay. No, you're out. You're out now.

[00:30:42]>> Okay. Now, let's see if if you can get it, Dad.

[00:30:45]>> Number two, a fivetime most beautiful woman record holder.

[00:30:50]>> Okay. Number three, her brother is also a famous actor, but they've only shared the screen once together.

[00:30:57]>> I know this. I wish I'd have waited.

[00:30:59]>> Smrna, Georgia, five time most beautiful woman record holder, has a brother who's also a famous actor.

[00:31:06]>> Don't spoon feed it to him.

[00:31:09]>> She was just telling me the questions.

[00:31:11]>> I was recapping. Nothing. You got >> Julia Roberts.

[00:31:15]>> Good job.

[00:31:15]>> Good job. Thank you.

[00:31:17]>> Good job. Good job. Okay.

[00:31:20]>> You're such a pin head.

[00:31:21]>> Next up, born in West.

[00:31:24]>> That's one of the nicest things you've ever said to me, by the way.

[00:31:29]>> Hey, Max. How are you?

[00:31:32]>> Moving on.

[00:31:32]>> Yep.

[00:31:33]>> Born in West Ben, Indiana.

[00:31:38]The >> Steve Warner.

[00:31:40]>> No. The original Twitter now X logo was named in his honor.

[00:31:48]Clue number three. Played 13 seasons as a professional athlete.

[00:31:52]>> Oh, Larry Bird.

[00:31:55]>> Yeah.

[00:31:56]>> If you didn't get that, it was going to be real embarrassing for you.

[00:31:59]>> Yeah.

[00:32:00]>> Okay, moving on. Oh gosh.

[00:32:01]>> I'm winning, right?

[00:32:02]>> How do you say this?

[00:32:04]>> Am I winning? Sure.

[00:32:07]Sure. Sure. Because I know this means more to you than it does to me in my own life.

[00:32:14]>> You're winning.

[00:32:17]What's that?

[00:32:18]>> Let me see if I can I've wanted to win this game my whole life.

[00:32:21]>> My whole life.

[00:32:23]>> Kasiasco.

[00:32:25]>> Okay.

[00:32:26]>> Is this Mississippi?

[00:32:27]>> Mhm.

[00:32:28]>> Oh, yeah. Kaziasco.

[00:32:30]>> Kaz.

[00:32:31]>> Well, I don't know.

[00:32:32]>> Kaziasco.

[00:32:33]>> Something like that.

[00:32:34]>> Okay. On this next one, I'm going to go ahead and apologize to every good citizen of Mississippi. I'm going to butcher this town name. Born in Casiosco, Mississippi. attended Tennessee State University after winning a grand prize full scholarship in an oratory contest and has been nominated twice for the Academy Awards.

[00:32:56]>> And Morgan Freeman.

[00:32:57]>> No.

[00:32:59]>> Jamie Fox.

[00:33:00]>> No. Oprah Winfrey.

[00:33:03]>> Oh, >> okay.

[00:33:04]>> But I thought Oprah was from Nashville.

[00:33:06]>> Well, she moved to Nashville.

[00:33:08]>> Yeah, she went to Tennessee State.

[00:33:10]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:33:10]>> Okay. Okay. Now we have a couple more.

[00:33:15]Are you guys still game to play?

[00:33:16]>> Good.

[00:33:17]>> Okay, >> next up. Born in Coropoulos, Pennsylvania, he has appeared in four films nominated for best picture in the Oscars. And he is a famous country music singer doppelganger.

[00:33:31]>> Who's the doppelganger? Maybe that'll help me.

[00:33:35]>> Um, >> Michael Katon.

[00:33:40]>> Good job, Dad.

[00:33:45]Uhhuh. Yeah.

[00:33:47]>> Yeah. We got creative with how we worded that one.

[00:33:49]>> I like it.

[00:33:50]>> Smoke.

[00:33:51]>> Well done.

[00:33:53]>> Smoke.

[00:33:53]>> You're the doppelganger. And it took you like 2 minutes to get that.

[00:33:57]>> You know.

[00:33:57]>> Yeah. He thinks doppelganger is a candy bar.

[00:34:00]>> Born in Shaunie, Oklahoma. Dropped out of the University of Missouri.

[00:34:04]>> Gar Brooks.

[00:34:05]>> No. to pursue acting and was taught how to fly fish by Melissa Ethridge for a major 1992 film role.

[00:34:15]>> Oh. Uh uh Brad Pit.

[00:34:18]>> Yep.

[00:34:20]>> Last but not least, >> he's from Missouri, Springfield.

[00:34:24]>> He was born in height. Yeah, he might have been born somewhere else.

[00:34:28]>> His mom and dad have come to our show.

[00:34:32]>> Okay.

[00:34:34]>> You still don't get the point. Period.

[00:34:37]In in a larger scale, >> you are Mark.

[00:34:40]>> I'm sure of it.

[00:34:41]>> Joel, at this point, I'd really like you to interpose exactly how many points everyone has.

[00:34:46]>> Keep saying I'm winning.

[00:34:47]>> I don't even know. Do not do it.

[00:34:50]>> Last but not least, >> born in Yellow Springs, Ohio, signed a deal with Netflix in 2016 reportedly for 20 million per release.

[00:35:02]>> Dave Chappelle.

[00:35:04]>> Yes. Good job, Mark.

[00:35:05]>> Good job, Dad.

[00:35:07]>> Good job. Check out the brain on Brad.

[00:35:11]>> Never say that again, please.

[00:35:14]Oh my goodness. Well, luckily for all of us, that is all we have time for today.

[00:35:19]>> A >> I know.

[00:35:21]>> I thought that was a good episode.

[00:35:22]>> I did, too. Love Small Towns.

[00:35:24]>> Me, too.

[00:35:25]>> I'm sure I won.

[00:35:26]>> I >> You know, I think we're going to let you live in delusion.

[00:35:29]>> And that's important is that you feel like you won.

[00:35:32]>> Thank you guys so much for tuning in to today's episode. all about small towns.

[00:35:36]Make sure you're keeping up with all of Sawyer Brown's social media so you can see which small town they will be coming to next.

[00:35:43]>> Yeah. And we hope all of you guys are having a great summer out there.

[00:35:47]>> Bye y'all.

[00:35:48]>> Goodbye.

[00:35:49]>> If you don't find a new sign off, >> I'm quitting.

[00:35:52]>> Seriously, >> I will quit.

[00:35:54]>> You couldn't have done that in our small town. I tell you that right now.

[00:35:57]>> Should we just set a popka rules? If it wouldn't fly in a popka, it doesn't fly on the podcast. I'm invoking a popka rules.

[00:36:05]I'm here for that. Popka rules.

[00:36:09]Nope. That wouldn't have either.