Our next guest is a country superstar,
who just released a brand new album and a brand new tequila.
Please welcome Thomas Rhett.
[CROWD CHEERING]
How are y'all?
I'm great.
How are you doing?
I'm better than I deserve.
Thank you for asking.
So you have been on the show once before to perform.
Very nice to talk to you.
Luke Bryan was just here.
He was named ACM Entertainer of the Year.
You won last year, but only got to hold
the title for a few months.
And so here's what he had to say about that.
I get my full year.
Yeah.
Maybe I need to sit down with him.
And I'll grant him 33 and 1/3--
whatever.
I can't do the math.
But I'll grant him a couple extra months.
All right.
Good.
I think he's here soon.
I'll talk to him about it.
He'll come clean my pool or something at the house.
And I'll let him have two or three extra months
of walking around, telling everybody, I'm the--
If he cleans your pool.
That's a shame.
Do you feel slighted that you didn't get the amount of time,
as Entertainer of the Year?
Yeah, I'm really upset with Luke.
I feel like I should have at least
been able to hold onto it for a year.
Yeah, I agree with you.
You know what?
As soon as we can have you here, you're going to be here.
And then, we're going to celebrate you.
I'm going to introduce you as Entertainer of the Year.
So every time you're here--
Please do.
You are Entertainer of the Year.
Thank you very much.
That would be a huge honor.
My pleasure.
You're in Texas about to do your first shows
in a year and a half.
Are you are you nervous or just excited?
I'm really nervous.
But it feels good to be nervous about something again.
Yeah.
I was just born to do this.
It feels so awesome to get back at it.
That's so great.
Boy, lucky people that are going to get to go
see a show-- a concert.
That's fantastic.
You had a baby right before lockdown.
You obviously have a nice set of hair.
This baby inherited your hair for sure.
Look at that hair.
Yeah, she definitely did.
It's crazy.
Her name's Lennon.
She was born in February of 2020.
When she's in high school, she's going
to be learning in the history books
about the year that she was born.
We didn't leave the house for 60, 70 days.
And she basically just grew up without hardly seeing anybody.
But man, she is absolutely just incredible.
All three of my babies are just the light of my world.
And look at these pictures-- about to make me cry.
I miss them already.
Yeah.
Well, and three daughters--
I'm sure the other two daughters,
that was really hard for them also to just
be a lockdown for a while.
But yeah, you said you have three daughters.
You're turning into a very stereotypical dad.
Yeah, I'm wearing a polo at 4:30 on a Tuesday in the afternoon.
And where's this thing at?
This is sitting on my desk.
I had to move it out of the way.
My bus is just filled with nothing but kid toys.
My shorts are getting shorter.
I'm taking a camera everywhere I go-- a big camera,
trying to just capture all these moments.
Yeah, that's a good picture right there.
Embracing the dad life.
So you have a new album, Country Again Side A. Do your girls--
do you sing to them at home?
Yeah, I do.
And they've actually become some of my best people
to determine what songs are going to go on records.
I'll drive around the car on the way
to school, or home from school, and play them new demos.
And if they don't ask to hear it again,
then there's no way that song is ever going to make the record.
But if they ask to hear it a couple of times,
you know you might have a hit or two on your hands.
And they're already starting to show a lot of interest
in music.
And anytime I'm down in the studio, one of them
is banging on the piano.
One of them is hitting the drums.
And one of them is singing on the microphone.
So it's been really cool just impart
the little bit of knowledge I have
of what I love about music to them.
So it's been really cool.
Oh, that would be the best to have
them start singing, and playing music,
and watch them, and help them.
That would be amazing.
You're performing a song for us after this.
You wrote it with your dad.
Yeah.
Tell us about that.
Yeah, the song's called, What's Your Country Song?
And we actually wrote it in 2019-- my, and my dad,
and a couple of other co-writers.
And I had this title in my phone for forever,
like where's your country, or what's your country.
And somehow, someway, it got into,
what is your country song?
And I threw out this line of one of my old dad songs
of that ain't my truck.
And we all kind of laughed about it.
And then, it happened to turn into the song.
So we dropped like 16 different country song titles
into the verses and had them wrap around back
into the chorus.
And that was the first number one off this record
and sent this record into new places for us.
So it's been a wild ride, since it came out.
That's fantastic.
What a great story.
Tell us about tequila.
I have a little shot of this here.
Tell us this story.
Because there's a little more to it than just having tequila.
Oh, I've got some too.
Are we taking a shot together?
I think we are.
Now, this tequila right here--
my cousin and I--
Jeff Worn-- he lives down in Valdosta, Georgia.
And we go skiing together every year.
And we were talking on the ski lift
one day about developing a company together.
We had no idea what it was going to be.
And we both love tequila and kind of just landed on,
we start a tequila company.
We had no idea what we were doing.
And through the last few years, gotten
to meet a lot of great people, gotten
to taste a lot of really unique different tequilas,
and look at a bunch of different bottles.
And of January this year, this pretty much
hit the shelves this year.
So it's been pretty awesome.
It's been a lot of fun to do.
Well, congratulations.
To everybody at home, cheers.
Happy Cinco De Mayo, everybody.
That's nice.
What do you think?
Is it smooth?
Oh, yeah, very, very.
Country Again Side A is on streaming services now.
And Dos Primos Tequila is available in stores.
Thomas is going to perform for us right after this.
Thomas, thanks so much.