Chuck Wicks

Chuck Wicks in the house. What what? You probably recognize his voice from every morning when you're listening to the radio to Tie Chuck and Kelly. Chuck is the Chuck of Tie Chuck and Tuck. Oh my gosh, say that three times fast, Tie Chuck and Gilly, and he's joining me. He also had a huge hit stealing Cinderella. When he launched into country music a few years ago. We talked all about his journey with country music to Dancing the

Stars to radio. It's all happening right now. Here's Chuck Wicks. Hey, Chuck Wicks, what's up. I've been trying to get you on my podcast now for I think a solid year. I've been waiting patiently. You have figured out really polite ways to blow me off on a regular racist. I'm busy. Yeah, I gotta go to the bathroom several times a day. I just combed my hair. I brushed my teeth. It's a fine time. Between all that. There's a lot, you know, I love you. I just wanted to wait until you know,

I got my own studio. Yes, okay, and better lighting and now I and now I don't like it because clearly we're an HD and I just I didn't wear any makeup today. You didn't any makeup for all the people at home. Well, I think you're looking right, thank you. That was fishing. I was fishing. Yeah, you're not shiny or anything. You just look great. The coloring is nice, thank you. I I do Keels. You do. You have to get Michael Keels. He actually go Sirium first. Okay,

so this is your routine. What's your beaute serious stuff? Guys, Sirium, got some guys in the behind the cameras right now. You gotta do the serum, Sirium. Then you go age defender right here, around here and then you go, you know, your your standard lotion. Do you do this every day? Twice a day? I just started about two months ago. Have you noticed the difference. You don't seem like there's

any wrinkles in your face? Thank you so much. Wait till I laugh and smile, though, then you will see them. There's a laugh line though. Yeah. I look back now. I feel like I'm really old now, like I'm talking like, oh my god, you're about to be forty. That's why Kim Kardashian never smiles. I'm telling you because the lines. People don't And there's girls that are in her twenties doing botox now, right, They say to prevent it's preventative. Yeah,

that's what I'm doing. I'm a little late to the party, but guys should be. I should be about ten years later. I haven't. I haven't gone botox. I don't think i'll ever go botox route. I don't love guys with botox. Even though I know your image, I don't know they got botox because you can kind of tell because it's the sidelines. Like when guys, here's here's what goes away when you get botox. You have no lines. On the

side and your forehead is frozen. And once you know that, you can see it like see, like I'm so excited, I'm not really raising my eyes. Can you tell? So you do botox? Yeah? Don't. Bow talks about how long you've been doing bot talk? Oh see, I started a little younger. You know Taylor Lynn, my former bandmate, she was seven years older than me, so she got me started.

When that's why you can't hang out with older chicks, I know, because they get you into all their stuff and then you start talking older, acting older, acting older, doing older things right again, bo talks. Actually, you know you're in a wheelchair, right and your thirty five? You got a walker with two little tennis balls in the front. So what's the moral of this story? Don't do botox unless you absolutely have to? Or good to Keels. I'm not sponsored by Keels, but I should should be. I

should be because that's it's expensive. Can I cuss on your podcast? Ship is expensive? That ship is expensive? I sorry to get that out of my first cuss word. I win. It wasn't a bad one though, pretty good. Would you like to cuss? I love the cuss? What's your favorite cuss? Word. Oh jeez um, probably, I mean I want to be I want to be a somewhat sophisticated up here. The F word is my favorite one. I'll go for that one. Happy or sad or mad? Right,

it's biting for everything. Yes, I preferred happy. If you say when you're happy, you're having a good time, somewhat goodfense. Okay, So can I ask you a few rapid fire questions? Those weren't rapid fire, We're not. That was just combo. Let's go what energizes you? Uh? Monster energy drink? Oh you throw those back as healthy as you are. You drink three today? You're like training for an iron man? Right? Well, yeah, Octobery, you've already done one before. Yes, I did one in Honu,

Hawaii last year. What goes on with that swim bike run? Do you have just like a ton of energy to put places? Because that is it's almost crazy that you're doing that again for the second time, right, Yeah, I mean it's a it's a lot of training. How did you get this bug to do that? My buddy was I went to college with because I played baseball in college, so I was I missed that competitive edge, so I wanted. I wanted something more. I wanted something to drive me

and something to like a real physical challenge. Yeah, I wanted something to make me good because I've never been a meat head. Like, I don't want to go to the gym just to look good on the beach. I want to go to the gym and be healthy for a for a lifestyle change, right. So, but I also wanted to have a competitive edge to it, so I wanted to. I jumped into triathlons because my buddy did.

From college, he did sprint triathlon. So of course I said, well, I gotta go a step further and say I'll just do iron Man's because that's like the highest you can get in triathlon. Yeah, iron Man is, here's a full and a half iron Man. I do a lot of half iron Man's. Full iron Man's are They're tough on your body. This will be my October will be my

fourth iron Man. I'm doing half half. I have to tell everybody that because I made the mistake and he said, oh, yeah, I'm doing the iron Man honey, and they're like, and so of course people that do the iron Man's are like, dude, that's only the half iron man haters getting on there? So tell me what happens in the half iron Man.

This is half the distance of the full iron Man, but I don't know what the full one point two mile swim, This half iron Man at one point two mile swim, fifty six mile bike and I still want to get you. And then the half a half marathon one all in succession. So do you have a favorite one that you like? Running the very end sooners and then I get a beer. I would say, what do you do when you finish? I give them a little metal and I grab a beer. Do you let yourself

walk or do you let yourself take breaks? Or is it important to you that you just do the whole thing? Now? You go for it, You go for it, You gotta go for it. Wow, that's a lot of drive you got there. That's exciting. That is exciting. Okay, would you ever do that? Would you ever do it? I did a half marathon, counts did have marathon, and I have done a train for Amazing race twice, so I think I could do it, but I don't have the desire

to do it. Amazing Race is more of a game, though, That's not like you're you say so, but you have no idea how exhausting amazing. I saw clips of you on amazing race, and I was like, you thought it was just easy. It looks like Jennifer's hold not most of the way. On this one, we had a lot of did you win? We lost by four seconds and you're on twice both times, so you lost both times. We got fourth place the first time, we got second place, the second time we lost by four seconds the second time.

That's crazy awful. Did you were you the slow one? No? I was the man of the relationship. I like Jin was my damsel. I used to tell her all the time. I was like, you're my bride. I'm taking care of you because Jin is so smart in her head. She's good at figuring things out, but she like physically she would love to be cruising in a train with a glass of wine while the people are doing the running activities.

You know, Jennifer Wayne is who we're talking about, my former bandmate is a fast walker but a slow runner. How do you know this? Do you just have to kind of look at her for about ten seconds and figure it out? Like she walk very fast running I don't see her running very fast? How did you even know to have that thought? I don't know. Is that what you think about when you see people? Was like, I wonder you like pin them when they're walking running speed? No,

it's just this, just this instance right now. I was like, she's a fast I figured her out. We should call her and tell her. She's probably been wondering your whole life? Do you feel like running? No? Just walk really faster here? All right? Wait? You crazy? Okay? What exhaust you? Um? Oh man, I'm very impatient? Okay, so um, I get impatient a lot, and I just want to move on from from whatever is happening. Like what do you normally

get impatient about waiting, just waiting around for anything? Is it normally career focus or is it just all aspects of life? No? I got I gave up on on the putting time into the career part a long time ago. I just said, I just figured it. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. When do you reach that point? Because you have such a colorful career, which I think is so exciting because you moved to town

from Potato farm a singer and now you're still a singer. Obviously, but you're also hosting a morning show, one of the biggest ones in the nation. You're training for iron Man, and well, I guess you just do morning show and sing um. Do you have any other jobs? I don't know about. I don't have any time for well, I mean I would, I would love to. I've written, you know, I've read some scripts for movies and stuff like that.

It would be a great actor. You have the faith for an acting and the person that you'd be funny, that would really screw people up. And that guy has got a face to written up because you know, you get into radio radio, radio, and it was like, that's so rude, and people save face, right. I think that that's changed though a lot. There's a lot of good looking people in radio. There is, Yeah, you're in radio. That kind of discount, Yeah, sort of discount. I would

count it. So, But you started off I got away from the question. The question is is what I think is so cool about someone like you is you're a perfect example of how you moved to town to be a singer. You're obviously a singer, You've had great success of that, but now you just got this opportunity through singing. It opened the door to becoming a great, huge radio host for a morning show. So I think that is so crazy. How to evolve, It is crazy. It's scary

the music business. Oh hell, I know what it was that you said, you gave up worrying about career. So why did that happen? Well through I remember through my first single, which was called Stealing Cinderella, which my dad still pulls over the side of the the road and has to cry. Really, he has two daughters. It's the one song in all of country music. And I'm not just saying this, I've told you before. It hits him so

hard he can't handle it. That's awesome. You know. It's funny about that song is when I first started touring around, it a lot of people because they didn't know, uh you know, they couldn't They heard it on the radio, but they didn't know what the guy looked like that was singing it, and a lot of people thought I was an older dude, like an older man really, because it's it's such a I've evolved a lot since that first record, um vocally where I wanted to be, and

that song in particular is more of a very traditional older sounding song. Yeah, So It was interesting because I remember people coming Mary and I thought you'd be a lot older, and you just you just a young pup there. How do you know we're talking about Cinderella? May you got no cubes? Was that written about someone in particular? Well? I was. I wrote that I was dating a girl, um that played Cinderella at Walt Disney World, so it kind of was inspired by her job. Yeah. And then

the guys I sing Cinderella, Well I never did. We never did get engaged or anything, but um, the idea stemmed from that. And the two guys that I wrote it with, Rivers Rutherford and George Tarrant. They are awesome writers. Um. Actually, I like hand picked these guys to do it with because I knew they would be perfect for the story because they wrote when I get where I'm going for Bret Paisley, I'm like, oh, these guys are true storytellers.

So grabbed them, told him the story and they have daughters, so that's where it all kind of perfect. Yeah, they all mixed it in. Song gets all the heart strings. Yeah, that's cool. It's cool to see. I get a lot of it was a big wedding song, so cool to hear that. So how did your music career it kept evolving, and then how did this radio thing pop in? And when did you surrender worrying about it? There's so many questions. I know, I like to give him there and they

answer your own pace. It's interesting. I moved the town where I grew up on a farm potato fries. I do love fries. I love fries. I asked my dad when I was twelve years old, and I was dead serious, and I thought he was gonna be like no. And I got so excited because he says, I asked him to goat do we supply the French fries? I was involved? Do we supply the French fries for all the McDonald's he goes, Actually, yes, he goes in the Try state area.

We're Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, that area, Maryland, New York. We supplied a lot of the McDonald's with potatoes for their French fries. Oh my god. So that was like the really that was a big cool factor, major claim to fame. Yeah, I mean I walked around the halls of high school and like, you guys, get McDonald's after this. You're welcome, you know, are you on a large fry. You're welcome. Yeah, grew those um and then we had to sell the farm. Depressing. Yeah, was it sad? Why

did you sell the farm? Weren't making any money. They grew their own potatoes, potatoes, So we grew out this stuff. We were We did barley corn. We were grain farmers. Officially we would be called grain farmers, but concentrated potatoes. Long story short, went to Florida to play baseball. That was my original dream. Okay, so you're a baseball player. Yeah, that's what I wanted it. First base. That's a tricky that's an important job on the field. That's what I

kept telling coach. Yeah, because first he didn't believe me, so he sat me on the bench. But in college he was gonna know he was. He was a great coach. So by my junior year, I said, well, I'm not going to get drafted. I don't want to transfer to try to get drafted through another program. So that's when I picked up a guitar. Did you know you could sing? I just at that point it was just singing for friends,

because you actually have a very unique, great voice. So the fact that you kind of found this later life is crazy that it wasn't like your first pursuit because it's really good. Yeah, it's a compliment. That's a compliment when somebody says you act shot man chuck. Well, the fact that you actually found it later you were gonna suck, but you do have a pretty good voice. The fact that you've discovered this very large talent that you had later on in life and didn't start for singing at

a young age. It's crazy because it's a really great voice. Because thank you, because most did that. Did you? Did you pick up what I'm putting down? I picked it up and keep it, keep it tucking in your heart, put it right up in there. Um, thank you, I said. My surprise. My mom and dad too. I remember when I told him I was moving to Nashville to go get a record deal. They you sing, Yeah, they had no idea and I was like yes, So they made

me sing to them in the kitchen. Well that your parents need to know how you sound if you're moving to Nashville record I quit college to do it. I quit college. You get so confident in your newfound talent that you just knew you were going to get a record deal so fast that's amazing. Well I stopped, I went, I started going part time. I was like, my senior year, I'm gona go part time so I can travel back

and forth in Nashville. Did it Okay? When was the moment that you're like singing, this is it and I'm going to get a record? Doll? Um? Probably there was a girl on the soccer team in my college. She had asked me to come meet her. She wanted to be in a pop group because I went to school in Florida. So this is right around Orlando, which is when in sync Backstreet Boys all those guys are exploding, and so she was in the pop world. So I

meet this guy. It was ironically Transcontinental Records with the guy that's in jail. But now he's passed away. Um, I don't know. He managed saying for a long time was with them. Um. The name will come back to me probably after this interview is done, and uh, just look up Transcon Records and you'll see the guy pop up. And I saw that guy and I was like, holy god, you know, it's larger than life figure because he was such around these huge acts and I was like, man,

that's cool. It's a pretty cool lifestyle. I could do this, especially being a kid in college, and but I always knew I wanted to do country music. So yeah, So I had asked her manager that she was working with. I was like, I need to talk to somebody in the country world. So I ended up doing that and that person was like, let's go back and forth to Nashville. And you know, just while I was doing part time college and coming as soon as I can the Nashtral

That's when I knew. So, did you know you're going to get a record? Like that was the only option? No, you know, I had like, um in college, I remember asking specifically one of my vocal coaches because I wanted to learn the proper way to sing and breathing techniques and stuff. I was like, do you think I'm good enough? Do you think I can get a record deal? He's like, no doubt you're gonna get The guy was like, no doubt you're going to get a record deal. So he

was so confident saying that. I'm like, oh that you like to believe that. I was like, okay, cool, So how'd you go about getting it? Met the right people at r c A Records. UM made a horrible demo tape. I did a Brian mcknights song, One Last Cry, and then I did uh Andy Griggs song because in my mind it was actually an old Whale and Jennings song that he did. Um okay, I can't think, So you did Andy Riggs and because I want to do something really country and really R and B pop. Yeah, your

versus okay, versatile and um I knew nothing. I had these horrible pictures. I made a stupid little folder with a picture on top of it, and you open it up, CDs in there and the same pictures on the CD cover. It's like, so, but you're doing it. Yeah, But it worked because I gave it today and our guy who's now is my one of my best friends, Jim Jim Catino. So he saw it and he goes, hey, man, I'm gonna listen to this on I gotta go to a sound check for he was doing the c m A Fest.

So in the middle of June, I'm flying up and back forth because I'm listening to some of the ways, Oh you're gonna do listen to sound check? He was all, Kenny Chesney, I'm like, so, I thought it was super cool because this guy is gonna go listen to my music on the way to go listen to Kenny Chesney sound check. Isn't it crazy? What sticks in your mind? Yeah? Like you're like, I'm in cahoots with people who are doing this. Yeah. So he So I had to fly back the next day and Jim calls me and says,

a man, will you come in? And I didn't play guitar yet, because so you're this is incredible. This is you literally got the drive to do it and just made a happy bloomer. Hey, it doesn't matter better late than never, because here you bloomed late bloomer. So he goes, will you come in and sing? Just saying I was like, wow, I don't have a guitar player, I don't play guitar. Just come in sing acapella. He goes like, I think I heard something like the tape you gave me that

I really liked. I came in sanging acapella. That's when it all started happening. Signed right then, Well, he said I want to assign you to a development deal, and I hoped him up with Monty Pale, great producer, and then you know that, then Monty Pale introduced me to Dan Huff and then Dan Huff of My Pale Dan produced You did the first my first record in r c A. So as soon as I got the development deal, you kind of like moved to town and got a deal right away. I didn't move to town until I

got the development deal. That's kind of the dream that never really happens, Like it really happened, but then it came to a screeching all. So I get the development deal, I'm like, Mom and Dad, I'm moving up. I finally got something going where I field it. I'm secure enough to go up there, make the big move. I move up.

Like two weeks later after I move up, I get dropped from the development deal, so I had to sit instead of going to other I figured I was yeah, I mean I wasn't devastated, but I was like, Okay, this is just a bumping the road. Okay, great, you know you're ready to keep moving, keep on going. I'm still I mean, this is just drop Two weeks after we signed, well, no, I signed the development deal, I moved up there, turned all the stuff in that they wanted to see. We're waiting to hear back from him.

I'm up there. I'm ready to make the record. They said, oh, we're not going to pick it up, and it just happened to be once I got up there, like two weeks, I have adult my dog's hare there. I got it, which I love that your dogs are in doggy bat camp. Let's let me finish this story first, because I gotta get this out of my system. So I the dog and my dogs are. So you have these beautiful like princess dogs that are so gorgeous. They're King Charles. They

watched TV. I'll put this on they can watch anyway. So get up here. So since our CIA had passed on me after development deal, I said, I'm not going to go to any other label in town. I'm not gonna like basically blow my wattle on everybody else and ruin it. Is that a four choice of words? That's perfect. I think it's exactly what it is. So first impression, I wanted to save it, so I saved it for four years. So what do you do in this I just concentrated on song on songwriting, and that's where I

really kind of developed who I was as an artist. Okay, and did you discover yourself to be in those years. Well, now it's easy to look back and say, chuck Quicks. You know it's myself. I mean, I wasn't trying to be anybody else but myself. I wrote about things that I believed in, that I grew up doing, and um, you know, things that I wanted to talk about or sing about. And you know, I learned the craft of

songwriting through one of the best guys, Mony Pal. He took me under his wing, and then I got to write because of that development deal. And you know this, when you have a record deal in town, you get

a lot more opportunities with great songwriters. So I took all that in and took advantage of it, kept the relationships, wrote with those guys through four years, and through that I was valeting cars like I really I kind of I really paid my dues for four years, went straight back to our c A when I felt like I had something, and then they signed me on the spot. Why do you think I took four years for you to get it all organized to where you liked it.

It just takes time. It didn't feel like the right time. But did you know when you were ready? I knew there there was something that just clicked. You know, there's a certain sound just clicked. And even from that, from then my sound has changed, But at that moment, there was something that clicked that was like, Okay, I want to go back and get in front of people. Then you come out stealing. Cinderella is your first debut single, right, Yeah, it's a monster. I mean that song was a huge hit.

Yeah it was. It was the most added song by male debut and that whole year or something. I don't know. There's a lot of cool things that happened with that song, and um, what was that ride like fast? It was? Yeah, Because I actually started at the same time that I was on radio tour, I got asked to do um a reality show called Nashville Oh Yes with Matt Jenkins and Sarah Davidson and Rachel Bradshaw. So I was trying to date Matt Jenkins at that time, and I had

like one scene on that show you made it? Did you make it in the first two episodes? I didn't because then you didn't make it? And we filmed ten episodes for this thing all summer long, so Monday through Friday, I'm gone NonStop. Did you like filming it? What was your character me? I was, I was myself. So what's the plot. Well, I was a guy that had the deal, the record deal. I was on our c A and I was getting my first single out there. And the other guys and like some of the girls on the show,

we're trying to get the record deal. Another guy was like the playboy of the whole group, and then Matt was like the songwriter guy that was trying to get the record deal. But Jamie Johnson, I think I had the record deal. So um, it was interesting. I thought it was cool because I was like, oh, TV can help, you know, help me get this first record off the ground. And um, really, all I ended up ended up doing was making me really tired and lose a bunch of weight.

But um, because I just never had time to eat. I mean that's how busy I was. Yeah, I would Monday through Friday. I was on the road early mornings to late nights to radio tour, making it happen as soon as I come home, I film on the weekends, go right back out on Monday. So you are just killing it up there so NonStop. But I loved it, Like that's that's what I wanted. You like to be super busy doing things your passionate. Yeah, that's what I wanted.

So that really got things going on. You know. So I got out on tour Brad Paisley because of that for like seventy shows, and then that because of Nashville or because of your um and then I went on to have another hit with a song called all Arab Hunt Wanted. And then after that next thing, you know, I got invited to do Dance with the Stars And how was that awesome? Are you a dancer? Because you were dating Julianne Half at the time, right and your partners? Yes?

Was that it is a hard to date your partner? No, it made it easier because you could really familiar. Yeah, you're familiar with the person you're dancing with, So you know, what was that experience like that? That has to be grueling.

It's a lot of work. The most the most surprising thing for me during that process was, Um, this is gonna sound weird, but the depth perception of when you train in a studio and you're dancing in a studio like maybe this size, you see the like if you're doing a turn or something like that, you see the walls at a certain depth. You see the walls, they're closer.

When we got into on set. It's a huge room, and so when you're spinning around, all of a sudden, it's a lot bigger and you have to really kind of gauge kind of where you are in the room. Interesting almost like if you've ever played basketball, was really good? Do what was really good at basketball? Really? All right?

So if you play basketball in a tiny gym, but then you go play and maybe not even an arena, but maybe like a bigger example would be like the Final Four when it's in a stadium, Imagine how weird it might look to see things different. Never thought of that. I didn't think about it, but it actually affected me the first week, first week keeping. So what was your

highest high of that? In your lowest low of dancing at the Star, I was actually excited get kicked off because the next week was going to be two dances per week. I was struggling enough with one. So but because I had made it far enough, like you were proud of your performance, Yeah, I was satisfied. I got I only missed I think it was nine or ten total weeks, and I only missed one week of kind of a fifth place. I think I did pretty well. Yeah, yeah, I was just happy I beat Steve Wozniak. I don't

know who that is. He's a co founder of Apple. He was one of the dancers, but he was awesome. Huh are your friends? Yeah? Yeah, that's the cool thing about that show. Probably the best thing about that show is that everybody on that show, unless you're a total ass, you're going to be friends with us people really and Sean Johnson were talking about Sean Johnson and Nashville. She

won my season. Um, she was one of my best friends here in town, and you know, it's that's pretty cool to have a friend like that that you can take away from that. That's awesome. So after Dancing the Stars, you come back in Nashville. What's going on? Then? I was in the middle of my third single at the time. I got to the twenties on the chart, and I remember else so disappointed because my label. As soon as I got off the the show, my label pulled the song.

But you're like, I have all this momentum and all the people's eyeballs were just on me. They stopped working it. So it doesn't I feel like the wrong time to stop working the single probably was the wrong time. Sometimes I don't understand decisions, but I guess I'm not a

label president. But yeah, so you know, everybody's got their reasons, and because you're like, dude, I'm got a huge show and I have a single in the radio, why would you Okay, So they pulled it, and um we went on, decided to make another record, and we put out two singles with them and got to the forties on the chart and then we ended up partying ways. So the ride for me was really fast and very high at

certain points. And then you know, when you lose a record deal, you kind of go like, oh, ship, now what what what do you do next? Well? I was I was still touring off the success that I that I had, so I felt I still felt like I was doing something. Um So, I didn't feel like I was just a no man's land. Um So I went out and try and was trying to get another deal and had a lot of close calls with some some great labels and never connected. And I think that was

all about timing. But then through that process is when I got asked to do the morning show that I'm a part of. Now, which is called Tykell and Chuck. Um, going into my fifth year of doing this morning show, and you know, I it was a great opportunity. It was the right timing for me because you know, I was able to step back and say, well, you know, I don't have a record deal right now. Um, I'm just kind of songwriting and touring off this success that I've had in the past. Maybe this is my spot,

Maybe this is where I'm supposed to be. Yeah, totally open to it. And uh, once I got into it, some six months into it, I ended up signing another record deal. So now I now I'm like, well, ship, I got both. I've got two huge jobs right now. Yeah, so I didn't know, you know, it's hard to balance those two. Also, my question is, since you are on America's morning show, does your competitor play your songs now that you are on a big radio station, Like, what

is that situation? Yeah? So my company is obviously I have branded myself with a certain company, Cumulus, and I love working for them and I love Yeah, They're awesome. Um, And obviously I love it because I'm going into my fifth year and love being a part of Tack Killing Chuck because when we're right. When we first started, it was called America's Morning Show with Blair Garner, and then it and then it so now it's called Ty Kelly and Chuck by So which is good. I call a

job security. If my name is in the title, he amend at that, right, good luck finding another Chuck. Well that Chuck Easton Eston. He's pretty great. It's your only competition. Too busy, he's too big times, he's Charles never worked for him. I loved chip Eston. By the way, his name isn't even Chuck Charles Eston. So you can go to Chuck. Yeah, okay if he gets into a buy and he might change it. But yeah, I mean, of course I released a single To answer to your question.

I released a single um probably about a year into to the Morning Show and was curious when what was going to happen, because I'm sure a lot of people would be like, well, you know, Chuck is on this morning show and we look at him as a competitor. The truth to that is is that that's fact. That's that's as true statement is that people aren't gonna, you know, support the competitor sort of speak. I live in a world and of where I think the best song should win.

I don't think it should matter, um what you do outside of that, because the people listening on the radio don't care about that, and they don't know the politics behind it. There's great songs. They care about what they're hearing, how it makes them feel. Just like a morning show. They care if you make them laugh, they care if you make them feel. So how do you balance that? Do you just kind of say I'm not this is I'm just going to put out songs. Yeah, that's outam,

that's that's out of my control. I can never force anybody to play something or do something. Um, that's not in their power or maybe what they feel is best for their company. UM yeah, I know that the markets at Ty Kelly and chuckerre in my my company has been extremely supportive. That's awesome and and that's that's all you really that matters. Really if other people want to come to the table and play a great song, which I think I you know, I believe in my songs.

I've seen them see the top before. Um, I just that's a that's out of my control. My job is too to write the best song I can sing the best I can and go out and put a good show on and just have fun. And and that's kind of where you just have to leave it. You can't worry. Yeah, So trap up, Where do you in your dream world?

Where would you see your life in the next five years if you could just have it play out perfectly the next five years, Um, what would be happening in all aspects of your life in the next five years? She got going on. Yeah, I mean, I'm always going to continue to make music. I'm always going to be a songwriter, um, whether it's you know, for fun or

just to sit on the front porch. Um. I just started putting together a theater show for now, not like a now, more of like a like an evening with type of theater show where it's a lot of storytelling, a lot of music, Um, a lot of this sharing with a very very interactive Okay, okay, So I see that building, Um, continuing to make the music and continuing to to build on my radio career with toy Killing Chuck and and even you know, breaking into a movie

or two, and you know, just having fun. As long as I can make enough money to go deer hunting, I'm good. That's your real passion, isn't it. Huge outdoorsman, Huge outdoorsman. And I love doing the Iron Man's Well, which which we had talked about. So you know, I like to to stay in shape. I like to do outdoor stuff, Huge Hunter and um, you know, the music and the morning show and being a lot and this limelight type of deal is is like a huge bonus. Okay, So you just want to kind of keep it all

going and to keep building. Yeah, keep building, Yeah, just keep it rocking because I love being in the music business. I love being around it. I love the click. The music business is a click to what you're saying. Yeah, I like to be in the in the circle sort of speak. And are you okay with it either being as an art as an artist and a radius? Are you kay with that balance? Yeah? Yeah, I love it.

Listen and you know this too. I've been I've been at two hit singles on the radio and just about to go on a big, huge show and you think everybody knows you, but you're wrong. I mean, the top is a long ways and you know, as long as you're happy, it doesn't matter where you are sitting on the mountain, as long as you're happy. Amen. To that. That's called some wisdom right there, not just a hat rack. I read it in a book. Okay, I want to wrap up with Well, first off, weren't talk about your

dog's fat camp, which is so cute. You're cute little dogs crawling up the stairs and one just like refuses Duke. Yeah yeah, So is this a regular thing or is this just a one time thing? On my Instagram at check Wicks, I saw it. I posted this video and everybody's like it was heartbreaking for the one I felt bad. Well, this is how it started because we just went for a normal run. Well then the fire alarm goes off

in my ability and we had to use the stairs. Okay, I was wondering if this is like a regular thing, So I go, this might be a good little training program. Take him up the stairs. I live on you know, pretty high up are So it wasn't like two floors or nothing. You gotta work for it. So by floor six, they were like, which one was the one that just stopped Duke? Which is funny because that's a lighter one. I mean, he just like refused one. Havn't it anyway?

You can check It was so funny you should make that a series on your instrument. We're going to hit the stairs again. I'm gonna wait till cools down a little bit. It's too hot, too hot, yeah, I mean, I'm dying on me totally. Oh god, that'd be the worst Cooper Duke dead you. We don't want that. Yeah, So we're not gonna do why when it's a little cooler. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Already trying to kill my dogs every here. Okay. I want to wrap up with leave

your light, so leave some inspiration, leave my life. Yeah, alright, of how you have been inspired and would like to inspire others? Okay. Um. The biggest inspiration that I've ever had throughout my music career was through Brad Paisley. When I got to tour with him, he was very hands on. He was like, Chuck, let's go for a run. We talked about stuff. I'd ride the bus back with him. He showed me what he's doing, work on his butt ord.

That's awesome. I'd ride his jet back with him every once in a while and we would talk about all these things and talk about songwriting and talk about music and the and the business. And I thought that was amazing because I really looked up to him as an artist before I knew him. I looked him up to him as a fan, and then he was like even better than what you could have imagined. So yes, So that's kind of what how I want to be is.

I want to be helpful, Like, I don't want to be the guy that turns the shoulder um to anybody. I want to be just. I consider myself just a happy, go lucky dude. So I just want to just be happy, you know, just be happy with other people and make him feel good. Be as sarcastic as possible. And seriously, I've never taken anything too serious. And every any time that I started to, I see my that's when I

find myself not in a good space. So I like to take things with stride and just hey, it's all good. You know, we're alive. I was just in a horrible car accident. Oh my god, I know, what did that? Did your life flash before your eyes? What does that do for your perspective on life? Changes it dramistically? Yeah? What did it change for you? Just it's important, you know. If I broke my neck, I broke my c two

vertebrae in my skull. I couldn't move for a couple of months, so you should Could you have been really paralyzed or killed? C two C one, C two, C three. You're in the danger zone there, like you can be paralyzed, um forever die. Yeah. And also there's there's a it's arteries in the veins that go through that area, and the nervous system in that C one, C two, C three area is all the things that tell you to breathe. So you could that break that I had could have

clipped something and I would just would have been shut off. Wow, It's crazy how I can just change on a dime like that, Like your whole life could have gone so many different directions. So it was and that's why I like doing this iron Man in October is Um, there's a big deal. I did the Music City Triathlon this past week in which is only four and a half five months outside of breaking my neck, so I was

really excited too. The body is an amazing thing. I didn't have to have any surgeries, but I think that's what's important, is that you have to take care of yourself. Um, not just to look good on the beach or whatever you want. To do it for but to be healthy. Um. I think I think doing these triathlons and working out, I really do think that, UM probably saved my life that day, really being in good shape, being in good shape. Wow. Yeah, Well, I'm so glad you're here, Chuck. Hey, you're rocks. And

I'm gonna plays a song or two hopefully too. I know I dragged you here. I'm gonna I'm gonna squeeze all the juice out of it. I might not ever get you back in my Okay, great, I hope he edit this. Gosh, we talked forever. My podcast is long truck. Okay, So now we're going to take it to the stage. Teal Audio's new speaker line, Aurora Life Stream speakers are designed to fit seamlessly into your home with it's wide range of connectivity. To check out the latest speaker line,

go to teal audio dot com. Oh hey, Chuck, what are you gonna play for us this first time? I'll play the newest single, whole damn thing, and then not anyone in particular, the whole damn thing? I mean, yeah, of course, Vi brit, I guess it's got to be about her. You didn't even bring her up in the interview. Why didn't I didn't know? Are we? Are we in love? What's our love situation happening? I am the whole damn thing. Okay, I'll go to get a song called the whole damn Thing.

That's pretty good right there? Okay, great? Are you gonna stand right here while I sing it? I'm gonna have her. I'm not gonna Is there anything else do you want to say about it? Or just the whole damn thing, The whole damn thing? Okay, great, next time I'll have a I'd like please let me get my notes. The whole damn thing. Yeah, we need all the detail, all right, everybody? And he says, she's a wild card, a hearty, the kind of girl you never know where she's gonna land. Oh,

now she's going out making friends. It never stops, it never end. It's a kind of girl you can slow it down or drag you out on a dance floor to dance around. Because she's a cold beer and football, a red dress that just falls. She's she's a bit of rain and a lot of fire. We could laugh, and a bad lie. Oh she's whoa. She's the whole damn thing. She's a whole damn things. Now. She's a kind of girl that makes a man to do anything like fall in love, get your thinking about the next step.

Then you're waking up. It's burnt toast, a soft touch that just knows how to bring you back from a bad day. She's a kind of girl who ain't ever gone away. Now, she ain't never gone await because she's a cold beer and football red dress that just falls. She's Oh, she's a bit of rain and a lot of fire, a good lie and a bad lie. Oh, she's the wool. She's the whole damn thing. She's a whole damn thing. She's up and down and back and forth across the street, way down town. She's a whole

damn thing. And all the things I've never known I finally got and I won't let go because she's a whole, the whole damn thing. She's a cold beer and football redress. It just falls. She she's a parade and a lot of fire, l a bad life. Oh she whooa. She's the whole damn thing. She's a whole damn thing. My baby girl, She's a whole damn thing. Mm hm that's awesome. You might have like a market for wedding songs too, though, because Stealing Cinderella was a wedding song. What girl would

not want this at their wedding? Right right? Maybe I'm speaking a wedding singer. I mean, have the wedding songs, and I mean maybe you should marry Britt. This song was written about because that's a really sweet song, just saying I'm not getting her level. I mean, I'll be honest. I wrote this song before I even knew who she was. But then it just spelled yes, Okay, what are you playing for us now? I was doing a song do you want me to play the I was doing a

song called Texas Rais. I love that one. I thought it was about me, and then I was like, oh, I thought you were writing I'm so sorry it's really about another Texas person. Yeah, well I only heard the Texas blue eyes and then I quickly realized the song was not about me. Okay, you have you have your beautiful husband to write a great You're writing it about our relationship? Oh about about your Yeah? You see what I'm saying. Yes, would you like me to dedicate it

to you? Michael okay to you and Michael. It's called Texas Raised, Texas Raised, and blue eyes staring back at me in the sun. You ain't locked. Even mine wouldn't traded for anyone because we felt young and we felt right, because I knew I was your man and you knew you were my wife. Baby, are Love's solid gold. You will hold you like a Conway song, So I angle of a old Mr Jones our love solig You can find it on anymath. Just pick a town in an

ill country room. I've never needed money, No, I've never needed fame, just to arm so old to be every night, every night close. I love soligal. You will hold you like can't with song twangable Mr Johnes, I love yes, So you can find it on anymow. Just pick a town and any your old country and you're gonna find us living out dream. Yeah is every day WI can with your baby? Yeah. It leaves me here with nothing

to change. It's just something about the way when I say I love you, yeah, I know you love me just the same. Baby, Y'll love solid go. Who would you like? A Conway song with twangled old Mr Joes and all love solid go. You can find it on any math speak of town in the Old Country, Chuck Wigs. Like most of my concerts, one person comes and collaps like profousely. Yeah, around the plood, everybody, mother. Thank you so much for joining me on my podcast, Chuck Wicks

Hypercureing Hobby Podcast. I finally got him on. I got you on, but he's like the uniform and I'll never have a back. Thank you so much. How great was that interview from Chuck Wicks. Make sure you guys go subscribe online at my podcast on iTunes, Hypercureing Hobby And next week, you guys, I have Native Run joining me. This is a guy girl duo who are so amazing. We talk about music, touring with Sam Hunt, touring with Sam Hunt. We talked about just their souls and their

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