#854 - All Talk with Tucker Wetmore

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1:02If you don't have any friends, just buy one. Yeah. You know what I mean? Link in by linking the Instagram by all in the show notes. You are listening to the LS board podcast. Little bonus set for your puns and dribbles. Little all talk bonus. Country music star. Country music sensation. Sensation. Blown up on tiktok. And you know across the world, but tiktok where he's blown up. Listen, he's he's a gorgeous man. Moves the Nashville at 20. Took the world by the balls and said, get our, my name's Tucker wet more. Tucky wets. If you like your country music, then you'll enjoy this little Friday bonus. Little Friday bonus, bow for the pun on the dribble. Nice guy. Really cool dude. It was nice to meet him. Interesting story, interesting background. Enjoy it. Tucker wet more. How are you, mate? Welcome. I'm good. How you doing? Great. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me.

2:04How's, how's Australia so far? It's just the first time here. Yeah, it's my first time. Loving it or what? D-D2 off the boat. Okay. Yes. Are you at the boat here? No. No. No. No, off the plane. Uh, no, that's been great, man. I've done all the touristy things. I went to, uh, uh, what is it? Monty, Monty Beach. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Monty is exactly how the Americans pronounce it. That's alright. Yeah. So Monty Beach. Yeah. Monty Beach. Yeah. I went, I went there and I got something burnt. Oh, yeah. Dude, as hell yesterday. Oh, you got to be careful of the sundown here, mate. Dude, the sun actually will fuck you up within like 10 minutes. Yeah, we'll sit out there for like five hours. Yeah. Well, that's, but then you know, my chest feels like I laid on the sun. Surf, any surfing? No, I don't know. Whereabouts are you from in America? Oh, so you need beaches or is it originally? I'm, I'm from the West Coast. I'm from Washington state, but our beaches out there are different. They're cold and rainy. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So no, Portland. Is that, is that is Seattle? So I'm like, I'm like an hour away from Portland,

3:05North Portland, and then two hours south of Seattle. Okay. Is why I'm originally from, I live Nashville now though. Nashville. Yep. Well, that's where you want to be, right? That's a country music, uh, Mecca. Yep. You always been, is it, how's it, uh, I guess like it's country, country music, big in America, generally, right? But like, as a, it was always your thing growing up, like was it was country music always what you're into? Yeah. Dude, um, so I mean, I'm kind of a month when it comes to music. Um, obviously country. I grew up listening like country radio and all that stuff. Uh, that's a reggae. I grew up reggae. Yeah. Oh, nice. I grew up in a Samoan family. So in a Samoan family. Oh, yeah. Uh, all my uncles are a lot bigger than I am. Um, but I mean, yeah, I got, I got some in the burden. Um, lots of like classic rock too and, um, I don't everything. Yeah. You think of it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, dude, like when we're doing a bit of research, uh, but you know, like into you before we can't only self-taught piano, I was on your Instagram where you take talking just ripping a piano. I was like, I've got young daughters who I'm like,

4:06they're just trying to get into piano and it's the most unpleasant sound in the world. It's like six year old playing the piano and they don't know how to. It's self-taught when you're 11. That's, uh, yep. That's wild. Yeah. I started playing when I was like 10, um, just sat down on one one day and didn't get up and it took a lot of that. You're probably going through, you're definitely going through. I know, but it took a lot of that just clanking on the keys, trying to figure out what, I don't know. I picked it up kind of quick though and an absolute inclination. Kind of. I'd say. Did your parents like you in a soundproof room and just like you come out when you've got it sorted because I can't listen to the question. No, for the longest time, I didn't even know I played. Really? Yeah. How she found out actually, uh, I get home from practice one day and, um, school and and all that and I had like a little tiny keyboard. Not like a full size keyboard. Just like the jankiest plastic keyboard in my room and I was sitting there playing Hey Jude Oh wow. Just banging on it. I thought I was home alone, banging on the keys and you know, just getting it and she goes, what is that noise? And she thought I was sitting back

5:06there playing music like I'm on the speaker or whatnot and, uh, she comes back, opens the door and I'm just sitting there. Head back. She goes, I didn't even know you played. I was like, yeah, I started playing a couple months ago and that's how she found out. That's cool. What a cool way to find out your kids good. There wouldn't be many people though that could just stop playing piano or a couple of months before and start banging out Hey Jude. No, but also keeping it quiet. My brother over there works for us as well and he and this is completely off like this is not even close to finding your sweet child playing Hey Jude. But he was 19 once and was music in the house and he just started dancing and we were all like, dude, you can dance? How have you kept that secret for 20 years? I need to see this. He was like, well, he's editing right now. He started like crib walking in the house. I'm like, what? There it is. What is going on? Yeah. It's bizarre. It's, um, have you got music in the family? Is it, uh, yeah. So I grew up, I grew up in the church. My grandpa was a pastor. Um, I don't know if you've ever hung out with a bunch of Samoans. They're pretty musical people. Oh, yeah. And, uh, you know, like, we'd be in our family

6:08or unions and stuff like that. And, uh, one person would start singing amazing grace, you know, and then the next thing you know, we got a whole choir of, you know, all my family members are singing and clapping along and praising. Yeah, nice. Well, that's different in my family. I can't say that we've ever harmonized like that. You know, no, no, we haven't. It's not, uh, no harmonized. I can't imagine you and your old boy harmonized. Man and out of that. No, but it is nice when you hear a harmonized. Oh, mate. I'd like to be able to. That's just not the only place you can harmonize is in like a stairwell with your boys. Yeah. Yeah. A couple of an echo. Lots of reverb. That's it. I'm not the reverb. Why not as much reverb is. Well, you need a forgiving space. I need a forgiving. Anybody could harmonize. I think. Oh, dude, you know what? And listen, like, if we were, I, I don't agree necessarily, like, I've heard myself trying to sing it. I don't know. But like, there is a sweet spot when you're in some sort of an echoy enough room. Oh, yeah. That we can. Yeah. You can get it going. Yeah. I don't know about Eddie. Well, maybe not. Maybe not. When did you realize you could sing?

7:10Oh, gosh. I'm still trying to figure it out, I guess. Oh, I don't know. I started singing. So I played for years. I played piano, guitar, trumpet. Pretty much anything I'd get my hands on. And I never really started singing until I was like 18 probably. As in like, professionally or as in like, you never really know. No, I wasn't like, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to like actually sit here and try singing because I would sit there like play the piano. Adam Sandler style, like, make up lyrics about my sisters or whatnot. Yeah. Yeah. Just to piss them off. But yeah, I started like actually trying to sing in songwriting. I was like 18. I started songwriting probably 15 years old. Is that like, is it difficult to, well, I guess what sort of, what's the tone or the nature of your of your songs? Is that like emotional sharing? They're a bit more like sort of, you know, storytelling a lot harder. I imagine it's difficult to be like really sincere when you write down or at least then having to share it with people.

8:14Yeah. I mean, that was definitely like a learning that I had to get over or just like a mental block that I had to get over is like sharing my emotions to the world, you know. But it just depends on the song. Sometimes I get in a room or I start writing a song and I just wanted to feel good. So I just make up lyrics that feel good to me or whatnot. But sometimes, most of the time, I got something to say and I'll pretty much just like lay my heart out on a piece of paper and figure it out. It truly just depends on the song. Would you say that a lot of your songs are from personal experience? Yeah. Yeah. All of them. Yeah. And you find like the people when you when you're talking to fans, do you find that they're resonating with your own personal experience or they sort of apply that to their own life? Like, is it interpretive? Do you think it was more? Well, I think I think all music in general's interpretive, you know. And that's

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11:25I I teased a song called line into whiskey on on on TikTok and that kind of blew up. And then a song that I wrote literally three days later called line up missing you. I've posted that on TikTok too. And then that just blew up even more. And then that was pretty much the start of it. It was like, what's that? What's the world kind of knows my song? Yeah, it was an overwhelming. So just like obviously it's what you're after, right? So you said a bit bit blowing up like that, especially on TikTok where you can like you can go quick. Was that a wig out? Yeah, it's still kind of it's still kind of overwhelming sometimes a little bit. But now it's just like I'm I'm in the zone of you know writing and recording and creating and these shows. But yeah, it took me a second to kind of figure out like oh gosh, I'm not I'm I got a chance. Yeah. Were you were you just pumped up when these songs were taken off? Or were you a bit nervous? I didn't know. Honestly, because like it's just numbers.

12:27Yeah, you know, yeah, they don't really make that. So I didn't really understand what it's not just numbers. It's real people. But yeah, but in front of you, it's just numbers right. And it's always like only once in your out in the real world. And you get to actually like interact with people like, oh, it's not just numbers. A hundred percent. Yeah. And so like it was you know, millions and millions of people streaming the songs and like watching these videos of the songs and whatnot. And it was in me with millions of people. And and it didn't really hit me until that first show on tour with Cameron Marlow. We played out a place in Texas called Bonita Creek. And I get up on stage and there's probably 25 hundred people in there. And they knew every single word. And I'm really really cool. And that was the that was my first time putting the numbers to faces. Yeah. Yeah. In like a real life scenario. Yeah. And it was and ever since then it's just been what was that? What was that show like? Sick. Yeah. Yeah. I got so drunk. Yeah. Yeah. I was so

13:29fresh. I hope so. Were you nervous? I would have been so drunk on this because of the nerves. I would have been trying to dull them down. Yeah. I had quite a few before I got on stage. And then what about after? Because like you come down that you come up the stage where you just like, oh my god. Yeah. Well, afterwards you got like this adrenaline rush and you're just like fired up. So you're just like party. You know, we have two more shows this weekend. We probably shouldn't. But yeah, I found that balance of learning how to show off my brain. Yeah. Because I mean, especially obviously the first time you do the show. But if you're chewing regularly, that high does it dull at all or is it like you come off stage, you have all these people seeing your songs that must be kind of consistently like you come off feeling. It's every time. Yeah. Sometimes like before the show, especially if you're in like routine of just playing three shows a weekend, four shows a weekend, and then you're doing that for months. Before the show, sometimes it's kind of like, oh, I'm kind of like not super hyped. And you know, I'm tired.

14:33I've been on the road. I haven't been home in months. And you know, it's that kind of stuff. But then as soon as I get on stage, it's instant. Dude, it's like a flip of the switch. And it just needs adrenaline. It's like, it's like the feeling of going to play, well, I played American football. But going to go and play Friday night, you know, under the lights and, you know, back in high school, when you're fired up. And that's it's the same. It's a better feeling than that. What position do you play in? I was a receiver. Okay. And you, did you get injured? I think I was reading. Yeah, so like where, where was football on your radar in terms of potentially going pro? Was that something you considered? Um, yeah. I mean, that was my goal. Yeah. Um, I was, so I went to college to play, I went to college in Montana, play football. And, um, I mean, I didn't, I didn't know what I was doing. I just, I knew I want to play ball. And I wasn't going to class. I was like, yeah, feeling out of my classes. And I just want to play football. And, uh, you know, I've blown

15:34this knee out twice. And that was before college. And then the last one that did it was my ankle right here in the spiral fracture all the way up my way. Oh, I did spiral fractures and no joke. That's terrible. That's helpful. Um, but yeah, that was the last one. And I was like, I'm, I gotta hang up the cleats. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, listen, at some point, you're like, you're too old to get injured. You know, I mean, like when you get in, unless they've literally someone is offering you shit loads of money to keep playing, you're like, yeah, I can't be limping around. I broke my knee playing 40. Oh, I was waiting for that. Tell me he hasn't already noticed the scar, man. Come on. But you know what, I mean, like it's, at some point, you're like, what the fuck am I doing here? A spiral fracture of the leg? How long that take to heal? Like, how long are you not walking forward a spiral fracture of your leg? Uh, it took a while. It wasn't like terrible. It was pretty bad. It was complete blow out of my ankle, everything. It was had to have surgery or you know, yeah, nice. So how long after your football career ends to

16:37you blowing up on TikTok? So I dropped out of college in 2019. Yep. And then moved back home, started writing again, picked up music again. Um, I moved to Nashville in 2020. And then I was 20 years old. Um, and then I moved, uh, I signed a publishing deal in 22, I believe. And then started teasing stuff in 2023. If you give my ignorance, see a publishing deal, is that like you signed with the record company there? Is that what that is? So publishing deals like, uh, like, it's, it's like a writing deal. So you got publishing companies and then they got labels. Yeah. Um, they got management companies and all this stuff. But publishing just does, like, the writing aspects, like, they set up rights with other writers around town or whatnot, and then they pitch your songs and then that kind of stuff. How do you navigate that, that like,

17:37obviously when you blow up and then like everyone wants a piece of you to some degree or people want to be involved in what you're doing, there's managers, there's labels, there's publishers like, how did, what, what was your process of, of, um, sensible that, especially after whining to whiskey and whining at missing, you started taking off. Um, and those were my first two songs I released and, uh, there was, gosh, I want to say, how many labels? I had 29 offers. 29. Yeah. I didn't, I just, I just learned that. I didn't know that. That's crazy. 29 offers. So it took months of like meeting all these people and meeting all the different labels and trying to figure out like, I approached it as, who do I vibe with on a personal level? You know, who could I grow this with that I enjoyed growing it with? And, uh, then I made my decision after probably four months of meeting people.

18:39There any like, I mean, I'm, I mean, are there any like dogshit, uh, presentations? Where it's like, you know like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But do you know what I mean? No, like, where you sort of, shit, I come every, I was entourage. General entourage where it was like, uh, they were, they were trying to sign Vinnie Chase and it was like they had the exact same and present time that was sort of solace. Like, I guess when you go into that experience, how many of them, you don't have to say doggy, how many of them are kind of like the same thing? And you sort of wait for that one that sort of sticks out. A lot of them, it was a lot of just walking into like a, not a conference room, but like a meeting room around a table and like, hey, I'm so and so and this is what I do and this is where I'm from and then they go down to the next person. I'm so and so and so and so. Oh god, yeah. And then there's like, there was this, I can't. We can cut it out. If you want to say, I'm going to say, we're not sure, I can say whatever I want. So there is this label that treated it as,

19:43how do I explain this? I walked in and we all met in this room and then we broke off into sections. It was like a, like a corporate like learning experience that corporate like bonding, how would you explain it? Yes, it was like a school orientation. So it's like, we broke off into all these different sections and it felt like an orientation. So I'd go to this one certain group of people and then I'd talk about whatever it is what they want to talk about. And then I'd go to the next group and there was like four or five groups. It took so long. Oh my god, it was like half my day. And I remember after the second break off group, I looked at somebody on my team and I was like, I'm not signing here. Yeah, I was like, I can't just leave, but this is where my head's at, you know, and that was, and there was other stuff that went on. And you almost did it. One of those like tales like the Queen used to have. She'd put a bag onto her other arm.

20:44Why does it come and get like giving me out of here? Get me out of this room. I'll tell this story too. So on one of the meetings, and this isn't a bad story because I thought it was cool. It was Warner in Nashville. And I went to the meeting and, you know, I love all the people that I met there and, you know, I'm so good friends with a lot of them, but I've been on the meeting and at the end of the meeting, they brought in the drummer of, he played on the session on in the air tonight. You know that? Phil Collins. Yeah, the Phil Collins song. He played drums for the record. Right. And so that drum fill that you hear, that's him. It's him. So he came in and played the entirety of the song. For you. And this little speaker. And he's just sitting there on a full cage and beating it, dude. I thought it was the coolest side of the world. After about like two minutes, I was like, all right, it's just like overload of drums. And then he got to that. Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.

21:45That's actually what you were getting serenaded essentially. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. By a drum in a very small room. That's so funny. I wonder if they wheel him out for just like special. I reckon we're like, you'd want to hope he only gets wheeled out on the special like guys and that he's like, he's not just a gun for high. I felt special. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, have you heard of that happening to anyone else? No. Okay. So then it was special. Yeah, it was. And if you, what about like meeting people that you've looked up to in the industry? Like, are there any of those moments where like, I guess you can temper his, you know, your stuff or like even on social media, we're like, I guess if you, if you're out about and you meet someone at a country music event or it's like, yeah, that's where you expect to see people, I guess. But if you ever had anyone reach out to you and be like, hey, man, like your stuff or you've connected with people that sort of blown your mind. Um, I mean, everybody, how it works in Nashville? Like we're all, we're all good friends and we're all buddies. And, um, you know, like some of my good buddies like Thomas Rhett or Jordan Davis or,

22:50um, I'm new buddies with Kane Brown. He's, he's a really cool dude. Um, and like Ernest and, you know, there's, there's a bunch of people in Nashville that, I reach out and like, um, hey, man, how you doing? Jelly Roll is one of those guys. Yeah, right. Hardy, you know, is, how you doing? Checking up, seeing if you're doing all right. Do you all, do you ever like get, do you, do you sort of make music together? Do you get together and just sort of like jam it at every once in a while? Um, I've written with Hardy once. We wrote a pretty cool song actually. Um, but it's just, we're all, we're all doing the same thing. We're all trying to do the same thing. So it's not a civic competitive. It's, it's not. I mean, we leave all the competition to the labels and, you know, the suits. And yes, we all, we're all just small town kids that like to make music and do the same. Redneck shit, you know, it's, it's, it's the same thing. I like that. Hey, what about your buddies back home when you were blowing out? Was everyone just losing their mind? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

23:50I mean, they're, they're not like super used to it now, but they, they kind of get it. Yeah. Um, like if they call while I'm in the middle of a run and I'm super busy and I don't answer, they don't take it to heart no more. And I try to call back, but, um, at first, she was like, dude, are you seeing this? I just heard your song in Chevron in the gas station or in Target. I heard your song in Target and whatnot. You know, it's just, it's, it was, it was cool. And it was cool to see how excited they got. And they still get it. Yeah, that's mad. They think it's the coolest thing. I think it's cool. Do you bring them on tour with you? Not often. Not often. Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes. Um, it's just where we're everywhere all the time. I'm about to get my own bus. Oh, okay. It's going to be, it's going to be a lot easier. That's pretty cool. Like do you get to just go and like pick them out? Are you sort of like, what do you want on your bus? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a big mall sign for a country singer getting their own bus? I think it's pretty cool.

24:50I can see it. I can see it. Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. So right now, I'm running two buses in a semi truck. On my bus, it's me and band. And then management. And so it's pretty tight packed. And the other bus is on my crew guys. And that's pretty packed in. But now there's going to be band bus or crew bus. And then my bus. And. What do you want? What do you put on your bus? What do you put on the bus? Yeah. My new bus that I'm going to be running here in about a month and a half. Uh, it's got a fireplace in it. And one of my contingencies was it has to have a recliner. Yeah. Of course. A recliner is so bad. So right next to my recliner, I got a fireplace. And you open up the fireplace and it's got a mini bar behind it. Oh, right. Oh, this is fantastic. That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable. A big old flat screen team. Oh, dude. A bus. Yeah. That's mad. Yeah. A dog kennel under my bed. A dog kennel under my bed. Yeah. You can take chili with you. So you go. If you got a dog.

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27:50Millions of fines. Each with a story. eBay. Things. People. Love. How have you found fine so far? What do you mean? Like dealing. Yeah, fine. Yeah. Oh. Your accent. Yeah. I don't really. It's whatever. I don't see myself famous. Okay. I just. Roll with it. I like to make music. Yeah. And I like to see how that music impacts people. And I don't know. I don't know. It's a. It's a weird topic, I guess. I just. I don't. I don't really look at it like that. I mean, I feel like there's only one famous person. That's Jesus Christ. You know. That's that's what he should be. How's your. How's your. How's your. You're talking about your mates. But how's your family taking your success? Like your mom, you know. She walks in on you playing Hey Jude. And now you're at. To her. She's so excited. Yeah. She's always calling me. Now. Now she's. She's kind of understood it. And like, mom, I don't know what's going on. Like you're going to. Yeah. You're going to have to talk to my manager.

28:50I'm in the middle of something right now. But no, she's always calling me. What's new? What's new? What's new? And I'm like, well, this, this, this. And then I'm like, I'm probably forgetting something. And then the next day she's like, you didn't even tell me about this. That's the coolest thing in the world. But she's so excited. And she's like, she's always been. Like my number one support. Like when I sat her down before I moved to Nashville. I was like, hey, I want to. I want to move to Nashville and chase this music. And she goes. Finally, you know. Cool. And so she helped me so much. She just loves it. She's always like, I told you so. She's always pushed me to do music. Really? She's always like, I told you so. I'm like, yes, mom. Yeah, you did. Go mom. That's mad. I saw a video before you just. I assume it was recently just performed at their country music awards. Yeah. Yeah. How was that? Again, that's going to be milestone sort of stuff, right? Like it turns out. It was so sick. Yeah, it was crazy. You know. And like when you're sitting in those in those seats with like every country music artist, you've ever heard of.

29:50And like people that you look up to musically. And it's just it's the coolest thing in the world. And then. So you get you get sat down. And then it's like five different outfit changes. And then you got like all this stuff. And then you got press. And then you got red carpet. And then you got all this stuff. And it's a long day. And on top of that, I was I was blessed enough to perform. And so they came a Grammy for my seat when it was almost time to perform and get ready for it. And I get ready backstage. You're not if it changed. And then you're sitting behind that. So if you look at the video of the performance, there's a there's a big old screen that goes up. And it shows me in the band. You're sitting behind that screen for like five or six minutes. And it is the longest. That's a long time. It is the longest six minutes of your life. And I remember being so nervous. I was so nervous. And then like 15 seconds before and they counted down. And it's like a rocket. It's like 15, 14, 13. And it's like gosh, and I'm tapping my leg.

30:52And then I kind of took a deep breath. I'm like, you know what's cool? I've sang this song a million times. I'm just going to go out there and do my thing. And if they don't like it, that would suck. But what is one of these? And so is there like, is there a hard part of it? It's hard to like start the first note coming out of your mouth. You know what I mean? Like when you're coming out there, is it sort of like, I guess I'm trying to put myself in the situation where obviously for yourself or the country. Well, I mean like if you could sing. Yeah. It's obviously going to come much more naturally to your than to your eye. But like, yeah, the thing lifts up and you're there. And you're like, oh my god, I've actually now got to do the dancing. Yeah. The first note's the hardest part. Yeah. In my opinion. Because after that, it's like, okay, I'm in the groove. I'm tapping along with the beat, singing the words, you know. It's just that first note. Once you're good, you go. Once you go. Once you go. Once you're going, you're going, yeah. And then, and where's that sort of sit for you in terms of tough gigs or nerves, nerves before a performance? Were you, is that like quite a big one?

31:53Because you've obviously got all these. I still get pretty nervous. Depends on the show. I get more nervous for like smaller shows, more intimate shows. Yeah. Just because it's like right there. And for the bigger shows, I'm like, all right, let's rock out. I cheer like football game. I was just having some fun. Yeah. How my guys up. But yeah, I mean, I still get nervous. Thomas Rhett told me once. Actually, he were sitting on his bus when I was out on tour with him and just talking, shooting the shit. And I go, dude, you ever get nervous still? And he goes every single night. Right. Because I get so nervous every single night. I'm like, dang, why? He goes, he's been torn since 2011. I was 11 years old. Yeah. And he goes, if you're not nervous, you don't care. I'm like, dang, that's true. Yeah. I'm an, I still get nervous. But they, they go away. They dissipate pretty fast. Yeah. Once you're on the way. Yeah. Yeah. So how long is your tour for? 11 or 7 weeks? We got 27 more shows.

32:5621 more shows. It's something like that. So where did you start? We started in the States. Our first show was in, oh, my gosh. Boston? Yeah. It's a boy. It's a lot. It's a lot. I couldn't hear anything. Boston. Yeah. Sorry, Boston. But yeah, we started off in Boston. We've had a couple of places in the States. Most of it's over in Europe and UK. And you go on a SAMC rocks festival as well. I am. Yeah, we're going, we're going to be down. When are you, what day before? Sunday. Sunday. We're back. I don't know what I would do with that. Yeah, I'm starting to piece that together. Sunday. Where they're Saturday and Thursday. That's all right. So where's the next, where are you performing then between down and the weekend? Have you got anything on? Any shows on? Yeah, we'll be down in New Zealand. Yep. So you got New Zealand, then come back. Yep.

33:56Oh, man. Yep. So we'll go to New Zealand. I'm on tour with, that's the first show of the Thomas Wright, not Thomas Wright. Jordan Davis tour. Yep. And I'm super excited about it. I've never been in New Zealand. So we're going to go. We're half K. We're half in New Zealand. Yeah, it's a beautiful part of the world over there. Beautiful part of the world. We're going to Samarro now. Samoa? Yeah. No, I wish. You're in the region. Yeah. It's not too far away. That'd be sick. I've never been. It's on my bucket list together. Yeah. Well, you should have tacked that on. That would have been good. Yeah. Yeah. I saw you, when you were throwing with the, the, the NFL ball around before. Do any of your family follow rugby league, which is like a strained football? Uh-oh. No. I know nothing about that. Okay. I wish I did. Um, it looks intense. But I just, I don't understand. No, no, no, listen, I get it. It's, and it's, it's, the NFL is just as confusing. But on the reverse, right? Like we, but we, we certainly get more of it over here. Because no one really pays attention to what we're doing down here.

34:58Whereas we can, we sort of pay attention. What's going on in the rest of the world? Who's your, uh, who's your football team in America? Uh, NFL, um, Seattle. Seattle. Seahawks. They just won the Super Bowl. They did? They did? They just won it. Yeah, I was like, I don't know. I bet Seahawks fans doesn't look that big. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. What'd you do for the game? I went to it. You went to it. How was that? What a glorious experience. One of my best friends. And we grew up playing football together. Yeah, okay. We always said, if we ever go to the Super Bowl, we're going together. Yeah. It's our last year, or last year, uh, down in New Orleans was our first time going and then we got to go this year again. And that was kind of just like an annual thing. So that's, uh, we out, out, out equivalent. So our team in Australia is the Manly Seagulls. Okay. And we went to the game yesterday. And we suck. So, you know, I'm glad to know that you're getting some success. Yeah. It was a very tough afternoon. We lost to the team that came last last year. And it was just good. It's an absolute bloody nightmare.

35:59Do you go out afterwards in the Super Bowl? Are there any parties or anything you're doing? Like, what's the, um, no. No, not this year. I pretty much just got shot on the plane and headed back home after the Super Bowl. How do you, how do you, how does your team in the Super Bowl? And you don't go out for one of the most ungodly rips of all time? I know. And I did get invited to like the players party too. Oh, what? We already got on. We already had a plane set up and then we had something. I think the next day in Nashville or something like that. I would, I did make some all my plans. I was, and I was already so tired. I was already gone for like two weeks straight. Yeah. I needed to get home. Yeah. Well, that's where we did fuck. Cause we would have gone. No, no, we would have canceled. I should have canceled the plans and just gone. Uh, mate. Listen, it's been lovely to me. Thank you very much. Unfortunately, we won't say on Sunday, but good luck. I'm joking. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm, I'm excited. Enjoy Australia. Yeah. It's a beautiful place. Yeah, I've been so far. And I hope you, uh, I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip. Yeah, congrats on all your success, man. Thank you, man.

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