Ep 1424 | A Dream Gig with Hank Williams Jr. Sparks a Controversy About Our Place in Culture

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How did Zach’s adult children land a dream gig opening for Hank Williams Jr.?

Jase Robertson 0:01
I am
Zach Robertson 0:02
unashamed. What about you?
Jase Robertson 0:06
Welcome back to Unashamed. Um, Zach, we the the last podcast we were you had mentioned before something about uh What your kids are doing, your Oh I got a phone call. I assuming you mean your singing your singing children, your adult children. They're
Zach Robertson 0:21
not kids. Zach.
Al Robertson 0:24
What do you call yours? Your offspring? What do you say when you br when you reference 'em?
Zach Robertson 0:29
My grown adult children.
Jase Robertson 0:32
He has two adjectives in front of him.
Al Robertson 0:35
Wow, that's a lot. That's a lot to keep up with. Well no, Jill calls me yesterday and said, Have you talked to Layla? Have you talked to Layla today? I said, No, she called me. I hadn't called her back yet. I've been recording podcasts all day. I and she says, Well you need to call her and you need to put me on speakerphone. Well, I'm thinking I mean, what would you think if they if if somebody I would
Jase Robertson 0:50
think she may be expecting
Zach Robertson 0:53
every time my wife says something like that, I say, Well let me just say, no matter what this is about They're grown adults. We don't wanna be hover parents. Leave and cleave. That doesn't just that doesn't just apply to the To the young people, that applies to the parents. Yes. They will leave their father and mother. Well that th it doesn't address the father and mother, but that means You have to let 'em go.
Al Robertson 1:20
You gotta let 'em go. There's no doubt. So well s I uh I called Lady expecting her to tell me that she is pregnant and but instead she said, You're not gonna believe who we're opening for. I said, Who who 'cause they yeah, they're kind of on t they're on tour with Larry right now But they also kinda do some other shows. They open up for Some guy out in Montana, I can't remember who that was. And that uh
Zach Robertson 1:42
there's a lot of Larry's actually Larry Fleet Fleet. Uh my my father in law is named Larry. Not that Larry.
Al Robertson 1:50
They're not open for Larry Which would be that'd be quite a good
Zach Robertson 1:54
show there. If they sang and then Larry pre I think it'd be great.
Al Robertson 1:57
Well, Larry wrote a book called Uh Strings Against the Wind or something. So he's all he's all about that guitar picking. Um, but they uh No, she says she said, You're not gonna believe who we're opening for and I said, Who? And she said Hank Williams junior. I said that. That is I said, Do you realize that uh you would not be here without Hank Williams Junior? And she's like, What are you talking about? I said, The very first date. that I took your mom on. We were we went to Shorty's Smalls, which is a barbecue place in Little Rock, Arkansas. I don't know if it's still there. I got the barbecue ribs. I still remember what I was wearing and what what Jill was wearing that night. And so we went walking downtown and they had a Hank Williams Junior concert going on downtown Little Rock and I found a a you know me, uh you guys are making fun of me for being cheap.
Al Robertson 2:50
I was cheap back then. I found a hill There was like a open little hill area overlooking the
Jase Robertson 2:57
So you didn't have to buy tickets.
Al Robertson 2:58
I didn't buy tickets. And we watched the entire show and uh and that was like our first date where we where the magic the magic happened under the moonlight. listening to Hank Williams Junior so I said, You're here we are full circle. I never would have thought in that moment, I never would have if you'd have said you guys are gonna get married one day, you're gonna have kids. And they're gonna be opening in concert for that guy, I would I would have been like, No, well I I'd never w that that would had never crossed my imagination but Well yeah, so they're that's why That's
Jase Robertson 3:28
pretty remarkable.
Zach Robertson 3:29
Well what's remarkable is we left off on the last podcast saying we were gonna talk about the end of times and Which we also off camera talked about 'cause I did my little dove uh tail. And I said, Well, wouldn't it be nice to to put prints on And have a little when the doves cry. But then I realized, because I didn't know that that cost money. And Zach is so tight. Well now what you said was you
Al Robertson 4:02
said everybody all these other podcasts have bumper music and all this stuff. Why don't we have that? And then Maddie said, Well, that costs money.

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