It's not every day Rascal Flatts come to the radio station!
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00:00Here we are with Rascal Flatts, everybody.
00:02Rascal Flatts, what's going on?
00:03How's it going?
00:04Big show tonight, guys.
00:05Yeah, man.
00:06So let me ask you, like, you get out here in Tampa Bay,
00:08it's going to be about 92 degrees when y'all take the stage.
00:12Is there something different that happens the night before that,
00:14like, or the day before?
00:15Extra water, extra beer?
00:17Pedialyte?
00:18Yeah, Pedialyte.
00:18You got to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
00:20I thought Pedialyte was for after, like, the hangover after.
00:24Is it a prevention thing?
00:25Well, yeah.
00:27It's just, you kind of, you got to do it all day long now.
00:29Do you really?
00:30Yeah, I do.
00:31I like the taste of it.
00:33I have the popsicles.
00:36Pedialyte pops?
00:37Yes.
00:37Pedialyte pops.
00:38Is it a lick or a suck on the popsicle?
00:40It's a little both.
00:41All right.
00:42Lick suck.
00:43Lick suck.
00:44And the powder now, too.
00:45You just put it in the water.
00:45I saw that.
00:46Well, so I have five kids, so I grew up when, like, Pedialyte was,
00:50you always got it when it was a problem.
00:51You know what I mean?
00:52It was a problem.
00:52And now everyone's, like, getting it, like, preventative maintenance.
00:55And I'm like, huh, man, I need to get back into that.
00:56It's like Aquaphor.
00:58It's a problem.
00:59See what I mean?
00:59There's problems, right?
01:01Or Tussin.
01:02Now it's just for everyday use.
01:05Or Robitussin.
01:06Are you guys the pitch guys for that?
01:08What's going on?
01:09I don't know, but it was just kind of, I don't know.
01:11So Raskblatt's in town.
01:12Listen, it's been such an unbelievable career for you.
01:15Do you ever look back and just go, wow, like, pinch me or punch me in the face?
01:19I mean, really, like, it's crazy.
01:22You guys are, you're an era.
01:24You're not like a band anymore.
01:24You're an era.
01:25You know what I mean?
01:25Like, how does that feel?
01:27It's pretty, you know, it's overwhelming.
01:29And we were just talking about this the other day.
01:32To be able to still be, you know, headlining and doing it at a really high level, I think I appreciate it more now than I did, even when we were just coming up and getting started.
01:41Because we're nearly, we're 19 years in, so to be able to keep coming back to places like Tampa and see that it's still filled up and to have songs that are still viable on the radio is really, really special and humbling for me.
01:55And I appreciate it maybe even a little more now than I did years ago.
01:59If you think about it, you know, you guys got started in the 1900s, okay?
02:02And it's like, I mean, it's true.
02:06The 1900s.
02:07The 1900s.
02:08But not 1902.
02:10Don't let your minds wander, guys.
02:13Yeah.
02:13But there was a 19 in front.
02:14I said that to Kenny once and he got pissed.
02:16I love that.
02:16He was like, what are you saying?
02:17No, but it's like, but it's like.
02:19Kenny, Rogers or Chesney?
02:21He was 18.
02:22I didn't know what you were.
02:23It was Chesney.
02:25Okay, okay, good.
02:26That's why I got pissed, right?
02:28Rogers would be like, oh, thank you very much.
02:29Appreciate that.
02:30Have you had a roaster, right?
02:31No, but it's like now you have people that grew up listening to y'all when maybe they were, you know, dating, first dates, whatever.
02:37And now they bring their kids and everything like that.
02:39I mean, it's got to be a surreal feeling.
02:40It really is.
02:41We've done shows where there's been four generations of, and it's just, you know, it's just humbling.
02:46And we literally pinch ourselves every day and just give God all the glory for blessing this man with just an amazing career.
02:53We so far exceeded anything we ever dreamed.
02:55I guess we didn't dream big enough because, man, just like we started knocking stuff off the bucket list early and, you know, just grateful and thankful and, you know, and back to life's doing great.
03:07I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's, you're in rare air when you're 19 years in and still having hits and selling out these places.
03:14And it's just, you know, it's crazy.
03:16It just can't, you can't even, you can't make it up, you know?
03:19A hundred percent.
03:20It seems like the people who get into it, country music for the fame and everything, they burn out.
03:26But the people who get into it for the actual music, they wind up actually achieving the fame and the success.
03:32I mean, I know you guys have talked to you so many times before.
03:35I know you're, you're purist when it comes to the music.
03:37You love the music aspect of it.
03:38And you guys have sort of figured out a way to stay, for the most part, away from TMZ and all that other slop on the internet.
03:45I mean, do you really, do you kind of see that angle with people where it's like, if you love the music, good things happen?
03:50Well, I think so.
03:51It's music first for us.
03:52It's always been.
03:53That's why we, we have some grueling song meetings and try to get the best songs we can find.
03:58Whether we write them or not, we just want something great.
04:01And it's tough to weed it down to your favorite, excuse me, favorite like 10 to 12 that round out an album.
04:08But through the years, we've been very fortunate to get some really, really quality songs pitched our way from songwriters like Jeffrey Steele and Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley.
04:16Riding on my tractor.
04:18And it's incredible, a wave of just amazing songs has come our way through all these years that have really gone on to change people's lives and really affect them in such an amazing way.
04:27To just know we have the ability to do that with music is just incredible.
04:31Rascal Flatts tonight in Tampa Bay, going to be a huge show.
04:34We talked about tailgating, it's going to be off the chain, just crazy.
04:37Yeah.
04:37So, yeah.
04:38Yeah.
04:39Tailgating.
04:40Careful, I'll come with a little Nas X question if you want.
04:43Careful.
04:44Once we start buzzing at the yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:47Where, like for you guys who are like true veterans of this, like I said, purists of the music, like where is country music now?
04:53Because you hear, you hear all the drama, right?
04:54Like, oh, it's too pop, it's too this.
04:56But you guys have watched country change here, go back again, change again.
04:59Oh, my Lord.
05:00And you've always stayed Rascal Flatts, no matter what.
05:02You've never, like you've never ridden the wave.
05:05You've just, we're just Rascal Flatts.
05:06You know, it's so funny because it's always, I mean, it's just proven that it's never going to change.
05:13It's always, people are always going to say to pop, to country, to this.
05:17I mean, they did it all the way back from when, you know, Merle Haggard was too pop to play, you know, horns and all that stuff.
05:25They didn't have that at the Opry.
05:27You know, so it's just been, I mean, over and over the same exact.
05:33Yeah, it has been.
05:34And I would also say that country music has sort of taken over where the top 40 was when we were kids growing up because top 40 now is so urban and dance that I feel like we're kind of soaking up the real estate where top 40 music was when I was a kid.
05:51You know, Jay.
05:52And there's so much room for everything.
05:54I think you're right.
05:54I was talking about this with someone the other day and I said, you know, I think the artist got good looking in country.
05:59Yeah.
05:59You know what I mean?
06:00Like, I think the artist got good looking because like Mark Chestnut ain't good looking.
06:03Yeah.
06:03You know what I mean?
06:04But then y'all came along and then Kenny kind of became this sexist.
06:07It's like weird.
06:08It's like the artist got, I mean, there was no Carrie Underwood 30 years.
06:11You know what I mean?
06:12Yeah.
06:12Like the artist got good looking and then you're right.
06:13And then it got mainstream.
06:14Dolly may be the exception.
06:17We'll go with that.
06:17She was gorgeous back in the day.
06:19Laurie Morgan may be back in the day.
06:20Yeah.
06:21Who else?
06:23I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with Buck Owens for 500.
06:27Travis Tritt is hot.
06:29Oh, yeah.
06:31Joe Diffie.
06:31Well, Shania in the 90s, obviously.
06:33Shania, that's true.
06:34The Bellamy brothers.
06:36Bellamy's very handsome.
06:37Yeah.
06:38So, Jay, real quick, I know we got to bring our winner in here.
06:41She's really excited to meet you.
06:42Sheila is so pumped to meet you guys.
06:44And it's nice of y'all to really take your time to come in here.
06:47One thing about Rascal Flatts, and I'll tell y'all listening right now, because I know y'all heading to the concert now.
06:50You guys have always taken the time with the fans.
06:53I think it goes back to that, being purists of the music.
06:54You understand that these guys are consuming you for what you do, your profession.
06:58They love what you do.
07:00But, Jay, you recently wrote a book.
07:02What's it like being an author after you've been a singer and a musician?
07:06You know, it's pretty cool.
07:07It was more therapeutic than I expected it to be, reliving some of those stories and being able to retell them and really kind of telling my mom's story, which has been such a focal point in my life growing up.
07:17And I was able to really celebrate her and the story about how she sacrificed and really, really was a rock for me through a lot of really tough times coming up.
07:25So, it was a great exercise.
07:27I'm not sure if I'd do it again, but it's a long process.
07:31I'm glad that I did do it, and I'm glad I got to tell those stories.
07:34And maybe if somebody's out there that's going through a lot of crap like I did, they might find some inspiration and some hope in it.
07:40So, Joe, what would you do if you weren't a singer?
07:42Would you be an author?
07:42You wouldn't be an author.
07:43Yeah, I'd be a book writer.
07:45Would you really?
07:45No, just kidding.
07:46I was like, man, I just judged a book by its cover.
07:49I got it wrong.
07:49You're like, I'll be an author.
07:50I know.
07:51I love golf.
07:52I do.
07:52I'm addicted to golf.
07:53But are you good at it?
07:54I'm decent.
07:56Gary, how good is he?
07:57He almost won Pebble Beach this year.
07:59Really?
08:00Well, because I had a pro with me.
08:02Doesn't matter.
08:04Doesn't matter.
08:04It counts.
08:04I do love it very much.
08:05Yeah, Joe's a great golfer.
08:07He really is.
08:08I remember sitting at the Palm of Nashville one night, and this was literally maybe back in the 1900s,
08:12and you were there, a buddy of mine.
08:14So I won't tell too many stories.
08:16No, but I was there with a buddy of mine.
08:17He was a music writer, and I remember you saying you all had just gotten started, had some radio success.
08:21We're jumping on tours, but I remember you talking about how much you just loved music for the music.
08:27I mean, I know that just sounds so plain, but I remember you just sitting there being like, man, I just love what I do.
08:30I'm so lucky to get up in the morning and to be doing this, and you all were just about to go on the ride.
08:34That's amazing.
08:35And, yeah, I remember that.
08:36Yeah, I know that was a long time ago.
08:38I can't tell you.
08:39I don't feel like that at all in the morning.
08:41Why?
08:41Because he was taking shots?
08:42No.
08:42He's still doing that, right?
08:45No, that's how we still feel.
08:46Yeah.
08:46I mean, we're still having fun doing this, and we're fortunate to get to do it.
08:49And like Jay said, we get to do this, these fans, and like Gary said, it's phenomenal that we've come to this point.
08:56And the show that we put together that everybody's going to see is going to blow your head off.
09:01Excited for the night.
09:01Amazing, yeah, man.
09:02So real quick, Gary, what would you do if you weren't, like, what else could you do?
09:05I'd be in the hunting world, yeah.
09:07Would you?
09:07Yeah.
09:07What do you like to hunt?
09:09I'm a big bow hunter, so yeah.
09:11People, criminals, he likes to release them into the wild.
09:14Gary, bounty hunter.
09:15And hunt them down.
09:16Yeah.
09:16They made a movie about him, more of a documentary called Hard Target, with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
09:22You may have seen it.
09:23That's a hell of an actor that played you, man.
09:25You picked it.
09:25Yeah, I know.
09:26Well, I got to pick which one I wanted.
09:28I think you made the right choice.
09:29And I went straight for Jean-Claude.
09:29Yeah?
09:30Yeah.
09:30Did you ever think Seagal at one time?
09:32No, I didn't.
09:33I didn't think our hair was even close.
09:34No.
09:35No.
09:35No.