From Tailgates to Main Stages: Ryan Montgomery’s Florida-Fueled Rise

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Meet Ryan Montgomery

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Skip Happens. Today we're headed straight to the Florida coast with one of country's fastest rising stars. His name's Ryan Montgomery. He's gone from singing covers off the back of his truck in Lake Worth to selling out venues across the country over 10 get this 10 million streams, five EPs, and his brand new smash hit. It's called Sun Sand, Drinkin' My Hand. Ryan's bringing the beach life to country music like nobody else. We're going to be talking early days, tailgate shows, Nashville sessions, maybe with some of the biggest hitmakers, and what's next for this powerhouse artist, Ryan Montgomery. There you are. How are you, brother? It's so good to see you.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

That was quite the intro. I'm I'm great. How are you doing? It's great to see you. Thanks for having me on.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

Absolutely. Absolutely. It's good to see you. Where are you in Lake Worth right at this moment?

SPEAKER_03 0:54

I am. Yeah. This is my uh, for anybody who can is watching on the video, it's my little uh home studio setup. So I'll do some demos and stuff here. And and uh yeah, it's kind of a cool little spot. I get to be home for a couple days before we go back out on the road.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

You gotta love that. I mean, it's just to have your own place. If you just want to get away, you can go into your studio, maybe try some stuff out, see what it sounds like. You like it, you like it. If you hate it, you won't do it. I I know, I I get it. That that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. But uh, let's talk about you. Uh, what would you consider your childhood soundtrack? What would that be like if you grew up in Lake Worth?

SPEAKER_03 1:31

Oh my god, that is that's a great question. I've never been asked that before. Um a little bit of everything, you know, growing up in Lake Worth, uh, my dad is a huge metal fan. So I I grew up on Metallica, I grew up on um, you know, Nirvana, all of that stuff. And then, of course, being from Florida, you know, anytime I would go out on my my grandpa's boat in the ocean, he would be playing Bob Marley and and all that stuff. So I grew up on that and Jimmy Buffett, and uh then of course Kenny Chesty was a huge part of my and then when I kind of turned 16 and started riding around in my truck with my friends, I kind of started uh fall in love with you know Florida Georgia Lion and Jason Aldean and kind of find my own my own stuff and uh I'm a huge Little Wayne fan. That's a little curveball. So honestly, everything I listen to everything. I love blues, so I try to I I really try to, you know, I'm a guitar player, so I I try to play as much as I can and listen to as much as I can.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

Now, no, I'm reading, Ryan. You were into ice hockey. Yeah, maybe a little basketball, water skiing, of course. I mean, you're there in Florida, yeah, surfing.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Um, and how did those sports kind of shape your work ethic or stage presence?

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Well, uh everything, really, honestly. Well, surfing, surfing, I'm the worst at, hands down by far. Uh so we'll tell you that. I'm very novice, very novice surfer. That's my that's my hobby on the side. But uh, but uh yeah, ice hockey was a was a big one, and then water skiing. My dad also is uh competitive water skier, like number one in the world for water skiing.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

No way, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:08

And so me and my sister, we grew up doing it. My grandpa is a big water skier, and uh yeah, so grew up doing that. I would compete states, regionals, nationals. I've won some, and and same with hockey. A lot of my buddies actually play in the NHL now. It was people don't think there's a lot of hockey in Florida, but it's actually really hardcore.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

A lot of people come down from you know you got Tampa Bay, baby.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

Yeah, it's it's uh it's a pretty big, big, good hockey hub. So it was very intense. It was you know, up at four o'clock in the morning doing stick handling drills and then trying to get school in and then go to the rink for till nine o'clock at night. So it was it was nonstop when I played hockey and and skiing at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

You're gonna laugh, you're gonna laugh when I tell you this, but I was a Zamboni operator. No, really, yeah. Yeah, I uh did some time working for a parks department and we had a rink. And uh of course, being up at 4 35 in the morning, they have the ice ready for the first shift that comes in. And I always thought, man, they're crazy. They're crazy.

SPEAKER_03 4:06

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

They did, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:08

I always wanted to do it. I never got I used to sit on it, you know, like yeah, yeah, go for a ride on Zamboni. I never got to actually drive one.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

So you know what? It I mean, all it is is a uh it's a Jeep chassis with you know something else on it and it scrapes the ice, but it's like it's so fascinating to so many different people. Um because what it does, I guess, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

Well it's kind of mesmerizing to watch too. Like if you're just on the side, kind of just like watch it go around, yeah. It's like you're almost hypnotic, you know.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Yeah, people throw things at you when you do that. If I when I was making when I in between uh first, second, and well, even after the game, the between the periods, people sometimes would be end up throwing crap at you.

SPEAKER_04 4:48

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

No, no, I know it is funny.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

It is funny, but how did you do that?

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Uh here in Syracuse.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

And uh in a town called Camillas, which is a western suburb of Syracuse. But uh I have that under my belt, and I also played in house I played hockey in high school.

SPEAKER_03 5:04

So okay, cool. So yeah, what did you play? What position did you play?

SPEAKER_00 5:08

I was a left wing.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Me too. I was a left wing too.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

And I got the crap beat out of me. I got checked into the boards, like I broke my wrist once. I mean, I was I was fast, but there wasn't what much weight to me. Yeah. But when I got hit, I got hit. Yeah. And if I saw it coming, it would be like, oh, skip happens, baby. Because exactly. Uh when did it click that music would be more than a hobby for you?

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Really a little bit later. Because I mean, I started, I had no one in my family's music at all, but really around like five years old or so. I guess we had some guitar laying around the house, and it was I play left-handed, guitar left-handed, and it was a right-handed guitar. So I would just play this thing upside down, non-stop. And so I guess probably somewhere around five years old, my parents took me to try to have a lesson, and they kept trying to flip it over, and I would flip it back, and then finally they just restrained the guitar, and I started kind of teaching myself, sort of, when I was around five. And then around 12, I wanted to play a concert, so I got this like little band together, and we played for three hours. It was like a lot of old rock stuff, uh, slack and all that kind of stuff. And uh we played for three hours. I was so nervous, I don't know how I made it through the show. Um, but I did, and so it was always just kind of a little piece of my life. And then at 16 I had a punk rock band uh with my sister and my cousin, and that was a lot of fun. We played uh Blink182 and Green Day and all kinds of stuff, and uh and then I'd always been writing songs, and I wrote everything. You know, I wrote rock songs, I wrote country songs, I wrote everything. And we would play cut some country in with the punk rock stuff, and a lot of people would be like, Man, you you just sound so much better singing country songs and do this punk rock stuff. It's just so much better. And I was always like, no, yeah, we'll see, whatever. And um, then over time, I just started to all of my songs that I was writing just really shifted country, and it was like, man, I I wanna I wanna do this, and so that's when I started driving my truck out to our local amphitheater.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

And I was gonna ask you about that. It's gonna be my next question.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

Yeah, yeah, that's what I would started doing, and I because I we had this little gig that I'd play every week, you know, and I'd play some of my songs I was writing, and we would play a bunch of cover songs, and they would be like the same four people every week, which would be my parents and my grandparents, or people that would come watch. And so uh yeah, so I I wanted to just get in front of more people and reach more people, and so that's when I started playing out there at the tailgates.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Yeah, you gotta love that. That was the uh Coral Sky Amphitheater. Is it yes it was? Yeah, I'm just reading some of my notes here. What uh so what possessed you to roll your truck in and play for fans, even if there was only four?

SPEAKER_03 7:58

Well, it was really kind of pre-social media. That's what I think it is so funny how so many people follow me on social media, but I kind of started this, geez, like way before the TikTok and all that stuff. Like we had Instagram, but there was no, you know, just your friends kind of followed you and stuff. And so I just wanted to get out in front of more people, and I I didn't really know how to do that, and so I just thought, I mean, all the people that I want to hear my music are out at the tailgates before Zach Brown band and Luke Brown and Tim McGraw and all these people, and so I was like, why don't I just bring my truck out there? So we had a generator, I had my speakers, my guitar, and I would just go out there and play for as soon as the parking lot opened for four hours, five hours, and yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

So would they charge you for parking and then you would just park and play?

Parking-Lot Shows to Arena Stages

SPEAKER_03 8:48

They typically would we would have tickets to go into the concert, okay. We could go in and watch and stuff, but uh no, there was cool. Every now and then we would have an issue where they would try to park us. There was like two lots, it was like a parking lot, and then there was like the big lot. We'd always want the big lot, and the first time I ever did it, I was so upset because I went out there and they parked me right in front of the Portageons, and it's like all the portion, and I'm like, God, this sucks. And I'm like, what's gonna I don't know what's gonna happen. I dropped my tailgate down, got my guitar, and I'm like, are people gonna like yell at me to stop playing? Like, I have no idea what to expect, you know, out there because I I've always been to tailgates to have fun, but I've never seen someone performing, you know. So I started doing it, and it turned out to be the best thing ever because all the people, you know how the tailgates are.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Waiting in line at the the Porter John's. So all of a sudden this crowd turned into like a thousand people, and they all got their phones out and they're videoing me, and that was my first one, and then from there it just really kind of I gotta say, that is such a great idea.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

You know, we go to concerts at our local amphitheater, and people are they're out in the parking lot playing cornhole. I got the speakers cranked, but to have somebody come in with a pickup truck, somebody that is talented as you, to get on the back of that pickup truck and play some music, have some fun, that's how you get fans. People are gonna remember you. Hey, that Ryan guy from the amphitheater, that is cool. I gotta give you credit for that.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Yeah, really, it was it was those were a lot of fun days, and a lot of crazy Florida sunburns.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Oh, I bet. I bet. I bet. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, um, I just want you to know that one of your biggest fans is watching this here in Syracuse right now. It's uh Kristen Shaw, Chrissy. What's up? Yeah, she says, hi Ryan, and let's get you to Syracuse. Let's do it. Yeah, we would love to do that. We'll talk about that here in a little bit. You know, so you did the amphitheater, uh, and then a couple years later, you were already sharing the stage with, let's say, Chase Rice and Riley Green and Morgan Walland, Chris Lane, Kip Moore. Um what was that full circuit circle moment like? I mean, you went that was awesome.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Yeah, that was well when I started out in music, I really only had two goals. I wanted to record music in Nashville, and then I wanted to play inside on that amphitheater stage because that's kind of where you know I started in the parking lot. And so it was tw the summer of 2017 was our last, or I'm sorry, no, it was the summer of 2018 was our last tailgate performance. We started, I guess, at the top of 2017. Okay. We'd done it for like a year and a half or so at all the concerts we could do it at. And um, then it was March of 2019. We were inside uh on the main stage, yeah, with Riley and God, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

Good for you.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

It was uh it was crazy, you know, to have him that that quick. It was right off the back of that uh drop a tailgate EP that I had put out.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

God, that's so cool. Yeah, that's so cool. How did um Ryan, how did those early grassroots performances teach you about connecting with an audience?

Winning Crowds Without a Mic

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Oh, it taught me every I mean, really, really did. Like, because when I would, you know, playing at bars, it's it's one of the hardest things in the world. Like, even when I go out to dinner now, I'm I'm always so impressed. Just somebody's kind of over, you know, in the corner there, and there's a lot of people that don't, you know, they're not there to listen to music and to kind of win those people over. And then doing it out at the tailgates, it's really the same thing, kind of just with a lot more people, you know. Everybody's kind of looking at you and no one knows what to expect. And to get everybody kind of we would create these like huge, you know, crowds, you know. It really taught me taught me a lot, and it it translates now a ton.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

Do you get to go out like in um um where you live there at Lake Worth? Almost I had a brain fart. Skip happened. Um, do you um get to go out and still play in your hometown at all? Do you do anything like that? And I'm sure you have a lot of fans there, people that know you.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

Yeah, I do. There's um the a really special show that we did recently was actually at uh an amphitheater. It wasn't the same amphitheater, it was uh the Wellington Amphitheater, kind of down the street a little bit. And uh they had booked me to headline a festival, and uh we had broken, I guess, the attendance record. We had 12,000 people come to watch us play.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

And so that was just I mean, that's gotta be such a high. The walk out on that stage, uh, especially in your hometown. You get 12,000 people there to see you. It was yeah. Your neighbor. That's so cool. It was really cool. So you've um I I made a note here. Uh, you've independently released what, 27 songs across multiple EPs. Yeah. Um what's your creative process like from idea to the finished track?

SPEAKER_03 13:45

Wow, that's a great question. I've also never been asked that.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Um that's why it's skip happens, dude.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

I told you. Songs for me are are really interesting. They're they never start the same way. You know, I I'll have a lot of songs where I will live something and then I'll actually, you know, I'll I'll write that. You know, I'll have other things where I have just different titles, and I think my phone I have like 3,000 song titles I still need to write, you know, just constantly writing stuff down. And then I'll I'll have it a lot of times where, because I'm a guitar player really first, before anything, where I'm just picking on something and I find a cool, you know, vibe or or something, and then just the song almost happens in five minutes, you know. Um, and then you spend the next three months tweaking every little you know lyric of it. But um no, but but songs for me they they they always come in in different ways. But I my process, I guess, I I do write every day. I I do, I just it's kind of like I always tell my girlfriend this, it's it's like um, you know, some people golf and some people whatever. I sure I write songs, you know, that's really what I do. It's it's makes me happy and and it's uh it's just kind of my thing. So yeah, so so that's kind of the way that it starts, but then the way that it finishes, you know, is we we always go into Nashville and we record with the session players and family now, and and uh and and we do it, you know, we do it, do it really right.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

Yeah. Do you get the the same session players every time you go? I mean, so you've probably hooked up with a studio and then you know you contact these players and say, okay, I'm coming to town. I know they're in it to do what they do, but still.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

Yeah, I I work with a lot of the same uh sometimes we'll you know, I I worked with everybody from Tom Bukovac to you know Mark Hale to uh you know everybody, David Dorn, you know, everybody. But um yeah, we we have typically typically it's relatively the same group, give or take a person or two, and and give or typically the same studio, roughly.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Yeah, so you write every day. You get up and you write every day.

Writing Habits and Nashville Sessions

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Yeah, I do, I really do, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

But what about that moment where you say, you know, I just gotta walk away from this for for just a little bit, maybe for a couple of hours. What do you what do you do in that time? What do you do to free your mind from the songwriting? Do you get out and walk? Do you go and uh go down to the beach? What's up?

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Yeah, but both. Yeah, I do. I I I love walking. I really do. I think uh I get a lot of great ideas walking, so I do I that's exactly what I do. If I'm ever stuck on anything, I do I typically go for a walk, or yeah, you know, I'll go to the I will go to the beach if I'm in Florida, um, or I'll work out, you know, I've been in the for a long time. But yeah, typically for me it's a walk. If I go for a walk or um or take a shower, you know, one of the two, those are kind of my my two go-to's, and all of a sudden, you know, you get those ideas, you know.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

Yeah, yeah. You know, we um, you know, I was talking at the radio station this afternoon, and uh, you know, I'm like, well, while the girls were like, So who are you gonna have on your podcast today? I said, I got this guy, Ryan Montgomery. Yeah, here, let here, why don't you check him out? Do a little search. And all of a sudden, I could, they're like all gathering around their, you know, Becky's computer going, look at this guy. Oh my god, look at this guy. So I go and I take a look. I go, Oh my god, I can't because I'm not. And I give you a lot of credit for you're very much in shape, dude. That that's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

See, I I appreciate that. I felt the same way as soon as you turned on your camera. I thought, man, I don't know if I can make it through. No, stop over here. Come on, dude.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

I could be your grandpa. I'm just letting you know that. Oh, I'm not kidding. That's Tyler. Uh but you know, listening to Ryan, I sat back and I listened to some of the music this afternoon, and I I got the feeling, you know, you're blending rock, maybe a little bit of hip-hop, you get the traditional country sound. Was that intentional or did it just evolve naturally?

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Wow, that's yeah, another great question. It's um really a little a little bit of both. Um, I've always been from the start, you know, I I've been very aware of what my musical influences are, you know, like we talked about from the rock to hip-hop and reggae and everything.

SPEAKER_04 18:04

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

But over time, yeah, it definitely has. The the last record that we did, that Let the Night Roll record, that was, I feel like, the the first record where it really felt like after releasing all this music, that it really, it really came to really came together sound-wise, where it was like, okay, like every song is like it it does have kind of the thing. Do you know what I you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 18:31

Um, I get you.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

It's it it's it's definitely become a lot more intentional over the years of the production choices that that that we we shoot for.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

I love that. I love that. Yeah. So um we have Sun San Drinkin' My Hand. Oh, yeah. By the way, I love I love the title. Thank you. I mean, that that's perfect, especially where you are. That's perfect.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Thank you. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

But um, so you shot the music video for that.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

I've got I've got a look here, and hopefully it's online. Uh on your home beaches that shaped the story that you wanted to tell. So you did it all right there.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

We did, yeah. I I flew in. We're we were touring somewhere, and I had like two or three days before we were gonna go back out, I think. And and uh yeah, we went out uh on uh had a fishing boat in Florida and then just went out you know on the ocean and we had this like the most perfect day. It was so beautiful. We shot uh all the scenes, uh we saw dolphins and it was just like beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

Oh my god. Well you see those every day where you are.

SPEAKER_03 19:34

Come on. Yeah, it's it's it's tough to be. But uh yeah, we shot we shot it all. Uh we shot the cover um at kind of at my hometown beach, and we shot every yeah, every clip of the whole video was kind of right around my hometown in Lake Worth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Oh my god, I love that. What do you uh with the song Sun, Sand, Drink in My Hand, what do you hope listeners take away from that? And and maybe about slowing down and living in the moment.

SPEAKER_03 20:00

Yeah, that's that's exactly it. It's really it's the song's always been ever since I wrote it. It's it's it's for me too, really, you know, to listen to and and just kind of remember life can get crazy, you know. We all have uh a lot going on, you know, and uh just to kind of chill a little bit from it all and and to um remember to get out in the sun in the sand if you can and and enjoy life with the people that you love, you know.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

And by the way, it is on you just found it on YouTube, right, Ty? Yeah, you did. I can't hear you. It's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

Well, I I found the music or the song, but then a little more digging, I found the video.

Crafting a Sound: Rock, Reggae, Country

SPEAKER_00 20:44

Uh so he found it all. Okay. So you know it's there. We were we were talking about that earlier, so that's cool. But uh let's talk about some of the career milestones, your EPs. Uh you what we brought the party, chasing sunsets, letting see I did my homework. Uh we brought the party, chasing sunset and letting letting the night roll. How do you feel that your artistry has grown with all that?

SPEAKER_03 21:08

Wow. Um, I I I do feel like it's grown. I think it's I I started again when I was 18 years old, you know, and so um now I'm 26, just about to turn 27. So it's you know, it's uh I've just I've lived more life, you know, and I have more stories to tell. You know, we like to have a great time, you know, we like to we like to enjoy life. So there's a lot of party songs and and stuff that's so much fun to go out and play live. Um and then there's you know, there's there's some love songs, there's um there's a little bit of everything, you know, from I I try to just always be as real as I can in my music.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

And right, right, you know.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

And over time I think that uh that's kind of what it's turned into is just sort of you know, as you live more and more life, there's more stories to tell and more music.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

How was it uh working with Ashley Gorley?

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Oh my gosh, it incredible. I I Ashley's just you know, was a hundred number ones or or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

I lost count after a while, but I know I hear you. Yeah, and so what did you learn from that?

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Just the power of great songs, you know. I mean, he he just incredible. For anybody who who doesn't know, you know, Ashley is is one of the writers on Missing a Girl, um, a song that I had put out. And uh man, it I I was playing that song acoustic when we were kind of in the recording stages of it. I was just playing acoustic out live when we were touring, just to kind of gauge what people were were thinking. And right when we would start to hit that post-chorus, missing a girl, a girl like you, um, everybody by the second one would already be kind of singing it after their first time hearing it. And I was like, wow, that is special. He just has such a way of connecting with people, you know, and uh so it's been so much fun to get out and be able to play that song live and see how it how it's connected with people, you know.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

It's really wow. Hey, uh you don't have to answer this if you don't want to. Um you're in your middle 20s, correct? Yeah, 26?

SPEAKER_03 23:13

26, yeah. Got that right, bam.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Okay, so do you realize that you've already released more music than some artists do in a decade? Do you realize that? This is you, Ryan Montgomery. Yeah, and but how do you stay motivated and organized? Come on, dude. When I was 26, I was all over the road. I'm just, you know.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Yeah, yeah. You know, I I mean, geez. Um, I just I love what I do. I really do. Honestly, as corny and cliche as that's no, no, it's not.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

I love what I do. That's cool.

Sun, Sand, Drinkin’ My Hand

SPEAKER_03 23:47

I love making music, you know, like my friends or girlfriend or or you know, family or whatever is like, oh, like let's go on this vacation or let's do this or let's do that. And I'm always like, oh, I just, you know, I want to write this song. Oh, oh, I need to, I need to probably be in the studio. I need to have this, I like to have fun, I like to live life, but I really do I love to love to work, you know. I just do. I absolutely love it.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Nothing wrong with that. That's that's I love that. And more people need to be like you.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

So I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

And and uh, you know, I I was reading that, you know, you're selling out these venues. I mean, you talked about 12,000 people here a little bit ago, but you're selling out venues uh maybe from a thousand to five thousand overall. What's the most surreal moment that you've had on tour so far?

SPEAKER_03 24:32

Man, um there's been so many. One that really sticks out is uh when we had I had released Whiskey and Smoke, and it was the first I think I had released it on like a Friday, and then the a week later on a Friday or a Saturday, we were gonna go play it. It was the first time playing it live, no one had ever heard it or anything, and uh we had come out, it was in Florida, a place called the Barn in Sanford, Florida.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

Love that place.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

And um I came out on stage and uh about halfway through our show, I was like, hey, we're gonna play this new song, Whiskey and Smoke. Hope you guys love it. Everyone went pretty crazy, and then as soon as I sang the first kind of drop chorus there where everything drops out, the whole place is just screaming every single word of the chorus. I was like, wow, like it was just such a fast, you know, like we put the song out. I didn't expect anybody was gonna know it. And a week later, everybody knew it, and then now, of course, it's kind of the biggest song, and and people come to the show just to hear it.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

And um, yeah, it's it's uh well you know, a lot of it, a lot of it is the power of social media.

SPEAKER_03 25:37

Hundreds of people.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

You know, you put those songs out, people know you, and you've got the followers now. You put out a song, they're gonna know it before you even play it live. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 25:49

Absolutely. Yeah, the power of social media is incredible now, yes.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Yeah, you're kind of freezing. There you are, you're freezing up here a little bit, and I got you. I don't know why you're freezing up, you're in Florida. That shouldn't be the case. But um just kidding. That's a bad joke. Um so uh do you have any favorite or funny stories from the road where maybe things got a little cray cray?

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Yeah, what I mean, what do you want to know? It's endless.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

I don't know. What one sticks out in your mind? Something must have happened.

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SPEAKER_03 26:18

Gosh, endless stories. Um something crazy. Jeez. Um man, I don't know. I mean, uh probably one of the craziest uh times, you know, that uh that that that festival that I uh had played at in West Palm, you know, with Kip Moore and Riley Green and Morgan Mullen. Uh after our set, Morgan kind of busted into our our green room and he was like, that was great, that was amazing, you know. And it was just so, you know, so fun and and so kind and uh ended up kind of after everybody else played, just hanging out and drinking and having a good time, kind of, you know, on his bus. And uh that was a lot of fun. That was pretty crazy. And oh, I guess we did have one time on tour. Uh this was just happened to be in the area, and uh went to uh uh see Florida, Georgia line. It was kind of one of my uh idols, and uh ended up at this cool party thing that they had going on, and and uh that was a lot of fun too. So it's been a lot of fun on the road, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

Yeah, it sounds it, and uh I don't know how do you you know with Florida Georgia line now with Brian and Tyler Tyler, they've gone their own separate ways, you know. We've done shows with both of them, but uh they're not gonna get back together from the sounds of it. So yeah, yeah, you know both yeah. So I I gotta say, uh Kristen is on there. Did you ever expect to make an amazing video for an amazing song and walk away with a beautiful love of your life on your arm?

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Oh, that's a great question. Um I didn't. I I think what she's probably talking about is uh probably the whiskey and smoke music video that we shot. I ended up getting my girlfriend on set for that music video, and no, that was completely unexpected, and it was really uh really, really amazing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Yeah, and she put whiskey and smoke has a solid spot on my car rides home.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

So there you go. See, I mean that that's you're making a statement, even doing what you're doing with the social media and all that. People know who you are, which is pretty cool. Pretty cool. Yeah, how do you um, Ryan, how do you keep your Florida roots alive when you're on the road across the country?

SPEAKER_03 28:34

Uh I I I try to stay in touch with my family as much as I can. You know, I really do. We my family comes out on tour with us as much as possible, and um I talk to my grandparents all the time and um really, really close with my family. So that's uh definitely helps with my with my with that a lot, 100%.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Now you must uh I mean you were doing this, you know, on your own for quite a while, then you started working with some pretty top engineers.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Um, I know Pete Lyman is one of those. And how has that elevated your sound?

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SPEAKER_03 29:09

Tons. Pete, uh, Pete and Reed both. Um Pete Lyman masters has mastered wow, almost everything I've put out. And uh man, he's mastered everything from Chris Stapleton to Halsey, you know, everything. Pete's just incredible and amazing guy. And uh and Reed the same way. Reed's mixed uh almost everything I've put out from Mexico Memories was the first song we did together on now, and uh so lots of years of working on music, and uh they have helped shape my sound tremendously and also just been uh, you know, I consider both family and just uh incredible, incredible people.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

You know, you gotta have that relationship.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

100%.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

You know, if you want it to sound the way you want it to sound, you gotta have that relationship. Absolutely. And you, you know, going back though, you produced much of your own work. What's your favorite part of being hands-on in the studio? I mean, obviously you're hands-on there at home. But what's your favorite part of uh you know being hands-on in the studio?

SPEAKER_03 30:11

I think it's my favorite part is again being a guitar player, like being able to, just like with songs, when things hit you, being able to articulate what it is that I'm hearing. You know, hey, I think we need to go to the four there, or hey, I need to, I think we need to go to minor six there, or whatever it is, and being able to kind of pitch and catch a little bit with um the session players that that I work with, and and being able to kind of have an idea and to actually get it to end up the way that you're kind of hearing it, you know, in in your mind. Kind of the art of producing, I I think. So yeah, it's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Yeah. How do you balance though? I mean, the business side of things. Uh, I know you have a team now. I know I think it was Mary that uh your manager she got us all hooked up to do this. And I thank her very much for doing that, as well as you coming on. But how do you manage the business side, you know, your social media, your ticket sales, your marketing, uh, with your creative side of being an artist? Do you have somebody else that does all that for you, or are you hands-on with that as well?

SPEAKER_03 31:15

A little bit of both. I I have a lot of amazing people that I work with, but I um you're definitely very much at the at the wheel with with everything. I I just always like everything to I don't ever want people, whether it's on social media or whatever, to like I I respond to every comment on social media, you know.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 31:35

I try to respond to as many messages as as I can as I, you know, as I get. Um people make videos, I always try to, you know, respond to them because I really I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

That's cool.

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SPEAKER_03 31:46

Yeah, um, it means the world that people are connecting with the music and connecting with when I'm posting. And and so I'm I'm involved as much as I can. Uh everyone tells me maybe a little bit too much. You know, they tell me that I need to sleep and I need to chill out a little bit. But yeah, I I I just, you know, I I really appreciate anybody that's uh like this. You know what when this came up, I always I appreciate, you know.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

You know, it's not, you know, I'm just this is the real deal what we're doing here tonight. I know there's so many, so many podcasts out there, so many interviews out there. I mean, but this is something I've been doing for a lot of years, a whole lot of years, just like you've been a musician for quite a while. Um, I take it very serious and I enjoy. I love what I do, and and we have a great conversation, you know? Yes, exactly. So that being said, what did you do today?

SPEAKER_03 32:35

Wow, uh, what did I not do today? It's probably the question. Uh I woke up, we uh gosh, I I did do some social media stuff today. Um emails, all that different stuff. We have uh a lot of fun stuff coming up uh next year, just touring-wise and and everything. So uh I always like to kind of know what's going on with that. Um I wrote songs as I always do. I'm trying to think if there's something that was really unusual today. Um go to the beach. I worked out. I worked out, did not go to the beach today. Okay, pretty hardcore. Um, yeah, it was a lot of work today, but pretty much a typical uh pretty call today.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

It's what you do. I guess pretty sure. No, I I see pictures of a tour bus. Do you have your own bus?

SPEAKER_03 33:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

How freaking cool at your age that you've got your own bus. Well, it's because you've written more songs than most people do in a decade, but or not more songs, but that's cool. So the red bus is yours.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

Yeah, that's very cool.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

It's been amazing. You know, it really has been to, you know, when you're we've done everything from cars and we've done vans, we've flown, we've done everything, and to to have a bus and to be able to sleep on it and to have a kitchen and uh just kind of have everybody again, everybody in my crew is like family, and to just have everybody kind of all of us having a good time. It's just it's it's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

And we need you uh I'm just reading these mess here. I don't know if you can see the screen or not, but there she is again.

SPEAKER_03 34:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

So we gotta get you up into the northeast.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

We're working on it. Yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Yeah, have you uh had that opportunity to be up in the northeast at all?

SPEAKER_03 34:16

We've never played in the northeast. Never played in the northeast and we've never really played uh out west, really. It's our our touring has mainly been in the southeast and the Midwest. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Uh-huh. But I think as you're expanding here and the music that you're putting out and you're growing, I think it's only a matter of time and uh to get you up here because I mean you do have a following. There's no doubt. You do have a following.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

That's what's cool to see is with social media now. You can see kind of on everything where you know, where everybody's at. And it's cool to kind of see a picture of the whole country and see how many people are listening from where. But yeah, I I would love to come up there and play.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Have you ever even visited?

SPEAKER_03 34:55

Have you up in the north? Yeah, I mean, I've been to, I was just in New York um a little bit earlier this year. I would I was up uh kind of just in in New York City. Uh, my sister wanted to go up there for her birthday.

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SPEAKER_00 35:08

That's a different country. I just want to let you know, New York City is different. We are like upstate New York. You gotta go, you gotta go up a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 35:15

I have been up, I have been upstate New York. I can't think of where I was. We had a water ski tournament one time, uh upstate New York, and I couldn't believe uh I couldn't believe what a different world it was. And it was like being out in the country. It was beautiful, yeah. It's so beautiful, yeah. It really is.

SPEAKER_00 35:33

This time of the year it's gonna be absolutely you know, it gets to be absolutely beautiful because the trees, the leaves are turning collars, and it's just you know, we have the Adirondacks, which you know, not far from here. We're in central New York, smack dab in the middle. But uh, you know, see what what you you need to talk to your people because you could do a run. Here's here's what we do with a lot of artists. We we hook them up in Albany, New York, then they take the throughway, which is Route 90, next to Syracuse. That's good. Then you go a little bit further, you're in Rochester, okay, and then after that, you hit Buffalo. So you can hit four major markets. Bam, bam, bam, bam.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Sign me up.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

Where do I sign up? Well, I'd like to see you. Hey, talk talk to Mary. I don't know who you gotta talk to, but it definitely got to make a stop in Syracuse, and we definitely take care of you. Uh Ryan, what's next? More singles, full-length album, maybe a new collaboration. What's going on?

SPEAKER_03 36:26

Uh, we have something really cool coming out of January that I'm really excited about. So that's gonna be coming, and then we are uh recording. I'm always writing, and and we're recording a lot right now. So uh there's gonna be a never a never-ending stream of music that you're gonna hear.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

So they're gonna keep and I I did release a uh a piano version for a song I put out called In Love with Loving You. I put I put that out on uh last Friday, that came out, and the response on that's been so cool. So that just came out.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Yeah, and so how many how many instruments do you play? Yeah, of course, you you do guitar, but you play the piano as well.

SPEAKER_03 37:01

Yeah, I play uh acoustic guitar. Well, on stage I play acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and uh uh banjo on stage. Um, and then uh just playing. I I I do play drums, I play bass, I play uh piano. Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

That's cool, though. That's talent. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

Thank you. I love playing.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Uh what about a dream duet or even a tour lineup? If you could anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 37:30

That's a that's a good question. Man, I don't you know, we've been talking a lot about uh uh recently. I feel like such a cool feature um would be on Whiskey and Smoke to get Kelsey Ballerini on that song. I think so cool. So we'll see if uh Yeah, that'd be cool. That'd be really cool. She um we were on tour and and uh we we had posted something, uh I think my girlfriend was singing to her song or something, and she had commented on it. So I thought, yeah, there we go, maybe we'll see.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

Yeah, no, that's awesome. And she's a sweetheart. I mean, Kelsey's just awesome.

SPEAKER_03 38:04

She is, yeah, she's super sweet.

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SPEAKER_00 38:06

Awesome. So if um, you know, even even though you're only 26, you definitely got a lot of experience under your belt, so to speak. If you could give advice to an 18-year-old or even my producer that's sitting over here on my left that you can't see, Tyler, who does pick up a guitar on occasion and he wants to do a little bit of this. Um, what advice would you give, and let's say to Tyler sitting on that tailgate? What would it be?

SPEAKER_03 38:32

Wow. Um, this was uh something I said the other day. Uh I don't remember who I was talking to, but I was like, I need to like make this a quote. This was like something cool that I said. It was um, I said, uh have the patience, you know, like you're gonna you can do it for a lifetime, whatever it is that you're doing, but put the level of work ethic into it as if you were gonna try to make it happen tomorrow. And I really think that's kind of that's kind of the thing, you know, whether it's music or whatever, whatever it's in, you gotta be patient because some people will rush it and then they just you know it's not happening fast enough. And then some people the opposite that, oh I'm gonna start this, you know, and they just kind of never get around to starting. And I think it's like you're not gonna probably be good in the beginning, you know. Uh I certainly was horrific in the beginning, and you hopefully can get better, you know, and and learn and be open to feedback and and just grow, you know.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

How important is feedback though for you? I mean, and how do you handle like, you know, there's negativity with there's positive and there's negative. So how do you handle all that?

SPEAKER_03 39:36

I think feedback uh as an artist is is hard because I think it's especially depends on who it's coming from, but in the music business, because the thing about music that's really tough is that it's taste. You know, you can listen to someone's song and say, oh, that's terrible, and someone else listens to it and loves it. And that's like that with any song with any artist. So it's like it's a balancing game of of trying to, at least for me, trying to always be authentic and stay true to yourself and putting out what you want to, but at the same time, being able to, you know, not have an ego about it and be able to listen to fans, you know, and and listen, look at what they're listening to and what they're not listening to. And if you have great friends that are, you know, artists or songwriters or just in the business or even friends and family, just try to be open. And it I think it is a balancing act because I I have seen that and I've I've fallen into that trap too, of just it can go one way or the other quickly, or you can listen to listen to people a little too much and lose a little bit of yourself, or you can be like, oh, everything I do is just great, and and maybe it isn't so great, you know.

SPEAKER_00 40:43

So yeah, when you go to the beach, do you have a uh a certain playlist that you use like when you go to the beach? Now, I mean, I'm not talking about driving around in the truck or doing whatever you do, but you go to the beach, you want to relax. What's on that playlist?

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Kenny Chesney. There it is. And my favorite Kenny Chesney song, uh, that I've never said before, is a song called Marley. It is great, and no one probably has ever heard it. So if you haven't heard that song, check it out.

SPEAKER_00 41:09

I will. I will. Absolutely. That is cool. Uh, beer, tequila, or rum drink.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

Oh god, that's whiskey's not in the mix.

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SPEAKER_00 41:19

Well, you know, I mean, it's not what I wrote down. I mean, I go to Nashville, I'll have a whiskey, but uh, you know, see or I guess you know Jack Daniels.

SPEAKER_03 41:27

We probably said it best. It depends where I'm at, probably. I don't know. Um now uh tequila and rum is that that's a tough one.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

I don't know on that one. All right, let me ask you this.

SPEAKER_03 41:40

Three things you can't go on tour without uh um probably uh a pair of jeans would be important, otherwise uh that would be tough. Um probably uh well you would take several pairs of it, right? Yes, I do take several pairs. But uh uh the tour bus would be important. It would not be good to forget that.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

No, okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

And uh my dog would be a great what do you have?

SPEAKER_00 42:09

Tell me about your dog.

SPEAKER_03 42:10

He's a Doberman. He's a big ass dog. Yeah, he's huge. He's a hundred pounds, I guess 110 pounds, uh, last I heard. And uh yeah, he's he's huge and he's so sweet. But uh, but yeah, he he he does a good job too of you know who's supposed to be you know around and who's not supposed to be around.

SPEAKER_00 42:29

He's he's usually on the bus with you?

SPEAKER_03 42:31

He usually is, yes. Yeah, he's he's sweetheart.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

And what's his name?

SPEAKER_03 42:35

His name's Gibson.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

Gibson, I love it. Like for the guitar? Okay, all right, all right, all right. Uh what's your favorite venue that you've ever played?

SPEAKER_03 42:45

Oh my gosh. Um man, uh it would probably be between two of the, I guess, bigger venues would be my amphitheater and West Palm. Sure. The Korsky Amphitheater is always so important. And then uh we played a festival a few months ago uh down in uh Miami Marine Stadium. And that was cool too, because that was in Florida, and uh it was with uh you played with with Carrie Underwood and Diplo and Zach Brown band.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

And um, it was just such an amazing lineup, and that it was uh the venue was so cool. It was right on the right on the you know, down there at the menu on the bay, and and such a cool venue. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

Yeah, what about Red Rocks?

SPEAKER_03 43:28

Uh that's a huge bucket list. I want to play that.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

It's not my bucket list to go to a show there.

SPEAKER_03 43:32

Yeah, that's well, there you go. When we play out there, that would be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Yeah, well, yeah, but yeah. I'll give you my number, my address, you can send me the invite, and I'll be there. I I definitely do that. Uh so um, what's a hidden talent that fans might be surprised to know about you? Oh well, I mean, you do everything. You water ski, you play hockey, you I don't know. Is there anything we forgot?

SPEAKER_02 43:54

A hidden talent.

SPEAKER_03 43:55

Uh well, I guess not a lot of people know they learn when they my VIPs that come through my my meet and greet. Uh I write left-handed. So kind of an interesting thing.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

Do you really? Yeah. I do everything else right-handed, but I write left-handed.

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SPEAKER_03 44:12

Me too. Except for I surf. I surf left foot forward, which is really weird because I really I water ski and wakeboard right foot forward, but I surf left foot forward. Everything else, yeah, football and everything I do right-handed. Hockey, right-handed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

Yeah. When was the last time you put on a pair of skis?

SPEAKER_03 44:27

Oh my gosh. I probably when I was Oh my god, that a while ago. 14 or 15.

SPEAKER_00 44:34

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_03 44:34

But I do wake surf. I try to wake surf.

SPEAKER_00 44:36

Uh, I'll get out as much as I can. What about uh ice hockey?

SPEAKER_03 44:41

Yeah, long time.

SPEAKER_00 44:42

Long time, long time.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

Probably shortly after ice hockey.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

But do you go to the games? Do you go to you head up to Tampa Tampa watch because if I'm not mistaken, Tampa Bay is the parent club of the Syracuse Crunch hockey team.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

Are they really?

SPEAKER_00 44:59

I believe so.

unknown 45:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 45:00

Wow, I did not know that. Yeah, I've seen several games uh at the Lightning Arena there, and then uh same with the Panthers too. You know, I I go and we I was actually there at the uh I didn't get to go. We were playing somewhere, I think, to the the final, but I did come into town for the uh we I went to one of the playoff games this uh this year.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Yeah, so um do you follow a certain hockey team?

SPEAKER_03 45:26

Not really. You know, I I what probably my favorite team growing up was always the Capitals. I loved the Capitals, love uh Ovechkin. I got to meet a few times. Yeah, and uh so but I'm I was actually recording, I think it was my debut EP. It was either my first or second EP, I was recording, and I missed when they won the Stanley Cup. So everyone had texted me, you know, and I totally I had missed that. So yeah, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

So uh are you gonna have somebody like uh oh Kristen just put let's go predators? Oh, that's the Nashville team, of course. She's yeah, I I know, I know. Um, but um what about radio? You do you is your team gonna start pushing some of your music, uh if they haven't already, to radio a little bit more? It needs to be heard.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

I I I do think that's gonna be a part of what we're gonna be doing. Uh six. Uh we are gonna be, you know, it's always cool when uh I'll see some stations are playing it and fans will post it and whatever it's cool, but yeah, definitely want to start uh getting it.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

Gotta get on that chart, man.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Yeah, 100% harder.

SPEAKER_00 46:34

I and there's no doubt in my mind that you can't do that because I mean, just what I've seen online and I've heard about you and the music and needs to be heard, and that's golden, man. That's that's golden.

SPEAKER_03 46:46

What's your favorite song? Just out of curiosity.

SPEAKER_00 46:48

Oh my god, you're gonna ask me. Look, dude. You know how many songs a day I play? Serious. I mean, on the air.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

Uh Montgomery song, favorite Ryan Montgomery song.

SPEAKER_00 46:58

Oh man, I'm I favorite Ryan Montgomery song would be uh whiskey and uh smoke.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

Whiskey and smoke, okay, cool. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

That's what it is right now. I've I've got to give the other one a listen, though.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

Yeah, no, no, but uh my fa your fate that's my favorite Ryan Montgomery song. But uh God, if you were to ask me what my favorite song is, I love it when when the guests ask questions because now it becomes a little too easy. But you know what? I will not you know, because it's you and you know, I was talking about your music directly, but overall, I don't know if I can say I have a favorite song because you know what? I like them all. I like them all. A lot that way to you, you know. Um I heard some music today from an artist by the name of Atlas.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

Uh-huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:50

A T L U S.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 47:52

Uh he actually came by the radio station today. And uh I'm gonna be honest with you, I was blown away.

SPEAKER_03 47:59

Yeah, I think I know exactly who you're talking about.

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SPEAKER_00 48:01

Yeah, yeah, and if you haven't looked it up, I highly recommend that you do. It's just, you know, he's got his own sound, like you have your own sound. I mean, I listen to you and your music blows me away. He's got the it's just I thought it was really good. So that's kind of like wow.

unknown 48:16

Absolutely, I love.

SPEAKER_00 48:17

Absolutely. Uh my station needs to start playing your music. All right, Kristen. Yeah, you know, she's like um because she I think she might have reached out on you to you on socials saying you need to be on the Skip Happens podcast. And then I had I in the meantime, I had sent Mary a note through Messenger, and then she emailed me, and then you know, here we are. But I think Kristen got it all started. So I love it.

SPEAKER_03 48:47

Well, thank you, Chris. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

Yeah, yeah. Well, she thinks you are amazing, and uh, we all think you're amazing. And um, you know, just I just want to say thanks for coming on tonight.

SPEAKER_03 48:57

Oh my god, of course. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_00 49:00

What's it what's the temperature there right now?

SPEAKER_03 49:02

Uh today actually was pretty nice. I was out this morning and it was like it was like 82, 83. So we're starting to get to a territory where it's not unbearably hot.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

Yeah, or hot or humid. Well, maybe you still have a little bit of humidity.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

So yeah, yeah, it was it was it was tolerable today, which was nice.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

Yeah, I was in in the Carolinas. Um was it Greenville just last weekend, and it was it was close to 80. Yeah, but it was very pleasant, which was a big change.

SPEAKER_03 49:32

So yeah, amazing. I love Greenville. We were we were just in uh Charlotte. I don't think it was not last week, but I think the week before we were just in Charlotte. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

Yeah, it's a great place. Uh Ryan, I want to say thanks for coming on. It's uh it's been an awesome conversation with you. Um, you know, finding out about your Florida roots and of course Sun Sand, drinking my hand. And uh I'll I'm gonna make sure I put the link to that, like underneath this when all this gets posted. So um you know, viewers, listeners can go on there and uh listen to it. So that it uh it's this is just the beginning of a huge career. Um you know, and if you're watching this or you're you know, you're listening to this either way, uh, make sure you go stream the song, watch the music video, catch him on tour when he hits a hits your tone. You gotta do that. Uh and don't forget, you can watch the full episode right here on our YouTube channel, uh youtube.com forward slash at skip happens podcast. Uh big thanks to you, Ryan, hanging out with me tonight. Um you know what? Just an honor. Uh but uh thank you for taking the time. I know you're a busy man. You got some time off and you spent it with me.

SPEAKER_02 50:40

Thank you. I I wouldn't have picked anywhere else to be, so thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_00 50:43

You're so awesome. Skip happens, dude.

SPEAKER_02 50:45

Skip happens.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

Just remember that. Anytime something happens now, you gotta just go, skip happens. I was on that guy's podcast, so it's skip happens. I don't know, something like that. All right, Ryan, we're gonna sign off. Thank you for watching, everybody. And uh, Tyler, would you like to ask anything? You're over there. Uh speak up.

Dream Collabs and Advice to Beginners

SPEAKER_01 51:05

Super random, but anytime do you feel like you talked about the punk rock early on? You ever feel like just switching it up and like throwing a blank 182 song on? On a record or on tour.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 51:19

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we I'm trying to think. We play we play a couple covers in the set now, but we don't play any punk rock songs. But oh yeah, for sure. So much fun to play live.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 51:29

We're gonna do that. Well, we play up there. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna throw that in the set.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

There you go. Anything else, Ty? I never, you know, here he he works with me doing this stuff, and then he's like, Well, I don't know.

unknown 51:44

I don't know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

No, he's a good kid.

unknown 51:47

He's a good kid.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

All right, Ryan. Uh, thank you so much for coming on tonight. Uh stay right there. We're gonna sign off, but don't go anywhere right yet. But thank you for watching, everybody. Remember, subscribe if you go to youtube.com forward slash at skip happens podcast. It's that simple. Good night, everybody. Ryan, thanks again. Stay right there.