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This is later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast more what You Hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. Dan and
Reid Isbel, also known as the Brothers

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Hunt, started their work in Nashville
as commercial songwriters, writing for the likes

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of Luke Calms, Darius Rucker,
Miranda Lambert, Scotty McCreery, and many

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many more. But they just couldn't
shake how much they love to get out

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into the wild and do some hunting
and fishing. So they've put it all

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together, their adventures and songwriting,
their adventures with musicians in Nashville, and

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spending time in God's Country. That's
the name of their podcast. It's available

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every week with episodes on the iHeartRadio
app and anywhere you get podcasts. Dan

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and Reid Isabel Welcome Hunt Brothers.
Hey, hey Man, good morning.

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How are you. Lee. Let's
start with you. Dan. I'm doing

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great. By the way, I
am an enthusiast. What is your favorite

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rifle to hunt with and your favorite
ammunition to use in it? Oh?

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Man, I am a right now
currently on a six five three hundred kick

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whether he makes it and kind of
have to special order the ammunition from it.

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Too. It's about I think it's
one hundred and fifty grain bullet,

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super flat shooting gun and a lot
of fun to have. It's loud though

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it's really wild. Well, it
doesn't make a difference after you pull the

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trigger, right, That's right,
that's right. I just got to know

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where it is. Yeah, and
read. How about you red dots sight

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or iron sight? Man. I'm
usually a scope guy, but honestly,

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if I had my pick, if
I if I had my pick, man,

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I would I would stick and string
it to the day I die.

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I love. I love rifle hunting
and love you know, sitting in a

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box line and being warm. But
I also like to get out there where

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they where they're at and in their
bedroom and try to get deer as close

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as I can too with my bow
in my hand. Ah. So God's

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Country. Let's talk about your weekly
podcast. You guys talk a lot about

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hunting and fishing and music. Correct. It's just been a fun time for

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us to get to know songwriters and
different artists that we share passions with and

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enjoy just talking about the woods,
especially when it's this cold and you can't

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get out in it. We got
some smew where we're at yeah, same

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here, same here. And you
don't want to either, do you now?

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A little too little too chilly for
me? Man? And from a

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naturalist standpoint, read, there's something
to be said. I mean this,

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this wild game is good for you, Oh dude. Is the only untouched

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meat there is out there. Man, It's exactly the way it was designed

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to be. And and uh yeah, I recently have two kiddos, and

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and and I'd much rather feed them, you know, unprocessed meat. And

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God, God's God's meet God's gross
towards what what we like to call it

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out Dan and read Isabel The Hunt. The Brothers Hunt God's Country is their

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podcast, and it's available on Apple
podcasts and also on the iHeartRadio podcast.

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Dan, there's something about country musicians. I spent a lot of time in

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country radio, and most of the
country musicians I encountered would just as soon

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talk to the elevator operator in the
White House as to the president. Yeah,

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it's a it's a lot more there's
a lot more common ground with with

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those tops tops of folks, you
know, and and and and I can't

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say that I don't disagree that that
that's it's a lot of fun, just

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to get in there and talk with
your with your common man as opposed to

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try to think of big words with
with the big shots and read. I

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find that they like just regular conversation. Yeah, I do too. I

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mean, like Dan said, they're
you know, getting into these rooms with

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these guys and having these relationships,
you find out how normal they all are

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and how they're upbringing is a lot
like ours and a lot like everybody else's

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that listens to these podcasts. Man, These these stories that these guys are

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telling, and the stories that we
get to tell or are just stories are

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growing up and their stories of hometowns
and you know, first trucks and first

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deer and all that. Man.
And like Dan said, you find a

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foundational you know, topic and some
common ground there and you get into some

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good conversation. Dan. The songwriting
process, how does it start with you?

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Where do you draw inspiration or does
inspiration draw you? Well, honestly,

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it can go a bunch of different
ways. For me personally, I

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like to draw from my own experiences, and I mean that could be twenty

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years ago, that could be ten
minutes ago. It can really go either

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way. There are other times when
a specific hook might catch you that that

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someone said, whether it be my
dad or or or who knows whoever.

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The people that I talked to occasionally
say things that I think, man,

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that would that would make a pretty
great song. And sometimes you can build

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on that. But I personally like
to to put in some sort of percentage

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of life of my own life in
there in order to make it relative.

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You know, you find where read
said, you find out a lot of

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people take the same kind of steps
that you take, and uh, it's

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fun to communicate in that way.
They are outdoor enthusiasts. The brothers Hunt

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also music writers for country musicians like
Luke Colmbs, Darius Rucker, Miranda Lambert,

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Scotty McCreery, Drake White, and
many more. For you read when

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does Melody come to the party?
Uh? From the from the jump leek,

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that's kind of that's kind of my
I think everybody has strong suits and

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I like to say that. You
know, I'm a I'm a triple threat

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writer. I can kind of do
it all and do melody. I can

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do a lyric and I can put
it to a guitar. But honestly,

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man, I've been singing since I
was since I could talk, and and

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just the melodic thing in my brain
never turns off. And and that's that's

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where I that's where my that's my
starting point, it's my jumping off point.

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And I go, I go looking
for a good strong melody before I

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go looking for anything else. God's
Country is the podcast, and it's the

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brothers Dan and read Isabel weekly podcasts
available everywhere you get podcasts. And it's

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the intersection of country music and the
great outdoors. So Dan, care to

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share maybe one of the stories you
heard from one of your friends in the

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country music business that stands out in
your mind. Well, for me,

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me and well, Me and Reed
and Luke uh Combs have all been have

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been buddies, and I guess I
just have to name drop in order to

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tell the story. Sorry, I'll
pick that up later. But uh we

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were. We do a lot of
hunting fishing together and even years before this

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podcast ever started, and h Luke
and I were hunting together and he reached

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in his bag and he pulled out
a knife. He said, have I

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ever told you the story of this
knife? And I said, no,

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you hadn't. Then he he handed
it to me. He said, my

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uncle gave me that ten or fifteen
years ago, and I was looking it

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over and it was a you could
tell it was a well crafted, you

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know, strong knife, and I
flipped it over and told me, h,

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they call it the tang, which
is actually like the spine of the

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knife engraved in it where the words
found yours. And I was like,

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man, what a cool what a
cool? Say? Have you ever seen

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this? He was like, dude, I have literally never seen that on

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my knife. He said. He's
like, I didn't even know that existed.

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And I was like, man,
that's a great song, Tital.

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And so we ended up writing a
song that made the record called You Found

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Yours, which was about you know. I think the first versus Remy was

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a pit mix. She was just
skinning bones and the daddy found an deep

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ditch on his way home and so
and that's an actual that's an actual story,

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and it was inspired from a from
a true thing on mom, He's

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gotten a knife. So just seeing
those little lottoks fall out and literally kind

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of land in your lab is is
is pretty cool. Read that's the difference

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between you guys and me. When
I was given an heirloom knife of my

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father in laws, I turned it
over only to see the Nazi symbol and

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embedded on it. Yeah. I
can't write a song about that one.

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No, no, It turns out
it was a bayonet that he had acquired

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at an antique store in Germany when
he was stationed there in the Air Force.

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But I was worried for about ten
I was worried for about ten seconds,

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Dad, are you tell me something? God's Country is the name of

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the podcast, Dan and read Isabel. The Brothers hunts and they do,

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and they talk about it with some
of their favorite country stars on their weekly

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podcast, God's Country. Thank you
for joining us today, guys, and

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we'll be listening to your podcast.
Hey, thanks Manon. Thankfully thanks for

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